When Zhou Zhixian saw Chai Yan coming out, he immediately greeted him. His eyes widened to see if he was injured, and he asked: "Chai Yan, are you okay?"
Chai Yan smiled and said: "Mr. Zhou, I'm fine. Thank you for your concern."
Zhou Zhixian asked again: "Chai Yan, where are the flower pickers?"
Chai Yan pointed his thumb back and said, "It's so warped inside..."
"Dead?"
Zhou Zhixian and the people around him were shocked, wondering why he died?
At this time, a government official went into the room to see what was going on and then ran out and told everyone that the flower picker had indeed died on the couch.
"Why did he die suddenly?" Zhou Zhixian turned around and asked hurriedly.
"I don't know the specifics..." Chai Yan shook his head and said with a recalling gesture: "The guy wanted to drink strong alcohol just now, so I asked someone to buy the strongest alcohol, but after I sent it in
, the guy drank heavily into the wine jar, and then, for some unknown reason, the guy dropped the wine jar, covered his heart and fell down. When I went to check, he had already burped...
....”
"Is there such a thing?" Zhou Zhixian asked in surprise.
Chai Yan nodded heavily and said: "It's absolutely true, Lord Zhou. If you don't believe me, ask Sui Liang and his son... Oh, it's them, they saw the whole process with their own eyes..."
Chai Yan hurriedly pulled Sui Liang and his son to Zhouzhi County and asked them to retell the story of the sudden death of the flower picker.
Sui Liang hurriedly paid tribute to Zhou Zhixian, and then told the situation in detail, and the content was exactly the same as what Chai Yan described.
After Zhou Zhixian thought for a moment, he suddenly pulled Chai Yan aside and asked in a low voice: "Chai Yan, tell me, did you secretly do something in the wine, so..."
"No, no..." Chai Yan denied it flatly, and then pulled Sui Liang over for the second time, swearing: "Mr. Zhou, I absolutely did not tamper with that jar of wine. The flower picker even went out of his way to drink it.
Fatty and I have tasted it. If the wine was poisonous, wouldn’t he and I have burped together? You think so..."
After saying that, Chai Yan looked at Sui Liang.
Sui Liang nodded and confirmed to Zhou Zhixian: "Master Zhou, Mr. Chai is right. The flower picker was very suspicious and deliberately let Mr. Chai and I taste the wine before drinking it himself. The wine is definitely not poisonous.
Yes, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to stand here.”
"But if the wine was fine, why did the flower picker suddenly die suddenly?" Zhou Zhixian still couldn't understand.
Chai Yan suddenly said in a mysterious tone: "Master Zhou, to be honest, when I went in and saw the flower picker just now, I secretly figured it out..."
"What's the matter?" Zhou Zhixian looked at him curiously.
Chai Yan came closer and lowered his voice: "Mr. Zhou, the most dangerous position in that room tonight is the couch, which is the place where the flower picker has been sitting. You may not believe it, but in the most dangerous place,
Anyone who has stayed in a position for a certain period of time will have bad luck befalling him when the time comes! Anyway, I have grown up so big that I have never seen anyone escape such a situation!"
Zhou Zhixian was amazed when he heard this, and then sighed with emotion: "It seems that even God can't look down upon this flower-picking thief who has done countless evil things! God has eyes, God has eyes...
"
"Yeah, I think so too!" Chai Yan agreed with seriousness.
Sui Liang held his son aside and listened with fear. He made up his mind to chop up the unlucky couch and burn it as firewood when he went back soon.
Zhou Zhixian turned to look at Sui Liang and asked: "I want to ask you, why did the flower picker run into your house?"
Chai Yan also asked: "What happened during the music and dance banquet that night? You obviously signed in, but where did you go after that?"
Sui Liang sighed and began to tell what happened that night at the music and dance banquet.
On the night of the music and dance banquet, everything went as usual for the first half of the banquet. Sui Liang drank a lot of wine and went to the hut in the middle of the banquet. However, as soon as he came out of the hut, he was knocked unconscious.
After waking up, Sui Liang found that not only had his coat been stripped off, but he was also tied up and abandoned in a dark back alley. Because something was stuffed in his mouth, he couldn't make any noise no matter how hard he screamed!
Sui Liang originally thought that he had just been robbed and had to stay with rats and bugs until dawn. However, he did not expect that after the third watch, someone suddenly came to find him.
The person who came to Sui Liang was a flower picker looking for pilgrims. He said he needed a temporary place to stay, and then controlled Sui Liang and his son and hid here.
Zhou Zhixian then asked Sui Liang: "Where will you stay when the flower picker leaves midway?"
Sui Liang's face was full of pain and sorrow, and he replied: "Master Zhou, that flower picker was very vicious. He tied up our father and son and threw them into the cellar. We were unable to escape..."
"By the way, why didn't you see your wife?" Chai Yan suddenly asked.
Sui Liang said sadly: "The child's mother passed away two years ago..."
"This...this can be considered a blessing among misfortunes..."
Zhou Zhixian couldn't help but sigh, fortunately the child's mother has left, otherwise if we encountered a flower picker today, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Sui Liang understood what Zhou Zhixian meant and couldn't help but nodded.
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After carrying away the corpse of the pilgrim, the group returned to the county government office in a grand manner.
Zhou Zhixian invited Chai Yan to stay and took him to the flower hall at the back.
Soon, Xiao Hong appeared. She handed a fifty-tael banknote and an envelope into the master's hand, then gave him a gift and left.
Zhou Zhixian pushed the two things in front of Chai Yan and said with a smile: "Mr. Chai, these are all for you!"
Just now, the magistrate of Outer Zhou County had always called Chai Yan by his first name, but now he was called Mr. Chai.
Chai Yan knew what the fifty taels of silver note was for, but he didn't understand the envelope next to it.
"Master Zhou, what is this?" Chai Yan asked as he looked at the envelope.
Zhou Zhixian pushed the envelope closer to Chai Yan and said: "Mr. Chai, this is what I just said, a great thing related to your future!"
Chai Yan looked at Zhou Zhixian doubtfully, and then looked at the envelope on the table with doubts.
Zhou Zhixian kept smiling and said: "Mr. Chai, don't worry, take it apart and take a look, everything will be clear to you!"
Chai Yan nodded, picked up the envelope and took out the letterhead, then approached the candlelight and began to read.
"Wude Si?" Chai Yan cast a surprised look at Zhou Zhixian when he saw it.
Zhou Zhixian nodded and was about to say something when Chai Yan asked again: "Where is Wudesi? Is it very powerful?"