Song Yi

Chapter 375 Embroidery Workshop
The black-faced headhunter also smiled lewdly: "Don't talk about it, your girl is in good shape. If she is not dead, I still need her to sleep with me. Hehehe"

This remark caused the hooligans to burst into laughter.Obscene language is endless.The woman quickly put down her daughter's body, trying to hug her up, but she couldn't move.

At that moment just now, Du Wenhao also saw the girl's snow-white waist, but his eyes fell on a few fresh scars on the waist, which seemed to be scratches, and he couldn't form them from the position.He couldn't help but let out a slight gasp, and when he took a closer look, he found that there were also some black and purple marks on the girl's arms. This kind of resistance injury was very familiar to him who studied forensic medicine, so he hurriedly whispered to Lin Qingdai: " This girl's death is very strange, go help her! Find a way to find out how the girl died!"

"I'll go!" Ke Yao ran out first, crying and shouting: "Sister! What's wrong with you, sister?" He rushed over and knelt down beside the corpse, hugging the corpse and crying.

Ke Yao lowered his head, the woman couldn't see her face, and didn't know who it was for a while.

The black-faced policeman quickly lowered his head and took a look. He heard that it was a woman's voice, but she was a man's clothes. Seeing that her face was black and gray, she couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman. However, in ancient times, women from poor families wore men's clothes. The clothes are very common, so he didn't take it seriously, and said sharply: "Damn, why are you still howling? Why don't you hurry up and drag the corpse away!"

The black-faced catcher raised his foot and was about to kick Ke Yao's head.Ke Yao saw his coming, raised his hand to grab his feet, and was about to throw him somersaults to vent his anger.

Unexpectedly, the black-faced head catcher just lifted up his feet, and before he could kick him, he let out a scream and sat down on the ground, hugging his knees and screaming endlessly.

The surrounding audience roared, no one knew what happened, except Du Wenhao.He also only saw Lin Qingdai's wrist hanging by her side tremble, and the black-faced policeman fell to the ground screaming.I only know that she shot a hidden weapon, but I don't know what it is.

The long-faced policeman next to him quickly squatted down to take a look, and saw that the legs of the black-faced policeman were covered with blood. Most of the copper coins have been lost!

Seeing this scene, the arresters knew that a master was coming. They were startled and afraid, and they pulled out their waist knives and bluffed and shouted: "Who? That..., that master, why did you plot against us? Come out!"

They knew that the opponent's skills might not be enough for all of them stacked together, so despite their bluff, they didn't dare to speak disrespect, for fear of annoying the master of the dark, they would also send a money dart to themselves.

The head catcher knows how powerful he is, and now he can only knock out his teeth and swallow them in his stomach, but he has to save face, gritted his teeth to resist the pain, and shouted: "What are you barking about? I didn't..., it's okay, I twisted it myself. Come on, help me back quickly! Hurry up!"

A few catchers hurried over to help catch the head up, and limped away.She didn't even dare to reprimand the woman a few more times and hurriedly carried the corpse away. She just wanted to leave early, and made up her mind that even if she left the corpse for a few days and nights, she wouldn't care.

Ke Yao had already guessed that Lin Qingdai was helping in secret, so he hugged the girl's body onto the cart with all his strength, rubbed his eyes with his hands, and cried to the woman, "Auntie, let's go!" The cart went out of the city.

The woman was saddened by the tragic death of her daughter. Seeing Ke Yao came to help, she heard the voice was a girl. Although she couldn't recognize who it was for a while, she thought she was always an acquaintance, and she was grateful in her heart, and helped push the cart out of the city.The onlookers also dispersed.

Du Wenhao threw a small piece of broken silver and asked the shopkeeper of the hotel to book the banquet, saying that he had something urgent to deal with and would come back later, but the shopkeeper reluctantly agreed.

The three of them followed Ke Yao and the woman from a distance.Ke Yao cried and asked, "Auntie, how did my sister die?"

The woman wiped her tears and said: "This morning, I was working in the field, and Brother Wang next door came to say that Cao'er...Cao'er fell... from a tavern next to the embroidery workshop... and fell very badly. Heavy, I hurried..., quickly dropped the work in the field, ran into the city, and saw that Cao'er was dead, so I borrowed a cart and pulled Cao'er to see the wound, unexpectedly..., my poor Grass..."

Ke Yao followed Wuwu and cried, guessing that the girl was an embroiderer from the embroidery workshop, so he asked again: "Then..., does the shopkeeper of the embroidery workshop just ignore it?"

The woman looked a little nervous, looked left and right, and said falteringly: "The shopkeeper... I haven't seen them yet..." Speaking of this, the woman suddenly remembered that she hadn't asked who he was, and hurriedly wiped away her tears and said: "By the way, girl, are you...?"

Ke Yao had already thought up his answer, sobbing: "Sister Cao'er and I are good sisters, she often takes care of me, yesterday I..., I went out of the city for something, and when I came back..., I heard that my sister died... ..., woo woo woo"

The woman did not suspect him, and thought it was a sister her daughter met in the embroidery workshop in the city.He took Ke Yao's hand and whimpered, "Thank you, girl."

Ke Yao cried and said, "Auntie, how are you going to take care of my sister's funeral?"

The woman cried and said: "What else can I do? Take it back and bury it... woo woo woo." Thinking that the family was so poor and the fields had no harvest, they used to rely on their daughter to earn some money in the embroidery workshop to support the family. My daughter died, I really don't know how to live this day, thinking of the sad place, crying like a tearful person.

Ke Yao said: "Auntie, why don't you go to the shopkeeper of the embroidery workshop for an explanation? I haven't figured out how my sister died. It's also right to ask them to burn and bury silver. After all, people died with them! Let's go!" , I will accompany you to find their shopkeeper!"

The woman shook her hands wildly: "No..., no, girl, thank you very much..., I won't go..."

"why?"

"Cao'er accidentally fell from the upstairs, and she suffered a lot... Forget it, thank you very much..." After finishing speaking, the woman panicked as if she was afraid that Ke Yao would forcibly pull her away. He pushed the cart and walked away in a hurry.

Ke Yao ran up a few steps: "Auntie, don't be too sad, which embroidery workshop is my sister in? I'll help you find their shopkeeper!"

The woman was even more flustered, waved her hands in a hurry, didn't speak, quickened her pace, and pushed the cart away.

Ke Yao looked back and saw Du Wenhao and the others looking around in the distance, and walked over dejectedly: "Master, I only know that the girl's name is Cao'er, and she is an embroidery girl from the embroidery workshop. She fell from a restaurant next to the embroidery workshop and was seriously injured this morning. Not to be put to death. But she refused to say which embroidery workshop it was, let alone go to the shopkeeper to ask for an explanation, as if she was very afraid."

Du Wenhao nodded: "Let's go back to eat first."

The four of them returned to the restaurant, and the shopkeeper was watching eagerly at the door. Seeing them coming back, he hurried up to greet them: "Masters are back, the food and drinks are ready, please go upstairs!"

Going upstairs to the private room, the shopkeeper took a few glances at Ke Yao, and finally asked cautiously: "The girl first came to our county, how did she recognize that woman's daughter?"

Ke Yao was taken aback for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "Just now, my sister saw that woman was pitiful, so she pretended to be their sister and came forward to help."

The shopkeeper suddenly realized: "So that's the case, alas, it's pitiful enough."

Ke Yao asked: "Why are those officials so fierce? Their daughter fell and came to see a doctor, and died without treatment. Everyone would cry a few times. Why are they so fierce that they drove people to death?"

"This..., hehe, I don't know." The shopkeeper looked around subconsciously, lowered his voice, and said, "Seeing that you are all warm-hearted, I would like to remind you that in our Jingjiang Mansion, we have more eyes on everything. In particular, don't provoke the officials, and don't inquire casually."

"Thank you for the reminder!" Du Wenhao cupped his hands, "I heard that there are many embroidery workshops in Guixian County. I should let my sister go to learn too. Can the shopkeeper introduce it?"

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Guest officer, who would be willing to let his sister suffer that kind of hardship? Most of the students in Lugao County who learn weaving and embroidery are children from poor families. In order to find a bowl of food for themselves, they have to go to embroidery workshop to work as a student."

"Is the embroidery workshop very bitter?"

The shopkeeper said: "That's not true, but it's equivalent to selling yourself to the embroidery workshop. After completing your studies and leaving the teacher, you have to stay in the embroidery workshop for three years to weave and embroider. You only need a few tens of pennies a month, but you will die of exhaustion." It's not easy to work hard!"

Master Shen said: "We heard that your Jingjiang mansion suffered a natural disaster, and many fields were barren. This field is very cheap, so come and have a look. If it is true, you want to buy some real estate and good land to live here. This beautiful scenery Very suitable for retirement."

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "You are right. We have beautiful mountains and clear waters, and the scenery is pleasant. It is indeed very suitable for retirement. It is no problem to buy a house, but if you want to buy a field, I am afraid you can only go to the Yamen."

Du Wenhao and Master Shen looked at each other: "What do you mean?"

"The government government announced a few years ago that private purchases of land properties are prohibited within the prefecture's county."

"Then what should I do if I want to sell the land?"

"It can only be mortgaged to the yamen, half price, for a period of one year, and the interest is calculated at [-]% interest. If it is not redeemed after the deadline, it will be regarded as a never-ending sale and will be handled by the yamen."

"How much does the Yamen sell for?"

"Market price."

Du Wenhao pretended to be surprised: "Then..., the person who produced the scriptures is too bad, right? Who wants to?!"

The shopkeeper lowered his voice: "People who are desperate, do they still have a choice?" Then he realized that he had talked too much, and waved his hands again and again: "Okay, let's not talk about it, the guests are slow to use." Go out and close the door.

The shopkeeper's words confirmed what Dr. Xie told Du Wenhao.In addition to the previous incident, the four of them were not in the mood to eat for a while.

Seeing Du Wenhao's gloomy face, Ke Yao carefully approached and asked softly, "Brother, do we want to take care of this girl's affairs?"

Du Wenhao looked at Ke Yao, staring at himself with a pair of clear eyes, and said, "What do you think?"

Ke Yao: "I think this matter is not that simple. As soon as the woman heard that I asked about the embroidery workshop, she went to the embroidery workshop to ask for an explanation, and then she pushed the cart and left. There seemed to be something unspeakable."

Du Wenhao nodded: "The wound on the dead girl's body was a resistance wound, and it was obviously caused recently. There may be something strange in it. Since we have encountered it, we should check it out."

The three nodded together.

After eating, the four of Du Wenhao asked where the embroidery workshop was, and went downstairs to the embroidery workshop.

This street is called Embroidery Street, and the entire street is almost full of embroidery workshops. There are finished and semi-finished embroidery hanging everywhere in front of and behind the houses, making people feel like they are in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River.

Ke Yao's eyes widened, and he said, "My God, there are so many embroidery workshops, how do we find them?"

Lin Qingdai said: "Didn't the sister-in-law say that the embroidery workshop is next to a restaurant? Check it out."

The four of them walked through the entire street and found three restaurants, but only one was next to the embroidery workshop, and the other two were not. So the three of them stood in front of the embroidery workshop, and saw three characters written on the door— - "bergamot spring"

A guy standing inside the door saw them and enthusiastically stepped forward and said, "Are you going to choose embroidery?"

Ke Yao stabbed sharply: "Well, it depends on whether you have enough goods, we want more!"

"Our 'bergamot spring' is the largest embroidery workshop in the entire prefecture. If we don't have enough embroidery, there is no place to buy it. Hehe, how much do you want?"

Ke Yao clasped his hands on his shoulders and snorted: "It's not a small tone. We want one hundred for the top grade, two hundred for the middle grade, and three hundred for the low grade. Is there any?"

When the man heard this, he realized that these people had a lot of air, and they were not very well-dressed, but many rich people kept their money hidden.Seeing that they didn't seem to be joking with themselves, this is a big deal, so they quickly apologized with a smile on their faces: "You guys want such a large quantity, so we have to live slowly, we will work overtime to get it out, the quality is absolutely You are guaranteed to be satisfied! Please invite the guest officers, and the younger ones will invite the shopkeeper to discuss with you."

Du Wenhao and others lifted their robes to greet the courtyard, followed the guy to sit down in the courtyard hall.

Du Wenhao first asked the clerk to bring some embroidered products to look at. After looking through them for a while, he casually said to the man: "Do you have an embroidered girl named Cao'er in your embroidery workshop?"

The man was taken aback for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Master asked Cao'er what to do?"

"We just heard that this embroiderer's embroidery is good in the embroidery workshop next door, so we wanted to ask, if it is her embroidery, how much would you like? Money is not a problem. Can you ask her to come out and meet?"

"I'm sorry, Cao'er... Cao'er is no longer working in our embroidery workshop."

Ke Yao said: "No way? We heard that Cao'er embroidery in your embroidery workshop is a masterpiece, so we came here because of the reputation. She..., is there something wrong with her?"

The man's complexion suddenly looked bad, and he said lightly: "If the four guest officials are doing business, I welcome you, but if you want to inquire about something, please forgive me."

Just as Ke Yao was about to explode, Du Wenhao reached out and patted the back of her hand.Standing up, he said, "I'm just curious and casually asking. The choice of embroidery is of course up to the embroiderer. Since you are not allowed to see it, then forget it. Farewell!"

Hearing what Du Wenhao said was reasonable, the man hurriedly caught up with him and said with a smile: "My lords, the embroiderers in my shop are very good, you can go to the back room and see for yourself that the little one is not lying to you."

Ke Yao snorted: "We are in business, not to be angry. We don't like your virtue just now, so we won't do this business!"

"No price, can't I just make amends for you? That girl Cao'er stopped doing embroidery in the embroidery workshop a few days ago, and you can't find her in any embroidery workshop. It is much better than her embroidery. A few of you go in and take a look and you'll know."

Du Wenhao cupped his hands and said: "How about this, let's take a look at each of them first, and shop around. If it's better than you, then we'll come back."

The man was not reluctant, and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, we are the cheapest and best in the whole Xiufang Street. After reading it, welcome back."

After the four of them came out, they walked along Xiufang Street to the restaurant next door, and saw three gilt characters written on the plaque - "Xiaoyaolou".

The bluestone slab floor in front of the door was wet, obviously it had just been washed, it seemed that this was where the girl burned incense, but there was no trace of blood left.

Ke Yao said, "Let's go in and ask."

Du Wenhao said: "We're looking at this picture. If we inquire about this matter, I'm afraid we won't talk to us. If it doesn't work, it will be more troublesome to report to the official."

"Then what should we do?" Ke Yao frowned, and suddenly saw a few ragged little beggars in the small alley diagonally opposite the hotel, suddenly had an idea, and said to Du Wenhao and the others: "You go up first. I'll come later!"

Seeing her looking at the beggars, Du Wenhao guessed what she was thinking, nodded, and led Lin Qingdai and Master Shen into Xiaoyao Building.

Ke Yao walked to a steamed bun stall not far away, bought a paper bag of steamed dumplings, and came to the alley.

The beggars were lying on the corner of the wall, smelling the aroma of steamed buns, staring intently at the buns in her hand.

Ke Yao squatted down, sniffed the steamed stuffed bun in the paper bag exaggeratedly with his nose: "Ah, this steamed dumpling is really delicious!"

Several beggars gulped their saliva at the same time, looking eagerly at the paper bag.

Ke Yao asked, "Want to eat?"

Several little beggars nodded together.

"Okay, my sister will ask you three questions. If you answer to my satisfaction, this paper bag of buns will belong to you."

The little beggars nodded together again.

"First question,—were you here this morning?"

Several little beggars nodded together.

"Okay, the second question, there were no beggars on the street a few days ago, why did you come out today, where have you been?"

A little beggar who was a little older swallowed, stared at the paper bag and said, "The official of the yamen said that we are not allowed to beg for food during this time, and they drove us all to the barracks outside the city. We are only given half a drink every day." Even a bowl of porridge can be seen, and many old people and seriously ill people starved to death. We were only released in the middle of the night last night."

The beggars all nodded together, staring at the paper bag with green eyes, not even aware of the drooling.

"These bastards!" Ke Yao muttered bitterly, "Well, my sister is quite satisfied with the two questions you answered, and each of you will be rewarded with one first. Answer the third most critical question, and all the buns will be returned. You guys." After finishing speaking, he took out the soup dumpling from the paper bag and shared one with each of them.

A few beggars stretched out their dirty hands to take the buns, swallowed the soup dumpling in two mouthfuls without chewing, and then stared at the paper buns with their mouths half open.The older little beggar sucked his finger: "Sister, you can go on to ask the third question."

"Okay, listen, in the early hours of this morning, a girl fell to her death in the opposite Xiaoyao Building, you should have seen it, tell my sister, how did she fall to her death?"

(End of this chapter)