Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 330 Murder Case
"Boss, stay overnight."

Wang Mang's voice came from behind.

The top door bar stopped in mid-air, the boss turned around and saw Wang Mang and Di Renjie standing in front of the door.

The boss's face suddenly turned cloudy, he threw down the door handle, and said to the girl, "I'm not up yet."

The girl quickly got up and ran back.

The boss came forward quickly, smiling all over his face: "How many people, do you want to stay?"

Di Renjie smiled and said, "Exactly."

The boss counted Wang Mang and Di Renjie and his party, and asked, "Seven in total?"

Di Renjie nodded slightly to Wang Mang, and Wang Mang said, "I want four rooms."

When the boss heard that the guest wanted to go to the room, he smiled happily: "Four rooms, no problem!"

Di Renjie sat down and said, "Boss, we are the doctor who is going to Fang, and we are very thirsty during this journey. Let us have a cup of tea first."

The boss agreed repeatedly, and shouted to the back: "Make tea!"

Di Renjie winked at Wang Mang, Di Chun and others, and everyone sat around the big table.

Di Renjie and Wang Mang looked at each other, and Wang Mang asked, "Boss, we saw a lot of official servants in front of the store just now, did something happen in the store?"

The boss was taken aback for a moment, then stammered: "No, no, nothing happened."

Di Renjie and Wang Mang looked at each other, and they smiled inscrutablely.

At this time, the girl came over with tea and put the tea set on the table.

Di Renjie smiled and asked, "Little girl, is there something wrong in the shop?"

The shop owner was startled and winked at the girl vigorously, but the girl didn't see it, so she nodded.

The store owner's face turned murderous immediately, as if he had been hit by the soles of his shoes, he just stared and was about to speak.

Wang Mang stared at him intently, with two flashes of light in his eyes, and the shop owner couldn't speak for a moment.

Di Renjie asked the girl: "I saw the tolerance carrying out two corpses. Is there someone dead in this shop?"

The girl nodded again.

At this time, the shop owner realized that he was actually frightened by Wang Mang's gaze. His eyes sparked with anger, and he rushed forward and pulled the girl behind him.

Then, he said with a fake smile: "Ah, guest officer, yes, there was an accident, but it doesn't matter, you can rest assured."

Di Renjie gave Wang Mang a wink, and Wang Mang immediately understood. He stretched out his hand and took out five taels of silver from his pocket and put them on the table.

The store owner immediately stared at the silver with golden eyes, like a dog seeing a meat bun, eager to swallow it in one gulp.

Di Renjie said unhurriedly: "Boss, how about this, put the 50 taels of silver here, I ask, you answer, all the answers are correct, and you take the money. If you answer a wrong sentence, ten taels will be deducted. How about it?"

The store owner was beaming with joy, and quickly said: "Okay, okay."

Di Renjie asked, "Did a murder happen in the store?"

The store owner rolled his eyes: "No, how could there be a murder? It was the sudden death of two customers, which alarmed the Yamen."

Di Renjie nodded slowly and said, "The answer is wrong. Ten taels will be deducted."

As soon as the words fell, Wang Mang picked up the ten taels of silver and put it into his arms again.

The store owner was so distressed that tears almost flowed down his face.

He slapped himself twice, and grabbed Wang Mang's hand: "No, no, sir, please take out that silver nest, my lord, if you ask me again, you must be honest."

As he spoke, he looked at Di Renjie.

Seeing the greedy and stupid face of the boss, Di Renjie and Wang Mang looked at each other and laughed, and the whole table laughed even more.

The store owner looked embarrassed, scratched his ears, and shouted to the girl behind him, "Go to the back!"

The girl quickly backed away.

The boss said: "To tell the truth, sir, two people died in the shop last night."

Di Renjie raised his eyebrows: "Oh, how did you die?"

Wang Mang also frowned slightly, looking at the boss.

The boss let out a long sigh: "Who knows, it's really evil. Two guests came to stay overnight last evening..."

In the evening, when the sun was setting, the owner of the store stood behind the counter and pulled the abacus beads.

Two men in black came in, the boss raised his head and smiled apologetically, "You two, do you want to stay at the hotel?"

One of them said: "Yes. I want a room."

The boss hurriedly said, "No problem."

With that said, he turned around and took down the key hanging on the wall, "You two, please follow me."

The boss led two men in black into a room: "You two, do you think this room is okay?"

One of them nodded.

The boss said: "Look, should we have dinner downstairs, or will the smaller ones be brought up for you?"

The man said: "We won't go down anymore. After a while, you will have the food delivered to the room."

The boss answered "yes".

The boss sighed: "I delivered the dinner to the room myself. These two were also strange. They let me out without saying a word, and then closed the door."

Wang Mang and Di Renjie nodded slightly, and Di Renjie asked, "Then, what happened next?"

The boss said: "Guest officer, I don't know what happened afterwards. This morning, I went to deliver tea to those two, and found that the door was open, and the two of them had been killed. Oh, what a bad luck. I opened the shop ten years ago. This is the first time I have encountered such a thing in several years.”

Di Renjie nodded: "So, you follow me to that room to have a look?"

After finishing speaking, Di Renjie stood up, and Wang Mang and others also stood up.

The boss said: "Okay, no problem..."

But he didn't move, just stared at the pile of silver with wide eyes, which looked like a hungry wolf, salivating, "Guest officer, this silver—?"

Di Renjie smiled: "It's all yours."

"Thank you, officer!"

The store owner was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, he grabbed the silver and put it in his arms.

Wang Mang smiled, but did not speak.

After a while, the boss led Wang Mang, Di Renjie and others into the room. He gestured and said, "The two fell in front of the door, head to head, and the throat of the corpse was opened."

Wang Mang raised his eyebrows: "You mean your throat was cut?"

The boss nodded: "Exactly."

Di Renjie nodded slightly, his eagle eyes scanning around.

Wang Mang also looked at the things in the house. Everything in the house was intact, and there was no trace of fighting.

The deadbolt was also intact, apparently untouched.

Wang Mang and Di Renjie walked slowly to the side of the two couches and searched carefully, but the couches were empty, only neatly folded quilts.

Wang Mang went to the window to inspect it again. There was dust on the edge of the window seam, and it seemed that it had not been opened.

Di Renjie also looked over.

Suddenly, Di Renjie turned around and asked the boss: "Did anyone hear anything in the store last night?"

The boss said: "Ah, the mute was on duty last night. She said she heard someone falling on the ground and knocked on the door. Why don't you ask her."

Di Renjie nodded, and the boss turned around and ran back.

Di Renjie took a deep breath and frowned tightly.

Wang Mang said: "My lord, it seems that this murder case is not simple!"

Di Renjie nodded slightly: "Yes."

(End of this chapter)