space king

Chapter 36 The Dead in the Coffin
Huangshi Town is far more barren and desolate than Su Ran imagined.

At the entrance of the town, a disheveled, ragged old beggar looked at Su Ran with a look of monsters.

Su Ran was observing the structure of this small town when the old beggar suddenly jumped in front of Su Ran: "Hi, sir."

"I'm not your uncle, but I'm fine." Su Ran said to the old beggar while walking towards the only street in Huangshi Town.

"Master, are you here to find someone?" The old beggar laughed.

"Yeah, how do you know I'm here to find someone?" Su Ran said casually.

"Because Huangshi Town is so poor, most people would never think of coming here." The old beggar said with a chuckle, "People who come here are either looking for someone, or seeking refuge."

"Refuge?" Su Ran frowned.

"Yes, murderers, rapists, political prisoners, and some desperate people will choose to take refuge here. This is a place far away from the emperor, and the court will never arrest criminals. Come here, if the enemies want to seek revenge, they will rarely find this place that is not shit."

"Oh." Su Ran said noncommittal.

"Master, is the person you are looking for called Lu Xiaofeng?" the old beggar asked again.

Su Ran looked surprised: "You can guess this too, do you know fortune-telling?"

"Hey..." The old beggar laughed again, "Because only Lu Xiaofeng has been to Huangshi Town in the past month."

"Then do you know where Lu Xiaofeng is now?" Su Ran asked.

"Of course I know." The old beggar said, "It's in the coffin shop at the corner of the street."

"What is Lu Xiaofeng doing in the coffin shop? Is he selling coffins there?"

"No, because Lu Xiaofeng is dead, and he is now lying in the coffin."

Su Ran didn't believe that Lu Xiaofeng was dead.

The coffin shop is easy to find. As soon as Su Ran walked to the street, she saw the big words "Big Eye Coffin Shop".

A big man in a shabby cardigan was sitting on a chair with his head tilted and his small eyes wide open, looking at the sun. When he looked at him, he saw a face.

Su Ran looked at the small eyes of the big man, and asked, "You don't mean big eyes, do you?"

"Huh? How do you know my name, Wang Dayan?" Wang Dayan's small eyes opened wider.

"Your name is on the signboard of your coffin shop."

"Oh, so that's the case, I said how could you know my name, Wang Dayan, and I don't know you." Wang Dayan seemed to have come to his senses, "Guest officer, are you here to buy a coffin?"

"I'm not buying a coffin, I'm looking for someone." Su Ran said.

"Other than the living person, Wang Dayan, in my big-eyed coffin shop, there are only dead people left."

"Are there still many dead people in your coffin shop?"

"Not many, but just one."

"Is this dead man called Lu Xiaofeng?" Su Ran asked hastily.

"Yes."

Su Ran's heart began to sink, Lu Xiaofeng couldn't really die, could he?
"I want to see the dead man."

"can."

Wang Dayan was actually very talkative, so he immediately took Su Ran to the coffin shop to see the dead man.

The big-eyed coffin shop was dimly lit and windy, it really didn't look like a place for the living to stay.

There was only one room in the coffin shop, which was neither too big nor too small, and there were seven or eight coffins scattered about in the room.

Wang Dayan brought Su Ran to a painted coffin and stopped: "Lu Xiaofeng is lying in this coffin."

"Open." Su Ran just said two words lightly.

Wang Dayan struggled to open the coffin lid.

then.

Su Ran saw a dead man.

A dead man lying in a coffin.

His face was serene, and his body had not decomposed yet.

However, this dead man was not Lu Xiaofeng.

"Who is he?" Su Ran asked, pointing to the dead man in the coffin.

"Lu Xiaofeng."

"He's not Lu Xiaofeng."

"Then who is he?"

"How do I know who he is." Su Ran said, "He died in your coffin shop. You ask me who he is?"

"He didn't die in my coffin shop." Wang Dayan said, "He died on the side of the road. I felt sorry for him, so I moved his body to the coffin shop. Now I'm waiting for someone to come and recognize him." Since you are looking for him, please take his body away quickly, or it will stink soon."

"The person I'm looking for is Lu Xiaofeng, not him." Su Ran thought for a while and asked, "When did this person die? How did he die?"

"About ten days ago." Wang Dayan said, "When I moved his body, I found a wound on his neck. He should have been killed."

Sure enough, there was a very thin wound on the neck of the corpse in the coffin. It would be difficult for the unwary to find it. This person must have been cut with a sharp knife at the throat, but why did others kill him?Who is this dead man?
Lu Xiaofeng probably hadn't arrived in Huangshi Town ten days ago, so Su Ran concluded that the dead man in the coffin had been killed before Lu Xiaofeng came to Huangshi Town.

The purpose of Lu Xiaofeng's visit to Huangshi Town was to find his good friend Liu Chengfeng. Since the body in the coffin was not Lu Xiaofeng, it was very likely that it was Liu Chengfeng. It was very likely that Liu Chengfeng died in Huangshi Town. Lu Xiaofeng lost Liu Chengfeng. The news of the wind will come to him.

"Is the dead man in the coffin named Liu Chengfeng?" Su Ran suddenly asked Wang Dayan.

"His name seems to be Liu Chengfeng." Wang Dayan replied immediately.

"Then why did you say he was Lu Xiaofeng just now?" Su Ran looked at Wang Dayan's small eyes.

"I know his name is Liu Chengfeng, but how do I know his name is not Lu Xiaofeng? You said you were looking for Lu Xiaofeng, so I thought it was him." Seeing that Su Ran didn't quite understand what he said, Wang Dayan explained again, "We have a lot of desperadoes here, and these desperadoes all have at least two names, especially those house guests of Huang Xiaochong. It's not surprising that they have three, four, five, six or seven names. For example, you can call me Big Eye , you can also call me Wang Dayan, and Wang Dayan and Wang Dayan are both the same person, of course Lu Xiaofeng and Liu Chengfeng may also be the same person."

The same person with different names, Wang Dayan's reasons are impeccable.

"Do you remember when Liu Chengfeng came to Huangshi Town?" Su Ran could only continue to ask.

"About a month ago."

"Then after Liu Chengfeng, has anyone been to Huangshi Town?" Su Ran felt that the key was to ask whether Lu Xiaofeng had arrived at Huangshi Town.

"Yes, a man with four eyebrows came here seven days ago."

A man with four eyebrows, without even thinking about it, he knew it was Lu Xiaofeng.

"Then where is this man with four eyebrows now?" Su Ran asked hurriedly.

"Let's go." Wang Dayan said.

"Going away?" Su Ran looked at Wang Dayan's small eyes and said, "Why did an old beggar tell me just now that only Lu Xiaofeng has been to Huangshi Town in the past month? no the same?"

Wang Dayan blinked his small eyes and said: "How can you believe what that old beggar said? Liu Chengfeng died on the side of the road, and it is very likely that he was killed by that old beggar. It's not that this happened before, and the first person who found Liu Chengfeng's body was the old beggar. If you want to find out about Lu Xiaofeng's whereabouts, go to the grocery store opposite and ask the proprietress. If my observation is good, The proprietress should have slept with Lu Xiaofeng."

As soon as Su Ran walked out of the coffin shop, she saw the unkempt and ragged old beggar by the roadside, giggling and looking at him.

(End of this chapter)