The Forensic Doctor's Daughter-in-law

Chapter 21 The man with a dagger in his chest

Seeing the attire of Dou Zihan and his group, the waiters at the inn greeted them.

After the group had dinner, they returned to their respective rooms. A Lian rested with Dou Zihan at night, and Xiao Bean Sprouts was accompanied by A Rong in the next room.

This Four Seasons Inn is a relatively large inn in Qinzhou Prefecture. It has three floors. The first floor is the lobby, where all the guests eat. The second floor is the guest room, where the shopkeeper, waiter, and cook live. On the third floor.

The shopkeeper of this inn is very eye-catching. He looks like he is in his 30s. Because he is disabled and has only one leg, he has been sitting behind the counter. When the guests come, they are all greeted by the guys.

There were not many guests at the Four Seasons Inn last night. Including Dou Zihan and his group, there were a total of six groups of people, and now they were all gathered in the lobby of the inn by the government officials.

Dou Zihan didn't sleep well last night. In the middle of the night, she was a little thirsty, so she lifted herself up and picked up the teapot from the small table next to the bed. When she was about to drink water, she seemed to hear something in the haze. It should be Let’s play the sound of the qin. The sound of the qin is a bit abrupt in the quiet night, but it’s not unacceptable. Even people like Dou Zihan who don’t know how to play the qin feel that they play the qin well. It's not the right time, it's already late at night, everyone is asleep, the sound of the piano is considered noise to some people.

The sound of the piano may have come to an end, and finally it slowly became low, and finally there was no sound at all. At this moment, she suddenly heard some heavy footsteps passing by her window.

The buildings these days are all made of wood, and even if you lighten the footsteps on the wooden floor, there will be a little sound, not to mention that the footsteps passing by are not deliberately lightened.

Dou Zihan's guest room is on the second floor of the Four Seasons Inn, not the innermost room. At this time, someone passed by the window, it must be the guest who lives in the room in front of her, but it is so late, why is this person still not resting? What is this for?
Although he had some doubts in his heart, Dou Zihan would not wake up in the middle of the night to open the door to check.

After the footsteps passed by, Dou Zihan waited for about a quarter of an hour, but the person who passed by had not returned, and his footsteps did not sound again.

Although Dou Zihan felt an instinctive irritability in his heart, he didn't want to meddle in other business, so he forced himself to fall asleep as soon as possible. After all, he had to continue on his way tomorrow.

After another quarter of an hour, Dou Zihan finally fell asleep, and footsteps sounded outside the window again. At first, Dou Zihan thought it was someone from the past who had returned, but when she listened carefully, she felt that it was not the same person.

The footsteps passing by again outside the window were much softer than the footsteps passing by before, and it sounded that the footsteps had a different focus.

A person passed by, and another person passed by.If it wasn't in the middle of the night, she might not have thought so much, but she still didn't open the door to take a look at the corridor outside.

After the footsteps passed, Dou Zihan didn't hear any more footsteps, and she began to fall asleep.

When Dou Zihan woke up the next day, the sky was already bright. Alian, Arong, and the rest of them got up. After tidying up, they went downstairs and came to the lobby of the inn. They were about to finish their breakfast before continuing on the road .

At this moment, a man dressed as a clerk stumbled in from outside the door, his face was pale and his expression was frightened.

When he came to the shopkeeper of the inn, he crawled into the shopkeeper's ear and said something, and the shopkeeper's face also became very ugly.He also whispered something to the guy.

The guy got up and ran out of the inn gate.

Although Dou Zihan felt a little strange seeing all this, he didn't continue to pay attention.

At this moment, the shopkeeper yelled loudly: "Xiao Luzi!"

Xiaoluzi was one of the clerks of this inn. Hearing this, he ran to the shopkeeper.

"Go to Jiazi No. [-]'s room and have a look."

"Have the guests of Jiazi No. [-] woke up yet?" Xiaoluzi glanced at the guests who were dining in the hall.He muttered in his mouth: "Why haven't you gotten up yet?" and went up to the second floor.

After a while, he even scrambled down the stairs, his face was similar to that of the previous guy, and he stammered: "Dead, dead, that woman is dead."

"What died? You said that woman died too?" The shopkeeper's voice suddenly rose.

This change has long attracted the attention of the diners in the hall. Suddenly, many people stopped their meals and focused their attention on the innkeeper and the guy who ran down from upstairs.

Dou Zihan and his party are naturally no exception, not to mention that as a forensic doctor, Dou Zihan is very sensitive to the word death, especially when she was sleeping last night, the strange footsteps still caused her some troubles.

Steward Wang on one side of the table frowned. He is well-informed. If a murder really happened in this inn, it would be a troublesome matter. Miss Biao and the others stayed in this inn last night, so they couldn't get out of it. If people from the government come, they will definitely not allow these residents to leave if they are found and found out.

"What's dead? Who's dead?" A man with a loud voice sitting at the table next to Dou Zihan and the others shouted loudly.

"Shopkeeper, the magistrate and the yamen's Butou Xu have arrived." The guy who looked flustered before ran in from the inn's gate again.

When the people in the hall heard the words, some had already stood up, and some looked a little flustered.

As the guy finished speaking, a group of yamen servants rushed into the gate of the inn, and blocked the gate of the inn with a huff.

A moment later, a man in his thirties wearing official robes and hats came in with official steps, followed by a chubby old man who looked like he should be a teacher.

The lame shopkeeper of the inn had already limped out from behind the counter in fear, and greeted the inn's fellows, "I've seen Mr. Zhifu."

"Excuse me, the person who came to report the crime was tricked by you." A deft yamen servant had already set up a chair in the spacious space on the other side of the hall. After the magistrate took a sip, he asked slowly.

"Responding to my lord, this morning, Agen, who was in charge of buying the kitchen, got up early and planned to go to the market to buy some charcoal. Unexpectedly, he found a dead person in the woods behind him just after he left the back door. After crawling and rolling back to tell the little one, the little one asked him to go to the front office to report the crime."

Dou Zihan later found out that the reason why the magistrate came in time was because the magistrate's office was only one street away from the Four Seasons Inn, so the man rushed to report the case, and after more than a quarter of an hour, he arrived. Come back, even so, the magistrate is showing off his official authority.

(End of this chapter)