Chapter 417 Forty-third bowl of soup (three & four)
Forty-third bowl of soup (three & four)
“I’ve measured it all.” Eighteen carefully put the paper with the size in mind, smiled at a few people, blessed her body, she is really soft, cute and gentle, even the most iron-faced adult is talking to her I couldn’t help but become gentle when I spoke.
The scholar poured a cup of tea and handed it to Eighteen, carefully avoiding physical contact with her, and then sat back next to the chess board, and said to the adults: “Late Sheng thinks this matter is not trivial, my lord, I am afraid that things are not what we imagined. So simple.”
“Yes, as I said earlier, Bai Qiyijie, a merchant, even if the business is a bit bigger, it is like that, but his method of whitewashing peace has to draw our attention.” Xiao Jiu also said, she gestured Eighteen to one side, sitting and resting, then walked to the front of the chess board, and said to the adults, “My lord, if we can’t find the corpse, we can’t convict the white seven. If we don’t convict the white seven, we have worked hard for more than a month before. What’s that? Where did he get so many girls? No one will be seen in life or dead.”
The adult pondered for a moment and said: “This matter has to be considered for a long time. The corpse was originally our only hope. Now that we can’t find the corpse, there is naturally no physical evidence. Bai Qi can be arrested in the future. The only thing that makes me care is that he The man behind.”
“My lord means… there is someone behind Bai Qi?” Cheng Pu frowned and asked roughly, shocking the eighteen on the side, and he quickly showed an embarrassed smile.
Eighteen lowered his head, looking at the numbers written on the paper, from time to time he used a pen to outline the outline of his clothes, and made amendments by the way. Xiao Jiu glanced at her and saw that she was not listening, and then said: “How do I feel that we found Bai Qi before, originally thought this was the biggest fish, who knows that there is someone else behind the scenes! ”
“That’s what I want. A businessman has taken so many girls and children abducted. No one has noticed it and encountered no resistance. If it weren’t for the adults who decided to investigate abnormally, we didn’t know that so many missing girls and children had gone. where.”
“And the restaurants, teahouses, brothels, and so on under his name. I don’t think the girls in them came from clearly.” Xiao Jiu was irritated. “What is the origin of this person? Let’s not hurry up and bring him to justice. Sooner or later, more girls will be ruined in her hands.”
The adult glanced at Eighteen and said to Xiao Jiu: “You don’t have to worry too much about this. I will continue to send people to investigate. When I use you, I will naturally call you.”
Xiao Jiu nodded: “On the day I went to arrest someone, the adults must take me there. The **** at Bai Qi even disliked me for not looking good when I saw me last time, saying that I was worth more than ten taels of silver!” ! No vision! She is young and lovely, lively and cheerful, how can she be worth twenty taels?
Cheng Pu hehe, habitually sarcasm Xiao Jiu: “You are not worth money, if you are the eighteen girl, it would be worth–”
With his mouth being covered, he still doesn’t know what he said wrong, Xiao Jiu stared at him desperately, don’t know what Shiba has experienced? Can you say anything like this? Finally, the eighteen never asked about the scars on his body, this stupid big man kept pulling out!
The scholar also felt that Cheng Pu had a problem with his brain. He quickly called the Eighteen who had looked up and looked here. “Girl Eighteen, the late student suddenly remembered that there was a book that he hadn’t finished reading. It’s better for you to play this game with the adults. Right.”
Eighteen was stunned for a moment, and the lord looked over and asked, “I wonder if I can have this honor?”
She nodded quickly, walked over slowly, and sat down on the seat where the scholar was sitting before. The chessboard is now just an endgame. The scholar is almost desperate. She is afraid that reading is a fake, and she doesn’t want to watch that her loss is true. .
The adult’s chess skill is absolutely not controversial. Even scholars who have learned the rich and five carts will be willing to go down the wind. He originally planned to escape, but after eighteen sat down, just after a few pieces were dropped, the situation was reversed. The scholar stood aside curiously and watched. Also reluctant to leave. He looked at Eighteen from time to time, then looked at the adult, and shook his head and said: “This time the adult has encountered an opponent.”
Surprisingly, the eighteenth chess skill is better than that of adults. She hasn’t dared to make a ruthless move. She secretly gave a few of them. Cheng Pu and Xiaojiu can’t tell if they don’t understand Go, but scholars and adults are Have a good idea.
This girl is absolutely extraordinary.
In fact, an adult is not as good as a scholar when it comes to chess skills alone, but he is better at observing, meticulous and calm. No matter what the situation is, he will always be indifferent and indifferent. On the contrary, it is a scholar who writes all his thoughts on his face. In many cases, patience and perseverance are more important than skill.
Although 18 looks timid, he is very calm when playing chess. As the saying goes, watching chess knows people, this is the truth.
“I lost.”
“Adult accepts.” After a game of chess, Eighteen returned to her shy and pleasant appearance. She looked at the people present with a little embarrassment, as if she felt that she had won the chess, which made the adults embarrassed.
The scholar smiled and ended the game: “I play with an adult. I don’t know how many games he has played. I have always lost more and won less. In recent years, the adults’ chess skills have become more exquisite, and I am no longer an opponent. The girl really makes me proud, let me do this, at noon today, I’ll treat, let’s go out to eat!”
When I heard that I went out to eat, Xiao Jiu’s eyes lit up: “Go to the Drunken Hotel!”
The scholar suddenly felt a pain: “The Drunken Guest House is so expensive…”
“The first time you invited Shiba to dinner, do you want to take her to the wonton stall in the street?” Xiao Jiu glanced at him contemptuously. “Anyway, I have to show it!”
Adults also have a rare humorous sentence: “Zigui treats guests, it is rare and rare. If I knew it earlier, I would not have breakfast this morning.”
Cheng Pu also nodded sharply.
Zuibinlou is the best restaurant in their county, except for the Baiqijia. The only thing is that the price is a bit expensive, which is not affordable by ordinary people. If you let go of your belly and eat and drink, it will cost you scholars. More than a month’s salary. So even though he boasted that he was inviting guests to dinner, he was stroking his purse distressedly after sitting down.
Originally, the whole family was not hungry for one person. Now he is considered a civil servant, so he can save some money every month to marry a wife in the future. Who knows that this meal will collapse a lot. Looking at the scholar, Xiao Jiu hit him with his arm: “Hey, what do you want? It’s just a treat, can you still spend your wife’s life? He is a scholar, how can he be so stingy.”
The scholar gave her a bitter look, and the whole body exuded that I was very poor and I was very sad. Eighteen is like sitting on pins and needles. The adult is sitting next to her. Seeing that she has something to say in her expression, she whispered: “What’s the matter?”
“My lord, or let’s go back, it’s too expensive, I’m really upset to let the son entertain you…”
“It’s okay.” She looked up her face like a fluffy little rabbit, and the adult almost raised her hand to touch her head, but fortunately she held it back. In order to cover up, he coughed lightly and said, “You don’t have to worry about Zigui. He comes from a scholarly family and is not short of money. He just doesn’t want to get fame and run away from home. This meal is nothing. His wife is already. Enough savings.”
Hearing this, Shiba’s eyes widened: “Really?”
Even the questioning was soft and glutinous, and the adult chuckled softly: “Naturally it is true, would I still coax you to fail.”
Eighteen lowered his head and smiled shyly. Xiao Jiu and the scholar over there were still quarreling. Cheng Pu said casually while throwing peanuts into his mouth: “You two have a little quarrel for three days and a big quarrel for five days. You can get married. It’s pretty good for a lifetime. ”
He just said that casually, and the two of them blushed instantly. Eighteen looked curiously at this and then, wondering why they suddenly stopped quarreling, and then looked at the adult, the adult also looked like I know everything but I don’t say it. Eighteen thought for a while, and sincerely admired: “The son and Xiao Jiu really match each other. When will the two get married?”
She is not stupid, but the pink between the two can even be seen by a big boss like Cheng Pu, don’t mention the adults and her. Eighteen books are careful, and I have always wondered why the scholar and Xiao Jiu liked each other, but why they quarreled when they met.
The two made a big red face, and Xiao Jiu mumbled: “Who wants to marry this kind of sour scholar…” He was thin and looked weak, and had no power to bind a chicken. Cheng Pu did it before. When she was not with the adults, she had some strength in the three of them, and she had to go up and protect them from robbers who encountered robbers on the road.
The scholar snorted, twisted his head and said, “How can I say that I also came from a scholarly family. Such a rude and **** woman is not suitable for me.”
The two of them cooperated unexpectedly on this point, shaking their heads and humming, and they had a tacit understanding.
Eighteen pursed his lips and smiled.
Zuibin Building is worthy of being Zuibin Building. All kinds of dishes are delicious and delicious. In order to avoid waste, of course, the main reason is to feel sorry for the money he spent. The scholar forced himself and Cheng Pu to stuff all the unfinished dishes into their stomachs and fight. When I went back to the house, I stood up and was fluttering, and almost didn’t go to heaven.
Shiba walked in the middle when she left the Zuibin Building, but when it was her turn to go out, it was a coincidence that someone turned around and ran into her directly. She was staggered, and she fell back. Fortunately, there was an adult behind. She stretched her arms around her slender waist, held her steady, and whispered: “Be careful.”
Eighteen blushed: “Thank you, sir.”
The adult nodded first, then squinted: “White Seven.”
White Seven?
Eighteen looked at the man subconsciously, and saw that the man was dressed in a brocade suit and looked upright, but the calculation and shrewdness in his eyes was uncomfortable. He was staring at Shiba at the moment, Shiba was the closest to the adult, she grabbed the adult’s sleeve without even thinking about it, and quickly hid behind the adult.
The adult was tall, and immediately blocked the eighteenth. Bai Qi couldn’t see the beauty, so she lazily arched her hands: “The grass miner pays homage to the adult. I don’t know who the girl is just now?”
Xiao Jiu rushed over and snorted Bai Qi: “It’s your shit, the good dog doesn’t stand in the way, have you ever heard of it? Don’t you hurry up?”
Bai Qi didn’t refute, and stepped back, but kept his eyes on Eighteen. Eighteen’s hands trembled lightly, holding the adult’s sleeves and daring not to loosen them. It’s rare for an adult not to care about the difference between men and women, so he wrapped her shoulder with one hand and said, “Don’t be afraid.”
Bai Qi stood there, staring at them all the way, and then beckoned one of his men to come over: “Go, show me what the identity of the girl next to the official dog is.” Tsk tusk, grow into this look, if you catch her Give it to the master, the master must have many rewards.
After returning to the house, Shiba was still a little scared. She didn’t dare to let go of Xiao Jiu’s hand, but at this time there was a corpse sent, and Xiao Jiu’s post-mortem was needed. Xiao Jiu had no choice but to drag an adult to take care of him, so the adult sat in the corridor and read a book, while the eighteen sewed clothes in front of the window.
The two were silent.
Three days later, as soon as the sky was dark, the door was knocked violently, and the scholar’s voice came: “Xiao Jiu! Xiao Jiu! Are you awake, Xiao Jiu! Xiao Jiu! Get up soon! Something happened!”
Xiao Jiu rubbed his eyes and got up, and said dissatisfied: “I see!”
Then he looked at the eighteen who was also awakened and said: “It’s okay, you continue to sleep, I will come as soon as I go.” After speaking, he yawned and found clothes to put on, feeling strange in his heart, why did you sleep so heavily today? She should almost wake up at this time on weekdays.
Maybe it was late yesterday. Xiao Jiu didn’t care, anyway, this happened frequently before. She yawned again, and tears even appeared in her eyes. She washed her face with cold water, and she immediately became sober. Then she went to open the door and stood by Cheng Pu. He looked solemn at the door of the room. Xiao Jiu is unclear, so: “What’s the matter?”
“Bai Qi is dead!”
“What?!” Xiao Jiu was surprised. “Bai Qi is dead? Wasn’t it okay yesterday?”
“Don’t worry about so much. Your lord told you to go to the morgue. The corpse has just been delivered.” Cheng Pu lowered his voice, “Don’t let the eighteenth girl hear it. She is timid, lest she be scared.”
Xiao Jiu nodded: “Let’s go.”
He didn’t even eat breakfast, and rushed to the morgue. He saw adult scholars standing next to the corpse and conducted a preliminary inspection of the corpse. Seeing Xiao Jiu coming, the scholar said: “The preliminary judgment is that a sharp weapon was stabbed to death, but I don’t know who can have such an ability.” You must know that Bai Qi is a Lianjiazi, and apart from the fatal chest injury, he There is no resistance to injury all over the body. What does this mean? It shows that Bai Qi has no chance to fight back at all.
But is it possible?
Xiao Jiu looked at the wound carefully, compared it again, and frowned, “I don’t know what caused the wound for a while, and I still need to know more about it.”
The adult nodded and said, “Leave the body to you, Zi Gui, you come with me.”
“Yes.”
So Xiao Jiu went to the morgue for an autopsy, and the adult took Cheng Pu to the White Seven Mansion for investigation.
Bai Qi’s body was discovered by the servant girl in the Fuzhong in the morning. Bai Qi has a hobby, that is, he likes incense, especially his daughter’s incense, his girls, but whatever he likes, he has to stay by his side and play for a while, and then send it away when he gets tired of playing. Every morning he ordered the maid to light the incense on time, and then decided who would serve him this morning based on the smell of the incense.
As a result, the maidservant had just entered the house early this morning, and before she could light the fragrance, she smelled a pungent blood. Taking a closer look, Bai Qi was lying on the ground in a snow-white single coat, covered in blood. She immediately screamed and ran out. At this moment, the layout of the room had not moved at all, everything was the same as before the crime.
Originally thought that Bai Qi was behind the kidnapping of women and children, but who knows, they just noticed that there was someone behind Bai Qi, and Bai Qi died unclearly. We met in Zuibin Building a few days ago. This person was fine, but it took a long time before the person died. Both the adult and the scholar expressed strangeness to this.
“It must be the person behind the scenes.” Cheng Pu said. “I just don’t understand, why does he want to kill the white seven now? If he wanted to kill the white seven, there would have been countless opportunities, why did it happen yesterday?”
The adult thought: “Xiao Jiu said that the time of death was about midnight, that is to say, Bai Qi had been dead for some time. I just asked the maidservants in the mansion that Bai Qi had to pick up girls with extraordinary looks every night. Then the next morning, the girl was changed according to the smell of the incense that was randomly lit, but at present, it seems that he was alone last night.”
Just look at his clothes. The singles are brand new. They changed into new singles, and didn’t look for a girl like they did in the past. Is it because they are waiting for someone?
The scholar lifted the curtain of the bed and said loudly, “Lord, come and see!”
The adult walked over. There was no trace of blood on the bed, it was clean, and the quilts were neatly folded. Not only that, the whole room looked very tidy, with a figure of a white Qi lying down on the floor. The adult walked over and slumped down in front of the figure.
“… Bai Qi was sitting on the bed at that time.” The scholar said immediately. “Who is so important to let him sit on the bed and wait?”
“Perhaps… not because it is important,” the adult murmured. He looked around the room. Bai Qi’s room was the same as his whole person’s taste, magnificent and magnificent, surrounded by some seemingly invaluable decorations.
“My lord means…”
“I don’t know.” The adult shook his head. “Just feel.”
In the middle of the night, Bai Qi was sitting on the bed alone, wearing a brand-new single. What was the purpose of sitting tightly?
After investigating the scene, they returned to the county government office, and Xiao Jiu just finished the autopsy. There is nothing to say, the fatal wound is on the chest. The murderer made a very sharp attack, and one blow was fatal. Bai Qi didn’t even have a chance to call for help.
“What makes me feel strange is that according to the wound, the height of the murderer should be lower than that of Bai Qi.” Xiao Jiu frowned and pushed the scholar down on the chair. “For example, you are White Seven and I am a murderer, so I should be like this—” She knelt on the ground, assassinated with a murder weapon, comparing it to Bi Shusheng’s chest. “It’s so weird, Bai Qi is not short, but when he sits down, how can anyone be shorter than him? Or is the murder weapon more unusual?”
The adult watched the simulated actions of the two of them for a while, and suddenly said, “Is there a possibility that the murderer was kneeling?”
“Kneeling?”
But this makes sense. But kneeling… The expressions of Cheng Pu and the scholar are a bit subtle, Xiao Jiu didn’t understand it, as if only men understand this question, she looked at this and then at that, “What, what do you mean?”
The men glanced at her, but didn’t answer. Xiao Jiu exploded: “What the **** do you mean?!”
“Look.” The scholar sighed and gestured to her. “Suppose I am a white seven and you are a murderer. You are kneeling in front of me. Then you must not be a long weapon. If you have a long weapon, I will find out immediately. And I am waiting for you in this way, which shows that I treat you. Not only is the arrival without fear, it is even welcome.”
Everyone has this kind of experience. When the family is about to come, they put on new clothes and waited.
“You mean he knew the person?”
“It should be so, and he is someone he can’t guard against. After all, Bai Qi’s martial arts is good, and ordinary people are not his opponents. If you want to kill him, he must put down his defenses.” The scholar hesitated. “And this pose…”
Xiao Jiu didn’t understand: “What’s wrong with this posture?!”
Scholar Jun blushed, bent over and said something in her ear, Xiao Jiu immediately slapped him: “Smelly hooligan!”
The scholar was aggrieved: “You have to ask me to say that.” How to beat him?
Xiao Jiu glared at him: “Shameless! Why are you men so shameless!”
“Hey, be careful when you speak, why did our men provoke you?” Cheng Pu protested with dissatisfaction. “So far this is the most reasonable speculation. Only at this time will Bai Qi put down his guard, okay?”
If you explain it this way, it is indeed the reason, but… Xiao Jiu’s face is still red: “Then according to you, the murderer is definitely not a man.”
“Of course.” The scholar said, “Bai Qi likes pretty girls, we all know that.”
Xiao Jiubai gave him a glance.
The adult is still thinking, and he still has some confusion: “Assuming our assumption is correct, then who is this woman? Is it the girl under Bai Qi?”
“He has so many girls, how can we find them?” Cheng Pu rolled his eyes. “And it’s no shame that this kind of person dies. He is dead. I don’t know how many girls and children are saved.”
“I asked the housekeeper and the maid. I said that last night Bai Qi didn’t find someone to come in and wait as usual. He even took a shower and changed clothes and locked the door early, as if waiting for some important person.”
“Is it the master behind the scenes?!” Xiao Jiu’s eyes lit up.
“If it’s the main agent behind the scenes, it would be possible to explain why we want to kill Baiqi Miekou. Because she knows that sooner or later we can find her.” The scholar sighed. “But if it’s really the master behind the scenes, and if she kneels down to Bai Qi, the relationship between the two people will be completely reversed. In this case, the master behind the scenes should be the planner, and Bai Qi is just a good one. Why does the master kneel down with me? Besides, a girl’s house… shouldn’t be the person behind the scenes.”