Jin An successfully broke through the fourth level of "Blood Knife Sutra".
A night of silence.
The next day.
Jin An was awakened by the waiter at the inn.
"Master Jin'an!"
"Master Jin'an, have you woken up?"
"Mr. Jin An, no good, something happened!"
The waiter stood outside the closed red door of the house, calling Jin An's name.
His voice was not loud and the environment of the house was quiet. He was afraid of disturbing the sleeping guests living in other houses.
The waiter called out three times. Seeing that there was no movement in Jin An's room, he thought Jin An hadn't woken up yet. He gritted his teeth and planned to leave first.
This time, he took advantage of the break from going to the back kitchen to serve food to the diners in the front hall to sneak in to see Jin An.
So I didn’t really dare to stay too long.
To avoid being caught by the shopkeeper.
His wages were deducted.
His monthly salary is only two taels of silver.
And just when the waiter was disappointed and turned to leave, the red door of the mansion behind him opened from the inside.
Jin An looked at the waiter at the inn in front of him and asked, "Were you calling me just now?"
When the waiter saw Jin An come out, he looked surprised. He turned around and walked back, bowing and saying, "I was calling Mr. Jin An outside the courtyard just now. I wonder if I disturbed Mr. Jin An's dream?"
"What do you want from me?"
"You just said something happened. What happened?"
The waiter didn't dare to tell anyone, so he spilled water and said everything.
"Mr. Jin An, I was cleaning the tables in the front hall this morning, and I heard one of the guests coming to the shop for breakfast say that there was an accident at Lin Lu's house last night!"
"Early this morning, the morning bell rang to open the traffic. At around 9:00, when dawn had just broken, the door of Lin Lu's courtyard was wide open. Last night, he was responsible for keeping vigil, guarding the white coffin that was carried back from the grave on the north slope.
Daochang Chen, as well as four or five other people, all collapsed and fainted in the yard."
"The lid of the white coffin was actually pushed halfway open."
"Lin Lu was so frightened that he passed out in the room where he was sleeping."
"When several people were woken up, Lin Lu seemed to be stimulated by something. He was so frightened that he screamed and raised the corpse! Lin Lu said that the dead man in the white coffin ran out on his own. He was standing behind the window last night and was photographed by a person.
His face was so frightened that he fainted!"
"In the end, Mr. Jin'an, what do you think happened after this incident?"
"This is evil!"
"The body in the coffin was not lost, and the body in the coffin did not escape on its own. The body was still lying down."
"In the end, Daochang Chen made it clear that the face Lin Lu saw while hiding behind the window last night was not necessarily the dead person buried in the coffin. It was possible that an outsider came to steal the body."
"Because last night, Daochang Chen and the night watchmen were drugged into their meals and put to death. This gave people the opportunity to come and steal the bodies."
"It's just that the person who stole the corpse never expected that there was another person in the room who was the only one who didn't eat last night's meal and was not knocked out. And this person was Lin who had been mentally weak and had a bad appetite for several days.
Lu."
"It's very possible that the person who came to steal the body was scared away by Lin Lu who appeared unexpectedly, and didn't even have time to steal the body."
Jin An was shocked when he heard this.
Unexpectedly, so many things happened last night.
He hurriedly asked the waiter: "What happened next?"
"Have Chief Chen and the others found the person who secretly drugged them?"
Unexpectedly, the waiter shook his head and said he didn't know, saying that the customers at the table only knew so much, and they heard it from other people.
After the waiter finished speaking, he looked at Jin An expectantly.
Phew~
"You have done a good job in this matter, and I will reward you with this money."
"If you have anything related to me in the future, you can come to me at any time."
Two pieces of broken silver fell into the palm of the waiter's hand. Jin An's generous spending made the waiter beam with joy, and he flattered Jin An wildly.
These two pieces of silver can already be regarded as less than half of his monthly salary.
Sure enough, it was not in vain for him to take the risk to find Mr. Jin An.
Just when the waiter resigned from Jin An, and he had to go to the kitchen to serve food to avoid being caught by the shopkeeper being lazy, Jin An temporarily stopped him: "I want to ask something more, where has Zhao Ping been recently?"
"Why haven't I seen anyone in the store for several days?"
The Zhao Ping mentioned by Jin An was the inn boy who chatted with Jin An that night and discovered the identity of Zhang Lingyun's sisters.
The waiter answered honestly: "He has been fired by the shopkeeper."
"It seems that he said something that he shouldn't have said. I guess he was talking nonsense behind people's backs, and the shopkeeper happened to hear it, so he was fired by the shopkeeper."
"Speaking of which, several of us who had good friendships with him in the past have not seen him for a long time. Since he left overnight the day he was fired by the shopkeeper, he has never seen him again, and has never come to talk to us about old times."
This news made Jin An stunned for a moment.
Then he waved his hand and asked the waiter to leave.
…
But on the way the waiter left, there was one thing he couldn't figure out...
Just now, when I was standing at the door of the house and talking to Mr. Jin An, I don't know if it was because of his imagination or because he couldn't see clearly because he was standing outside the house...
The goat Mr. Jin An kept in the yard seemed a lot bigger than when he saw it in the kitchen a few days ago?
Are you getting fatter and stronger?
…
Watching the waiter leave, Jin An looked thoughtful.
He originally thought that after carrying the coffin, he would have nothing to do with the old magic stick, Bai Coffin, and Lin Lu's family in the future.
Unexpectedly, the body theft occurred on the first night after carrying the coffin.
It was precisely because the matter was so important that he rewarded the clever waiter with two coins at once.
You must know that these two coins are already half a month's wages for an ordinary porter who can only work hard.
In ancient times, you could afford a house with just a few taels of silver.
…
There's just one thing that Jin An hasn't figured out yet.
Since the other party has already stolen the body, and since they have drugged the food, why not just poison the person directly, which is more simple and quick, but just stun the person?
Later, Jin An thought about it, maybe it was because the other party didn't want to attract the attention of the government.
Worried that killing too many people would attract official attention.
The other party just wants to steal the body, and does not want to fight head-on with the official forces!
…
Jin An thought for a while and finally went out to Lin Lu's house.
When Jin An arrived at Lin Lu's house, he saw young people from the Lin clan standing outside the courtyard wall of Lin Lu's house.
One by one, they stood motionless.
Like a door god.
Some good people who wanted to come and watch were persuaded to leave.
If you don't listen to good words and persuasion, be polite first, then fight, and directly drive people away.
Seeing the Lin clan members acting like they were facing a formidable enemy, Jin An immediately understood that in addition to what the waiter told him, something else might have happened last night.
Otherwise, why would all Lin Lu's relatives come over and drive away outsiders so that outsiders don't know what's going on in the yard?
People like Jin An and the Lin family are old acquaintances who had interacted with each other yesterday.
As soon as Jin An arrived, he was recognized by Lin Erzhu who was guarding the door. Lin Erzhu was the person who carried the coffin with Jin An yesterday.
"Master Jin An, why are you here?" Lin Erzhu looked surprised at Jin An's arrival.
Jin An did not hide anything and made his purpose clear. He heard that something happened here, so he came to take a look. After hearing what Jin An said, Lin Erzhu did not deliberately embarrass Jin An. Seriously speaking, Jin An and he had a life-and-death relationship... Yes
The men who carried the coffin of the dead together.
So Lin Erzhu took the initiative to run errands for Jin An and ran into the yard to deliver a message for Jin An. Soon, Lin Erzhu ran out again and said that Taoist Chen invited him in.