The biography of Gu Qi, a poor girl

Fortunately, the content of the chat between these two people is not all colorful, and it is more or less substantive.

For example, the young man named Sanlang seems to be the youngest son of a certain official family in Kyoto, and has some background; while the weak woman named Jiaoer is the connector of the people behind the scenes in Yuan'an Town.

The detainees in several wing rooms were indeed victims brought over from Yubei, and these victims would be transported to Beiyun Mountain in three days.

Beiyun Mountain?

I really don't know where.

It seems that we have to find a topographic map of southern Yunnan first.

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"Master Seven."

Seeing Gu Qi come back, Huang Shanhai sneaked out from another corner of the house.

"What about the others?" Gu Qi asked.

"Not long after you entered, two groups of people came outside one after another. I saw that one of them was not easy to mess with, so I asked Song Dagui and the others to pretend to be drunkards and leave first." Huang Shanhai whispered,

"Those people are trustworthy?"

"I probably don't believe it, but those people don't seem to want to cause trouble, and they didn't pursue it when they saw Song Dagui leaving wisely."

Huang Shanhai was a little puzzled, thought for a while and said: "The first wave of people came, there was only one person, before entering the courtyard, that person jumped onto the eaves of the opposite courtyard and didn't know what to look at, but left after half a cup of tea.

Seven or eight people came in the second wave, but no one entered the yard as well. They only raised the handles on the front and back yard doors of the house.

Afterwards, I saw a manure-picking farmer pushing a cart from a distance, and those people seemed to have noticed it, and they all left before the farmer pushing the cart walked in. "

"did nothing?"

"did nothing."

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"Go back first."

Gu Qi didn't say anything, after the two returned to the inn; Gu Qi told Huang Shanhai to go back to the room to rest first, and he took out the pen and paper and started to practice calligraphy.

Gu Qi has been practicing handwriting for several months, but unfortunately the effect is still not good.Gu Qi didn't care about it, he practiced on his own, impatient from the beginning, but now he no longer feels bored, and even feels complacent.

As the sky was getting brighter, Gu Qi put away his pen and ink, gathered up the waste paper spread all over the table, and patiently burned it with a candle;

The paper curled up in the faint yellow firelight, completely burning the words 'Beiyunshan'.

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"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

There was a knock on the door, Gu Qi stood up and opened the door but saw two people dressed as government servants standing outside: "You two messengers, what's the matter?"

"Did you enter the city yesterday?" one of the guards asked.

"It is true that he entered the city yesterday."

Gu Qi nodded, there are quite a few of them, many people noticed it when they entered the city yesterday, there is no need to hide it.

"What are you doing in Yuan'an County?"

"peddler."

"Is there a transit document?" the guard asked again.

"Yes, please wait a moment." Gu Qi turned around and took the documents from the house.

Gu's document also came along halfway, and it can't be done authentically. It used a transit document from a southern goods company.

The guard cautiously touched the paper of the document and checked the content and official seal to confirm that there was no problem. Then he asked again:

"Did you go to Beixiang Old Street last night?"

Beixiang Old Street refers to the wide alley behind the Yamen in Yuan'an Town, which is where the house where the victims are hidden is located.

Gu Qi was a little surprised, although she led people to visit the house at night yesterday, but she did nothing, and now only a few hours have passed, how come the yamen servant came to the door.

Naturally, there was not much change on Gu Qi's face, he just said: "Yesterday I went to the town, I was exhausted by boat and car, I had dinner, I went to bed early, and I never left the inn again."

"Is there any evidence?"

"No, I live alone, and the caravan's companions all live in the room next to it. However, the waiter on the first floor should know if there was any entry or exit in the inn last night. If the messenger doesn't believe it, you can find the waiter Ask."

The guard nodded, and didn't ask too much on this topic. Obviously, when he went upstairs, he had already asked the waiter or shopkeeper on the first floor about the basic entry and exit conditions of the customers in the store.

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"My lord, what happened?"

Gu Qi pretended to be a bit cautious and timid. She was not very old, and she looked even younger after dressing up as a man. It was a bit deceptive to speak like this.

Sure enough, the yamen servant didn't suspect anything, and said: "A murder case happened in Beixiang Old Street last night."

Gu Qi was stunned, it turned out to be a dead person.

The murder case in the city was so close to the yamen. No wonder the yamen of Yuan'an Town sent messengers to various inns for routine inquiries when they were short of manpower.

"Your people don't go out casually these few days, the yamen will send people to ask questions at any time, do you understand?"

Another yamen servant who had been silent before, looked at Gu Qi solemnly and said: "If you find any suspicious person, you must come to the yamen to report."

"Yes, please don't worry." Gu Qi said honestly.

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There are not many rooms on the second floor of the Yuanlai Inn, about half honest, the two yamen servants left the inn after routine interrogation.

Gu Qi called Huang Shanhai into the room: "Go downstairs and ask the diners to find out what murder happened last night and who died in Beixiang Old Street. Remember to ask a few brothers not to leave the inn casually today."

"Yes, Master Seven."

When Huang Shanhai took the order to go down, Gu Qi went to Xiao Er and asked, "Is there any more plain noodles from yesterday, let me have another bowl."

The waiter in the shop showed a look of embarrassment: "Returning to the guest officer, yesterday's plain noodles were not made by the chef of the small shop, but another guest officer borrowed the small kitchen to make them.

The guest officer said it was your friend, and specially asked the little one to give you a bowl.If you want to eat, why not ask your friends? "

Sure enough, it was the scholar's handwriting.

"So that's the case. I'd like to trouble you to make a trip, and then bring me two buckets of hot water into this room." Gu Qi took out five cents and handed it to the waiter in the shop.

Today's Yuan'an Town is not short of water, and you don't need to pay extra for water, but you need to pay for firewood if you want the inn to provide extra hot water. A bucket of hot water is ten cents, which is paid in advance from the time of check-in. deducted from the deposit.The five cents given to the waiter in the shop was errand money.

After an incense burn, a waiter brought two buckets of hot water to the door, and behind the waiter was still the waiter from the previous shop, and at this time, the waiter was holding Gu Qiyao's clear soup and plain noodles.

"Guest officer, the young master who borrowed the small kitchen yesterday just borrowed the small kitchen again, and this bowl of plain noodles was sent to you by the young master."

The waiter in the shop had a rippling smile on his face. He had never seen such a proud customer. He was willing to give more rewards for cooking by himself. Yesterday, he gave him ten yuan for plain noodles. Today, he just asked a few words and gave him a bowl of plain noodles. , actually gave fifty Wen.

"Let's put it inside, and I'll collect the bowls and chopsticks later." Gu Qi asked someone to send the things into the outside room, and then asked the waiter: "Did the young man who borrowed the small kitchen go out last night?"