Luo's Wood Carving Shop. Shopkeeper Luo was carving a statue of a god under the lamp. Wood chips fell from between his fingers and stuck to his blue trousers. He absent-mindedly continued to outline the figure of the statue with the carving knife. Suddenly, the carving knife tilted, and a blood mark appeared on his finger.
He put down the tools and statues in his hands, stood up angrily, walked to the earthen stove, took out some grass ashes from the stove, and spread it on the wound. Then he continued to work at the table.
"Shopkeeper, why don't you just kill someone and blame that kid? Why would you stick a large sum of money on it? It makes me sad just thinking about it..." Mrs. Luo Wang said dissatisfiedly as she added firewood to the stove.
Shopkeeper Luo didn't even raise his head, and said dullly: "What do you know, you bitch! This is a plan to kill two birds with one stone..." As he spoke, he continued to use the carving knife to carve out the details of the statue.
Mrs. Luo Wang curled her lips and sneered: "With your little tricks... you are really not afraid that the county magistrate will find out the flaws..."
"Hey, what can that confused officer find out... If he could find out, he would have found out three years ago..." A look of pride appeared on Shopkeeper Luo's face.
Luo Wang was still a little uneasy and said: "I heard that some people from the escort agency are helping the county magistrate to investigate the case... I'm afraid that if we are found... we will poison Luo Xiaoshi's father who you poisoned three years ago. Mother’s matter has also been found out, what should we do?”
"Don't keep nagging here...I know this well, I don't need you bitch to worry about it..." Shopkeeper Luo said impatiently, then put down the half-carved statue and carving knife, turned around and entered Enter the back room.
Mrs. Luo Wang didn't say anything, and buried herself in putting away the pots and dishes.
After a while, there were several rapid knocks on the door of the wood carving shop.
Shopkeeper Luo walked out in a white shirt and trousers, walked to the door, looked through the crack in the door, and then opened the door to let in the people outside.
Outside the door, a man in a coarse short coat hurried in and whispered a few words in Shopkeeper Luo's ear. Shopkeeper Luo then went back to his room and put on a coat, and the two of them hurried away together.
Seeing the nervous and mysterious expressions of the two, Mrs. Luo Wang felt her heart skip a beat. She put out the fire in the stove, went back to the house, picked up a bamboo hat, and went out.
It was already midnight, and the road was quiet. Shopkeeper Luo and Scar Li Shen, who came to see him, walked on the muddy country road with one foot and one foot.
"You said that the government is already investigating Wang Yuanwu's case?" Shopkeeper Luo looked around cautiously and asked in a low voice.
"Isn't that right? The government officials came to our inn a few days ago..." Scar Li also looked around warily, and then whispered.
Shopkeeper Luo looked a little nervous when he heard this and continued to ask: "Then what did they ask?"
Scar Li shook his head and said: "I don't know about this...but I saw that several masters around Luo Xiaoshi have been out of the city frequently in the past few days, and they are probably investigating this matter..."
"You're talking about those two handsome young men. Do you know who they are?" Shopkeeper Luo asked eagerly.
Scar Li pondered for a while and said: "It seems to be from some kind of escort agency...yes...the escort from Weiyuan Escort Agency..."
"Weiyuan Escort Agency?" Shopkeeper Luo squinted his eyes and murmured, and then suddenly said with a fierce look in his eyes: "Little Lizi, you go back and continue to monitor their movements. I will go to Qilian Mountain in the next two days..."
Scar Li nodded, watched Shopkeeper Luo go away, then turned around and trotted back to the inn.
In the inn. Su Qiqi and others have found a witness - an old farmer living outside the city. And learned from the old farmer how Wang Yuanwu was killed. Su Qiqi settled the old farmer and asked Qin Chuan to secretly protect the old farmer's safety. Then he and Yan Ruoyu disguised themselves and went to the vicinity of Luo's Wood Carving Shop to inquire about the situation.
"Sister, did Shopkeeper Luo take the wrong medicine? Why did he deliberately harm his nephew like this?" Yan Ruoyu was walking and suddenly approached Su Qiqi and said with an incredulous expression on her face.
"Greedy people only care about profit... You can ignore the laws of nature and human relations for the sake of profit..." Su Qiqi said, sighing deeply.
"Hey, brother Xiaoshi is so pitiful... Both of his parents died when he was young, and he has such a vicious uncle, who only wants to occupy his family property. We saved him last time, but this time he killed someone and put the blame on him... Such a vicious person needs to be taught a lesson..." Yan Ruoyu's face was filled with indignation, and she wished she could teach Shopkeeper Luo, a guy with a long history of evil, a lesson right now.
Su Qiqi looked at her, chuckled and said: "You, don't always think about lynching... As the old saying goes, the legal network is wide and open. As long as we find evidence, we will definitely bring him to justice... "
Yan Ruoyu nodded, and then said unwillingly: "Sister, before sending him to the official, let me give him a good beating to help brother Xiaoshi vent his anger..."
Su Qiqi smiled when he heard this and said, "Let's talk about it then... Let's get down to business first!" After that, the two of them continued to move forward.
The two were walking when suddenly a woman wearing a bamboo hat hurriedly walked over and almost bumped into the two of them. The woman glanced at the two of them, muttered a few words with a strange look on her face, and walked away quickly.
Yan Ruoyu looked at the woman's retreating back, frowned and said, "How could this person be so reckless... He almost bumped into us. Even if he doesn't apologize, he still blames us..."
Su Qiqi gave a helpless smile and said comfortingly: "Hey, the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds... Let's not be like her and do business first..."
Yan Ruoyu nodded and followed Su Qiqi to Luo's Wood Carving Shop.
About a quarter of an hour later, the two finally saw the sign at the entrance of Luo's Wood Carving Shop.
It was dark in the woodcarving shop at this moment, and shopkeeper Luo and his wife were probably asleep. Su Qiqi and Yan Ruoyu used their Qinggong skills to fly up to the roof. After taking a few steps carefully, he estimated that he would reach the top of Shopkeeper Luo's bedroom. Then he knelt down, carefully uncovered a few tiles at his feet, and looked into the house.
The room was pitch dark, with only the dim moonlight shining in through the narrow window, leaving a floating light and shadow in front of the bed.
Su Qiqi took a look under the moonlight and found that shopkeeper Luo was not in the house! Where will he go? Su Qiqi looked around for traces of Shopkeeper Luo in confusion, but found nothing.
Is he in another room? Or went out? Su Qiqi thought, and whispered to Yan Ruoyu to go to other rooms to check. The two of them then continued to walk on the roof with their backs bent, looking for shopkeeper Luo from room to room. Unfortunately, the two searched for a long time, but there was still no trace of Shopkeeper Luo.
Su Qiqi and Yan Ruoyu couldn't help but look at each other, and expressed their doubts in unison: "Did you really go out?"
Su Qiqi pondered for a while and felt that it was still very possible. Maybe shopkeeper Na Luo heard the news and ran away secretly.
Thinking of this, Su Qiqi hurriedly called Yan Ruoyu, and the two wandered around the wood carving shop again, but still found nothing. Finally, the two decided to return to the inn for the time being before making any plans.
However, when the two returned to the inn, they had an unexpected gain.
As soon as they walked into the yard, they met Ouyang Qi who had woken up at night. He heard that he had just met a man with a scar on his face in the yard. He seemed to be a servant of the inn. He came in from outside in the middle of the night. It startled him.
Su Qiqi seemed to think of something after hearing Ouyang Qi's words. A handyman with a scar on his face? Could it be that the person he met at the door of Wang Yuanwu's room that day was him?
