Holy Bone

Chapter 26

Inn.

Good luck tonight.

Jin An broke through to the fourth floor of the "Blood Sword Classic".

Silent all night.

The next day.

Jin An was awakened by the second inn.

"Master Jin'an?"

"Young Master Jin An, have you woken up?"

"Young Master Jin An, it's not good, something happened!"

The shop assistant stood outside the closed Zhuqi door of the house, and kept shouting Jin An's name.

His voice was not loud, and the environment of the house was quiet. He was afraid of disturbing the dreams of the guests living in other houses.

The shop assistant called three times, seeing that Jin'an's room had been silent, he thought Jin'an hadn't woken up, he gritted his teeth and planned to leave first.

This time, he secretly came to Jin An while he was going to the back kitchen to serve dishes to the diners in the front hall.

So I don't really dare to stay too long.

So as not to be caught by the shopkeeper.

Deduct his wages.

But just as the shop assistant turned to leave in disappointment, at this moment, the red lacquer gate of the house behind him opened from the inside.

Jin An looked at the second inn shop in front of him and asked, "You were calling me just now?"

The shop assistant looked surprised when he saw Jin An coming out. After turning around and walking back, he hurriedly said, "Just now I was calling out Mr. Jin'an from outside the courtyard. I wonder if I disturbed Mr. Jin'an's dream?"

"What's the matter with me?"

"You said something just now, what happened?"

The shop assistant didn't dare to sell off, so the gourd scoop sprinkled water and poured out all the words.

"Master Jin An, I was cleaning the table in the front hall this morning, and I heard one of the guests who came to the restaurant for breakfast said that there was an accident at Lin Lu's house last night! It was the Lin Lu who helped carry the coffin yesterday. Family!"

"In the early morning of this morning, the morning bell rang and the traffic was closed. It was about [-] o'clock. When the sky and the earth were just dawn, the door of Lin Lu's courtyard was wide open. Daoist Chen, the coffin, and four or five other people all collapsed in the yard."

"The lid of the white coffin was pushed halfway open."

"Even Lin Lu was frightened and collapsed in the room where he slept."

"When a few people were woken up, Lin Lu seemed to be stimulated by something, and screamed and screamed the corpse! The dead man in the coffin ran out by himself. He was standing behind the window last night and was killed. A human face is frightened and fainted!"

"In the end, Young Master Jin An, guess what happened next?"

"This is evil!"

"The corpse in the coffin was not thrown away, and the corpse in the coffin didn't run out by itself. People have been lying down."

"In the end, Daochang Chen broke it out, saying that the face that Lin Lu saw 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 the night watchmen of Chen Daochang and the others were slept to death by drugs in the food last night, so people have the opportunity to come and steal the corpse."

"It's just the person who stole the corpse. I never imagined that there was another person in the room who was the only one who didn't eat last night's meal and who wasn't stunned, and this person was Lin who was mentally weak and had a bad appetite for several days in a row. Lu."

"It's very likely that the person who came to steal the corpse was scared away by the unexpected appearance of Lin Lu, and he didn't even have time to steal the corpse."

Jin An was shocked when he heard this.

Can't imagine what happened last night.

He hurriedly asked the shop assistant: "Then what happened later?"

"Daochang Chen and the others have they found the person who put the medicine in their meals?"

Unexpectedly, the shop assistant shook his head and said he didn't know, saying that the guests at that table only knew so much, and they also heard it from other people.

After the shop assistant finished speaking, he looked at Jin An expectantly.

huh~
"You have done a good job of this, and the money will reward you."

"If you have anything related to me in the future, you can come to me at any time."

Two coins and pieces of silver fell into the palm of the shop boy's second, and the shop boy smiled happily on the spot, and immediately flattered Jin An with his diligence.

These two coins can already be half of his monthly money.

Sure enough, he took the risk to find Young Master Jin An in vain.

Just when the second shopkeeper and Jin An resigned, he had to go to the back kitchen to continue serving dishes, so as not to be caught by the shopkeeper when he was lazy, Jin An called him temporarily: "I'll ask another thing, where has Zhao Ping been recently?"

"Why haven't I seen anyone in the store for several days?"

The Zhao Ping in Jin'an's mouth was the inn boy who sold the relics of the five internal organs and the goats to him that night.

The shop assistant replied honestly, "He has been fired by the shopkeeper."

"The specific reason is not clear, but it seems to be because he said something that shouldn't be said. I guess he was talking about people behind his back, and he happened to be heard by the shopkeeper, so he was fired by the shopkeeper."

"Speaking of which, we haven't seen him for a long time since we had a good relationship with him in the past. Since he left overnight on the day he was dismissed by the shopkeeper, we haven't seen each other again, and we've never asked us to reminisce."

This news surprised Jin An.

Then the shop assistant stepped back.

……

On the other hand, the shop assistant was on his way to leave, and there was one thing he couldn't understand...

When I was standing at the door of the house just now, when I was talking to Young Master Jin An, I didn’t know if it was because of his illusion, or if he was standing outside the house and couldn’t see it clearly…

The goat that Young Master Jin An kept in the yard seemed to be bigger than when he saw it in the back kitchen a few days ago?
Also getting fatter and stronger?
……

Looking at the back of the second shopkeeper leaving, Jin An was thoughtful.

He thought that after carrying the coffin, he would never have anything to do with the old magic stick, the white coffin, and the Lin Lu family in the future.

Unexpectedly, on the first night after carrying the coffin back, a corpse case happened.

It is precisely because of the importance of this matter that he will reward the nimble shopkeeper two or two coins at once.

You must know that these two coins are half a month's wages for ordinary porters who can only work hard.

In ancient times, a few taels of silver could afford a house.

……

There was only one point that Jin An had not yet figured out.

Since the other party has already stole the corpse, they have already given the medicine in the meal... Why not just poison and kill the person more simply, but just knock the person unconscious?
Later, Jin An thought that maybe it was because the other party didn't want to attract the attention of the government?
Worried that killing too many people will attract official attention?

The other party just wanted to steal the corpse, and did not want to have direct contact 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 outside the courtyard wall of Lin Lu's house, full of young people from the Lin clan.

One by one stood still.

Like a door god.

Persuade some good people who want to come and watch them to leave.

If you don't listen to good words and persuasion, you will do the ritual first, then the soldiers, and you will directly drive people away.

Seeing the faces of the Lin clan members as if they were facing great enemies, Jin An immediately understood that apart from what the second shopkeeper told him, something else happened last night!

Otherwise, why would all of Lin Lu's relatives run over and drive away outsiders, so that outsiders don't know what's going on in the yard?

Jin An and the Lin family were old acquaintances who had dealt with them yesterday.

As soon as Jin An arrived, he was recognized by Erzhu, who was guarding the door. This Erzhu of the Lin family was one of the people who carried the coffin with Jin An yesterday. He was tall and dark.

Erzhu: "Huh? Young Master Jin An, why are you here?"

Jin An didn't hide it, and expressed his intention to come. He heard that something happened here, so he came to have a look.After Er Zhu heard Jin An's words, he didn't deliberately embarrass Jin An. To be serious, Jin An had a life-and-death friendship with him... He was the man who carried the coffin of the dead together.

So Erzhu took the initiative to run errands for Jinan, ran into the yard for Jinan to spread a message, and soon Erzhu ran out again, saying that Daoist Chen invited him in.

(End of this chapter)