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The horses and carriages parked in front of the inn were led by the shopkeeper to the inn's stables.

Everyone held wooden house cards and stepped up the stairs. The wooden stairs creaked when they stepped on them. The wooden boards were not firmly fixed. They swayed up and down slightly with their footsteps. On tenterhooks.Although the room cards of Meng Fuyuan and others other than Fu Ba were not Tianzihaoyiyi and Tianzihao [-]st, a group of people tacitly went to these two rooms first.

Always look for anything suspicious.

Meng Fuyuan and Ming Er lined up until Lu Shi and Huo Yi, who was disguised as Yan Yuanbai, went to check Tianzihaoyiyi together, and the rest went to Tianzihao Erianyi.

According to the shopkeeper, all Tianzi shops are double rooms.

Meng Fuyuan led the door and entered, and saw two pear wood beds in the middle of the room, a wooden box for clothes on the right hand side against the wall, and a round mahogany carved table on the left hand side. A plain white porcelain vase, a set of purple sand teapots and cups, and some toiletries. The whole room is very plainly furnished, and it probably won't take long to turn it upside down.

What's more, everyone cooperates to get twice the result with half the effort.

Meng Fuyuan walked directly along the wall from the right hand side of the door, touching the blue-gray wall with four fingers, checking whether there is a secret room mechanism, and did not miss any details in the blue bricks on the ground. After a while, the clothes box, white porcelain bottle, etc. , the purple sand pot tea set, and the corners of the mahogany table were all checked, and the bed was also touched, the cotton wool that was placed on the bed was lifted, and the bed board was also carefully checked, but nothing was found.

Ming Er and the others on the side also seemed to have gained nothing.

Meng Fuyuan thought in his heart, since he came to investigate, he must investigate thoroughly, and after thinking about it, he said to Ming Er: "Move the couch away, and I'll see if there are any clues under the bed."

Lu Shi was standing closest to the inner couch, holding onto the edge of the couch with both hands and was about to get rid of it, Meng Fuyuan hurriedly said: "Keep your voice down, don't disturb the shopkeeper."

Huo Yi on the side took the initiative to step forward, and together with Lu 11, grabbed one end of the couch and moved it to the side.

The rest walked a few steps, held their breath, and took a closer look——

I saw a few drops of crimson under the foot of the couch against the wall, and there was also a bit of dark red on the blue-gray wall, like blood, which was just blocked by the couch's surround, so you can only see it when you move the couch away.

Everyone came in to have a look, only to see that there were two words engraved on the wall, but these two words were full of knife marks, and the handwriting had become blurred.

Lu Jiu stared at the blurred handwriting and broke the silence first, "...Yang Zhao?"

What does Yangzhao mean?

After Lu Jiu finished speaking, she also felt that her guess must be wrong, scratched her head with her hand and said, "It shouldn't be these two words, I'm talking nonsense haha."

Everyone fell into silence again, so their eyes were once again focused on the gray wall that had been scratched by the knife.

Huo Yi frowned slightly, and then broke the strange silence, "Is it...'Run away'?"

After saying a word, Meng Fuyuan looked at the messy knife marks again, and suddenly he didn't feel that he was clueless. On the contrary, Huo Yiyu awakened the dreamer, and Meng Fuyuan saw that the owner of the knife marks was scratching and trying to hide With drooping eyes, he said slowly, "What you said makes sense."

Lu Jiu cupped his hands, "Hero Yan is so powerful, I admire him."

Everyone was about to discuss further, but the wooden door was knocked loudly, only the servant's voice could be heard through the window paper, "The shopkeeper wants me to bring some hot water—"

The boy's knock on the door was urgent and loud, as if he was about to break the door in the next moment and barge in directly. Outside the window was the thick night, and it was only in the silence that the knock on the door was even louder.Fortunately, Meng Fuyuan remembered to put the latch on when closing the door at the beginning, otherwise the boy seemed to really push the door open and enter.

Meng Fuyuan gave him a look, and signaled the shadow guard to put the couch back to its original position. At the same time, he opened the door a crack and said, "Thank you, just put the water outside the door, it's none of your business."

It stands to reason that Meng Fuyuan's words have come to this point, the boy should leave immediately, but the other party not only stayed there, but also looked inside for a few times, which further verified Meng Fuyuan's previous conjecture that the boy was probably sent by the shopkeeper to test what they were doing .

Although everyone can see that the shopkeeper does not know martial arts, but in order to be safe, he still cannot let any suspicious person go.

Meng Fuyuan closed the door, turned to the shadow guard and said: "This shopkeeper is weird, arrest him first."

A quarter of an hour later.

Everyone gathered in a room of the Tianzi Shop. The shopkeeper was tied to an armchair, his hands were cut behind his back, and his face turned pale with panic.

"I believe the shopkeeper is a sensible person." Fu Ba took out the knife, looked at the blade, and then waved it in the air a few times, bringing out a lot of rumors.

The shopkeeper, who was tied up by five flowers, trembled twice, and before he could get out of his fear, he already felt a cold knife pressed against his neck, as if it would pierce his flesh and ooze blood beads in the next moment.

Fu Ba asked sharply: "Tell me what you know, your grandfather and I are the best at using poison. If you don't tell me, I will feed you poison pills, so that you can live or die."

The shopkeeper was scared and anxious, "Say... what did I say? What do I know?"

"Red Flame Gang."

Although the shopkeeper was trembling with fright, he still hesitated for a moment when he heard these three words.

Seeing this, Fu Ba pushed the knife even further in, and the cold blade stuck to his pulse, as if it was about to pierce the flesh in the next second, leaving a bloodstain.

The shopkeeper, who was a mortal, couldn't stand this threat, and hurriedly shouted: "Okay, okay, I say, I say—"

"I beg the young man to be merciful, I will tell you everything, I will tell you everything!"

The shopkeeper's voice trembled violently, and his speech was not as sharp as when he first collected the money, and he stammered, "I, I, Wang, have been working hard for so many years, and I never thought that the murder thing would happen to me." , By the way, what the young man wants to know is something I didn't mention, just ask me, I'll say anything, I'll recruit, I'll recruit, don't kill me—"

Fu Ba scolded: "Quickly say it!"

"Great, about seven or eight days ago, after the Red Flame Gang left, I found a man hiding under the bed. He was dressed in red and had a soft whip around his waist. I knew it was a member of the Red Flame Gang just by looking at him. , I touched his breath - out of breath, dead!"

"I was so scared that I cleaned up the blood in a hurry, and then buried it in a random place. Later, I found that there were still writings on the wall, and I destroyed the writing with a knife."

Fu Ba didn't relax his hand holding the knife, "Which two words are they?"

"It's...it's 'run away'."

Meng Fuyuan and Fu Ba looked at each other, Yan Yuanbai's guess was indeed correct.

"Why didn't you report to the officials?" Meng Fuyuan asked.

"How dare I report to the official? As soon as I reported to the official, the entire Jianzhou knew that my inn was dead. Recently, there are rumors in the world that the Demon Cult is going to make a comeback and make a comeback. At this time, something happened to the inn. Who else would dare to come and stay? Ah!" said the shopkeeper in tears, "I dare not say anything, for fear of ruining my business!"

Meng Fuyuan asked again: "You really didn't kill this person?"

The shopkeeper wanted to make a swear gesture, but he moved his arm only to find that his hands were tied and he couldn't move, so he had to give up and said decisively: "I didn't kill it! I swear that if half of what I said above Lies, offspring and grandchildren, the whole family will die!"

Lu Jiu secretly thought that the poisonous oath was true, and he had already believed it in his heart. He asked calmly, "Where is the corpse buried? Take us to see it!"

Fu Ba finally let go of the knife on the shopkeeper's neck, and the shopkeeper immediately let out a long sigh of relief.

After the shopkeeper was untied, he led Meng Fuyuan and his party to an abandoned vegetable field full of weeds in the backyard. The shopkeeper stared at the ground carefully, muttering words, as if counting steps, bent over and turned for a long time, and finally stopped Steps, lowered his head and pointed to the piece under his feet and said: "This is it."

Ming Er and Fu Ba squatted down and began to dig the soil with their knives.

After a while, the corpse's arm leaked out. Ming Er picked up the skin with a knife, "The bones are white."

White, that is to say, is not the body of a puppet, but a member of the Red Flame Gang who was killed.