The clerk at the stairway greeted with a smile: "The guest officer has returned to the room? Would you like to bring you some wine and food to the room?"

Qi Wu stopped in front of him, and said in a gentle tone, "Please tell me, which room did that old Jia live in?"

The waiter was taken aback: "This...Guest officer, do you know Mr. Jia?"

Qi Wu shook his head: "Just ask him about something."

He took out a tael of silver from his pocket and put it in the hands of the clerk, Qi Wu said: "Order some good wine and food, and send them to Lao Jia's house."

When the clerk saw Yin Zi, he smiled happily: "Hey, okay, Lao Jia lives in Room [-], Yin Zi. You can see it when you go up to the second floor."

Came to the second floor, found Lao Jia's room, Qi Wu patted on the door.

Lao Jia replied in a rough voice, "Who is it?"

The door was unlocked, Qi Wu directly pushed it open from the outside, with a flat tone: "I came to Licheng to find someone, I want to ask Master Jia if I have seen him, if I can get some news, I will be very grateful."

Hearing the last few words, Lao Jia, who originally wanted to get angry, gave a meal.He looked at the clothes on Qi Wu's body, and snorted: "You don't look like a rich man."

Qi Wu replied calmly: "I'm not really rich, but Mr. Jia earned 80 taels for his hard work in guarding the mass graves. If you give me the news I want, I can give you 50 taels. If you don't If you can help me, I also invited the staff to prepare good wine and food, and I will send them to your room later to express my gratitude."

"Sounds like a good deal. Close the door, little brother, come over and sit down and talk slowly." Old Jia said emotionally.

But when Qi Wu came over, Lao Jia was a little bit embarrassed: "You said you want to ask me about someone, but Lao Jia, I only stare at dead people every day, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to help you."

Sitting across from him, Qi Wu looked at Lao Jia, and sighed, "What I want to inquire about...is the dead. Actually, it's not considered dead, but I'm just worried that he's already dead and no one has collected his body."

"Just now I heard them downstairs saying, Mr. Jia, you are doing business in the mass grave, so I moved my mind to ask you. If I go directly to the mass grave to look for it, I am afraid that I will be regarded as a business robbery. And I'm afraid...there are too many dead bodies and the situation is complicated, it's hard to find them, and if they find them, they will return in vain."

Hearing this, Lao Jia patted his chest: "That's easy! Lao Jia and I eat this bowl of rice, but I have seen every newcomer... that is, a fresh corpse! Who are you looking for? What does it look like?"

Qi Wu sighed again: "What I want to find is my cousin who ran away from home. He is not yet full and has not yet reached the crown. A few days ago, he had a conflict with the elders in the family... Later I heard that he arrived Licheng, there is no more news. In terms of appearance, there is nothing special... Tall and thin..."

This description is quite broad, but when Lao Jia heard it, he suddenly said: "A young man did come yesterday. He looked like a foreigner dressed in an ordinary way, and he didn't have any valuables on him. It's not worth much. It's just that the man was young, and he died from such an outrageous reason as eating peanuts and getting a rash. Although the rash looked a little swollen, if the swelling subsided before death, he should be a thin man..."

While drinking, Lao Jia babbled about what he knew: "He died just two or three days ago. He was discovered by the inn clerk and reported to the police. The co-worker said it was an allergic rash. His tongue blocked his throat. He couldn't breathe and suffocated to death." Yes. I asked him what he ate before he died, and it was nothing special, but the cook said that there was a soup with peanuts in the new dish."

"I did an autopsy and said it should have been made of peanuts. The death was not unusual, and no one recognized the body... Then what, didn't the lady in the palace disappear? The government is so busy that they don't bother to take care of this matter." Let’s ask the inn to handle it by itself. The inn can’t buy him a coffin, but the straw mat will be thrown into the mass grave as soon as it is wrapped.”

"This Licheng, if there is a murder case, the officials will catch the murderer hard, fearing that the murderer will run away and Licheng will be in chaos, but the dead are generally ignored, and no one will collect the body. They are all sent to mass graves. What's more, the young man who died of a rash didn't happen by accident, and he didn't even need to catch the murderer."

"However, there are few people from other places who died in Licheng. If you go to the mass graves to see, most of them are the servants of the rich families who signed the death contract. But even the servants of the rich families rarely die. The one who is so young... Hey, little brother, could it be your cousin?"

Under the hood, Qi Wu lowered his eyes.

After all, he was a living person who died unexpectedly and was thrown into a mass grave.Now that I still want to count on other people's bones, no matter how cold-hearted Qi Wu is, he still feels sorry.

But...it still has to be calculated.

He originally wanted to use the bones of the mass grave.

It's still the kind that the closer the time is, the better... It doesn't make sense, and now I suddenly become indecisive and indecisive.

Although he had made up his mind, Qi Wu didn't immediately express his "interest" when faced with Lao Jia's question, but clenched his fists and shook his head: "No, that shouldn't be my cousin, my cousin Although he is thin, he is in good health, and he has never been allergic to anything... Peanuts are not produced in our house, so we don't eat much, but... He is not allergic to other things, and his body is very healthy. Alright, little peanut can kill a big man..."

Although I couldn't see Qi Wu's expression, but listening to Qi Wu's unwillingness to believe and non-stop self-persuasion, Lao Jia also sighed: "Little brother, it's not Lao Jia that I hit you, this... I didn't eat it before. However, eating other peanuts does not cause rashes, but it does not mean that eating peanuts will definitely cause nothing to happen, on the contrary... it means that it is possible."

There was a knock on the door, and the guys came upstairs with good wine and hot dishes. After entering the room, they spread a table full of big dishes.

Old Jia's appetite was whetted by the aroma on the table, and he was pleasantly surprised when he opened the jug and smelled it. He couldn't wait to eat two bowls of rice. After he burped, he realized that Qi Wu had been sitting quietly across from him and hadn't left. He didn't speak either.

Obviously he didn't want to believe that the one in the mass grave was the cousin he was looking for, but he had doubts and dared not miss it.

After all, Lao Jia, who was full after eating such a big table, took the initiative to ask, "How long has your cousin been away from home?"

After asking, Lao Jia said again: "Forget it, there is nothing to say. In this way, if you are not afraid of mass graves, you can go with Lao Jia and me to have a look and see if you recognize it, so as not to delay Fuck! It’s hot today, and in two more days... I’m afraid you won’t be able to recognize it even if you want to!”

Qi Wu just came back to his senses, stood up moved and bowed his hands: "Then I will thank Master Jia. Master Jia and I have worked hard this trip, if that... is indeed my cousin, the reward agreed earlier I will get a lot of money, plus the hard work of this trip. It would be even better if it wasn't my cousin, and I will definitely pay the hard work."

Qi Wu spoke so openly and brightly, Lao Jia was happy in his heart, he rarely pretended not to care about money, and waved his hand: "Why are you talking about this, Lao Jia, I have a destiny with you, little brother!"

So Lao Jia took Qi Wu out of the door, instead of taking the stairs at the main entrance, he took Qi Wu up the small side stairs, and left the inn through the door in the backyard.

"Those people are very idle all day long. If I see you and me walking together, little brother, I'm afraid I will talk too much later. I am used to living in every corner of this inn. I will take you through the door of the backyard. I am very familiar with it! "Old Jia explained.

It's exactly what Qi Wu wants.

Be sure to pay more for your hard work after the work is done!

After slipping out of the post station at noon, Qi Wu didn't return until the dinner time had passed.

Qi Jiang was so worried that his face was full of worry, and he finally saw Qi Wu's figure in the night, and hurriedly put down the hemp rope from the second floor.

Then Qi Jiang noticed that Qi Wu had changed into new clothes and came back with a big sack on his back.After Qi Jiang put down the hemp rope, Qi Wu first tied the sack to it and asked Qi Jiang to pull it up. After the rope was let down again, he followed the same pattern and climbed up.

Seeing that Qi Wu had returned to the house smoothly, Qi Jiang's heart, which had been anxious all afternoon, finally settled down.

"You... Didn't your trip go well? Why... why did it take so long?" Qi Jiang looked at Qi Wu, and then at the sack that Qi Wu brought back.

He wanted to ask what was in that sack, but just touched it from the outside, it felt a little strange, hard...but he couldn't tell.

But you don't need to think about it, if Qi Wu wants to say something, he will take the initiative to say it, and if he doesn't want to say, it's useless if he asks.So Qi Jiang didn't ask any more questions.

"It took a while, but it went smoothly. How did you cope with dinner?" Qi Wu said, taking out all the baggage that was originally placed in the closet and putting them on the inside of the bed, and then put the hemp rope and That sack was stuffed into the closet.

As a last resort, Qi Wu couldn't come back before dinner.But before he went out in the afternoon, he told Qi Jiang what to do if he came back late, and nothing happened so far, so obviously Qi Jiang handled it well.

When asked about the dinner, Qi Jiang scratched his head, a little embarrassed: "It's just like you said, I didn't let them in, and I took the food directly from the door... Although you said, let me eat every meal A little would do, but I was a little worried they would think it was weird... so I just... ate both..."

Hearing this, Qi Wu, who was washing his hands by the sink, was taken aback for a moment, turned around and couldn't help but want to laugh: "Aren't you going to hold on?"

Qi Jiang lowered his head: "...a little bit."

Moreover, he was afraid that the guards outside would feel that the meal time was too long, so Qi Jiang ate hurriedly and quickly.Later, while he was anxious, he stared at the yard outside the window, and at the same time he walked up and down the room to digest his food... Afraid of being laughed at by Qi Wu, so Qi Jiang didn't talk about these details.

After washing his hands, Qi Wu smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Don't worry about it for the next few days, I won't sneak out over the wall again."

Qi Jiang was taken aback for a moment, and said "Ah": "You...have you prepared everything so quickly? Then...when...how do you plan to leave?"

Qi Wu put his index finger between his lips, and hissed softly: "You won't come with me, so I won't tell you. It's better for me and yourself if you know less."

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