Dali Temple Small Dining Room

  Chapter 308 Crispy Rice Cake (4)

"Although there were a lot of private boats on the Weishui River to enjoy the moon that day, that boat was not a private boat, but a cruise boat rented from a boat charter," Lin Fei said, "The best and largest first-class cruise boat was rented. .”

   Those boatmen and flower girls are very familiar with these rented cruise ships, they often see them, so they can't make a mistake.

  Hearing Lin Fei say this, Liu Yuantong Bai Zhu's heart moved: So...won't it be easy to check? Just go to the boat charter office on the Weishui River and check who rents a first-class cruise ship that day, and you will know?

You must know that such charter offices have to make accounts every day, and a cruise ship is expensive, even if you pay a deposit, it is not worth the price of the cruise ship, so no matter which cruise ship you rent, you must bring enough Prove yourself, such as household registration, official records and other information, and only after confirming that the person is reliable and correct can you lend.

  Looking at the excited Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu, Lin Fei showed no joy on his face. He glanced at the excited two and shook his head: "Unfortunately, the account book recording the names of the guests is gone."

  It was like pouring a basin of cold water over their heads, which made the two of them tremble, and their expressions changed slightly.

"On Mid-Autumn Festival, the fireworks above the river fell into the tents by the river. At that time, people from the boat charter ran out to watch the fireworks. When they came back, they found that the tent had been burned, and all the account books had been burned." Lin Lin Fei explained, "Fortunately, all the chartered boats came back that night, so they didn't care."

"As for the impression of those guests..." Lin Fei said here, glanced at the two, and said, "Every festival, there are not a few people who come to rent a boat. There are many people coming and going, and there are many things. Can't remember anything."

"Besides, even if I can remember, there are not many charterers who rent the boats themselves. Most of them are the managers who let their subordinates run away. They come and go. The people who deal with them are all the managers. Those people really I don't have any impression!" Lin Fei said, "As for the guards seen by the boatmen and the flower girls, they were all wearing ordinary black and strong guard robes, nothing special about them."

  Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu became more and more disappointed the more they listened, but they were not surprised: With Lin Shaoqing's experience and methods, since they found the cruise ship, they would naturally check all aspects. How could Lin Shaoqing not think of the direction they could think of?

  Since this is the case, Lin Shaoqing will stand here and talk to them instead of asking people to start to investigate. The direction of investigation must be blocked.

Lin Fei's next words confirmed the two people's guesses, and he only heard him say: "The people at the charter office really can't remember the specific appearance of the charterer that day, and besides, they have searched for all the first-class cruise ships seven or eight times. They were all rented out that day.”

  When Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu heard this, they couldn't help shaking their heads and sighing.

Ordinary people have to stop at this step, but Lin Fei didn't stop there, he just heard him say leisurely: "The people at the charter office can't think of anything like this, I called the handyman who cleaned the cruise ship at the charter office and asked them if they found any valuables when they cleaned the returned cruise ship that day."

  As soon as these words came out, Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu came to a sudden realization. Knowing that Shangfeng described the verification process in such a "detailed" way to remind the two of them to pay attention, they dared not be negligent, and quickly wrote it down.

  In fact, if you calm down and deduce carefully, it is not difficult to reach this step: guests who are willing to spend money to rent a first-class cruise ship to cruise the Weishui River must be either rich or expensive.

Maybe there are high-rollers who like to charter a first-class cruise ship alone to enjoy the moon, but that day is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a festival of celebration, and there may be those high-rollers who come and go alone, but more of them are calling for friends The generation of friends.

  Jade pendants, pendants, purses, etc. on men's waists, hairpins on women's heads, earrings on ears, etc. are all things that are most likely to be dropped during fun and banquets.

   On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, although they were looking for the lost girls, they also found many sachets, jewelry and other things lost during play.

   Sure enough, as soon as Lin Fei said this, the handyman nodded repeatedly, and said: "Every holiday, when the cruise ship is rented out and returned, there will always be a lot of things left by the guests."

  The boat charter business along the Weishui River is not a business that waits for a ticket to change places to run around. I have been in the boat charter business along the Weishui River for many years, and I can’t run even if I want to. Naturally, they will not do things that cause the guests to lose their belongings.

   After all, most of the people who come to rent a boat are the dignitaries in Chang'an City. The things of this kind of people are really ignorant, and I'm afraid it will be a big trouble! That being the case, it is better to simply earn a reputation of "integrity". By chartering a boat, one's wallet will become more and more abundant.

Lin Fei's guess was correct. Among the leftovers that were sorted out on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there were a few heavy golden jade rabbits, golden peanuts, and golden mooncakes. All gathered together in the box.

"From the Mid-Autumn Festival to now, many guests have come to pick up items one after another. Although fraudulent claims rarely happen, just in case, we still leave the names of these guests and the items they took away." The handyman said, handed over the account book, pointed to the records of the past three months, and said, "A lot of people came, and there were more female customers. Those hairpins, earrings, etc. were brought out for festivals, so many people came here." It’s a kind heart, and most of the things that are taken away are women’s things.”

Lin Fei copied down the record of the handyman in charge, pointed to the long record above, and said: "Leaving aside the decorations of the female customers, there are only 30% of the records of the male customers, and most of the 30% are jade pendants around the waist. , jade pendants and other pendants, the rest, apart from a few purses containing silver coins that were taken away, are only these few items."

   They are an account book, an inkstone, a painting, a pot of embroidery and the same piece of soft armor.

   Unlike earrings, waist pendants and other items that are easy to drop when playing, these items need to be carefully considered when they appear on the Mid-Autumn Festival cruise for fun and moon viewing.

  Although it is not ignorant of the guests' things, but because of the need to record, the handyman still recorded these items in detail.

  The account book was left by a rich tea businessman. Although it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, taking advantage of the holiday banquet, the businessman reported the account book of the tea house to his family members, which recorded all the business transactions of the tea house.

The inkstone is a Chengni inkstone. The handyman doesn’t understand the inkstone. He only recorded the shape of the Chengni inkstone. It is a cinnabar inkstone. The appearance is very beautiful.

  The painting is a copy of Gu Kaizhi's "Luo Shen Fu Tu" from the Jin Dynasty. Although it is not painted by a famous artist, the painter has good skills. It is said that he was taken to a cruise ship for tasting.

The embroidered hydrangeas were brought by the flower and tree merchants to decorate the cruise ships. Because they had too much fun, they forgot the pot of blue hydrangeas when they disembarked. When they sobered up the next day, they sent people to come and take them back. , not a precious object.

The most intriguing thing here is the soft armor: account books, inkstones, paintings, hydrangea and other foreign objects are so fun to play, that it is understandable to lose them, and how the soft armor worn inside is lost. What about?

  (end of this chapter)