The original wife who died young and dressed as the villain regent

Hearing this, the shopkeeper's face became very ugly. The waiter's heart trembled and he said hurriedly: "That's it, really that's it! I don't know about the other villains!"

"Why, listening to what you said, you do know other things, but you can't tell them?" Lin Xi asked sharply.

The waiter turned pale, shook his head violently and said no.

Lin Xi didn't like to make things difficult for others, so she waved her hand for him to leave.

The shopkeeper took advantage of every opportunity to leave, but Lin Xi stopped him: "Shopkeeper, wait a minute, I still have a question."

The shopkeeper paused, forced an ugly smile, and asked, "What do you want to ask?"

Lin Xi sat back and let Erbao continue to eat his food, then asked: "When the officials came to ask questions, why didn't the shopkeeper tell them this?"

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly and said: "Madam, ordinary people just do some small business, and it's not easy to make money! Finally, the business has improved a bit, but another person died, and not many people come to patronize it anymore. If this matter is told to the officials, then the people will

We will definitely know from the notice. If there are rumors about the dead souls seeking their lives, Cao Min’s inn will not be able to open at all in the future!"

"Besides, Li Tian was taken away by the officials. I'm afraid he would have told the officials by now!"

Lin Xi looked at him thoughtfully.

The shopkeeper smiled dryly and lowered his head.

"It's okay, shopkeeper, please go out," Lin Xi said.

The shopkeeper's temptation: "Then this matter..."

Lin Xi said firmly: "I will definitely tell the Yamen. But you can rest assured that if it really has nothing to do with this case, the Yamen will never leak it and your business can continue in the future."

The shopkeeper was overjoyed and quickly thanked him.

When he went out, Erbao suddenly said: "Mom, I feel like something is wrong with the shopkeeper."

Lin Xi looked at him: "How do you say that?"

Erbao said doubtfully: "I don't know, but it feels like he is deliberately hiding something."

Lin Xi also felt this way, but on the surface, the shopkeeper's concealment was excusable and understandable.

Suddenly, Lin Xi had a flash of inspiration and said: "Er Bao, there is something Mom wants you to help with, are you willing?"

Erbao's eyes lit up and he asked excitedly: "What's going on?"

Lin Xi leaned into his ear and whispered a few words.

Erbao listened, and his shock turned into excitement, and he said eagerly: "Mom, is this not good?"

"Why is it bad? Extraordinary things require extraordinary measures." Lin Xi thought to herself that her virtue was lacking at this moment.

After saying that, Lin Xi got up and went out. There was Wu Jiu left by Shen Chen outside.

In fact, Lin Xi didn't trust him very much. After all, he belonged to Yang Shizhong. But Shen Chen said that it was okay and she could only go to him.

"Wu Jiu, I want to ask you for two favors." Lin Xi said politely.

Wu Jiu, who was leaning against the wall, stood upright and looked at Lin Xi calmly, "What's the matter?"

"First, find a trustworthy person to go to the Yamen and tell Shen Chen Inn that someone died in the deceased's room a month ago, and the case has not been solved. The subsequent guests who stayed in all said they saw ghosts; second..."

Lin Xi looked around and saw no suspicious people before stepping forward to approach Wu Jiu.

Wu Jiu instinctively wanted to retreat and distance herself, but Lin Xi stopped her: "Come here, I'll whisper to you."

Wu Jiu hesitated for a moment, then bowed his head and got closer.

Lin Xi whispered: "Go and prepare some things, and then..."

Wu Jiu's eyes flashed with surprise, as if he didn't expect Lin Xi to come up with such an idea.

…

After dinner, the night was getting darker, and Lin Xi hadn't seen Shen Chen come back yet.

She thought to herself that Shen Chen should be interrogated overnight in the Yamen. After all, there were so many people involved in the case, and now there were two more murder cases involving official servants and gangsters.

"Er Bao, let's not wait for daddy, let's go to bed directly." Lin Xi called Er Bao to wash up.

Erbao was not sleepy at all: "Mom, when are we going to do it?"

Lin Xi knocked on his forehead and said, "In the middle of the night, you can rest assured to sleep now, so as not to be too sleepy later."

"Will not!"

Erbao happily finished washing and went to bed to sleep.

Lin Xi didn't sleep. When Erbao fell asleep, she went out quietly.

There were still a few officers on duty outside. Lin Xi asked them to rest on the first floor for a while before coming back up. She would watch from here.

After the person left, Lin Xi immediately opened the door and entered the deceased's room.

It was so quiet inside, and there were no candles lit, that it seemed like you could even hear your heartbeat.

Lin Xi took out a fire stick and blew it, looked around with the faint light, and finally went to the bed, hesitating for a moment and then lay down on it.

"I want to see if there is anything unclean in here."

Lin Xi blew out the fire stick, clutched the handle of the dagger tightly in his hand, closed his eyes and waited.

In the darkness, Lin Xi's other senses were more obvious, and she seemed to hear some subtle sounds of wind.

It was also very cold in the room. Lin Xi couldn't help it and pulled the quilt aside to cover it.

The next moment, Lin Xi suddenly felt a hard place in the middle of the quilt. She immediately groped for it, and finally cut the quilt with a dagger, and found two or three dry and hard lumps inside.

She picked it up and smelled it, and was shocked.

It’s that strange smell!

This is spice!

Lin Xi immediately sat up and wanted to take out the fire stick and light it to see clearly, but he didn't know where to hold his hands and heard a sudden click.

Before she could react, the bed board beneath her suddenly dropped, and Lin Xi fell down!

"Someone is coming!"

Lin Xi suddenly screamed and wanted to slap himself.

The people on duty outside were all assigned to the first floor by her!

In other words, no one outside can come to her!

Lin Xi cursed secretly, and the next moment, her body hit a tilted hard board, causing stars to appear in her eyes.

Then, her body rolled downwards with inertia.

Only then did Lin Xi realize that this was a tunnel.

She wanted to stop, but she couldn't find anything to stop her while groping. The inertia kept her rolling until she hit what seemed to be a wall, and she stopped.

"vomit……"

Lin Xi felt dizzy, her stomach was churning, and there was a faint smell in the dry air. Lin Xi stood up and retched while holding on to the wall.

After a while, Lin Xi calmed down, took out a fire stick and lit it, and saw that this was a tunnel made of stone. It originally sloped downwards, but stopped here, and it was a straight road further forward.

She never expected that the room where Yue Qin lived would have such a road.

"Wait! Since there is a secret passage, this is not a secret room murder case. The murderer can escape from here!"

Lin Xi realized that maybe the female body that had been killed for death also came up from here.

There is also the case of the male corpse a month ago. The murderer should also have walked here.

"But what about the strange smell? What is the function of the strange smell?"

Lin Xi blocked his mouth and nose to prevent the strange smell from causing dizziness.

After thinking about it, Lin Xi returned the same way and decided to find the officials and Wu Jiu first. It was much safer for them to come down than her, and they had to tell Shen Chen.