Huiyun Building is a standard two-storey building.
In the hall below, there are sixteen square tables scattered around.
Upstairs is divided into two parts - the hall area, which consists of nine tables;
From this pattern alone, it can be seen that Huiyun Building usually mainly deals with low-end and middle-end customers. For example, Dingxiang Building, which is often visited by officials of Shuntian Prefecture, occupies more than 70% of the space in private rooms.
It is precisely because of this that a wealthy family slave like Pan Youan has the capital to buy a private room to drown out his sorrows.
The T-shaped private room is located on the northwest corner of the second floor. It is basically the most remote corner, but for those who want to drink wine to drown their sorrows, it is undoubtedly a feng shui treasure.
After going up to the second floor, Sun Shaozong first observed inside and out, and then ordered the two shop assistants to discuss with each other, and reproduced the scene of the scattered customers on the second floor around the time of Shanghai last night.
The people in charge of acting as the guests were naturally the hunters from Shuntian Prefecture and Wanping County.
"There is an old man at this table who ordered half a catty of wine by himself, and two dishes of side dishes."
"The place by the window is three young masters, who look like they are taking the exam out of town - probably because the results are about to be released, and I really can't sleep when I go back, so I have been dawdling until around midnight before leaving."
"There are two guests, one old and one young..."
"This table is also two..."
"No, it's a guest!"
"Nonsense, it's clearly two guests!"
Since there were only five tables of guests sitting outside at that time, the two of them remembered it quite clearly, only one of the tables could not be disputed.
Liu Tiezhu insisted that there was only one guest, but Xu Shengli insisted that there were two guests dining here at that time.
"master."
Seeing that he couldn't make sense with Liu Tiezhu, Xu Shengli simply went forward and reported: "At that time, Liu Tiezhu went down to get the food and drink, but he didn't know why he was delayed. It happened that a guest master came upstairs, and the villain was about to go up to say hello, when he saw this The guest at the table got up to greet him and called the guest over."
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Liu Tiezhu also glared at him and retorted: "I went up and down several times, but the guest has always been eating and drinking alone, where did he come from?!"
"Aren't you blind? The other guest is a young man, and he is very handsome. It is absolutely impossible for me to remember it wrong!"
"You're the one who's blind. I've always greeted this messenger. I can't remember the guests I greeted?!"
Seeing that the two were fighting more and more cock-fighting, he forgot that he was in front of the official. Zhao Wuwei hurriedly stepped forward and scolded them, separated the two, and then asked Sun Shaozong for instructions on how to imitate the guests at this table.
Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, but then he asked, "Ignoring that young man, how did the other guest look like? What does it look like?"
Liu Tiezhu hurriedly said: "The guest was born very wealthy, dressed well, and looked like a rich businessman."
Xu Shengli also hurriedly added: "I think he is a little sneaky, I'm afraid he is not a serious businessman!
Although the two shop assistants have different rhetoric, the identity of the businessman should be determinable.
Sun Shaozong asked again: "What about the young man? How are you dressed?"
This time, Liu Tiezhu didn't say anything, he could only look at Xu Shengli and replied, "That little brother's thin skin and tender meat may seem arrogant at first glance, but when you look closely, it seems to reveal three points. Guilty, it doesn't look like the young master, but it is estimated that there are some servants in the gate of the mansion."
No wonder he is mainly responsible for serving the private room. His ability to observe words and feelings is indeed much higher than that of Liu Tiezhu.
A sneaky businessman, a servant with some status in the gate of the mansion...
Substituting the identities of these two people into the case, Sun Shaozong closed his eyes and simulated it in his mind, then ordered, "Come on, let's try to rehearse."
Having said that, let Liu Tiezhu go downstairs first, and then let Qiu Yunfei sit at the table alone, playing the role of the sneaky businessman.
On the other hand, Sun Shaozong himself acted as the 'handsome boy'. He first went to the downstairs counter to get some things, and then walked up the stairs to the second floor.
When I got upstairs, I saw a group of people staring at me dumbfounded, not knowing how to react at all.
Sun Shaozong was speechless, so he made a gesture to Xu Shengli and explained, "Just as you did yesterday, come over and prepare to greet me - Qiu Jianxiao, as long as he moves, you will get up and call me over."
The two suddenly realized that Xu Shengli hurriedly leaned forward with a smile on his face, while Qiu Yunfei stood up in a grin and shouted, "Here, here!"
Sun Shaozong didn't rush over, but asked Xu Shengli, "That merchant at that time greeted him like this?"
Xu Shengli said hesitantly, "That person's voice seems to be much lower than Xiao Yanei's, and he doesn't seem willing to let others hear him—the tone should be a lot more affectionate."
Sun Shaozong nodded, but did not let the two of them start over, but strode to the table.
First, according to Xu Shengli's description, he sat down with his back to the stairway, looked around vigilantly, and then carefully took out a dark object from his sleeve.
"Look!"
He lowered his voice, but he couldn't suppress the pride and bragging in his voice: "This is a first-class good item, you can't ask for it anywhere else, so we can find it in our house!"
Qiu Yunfei was intimidated by his behavior and words, and he couldn't help but become a little sneaky. He stared at the object carefully, but saw that the dark one was actually an inkstone platform.
And it is the most common and cheapest inferior product, it is estimated that one or two silver can buy two dozen!
On the other hand, Sun Shaozong still showed off his face, as if he was showing off some kind of treasure!
No choice, Qiu Yunfei could only return the expression 'Are you kidding me?'.
At this moment, Sun Shaozong turned his head and asked Xu Shengli, "After the young man sat down, did the guests in the private room in the A-brand room immediately follow them upstairs? Then you were busy entertaining them, and you forgot about this place. Son?"
"exactly!"
Xu Shengli nodded vigorously: "Master said nothing wrong, I wanted to come over to say hello and see if there are more guests. Do you want to add more wine and vegetables."
"It's a coincidence that at this time, two old acquaintances came with friends. There were more than a dozen people, and the villain was busy greeting them. Later, he didn't pay much attention to the situation of the scattered seats."
Seeing that it was as he expected, Sun Shaozong pointed to the private room of the A-brand name, and asked Xu Shengli to sit inside for a while, and then asked Jiang Laoqi to call Liu Tiezhu, who was waiting in the kitchen, to go upstairs.
"It's you?!"
When Jiang Laoqi took his order, Sun Shaozong suddenly stood up and exclaimed at the empty space, "Why are you here?!"
Saying that, he hurried into the T-shaped private room.
Who is inside
Is there no one in there
In this blue sky and daylight, could it be that Master Sun has seen a ghost
Still an old man? !
The catchers were looking at each other with imagination, when they saw Liu Tiezhu running up from below, standing dumbfounded at the entrance of the stairs, staring at everyone with big eyes.
At this moment, someone in the T-shaped room gritted his teeth and said, "You licking the ditch..."
The voices at the back faded away, and only some indistinct movement could be heard.
Qiu Yunfei was hesitating, should he stick it on the door and listen to what happened, when the voice suddenly became louder: "Okay, okay, you want me to die, right, I..."
After this suddenly high, the voice became indistinct again.
Qiu Yunfei finally couldn't bear it any longer, and leaned over to put his ear to the door to listen carefully.
Who knew that at this moment, the door squeaked apart from left to right. Sun Shaozong walked out and asked Liu Shengli, "Is the movement you heard at the time similar to the one just now?"
"Yes, yes, this is the movement!"
Liu Tiezhu hurriedly pecking the chicken that nodded his head to the rice: "So when the villain heard it, he knew there was a commotion inside!"
"it is as expected."
Sun Shaozong muttered to himself, then sat back at the original square table with a look of understanding on his face.
Qiu Yunfei hurriedly followed, and under his curiosity, he didn't care to show any arrogance. He stretched his neck and asked curiously, "Sir, you... You didn't see something dirty just now, did you?"
"roll!"
Sun Shaozong rolled his eyes, and said confidently: "This official is only simulating the interaction between the young man and the deceased. If my expectations are correct, the case is not far from the truth!"