These were all explained to him by the innkeeper in advance. If anyone asked, he would say that there was a mouse dead in the house.
After Zhan Qi heard this, he didn't say much, and then followed the young man to their house.
"These two rooms are close to each other, and the young men will rest here." The young man walked to a place at this time and pointed to the two rooms next to each other.
Zhan Qi nodded and walked in.
The young man stood at the door and said, "If anything happens, Master, just give me the order."
With that said, the little guy turned around and left.
"Wait a minute." Zhan Qi turned around and called to the boy.
After hearing this, the young man stopped and asked, "What else does the young master have to do?"
"It's nothing, just call your shopkeeper here." Zhan Qi said at this time.
The young man responded and quickly walked out of the house. For some reason, he always felt that these people were unusual.
As the boy walked downstairs, the shopkeeper quickly walked up to him, looked at him and asked, "Did these people ask anything else?"
These people just asked if anything happened last night, which aroused his suspicion. Except for the boy in his own room, no outsiders knew about this matter last night, and there were not many guests in the inn last night.
Moreover, he had already prevaricated it and paid hush money, so they probably had no reason to tell them.
Why did he ask as soon as he arrived here, could they be the murderers of last night
Impossible. If it was really the murderer, there would be no reason to look back. Wouldn't it be better to run away as far away as possible
Or are these people from the government? Thinking of this, the innkeeper felt that it was even more impossible.
Although they were close to the imperial city, he knew that all the officials here were promoted through connections. If no one went to court to complain, they would not bother to bother.
And those people last night didn't look like they were from Beiling.
"I didn't ask any more questions, but a young man asked the shopkeeper to come over." The boy shook his head and then said to the shopkeeper.
After hearing this, the shopkeeper frowned and asked him to go over? "Did you tell me what happened?"
"No." The boy then shook his head and said.
At this time, the shopkeeper couldn't help but murmur in his heart, why are these people acting abnormally again and again, and who are they.
However, the innkeeper thought about it and calmed down. What was he afraid of now? The body was no longer in the inn, and the crime scene had been cleaned up.
Thinking of this, the innkeeper couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. No matter who he was, he would go and see it first. Then he said to the young boy, "I know."
With that said, the innkeeper walked upstairs.
When he reached the door, he knocked gently and said, "Why do you want me to come to you, sir?"
When he heard the innkeeper approaching, Zhan Qi looked at the person aside and motioned for him to open the door.
The people on the side understood, and then walked to the door and opened it.
"What's the matter, young master?" The shopkeeper looked at the man who opened the door and asked.
The man looked inside and said, "The shopkeeper, please come in and talk."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand.
When the shopkeeper saw this, he couldn't help but frown slightly, and after a moment he evacuated and walked inside.
At this time, the shopkeeper walked up to Zhan Qi and asked with a smile, "Sir."
"The shopkeeper is also a smart man, so I won't beat around the bush." Zhan Qi looked at the innkeeper and said immediately.
After hearing this, the shopkeeper couldn't help but feel nervous. It seemed that he had guessed well. What did these people know
Then he asked with a smile, "Sir, our inn has a problem with the hospitality. I hope you..."
"To be honest, I smelled a smell as soon as I entered this inn. What it must be, the shopkeeper should know better than me, right?" Before the shopkeeper could finish speaking, Zhan Qi interrupted him and asked road.
When asked by Zhan Qi, the shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and then he pretended to smile and said, "What else can it smell like? It's just the stench caused by the death of a few rats in the inn over time."
"That's right! If I'm not wrong, the shopkeeper must have lit so much incense just to hide the smell of blood." Zhan Qi said at this time, and then the corner of his mouth curled up slightly.
When Zhan Qi said this, the innkeeper looked panicked, but he still said, "Sir, you can't make such a joke about life and death. This... this will lead to a lawsuit."
"A lawsuit? If the shopkeeper doesn't tell the truth now, I'm afraid his head will move." Zhan Qi sneered at this time, then stood up, looked into the shopkeeper's eyes and said.
When the shopkeeper heard this, he couldn't help but panic, and then he stuttered and asked, "Move your head? Who are you?"
Zhan Qi then took out a waist badge from his body.
Then he weighed it in his hands, then looked at the shopkeeper and said, "Can you see clearly, shopkeeper?"
"Look... I see clearly, you are from the palace... The palace." Seeing the waist badge in Zhan Qi's hand, which was engraved with the unique mark of the Beiling Royal Family, the shopkeeper's legs couldn't help but tremble a little.
Why did even the people in the palace know about this? Now things are in big trouble.
Thinking like this, the shopkeeper was so frightened that he couldn't help but sit on the ground.
Zhan Qi leaned over and stared at the shopkeeper, and then said, "Can the shopkeeper tell the truth now?"
"Sir... whatever you want to know, I'll tell you... everything." The shopkeeper nodded and spoke quickly.
Then Zhan Qi stood up and asked, "Where is the man who stayed with the two women yesterday?"
"Already...already gone." The shopkeeper said at this time.
Then Zhan Qi asked, "Where are the two corpses?"
"They were also taken away by them." When the shopkeeper knew that Zhan Qi and the others were from the palace, his face turned pale with fright, and he told the truth.
No wonder that person told him not to say anything. It turned out that they had offended the people in the palace, but now that the people in the palace were looking for them, he couldn't care so much anymore. He knew what would happen if he offended the people in the palace.
Failure to do business will be a trivial matter at that time, but maybe it will be a big deal that will cause you to lose your head.
After hearing this, Zhan Qi couldn't help but frown. It seemed that his guess was correct. If Princess Qingcheng was really dead, then the people around her must have left quietly like this.
But who were the two women they killed yesterday? Why does she look like Princess Qingcheng!
Thinking of this, Zhan Qi turned around and asked, "Then which direction did they run?"
"No... I don't know." The innkeeper shook his head and said.
Hearing this, Zhan Qi couldn't help but leaned over and grabbed the innkeeper's collar, and lifted him up. There was a coldness in his eyes, "Do you not know, or you don't want to tell me?"
"Sir, I... I really don't know. The two young masters said that they would dispose of the body and asked me to keep it a secret and clean the room. When such a thing happened, I felt very panicked. They went to I really don’t know where I went.” The innkeeper said with a cry in his voice.
Then Zhan Qi pushed hard, and the shopkeeper's body was hit hard to the ground.
The innkeeper couldn't care less about the pain in his body at this time, so he quickly got up and knelt in front of Zhan Qi, kowtowed and said, "Sir, what I said is true, true."
Zhan Qi frowned slightly at this time and glanced at the innkeeper. Looking at him like this, he shouldn't be lying.
However, if it was really not Princess Qingcheng and her maids who died, they would be anxious to dispose of the bodies.
So the body shouldn't be buried too far away.
Thinking of this, Zhan Qi winked at the people next to him, looked at the innkeeper who was still kowtowing, and then walked out first.
One of them walked up to the innkeeper and quickly pulled out the sword in his hand. When he closed the sword, the innkeeper had already fallen into a pool of blood.
The innkeeper already knew that they were members of the palace, so he could only kill them to silence them just in case.
When the boy downstairs saw Zhan Qi and others coming down one after another, he couldn't help feeling a little panicked and quickly lowered his head.
Then he saw these people walking out of the inn, and then he raised his head.
After a while, the boy hadn't seen the shopkeeper coming downstairs yet, so he couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
Then he walked upstairs, calling in a low voice, "Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, where are you?"
After calling several times, no one responded, and the boy couldn't help but panic.
At this time, his palms couldn't help but sweat. He tightly grasped a corner of himself with his hands and walked forward step by step. He had a bad premonition at this moment.
"Shopkeeper... shopkeeper..." the boy shouted at this time, and then walked to the door of the room where Zhan Qi and others were just now. He saw that the door of the room was ajar, and stopped.
At this time, he couldn't help but swallowed, and then whispered, "Shopkeeper, are you in there?"
Naturally, there was no sound. The boy slowly stretched out his hand, pushed towards the ajar door, and then pushed it open violently.
Immediately afterwards, the young man couldn't help shouting, "Shopkeeper... shopkeeper."
At this time, the shopkeeper, who was still breathing, heard the boy's voice, stretched out his hands, and said "Ah... ah..." in his mouth.
Seeing this, the boy quickly ran in. Then he took the innkeeper's hand and shouted in a crying voice, "Innkeeper, innkeeper, what's wrong with you, what's wrong?"
"No... don't..." The shopkeeper's face turned pale due to excessive blood loss. He covered his neck with his hands and looked at the young man with difficulty and said.
Before the innkeeper could finish speaking, the young man interrupted him, wiped the tears on his face with his hands, and then said, "Shopkeeper, I... I'm going to find a doctor to treat you right now. You have to hold on." .”
As the boy said this, he was about to stand up, but he was grabbed by the innkeeper. The boy looked down and heard him say, "Come... it's too late, I... I have something to say... I have something to say... I’ll tell you the truth.”
"Well... shopkeeper, you say... you say it, I'm listening, listen." The boy held the shopkeeper's hand, then nodded and cried.