allonlinenovel Chapter 169 Catching the Murderer
Chapter 169 Catching the Murderer
Gu Qingqing left the backyard, took the money for the dishes and seemingly left the restaurant, but in fact, while no one was paying attention, under the arrangement of Shopkeeper Song, she went around and hid in a room very close to the vegetable hut.
Wen Wuyan, who had been waiting in the room for a long time, saw Gu Qingqing coming in and hurried forward to report the situation, "Just now, there were only two waiters delivering food to the hut, but they came out right after that, and no one has entered since then."
Gu Qingqing noticed his nervousness, and relying on Wen Wuyan to block everyone's gaze, she flirted with him while deliberately blinking and whispered, "Wen Wuyan, are you nervous?"
Wen Wuyan's thoughts were exposed. Thinking that there were other people in the room, he coughed lightly and said stubbornly, "I'm not nervous."
"Heh, man!" Gu Qingqing rolled her eyes at him and muttered in a voice that only she could hear.
Only then did Gu Qingqing walk around him and greet the people in the room in a low voice.
Normally, Shopkeeper Song should be present at this kind of scene of catching an adulterer, but he had to act as a magical beast in the store as usual, so besides the three people from Niutoushan Village, there were only Wang Xunchai and a waiter named Zhaocai in the room.
Although Wu Shan is the head of the village, he still feels nervous when encountering such things, but he also feels very excited.
Seeing Gu Qingqing coming in, he immediately stepped forward and asked cautiously and concernedly, "Qingqing, are you all right?"
"Okay, Uncle Wu, don't be nervous. Let's wait here and see if anyone will do anything bad. I believe very much in what I made." Gu Qingqing was still in the mood to joke with Wu Shan.
As for whether she was nervous or not, only she herself knew. After all, if no one took the bait, she would really have to pay the other party ten taels of silver.
If someone took the bait and she found the murderer, she would have nothing to do with it.
As time went by, everyone in the room looked at the people coming and going through the door with some impatience, and waited patiently, trying not to make any noise.
They hid secretly in the house waiting for the fish, but Diao Ergou, who was helping in the kitchen, was unaware of it.
While peeling garlic in the kitchen, he was thinking about what the shopkeeper and the village woman had said, and at the same time, wondering when he would have the chance to get close to the dish.
With a sly smile on his face, he has plenty of time today.
"I didn't expect you to be such a sucker. You used to pay the bookstore 200 wen just to copy a book, and now you're paying dozens of taels of silver to do business with Zhiweilou. Oh, you're such a country bumpkin."
"You, an ignorant village woman, think you can get involved with Zhiweilou in this way? It's simply wishful thinking. As long as I'm here, you will never succeed. Haha, I'd like to ask you to pay me money. Let me see how much money you have!" After Diao Ergou finished speaking, he looked up into the void.
It seems that he is looking forward to what he is going to do.
He half-closed his eyes and looked into the distance, continuing to mumble, "Haha, it's just as Shopkeeper Jiang said, when scholars do bad things, they are much more resourceful than those illiterate peasants. Shopkeeper Jiang, I have to thank you for teaching me how to read."
Diao Ergou looked satisfied and confident of victory.
"Diao Erqiu, why are you looking up at the sky instead of peeling garlic? Are you waiting for silver to rain down on you? Peel the garlic quickly because the kitchen will need it soon."
At this moment, someone suddenly appeared behind Diao Ergou and preached.
Diao Ergou suddenly retracted his raised head when he heard the voice. An expression of disgust appeared on his face when he heard the voice of the person who came. As he turned his neck and looked at the person who came, he put on a flattering smile, "Silver will rain from the sky sooner or later."
"Dream on." The man was holding a needle-thick firewood stick in his hand, picking his teeth while looking down on him.
The brighter Diao Ergou smiled on the surface, the more fiercely he cursed in his heart.
This person just relies on the fact that he came a few years earlier than himself, and he uses his status to push the work onto himself regardless of whether it is his own job or not. This makes Diao Ergou hate him very much.
"Don't be so careless all day. You've peeled so much garlic, what are you peeling it for? Are you planning to live in a garlic nest? If you have nothing to do, go get the commonly used vegetables and wash them first." After the man said this, he left with a thin branch of firewood in his mouth.
When he left, he was still saying, "If I hadn't protected you, you would have been kicked out of Zhiweilou long ago because of your lazy nature."
Diao Ergou thought he was just a dog barking, but today's barking was very pleasant, otherwise why would he always want to laugh!
"Okay, I'll go right away." Diao Ergou had actually been paying attention to the situation in the hut. Now he found out that there was no one inside, so he put down the things in his hands and went to the hut.
Wen Wuyan and the shop assistant were lying by the window at this time. They each used their saliva-soaked fingers to stick a hole in the window paper and watched the situation outside closely. When they saw that it was Diao Ergou who was about to go in, they hurriedly whispered "Qingqing!"
At the same time, he moved away from where he was standing so that Qingqing could see clearly.
The remaining few people also quickly found their own holes. Through the small holes, they saw a thin guy walking towards the vegetable hut.
Apart from the door, the only window in the cabin was open. They could roughly see what was going on inside the cabin through the window opposite while hiding in the room.
It was also God's help. The guy just put the sauerkraut on two benches in the room, so Gu Qingqing and the others could almost see Diao Ergou running towards the basin of sauerkraut as soon as he entered the room.
Judging from the twisting posture of his upper body, he should be looking around.
Diao Ergou was indeed looking around, and seeing that there was no one in his sight, he hurriedly took out a small paper bag from his arms, quickly opened it and poured the croton powder inside into the sauerkraut.
He didn't worry about anyone cleaning the powder because he was the one who was responsible for cleaning it.
Seeing this, Gu Qingqing, who was hiding in the room, just uttered the word "go", and Wen Wuyan, Wang Xunchai, and the shop assistant Zhaocai rushed out of the door.
Zhaocai felt sorry for the vegetables, so he ran and yelled through the window crack, "Diao Ergou, what are you doing? Stop!"
Diao Ergou, who was doing bad things in the vegetable shop, was startled by the sudden sound. He subconsciously looked out through the window and saw Zhaocai and a stranger running towards him. He suddenly panicked.
For a moment, I didn't know whether to run away first or cover up the scene.
However, this only took a moment. When he came to his senses, he hurried to look at the croton powder he had just sprinkled in the basin.
Diao Ergou looked at the grayish-white croton powder stuck on the sauerkraut and felt it was very eye-catching because of his guilty conscience.
He hurriedly turned over the cabbage sprinkled with croton powder as if to destroy a corpse, hoping to get away with it.
After finishing all this quickly, he noticed the paper in his hand. He looked around fearfully and wanted to hide it. As a result, he heard footsteps reaching the door. Seeing that it was too late to hide the paper, he made up his mind and stuffed the paper into his mouth.
bang~
Wen Wuyan ran too fast and didn't have time to turn at the door, and even bumped into the door and bounced back.
He was the first one to rush in, and what he saw was Diao Ergou wiping his mouth in panic.
"What did you eat? Spit it out." Wen Wuyan scolded.