female catcher

Chapter 4 Bloody Case

Xia Chu straightened his waist and wiped his nose with his backhand.

At this time, Li Erping came in, quickly filled the washed bowls in a big wooden basin, Xia Chu saw that she had changed into neat and clean clothes, and smiled at her, "Is it too busy?"

Li Erping curled his lips, "A bunch of stinky men who have money and nowhere to spend it! I don't want to go to the front yard, and I'm tired of looking at those faces."

"Sometimes you can get tips in the front yard. You can just bury your head in your work and just ignore it."

"tip?"

"Well, let's reward money. Look at those tea services, I heard that the reward money is more than the monthly money." Xia Chu laughed.

Li Erping also laughed, and suddenly stopped his hands and said to Xia Chu: "Xiao Chu, you need money, you need money, but no matter how much money you have in the front yard, don't try to collect it in the front yard. After all, you are a woman, so don't let others take it." It's cheaper to go."

Xia Chu pointed at himself and said with a smile: "I look like this, who wants to take advantage of me."

"You are so handsome, it would be even more troublesome if someone with a good manly style recognizes you as a young lady. If someone takes advantage of you, you will not be able to get out of this brothel. Anyway, there is no harm in being careful, and you are no better than me. Use your strength to become fierce."

Xia Chu's heart warmed up, and he flicked some mercury on her face with his fingers, "You are a paper tiger, and you can't scare people even if you are fierce. Be careful yourself."

"It's okay! Ruan Xi is protecting me in the front yard." Li Erping said a little nervously, then patted his sleeves and said in a low voice: "I have a hidden knife, whoever dares to bully me, I will give it to him Look, you can't scare him to death!" After she finished speaking, she picked up the heavy tub and strode away.

Looking at Li Erping's back at the beginning of Xia, he felt that this was luck among misfortunes, and he met such a good friend when he first came here.She was thinking that if she became capable in the future, she would definitely repay her thousands of times.

Thinking of this, Xia Chu turned around and worked harder at the pile of dish brushes.

When Haishi was approaching, Xia Chu finished washing the bowls and was sitting on the stone steps to rest his waist when he heard a faint shout.It is not uncommon for someone to shout in the brothel. Although most of the people who come to the planting flower house are decent, rich or have status, but they drink too much and start arguing, or fight for a girl. It's not that things can't be done.

Xia Chu didn't pay attention to it at first, but the yelling sounded like rolling waves, and the sound became louder and louder, spreading from the front yard into the backyard kitchen.

Most of the people stopped their work and listened. Ruan Xi, who was serving tea with water in the backyard, was quite good at listening. He couldn't help but change his expression when he heard the noise, and turned back to the others and said, "Why do I listen?" It seems to be..., murder?"

"Murder?" There was a moment of silence in the back kitchen, and all the workers looked at each other, half-believing.

"Did you hear me wrong?"

"Maybe I heard it wrong? Let me have a look!" Ruan Xi put the teapot on the stove with a bang, turned around and ran to the front yard.Before he ran to the backyard door, several people walked over quickly. Ruan Xi stopped Fan Youyu, who was familiar with him, and asked, "What's the matter? What happened?"

"Yayuan is dead." Fan Youyu was also a tea server, and he was still holding an empty teapot in his hand.After Fan Youyu answered Ruan Xi's words, he turned his head to look at Xia Chu, stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the front yard, "Go and have a look, Li Erping killed someone!"

"Who?!" Xia Chu felt as if he had heard it wrong, and walked over from the crowd, "Who did you say killed someone?" Fan Youyu repeated clearly word by word: "Li Erping killed someone."

Ruan Xi's face turned pale immediately, and he still held Fan Youyu and refused to let go, "How could it be Erping?! Where is Erping? Erping!"

"Then it must still be in the Yayuan! I came from the front building to fetch water. As soon as I got to the gate of the Yayuan, I saw a lot of people running out, saying that Li Erping killed someone." Fan Youyu looked at Ruan Xi and asked suspiciously: "What are you doing?" This is it? The face is so white?"

Ruan Xi didn't speak, let go of Fan Youyu, turned around and grabbed Ma Qingquan, the cook who just came from the front yard, "Why is it Li Erping?"

Ma Qingquan patted Ruan Xi's shoulder and slowly shook his head, "I don't know, that's all I said. Don't panic."

Others didn't know the relationship between Ruan Xi and Li Erping, but Xia Chu knew about it. She walked over and tugged Ruan Xi, "Go, let's go to Yayuan to have a look."

The so-called elegant courtyard is different from the open hall floor, which is more private, so the courtyard lights in the courtyard are dimly lit to cover up the possible indecentness in the elegant courtyard, so I just want to show where the way out is. , just don't make people fall.

Xia Chu and Ruan Xi entered through the gate at the west corner of the Yayuan. Ruan Xi called out Erping and ran towards the west corridor. Xia Chu followed and saw Li Erping sitting on the northwest corner of the Yayuan veranda, being pressed by a guard. The cloth buttons on the collar and top of the clothes were torn, and his face was pale.

"Erping, Erping!" Ruan Xi and Xia Chu called her, but she didn't respond at all, she stared blankly at the southwest corner, as if her soul was out of her body.

Xia Chu followed her gaze to the southwest corner, where it was dark and the visibility was extremely low.She just came in through the corner door in the southwest corner just now, and at this moment she tried her best to see that there was a person lying on the ground.

On the flat tiled floor in the veranda, one piece of the floor looks darker than other places, it should be blood. There is a bloody smell in the air, mixed with incense powder and alcohol, which makes people's nostrils blocked.

(End of this chapter)