Chapter 94 Case

After dinner, Shen Yu calculated the time and left with Pei Chunli.

When they walked out of Shiyue Pavilion, the waiter came out from the alley next to them. It seemed that the things were still there.

It was already dark, and there were fewer pedestrians on the street.

Fortunately, there was no curfew, so they could move freely.

The waiter's brother was called Sanfu, who ran an inconspicuous inn in Beijing. Such inns were popular with people coming to Beijing from all over the country. The price was right and the location was good.

When they arrived at the inn, Sanfu took the two to a room in the backyard.

"Here are all the things that guests left behind when they stayed in the hotel," Sanfu introduced. "Sometimes guests will come back to pick them up, and sometimes they will leave them here if they don't come. If no one takes them by the time, they will be thrown away."

Walking around the shelf, Sanfu pointed to one of the rows and said, "Here, these are their things, all here."

Shen Yu picked up the dagger and gently opened a bundle, then the second, the third...

Soon found something wrong.

Shen Yu turned around, looked at Sanfu and asked: "What do those people look like?"

Sanfu recalled and said: "There are four people in total, three of them look to be in their thirties, and one is older, but they are all very tall, about this tall."

He gestured on himself, and the height was about half a head taller than Sanfu.

"The physique is very strong, like..."

Shen Yu said: "Like a martial artist?"

"Yes!" Sanfu said confidently: "They are fierce and look hard to mess with. They speak very vulgarly and order the guys around."

Shen Yu frowned.

This is strange. These people don't sound like they are easy to bully, but they would go to Beijing to file a complaint? According to common sense, it should be someone else who sued them.

Shen Yu thought, "I heard that someone came here to steal before?"

Sanfu had heard about this generous young man from his younger brother Sixi, and thought that this good thing finally happened to him today.

So he quickly replied: "It was stolen."

"Only these few bundles were turned over?"

"Yes, just these few."

"Did anything get lost?"

Si Xi was about to interrupt, but was stopped by Shen Yu's eyes.

"No." San Fu replied.

Shen Yu asked: "Why are you so sure?"

"Sir, you don't know." San Fu bent slightly and said: "I checked these things before putting them in, I'm sure nothing is missing."

"Are you sure?"

"Sure!"

Shen Yu stared at San Fu's eyes, "But there is clearly something missing here."

San Fu's eyebrows jumped, "Sir, what do you mean?"

Shen Yu picked up something from the bundle with a dagger and threw it at San Fu.

Sanfu took it in a panic and asked in confusion, "What is this?"

"Arm tie." Shen Yu said, "Although it is not made of fine iron, it is not an ordinary object. It is normal for ordinary people to be mistaken."

"This..." Sanfu held the arm tie and asked, "But what does this have to do with whether something is lost?"

Shen Yu's eyes were sharp, "Look carefully at the arm tie. There are knife marks of varying depths on it, and the degree of wear and tear of the leather rope shows that this arm tie has been used for a long time. You said that they look like martial artists, which is exactly in line with this."

Sanfu looked at the arm tie and it matched the number. The leather rope was worn and almost broken.

Si Xi was confused, "What does it have to do with losing something?"

Shen Yu turned the dagger in her hand, "Since he is a martial artist, he should carry a sword."

Sanfu's face turned pale.

Shen Yu glanced at his face, "Is that right?"

Sanfu said nervously, "I did bring a knife with me, but I took it away the next day."

"Really?" Shen Yu smiled, "Who would bring a knife with them when they go to file a complaint?"

"Maybe I didn't go to file a complaint that day." Sanfu broke out in a cold sweat.

Shen Yu: "That's also possible."

Sanfu's heart was barely relieved, and then he heard the young master in front of him ask.

"But since you brought a knife, why did you forget to tie your arms?"

Si Xi suddenly understood.

His brother has a habit of stealing things. Most of the time, he would steal things from people's bags when he saw that the guests hadn't returned. This kind of thing is obviously not the first time.

Si Xi slapped San Fu in the face, a little anxious, "Why did you lie in front of the master? What's going on?"

San Fu glanced at Shen Yu nervously, "I..."

"Don't worry." Shen Yu said slowly, "If you tell the truth, I won't arrest you to the government, but as long as I find out that you lied with even one word, be careful of your tongue. I don't like to hear lies."

San Fu swallowed his saliva, walked to the door and looked around, confirming that no one had come back, and lowered his voice and said, "They didn't bring the knife when they left. I stole the knife."

Shen Yu guessed that San Fu was probably not knowledgeable and didn't realize that the armband could also be sold for some money.

"Where's the knife?"

"Sell, sell." San Fu stuttered.

Shen Yu asked coldly, "Since you said they were all fierce and looked hard to deal with, and you dared to steal and sell their things, aren't you afraid that they will come back to your door?"

San Fu was so nervous that he didn't know how to start.

Shen Yu approached step by step, "Because you are sure they will not come back, you dare to do whatever you want. Did you kill them?"

Sanfu shouted: "I didn't!"

Sixi quickly covered his mouth with his hand, "Keep your voice down, tell me! What happened?"

Shen Yu was generous. In just a month, Si Xi could earn more money than he could earn in several years. Si Xi had already recognized him as his master. Following the young master, he would have no worries about not having money to spend.

Thinking of the situations he had seen, San Fu's legs and feet became weak, and he sat in the corner with the help of a shelf.

He murmured, "It's not me. It's too, too scary."

"Young master, I'm watching at the door." Si Xi said as he walked to the door and stared at the movement outside through the crack in the door.

Shen Yu squatted down in front of San Fu, "Tell me, from beginning to end, without missing a word."

San Fu raised his head and looked at the beams of the house, and squeezed out a few unclear words from his throat, "That night..."

There was a part of San Fu that he did not lie. Those people did come to Beijing to file a complaint, but he did not finish his words.

San Fu liked to steal, but he was not greedy. Even if he touched the customer's purse, he would only steal a little change, so that it would not be easy to be discovered.

That night, Sanfu was lazing around next door and heard a few people talking about filing a complaint with the emperor. They also said they were going to find a certain adult who was said to have connections.

The next morning, the four people left the house.

"Actually, they came back." Sanfu said.

Shen Yu asked, "When?"

Sanfu recalled what happened before and began to tremble all over.

"Mid-midnight, they knocked on the door at night, and I was lazy and took a long time to open the door."

Sanfu did not open the door directly, but looked out through the crack in the door and saw a very terrifying scene.