The pig-killing hotel opposite the county government office that day was called Chunlai Inn. It was a medium-sized inn that had both housing and a hotel.

On the night of the pig killing, there were three strange guests staying at the Chunlai Inn. It was strange because all three of them could not speak. They had been gesticulating with the waiter for a long time, but they could not make the waiter realize what was going on.

The owner of the store invited the butcher to dinner because he had just killed a pig. It was already late, and the waiter did not dare to call the owner, so he had to be patient and easy-going and talked with the three people for a while, finally getting them to figure out the hotel fee.

But the three men showed signs that they had no money. The waiter motioned for them to go out.

At this time, one of the elderly mutes showed off a shiny gold object and handed it over, as if he wanted to use the thing as hotel expenses to pay the waiter.

The waiter looked around and didn't know what it was, but it looked a bit like a gold nugget, so he temporarily accepted it and arranged a room for them to live in.

The waiter felt that these three people were in trouble. After checking in, one of them came out to sign with him again. The waiter didn't know what the sign meant. He pointed at his mouth and closed his hands together to make a circle. The waiter suddenly realized that they wanted to eat.

So I woke up the sleeping cook and cooked them a simple meal. Finally, I got over it.

Although this matter was annoying, the waiter did not lose his temper. Anyway, he could just let the boss handle it when he came the next day. The waiter was only there to greet the guests who came to stay at night, and he could ignore the rest.

In appearance, these three residents are no different from the locals. They just can't speak and rely on gestures to explain their meaning. However, their gestures are different from those of ordinary deaf-mute people, which is confusing.

What on earth do they want to do?

The next day when the boss came to the back of the shop, the waiter explained the matter to the boss and at the same time handed the shop boss the yellowish gold-like thing that the elder mute gave him.

Gold and silver were not commonly used currencies in the market during the Tang Dynasty. However, people at that time also valued the value of gold, because gold was a valuable item used by the emperor to reward his ministers.

There was a murder in the county. The shop owner didn't want these three people to stay overnight, but after weighing the shiny piece of gold in his hand for a while, he felt that it was very heavy. He felt that it would be against the rules to refuse such a wealthy guest.

It was a way to make money. So I didn’t express my position at that time.

The owner of the store is Cheng Shicai, who is considered a moderately wealthy man in this small county town. He chose this place to open a store close to the county government office for the purpose of seeking peace and preventing local scoundrels from causing trouble and affecting his business.

He first compared the shiny golden thing with a few pieces of gold-cast square-hole money at home, and felt that it was almost the same as gold. Then he went to a nearby gold and silver jewelry processing workshop to ask the boss. After seeing it, the boss was surprised and said that he had never seen it before.

Such good quality gold nuggets.

Boss Cheng was secretly happy, so he went to the three people's room and made gestures with them all morning, but he still didn't understand the reason behind their gestures.

However, after that, the boss specially asked the waiter to improve the treatment level of the three guests, cook and serve them wine, and let them eat and drink as much as they wanted. As for how many days they would stay, he didn't know, and it was all in vain anyway.

These three people gave the boss and the waiter a strange impression, but Boss Cheng felt that these people must have more valuable things, so he had to treat them well, and maybe get a few good gold nuggets.

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But what Boss Cheng didn't expect was that the Minister of Justice, who was far away in Luoyang at this time, had already reported this bizarre incident in Wucheng to Di Renjie, who had just taken office as prime minister at that time.

However, most of Di Renjie's men regarded this matter as a ridiculous prisoner's confession, and the purpose was to make up anecdotes to survive for a few more days. Therefore, when the Ministry of Punishment reported the matter to Di's Mansion for handling, most of his men were unwilling to convey it.

Only an official who was present in person received and delivered it. Since it was an official document, it would be useless if the people below did not deliver it.

Di Renjie's men did not take the case seriously, mainly because they believed that Mr. Di Guolao, who solved the case so miraculously, could not possibly take such a thing seriously.

But what they never expected was that Di Renjie actually took this ridiculous thing seriously and asked his men to send people to investigate it seriously.

When his subordinates disapprovingly pointed out that this was made up by the criminal in order to survive a few more days, it was not believable.

But Di Guolao stopped his men with just one sentence: "You only think there are people on the ground, don't you think there is no one in the sky?"

In the circumstances of that year, who could give a correct answer to the question of whether there are people in the sky? Of course no one can answer this question. Folks only compare the sky to the place where the gods live, that is, the heaven where the Jade Emperor lives. There.

After being demoted as a god, he descended to earth and became a mortal, that's all. Therefore, Di Renjie's subordinates had no choice but to obey his orders, and sent one of his subordinates, Cui Jianfeng, to Wucheng to investigate the case strictly.

Coincidentally, not long after the three mutes checked into Chunlai Inn, Cui Jianfeng also brought four of his cronies to stay quietly in Cheng Shicai's small shop in front of the county government office.

He liked this inn mainly because it was very close to the county government. Since there was a strange case that he didn't believe in in this small county, and he didn't want to immediately reveal his face to investigate the case, he had to change his mind.

Wear ordinary people's casual clothes, pretend to be businessmen, and want to observe around the county government for a few days before stepping into the role to conduct overt and covert investigations.

Although this street is not the most prosperous street in the county, because it is close to the government office, there are many people from it and from the countryside who come to do business. After all, the county government is not only established for the purpose of hearing cases. The county magistrate is also the parent official of the county and usually sits in court.

, after the trial case is handled, other civil and government affairs must also be handled.

Relatively speaking, in a small county like Wucheng, there are not many criminal cases, but there are many civil and government affairs. In this way, the routine duties of the county magistrate and other officials working in the county government are to receive officials from above.

Or the people coming down below, anyway, there is a lot of work waiting for them to do every day.

As an official from above, if Cui Jianfeng went directly to the county to reveal his identity, the county magistrate would immediately put aside his official duties and host a banquet and pick him up in official manners. But this would not suit the taste of an experienced detective like Cui Jianfeng.

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Cui Jianfeng liked to visit privately and move quietly, so he took his four followers with him. Once he arrived in Wucheng, he wandered around the Wucheng County Government Office for a while without revealing anything, and finally stepped into the inn in front of the County Government Office.

As a result, he met the three mysterious mutes unexpectedly.

As soon as Cui Jianfeng entered the store, he met a mute who was gesticulating with the waiter. He wanted to find out what they were doing, so he quietly walked up to them and watched their gestures. It turned out that he, like the waiter, didn't understand what the mute was doing.

meaning.

This mute gave Cui Jianfeng the impression that he did not look like a local, nor did he look like a real mute, because he had been handling cases for many years and had more or less contact with deaf-mute people. He could also guess the gestures of deaf-mute people.

A few points. But he didn't understand what the mute in front of him was gesturing.

When the waiter saw five guests arriving, he greeted them warmly. These five businessmen, who claimed to be from Luoyang, stayed in two rooms for a month and were given six ounces of copper coins (equivalent to six thousand Wen coins in modern times).

Feeling: equivalent to 1,200 yuan). Slightly higher than the inn collection standard set by Boss Cheng.

The mute man who was gesturing with the waiter just now, that is, the older man, was standing aside at this time, watching them bargaining seriously. When he saw Cui Jianfeng asking his men to lift six square hole copper coins from the horseback

He took it out of the cloth bag and handed it to the waiter. He quietly approached the waiter and accidentally touched the copper coin.
Chapter completed!