The story spread from one person to another until it reached the busy streets and alleys. Li Mofu found out about it from a customer in the store.
This matter soon spread in the store and many people started talking about it.
Last time we released river lanterns, a woman like this died. Now another woman has had her throat slit and bled out. What does this mean? It means there's a murderer in Su County!
Demons are unreasonable. Who knows if they will bring disaster to themselves and their families next?
As a result, the stores that should have been bustling in the afternoon and evening were empty, the streets were so deserted as if haunted, and even many shops were closed.
Seeing this, Li Mofu asked everyone to go home. There was no business anyway, and it was a waste of money to keep the lights on and the pots hot.
After returning to the courtyard and having dinner, Li Mofu asked Lu Mingyun about the death, "So, you didn't catch the murderer last time?"
"...We didn't catch him. I didn't expect him to do it again so soon." Lu Mingyun frowned. He had never taken this matter to heart before. He thought that solving the case was only a matter of time, and it was not his responsibility to catch people and solve the case.
"Who is the dead person?" Li Mofu asked.
Lu Mingyun replied, "Her name is Du Lan. Everyone around her calls her Aunt Lan. She has a son. Her son said that when she disappeared, she went to the street to sell embroidery and didn't come back until very late, so he reported her to the police the next day."
"So what did you find out?" Li Mofu asked curiously.
Lu Mingyun sighed, "The previous case involving Huang Liyao ended when they found her embroidery shop. The shop was located in a very remote alley, so remote that you'd be in the mountains if you walked any further."
"The yamen runners led the men to investigate along the way, but when they found the shop, it was already deserted. The shop wasn't registered with the county yamen. Residents nearby said the owner was an eccentric old man who paid a very high price for embroidery. He didn't care about the quality of the embroidery, he only cared about whether it suited his taste."
"So it was that old man who did it?" Li Mofu asked.
Lu Mingyun shrugged. "I don't know. We can't find the old man yet. And when we found the shop, it was covered in dust inside and out. If someone was killed in the shop and then cleaned up, there wouldn't be dust everywhere. It's likely that the murder wasn't carried out in the shop."
"This time, because of Duran's death, we went to the store again to check. It was still gray, and Duran didn't die there."
"That old man doesn't have any clues at all?" Li Mofu wondered.
"..." Lu Mingyun looked at Li Mofu and thought for a moment before saying, "I asked the neighbors. They said that the old man liked to wear Taoist robes, was missing two front teeth, and had white hair. He also claimed that he was a fallen immortal who had fallen into the mortal world and could turn dry bones into white flesh and bring the dead back to life."
"Taoist?" Li Mofu was slightly stunned.
The next day, Lu Mingyun got up early, had breakfast and left. Li Mofu got up a little late and did not see him.
The streets were still deserted today. Li Mofu had nothing to do, so he ran to Lu Mingyun's workplace to wait for news.
The strange shop opened at the end of March, and the old man appeared at the same time. He used to walk up and down the street every day, shouting that he wanted embroidery, but he stopped shouting when business started.
His shop actually has a lot of business, but he doesn't accept everyone, so those who tried gave up. After that, those who go to the shop are either first-timers or people who catch his eye and are his long-term customers.
Huang Liyao and Du Lan are two of the people he likes and has kept on as his long-term friends.
The yamen runners continued to investigate and finally found another woman who had been forced to embroider for a long time.
After she was taken back to the yamen and interrogated, the woman vaguely remembered that the old man had said that he was an immortal. Immortals do not live in downtown areas, so he built a wooden house on Jinming Mountain near Xiao River. If he was not in the store, she could go there to look for him.
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