Chapter 6 Teeth

Just after dawn, the sound of carriages and horses came from outside the Qi residence.

The one who came was also Xuan Qingwei, who came from Licheng, and came to fetch money.

Shen Hao didn't show up, so Wang Jian would naturally take care of everything.

A chair was brought, and Shen Hao sat in the atrium entered by the main entrance of Qi Mansion. There was a small table next to it. There was a teapot and a teacup on the table. Sixty-one human heads on the ground.

"Sucking" took a sip of tea, Shen Hao just sat there without saying a word, seemingly calm.

Near noon, Wang Jian came over on a business trip.

"Xiao Qi, the 750,000 taels of silver have already been divided and gone. There is no difference. The remaining 250,000 taels have also been put into our own private account. After this matter is over, we can go back and follow the rules. Divided among the brethren."

"Well, has the news from the yamen come back?"

"I'm back, and I'm going to tell you."

"Um."

Wang Jian considered his words for a while, and then said: "According to the records in the yamen, there have been two missing cases reported in Wuyang City in the past two months. One of them has been found, and the other has not been heard yet."

"Only two?"

"Yes. There are detailed records of every report in the Yamen, and there are indeed only two cases in the past two months."

Shen Hao put down the teacup, and things didn't go as he expected, which made him a little confused. After a while, he asked, "Where are the portraits of the Qi family?"

"I've got them all, and I found three acquaintances who have contacts with the Qi family to describe and draw them."

Wang Jian beckoned, took a thick stack of portraits from a wrestler next to him, and put them in front of Shen Hao with his regular hands.

Shen Hao flipped through the portraits one by one, looking at them carefully, and compared each portrait with the heads placed not far in front of him.

"Qi Wenzhi, um, match up with Qi Hengwen and Qi Hengzhi, match up"

"Qi Heng has no soldiers."

"Qi Wenyuan Wu."

"Xiao Chong Liuwu."

Of the sixty-one portraits, no similar-looking heads were found for three of them.

In fact, it is not completely clueless, Qi Wenyuan, Qi Hengbing, and Xiao Chongliu, although these three people cannot match the heads, but coincidentally, among the sixty-one heads on the ground, there are also three that are beyond recognition and cannot be distinguished.

"Xiaoqi, these three heads should belong to the three people who don't match up." Wang Jian judged from the side.

But Shen Hao didn't respond, and put down the portrait without saying a word, then picked up another written document about the Qi family and read it carefully.

Qi Wenyuan, sixty-seven years old this year, is the head of the principal house of the Qi family.

Qi Hengbing, 41 years old this year, Qi Wenyuan's only son, actually manages all the business of the main house. He had a son and a daughter under his knees, but they all died early.

Xiao Chongliu, the housekeeper of the Qi family, is fifty years old this year. He manages the accounting and warehouse of the Qi family and is single.

When Wu Zuo summoned people to clean up the odds and ends in Qi's mansion today, he had detailed inspection records of all the heads, especially these three unrecognizable heads. Shen Hao had seen the information before. And Qi Wenyuan's age and these three unrecognizable heads probably matched.

But Shen Hao has his own ideas.

Not too dirty, he directly picked up the three unrecognizable heads, held them in front of him and looked carefully, and even pried open the mouths of the heads to look at the mouth.

Wang Jian was surprised, he hadn't seen his Xiaoqi take a case so seriously for a long time.

After a long time, Shen Hao put the three heads on the small table at hand, took a sip from his teacup, and said, "This is not Qi Wenyuan's head."

"Ah? No way!" Wang Jian was so startled that he jumped up. He didn't understand why these three heads were not Qi Wenyuan and the others.

"Look at their teeth." Shen Hao pointed to the three heads on the small table, and asked Wang Jian to pry them open by himself, with the intention of pointing to Wang Jian.

Hearing the words, Wang Jian hurried to the table, grabbed a human head, and pried open its mouth to look inside.

Shen Hao said from the side: "Do you think their teeth, especially the back molars, are seriously worn?"

"Huh? Yes, seriously."

"The Qi family is a big family. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are extremely rich, and it can be traced back more than a hundred years ago. Which of these generations is not well-clothed? Even if they are old, they shouldn't have such serious tooth wear. Yes. I don’t know if you have seen ordinary old people in the countryside, their teeth are almost like this, which is caused by chewing brown rice for a long time.”

After hearing these words, Wang Jian verified them one by one in his heart, and found that what Shen Hao said was indeed true, but such details were easily overlooked.

"Xiao Qi, you are really amazing. You can think of such details, and my subordinates admire them! But if these three heads are not Qi Wenyuan, who are they? Where are the real Qi Wenyuan, Qi Hengbing, and Xiao Chongliu? Didn't die?"

A series of questions immediately popped up in Wang Jian's mind, causing him some headaches. He has never been very good at dealing with such weird cases.

Shen Hao waved his hand, put the three heads on the small table to the ground, looked at the melon-like heads, and said with a smile: "Not only that, but you also heard Wu Zuo say last night that there are about three dead bodies among all the broken bodies." His death time was earlier than the other corpses, and these three heads were also parts of those three bodies.

That's why I asked you to arrange someone to go to the yamen to investigate the recently missing people in Wuyang City. "

"You mean that these three dead bodies were not only not from the Qi family, but were deliberately killed and stuffed into the Qi family?"

"right."

"Yes, but why did you do this? Who did it?"

"I don't know. But it should have something to do with Qi Wenyuan, the three people who don't live or die. So next, you need to continue digging into the details of the Qi family, and pay special attention to matters related to Qi Wenyuan and the three of them. This matter is very important." Trouble, but there are no other clues for the time being, so I tell everyone not to be careless after hard work."

"Yes, Xiao Qi, I'll arrange it right away, even if I dig three feet into the ground, I must find out the details of the Qi family!" Wang Jian promised, patted his chest.

After Shen Hao finished speaking, he got up from the chair and walked out the door.

"Xiao Qi, where are you going?"

"I don't know, let's go for a casual stroll and try to figure things out."

"Want me to accompany you?"

"No, you hurry up and do things."

Shen Hao left the Qi Mansion, and then randomly chose a direction and wandered slowly along the main street. Whenever the case has lost its clue, he would walk around and let his mind go, maybe he will have a new idea in the next second?

Now the clue is broken on the head.

Who are the three unrecognizable people who are not members of the Qi family?

Why would someone get three irrelevant people to kill to make up the numbers?

Did Qi Wenyuan, Qi Hengbing, and Xiao Chongliu die?

And why is there so much shortage of human blood that should have been shed all over the place? Where did you go?

Finally, and the most critical question, what are those guys who secretly use evil talismans plotting against the Qi family?