Lin Yehuo, who went into Jia Laoliu's room and "searched" around, seemed to have found something important, so he took it and ran out.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also found the third frost knife and were shocked. When they turned around, they saw Huofeng running out with a torn yellow paper roll.

Huo Feng opened the scroll and showed it to everyone.

This is two pieces of paper rolled together, one is very worn and it feels like the paper has been aged for a long time, while the other is relatively new.

There was some wall dust on the backs of these two pieces of paper, and it looked like they had been torn from the wall.

Lin Yehuo spread out two pieces of paper and placed them on the stone table.

At the same time, Huo Feng also saw the frost knife and said "tsk tsk" twice, "This knife is mass-produced. How come everyone has it!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded and looked at the contents on the two pieces of paper.

These are actually two job recruitment lists. They are actually written on white paper, but they have been left out for a long time and the paper has turned yellow.

This kind of list is quite common at city gates, markets, docks and other places where people gather, and is used by wealthy families to recruit workers.

This kind of list is often posted in a row, and those who are interested can take it off and take it to the employer's house to find a job.

Usually those who post such lists are looking for special workers, such as cooks who can cook a certain dish, gardeners who can cultivate certain flowers, wet nurses with experience in raising children, etc...

Posting is usually done urgently, so the remuneration will be relatively high.

What’s interesting is that the contents of these two lists are almost the same. They are both looking for handymen, who are required to be able to do physical work and kill pigs and sheep. It is best to have been a butcher, and they are especially required to have disabilities in the fingers of the hands or feet.

, those born with one finger missing will be given priority.

Looking at the salary, the wages paid are nearly ten times that of ordinary handymen, the construction period is one year, and the location is Lin'an Mansion, Tongzi Hutong, and Sunzhai.

But looking at the posting dates of the two lists, the closer one was from five years ago, while the far one was from a hundred years ago...even the recruitment locations are exactly the same.

"Why did Sunzhai in Tongzi Hutong pop up again..." Zhan Zhao compared the two lists and saw that the handwriting didn't look like it was written by one person, but the content felt like they were copied.

"No wonder there are so many people in Lin'an Prefecture who are missing a finger." The fourth son also saw the trick, "It turns out they all looked for jobs in Lin'an Prefecture after looking at the list!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also nodded.

"This new list was from five years ago. Could it be that all the victims of the West Lake Floating Corpse Case came from this kind of list?" Zhan Zhao felt something was wrong again, "But the Floating Corpse Case lasted for more than a year, even if there were many victims that year,

People only entered Lin'an Mansion after seeing the list, but the murder case was so sensational, no one connected the two? Why didn't anyone report it to the official?"

Bai Yutang felt that there were indeed many unreasonable things. He shook the two lists and said, "Isn't Jia Laoliu connected?"

Zhan Zhao was even more puzzled - why did he have a recruitment list from more than a hundred years ago?

Lin Yehuo asked, "Calculating the time, it seems that it happened to be the time of Li She's accident. Then the question arises... Could it be that the West Lake floating corpse case also happened back then?"

"It's impossible to check the files from a hundred years ago, and there was a war and chaos at that time. How about asking Master Daoyuan and Grandma Xie?" Zhan Zhao suggested.

Bai Yutang and Lin Yehuo both thought it was a solution, but first, shouldn't they go to the "Sun Residence" on this list?

Before going to Sun's house, I have to go back to the other courtyard and send the frost knife back.

If Tianzun and the others are at home, it would be best to let them study what is going on with these knives. Three have been found. I heard before that there are five in total. In other words, there are two more? Which one belongs to Li Chengde?

Already broken.

But even if there are really five frost knives in the end, what are the functions of these knives?

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang decided to hand over the knife, the fourth child and the piglet to Lin Yehuo, and they would go to Sun's house to save themselves an extra trip.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang took the two lists and ran away, leaving Lin Yehuo in dire straits.

One hand was holding the knife, and the other hand was holding the little boy. The little boy was also holding a piglet... and the little boy said that his hands were sore and he couldn't hold the little piglet.

Huofeng teased the fourth son, "How about we roast the little pig now and then go home after eating."

Xiao Sizi quickly hugged Xiaozhu and looked at Lin Yehuo warily, "Xiao Linzi, why are you like a cat!"

"Then do you want to hug me?" Lin Yehuo asked him.

The fourth boy said he could hold on a little longer and shook his arms to show that his hands were sore.

Huofeng went to Jia Laoliu's room to search again, and finally found a piece of furoshiki. He tied up the ebony box and carried it on his back. Then he picked up the little boy in one hand and the piglet in the other, and flew on it.

Rooftop, flying eaves and walking over walls, back to the other courtyard.

…

Lin Yehuobu kicked off his "burden" and went home, let alone Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang who finally ran out alone to investigate the case.

The two of them have no direction. Where is Tongzi Hutong?

Fortunately, he met some yamen from Lin'an Prefecture on the road. When Zhan Zhao asked about it, the yamen said he had heard of it and it should be near the West Lake.

After inquiring and searching all the way, with the help of two government officials, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang finally arrived at Tongzi Hutong.

It turns out that this alley is located in a bustling area beside the West Lake, Marrow Street, and the alleys here are called Jiutong, Dongfeng, Ertiao, Wanzier...

Zhan Zhao was speechless, the co-author was like a horse hanging, no wonder it was called Sparrow Street, it was probably the name given by the grandparents of the Demon Palace.

There is a house in Tongzi Hutong, but the head of the household is not named Sun, but Qian, and there is a plaque reading "Qian's Mansion" on the door.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang are now more cautious about people with the surname Qian and Yu. This case is probably inseparable from the Yu Qian Gang where Yu Shuang had Qian Zhongjiu back then, and the suspect, Boss Qian, who lived in that small building and later disappeared, is still

Haven’t found it yet—be careful!

Standing in the alley, Zhan Zhao was hesitant. Should he go over and knock on the door to inquire, or should he sneak in and take a look?

After weighing it up, I decided to sit in a nearby teahouse for a while and let Shark in to explore the situation first... Of course, the main reason was that Zhan Zhao was hungry.

After checking this time just now, Zhan Zhao suddenly wanted to eat meat...

The two went to a nearby small restaurant, ordered food, and observed the house.

Shark circled the Qian Mansion, then climbed over the courtyard wall and entered.

There are a lot of weeds accumulated in the yard of the Qian Mansion. It seems that no one has cleaned them for a long time, and the house is also vacant.

Samera ran around and found an empty house with no one living there.

But finally they turned to the yard, and Samesame stood in front of a large overgrown garden, staring at the flowerbed.

The sunshine in this yard is quite good, and the rain in the south of the Yangtze River is accompanied by a pleasant climate. Usually in this season, not to mention the yard, even the flowers and plants on the roadside and in the mountains will grow very well.

But the flowers and plants in this garden are in similar condition to the orange trees in Jia Laoliu's yard just now. They are both wilted and withered and yellow branches and leaves.

After eating something and resting for a while, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang decided to go in and take a look.

After entering Qian's Mansion, the two of them studied the yard, found two discarded shovels and hoes, and started digging.

After the two heroes had eaten, they started doing physical work, and soon they found something - another ebony box.

I picked it up and opened it. Sure enough, there was a frost knife inside.

Zhan Zhao felt that there seemed to be more, so he dug again, and found another... this time two were dug out, and together with the previous three, there were already five.

But Bai Yutang felt that there was still something in the ground.

Just like that, the two heroes stood at one end of the yard and dug...

In the end, the entire mud floor in the yard was turned over, and Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang found a total of thirteen frost knives, all of which were packed in ebony boxes.

Looking at the two piles of frost knives piled up on the ground as high as half a person, both of them were speechless.

"After working on it for a long time, does this house sell frost knives?" Fifth Master shook his head, "Not to mention that this kind of knife is not difficult to forge, and it is difficult to get so many ebony boxes!"

Zhan Zhao had eaten all the snacks he had just eaten. Now he was so hungry that he had lost all energy. He wiped his sweat and said helplessly, "I really don't understand what the use of these knives is..."

As he spoke, Zhan Zhao casually thrust the shovel into the mud.

As a result, I heard a "click".

Zhan Zhao held the shovel and stood there motionless, frowning and looking down at the muddy ground under his feet.

Bai Yutang also heard the sound of something fragile being chopped into pieces. Was it a branch?

Fifth Master came over and asked, "Is it a branch?"

Zhan Zhao still stood there, frowning and shaking his head, muttering to himself, "I guess not, it doesn't feel right."

"How does it feel?" Bai Yutang looked at him, "What does it feel like?"

"Well...it feels round." Zhan Zhao said.

Fifth Master thought for a while, "Egg shell?"

Zhan Zhao said it was somewhat similar, but bigger and harder.

"Duck eggs?"

"No matter how big it is..."

Fifth Master stared at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao silently picked up the shovel and pushed the soil on both sides, revealing a small patch of white underneath.

Zhan Zhao stared at the white semicircular hard shell with a crack on it and asked Bai Yutang, "Yutang, how likely is it that it is a goose egg?"

Bai Yutang was speechless. He reached for the shovel in his hand and shoveled it down, scooping up the whole white thing.

Zhan Zhao stared at the shovel and sighed - there was a skull on the soil with a hole in the head.
To be continued...