Chapter 97: Acting
Seeing Yin Chuan making faces, Luo Mei couldn't help but feel curious, "Funny? What fun thing?"
Yin Chuan leaned close to her ear and whispered something, and Luo Mei gradually became at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"What do you mean? Why are you so boring?"
"Please, after this is done, I'll put in a few good words for you in front of Du Yunzhang."
Luo Mei glared at him, "Don't mention Du Yunzhang to me! Why should I bother to curry favor with that guy? Humph, I only do it for you and Miss Linlang's sake. If it were just Du Yunzhang, I wouldn't bother with him!"
Yin Chuan understood that Luo Mei was being hypocritical. Although she was unforgiving with her words, she was not willing to part with her ex-lover at all in her heart.
"Okay, let's not talk about Du Yunzhang, then thank you Miss Luo!" Yin Chuan smiled and saluted with his fists.
"Just wait and see!"
Luo Mei put the green veil underneath on her face, walked out of the room lightly, and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye.
Seeing Luo Mei leave, Yin Chuan perked up and found a crack by the window outside the woodshed, peeking in intently. The woodshed was quiet. Four people were leaning against the firewood pile, some sitting cross-legged in meditation, and some lying on a bench, all of them looking like they were fast asleep.
Soon, a faint sound of tiles rubbing against each other came from the beams, and the sound gradually grew louder. The first to notice something was the eldest brother-in-law, Hai Yifan. He stood up from the pile of firewood. At the same time, the third brother-in-law, Yu Jintang, who had been sitting cross-legged in meditation, also opened his eyes.
"What's that sound?" Yu Jintang asked in a low voice.
"Hush—" Hai Yifan waved his hand at him. Although it was pitch black, his meaning was conveyed. "There's someone on the roof!"
Yu Jintang covered his mouth and swallowed back the sound that was about to come out.
"Feng Nineteen?" He lowered his voice even more.
At this moment, the second uncle Gu Yan, who had just been smacking his lips while lying on the bench, muttered sleepily, "Feng Nineteen? Where is Feng Nineteen?"
"Keep your voice down!" Yu Jintang pushed him away and pointed at the roof.
Gu Yan looked up and immediately shrank his neck, because the sound on the roof became clearer and clearer, and it seemed to have reached the middle of the roof of the woodshed, right above their heads.
"What...what is he doing here?" Gu Yan was so scared that he was incoherent. He moved slowly to Hai Yifan, who was closest to him.
"Maybe he just passed by the woodshed? The thief should go to other courtyards, right?" Yu Jintang comforted himself.
Before he could finish his words, the rooftop suddenly fell silent. Just as everyone in the room suspected Feng Shijiu had left, they suddenly heard something fall from the rooftop, crashing to the ground with a loud "crack." Several people immediately shuddered in fear, and Gu Yan even let out a startled "Ah!"
"Feng Shijiu is right up there!" Yu Jintang couldn't help but shout.
"Where did Feng Shijiu come from? There must be someone who is not sleeping in the middle of the night and is looking for trouble!" Lu Enting seemed quite calm, but his eyes were fixed on the ceiling.
Just as everyone in the woodshed stared blankly at the roof, bewildered, someone suddenly pushed open the main door without warning. A creaking sound startled all four of them, but due to the pitch darkness and the lack of moonlight illuminating the woodshed doorway, no one could clearly see the person's appearance.
"Feng Nineteen!" Hai Yifan exclaimed.
This shout made everyone else step back, and only Lu Enting had the courage to look carefully at the person coming. "Who the hell are you? You're playing tricks on me! Don't play dumb!"
The visitor didn't say anything, but walked slowly into the house, as if he didn't hear Lu Enting's question.
"Feng Shijiu! Just tell me what you want. Why are you here to scare people in the middle of the night?" Yu Jintang picked up a piece of wood from the ground and pointed at the man and shouted.
"If you dare to move forward again... be careful of me... we won't be polite to you!" Gu Yan also mustered up the courage to scream in a low voice.
"Who are you? You can't scare me!" Lu Enting's tone became more and more tough.
"Hey, everyone, why are you so nervous? It's me!"
As he was speaking, the man struck a match, and his true face was revealed in the flame. Everyone then recognized that it was Yin Chuan, who was looking at them with a smile.
"Mr. Liu! What are you doing in the middle of the night? It's fun to pretend to be a thief, right?" Gu Yan complained unhappily.
"Oh! You made us scared. Even if you suspected that the poisoner was among us, you wouldn't have caused such a scene that we couldn't sleep, right?" Yu Jintang sighed.
"Everyone, please bear with me. I like to joke around. You'll understand after we get to know each other more." Yin Chuan laughed with a playful smile.
Lu Enting raised his eyes and looked at the roof again, and said to Yin Chuan, "I can see that you have a playful personality, but I didn't expect that you are so skilled that you can even climb up the roof and remove the tiles."
Hearing the sarcastic tone of his words, Yin Chuan was not annoyed. "Hehe, that one above is just a tabby cat I met nearby. I let it upstairs to make some noise, and you mistook it for Feng Shijiu. Sorry, sorry."
"It's a cat! It's so boring." Gu Yan said angrily.
Lu Enting was skeptical, "Hmph, I hope it's a cat as you said." After that, he sat back on the firewood pile, closed his eyes and said nothing.
Hai Yifan bowed to Yin Chuan and said, "Mr. Liu, please stop making trouble. The Lu family has been in trouble for the past few days, and everyone is in a panic. You've made everyone even more uneasy. Please, let us be quiet."
"I'm really sorry. Everyone, please go to bed early. I won't disturb you anymore." Yin Chuan returned the greeting, then walked out of the woodshed and closed the door.
Then everything returned to peace.
When Yin Chuan returned to the next room, Luo Mei was sitting at the table waiting for him.
"Hmph, I already think you're boring, and you think I'm a cat?" Luo Mei grumbled, "What on earth do you want to do by doing this in the middle of the night?"
"Hehe," Yin Chuan smiled maliciously, "I've basically determined who the murderer of this series of murders in the Lu family is."
"Do you understand now?" Luo Mei was skeptical.
"That's right. By tomorrow, I'll find the real culprit. Oh, and you have to do me a favor. Find me a freshly dead sheep nearby, one that's more than half a human's length."
“What do you want with a dead sheep?”
"Let the truth behind Lu Jiye's murder three years ago be revealed, and then the murderer will be silenced!"
"A dead sheep is enough? But I don't care whether the murderer confesses or not. My purpose in investigating the Lu family is Feng Shijiu. Is he related to Yu Zhenzhu, who is disguised as a movie star?"
"Don't worry. Du Yunzhang said he'll leave early tomorrow morning for Xingquan Temple, a hundred and fifty miles east of the city, to investigate and learn the reason why Lü Changhua became a monk. He'll probably be back by noon, and you should be able to find the answer by then."
Luo Mei frowned and said, "If you had told me earlier, I wouldn't have to wait for Du Yunzhang and I would have gone by myself."
"You're so elusive all the time, how could I possibly tell you? Besides, even if I did, you're a gangster, so how could the Taoist temple not be on guard? I'm afraid even the temple master wouldn't be able to see you."
Luo Mei scratched his head. "Hmm... you might have said that. But... can Du Yunzhang get anything out of him? Even if he could somehow get some key information, could it solve all the mysteries of the Lu family?"
"Don't worry, when he comes back, the truth about the Lu family murder case will be revealed to the world." Yin Chuan said firmly.
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