That cleared the next-door neighbor of suspicion. All they needed now was evidence that the butcher had committed the murder.
That was not difficult, either. They searched the butcher's home from top to bottom, even digging up the ground, where they found bloodstained scraps of cloth confirmed to have come from the victim's clothes.
After reading his written summary, Shen Shixu was very pleased with the progress the two of them had made and decided to reward them.
Besides giving them a bonus, Shen Shixu took them to the Sweet Honey Drink Shop Qiu Yan had told him about.
Neither Jiang Bin nor Zhang Ming had known there was a shop like this in the Capital. All the drinks they had never tried before caught their interest.
They did not stand on ceremony with Shen Shixu, each choosing something that interested him, and liked their drinks from the very first sip.
"Mmm, this lychee wine is pretty good. It doesn't have the burn of ordinary wine—it's sweet instead. Mother would probably like it. I'll buy some to take home before we leave."
"This Milk Tea is good, too. It has a milky fragrance, but it isn't too strong. And there are these things called pearls in it? They're springy and chewy. Pretty interesting. I'll take a few cups home for my older sister and the others to try, too."
While the two of them enjoyed their drinks, Shen Shixu wandered around the shop with a cup of Milk Tea in his hand, sipping as he went.
The more he looked, the more he felt that the person who had opened this shop had come from another world, just like him. A menu was posted on the wall, listing all the shop's drinks with their prices alongside them.
Many of the