Chapter 503 Clues

Chapter 503 Clues

Chapter 503 Clues

"No? Speak to me straight, how could there be no?"

In a nearby valley, Wu Jinliang pulled the iron chain with one hand and pointed at Huang Yingying's nose with the other hand to sternly warn her.

A pile of Lord Axun's belongings that had been searched through were scattered in front of the two people. This was the scene after Huang Yingying had searched through them personally.

Naturally, it was Wu Jinliang who asked him to search for it, and his purpose was naturally to find the 'Que Si Xiang'.

But the problem now is that after Huang Yingying searched several times personally, she told them an unfortunate news: the "Que Si Xiang" they were looking for was not among these items.

At this point, Huang Yingying was 100% certain that the big dog had gone through all this trouble just to find the 'Quesixiang'.

"Really, there isn't anything. 'Quesixiang' is a paste-like substance that emits a strange fragrance when burned. You'd understand even if I didn't tell you. But you've cast spells on every item here, and there's really nothing there!" Huang Yingying complained.

Wu Jinliang was not so easy to talk to. He punched Huang Yingying so hard that she vomited blood and fell to the ground. He stepped on her chest and put a knife on her neck. He sneered and said, "Old Huang, stop talking nonsense. Since this is the case, there is no point in keeping you. You know too much. Let's go shopping together in the next life. I'll treat you."

Huang Yingying was so frightened that she screamed, "Master Gao, please don't do that. I can make the 'Death-Resisting Incense'. I still have some use for you. I still have some use!"

Wu Jinliang chuckled, "Sorry, there will be no such store after this village. That thing is useless after this stall. Old Huang, have a safe journey!"

After saying this, he was about to cut the other person's neck with a knife.

"Gao, you will not die a horrible death. I knew you had bad intentions. Even as a ghost, I will not let you go..." Huang Yingying, who had been howling in anger, suddenly shut up and was stunned. Her anger came quickly and went away even faster.

There was no other reason. The knife Wu Jinliang swung did not cut his neck, but only left a bloody mark on the scabbed and rotten flesh. He put away the knife, as if he had let him go.

Huang Yingying immediately smiled, "Master Gao, I knew you were not the kind of person who would destroy the bridge after crossing it..."

Before he could finish his words, his eyes rolled back and he was knocked unconscious by Wu Jinliang's attack.

Wu Jinliang, who found the mother-child talisman, urgently sent a message to Shi Chun: Chuntian, your efforts have been in vain.

Shi Chun responded quickly: What's going on?

Wu Jin replied twice: There is no 'Que Si Xiang' in A Xun's things, what to do?
No? Shi Chun, who had just moved a pile of books upstairs and was coming downstairs, stood silently against the wall at the corner of the second floor stairs, frowning slightly. He believed that Wu Jinliang would not give such an answer easily, and he must have confirmed it.

How could it be gone? I don’t know if Xun didn’t put it on him or put it somewhere else.

But he could only plan to target others before. There was no other way. When he knew that the target was in Axun's hands, it was too late. Axun had already been killed. He could only plan to take Axun's relics.

Now that this result has occurred, he has become very passive.

In order to get A Xun's relics, he was unscrupulous and didn't care much about the ending. He was just waiting for news about Wu Jinliang leaving and was ready to fly away.

During the whole process, he was even mentally prepared to take tough measures once the truth was revealed.

After thinking it over, he still didn't want to give up the clue in front of him easily, so he replied to Wu Jinliang and asked: Did Huang Yingying kill the two trusted subordinates of the important official of Shenshan?

Wu Jinliang: That’s right, I forced her to do it. If the identity of the deceased is correct, Huang Yingying should not be able to turn back. Looking at the strength of the two deceased, I should be right.

Shi Chun asked again: You said that the two men followed the route you took to escape underground and caught up with you underground?
Wu Jinliang: Yes, there can be no other reason.

After confirming the relevant situation, Shi Chun decisively ordered: Come back immediately, as quickly as possible, I will let Chu Jingtang go to meet them...

After quickly explaining everything, Shi Chun heard footsteps upstairs. He quickly put away the mother-child talisman and leaned against the wall as if thinking. When he looked up, he saw the second young lady Dong Liangyu who had finished work.

Seeing him standing at the corner of the stairs, Dong Liangyu became a little nervous, thinking that he was waiting for him to speak.

Then she realized that she was overthinking, and Shi Chun went downstairs with his head down, leaving her at a loss.

Shi Chun had no intention of observing her reaction. His mind was now occupied with one thing: he hoped that there was still time to fix the problem. The problem was that he had limited information at the moment, and didn't know the progress of the situation with Li Xianghong and the others.

Anyway, he insisted on not evacuating easily. He wanted to take a gamble and see whether Wu Jinliang could get back in time. If he couldn't get back in time and something really went wrong, he would force his way out.

After knowing the urgency of the situation, Wu Jinliang rode the Wind Scale back very quickly. On the way, he contacted Chu Jingtang and handed over Huang Yingying.

After hearing from Chu Jingtang that all the search personnel outside the city had been withdrawn, Wu Jinliang didn't care about anything else and bravely flew directly out of the city when it got dark.

As soon as he arrived outside the city, he contacted Shi Chun and told him that he had arrived.

Shi Chun breathed a sigh of relief when he received the news, and immediately contacted Xiao Sheng who was waiting outside.

Before Wu Jinliang arrived at the library, Haoji pointed and talked to passers-by outside the library when he passed by, spreading rumors that Fan Wuzhe had been arrested.

Shi Chun happened to hear it at the door, so he quickly spread the rumor to Dong Wenshu's family.

There was no point in eating. Dong Wenshu immediately took his son out and went to the mountain in the city to find out the situation.

As soon as they left, Wu Jinliang came to the door.

The three sisters were anxiously waiting for news and had no mood to care about anyone else.

Shi Chun took the opportunity to secretly bring Wu Jinliang to the backyard and into the room where Fan Wuzhe lived, and asked Wu Jinliang to lift up the floor tiles and escape underground.

Before he left, Shi Chun reminded him again, "If the city guards don't send anyone, it's fine. But if they find out and come here, immediately have Huang Yingying surrender herself according to my instructions."

"Don't worry, you should be careful too. Now let's go." After saying this, Wu Jinliang disappeared underground.

Shi Chun quickly restored the floor tiles to their original state...

The body could not remain embedded in the pit wall forever, and eventually someone had to collect it. A transaction in which the mantis stalked the cicada while the oriole waited behind ended in a disappointing way after a period of vigorous activity with undercurrents.

In the dark wilderness, Li Xianghong stood on the undulating grass with her back to the corpse collection scene. Her long hair fluttered in the wind. She looked into the distance and did not think that this sudden change ended in a collapse. Perhaps someone had achieved their goal, such as the person who sent the mother-child talisman...

Standing on the top of the city wall, watching the last bit of light and shadow in the sky, Lou Xiu, the inner court official, was playing with a mother-child talisman in his hand, muttering, "Who are you to know Li Xianghong's secret actions in private?"

The owner of this mother-and-child talisman said that Dong Wenshu knew the whereabouts of Huang Yingying, and Fan Wuzhe also said that it was Dong Wenshu who drove him to make the transaction. So does Dong Wenshu have any connection with the mastermind behind the scenes?

Regardless of whether it happened or not, he doesn't intend to pursue it anymore. The matter is over here. He has already sacrificed Mei You to distance himself from the matter, and he doesn't want to be involved again.

Po Yuan returned to the city with Li Xianghong. As soon as they arrived at the mountain inside the city, a maid brought Fan Wuzhe over to give instructions.

Fan Wuzhe was tortured, and it was a severe torture.

Because Fan Wuzhe was very stubborn and refused to confess. If Mei You had not caught him in the act, he would not have easily agreed to Mei You's plan to trick his relatives.

He now didn't want anyone to know that he was cheating his family, so he gritted his teeth and endured it.

However, we will not be polite to him, because we cannot fool him. You rode away the horse from the city gate, and threw things on the way to trade. The facts are all there. How can we let people stop when you say you know nothing? We will torture him to death immediately.

How many people can withstand the extreme punishment? He was tortured to death several times, with the skin and flesh on his limbs peeled off, but in the end he couldn't bear it anymore and confessed.

The incident started in Yaoyue City, which is also Fan Wuzhe's home. He lost control and defiled the family of a city guard. In a panic, he killed them to silence them. Afterwards, he vaguely realized that he had been drugged, but after he did the deed to silence them, there was no turning back.

By the time Mei You from Dazhicheng was captured and interrogated across the region, and a deal was made with him in the name of keeping it secret, he had already suspected that Mei You was the mastermind behind it.

The reason why he married Dong Liangyu was to help enter Chaoyue Pavilion so that he could manipulate the taxes and let Mei You catch Chaoyue Pavilion's handle. By then, Dong Wenshu would have no choice but to give up his ancestral home. He would have to either protect the person or lose both the person and the home. What else could he choose?
The maid also brought the mother-and-child talisman that controlled Fan Wuzhe to ride to the East City Gate for the transaction to Li Xianghong, and explained that the mother-and-child talisman that was linked to Fan Wuzhe was not found on Mei You.

Logically speaking, this is unlikely. They arrested Mei You in a surprise attack. Mei You was not aware of it in advance and had no time to hide the evidence. According to Fan Wuzhe's confession, he and Mei You had communicated through messages during this period, so the other mother-child talisman should be on Mei You.

But I didn’t find it.

So they used the 'Mother and Child Magic Disk' to check the mother and child talisman on Fan Wuzhe's body, but they did not find the whereabouts of the other half of the mother and child talisman. It was either destroyed or taken away from Jukuzhou.

Po Yuan, who was listening in, was not aware of the specific events. However, due to the matter of his two trusted subordinates, he was highly concerned about the incident and questioned about the details.

After understanding the whole story, he took a look at the miserable Fan Wuzhe and said, "You said that Mei You was unlikely to have the chance to destroy the evidence, and the other half of the mother-child talisman was not found on Mei You. There must be something wrong. Generally speaking, there are only three possibilities. Either this guy lied, or someone leaked the news of Mei You's arrest in advance, making your claim that there was no chance to destroy the evidence untrue, or the evidence was not on Mei You at the time of the incident."

Li Xianghong looked at Fan Wuzhe lying on the ground and said, "He even confessed to that dirty thing, there should be no need for him to lie about this. If someone really leaked the news of the arrest in advance, Mei You should know that destroying the mother-child talisman is useless. What he should do is to run for his life as soon as possible..."

With that said, there was only the third possibility left. She was startled, as if she had thought of something. She walked up to Fan Wuzhe and asked condescendingly, "Do you have a secret code for the connection between you and Mei You?"

Fan Wuzhe rolled his eyes weakly and said, "Yes."

Li Xianghong asked: "When the incident happened, when you contacted Mei You, did you have any problems with the code?"

Fan Wuzhe murmured weakly, "No." Suddenly, he thought of something and his eyes widened a little.

Everyone else noticed something was wrong, so Li Xianghong asked again, "Is it there or not?"

Fan Wuzhe was panting heavily, "There was one time before the incident, one time, he forgot to give the secret code..." He struggled to recount the incident of how he failed to communicate the secret code in time and was scolded by Mei You.

Po Yuan suddenly asked for the mother-child talisman for evidence, squatted in front of Fan Wuzhe, and asked, "Before Mei You gave it to you, did you have a mother-child talisman?"

Fan Wuzhe: “No.”

So Po Yuan showed him the number on the side of the Mother-Child Talisman, "When I first got the Mother-Child Talisman, I carefully examined it for a long time. I guess you did too. Take a closer look. Is this the Mother-Child Talisman that Mei You gave you?"

Fan Wuzhe concentrated his eyes and looked carefully. After seeing the number clearly, he immediately widened his eyes and gasped for breath, obviously excited, "No, no, this is not mine..."

Po Yuan was too lazy to ask more questions. He immediately stood up, showed the mother-child talisman, and questioned the maid who brought the talisman, "Are you sure this is the one you found on him?"

The waitress hurriedly said, "Sir, it is confirmed. I was not the only one interrogating during the trial. The evidence was collected openly and sent all the way here. Everyone was watching. There is no mistake."

Everyone immediately understood that someone had swapped the mother-child talismans on Fan Wuzhe's body. Seeing Fan Wuzhe suddenly gasping for breath, it was obvious that he had figured it out as well.

Li Xianghong's face was distorted. She stared at the mother-child talisman in Poyuan's hand for a while, then stared at Fan Wuzhe and said coldly, "There's only one mother-child talisman on you, and you didn't find anything wrong with it. Dong Wenshu is willing to marry his daughter to you. You really are sincere!"

Po Yuan threw the mother-child talisman back to the waitress and said indifferently, "It's not his fault. Except for the specially customized mother-child talismans, the appearance is basically the same. He is guilty and dares not let people around him find out that he has the mother-child talisman. He won't take it out to take a closer look. If he finds it, it will only be discovered accidentally. The person who switched the talisman is bold and careful. He must be an old hand who often does bad things, otherwise he wouldn't dare to play like this. If it were you or me, we would have too many concerns and dare not use such a rough method."

After saying that, he glanced at Fan Wuzhe on the ground and said, "What we need to do now is to find the person who switched the item. You shouldn't dare to leave this thing. It's on you. If they want to switch it, they must touch you. You can't have thought of the possibility of it being switched at any time, right?"

After being reminded of this, Fan Wuzhe immediately thought of something, and grumbled like phlegm in his throat: "After meeting Mei You before, no one touched me. I woke up this morning and felt a little heavy in the head. I was also surprised that I slept too deeply last night. If there is a problem, it was last night..."

After saying that, he gasped.

Needless to say, everyone understood what he meant, and Po Yuan and Li Xianghong looked at each other.

At this time, someone hurriedly came to report, "City Lord, the owner of Chaoyue Pavilion, Dong Wenshu, is here and wants to see you."

Po Yuan said: "What a coincidence that I came here to see you. Are you familiar with the owner of the museum?"

Li Xianghong: "His ancestor was the teacher of the Demon Queen. Chaoyue Pavilion has a large collection of books. Sometimes I would secretly flip through them. We are considered old friends."

"Since this is not the first time, why not look through the books again? If you can't find any clues, then everyone in the library will be a suspect and should be arrested!" Po Yuan's tone left no room for doubt.

(End of this chapter)