A bowl of white porridge soaked in fried dough sticks, a stack of pickled cucumbers, and two pieces of tofu.

Lu Jiu sat next to his desk, lowered his head, opened his mouth and blew two breaths on the porridge noodles, and then sipped the bowl and made a "lur~" porridge drinking sound.

His mind was still recalling the three choices Hu Sanniang gave last night.

After leaving the White Fish Porcelain Shop last night, Lu Jiu went straight to Lingzhi Hall.

Unfortunately, the results were not satisfactory.

Through the shopkeeper in the Lingzhi Hall, Lu Jiu once again confirmed that he could legally hold a gun if he became a demon hunter, but just as he thought before, the profession of demon hunter involves special creatures such as demon beasts, and it has certain privileges, so in order to prevent some people from indiscriminately filling up the number and only taking their identities and not doing practical things, although the local governments need their help, they are not to the point of issuing identity certificates at will, and they often need to go through a series of assessments.

The "certain people" here obviously refer to people like Lu Jiu.

It should be impossible to get a legal gun license in a short time, but you still have to find a chance to buy a shotgun, and it's a big deal to use it secretly in the future.

As for what Lu Jiu really cared about, even if he was willing to pay a high price, the shopkeeper of Lingzhi Hall only promised to help him ask the pharmacists in Qingding City and could not guarantee that he would get a positive response.

None of the three roads were smooth, which made Lu Jiu a little frustrated, and even chewed the pickled cucumber in his mouth and lost a bit of crispy aroma.

And not far from him, Zhou Ze, who had two dark circles under his eyes, was very excited.

"Lao Lu, I'm almost done eating, I can't wait to share with you what I learned from my father yesterday. ”

Zhou Ze kept talking, looking through the documents and materials piled up on the table with one hand, holding charcoal in the other, and kept copying some of the information on it to his notepad.

"That's it, I listen, this porridge is so hot that I can't finish it all at once. ”

Stuffed the bean curd into the porridge, stirred it twice with chopsticks, and waited for the minced bean curd to mix into the porridge before Lu Jiu looked up and replied.

"Prison, the bandit organization to which the heart-ripping ghost belonged to which I told you yesterday is called this, tsk, the method of punishing prisoners in the imperial court is called Prison, and they just take this name...... The people inside also call themselves the Seven Prisoners, just like in the little talking book, and those who don't know think they are some kind of heroes who rob the rich and help the poor. ”

Zhou Ze spread out his notepad in front of Lu Jiu, and recorded the information he had asked from his father.

Prison, a gang of seven bandits wanted by the imperial court and the whole country, committed a number of major crimes in various parts of Anqing and Ningdong provinces a few years ago.

"It is said that each of these seven people has demonic methods, and once attacked, they are often reduced to pieces...... Are you sure this wasn't copied from a little talker?"

Putting down the spoon in his hand, Lu Jiu read Zhou Ze's father's dictation word by word at first, but he soon found that most of the descriptions actually had the element of "artistic processing", after all, Zhou Ze's father also heard it from others, and he didn't know how many versions were transmitted, and it was inevitable to add some personal subjective thoughts.

These contents can undoubtedly attract the attention of many people when used in the report, but they are useless information for Lu Jiu who wants to explore the truth behind it.

However, as the page of the paper turned and he saw more and more content, Lu Jiu still unearthed three important pieces of information from it.

First of all, this gang called the prison existed in name only three years ago.

According to Zhou Ze's father, in order to exterminate this group of bandits, the imperial court dispatched a large number of people at that time, not only elite soldiers, but also gathered a group of strange people from the people, and set up an ambush on the edge of the Lianfeng Mountain Range to intercept and kill this group of evil bandits.

That's right, the last place where the people from the prison appeared was the Lianfeng Mountain Range in Zhiyuan Mansion, but the so-called "all the heads" is obviously fake news, at least the heart-stealing ghost is still alive.

Secondly, there have been rumors recently that the heart-snatching ghost lingered in Zhiyuan Mansion, the purpose was to come back and take away the gold and silver treasures obtained by the robbery and killing of major wealthy merchants in prison, and accidentally exposed their whereabouts when passing through Changyi, which made a large number of bandits gather in Zhiyuan Mansion.

In the end, it was a secret rumor that Zhou Ze's father inadvertently knew at the end of the notepad, which was also something that Lu Jiu was particularly concerned about, and even choked on the white porridge that he had just drunk in his mouth.

Three years ago, the prison that had already made a name for himself on the rivers and lakes and had a huge fortune broke into Zhiyuan Mansion for some reason, neither looking for a rich merchant nor a money bank, but went straight to a mountain township and created a horrific massacre.

At that time, the specific situation was blocked by the government's news, and very few people knew about it, and Rao is Zhou Ze's father, a person who traveled south and north in the two provinces all the year round, only occasionally heard a few words, and it is said that because of this massacre, the imperial court will spare no effort to kill this bandit organization.

And what really surprised Lu Jiu was the rumored name of the town.

Shexiang Town!

It was the town that used the portrait hanging on the first floor of the house of the destroyed house he followed Hu Sanniang to yesterday as the background!

The moment he saw this name on Zhou Ze's notes, Lu Jiu only felt numb as if he had been overpowered.

Stunned, thoughts wandering through his mind until a cacophony behind him woke him up.

It turned out that the newspaper clerk had bought the official newspaper, and the information recorded on it caused a lot of uproar.

"Our correspondent received accurate information that Chen Lide, who is currently the vice president of Qingdingcheng Higher Public School, and his wife and daughter were killed at home, and the case has now been handed over to the county government to deal with it.......

The interviewers gathered together, and one of them read the official newspaper he had just bought, and everyone around him sighed, and even a few people who had been taught by Chen Lide, the vice president of Qingdingcheng Higher Public School, had red eyes and sobbed softly.

Outside the crowd, the bean curd in the bowl has been stirred up by the chopsticks in Lu Jiu's hand, listening to the interviewers discussing the situation of this "Chen Gong" word by word, most of them are admiration and memories of his past deeds.

The more he knew, the more terrifying the chill that surged in Lu Jiu's heart.

Chen Lide, as the vice president of Qingdingcheng Higher Public School, is also a person who was tested by Zhiyuan Fuxiang, his status is undoubted, it can be said that most of the high-level intellectuals in Qingdingcheng have been taught by him, which is no wonder that he caused such a big repercussion after his accident.

Since the murderer chose this person as his target, he must also know how serious the consequences of killing Chen Lide were, but he not only did it, but also used such terrifying and decisive means.

There is only one explanation, the murderer has something that must be obtained from Chen Lide, and even does not hesitate to face the entire Zhiyuan Mansion for this!

Could that be a coincidence?

A painting, a piece of the past, the connection between them seems to be incompatible,

However, judging from the identity relationship, is it possible that Chen Lide's family was the survivors of Shexiang Town back then?

In this case, will the murderer find them related to what happened back then......

Further, is it possible that the murderer was a hearthopper or a subordinate he sent?

After all, he did the same thing three years ago!