Chapter 110: Two Disappearances
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Feng Yuan rubbed the courier brother's head, signaled him to be calm, turned around and opened the refrigerator, took out a can of mango juice and put it in front of the black cat, "Rest first, and then tell us everything you know." โ
The black cat in front of him had messy back hair, and there were many traces of suspected cobwebs and dust on his ears and tail, and he had obviously been running around for a while.
After Feng Yuan's reminder, Xu Mu also found out, and quickly moved a cushion for the black cat to cushion under him, so that it could lie comfortably.
Taoism is now basically divided into four branches: the metaphysical school, the Danding school, the Fu Zheng school and the Zhanyan school.
The first two branches are relatively far away from the lives of ordinary people, and basically only people who really have a heart will inquire and understand. The Fu Zheng faction is mostly relied on by people who encounter extraordinary events, and in the eyes of ordinary people, it is mysterious and mysterious, only one faction is occupied, compared to the other three, it is still quite respected among the people.
The Zhan Yan faction includes Qimen Dunjia, Liuren Class, Taiyi Shenshu, Liuyao Yi Zhan, Wenwang Class, Fortune Pushing, Physiognomy, Kanyu, Tu Yu, Wangyun, Qi Province and other eleven kinds, among which the most famous and the highest acceptance is Kanyu and physiognomy. Physiognomy is easy to understand, and Kanyu is what people often call the art of feng shui.
Ordinary people generally only look at yin and yang houses, while businessmen pay more attention to the feng shui of business-related places, such as office floors, commercial storefronts, or factory sites. This also makes the art of Kanyu popular.
Huayuanmen has a long history, and although it now belongs to the Fu Zheng faction, it has also passed down a lot of skills.
Shen Liang's master, Dustless Daoist, is quite famous among Taoist priests of this generation, and Shen Liang came to Shanghai because a wealthy man in Shanghai asked someone to find Dustless Daoist and wanted to ask him to help see the feng shui of the new shop he was about to buy.
Shen Liang is a dustless disciple, with outstanding talents, and his Dao attainments are already very good at a young age, and he can faintly compare with dustless Taoists.
It's not a good thing that the apprentice is too smart, and the Dustless Dao people saw that there was nothing but experience that could point out the big apprentice, so they originally wanted to find an opportunity to throw Shen Liang down the mountain to experience and gain a long insight. If he wanted to doze off, someone sent him a pillow, and when he received an invitation from a rich man, he simply sent this errand to Shen Liang and allowed him to travel for a few years without rushing back.
Shen Liang was only eight years old, and the rich man's mood when he received the "master" at the airport can be imagined. In the face of the dustless Taoist, although he was reluctant to treat the little guy politely, he really didn't take what he said to heart about the blood and light, and turned around and invited another master to look at the shop.
Under the conclusive assurance of another master, the rich man happily bought the shop, but the renovation workers went in and fell to their deaths in less than three days.
Only then did the rich man suddenly wake up and invite Shen Liang back again.
Although Shen Liang is young, in these years, word of mouth is more useful than everything. After seeing the Yang Mansion twice and catching a ghost once, the fame of the eight-year-old little Taoist priest spread among the rich circles of Shanghai, and more and more people came to him. In the past, Shen Liang could still respond to his requests, but now he had to make an appointment at least a week in advance to make an appointment for him.
On this Monday afternoon, the rich man who first invited Shen Liang to come to Shanghai came to visit Shen Liang with a haggard old man, saying that the house was haunted, and the children in the house disappeared alive when several adults were at home!
Shen Liang felt that the matter was urgent, so he forced this matter into yesterday.
As a result, there is no return, and now it's Wednesday, and no one has returned, and there is no news.
In the past, Shen Liang went out to "work", and he would be inseparable from him in eight steps. But since some time ago, it got ginseng from Xu Mu's side, and because it was anxious to recover its original aura, it often stayed at home to cultivate, and no longer followed Shen Liang's side.
During this time, Shen Liang rarely stayed up all night, and even if he did, he would call Babu on the landline at home, and there was never a situation where there was no news.
The black cat felt that something was wrong, and went out to find someone in the middle of the night last night, but unfortunately it didn't know the specific address of Shen Liang's "work", and it ran around half of Shanghai, and found no trace of Shen Liang.
Babu went home in the morning to take a look, and saw that Shen Liang hadn't come back yet, so he had to run to Xu Mu and Feng Yuan for help.
"I'll give him a call and try. After listening to it, Xu Mu immediately took out his mobile phone and called Shen Liang. After his mobile phone was soaked in water, Feng Yuan threw it to the repair point, and now he is temporarily using Feng Yuan's old mobile phone.
The mechanical electronic female voice reminded Xu Mu that the number he dialed was not in the service area.
Xu Mu shook his head at Feng Yuan and the black cat in disappointment, "I can't get through." โ
"I couldn't get through when I called on my landline at home last night. The black cat licked two sips of juice with a sad expression.
Feng Yuan grabbed Xu Mu's hand, looked at the time on his mobile phone, and said to the black cat, "Take us home first." โ
The most important thing now is to find the place where he went yesterday or the person who entrusted him to go over, and he can only see if there are any clues in Shen Liang's house first.
The black cat nodded, stood up and walked in front of Feng Yuan and Xu Mu.
The house rented by Shen Liang is located in the two buildings next door, and it is the same as a two-bedroom apartment, but the house rented by Feng Yuan faces east, and Shen Liang's room faces west.
The room was fairly clean, with the coffee table and sofa in the middle of the living room moved to the corner against the wall and replaced by two futons and an incense burner on the carpet. The two rooms are one for Shen Liang and Babu.
"Has anyone else been to the house in the past two days?" Feng Yuan glanced around the room, his eyes falling on the notepad on the coffee table and the pile of business cards underneath.
Eight steps shook his head, "I only came to clean once the day before yesterday." โ
No matter how powerful Shen Liang's Taoist skills are, after all, he is only an eight-year-old child, and the daily cleaning and tidying up of the room and other things are handed over to the hourly workers, and every two days, he asks someone to come over to clean it.
Feng Yuan bent down and picked up the open notepad and looked at it, which was written on the schedule that had been arranged in the past few days. Shen Liang's handwriting is very similar to his little adult's style. On Tuesday, he was supposed to help a family surnamed Zhang look after the Yin House, but it was crossed out and moved to the following Monday. It is estimated that because the loss of the child's family was added temporarily, there is no record in the book.
Unable to find any useful information on the notepad, Feng Yuan squatted down again and took out the pile of business cards from under the coffee table, many of these names were rich and famous, and he had heard several of them.
Xu Mu leaned over to take a look, and the pile of โกโก business cards came in different styles, some were low-key ones with only a name and a mobile phone, and some were full of seven or eight titles, and the materials were also gorgeous, and there were even wood or gold leaf.
"Eight steps, the person who came to visit four days ago, do you remember his name or surname?" Xu Mu turned his head and asked the black cat, under Shen Liang's ears and eyes, he also called the black cat eight steps.
The black cat, who was about to explode when he heard this name, was extremely quiet at the moment, and just flicked his tail gloomily, "I remember that his surname is Wang, but his business card is not in it, and he was taken away by the little Taoist priest that day." "If I found the business card, it would have gone straight to yesterday.
Feng Yuan raised his eyebrows, "What about the person who introduced him?" โ
Xu Mu also reacted immediately, since the old man surnamed Wang was introduced by that person, he must have the contact information and address of the other party.
The black cat cocked his beard, "That person's surname is Li...... It seems to be called Li Haifan. โ
Xu Mu and Feng Yuan each took a stack of business cards and rummaged through, and soon found Li Haifan's business card among them. and successfully got Wang Xu'an's phone number from Li Haifan, Wang Xu'an, the old man surnamed Wang in the mouth of the black cat.
Feng Yuan hung up the phone to Wang Xu'an in the name of Senior Brother Shen Liang, the other party's voice sounded depressed, and he was also taken aback when he learned that Shen Liang was missing, he gave Feng Yuan an office address and agreed to meet him at ten o'clock later.
Xu Mu had two high math classes in the afternoon today, and when Feng Yuan called the design institute to ask for leave, he also sent a message to Jiuzhang to ask for leave.
Then, the two had breakfast hastily, and then took eight steps and went straight to the address given by Wang Xu'an. Half an hour later, Feng Yuan and Xu Mu were welcomed into the office by Wang Xu'an.
Wang Xu'an's figure is slightly chubby, with a half-sized beer belly, he looks like he is in his early fifties, his hair is half white, and he is bald at the top with a palm-sized piece.
There are not many wrinkles on his face, only a few deep lines at the corners of his eyes, but his complexion looks very bad, his skin is dry and yellow, and there are heavy dark circles under his eyes.
When he saw Feng Yuan, there was still obvious suspicion in his eyes, after all, he had never heard of whether the little Taoist priest had a senior brother, and he was slightly relieved when he saw the black cat in Xu Mu's arms. He was still very impressed by the extremely bad-tempered black cat in Shen Liang's house, and he didn't have a good face at all for strangers. Being able to stay quietly in Xu Mu's arms now also indirectly proves that they and Shen Liang should be acquaintances.
"Shen Liang originally made an appointment with me for dinner last night, but I didn't wait for him, and later I learned that he didn't seem to go back after coming to your side. Feng Yuan, who was sitting on the sofa, pushed the coffee cup aside and said straight to the point, while quietly looking around.
Wang Xu'an's office is 60 or 70 square meters, in addition to the luxurious oversized desk, mahogany bookcase and leather sofa, there is also a full-body massage chair by the window, which is obviously a type that pays great attention to enjoyment.
"This, how is this possible?" Wang Xu'an looked stunned, "Yesterday morning, I personally sent Master Shen to Jinyuan, because there was an important meeting later, so I asked my son and daughter-in-law to accompany him to check it. My son said that Master Shen said that things seemed to be a little tricky at the time, and that he might have to go back to get something, and later said that he wanted to go around two more times before leaving, so he went into the house alone. My son and daughter-in-law were afraid of disturbing him, so they crowded in the kitchen with the nanny, trying to get Master Shen something to eat. By the time they baked the cake and came out, Master Shen was gone. I called Master Shen last night to ask him about his condition, but I couldn't get through, and I thought I'd go over and visit him later. โ
Feng Yuan raised his eyebrows, his tone was a little cold, "Are you sure he's gone?"
"But my son and daughter-in-law came out at that time...... Wang Xu'an said halfway, his face flashed with a trace of panic, he wiped the sweat on his head with a handkerchief, and after a few seconds, he hesitated, "Master Shen, Master Shen won't disappear like my grandson, right?"
Feng Yuan's eyebrows folded slightly, "It's about the safety of my junior brother, and I ask Mr. Wang to tell us in detail." โ
"But ......" is about Shen Liang, but after all, the matter still involves his own **. Wang Xu'an looked at Feng Yuan and Xu Mu, and couldn't help but hesitate. Because of Li Haifan's recommendation, he believed in Shen Liang, but he still had some doubts about the strength of these two.
Feng Yuan raised his eyebrows and said to Xu Mu, "Use your Five Thunder Talisman to heat Mr. Wang's massage chair." โ
For people like Wang Xu'an, hearing is better than seeing.
Xu Mu: ..................
He never dreamed that he would be able to act as a thug one day.
The courier brother immediately took out Zhang's primary five thunder talisman from his backpack, clamped it between his fingers in a serious manner, and turned his wrist to play a rather imposing Taoist decision before throwing the talisman paper out.
Wang Xu'an's six gods stared at the Dao talisman attached to the massage chair, and the grass yellow talisman paper was outlined into a talisman with bright cinnabar, faintly with a hint of mysterious and terrifying aura. In an instant, five rolling thunderbolts slashed down from mid-air.
"Boom!"
The floor-to-ceiling windows of the office were blown to shreds, and the entire massage chair was scorched, and the parts and springs inside collapsed and fell everywhere.
"Do you want to try something else for you?" Feng Yuan raised his eyebrows coldly and arrogantly, and glanced at Wang Xu'an, who was pale, if this talisman was attached to him, others would have been chopped into charcoal at this time.
Xu Mu secretly glanced at the massage chair, and couldn't help but feel a little pain in his heart, if he had to pay for it, it would be miserable, and the whole body of this thing revealed the message of "I am very expensive".
"No, no need, how can you not believe in the truth of the two masters. Wang Xu'an wiped his shiny head with a handkerchief again, and tried to squeeze out a smile, "I'll tell the two masters about it." โ
Wang Xu'an is engaged in the textile foreign trade business, and there are two silk factories in his hands, and he has also saved a lot of money over the past few decades. His only son is named Wang Lun, and after studying abroad for a few years, he returned to China to help him. Six years ago, Wang Lun married a wife and had children, his wife used to be a model, and after marrying into the Wang family, she became a full-time wife, and then became obsessed with cooking, and really had a bit of talent, last year she participated in a chef competition on TV station, and won a second place. Therefore, she also moved the idea of opening a restaurant, and now that her children are older, she can also find something she likes to do.
Wang Lun also agreed with her decision, but was afraid that she would be tired, so he proposed to build a private restaurant. The husband and wife looked for a long time, but there was no suitable one, and it happened that Wang Xu'an bought a two-story small western-style building in the old western-style house area in his early years, and when the tenant's lease expired, he allocated the small western-style building to his daughter-in-law to make a shop.
Two months ago, after the renovation was completed, Wang Lun and his wife began to run the antique furniture market again, using a lot of antique furniture to arrange the small building little by little, and named it Jinyuan.
The day of the accident was last Sunday afternoon, and there were several large pieces of furniture that had been refurbished and had to be delivered. The nanny with the child asked for leave that day, and Wang Xu'an's daughter-in-law took the child to Jinyuan. Wang Xu'an's wife was worried that the workers would hurt their precious grandson by moving things, so they also followed.
After the worker left, his daughter-in-law instructed the two future clerks to wipe the cabinet downstairs, and Mrs. Wang accompanied the child upstairs to play, but the child was lost!
Feng Yuan frowned, "Are you sure the children were still there when those workers left?"
Wang Xu'an sighed, "Sure." After the outsiders were gone, they took a break from drinks and my grandson was clamoring for ice cream. After the workers left, the gate of the brocade garden was closed. In addition to my grandson, there are only my wife, daughter-in-law, and the two future waiters and four adults. At that time, my daughter-in-law took two waiters downstairs to wipe the cabinet, and the three of them were in the hall on the first floor. The child was running up the stairs, and my wife, who was old and had slow legs, did not see the child in either of the two rooms when he went upstairs. โ
"Are there some relatively large cabinets upstairs or something?" Xu Mu interjected, maybe the children were playful and hid behind the cabinets or something.
Wang Xu'an shook his head, "There are no beds or anything like anything in the two rooms upstairs, the tables and chairs are all wooden, at a glance, the biggest object is a screen and a cabinet with a Wanfu pattern, but the size of the cabinet is also very small, and it is placed against the wall, so children can't hide it at all." At that time, the four adults even looked for the cabinet downstairs, and there was no trace of the child at all, and my daughter-in-law was in the hall on the first floor, and the situation in the courtyard could be seen clearly, and no one could go out at all. โ
Xu Mu, who was holding the black cat, blinked, this thing is indeed a bit weird.
Feng Yuan raised his eyes to look at Wang Xu'an, "Did you call the police?"
With Wang Xu'an's identity, there must be some friends who can speak at the police station.
Wang Xu'an sighed again, looking a little haggard, "It's reported." Because it was not time to file the case at that time, I asked someone to help me come and check it. Later, I also checked the cameras on the periphery of the bungalow, but I didn't find images of children or people entering and leaving. If it weren't for the fact that things were too unbelievable, I wouldn't have asked someone to find Master Shen. โ
Feng Yuan's eyes were slightly dark, "Then, you took Shen Liang to Jinyuan on Tuesday?"
"Yes. Wang Xu'an nodded, and almost repeated what he had said before. And repeatedly stated that he always thought that Shen Liang had gone back.
"Apart from Shen Liang and your grandson, is there anyone else missing?" Xu Mu asked. According to Wang Xu'an, there were enough people in and out of the house before, decoration workers, furniture workers, etc., could it be that only his grandson and Shen Liang were gone?
"Nope. If I knew that someone was missing, how would my daughter-in-law dare to bring the child over. Wang Xu'an shook his head with a pale face.
"Well, there's no other way. Feng Yuan stood up and looked at Wang Xu'an condescendingly, "Take us to Jinyuan to have a look." โ
"Okay, please wait for two minutes, and I'll ask my son and daughter-in-law to come over as well. Wang Xu'an happily agreed this time, maybe it was because Xu Mu's Five Thunder Talisman demonstration just now had an effect, or maybe it was because he found out that they were really anxious about the missing people.
"Do you think there is a secret passage or something in the house?Or is there something wrong with the antiques they bought?" On the way to Jinyuan, Xu Mu, who was holding a black cat in the passenger seat, had a big brain and looked at Feng Yuan with blank eyes.
Feng Yuan glanced at Wang Xu'an, who was sitting in the car in front of him, "I don't know, but Wang Xu'an doesn't seem to be lying, let's go to the scene later." โ
"I hope Shen Liang is okay. Xu Mu touched the black cat's head and said worriedly. Eight steps are much less than the words of the husband, basically don't ask it, it won't speak.
Near noon, the road to the city center was particularly congested, and they drove for more than an hour to reach Jinyuan.
It was a two-story red brick building, and the architectural style looked three or four points similar to the house where Mr. Song lived, but the degree of sophistication was inferior, and the yard was smaller, only a little more than 100 square meters. Half of the yard has been turned into a parking lot, and the other half is covered with turf, planted with a few flowers and trees, and placed two rattan deck chairs, which looks quite poetic to "hide in a small building and become a unity, and manage his winter, summer and spring and autumn".
Wang Lun and his wife had already arrived early and were waiting for them in the living room on the first floor.
Feng Yuan frowned as soon as he got out of the car, and said to Xu Mu, "Don't leave me for a moment." โ
Xu Mu, who was holding the black cat, nodded obediently, and was on guard in his heart, Feng Yuan would say this, there must be something wrong.
Wang Xu'an was afraid that he would make a mistake in relaying, so he asked Wang Lun and his wife to tell him about the disappearance of their grandson and the disappearance of Shen Liang. The two of them basically said that there was no difference from Wang Xu'an, they just thought that the master invited back by their father had a strange personality and said goodbye without saying goodbye. However, Wang Lun's daughter-in-law carefully took out her mobile phone and showed Feng Yuan and Xu Mu the photos taken on the day of his son's disappearance.
The little boy on the screen is wearing an antique red satin suit, shaved his peach head, inherited the genetic advantages of his parents, and has red lips and white teeth, which is very likable.
Wang Lun offered to take Feng Yuan and Xu Mu around the house.
This small western-style building, the first floor was originally a kitchen, living room, dining room and toilet, because of the business of private dishes, the dining room and the living room on the first floor were opened, and two long log tables were placed just below.
In the middle of the two large wooden tables are placed beautiful red silk table flags, neat and beautiful embroidery is very similar to Suzhou embroidery, and the palm-length silk tapes fall at both ends, fluttering in the wind.
The cushions on the chairs are also red, and the pattern of the circular window in the middle is clearly in line with the pattern of the table runner.
In the middle of the two tables, a blue glazed pastel double-dragon bead baseball bottle is placed, and a jade carving of Furu Donghai ornament is placed. In the corner of the wall, there is a black lacquer and gold landscape map top box cabinet, and by the window, there is a low cabinet of Huanghuali's Baibao inlaid tribute map of the feudal people, and on it is placed the lotus platform incense seat of white porcelain.
There are no calligraphy and paintings on the wall, but a few antique handicrafts are hung, facing the door is a varnish pipa, and on the right wall there are two sandalwood frames full of carved and folded branches and flowers, and the pattern of the fan is the sable cicada worshipping the moon and the Xi Shi Huansha
There are old and new things, but you can see that they are all carefully selected.
Wang Lun took Feng Yuan and Xu Mu downstairs to turn around, and then went up the second floor along the wooden escalator, two flights of stairs, adding up to about forty knots, no matter how slow the old lady of the Wang family is, it should be over in three or four minutes.
On the second floor are two bedrooms and a small study, which have been converted into two ** private rooms, one of which has not moved, and the study has been opened up to another adjacent room to make a larger private room.
For the time being, there is only a single-leaf screen with a high sandalwood frame in the large private room, which, according to Wang Lun, is to separate the dining area from the rest area when waiting for meals. The skeleton of the screen is carved with the pattern of a hundred flowers and branches of Fushou Linmen, and the screen surface is painted with a picture of a baby's play, and hundreds of children are playing in the picture, with different expressions and lifelike. The screen screen is translucent, and someone standing behind it must be able to see it clearly.
There is no table in the small private room, and the room of forty or fifty square meters is clear at a glance, with two layers of light gauze curtains, and a Huanghuali Wanfu pattern cabinet is placed against the wall, and there is an antique record player on the cabinet, and the drawers at the bottom are only about 20 centimeters long, just like Wang Xu'an said, there is no possibility of Tibetans at all.
Xu Mu deliberately looked at the ground and the wall, the ground was newly laid beige non-slip tiles, it is said that the carpet will be laid later, the wall has been repainted and wallpapered, the mechanism in the wall in his imagination, even if there is, it is estimated that it has been found in these renovation procedures of knocking on the wall and digging the ground.
Two rooms, after three or four glances, you can't hide people at all.
Feng Yuan stood at the door of the two rooms, and glanced at the two rooms thoughtfully, Wang Lun was called down by his wife to serve tea to the two masters, and only Feng Yuan and Xu Mu were left on the second floor for the time being.
Xu Mu sighed gloomily, "Brother, have you found any clues?"
Feng Yuan rubbed his head gently, "What do you think is between the missing child and Shen Liang?"
"Commonality?" Xu Mu scratched the dumb hair on the top of his head, stunned for two seconds, and then suddenly widened his eyes, "You mean, all the missing people are children?"
Feng Yuan threw Xu Mu a teachable look, glanced at the room meaningfully, and asked Xu Mu a question that was not related to the wind and horses, "Have you ever heard of the Mountains and Rivers Society?"