[I wish you all a happy National Day and all the best – especially on the road. 】

Sending Zhao Sanli home, Wang Shouye went to the duty room with his brows locked, and found that Ma Gui was not in the house, so he sat behind the table and pondered silently.

Since the beginning of spring this year, the auspicious Rui in the north has been frequent, and on the night of the Longevity Festival, there are more group cultivators who have crossed the catastrophe in public, leaving behind several strange things.

But how many of these exotic beasts can directly bring benefits to people?

Tong Zi ginseng must be regarded as one, but after the spirit is absorbed by Wang Shouye, the rest is just some dross.

What about other than that?

I'm afraid it's just that human-faced fish!

The mode of harming others and benefiting oneself, the simple and easy-to-understand process, and the immediate medicinal effect - in the eyes of some people, the value of this thing is probably above the Buddha's light relics.

So it's not surprising that someone would want to reproduce it.

But in order to achieve this goal, one by one, innocent and ignorant children were drowned in the river......

I'm afraid that only hard-hearted human-faced beasts can do it!

Hey?

Why is it that at this moment, the first one that comes to my mind is Xu Jie, Xu Ge Lao?

Although Xu Ge Lao is a tiger poison and eats children, he shouldn't be so mad, right?

And compared with Xu Jie, the suspicion of Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo, is obviously greater, after all, his cronies are in charge of the end afterwards, and Li Mubai, the initiator, is his confidant.

In addition, the Yan family is also quite suspicious.

Because his son was involved, Yan Shifan should have also received information about the human face fish, and his mother is now on the verge of dying.

In terms of motive alone, his suspicion is probably no less than Zhu Xizhong.

And then there is Emperor Jiajing himself!

In order to keep the palace maids clean, he also ordered them not to eat before and after menstruation, and could only quench their thirst with mulberry leaves and dew to quench their hunger and thirst.

For this reason, it even triggered the 'Renyin Palace Change' that shocked the government and the opposition - the palace maids could not bear it and conspired to assassinate the king, but unfortunately it failed in the end.

With such a criminal record, Jiajing's suspicion is naturally not small.

Thinking of this, Wang Shouye's heart was full of irritation, and he couldn't help but get up and paced back and forth in the house.

The suspects he listed were either the government and the opposition, or the heads of the nobles, and even the emperor.

The first few are okay, if you can really find out the rocks and the evidence is ironclad, maybe there will be a chance to bring them down.

But if it's really Jiajing's doing......

Calm, calm!

This hasn't found out that he's ugly, why do you blindly scare yourself?

wiped his face with a wet towel and slightly alleviated the depression and anxiety in his heart, and Wang Shouye sat back in the chair.

The pen, ink, paper and inkstone were prepared, and a rough sub-map was drawn first, and then the three points and lines of Beijing, Miao County, and Cangzhou Mansion were linked.

At the moment, if you want to intervene in this case, there are no more than two models.

The first is to directly explain to his boss that when he proposed to go to Cangzhou Mansion, he would investigate the case by the way.

Because the matter involves human face fish, it can be regarded as the scope of the Shanhai Supervisor, as long as he argues with reason, this proposal should still be passable.

The advantage of this is that it can justifiably use official power to conduct investigations.

The downside is that it's very likely to startle the snake.

Of course, it is not necessarily a bad thing to startle the snake, at least it can prevent the real culprit behind the scenes and continue such inhumane experiments.

The second way is to keep quiet for the time being and conduct a secret visit.

The good thing is that you don't have to worry about news leaks.

The disadvantage is that you can't call on official forces in a righteous and bright way, and you are sent by yourself, so it is not good to stay in Miao County for a long time.

But Zhao Kui was originally the head snake, and the magistrate of Miao County took the initiative to send someone to tell him, so he could leave Zhao Kui in Miao County and investigate with the help of the local government.

Putting both options on paper adds pros and cons to each of them.

As soon as the two were compared, the balance in Wang Shouye's heart gradually leaned towards the second way.

He can still trust the cheap father-in-law's ability to investigate the case, and it may not be worse than coming forward in person.

If you really can't find out the root cause in the end, it is not too late to find out the matter clearly, so as to deter the mastermind behind the scenes.

The most worrying thing is that the cultivation of this human-faced fish is not limited to the Zhigou River.

If it can be done elsewhere, there are hundreds of rivers and streams in the world, can the imperial court still send people to keep an eye on every water area day and night?

Come to think of it.

Wang Shouye frowned again.

The previous drawings were all thrown into the paper basket, and the three of Miaoxian, Liuli Bridge, and Zhigou River were simply outlined.

After staring at the simple diagram and thinking for a long time, he drew a circle on the three characters of 'Zhigou River', then pulled out a line, and drew a wooden stake not far away.

Even if you can't find out who did it, at least you have to think of a way to tie them to this one-third of an acre of land to fight wits and courage!

Maybe......

Can you concoct some rumors and claim that there is a strange treasure hidden at the bottom of the Zhigou River, which is why the human-faced fish was born?

Rumors alone are not enough.

Just get some 'movement' out, anyway, the strange stories in this world are not bad.

After making up his mind, Wang Shouye's dryness in his heart was finally alleviated a lot, but he didn't have any mental trouble for a while.

So he simply wrote down some poems, propped them on the table with a pen stand, and continued to contact the blind sketch - if this thing was really done by the emperor, and if he wanted to reveal it to the world, he could only hope for the power of the immortal path beyond the mundane!

I don't know how long I've been practicing.

When he was engrossed, he suddenly heard someone beside him read: "As soon as the wind and thunder rise from the earth, there will be a pile of refined white bones, and the monk is a fool who can still be trained, and the demon must be ...... for ghosts."

Without waiting for the reading to finish, Wang Shouye hurriedly put the raft of paper balls, got up with a smile and said, "When did Brother Ma come back?" I don't say a word, just know look at my jokes! ”

"Isn't this Elder Xu Ge coming?"

Ma Gui said, couldn't help but sigh and said: "You have an idea that is idle, but it's a pity that my voice is almost hoarse when I shout in the East Fourth Archway." ”

The matter of registered consultation has already begun to be trialed today.

But looking at the scale of yesterday, it was obviously not appropriate to register at the yamen, so the location was temporarily set near the East Fourth Archway not far away.

Ma Gui was ordered to go there early this morning to maintain order, so he didn't show up at the yamen.

"How's it going, are there many people signing up?"

"Why not much?"

Ma Gui exaggerated: "I have to collect the registration fee of nine yuan, otherwise I may not be able to register in three days - according to the meaning of Director Zhang, I am afraid that I will have to borrow some people from Shuntianfu next time." ”

"It's the first time that there will be more fun, but in fact, there may not be so many people in the future."

Seeing that he didn't delve into Fang Cai's poem, Wang Shouye finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart - Fang Cai had a feeling for a while, and copied this poem on paper, almost ruining his half-white character.

"When will Elder Xu Ge arrive?"

"I heard that it's already on the way, and I came here to ask you to go to the council hall."

When Wang Shouye heard this, he hurriedly cleaned up and followed him out of the duty room.

Gossip all the way.

Seeing the door of the hall, Ma Gui suddenly became curious: "By the way, who wrote that poem just now, it is quite in line with the scene of our mountain and sea prison." ”

No wonder Fang Cai didn't ask, it turned out that he thought he was copying poetry.

Belch~

I am indeed copying poems.

Wang Shouye pretended not to care, and said casually: "When I was at Xiucai's house next door, I saw it when I was learning to read and write, and it has been so long, how can I remember who the author is." ”

Fortunately, it was seen by Ma Gui, and it is really difficult to be fooled if he wants to be replaced by a well-read master like Zhang Siwei.

It seems that no matter how excited the mood is in the future, you still have to be cautious in your words and deeds.