Chapter 31: Tracing the Trace
The old man who runs this tea shop is carrying a small copper kettle to flush Moli's tea bowl.
Mo Li immediately asked him: "Old man, is the mansion of Mr. Qi of Yuan Yifeng Commercial Bank opposite?"
"Exactly. Are you looking for him?"
"Well, the younger generation came from Shu and brought some brocade, hoping to find a few shops in this city to cooperate and sell. β
"You can't see him β you see, how many people have come and gone. β
"So why?"
"Do you see a few words on the door?"
"Hmm. β
"Those words are posted there, I'm afraid that it will be three or five years, and if you change it every half month, it will look like new. β
"You're saying he doesn't live here at all?"
"Then I don't know. How can a bad old man know about the whereabouts of such a big man?"
"I have a friend who entered the city a few days ago and sent me a message asking me to come here to find her. She is a Miaojiang woman, about 20 years old, with a small stature, a red flower on her head, and a silver lock on her chest. β
The old man thought for a moment and shook his head: "The Miao Jiang woman in your mouth is quite different, but I don't seem to have any impression. β
Mo Li thanked the old man, and pondered in his heart: "Looking like me, I'm afraid that I won't be able to find any trace of this woman." Since there are people watching in front of this Qi Wuxian, it is better to see who it is, maybe you can get some clues from them. β
He had made up his mind, and with a "sigh", he deliberately knocked over the tea bowl on the table, and when he bowed his waist, he quietly sprinkled the thing in his arms on the man's shoes.
After waiting for an hour at the entrance of the alley, the man came out, glanced left and right, and hurried north, Mo Li only followed far behind him.
Although the man was young, he was very alert, his gait was fast and slow, and he walked through the streets and alleys, and disappeared in a moment.
"Luckily I have it. Mo Li took out a glass vial from his arms, and inside was a worm, green in color and shaped like a cicada.
Mo Li took the insect in his hand while walking, the insect sometimes chirped happily, sometimes restlessly whiskered and flapped its wings, and sometimes depressed like autumn leaves, Mo Li followed its guidance to detour left and right, and finally came to a small inn.
The bug stopped moving, just looked at a guest room on the second floor and chirped.
But it turned out that the name of this insect was called a green worm, and the mother and son were connected, and it was the powder of the remains of the mother worm that fell on the man's shoes, and the worm in the bottle followed the man's footsteps to find here.
The three princes' bedrooms are located in the northwest corner of the inner palace, and are called "Jingxing Palace".
In the night, a figure crept down on the roof.
After Dawei abandoned and entered the palace with Yingxie again, Yu Wenwen has been worried in his heart, and the sky is dark and quietly guards here.
Ying Xie's nature is dissolute, he doesn't like restraint, there are not a few temples and palace maids in the palace, only the little Ganlin walks around diligently.
After the curfew, the curfew was strict, and the house was closed before the end of the unitary time, and there was silence in the palace.
was arranged to live in a small courtyard in the west, but the Ying Xie never came out.
I didn't realize that a few hours had passed, and after the third watch, Xiao Ganlin and the others had already rested, but there was nothing abnormal in the palace.
"Could it be that I'm thinking too much?" After Dawei, Yu Wenwen found that he had no ill feelings towards abandonment. The look in Yingxie's eyes always made him feel faintly uneasy, and he couldn't say why.
On this night, two unknown black strange trees in Jingxing Palace were blooming, and a crescent moon had already fallen in the west, but the petals emitted a faint light that flickered and dimmed, exuding an intoxicating fragrance.
"Meow ......", Yu Wenwen was taken aback, and raised his eyes, but it was an old cat on the roof that suddenly jumped down.
Yu Wenwen breathed a sigh of relief, too lazy to care about it, but suddenly held his breath and his eyes widened.
Looking in the direction where the cat jumped down, a black shadow was slowly moving under the corridor, and when it came to the door of the third prince, it made a frog-like "quack" sound.
The "Squeaky ......" door opened a crack, and a dark shadow flashed inside.
There was no light in the room, so Yu Wenwen gathered his eyes with his tears before he could see the situation in the room clearly.
The black shadow had his back to the door, and he was stocky.
The three princes sat up from the couch, and seemed to be taken aback, and then reprimanded in a low voice: "Why did you enter the palace?
The dark shadow made a thick nasal voice: "People are worried about you-"
Yu Wenwen was taken aback, and the tone of this black shadow was like a woman talking to her lover.
"Are you okay today?" As he spoke, the black shadow walked to Yingxie's couch and grabbed his hand.
"Ouch......" Yingxie whispered**, but did not evade.
"Oh, how did you hurt so badly?" the black shadow exclaimed, not knowing what he saw. "That monster hurt you?"
"Shhhh
"Have you asked someone to see it?"
"How can this wound be visible to outsiders? I used my own medicine, and it will heal in a few days. β
"I never thought that they would be able to break that formation, I knew that this was the case, it was better for me to do it directly. β
"It's also strange in my heart, this formation, even a cultivator of the Ji Realm, can easily be trapped, but this time I actually lost my hand...... But don't worry, there's a chance to deal with them! By the way, what about the thing in his body?"
"But you can rest assured that it should have been shed by now. Seven days later, he'll be a puppet in your hands. No, this is a 'worm letter', you have to put it away. You can try it out for yourself tomorrow. The dark shadow's tone was much more relaxed.
"How do you use this 'worm letter'?"
"That's here, you can get it yourselfβ" The shadow chuckled, moving to the couch at some point, his hand pointing to his chest.
Seeing this scene, Yu Wenwen almost vomited: In the face of such a short and fat monster, could it be that Yingxie still has such Yaxing?
Sure enough, the Ying Xie pushed the black shadow away: "But don't mess around...... Ouch. "It seems to have hit the wound again.
"Alright, alright, I'm not going to mess with you. Rest well, and I'll come back to see you in a few days. The black shadow was very concerned about Ying Xie, and quickly helped him lie down.
"It's all here, you'll have to see it at your leisure. The Black Shadow stuffed something to the Ying Xie.
"You must not come to my place at will, if you have something to do, you still go to that 'tasteless' is!"
"Nasty. You haven't seen me for more than ten days, and you've left me alone in the dark room, with a bunch of worms. Now I don't want to come to see you, but you only know that 'food is tasteless' and 'food is tasteless', and you are afraid that you have a crush on the chef who makes elbows. Hmph, let's go!"
The black shadow pulled the Yingxie forehead towards him, kissed it, turned around and gently pushed the door open.
By the light of the sky, it was clear to ask the question, the man's face was cross-faced, but he was very white. I've never seen it before, but I always feel a little familiar.
Thinking in his heart, the black shadow had quickly disappeared.
"This is so weird?" Yu Wenwen was taken aback, and suddenly remembered something in his heart, "Pop" a cold sweat, "Could it be her?!"
The room on the second floor was actually a Kunlun disciple.
"What does this Kunlun have to do with Qi Wuxian? Bacheng also went there to monitor it for the sake of that Shanka. It seems that the Shanka is in that house, but I have to find out somehow. β
Mo Li suddenly remembered the housekeeper outside the Qi Mansion, if he could have a relationship with this person, wouldn't everything be clear?
Yes, Lao Zhou has been in this Yuan Yifeng firm for decades, and there is no one he doesn't know.
"I'm going to look for Lao Zhou again. "Daze has no one to ferry, Mo Li had to find his own carriage and horses, and he came to the Xuandu in a hurry.
"Big brother, I'm here again. Mo Li knocked there for a long time, but no one opened the door. "Could it be that you went to drink?"
Mo Li simply followed the direction of Lao Zhou's last trip to find the wine shop.
From afar, I saw a big flag, with the book "Three miles of wind incense".
Mo thought: This is it.
"Lao Zhou, Lao Zhou, are you inside?" Mo Li shouted loudly as he strode in.
But the liquor store was empty, and there was no one.
Mo Li was worried, and as soon as the curtain was lifted, a man came out.
Seeing Mo Li, he seemed to be taken aback: "Forgive me, the little one was stewing meat in the kitchen, and he couldn't hear the greeting." Do you want to make wine or cut meat? The calamus and lamb tendons in the small shop are notoriously good. β
When Mo Li saw what he was wearing and listened to his words, he knew that it was the little second in Lao Zhou's mouth, so he asked him with a smile: "I often come to your store to sell wine, and my legs and feet are not ......very convenient."
"What the guest officer said is the old concierge in the Xuandu industry?" Xiao Er was really clever, and he had already guessed before Mo Li finished speaking.
"That's him. Has he come to sell wine or cut meat today?"
Xiao Er's face changed slightly, and he shook his head: "He, he won't be able to drink this wine or eat this meat in the futureββ"
"Little brother, what do you mean by this?"
"In the big encirclement of the head, he was crushed in two by a stone. The man who went with him escaped from death, saying that he was alone, and had to take some of his relics and burn them himself, so he was still screaming and sighing in our shop. β
"Little brother, you don't want to scold me!" Mo said: A few days ago, how can you say that there is no and nothing?
"The guest officer is his friend? The man was in a trance, and he left all those relics in the small shop, and the little one didn't know what to do, so it happened that you came. Would you like to dispose of it on your behalf?"
Xiao Er handed over a small burden, and Mo Li saw Lao Zhou's gourd at a glance, and couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.
Mo Li was stunned for a long time, and then he stretched out his hands to take the fluttering baggage, and stumbled out of the shop.
The giant fish floated in the middle of the water, and the next day it did not know where it went.
Legend has it that the fish gradually turned into blood just an hour after its death, and the bones disappeared after half a day.
No one collected the corpses, and the remains of the mountains were loaded and transported by soldiers to the Xuandu Mountains to dig pits and bury, and the scenery on the banks of the river was restored to the same as before, but there was no trace of them.
The sound of mourning in the imperial capital is endless, white flags are hung high everywhere, and paper money is flying.
A notice was posted at the city gate: Nayunshi was ineffective in patrolling Wangji, causing the murderous things to hide in Daze and kill the people. The teacher is handsome Ji Yasun, and it is difficult to escape the blame. demoted to the first class, 50 flogs, and a fine of half a year. The Red Feather Guard's Hanshan Guard has meritorious service, Jin Anping Jun, and 300 households in the food town. There are divisions and punishments.
However, in a day or two, the imperial capital city was depressed a lot, revealing a trace of twilight.