Chapter 15. Set up a bureau
Hu Zongren glanced at me, then slowed down his tone and asked tentatively, according to what you mean, you don't know what happened to me? Old Daoist Yao was very puzzled and asked, what else can you do? Originally, we thought that with the shackles of the Eight Pole Seals, you would be able to return to the Xuanyuan Club smoothly, but it depends on your decision to go, but we can't let you go so easily, in front of outsiders, we, as an organization, must also have our own means.
Yao Lao Dao said, later I admired your child's backbone, since the establishment of the Xuanyuan Society, only three people have successfully passed the test of the twenty-four cases, if you pass, it is the fourth, originally we hoped to keep you in this way to think about it for a while, after all, if the twenty-four cases are completed, you can be regarded as a well-known figure, even if you still do not stay in the Xuanyuan Society, you can also deal with a lot of things alone, you will get the respect of the masters, and it is not impossible to start a sect by yourself. So when we assign you a case, we have always selected cases according to your past habits, and then I was very concerned about your dynamics, knowing that you two young people cooperate with each other, and I want to come to the test of these 24 cases for you, the problem will not be too big, and I have figured it out in my heart, the melon that is forced to stay is not sweet, whether to go or stay, after the 24 cases, there is a break.
Then Yao Lao Daoist said, but what do you mean now, bringing a group of people to my Xiangtang to make trouble, and injuring my disciples, disrespecting us in front of Master Zu, I don't understand what your intentions are.
Old Daoist Yao was a little angry as he spoke, and the hands that were originally behind his back also changed to the front of him, holding each other's hands. Hu Zongren thought about it and asked him, Senior Yao, do you remember what the last case you are concerned about I can still think of? Yao Lao Daoren may not understand what Hu Zongren wants to ask, so he frowned and said, this matter is early, it is still a few cases relatively high, at that time, someone on my side told me that there was a call for help from Chongqing, because I felt that my mother was weird, and I felt like I was fascinated by ghosts, and then I followed up after you solved this matter, only to learn that this mother had actually passed away and stayed in her own house for some reason. Yao Lao Daoren said, after that, I feel that you two young people have formed your own style of doing things, and I don't need to worry about you too much, so after that, I basically don't ask about your tasks.
When he said this, Yao Lao Daoren's eyes showed an expression of pity, and he said, because I know that you will definitely be able to pass the test. But this look quickly flashed, and he continued, "You don't want to continue to complete the test and come here to fool around, can you explain to me what it is now?"
Hu Zongren and I were dumbfounded, first of all, although the old Taoist priest in front of him may not be as bright and upright as he said, but at least for now, he seems to be really unaware. And in front of so many masters and disciples, a person of his status will not be to the point of lying, because if he lies, there will always be a day when it is exposed, and when the time comes, how will he face this group of people. Before Hu Zongren answered, I hurriedly said to Old Daoist Yao, Senior Yao, please give us a few minutes. Without waiting for him to agree, I pulled Hu Zongren to a corner of the inner hall, avoided all the people present as much as possible, and then asked Hu Zongren, do you still have an impression of the case he just said that he followed up the most? Hu Zongren said yes, isn't it the time when we asked your police officer friend Lao Feng to find an unknown corpse? We've been staring at her for a long time! I said if that was the last follow-up, what would be the next case?
Hu Zongren thought about it and said, it seems that it was the printing house, the first time we met Zhao Jing, but then Zhao Jing herself admitted that the case was not counted at all, but deliberately designed to meet us in this way. When I said this, Hu Zongren and I seemed to think of something at the same time, and we both looked at each other with our mouths open, but neither of us spoke first.
After a few seconds, I finally spoke, I think I understood, Zhao Jing was simply assigned to establish contact with us, not long after that time in the printing house, we received another case, do you remember? It was in Pengnan, Sichuan, the time when the second awesome man was. Hu Zongren nodded and said yes, when we went back to Chongqing that time, we were still followed, and the person who followed us was cleaned up, and from that time on, we learned that the person sent by Lu Dao to keep an eye on us was Zhao Jing. I slapped my face and said, that's right, Zhao Jing was arranged to be by our side just to target the two of us, otherwise how could this be across provinces, the two of us don't even know when to finish the case, and we don't know which section of the road back to Chongqing to take, how can we be so easy to be followed, that's because from that time on, our every move has been watched by others.
Hu Zongren said, after Zhao Jing was found out by us to be the little Daoist aunt of the Jingming faction, and she herself said that Ma Daoren was her senior brother and the second leader of the Xuanyuan Society...
At this point, we're pretty much completely figured out. The old Taoist Yao in front of him was indeed the person who gave us the twenty-four cases at the beginning, but after that, because he didn't follow up, he let Ma Daoren grasp this matter, so he took this opportunity to constantly install people around us, maybe before that, he had been secretly staring at us, otherwise why would our movements be known to Xuanyuan so quickly, at that time we also suspected that there were traitors among the people around us. Hu Zongren said to me, do you remember the last time we came to Chengdu, it was Ma Daoren who personally told me how to decipher the Baji Seal, and the last time I met him, he gave us a mobile phone, saying that his business relationship was on this mobile phone, and also told us a particularly poignant story! I said that I remember, what is the female ghost of the funeral parlor called Xie Dongmei. Hu Zongren smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, See, the two of us are still too easy to trust others, this guy has been eyeing us from beginning to end, hiding it from everyone from the beginning, and planning to use us.
I thought about it and said, but this is also a bit wrong, if this is the case, you don't have to choose Hu Zongren, what if Hu Zongren doesn't cooperate with Xuanyuan from the beginning? But I quickly figured it out, Hu Zongren offended the people of the Xuanyuan Society a long time ago, and this matter must have reached the ears of the Ma Dao people through what means, plus the Ma Dao people had been in Chongqing before, and I must have heard of the earth-shaking incident between us and the brake Wudao a year ago, and the people who knew what kind of character Hu Zongren had, and it was easy to take advantage of it, and I happened to learn that the people of the Xuanyuan Society had made an agreement to Hu Zongren to go to Chengdu on August 15 and the Mid-Autumn Festival, so before that, He once gave us a limerick poem as a clue to help us go on smoothly. It's not so much about helping us, but about letting us get into the trap step by step without us noticing. What is the hole of Hongya Cave, the door of Dongshui Gate, they have been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, and they must know that if we want to check a person's traces, the easiest thing to think of is to talk to the nearby people in the hall, or call up the surveillance video. When they were in Hongya Cave, they didn't have to wear Taoist robes, because they were really more attention-grabbing. Originally, I thought it was just because of the identity of the Taoist family, but I never thought that the purpose of wearing a Taoist robe was to let the surrounding merchants have a clearer memory of these people, so that we could inquire afterwards!
I added that after getting to know Zhao Jing, I continued to do a few cases without itching or pain, and everything seemed to have not changed, just so that we could not easily perceive the changes, and during this period, he had actually intermittently increased his monitoring of us, which was also the reason why the limerick poem did not reappear in our case until Zhao Jing disappeared. Hu Zongren said yes, he was afraid that if Zhao Jing appeared, he would directly hand over the last two sentences of the limerick to us, which would arouse our suspicions, Zhao Jing was controlled because of our questioning, and obviously Zhao Jing didn't know all this at that time, and there was only one reason why she was controlled, that is, Ma Dao people thought she was disobedient.
I nodded, because I also felt that this was the most likely. So I told Hu Zongren that if our guess was correct, this Ma Dao man was probably the only person in the Xuanyuan Society who had obtained the pure copper judge pen of the White Lotus Sect. And since that time, he has been trying to get the remaining copper bones, so it took so long to arrange a big play, and our group of people are just the actors in his play, and he is the behind-the-scenes manipulator of the whole time.
When I think of this, my heart pulls out the cold, and when it comes to mental art, I am still tender after all. After a few months of busy work, I found out that this was a complete game, and none of the people around us had ever noticed it. Even Zhao Jing, who was still an enemy with us before, probably didn't learn the truth until the last time, and then was placed under house arrest. Hu Zongren said, do you remember? After Zhao Jing was controlled, she immediately changed to another contact, that person has a local accent in Chongqing, and the number is also local, it is very likely that this person is not from the Xuanyuan Society, he only listens to the orders of Ma Daoren, so that in the entire Xuanyuan Society, there is only one person who knows the truth of the Dao Dao!
I grabbed my hair a few times, and I was extremely irritable, not caring that this was a Taoist incense hall, so I lit a cigarette and smoked violently.