Chapter 509: What Dumb Riddle to Fight?
"But it's actually still produced by Bega, and it's legal to just walk around outside?"
Mai Xuewen spread his hands: "Except for the Bega Kingdom, where can it be so easy to hunt demons outside?"
The northern demon country, of course, there are many demon clans. There are many countries all over the world, and monsters are hidden in the deep mountains and Daze, scattered and difficult to find.
For the sake of efficiency and cost, of course, the Bega Demon Hunt is the most cost-effective.
He Lingchuan thought for a while, "You said, send it to refine medicine............ So isn't the medicine being refined by Cen Boqing himself?"
Mak Xuewen smiled softly, "You are very sharp. There are other refiners, but you can get through the current difficulties first, and then I can tell you."
"Why?"
"If you can't even catch Cen Boqing, you won't be able to do anything behind."
He Lingchuan looked at him and said, "It's not Cen Boqing who has an enmity with you, right?"
Mai Xuewen smiled but said nothing.
"If you want to cooperate, you have to show sincerity." He Lingchuan crossed his arms and said, "How are you going to help me?"
"I can give you two clues." Mai Xuewen raised a finger, "First of all, the person who went to the county prison to confess to Fu Songhua is also Wu Kai's subordinate. When the cell leader who took bribes died, he was fine, and he was sent to Houjiazhuang in the southwest of Baisha to do miscellaneous work to avoid the limelight, under the pseudonym Chen Erhei, where no one recognized him at all. Houjiazhuang has nothing to do with the Cen Mansion on the surface, but it is actually controlled by Cen Boqing's cousin."
He paused for a moment and said, "The reason why Wu Kai didn't kill Pang Denian may be because his grandson once fell into the water and was rescued by Pang Denian, and the relationship between the two is good."
"Second, I heard that the other group of demon hunters and pearls is in Xiaohulu Town, Baiting County, and the leader is named Yang Song, and there should be five or six people under him."
Tiger Jiao Yu interjected, "Wait a minute, Baiting County is not in the border of Chiyan Country."
"Wu Kai's various groups are scattered in different feudal demon kingdoms." Mai Xuewen glanced at it, "Baiting County is quite close, and it is seventy or eighty miles away from the northern border of Chiyan."
"Do you want to arrest people across borders?" He Lingchuan frowned, "What about the other groups?"
"I speculate that there are three or four groups of people, but they don't know each other and don't contact each other, and the only person in the middle is Wu Kai." He Lingchuan said, "These two clues are directly related to Wu Kai, if you hold them, maybe you can ask for more details."
"That's it? It's too little useful."
"If they hadn't done a clean job, it wouldn't have been your turn to investigate the case now." Mai Xuewen sighed, "Then I'll give you another clue, Wu Kai lost his wife and children in his early years, but he has a grandson. In the past few days, my daughter-in-law has brought her grandson to Baisha to play."
He Lingchuan was dissatisfied: "I thought you would tie Wu Kai directly to me."
"The entire Cen Mansion has set up a formation, prohibiting the escape technique, and the snail toad can't enter." Obviously, Mai Xuewen tried, "Besides, Wu Kai and Cen Boqing are almost inseparable, and they are protected by secret guards around them."
Snail toads are only suitable for sneak attacks.
He Lingchuan thought for a moment: "What kind of character is Cen Boqing?"
"You don't see that he is arrogant to outsiders, in fact, he is suspicious and weak on the inside, easy to compromise, but sometimes he can be desperate, and it can be said that his temperament is complex and changeable. By the way, he's extremely averse to trouble."
He Lingchuan groaned.
Weak on the outside and weak on the inside, and it is easy to go to extremes when forced into a corner? There don't seem to be a few people with this kind of character.
"How could Uncle Wu recognize Cen Boqing as the master?"
"Wu Kai is the personal entourage of Cen Boqing's father, Cen Tang, who has been by Cen Boqing's side for more than ten years since his death."
"In this way, Wu Kai has won the trust of Cen Boqing?"
"That's natural, otherwise how could such a thing as hunting demons and taking pearls be handed over to Wu Kai to do?" Mak Xuewen said, "I'll give you another piece of advice."
"Oh?" This guy's tone is so raw.
"This case is getting deeper and deeper, you can't solve it alone, so hurry up and ask the prince for help."
"I have something for you, too." He Lingchuan suddenly threw out an unrelated question, "There is a painting in your study in which a woman plays a bone flute. Where did this painting come from, and who is the person in it?"
Why do you suddenly ask about this? Don't talk about Mai Xuewen, even the tiger on the side forgot to lick his hair.
Mak Xuewen immediately said, "Where are the paintings?"
He Lingchuan took out the scroll from the storage ring and shook it at him. "I took it from the market, and I kept it because of its excellent painting."
He Lingchuan was displeased: "If you are full of firewood again, I will leave this case alone."
Mai Xuewen was silent for a while before he said, "This painting was painted twenty years ago, and the person in the painting is the current master of the Qinggong Palace, the Qingyang National Teacher."
What? Is the painting of Qingyang National Teacher?
This answer greatly surprised He Lingchuan: "This is one of the four great masters of Bega?"
"Exactly."
"What is the origin of the musical instrument in her hand?"
"The flute?" Mai Xuewenqi said, "Why are you asking this?"
Nonsense, if it weren't for the bone flute, why would he bother to investigate the case so hard? "I think I've seen that flute."
"Maybe it's the collection of the Green Palace." Mai Xuewen's eyes flashed slightly, "The Qingyang National Teacher is good at collecting strange things, and he has been in power for the longest time, and the Qinggong has more treasures than the other three national teachers."
He Lingchuan stared at him. It's a pity that this guy's facial expression is stiff, and he can't see anything: "You really don't know the origin of the flute?"
"I only know that it seems to have been in the hands of the Qingyang National Master for a long time." "What is the relationship between you and the Qinggong National Teacher?"
Mak Xuewen replied fluently: "It doesn't matter."
Hehe, He Lingchuan didn't believe it, but the other party refused to say it. He exhaled softly, and then continued, "With the existing evidence and clues, it is inconvenient for the prince to come forward. What's more, I don't have a suitable reason to stop Zhongsun from taking Fu Songhua back to Lingxu City."
He didn't have any definite evidence in his hand, and Fushan was also very passive when he came.
"It can be said that when Zhongsun Mou finds Fu Songhua, this case will be closed." He said, word by word, "At that point, you won't have a chance."
So in the past few days, those opponents were searching for Fu Songhua all over the city, and even the Fan brothers didn't come to trouble He Lingchuan.
As long as the wanted criminal in Lingxu City is recovered, this competition can be over. Mai Xuewen's long-term planning will be in vain.
This result was obviously unacceptable to Mai Xuewen, so he thought about it and said, "Then I'll do you another favor. Tomorrow happens to be the Lotus Festival.....
"Shut up!" He Lingchuan suddenly scolded the case, "You are a suspect, I am a special envoy, I can't use your help, and I won't make any deals with you!"
Mak Xuewen: "......"
Jiao Yu: "....."
Don't make a deal, is this a joke?
"I'm just taking the suspect's words." He Lingchuan said, took out a box and opened it, and there were a few small moist beads inside.
He took out one and played with it twice, and was about to squash it with his hand.
Mai Xuewen stared at it with straight eyes, and couldn't help but stop when he saw this: "Don't!"
He Lingchuan didn't pinch it, just glanced at him, smiled, and then slowly put the beads back into the box: "It seems that you are very close to me."
"You can't catch me, especially in this weather."
The rain outside never stopped, and even with the windows closed, the dampness in the house was heavy. "Don't make any crooked eyes, and don't try to disturb other people's celebrations." He Lingchuan solemnly warned him, "Come and surrender earlier, otherwise when I catch you, I will definitely be severely punished!"
Mai Xuewen looked at him deeply: "You are a very interesting person, I hope you are still alive after the case is closed."
"Don't bother."
As soon as he finished speaking, the guy took two steps back and almost fell.
He stood still, and when he looked around again, his eyes were blank: "This?" What happened, how did you sneak into the guest room?
He looked back and saw that the doors and windows were closed, and the big wooden barrel was steaming, and he couldn't help but shudder.
Fortunately, the guest pointed behind him, "Get out."
It seems that Mai Xuewen has taken away his mind
Okay, this guy can be himself again.
The guy ran away with a smoke, and he didn't forget to close the door again, and it seemed that Mai Xuewen's spell didn't hurt him.
He Lingchuan looked at the large bucket of hot water.
What kind of hot water do you send in the summer? Neuropathy! But it's all delivered, and it's a waste if you don't use it.
But before he could untie his clothes, the tiger plunged into the water, resting his brain shell on the edge of the barrel.
"You won't wash in the house anyway." It was half-squinted, and looked like an old man in a bath.
"...." This guy really knows how to enjoy.
Jiao Yu also asked him, "What kind of dumb riddle are you playing?"
It always felt that the final actions and questions and answers of these two people were a bit mysterious, and both sides seemed to understand something, but it didn't understand it.
Humans, hehe, eight hundred hearts and eyes.
"Is there one?" He Lingchuan took the towel from the hot water and folded it into a square, and put it on the door of its head, "You're too careful."
In the steaming heat, his smile looked a little blurred. "Stormy waves are coming."
Jiao Yu: "Huh?"
It turned its head, but saw He Lingchuan lying on the couch, his hands resting behind his head, and his expression was leisurely, as if what he said was not what he said.
......
In the attic across the street.
The two sentries were staring at the wooden window opposite in a daze, and the guards of the Cen Mansion suddenly appeared behind:
"Is there any movement?"
The two of them were so frightened that they almost jumped.
"No, it's normal." They only cared about the performance of the prince's envoy in the inn, and they stared at it for a few days, and they were very well-behaved, eating, sleeping and chatting.
When the guards saw it, He Lingchuan's wooden window was closed. "What is he doing?"
"Take a bath." The two replied, "Guy, send a big bucket of hot water."
The guard hummed and was about to turn around, when he suddenly felt that something was wrong:
"Wait, isn't he going to the bathhouse?"
"Yes, but ....." people want to wash in the guest room, why can't they?
The guard raised his hand and slapped them on the back of the head: "He closed the window under the pretext of taking a bath, this is an anomaly, why don't you understand the report!"
With that, he hurried downstairs, leaving the two sentinels in the attic uneasy.
It's a pity that the guard went late, and when he got to the inn, he saw that He Lingchuan's door had been opened, and several guys were moving the bucket out.
The water was a little dirty, and there were some burnt yellow and reddish hairs floating on it.