Volume 3, Chapter 23: Human-Like
The words say: The long and bumpy road is bumpy, and the demons and monsters stand in the way. The edge of the sword is sharpened, and the world is peaceful.
At 10 o'clock, the sky was just dawning, and the middle-aged woman went to prepare breakfast early in the morning with a pile of firewood.
In the early morning, there are a few adults on the streets of Jizhou City who go out with their children to do farm work, and some people carry hoes to go up the mountain to chop firewood, and the street still maintains a lively and extraordinary scene in the early morning.
After a night's rest last night, Qin Feng and the others also had enough sleep, and today they can have a good discussion with the middle-aged woman about the ghost-faced man and her child.
After everyone had eaten breakfast, they came to the stake in front of the corner with the middle-aged woman and mentioned yesterday's incident.
Qin Feng asked: "Sister-in-law, can you tell me in detail about yesterday's incident, if I can help, I will do my best to help you find the child."
The middle-aged woman rubbed her eyes and recalled: " Yesterday the old woman was doing farm work in the suburbs of Jizhou City, when the child was sitting in the cradle behind me, suddenly the sky was gloomy, as if it was sporadic light rain, I wanted to find a place to hide from the rain, I never thought that I just turned around and found a place to hide from the rain, suddenly there was a man in black who ran like the wind to take away my child, he moved very fast, I shouted loudly, no one was present at the time to pay attention to me, my child was taken away by him in vain, so far he looks like I don't know, now the child is not able to find it at all."
After listening to the description of the middle-aged woman, Qin Feng roughly understood a little bit in his heart, once he regarded Takeo, a disciple of the new martial arts, as the number one suspect in stealing the child, but now when he heard the middle-aged woman say this, he suddenly felt that it was unlikely that Takeo would commit a crime, and Takeo was here for the matter of the Yaoshan Holy Sword, so he should have nothing to do with this matter.
The middle-aged woman cried and told the same series of events as others.
In order to prevent the middle-aged woman from losing her child and being overly sad and emaciated, Qin Feng comforted with a smile and said that she had learned about the murderer of the theft and could be captured within ten days, which made her heart calm again.
Siyu waved his hand and motioned for him to come over, "Do you really already know the true identity of the ghost-faced man?"
Qin Feng shook his head, "Don't you know, the ghost-faced man that Sister-in-law Fang Cai said is not Takeo, but he has the agility of Takeo, I am worried that it is the demons of the Demon Realm, or it may be the scum of the cultivators."
Siyu asked again: "Are you so sure it's not Takeo's trouble"?
Qin Feng nodded, raised his head and looked into the distance calmly, as if he had seen the true face of the ghost-faced man in his mind.
"Cut, Qin Feng, you don't have the ability to catch the ghost-faced man, so you put all the responsibility on the demons and monsters, this is not the work of your Xianyun Mountain cultivator!" Chu Ting stepped forward and grabbed his hand and laughed.
At this time, it was almost time, the scorching sun in the sky was shining brightly on the earth, Qin Feng accepted Zhengqing's previous suggestion, and the four of them went along the dead corners outside each house to find evidence left by the ghost-faced man who entered and left Jizhou City to steal children.
Regarding the identity of the ghost-faced man, although Zhengqing had never seen him in person, he insisted that the ghost-faced man was committed by people in the martial arts such as Shaolin or Kongtong, and also mentioned Chen Jinlong.
Qin Feng and Siyu went to the east of Jizhou City to search, Zhengqing and Chu Ting searched to the west, and the four of them had already stated that no matter whether they could find valuable clues or not, they must return to the middle-aged woman's tiled house before sunset, and the east and west sides were bounded by both sides of the gate of Jizhou City, which was easier to distinguish.
Jizhou City is different from other cities, its east and west sides are more obvious, the east side of the city is covered with a large number of tile houses, the west side of the city is built everywhere is a grass house, and the backmost are the children of the rich and noble people and the residence of Jizhou Taishou Lu Kang.
"Let's go, Qin Feng, our task is arduous, the area around the tile house is quite large, how easy it is to find out the ghost-faced man!" Siyu pulled Qin Feng's hand, and when he saw him looking at the shovel beside him with a dull gaze, he immediately felt very curious.
The first tiled house was inhabited by an old man in a sixtieth century, he got up every morning at ten o'clock, and went out on time to farm at three o'clock, his actions were a little strange, and the rest of the people did not forget to bring shovels to farm, and he went out without any objects, and when he returned to complete the day's task, this matter could not help but make people surprised.
Qin Feng took five steps forward and squatted in front of his shovel, he couldn't see anything famous for a while, and it was just an ordinary shovel when he looked left and right, but with his ten years of cultivation in Xianyun Mountain, he always had a hunch that there was something wrong with this shovel?
"Qin Feng, okay, don't look at it, this thing is just an ordinary shovel, is it necessary for you to look at it so intoxicatingly?" Siyu urged loudly again.
"Oh, you go first, I'll come right away." Qin Feng responded, and did not forget to continue to pay attention to this shovel before leaving.
Along the way, the two of them inspected the blood stains on the ground and the discarded clothes next to the house, and they all checked very carefully, even the dogs tethered in several tiled houses also looked carefully, and they did not find any clues that could be used.
Siyu asked, "Could it be that all the clues of the ghost-faced man are hidden in the child?"
Qin Feng responded: "Child, how is this possible, I have seen the skills of the ghost-faced man, his skill sensitivity is above mine, the child he took away, ordinary people can't get it back, unless it's an immortal like my master and ancestor."
Siyu was puzzled: "Are you so sure?, why don't we go get a child, and then carefully study the ghost-faced man's methods?"
Qin Feng replied with a smile: "Miss, don't be joking, if you go to get a child over, if you can find the murderer, of course it's the best, what if you can't find it? If you can't find the murderer, others will think that all these things are done by you, and even if you jump into the Yellow River, you won't be able to wash it away."
After speaking, the two sighed deeply, and in the next seven hours, the two of them searched through almost all the suspicious things in the entire tiled housing area, but they did not get the slightest clue.
Qin Feng explained: "Let's go back, it's already unitary time, according to our previous agreement with Zhengqing, we must find clues before sunset, and if we can't find it, we must go back to the tiled house first."
Siyu stretched her pretty face, she didn't find any meaningful clues after looking for a long time, she seemed to be unwilling in her heart, she was very dissatisfied with Qin Feng's taking Chu Ting down the mountain, so she always wanted to prove that she was stronger than Chu Ting, but unfortunately she never had the opportunity to show her talent.
If you want to know the story of the next chapter, please pay attention to Chapter 24 of the third volume of the Legend of the Fairy Cloud Sword (1)