Chapter 58: Catching the Murderer
Fu Yunsheng and the others no longer hesitated. After coming out of Ma's house, the soldiers immediately divided into two ways. He Yu went back to find someone to ask if the other missing people had touched pills or other items. Shen Ci and the three of them rushed to the location that Ma Lianlian said.
While walking, Guan Ningning asked with some curiosity, "Senior Sister, is the box you just now really filled with the True Gu?"
Shen Ci smiled: "That's the treasure of the Golden Gu Sect, how could I have it." It's just a larva of a ghost-eyed butterfly caught from the back mountain. ”
"Oh. Guan Ningning nodded and said adoringly, "Senior sister, you are just so powerful!
Shen Ci said: "It also happens that the person who gave Ma Lianlian the pill is somewhat similar to me, so Ma Lianlian will be a little strange when she sees me." ”
Fu Yunsheng said: "Could that lady who looks similar to you be someone you know?
Shen Ci shook his head, thinking of his mother, who still doesn't know where to go: "I have been dependent on my mother since I was a child, and I have never heard of any other relatives. "Even in my previous life, I lived a few years longer, and I still haven't met a loved one.
"Some of the monks have a way of changing their appearance, and the people Ma Lianlian sees may not use her original face. Shen Ci said.
"Hmm. Fu Yunsheng said, "Maybe that lady is a man pretending to be a man!"
"It's possible. Shen Ci nodded, and then sneered, "However, I think it may be a man and a woman!"
Fu Yunsheng's eyes lit up: "Do you have any guesses in your heart?"
Shen Ci smiled playfully: "Senior brother, do you remember? When Sun Yuan first saw me, he mistook me for someone else. ”
Fu Yunsheng thought for a moment and shook his head: "Impossible, that is a dignified daughter, how can it have anything to do with evil cultivation." ”
The corners of Shen Ci's mouth twitched, and he said coldly: "Is it her, we'll know when we catch it." ”
Fu Yunsheng's thick eyebrows furrowed, opened the gourd and took a sip of wine, and stopped talking.
Guan Ningning listened to the conversation between the two and asked blankly, "Who are you talking about?"
Fu Yunsheng didn't say a word, and Shen Ci explained: "It's nothing, it's just a guess." ”
"Oh. Guan Ningning nodded as if he didn't understand, but seeing that the atmosphere between Shen Ci and Fu Yunsheng was not quite right, he stopped asking again.
The three of them spoke and soon arrived at the place where Ma Lianlian said.
The mouth of the alley opposite the embroidery workshop.
The long streets were cold, the alleys were dark, and there were no people in the middle of the night.
Only a small supper stall at the head of the bridge is propped up, which is bright. There was an old man selling wontons and noodles at a stall.
The three of them stepped forward to inquire, and the old man opened his eyes, looked at Shen Ci again and again, and really remembered the "eldest lady".
"That lady is very handsome. I only came here recently to sell silk flowers, so the little old man is still a little impressed. Well, I guess I'm standing in that place. ”
The old man's words confirmed that what Ma Lianlian said was true, but how to catch people was still clueless.
Guan Ningning sighed: "This big night, even if that evil cultivator was really here in the afternoon, he would definitely not be here now." I didn't expect to encounter such a difficult thing when I came out this time. I don't know where to find this cult. ”
Shen Ci heard her words, but a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind: "No!
"Huh?" Guan Ningningqi said, "How do you find it?"
Shen Ci took out a plain white handkerchief and said with a smile: "Use it!"
Guan Ningning was even more inexplicable.
Shen Ci pulled her back to Ma Dageng's house.
Ma Dageng and Zhang were facing Ma Lianlian. Seeing Shen Ci and the three of them go and return, they couldn't help but be frightened.
When Shen Ci asked them to take out the things that Ma Lanlan often used or touched, Guan Ningning reacted: "Oh, I understand, we haven't seen that evil cultivator, it's not easy to find him, but you can find Ma Lanlan! She just disappeared in the afternoon, maybe she can be found!"
As soon as Ma Dageng heard this, he hurriedly returned to the iron shop and took back the two iron hammers commonly used by Ma Lanlan. Zhang picked out a few things that Ma Lanlan was repairing in the past two days from the pile of broken copper and iron at home.
Looking at the two arm-thick hammers, Guan Ningning looked at them with some surprise.
Ma Dageng said curtly: "Although my Lan Lan is a female doll, she has had a lot of strength since she was a child, and now she helps me make a lot of words in the shop." ”
Shen Ci took out the handkerchief, tied a knot in the middle diagonally, and cast a spell on the handkerchief. The handkerchief slowly fanned the cloth on both sides, and flew like a butterfly to the top of the hammer, as if to sniff and look for the smell on it.
After a pause, the handkerchief butterfly continued to flap its wings and fly out.
Shen Ci and Guan Ningning glanced at each other, and they both felt excited.
The three of them followed the handkerchief butterfly, and returned to the alley opposite the embroidery workshop!
It's a pity that once here, the handkerchief butterfly doesn't stop moving.
"Alas. Shen Ci sighed, "It seems that after Ma Lanlan took the pill and walked here, he was covered up by that evil cultivator in some way. ”
Fortunately, on this street, there is an inn with a good room on the second floor, where you can clearly see the scene at the entrance of the alley.
That night, Shen Ci and the three of them did not return to the station of Jiantang, and stayed in this inn.
The next day, the wind and the beautiful weather were beautiful, and although the suspicion of the missing and tortured murder case was still shrouded, the life of the common people still had to go on.
Approaching the day of the market, the flow of people on the street is a little more lively than yesterday. The villagers and elders of the ten miles and eight towns entered the town early to set up stalls and shout, or buy the items they needed.
Shen Ci and the three of them stayed all morning, but they didn't find that what Ma Lianlian said looked like Shen Ci's aunt.
Guan Ningning couldn't help but be a little worried: "Is that lady not coming today?" Or is Ma Lianlian just talking nonsense?"
Shen Ci thought for a while and shook his head: "It's very possible that you won't come today." But what Ma Lianlian said should be true. After taking the pill and Ma Lanlan's reaction after eating it, it was very similar to being hit by some kind of Gu or curse. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, Ma Lianlian wouldn't have been able to make it up. And the uncle who sells wonton stew can also prove that there is indeed such a 'big lady'. ”
"Oh!" Guan Ningning suddenly realized, "Senior sister, do you suspect that it is someone from the Golden Gu Sect? That's why you used the True Gu to scare Ma Lianlian?"
"Hmm. Shen Ci bowed, "I just took Ma Lanlan away yesterday, and for a while, that evil cultivator may not come today." But tomorrow is the day of the market, when there will be more people on the street, and it will be more convenient for her to start. Tomorrow such a great opportunity they will definitely come!"