Chapter 1575: Follow the insect and stalk the enemy
He paused for a moment: "It is more likely to be purchased in the name of the Chamber of Commerce, because Tianshui City has always encouraged chambers of commerce and firms to purchase residential land, so there is a large tax exemption."
Yao Kingdom, especially Tianshui City, has always been the only special existence on the Golden Plains. Other countries basically emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, at least based on agriculture. Only Yao Kingdom strongly promotes commerce, domestic logistics, and commerce.
Its efficiency and level even exceed those of most other countries in the world.
He Lingchuan has only been in Yao Kingdom for a few months, but he has been involved in business and politics, and his understanding of the system and laws here is far better than that of the locals in Tianshui.
Based on this alone, he basically concluded: "Either he bought a new mansion in the past half month, or stayed in a luxurious inn. I am leaning towards the latter possibility, after all, buying a house is more troublesome. If he doesn't want to live in Tianshui City for a long time,
Staying in an inn is your first choice.”
"But the screening should not be less. I will go to the housing department in Tianshui City to screen the existing house transactions in the past half month. Tian Yun seems to be a very particular person -" Unlike Dong Rui, the cave dwelling is dark and damp.
You can live wherever you want. "There are many people and there is no shortage of money, so the house you buy will not be too small."
The house is small, not only not enough to live in, but privacy cannot be guaranteed. You must know that they are raising demon puppets, and it will not be fun if they accidentally escape and hurt others.
These puppet masters naturally do not like to hang out with ordinary people, and psychologically tend to prefer mansions with better privacy; Dong Rui even stayed away from other people in Yongquan Villa.
Of course, there are third and fourth possibilities, which is that Tian Yun used other pseudonyms to buy a large house in Tianshui City, and now he is living there vigorously. Or Tian Yun and others do not live in the city at all, but these two possibilities are relatively
Small, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack, so He Lingchuan ignores it for now.
Dong Rui asked: "How many high-end inns are there in Tianshui City?"
"There are at least forty or fifty."
"..." So many? Are all the merchants in Tianshui City so rich?
He Lingchuan went out to hand over the task.
Two hours later, he came back to find Dong Rui, still holding two pieces of paper in his hand, one of which was a map with red circles drawn on it.
"The weather is nice today, let's take the beetle and find the owner."
…
The search lasted two full days.
Finding people is like handling a case, which requires a lot of useless work.
He Lingchuan had other business to do during the day, so in the evening after work, uh, after work, he and Dong Rui could go to the city to find someone, and they had to wear a curtain hat to find someone.
There are fifty-one high-end inns in Tianshui City to be screened, and the Housing Department also submitted information on ten large houses, all of which were sold within the past half month.
Sixty-one places in total.
The good news is that the insect puppet's range of sensing ancestors is very large, conservatively estimated to be more than three or four miles, and the luxury inns in Tianshui City like to get together. There are twenty-two or three on several famous streets, including He Lingchuan and
Dong Rui walked down the street, but Chongpuppet didn't feel anything at all, so these places could be ruled out.
The large houses to be screened can only be visited one by one.
It also went short time and time again.
After two days, there were only three inns and four mansions left.
"If you don't find it in these last places, you have to consider other possibilities." Then, the difficulty of finding Tian Yun will increase significantly.
On the willow tree under the moonlight, Dong Rui also rubbed his face: "His aunt's legs are almost broken!"
Fortunately, just as they were approaching the Fenxiang Inn at the south gate of Tianshui, the two-headed cricket puppet in the cricket cage suddenly became restless and bumped into the cage frequently!
"There is a reaction!" Dong Rui became energetic, turned into a quiet place, and opened the cage door.
The two insect puppets immediately flapped their wings and flew out, their bodies tied with fine spider silk.
"Follow up."
The Fenxiang Inn was magnificent, and the plaques were polished to a shiny finish, but the insect did not go in at all. Instead, it circled around the outer wall and flew inside.
This street is also brightly lit, but the shops and homes on both sides of the street are not as neat and elegant as the streets outside.
Of course, the insect puppet didn't know how to distinguish between good and bad, so he buried his head and rushed behind a wall.
The courtyard wall is not high, the color is mottled, and grass grows on the damaged parts of the wall.
Just looking at this wall, the word "luxury" cannot be associated with it.
Dong Rui dragged Chongpuppet back and went around the main entrance to see the inn’s sign:
"Tong Lai Guest House?"
Looking at the facade, you can tell that this is just an ordinary inn. The plaque has been repaired, and there are two broken bamboo baskets left at the gate, which no one paid attention to. Two homeless people were tired and sat on the stone steps to rest. The waiter inside came out to drive them away: "
Shh! Go sit somewhere else!"
"Hey!" Dong Rui glanced sideways at He Lingchuan, "Tian Yun actually lives here? You guessed wrong!"
He Lingchuan didn't answer, he snapped his fingers and waved to the guest house.
The worshipers behind him spread out and stared at the guest house from different directions.
Afterwards, He Lingchuan and Dong Rui walked straight into Tonglai Guest House.
He intensified his footsteps, but the shopkeeper still shrank behind the counter. It wasn't until Dong Rui knocked on the counter that the shopkeeper stretched out his head, half-squinted his eyes, and asked lazily: "Are you staying at the hotel?"
"Stay in a hotel." He Lingchuan said, "How much does it cost per night?"
"Half two."
For such an ordinary inn, half a year ago, the maximum cost was two qian per night, but now it has more than doubled. He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows: "Do you care about breakfast?"
The shopkeeper smiled: "The stove has not been turned on for half a month, so you have to go outside to eat."
Food is so expensive, how much does it cost to serve it? All the guests found it too expensive, and after several quarrels, the inn's kitchen stopped firing.
Save firewood and trouble.
"Let me see the guest room first."
Many guests would check the guest rooms before deciding whether to check in. The shopkeeper was not surprised and raised his chin to the waiter beside him: "Take him upstairs to have a look."
He Lingchuan first asked: "Are there many people living there? Is it quiet?"
"There are so many. We are a time-honored store that has been in business for 50 years. We have been here for almost half a mile now, and 30% of them are regular customers."
Dong Rui interjected: "Go upstairs and have a look."
The cricket cage in his sleeve was jumping up and down, and it felt like it was pointing upwards.
The clerk was suspicious: "What's the sound?"
"I raised two crickets."
The waiter had no doubt that he had it, and he led the two of them up the stairs with a lantern.
There are about ten guest rooms in the two rows upstairs, which are in the shape of a "冂". The shopkeeper is not bragging, this is a time-honored restaurant, and the furniture seems to be old, but it is still well maintained.
The doors of the guest rooms were closed, and the three of them walked past one by one. Dong Rui suddenly turned his head, raised an eyebrow at the third room on the left, and winked at He Lingchuan.
This one!
He Lingchuan immediately asked the waiter: "Is there anyone living in the room directly opposite?"
"No." The clerk walked over and opened the door, "I'll show you."
The furniture in the room is simple, with two narrow beds, but only one chair, a square table, and a washbasin stand under the window.
He Lingchuan stood near the window and could see the middle of the street.
When he concentrated again, he could still see Wan Qiliang sitting in a cold water stall drinking water.
As soon as the window on the second floor opened, Wan Qiliang looked up and saw him.
"This is the one." He Lingchuan threw a tael of silver to the waiter, "No need to look for it, just pour a pot of tea."
After the money was received, the clerk's face immediately relaxed. Just as he was about to go down, He Lingchuan took out another ingot of silver and put it on the table:
"Let me ask you two questions."
"Ah, you say it, you say it." The waiter faced He Lingchuan and did not notice that Dong Rui raised his hand to place a soundproof barrier.
He Lingchuan asked directly: "Who lives in the room opposite?"
"Across the street?" the waiter was startled. "They are two out-of-towners in their thirties and forties. They are very stingy and never give rewards."
When Dong Rui heard this, he realized that they were of the same age, but were they just two people?
"For what?"
"Not sure."
"Not a regular customer?"
"No, I've been at Tonglai Inn for three years, and this is the first time I've seen them."
"Last questions." He Lingchuan pushed the money forward, "When did they move in?"
"Three days, no, four days ago."
"Do they have any companions?"
"No, it's just the two of them who came to live here." The waiter was also very knowledgeable and said everything himself. "When one of them first moved in, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, as if he had just been beaten. I asked him if he had encountered a robber.
He vaguely said yes, but did not say what he did. The two guests went out at dawn and came back at dusk. They stayed behind closed doors when they came back, and no one else came to see them. "
"Are they in the house?"
"Yes, I just ordered two bowls of noodles to eat in the house." The waiter immediately handed over his hands, "Two guests, please don't cause trouble in this store! We really can't afford it."
The inn was having a hard time opening. There were originally four waiters, but now he was the only one left inside and outside.
This guy was a bachelor. He Lingchuan put the money into his hand and patted his shoulder: "Don't worry, we are all good citizens. Whatever you usually do, do it now; don't do it now if you don't usually do it. In this shop
Nothing will happen!"
The heavy silver ingot soothed the waiter's uneasiness, and he went out with a few oohs and thumped downstairs.
Dong Rui asked in a low voice: "Do it?"
"Let the eyeball spider in."
The Eyeball Spider, who has not played for a long time, finally got the opportunity to go on a mission again.
It's a time-honored store, and the building is old, so the crack in the door isn't tight enough. A little spider can easily get in through the crack.
Sure enough, as the waiter said, there were two people sitting and eating inside. One of them had bruises on his face and blood marks on his neck from the whip. Although he was recovering, it could be seen that the one who beat him was not soft at all.
This man was chewing his noodles, but he was doing so awkwardly. He had to stop after taking two bites because the bruises on the corners of his mouth were drawn when he opened his mouth.
"How long will we stay here?" his slightly fat companion asked him, "When will Master allow us to go back?"
The wounded man snorted and said, "After completing the errands assigned by Master, you can go back naturally."
The companion said vaguely: "Second senior brother, I always feel that something is wrong?"
"Eat your noodles." The second senior brother looked at him and said, "Eat more and ask less."
Through the eyeball spider, the two people living opposite realized clearly: "It's not Tian Yun."