Chapter 1575: Follow the insect and stalk the enemy(1/2)
He paused: "There is a high possibility of purchasing in the name of the Chamber of Commerce, because Tianshui City has always encouraged chambers of commerce to purchase residential land, so there are large tax and fee reductions."
Yao Kingdom, especially Tianshui City, has always been a unique special existence on the Shining Golden Plain. Other countries basically emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, at least based on agriculture. Only Yao Kingdom vigorously recommends commerce, domestic logistics, and commerce efficiency and level even exceed that of most other countries in the world.
He Lingchuan has only been in the Yao Kingdom for a few months, but he has been rolling around in the business and government piles. His understanding of the system and rules here is far better than that of the locals in Tianshui.
Based on this alone, he basically concluded: "Either he will repurchase a large mansion in the past half month, or stay in a luxury inn. I tend to be the latter possibility, after all, buying a homestead is more troublesome. If he doesn't want to live in Tianshui City for a long time, inn is the first choice."
"But the screening that should be done is not missing. I will go to the housing department in Tianshui City to screen for the transactions of the existing houses for nearly half a month. Tian Yun looks like a person who is very particular-" Unlike Dong Rui, you can live in a dull and humid cave. "There are too many people and not too short of money, and the house you buy will not be too small."
The house is small, not only is it not enough to live in, but its privacy cannot be guaranteed. You should know that they raise demon puppets, and it will be no fun if they accidentally escape and hurt people.
These demon puppet masters naturally don’t like to gather with ordinary people, and they also tend to be more private in their psychological direction; Dong Rui even stays away from others in Yongquan Villa.
Of course, there is a third and fourth possibility, that is, Tian Yun used to buy a large mansion in Tianshui City with other pseudonyms, but now he lives in a hurry. Or the residence of Tian Yun and others is not in the city at all, but these two possibilities are relatively small, and they are looking for a needle in a haystack, so He Lingchuan doesn't care about it for the time being.
Dong Rui asked: "How many high-end inns in Tianshui City are there?"
“There are at least forty or fifty.”
"..." Are there so many? Are the merchants in Tianshui City so rich?
He Lingchuan went out to assign tasks.
Two hours later, he came back to find Dong Rui, holding two pieces of paper in his hand, one of which was a map with red circles on it.
"The weather is good today, so let's lead the beetle to find the owner."
...
This search took two whole days.
Finding someone is like handling a case, you have to do a lot of useless work.
He Lingchuan still has some serious work to do during the day, but after work in the evening, he can only go to the city with Dong Rui to find someone after work, and he has to wear a hat to find him.
There are fifty high-end inns in Tianshuicheng to be screened, and Fangke also handed over information about ten large houses, all of which were sold within the past half month.
There are sixty-one places in total.
The good news is that the range of insect puppets induce ancestral insects is very large, conservatively estimated to be more than three or four miles. The luxurious inns in Tianshui City like to gather together. Twenty-two and three families gathered on several famous streets. He Lingchuan and Dong Rui walked down the street, and the insect puppets had no sense, so these places could be ruled out.
The big houses to be screened can only go to one by one.
It's also a return and empty way.
After two days, only three inns and four large mansions were left.
"In the end, if you don't find these places, you have to consider other possibilities." Then, the difficulty of finding Tian Yun will increase significantly.
As the moon rises to the willows, Dong Rui rubs his face: "My aunt is almost broken!"
Fortunately, just as they approached the Fenix Inn at the South Gate of Tianshui, the two insect puppets locked in the cricket cage suddenly became restless and frequently bumped into the cage!
"I've reacted!" Dong Rui was so energetic that he turned into a secluded place and pulled open the cage door.
The two insect puppets immediately flapped their wings and flew out, with slender spider silk tied on them.
“Come on.”
The Fennel Inn was magnificent and the plaques were polished, but the insect puppet did not go in, but turned around the exterior wall and flew inside.
The street is also brightly lit, but the shops and homes on both sides of the street are not as neat and grand as the outside street.
The insect puppet naturally didn't know how to distinguish between good and bad, so she buried her head and rushed behind a wall.
The courtyard wall is not tall, mottled in color, and the damaged part of the wall still has grass.
Just looking at this wall, it has nothing to do with the word "luxury".
Dong Rui pulled the insect puppet back and specially walked around the main entrance to see the inn's signboard:
"Teacher's Hall?"
You can tell from the store that this is just an ordinary inn, with signs of repair. There are two broken baskets thrown at the gate and no one pays attention. Two refugees were tired of walking and sat on the stone steps to rest. The guy inside came out to drive him away: "Shh! Go and sit down!"
"Hey!" Dong Rui glanced at He Lingchuan, "Tian Yun actually lives here? You guessed it wrong!"
He Lingchuan didn't answer, snapped his fingers, and waved to the guesthouse.
The Yang Shanren behind him scattered and stared at the guesthouse from different directions.
Afterwards, He Lingchuan and Dong Rui walked straight into Tonglaike Hall.
He aggravated the footsteps, and the shopkeeper still shrank behind the table. It was not until Dong Rui knocked on the counter that the shopkeeper stretched out his head and half-squinted his eyes, and asked lazily: "Would you like to stay in a hotel?"
"Stay in a hotel." He Lingchuan said, "How much does it cost to spend a night?"
"Half a tael."
Such an ordinary inn, at most two cents of silver a night, half a year ago, but I didn’t expect that it would double now. He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows: “Do you care about breakfast?”
The shopkeeper smiled: "The big stove hasn't fired for half a month, you have to go out and eat it."
The food is so expensive, how much does it cost to serve it up after it is ready? All the guests who checked in thought were expensive. After a few quarrels, the inn's kitchen stopped firing.
Save firewood and trouble.
"Let me see the guest room first."
Many customers will first check the room situation and then decide whether to check in. The shopkeeper is not surprised, so he raised his chin to the guy next to him: "Take him upstairs and take a look."
He Lingchuan asked first: "Are there many people living in it? Is it quiet?"
"There are so many. We are a 50-year-old brand. Now we live in almost half of it, and 30% of them are old customers."
Dong Rui interrupted: "Go upstairs and take a look."
The cricket cage in his sleeve was arched and jumped up, feeling it should be moving up.
The guy was suspicious: "What voice?"
"I have two crickets."
The guy didn't doubt it, and led the two of them to climb the stairs with a lantern.
There are two rows of rooms upstairs, which are about ten, in the shape of a "broken" person. The shopkeeper is not bragging. This is a time-honored brand. It is a family-time brand. It has been around for the furniture, but it is still well maintained.
The guest rooms were closed, and the three of them walked by one by one. Dong Rui suddenly turned his head, raised his eyebrows to the third room on the left, and gave He Lingchuan a wink.
This room!
He Lingchuan immediately asked the guy: "Can anyone live in the room directly opposite?"
"No." The guy walked over and opened the door, "Show you guys."
The furniture in the room is simple, with two narrow beds, but only one chair, a square table, and a washbasin shelf under the window.
He Lingchuan stood by the window and could see the middle of the street.
He concentrated again and could see Wan Qiliang drinking water in a cold water stall.
As soon as the window was opened on the second floor, Wan Qiliang looked up and saw him.
"Just this one." He Lingchuan threw a tael of silver to his friend, "No need to find it, pour a pot of tea."
When the money was in place, the guy's face immediately stretched out. He was about to go down, but He Lingchuan took out another ingot of silver and placed it on the table:
"Ask you two questions."
"Ah, you said, you said." The guy faced He Lingchuan and did not notice that Dong Rui raised his hand and placed a soundproof barrier.
He Lingchuan asked directly: "Who is living in the opposite room?"
"Over the other side?" The guy was stunned, "They were two foreign tourists in their thirties and forties. They were very stingy and never gave rewards."
When Dong Rui heard this, he met his age, but were there only two people?
"What are you doing?"
"Don't know."
"Not you an old friend?"
"No, I've been in Tonglai Inn for three years and I've seen them for the first time."
"The last few questions." He Lingchuan pushed the silver forward, "When did they move in?"
"Three days, no, four days ago."
"Do they still have companions?"
"No, they are the two of them here to live." The guy was also very tactful, and he said everything he had just poured beans on. "One of them just moved in and his nose was bruised and swollen. It seemed that he had just been beaten. I asked him if he had met a robber. He said vaguely, but he didn't tell what he was doing. These two guests went out at dawn and came back until dark. They stayed behind closed doors when they came back, and no one else had ever come to find them."
"Are they in the house?"
"I'm here, I just asked for two bowls of noodles and went to the house to eat." The guy then bowed, "Two guests, please don't make trouble in this shop! We really can't afford it."
The inn was difficult to drive. There were originally four guys, but now he is the only one inside and outside.
This guy is a bachelor. He Lingchuan put the silver into his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, we are all good people. Do whatever you usually do; don't do what you don't do now, and there will be nothing in this store!"
The heavy silver ingot comforted the guy's anxiety. He went out in two ohs and went downstairs.
Dong Rui asked in a low voice: "Do it?"
To be continued...