A vein in Fan Sheng's forehead twitched. He tried his best to suppress his anger and only asked about the major event that had just happened: "Zhongsun Mou was swallowed by the monster he wanted?"
On the way back, his subordinates reported to him the story of Zhongsun's accident. Fan Sheng was also shocked.
Something happened to Zhongsun Mou, and he was also in Bai Shaqiang. When the incident was investigated later, he would be implicated.
Then everything you do here must be fully explained.
Magistrate Tian's face became even more bitter. This is really a misfortune that never comes singly. Or should he just resign to the monarch and return home? "Yes, yes, that thing swallowed up Mr. Zhongsun in one gulp and sneaked into the sand to escape."
No matter how much Fan Sheng hated He Lingchuan, he had to ask: "Is that really the murderer you are chasing?"
"I didn't see it in person. We were wrestling in the Lotus Palace at that time, remember?" He Lingchuan shrugged, "But according to the testimony of the villagers, the monster that kidnapped Zhongsun Mou was very similar to what Mai Xuewen used.
The monster-hunting snail toad."
Fan Sheng, who was well-informed and well-informed, also found it incredible: "This guy named Mai has already escaped, why did he come back to rob Zhongsun Mou?"
"Who knows, maybe he also wants to take revenge." He Lingchuan smiled, "Maybe Master Zhongsun also hindered him?"
also?
This was a retort to him. Fan Sheng frowned angrily and was about to scold him, but He Lingchuan got the better of him: "Now that even the patrol envoy has been kidnapped, Lord Fan, how do you think Lingxu City will handle this matter?"
This is a serious question, and it is also the most important question at the moment. Fan Sheng's anger was suppressed, and he thought about it and said: "Once it is reported, it will be a big deal, and the truth will be revealed."
First, the white-shouldered eagle who sent a message to the front line disappeared, and then the inspector who handled the case was eaten in broad daylight. This gave Lingxu City two consecutive blows. After hitting the left cheek and the right cheek, how could the emperor swallow it?
Do you have to take this breath?
The majesty of Lingxu City cannot be challenged.
A special envoy will definitely be sent down to investigate the case." The disappearance of the white-shouldered eagle may still be an accident, but Zhongsun Mou's death was actually seen by thousands of pairs of eyes here. Lingxu will never ignore it again. At that time, a dedicated person will be responsible for it.
The special case must be investigated and handled strictly, and it will not be as casual as Zhongsun's investigation.
What a disaster.
He Lingchuan asked him again: "So, what are the personnel and physical evidence currently involved in the case?
"Of course they will all be detained and they will not be allowed to leave Bai Shaqian." At this point, Fan Sheng exhaled in a depressed tone. This seemed to include himself.
This time he wanted to repay the favor of the Zhongsun family, but he didn't know that he ended up with a fishy smell all over him. Why bother?
He Lingchuan saw his annoyance and believed a little of his previous statement. He turned and left without saying much.
"Are you okay?" Jiao Yu saw that half of his clothes were red.
"Something's wrong, it really hurts." Injuries are commonplace, but it doesn't mean he doesn't know the pain, not to mention that the painkilling effect of the stone powder has worn off, "but I have to go somewhere first."
Magistrate Tian was very considerate. Seeing that the special envoy was injured, he even arranged a carriage for him despite his busy schedule.
As a result, He Lingchuan went to find Lu Dutong to return to Jiayu, so he boarded the carriage and walked northwest along the lake shore.
Isn't this going back again?
The tiger was lying at the window, and two-quarters of an hour later he vaguely saw the Lotus Palace in the lake. Jia Yuqi asked: "Why is the special envoy here again?"
"I left something in the water and need to go back and get it." It's a treasure he misses so much.
Wait!"
Jia Yu understood immediately and said obediently: "I'll go rowing and come back. You can wait a moment."
The carriage also arrived. He got out of the carriage in two steps, kicked into the water, and soon swam away.
Not long after He Lingchuan waited, Jia Yu came to the shore in a small boat.
This was Cen's ship. It had previously carried Fan Sheng to attack He Lingchuan but failed. This ship was pushed away by Jia Yu.
Now he rowed back and took the injured He Lingchuan into the lake again.
Tiger still couldn't get a seat on this trip. The boat was too small and it was too heavy, so he could only lie on the shore and wait.
Soon, Xiaozhou returned to the place where He Lingchuan had a fierce battle with Fan Sheng.
both
They were stunned, the scene in front of them was completely different from when they left:
Centered on the spot where Fan Sheng fell into the water, within a radius of ten feet there were all broken lotus stamens and not a single intact lotus.
This water area seems to have been swept over. In addition to the stems and leaves of plants, there are also corpses of water birds, insects and fish floating on the water. Those arrogant piranhas have basically turned red bellies, and there are more than a dozen or even
The body was incomplete, only two heads were still alive, and it was beating the water with only one residual fin and spinning in circles.
It's not far from dying.
Jia Yu murmured: "What happened here?"
"Fan Sheng released his life-saving move and almost died together with the lotus demon." He Lingchuan asked him to row close to the position where he had picked the Overlord Lotus before, and circled the area a few more times.
The treasure location indicated by the Divine Bone Necklace is slightly different from the original one.
He Lingchuan had some idea in his mind, found the right spot and entered the water again.
This time he dived all the way to the bottom of the water, groping carefully.
The water was full of messy floating objects, but He Lingchuan only swam back and forth on the lake bed.
With big eyes, Sister Jia Yu saw that he seemed to have been digging in the mud of the lake for a long time before he came up to the surface.
He helped He Lingchuan get back on the boat, only to see that the other party was holding something in his arms, which looked like a broken pottery. He couldn't tell whether it was an urn or a vat. It was full of mud, and most of the lotus roots were buried.
He Lingchuan used the lake water to wash away the mud and found that the broken pottery was surprisingly clean. There were not even any dead snail eggs, only the lotus root node.
I don’t know why this lotus root was broken. Similar cross-sections are all off-white, but it is blood red. At this time, there is also light red mucus, which looks a bit like human blood at first glance.
"Is this?" Jia Yu was a little unbelievable, "Is this He...?"
"It's probably the water spirit in the lake." Jia Yu once said that the water spirit punished cheaters. Fan Sheng attacked He Lingchuan this time and cut down a large piece of the lotus wall. The lotus demon knew at a glance that this was not a serious person participating in the activity, but a serious person.
Come to cause trouble.
He Lingchuan guessed that it had a bad temper, but he didn't expect that it would take advantage of Fan Sheng being trapped in the spider web to take revenge, and was taken away by a wave of the ultimate move that Fan Sheng unleashed.
More than two hundred years of hard work have come to naught, and only this half of the lotus root remains. But is he really dead?
"Let's go back."
The boat rowed to the shore, and this time the sacred bone necklace no longer heated up. It seemed that he had finally hit the mark.
After landing, He Lingchuan changed to a carriage and returned to the inn, giving Jia Yu a piece of silver as labor fee.
The soldier left happily, and the tiger also went to find Lu Dutong. He Lingchuan asked the inn to bring hot water so that he could clean the mud, residual leaves and insect corpses from his body. After soaking in the water, the wounds had to be re-opened.
deal with.
After finishing all this, half an hour passed. He Lingchuan finally found a comfortable chair to sit down on, and then took out the remaining pottery dug out of the lake and looked at it.
In fact, the material of this thing is not pottery, it looks like jade but not jade, it looks like iron but not iron, and there is a ringing sound when you knock it.
Judging from its black body and white mouth, it was probably originally a pot-shaped container, but now at most one-third is left, and only the bottom is relatively complete.
It was already in pieces anyway, so He Lingchuan simply knocked it twice with a knife as he was not afraid of damage.
Dangdang, it's okay.
He Lingchuan simply slapped it on the edge of the table.
With a snap, it was still fine, and the corner of the table fell off. The texture of this fragment was surprisingly hard!
That's right, how can something that can be noticed by the Divine Bones be done without some knowledge?
But this thing has a completely frosted feel with no patterns. Maybe the patterned part has been broken. There are only a few words engraved on the bottom:
Mi Feng.
If there is wind, you will get wind; if there is rain, you will get rain.
The first two characters are big and the last eight are small. They are actually the language of ancient immortals.
"Sure enough, I picked up an ancient object." He Lingchuan looked at it, and then at the half of the lotus root. He speculated that the ancient object broke into pieces for some reason, and the fragments fell into the tidal lake, causing the lotus flowers growing in it to turn into monsters.
He turned over and over but couldn't find any new clues, so he fed the fragments to the divine bone necklace.
God's Bone Necklace Gao Xing
Xing, there was nothing left to eat.
I don’t know how it digested such a hard fragment. He Lingchuan had seen too many strange things and was too lazy to think about it.
As for the cut of lotus root, it had holes in its cross section, so He Lingchuan threw it into the basin. Then he closed his eyes and rested, and began to review today's events.
Since the investigation of the courier case came to a standstill, Fu Songhua's hiding has become more and more difficult, and He Lingchuan himself has been assassinated twice. At that time, he understood that his opponent was acting unscrupulously by relying on his identity as an official of Lingxu City, and he wanted to turn against the client and break the passive situation.
, you need an opportunity.
This opportunity is called:
Zhongsun Mou must die!
On the one hand, Zhong Sunmou strongly advocated taking Fu Songhua back to Lingxu City to close the case. If he died, no one would take action on the matter, and Fu Songhua could continue to stay in Baishaqiang.
He Lingchuan's urgent need was solved immediately.
Originally, Fu Songhua could no longer hide himself. The power of the Cen family was really no joke, but He Lingchuan couldn't stop him.
On the other hand, Zhongsun Mou's death will definitely anger Lingxu City. After this matter became serious, the emperor refused to give up, and the Zhongsun family refused to give up, so the envoys sent to handle the case could not think of anything like Zhongsun Mou did.
Deal with it by fooling around.
At that time, all evidence involved in the case will be put under the sun and reviewed repeatedly.
The White-shouldered Eagle Messenger case will also be overturned and retried.
Can the hands and feet used by the Cen Mansion still hold up? Will the new envoy not be suspicious of them?
It can be said that as long as Zhongsun Mou dies, the game of chess will be alive.
In extraordinary times, extraordinary measures must be taken.
What's more, Zhong Sunmou and others attacked him first, and He Lingchuan just tried to retaliate.
So, he used the eggs of the snail toad.
Wan Song once explained that if they want to summon the snail toad, they only need to crush its eggs and then stand on the ground.
If it is the master, the snail toad will naturally be obedient;
If it were someone else, such as He Lingchuan or Zhong Sunmou, who had evil intentions to kill his descendants, Snail Toad would not bother to think of a better way to relieve his hatred except for being bored.
Its brain is not much bigger than a peach and is not designed for thinking.
When they were gambling on the Chaohu Tower, He Lingchuan took the opportunity to crush the snail toad eggs, smear the soul-telling mirror with the juice, and then use his true power to dry it.