From Xiao Yue'er's words, Jiang Chen gained a deeper understanding of Yueling County.
Although Xiao Yue'er doesn't know much, her words are more true than others.
Because Jiang Chen discovered that everyone in Yueling County is an actor, speaking truthfully and falsely, and has no idea which of their words is true and which is false!
"There is a problem in Ling County this month, but I don't know where the problem is?!"
Jiang Chen thought with a headache.
His intuition told him that this so-called Yueling County was the Yueling Valley, the dojo of the Taiyin Empress.
But he couldn't find any basis for it, which made him very distressed.
This is obviously a very ordinary county town!
Ordinary from beginning to end!
But something is wrong everywhere!
Jiang Chen drove back to the county town, returned the carriage, then went to the blacksmith shop to get back his sword, and then took Xiao Yue'er to the tailor shop to buy two new clothes.
After buying clothes, the two returned to Yunhua Inn. Jiang Chen opened another room for Xiao Yue'er opposite his own room, and asked the inn boy to get a bucket of hot water for her so that she could have a good wash.
When Xiao Yue'er finished washing and walked out of the room, Jiang Chen was slightly startled when he saw it. Now he finally knew what it means to have autumn water as the god, jade as the bone, and hibiscus as the face and willows as the eyebrows!
Xiao Yue'er really didn't lie. She is indeed very beautiful. She has been a beauty since she was a child. How can she be so good when she grows up?!
After washing herself, she braided two braids and put on the new clothes and shoes that Jiang Chen bought for her. She is really different from the little beggar she was before!
"Brother Jiang Chen, do you think it's okay?"
Xiao Yue'er lowered her head and said.
"OK!"
"Why not!"
"Let's go, I'll take you to dinner."
"By the way, let's find out whose property that dilapidated Taoist temple belongs to now. Can we buy it from him?"
Jiang Chen said.
"Uh-huh."
Xiao Yue'er nodded.
The two of them walked on the street and shopped around. Jiang Chen also bought Xiao Yue'er a beautiful silver hairpin and headband.
The two of them came to the largest restaurant in Yueling County and ordered four dishes in a relatively quiet corner area on the first floor, chatting while eating.
"Killing people!"
"Someone is trying to kill me!"
"Help!"
There was a loud noise from the second floor of the restaurant. Jiang Chen looked up from the first floor. It was the melon dealer Chen Hui who had had conflicts with him before!
"Are all melon sellers so rich these days?"
"Come to the largest restaurant in the county for dinner, and even have a private room?!"
Jiang Chen thought in his heart.
This man was a pure evil and he deserved to be killed, so Jiang Chen had no intention of saving him!
The person who chased him was a masked woman dressed in black. She was tall and well-proportioned, with a pair of almond-shaped eyes as cold as ice.
"Go to hell!"
It held a long sword and stabbed Chen Hui in the chest, then kicked him down from the second floor and fell to the ground!
The masked woman broke the window on the second floor and fled, disappearing without a trace.
This girl is very brave to commit murder in broad daylight!
"What a handsome kung fu, but why do I always feel like I've seen you before? And the sword in her hand feels a bit familiar!"
"Although I haven't seen her true appearance, I can tell by looking at her figure that she must be very beautiful. Could it be that I am familiar with all beauties?"
Jiang Chen muttered in his heart, then turned around and found that Xiao Yue'er, who was eating across from him just now, had disappeared!
"Xiao Yue'er?"
Jiang Chen looked around, but did not see Xiao Yue'er.
He grabbed the waiter in the restaurant and asked, "Where did the little girl who came to eat with me just now go?"
"ah?"
The boy was shocked when he heard this, and then said cautiously
"Sir, are you drunk?"
"Didn't you come here by yourself?"
"Have you forgotten?"
Jiang Chen was shocked when he heard this. He looked around and found that there were no bowls and chopsticks on the opposite side of the table.
There was no trace of the food being touched by a second person.
It’s really evil!
He paid the money and hurriedly left the restaurant and returned to Yunhua Inn. However, there was still no trace of Xiao Yue'er. The answers from the people in the inn were surprisingly unanimous, and they all said they had not seen Xiao Yue'er!
"Evil door!"
"This is really evil!"
"How could this be?"
"In just the blink of an eye, Xiao Yue'er was completely wiped out?!"
"No, I don't believe it!"
"Everything that has ever existed must have traces!"
Jiang Chen rented a horse and galloped all the way to the place where Grandpa Xiao Yue'er was buried this morning. As a result, the place was deserted and overgrown with weeds.
"Gone!"
He dug through the overgrown wasteland and found that the soil here had no trace of being disturbed, but he had just dug a hole here to bury Xiao Yue'er's grandfather in the morning!
He rode back to the city and went to the coffin shop and paper treasure shop, but the bosses there said they had never seen him!
Then he asked several people about Xiao Yue'er.
"What Xiaoyue'er, I don't know."
"My parents are both dead, and I have been living with my grandfather since I was a child? This is impossible. How could I not know if there is such a pitiful person around me?"
"Taoist Priest, it's not dark yet, and you're already dreaming?"
"You said you had a meal at a restaurant, and then the little girl named Xiao Yue'er disappeared in the blink of an eye?"
"Taoist Priest, how much wine have you drunk? If you just eat a peanut, you won't be so drunk!"
"Go away, go away, you crazy Taoist, I have been selling vegetables here for twenty-five years, and I have never seen the Xiao Yue'er you are talking about!"
"You also said that she worked and moved food here just for the ten cents. Who are you trying to eliminate? Am I such an unreasonable person?"
"If she is really as pitiful as you say, I can't even give her ten cents to get her to work for me!"
"..."
Jiang Chen searched everywhere for traces of Xiao Yue'er, but found nothing.
It’s as if Xiao Yue’er has never appeared in Yueling County!
"Am I really hallucinating?"
Jiang Chen murmured to himself.
By now, he himself was a little shaken!
"Taoist Master Chunyang!"
"The county magistrate invites you!"
Wang Shun, the head catcher from Yueling County, found Jiang Chen and spoke directly, sounding a little anxious.
"What does the county magistrate want from me?"
"Didn't I clear myself of suspicion in the previous case?"
Jiang Chen frowned when he heard this.
"The Taoist Master misunderstood!"
"Thanks to the Taoist Priest for mentioning the previous case, otherwise we would have really almost wronged the Taoist Priest!"
"This time, the county magistrate asked me to invite you for a case."
"The murder of Chen Hui happened at noon today. The perpetrator was extremely arrogant. He committed the murder during the day and escaped!"
"We searched the police station all afternoon and couldn't find any clues, so the county magistrate ordered me to come and ask for your help!"
Wang Shun said with a flattering smile.
After listening to what he said, Jiang Chen understood what he meant. It seemed that it was not that the county official wanted to ask him for help, but that Wang Shun was reprimanded by the county official for his poor performance, so he wanted to ask him for help.
I was afraid that he would not help, so I even moved the county official out, hoping that he could give the county official a little less favor!
It’s really treacherous!
Jiang Chen pondered for three seconds, and then said
"I was at the scene when the crime occurred. I saw that the person who took action was a masked woman with extraordinary skills. Normally three or five big men could not get close to her."
"She jumped out of the window on the second floor and left, and it was impossible not to have any witnesses during the day."
"All we need to do is keep looking for witnesses, map out her escape route, and then follow the clues, and we should gain something!"