Xu Simin said: "We went to see Liu Deyou and others. They were the last people to see Chen Zeyu. The two villages are not far apart. They always walk around in the middle of the night on weekdays. Nothing has ever happened."
Gao Anhe turned around and asked Luo Jincheng: "Where are you?"
Luo Jincheng said: "Chen Zeyu's biggest creditor is named Huang Wenxing. We went to see his house. He has a good family background. He doesn't look like someone who would kill for one hundred and twenty-two taels of silver."
Xu Simin said: "In Huang Wenxing's words, Chen Zeyu can only pay back the money if he is alive, and on the night of the incident, he was playing cards elsewhere."
Gao Anhe nodded: "So there are no clues on both sides. It seems that we have to continue investigating several other disappearance cases."
Lin Xiaodong said: "Master Gao, I won't go with you to see if you can find the evil spirit in your concentration and find it directly."
Gao Anhe stood up: "Okay, let's go."
Lin Xiaodong left Tan Yuanming's house and went to the river outside the village. He found a clean place to sit down and practiced Qigong with his eyes closed.
In the evening, the setting sun is shining, the evening breeze is blowing, the smoke from the village is curling up, and the river is rippling.
Xu Simin came over and called softly: "Taoist Master Lin?"
Taoist Lin?
We are back, Master Gao asked me to come find you."
Lin Xiaodong slowly opened his eyes, stood up, and asked Xu Simin: "Have you found any clues through the investigation?"
Xu Simin pouted: "We went to two more crime scenes and found nothing. No traces were left at the scene."
"Now I feel more and more that it is a monster eating people. If it were an ordinary person, how could there be no footprints at the scene."
Lin Xiaodong frowned and shook his head, saying sternly: "But where is the monster?
I spent an afternoon exploring the area around the village and found no evil spirit."
Xu Simin sighed in disappointment: "Yes... this place is too clean, how could there be a man-eating monster?"
Lin Xiaodong looked at the distant mountains and said, "Let's go back."
When the two returned to the village entrance, Gao Anhe and others were already waiting for them.
Lin Xiaodong shook his head at Gao Anhe: "I can't find this monster."
Gao Anhe nodded: "Let's go, go back first, there are two cases to be investigated tomorrow, there will always be clues."
Everyone bid farewell to Tan Yuanming and returned to the post house.
At night, Lin Xiaodong continued to practice martial arts with his eyes closed, detecting evil spirits, and suddenly heard a knock on the door.
He got out of bed and opened the door, and saw Xu Simin standing outside.
Xu Simin raised her head and smiled, stood on tiptoe with her hands behind her back, and said coquettishly: "Are you disturbing Taoist Lin's rest?"
Lin Daochang hurriedly invited people in: "No, no, Miss Xu, please sit down quickly."
Xu Simin sat down, Lin Xiaodong poured tea, sat down opposite, and asked: "Miss Xu came to me late at night, what's the matter?"
Xu Simin held her hands between her thighs, lowered her head and thought for a while, then suddenly raised her head, turned sideways, and said to Lin Xiaodong firmly: "Director Lin, although I have said thank you again and again, it is still not enough to express my gratitude.
Gratitude.”
Lin Xiaodong said: "Miss Xu, there is no need to be polite. When I dealt with Fang Tianrui and Li Jiantong, I didn't even think about your affairs."
Xu Simin said: "For Taoist Lin, this matter is nothing, but for me, it means regaining my freedom and clearing my grievances."
"I secretly swore long ago in prison that if anyone can clear my name, I will do everything I can to repay the favor even if I am broken into pieces."
Lin Xiaodong smiled: "That's not necessary. Miss Xu can work peacefully in the eunuch and eliminate harm for the people."
Xu Simin lowered his head: "It's just that I didn't expect that you are a Taoist who doesn't care about external things and doesn't know how to repay your kindness."
"If there is anything Taoist Lin wants or wants to do, you can tell me and I will do my best."
Lin Xiaodong smiled and said: "Miss Xu is too polite. I came to the eunuch to help handle the case. You and I are even half colleagues. It's a bit annoying to always say such things."
Xu Simin lowered his head and looked at his thigh. He was in a daze for a while and suddenly asked in a daze: "Director Lin, are you married?"
Lin Xiaodong guessed what Xu Simin meant and said directly: "Although I am not married, I am accompanied by four beauties."
Xu Simin thought she had heard wrongly and repeated: "Four... people..." Lin Xiaodong nodded: "Lin is a dissolute person. He owes countless romantic debts, and it is difficult for him to talk about it."
Xu Simin was a little disappointed. Lin Xiaodong was a Taoist who wanted money in vain, had great magical power, and had no shortage of women around him. He really didn't know how to repay this kindness.
Seeing Xu Simin stunned, Lin Xiaodong smiled and said: "Miss Xu, is there anything else? It's getting late. Go back and rest early. We have to handle a case tomorrow."
Xu Simin stood up blankly, glanced at Lin Xiaodong quickly, and walked out.
The next morning, everyone had breakfast and gathered in Gao Anhe's room.
Gao Anhe said: "Let's go and check out the other two crime scenes."
Lin Xiaodong also wanted to go to the place where the incident occurred and went with Gao Anhe.
Xu Simin was still very enthusiastic when she met Lin Xiaodong. The fact that Lin Xiaodong had four women did not seem to have any impact on her.
The remaining two crime scenes were very similar to Chen Zeyu's. There were only the victim's footprints, no witnesses, and no signs of a fight.
Lin Xiaodong, Luo Jincheng and others looked around, but could not detect a trace of evil spirit.
After everyone had finished visiting, it was already evening, and Lin Xiaodong and others stood at the entrance of Wenfu Village to discuss.
Gao Anhe said: "Could it be said that it is not the work of monsters, but the evil path of practicing evil methods?"
Lin Xiaodong shook his head: "Whether it's a human or a demon, as long as it eats people and harms others, there must be demonic and evil auras, but there is nothing here, it's clean."
Luo Jincheng nodded: "Yes, as long as you do bad things, there will always be clues. It can't be so clean."
Chen Shilan said: "Could it be that these missing people are not dead yet?"
Luo Jincheng asked: "What are you doing if you hide someone instead of killing them?"
Lin Xiaodong thought of the vampires he had come into contact with on the Sunlight Star, who captured living people to use as food reserves, and said: "There are some bloodthirsty evil spirits who have the habit of storing living people."
Gao Anhe asked: "Do you suspect it is some monster that sucks human blood?"
Lin Xiaodong shook his head: "If it is this kind of monster, it will have the smell of blood, but we have gone to so many places and we haven't found any blood."
Gao Anhe nodded, thought for a while, and said to Luo Jincheng: "Go and inform Mr. Dong and ask him to take more precautions. We will also arrange for patrols at night. Even if the murderer is not caught, nothing will happen again. That's all for today. Thank you for your hard work."
Everyone, let’s go back.”
Everyone got on the carriage and returned to the county posthouse.
At night, Lin Xiaodong closed his eyes and practiced Qigong again, and Xu Simin knocked on the door again.
Lin Xiaodong came to open the door and saw her again. He raised his eyebrows and opened his mouth. He was very surprised. He thought to himself, I have told you that I have four women, but you still won't give up?