Lin Xiaodong invited Xu Simin in again and sat down.
Xu Simin sat down, lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly asked: "Why do you have four women?"
Lin Xiaodong opened his mouth in silence, thinking that this was too direct, and said: "Well, it's a long story."
Xu Simin smiled easily: "Taoist Master Lin has a graceful demeanor and powerful magic. It is only natural that he can charm women."
Lin Xiaodong said with a guilty conscience: "It's my fault that I've always been wild and don't know how to restrain myself. I don't know how many girls have let down their youthful sincerity."
Xu Simin sighed melancholy: "Taoist Master Lin has been very kind to me, but I still want to serve you. It seems that I am being sentimental."
Lin Xiaodong said hurriedly: "What Miss Xu does in the eunuch is for the great things of the people of the world. It is much more meaningful than staying with me and wasting her time."
"What's more, Lin's dissolute behavior is not worthy of the girl's love. Let's not talk about it again."
Xu Simin smiled: "Although you are not a good man, you are open-minded and dare to admit that you are a man."
Lin Xiaodong lowered his head and frowned: "I really don't know whether Miss Xu is praising me or scolding me."
Xu Simin covered her mouth and smiled softly before going out.
On the second day, the investigation reached a deadlock. Gao Anhe was looking through the files at his residence, while Luo Jincheng, Lin Xiaodong and others had nothing to do.
In the morning, Xu Simin took Chen Shilan to find Lin Xiaodong. Chen Shilan smiled and said: "Director Lin, let's go shopping."
Lin Xiaodong had been sitting in meditation for two days, thinking hard and couldn't figure it out, so he agreed and said, "Okay, I just want to go out and relax."
The two sisters shouted and took Lin Xiaodong to the street.
Yishan County is a large and prosperous town, and the streets are quite lively. The two sisters bought a lot of food and fun, and were very happy.
A child on the roadside saw two beauties holding a lot of food. He was a little greedy and said: "Sister bought a lot of food!"
Chen Shilan smiled, took out a candy man, stuffed it into the child's hand, and said, "When you grow up to our age, you can buy a lot of delicious food by yourself!"
After hearing these words, Lin Xiaodong felt like he was enlightened. He clapped his hands and shouted, "Yes, it will be fine when you grow up!"
Xu Simin, Chen Shilan and the children were all startled by Lin Xiaodong. Chen Shilan asked: "Why were you so surprised?"
Lin Xiaodong said: "Stop wandering around, I have a clue!"
Xu Simin and Chen Shilan listened and followed him reluctantly: "What clue?
You go slower!"
Lin Xiaodong turned around suddenly, almost bumping into Chen Shilan, and said: "Monsters also have a process of gradually becoming a phenomenon. Maybe it is not showing its tricks now, but it was not necessarily the case before!"
Xu Simin and Chen Shilan both widened their eyes and suddenly realized.
The three of them hurried back to the inn and went to Gao Anhe's room in a hurry. Chen Shilan couldn't wait to shout: "Director Lin has a clue!"
Gao An and the dossier were dizzy when they heard what Chen Shilan said. He threw the book in his hands on the table, raised his head and asked, "What kind of clues are there?"
Lin Xiaodong said: "This monster has become a monster now. It has high magic power, so it can do things without revealing its flaws. But magic power has to be accumulated bit by bit. When it was not so powerful before, it must have been bumped into by others."
Kazuya Takayasu understood it all at once, and pointed his finger: "In other words, we only need to investigate all the evil and ghost things around us, and we are very likely to find it! Okay, let's set off now!"
A group of people took a carriage to the county government office. Dong Yangde saw that all the eunuchs and eunuchs had arrived, and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong?"
Gao Anhe said: "Call all the people who can be brought along and go to all the villages where people have gone missing. Ask door to door if there are any weird things, evil spirits, ghosts, diseases, etc."
Dong Yangde nodded and turned around to tell Ren Hongcai: "Go and call everyone here!"
Ren Hongcai called all the officers, soldiers and civilians from the county government. More than a hundred people were divided into five groups and went from house to house to inquire. Gao Anhe, Lin Xiaodong and others also went to Huiquan Village to wait for news.
At noon, Ren Hongcai came to Gao Anhe with his people and said, "Sir, something strange happened to a family in Lai'an Village."
Gao Anhe and Lin Xiaodong looked at each other and asked, "What kind of weird thing?"
Ren Hongcai said: "There is a villager in Lai'an Village named Xu Guangming, and his wife Lin Tanghua has a strange disease."
Chen Shilan asked: "What kind of strange disease?"
Ren Hongcai said: "Although Lin Tanghua was not a lady in the early years, she was one of the most beautiful wives in the village."
"But three years ago, I don't know what happened. I suddenly started to age. My hair grew white, and my skin was covered with wrinkles. I looked like I was thirty years older. Standing with Xu Guangming, they didn't look like a couple. They looked more like a couple.
It’s like mother and son.”
Gao Anhe heard this and said decisively: "Take us there."
Everyone went to Xu Guangming's house. The yard was not big and was kept clean and tidy.
Seeing so many people coming, Xu Guangming and Lin Tanghua came to greet them. Xu Guangming raised his hands and said, "Several adults came to see me. What's the matter?"
Ren Hongcai said: "Nothing, some adults would like to ask about your wife."
A trace of sadness flashed in Xu Guangming's eyes, and Lin Tanghua also lowered his head.
Lin Xiaodong looked at Lin Tanghua and saw that she was wearing a very exquisite and well-fitting ordinary women's dress. Her age and appearance clearly did not match her clothes, like an old lady wearing a young girl's clothes.
Her hair was gray, and the skin on her hands and face were yellow, dry, and full of wrinkles. She stood awkwardly aside, unable to raise her head.
Gao Anhe asked: "When did you start doing this?"
Lin Tanghua's chin almost touched his chest, and his voice was old and hoarse: "Three years ago."
Luo Jincheng asked: "Have you met anyone or anything weird before you fell ill?"
Xu Guangming said: "My wife usually likes to go to the mountains to pick mushrooms to eat, but once she fainted on the mountain."
Gao Anhe asked quickly: "Why did you faint?"
Lin Tanghua said: "I squatted down to pick mushrooms. When I stood up, my eyes were covered with flowers and I fell asleep. When I woke up, it was almost dark."
Lin Xiaodong said: "I am a Taoist priest, let me show you."
Lin Tanghua timidly stretched out his hand.
Lin Xiaodong felt her pulse and found that the vitality in her body was weak. It was not illness, but real aging.
Xu Guangming looked expectant and asked with red eyes: "Sir, can my wife still be cured?"
Lin Xiaodong let go of Lin Tanghua's hand and said to Gao Anhe: "Sir, let's come out and talk."
Several people came outside the gate. Lin Xiaodong glanced at Xu Guangming and Lin Tanghua, who were cuddling together, and said, "Sir, I can confirm now that this matter was indeed the work of a monster."
Gao Anhe asked: "Why, do you know what's going on?
What disease does Lin Tanghua have?"
Lin Xiaodong said: "She is not sick, but the Yin Yuan was sucked away by the monster."