Gao Lixing took a look and handed it to Lin Xiaodong.
Lin Xiaodong looked at it and asked, "Where are the brides from the other three families?"
Guo Zhize said: "I'll go check it out now."
Wen Songcheng said to Gao Lixing: "Send someone to ask if these six families have had contact with fortune tellers or Taoist masters before their marriages."
Gao Lixing took the order and left.
Lin Xiaodong, Wen Songcheng, and Wen Yunmei were waiting in the hall. An hour later, Gao Lixing and Guo Zhize came back, escorting back a Taoist priest and a fortune teller.
Gao Lixing pointed at the Taoist priest and said, "Sir, four of the six families asked him about the time."
The Taoist said helplessly: "Sir, I have been in this city for more than 20 years. Most people in the city come to me for weddings and funerals. This bride's disappearance has nothing to do with me!"
The fortune teller next to him grinned disdainfully after hearing this: "Just brag, I do more business in a month than you do in a year!"
The Taoist pointed at the fortune teller and said, "Sir, look at him, he doesn't look like a good person with his sinister features and eyes. The bride will most likely be captured by him!"
After hearing this, the fortune teller cursed angrily: "You old cow nose, how can you taint someone's innocence out of thin air?
I only tell fortunes, when have I ever done anything to make money or kill someone?"
The two quarreled, and Wen Songcheng shouted majestically: "What's the quarrel about?
Say, was it you who arrested the person?"
The Taoist shrugged and spread his hands and shook his head: "Sir, I am also from a well-known and upright family. How could I do such a thing? Wouldn't it bring shame to the family?"
The fortune teller also said anxiously: "Sir, this is unfair. The young man is just showing people how to get married and making ends meet. How can he have the guts to arrest someone?"
Wen Songcheng asked solemnly: "How to prove it?"
The Taoist said: "Sir, I also went to the wedding. So many people have seen me. How could they be captured by me?"
The fortune teller said: "Sir, I don't know the time of the missing bride. She has nothing to do with me."
Neither of them seemed to have any doubts. Wen Yun frowned and said, "Could it be that it's not the two of them?"
Lin Xiaodong asked Guo Zhize: "Do you have the birth dates of the six brides?"
Guo Zhize took out a piece of paper and handed it to Lin Xiaodong: "Yes."
Lin Xiaodong took it and took a look. The three missing people and the three people who were not missing were put together and compared. It was clear at a glance that the three missing people had obviously more sinister physiques.
He handed the paper to Wen Yunmei again and said: "No matter who the murderer is, he committed the crime selectively."
Wen Yunmei glanced at them and nodded: "The missing three have weaker yang energy.
In this case, it is not a monster causing trouble, but an evil way."
Wen Songcheng asked: "If it's not the two of them, who else can know the bride's birthday and horoscope?"
The man said: "Sir, if you want to know whether a person's yang energy is sufficient or insufficient, you don't need to have a birth date. You can tell by just looking at the qi."
Lin Xiaodong blinked and asked, "Is there any happy event at home that I can see?"
The Taoist nodded: "Of course you can see it. If there is a happy event in the family, there must be red luan energy in the sky. You can tell it at a glance."
Lin Xiaodong turned back and raised his eyebrows at Wen Yun, and asked, "Who has such ability around Fuyang County?"
The Taoist raised his head proudly: "The method of looking at Qi is my unique secret skill at Zhaotian Temple in Jiangrui Mountain."
The fortune teller said sarcastically: "Of course it is a unique secret skill. After all, you are the only one left in Zhaotian Temple."
The Taoist blushed after being scolded, lowered his head and said: "The White Moon Tower in Shiling Mountain also has a method of fortune-telling, but it is not as sophisticated as our Zhaotian Temple."
Wen Songcheng glanced at Lin Xiaodong and waved his hand: "Let him go."
Gao Lixing nodded, and the government officials took the two of them out of the hall.
Wen Songcheng said: "Let's go to Baiyue Tower in Shiling Mountain."
Gao Lixing led a hundred officers and soldiers, and rushed to Shiling Mountain together with Lin Xiaodong, Wen Songcheng, Wen Yunmei and Guo Zhize.
Shiling Mountain is fifty miles north of Fuyang County. Lin Xiaodong was in Dingzhong last night and only explored ten miles outside Fuyang County, so he didn't notice it.
When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, it was already dusk. Lin Xiaodong looked around and saw a five-story, octagonal wooden building with stacked eaves standing on the top of the mountain, which was quite impressive.
Wen Yun frowned and said, "There's nothing evil about it."
Lin Xiaodong said: "Let me investigate."
He lowered his head, dozed off, then opened his eyes, and said angrily with red eyes: "The souls of the three people are here, and they were turned into red demons and tortured in every possible way. It's really hateful!"
Wen Songcheng's expression changed: "So, the person is dead?"
Lin Xiaodong gritted his teeth and nodded.
Everyone lowered their heads, Gao Lixing clenched his fists and stared: "We are newlyweds, we are separated for life and death, Bai Yuelou actually did such a heinous thing?"
Wen Songcheng took the lead up the mountain: "If this is true, let's see if I don't flatten his bird tower!"
A group of officers and soldiers also came to the mountain field full of anger.
Seeing the officers and soldiers arriving, the bells rang loudly upstairs. After a while, the door opened and more than 20 people came out, all uniformly dressed.
The leader was an old man who looked to be in his fifties or sixties. He had short hair and was dressed in black satin clothes, which were no different from those worn by the wealthy gentry in the city.
This person is Huang Zizhen, the master of Yuetan Building of Baiyue Tower in Shiling Mountain. He is now a hundred years old and has cultivated for nearly eighty years. He is quite powerful in Fuyang County.
Seeing so many officers and soldiers coming in such a menacing manner, Huang Zizhen was calm and composed, and asked with a smile: "What's the big deal for these adults who have brought so many officers here?"
Wen Songcheng shouted: "Did you capture the bride who disappeared in the city?"
Huang Zizhen spread his hands: "I haven't been to the city for a long time. Where do you start talking about this?"
Wen Songcheng was stunned. He had no evidence, so he had to look back at Lin Xiaodong.
Lin Xiaodong pointed to the person next to Huang Zizhen and said, "It's you."
A glimmer of gloom flashed in the eyes of the person being accused, and he immediately waved his hands pitifully: "My lord, you are wronged! I am devoted to cultivating Taoism in Baiyue Tower. This matter has nothing to do with me!"
Huang Zizhen looked unhappy and said: "Sir, if you want to arrest someone, you must have evidence. This person is my great disciple Xie Tongfu of Baiyue Tower."
"He follows me Qingxiu on weekdays. He is upright and diligent, and he never pays attention to worldly matters. How could he be the one who caught the missing people in the city?"
Lin Xiaodong's eyes were cold and he said to Xie Tongfu: "Take out the things in your arms."
Xie Tongfu looked at Lin Xiaodong with murderous intent in his eyes.
When Huang Zizhen saw that Lin Xiaodong was less than thirty, he couldn't help but sneer and said unkindly: "Sir, your county government handles cases, is it all because of this little Taoist?"
Wen Songcheng said coldly: "If your apprentice is innocent, then take out the thing in his arms."
Huang Zizhen gave Xie Tongfu a look and said: "I, Baiyue Tower, are as open as the bright moon, sir, feel free to investigate."
Xie Tongfu's eyes were cold and fierce, he reached into his arms and took out a small three-legged cauldron.
Huang Zizhen spread his hands and said with a relaxed smile: "Sir, this is just a personal belonging for us cultivators. The three brides are not here."
Lin Xiaodong snorted and smiled fiercely at Huang Zizhen.