"Come here." Wang Xian rolled his eyes at him, turned to Lingxiao and said, "Do you believe it?"
"I don't believe it." Ling Xiao shook his head, with a pair of dark eyes full of smiles, and said, "My brother gets sleepy when he reads a book, let alone flipping through those mindless files?"
"..." Xianyun glared at his sister and said to Wang Xian, "It's just a whim.
"Haha." Wang Xian didn't believe it at all and said with a smile: "Did Mr. Hu give it to you?"
"I don't understand what you are talking about." A flash of surprise flashed in Xianyun's eyes, and he immediately lowered his eyelids and said, "I'm going back to my room to practice."
"Brother, you haven't had dinner yet." Ling Xiao said, seeing Wang Xian also getting up, he couldn't help but said: "Xiao Xianzi, why are you leaving too."
"I want to compare my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch." Wang Xian shook his head sadly and said, "I'm sad, I won't eat." After saying that, he turned back to the room.
"You're still being petty." Ling Xiao said with a headache: "I can't finish all this food by myself..."
Following Wang Xian back to the master bedroom, Erhei whispered: "My lord finally decided to pierce the window paper.'
"Yes." Wang Xian nodded and said, "This feeling of being kept in the dark is really terrible." He touched his cheek and said, "Look, I have a lot of pimples.
It’s a sign of excessive mental pressure.”
"So," Shuai Hui pointed at the pimples on his face and said, "I'm going to be crushed into a pulp."
"Then roll it into a meatloaf..." Erhei continued.
"Fuck you." Shuai Hui glared at him and said to Wang Xian, "Sir, how can you be sure that someone is plotting against you?"
"Isn't this nonsense?" Erhei attacked Shuai Hui and said, "Young Master Xianyun is the young master of Wudang Mountain, and Sister Lingxiao is the apple of the eye of the real master. Hu Qinqin actually left the two of them to the master as bodyguards, and they have been ignored ever since.
Don’t ask, do you think this is possible?”
"There is indeed something fishy in this..." Shuai Hui thought about it and said, "Your Excellency was still a minor official at that time. It is only in line with his status to use people like us as bodyguards."
"In connection with this, your original assignment as Qiantang Dianshi was actually changed to Pujiang Dianshi by the Minister of Personnel. The Minister of the Ministry of Personnel was in charge of high-ranking officials like Zheng Fangbo and Zhou Zhitai, but he actually personally interrogated a miscellaneous official who had not entered the mainstream."
Erhei continued: "It's either because I'm full or I have some ulterior motives."
"I just feel that you seem to look down on your Excellency," Shuai Hui said with a smile: "Perhaps Your Excellency is famous all over the world, and even the Minister of Civil Affairs has heard of it, so I personally arranged errands for You to show your respect."
"Is there such a high regard for replacing the promising Qiantang Dianshi with the Pujiang Dianshi who has no hope of promotion?" Erhei rolled his eyes and said, "Stop making excuses here and talk about business."
"Hehe..." Shuai Hui bared his teeth and said with a smile: "I understand what you mean. You are saying that Hu Qinqi left the Xianyun brothers and sisters and transferred the adults to Pujiang with the Minister of Civil Affairs. These are two steps of a conspiracy.
,Right."
"Sir." Erhei ignored him and turned to Wang Xian: "Do you think it was Master Hu or someone pretending to be Master Xianyun to ask you to investigate those disappearances this time?"
"..." Wang Xian ignored him.
"What's wrong, sir? Am I right?" Erhei asked curiously.
"I've asked you to finish everything, and I'm still talking nonsense." Wang Xian rolled his eyes and said, "Get out of here and let me be quiet!"
"Hey." The two of them hurried out. Unexpectedly, when they opened the door, they saw Mr. Xianyun, dressed in a green preacher's robe, standing quietly at the door. The clear moonlight shone on his body, making him look even more elegant and noble.
It is estimated that what Xianyun said just now was heard by Xianyun, so the two of them shrank their necks and ran away quickly.
Xianyun stepped into the house, flicked his sleeves, and closed the door tightly.
Wang Xian looked at Xianyun and said teasingly, "I thought you would hold it in until tomorrow morning."
"I have distracting thoughts and I can't calm down." Xianyun said calmly: "It seems that escaping is not an option, so I'm here."
"It seems you are ready to tell me the truth." Wang Xian also said calmly.
"Ask me, and I will tell you what I can." Xianyun said slowly.
"What can't be said?" Wang Xian asked.
"Of course I won't say it," Xianyun said.
"What can't be said."
"You'll know if you ask."
The two of them had a heated conversation, couldn't help but smile at each other, and the barrier in their hearts was eliminated a lot.
"Okay, let me ask." Wang Xiandao: "Does it mean that Mr. Hu means that I should be regarded as the classic historian of Pujiang?"
"Yes." Xianyun nodded.
"Why?" Wang Xian asked.
"I have something for you to do."
"What's up?"
"I have already told you." Xianyun said softly.
"You mean, these missing persons cases?" Wang Xian asked.
"Yes." Xianyun nodded and said, "Master Hu gave these things to me the night before he left Fuyang, and asked me to show you these things after I arrived at Pujiang."
"Hey, let me tell you, Mr. Hu, why did you want to help me get rid of the disaster in the first place?" Wang Xian said with a wry smile: "It turned out that he wanted to use me as a chess piece."
"Am I not a chess piece?" Xianyun said with a hint of sadness in his eyes: "Even Mr. Hu is the same."
"What kind of job is Mr. Hu doing?" Wang Xian asked in a deep voice: "I went to check the book. If Master Zhang were alive, he would be one hundred and seventy years old now. How could the current saint be so wise? How could he stay the same for several years?
How about mobilizing the troops and sending people to investigate openly and covertly?"
"Master has become a land god, and one hundred and seventy years old is just the prime of life." When it comes to faith, Xianyun naturally wanted to defend Zhang Sanfeng and said: "Don't treat him like a mortal!"
"Okay, okay," Wang Xian naturally wanted to respect other people's beliefs and quickly changed his words: "Then what does searching for Zhang Zhenren have to do with asking me to investigate missing persons?"
"This," Xianyun paused and whispered, "I can't say."
Although Xianyun refused to answer, Wang Xian's favorable impression of him increased greatly. Because Xianyun could obviously use ignorance as an excuse. But he refused to lie to Wang Xian, but told him honestly that he knew, but he just couldn't tell him.
...This is such precious honesty.
But for Wang Dianshi, who is full of integrity, honest people are meant to be bullied. Then he asked, "Why can't you say it?"
"I just said that I can't tell you, so of course I won't tell you," Xian Yun said.
"Okay, let's change the question, why is Mr. Hu interested in Pujiang?" Wang Xian said solemnly: "Now that I think about it, he actually deliberately bypassed Jinhua Mansion on his trip this time."
"That's right." Xianyun has become accustomed to Wang Xian's keenness. "My lord, you deliberately went in the opposite direction just to relax the vigilance of those people."
"Which people?" Wang Xian's heart twitched.
"..." Young Master Xianyun was silent for a moment, and finally whispered: "The person Mr. Hu is looking for."
"Who?" Seeing that he finally admitted that Hu Tong actually had another goal, Wang Xian's heart tightened. He vaguely thought of a person, and his expression suddenly changed, and he said, "We can't say this, can we?"
"Yes." Xianyun nodded.
"Then I won't ask." Wang Xian forced a smile and said, "What else can you say?"
Xianyun thought about it and said, "If you investigate the missing persons case, you may... encounter danger." As he said this, he couldn't help but apologize, "That's why you asked me to protect you."
"Who would hurt me?" Wang Xian couldn't help cursing secretly. He thought that being favored by the imperial envoy was a jackpot, but he thought it was bad luck.
"I really don't know this. If I knew," Xianyun said, "you wouldn't need to check." Seeing Wang Xian's gloomy expression, he whispered: "Since you and I have been chosen, we have no choice.
, we can only do our errands seriously and strive for early transcendence."
"Yes." Wang Xian nodded, thinking that it would be better not to be silenced afterwards.
"Go to rest early." After saying everything he could, Master Xianyun felt much better.
"Eat dinner first." Wang Xian smiled and said, "I'm starving to death."
"I'm a little hungry too." Xianyun agreed.
The two of them returned to the dining room, only to see that the table was empty of cups and plates. Lingxiao held his belly in his hands, sat on the chair and groaned: "I'm exhausted..."
That night, Wang Dianshi was too hungry to sleep, so he took out the files of missing persons and looked through them. Speaking of which, the public security in Pujiang County is amazingly good. There hasn’t been a single murder case in several years. And the people don’t like to go to the Yamen.
There were surprisingly few disputes over trivial cases... Therefore, the level of the clerks was far inferior to that of the subordinates in Fuyang, and Wang Xian could see through it at a glance.
Under this circumstance, those missing persons cases seemed particularly sudden. Wang Xian opened the oldest file. The record was very simple, with only a few words. In April of the third year of Yongle, a man named Tian Wu
The woodcutter went into Xianhua Mountain to cut firewood and disappeared. His family could not find him, so they had to report it to the officials. The officials also searched for him, but to no avail. So far, there is still no news.
The second missing person is Lu Jie, a native of Jiande County. He was a poor candidate. After failing in the examination, he turned to seek immortality. In September of the fourth year of Yongle, he went to Tianlingyan in the county to search for immortals and disappeared.
The third missing person is Zheng Mai, a tea merchant in this county. He disappeared in his tea garden on New Year's Day in the fifth year of Yongle.
Wang Xian turned to the latest missing person, named Wu Shaoyuan, who was actually the husband of the eldest daughter of the Zheng family in Zhengzhai Town. This Wu Shaoyuan was a surrogate son-in-law. He was sent to the countryside to collect rent during the autumn harvest last year and stayed at a farmhouse overnight.
The next day, others discovered that he had disappeared...
After reading from beginning to end, Wang Xian closed the file, closed his eyes and began to think. These eight missing cases seemed ordinary, but upon closer consideration, they revealed something strange. Based on experience, most of these missing persons were adult males.
This rules out the possibility of human trafficking. Moreover, they either have the responsibility of supporting their families, live a wealthy life, or are newlyweds, so they are unlikely to run away from home.
To take a step back, even if you run away from home, the roads in the Ming Dynasty were strictly prohibited. Every county boundary and every city has officials checking the road guides. There is no way to leave Pujiang without road guides. Even if you leave, you will soon be there.
He was discovered by officials from other counties.
Therefore, these people should be in this county, either dead or hidden. And the possibility of committing suicide or being eaten by tigers, leopards and insects is very slim. Youdao wants to see people alive and see their bodies dead, even if they are eaten by tigers and leopards.
The leopards and insects ate it, but there were still bones and clothes. So far, no body has been found. It can be roughly inferred that he must have been killed by someone, so that the corpse could be destroyed and traced so that the government could not find it.