Only the sound of continuous drizzle outside the hall showed that time was still passing.
I heard Gu An's question.
Liu Guangyun looked confused: "What does Gu Xiaoqi mean?"
"It's nothing, I just want to know more about it, and I would like Deputy Gang Leader Liu to inform me."
Gu An chuckled.
Liu Guangyun pondered for a moment: "Yesterday at Chenshi, I took my men and went to the Jincan Sect to deliver goods.
Everyone in the gang knows about this."
"Approximately how many people are there in the entourage?"
"There is a lot of cargo, and I brought more than thirty people with me."
Gu An nodded slowly.
Just now when Liu Guangyun came in through the rain curtain, Gu An smelled again the fragrance that he had smelled from Liu Guangyun and Wang Xin when they were at Mi Xian Tower that night.
The important thing is that this fragrance is exactly the same as that of the female ghost in Longxu Village and that permeates the space...
This was only discovered by Gu An after Liu Guangyun came in.
This female spy was a villager who was killed the night before yesterday. Liu Guangyun should still be in the city at that time, and he should not have done it.
When asking questions, Gu An enveloped Liu Guangyun with his mental power.
I found that except when he asked questions, his spirit fluctuated for a while, and when he talked about where he was going, he was relatively calm and stable.
It doesn't look like he's lying.
In this way, Wang Xin also has that fragrance.
Golden Silkworm Sect...
An insect-controlling sect buys asparagus grass...
Not long after, after talking with Ke Liujun and Liu Guangyun for a while, they were sent out of the Hundred Household Office of the Suppression of Evil Department.
Gu An sat back down and lowered his eyebrows in deep thought.
Yang Ling remembered Gu An's inquiry and thought for a moment: "Why, do you think Liu Guangyun and Asparagus are related?"
Gu An nodded: "I have some guesses, but I would like to ask more about the details.
Someone come."
Shout outside.
Soon a handyman disciple entered the hall.
"I've met General Yang Qi, I've met Gu Xiaoqi, I don't know what Gu Xiaoqi's orders are."
"Go, invite the villager from Longxu Village in the guest room, and tell him that I have something to ask him."
"yes."
After receiving the order, the handyman disciples quickly retreated.
A quarter of an hour later, the villagers came to the hall and met Yang Ling and Gu An after the ceremony.
Gu An asked: "Let me ask, does the Jin Can Sect purchase asparagus grass from your Longxu Village every year?"
"No, this is the first time this year."
"How much share did they buy?"
Upon hearing the question, the villagers looked embarrassed.
Gu An raised his eyebrows and knew where he was in trouble.
The ratio of Asparagus Grass to the major forces is not convenient for others to know.
"I also know your difficulties, but this issue is the key to whether we can find the murderer. I hope you can tell the truth."
The villager pursed his lips, as if he had made up his mind: "Now that the asparagus is gone, there is no harm in telling Gu Xiaoqi.
According to the expected harvest this year, as discussed with the Golden Silkworm Sect, it will be about nine thousand roots."
Because Gu An had never used this body-tempering medicine, he only ordered three pairs at the beginning and planned to try it first, that is, six pills.
If the effect is good, I will continue to purchase it in the future.
According to Zhang Zengwen, six asparagus roots cost sixty taels of silver, and nine thousand roots are equivalent to ninety thousand taels of silver!
An insect-controlling sect requires so much body-refining asparagus grass. This is the first time to buy it. Anyone who sees it will have questions, right?
So if it was them who did it, do they feel they don’t want to pay the 90,000 taels of silver, or do they feel that 9,000 taels is still not enough?
Gu An's own feeling is more inclined to the latter...
After asking the questions, Gu An asked the villagers to go down first.
Yang Ling frowned and said, "Jin Can Sect, do you think the Jin Can Sect did this?"
Gu An nodded, and then explained his guess and basis.
"Mr. Yang, you knew when you were in Ping'an County that my physique is quite special, and this special feature, in addition to strength and defense, is also my sense of smell.
When I completed the mission with Xiaoqi from Chichi County before, I relied on my sense of smell and the yin energy I asked about."
Yang Ling suddenly realized: "Your physique is indeed powerful, but why haven't you broken through to the Dan Condensation realm yet?"
Gu An coughed dryly: "Ahem, let's not talk about this. Mr. Yang, I would like to ask about the strength of the leader of the Golden Silkworm Sect."
"The leader of the Golden Silkworm Sect, Jin Yuanzhong, is a strong man with the sixth level of Gang Qi."
Yang Ling looked at Gu An's thoughtful look and said with a smile: "I think I don't just want to know the strength of their sect leader, I will also tell you about the rest.
In addition to Jin Yuanzhong, the deputy sect leader Kong Jinshan is at the fifth level of Gang Qi, and there are five other inner sect elders, each of whom is at the third level of Gang Qi.
But what makes them powerful is the swarm of insects they raise.
Everyone has an insect mother in their hands. They control the insect mother, and the insect mother controls the insect swarm to attack people.
Some of them can even eat away at our Gang Qi.
Insects are afraid of fire, but the flame formations included in our formations will have no impact on their insect swarms."
Gu An frowned: "The flame formation patterns are useless, so how do the disciples of the Golden Silkworm Sect restrain themselves in battle?"
“I didn’t think about restraint, so I could only find a way to directly attack the controller himself.
However, they also have disadvantages. The insect colonies they raise have a short survival time.
A swarm of insects that emerges from the cocoon at the same time only has half a month to survive, so they must continue to cultivate the swarm.
This also prevents them from traveling far and can only move within Dongling County.
But you can’t convict them based on smell alone without substantial evidence.”
Gu An nodded: "Of course I know this, so I plan to go to the Golden Silkworm Sect tomorrow."
After chatting with Yang Ling for a while, Gu An quickly left the fifth place and walked outside.
…
In the Baiyun Gang lobby.
Meng Xiongfei sat on the main seat: "What do you mean by Gu An's question?"
Ke Liujun frowned slightly: "Gu An seems to be asking, but I feel that he has confirmed that the third brother has not been in the county for the past two days."
Liu Guangyun waved his hand: "Nothing. Anyway, I told the truth. I didn't do anything except delivering goods."
Ke Liujun raised his head and thought for a while: "Gu An left the city early this morning. I asked someone to inquire about it. He took over the mission of Longxu Village to eradicate the monsters.
I came back in the afternoon and brought back another villager from Longxu Village.
Logically speaking, if the problem is resolved, the villagers will not be brought back.
So I guess there is something wrong with Longxu Village."
Liu Guangyun asked in confusion: "Does this have anything to do with him asking me questions?"
"Whether there is or not, it's always right to inquire, Ah Fu."
Ke Liujun shouted outside.
Soon a group of people came in and greeted the three of them.
"Let's find someone to investigate, but something happened over there in Longxu Village."
"yes."
After the crowd responded, they quickly left the hall.
Ke Liujun thought for a while and asked: "By the way, third brother, why did the Golden Cannula Sect ask us to purchase so much white jade on our behalf?"
"I don't know, but when I saw their disciples carrying the white jade up, they all looked very excited..."