Martial Arts and Longevity: Starting from the Spiritual Beast Picture

Chapter 171 Returning to Qinghe County

"People ran away?"

The veins on Zhao Lin's forehead twitched, and he took a deep breath, trying to calm down.

He thought that the master was mad at Chu Liu, or used despicable methods such as poisoning, but he didn't expect to assassinate him directly.

In fact, with Zhu Huaishan's cultivation base, as long as he takes a little precaution, nothing will happen. Unfortunately, he never dreamed that the apprentice he brought up with his own hands would kill his master.

"It's all my fault for my incompetence, brother, for not protecting Master well."

Gao Yuan blamed himself: "Chu Liu had already escaped from the city when we chased him out."

Zhao Lin comforted: "It's no wonder you, no one would have thought of changing it, have you reported it to the official?"

"Reported, but for the internal affairs of the sect, the government will post wanted notices at most, and strictly check at the city gate, and the rest is just for show."

"Although Chu Liu doesn't practice hard, he is also a real second-tier aura. Those arresters would dare to go forward to arrest them. It would be nice if they could give us a tip-off."

Zhao Lin knew the truth, so he didn't expect too much. After pondering for a while, he said, "Brother, where do you think Chu Liu will go?"

This was the issue he was most concerned about. If Chu Liu killed his master, he must retaliate with an eye and kill this traitor who killed his master.

Gao Yuan shook his head, then sighed, "For the past month, our brothers and sisters have been spying on the Chu family while searching around the county seat, but unfortunately we found nothing."

"The world is so big, if Chu Liu is determined to leave his hometown and hide for the rest of his life, how difficult it will be to find him!"

Zhao Lin didn't agree with senior brother's opinion, but he didn't say anything to refute. He grabbed the teapot and filled it for the two, and asked, "Where is senior brother Yuan? Why didn't I see him."

Gao Yuan looked around and lowered his voice a little, "The Chu family has a relative in Songyuan County. Junior Brother Yuan thought that Chu Liu might go to defect, so he ran over there to monitor."

"Brother Yuan has a heart."

Zhao Lin nodded and glanced outside the tea shop, "Brother, I want to visit Master's study."

Gao Yuan smiled, "Okay, let's meet some senior brothers."

"No, now is not the time."

"why?"

Zhao Lin said in a deep voice: "There are only six of us in Liuhemen and I. To put it bluntly, even if Chu Liu is in a house in Qinghe County, we may not be able to find him."

"Now Chu Liu is in the dark, but you are in the light, so of course you can't find it."

"If I don't show up now, then I'm in the dark."

Gao Yuan thought for a while, and agreed: "Junior brother is considerate, so I won't tell them."

When Zhao Lin was the chief arrester last year, he solved several old cases in a row, and he was still the main force in arresting the Diamond Mountain Leopard gang.

The so-called name of a person, the shadow of a tree, if Chu Liu knew that Zhao Lin was back, maybe he would really run away.

After leaving the tea shop, the two found a restaurant on the street to eat something.

Until it was getting late, after the apprentices and disciples left, the two walked into Liuhemen.

After Zhu Huaishan passed away, Gao Yuan moved into the house as the new sect master, but because he was still in mourning, no official announcement was made.

Everything in the study remains the same, and Zhu Huaishan's memorial tablet is placed on the right side of the entrance.

"Since you're here, burn incense to Master." Gao Yuan said softly.

Zhao Lin came to the memorial tablet, lit three sticks of incense, bowed down, and said silently: "Master, don't worry, I will kill that beast to give you an explanation."

After the worship, Zhao Lin turned around, "Brother, what happened at that time?"

Gao Yuan came to the desk, pointed to the chair and said, "When we came in, Master was sitting on this chair with a dagger stuck in his chest."

Zhao Lin walked over, looked around, and saw crimson blood stains on the chair and the surrounding floor.

"What about the dagger?"

Gao Yuan opened the drawer and took out a gleaming dagger.

Zhao Lin took it over, his heart skipped a beat.

The dagger is about eight inches long, with two blades and a pointed and thin head.

A dagger of this level of sharpness, stabbing with all its strength, even a warrior who has practiced the Armor Strength Technique cannot stop it, let alone Zhu Huaishan who is not prepared.

The dagger handle is very long, accounting for half of the entire dagger, wrapped in a layer of ray skin to prevent sweating and slipping, smooth and shiny, with a thick layer of patina.

It can be seen that the owner of the dagger likes this weapon very much and plays with it all year round.

Zhao Lin raised his nose and sniffed, smelling a smell of sweat and grease.

This is the smell of Chu Liu!

"Brother, can I take this dagger with me?"

"Okay, let's take it."

Gao Yuan didn't ask the reason, but readily agreed.

Zhao Lin put away the dagger and said seriously: "Brother, just as I said just now, you are responsible for the clear investigation, and I will visit secretly."

The information is almost collected, and I have a rough plan in mind.

Zhao Lin didn't think that the world was so big that it was difficult to find someone.

The life scope of most people in this era is limited to one county and one city.

It's hard to leave the homeland, and it's not easy to take root in a different place, especially for a son like Chu Liu, who has never suffered. It may be no problem to leave the place where he has lived for a long time, but can he bear this kind of life?
If you want to live a comfortable life, you still cannot do without acquaintances.

So Zhao Lin judged that Chu Liu must still be connected with the Chu family!

These were all in his mind, and he didn't tell Gao Yuan directly.

Gao Yuan said apologetically, "Junior, thank you for your hard work. You were supposed to be practicing in Xingyunzong, but you still have to travel thousands of miles to come back."

Zhao Lin said indifferently: "It's nothing, as an apprentice, this is what you should do. By the way, you, brother, should spend more energy in the door. I see that a lot of apprentices have left recently."

Gao Yuan looked ashamed, "What the younger brother said is that he has neglected this aspect recently."

Zhao Lin rested at Liuhemen that night, and went out to Nancheng early the next morning before the apprentices and disciples arrived.

The Chu family is in Nancheng.

There are many rich people in Nancheng, and many people from all walks of life live here.

There is a bakery near Chu's house. The owner divided his house into a Datong shop, which can accommodate ten people, and it costs three renminbi to live there for a day.

In order to deceive others, Zhao Lin pretended to be a strong man, found the landlord, paid the money for three days, and lived in directly.

All the bunks lived in rough men who went out to look for work during the day and came back to rest at night.

Zhao Lin also pretended to go out to work during the day, but only around the Chu family.

Open your ears fully, monitor the movement inside, and don't miss everyone's conversation.

Before coming here, Zhao Lin had already inquired with Gao Yuan about the situation of the Chu family.

The Chu family is in the silk business, and the family business is quite large, and the house occupies almost half of the street.

The current head of the Chu family is the old man Chu Hongtai, who has four sons and a daughter.

The daughter married to Songyuan County, and the four sons helped manage the business here.

Logically speaking, the son should separate when he grows up, but the Chu family did not.

The reason is that among the four sons, only the eldest gave birth to a son, that is, Chu Liu, and the other three brothers either had no heirs or gave birth to daughters.

Chuliu is the only heir to such a large family business. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is a seedling in a thousand hectares of land.

Growing up in such a family, Zhao Lin didn't believe that Chu Liu could stand living a precarious life outside.

With such a large family business, it would not be possible without force protection. In addition to practicing martial arts by his own family, he also hired resident bodyguards to guard the mansion all year round.

Zhao Lin listened to it for three days straight, his mind was about to crack, but he didn't make any progress.

The word Chuliu seems to be a taboo, except for servants who occasionally gossip behind their backs, no one in the whole house mentions it!

The closer a person is to Chu Liu, the more he doesn't mention anything.

Apparently a gag order was issued.

During these three days, Zhao Lin only heard one sentence from Chu Liu's mother: "Master, you said Liu'er..."

"To shut up……"

Not being allowed to mention Chuliu's name shows that there must be something wrong with it.

Zhao Lin knew that as long as he kept monitoring like this, he would find clues sooner or later, but time waited for no one, and he couldn't spend it here all the time.

If it really takes a year and a half, Xingyunzong is afraid that he will be expelled.

A large number of people came and went from the Chu family every day. Zhao Lin had no way to separate himself, so he could only pick two or three people to follow him. Unfortunately, he didn't find any trace of Chu Liu.

Zhao Lin felt that this could not go on any longer, and he had to find a way out!
I have Chuliu's dagger with his scent on it.

However, the smell of the human body is too weak, and it can only be found by smell when the distance is very close.

Unless it is tracked with a special musk like the beard of Mount Paektu, the taste will travel far and last.

Thinking of this, Zhao Lin suddenly had an idea in his heart.

……

Baitou Mountain, Yulinba Village.

The old man Ma was arranging flowers and plants in his yard with a shower in one hand and a flower hoe in the other.

More than ten years ago, he was caught by Beard and raised into the mountains to raise minks. In order to kill boredom, he planted some flowers and plants in his free time.

Although people have returned to the village now, this hobby has been preserved. When farming, they are often accompanied by flowers and plants.

There was a "squeak" sound from the courtyard door, and a burly young man with a dark complexion walked into the courtyard, smiled and said to the old man, "Old man, do you still recognize me?"

The old man Ma looked at the person in surprise, he felt as if he had heard the voice somewhere before, but he couldn't remember it for a while, and asked, "Are you..."

"We met in Fuli Valley last year."

"Fuli Valley? You are Mr. Zhao!"

The old man Ma recognized Zhao Lin, and his eyes were a little frightened. He still remembered the scene where Zhao Lin casually killed the murderous bearded man.

Zhao Lin smiled, and said in a relieved tone, "I'm here to see you for nothing else. Do you still have the spice you used to feed the mink?"

Huzi was arrested last year, and the interrogation was handled by Zhao Lin, including these kidnapped villagers.

Zhao Lin had a deep impression of the old man, so he paid special attention to it, remembering that his family lived in Yulinba Village, so he came directly to him.

Hearing Zhao Lin's question about spices, old man Ma felt relieved, and said, "The villain was only concerned with running for his life and didn't bring anything with him, but the villain knows the ingredients and production methods of musk powder."

Zhao Lin was overjoyed, and said with a smile, "Okay, tell me the recipe, and I'll go buy it now."

The old man Ma didn't dare to neglect, went back to the house and took a piece of straw paper, and wrote on it with a charcoal pen: musk, sheepskin, honey, southern wood, cardamom, atractylodes...

Zhao Lin silently wrote down the prescription, thinking that it might be useful in the future.

"These herbs have a strong taste, so don't use too much weight."

After finishing writing, old man Ma handed the straw paper to Zhao Lin.

Zhao Lin didn't delay for a moment, and went directly to the town, took the medicine according to the prescription, and bought more than a dozen medicines.

When he returned to Yulinba Village, Old Man Ma had already set up a pot and boiled the water.

The old man Ma put all the medicinal materials into the casserole, boiled for half an hour, then poured the soup and medicine into an urn, and then smashed them with a pestle.

Seeing that the old man Ma was sweating profusely from exhaustion, Zhao Lin motioned him to hand over the things to him, and then pounded them at a speed hard to distinguish with the naked eye.

"Puff puff……"

After a while, the medicinal materials turned into a black mud.

The old man Ma was dumbfounded, and exclaimed: "Master Zhao's magical skills are world-class."

"What kind of magical skill is this?"

Zhao Lin smiled and asked, "Then what shall we do?"

The old man Ma replied: "It can be used after drying it into powder."

Zhao Lin frowned: "It's too slow, can I dry it?"

"can."

Old man Ma poured the paste into the pot, dried it on a low heat, wrapped it in oiled paper, and put it in a cloth bag.

"Thank you, old man."

Zhao Lin thanked him and left two taels of silver when he left.

……

There is a buffalo street not far from Chu's house in Nancheng. It is said that this street existed when Qinghe County was first established.

A dozen or so men in coarse clothes and white sweat towels were sitting on the side of the street basking in the sun, chatting nonchalantly.

These people are also powerful, but unlike the gang organization with hundreds of people like the pier, there are groups of three, groups of five, and a maximum of ten people.

Although the rich families have servants and servants, they basically perform their own duties. Sometimes they have temporary jobs and cannot gather manpower for a while, so they come here to ask for help.

Zhao Lin put the white sweat towel on his shoulders, and sat down at a random place.

"Unexpectedly, I came to work as a Lifu again."

Zhao Lin teased himself in his heart.

With the musk powder, the next step is to "prescribe medicine" to all those in the Chu mansion who may be in contact with Chuliu.

The old lady Chu, Chu Liu's father, three uncles, all relatives, even the guards, bodyguards, teachers... may come into contact with Chu Liu.

Zhao Lin had only heard the voices of these people, and their looks basically didn't match. He could only match up by sneaking into the mansion to find out.

"Boy, why are you here?"

Among the job hunters, a man with a tuft of hair around his mouth glanced over.

Zhao Lin glanced at a pinch of hair, and said with a light smile, "Waiting for work."

Yipin Mao sneered, "Do you know whose territory this is?"

Zhao Lin shook his head: "I don't know."

"If you want to work here, you have to pay living wages for the first month, understand?"

"not understand."

"I don't know, I don't understand, get lost!"

"I don't know how to get out, why don't you get out and let me see?"

A pinch of hair's face changed, and the dozen or so men around him looked at each other, got up one after another, and walked towards Zhao Lin with malicious intentions...

Bang bang... Ouch!
After counting breaths, there was no one standing except Zhao Lin.

"Master, you are so skilled, why do you still want to do this?"

A pinch of hair said with a bitter face.

In fact, Zhao Lin didn't hit hard, he acted like this because he was afraid of continuing to be beaten.

"Stop pretending, get up."

Zhao Lin ignored his question at all, and said, "I have a small request. The boss will come in a while. No matter what the job is, I will pick it first. No one can compete with me, you know?"

"I know." Without waiting for Yizhuo Mao to speak, the Lifus responded in unison.

(End of this chapter)