ninety thousand miles

Chapter 353

"It's actually enough to check the nunnery. There are many powerful characters among Prince Su's subordinates. It would be too dangerous to check further." Wen Guying said.

"I know, but I like to have a beginning and an end when doing things." Zou Jingping responded, "Besides, I am a general, how can I show my cowardice in front of Prince Su?"

"That's how it should be." At this time, a rich voice came in.

Everyone in the hall raised their heads and looked outside, and saw General Chang Rimu striding in.

Everyone stood up one after another.

Li Chuan saw the sun hanging over the pillar in front of him and realized that it was almost dusk.

Unknowingly, they had stayed in the General's Mansion for almost two hours.

After Chang Rimu walked in, he asked them all to sit down, and then said: "Your Majesty's sudden summons to me is also related to this matter."

After hearing what he said, everyone became serious.

"Sure enough, it was a local dandy from Qingtan County who came up with the idea, saying that these servants in the palace are obviously servants, but they have a bigger temper than their masters. They don't do anything, and they still want to eat and drink well. They are so annoying. Seeing that the prince is about to fall, he estimates that his house will be confiscated after the new year. Instead of taking advantage of the officials who picked the peaches later, they should start first, find a few people to pretend to be thieves, rob them, and then sell them later. If the capital sends people again, will they still investigate the lives and deaths of these servants? "

"The purpose is to catch all of Prince Su's subordinates in one fell swoop." Chang Rimu explained.

Chang Rimu did not sell the relationship. He said: "Your Majesty asked me to cooperate with Qin Tianjian to clean up Yashan County and leave no trace behind."

"In this way, it became natural for me to trace the whereabouts of the servants of the royal palace. I found the officers and soldiers who were escorting the servants at that time, interrogated them separately, and asked them where they originally planned to send the servants, and where they met the thieves. The thieves How many of them were wearing what kind of weapons, how many of them were injured, and how many of them died. Soon, someone couldn't resist the pressure and told the truth. "

"Okay." Li Chuan said.

"But it can only be done in secret and cannot be made public." Chang Rimu added.

"Clean it? What do you mean?" Li Chuan asked.

Li Chuan thought this was a good thing and said, "That's good."

Chang Rimu said, "Your Majesty still wants to keep Suhan safe." After saying this, he turned to Zou Jingping and said, "Mr. Zou, please continue talking. By the time you finish speaking, the banquet will be almost ready."

"Being possessed by Soul Eater, it may take half a month from possession to onset. Therefore, my sister and the little maid were not possessed by Soul Eater on the day they were abducted, but... earlier . Could it be that those servants were possessed by Soul Eater, and someone knew when they would get sick, so they rushed to kidnap them before they got sick to avoid exposing them?" Li Chuan suddenly had some ideas.

"Okay." Zou Jingping continued: "When I appeared in Qingtan County as a staff member of the general, Prince Su had already left the palace and was under house arrest in the old prince's palace in central Beijing. Although the time is not right, "Yes, but it's not much different. So everyone else thinks that the general sent me here because His Majesty's attitude towards Prince Su has changed."

"Maybe," Wen Guying focused on something else, he asked Zou Jingping: "Did those officers and soldiers get the money?
Zou Jingping said: "No, they said that the dude disappeared not long after. They remembered the thief's clothes and weapons that night, and they felt something was wrong. They did not dare to say anything, and they unanimously said that they met the thief. "

"Did they reveal the identity of that dude?" Li Chuan asked.

Zou Jingping said: "I confessed. The dude was the son of a local official. When I went to check on his home, his family members were no longer in Qingtan County. But the people were gone, but the houses and fields could not be left. I I followed the clues carefully and found out that his house was not far from where the servants were robbed. I took people to check. "The place was empty, but there were still some people left." The traces are there, those servants were indeed sent here and then sent to other places in batches," Zou Jingping said, "But after finding this place, the clues were broken again."

"While investigating these matters, the people I invited also arrived one after another." Zou Jingping said.

"Who did you invite?" Li Chuan asked.

Zou Jingping replied: "From Orion's description, we can see that the secret of the nunnery is not something ordinary people like us can participate in. So I invited a monk, an experienced monster hunter, and a monk to participate. This matter."

After hearing this, Wen Guying asked: "Which sect is he from?"

"They are evil cultivators." Zou Jingping said calmly: "I cannot disclose their specific identities, but I guarantee that they are all trustworthy."

Wen Guying said: "The three of them went to a nunnery?"

Zou Jingping said: "Yes."

"You didn't go?" Wen Guying asked.

"I'll wait outside." Zou Jingping said.

"What did they encounter?" Wen Guying asked.

Zou Jingping said: "They entered the nunnery and searched it thoroughly first, especially the chanting hall. Finally, the evil cultivator found the entrance to the secret passage. After entering the secret passage, they encountered the vine demon that Orion said, and they killed it. The vine demon brought out one of them."

"Where?" Wen Guying asked.

Zou Jingping took out a tied oil paper bag from his sleeve, handed it to Wen Guying and said, "This is it."

Wen Guying did not pick it up immediately. Instead, he looked at the oil paper bag for a while and then said, "The way the rope is tied is quite interesting."

Zou Jingping said: "My great ancestor used this binding method to bind various medicinal materials."

Wen Guying nodded and opened the oil paper bag. Inside was a withered black vine. After looking at it for a while, he said, "Did you just meet a vine demon?"

Zou Jingping replied: "They said it was just one." He paused for a while, and seeing that Wen Guying did not ask any more questions, he continued: "They walked to the end of the secret passage and saw the floating spire. The monk found the way. They walked to the foot of the tower. Although it was eerie and strange, they did not encounter any other enemies. The floating spire was full of cracks. The monk said that he felt that the tower had collapsed, but there was a force that destroyed every part of the spire. Part of it is confined in a specific space, making it look like a complete tower.”

"After successfully entering the tower, they found that it was cut into many different time and space, and each time and space was full of constantly changing illusions. They did not dare to stay any longer. They relied on the monk to chant sutras and backed away, and finally exited safely. The monk told me that he had never seen a place like this. The Taoism manifested in the vision was different from all the Taoist schools he knew. If he stayed there longer, he would be addicted to it. In the illusion, there is no coming back.”

"The monk said that when he took them away, the blue light in the crack flickered for a moment, and he felt the light sweeping over his body. At that moment, he forgot all the Dharma and just wanted to enter the pagoda again. He said that light can reshape a person from body to soul."

(End of this chapter)