Era: My backyard is the garbage dump of the universe

Chapter 381 An unexpected gain

"The question is, can we find out who stole the things by reporting the case?" Liu Qingsong asked back.

For him, the more people there are, the more trouble will occur.

"This..." Wang Yaoqing didn't know how to answer.

"So what do you mean?" asked Mr. Jiang.

"Who has left Pangdun's house so far?" Liu Qingsong thought for a moment and then expressed his thoughts: "Let's investigate by the process of elimination first."

"If that doesn't work, think of other ways to catch this thief."

"In short, don't report it to the police."

“If we report it, the water will be muddy.”

"This is a good opportunity for thieves to take advantage of the situation."

"That's right." Old Jiang nodded in agreement.

It would be difficult to find out who the thief is by then.

"Then you take the lead in investigating using the method of elimination, and we will follow behind to assist you," Wang Yaoqing suggested.

"Okay!" Liu Qingsong did not refuse. After all, something was lost in Pangdun's house, which had a great impact on him.

If this matter is not investigated thoroughly, I am afraid it will be difficult for him to escape unscathed.

But before going to Pangdun's house, he called Xiao Heikui.

Xiao Heikui has a very sensitive nose. He believes that as long as he finds some clues, it should not be difficult to catch the thief.

However, when Liu Qingsong brought Xiao Heikui into Pangdun's house, he realized that his idea was wishful thinking.

The reason for saying this is that it turns out that because Old Jiang and Nie Bingquan often boil medicine in the backyard, the main room and kitchen of Pangdun's house are filled with the strong smell of Chinese medicine.

It would be difficult for this little black monster to find the thief by smell.

But even so, Liu Qingsong was not discouraged.

Instead, he took Xiao Heikui, Wang Yaoqing and Old Jiang to investigate one by one.

Currently living in Pangdun's house are Rockefeller Cade and his men, as well as He Wanhua, He Tao and others.

He Wanhua has become neurotic since she killed Zhao Feihong, which means that He Wanhua can be ruled out as a suspicion.

But He Tao's suspicion cannot be ruled out, because he brought several young people with him this time, especially the dark and thin driver, who was extremely nervous after seeing Xiao Heikui.

There was also a subordinate of Rockefeller Cade who always dodged Liu Qingsong's gaze, as if he had done something wrong.

However, Liu Qingsong did not go looking for trouble with this subordinate at the first time, but instead checked the scene where the things were lost.

So far, Mr. Jiang has counted a total of five things that have been lost.

These five things included Rockefeller Cade's valuable jade ring, several ancient medical books on the desk, Tao Guoqing's watch, two other items worth more than 600 yuan each, and a ginseng.

Upon hearing that the ginseng was lost, Liu Qingsong quickly asked Old Jiang to take out a sample of ginseng and then let Xiao Heikui smell it.

I thought Xiao Heikui couldn't smell anything, but unexpectedly, after circling around everyone for a few times, Xiao Heikui suddenly walked towards a room in the southeast.

The door of this room is locked.

Seeing this, Liu Qingsong said to Wang Yaoqing beside him, "Open it! Let Xiao Heikui go in and take a look."

"Okay!" Wang Yaoqing nodded.

Just about to go find the keys.

Mrs. Li, who was watching the excitement, was anxious: "My sister, your sister-in-law, lives here. Don't you even doubt your sister-in-law?"

"What's wrong with my sister-in-law? If she's not a thief, what are you afraid of?" Wang Yaoqing said with a dark face, "Give me the key, don't make me angry."

"Okay! Okay! I'll get it." Although Li was a little angry, she didn't want to argue with Wang Yaoqing, so she turned around and went to get the key.

While waiting, Liu Qingsong couldn't help but ask Wang Yaoqing: "When did your sister-in-law come? How come I didn't know anything about it?"

"I came here the day before yesterday to see Mr. Jiang for treatment." Wang Yaoqing sighed.

"Is that so?" Liu Qingsong nodded: "Then where is she?"

If he was there, the door would not be locked.

"She must have gone out, right?" Wang Yaoqing replied uncertainly, "My sister-in-law has a weird temper, and her husband is a gambler. She's getting a divorce recently! Otherwise, she wouldn't have come to stay with me for medical treatment."

"Oh!" Liu Qingsong nodded.

Seeing that Li had already opened the door with the key, he immediately walked into the room with Xiao Heikui.

Wang Yaoqing and Jiang Lao followed behind.

Others watched from the door.

There was nothing else in the room except a wooden bed and a wardrobe.

When Li saw that Wang Yaoqing had searched for a while but found nothing, she immediately started to yell in dissatisfaction: "I told you that my sister couldn't be a thief, but you still didn't believe me..."

The words are not finished yet.

Li suddenly shut up.

As for the reason, it turned out that Liu Qingsong lifted the mat and found an ancient medical book.

This ancient medical book is the treasure of Old Jiang and Nie Bingquan, and no one else dares to touch it.

But now he appears in this room, and even a fool can guess who the thief is.

But Liu Qingsong didn't say much, but started searching in the room again.

A moment later, Tao Guoqing's watch was found.

The watch was hidden in a piece of clothing in the closet. If Liu Qingsong hadn't shaken it a few times, it would have been impossible to find it.

"Hurry up and send someone to find Li Xiao'e." Seeing that the evidence was conclusive, Old Jiang immediately said to the two members of the Ye family at the door.

Li Xiao'e is Li's younger sister and Wang Yaoqing's sister-in-law.

"Good! Good!"

"Go! Go quickly!" The two members of the Ye family turned around and ran away.

Mrs. Li was anxious when she saw this scene: "Mr. Jiang, my sister definitely didn't mean to steal your things. When you find her later, please don't hit her! She is already pitiful enough now."

"Where is she now?" asked Mr. Jiang.

"I...I don't know." Li avoided her gaze.

"How could you not know?" Wang Yaoqing glared at Li.

Even at this time, he is still protecting Li Xiao'e, which really makes him angry to death.

"She...she should go to find her husband. She told me so this morning." Li replied hesitantly.

"What did you say? Li Xiao'e went to see that gambling husband?" Wang Yaoqing pointed at Li angrily and said, "When I asked you before, why did you say that she went to the field to help pick green beans?"

"I...I didn't know that she was the one who stole the things at that time!" Li couldn't help crying.

"Why are you crying? Will crying help now?" Wang Yaoqing said to Mr. Jiang and Liu Qingsong, then turned around and left in a hurry.

Obviously, he went to find Li Xiao'e.

Liu Qingsong and Old Jiang looked at each other, and both walked towards the backyard in silence.

In the backyard, Nie Bingquan saw Liu Qingsong found an ancient medical book, and couldn't help asking: "Why is there only one? Where are the other ancient medical books?"

"I haven't found it yet." Liu Qingsong replied.

"The thief is Li's sister, don't worry." Old Jiang also comforted.

"How can I not be anxious? These ancient medical books are priceless. If we lose them, they will be gone forever." Nie Bingquan paced back and forth anxiously: "No! We can't live in Wang Yaoqing's house anymore. We have to move."

"The question is where to move to?" asked Mr. Jiang.

"Isn't the school of Huaishu Production Team completed? There are quite a few empty houses there. I suggest we move there." Nie Bingquan suggested.

"Qingsong, what do you mean?" Old Jiang looked at Liu Qingsong.

"I don't think this is a good idea. There are many people in the school. Xiao Nuomi, Xiao Taoqi, Yaomei, and Pangdun will study in the school in the future. If one of them tears up the ancient medical book to wipe his butt, I'm afraid you won't even be able to cry." Liu Qingsong said what he was thinking softly: "If you really want to protect the ancient medical books, I suggest you build a separate house to store them and send someone to protect them. In this way, good things like today won't happen."

"That's impossible, because I can't stay here for long." Nie Bingquan sighed, "As soon as Cade recovers from his illness, I will go back."

"Then Grandpa Jiang, you will have to do this for us." Liu Qingsong looked at Grandpa Jiang.

"Okay! Leave it to me. I will definitely keep these ancient medical books well." Jiang Lao glanced at the sky and said, "I won't talk to you anymore. I have to go make medicine for Kaide. When Li Xiao'e comes back, remember to notify me."

"Okay! Okay!" Liu Qingsong nodded.

Old Jiang turned around and went back to his business with Nie Bingquan. …

It was noon in a flash.

After lunch, Liu Qingsong saw that Wang Yaoqing had not yet found Li Xiao'e, and the Ye family members had not replied. He said goodbye to Xiao Nuomi, went into the room and went to take a nap.

This sleep was quite comfortable.

When I woke up, it was already past five in the afternoon.

Liu Qingsong heard a lot of noise and crying at the door of Pangdun's house, and was startled but quickly walked over.

When I got closer, I realized that the person crying was Li.

As for why you are crying.

It turned out that Li Xiao'e was dead.

At this time, he was lying quietly on a stretcher covered with white cloth.

The white cloth was stained bright red with blood, and it was obvious that the person had been killed.

After Liu Qingsong told Xiao Nuomi not to run around, he asked Wang Yaoqing, who was standing by with an unpleasant look on his face, "What happened? How could Li Xiao'e die out of nowhere?"

"We don't intend to cause trouble for her. We just need her to return the stolen items."

"The problem is that all the things Li Xiao'e stole were snatched away by her gambling-addicted husband. When I found her, she was already dead." Wang Yaoqing replied with a sob.

"What about her husband?" Liu Qingsong asked.

"He ran away. Xiaojun and his men are currently chasing him." Old Jiang replied in a low voice.

"Okay!" Liu Qingsong felt a little uncomfortable. He couldn't understand why things turned out like this.

Seeing that there was nothing he could do to help at the moment, after thinking about it, he went to the kitchen to cook dinner.

After dinner, Liu Qingsong didn't go anywhere. He went straight to the Wanjie garbage dump and came to the tracking mirror to ask the liquid robot: "Do you know about the theft of Uncle Wang's things?"

"I know." The liquid robot replied, and then pointed to the tracking mirror: "The one who stole the things was Li Xiao'e, and Aunt Wu who was with her."

"Ah?" Liu Qingsong looked at the tracking mirror.

Seeing from the tracking mirror that Li Xiao'e stole the watch, the ancient medical book, and the Kaide jade ring because of Aunt Wu's instigation, his face suddenly darkened.

Aunt Wu.

It’s Li’s maternal family.

As for his full name, Liu Qingsong didn't know.

But what is certain is that Aunt Wu and Li Xiao'e are from the same place.

Now that Li Xiao'e is dead, I'm afraid it has something to do with Aunt Wu's hunger.

Thinking of this, Liu Qingsong even asked the liquid robot to use a tracking mirror to investigate Aunt Wu.

After a moment, the tracking mirror screen flashed, and the figure of a short and fat woman appeared.

Next to the short and fat woman was a hunchbacked young man who was unkempt.

At this time, they were pawning things in the Dajun Pawn Shop in Dayu City.

The items to be pawned, besides the blood-stained ancient medical book, also included Cade's jade ring.

The liquid robot pointed at the hunchbacked young man and said, "This man is Li Xiao'e's husband Zhang Shuilong, and next to him is Aunt Wu. Don't be fooled by Zhang Shuilong's hunchbacked back, he has saved several lives!"

"You mean, this guy is not only addicted to gambling, but also a murderer?" Liu Qingsong was shocked.

"Yes." The liquid robot nodded.

"Then let the guardian vine come over and teleport me to the door of the army pawnshop to get back what belongs to us. We can't let it be sold cheaply by a gambler." Liu Qingsong put on the invisibility cloak and then reminded.

"Okay!" The liquid robot quickly did as it was told.

After a moment, he called over the guardian vine.

Liu Qingsong gave a few instructions to the guardian vine and then quickly walked into the torn space beside him.

Wow! The next second he appeared at the gate of the Dajun Pawnshop.

It was a little after seven in the evening and the sky had just begun to darken, but the lights in the Da Jun Pawnshop had already been turned on, illuminating the road in front of the door and lengthening the figures of Aunt Wu and Zhang Shuilong.

The invisible Liu Qingsong saw that the pawnshop owner was still checking the jade ring, so he took out a mask and put it on his face, then tried to adjust the volume.

Seeing that it was the female voice he needed, he immediately walked towards Zhang Shuilong's position, and then deliberately said in a sinister tone: "I died so miserably! Zhang Shuilong... why are you so cruel, why do you want to kill me?"

Because Liu Qingsong is invisible.

So when Zhang Shuilong and Aunt Wu turned around and found that there was no one behind them, they immediately became terrified. Aunt Wu even collapsed on the ground in fear: "Who... who is playing tricks?"

"Aunt Wu, I'm not playing tricks. I am a ghost now, and all this is thanks to you!" Liu Qingsong continued to scare Aunt Wu and Zhang Shuilong.

After Zhang Shuilong realized what was happening, he was so scared that he turned around and ran away.

Aunt Wu was so scared that she pissed her pants. She opened her mouth to speak, but couldn't utter a word.

The pawnshop owner was stunned when he saw this and was about to get a shotgun to defend himself, but Zhang Shuilong strangely walked back, then "flew" up and passed through the wall, leaving only his head exposed.

"Ghost!" The pawnshop owner was so scared that he screamed, then staggered and fainted.

Aunt Wu was so frightened that her face turned pale and she fell to the ground.

The reason for such a big reaction is obviously that they are guilty.

Liu Qingsong was very satisfied with his prank. Seeing that Zhang Shuilong, who was stuck in the wall, was also unconscious, he immediately turned off the phase shifter and took back the ancient medical book and jade ring.

He originally wanted to go back immediately, but for some unknown reason, Liu Qingsong turned on the phase shifter again and then entered the pawnshop.

Liu Qingsong thought there were only some ordinary items in the pawnshop, but what surprised him was that there were all kinds of antiques in the pawnshop, and some of them were obviously valuable.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is——

The pawnshop actually has a basement.

I walked down the wooden steps and turned on the light. Wow, the room was full of antiques, calligraphy and paintings. The bookcases were also filled with all kinds of ancient books, including dozens of ancient medical books.

Liu Qingsong picked up one at random and flipped through it, and he knew that these ancient medical books were all authentic.

This made Liu Qingsong alert. After all, it was not something that ordinary people could do to collect so many antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and ancient books without being discovered.

In order to verify the origins of these ancient medical books, Liu Qingsong began to look around the basement.

It would have been fine if he hadn't looked around, but when he looked around he discovered that there was a hidden small room right opposite.

When I walked into the small room, I saw that it was a mess and the small wooden bed in the corner was covered with cobwebs.

The desk diagonally opposite was piled with various letters.

Liu Qingsong picked up a letter casually and opened it. Seeing that it was in Japanese, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Could there be a little kid hiding here in the past?"

In order to verify his guess, Liu Qingsong took out a universal translator and translated the contents of the letter.

What he didn't expect was that the letter was actually sent by Zheng Zhengyi, and the recipient was Qin An.

The content of the letter was all about antique calligraphy and paintings, as well as the prices of some jadeite.

As the recipient of the letter, Qin An was undoubtedly helping Xiuzhenyi to secretly purchase antiques and paintings and ship them out in order to gain the trust of Xiuzhenyi and other members of the Dongtian family.

In other words, Qin An used to live in this basement.

No, to be precise, Qin An had stayed in this basement before.

Because Qin An was dead, it was abandoned.

The owner of the pawnshop should be Qin An's subordinate. He didn't dare to run away with the antiques and paintings, so he has been hiding under an assumed name until now.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the antique calligraphy and paintings from 1979 were not expensive and difficult to sell. If they could be sold, I am afraid the pawnshop owner would have sold them long ago instead of letting these antique calligraphy and paintings gather dust in the basement.

Thinking of this, Liu Qingsong did not read the contents of the letter anymore, but walked out of the small room and put all the antique calligraphy and paintings, ancient books, including ancient medical books in the basement into his space backpack.

It was not until the basement was empty and there was nothing left that he walked into the space torn by the guardian vine and returned to the garbage dump of all worlds.

In order to prevent the antique paintings and ancient books in the space backpack from being destroyed, Liu Qingsong did not go to bed at the first moment, but took them all out, and then called Carmela, Alcy, Shi Hao, and the liquid robot to help place them in the hall of the Seven Realms Boat.

After everything was set up and he chatted with Shi Hao's liquid robot, Alcy, and Carmela for half an hour, Liu Qingsong couldn't stand it anymore and went back to sleep.

Just when he was about to fall asleep, he heard Ye Xiaoxiao's anxious voice outside: "Brother, wake up, wake up...Grandpa Jiang asked me to call you over."

"What's wrong?" Liu Qingsong got up and opened the door.

Xiao Nuomi and Yaomei, who were woken up, followed behind, rubbing their sleepy eyes.

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(End of this chapter)