My Endless Life.

Chapter 203: The Fierce Knife and the Sharp Knife
The meat supply for the border town usually comes from the largest street in the city.

It is also called the 'morning market' by city residents.

Here you can see many people selling meat, lamb, pork, chicken... almost everything can be found here.

No beef though.

After all, cattle are a precious resource for farming, and the killing of cattle is prohibited in Da Qi. Unless the cattle are old or sick, beef will generally not flow into the market.

Although meat is available in the morning market, most of these butchers are not real butchers.

They also 'buy' goods from butchers and then sell them at the morning market.

There are two butchers in the border town.

One is located in the east of the city, the other is located in the west of the city, one’s surname is Wang, and the other’s surname is Feng.

Both families had their own pork supply sources. Outside transport teams would deliver live pigs to them, and they would be responsible for raising and slaughtering the pigs, separating the pig's viscera from the meat, and selling them to vendors in the city.

Sometimes, large households would purchase goods directly from them, and when the county magistrate wanted to eat meat, he would ask people to get the freshest meat directly from them.

Therefore, Liu Zhi is more familiar with these two companies.

Li Qi and Jiang Ming went to Wang the butcher's house in the east of the city first, and Liu Zhi followed them for some reason.

After all, he was a court official, so Li Qi couldn't just ask him to get out, so he took him with him.

The group of people, along with several constables from the Six Gates, headed straight to the east of the city.

When he arrived at the east of the city, before he even reached the door of Wang the Butcher's house, Li Qi smelled the familiar stench of pigs.

However, the pig stench seemed to be a little different from the smell he smelled at the Feisha Gang’s base and on the corpses.

However, Li Qi did not think much about it. When he arrived at the door of Wang the Butcher's house, he ordered the constable to go forward and knock on the door.

bang bang bang-

"Open the door! The authorities are investigating a case. Open the door quickly!"

The constable shouted rudely.

Soon the door opened from the inside, and a sturdy man with a bare upper body, a thick machete in his hand and a coarse towel around his neck came out.

When he saw the people outside the door, he was stunned at first and subconsciously clenched the machete in his hand.

However, he reacted quickly. In less than two breaths, he put the machete behind his back and asked in a panic:
"My Lords...what are you doing...? I am an honest man and have never committed any crime!"

"It's not up to you to decide whether a crime has been committed or not!"

The constable who was in charge of knocking on the door glared at him and said.

The butcher just smiled apologetically.

Jiang Ming glanced at Li Qi beside him and saw that he had no reaction. He thought for a moment and walked forward and asked the butcher directly:

"We are here to investigate a case. Are you Wang the Butcher?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I am Wang Dazhuang."

The butcher nodded repeatedly.

Jiang Ming looked him up and down, and suddenly sneered:
"Wang Dazhuang! Do you admit your guilt?"

"Oh! Sir! Sir! I really didn't do anything wrong! You can't wrongly accuse a good person!"

As soon as Jiang Ming said this, Wang the Butcher almost knelt down to him.

Being visited by the police for no apparent reason and being accused of a crime for no apparent reason would scare anyone.

Moreover, Jiang Ming only said "Do you know your crime?" but did not tell Wang the butcher what he had committed. If it was a petty theft and he was framed, it would be fine, but if it was a serious crime like murder, Wang the butcher would never admit it.

Besides, Wang Dazhuang really did nothing!
"That's enough." Li Qi couldn't bear to watch and said to Jiang Ming, "Don't say those useless things. Just go in and investigate."

Hearing Li Qi say this, Jiang Ming scratched his head in embarrassment.

They first threaten and then deceive, which is also a common tactic used by these detectives.

After all, they often face gangsters, and gangsters more or less have criminal records. Regardless of whether they have criminal records or not, they might get some unexpected gains by cheating them.

Jiang Ming forgot that Wang the Butcher was not a man of the world, and it seemed that the new Swift Envoy did not like this routine either.

After giving two dry laughs, Jiang Ming stopped arguing with Wang the Butcher and sent everyone into the courtyard.

As soon as I entered the yard, the stench of pigs, the smell of blood, and all kinds of strange smells hit my nose.

The smell was even stronger than that of a rotting corpse, causing everyone present to cover their mouths and noses.

Li Qi looked normal.

Although the skills he practiced made his five senses acute, he also had his own way of blocking his sense of smell. When he came in, after determining the source of the smell, he blocked his sense of smell, so the smell here did not affect him.

Moving his eyes left and right, Li Qi looked at the courtyard of Wang the Butcher.

The courtyard is not big. There is a row of bacon hanging under the shed on the east side, and there are a few pigs waiting to be slaughtered in the shed on the right.

In the corner there were useless organs and some scraps left after slaughtering the pig, and closer to the room, there was the pig's blood.

Near the door, there is a slightly thick chopping board with half-chopped ribs placed on it.

It seems that before Li Qi and his group arrived, this butcher Wang was processing these ribs.

At first glance, there is nothing special about it. It looks like an ordinary butcher's house.

Li Qi looked back and forth at the furnishings in the yard, but didn't find anything wrong.

After thinking for a while, he turned to look at Wang the Butcher and asked:

"Where were you last night?"

"Ah? I...I was sleeping at home..." Butcher Wang was stunned for a moment, then answered.

"Can anyone prove it?"

"Sir, I am a bachelor, I have no wife or children at home, where can I find a certificate for you?"

Butcher Wang had a bitter face.

Everyone in the entire east of the city knows that Wang the Butcher is a bachelor for life. He is in his thirties and is alone, without a father, a mother, a wife or children. Of course, he sleeps alone at night.

Where is he going to get this proof?
Liu Zhi, who was listening, said immediately:

"Okay, since you can't produce proof, then it's you! Catch me!"

“Hey! My Lords! My Lords! It’s unfair! It’s unfair!!”

Seeing that the detectives were about to take action, Wang the Butcher looked at Li Qi and cried out that he was innocent.

He knelt down and kowtowed to Li Qi:
"Sir! I am just a butcher, I know nothing! Even if you tie me up and take me to the county government office, I can't say anything! Sir, please be kind and let me go!"

Wang the Butcher's face was filled with anxiety. Li Qi ignored him and looked at Liu Zhi instead:

"Who has the final say here, you or I?"

"Um... Of course... Of course, you have the final say, sir..."

Liu Zhi smiled dryly and apologized to Li Qi.

Li Qi said coldly: "Did I let you do it?"

Liu Zhi opened his mouth to say something, and Li Qi immediately said:
"And if this was really done by him, do you think we alone can be his opponent?"

"..."

Liu Zhi didn't say anything this time.

He just wanted to find a scapegoat. If he really met the thief who did such a bad thing, he would not have enough time to escape, let alone show off here.

Li Qi was too lazy to pay attention to Liu Zhi. He looked up and down at Wang the Butcher and then said to Jiang Ming:

"He should be fine. Take the others to the butcher Feng in the west of the city and wait for me. I'll take a walk around here."

"Yes, my lord!"

Jiang Ming was not like Liu Zhi who interfered in other people's affairs. After all, Liu Zhi did not belong to the Six Gates system, and the high-ranking officials of the Six Gates did not have much influence on him.

But Jiang Ming was a direct subordinate of the Six Gates. If he had been the one giving the orders just now, he would have probably been kicked to the ground by the patrol commander.

Now the Inspector General wanted them to go first. Jiang Ming did not dare to ask what the Inspector General was doing here, and hurriedly took Liu Zhi and everyone away.

After they left, Li Qi, who stayed in the butcher's yard, looked at Butcher Wang again.

All the constables had already gone far away, and Wang the Butcher couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that he had escaped.

He raised his head to look at Li Qi and was about to thank him when suddenly, a cold light struck him on the head!
The cold light was extremely sharp, the blade pierced through the air and headed straight for Wang the Butcher's vital points.

Feeling the murderous intent and threat from the patrol envoy in front of him, Wang the Butcher almost instinctively drew out the machete from his waist.

In an instant, just a blink of an eye, there was a "clang" sound, and the straight knife and the machete collided with each other!
"What a vicious knife!"

Sensing the murderous intent in Li Qi's knife, Wang the Butcher's pupils shrank slightly.

The corners of Li Qi's stubbled mouth slightly raised, and he said with a smile:
"Butcher Wang, your knife is so sharp."

"..."

After attacking subconsciously, the butcher named Wang Dazhuang realized that his martial arts had been exposed.

He took two steps back, placed the machete in front of him, and looked at Li Qi warily.

"How did you find me? I thought I was pretty good at disguising myself."

Whether it was his own martial arts or his own blood, he did not reveal a single detail when talking to Li Qi just now.

Even though Liu Zhi was trying to arrest him, Wang the Butcher knelt down without hesitation and begged for mercy for Li Qi.

He doesn't look like a martial artist at all, so normally no one should notice that something is wrong with him.

"Your disguise is indeed good, but unfortunately, my skills are special and can sense the blood and energy in other people's bodies. You should be almost at the innate level, and your strength is about to turn into innate internal energy."

Li Qi said to Wang the Butcher with a smile.

Wang the Butcher's disguise was indeed good. If Li Qi didn't have super powers, he probably wouldn't be able to see the other party's true strength.

But unfortunately, Wang the Butcher's power was exposed in front of Li Qi.

After years of observation, Li Qi has become familiar with the internal strength of the warriors in this world. The internal structure of warriors is different from that of ordinary people. As long as someone has practiced martial arts, even if he is not very good, Li Qi can tell that the other person is a martial artist.

In Li Qi's eyes, Wang the Butcher was a martial artist, and his acquired energy was well integrated and was about to give birth to his innate energy.

This is a warrior at the peak of the seventh rank. He only needs one final push to enter the innate realm.

Such a seventh-rank warrior, pretending to be a humble butcher and staying here, aroused Li Qi's curiosity, so Li Qi took action to test him.

Wang the Butcher knew that he could not deceive the other party, so he said coldly:
"Now that you have discovered it, what do you want to do, sir?"

Li Qi didn't seem to have much hostility. After all, he had dismissed his men before making a tentative move.

It was precisely because of this that Wang the Butcher did not run away immediately. He knew that Li Qi must want to say something to him.

But having said that, Wang the Butcher was also wary, after all, he didn't know what Li Qi was going to do.

His identity cannot withstand investigation.

(End of this chapter)