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Chapter 152 The Traitor

The pharmacist on duty wasn't surprised. He waved to the people still waiting in line and said, "I'm sorry, everyone. The heart scale and the disease cabinet are exhausted today. Please come back tomorrow."

"How can this be possible? We have patients at home who are waiting for life-saving medicine!"

The pharmacist spread his hands and said, "These two craftsmen refuse to work, so there's nothing I can do. You're all from the city, so you should know the rules of our Huode Jishitang."

The pharmacist on duty apologized repeatedly and sent the person who came to ask for medicine away. He felt a little puzzled: Why is he unwilling to work so early today?
After closing the door and hanging up a sign saying "Closed", the pharmacist came back and took a closer look. He found that the bamboo cage had been embedded in the blue bricks, and his expression changed.

This is certainly abnormal, otherwise the blue bricks on the floor of this pharmacy would have been replaced dozens of times.

……

Xu Yuan and his companions were invited to an elegant room. Not long after, a middle-aged woman came in. The waiter introduced her, "This is Wei Yunhua, the Fire Master."

Lang Xiaoba also introduced Xu Yuan: "This is Inspector Xu. He has a case that requires the help of the Sanniang Association."

Fire Master Wei glanced at Lang Xiaoba and corrected him in a neither soft nor hard tone, "Three Fire Old Mu knows how to do it."

Lang Xiaoba curled his lips, told the case again, and then said, "Scatter all your people out, and report anyone suspicious immediately."

Fire Master Wei frowned and said, "Is Inspector Xu planning to recruit the three of us Fire Masters? This is such a big matter, I can't make the decision alone, I have to..."

Lang Xiaoba was furious: "Wei Yunhua! What do you mean?"

Fire Master Wei sneered, "If you send our people away, will we, the Three Fire Old Mu, stop doing business? Will we only work for your Exorcism Division?"

Xu Yuan raised his hand to stop Lang Xiaoba. This guy had the same temper as when he stopped himself and Yu Yunhang.

"We're here to ask for help from the Sanhuo Old Mum Society," Xu Yuan said politely. Firstly, he really needed help, and secondly, he wanted to save Aunt Wang's face. "If you can find those suspects, this inspector will owe you a favor."

Fire Master Wei's expression improved a little: "It's easy to ask for help, we will do our best."

Xu Yuan asked, "How long will it take for us to get news?"

"We can't guarantee that."

Xu Yuan nodded, it was indeed not easy to give others a deadline.

Then he asked about another matter: "In addition, I need your help to find someone, Zhang Lao Ya, the court official of Yilihe in the north of the city."

Fire Master Wei looked at Xu Yuan with a strange look in his eyes: "What does Inspector Xu want to do with him?"

"Of course something happened."

"Okay, we'll find Mr. Zhang and tell him that Inspector Xu wants to see him. We can't guarantee whether he'll show up or not."

Xu Yuan frowned and said, "Could Master Wei tell me what's so mysterious about this old man Zhang?"

"That... I can't say it. If he's willing to see you, just ask him in person."

Xu Yuan glanced at Lang Xiaoba, and Lang Xiaoba blushed in shame.

"Okay then, I won't bother you anymore." Xu Yuan turned and left.

"Inspector Xu, take care." Master Wei sat still and let the shop assistant see him out.

After leaving the gate, Xu Yuan instructed Lang Xiaoba: "Besides the Sanniang Society, which other family is obedient?"

Lang Xiaoba blushed and apologized, "I'm ashamed. In the past, the Sanniang Club was the most cooperative family, but today..."

Xu Yuan waved his hand: "Find another one."

"Yes, I'll think about it." Lang Xiaoba weighed the options and said, "Then let's go to the Iron Boat Gang."

……

At the northeast corner of the back hall, there are six circular pits arranged in a plum blossom shape.

Each circle pit is built with "golden bricks" similar to those in the Golden Palace!
It's clean and tidy inside, and there is a dedicated person to clean it regularly.

The food trough was made in an official kiln, with a blue-and-white underglaze red finish! And it was always guaranteed to be filled with a variety of delicacies.

Outside the six pits, arm-thick iron bars formed a large cage, each bar gilded with gold and silver patterns. Inside the pits, six people as fat as wild pigs were kept.

Most of the time, they curled up their limbs and slept soundly in the pen. When they woke up, they put their heads into the trough and ate.

At the moment Xu Yuan stepped over the threshold of the Huode Jishidi Hall, the six people in the six circle pits suddenly had their lips pierced by invisible sharp blades.

They screamed in pain, but the invisible blade seemed to be still there, so they couldn't open their mouths and make any loud noise, and could only grunt like pigs.

After a while, a large part of their fat suddenly disappeared.

The invisible blade that pierced their lips disappeared, and the six people screamed like pigs being slaughtered.

The guards outside rushed in hastily. Seeing the appearance of the six people, they were horrified: "Something big has happened, quickly report it to the Fire Master!"

……

Fire Master Wei sent Xu Yuan away and returned to the back hall to meet the Great Fire Master.

"Sent away."

The Great Fire Master nodded and said, "News has already spread about the Champa Office. Now that Lin Zijin has fallen, it's unclear who will take charge of the Champa Office in the future. This guy has come to us at this time, so let's not get too involved with him.

If the new attorney suppresses him, we will be implicated."

Master Wei Huo asked, "Then what did he ask you to do..."

"Just drag it out."

"it is good."

Just as the two of them finished their discussion, the pharmacist knocked on the door and came in to report, "My lords, there's something strange going on in my heart today."

The two of them immediately stood up: "Let's go and take a look."

The measuring scale and the all-disease cabinet are the core artifacts of the Sanhuo Laomu Association today.

The Three Fire Goddess left behind three sets of skills, and only then could the Three Fire Old Mother establish her own branch in the three prefectures.

Nothing must go wrong, otherwise Sanniang will definitely be driven out of Champa.

The pharmacist accompanied Master Wei and Master Da to the main hall to check on the abnormality of the scale. Halfway through, they saw a disciple running towards them from the backyard, gasping for breath. "Master Da, no, this is bad! All six 'unlucky people' have been bitten!"

"What?!" The faces of the three fire masters changed drastically. There was something abnormal on the measuring scale, and something happened to the man who betrayed his life. It seemed that the two crafts were about to rebel!
"Hurry, hurry, replace the new perpetrator immediately."

"I'll go burn incense to the scale and the Hundred Diseases Cabinet and ask them what they're dissatisfied with..."

"Alas, today is no different from usual. Why are these two ancestors suddenly quarreling?" The Fire Master stamped his feet repeatedly.

……

Xu Yuan's talks with the Iron Boat Gang went very smoothly. The deputy gang leader promised to give him definite news within three days on whether he could find the person.

Xu Yuan and his party returned to the Champa Office and were about to return to their rooms when Di Youzhi quietly approached them, "Sir, we've caught that bastard Lu Xiang!"

Xu Yuan was surprised: "So fast?"

"Zhou Leizi is watching him. I'm here to report this to the adults." Di Youzhi said, "This kid always likes to gamble after his shift.

I asked someone to investigate, and it turns out this kid has lost more than five hundred taels of silver in several gambling houses in the city recently.

The salary in our Quwusi is quite good, plus some daily tributes, an ordinary captain can get twenty-seven or twenty-eight taels per month.

There's no way he has that much money!"

Xu Yuan nodded and said, "Don't alert the enemy."

"My subordinate understands!"

(End of this chapter)