Zongwu: Aspiring to be the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 38 Young Boss Qian, the Unbelievable Truth

There is no need to say much about the skills of the painter in the Pei Mansion. According to Lu Xiaofeng's description, he only made two revisions before he was able to draw a lifelike portrait of a human face.

Zhou Ming was watching from the side and asked curiously, "Who is this picture of?"

Lu Xiaofeng asked back: "Do you think this face looks familiar?"

"is it?"

Zhou Ming looked at the portrait from left to right: "Hmm... seems a little familiar, who is it?"

"never mind!"

Lu Xiaofeng took the portrait, thanked him, and left.

Lu Xiaofeng, who has friends all over the world, has plenty of channels to find someone if he wants to.

He found Uncle Turtle Sun.

Uncle Guisun only took one look at the portrait and said, "Isn't this person Boss Qian?"

"What? He's Boss Qian?!"

Lu Xiaofeng was shocked.

How can it be? !
The young man in this portrait was the one he had met at the city gate last night.

He felt that the man looked familiar, but he could not remember where he had seen him.

My original intention today was to find this person and ask him about what happened last night.

But he didn't expect that the person he was looking for seemed to be the answer from Mr. Guisun's mouth!

But how is it possible?
One is a fat middle-aged man.

One was a thin young man.

How could these two people be the same person?
Could it be that Boss Qian is also proficient in the art of disguise?
However, we have only heard of thin people changing into fat people, but how can we hear of fat people changing into thin people?

Thin people can disguise themselves by adding things to their bodies to make themselves look fat.

The fat guy changes his appearance...does he have to shave off the fat on his body?
"Yes," said Mr. Guisun, "Boss Qian looked like this twenty years ago. He was very thin back then."

Lu Xiaofeng picked up the portrait and looked at it from top to bottom, left to right several times. Only then did he realize that the familiar feeling he had always had seemed to be the similarity between the portrait and Boss Qian's appearance.

Just one is thin and the other is fat.

Coupled with the age gap, Lu Xiaofeng didn't even think in that direction.

"Uncle Guisun, have you ever heard of a disguise technique that can turn a fat person into a thin person?"

Uncle Guisun said, "It depends on how fat he is. If the difference between before and after the transformation is not too big, then maybe it's okay."

"This……"

Lu Xiaofeng thought about the size difference between Boss Qian and the young man from last night, and couldn't help but shook his head.

But if you tell him that the man is Boss Qian, he just won't believe it.

"Uncle Guisun, how many people in this world can recognize this portrait?"

"That's probably a lot."

Uncle Guisun said, "Mr. Qian joined the Datong Bank when he was very young. Over the years, he worked as a shopkeeper in various places and later became the head shopkeeper. He knew a lot of people when he was young, and many people should remember him now."

"Oh……"

Lu Xiaofeng then ran to several more places, but the more he ran, the more panicked he became.

It seems that everyone who has been with Boss Qian when he was young can recognize him when he was young.

Those who cannot recognize it just say that they cannot recognize it.

He also asked many masters of disguise about body shape disguise.

But everyone told him that it was impossible for someone to transform a 200-pound fat man into a thin man of about 100 pounds in such a short time.

"Could it be that...could it be that..."

It seemed that the more he investigated, the more the truth of the matter pointed to his suspicion. But Lu Xiaofeng was unwilling to admit that it was true.

"Eliminate all impossibilities, and the only possibility that remains, no matter how absurd, will only be the truth!"

"And there is only one truth!"

Lu Xiaofeng woke up suddenly and found that he had walked to the door of a teahouse without knowing when.

In the teahouse, the storyteller slammed the table and began to tell the story of the twists and turns of the case in "The Famous Detective Lu Xiaofeng".

"Hehehe... the truth?" Lu Xiaofeng chuckled. "I never thought that one day I would be educated by the book written by Zhou Ming! That's right! Although it's incredible, although it's hard to imagine, that young man must be Boss Qian!"

Although so many masters of disguise say it is impossible.

However, Boss Qian had already done something almost impossible before.

He actually remained in a state of suspended animation after the dagger pierced his heart, and passed the examinations of Roma and Jiang Long.

Lu Xiaofeng had never heard of this technique of faking death.

In this case, what harm would it do if one more of these unheard-of things happened?

Lu Xiaofeng no longer dwelled on this and reconciled with himself.

But there was one thing he still couldn't understand.

If Boss Qian really has such a miraculous disguise skill, then why would he disguise himself as his younger self?
Given the situation at that time, he could have avoided Lu Xiaofeng's pursuit by disguising himself as anything else, right?

"Could it be that you want to reminisce about your youth...your youth..."

Lu Xiaofeng's expression changed: "No way..."

He arrived at the entrance of the teahouse, where there was a bookstall with various books on it, the most common of which was "The Famous Detective Lu Xiaofeng".

This is the sales strategy launched by Wen Zong Book Hall, with storytellers telling stories inside and books being sold at book stalls outside.

Mutual promotion, high transaction rate.

Lu Xiaofeng picked up a book called "The Famous Detective Lu Xiaofeng" and opened it to the first volume, the first chapter.

Young Detective Lu Xiaofeng, Lantern Festival Poison Returns Child

At the end of this chapter, Lu Xiaofeng was attacked from behind by another man in black and knocked unconscious with a stick.

After recognizing him as the recently famous Lu Xiaofeng, the man in black took out a poison to prevent him from being tracked down.

From their conversation, we learned that after taking this poison, it will cause natural death, and no one will be able to see any abnormality!
After helping Lu Xiaofeng take the poison, the two men in black quickly left.

Under the full moon, Lu Xiaofeng's entire body was in excruciating pain and convulsions. When he regained consciousness, he had transformed into an eight-year-old child...

In this era when Journey to the West and Investiture of the Gods were born, all kinds of stories, even if they are based on reality, must have some mythological and fantasy elements.

For example, the beginning of Water Margin describes how General Hong accidentally released the evil star.

For example, in Dream of the Red Chamber, the past lives of all the main characters are extraordinary.

In comparison, "Detective Lu Xiaofeng", which is also based on reality, only adds a pill with the effect of rejuvenation at the beginning, which is really too childish.

Not to mention compared with mythological themes such as Journey to the West and Investiture of the Gods, it cannot even be compared with realistic themes such as Water Margin and Dream of the Red Chamber.

The protagonist... No, let alone the protagonist, even the large group of supporting characters are all demons who have descended to the mortal world, and the reincarnations of immortals and gods!
You, the protagonist, just took a pill that could make you look younger?
What a rubbish!

But at this moment, Lu Xiaofeng, who had watched this plot for the third time, still felt a huge, indescribable shock!

Back to old age! Back to childhood!
If...if this is the truth, then it seems...everything can be explained!
"Sir, Sir!"

Lu Xiaofeng came back to his senses.

"Five taels of silver."

"okay."

Lu Xiaofeng handed over the silver and stuffed the book into his arms.

(End of this chapter)