Chapter 1341: The Non-Existent Village and the Non-Existent Daughter

When Wan Qifeng heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt: "Where is the little girl?"

Yes, everyone looked at each other. More than a hundred people were killed or injured in Chenjiazhuang, and Wu Ma's Green Villa was turned upside down. Even the owner and his son died. And the cause of this series of events, the little girl of unknown origin, disappeared?

"A few hours after killing Wuma Xu, Tong Yao appeared in the North Courtyard and killed Wuma Dan; and the two demon puppets also went north before Tong Yao jumped into the well." Dong Rui said in The wound was sutured. His needlework was even more beautiful than that of the embroiderer. "So, that little girl was hiding in the north courtyard at that time?"

Wan Qifeng pointed at the three black-armored warriors and said, "We searched the North Courtyard and found no girls under the age of fifteen except for a few members of the Wuma clan."

He paused for a moment: "Tong Xiu jumped into the well and escaped, possibly being chased by his lord. Xiao An was nowhere to be found, which is indeed a bit strange."

He Lingchuan's eyes flashed slightly: "You just said that Tong Yao is good at transforming?"

"Yes." Dong Rui took a long breath and took off his spider silk gloves. "It's done. All the heart fragments have been taken out. He will recover within half a month."

In just over a quarter of an hour, he completed a difficult surgical operation.

Wan Qiliang looked at Pu Hua eagerly: "How long will it take for him to wake up?"

Dong Rui said casually: "Within two hours, if I'm not wrong about the amount of wood poison."

Wan Qiliang swallowed his saliva and asked cautiously: "What if the estimate is wrong?"

"Then -" Dong Rui spread his hands and made a helpless gesture.

"..."

"It's not a big problem. I've tested it on the demon puppet many times. With his age and body, if the wood poison is diluted one hundred and twenty-eight times, it shouldn't be a fatal dose."

Wan Qiliang scratched his head: "So this is the first time it has been used on humans?"

"Otherwise?" Dong Rui said, "You didn't give me a chance before."

"Is it time to go back?" After catching three other people's demon puppets, he was scratching his head like a cat, wishing he could go back to Jucheng. "Anyway, the masked man can't catch up."

"Be patient." He Lingchuan waved his hand, "Can you track the whereabouts of your demon puppet?"

"Of course." Dong Rui understood as soon as he opened his mouth, "Oh, are you worried about him chasing him to Jucheng?"

"This demon puppet master can always catch up with Xiao An, which shows that he placed a tracking method on the little girl. These three demon puppets were killed by us, how can he be convinced? They are probably chasing for revenge." He Lingchuan pondered, "So , you can’t go back to Jucheng.”

The relationship between the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce and the Black Armored Army must not be exposed at the moment.

"Then where can I go?" He needed a safe, quiet place to experiment where he could do whatever he wanted.

He Lingchuan turned his eyes and smiled: "I thought of a good place. You can be there without being disturbed."

Dong Rui parted ways with the Black Armor Army at location three.

He Lingchuan and others left through other exits of the abandoned mine tunnel. They did not put away their armors and change back to their regular clothes until the soul-capturing mirror confirmed that it was safe and there were no other people behind them.

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Back in Jucheng, everything was business as usual.

He Lingchuan talked about business when he needed to, and socialized when he needed to socialize.

Pu Hua also woke up, her injury was stable and she was gradually recovering. However, it took him five hours to wake up from his post-operative coma.

Soon after, Yu Hai came to the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce to look for He Lingchuan. When they met, he said: "The missing person notice has been sent out. In addition, we have some clues about what you want to investigate."

In addition to running the hometown association, he is also a noble of Pei State, and is now highly regarded by the monarch of Pei State. The efficiency of Liu County's work was too low, and County Lieutenant Li really couldn't find the information, so He Lingchuan had to ask Yu Hai to find something.

He Lingchuan is now a popular figure in the Allied Forces, and he is investigating the murder case for Pei Guo. He can now mobilize some official resources through Yuhai.

It is a hundred times easier for the government to handle some things than it is for individuals and private forces.

"Please sit down." He Lingchuan always treated him enthusiastically, and called the boy at the door, "Watch tea!"

Inviting tea should not only be tea, but also include three flavors of tea, mung bean cake, plum preserves and wind-blown cakes.

Yu Hai took a sip of warm tea to soothe his throat: "In towns within a hundred miles of Chenjiazhuang, the government is organizing manpower to post Xiao An's portrait and missing person notices, and said that this is a witness to the chain murder case. Anyone who provides clues will Thirty taels, bring the little girl here directly, give me thirty taels of silver."

For ordinary people, thirty thousand dollars is not a small amount of money. He Lingchuan smiled and said, "Thank you."

Mobilizing the power of the masses is the best way at the moment.

"Ah, Brother He, why are you still thanking me? You are investigating the case for me, Pei State, and the king wants me to convey my thanks."

Yu Hai continued: "Maodun is a small town, forty miles north of Zailiu County, with a population of about two thousand. The land is not fertile enough, but there are minerals and paint in the area. I sent people to find out from the town that the man named Ah Hui's daughter was a native of Maodun. Her father died when she was seven years old. She married the Li family in Muxian County at the age of fifteen and gave birth to two daughters. However, her husband died of illness within two years and sold her two daughters to her husband. A stranger sold Ah Hui to a salesman thirty miles away."

He Lingchuan exclaimed: "So she is from Maodun." She was not from Xingyun Village.

"Her husband's family still refused to tell her, but it was the neighbor who told her." Yu Hai said, "When her daughter was sold, her husband's family locked her in the door of the house. She wailed for two days, and the neighbors could hear her clearly, and they all felt disgusted. noisy."

He Lingchuan nodded: "That's it."

This is in line with Aunt Wu's words in Chenjiazhuang.

"The peddler locked her up at home for more than half a year, until she became pregnant, then Ah Hui followed him wholeheartedly." Yu Hai continued, "I don't know what happened, but five years later, the peddler went out to buy things and fell off a cliff and died, leaving her and a daughter behind."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Alas, this is really called a hemp rope only breaks at the thinnest part, and misfortune only finds the unfortunate. Brother Situ was right before: the fate of ordinary people is not in their own hands."

The two were silent for a few breaths, and He Lingchuan just said: "Have some tea."

Yu Hai changed a cup of tea: "About a month ago, Ah Hui ran away from her husband's family."

"With her daughter?" Aunt Wu also said that Ah Hui believed that her husband's family wanted to sell her and her daughter again, so she ran away.

"Yes, with her daughter."

Judging from her age, Ah Hui's daughter is also almost five years old. "What's her daughter's name?"

"Wang Xiaoya."

He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows: "Isn't her nickname Xiao'an?"

"Just Xiaoya." Yu Hai said, "Besides, it's reasonable that Li Xianwei doesn't know about the Xingyun Village you asked me to check."

"The village is too small? Too far away?" Peiguo was not big to begin with, and there were often small villages hidden in the valleys. He Lingchuan suspected that some of them were not even officially recorded.

"Neither." Yu Hai had a rare opportunity to tease him, "Since the officials in Liu County didn't know, I sent people to ask the elderly in several nearby towns. Most of them said they didn't know, but an old blacksmith said that he had been there when he was young, and there was a big apricot tree at the entrance of the village."

"He reported the location, and I sent people to check. Sure enough, the iconic old apricot tree at the entrance of the village was very beautiful, but the village was not Xingyun Village, but Dongbai Village."

Could Xiao An remember it wrong? He Lingchuan pondered, would a five or six-year-old girl remember her birthplace wrong?

Yu Hai ate a piece of mung bean cake and spoke vaguely:

"The weird thing is this: According to the villagers, that place was indeed called Xingyun Village, but that was twenty years ago!"

"Twenty years?" This answer was beyond He Lingchuan's expectation. This matter seemed to be getting more and more interesting. "What happened to the village? Why did it change its name?"

"It was not a name change, but it was destroyed in the war. At that time, a strong man led his army to plunder Xingyun Village, killing many people, and the remaining villagers fled. After several years, new outsiders entered the original site and rebuilt Dongbai Village there." Yu Hai smiled bitterly, "The small village in the Situ family's territory was eaten up by the ghost king. This kind of thing happens occasionally here."

"Is there a missing girl named Xiaoan in Dongbai Village?"

"No." Yu Hai shook his head, "There are only two girls under the age of five in the whole village, and their full names are not called this, and they are not lost."

He Lingchuan immediately thanked him: "I had this sudden inspiration, and it really troubled Brother Yu."

"It's a small matter." Yu Hai has been worried that he can't repay He Lingchuan's kindness. He is happy that the other party has assigned him something to do.

The two chatted for a while, and Yu Hai took the opportunity to say goodbye.

This man has a good sense of propriety and is comfortable with others. No wonder he can form a hometown association.

After sending him away, He Lingchuan stared out the window in a daze.

This spring, a pair of swallows built a new nest under the eaves of his study. They have been chirping these days, probably because a little swallow was born.

Birds, beasts, insects and fish all have their own parents.

Soul Mirror asked him, "Think of something?"

Why did Ah Hui's daughter say that she came from Xingyun Village, a small village that had disappeared twenty years ago?

"Could it be that Ah Hui told her daughter the story of Xingyun Village, and Xiao An remembered it?" Soul Mirror pondered, "This mother and daughter are a little crazy."

"No, Xiao An is not Ah Hui's daughter." He Lingchuan corrected it, "Ah Hui gave birth to three daughters, none of whom is called Xiao An."

"Then what's the matter with this mother and daughter!" Soul Mirror considered himself knowledgeable and experienced, but now he was also confused.

"Look at it this way. Although Ah Hui is crazy, everything she said can be verified. Her words are credible."

The Soul Mirror thought for a while: "It seems to be true."

He Lingchuan continued to analyze: "Then, we take her words as the benchmark. Once Xiao An's statement is inconsistent with it, it is contradictory and confused."

"I'll go first, I'll go first!" The Soul Mirror was very excited. "Xiao An said that her mother took her away from Xingyun Village to avoid monster attacks; but in fact, Ah Hui took her daughter away from her second husband's family. If there is a monster chasing them, it is probably the person who wants to chase them back?"