Chapter 517 Mi Feng

Fan Sheng's forehead veins jumped, and he tried to suppress his anger, and only asked about the big thing that happened just now: "Was Zhongsun Mou swallowed by the monster he wanted?"

On the way back, his subordinates had reported to him how Zhongsun Mou got into trouble.

Fan Sheng was also shocked.

Zhongsun Mou got into trouble, and he was also in Baisha. The investigation of this matter later would involve him.

So he had to explain everything he did here.

Tian County Magistrate's face became even more bitter, this was really a double whammy. Otherwise, he would resign from his post to the king and return home? "Yes, yes, that thing swallowed Lord Zhongsun in one gulp and escaped into the sand."

No matter how much Fan Sheng hated He Lingchuan, he had to ask at this time: "Is that really the murderer you are chasing?"

"I didn't see it myself. We were wrestling in the Lotus Palace at that time, remember?" He Lingchuan shrugged, "But according to the testimony of the villagers, the monster that kidnapped Zhongsun Mou looked very much like the snail toad that Mai Xuewen used to hunt monsters."

As knowledgeable as Fan Sheng was, he also found it incredible: "Why did this Mai guy come back to rob Zhongsun Mou after he escaped?"

"Who knows, maybe he wants revenge too." He Lingchuan smiled, "Maybe Lord Zhongsun also hindered him?"

Also?

This was a retort to him. Fan Sheng was about to scold him, but He Lingchuan got the better of him: "Now even the inspector has been kidnapped. Lord Fan, how do you think Lingxu City will deal with this matter?"

This is a serious question, and it is also the most important question at the moment. Fan Sheng's anger was suppressed. After thinking for a while, he said: "Once it is reported, it will be a big deal. We must investigate it to the bottom."

First, the white-shouldered eagle who sent the letter to the front line disappeared, and then the inspector who was handling the case was swallowed up in broad daylight. This gave Lingxu City two big slaps in a row. How could the emperor swallow this breath?

The majesty of Lingxu City cannot be challenged.

"We will definitely send a special envoy to investigate the case." The disappearance of the white-shouldered eagle may be an accident, but Zhongsun Mou was killed. Thousands of eyes here have seen it. Lingxu will never take it lightly again. By then, a special person will handle the case and investigate it strictly. It will not be as casual as Zhongsun Mou's investigation.

It's a big deal.

He Lingchuan asked him again: "Then, what about the people and evidence involved in the case?"

"Of course, they must be detained and not allowed to leave Baisha." At this point, Fan Sheng exhaled depressedly. It seems that he was included in this.

This time he wanted to repay the Zhongsun family, but he didn't know that he would be involved in the scandal. Why did he do that?

He Lingchuan saw his annoyance, but he believed his previous statement a little. He turned around and left without saying much.

"Are you okay?" Jiao Yu saw that half of his clothes were red.

"Something happened. It hurts so much." Being injured is commonplace, which does not mean that he does not know pain, not to mention that the painkiller effect of Shituo powder has passed, "but I have to go somewhere first."

County Magistrate Tian was still very considerate. Seeing that the special envoy was injured, he arranged a carriage for him in his busy schedule.

As a result, He Lingchuan went to find Lu Dutong to get Jia Yu back, and then got on the carriage and walked northwest along the lakeshore.

Isn't this walking back again?

Menghu lay at the window, and after two quarters of an hour, he vaguely saw the Lotus Palace in the lake.

Jia Yu asked curiously, "Why did the special envoy come here again?"

"I left something in the water, and I need to go back to get it." The treasure he had been thinking about.

Jia Yu immediately understood, and said cleverly, "I'll go rowing back, please wait!"

The carriage also arrived at the place, he got off the car in two steps, kicked into the water, and soon swam away.

He Lingchuan waited for a while, and Jia Yu rowed a small boat to the shore.

This was the boat of the Cen Mansion, which had carried Fan Sheng to attack He Lingchuan before, but failed, and the boat was pushed away by Jia Yu.

Now he rowed back and took He Lingchuan, the wounded, into the lake again.

Menghu still couldn't get a seat this time, the boat was too small, and it was too heavy, so he could only lie on the shore and wait.

Soon, the small boat returned to the place where He Lingchuan had fought with Fan Sheng before.

Both of them were dumbfounded. The scene in front of them was completely different from when they left:

With Fan Sheng falling into the water as the center, the area within a radius of ten feet was full of withered lotus flowers, and there was not a single intact lotus.

This area of ​​water seemed to have been swept through. In addition to the stems and leaves of plants, there were also the bodies of water birds, insects and fish floating on the water. Those arrogant piranhas were basically all red-bellied. More than a dozen of them were even incomplete. Only two were still alive, slapping the water with only one of their remaining fins and turning in circles.

It was not far from dying.

Jia Yu murmured, "What happened here?"

"Fan Sheng used a life-saving trick and almost died with the lotus monster." He Lingchuan asked him to row closer to the place where he had picked the Tyrannosaurus Rex before, and circled around a few more times.

The location of the treasure indicated by the divine bone necklace was slightly different from the original one.

He Lingchuan had a clue in his mind, and he found the right location and went into the water again.

This time he dived all the way to the bottom of the water and explored carefully.

The water was full of all kinds of floating objects, but He Lingchuan was just swimming back and forth on the lake bed.

Jia Yu's eyes widened as he saw him groping in the lake mud for a long time before he came to the surface.

He helped He Lingchuan get back on the boat, and then he saw that he was holding something in his arms, which looked like a broken pottery. It was hard to tell whether it was a jar or a vat. It was full of mud, and a large part of the lotus root was buried inside.

He Lingchuan washed away the mud with the lake water and found that the broken pottery was surprisingly clean. There was not even a dead insect or snail egg, only the lotus root node.

It is unknown why this lotus root broke. The cross-section of the same kind is off-white, but this one is blood red. At this time, it is also oozing light red mucus, which looks a bit like human blood at first glance.

"What is this?" Jia Yu was a little unbelievable, "Is this a lotus...?"

"It's probably the water spirit in the lake." Jia Yu once said that the water spirit punishes cheaters. This time Fan Sheng sneaked up on He Lingchuan and cut down a large area of ​​the lotus wall. The lotus monster knew at a glance that this was not a serious participant in the event, but came to make trouble.

He Lingchuan guessed that it had a bad temper, but he didn't expect it to take revenge when Fan Sheng was trapped in the spider web, but was taken away by the big move released by the other party.

More than 200 years of hard training turned into nothing, leaving only this half of the broken lotus root.

But is it really dead?

"Go back."

The boat rowed towards the shore, and this time the divine bone necklace no longer heated up.

It seems that he finally found it.

After landing, He Lingchuan changed to a carriage and returned to the inn, and gave Jia Yu a silver ingot as labor fee.

The soldier left happily, and Menghu went to find General Lu. He Lingchuan asked the inn to send hot water so that he could clean the mud, leaves and insect corpses on his body.

After soaking in water, the wounds also need to be treated again.

After finishing all these, half an hour passed. He Lingchuan finally found a comfortable chair to sit down, and then took out the broken pottery dug out of the lake to examine it.

In fact, the material of this thing is not pottery, it looks like jade but not jade, like iron but not iron, and it can make a clanging sound when knocked.

Looking at its black body and white mouth, it was probably a pot-shaped container, but now at most one-third is left, and only the bottom is relatively intact.

Anyway, it is also a fragment, not afraid of damage, He Lingchuan simply knocked it twice with a knife.

Dangdangdang, it's okay.

He Lingchuan simply took it and slapped it on the edge of the table.

With a snap, it was still okay, and the corner of the table fell off.

The texture of this fragment is surprisingly hard!

Yes, how can something that can be favored by the divine bone be without some skills?

But this thing has a frosted feel and no patterns, or perhaps the patterned part has broken, with only a few words engraved on the bottom:

Mi Feng.

If you want wind, you get wind; if you want rain, you get rain.

The first two characters are big, and the last eight characters are small, which are actually the words of ancient immortals.

"I really picked up an ancient artifact." He Lingchuan looked at it, and then at the half of the broken lotus root, and speculated that the ancient artifact was broken for some reason, and the fragments fell into the tide lake, resulting in the lotus growing in it turning into a monster.

He turned over and over but couldn't find any new clues, so he fed the fragments to the God Bone Necklace.

The God Bone Necklace happily ate it all.

Such hard fragments, no one knows how it digested. He Lingchuan was too lazy to think too much after seeing too many strange things.

As for the lotus root, there was a hole in the cross section, so He Lingchuan threw it into the basin.

Then he closed his eyes to rest and began to review today's events.

Since the investigation of the messenger case stalled, it has become increasingly difficult for Fu Songhua to hide, and He Lingchuan himself has been plotted against twice. At that time, he understood that his opponent was unscrupulous because of his status as an official of Lingxu City. If he wanted to turn the tables and break the passive situation, he needed an opportunity.

This opportunity is called:

Zhongsun Mou must die!

On the one hand, Zhongsun Mou strongly advocated taking Fu Songhua back to Lingxu City to close the case. If he died, no one would take care of this matter, and Fu Songhua could continue to stay in Baisha.

He Lingchuan's urgent need was immediately resolved.

Fu Songhua was about to be unable to hide. The power of the Cen family is really no joke, but He Lingchuan couldn't stop it.

On the other hand, Zhongsun Mou's death would inevitably anger Lingxu City. After this matter became a big deal, the emperor refused to give up, and the Zhongsun family refused to give up, so the special envoy sent to handle the case could no longer think of fooling around like Zhongsun Mou did.

By then, all the evidence involved in the case will be put under the sun and examined repeatedly.

The case of the white-shouldered eagle messenger will also be overturned and retried.

Will the tricks used by the Cen Mansion still work? Will the new special envoy not be suspicious of them?

It can be said that as long as Zhongsun Mou dies, this chess game will be alive.

In extraordinary times, extraordinary measures must be taken.

Moreover, it was Zhongsun Mou and others who first attacked him, and He Lingchuan was just returning the favor.

So, he used the eggs of the snail toad.

Wan Song once explained that if they wanted to summon the snail toad, they only had to crush its eggs and then stand on the ground.

If it was the master, the snail toad would naturally obey;

If it was someone else, such as He Lingchuan or Zhongsun Mou, who had bad intentions to kill its offspring, the snail toad would not bother to think of a better way to relieve its hatred except to swallow it in one gulp.

Its brain is not much bigger than a peach, and it was not meant to think.

When gambling on the Chaohu Tower, He Lingchuan took the opportunity to crush the snail toad eggs, smear the soul-catching mirror with the juice, and then dry it with true power.