Chapter 154 Hidden Spirit Shirt

After an incense stick of time, a short and fat old man wearing the robes of the Gao family was brought to the law enforcement hall by several law enforcement team members in the market. This man was the shopkeeper of Jinbaotang.

Seeing that the person sitting above was not the one he expected, the smile on the face of the monk of the Gao family suddenly froze, and he knelt down and shouted loudly.

"I am Gao Yufu, the young master, to meet Senior Song. I wonder if you have any instructions for me to come here."

"Half an hour ago, someone came to me and said that Jinbaotang had replaced a second-level robe of someone else. I wonder if Shopkeeper Gao knew about this?" Seeing Gao Yufu's respectful look, Song Qingming still wanted to give him a chance, so he reminded him calmly.

Gao Yufu heard this and shouted loudly: "Senior Song, you must not believe those two people's nonsense and slander. Our Gao family has been running Jinbaotang for nearly two hundred years. We have always done business with conscience. This is also well-known in the market. If you don't believe me, ask your Song family cultivators, who has suffered losses in my Jinbaotang."

Seeing this man so stubborn, Song Qingming's face changed instantly, and he didn't say polite to him anymore. He shouted in a serious voice: "Hmph! You ungrateful thing, it seems that you won't cry until you see the coffin today, Xinhu, go and bring that person up."

Song Xinhu heard this and immediately took the order to go to the side hall and brought a cultivator who looked like a waiter to the main hall.

When Gao Yufu saw this man, he was shocked and his face turned pale instantly.

This man was the guy that Gao Yufu sent to greet the law enforcement team after the incident. When he arrived at the law enforcement team, he thought that the person on duty today was Hu Maocheng, an acquaintance of their shopkeeper, but he bumped into Song Changxiong.

The two captains of the law enforcement team change shifts every ten days. In addition to Song Changxiong of the Song family, there is another one, Hu Maocheng, the third disciple of Lu Yuanfeng. This person is deeply trusted by Lu Yuanfeng and has been the captain of the law enforcement team in Qinghefang for more than 20 years.

The law enforcement team monk on duty today should have been Hu Maocheng, but he happened to have something to do and changed shifts in the past two days, so Song Changxiong became on duty.

Someone complained, and then he saw this person sneaking to Hu Maocheng. Song Changxiong immediately felt something was wrong and detained him on the spot. When Song Qingming came, he handed him over to him.

This clerk was originally a casual cultivator hired by the Gao family. He worked for Gao Yufu just to make a living. Now he has become a frightened bird in Song Qingming's hands. Under the pressure of this foundation-building cultivator, he quickly confessed the whole story.

After all, he is a small clerk and not the mastermind. Although he has gained some benefits by running errands for Gao Yufu over the years, it is a drop in the bucket compared to the things he embezzled. Naturally, it is not worth it to help him to the death.

"You bastard, my Gao family has been kind to you, right? You dare to bite your master after you've eaten your fill. Aren't you afraid of retribution in the future? This guy must have done something that was exposed, and he bit people indiscriminately. Senior Song, please give me this man for the sake of my family leader. I will make him hand over the embezzled items after I go back, and I will give you and the market an explanation."

Although he knew that the matter had been exposed, Gao Yufu still did not admit it directly. He still held a glimmer of hope in his heart, thinking that if he brought up Gao Jinhe, Song Qingming might be able to let him go for the sake of the Gao family leader and not make a big deal about it.

Hearing this, Song Qingming chuckled twice and said: "I have given you a chance today, but you didn't take it. If you had admitted it directly at the beginning, I could have given you a lighter sentence for the sake of Fellow Daoist Gao. Your greedy character is definitely not the first time you have done such a dirty thing. How can I explain to the many cultivators in Qinghefang if I don't teach you a lesson?"

Hearing this, Gao Yufu collapsed to the ground in an instant and begged for mercy.

Song Qingming ignored him and said directly to the several law enforcement team cultivators below: "Take him away, drag him to the street and whip him fifty times, and inform the Gao family that Jinbaotang will be closed for half a year for rectification."

In the guest room of the side hall of the law enforcement team, an old man with a sad face was pacing back and forth in the room.

"Grandpa, please stop wandering around. Now that things have come to this, we can only give it a try. If we can't get the Hidden Spirit Shirt back, we will leave immediately. At worst, we will never come here again."

"Hongyu, you are too impulsive. Grandpa has told you many times that saving your life is the most important thing. Money is only a thing outside of your body. If you make a fuss, if someone holds a grudge and robs and kills us outside the market, I'm afraid that by then, you and I will both be fools."

As soon as the old man finished speaking, there was a sound of the door opening. The grandfather and grandson looked up and saw a young man suddenly pushing the door and walking in.

Sensing the breath of the person, the old man was startled and quickly pulled the girl to kneel on the ground.

"Little Li Quan, I pay my respects to the senior!"

"Get up, no more politeness, take a look at this robe, is it the one that the shopkeeper of Jinbaotang embezzled?" Song Qingming waved his hand for them to get up, and raised his hand to take out a dark purple second-level robe.

As soon as they saw this item, the grandfather and grandson showed joy on their faces. After taking it, they checked it and nodded to confirm it.

"Did you come to Qinghefang this time to sell this item?"

"Reporting to the senior, it is true. I have heard that Qinghefang has always been peaceful, so the two of us came here from afar. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing, and even alarmed the senior. I hope the senior can forgive us." After Li Quan finished speaking, he knelt on the ground again to thank Song Qingming for his help.

Song Qingming nodded and said, "Where is the origin of this robe? Can you tell me?"

"This hidden spirit shirt can help hide your body shape and breath for a period of time. It has been passed down from my ancestors for hundreds of years. If the senior still doesn't believe it, send someone to Pingyang County to check it out." Before Li Quan opened his mouth to reply, the girl who took the lead in complaining had already blurted it out.

"Oh, so you are cultivators from Pingyang County?"

"We were originally cultivators from the Li family of Cuilong Mountain in Pingyang County. When the monsters rioted ten years ago, our Li family suffered a disaster. There were only a few cultivators left. The original sacred mountain was occupied by a group of foreign bandits, and we became independent cultivators." Li Quan spoke slowly and heavily about the origins of his grandfather and grandson.

Song Qingming was also an eyewitness to the monster riot ten years ago. He also fought several battles with monsters in Pingyang County. Naturally, he knew something about the situation there. At that time, almost half of the territory of Pingyang County was captured by monsters. Many immortal cultivation families suffered this catastrophe, including the Li family of Cuilong Mountain.

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