Late Night Tales Of The Capital Chapter 40: The smile of the devil
Chunyu Palace is located on Taifeng Street in Luoyang City. It was the residence of the second prince of the dynasty.
When the sky was just getting light, Shaoqing Hefei of Dali Temple came to visit alone.
Li Chunyu, the second prince, sat on the main seat of the main hall with a gloomy expression. It is impossible not to be gloomy, a full three boxes, eighteen spirit stones, disappeared overnight, even if he is a prince, he will still feel distressed.
According to the agreement, the spirit stone should have been delivered to the palace before the hai time yesterday, but no, not a single spirit stone was delivered, even if something happens unexpectedly, there should be someone reporting the letter!
"Your Royal Highness, Hefei, Shaoqing of Dali Temple, please see me." The butler cat said cautiously with her waist down.
"Let him in." Li Chunyu adjusted his expression. As a prince, his anger and anger shouldn't be overwhelming, at least he shouldn't be in front of others.
Soon, Hefei was taken to the main hall, and saw him with a knife in his left hand and a bag of things in his right hand.
"Master Crane, are you looking up to the matter?" Li Chunyu asked.
"According to the information provided by His Highness, comparing the number of people and routes, we have some clues."
Hefei put the bag in his right hand on the ground and opened it gently.
Inside is a small pile of black and green powder.
"This is?" Li Chun frowned and pointed to the ground in confusion.
"After a person was burned, the ashes left behind are only the result of this pile of ashes being burned by a special kind of flame." Hefei did not reserve and cut directly to the point.
"Ashes?" Although there was speculation, Li Chunyu still had the last glimmer of hope, but now it seems that he can let go. His spirit stone has really encountered an accident.
"Who did it?"
"The ashes were found near Qingluo Station, less than twenty miles away from Luoyang City. Judging from the situation at the scene, it should have been attacked by a monster, as evidenced by the body of a human-headed spider." Hefei After thinking about it, he replied softly.
"Monster?"
"Human head spider?"
When Li Chunyu heard this answer, his eyes narrowed slightly, "Human head spiders can burn people to fly ashes? Lord Crane, do you think I am a three-year-old child?"
"A few corpses of parasitic mosquitoes and flies were also found at the scene, but no mother beasts were found. This fly ash should have been caused by it, and there was indeed a corpse at the scene that was killed by a human head spider." Hefei was neither humble nor overbearing. Said.
"How many corpses of monsters were found?" Li Chunyu asked, knocking on the back of the chair with his right hand.
"One end."
"Nothing else? For example, how many boxes?"
Hefei looked at Li Chunyu, and then shook his head with a certain face, "No, except for the corpse that seemed to be blown out, it can be seen that it was a human head spider. Other things Only these ashes are left. If it were not for a little rain last night and the ground was relatively humid, I am afraid that even these ashes would have been blown away by the wind."
In just a quarter of an hour, Hefei walked out of the Chunyu Palace. This was a routine official announcement. Besides, he didn't have much friendship with the two princes, so he could live a good face.
His Majesty is still young and strong, it would be too early for Hefei to select the prince to stand on the team at this time. He is the Shaoqing of Dali Temple. With his majesty's disposition, he will definitely not hand over the person in this position.
Whoever has different intentions is not far from death.
In his position, Hefei knew what he wanted to do.
"The good deeds done by the monsters, I can't manage Dali Temple." Hefei muttered to himself, and disappeared on Taifeng Street after riding his horse.
Looking at the main hall of Chunyu Palace again, Li Chunyu coldly grabbed the teacup beside him and fell to the ground, "Steward, go to the adjudication department and call me Zhang Jingzhe. He adjudicates what the division does for food. , Are they all rice buckets! The monsters have already entered Luoyang City, are their eyes blind!"
One day later, Luoyang City posted a notice.
It probably means that in recent days, the monster clan has caused disasters and repeated tragedies. The court attaches great importance to it and hopes that the majority of people can provide more clues. Anyone who has accurate clues and contributed to the capture of the demon will be rewarded many times. Those who are connected with the demon will make a decisive decision.
The vigorous movement of catching monsters began to unfold in Luoyang City.
On the same day, Qian Shuxiao took the court's notice back and threw it on the table, just when Ye Que saw it.
Holding the notice and reading it twice, Ye Que smacked his lips, "I'm really dozing off and give a pillow. What do I want? I don't know how to use it."
"Qian Shuxiao, do you remember what I told you last night?" Ye Que played with the sword that kept flying in his heart.
"What's the matter?" Qian Shu laughed for a moment.
"I'm going to find some ears and eyes, Tianmen can't always have three people forever."
"It's easy to say, there are so many shops in my house, I'll go and order, it's not a problem to transfer a few people."
"Your home is a shop, not the same thing, and your home is your home, you are you, and Tianmen is Tianmen."
Qian Shuxiao looked at Ye Que with a serious look, then shrugged, "What you say is what you say, you are the sect master, I will listen to you."
"Didn’t I refine a furnace of Qi Gathering and Body Tempering Pill before, except for you and your sister, there should be surplus. I sold them all in these two days. I need a sum of silver. You can prepare it as soon as possible. ."
"Silver is easy to say, the pill that you refine has such a good effect, you must not worry about selling it, don't worry, give me half a day, more than enough."
"Also, find me a distribution map and a list of the little gangsters in Luoyang City. Don't have gangs and factions, but the kind of homeless, the lowest-level gangsters, little gangsters."
"I asked the butler to give you a copy. He knows this. Basically, the store at home will have a bit of intersection with these people. It's a snake."
Sanjiufang, located in the southwest corner of Luoyang City, is the place where the three religions and nine currents of Luoyang converge. Gambling shops, brothels, restaurants, small merchants and hawkers, jugglers, beggars, poor scholars, porters, anyway, this is the most desolate, dirtiest and poorest place in Luoyang City, and it is also the most densely populated place.
Fighting and fighting, murder and robbery are commonplace here, even people from Dali Temple are reluctant to come here to handle cases. Because even if the case is handled, there will be no oil and water. They are all dead and poor. Even if there is a need for the above, you can find a substitute for the dead ghost or something. This is the best place to go. The night is black and the wind is high, killing people and taking them away, sometimes when they go out for a month, there is no report to the official.
If you are a beautiful lady, when you go out, your family will definitely tell you in advance, you can go anywhere, Sanjiufang must go around.
This Sanjiufang can basically be regarded as a malignant tumor in the Shendu Luocheng. It is ugly and dirty, but it cannot be cut off directly. Even if it is cut off, it will grow in another place.
Ye Que took the map in his hand, looked at the notes next to him, clicked Sanjiufang, and smiled, "Let’s start here."
Speaking of Ye Que, he opened another small notebook with hundreds of people's names densely memorized on it, and each person's name was marked with a brief introduction.
Ye Que flipped through the notebook, compared to the map, and walked slowly in the direction of Sanjiufang.
"Southeast Chu, 18 years old, from Sanjiufang, Luoyang, his father is a gambler, and his mother is a brothel girl. She was unsupervised since she was a child. Fighting and fighting were like commonplace meals. At the age of thirteen, she followed a salt dealer and went north and south. At the age of sixteen, the boss was murdered when he was robbing Yan Xiao on a site. He created the salt owl’s nest with a single knife and avenged the boss. After that, he became the boss of the group, occupying a private salt workshop with about 20 people.
"Young, horrible, bloody, I like it. It depends on whether you have ambitions and whether you can seize the opportunity." Ye Que said the name of Chu Southeastern twice silently.
At the end of a narrow and shabby alley, there is a small wooden warehouse with the word "Salt" crookedly written on the door.
Ye Que stuffed the map and roster into his arms, tidyed up his clothes, and walked in with his hands.
Soon, there were a few ding-ding-dong fighting sounds from inside. It started quickly and ended sooner. It just took a breather and quieted down.
On the chair in the middle of the warehouse, Ye Que sat upright, eight or nine big men lying on the ground, groaning in pain, and inside was a bag of quilts. Neatly private salt.
Scanning the audience, Ye Que tapped on the wooden handle of the chair and asked, "Your boss is Chu Dongnan, right? Who is Chu Dongnan?"
The person lying on the ground~IndoMTL.com~ Except for a louder moan, no one spoke.
Ye Que snorted coldly at the corner of his mouth, "Just now he was merciful, you should be able to feel that if you really want to die, then you continue to be hard-headed."
"I count three, and no one will say, don't blame me for being rude."
Without even looking at the people on the ground, Ye Que immediately started counting, "One."
The groan on the ground was not only not small, but rather louder, but no one spoke.
"Two."
Someone quietly opened his eyes and looked at Ye Que, but no one spoke.
"Three."
The **** who crawled out of the fight, who are really afraid of counting, are the masters who do not see the coffin and do not shed tears. Ye Que's first men are merciful, in their eyes they have a lot of worries and dare not dare. Kill.
A cold wind blew.
The man closest to Ye Que was still groaning for the first second, and then he was separated from his entire neck in the next second, and a small sword floated on top of this man's corpse in a daze.
Blood sprayed all over the place.
The moaning sound stopped abruptly!
"Our boss is out, not here, we will be back in half an hour." Almost the next second after the death of the big man on the ground, someone shouted directly.
The bullies are not dead men. Although they fight and kill all day long, they are also the ones who are most afraid of death.
"Good."
Ye Que smiled at the man.
In an instant, the speaker felt a little hot and humid underneath himself, but he didn't even dare to move his whole body. He swears that Ye Que's smile is the most oozing smile he has seen in his life. Smile, like it is.
It's like a devil's smile.