Chapter 217.

Fuck …. The moment she saw the dog store owner, Xu Qi’an was left with only this word in her mind, and only after a long time was there bewilderment and anger, as well as a slight afterthought.

Bewildered because he didn’t understand why it had turned out this way, angry because he felt his intelligence had been insulted, and fearful because if the other party had plotted against him, he would probably have been hit at that moment.

“This person’s name is Liang Youping, and unlike Zhou Min, he is a native of Yunzhou. From what Yang Chuannan said, this person still hooked up with the Qi Party through his channel.” Li Miaozhen said.

“The experience of the Commanding General’s Department, the authority is the same as Zhou Min…” inspector Zhang pondered, and after a moment, questioned, “Why don’t you and Yang Chuannan contact this official early and be frank?”

Li Miaozhen’s waist and back were straight, her sitting posture hadn’t moved from the beginning, she just turned her wheat-colored melon face and faintly said:

“In the year of the Beijing Inspection, the imperial court is characterized by intense party disputes, so how do we know if Wei Qingyi is planning to take this opportunity to pluck out officials from all parts of the Qi Party?”

“This official is acting on behalf of the Heavenly Shepherd and Hunting, so I should do my duty, appease the people and punish the corrupt officials, so that I can live up to His Majesty’s trust and Duke Wei’s trust.” Inspector Zhang said in a deep voice.

Li Miaozhen bristled with disdain.

The thousand-dagger Yuan Jing Emperor… Xu Qi’an could guess the inner activities of Number Two at this moment.

He let out a tired breath and knocked on the desktop, drawing sideways glances from the three before his voice trailed off, “I know this man!”

The three were taken aback.

Xu Qi’an gazed at the portrait and asked, “Is he a cripple?”

“Yes, Liang Youping once fell off a cliff during a bandit raid and broke his leg.” Li Miaozhen replied.

…That guy’s words can’t be trusted with a single punctuation mark, at the expense of the old man who was touched at the time. Xu Qi’an had the urge to curse again.

At the same time, he realized that his mental state was really bad because he didn’t even think to cast the Qi Looking Technique at that time to see if what the man said was true or not.

On a normal day, he wouldn’t have made such a huge oversight.

“What’s going on?” Inspector Zhang couldn’t help but ask.

Xu Qi’an waved his hand while pinching his brow, “Mr. Inspector, my mind is in a mess right now. Well, allow me to go somewhere, and I’ll explain it to you properly later.”

With that, he looked at Jiang Ruizhong, “Jiang Jinluo accompany me?”

Jiang Lizhong glanced at Governor Zhang and shook his head, “Lord Wei’s orders are to follow and protect the Governor at all times.”

Well, it makes sense, just in case we come back and find that the governor’s head has been taken off and kicked as a ball, then we’ll be at peace… Xu Qi’an said:

“Then shout for two silver gongs to accompany me, and lend me thirty more Huben guards.”

He didn’t admit he was a little scared, it was all for safekeeping.

“I’ll accompany you!” Li Miaozhen acted positively.

Xu Qi’an immediately changed his words, “Jiang Jin Gong, I want three silver gongs.”

Li Miaozhen: “…”

This little gong didn’t trust her, Li Miaozhen showed some womanly gestures and cut him a vicious glance.

In a short while, Xu Qi’an took three silver gongs, thirty Huben guards, and Li Miaozhen and Su Su, and all of them rode out of the post station and ran towards the Huang Bo Street black market.

With the experience of the impulse of the large troop not long ago, the soldiers patrolling the city took a look at the poor clothes of the night watchman and did not even stop them, but instead consciously gave way.

The governor’s team from the capital has the right to act cheaply.

After leaving the inner city and quickly arriving at Huang Bo Street, a group of brightly armored Huben guards rushed into the black market, attracting the vigilance and hostility of passersby, who retreated in droves.

Xu Qi’an led the team to Ding 15 store, and was shocked to find the door closed, the doors and windows blackened, and no lights lit inside.

His heart sank, and he waved his hand for the Huben guards to surround the store, intending to force their way in.

“Wait!” Li Miaozhen shouted.

She pulled the pouch from her belt pouch, opened it, and a wisp of green smoke floated out and into the store through a crack in the door or window.

“The perfect scout.” Xu Qi’an praised.

Li Miaozhen gave a reserved “hmm”.

Taoism can be really interesting, a gas into three Qing, heaven and earth and human three sects cultivate completely different paths. Earth Sect cultivate merit, heaven Sect cultivate mo get feelings, human Sect do the opposite, put a good a stunning Taoist nun cultivated into a fox charming …. Xu Qi’an’s heart slandered while suddenly thinking of a point.

The Celestial and Human Sects were like water and fire, could it be that it was precisely because of the opposite cultivation paths?

And the Earth Sect cultivates merit and virtue, not touching both sides, so the relationship with the two sects is okay, no hatred and no grudges, and they can still meet and exchange a few words of courtesy.

Otherwise, Li Miaozhen, the Heavenly Sect’s Holy Maiden, wouldn’t have been able to join the Heaven and Earth Society.

Luo Yu Heng, that head of the Dao, wouldn’t have gifted the elixir to Daoist Master Golden Lotus.

It’s true that right and left is the way to go, just as I’m caught between Lin’an and Huaiqing, pleasing both sides and flirting with both.

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Perfect.

At this time, several wisps of green smoke curled back, whispered in Li Miaozhen’s ear for a moment, and drilled back into the brocade bag.

“There’s no one in the store and no ambush.” Li Miaozhen said.

Xu Qi’an immediately waved his hand and brought three silver gongs to break into the house, searching upstairs and downstairs, and all the furnishings in the store remained intact and undamaged.

There were even twenty taels of silver in the locked drawer, and Xu Qi’an chose to confiscate them and receive them in his wallet.

…no signs of fighting, no signs of scavenging …. The owner of the store seems to have left only temporarily …. Xu Qi’an searched to no avail and led the men out of the store towards the owner of the adjoining store who had come out to watch the fun.

This store also sells “dog meat”.

“Come here, this officer has something to ask you.”

The owner of Shop Ding 16 obediently walked over and lowered his eyebrows, “My lord.”

“Where did the owner of Shop Ding 15 go?”

“It’s been a few days since I’ve been open, and the girls he keeps in his store have come to me to make a living.” The owner of Shop 16 answered questions but didn’t say anything superfluous.

“When did it close?” Xu Qi’an asked again.

“Three days ago.”

Three days ago…fucking after I left? Xu Qi’an’s gaze flickered slightly as he continued to ask, “The owner of Shop 15, isn’t he the one with the crippled leg?”

“It’s him, but not the original owner.”

…Not the original boss. A certain guess in Xu Qi’an’s heart was confirmed, “Where is the original boss? When did the crippled new boss take over the store?”

“Shop 15 changed owners about a decade ago, where the original owner went I don’t know.”

Xu Qi’an asked the bosses of the other stores in the neighborhood, and received similar replies. The bosses of the neighboring stores were also surprised by the sudden change of proprietor of Shop 15.

But people are so cold in the black market that no one takes it personally.

On the way back, the horses traveled slowly, and Xu Qi’an didn’t know how many times he had pinched his brow.

Li Miaozhen looked at him sideways, her voice permeated with the magnetism of a mature woman, “You seem to be losing your energy.”

It is also good to tell you to know that I am not a colorful man …. Xu Qi’an said, “General Li seems to have a misunderstanding about me, thinking that I am a womanizer, otherwise why did he send Miss Susu to confuse me.”

“Isn’t it?”

Faced with Xu Qi An’s behavior of coming up with an A at the drop of a hat, Li Miaozhen chose to tough it out.

“I’m impacting the God Refining Realm and haven’t slept for a long time.” Xu Qi’an explained.

He didn’t specify how many days.

Impacting the God Refining Realm? Li Miaozhen slightly widened her beautiful eyes as she scrutinized him.

At this time, she realized that she had been mistaken, seeing Xu Qi’an with heavy dark circles under his eyes, anyone would subconsciously think that the other party had overindulged.

Instead, he was the first to think of impacting the God Refining Realm, and subsequently, within the Tiandi Association, he heard No. 1 comment that Xu Qi’an was a lustful man, indulging in the Teachers’ Workshop, and that the impression of a lustful man had since been reinforced.

Even if this is a change brought about by impacting the Refined God Realm, it can t change the fact that you are a colorful embryo …… You will never know how well I know you …. Li Miaozhen secretly said.

She was a little curious though, how long had the kid been up?

Li Miaozhen didn’t know much about the martial artist system, after all, she had only been down the mountain for a few short years, and hadn’t met any martial artists who happened to impact the Refined God Realm.

An experienced one like Yang Chuannan could tell at a glance that Xu Qi’an was impacting the God Refining Realm. This was the kind of vision only people who had been there had.

“If I remember correctly, the limit for impacting the God Refining Realm is ten days?”

“General Li doesn’t know much about the Wufu system.”

“Why should I understand?”

“You don’t seem to think much of Wulf.”

Li Miaozhen replied rather humorously, “I’m not alone.”

Xu Qi’an: “….”

He couldn’t help but think of the proud White Warlocks and Confucian readers, who similarly despised martial artists, the chain of contempt in this world was: no one defied anyone, but everyone unanimously despised martial artists.

Xu Qi’an used to know that the most disgusting discrimination in the world was the “fight against pornography and blackmail”, but now there’s one more, and it’s called “Wufu”.

With the exception of warlocks and martial artists, all major systems have existed or appeared to have existed beyond their grade. However, warlocks are far more useful than martial artists, and warlocks are more likely to be respected.

I don’t know when the martial arts system will be able to produce a Martial God as well.

“It’s really calling for a gas shaking cold.” Xu Qi’an said.

….

Back at the post station, Governor Zhang and Jiang Ruizhong were no longer in the hall, leaving one of the Huben guards waiting, telling Xu Qi’an and Li Miaozhen that the governor was waiting in his room’s.

Knocking on the door of Inspector Zhang’s room, Xu Qi’an and Li Miaozhen entered the room.

“The man General Li drew is the owner of the black market store that kept the evidence for Zhou Min. I unlocked the secret code left by Zhou Min and groped my way over there to get the ledger.”

Xu Qi’an tells Inspector Zhang and Jiang Ruizhong what happened.

After listening, Inspector Zhang’s face was grave: “Could that original boss be the real one, the one who keeps the books?”

Xu Qi’an nodded, “Nine times out of ten, yes, and if I’m not wrong, I guess I’ve already been silenced. The store owner I met later was Liang Youping in disguise.”

Kang Ruzhong stroked the hardened scruff of his chin and sounded puzzled, “Then how did they find their way to the black market?”

“Remember what I said when I analyzed the case,” Xu Qi’an pinched his brow, “We found out about Black Market Ding No. 15 Shop through this clue of Yang Yingying. But this clue wasn’t given to us, it was given to Qingzhou’s Minister of Prefecture, Lord Yang.

“That is to say, the clues that Zhou Min originally left for us have been deciphered in advance.”

The world is full of smart people.

Li Miaozhen shook her head, “Don’t you guys think it’s strange, since you’ve already found the account book, you can just destroy it directly, why do you have to stay and wait for you to find it, and then hand it over to you?”

Jiang Ruizhong was taken aback, “The ledger was switched, and we got a fake?”

“No!” Inspector Zhang shook his head, “If the account books are fake, tomorrow when the Japanese officials go to the Commanding General’s Department to reconcile the accounts, they will soon be able to see the cracks. Then what is the point of them sending fake account books?”

Jiang Ruzhong’s frown tightened, “But sending the real ledger would be even more outrageous ah, killing the dog meat store owner who was the real connector, and then returning the ledger to us in its original form?”

“Indeed, the account book, whether it’s true or not, is illogical.” Xu Qi’an pinched his brows and paced around the room:

“Let’s just review the case properly.”

“Zhou Min found out that Yang Chuannan was secretly supporting the mountain bandits and wrote a secret letter to report back to the Yamen. When the Qi party learned of this, they immediately turned on the office of the night watchman and created an embezzlement case to try to force Duke Wei to compromise.

“Subsequently, under my chance, I found out the inside story of the Qi Party colluding with the Witch God Cult and secretly supporting the mountain bandits. Only then did the imperial court realize the gravity of the matter and sent me…”

Inspector Zhang coughed hard.

Xu Qi’an said instead, “Send the governor to Yunzhou to investigate the case.”

“Just now I inquired in the black market, and the original owner of Ding 15 was murdered a decade ago. And at this time, we were still at the border of Qingzhou. General Li, when did Yang Chuannan receive the secret message from the capital side?”

“The letter was received about six days ago, from a close friend of Lord Yang.” Li Miaozhen said.

“That’s right, we’re already taking the fastest route, even if the Qi Party is faster than us, it can’t be more than a decade.” Xu Qi’an nodded, “Whether it’s killing Zhou Min to silence him or killing the dog meat store owner, it should have nothing to do with the Qi Party in the capital. Our real enemy is in Yunzhou.

“In that case, there are only two scenarios for this case: one, this is all a bitter trick by Yang Chuannan. Two, there is a black hand behind the scenes, ready to push Yang Chuannan out as a scapegoat. When the secret letter was sent back to the capital, the layout and planning started. He killed Zhou Min, searched for the hidden evidence, and tried to make Yang Chuan Nan take the blame.

“If the ledger is true, then the first scenario is unlikely, as it would be tantamount to actively handing us the butcher’s knife.

“The fact that the ledger is a fake makes it even more meaningless. Yang Chuannan was neither freed from suspicion nor truly convicted. Liang Youping took the initiative to hand over the account book to us, but instead, he aroused suspicion and saved Yang Chuannan in disguise.”

Li Miaozhen keenly captured a logical loophole: “That is to say, the account book must be real. According to your speculation, the account book is real; there is a mastermind behind it who wants to push Yang Chuannan out as a shield.

“Then Liang Youping’s behavior of killing the dog meat store owner and handing over the account book to you in person is unreasonable ah.”

Yes, the premise that the ledger is true, the black hand behind the scenes just wait for the governor team to find it, Yang Chuannan can not be defended.

Liang Youping’s behavior would be superfluous.

Inspector Zhang mused, “Perhaps, there is a problem with the ledger. The ledger is real, but there is some sort of problem with it, a problem that will lead us to point the finger at the real mastermind behind the scenes. Thus they had to rack their brains to find it and destroy the breakage in it.

“Then impersonate the owner of a dog meat store and wait for us to come to your door so you can give us the ledger.”

Jiang Lizhong first nodded his head, then shook his head, “How do they know that there is something wrong with the account book, wasn’t this account book made by Zhou Min.”

Inspector Zhang smiled and said, “Zhou Min was able to find out the evidence because he was an experience in the Department of Capital Command, in charge of the treasury and receiving and dispatching, and the armaments and instruments had to pass through his hands. And that Liang Youping, he was also an experience.”

Xu Qi’an suddenly said, “There’s something I haven’t figured out.”

“Hmm?” Li Miaozhen looked over.

“Why is Liang Youping the one responsible for handing over the ledger to us?” Xu Qi’an swept over the three, “Don’t you guys think it’s strange, Liang Youping has already been exposed ah. Once we catch Yang Chuannan and do some torture, he will surely defend himself in order to prove his innocence and will tell us everything he knows.

“In this case, as long as we compare Liang Youping’s portrait …. Here, there is this meeting now.”

Li Miaozhen frowned, “Because only Liang Youping can find the problem in the account book?”

Jiang Ruzhong looked at her, ”They have plenty of time to find the problem hidden in the ledger, and they can just change the disguise at that time, there is no need for Liang Youping to stay there all the time. If it wasn’t for Ning Yan seeing your portrait, he wouldn’t have realized that the dog meat store owner was a fake.

“That is to say, as long as that person isn’t Liang Youping, we won’t find out. It looks like it’s actively exposing the breach.”

As for the disguise, with the eyesight of Xu Qi’an and the others, it was easy to see through the disguise at close range.

…..

Zhu Guangxiao woke up in a dream and felt the swelling of his bladder, so he got up to go to the toilet.

After leaving the room and traveling to the corridor, he suddenly saw in the hall, at the table, a woman in a white dress sitting.

She has a head of black and beautiful hair, this angle, Zhu Guangxiao can only see the side of the white dress woman’s face, just a side face will be beautiful and not like the mundane, let a person thumping heart.

Sue, Miss Sue Sue …. No, it’s the female ghost!

Zhu Guangxiao’s eyes almost stared out of their sockets.

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