"This Chen Liushu!"
Zhao Rang closed the account book with a snap, his whole body was shaken, and he cursed:
"Deserves to be killed!"
The account book with the bloodstained cover on the cover is still recorded in poems with numbers, but everything recorded is a ground-breaking event!
Especially the two sentences that Zhao Rang read just now mentioned the 500,000 ambition arrows that they had traced all the way from the merchant alliance.
"It's very clear in the ledger. It seems that the person behind the mysterious disappearance of those arrows is Shen Liushu! With his financial resources and connections, it must be easy to do this."
Speaking of this, Zhao Rang sighed.
He didn't understand why Shen Liushu did this.
He obviously already has wealth and status that ordinary people can't reach in a few lifetimes. As long as he takes care of the Tongbao Bank with peace of mind, he will have the determination to benefit him.
But Shen Liushu had to choose to betray his master and surrender to the enemy. There must be a reason for this. Zhao Rang wanted to bring Shen Liushu to him immediately to ask clearly, otherwise he might not even be able to sleep tonight.
"Don't panic yet. Have you discovered a problem?"
Yuan Mingkong completely recovered now. He felt a little hungry and was eating snacks and fruits on the table desperately.
Zhao Rang once heard an old man in his family say that as long as a person feels hungry and can still eat, it proves that he is still alive. Even if a person is seriously ill, once he regains his appetite, it means that he is not far from recovery.
Yuan Mingkong's behavior at this moment proves this point.
However, after he said this, he just focused on eating and had nothing to do. Zhao Rang waited for a while and became irritated. He walked directly to him and picked up the plate with snacks and fruits.
"What are you doing? I'm not full yet!"
Yuan Mingkong just took a big bite of apple.
"Let me finish what you just said. What problem did you find?"
Yuan Mingkong struggled to swallow the apple in his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and said:
"The apple on the noodles...is disgusting!"
Looking at Zhao Rang's eyes again, they seemed to be spitting out fire. Then he calmed down and said seriously:
"Let's not talk about the purpose of Shen Liushu doing this. Now we can only confirm that he is indeed colluding with Xifeng Lie. As for whether the five hundred thousand arrows have anything to do with him, it's hard to say..."
Zhao Rang frowned and retorted:
"What's so hard to say? It's all clearly written in the account books!"
Yuan Mingkong shook his head and said:
"Do you still remember the big shot who quietly killed the Taoist priest and the deputy chief escort?"
As soon as these words came out, Zhao Rang immediately shut his mouth.
Of course he remembered that terrifying existence. He used his tough external skills to break the golden bell that the Golden Bell Escort Bureau relied on to gain a foothold. He also used the same weird method to kill the Taoist priest from Baihe Mountain who had just made the cruel words.
The most terrible thing is that all this happened silently, no one heard even the slightest sound, and then the 500,000 arrows in the underground arrow making factory of the Admiralty Escort disappeared.
At that time, Zhao Rang and Yuan Mingkong agreed that it was the big shot in Xifeng Lie who took the arrow away and erased all traces. Now that Shen Liushu has been implicated for no reason, it is indeed very strange. I can't explain these things clearly for a while.
After all, masters who have reached that level will no longer be distracted by wealth. The reason for taking action must be for a higher purpose and meaning, which is beyond what Zhao Rang and Yuan Mingkong can figure out.
"Shen Liushu is probably just a participant in this incident, but he is definitely not the mastermind!"
Yuan Mingkong said, taking a deep breath.
"The reason is simple, he is not worthy!"
Zhao Rang fell into silence.
He didn't want to, but he had to admit that Yuan Mingkong was right.
Although Shen Liushu is the shopkeeper of Chagan Torogai Tongbao Bank, he is still like an ant to Xifeng Lie, a mysterious organization that runs rampant in the Western Regions. At most, he can be regarded as an obedient dog, and people will never care about a dog barking when discussing things.
Thinking of this, Zhao Rang's anger disappeared again... He glanced at Yuan Mingkong and saw that this heartless guy was still eating, showing no signs of being anxious at all.
He was about to have an attack when he suddenly thought that Yuan Mingkong looked so calm. Did he already have an idea? So he patiently waited for Yuan Mingkong to finish eating. Not to mention, food tastes delicious to those who are hungry! Zhao Rang couldn't help but swallow when he saw him devouring food like this.
After a while, both plates were turned upside down and empty. However, Yuan Mingkong picked up the teapot again, poured himself a full cup of tea, drank it in one go, and then let out a sound of relief from his throat.
"What are you doing standing there stupidly?"
Only now did Yuan Mingkong see Zhao Rang looking straight at him, motionless.
"I'm waiting for you to finish eating!"
Zhao Rang said.
"I've finished eating!"
Yuan Mingkong said in confusion.
"Do you already know what to do?"
Zhao Rang asked straight to the point.
Yuan Mingkong wiped his mouth, smiled, then waved to Zhao Rang and said:
"Let's put aside what happened in the Western Region Merchant Alliance, let's just talk about this! Yunli Fei from Zhong's class can get Shen Liushu's most important account book, which shows that the relationship between them is not shallow. As for Shen Liushu Why kill them? It's quite simple.
People die for money and birds die for food. This is nothing more than an uneven distribution of the spoils. Either Shen Liushu gave him too little, or the Zhong family was too greedy. "
"Just tell me what to do now!"
Zhao Rang didn't want to listen to his long speech anymore, so he spoke decisively.
"Do you still remember the shadow guards I told you about here?"
Zhao Rang nodded and replied:
"Remember, you said that hunchback..."
Halfway through his words, Zhao Rang suddenly stopped. He still remembered Yuan Mingkong's lonely expression when he mentioned that the original hunchback had died and was replaced. The former Shadow Guard Hunchback must have been someone very close to him, and Zhao Rang was afraid of touching his sadness again.
"Well, he is the boss of the shadow guards here."
After Yuan Mingkong finished speaking, his eyes were blank for a while, apparently remembering something old again.
Zhao Rang felt a little guilty... He felt that it would have been better if he had said it more tactfully just now!
"The shadow guards here have all been dealt with just like the Zhong family class. Now the remaining beggars in the slum area are real beggars! But this way, it will be easier to handle!"
As soon as Zhao Rang's eyes lit up, he knew that Yuan Mingkong was not in a hurry, and he must have his reasons.
Yuan Mingkong stood up, walked to the coffin, turned over the opened coffin lid, and asked Zhao Rang to bring the candlestick closer.
Zhao Rang came over and took a look. There were many traces of engravings on the lid of the overturned coffin. However, these traces are crooked, irregular, and scattered, with pieces here and there, looking out of place.
"What is this!"
Yuan Mingkong pointed to one of the traces and said:
"Can't you see? This is Chagan Tologai, which is where we are now."
Zhao Rangzai looked at it carefully and shook his head, saying that he couldn't tell.
Yuan Mingkong didn't care. He moved his finger upward and stopped at another carving mark.
These marks were all picked out with his nails when he was in the coffin. The reason why they were so messy was because it was pitch dark inside the coffin and he couldn't see anything. He could only rely on general feeling to locate them. The second reason is that because he took medicine, his mind has become a little unclear. He can only have a rough idea, but cannot be precise.
"Then why did you draw these?"
Yuan Mingkong felt a little disappointed.
It turned out that not long after he got into the coffin after taking the medicine, he heard someone coming outside. Judging from the voices, they were a man and a woman. The man was undoubtedly Shen Liushu, but the identity of the woman was unknown. From Shen Liushu's respectful and flattering attitude, it is not difficult to know that this woman must be in a high position, and may even be one of the people in Xifeng Lie.
"Could it be the princess of Lanmo Kingdom, Amani?"
Zhao Rang interjected.
Yuan Mingkong said that he had never seen the princess, so naturally he could not distinguish her voice. But these are not important. What is important is the content of the conversation between the two.
"Chen Liushu was asking for something from the woman. I was stuffy in the coffin and didn't hear clearly. The two of them communicated calmly at first, but then it must have been something Chen Liushu wanted, but the woman rejected it. , he started to get excited, and I heard him more clearly."
Yuan Mingkong's depiction on the coffin lid is roughly divided into two parts. One part is some keywords he vaguely heard, and the other part is the two places mentioned in the conversation between Shen Liushu and the woman.
"Ruined...the divine religion...the Holy See..."
"The golden mountains of the Western Regions...the sea of gold and silver..."
There were five words in total, and the more Zhao Rang read, the less he understood them. Whether these words are connected together or taken apart separately, I don’t know what they mean.
Especially the word Holy See, Zhao Rang had never heard of it before.
"Are you sure you didn't dream this, but heard it with your own ears?"
Yuan Ming gave Zhao Rang a blank look, stretched out his right hand in front of his eyes, and said:
"You see my nails are all bald. Could it be a dream?"
Seeing that Zhao Rang had nothing to say, Yuan Mingkong continued:
"The first three words were said by Chen Liushu when he asked the woman for something. The last two words were said by him after he was rejected. The most critical part of this is that the woman asked Shen Liushu to transfer more information. There are too many arrows, otherwise they will not be enough to deal with the monsters coming out of the sea of gold and silver!"
Zhao Rang thought he heard wrongly, shook Yuan Mingkong's shoulders and asked him to say it again.
"So they want arrows not to start a war with Dawei, but to deal with some monster in the gold and silver lake?"
"What the hell is this! Monster? Has this woman watched too much "Liao Zhai" and thinks there really are vixens in the world?"
Yuan Ming spread his hands, but he couldn't explain. He heard all this in the coffin. The woman might be telling the truth, but she might also be lying.
Zhao Rang couldn't sit still anymore, and was about to order the deputy shopkeeper to take Ximen Dazhuang to bring Shen Liushu over. Suddenly, he heard a panic shouting outside. The deputy shopkeeper stumbled open the door, broke in and said:
"Master Zhao, there's a fire! Chen Liushu's house is on fire!"
