After receiving Welling's approval, Hemeng relaxed and picked up the clothes on the ground:
"Sir, if it goes as expected, if that guy returns to Bohu County, he will definitely hang out in the outer city area. He can't live without women. Only those places are what he likes..."
After leaving a message number for Hemeng, Wei Ling and Shou Gong left the laundry in embarrassment.
After walking out, the two of them remained silent for a while.
Then, both of them laughed, and Wei Ling smiled and threw the bag to the gecko:
"Don't hold back, I admit, for people like you and me who are not yet married, the topic of co-cute is a bit embarrassing."
"Haha, yes, the young master's expression at that time was very interesting. Who knew that what Hemeng experienced and what Kuma's mother said were completely different things... Therefore, only by standing on the outside can we judge right and wrong more clearly."
"Yes, through mental detection at the beginning, I found that Kuma's mother was not lying, so I believed that it was really Hemeng's problem."
A narrow-minded thought suddenly occurred to the guard:
"Sir, can't you use the magic of falling into a dream? Aren't you curious about what Kuma did back then? Why don't you come over again at night and have a look at it?"
Wei Ling immediately ran away.
Shou Gong smiled and narrowed his eyes.
It was a bit unethical to tease such an innocent young master, she secretly condemned herself.
It was already dusk.
The dusk in the Gobi Desert is more magnificent than that in Iasi.
Looking back at the sky, the orange sunset gilded the year-round snow at the top of Tianzhu Mountain with golden light. Wei Ling gritted his teeth and decided:
"Go to the outer city area and check around the romantic places to see if you can encounter Kuma. We will go to the homes of Ma Bo and Ma Lin tomorrow morning, and try to find Mi Meng tomorrow afternoon."
"Okay, sir, let's go on a night tour of the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion."
Wei Ling rolled his eyes at Shou Gong:
"Let's just go to the outskirts, okay, Shou Gong, you are a girl, don't say such weird things..."
Shou Gong stuck out his tongue, but luckily Wei Ling couldn't see it.
In fact, the entire outer city is just one street, a staggeringly long street that surrounds the outer perimeter of the city wall, encircling the entire city wall in a circle.
All homeless houses are built on both sides of this naturally formed street.
During the construction, some places were reserved to be wider and some were narrower. Therefore, this street can be said to be full of twists and turns.
Another point is that on this street, it is easier to find the so-called Qin Lou Chu Pavilion than to find a specific family member.
The reason is very simple. Most of the needs of homeless people are nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Every day, the empire residents in the city would take out various items related to daily life and exchange them for the homeless people's supplies. Therefore, there were basically no shops closely related to normal life in the entire outer city.
The remaining shops are usually pawn shops, drug stores, and grocery stores among homeless people.
At night, all the places that are still brightly lit are Qin Lou Chu Pavilion, restaurants, pubs, casinos, pawn shops, etc.
There is a kind of abnormal liveliness in these places. You don't have to look for it at all, you can understand it at a glance.
Passing by a brightly lit casino, Welling saw something strange.
Don't the homeless have no imperial identity? Naturally, they don't have an identity card. Therefore, their personal wealth cannot be written into the identity chip implanted in the body.
The empire's currency is only in digital form and has no physical currency. However, there is a need for mutual payment between homeless people and empire citizens. This has led to the development of a card, which is similar to a radio frequency card and can be used to transfer payments through a card reader at a close distance. .
The sharp-eyed Wei Ling soon saw a tall homeless man using a silver-white card to exchange for chips through the casino's card reader.
The two of them strolled through the winding streets, passing by all kinds of people, including Daxia people, Xixuan people, and mixed-race people, all in groups, without any worries about racial defense.
There are also some aberrations, and their images are indeed a bit scary. They are also mixed in the crowd. They look extremely ferocious in the night, and they have an almost inhuman feeling.
There are also extremely beautiful Xixuan women, mixed-race women, standing on the street, the door behind them is ajar, it is dark, and the layout cannot be seen clearly, it seems that they have not considered any lighting.
These women wear heavy makeup, scantily clad clothes, wink at men passing by, and drop messages.
The content of those packet loss messages is so popular that it can make all the young guys blush and look embarrassed.
Of course, Wei Ling was a little embarrassed at this moment.
He simply blocked his thought body's ability to receive it so that he could walk without interference.
In my memory, whether it is old books or movies and TV dramas, those scenes of "young people wearing thin spring clothes, riding horses and leaning on a leaning bridge, with red sleeves all over the building" are still a little bit beautiful.
But the scene in front of me, which was silent and filled with the most direct temptation, was simply off guard, and there was no sense of romance at all.
We walked like this for a long time until the night got darker.
Every time he passed a busy place, Wei Ling squinted his eyes slightly and used his consciousness to check whether there was any bitter numbness. The result was naturally disappointing.
Later, they saw another city gate on the street not far away and immediately decided to give up.
Such a search like looking for a needle in a haystack is definitely not what Wei Ling wants.
So they passed through the city gate and returned to the county city amid the ambiguous smiles of the guard sergeants.
Welling knew that the guards at the city gate must be guessing that the empire's warlocks must have gone out to have fun.
There are two completely different worlds inside and outside the city gate.
The street lights in the city are very bright, and there are not so many people wandering around, making it look very clean.
According to the information provided by the system, they quickly found their residence in Tianzhu Mountain.
This residence was prepared by the county for official personnel to come and go.
The accommodation facilities are relatively complete, and the location is dozens of meters higher than the city. Half of it is deep into the mountain, and the other half has a sightseeing platform on the mountain, overlooking the lights of the city.
Welling is very satisfied with this kind of building.
Lying on the bed, Welling went through all the information and results in his mind, but still didn't find any clues. He could only wait for the results of the continued investigation tomorrow to analyze and compare.
Maybe it's because I suffered some stimulation during the day and couldn't sleep for a long time.
The wet figure and face of the gecko always appeared in front of his eyes, which made Wei Ling feel very ashamed.
It wasn't until late at night that I fell asleep in a daze.
But he woke up early in the morning, walked out of the room, and saw the gecko already on the platform looking at the city below.
The distant morning light has awakened the city and resumed its day-to-day cycle.
In the distance, you can also see countless improved lands near Bo Lake, filled with various crops.
From the system, we learned that there are actually a large number of people in the county and city who are planting crops either personally or by hiring homeless people outside the city.
After all, in this area with rich soil and water, the harvest can be good with a little effort in the planting industry, and there are not so many dangers.
"Master, wake up. I've prepared the toilet water."
When the guard saw Wei Ling coming out, he smiled and threw the message.
"Okay, let me wash up for a while, then we'll go to the market to get some food, and then look for puffballs and horsetails."
The two of them walked onto the street, found a good-looking noodle shop, and ate a large bowl of beef noodles with red oil and spicy paste.
The noodles are exquisite, the beef is crispy, and the red oil is fragrant. It is truly a Bohu County specialty.
After breakfast, we walked directly towards the home recorded in the Marbled Marlin archives.
Mabo Malin's home is a bit far away. Although it is also in the city, it is almost on the other side of Tianzhu Mountain.
The two of them were not in a hurry and walked forward leisurely. With their speed and foot strength, the journey of more than ten kilometers took less than an hour.
The door to the Ma family is open.
There were two or three children playing around.
A middle-aged woman restrained the children.
A half-grown boy, watching the children making noises carelessly, clapped his hands and applauded.
There is also a big girl washing clothes.
On one side of the yard, there was an old man and an old woman sitting and choosing vegetables.
Standing facing the door was a middle-aged man who was close to forty years old. He looked quite dull and dull.
"Excuse me, is this the home of Ma Bo and Ma Lin?"
Welling was also a little surprised to see such a big family.
The middle-aged man looked a little surprised. Looking at Wei Ling in black uniform and Gong Gong in black cloak, he answered hesitantly:
"This...is so. May I ask who you are?"
Welling is directly group packet loss:
"I am the investigative commissioner of Iasi County in the Empire. There is a matter about puffballs and I need the cooperation of their family members. Who are you?"
When he heard that he was an official investigator from Iasi County, the middle-aged man felt a little embarrassed and looked back at the middle-aged woman who was restraining the child.
Everyone who received the message stopped. The old men and women stopped choosing food. The middle-aged women didn't care about their children. The younger ones ran over curiously, and the older girls also stopped what they were doing.
"I, I am their eldest brother, this is my wife, those two are the father and mother, this is the fourth sister and fifth brother, and those three children are my children..."
Wei Ling looked at the Ma family members gathered around and nodded slightly, getting to know this big family. At the same time, he felt that the small courtyard where so many of them lived seemed a little too small.
"What happened to my second brother and third brother?"
The half-grown boy rushed to ask.
"Investigator, please take a seat!"
The gray-haired old man also came over and handed the small stool respectfully.
Welling took the small stool but did not sit down:
"Oh, thank you. I need to ask you about something. Have Mabo and Ma Lin contacted you recently?"
Everyone shook their heads together.
"Then have they mentioned to you that they plan to retire in the near future and use their savings to return to Bohu County to do other things?"
Everyone shook their heads, and Father Ma also threw out a cursed message:
"Two people who don't learn well, what are they going to do after retiring? How can they earn more as sergeants in Bohu County than in Yasi County!
Where do they have any savings? They don’t learn well. They gamble with their friends and drink..."
Three little guys jumped up on one side, two of them probably had just been implanted with artificial mind bodies, and they were jumping on one side and clapping their hands:
"Oh, are the second uncle and the third uncle coming back?"
"Oh...the second uncle and the third uncle are coming back..."
Wei Ling frowned a little. Seeing that everyone in this group was not very smart, and their mental state was too simple, there was no need to use magic to detect it.
He tilted his head and asked the eldest brother of the Ma family:
"You said just now that this is the home of Ma Bo and Ma Lin. Does that mean anything special?"
The answer was Brother Ma’s wife, a middle-aged woman:
“That’s right, investigator, look at this family, his parents gave birth to four sons and one daughter, and his father and I gave birth to three more children.
The whole family has no way of making money, let alone any special skills. There is really no way out for the whole family to stay here.
When his second uncle and third uncle went to become professional soldiers, they said they would never return to this old house..."
Welling nodded, indicating that he understood what she meant.
Sister-in-law Ma was deeply afraid that if two more uncles squeezed in, her life would be even worse.
"Then do the two of them have any friends in Bohu County?"
"My second uncle and my third uncle's friends are all outside the city. They are all vagrants, and they are not good imitators!"
The older of the children answered first.
Welling smiled at him encouragingly:
"Then do you know who their friends are? Where do they live?"
It was time to be specific, but the child shook his head timidly.
