"Brother Liang, after finishing the matters at hand, come to Dongfu Haifang. The new store can be opened in as little as one month and no longer than three months."
Back in Yanmen County, Zhao Lin told Liang Song that he was the shopkeeper at Jindan Hall and invited Liang Song to help in the store.
"Okay! I can leave after the Stone Rock Turtle hatches."
Liang Song agreed without hesitation. The two had a close relationship. Now that Zhao Lin had spoken, he would definitely not treat him badly.
“The green mountains will never change, and the green waters will always flow.”
"Brother Zhao, be careful on the road."
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"Why haven't you opened the door yet? Don't you mean Chenshi?"
"Don't worry, don't be afraid of being late for a good meal. There is something going on inside!"
Early that morning, Fengming Street, located in the most prosperous area of Dongfu Haifang, was crowded with people. Hundreds of monks gathered in front of a shop.
A circle of red silk was wrapped around the store's plaque, with three characters written on it: Chizhu Pavilion.
It was Zhao Lin's newly opened store, which was specially used to sell the cultivation resources produced on Chiwei Island.
Before the opening, Zhao Lin generously rented a 100-yuan notice board and publicized the news of the opening for a month. Almost every monk who had been to Dongfu Haifang knew about it.
When the time comes, the door opens to both sides.
Zhao Lin came out with Gu Zhao, Liang Song, Li Sancai, Gu An and others, and they all bowed: "Red Pearl Pavilion is opening today, thank you for your support..."
"Shopkeeper, don't waste any time. Let's open for business."
"That's right, don't talk about the situation, give more discounts to be real."
The monks shouted.
"Okay, all items are on sale at 10% off, while supplies last!"
Zhao Lin stepped aside and made a "please" gesture.
The monks immediately rushed into the shop and bought goods as if they were free of charge.
"Brother Zhao... Shopkeeper Zhao, our business is so good!"
Liang Song was surprised.
Zhao Lin smiled and said, "Lingzhu is a scarce resource. Everyone wants to buy it. Even if you don't use it, you can make money by selling it to other places. The price will return to normal in a few days."
"Brother Liang, learn more from Gu Gu. Once you get familiar with it, you will be at the helm of this store."
Liang Song resigned from his position at the Beast Royal Hall in Yanmen County and came to Fang City to join Zhao Lin. I thought that I would be a clerk at most, but I didn't expect that Zhao Lin would directly arrange for him to be the second shopkeeper.
While grateful, I felt a little embarrassed: "I don't know how to run a store, am I too hasty?"
Gu Guzhao said quickly: "Fellow Daoist Liang is worrying too much. No one understands it at the beginning, but he will learn it slowly."
At this time, Manager Liu from the administrative office came over, holding a pot of lucky bamboo in his hand, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to shopkeeper Zhao on your successful business. On behalf of the office, I wish shopkeeper Zhao a prosperous business and good fortune every day."
"We are a rare visitor. Thank you very much, Shopkeeper Liu."
Zhao Lin took the lucky bamboo and was slightly surprised. It was rare for the administrative office to send someone to celebrate the opening of a store.
After a few words of greeting, Manager Liu winked, pulled Zhao Lin aside, moved his lips slightly, and said using sound transmission: "Shopkeeper Zhao, our shop owner is looking for you."
Sure enough, something happened...
Zhao Lin nodded calmly, told Liang Song, Gu Zhao and others, and followed Manager Liu to the office.
I was a little curious in my heart. I had only interacted with the owner of the workshop, Wei Zongchuan, once when the spirit boat was robbed. We rarely interacted with each other on weekdays. Why did he suddenly come to see me today?
"Little friend Zhao, we meet again."
Arriving at the second floor of the administrative office, Wei Zongchuan stood up to greet him, pointed to the chair in front of him and said, "Please sit down."
Zhao Lin sat down generously and asked, "I wonder if the master of the workshop has summoned me. What's the mission?"
"Young friend Zhao, you're serious. I don't have any errands."
Wei Zongchuan laughed and said straight to the point: "To be fair, little friend, there are spies in our city."
"spy?"
Zhao Lin was not surprised when he heard this. The market is a place where all directions gather and people gather. It is normal to have informants.
It’s hard to say for other sects, but they must have spies from the Dian Sect. The store's spiritual boat was robbed, and the Dark Sect monks gained their own aura when they went to sea. This is evidence of this.
But why did Wei Zongchuan tell him this?
Zhao Lin didn't say anything and waited quietly for the other party to continue.
Wei Zongchuan also pretended to be ignorant, stroking his beard and recounting what happened.
It turns out that a month ago, when the city patrol was patrolling the beach, the spirit boat accidentally hit an albatross.
The patrolman had a moment of kindness and rescued the albatross from falling into the sea. He unexpectedly found a piece of paper tied to the albatross' leg.
There were many difficult-to-understand characters written on the paper. The patrol suspected that it was some kind of cipher text, so he healed the albatross's injuries and set it free again.
Albatross flew all the way to Akao Island and entered the area under the jurisdiction of the Underground Sect.
The patrol followed behind and witnessed all this. When he returned, he reported the matter to Wei Zongchuan.
In the past two years, the relationship between Chenghua Sect and Di An Sect has been tense, and there may even be a war. Wei Zongchuan did not dare to neglect and immediately arranged personnel to investigate the matter.
After half a month of tracking and monitoring, it was finally discovered that there were indeed monks releasing albatrosses in the wild.
And the identity of the monk was confirmed: Yangquan, a clerk from a "Heqitang" in Fangshi.
Zhao Lin's expression changed when he heard the words Heqitang.
He Qitang is the spy of the Di An Sect!
No wonder every time I go to Heqi Tang, I always feel that shopkeeper Tian and the waiter are a little weird, but I never thought there was something wrong.
Suddenly there was a feeling in my heart that was both unexpected and reasonable.
"Zhao Xiaoyou knows people from Heqitang?"
Wei Zongchuan observed the words and expressions and asked.
"To be honest with Mr. Wei, I have visited their shop before. At that time, I still felt strange why the shop could maintain its business even though its business was not very good."
"That's true. Our surveillance found that few people visit this store."
Wei Zongchuan continued: "As an emerging market, our Dongfu Haifang has developed very rapidly in the past two years. Due to its location, many monks from other sects visit us, so it is inevitable that some informants will be involved."
"However, these informants are all monks from the outer sect. They only inquire about business information. They also send letters through the communication tower. They have been registered in advance, so it is not a big deal."
"But Heqitang is different. The four people in the store are all natives of the Chenghua Sect, but they passed the news to the Dian Sect and secretly used albatross to send the message. There is definitely something wrong!"
Zhao Lin asked: "Since Master Wei is sure that they are spies, why not arrest them directly?"
Wei Zongchuan slowly shook his head, "Of course I want to arrest them directly, but after these days of surveillance, I found that they are not only collecting information in Fangshi, but also often in contact with people from other counties."
"We used tracking spells to capture their messenger talismans and marked them. We can confirm that Heqi Hall is an intermediate hub and has correspondence with more than a dozen counties."
"After summarizing, they will be sent to Chiwei Island."
At this point, he paused and said, "It's easy to catch them, but if the news spreads, spies from other counties will immediately escape or hide."
Looking at Wei Zongchuan's eager eyes, Zhao Lin understood that this foundation-building monk wanted to make a great contribution and destroy the Di An Sect's intelligence network in one fell swoop.
"Master Wei Fang wants to capture the people in Heqitang without alerting others?"
Wei Zongchuan nodded: "Exactly! We can't act recklessly. We don't know the temperament of these people. It would be difficult if they saw that the matter was exposed and immediately destroyed the evidence and committed suicide."
"Only by catching those alive can we follow the clues and find other strongholds."
Zhao Lin guessed Wei Zongchuan's purpose of looking for him, but he still had a question in his mind.
"Master Wei Fang, you are a foundation-building monk. As long as you remove the suppression array on that street, won't you be able to easily deal with them?"
The magic circle in Fangshi can suppress the monks' spiritual apertures and prevent them from casting offensive spells. The combat power of foundation-building monks and Qi-refining monks in Fangshi is not much different.
If you let go, the difference in cultivation will be revealed.
Wei Zongchuan chuckled, shook his head and said: "I can indeed remove the suppression array on that street, but as soon as the array stops, they will be able to detect it immediately, and it will still not have the effect of a surprise attack."
"And Jiaotusanku, what if they have other bases in Fangshi?"
After speaking, he looked at Zhao Lin intently and said, "Young friend Zhao is a martial arts cultivator. He has strong combat power even if he does not rely on magic. I invite you here because I hope you can help capture them."
Zhao Lin said nothing, lowered his head and pondered.
After thinking about it for a while, I thought it could be done!
First of all, the Di An Sect is his biggest enemy. Even if he does not consider the sect, it is in his own interests to destroy the Di An Sect's spy network.
The Di An Sect hated him so much that Zhao Lin was very careful every time he went out, and he did not dare to participate in sect tasks because he was worried about being plotted by the Di An Sect.
Second, if you accomplish this, you will definitely get a lot of good deeds.
Although he has nearly 20,000 good deeds, no one would think that he has too many good deeds.
The risk of this matter is not high, but the good deeds earned are not small.
Without the use of attack spells, Qi Refining Realm monks are vulnerable to themselves.
In addition to these two reasons, Zhao Lin also had a little thought.
From the seventh level of Qi refining to the ninth level of Qi refining, you need to go through several small levels. The first spiritual aperture and the last spiritual aperture of each level are extremely difficult to break through.
He only had two Aphrodisiac Pills on hand, and he was reluctant to use them.
If he is responsible for arresting Shopkeeper Tian and others, he will have priority in the search and get Shopkeeper Tian's Chongqiao Pill.
Although Shopkeeper Tian claimed that there was no Chongqiao Pill, Zhao Lin did not believe it.
Seeing Zhao Lin's hesitation, Wei Zongchuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, little friend Zhao, I won't let your work go in vain. There will definitely be rewards for your good deeds."
Zhao Lin heard the words and no longer hesitated, "Okay, since the master of the workshop has spoken, this junior has no shirking responsibility!"
"happy!"
Wei Zongchuan's face lit up, he raised his palm and patted it twice.
A short, lean-looking monk walked into the room.
"This is Li Ying, the patrolman who discovered the albatross as I mentioned earlier. He will assist me in this arrest."
Wei Zongchuan introduced.
"Fellow Daoist Zhao."
Li Ying cupped his fists and said.
"Inspector Li."
Zhao Lin responded politely.
After a few polite words, the three people began to discuss the details of the arrest.
According to Li Ying, there are four monks in Heqi Hall: shopkeeper Tian, assistants Yang Quan, Zhu Kui, and an errand boy named Hu Zhi.
If you want to arrest people in the market without anyone noticing, it's best to do it before the doors close at night, when the flow of people is the least.
After closing, each store will open a small warning circle, making it difficult to do anything.
Zhao Lin decided to go into the store alone to take action, while Li Ying and others supported him outside.
Li Ying was cautious and asked: "Should we send someone to accompany fellow Taoist Zhao? There are four of them after all."
Zhao Lin waved his hand and said: "No, I am enough alone. What I am most afraid of is that someone will enter the store during this period."
Li Yingdao: "You can rest assured about this. I will lead people to patrol the streets. If someone wants to enter the store, I will find a way to delay it."
Zhao Lin smiled and said: "That's no problem."
Wei Zongchuan interjected: "When does Zhao Xiaoyou think it is appropriate to take action?"
Zhao Lin said: "It's better to do it sooner rather than later, so as not to have a long night and have many dreams. Let's do it tonight!"
Seeing Zhao Lin's decisiveness, Wei Zongchuan said "Okay" and asked, "What else do you want?"
Zhao Lin thought for a moment and said, "We still need to make an emergency plan."
Wei Zongchuan was startled, "What emergency plan?"
"If someone escapes from the store, or something unexpected happens, what are you going to do, Master Wei?"
Wei Zongchuan pondered for a moment and said, "I will block the entire city."
Zhao Lin nodded, "This is best, just in case."
Wei Zongchuan stroked his hand and said: "That's it. I'll leave this matter to Zhao Xiaoyou. If we can successfully capture four people, I will give you the first credit!"
Zhao Lin came out of the office and did not go back to Chizhu Pavilion. Instead, he went to the street where Jindan Hall was located and walked into the "Xifu Hall" next door.
Xifutang is a millennium-old talisman-making shop that sells all kinds of talismans and is very famous throughout the Chenghua Sect.
"Shopkeeper Zhao, what do you want to order?"
The guy greeted me enthusiastically and asked.
"Buy a mantra."
Zhao Linyan said concisely and comprehensively.
The mantra talisman is a first-level divine consciousness talisman.
Crushing it into pieces and breaking it into the monk's divine court can make him fall into a state of confusion.
During the interrogation at this time, the monks can answer simple questions such as "yes", "no", "yes", "no" or "what to do".
If the question is too complex, the monk may not be able to answer it.
The mantra is only effective for Qi Refining Realm monks and lasts only ten breaths.
Once it exceeds ten breaths, the monk will wake up instantly.
Divine consciousness talismans are expensive, and mantra talismans are no exception. One talisman is worth one hundred good deeds and one thousand spiritual coins.
Zhao Lin's purpose of buying this mantra was naturally to find out the location of the Chongqiao Pill from Shopkeeper Tian.
Time is tight and there is no time to coerce or induce, so this method can only be used.
Zhao Lin paid the money, got the mantra, and returned to Scarlet Pearl Pavilion.
"Shopkeeper Zhao, what does the administrative office want from you?"
Gudzhao asked.
"It's okay, I just asked about the rent."
Zhao Lin gave a reason casually.
Gudzhao felt relieved and said, "That's good. I'll leave this to Shopkeeper Zhao, and I'll go back to Jindan Hall."
Zhao Lin stayed in the store until the afternoon, rehearsing the arrest process several times in his mind.
When he was in the mortal world, he worked as a policeman and arrested many people. Unexpectedly, he returned to his old job.
It was getting dark. At midnight, Zhao Lin walked out of Chizhu Pavilion and came to Longxiang Street where Heqi Hall was located. He saw Li Ying walking from the opposite side.
The two of them looked at each other and passed each other. (End of chapter)
