Missing persons case?
Do we, the Shan already contemplative, even have to take care of this kind of thing?
When Shu Guan walked into the small courtyard following An Zichun and Chen Daoshi, listening to the conversation between the two, he couldn't help but feel a little doubtful in his heart.
However, he quickly realized that this was definitely not an ordinary missing person case, otherwise the master would have specially asked Fifth Senior Brother to handle it after meeting Taoist Chen yesterday.
Taoist Chen brought An Zichun and Shu Guan into a room in the small courtyard.
This small courtyard is specially used by Taiyi Temple to entertain some of the more important pilgrims. The several rooms inside are all elegantly decorated.
Even among the powerful and wealthy businessmen in Jingcheng, there are often many people who are proud to stay in this small courtyard for one night, eat a vegetarian meal, and have a heart-to-heart talk with Taoist Chen.
At this time, in the room that Taoist Chen led An Zichun and Shu Guan into, two people were already waiting there.
One was a fat man in his fifties, with fair skin, wearing glasses, and a long robe and mandarin jacket. The clothes were not very luxurious, but the solid gold pocket watch tied to his chest looked absolutely valuable.
The other person is a fatter man, in his early twenties, with the same fair skin. He is only about 1.6 meters tall, but weighs at least two hundred kilograms, and is packed with clothes. Fatty, that large coffee-colored suit could not even be buttoned, and the facial features were squeezed in the center by the fat. The whole person looked like a rice worm that had been enlarged many times.
And if the middle-aged fat man's expression was irritable and restless, then the young fat man's face was filled with despair, sadness and pain, as well as a lot of tears and snot. It seemed that the young fat man had been crying.
It seems that this is the shopkeeper Wang of Dahong Rice Shop and his son.
...If I were his wife, I would run away too...
When Shu Guan saw the obese young man, such an idea flashed through his mind involuntarily.
If the master hadn't sent fifth senior brother An Zichun, this was definitely not an ordinary missing person incident. Shu Guan felt that he was ready to get married. It was just an escaped marriage full of all kinds of bloody elements.
When they came in, the two fat men, one old and one young, were pacing back and forth anxiously in the room. When they saw Taoist Chen come in, the older fat man said "Ah" and walked over quickly.
"Old Immortal Chen, you said you were going to invite an expert. I wonder if he has been invited?"
"Shopkeeper Wang, this is Taoist An, the master invited by the old Taoist."
Taoist Chen pointed at An Zichun and said solemnly.
Shopkeeper Wang quickly looked at An Zichun.
To be honest, the fifth senior brother is handsome and handsome, full of the charm of a mature man. Wearing a yellow robe on his body, he looks like a jade tree in the wind, like an immortal in a painting.
Of course, to ordinary people, Fifth Senior Brother An Zichun is an immortal.
Coupled with Taoist Chen's reputation among Jingcheng people, when he said that An Zichun was an expert, shopkeeper Wang had no doubt at all.
"Taoist Master, you must help me find my daughter-in-law, otherwise my only son will not want to live at all."
Shopkeeper Wang said to An Zichun in a trembling voice, as if grasping a life-saving straw.
"Shopkeeper Wang, please don't be anxious. I would like to trouble you to tell you how your daughter-in-law disappeared."
An Zichun said to the fat middle-aged man calmly.
"Three days ago was Quanzi's wedding day. After seeing off the guests that day, Quanzi entered the bridal chamber with the bride. But half an hour later, Quanzi came to me and said that the bride was missing. According to Quanzi, at that time …”
"etc."
An Zichun suddenly interrupted Shopkeeper Wang's story.
"In other words, you were not present when your daughter-in-law disappeared?"
Shopkeeper Wang nodded quickly.
"Let him speak."
An Zichun pointed at the fat young man and said.
Shopkeeper Wang quickly pulled the fat young man over.
"Quickly, tell the Taoist priest what happened that day again."
It can be seen that even though three days have passed, the young man's emotions are still on the verge of collapse. He is very desperate and sad. Maybe at least this young man likes his bride very much, Shu Guan thought at that time.
The fat young man kept crying and babbled incoherently while telling the story, so it took him nearly half an hour to finish talking about a not complicated matter. During this process, both An Zichun and Shu Guan mentioned I asked a few questions and confirmed some details.
After the fat young man finished speaking, Shu Guan also outlined the whole incident in his mind.
It's really not complicated, but the process is a little weird.
The situation at that time was as follows:
After Wang Qie and Xiaoya saw off the guests attending their wedding, they returned to the bridal chamber.
Wang Qie is the name of this fat young man, and Xiaoya is the name he calls the bride.
In addition, when he mentioned the bride's name, he specifically interrupted him and asked about the bride's identity.
Finally, they found out that the bride, Xiaoya, was their neighbor. They grew up together as childhood sweethearts and were high school classmates. Their marriage was not because of their parents’ orders or the words of a matchmaker, but because of pure free love. together.
After knowing the identity of the bride, Shu Guan felt that the possibility of the bride running away from the marriage was unlikely.
When Wang Xie and Xiaoya returned to the bridal chamber, they talked for a while, then Xiaoya went to the bathroom to wash up, and after coming out, Wang Xie went in to wash up.
Their wedding was a combination of Dahua's traditional wedding ceremony and Western-style wedding. When entertaining the guests, they worshiped heaven and earth, but after returning to the bridal chamber, the process was like drinking joint wine and lifting the red hijab. None.
Today's young men and women in the Republic of China actually no longer like those old red tapes.
After Wang Qie entered the bathroom, Xiaoya was waiting for him in the bedroom.
Xiaoya was in a good mood at that time and kept humming. Wang Qie could always hear Xiaoya's relaxed and happy singing while taking a bath in the bathroom.
Xiaoya's singing stopped the moment Wang Xie walked out of the bathroom after taking a shower. Wang Xie didn't pay attention. He first went to another room to take a sip of water, and then returned to the bedroom. Then he found Xiaoya Gone.
At first, Wang Xie thought it was Xiaoya who was hiding and joking with him. There are always some small jokes like this between male and female lovers to increase the fun between the two.
So Wang Xie began to look for Xiaoya in the bedroom. He searched in the closet, under the bed, and behind the curtains, but found no trace of Xiaoya.
Then Wang Xie went to other rooms to search, searching every corner, but still couldn't find Xiaoya.
It was only then that Wang Xie realized that his bride was missing, or disappeared.
"...Xiaoya is gone...Xiaoya is gone...she is gone..."
Wang Xie's narration ended with him crying loudly. Experiencing the scene again made this somewhat fragile fat young man even more emotionally broken.
Shu Guan and An Zichun looked at each other. If Wang Xie wasn't lying, then this matter sounded really weird.
After Wang Xie broke down and cried, shopkeeper Wang added some things that happened later. After his son came to say that the bride was missing that day, he immediately asked his servants to start searching at home.
Because the guests had just been entertained, there were many servants cleaning the house at that time, so if Xiaoya really left by herself, it was impossible not to be seen, but no one had seen the newly entered young lady leaving, and shopkeeper Wang brought The servant searched every room and every hidden corner in the house, but still could not find the bride Xiaoya.
Then they went to Xiaoya's parents' home to ask if they had seen Xiaoya come back. Xiaoya's parents' home was on the same street as theirs, just a few hundred meters away.
Of course, her mother's family has never seen Xiaoya at all.
Then shopkeeper Wang called the police that night, because Dahong Rice Shop was one of the largest grain merchants in Jiangkou City, and shopkeeper Wang was also a high-status figure in Jingcheng. His bride was missing, and the police station took it very seriously and immediately dispatched a police officer. We hired an experienced detective and a group of capable patrol officers to shopkeeper Wang's home. After searching for a whole night, they found no useful clues.
Even the next day, after Shopkeeper Wang gave a large financial gift, the patrol office issued a city-wide search order. Unfortunately, three days had passed and Xiaoya's person had not been found yet.
While waiting anxiously, Shopkeeper Wang remembered that Taoist Chen, the living god of Taiyi Temple, was always very good at divination, so he came to Taiyi Temple.
After listening to Shopkeeper Wang's story, Shu Guan originally wanted to ask a few more questions, such as whether Wang Xie drank a lot that night, and whether the bride had made some strange friends during this time.
To be honest, after listening to this bizarre disappearance just now, Shu Guan unknowingly put himself into the detectives he had seen in his previous life, and weren't all the plots like this?
Well, it’s best to go to the site again to see it.
Just when Shu Guan was about to speak, An Zichun smiled slightly and said:
"Shopkeeper Wang, please write down your daughter-in-law's full name and birthday, and let me do the fortune telling first."
After hearing what the fifth senior brother said, Shu Guan immediately laughed at himself, almost forgetting that this was not a normal world, and they were not ordinary people, but practitioners.
To find a missing person, naturally don't use conventional methods, just use Taoist methods, such as divination.
No wonder the master asked the fifth senior brother to take charge of this matter this time.
If you want to find a missing person, the fifth senior brother's hexagram is naturally more useful than the third senior sister's sword or the second senior brother's Konoha leaves.
Thinking about the prediction An Zichun made for him when he first met him, Shu Guan still had great confidence in the fifth senior brother.
Maybe we can go back to Shanxi Temple and have lunch later.
There were banknotes in this room. Taoist Chen helped Shopkeeper Wang get paper and pen. Shopkeeper Wang had already written down his wife's name and birthday and handed it to An Zichun respectfully.
An Zichun placed the note on the table, then took out a turtle shell from the sleeve of his robe, pressed it on top of the note, and then took out a few copper coins.
Naturally, it is not the kind of copper horns that are popular in the Republic of China now, but a few ancient-looking copper coins with some green rust on them.
An Zichun held the copper coins, stretched his hand three inches above the turtle shell, and then released his fist. Several copper plates fell from his palms and landed on the turtle shell. Then they slipped from the turtle shell to the table and sat on the table. The upper drops were spinning slowly.
An Zichun's eyes were fixed on the rotating copper plates without blinking, until the last copper plate stopped rotating and fell to the table and stood still.
Then An Zichun's expression became very, very strange.
He raised his head, looked at Shopkeeper Wang and his son strangely, and said word by word:
"This woman named Liya is still at your home."
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