A 15-year-old Falcon A-type car was parked at the door of a large house.
This car produced in the United States of America has a tall horse-drawn carriage and is equipped with a 2.9-liter four-cylinder engine with 20 horsepower and a top speed of 72 kilometers per hour.
The current price of such a car on the market in the Republic of China is between 8,500 and 10,000 silver dollars. If you include the cost of maintaining the car, maintaining a driver and refueling, the figure is even more staggering.
Therefore, in the Republic of China, owning a car is definitely a symbol of status.
The car door opened, shopkeeper Wang got from the passenger seat, and the driver on the other side had already diligently opened the back seat door, and then An Zichun, Shu Guan and Wang Xie came out of the car one after another.
To be honest, I was used to riding in those high-tech cars in my previous life, but Shuguan didn’t have a good feeling riding in this simple car of this era. The hard seats and the smell of gasoline, especially from the top of the turtle to the shopkeeper Wang’s house. During the more than an hour's drive, except for the road conditions which improved slightly after entering the city, the rest of the journey was bumpy. In addition, Wang Xie's fat body was squeezed next to him, which was really torturous.
After getting off the car, Shu Guan let out a long sigh of relief.
An hour ago, An Zichun did a divination, and the divination showed that the bride named Li Ya was still at Shopkeeper Wang's house.
This is a very unexpected hexagram.
Of course, Shu Guan had no doubt that Brother Five would make a mistake in his calculations, and Taoist Chen certainly had no doubts.
Then, after asking Shopkeeper Wang and his son to leave the room temporarily, there was a conversation between the three.
"Fifth Senior Brother, could it be that the father and his son made a false report, but in fact the bride did not disappear? It was just that for some reason we don't know yet, she was hidden by the Wang family and his son."
"It's possible, but I don't think Wang Xie's grief is fake."
"Senior Brother An, Senior Brother Shu, I know the character of the Wang family father and son quite well. They are not vicious people."
"Is it possible that the bride was killed and her body was hidden somewhere?"
"Junior Brother Shu, according to what I just performed, the woman is not only still in her husband's house, but also alive."
Still alive?
I want to come to Shopkeeper Wang's home, but I don't know how many times it has been searched by servants and policemen. How can a living person be hidden?
Things are getting weirder!
"It seems we can only go to Shopkeeper Wang's home to have a look."
An Zichun finally said this.
And now they were standing in front of the gate of Shopkeeper Wang's mansion.
This is a traditional Dahua-style house. On the vermilion door, a red lantern with the word "happy" is hung on it. There are two stone lions standing on the door steps, which is quite impressive.
An Zichun stood in front of the gate with his hands behind his hands, looking up at the top of the entire house.
Standing behind him and watching, at this moment, I suddenly felt that the spiritual energy around my body began to form a slight whirlpool, slowly swirling around An Zichun's body.
Now that he is a practitioner in the real Qi-entraining stage, he can clearly detect the changes in the spiritual energy of the surrounding world.
So Shu Guan knew that the fifth senior brother was performing some kind of Taoist technique at this time, but he didn't know what kind of Taoist technique he was performing.
After about two minutes, Shu Guan felt that the aura of heaven and earth around him calmed down again.
"Fifth Senior Brother, how are you?"
An Zichun glanced at him in surprise, nodded and said:
"Seventh Junior Brother, your sense of spiritual energy is indeed extraordinary. Just now, Senior Brother, I was using the Zhanqi Technique to see if there is anything evil in this house."
"Then what's the result?"
An Zichun frowned, then shook his head.
"There is nothing abnormal, and there is no aura left by other practitioners here."
"However, it may be that my cultivation level, senior brother, is not good enough. If there are practitioners who are much higher than me, it is impossible to tell by just looking at the Qi."
"Okay, let's go in now."
"Shopkeeper Wang, please take us to the room where the son and daughter-in-law live."
This is a large house with three entrances. Shopkeeper Wang took the two of them directly to the back yard. As soon as they stepped into the gate of the back yard, several people came to greet them.
The leader is a man in his early forties, with a thin face and sharp eyes. He wears a peaked cap and a brown corduroy suit. The buttons are open, revealing the gun holster at his waist. Behind him are several other people wearing clothes. Patrolman in black military uniform.
"Inspector Zhou, thank you very much for staying at my home these days."
Shopkeeper Wang quickly greeted the man he called Inspector Zhou.
Detective Zhou nodded towards Shopkeeper Wang, and then his eyes fell on An Zichun and Shu Guan behind Shopkeeper Wang, and a hint of dissatisfaction suddenly flashed in his eyes.
"Shopkeeper Wang, what age is this? You still believe in these Taoist priests who are pretending to be gods and ghosts. This means you don't trust me and my brothers."
Inspector Zhou sneered.
Shopkeeper Wang quickly smiled and said:
"Inspector Zhou, I have invited these two Taoist priests here just to check out the feng shui. Please don't mind, Inspector Zhou."
"No, this is the discovery site. Although you, Shopkeeper Wang, are the master, since it hasn't been discovered yet, you can't let anyone in, lest you destroy the clues."
Inspector Zhou refused coldly.
"I invited these two Taoist priests from Taiyi Temple. I also asked Inspector Zhou to be accommodating and let the two Taoist priests go in and take a look."
Shopkeeper Wang approached Inspector Zhou and quietly stuffed a long cylindrical paper package into Inspector Zhou's suit pocket.
After hearing that the two Taoist priests came from Taiyi Temple, Inspector Zhou's expression softened a little.
It seems that Taiyi Temple has a very good reputation in Jingcheng.
Then he weighed the envelope of silver coins in his pocket, and then a smile appeared on his lips, but it quickly faded away.
"You can only go in for ten minutes."
Then he said with a straight face.
"Thank you very much."
Shopkeeper Wang thanked him profusely, and then motioned for An Zichun and Shu Guan to follow him in.
"Shopkeeper Wang, please ask someone to bring some rice."
At this moment, An Zichun suddenly told Shopkeeper Wang this.
As one of the largest grain merchants in Jiangkou City, perhaps the most indispensable thing in Shopkeeper Wang's home is all kinds of rice.
"What kind of rice do you want, Mr. An? How much do you want?"
"It's best to use aged millet. The older the rice, the better. Not too much, just a handful."
Shopkeeper Wang quickly asked people to prepare, then walked into the courtyard with An Zichun and Shu Guan, pointed to the main room in the center and said:
"This is my son's bridal chamber that day."
A group of people walked into the house, and Inspector Zhou followed the patrol policemen. They saw that the courtyard was in Dahua style, but the decoration inside the house was somewhat Western-style, and the entire row of houses had been opened up. , there is a living room, a bedroom, a study room, and a bathroom.
An Zichun walked around the rooms and finally headed to the bedroom.
Inspector Zhou said with a hint of sarcasm:
"We don't know how many times we have checked every corner and every inch of the ground in these houses. I don't know what else you two want to see."
"What we see is different from what you see, Inspector."
An Zichun smiled slightly at him.
At this time, a servant of the palace hurried in with a bag of aged millet. An Zichun grabbed a handful from the bag and walked into the bedroom.
Shu Guan and Shopkeeper Wang naturally followed in. Inspector Zhou's eyes flashed and he also walked into the bedroom.
I saw that the bedroom was quite spacious, and it was connected to the bathroom. Wang Qie said that he could always hear Xiaoya singing in the bathroom that day. Judging from the situation at the scene, this was indeed the case.
There is also a two-meter-high Western-style standing cabinet in the bedroom. The door of the cabinet is open, and you can clearly see that there is nothing else inside except a few hanging clothes.
In addition, there is a Western-style dressing table in the bedroom, and a Western-style iron frame bed with withered flowers, covered with a soft mattress, and the bottom of the bed is indeed enough for a person to hide.
In addition, there is a flower pot stand beside the bed, with a half-foot-tall celadon moon-holding vase on it, with a picture of a lady painted on it. This is the only Dahua-style decoration in this room.
Nowadays, many young people in the Republic of China do prefer a Western-style lifestyle.
An Zichun walked around the bedroom with his hands behind his hands, then stood at the end of the Western-style iron bed with withered flowers, and sprinkled the handful of millet in his hand into the air.
The millet fell one after another, some on the ground, some on the bed, and some on the dressing table.
An Zichun looked down at the fallen millet, looking very carefully, as if he wanted to see clearly the position of every grain of millet.
Then four or five minutes later, he raised his head, and his face showed the same strange look as when he finished the divination in Taiyi Temple in the morning.
"The woman named Liya is in this room now."
He said this to Shopkeeper Wang, his tone a little firmer than in the morning.
"You can't go wrong by asking rice skills."
Shopkeeper Wang had a look of shock and confusion on his face. At this moment, his confidence in the expert recommended by Master Chen finally began to waver.
Because any normal person with eyes can clearly see that there is no one else in this bedroom except them.
Inspector Zhou, who was standing at the door of the bedroom, was stunned at first when he heard An Zichun's words, and then sneered as if he had heard a big joke.
"You pretending Taoist priest, what are you talking about? Why is that woman still in this room? Do you think we are blind?"
"Okay, ten minutes are up, you all need to get out immediately."
An Zichun didn't argue with him. He looked around the bedroom, seeming a little confused, and then said to Shu Guan:
"Junior Brother Shu, let's go."
Shu Dian nodded and followed An Zichun towards the door. He believed that the fifth senior brother's hexagram would never be wrong, but there was indeed no one else in the room.
So when he went out, he looked back with some confusion.
At this moment, Xiaoyi's voice sounded faintly in his mind.
"Brother, I heard a woman crying in this room."
Shu Guan suddenly felt a little creepy.
