"Qiu Haitang News" is not a news newspaper, so the reports in it must be about things that happened recently.
Just like this news, it has nearly a thousand words and tells about a rather strange thing that happened in Tongxingli neighborhood of Jiangkou District more than ten days ago.
The cause of the incident was that a wealthy girl who lived in Tongxing Village had a very expensive cat that disappeared from her home ten days ago, so she went to the patrol bureau to report it.
It is said that the cat is worth enough to buy several Falcon cars.
So naturally this cannot be treated as an ordinary missing pet case, but as a major loss of property.
It's just that the patrol bureau spent five or six days and organized dozens of patrols to search, but they couldn't find the precious pet cat.
Because the rich girl's family background was so extraordinary, even the director of the local police station had to come to apologize, but was scolded angrily by the rich girl, making her look disgraced.
Of course, the "Qiu Haitang Newspaper" published this report just as an interesting anecdote from Jingcheng's upper class. At the end of the article, the person who wrote the article could not help but groan without any illness or sigh with righteous indignation. Nowadays, The world is really not as good as cats. Every day in Jingcheng, countless low-income homeless people go missing but no one cares about them. A cat in a rich man's house goes missing, but a patrol chief comes to apologize.
Of course, what made Shu Guan frown was not the reporter's lamentations at the end of this article. He was not worried about the country and the people to this extent.
It's because of another thing the reporter mentioned in the article.
In order to understand what happened, this reporter went to Tongxingli and interviewed the witnesses who saw the rich woman driving the police chief out of the house.
Then he discovered something. In the Tongxingli neighborhood, nearly twenty cats had disappeared, and all the wild cats on the road had also disappeared during this period.
This matter was only mentioned in two or three sentences in the report, but it was these two or three sentences that made Shu Guan frown.
The cat is missing…
This reminded him of the first time he came to Shan Ji Guan. When he left, Li Zhixia asked Sang Liren to investigate the death of eighteen cats in Xiushui Street within a few days.
Shu Guan didn't know what happened next.
But now he saw another incident about a large number of missing cats.
If he were just an ordinary person, he might treat this matter as a strange story, but now that he is a practitioner and a guard of heaven, he is already alert to this kind of thing.
And the master seems to like to find many clues to supernatural things in "Qiu Haitang News".
Shu Guan thought for a while, then walked out of the pavilion with the copy of "Begonia Newspaper" and walked towards the top of the cliff.
Although the reports in "Qiu Haitang Newspaper" have always been a mixture of true and false, it is considered very conscientious if they can be even three-thirds true. For example, in this report, it is very doubtful whether the rich girl slapped the police chief in public. .
But now that you have seen it, go and ask the master for advice.
…
Li Zhixia slowly placed the "Qiu Begonia Newspaper" in her hand, and his thick eyebrows wrinkled slightly.
"A year ago, eighteen cats died in Xiushui Street within three days. I thought something was fishy, so I asked your sixth brother to investigate..."
Li Zhixia slowly said:
"It's just that there was no result in the end. Your sixth brother didn't find the reason for the death of those cats, and after he went to Xiushui Street, there were no more consecutive deaths of cats on Xiushui Street. Although you were sixth at that time, Senior brother doesn’t think those cats died normally, but since there are no clues, we can only let them go temporarily.”
Then he pointed to the news item in Qiu Haitang Newspaper and said:
"After a year, a cat disappeared again. There is probably a connection between the two."
"Master, do you mean that the two things were done by the same person? He just changed places?"
Shu Guan's eyes flashed and he said:
"Because Sixth Senior Brother went to Xiushui Street and asked that person to be alert and stop, but after enduring it for a year, he finally couldn't help it, so he changed his place to act!"
"Probably!"
Li Zhixia nodded and said:
"Of course, there may be other reasons. It may not even be done by humans, but something strange. Or the two things may not be connected. You have to go and see everything to know."
Shu Guan was slightly startled and said:
"I go?"
"Of course, your fifth and sixth senior brothers have just returned due to the joint operation of the Seven Immortals Alliance. Let them rest first, while your second and fourth senior brothers have taken their turn, so it is up to you to investigate this matter!"
"It's been a year since you started, Lao Qi, and it's time to start going on missions alone, so let's start from this time!"
…
From the master, Shu Guan went to find the sixth senior brother Sang Liren.
He wanted to know the details of the dead cat incident on Xiushui Street a year ago.
The Sangli people who had just returned still looked a little tired. It seemed that the task in that joint search team was not easy.
After hearing Shu Guan's purpose, Sang Liren told Shu Guan the results of the investigation a year ago.
"Well, about that incident a year ago... I really didn't find any clues at all."
"But I have seen the corpses of several of the cats. Your cat's head was chopped off, and all the internal organs in the stomach were dug out, and then they were placed around the cat corpse. That guy is definitely a Very cruel person.”
...sounds a lot like something a perverted serial killer would do...
It's just that his target is a cat.
…
After asking some questions from the Sangli people, Shuguan left Shanjiguan, but first he went to Xintaoyuan Village.
Speaking of which, he has been practicing fighting tactics with his senior brother for the past few months. Although he is just up and down the mountain, he has not been back for a long time.
But when he came down from Guishan Mountain, he found that the tidal flat at the foot of the mountain, which was adjacent to Xintaoyuan Village, was actually surrounded by people, and several primitive and heavy bulldozers were working inside.
What are you doing? This land seems to belong to Taiyi Temple.
Shu Guan glanced over there doubtfully, then turned into the village.
Taoyuan Village was very quiet in the morning. There were not many people on the road between the rows of houses.
At this time, all the young adults in the village should be working on the docks, and the younger women are working in Lixing Spinning Factory. In addition, other people in the village, as long as they are still able to work, have also found some jobs. For example, older women do some sewing, sewing and washing on Xiushui Street not far from here, or they may take some handiwork and come back to the village to do it.
Some old people who are good at craftsmanship make some woodworking gadgets, or household items such as tables, chairs, and stools to sell in the market, and they gradually become famous.
And many of these things were found by themselves.
The most exaggerated thing is that Wang Dabao, the original second cobbler in the village, actually found a job as a corpse caretaker in Yizhuang, and he can be regarded as starting his old profession.
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Because there are very few people willing to do this kind of work, the salary is quite generous, and he is actually the most profitable person in the village.
All this made Shu Guan very happy, because the people in Taoyuan Village finally began to slowly and truly integrate into the outside world.
There was a faint sound of reading loudly in front of him, and Shu Guan walked quickly over there.
The sound of reading came from a spacious bungalow. Shu Guan took a look out of the window. There were dozens of children from the village sitting inside, ranging from seven or eight to twelve or thirteen years old.
Standing in front is a girl in her early twenties, teaching the children in the village to read aloud.
The girl has a round apple face, wearing a cyan student skirt and black cloth shoes. She is not very beautiful, but her temperament is fresh and pleasant.
This girl was invited by Shu Guan a few days ago at the request of Daochang Chen. She is a female student from Chuzhou Normal University. In addition to this female student, there are several other classmates of hers. Shu Guan also invited them all. Teach the children in the village literacy, arithmetic, music and art, etc. After a period of study and a foundation, they will be sent to regular schools.
As for the salary of these normal university students, eight silver dollars a month, it is all paid by Shu Guan. He has not used the one hundred silver dollars that Taoist Chen gave him before, but after a few months of payment, he has not used it much. After paying the students’ wages, there is not much left.
Shu Guan was thinking about finding a way to make more money. He was prepared to bear all the expenses for educating the children in the village himself.
Because he was worried that some people in the village were short-sighted and reluctant to spend the money on their children.
But in the classroom, sitting at the front was a beautiful girl.
Zhang Yadan also attends classes in this classroom like these children.
Shuguan did not let Zhang Yadan go to work in the Lixing Textile Factory like other young girls in the village, because Zhang Yadan was different from the women in the village and had been a very spiritual person since she was a child.
She could live a more exciting life in this life.
Before it's too late in the next few years, Zhang Yadan should be allowed to study hard.
Shu Guan stood outside the window, looking at Zhang Yadan who was reading the elementary school textbook very seriously and attentively. After not seeing each other for a few months, the girl's face became more and more beautiful. Perhaps it was because she officially started studying, and her temperament also began to slowly change. The situation has changed, and she is no longer the beautiful but rustic mountain village girl she used to be. Today, Zhang Yadan begins to exude a confident and generous temperament.
Shu watched for a while, but did not disturb Zhang Yadan who was taking the class seriously. Instead, he turned around and left quietly.
However, before walking far, he met Wang Dahu who was coming out of his home.
"Hey, Mazi, why are you back today?"
Wang Dahu called out in surprise.
Shu Guan was startled for a moment, why didn't this kid go to the dock?
"I went out to do some errands and came back for a visit, but I have to leave soon."
Shu Guan answered first, and then asked doubtfully:
"Why did you go out just now? Are you lazy?"
"No way, I specifically wanted to go to the quarry today to have a look."
"quarry?"
"Well, it's over there."
Wang Dahu pointed to the beach outside the village. When Shu Guan passed by just now, several bulldozers were working there, and he was still a little curious.
"The land over there has been bought from Taiyiguan by a wealthy businessman in the city. It is said that a quarry is going to be built. After knowing that there are many young and strong laborers in our village, the land there was purchased two days ago. We even asked the Taoist priest from Taiyi Temple to ask if we would like to work in their quarry."
"The wages they offer are three times more than what they earn by moving goods on the dock, so I'm going to take a look today. If they can really offer such a high wage, it won't matter even if I'm tired. I'll bring some Brother went to work in the quarry!”
Wang Dahu said with a smile, with some excitement and longing in his eyes.
Shu Guan groaned, and then glanced towards the tidal flat.
I thought that if Taiyi Guan came forward, Wang Dahu and the others would not be deducted in terms of salary and remuneration. If they were not familiar people, Taoist Chen would not ask anyone to ask Wang Dahu and the others what they meant.
In this case, let Dahu and the others decide for themselves.
I have to let go gradually.
So Shu Guan said goodbye to Wang Dahu, left Xintaoyuan Village, and started his first solo mission.
