The elder brother is gone.
This incident surprised everyone in Shanjiguan to the extreme.
Because Senior Brother has lived in Shanjingguan for four thousand years.
For practitioners who are no longer immortal, four thousand years is also a very long time. It has been so long that Shansheng Guan has been passed down to twenty-two generations of disciples.
And the senior brother had already come to the meditation when it was first established.
Therefore, in the eyes of many disciples of Shanjing Guan, Senior Brother and this Guan are two entities.
Every generation of disciples knows very well that even if they end their lives and fall in the middle of the immortal path, Guan will still be there, and the senior brother will still be there.
Then there will be a new generation of disciples who will respectfully address the golden-haired ape as "elder brother."
This generation of temple master Li Zhixia, as well as his disciples, thought so before today.
So after hearing that the senior brother had left, even Li Zhixia, who had always been calm and unfazed, sat down on the chair and was speechless for a long time.
At that moment, Shu Guan felt as if his master's energy and energy had been drained out.
Uncle Qi beside him was bursting into tears, crying till he was hoarse.
In the evening of this day, everyone in Shanjiguan came to the small lake and listened to Shuguan's explanation of the reason and process of Senior Brother's departure.
These things have been told to Li Zhixia, but there are still some people who don't know, such as third senior sister Rui Jianqiao and fifth senior brother An Zichun who have just returned.
After finishing speaking, there was silence beside the small lake.
After a long time, Li Zhixia let out a long sigh.
He had already let out countless long sighs this afternoon.
"That's it. When Lu Zu brought Senior Brother to Shanji Temple, he never said that he would always stay in the temple. He just asked the disciples in the Temple to take care of him. Now that Senior Brother no longer needs our care, Then naturally he can leave and do whatever he wants."
Then, Li Zhixia said something like this quietly.
Everyone was silent for a while again.
"Master, who do you think Senior Brother is? Is he really related to the Monkey Army?"
In the end, Sang Li couldn't help but asked.
Li Zhixia glanced at Shu Guan.
"Eldest Brother didn't say anything. He said his name couldn't even be mentioned."
Shu Guan whispered quickly.
So no one spoke anymore.
Regarding the origin of the eldest brother, disciples of Shan Si Guan have already made many speculations for thousands of years, and it is not without people who speculate that the eldest brother may be a member of the Monkey Army.
It's just that everyone has always kept these speculations in their hearts.
"Let's all disperse."
Finally, Li Zhixia said this, and then walked towards the cliff with her hands behind her back.
He was walking alone on the mountain road, his thick, straight, black eyebrows tightly knitted together.
Many things have happened in Jingcheng over the past year.
He, Master Miki, and Su Jie all had a consensus that a storm was coming, and a big storm seemed to be brewing in Jingcheng.
But before today, Li Zhixia had never been too worried.
Because my senior brother is here, I am not afraid of any wind or rain.
Although he had never seen his senior brother actually take action, from the few words left by the former Guan Guan leader, Li Zhixia knew that as long as his senior brother stayed awake, even if the land gods came, Shan Si Guan could be fearless.
But now that the senior brother is gone, Shan Ji Guan has lost its biggest support. Li Zhixia no longer has the confidence to deal with the storms in the future calmly.
…
Under the cliff, Shu Guan came to the fifth senior brother An Zichun.
"Fifth Senior Brother, how are you? Have you found that person?"
When Rui Jianqiao and An Zichun came back just now, Shu Guan had already noticed that the two people looked serious, but it was not convenient to ask just now, and he had no chance to ask until now.
"I found him, but when I found him, he was already dead."
An Zichun sighed.
"What? Dead?"
Shu Guan was suddenly startled.
"Yes, when my senior sister and I rushed to the house that the man rented, the landlord said that the man had returned last night and had not gone out since entering the house."
"Then my senior sister and I entered his room and found that he was dead."
"How did you die?"
"He committed suicide by cutting his wrists... However, it is impossible to be sure whether he actually committed suicide. After all, it is too easy for us practitioners to make an ordinary person have suicidal thoughts."
"Especially since this person disappeared inexplicably for more than a year, and after he came back, his whereabouts were covered up. Now he died suddenly. It's weird no matter how you look at it. It's unlikely that he really committed suicide."
"So it seems that the disappearance of the bride from Dahong Rice Shop really hides some secrets that we didn't notice at the beginning. It's a pity that Wang Xie's classmate is dead now, so this matter can only be solved temporarily. That’s it.”
Yes, it looks like that can only go so far.
After saying goodbye to An Zichun on the cliff path, Shu Guan walked towards his half of the building.
It's just that his steps are getting slower and slower.
And in his mind, there was a sentence that kept spinning.
…This can only go so far…
…This can only go so far…
…This can only go so far…
This is the first time in this period that you have uttered such a sigh?
The girl's matter can only end here, and there will be no trace of her again.
There are no clues about "Swallow" now, so we can only stop here.
These few things don't seem to be related to each other, but at the most critical moment, all the clues were cut off.
Shu Guan didn't know what he was suspecting or what he should be suspicious of.
But at this moment, he suddenly felt like every move he made in the Seven Immortals Alliance these days was being monitored, so others could always take the lead and cut off the clues.
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If we think further, the search for those men in black seems to be the same, and we can only leave it alone for now.
The force that smuggled half-demon people also had someone advance
Killed the old servant girl who should know something.
Even that time at the Fu Hua Warehouse, the men in black seemed to have known for a long time that their good friends would appear, so they set up an ambush in advance.
in advance……
in advance……
in advance……
Shu Guan was horrified.
Why do they always get ahead?
Rely on divination?
It is not impossible that there is a very powerful hexagram master who has been paying attention to them.
But apart from this possibility, there are other possibilities, such as... a traitor!
Just when he thought of this, Shu Guan didn't dare to think about it any more.
At this time, he had already reached the door of the building, but Shu Guan did not enter. He stopped outside the door for half a minute, then suddenly turned around and walked towards the residence of fifth senior brother An Zichun.
He wanted to ask his fifth senior brother An Zichun about the details of classmate Wang Xie, and then go and investigate the matter himself.
It wasn't that he didn't trust An Zichun's abilities, but he couldn't feel at ease unless he checked this matter himself.
Especially now that "that" possibility exists.
Shu Guan knew that he shouldn't doubt his senior brothers, but there were so many coincidences that he couldn't help but think that way.
…
The name of Wang Xie's classmate is Yang Jianjun. Like Wang Xie, he graduated from a third-rate university in the Kingdom of the Rising Sun with a major in finance. After coming to Jingcheng, under Wang Xie's introduction, he worked in a bank called Zhongnan Bank. .
In this era, people who have studied abroad are still very popular. Even though Yang Jianjun only obtained a bachelor's degree from a third-rate university in the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, after entering the bank, he still directly served as a manager with an annual salary of 500 silver dollars. , even in a big city like Jingcheng, he is an out-and-out young talent.
However, just a year ago, Yang Jianjun quit such a high-paying job that everyone envied, and then ran out to travel.
This is all the information Shu Guan got from fifth senior brother An Zichun about Yang Jianjun.
Early the next morning, Shu Guan left Shanji Guan and went to the house rented by Yang Jianjun.
Yang Jianjun's body has naturally been removed, and the nearby patrol bureau has also come to inspect the scene. Not surprisingly, Yang Jianjun's death was determined to be suicide.
Shu Guan was not here to inspect Yang Jianjun's body. Rui Jianqiao and An Zichun must have carefully inspected Yang Jianjun's body.
If they don't find any clues, then they probably won't have any other direction.
Without disturbing the landlord, Shu Guan directly entered Yang Jianjun's room using the wall penetration technique and searched the room thoroughly.
Then, he discovered something interesting.
They were some train ticket stubs, a thick stack.
According to the addresses and times on those train ticket stubs, Yang Jianjun traveled to almost half of China in the past year.
From the looks of it, Yang Jianjun really went on a trip.
In addition, Shu Guan also found a lot of shopping vouchers along with those train tickets. It was these shopping vouchers that made Shu Guan extremely suspicious.
Because those banknotes are very expensive items, such as a suit worth several hundred silver dollars, a watch worth several thousand silver dollars, and even a jade pendant worth tens of thousands of silver dollars.
All the shopping bills added up to a total of 40,000 to 50,000 silver dollars.
Yang Jianjun's annual salary from his job in the bank was only five hundred silver dollars. This annual salary seemed good, but compared to his consumption, it was far from enough.
Yang Jianjun's family background is not good. Shu Guan already knew this. Moreover, he has only worked for a few years and it is impossible for him to have so much savings. So where did the money for these purchases come from?
Shu Guan carefully looked at the time on the shopping vouchers and found that they were all purchased within the past year.
This is a clue that you can continue to investigate!
Then Shu Guan continued to act.
He went to the bank where Yang Jianjun once worked and checked Yang Jianjun's account. Of course, he used some Taoist methods in this process.
Then he discovered that more than a year ago, a huge amount of money, as much as 100,000 silver dollars, suddenly appeared in Yang Jianjun's bank account.
Comparing the time, the appearance of the huge sum of money was exactly one week before Wang Xie, the young owner of Dahong Rice Shop, got married.
Shu Guan felt that he was gradually getting closer to the truth of the matter.
The next thing to investigate is who transferred such a large amount of money to Yang Jianjun's account.
This matter is said to be simple and easy, but also said to be troublesome.
Mainly, the procedures for bank transfers and remittances in this era are much more complicated than those in the era when Shu Guan traveled back in time.
Like Shu Guan, in his previous life, if he wanted to transfer money to others, all he had to do was move his fingers on his mobile phone, and it would be done in a matter of seconds.
But for transfers in this era, you must go to the bank in person to fill out a wire transfer, fill in the names, addresses, and bank account numbers of both parties, and then go through several additional procedures. If it is a transfer between different banks, Bank staff also have to verify the account number in the other party's bank to see if there really is so much money.
The entire process often takes several days.
It is also very troublesome to find out who made the remittance to Yang Jianjun in the first place. More than a year has passed and it is already difficult to find out who made the remittance at that time, so it is impossible to use the dream spell. Go find the person who originally transferred the money.
Moreover, there were no computers in this era, so transfer records could not be stored in the computer for easy query.
However, the record is still there, that is, the wire transfer originally filled out by the transferor will be retained by the bank and will never be destroyed.
These wire transfers are generally kept in a special room in the bank's basement.
Shu Guan spent two days waiting for the bank to get off work every day, sneaking into the room in the basement where various bill information was stored, and after searching for two nights, he finally found 2 in the evening of the third day. That wire draft from over a year ago.
Although the hard work is a bit hard, it is still rewarding in the end.
The person who sent money to Yang Jianjun was a Rising Sun countryman named Nishitani Taiji!
When he saw this name, Shu Guan knew that he was about to come into contact with the truth.
Then he immediately rushed to Nishitani Taiji's home in the Rising Sun Concession according to the address written on the wire transfer.
It's a pity that Nishitani Taiji is not at home.
However, Shu Guan also figured out the identity of Nishitani Taiji.
Nishitani Taiji is a businessman from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun, specializing in trade between the Kingdom of the Rising Sun and Dahua. He has lived in Jingcheng for more than ten years.
Of course, if Nishitani Taiji was just an ordinary businessman, there would be no reason for him to remit such a large sum of money to Yang Jianjun for no reason.
Therefore, Nishitani Taiji's identity as a businessman should only be his apparent identity, but secretly he may have other identities.
Shu Guan did not delay and directly made a divination in Nishitani Taiji's bedroom.
Fortunately, Nishitani Taiji's whereabouts were not concealed, and Shu Guan easily figured out where he was at this time: Jasmine Restaurant.
Shu Guan was no stranger to this restaurant located in the Falan Concession because he had been to this restaurant when he was following Rong Miao.
Later, I went several times, always with Rong Miao, because Rong Miao liked the taste of the food in that restaurant.
Ten minutes later, Shu Guan appeared outside the door of Jasmine Restaurant in a familiar manner.
He looked down at his clothes today.
Fortunately, although the clothes are relatively ordinary and there is nothing to dress up, it is not too shabby, and at least I will not be turned away by the doorman at the door.
Then Shu Guan walked into Jasmine Restaurant.
But he had just walked in, and before he had time to find Nishitani Taiji's whereabouts, an elegant woman stood up at a certain table in the restaurant and waved to him in surprise.
"Shu Guan, why are you here?"
Shu Guan turned around and saw what a coincidence, Rong Miao was having dinner here today.
