Lu Jing didn't go too far after leaving Lijiacun.
When he asked Ma Liang to draw cakes before, he not only wanted to see if he had the legendary magic pen in his hand, but he was also deliberately trying to scare off the enemy.
If Ma Liang is really related to the four cases in the file, then after what happened today, as long as he is not stupid, he should be wary and know that he has been targeted. So Lu Jing wants to wait and see. Will there be any follow-up actions after nightfall?
However, after meeting Ma Liang, Lu Jing did have a doubt in his heart.
Mainly about the two thousand taels of silver.
Xin Papi was previously defrauded of a huge sum of two thousand taels by using the Nine Dragons Treasure Basin. If Ma Liang did this, even if he found someone to join forces and gave half of the money to the seller of the basin, he would still have something left on his hands. With a thousand taels left, it stands to reason that he should not be short of money now.
In fact, if he really had a magic pen, how could he be short of money? As long as you draw an essay, you can get gold and silver at your fingertips. Why do you still value the 200 taels of silver that you spend so much on painting cakes?
Of course, if you insist on finding an explanation, it's not like you can't find an excuse.
Because the biggest difference between Ma Liang in the story and the emperor and the county magistrate is that he has been helping others after getting the magic pen, while the emperor and the county magistrate wanted the magic pen to satisfy their own selfish desires.
So maybe one of the conditions for that weird thing to work is that it cannot make profit for the artist himself.
In addition, there is another possibility that Ma Liang deliberately acted after guessing the origins of him and Yan Yun, pretending to love money, and wanted to dispel their suspicion of him.
However, Lu Jing felt that the latter possibility was relatively small, because according to his previous observations, Ma Liang's desire for the two hundred taels of silver was not fake, and according to Yan Yun, although his residence was not very simple, But obviously he doesn't have much money.
Lu Jing felt that he might have missed something.
So while waiting for sunset, he took out the file and looked through it again.
Finally, he focused his attention on the part where Li Er got the cow. When he first saw the case, Lu Jing thought it was Ma Liang who couldn't bear to see Li Er lose his cow, so he drew his cow again.
But looking back now, Lu Jing discovered a problem.
Those who should not have appeared in the other three cases, whether it was Han Erlang's wife who had been dead for many years, the treasure basin that made Xin Papi lose all his money, and the nine-tailed beast that frightened Miao Yuanwai. The foxes eventually all disappeared.
Among them, the one that has existed the longest is Han Erlang’s deceased wife, who gave Han Erlang breakfast for ten days in total, while the Nine-Dragon Treasure Basin only stayed in Xin Papi’s hands for less than three days. As for the nine-tailed fox, it has been The time from appearance to disappearance is even shorter, less than one day.
Therefore, Lu Jing now has reason to suspect that these people or things that should not appear have a limited time limit in their existence in this world.
Otherwise, the power of that strange object would be too strong, and it could change one's fate against the will of heaven. There is no reason for Si Tianjian to leave such a thing to the students of the academy as a test question.
And if this inference could be established, Lu Jing found that he had to rethink the relationship between the owner of the strange object and Li Er.
Especially when the cow appeared, it happened to be after Li Er went to report to the official, which caused Li Er to get a beating. Now it seems that he still can't save the cow.
Looking at it this way, that man and Li Er are not friends, but there may be some gap between them.
Lu Jing felt like he had caught something, but at this moment he saw a pebble flying towards him!
Lu Jing did not dodge or dodge, letting the pebble fly in front of him before reaching out to grab it.
This was the secret code between him and Yan Yun. The two of them were still cooperating for the time being. They were tracking Ma Liang together. Yan Yun was responsible for tracking Ma Liang from sunset to the first half of the night, while Lu Jing was responsible for tracking the latter half of the night.
It's just that the sun hasn't completely set yet, but I didn't expect news to come from Yan Yun.
Did Ma Liang show his weakness so quickly?
Lu Jing didn't have time to think too much and started using Qing Gong. Within a few breaths, he had already landed in front of Ma Liang's residence.
At this time, Yan Yun also jumped down from the tree.
"What happened? Did he run away?"
"No, but something is wrong. The room is a little too quiet. No sound has been heard for a long time. It's still daytime, and he shouldn't fall asleep so early." Yan Yun frowned.
Lu Jing thought about it, and then he and Yan Yun walked outside the thatched hut where Ma Liang lived. They knocked on the door twice, but no one answered. Then Lu Jing used some strength to push open the closed door.
I found that there was no one in the house.
Afterwards, the two searched again, but could not find any secret passages or secret doors in the house.
Ma Liang seemed to have suddenly disappeared.
Lu Jing's eyes finally fell on the table next to the bookshelf, and he found that there was a picture of an autumn outing that was still inked on the table, but it was only halfway through and stopped abruptly.
Then he also found a writing brush on the ground. The tip of the pen was quite soft, and it was obvious that it had just been dipped in ink.
Lu Jing sighed, "Ma Liang may be in danger."
Yan Yun also thought of something at this time and raised his eyebrows, "You suspect that he is the person in the painting, do you have any evidence?"
Lu Jing pointed to the picture of the Autumn Outing, "There are many people in this picture with dogwood trees on their heads. It should be a scene of the Double Ninth Festival. The Double Ninth Festival happens to be ten days ago. Calculate the time it takes to ride a goose with Han Erlang's wife." It’s the same, so now I have reason to suspect that the person or thing born from that strange thing can only stay in this world for no more than ten days.”
After a pause, Lu Jing continued, "Next, I plan to find the owner of that thing. Do you want to separate from me, or..."
"Let's go together." Yan Yun said without much hesitation, "Rescuing people is the most important thing. You won the competition this time. I left a cup of tea earlier than you, but in the end it was you who found Ma Liang first. When you find that I will explain this strange thing to the Huang Supervisory Academy."
"Ha, I don't really care about winning or losing. The main thing is that there is something I really want this time." Lu Jing scratched his head.
If someone else said this, Yan Yun might not believe it, but maybe it's because in the last martial arts competition, Lu Jing could win but still surrendered casually. After that, this matter really didn't make any waves in the academy, but it was Yan Yun did not doubt the authenticity of Lu Jing's words at this time.
The chief of Yunshui Jingci Pavilion also sighed secretly in his heart.
Before, she originally thought that she didn't care much about these honors and fame, but now it seems that this may be more because no one in the younger generation can really threaten her, so she can be calm and relaxed. Face it all.
In contrast, maybe Lu Jing is the one who really doesn't care. Even though the opportunity to defeat her is right in front of him, he can still not care.
Yan Yun was a little envious of the free and easy man in front of her. She could not see any pressure from the sect or others from Lu Jing.
(End of chapter)
