"Fox? What kind of fox? Didn't you smell it?"
After hearing Lotte's words, the others smelled the smell in the room carefully, but did not find the smell he mentioned.
Seeing that everyone looked confused, Letian took another sniff to prevent himself from just an illusion, and then said:
"There is just a faint hint of foxiness mixed in the powdery air, but the powdery air is too strong and covers it up."
Lotte said so surely that others were a little suspicious and listened carefully for a while.
"Yes, it has a faint smell of fox."
Just when everyone was trying to verify what Lotte said, Lan Yunxin suddenly spoke.
Previously, Lotte was the only one who said this, and they all didn't believe it. But now that even Lan Yunxin said that he smelled fox, they couldn't help but believe it.
Zuo Canglan was worried about his son's safety and immediately asked:
"Why is there a fox here?"
Haizhou City is located on the coast of the South China Sea. There are no mountains nearby, and they have never heard of foxes appearing in the city.
"have no idea."
Letian shook his head and then asked:
"I wonder who my son had contact with before he disappeared? Where are those people now?"
"Everyone who was in this flower house last night was downstairs. After the child's accident, I sealed off the entire flower house and absolutely no one left.
It's a matter of my son's life, so I have no choice but to take this step! "
"Take us to meet them. Maybe one of them knows something."
"good!"
Zuo Canglan didn't waste any time and took them directly downstairs, and asked everyone here to be called into the hall downstairs.
When they came downstairs, the hall was already full of people.
These people were both men and women. The women were all dressed up in voluptuous and scantily attire, and had an air of travel that could not be concealed. Most of the men had slightly sunken eye sockets and dark eye circles. They had obviously spent a lot of time wandering around the streets and alleys.
Looking at the fearful and worried men and women in the hall, Lotte asked:
"Is everyone here?"
Zuo Canglan nodded:
"All the guests, flower ladies and servants who were in the flower house last night are all here."
Letian nodded, said nothing, and walked forward to those people alone.
Standing at the front is an older woman, who must be the madam here. It can be seen that she must have been very beautiful when she was young.
Naturally, he knew that these people were here to investigate the disappearance of the city lord's son. When he saw Letian walking over, he said:
"Sir, Mr. Zuo's disappearance really has nothing to do with us! The city lord and several immortal masters came to check this morning. They searched the entire building but could not find Mr. Zuo. Mr. Zuo must not be here with us."
Letian nodded without saying anything or showing any superfluous expression.
He didn't make any moves, he just walked around everyone, stopped for a moment, and then walked to the next person.
Those people didn't know what Lotte was doing, so they could only wait nervously.
Bu Xiaotian and others did not disturb Letian, but quietly watched his movements from the other side.
Not long after, Letian walked around everyone and returned to Bu Xiaotian and the others.
Zuo Canglan saw Letian coming back and asked hurriedly:
"Have you discovered anything, little friend?"
Letian nodded, turned to the people in the flower building and said:
"Whoever I tapped on the shoulder just now, come to the front."
Hearing this, the five flower ladies in the crowd paled, but they did not dare to disobey Lotte's words, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk to the front.
When they stood still, everyone realized that in addition to the five flower girls, there was also an eleven or twelve-year-old girl who also walked out from the end of the crowd.
The one standing at the end is the servant in the building, who does dirty work on weekdays.
The little girl was thin and small, looking at Bu Xiaotian and others with nervousness and fear in her eyes.
Looking at the pitiful little girl, and seeing that most of the people standing at the end were half-grown children, Bu Xiaotian suddenly felt an unknown fire in his heart, and shouted angrily at the old madam:
"You actually let such a half-year-old child do such a dirty thing!"
Although the old bustard was a little scared because Mr. Zuo disappeared in the flower house, he did not feel guilty under Bu Xiaotian's angry shouting, and he defended:
"Young hero, what you say is a bit unreasonable.
These children had no parents to begin with. If I hadn't taken them in out of pity, I would have died of hunger long ago.
But I can’t keep them in vain, right?
I give them a bite to eat, and they do some work for me, isn't it natural? "
"Mother…"
Seeing Bu Xiaotian getting angry, the little girl became even more frightened. She leaned close to the madam, reached out and grabbed her clothes, and shouted timidly.
After hearing what the madam said and seeing the little girl's behavior, Bu Xiaotian was really speechless. In the end, he had no choice but to sigh helplessly and said no more.
The others also had different expressions, not knowing what they were thinking.
The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.
Finally, Zuo Canglan sighed:
"My friend, this is their fate. Although we have tried our best to make the people in the city live a better life, unfortunate things will inevitably happen.
Although I am the city lord, I cannot take care of everyone. "
"Let's solve the matter of Mr. Zuo's disappearance first and then talk about this!"
Seeing everyone's silence, Taoist Qingxu opened his mouth to smooth things over.
After Taoist Qingxu said this, everyone remembered the purpose of their coming here and turned their attention to the few people chosen by Lotte.
"Aren't these people the last people who saw your son during my homework?"
Venerable Dali looked at a few people for a moment, with a look of surprise on his face as he recognized these flower girls.
Hearing this, Bu Xiaotian and others looked at Zuo Canglan, only to see a look of surprise on his face. Apparently he was the only one except these people.
After Zuo Canglan received the news that his son was missing, he went to Hualou with Taoist Qingxu and others overnight to investigate. Naturally, he also carefully interrogated all the people who had been in contact with Zuo Canglan's son. It was not surprising that he could recognize them.
But the city lord's son went to the flower house and called several flower girls to accompany him. After all, this matter was not a glorious thing, and they also carefully checked the professional flower girls and found nothing unusual, so they did not follow Bu Xiaotian Mentioned by others.
But Lotte was obviously here for the first time, but he just walked around the crowd and identified the last few people Zuo Canglan's son had contact with before he disappeared. This made them surprised?
Venerable Dali was a man who couldn't hide things, so he immediately asked:
"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong with these people?"
Letian nodded and said:
"The smell on their bodies is the same as that in the room where Mr. Zuo disappeared, with a faint hint of fox."
Hearing this, Zuo Canglan and the others couldn't help but frown. It wasn't that they didn't believe what Lotte said, but it was just that they didn't find any foxy smell when they checked these people.
Bu Xiaotian also asked with some confusion:
"You keep saying you smell fox, why don't I smell it?"
Letian glanced at Bu Xiaotian and then said:
"The odor of the powder here is too strong, even for practitioners, it is difficult to distinguish it. However, my five senses are naturally sharper than others. My master once taught me a set of techniques to train my five senses, so I can distinguish it."
Saying that, Letian looked at Lan Yunxin again and asked:
"Presumably Junior Sister Lan has a similar method, right?"
Lan Yunxin nodded:
"Well, I majored in "Jingfeng Jue". Wind is the flow of Qi, so I am relatively sensitive to Qi, but it takes some effort to distinguish the faint smell of fox in this rich powder gas. .”
Zuo Canglan looked at the little girl and couldn't help but ask:
"Then what's going on with this little girl? Does she also smell like a fox? But I checked carefully before and found that she had no contact with my son yesterday?"
Letian looked at the little girl, nodded and said:
"That's right, she also smells like fox, and it's stronger than the others. As for how it came about, you have to ask herself."
Now everyone looked at the little girl suspiciously.
Seeing everyone staring at her, the little girl's already pale face suddenly became even paler. She wanted to hide behind the madam, but was pulled in front of her and unable to move. She was so scared that tears welled up in her eyes, but she didn't dare to do it. It's really heartbreaking to see her crying.
Letian walked up to the little girl, knelt down and whispered:
"Don't be afraid, little sister, we won't hurt you. Tell your brother what you saw yesterday?"
Although Lotte was already very gentle, the little girl still pursed her lips tightly and did not dare to speak.
The old madam also knew that the little girl might have really seen something that they didn't know about. Seeing that the little girl refused to speak, she drank:
"Say quickly! Otherwise there will be no food to eat today!"
The little girl was obviously afraid that she would really have nothing to eat, so she stammered:
"I...when I was washing clothes in the backyard last night, I saw...I saw a very beautiful sister flying from outside into a room on the second floor."
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately felt that something was unusual, but no one spoke to interrupt Lotte's inquiry.
"Then what happened? What happened next?"
The little girl looked at the old bustard, and everyone's eyes also turned to the old bustard.
The madam suddenly became anxious:
"Damn girl, whatever the young master asks you first, you just say it! What do you want me to do?"
The little girl lowered her head and said quietly:
"Later...then the sister flew out of the window again, and then left."
"Then did she take or leave anything?"
"When she left, she was dragging a very large package..."
The little girl said and stretched out her hand to make a gesture.
Before the little girl could continue speaking, Zuo Canglan shouted angrily:
"This fox demon must have kidnapped my son!"
Seeing that Zuo Canglan was a little excited, Letian comforted him and said:
"City Lord Zuo, please don't get too excited. Let me finish my question."
Others also spoke to comfort Zuo Canglan, which prevented him from having an attack on the spot.
Letian looked at the little girl who was too frightened by Zuo Canglan to speak, and asked again:
"Then did she leave anything behind?"
After Lotte asked this question, a trace of obvious hesitation flashed across the little girl's face, but she still nodded, took out a silk handkerchief from her arms, and said:
"She accidentally dropped this when she was leaving."
Lotte took the silk handkerchief and looked at it. I saw that the silk handkerchief was very delicate, with a small fox embroidered on it, which looked very vivid.
Seeing a look of understanding on Lotte's face, several other people also gathered around.
This silk handkerchief is indeed not an ordinary thing, but is made of the finest natural silk. No wonder the little girl was hesitant when she took it out just now.
But apart from being very beautiful, there was nothing special about this silk handkerchief. I couldn't help but look at Lotte again, waiting for his explanation.
Lotte didn't hide anything and said:
"This silk handkerchief smells like fox."
Zuo Canglan reached out and took the silk handkerchief, put it in front of his nose and smelled it. Sure enough, he found that in addition to the faint fragrance, there was also a hint of fox smell on this small silk handkerchief.
"Sure enough, it smells like a fox!"
Zuo Canglan nodded, and then asked with hope:
"Maybe my friend can use this silk handkerchief to find the location of the fox demon?"
Letian shook his head and saw Zuo Canglan's disappointed expression, and said:
"But although I can't find the fox demon, my mount can definitely!"
Zuo Canglan looked happy and asked immediately:
"Then where is my little friend's mount?"
"In a dense forest in the north of the city."
"Then let's go find my friend's mount now?"
"good!"
Lotte did not refuse, after all, saving people is like putting out fire.
Before leaving, Bu Xiaotian glanced at the little girl and said to the madam:
"Take good care of her!"
In this way, the group of people left the flower building, directly sacrificed the magic weapon and flew out of the city.
Half a quarter of an hour later, several people landed on the edge of a dense forest outside the city wall.
Zuo Canglan looked at this huge forest, frowned and asked:
"I wonder where my friend's mount is?"
This forest is so big that if we search piece by piece, we don’t know when we will find it.
Letian did not answer, but glanced at Bu Xiaotian. Bu Xiaotian understood and whistled loudly.
A moment later, a very fast black shadow emerged from the forest and stopped in front of several people.
It was the black donkey and little snow wolf that they left here before going to sea.
