Wu Sheng was very confident in Bu Sanshi, so he went straight to the well and only let Yong Zhi enter the house to search just in case.
I couldn't see anything clearly at the bottom of the dark well. I dropped a torch and found that it was very deep. Wu Sheng did not go down the well rashly, but summoned the hook snake and let it act as a vanguard.
Hook Snake climbed down the wellhead and soon sent a spiritual message back to Wu Sheng - there was a tunnel below.
Wu Sheng immediately went down into the well and found that the bottom of the well was more than twenty feet deep. Looking up at the well mouth, there was a white light spot the size of a thumb above.
There was a tunnel underground, and the forked tail of the hook snake stretched out from the tunnel. It was as flexible as a finger and made a "come" gesture, beckoning Wu Sheng to follow.
Wu Sheng smiled and followed the snake's tail in. He walked forward more than ten feet and entered a secret room. The secret room is not big, only about ten feet in diameter. Many wild cultivators will build a shelter like this to hide in times of danger.
The hook snake has now grown a bit thicker, and even if it is coiled up, it occupies half of the secret room. Wu Sheng has no place to set his feet, so he takes it back to the air sea world.
The secret room was very simple, the walls were covered with dirt, there were no furnishings, and it was completely empty. There is only a thick iron plate above the exit, connected with a rope, which can be lowered to make a door.
Since the hexagram of Divination 30 mentioned "well", Wu Sheng naturally would not give up easily, but carefully inspected the four walls, top wall and feet of the secret room.
While pounding continuously, Wu Sheng found a place with a very different sound. Feihong Sword took action and dug two swords at this location before digging out a wooden box and quickly opening it.
Yong Zhi also went down to the bottom of the well and appeared in the secret room: "There is nothing suspicious up there... Found it?"
Wu Sheng picked out a piece of silk handkerchief from the wooden box and threw it to him: "Take a look."
Yongzhi's eyelids twitched. Isn't this the kind of silk handkerchief that Ge Qilang of Yanhu Villa used to leave a letter to Chen Zhen? Not only are the styles exactly the same, the corner of the handkerchief is embroidered with the word "ge", and even the words written on it are the same as before - "Meet you at Yanhu Villa on the fifth day of the first lunar month."
Yong Zhi felt a little numb: "There's a real problem! Ge Qilang, Huang Mo, and Chen Zhen, the three of them are in the same group."
Wu Sheng was still rummaging in the box, and found several bottles of ordinary elixirs under three pieces of gold and more than a hundred ant-nosed coins, all of which were used to heal injuries and replenish energy.
In addition, there is a piece of black jade.
Wu Sheng turned the ink jade over on his fingertips and stared at it for a long time.
Yongzhi asked: "What is the use of this jade?"
Wu Sheng said: "This jade is of great use. Every temple in the imperial court must try its best to cooperate with the jade owner's request and provide assistance after seeing the jade."
With that said, he took out his jade plaque and showed it to Yong Zhi.
"Xue Gong Jade Tablet? This...Huang Mao is from the Academy?" Yongzhi felt that his brain was a little lacking: "Xue Zhong only said that the person who died...the one named Fei Bai was from the Academy, but You didn’t mention the yellow film, are you trying to hide it or are you simply not aware of it?”
Wu Sheng thought: "Only if it is registered in the academy, it can be regarded as a monk in the academy. If it is registered, there is no reason for Xue Zhong not to know. Therefore, either the jade plaque is fake, or Xue Zhong himself was not informed. "
"Then is this jade plaque real or fake?"
"I feel it's true." Wu Sheng just meditated on a few breaths. The spiritual sand transformed on the Huangmo jade tablet has the same color as his own, so there should be no problem with the source.
"Xue Zhong is hiding something from us?" Yong Zhi asked.
Wu Sheng shook his head: "Even the script written on the cliff at the east entrance of the Fox Demon Watch Ji Mountain told me that there is no reason why he would hide Huang Miao's matter. Although I have only dealt with him twice, I feel that this person is trustworthy. ...So I guess he doesn’t know about Huang Miao either.”
Yongzhi kept thinking: "Are Ge Qilang and Chen Zhen also monks in the school? Like Huang Mo, very secretive?"
Wu Sheng thought for a while and said: "It is possible. If your guess, Naodaalang, is true, then they became monks in the academy very early, even before Song Yan took office."
Yong Zhi began to imitate Wu Sheng and thought: "Among the three, Ge Qilang is the convener, the leader? He summoned Huang Mo and Chen Zhen to do something on the fifth day of the first lunar month, which angered the fox demon, so the fox demon appeared , killed them all one by one... It turns out that the fox demon didn't kill randomly, she killed all in a group, well, except for Fei Bai... he was unlucky..."
Wu Sheng thought thoughtfully: "Bad luck?"
Yongzhi: "Luck..."
Wu Sheng announced: "Go back to Yingdu!"
Yongzhi agreed: "Let's go!"
I went back quickly, and when I passed by the place where Bu Sanshi opened a wine shop yesterday, the stove fire went out, the wine cover had been taken off, and Bu Sanshi was not there, leaving only the useless tables and stools.
Wu Sheng stamped his feet: "I'm sorry, I forgot to ask him for incense yesterday, but this old man moved again!"
Yongzhi asked: "What kind of incense do you want? Is his incense very effective?"
Wu Sheng was filled with regret: "You are so smart!"
After waiting here for two hours, Wu Sheng almost destroyed the few things left in the wine shop. He couldn't find the spirit fragrance, so he had to leave sadly and continue to return to Yingdu.
Academy monks usually live in the school dormitory, which is not only safe and secure, but also convenient to be on call. Academy monks like Wu Sheng are exceptions, but they still live in the Yangzhou Academy in name.
Therefore, it is not difficult to find Fei Bai's residence. There are only about a dozen monks in Yingdu Academy at most. You can tell by looking into every empty room.
Xue Zhong went to Linzi and has not yet returned. Fei Bai's house has not been touched and remains the same as before he left. Therefore, the search was very time-consuming. After a long time, the suspicious silk handkerchief was not found.
Wu Sheng judged: "Isn't this guy living outside his home?"
The focus of the search changed from silk handkerchiefs to house deeds, and one was quickly found. However, the owner of the house deed was not Fei Bai, but "Xiulan", who must have been Fei Bai's foreign residence.
So the two of them left the school and returned to Bailong Pond.
"I've been going around for so long, but I didn't expect to come back again." Wu Sheng sighed with emotion.
Yongzhi took out the property deed and checked it again, with some hesitation: "The locust tree in front of the door..."
Wu Sheng asked: "What? Is there a problem?"
Yongzhi said: "Yu Xi..."
Wu Sheng immediately remembered that when he was drinking tea at a tea shop next to Bailong Pond two days ago, Yu Xi recognized Yong Zhi and asked his servants to come over to invite him. He also left an address. Southeast of Bailong Pond, there was a locust tree in front of the door. This is the house.
How is this going?
Wu Sheng looked at the property deed again. The description of the house's location indeed said "there is a locust tree in front of the door." In the small courtyards next to the house, there are no locust trees in front of the doors.
Just as he was thinking about it, the servant in green clothes from before pushed the door open and saw Yong Zhi at a glance. He quickly stepped forward and bowed to invite him: "Here is Mr. Lang? My wife also asked at noon why Mr. Lang hasn't come these past two days. Mr. Lang." Please."
Yongzhi looked at Wu Sheng, and Wu Sheng pushed him and signaled: Let's go, let's talk after we go in!
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