I was just solving crimes, how could I become an immortal?

Chapter 201 Loyalty or profit
  The weather in Nanchu is much warmer and gentler than the severe cold in Beiyan.

Even though it is already the twelfth lunar month, the sun shining on our shoulders still gives people a faint sense of warmth.

Near noon, the sun shines on the blood spring, and the blood energy rises slightly, reflecting the mountains in a bright red, adding a sense of solemnity to the stalemate between the three parties.

Well, maybe it's just a stalemate between the two parties, but Chi Guangguo seems to be carefree.

"Haha! Brother Cao, long time no see!" Master Chiguang took off his helmet, revealing his beard and beard.

Wiping the sweat from his face, he saw Cao An, an old acquaintance, and ran over with a smile.

Cao An was also very happy. With this sincere friend on his platform, his voice in Nanchu would have more weight.

"Master Chiguang, I haven't seen you for a long time. I received the protective clothing you sent me. It's great. Thank you very much."

"No, no, you helped Chiguang Country get out of three crises. I should be the one thanking you." After saying that, he looked aside: "General Ying, we haven't seen each other for a long time!"

"Yes! Are you still focusing on forging?"

"Of course, isn't it good to do what you want to do? By the way, where is your daughter? She loves to join in the fun so much, but she doesn't see anyone on such occasions?"

"She has gone to do some errands and will be here soon."

The appearance of Master Chi Guang instantly reversed the unfavorable situation.

Even though King Yanzhu wanted to use the country's hostility as an excuse to interrupt Cao An's reasoning.

But Master Chiguang didn't give him a chance at all.

"Chi Guang, the people in Daxing cannot be trusted! They are invaders!"

"Who says it's untrustworthy? It was Cao An who helped us when Chiguang City was in danger."

"That's just a plot to show his goodwill, we are our allies!"

"What! We are actually allies? When you took advantage of the situation last time, I thought you were a robber. How rare."

"..."

Unexpectedly, Master Chi Guang, who looked very down-to-earth, would become angry and behave in a strange way.

It's not that his opponent is too reliable, but that his teammates are too noisy. In Chi Guang's heart, this person's credibility has reached its lowest point.

Cao An thanked Chi Guang for his trust, but he actually didn't care about King Yanzhu's accusation.

"I can see that you really want to drive me away and don't want me to continue investigating this case. But you don't seem to know much about my capabilities. I came to this blood spring not to investigate the case, but to fish. .”

"Fishing?" Everyone was stunned. There must be no fish in the blood spring. So the fishing Cao An was referring to was to catch the murderer?

For example, the nervous Flame Bamboo King who came to chase people away immediately?
  "You are talking nonsense! Believe it or not, the people I made you happy will never come back!"

"Don't believe it." Ying Huorong's voice came from beside him.

If there is a fight, she will always appear immediately, flexing her fists and kicks: "Let's do it one-on-one. I will beat a group of you by myself."

Although Ying Huorong is a female, she never cares about the number of opponents in a fight. Anyway, I have the advantage. This made the king's eyelids jump.

And her appearance also means that Cao An's plan has been successful.

"Did someone get the stolen goods together?"

"Of course, the job you arranged is too simple." Ying Huorong said, pulling out a person from behind and throwing him over.

That's right, dumped.

The body roughly flew five feet in the air and hit the ground heavily.

"This is... captain?" The guards of the Sheep Kingdom couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw this man's appearance clearly.

Just when he was about to run to help him, he suddenly remembered what Cao An said just now: both the person and the stolen goods?
  "Could it be that Captain..."

"That's right, it was the Flame Bamboo Kingdom that he colluded with to forge this series of red-clothed wronged souls cases." Cao An took the letter from Ying Huorong and browsed through a few of them. It was as he expected.

Some guards who firmly believed in the captain stood up immediately: "The captain is a victim! He was also poisoned by the fire plum poison."

"Poisoned? Who did you listen to?"

"Listen...listen to the doctors."

"Oh, if your doctors were reliable, so many people wouldn't have died." Cao An didn't give any face.

The captain of the guard was also caught and took the stolen goods. It would be useless to pretend to be sick at this moment.

Sighing, he sat on the ground dejectedly.

Cao An handed all the letters in his hand to Yang Li for inspection, and he began to tell the case.

"First of all, let me confirm something for you again. Wrong souls cannot be generated in the Land of Red Flames, let alone the demonic power of this place, which cannot tolerate the breeding of ghosts."

"But where did those legends of innocent souls come from?" "Of course someone spread them deliberately. The purpose is very simple, to hide the treasure."

Master Chiguang on the side became interested: "According to what you said, the treasure has been born several times? Why didn't they take the treasure away?"

"Took it! And I took it more than once."

"Huh? Can I still get the treasure several times?"

"It's normal. That's not a treasure, but a treasure. Otherwise, where do you think the name of Fire Plum Country comes from? There is a plum tree growing in this blood spring."

It's called a blood spring, but under normal circumstances, there won't be blood at all.

Only when the Fire Plum blossoms will the blood pool surge, and this was the basis for training the Fire Plum Guards back then.

……

The first witnesses were people from the Flame Bamboo Kingdom who came here to cut bamboo, but not long after they returned, they died, and then news of the ghosts spread.

Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with injustice.

But after King Yanzhu learned the news, he was worried that these common people would leak the news, so he simply killed and framed the innocent souls to prevent ordinary people from approaching.

This is also the reason why, although the Flame Bamboo Kingdom has come here frequently, it has never been seen again.

The king wanted to hide this treasure from the whole world, so the people he sent to chop bamboo were all his cronies.

As for the so-called red clothes...

"I guess it is a robe made of fire wool, which was dyed red after being soaked in blood. Because the blood is from the same origin, it can remain incorruptible for a period of time.

"When the robe falls into the pool, every time the fire plum tree blooms, it will be covered up by the robe. Although it feels a bit like hiding one's ears and stealing the bell, it can still be covered up to some extent.

"And in your Sheep Kingdom, some people also discovered the Fire Plum Tree. Unfortunately, they were too greedy and chose to hide it."

The guard captain has been in the palace for some years, and he once witnessed the blooming of the fire tree together with the dead Yang Sanyong.

Even thinking about the ghost stories spread in Yanzhu Kingdom, they immediately guessed the mystery and understood King Yanzhu's plan.

then……

"They picked the plum blossoms and sold them to the Flame Bamboo Country."

"What! He didn't report to me! Does he think I won't reward them?" Yang Li is naturally not the kind of person who kills the donkey.

If someone really discovers the treasure, he will definitely reward it.

"But how much reward can you give? On the surface, it's three times that an unjust soul has demanded his life, but secretly there are several times that I don't know about? How much do you think he can sell for?"

Turn it over or keep it privately, this question is actually very contradictory.

Just like the Wild Wolf Army, they had also served Daxing loyally, and all the spoils captured in the war were handed over to the secret treasury.

At that time, they did receive praise from the emperor, who praised them as the future of Daxing.

But then what?

During the years when the Tsing Yi Bureau was suppressed, life was not as good as that of the county government. It wasn't until Cao An made great achievements that he was able to go to the secret treasury to choose a treasure.

You have to work hard to get out the treasure you sent in, and then you have to thank the emperor for his kindness later?
  When the secret treasury was plundered, why could Liang Qifeng stand at the door and declare the name of the treasure inside? Because the treasure was sent in by him personally.

Whether to be loyal or to benefit, it depends on the benevolent and the wise.

Of course, the captain chose 'profit'.

But after getting the benefits, several people became even more crazy.

There is no way to restrict people's access to this place like the Flame Bamboo Kingdom, so it has been broken into several times in the past few years.

If they could silence them on the spot, they would do it directly.

If you can't, just spread rumors like crazy and cover up the real information.

Then he used the fire plum pattern to forge a curse to kill the witnesses.

Three become tigers.

Even the paintings of the painters, let alone ordinary people, were misled by their confessions.

When the Fire Plum Pattern killed more than twenty people, no matter how false the legend was, it would slowly become true.

As for why Yang Sanyong was a murderer, but he died tragically from the Fire Plum Pattern in the end...

"He's stupid as hell."

"???"

(End of this chapter)