Martial Arts Song

Chapter 308 Reasoning
When Chen Qing returned to the Chen family courtyard in "Sanlin Town", it was already dark and night was falling.

The yard lights were on in the Chen family’s yard.

Chen Zhengzhong, Yang Ying, and Chen Yang had already finished dinner and were sitting under the eaves talking about something.

After seeing him coming back, Yang Ying immediately stood up and asked, "Bingbing, have you had dinner?"

"Ate."

Chen Qing replied.

He actually hadn't eaten yet, but he had just finished practicing martial arts at Liu Yilin's house and drank some medicine to replenish qi and blood, so he didn't feel hungry.

If he said he hadn't eaten, Yang Ying would definitely go to the kitchen to heat up food for him, but he was too lazy to trouble Yang Ying.

"Ayong left and said he wanted to go out and explore the world."

After hearing him say that he had eaten, Chen Yang stood up and said to him: "He said he told you about this."

"Ah."

Chen Qing nodded, "He did tell me that."

"This kid, why would he go out to explore the world when he has a good life here?"

Yang Ying said with a trace of worry on his face: "Everything about this 'Hu Hai' is expensive. Although he is not stupid, he doesn't know how to behave and can't speak. What will he do when he gets out?"

Xuanfeng has lived in the Chen family for half a year. Although he had low emotional intelligence and was not good at speaking at the beginning, he gradually learned the ways of the world. Yang Ying, Chen Yang and others have also gradually become accustomed to his presence.

Now that he suddenly left, Yang Ying naturally felt worried.

Chen Qing saw the worry on Yang Ying's face and said with a smile, "Mom, don't worry. I gave him three thousand yuan and told him that if he couldn't make it, he could come back anytime. He will be fine."

Although Xuanfeng acted nonchalant in front of Chen Qing, it was because he had lived in Chen's house for the past six months and had picked up some of Chen Yang's not-so-serious habits.

But he is actually a real master of "divine transformation" with quick thinking and sharp five senses. In addition, he has practiced the "Tiger Form Fist" for so long that he has already practiced the "Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound" limit-breaking method to the limit. If his physical strength is converted into a numerical value, it would be at least 3.

With so many abilities, it is impossible for ordinary people to cheat him. He is the only one who can cheat others.

Therefore, Chen Qing was not worried about Xuanfeng's safety.

"Is that so? That's good..."

After hearing Chen Qing's words, the worry on Yang Ying's face disappeared.

But Chen Yang screamed in surprise after hearing this: "Fuck, you gave that punk three thousand yuan?! No wonder that punk walked away so coolly, he wouldn't even take the more than a hundred yuan I gave him!"

After saying that, he walked quickly to Chen Qing's side and winked, "Brother Bing, you gave 3,000 yuan to Ayong, we are brothers, so we can't give less than him, right? Just take out 10,000 or 8,000 yuan to spend."

Chen Qing glanced at him and said, "Tell mom about it. If she agrees, I'll give it to you."

After saying that, he walked back to his room.

After hearing this, Chen Yang turned around and looked at Yang Ying tentatively, but was glared at by Yang Ying, so he had to give up awkwardly.

……

In the next few days, Chen Qing made some adjustments to his life.

He used to go to the section of Jiulong Avenue along the river in "Sanlin" to practice the "Golden Toad Swallowing" method to break the limit every night, but now he changed it to going directly to the "Sanyang" ferry after get off work at noon every day, taking a boat to the "Hongjiang" Bund in Xicheng, and then from the "Hongjiang" Bund to Yunguang Road in Jiangwan District, and find Qi Yi to book a hotel room nearby and ask Qi Yi to help him practice.

Qi Yi also took out more than an hour during her lunch break every day to help him massage the soles of his feet and abdomen to stimulate the acupoints on his kidneys.

However, during every massage, Qi Yi would always remind Chen Qing of the favor he owed her.

Apart from this, there was no change in Chen Qing's other life. He still got up before four in the morning every day to practice "spiritual training" and "qi training".

After the "qi training" was over, it was a little after six in the morning, and I went to work on "Guoshan Road" in "Sanyang".

Eliminating the lung training at night allowed Chen Qing to have more time to spend with his family at home.

As for Xuanfeng's departure, the Chen family was indeed a little uncomfortable at first, and often called out "Ayong" out of habit, especially Yang Ying and Chen Yang.

However, as the days passed, I gradually got used to it.

In this way, under the new regular life, time has unknowingly crossed August and arrived in September...

September's "Hu Hai" officially marks the beginning of autumn.

The daytime temperature dropped significantly, from over 30 degrees to 27 or 28 degrees. Although it is still not cool enough, the breeze blowing from the "Red River" allows some people with weaker bodies to add a thin coat on top of their originally thin summer clothes.

The leaves of the big trees on both sides of the street began to turn yellow slowly, and occasionally one or two leaves would fall off in the autumn wind.

September 2nd, around nine in the morning.

Xicheng, International Settlement, a river bank.

A black vintage car slowly drove here and stopped on the side of the road.

Immediately afterwards, accompanied by three sounds of "click", "click", and "click" as the car doors opened, three figures walked down from the driver's seat and the two rear doors respectively.

Among the three figures, the one who got out of the driver's seat was a man in his thirties wearing a black driver's suit.

The two people who got out of the back seat of the old car, one of them was wearing a gray top and black bottom Ryuo Samurai uniform, with gray hair and beard, and looked old and frail, and he looked to be over 70 years old;

The other man looked to be in his forties, wearing a gray suit, a light brown windbreaker, and a baseball cap. When he got off the car, he had a hook-shaped pipe in his mouth and was walking towards the river bank while smoking.

As he walked towards the river bank, the driver, who was in his thirties and got off the car with him, followed him and introduced himself humbly:

"Mr. Tengkawa, this is the place where Naoto-kun went into the water when he went to the other side for the last time." These three people were none other than Seiji Ueizumi and the driver who drove Naoto Takasugi that night, and "Histoo Tengkawa" who was invited by Keita Harada to assist in the investigation.

"I know."

After hearing the driver's introduction, Tengchuan Hisao took a puff of his pipe and said while blowing out the smoke, "I asked you to take me to the place where I last saw Takasugi Naoto. Since you parked here, it must be here."

After saying that, others also came to the shore.

Afterwards, he began to look carefully at this stretch of river bank, and from time to time he would look up at East City on the opposite bank.

But after a moment, he shook his head, turned around and said to Kamiizumi Shizuji who was following him, "Mr. Kamiizumi, it has been eight days since your apprentice went into the water here. There are no clues here anymore."

Upon hearing this, Shizue Kamiizumi frowned, then relaxed.

He looked at Hisao Tengchuan in front of him, bowed his head slightly, and said respectfully: "Mr. Tengchuan, you are the number one detective in Ryuo, so you must have other ways to find my apprentice, right? Please, please help me find Naoto!"

Although he knew that this was a compliment, Shizuji Kamiizumi had the reputation of "Sword Saint" in Ryuo, so Tengchuan Hisao still benefited greatly from it.

Moreover, he was originally invited to help assist in the investigation.

He just smiled and said, "Mr. Kamiizumi, you don't have to be so polite. I was invited by Mr. Harada to come here to help. This is my job."

After he finished speaking, he paused, turned his head again and looked at Dongcheng on the other side, and said: "Although there are no clues here, after two days of investigation, it actually doesn't matter whether there are clues here or not."

"Ok?"

Hearing his words, Ueizumi Shizue was startled, and then asked: "Mr. Tengchuan, do you already know where Naoto is?"

"Not yet, but I roughly know where he will go on the other side that night."

Tengchuan Hisao smiled slightly, turned around, looked at Ueizumi Shizue, and said, "If my reasoning is correct, your apprentice should have ended up in the opposite 'Sanlin' area."

"This……"

Ueizumi Shizuji looked hesitant and asked, "Mr. Fujikawa, it's not that I don't believe you, but how did you come to this conclusion?"

Hisao Tengchuan smiled and replied, "It's very simple. This result is based on the existing clues. After you, Mr. Kamiizumi, let him go to kill people, there were a total of three suspected murders in Dongcheng on the other side of the river in the five days before he disappeared. These three murders occurred in Tianxin District, Sanyang District, and a fishing boat on Hongjiang River."

"From the chronological order of the first two murders, we can see that he was a little restrained in the first one in 'Tianxin District' and only cut the skin of the victim. In the second one in 'Sanyang District', he completely let go and directly chopped off the heads of a family of three. But in the recent one on the 'Hongjiang' fishing boat, he obviously restrained himself and only cut the skin of the victims. Combining the first two cases, we can actually see that he was a little hasty in this murder, and the degree of cruelty in this third murder should not satisfy his needs in this regard."

"Human desires, no matter what they are, are gradually increasing. From this third case, I personally think that he probably did not satisfy his hobby of killing that night, and most likely chose to commit a fourth massacre. And the location of this fourth massacre is most likely where he disappeared!"

After hearing this reasoning, Shizuji Kamiizumi and the driver beside him suddenly realized.

But then, Ueizumi Shizue frowned again and asked, "Then how did you locate the place where Naoto disappeared, Mr. Fujikawa, in the area of ​​'Sanlin'?"

Upon hearing this, Tengchuan Hisao smiled again and said, "This is actually very simple."

As he spoke, he turned around again and pointed to Dongcheng on the other side, saying, "The concession occupies a total of five districts in Huhai, and the current riverbank of these five districts faces the Sanyang, Tianxin, Tutang, Luxing, and Sanlin districts in Dongcheng. Sanyang faces the Bund of Hongjiang, in the middle, with Tutang and Luxing districts on both sides, and behind Tutang are Tianxin and Sanlin districts."

"Mr. Harada told me that your apprentice had a very important mission, and that letting him go to kill people was your personal behavior, and you did not inform him. So, in this case, when your apprentice went to the other side to kill people, he would be afraid of being caught because he was carrying out the mission of our Ryuo, so he would not do it in a high-profile manner, but would try not to attract the attention of the Central State."

"Based on this, the targets and locations he chose to kill are unlikely to be near the port, which is a relatively prosperous and crowded area. Therefore, Luxing can be ruled out. Facts have also proved that the first time he killed someone, he chose Tianxin as the location, and the second time he chose Sanyang, both of which are relatively middle-class and relatively poor places. And the targets were all outsiders who came to Huhai from other parts of the Central Country to work."

"Of course, these are not enough for me to identify his last destination as 'Sanlin'. What really identified him is the victim of the third homicide!"

At this point, Tengchuan Hisao turned around again, looked at Ueizumi Shizuji with a smile, and said, "In the third murder case, the victims on that fishing boat were all from the Sanlin area, and their bodies seemed to have been cut open by your apprentice with a sword, one by one, along the skin, and eventually died in severe pain and excessive bleeding. But the location of the cut skin is very particular. According to the state of the wound, your apprentice did not cut their skin from the main body, but from other less fatal places."

"This method is often used in Ryusaku to torture people. I have a reasonable suspicion that your apprentice asked them something before killing them. And combined with his past goals and the conditions he mentioned before, I guess he probably asked those people if there was a remote place suitable for him to carry out the killing."

"The deceased was from Sanlin on the other side of the strait. Under such torture, the only place he could name was probably somewhere in the Sanlin district."

Having said this in one breath, he looked sideways at the driver next to him and continued with a smile: "However, what finally confirmed that your apprentice went to 'Sanlin' was here, the last place he went into the water."

"This place is facing the Tianxin District and Sanlin District on the other side of the river. You can reach Tianxin District by going directly there. But he has committed crimes in Tianxin before, and I have also specifically inquired about it. There is a very responsible patrolman in Tianxin District named Cao Zhuo. Ever since the murder case in Tianxin, this patrolman has been investigating. He probably also inquired about it, so he is unlikely to commit crimes in Tianxin again, and it is very likely that he will commit crimes in Sanlin!"

"This is the basis for my conclusion that he should have gone to Sanlin in the end. Mr. Shangquan, are you satisfied with my reasoning?"

"..."

Shizuji Kamiizumi did not speak immediately, but was digesting Tengchuan Hisao's reasoning.

After a long while, he looked at Tengchuan Hisao and murmured, "So you have investigated so much in the past two days... Sanlin..."

As he spoke, he slowly raised his head and looked towards East City on the other side of the river.

……

"Dingling bell~"

Inside the guard room of "Luo's Paper Mill".

The alarm clock suddenly rang.

Yuan Zhangjie, who was originally patrolling at the gate, quickly turned around and ran into the guard room, and happily said to Chen Qing who was sitting in the guard room to rest: "Captain Lin, it's time to get off work~"

"Ah."

After hearing this, Chen Qing also stood up from his chair, prepared to get off work, and then went directly to the "Sanyang" ferry to take a boat to Xicheng to start today's kidney training.

But at this moment, a loud shout suddenly came from outside the door:

"Hello, I'm Cao Zhuo, the East City patrolman. I'm here today to investigate the 'family extermination and beheading case' that happened a while ago. Please open the door and cooperate with our investigation."

(End of this chapter)