I have a weird dynasty

Chapter 159: Gossip (asking for monthly ticket)
When Sangque climbed onto the roof, he saw a petite figure jumping and leaping between the roofs at an extremely fast speed and as lightly as a cat.

The man had already run far away, Sangque took the bow and drew the arrow.

The bow is a mahogany bow, and the arrows are ordinary arrows bought in the city.

The moonlight was bright, and Sangque narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at the figure running in a zigzag shape. When it jumped onto the roof on the left, Sangque pointed the arrow to the right and shot decisively.

hum!
The bowstring vibrated, and the figure stepped off the ground and rose up. He was hit in the vest by Sangque's arrow and fell straight down.

Sangque spread out the evil fog and teleported continuously, quickly arriving at the place where the man fell.

There was no one there. Sang Que stood on the roof and looked around. Buyi Lane was quiet, without any movement, but there was blood on the ground. The arrow she had just shot had hit the target.

After waiting on the roof for a while, there was still no discovery. Sang Que had no choice but to return to the courtyard where he was stationed.

"Has the person been caught?" Yu Da asked.

Sangque walked to the table and sat down, "He was hit by an arrow from me, but he still ran away."

Yu Da was a little surprised, "Did you see the figure clearly?"

"She is petite, probably a woman, and very agile. She must be an expert in this field. She was able to escape silently, which must be the result of some kind of Yin object, or the help of an evil spirit."

Yu Da gasped, "You mean, the other party might be a ghost?"

Sang Que nodded, "He came to the crime scene in the middle of the night, maybe he is the ghost who controls the Thousand Faces Ghost."

"After killing everyone, why are you coming back?" Yu Da wondered.

Sang Que didn't say anything, and she couldn't explain the reason clearly. She could only continue to look through the interrogation records on the table. After looking for a while, Sang Que's eyelids began to droop.

Worried that the man would come back, she didn't dare to sleep. She stood up and stretched her muscles. She didn't know where Xuan Yu had gone, so she could rub him to relieve her fatigue.

Seeing the bodies kneeling in a circle in the room, Sang Que asked Yu Da, "Old Yu, can I move those bodies?"

Yu Da didn't even raise his head. "It's up to you. The bodies will be sent to be burned tomorrow after the coroner from the Evil Suppression Division has examined them."

Sang Que found a handkerchief to cover her mouth and nose, pulled out the dagger from her waist and walked to the corpse. The hole on the corpse's face still made her scalp numb. She endured it and observed it for a while, then picked up a piece of dough on the ground with the dagger.

Sang Que looked at his face and touched his own face. There was only a big hole left on the corpse's face. The face on the ground was just a piece of skin. Where did all the bones on the face go?

After reading the interrogation records, Yu Da also stood up and stretched his muscles.

"What do you see?"

Sang Que stood up from the corpses and said, "The bones on the faces of these corpses are gone, and nothing else has been found."

Yu Da thought for a moment and asked, "Do you think the Thousand-Faced Ghost did this?"

There was no outsider in the room at the moment, so Sang Que expressed her true thoughts.

"I always feel like something is not right. When I investigated the Thousand Faces Ghost with you before, I found that the so-called Thousand Faces Ghost only appeared in small matters, such as asking for medicine or a doctor, finding someone or something, or getting rid of evil spirits in the house. Some people asked the Thousand Faces Ghost to help them pass the imperial examination, find a good match, or have children, but to no avail. These small things can also be done by normal people."

"Until now, the Thousand Faces Ghost's behavior has never been strange. I always feel that there is something fishy about such a large-scale murder that suddenly occurred. But what you said, Old Yu, makes sense. What if the person controlling the Thousand Faces Ghost lost control, or the Thousand Faces Ghost needed a promotion ceremony, it is also possible that such a case was committed."

This is where Sangque feels contradictory, so he can't come to a conclusion.

Yu Da nodded slightly, "No matter what, we still have to figure out the rules of killing first, prevent such things from happening again, and then find the ghost, so that everything can be cleared up. So, tomorrow we will split into two groups, I will continue to visit the people related to these five families, and you will start investigating from the whereabouts of the Thousand Faces Ghost. You can go to the restaurant 'Half Day Leisure' in the south of the city to ask the gossip man about this matter."

The three words "Bao Da Ting" made Sang Que's eyes light up slightly. This kind of role is an important character in martial arts films.

"Banrixian is right across from the Ruyi Building of the South City Opera Troupe. It's easy to find. The room at the back is relatively clean. You've been traveling for two days. Go and get some sleep first. I'll call you in the middle of the night."

Sang Que thanked him. She was really very sleepy. If she didn't sleep, she might die suddenly at her post at such a young age.

*
Nothing happened that night. The next morning, Sang Que found Xuan Yu, who had been wandering all night. He bought two buns in the street next to Buyi Lane and went to find Ruyi Tower.

The Ruyi Tower in the south of the city is very famous. There is a troupe called the Qing'an Troupe, which performs a play every three days and also undertakes performances at various wedding banquets and funeral banquets.

When Sang Que found Ruyi Tower, the door was closed. They only opened in the afternoon near dusk.

Opposite Ruyi Tower is a very elegant two-story building with a bamboo plaque hanging on it that reads "Half Day Leisure".

As soon as Sang Que walked in, a waiter with a rag on his shoulder came up to greet him and said, "Sir, our shop is closed in the morning. Please come back at noon."

In the lobby on the first floor, people in the store were busy cleaning and arranging tables, chairs and tableware.

Sang Que took out three copper coins and gave them to the waiter, "I want to find someone to inquire about something."

The waiter looked Sangque up and down before taking the copper coin and saying, "Please wait here for a moment."

Sang Que found a clean table at the door, pulled out a bench and sat down. Xuan Yu jumped off her shoulder and shrugged in the direction the waiter left.

meow~
Sangque laughed, "You are a kitten, how come you are doing the work of a police dog?"

Xuan Yu said that the waiter smelled strange. After waiting for about five minutes, an old man with shabby clothes, red nose and squinty eyes came out from the back of the restaurant with a smell of alcohol.

He squinted his eyes for a long time before he was sure it was Sang Que who was looking for him. He walked over unsteadily, sat down, put one foot on the bench, leaned over and asked, "Miss, what do you want to ask me? The starting price for one piece of information is fifty cents."

Sang Que was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Would you like a receipt?"

Only with receipts can she ask the Suppression of Evils Bureau for reimbursement. Otherwise, does she have to pay for it out of her own pocket?
How can this be possible!
The old man was also stunned by Sang Que's question and wondered what a receipt was.

Sang Que took out fifty coins, pushed them in front of the old man, and asked directly without beating around the bush, "Since you are a gossiper, you must have heard about the incident in Buyi Lane. I just want to ask one thing, how can we find the Thousand-Faced Ghost?"

The old man counted the copper coins and suddenly laughed with obvious sarcasm.

"Do you really think that was done by the Thousand-Faced God? Let me tell you, it's impossible. This is clearly a frame-up!"

The old man's confident tone made Sang Que suspicious, and he continued to ask, "How can you be sure?"

hiccup~
The old man put away the copper coins and burped. "The men of the five families who died had all been to the Xinglong Gambling House. They worshipped the Thousand-Faced God in the hope of making a fortune and turning their fortunes around."

"Sir Night Patrol, you should check the gambling house. Go away, you cat, don't come near me."

Meow!

The old man pushed away Xuan Yu who was approaching him. Xuan Yu yelled in displeasure and breathed at the old man.

"What an impolite cat, what else do you want to ask? One message costs one hundred coins, burp~"

Sang Que glanced at Xuan Yu, then at the old man sitting crookedly on the chair, and suddenly asked, "Where is the waiter just now?"

The old man glanced around the hall casually and said, "How would I know? If there's nothing else, I'll leave first. You can look for it yourself."

The old man stood up and prepared to leave, but Sang Que suddenly grabbed his wrist.

The lobby was still the same as before, but the person who was cleaning the lobby suddenly disappeared. It was clearly early morning, but it was dark outside, as if it was night.

The old man slowly lowered his raised buttocks, unable to break free from Sangque's grip, and asked unhappily, "What do you mean by this?"

Sang Que rubbed Xuan Yu's head with his other hand and said slowly, "My cat smelled the same strange smell on you and the waiter just now. After you appeared, the waiter disappeared. Old man, you can't be..."

Before he could finish his words, Sang Que tugged at the old man's sleeve, and the old man jumped up from his chair.

Sang Que only felt that a piece of empty clothes was pulled up by her, and the person under the clothes disappeared out of thin air. She clearly spread out the evil fog, but still could not find any trace.

This person is quite capable and may be the Thousand-Faced Ghost Rider that she and Yu Da are looking for.

I just don't know if this person is originally a gossiper or is pretending to be a gossiper just to tell her that the Thousand-Faced Ghost was wrongly accused.

Sang Que retracted the evil fog, and the people in the lobby were still busy, not noticing anything unusual that had just happened.

"Let's go find Lao Yu."

Sang Que picked up Xuanyu and left for half a day to ask around. He found out that Xinglong Casino was near Buyi Lane and was a casino that was only open at night.

When she found Yu Da, Yu Da also learned from a family in Buyi Lane that among the five families that had accidents, the man surnamed Zhao was thrown into a pit by the Thousand-Faced Ghost because he asked for money from the Thousand-Faced Ghost. When he was rescued, the words "gambler" were written on his face.

The reason they didn't tell the truth when the detectives asked before was because they felt that the Thousand Faces Ghost was a good person, and was very effective in praying for small favors, and they didn't want the Thousand Faces Ghost to be dealt with by the Evil Suppression Bureau.

Yu Da also had to resort to some tricks to get the truth out.

Combined with the information provided by Sang Que, Xinglong Casino might be the source of this incident. Neither of them expected that they could find out so quickly.

Just when the two were about to go to Xinglong Casino to investigate, Wei Wu, who had stayed at Sihu's house overnight, showed up with his men and asked Yu Da about the progress of the investigation.

Yu Da reported everything truthfully. Wei Wu directly asked Yu Da and Sang Que to go back and rest, saying that he would check the rest.

On the way back to Zhenxiesi, Sang Que kept silent and rubbed the Xuanyu in his arms.

Yu Da caught up with Sang Que who was walking very fast and advised with a smile, "Why are you so angry? This matter should be handled by Wei Wu."

"But after he investigates, he will definitely not distribute our merit points according to our contributions."

Sang Que also wants to save up a thousand points to exchange for a candle. She always runs into evil spirits now, and candles are very useful to her.

Not to mention the credit for snatching the man, she also spent fifty-three cents in vain today, and Wei Wu didn't even offer to reimburse her.

She simply doesn't want to do this crappy job anymore!
Yu Da smiled indifferently, "If there is no, then there is no. You are just too young. You should be more open-minded about some things so that you can live longer. Even if Wei Wu didn't ask about what happened today, I would not go directly into the gambling house. I would only take you to the door to have a look, ask the people around, and then report everything to Wei Wu."

Sang Que glanced at Yu Da and finally understood why he was still a bronze medalist after eight years. As for Yan Daozi, he was probably like Yu Da and would not do anything dangerous, so it took him five years to accumulate two thousand merit points and exchange them for two candles.

They are all masters!

"It's still early, let's go, Sang Er. I know a good noodle shop. I'll treat you to a bowl of noodles. I'll continue to tell you about the money for warding off evil."

See you tomorrow~