reborn princess

Chapter 368
"This..." Lu Shun hesitated. "Because Yunshan County is located in a remote area, there are no other inns nearby, but the villagers nearby can stay at their homes, as long as they are willing to pay."

Ye Weilan frowned slightly when she heard the words. Xuan Yu sent [-] elite soldiers to investigate in detail, and no one from the nearby villagers went to lodge that day.

In fact, after these years of operation, the reputation of the Home Inn is very good among the people of the Canglan Dynasty. If you sleep in a full bed, you only get fifteen copper coins a day, and you can eat a full meal even if you have one dinner and one breakfast. , Inns don’t make much money, so people like to live in Home Inns when they travel.

Unless the inn is full and there are no vacant rooms, I will go to another inn or find someone nearby to stay.

Ye Weilan said gently: "Think about it again, have you ever seen anything passing by? For example, driving a carriage? Maybe you didn't see it in the lobby, or ask the busy guys outside, maybe they will pay attention. "

"By the way, I remembered..." Lu Shun suddenly remembered something, and said anxiously. "But there is one thing. That day, there happened to be a funeral family who stayed overnight in a nearby Yizhuang. When they were leaving, I happened to go home. I met on the way. I heard from the old head of Yizhuang that they claimed to be in the cloud. In the mountain county that built the city wall, a partner died of a sudden illness, and a group of them returned to their hometown with help."

Xuan Chen stood up abruptly, and asked excitedly: "Then how many people are there in their group?"

Lu Shun replied: "Six people, all men, between thirty and forty years old, and none of them cried. At that time, I lamented that it was not easy to go out to earn a living, and there were no family members around me when I died. "

Xuan Chen turned his face and looked at Ye Weilan, and nodded at Ye Weilan, which means that he thinks this group of people is very problematic.

Ye Weilan also felt that it was a coincidence that this group of people appeared, so she said, "Let's go to Yizhuang first."

Xuan Chen then said to Lu Shun: "Master Lu, please guide us!"

Lu Shun couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and then said with a bitter face: "Master, you are a nobleman, how can you go to such a dirty place? It's not clean!"

"Don't talk nonsense, what is clean or not, you and I will be the same when we die in the future, everyone will have that day." Xuan Chen said seriously, and walked out first.

Lu Shun had no choice but to follow them out and lead them the way.

But he didn't go directly to Yizhuang, but first went to the cabinet to get a bottle of burning knives, and then asked someone to go to the kitchen to get him a roast chicken, and then took everyone to Yizhuang.

Yizhuang is not far from the inn, behind the inn, walk in from a small road next to the inn, about a mile away.

"This used to be an ancient temple. Because of the war, the monks inside were all killed by the Tartars. Later, the border wall was built for thousands of miles, and people lived here again. The people in the nearby villages raised some money and hired I bought two lonely old men to live here, and collect the unowned corpses nearby. After collecting them, I will burn them and put them in the ashes and bury them." Lu Shun explained this Yizhuang to them while walking. origin.

After a while, everyone came to the gate of Yizhuang.

Standing at the door, everyone felt that the place was gloomy, Xuan Chen was alright, but Ye Weilan felt that her hairs were turning cold.

Lu Shun stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after a while, the door of the courtyard that had been in disrepair creaked open, and a one-eyed old man appeared in front of everyone, his face was wrinkled like old tree bark, and his hair was gray , but also stooped.

"Who are you looking for?" the old man asked in an old voice.

"Old Zheng, it's me!" Lu Shun said, and lifted up the wine bottle and roast chicken in his hand.

"Oh, so it's you." The old man saw the wine bottle, and then the oil paper bag wrapped with roast chicken, his one eye narrowed with a smile, and then he opened all the doors. "Why are you here? Come in quickly! Who are these?"

As he spoke, he looked curiously at Ye Weilan and the others.

"Oh, these people are..." Before Lu Shun finished his sentence, Xuan Chen took out his waist card from his pocket and flashed it in front of the one-eyed old man, and took it away before the old man could see the words clearly go back.

"I'm an official, I have something to ask you!" Xuan Chen said sullenly.

"Official... official?" The one-eyed old man was frightened immediately. "I... I didn't do anything bad..."

"I didn't say that you did anything bad, but I came to you to check something." Xuan Chen walked into the yard as he said.

The one-eyed old man followed in tremblingly. The yard was tidy and there were no weeds on the ground. It could be seen that the people who came to Yizhuang were very diligent.

The door of the main hall in front was open, but there were no Buddha statues on the altar, only a few thin-skinned coffins were parked on the ground.

Xuan Chen looked at the place for a while, and said: "On the first day of May, did you have a group of passers-by here who said they were helping spirits to return to their hometowns, and they stayed here with you?"

"Ah..." The one-eyed old man lowered his head and thought for a while. "It seems that there is such a thing."

"Do you still remember what they looked like?" Xuan Chen hurriedly asked when he heard that he remembered this incident.

"What do they look like?" The one-eyed old man shook his head in a daze. "I don't remember, after all, it was almost three months ago."

"Even if you don't remember the specific appearance, what about the characteristics? What characteristics do those people have? Such as height and accent? Or moles and spots? Is it a more memorable impression?" Xuan Chen tried to inspire his memory.

But the one-eyed old man just shook his head again and again, "I'm really sorry, this official, the little old man is dizzy and really doesn't remember, and his accent is also from the north. It's just a few big men who drove a cart pulling the coffin. , the cart is pulled by a big green mule."

"Think about it carefully. If you can think of any key clues, go to shopkeeper Lu and ask him to tell me that if you can help me solve the case, I will be rewarded!" A piece of silver was thrown away.

"Ah... thank you so much, sir!" Old Zheng couldn't help smiling when he saw Yin Zi, nodded and bowed to him, and couldn't stop thanking him.

Xuan Chen couldn't find anything when he asked, so he said to Lu Shun: "We are leaving now, and we have to go to other places to search for clues. If you think of any clues, send them to the Xuan family in Liaocheng. other courtyard."

"Yes!" Lu Shun hurriedly agreed, and sent them out the door respectfully.

When Xuan Chen and the others came, they all brought the horses, got on the horses one after another, and headed towards Tianhe County.

Several people galloped all the way, and within two hours they saw the boundary marker of Tianhe County. If they had good horses, Ye Weilan needless to say, Mojiao Black Kirin is a BMW that travels [-] times a day and [-] nights Liangju, Xuan Chen rode a bay red horse, which was also a famous horse, but the distance was slightly worse than Mojiao Black Qilin, Luan Ying rode a dark cloud covered with snow, and even Du Xihua rode a yellow puma, It was Xuan Chen and his father who wanted to give it to Du Xihua.

However, because Ye Weilan and Du Xihua were not very proficient in equestrian skills, Xuan Chen and Luan Ying did not dare to ride too fast, otherwise, they would have arrived in an hour for more than 200 miles.

They didn't go into the city either, they found a "Home Inn" near the place where the disappearance happened to stay. Xuan Chen didn't reveal his identity, but used a fake name called Rong Aojie. Several guards asked for a separate small courtyard together, and paid for it.

After them, Xuan Yu and Shen Luo also arrived, but instead of staying with them, they asked for a room across the courtyard, acting as if they didn't know each other.

After everyone settled down and had dinner, Xuan Chen asked Luan Ying to invite the shopkeeper. There was an Eight Immortals table in the room. He and Ye Weilan sat beside the table, and asked Luan Ying to close the door before showing his badge .

The shopkeeper is a middle-aged man in his 40s, wearing the uniform service required by "Home Inn", black gauze octagonal hat, dark gray robe, and black vest. He looks honest and honest.

The shopkeeper saw the words "Xuanchen, the prince of Changping County" written on the waist card, and was frightened immediately, and knelt down for him with a plop, "I don't know it's the prince's visit, so I'm so negligent, please forgive me." Grandson Haihan."

"Get up quickly." Xuan Chen said impatiently. "I came here to conceal my identity. I only tell you one person. You must not reveal it."

"Yes yes yes..." the shopkeeper stood up in trepidation, lowered his head and stood aside, nodding his head and asking. "I don't know what's important about the arrival of the son?"

"I'm here to investigate the case." Xuan Chen didn't hide from him, but said threateningly. "What you heard from me today, you have to forget about it when you leave this door, do you hear me? Anyway, I only told you about it, but if there is even a little bit of news leaked out, then I will assume that the news You leaked it."

"Please don't worry, my son, the villain will never dare to leak the news of my son's arrival." The shopkeeper secretly glanced at Xuan Chen in fear, and then lowered his head.

Xuan Chen nodded in satisfaction, and fixed his gaze on the shopkeeper's face, "Let me ask you, how long have you been working as the shopkeeper?"

"Uh... Thanks to the blessing of my son, I have been the shopkeeper of this shop since it existed, and it has been more than five years now."

"More than five years..." Xuan Chen pondered. "Then where are you from?"

"The villain is from the Yingzi of the Xu family nearby. His surname is Xu, and his name is Xu Fu." The shopkeeper replied respectfully.

"Xujiayingzi's?" Xuan Chen raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard the words, turned his gaze, and glanced at Ye Weilan who was sitting on the other side of the Eight Immortals table.

Ye Weilan nodded at him, meaning to ask him to continue asking.

So, he asked again: "Do you know someone named Xu Tong in your village?"

(End of this chapter)