After the immortal disappeared

After inspecting Wan Song's house, everyone retreated.

They did not rummage through the boxes so that Wan Song would not become suspicious if he returned home.

The next location is Wan Song's warehouse.

The magistrate of Baishi County also sent two official envoys, asking them to obey the orders of the special envoy throughout the process. These two people have been running errands in the local area for almost 20 years. They can recognize the bull-headed and horse-faced people from all over the country and have seen strange things. They are pure local snakes.

This shows the degree of cooperation of Magistrate Shiraishi.

He Lingchuan asked the two officials directly: "Do you recognize Wan Song?"

"So recognisable." One of the officers was named Xu Dayou. "When he was elected to the Bai Qi Sect, Wan Xian Neng gave this nephew a banquet to celebrate. I even went to have a drink. It's a pity that he didn't make any progress in the end and was killed by someone else. Drive him out. If I had known that this bastard was killing demons in secret, I would have killed him with a knife!"

"You can't beat him." Wu Huang, another officer, said bluntly, "He is just a piece of meat. We should have noticed something was wrong with this kid. He has not followed the local rules since he was a child, and he has become a desperado when he grows up."

Youtian Town is not big, and it takes less than two quarters of an hour to run from east to west.

Wansong's warehouse is right next to the medicine field and next to the path, making transportation very convenient.

Wansong's medicinal fields grow many economic medicinal herbs, such as Garcinia cambogia, eldergrass, etc., and they even hire a nest of weasels with small, round eyes to serve as caretakers.

But there was no Prunella vulgaris in his field. General Ling grinned at He Lingchuan: "He doesn't even plant it himself. Have you ever made a mistake?"

"Really?" He Lingchuan said nonchalantly, "We'll see."

The two officers stood forward and said a few words, and the weasels no longer dared to stop everyone from opening a position.

It is better to be in charge than to be an official now.

Half of the space in the warehouse has been occupied, and there are bags of herbs in various categories.

I don’t know how many warehouses like this there are in Shibata Township.

He Lingchuan drew his knife and randomly selected the opening of the medicine bag.

Polygonum multiflorum.

Prunella vulgaris.

Tianqi.

Prunella vulgaris.

Prunella vulgaris.

He picked out more than a dozen bags, only two of which were of other herbs, and the rest were all of Prunella vulgaris!

Jiao Yu looked at General Ling and said, "What do you think?"

General Ling simply stretched out his mouth and took a few to satisfy his craving. While chewing, he said: "It tastes good and quite fresh. Well, what does this guy want with Prunella vulgaris?"

He Lingchuan had already figured out his previous confusion on the way here, so he grabbed a handful of prunella vulgaris and said:

"This is fodder for that monster. I'm afraid it's also the reason why Wan Song is stationed in Zhitian Township."

Everyone was surprised: "Isn't that monster feeding on demons?"

"I'm afraid it has a different recipe." He Lingchuan stared at the blade of grass in his hand, "This product is not ordinary. I may have seen its maker."

Yes, he remembered.

The last person to mention Prunella vulgaris to him was Dong Rui.

When this man was developing medicine for Zhu Erniang in the Demon Nest Swamp, he casually mentioned that he had made a demon puppet for people in Bejia Kingdom, numbered thirty-one.

Because it was made too hastily, this demon has flaws and must eat prunella vulgaris regularly.

"Otherwise, we won't be able to maintain it," these were Dong Rui's original words.

"who is it?"

"Have you ever heard of the name Dong Rui?"

General Ling shook his head, while Jiao Yu said: "It is said that he is a notorious puppet master who is wanted by our entire Bejia Kingdom."

It was a little surprised: "What does it have to do with this guy? Oh, you mean, this monster is the demon puppet he created?"

"Probably."

Dong Rui’s works are strange and weird, but they all have one characteristic:

practical.

As long as it is used properly, it is very powerful.

"A mere demon puppet master can make demon puppets that can swallow more than a hundred pig demons in one go?" General Ling didn't believe it. "If he had such ability, would he still need to run around in embarrassment like a bereaved dog?"

"You're right." He Lingchuan was not in a hurry to refute him, "Dong Rui's demon puppet is not so outrageous."

He had fought against Dong Rui's ghost apes, strange birds, and werewolves, and his combat power was pretty good, but when it came to killing more than a hundred monsters silently, he was still far from it.

What's more, Dong Rui admitted that No. 31 was made in a hurry, and its level of sophistication was definitely not as good as that of ghost apes and werewolves that he brought with him.

So what went wrong?

Jiao Yu sniffed around the warehouse floor: "There is the smell of monsters everywhere."

He Lingchuan touched the wall of the warehouse: "There are also traces of dried mucus."

He walked out and called the weasel to ask: "How often does the owner of this warehouse come here?"

The weasel looked at everyone with his small black eyes and chirped: "We can't remember."

Jiao Yu said coldly: "The Crown Prince's special envoy is handling a murder case. If you dare to omit or conceal the report, you are an accomplice!"

Under his eager gaze, the weasel shortened its body and tried to burrow into the soil.

He Lingchuan said in time: "The owner of this warehouse specializes in hunting down mountain monsters, skinning and refining their bones. He is a heinous crime. If you have any clues, you must help us bring him to justice!"

The Bejia Kingdom is a demon kingdom. If anyone dares to hunt demons for a living here, it will indeed be a heinous crime.

The weasels looked at each other and were all shaken. Although they are not "mountain monsters", they are still weak, and they are inevitably frightened.

The most important thing is that He Lingchuan took out a pack of dried meat and handed it over: "Take it to grind your teeth?"

The weasel immediately stretched out his paws to take it, weighed it and said, "He sometimes comes every seven or eight days, sometimes half a month."

"When was the last time?"

"Six days ago."

"No, five days ago!" the other weasel retorted, "the moon was full that night."

General Ling couldn't help but said: "Then the next time will be soon."

He Lingchuan saw that the warehouse was half full of prunella vulgaris, which matched the time mentioned by the weasel.

"Who would deliver herbs to this warehouse?"

"There are several drug farmers nearby." Weasel said, "They live within a radius of ten miles." Then he reported a few names.

The official Xu Dayou immediately said: "I know where those people live."

He Lingchuan nodded to him, and then asked Weasel: "You are guarding the field here, do you feel anything wrong in the warehouse?"

"Yes." The other weasel replied, "Every time Wan Song comes here, we always feel that the warehouse is cold and cold, as if something strange and scary has appeared, and no one wants to get close."

Their demon power is not strong, but their spiritual sense is not weak, and they are born with the unique alertness of small animals.

He Lingchuan got the information he wanted, thanked them and stood up.

Back in the warehouse, Jiao Yu asked in a low voice: "What does that mean? Wan Song can release this monster with him?"

"It should be." He Lingchuan said, "I have seen Dong Rui's several demon puppets. They can change their size and even have their own spiritual consciousness."

"If it has its own spiritual consciousness, is it still a puppet?" Isn't it called a "puppet" because it can only move at the command of others, like a marionette.

General Ling looked at the prunella vulgaris that took up most of the space in the warehouse: "As long as we don't scare the snake, Wan Song will probably come back with the demon puppet to eat grass."

"No." He Lingchuan shook his head, "Wan Dahu doesn't know how Wan Song and the demon puppets operate, so they are obviously directly controlled by Mr. Mai; Mr. Mai's early escape means that he knows that Wan Dahu has been arrested, and Wan Song probably knows it too. "

"Wan Dahu was arrested, and Wan Song's property entrusted to him was no longer safe, including this warehouse. If he was a smart man, he shouldn't have taken the risk to get the prunella vulgaris." He Lingchuan continued, "But we still It’s time to give it a try, what if he is really that stupid? Wu Captou, please send someone to move these prunella vulgaris and set a trap.”

After so much experience, he knew very well that there is an old saying that one kind of rice feeds a hundred kinds of people.

Never underestimate the stupidity of others.

Wu Huang left in response.

He Lingchuan asked Xu Dayou again: "Where else in Zhitian Township often stocks Prunella vulgaris? And the quantity must be large."

"A large amount of hoarding?" Xu Dayou thought for a while, "Maybe there is one in Luocang?"

He further added: "That is the outsourcing transfer station of five towns. There are many and large warehouses, and all kinds of medicinal herbs are available. Prunella vulgaris is not a valuable thing in Zhitian Township. If there is a summary, it will probably be there."

General Ling asked He Lingchuan: "Go to Luocang now?"

"Let's make some arrangements first."

Next, He Lingchuan asked Xu Dayou to collect all the prunella vulgaris from nearby medicine farmers - probably less than 800 kilograms - and store all the herbs in Wansong's warehouse in the wild, and burn them all with a fire.

The good news is that none of these drug farmers have seen Wan Song recently.

He Lingchuan also discussed something with Baishi County Magistrate, and the latter readily agreed.

In addition, the government also found Wan Song's sweetheart Qing Gu in Hongguanfang and interrogated her.

According to Qinggu, Wan Song was generous and always had a few friends around him.

But there are only those few.

Wan Song came over for a drink a few days ago and was depressed from beginning to end. When Qing Gu asked, she found out that two of his friends had died outside.

She also revealed that Wan Song only had two companions left.

One time when the three of them drank too much, a fat black man named Lai said that he had already bought a property in Baiying Mountain and was planning to buy a horse and carriage business. The price had been negotiated with someone; Wan Song said that he He already had three sweethearts in Zhitian Township, but he didn't even lay an egg for him.

The fat black man said, I'm afraid those women are old and no longer useful.

Wan Song also plans to go to Wan'an Town in the autumn to buy some pretty girls, hoping that they will bear fruit next year.

After hearing this, He Lingchuan took a few monsters and twenty or thirty plainclothes officials and rushed to Luocang.

…

Zhitian Township is responsible for one-third of Chiyan's herbal medicine revenue. The larger the scale of the industry, the more complete the facilities, procedures, and processes, and the more detailed the division of labor.

Even special transfer warehouses have appeared here, and there is even a town dedicated to warehousing business.

This town is called Luocang.

When He Lingchuan arrived, he saw that the road was wide and straight, there were warehouses and warehouses everywhere, and the turnover of goods was very busy.

There is a lot of traffic and people coming and going.

Everyone was in a hurry, as if they had endless things to do.

How wonderful it would be if such a scene happened in the Kite Kingdom. He Lingchuan sighed softly, thinking of the guards and coachmen who were so busy catching fleas outside several large granaries in Dunyu.