pertwk Chapter 1575: Following the Insect and Touching the Enemy
Chapter 1575: Following the Insect and Touching the Enemy
Chapter 1575: Following the Insect and Touching the Enemy
He paused and said, "It is more likely that the purchase was made in the name of the Chamber of Commerce, because Tianshui City has always encouraged chambers of commerce and businesses to purchase residential land, so there are large tax exemptions."
Yao State, especially Tianshui City, has always been a unique existence on the Shining Gold Plain. Other countries basically emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, or at least base themselves on agriculture. Only Yao State vigorously promotes commerce, and the efficiency and level of domestic logistics and commerce even exceed those of most other countries in the world.
He Lingchuan has only been in Yao Country for a few months, but he has been involved in business and politics all the time, and his understanding of the system and rules here is far better than that of the locals in Tianshui.
Based on this alone, he basically concluded: "Either he bought a new mansion in the last half month, or he stayed in a luxurious inn. I tend to believe the latter possibility, after all, buying a house is more troublesome. If he doesn't want to live in Tianshui City for a long time, the inn is his first choice."
"But the necessary screening cannot be omitted. I will go to Tianshui City's housing department to screen the completed house transactions in the past half month. Tian Yun seems to be a particular person -" Unlike Dong Rui, who can live in a dark and damp cave, "With so many people and plenty of money, the house he buys will not be too small."
The house is small, not only is it not big enough to live in, but privacy is also not guaranteed. You have to know that they are raising demon puppets, and it would be no fun if they accidentally escape and hurt people.
These demon puppet masters naturally don't like to hang out with ordinary people, and psychologically they tend to prefer large houses with better privacy; Dong Rui even stays away from other people in Yongquan Villa.
Of course, there are the third and fourth possibilities, which is that Tian Yun used other aliases to buy a mansion in Tianshui City before and is now living there happily. Or Tian Yun and others' residence is not in the city at all, but these two possibilities are relatively small, and it is like looking for a needle in a haystack, so He Lingchuan will ignore it for the time being.
Dong Rui asked, "How many high-end inns are there in Tianshui City?"
"There are at least forty or fifty of them."
"..." So many? Are all the merchants in Tianshui City so rich?
He Lingchuan went out to assign tasks.
Two hours later, he came back to find Dong Rui, holding two pieces of paper in his hands, one of which was a map with red circles drawn on it.
"The weather is nice today, let's take the beetle and look for its owner."
……
The search took two full days.
Finding someone is like solving a case, and it requires a lot of useless work.
He Lingchuan had important things to do during the day, and only after work in the evening could he go into the city with Dong Rui to look for someone, and they had to wear a veil when they went to look for him.
There are fifty-one high-end inns in Tianshui City waiting to be screened, and the Housing Department has also handed over information on ten large houses, all of which were sold within the past half month.
There are sixty-one places in total.
The good news is that the insect puppets can sense the ancestral insects over a wide range, conservatively estimated to be more than three or four miles, and the luxury inns in Tianshui City tend to cluster together, with twenty-two or twenty-three gathered on several famous streets. He Lingchuan and Dong Rui walked along the street and the insect puppets had no sense of them, so these places could be ruled out.
We can only visit the houses to be screened one by one.
Every time I go back, I lose.
After two days, only three inns and four mansions were left.
"If we don't find these places in the end, we have to consider other possibilities." Then, the difficulty of finding Tian Yun will increase significantly.
The moon was above the treetops, and Dong Rui rubbed his face: "Damn it, my legs are almost broken from running!"
Fortunately, just as they were approaching the Fennel Inn at the south gate of Tianshui, the two insect puppets trapped in the cricket cage suddenly became agitated and kept hitting the cage!
"There's a reaction!" Dong Rui was greatly encouraged. He turned into a secluded place and pulled open the cage door.
The two insect puppets immediately flapped their wings and flew out, with thin spider silk tied to their bodies.
"Follow."
The Fennel Inn was magnificent, with its signboards polished to a shine, but the insect puppet didn't even try to go in. Instead, it circled around the outer wall and flew inside.
This street is also brightly lit, but the shops and houses on both sides of the street are not as neat and grand as those on the outer streets.
The insect puppet naturally didn't know how to distinguish between good and bad, so it just lowered its head and rushed behind a wall.
The courtyard wall is not high, the color is mottled, and grass is growing on the damaged parts of the wall.
Just looking at this wall, the word "luxury" has nothing to do with it.
Dong Rui pulled the insect puppet back and walked around the main entrance to look at the inn's sign:
"Come to the guesthouse together?"
You can tell from the facade that this is just an ordinary inn. The signboard has been repaired, and there are two broken bamboo baskets at the door that no one cares about. Two refugees sat on the stone steps to rest after walking a long way. The waiter inside came out and drove them away: "Hush! Go sit somewhere else!"
"Hey!" Dong Rui glanced at He Lingchuan, "Tian Yun actually lives here? You guessed wrong!"
He Lingchuan didn't answer, but snapped his fingers and waved towards the guesthouse.
The people behind him dispersed and stared at the inn from different directions.
Afterwards, He Lingchuan and Dong Rui walked straight into the Tonglai Guesthouse.
He stepped harder, but the shopkeeper still huddled behind the counter. It was not until Dong Rui knocked on the counter that the shopkeeper poked his head out, half-closed his eyes, and asked lazily, "Are you staying overnight?"
"Stay in a hotel." He Lingchuan asked, "How much per night?"
"Half an ounce."
Such an ordinary inn would have cost at most two coins a night half a year ago, but I didn't expect it to have more than doubled now. He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows: "Do you provide breakfast?"
The shopkeeper laughed and said, "The big stove has not been lit for half a month. You have to eat outside."
The food was so expensive, how much did it cost to serve it? All the guests complained that it was too expensive, and after a few arguments, the kitchen of the inn stopped cooking.
Save firewood and trouble.
"Let me see the guest room first."
Many guests would first check out the guest rooms before deciding whether to check in. The shopkeeper was not surprised and raised his chin to the waiter next to him: "Take him upstairs to have a look."
He Lingchuan asked first: "Are there many people living here? Is it quiet?"
"A lot. We are a 50-year-old establishment. Almost half of the customers are now occupied, and 30% of them are regular customers."
Dong Rui interrupted: "Go upstairs and take a look."
The cricket cage in his sleeve was jumping up and down, and it seemed to be going upwards.
The guy was suspicious: "What's that sound?"
"I have two crickets."
The guy didn't suspect anything and led the two men up the stairs with a lantern.
There are two rows of guest rooms upstairs, totaling about ten rooms, forming a "冂" shape. The shopkeeper is not exaggerating, this is an old brand, and the furniture is old, but it is still well maintained.
The doors of the guest rooms were all closed. The three of them walked past each room one by one. Dong Rui suddenly turned his head, raised his eyebrows towards the third room on the left, and winked at He Lingchuan.
This one!
He Lingchuan immediately asked the waiter, "Is anyone living in the room directly opposite?"
"No." The waiter walked over and opened the door. "Let me show you."
The room was simply furnished with two narrow beds, but only a chair, a square table, and a washbasin rack under the window.
He Lingchuan stood by the window and could see the center of the street.
When he concentrated again, he could still see Wanqi Liang sitting at the cool water stall drinking water.
As soon as the window on the second floor was opened, Wanqi Liang looked up and saw him.
"Let's take this one." He Lingchuan threw a tael of silver to the waiter, "No need to change, pour a pot of tea."
When the money arrived, the clerk's face immediately relaxed. Just as he was about to leave, He Lingchuan took out another ingot of silver and placed it on the table:
"I have two questions for you."
"Ah, you say, you say." The waiter faced He Lingchuan and did not notice that Dong Rui raised his hand and cast a soundproof barrier.
He Lingchuan asked directly: "Who lives in the room opposite?"
"Opposite?" The waiter was startled. "They are two out-of-towners in their thirties or forties. They are very stingy and never give tips."
When Dong Rui heard this, he realized that their ages matched, but were there only two people?
"What?"
"I don't know."
"Not a regular customer?"
"No, I've been at Tonglai Inn for three years, and this is the first time I've seen them."
"Finally, a few questions." He Lingchuan pushed the silver forward, "When did they move in?"
"Three days ago. No, four days ago."
"Do they have any companions?"
"No, there are only two of them." The waiter was also very tactful and told the whole story. "One of them had a swollen face and nose when he first moved in, as if he had just been beaten. I asked him if he had been robbed, and he vaguely said yes, but he didn't say what he did. These two guests went out at dawn and came back at dusk. When they came back, they stayed indoors and no one else came to see them."
"Are they in the house?"
"Yes, I just ordered two bowls of noodles and ate them in the house." The waiter immediately bowed and said, "My two guests, please don't cause trouble in this store! We really can't afford it."
The inn was having a hard time running. Originally there were four waiters, but now he was the only one left.
This guy was a bachelor, so He Lingchuan stuffed the silver into his hand and patted his shoulder: "Don't worry, we are all good people. Do what you usually do now. If you don't usually do it, don't do it now. There will be no trouble in this store!"
The heavy silver ingot soothed the clerk's anxiety. He said "oh" twice and went out, walking down the stairs.
Dong Rui asked in a low voice: "Do it?"
"Put the eyeball spider in there."
The Eyeball Spider, which had not been on the stage for a long time, finally got the chance to go on a mission again.
It was an old building, and the cracks in the door were not tight. The little spider easily got in through the crack.
Just as the waiter said, there were two people sitting inside eating. One of them had bruises on his face and bloody marks on his neck from a whip. Although he was recovering, it was obvious that the person who beat him had not shown any mercy.
This man was slurping noodles, but he was not slurping them properly. He had to stop after two bites because every time he opened his mouth, he would pull bruises on the corners of his mouth.
"How long are we going to stay here?" the slightly plump companion asked him, "When will Master let us go back?"
The wounded man sniffed, "After finishing the task assigned by Master, we can return naturally."
The companion said vaguely: "Second Brother, I always feel like something is wrong?"
"Eat your noodles." The second brother looked at him and said, "Eat more, ask less questions."
Through the eyeball spider, the two people living opposite recognized it clearly: "It's not Tian Yun."