Start from miscellaneous fish to gain experience and cultivate immortality

Chapter 69 One Servant and Two Masters

After Wang Shen said goodbye to the old man, he went to Li Kui's old house, hoping to find some useful clues.

The yard was full of weeds, the roof had collapsed, and there were only a few dilapidated tables and chairs left in the house.

Wang Shen walked around the abandoned house and stopped in a corner. There was an old tree in the house with lush branches and leaves, and some of its underground roots had already protruded out of the ground.

"What is this?" Wang Shen vaguely saw something between the roots. He reached out and pulled the thing out. It was a stone statue. He reached out and brushed off the dirt on it.

"This statue looks familiar!"

Wang Shen raised his hand to pick up the statue, brushed off the dust with his hand, looked at it carefully, stretched out his other hand to block the head of the statue, and only looked at the body.

Another statue he saw earlier appeared in his mind.

"Mountain God Statue!"

Yes, this statue is almost the same as the mountain god statue in the mountain temple. The outer clothing and body shape are just not colored, and the face is slightly blurry. Moreover, the mountain god does not have a stick in his hand, but is holding a seal.

"This is interesting. A river patrol officer under the seat of He Bo actually has a statue of a mountain god in his home, serving two masters with one servant? He is very thoughtful!" Wang Shen put the statue down and looked at the bulging tree roots.

"Is there anything else buried under this?" Wang Shen dug up the soil under the tree and found several other damaged stone statues underneath.

One of them looked like an old man. After looking carefully, I realized that this was probably He Bo.

One of the other two statues looks like a monkey, but with a long tail; the other one looks like a mountain bull. Wang Shen has already seen these two, fought against each other, and killed one of them and a waterman. Ghost, a mountain monster.

The mountain god, the envoy patrolling the mountain under the mountain god's seat.

He Bo, He Bo is the envoy patrolling the river.

There are only two statues left to complete. Li Kui, who has died long ago, is one of the river patrol envoys. Since he is the river patrol envoy, it is naturally impossible for him to worship himself, but he only needs to worship He Bo. Why is this place There is also a stone statue of a water ghost. The two of them should be equal.

Wang Shen looked at the stone statues on the ground and fell into deep thought.

Obviously, He Bo appeared much earlier than Li Kui, which means that He Bo probably appeared two hundred years ago, or even earlier.

What about the water ghost? The water ghost he just killed couldn't live for more than two hundred years, right?

Did it happen for some special reason?
  Thinking of this, Wang Shenyou lowered his head and glanced at the river patrol order on his body.

"Whether this thing will have any adverse effects on the human body needs to be confirmed as soon as possible."

When he returned to his residence from the mountain village, he opened the courtyard door and looked around subconsciously. Walking to the door, I looked at the window beside me. There was a pine needle falling on the window sill.

"Someone has been in the house."

He stood outside the door and listened calmly, not hearing anything in the house.

He unlocked the door, opened the door, and glanced around, but there was no one in the house.

Wang Shen entered the room and walked around. The room had obviously been disturbed, and some books were scattered on the floor.

He came out of the house again and went to the firewood pile beside the yard and looked carefully. There was no sign of movement. The gold and silver jewelry he got from the ancient tomb were placed in the firewood pile.

That's right, he threw those valuable gold, silver and jewelry together with the firewood in the yard.

"Just an ordinary thief or a thief with an ulterior motive?"

Wang Shen packed the books in the room.

Fortunately, both "Iron Sand Palm" and "Chasing Wind Palm" have been burned by him. And what can ordinary people see about those few Taoist and Buddhist scriptures that have no covers and missing content?

First find out who is coming in.

He went to find Chen Zheng. Now that Lanhe County wanted to check things, solve cases and catch thieves, it was easier to go to the Qinghe Gang than to go to the Yamen. This was Chen Zheng's ability.

"Hey, you are a rare visitor!"

Chen Zheng was very happy to see Wang Shen coming and served him good tea and freshly made cakes.

"I came here to ask for your help." When Wang Shen said this, Chen Zheng waved his hand to signal the servants on the side to leave.

"When I went home today, I found someone entering my house." "Thief, did you throw something away?" Chen Zheng asked hurriedly.

"Two ingots of silver, that's not important. What's important is that I want to know who did this, whether it was an ordinary thief or a thief with ulterior motives."

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you. I want to see who dares to take advantage of my brother." Chen Zheng said.

Wuyang County, somewhere in a house.

"Books, only books?"

"Yes, they are some Buddhist scriptures, Taoist scriptures and other books, as well as some silver coins. There are also a few pillars in his yard. They look like wooden stakes used for practicing martial arts, but the distance seems wrong."

"Draw it and let me see."

After Shaoqing, one person looked at the painting in his hand.

"One foot apart?"

"More than one foot. This Wang Shen goes out early and comes home late. He has been away from home all day, and he doesn't know where he went."

"What is Chen Zheng busy with recently?"

"He spends at least two hours practicing every day, rain or shine. He went to Ninglong Mansion twice."

"What to do?"

"He went to Prajna Temple, burned incense, prayed for blessings, and donated three thousand taels of incense money."

"Three thousand taels, how generous!" The young man laughed, "There's no clue left, right?"

"I pretended to be a common thief."

"Well done, this is your reward."

"Thank you sir."

……

The autumn wind rises and the summer cicadas are silent.

In the stove pond, the flames burned, a book entered, and soon it turned into ashes.

Wang Shen is burning books. In fact, most of the books in his house have been memorized in his mind. Some can be burned and some can be burned. What he is burning are three ancient books obtained from Li Kui's tomb.

In the iron pot, the aroma of fish wafted out through the cracks along with the heat.

Bang bang bang, there was a knock on the door outside, and it was Chen Zheng who came with a jar of wine in his hand.

"I smelled the aroma right outside the door. Is it fish stew?"

"The herring is three feet long and has been stewed for more than half an hour. It came at the right time." Wang Shen said with a smile.

After a while, the fish came out of the pan, and Wang Shen fried two more side dishes. The two of them ate and chatted in the room.

"I found the thief."

"People from the Qinghe Gang?"

"How do you know?" Chen Zhengyou asked in surprise.

"I guess, judging from your expression, you are probably someone you can trust, right?"

From the moment he walked in, Wang Shen vaguely felt that something was wrong with Chen Zheng's expression.

"His name is Yuan Cheng. He is experienced in doing things. He has been following me since he was still in Wuyang. I never thought that he was actually sent to me by Junior Brother Chu."

"Chu Yun?" Wang Shen was quite surprised when he heard this.

(End of this chapter)