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Chapter 1552: It's Not Easy
Chapter 1552: It's Not Easy
"Fuguo? Zhu Erniang is also related to Fuguo?"
"Yes. The local people of Fu Country said that there was a merchant named Gan who regularly transported fluorescent spores from the Demon Nest Swamp and sold them to Bega. However, something happened to the Gan family a few years ago. The merchant was robbed and killed by bandits, and his son went crazy. A few days later, the Gan family suffered another fire. The entire family of eight, including servants and farmhands, and three or four neighbors were killed. Naturally, the Gan Family Chamber of Commerce was gone."
When Qingyang heard this, he could no longer understand: "He was silenced."
She walked to the window and leaned over the railing to look out to the west at Tianshui City. "The palace of Tianshui City is covered with fluorescent spores, but they only appeared half a year ago. Do you know where they came from?"
"Yangshan Islands."
"Yes, it is the Yangshan Islands." Qingyang said slowly, "How did the fluorescent spores in the Demon Nest Swamp become a specialty exported by the Yangshan Islands? On the other hand, Zhu Erniang is now in the Yangshan Islands?"
"There is one more small matter." Yuan Xuan reported again, "A year and a half ago, Beijia cancelled the arrest warrant for Zhu Erniang."
This was indeed a trivial matter, so small that Qingyang had never heard of it.
Of course, she was no longer in Bega by then.
But now putting the two pieces of news together, she immediately figured out something was wrong:
"After the Tiangong incident, Zhu Erniang successfully escaped from Beijia and went to the Yangshan Islands?"
"Our friends in Mouguo have learned that Zhu Erniang originally fled to the forest of Mouguo, but she did not get along well with the big demon there, so she left and her whereabouts are unknown."
"It seems that they moved to He Xiao's island. Beijia cancelled the arrest warrant for Zhu Erniang. What's the reason?"
"According to the withdrawal order, Zhu Erniang appealed to the Beijia envoy and said that she only went to Lingxu City to retrieve her lost property and was not aware of anything else."
Qingyang asked curiously: "Just this one sentence?"
"Yes."
"The location of the Yangshan Islands happens to be behind the Mou Kingdom. Zhu Erniang has found the protection of the Mou Kingdom. Beijia cannot send out troops, so it can only ask experts to go and capture her. Well, Zhu Erniang is also an ancient demon fairy, so it is not so easy to capture her." Qingyang pondered, "It is indeed not a good thing to let her hang on the list for a long time. However, the cancellation of the wanted order is so straightforward, which is a bit strange. I don't believe that Lingxu City has not tried to threaten with force."
Canceling the wanted order without trying to capture Zhu Erniang is not in line with the temperament of Lingxu City.
"Who was the Bejia envoy who went to find Zhu Erniang?"
"Not found."
"Whose idea was it to cancel the arrest warrant?"
“I haven’t found any.”
Qingyang exhaled heavily. "Even the wanted order for Zhu Erniang has been cancelled. Hey, what a great skill."
This cannot be blamed on outsiders, it is someone within Bega who has turned the tables.
But no matter what, Zhu Erniang, one of the main culprits in the Monkey King's rampage in Heaven, is in the Yangshan Islands. She is still selling local specialties through the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce and is living a very comfortable life.
It just so happens that He Xiao, the Lord of Yangshan, also comes from Fu Country. Did he and Zhu Erniang know each other a long time ago?
The last person to partner with Zhu Erniang was the criminal who caused havoc in Heaven.
The more she dug into He Xiao's background, the more interesting it became. She originally thought that he was just a subordinate that Shuang Ye valued, but now it seemed that he was much more than that.
And she always felt that He Xiao was only acting in an upright manner, and came to Yao Kingdom with ulterior motives.
At this moment, another evil bird came from outside to send a message.
Yuan Xuan personally took the secret letter from the claws of the monster bird and presented it to Qingyang with both hands.
The main body of the letter was written in code, and the gist of it was:
"We have collected supplies from Mangzhou, Zhuofeng, Changyu, Zhaoqing and other five places, but the supplies are very few. It seems that someone got there first."
"It has been found out that it was not collected by our companions; it is difficult to trace the source of the goods by using empty bags."
Qingyang put down the note and murmured, "It's getting more and more lively."
Someone is doing the same thing as them.
Maybe it’s because they smelled a business opportunity and wanted to buy up the goods?
or?
……
Tianshui City, Shiquan Inn.
The Master of the Red House had just walked into the upper room and sat down when two of his disciples came in, lined up, and whispered:
"master."
When the owner of Honglu saw them, they both lowered their heads.
"Tell me, what's wrong?" The owner of Honglu raised his cup and took a few sips of warm water. "It's been two days. Don't tell me that your spies haven't been deployed to Yongquan Villa yet."
The disciple swallowed his saliva before saying, "Master, calm down, not yet."
The master is powerful, but also extremely strict, and everyone is afraid of angering him.
The host of Honglu paused for a moment and asked, "Why?"
As soon as he arrived in Tianshui City, he sent his disciples to release the insect puppets into Yongquan Villa first, and try to figure out the terrain and population distribution there.
Assassination sounds exciting, but it is by no means an easy task.
The master of Honglu has a high success rate. Although he has the help of demon puppets, he still needs to make careful preparations and scout the location accurately in advance.
Apart from anything else, we have to find out where the target lives in Yongquan Villa, the places he may have passed through, and the security forces around him, right?
"Yongquan Villa covers a vast area, and the buildings are scattered, so our control range of the insect puppets is limited." Simply put, Yongquan Villa is too big, and the demon puppet master cannot control the insect puppets to fly to the core area - the distance is too far, and the insect puppets are out of control. "We can only explore the periphery of the villa. That periphery... is basically all fruit trees!"
Yongquan Villa itself occupies an entire low hilltop, and the whole hill is covered with fruit trees. This season is indeed a bountiful harvest of fruit, with mangoes, pears, and late-ripening apricots that almost bend the branches. Who wouldn't drool at the sight of them? But, but what is the value of investigating fruit trees?
"And there are guards in the villa, who come to patrol every two quarters of an hour."
"Have you tried to sneak in?" The owner of Honglu asked them, "A villa that big must have supplies and people coming in and out."
How could it be difficult to sneak in?
The disciples looked at each other and said, "We have tried, but that villa rarely buys things from outside, and the servants live directly in the villa. It seems that only the people from the Chamber of Commerce go in and out, but the guards basically know everyone, so it is not easy to sneak in."
"They rarely buy anything? So they usually live on starvation?"
The two disciples didn't know the answer and could only remain silent. They also knew that these sounded too much like excuses.
The owner of Honglu looked at them, but he was not too angry. Yongquan Villa looked very large, but in fact, it was mostly well-protected and had good security. It was difficult to infiltrate. Otherwise, why didn't Qingyang send his own men to kill He Xiao, but entrusted him to do it?
The owner of the Red House suddenly asked, "Where's the second brother?"
The second disciple did not come to see him.
The two men opened their mouths to speak when the gate outside creaked and someone came in.
"master!"
Say second brother and he will appear.
The second disciple rushed in, and everyone else was shocked. They saw that he was in tattered clothes, with a bruised face and nose, a purple bruise on the corner of his forehead, and bloody streaks on his hands and neck from the whip.