Chapter 3: Reasoning in the Fairy World
This is a question that no one can answer.
Li Yuchun said, "What is the reason why the demons robbed the tax silver?"
Prefect Chen pondered a little, "Demons never ask questions about what they do and do whatever they want, pursuing the reason is just asking for trouble."
The yellow-skirted girl, however, had a different opinion, "Isn't human meat more delicious ..... Well, you guys wait a bit, I'll finish my bun first."
She 'puffed and puffed' and finished the two large meat buns, her own face turning into a small dumpling, trying to swallow and take a sip of tea before continuing the topic from earlier, and could speak freely about human meat:
"Demons do things without fear, silver in their eyes may not have a living human tantalizing. Even if they want silver, stealing or robbing is more secure than directly robbing tax silver."
In Dafeng Kyoto, robbing tax silver in the street was too risky.
Prefect Chen nodded his head, "That's a good point, we can't rule out being instructed by someone."
Li Yuchun narrowed his eyes, "Then who would instruct the demons to steal the tax silver? What would be the reason? Why does it have to be this batch of tax silver, it has to be 150,000 taels."
"Let's think of it this way, the mastermind behind the scenes needs a huge sum of money, but can't make too much noise .... To be precise, it can't be an unbridled enrichment." Prefect Chen's heart fluttered.
"And so he set his sights on tax silver?" The yellow-skirted girl pursed her mouth with brightly colored lips.
"The tax silver escort path is random, decided on an ad hoc basis by Xu Pingzhi, a hundred tenant of the Imperial Sword Guards, whereas the demonic creature was able to ambush .... the river in advance It is highly likely that there is an insider in the escorting team." Li Yuchun said, glancing at Chen Fuyin:
"Go to Cloud Deer Academy and look for a Confucian high ranking person to ask your heart?"
The yellow-skirted girl slanted a glance at him, "Are you looking down on our Sitian Supervisor's qi lookout technique, I've said it all, the pawns present to escort the tax and silver are all uninformed."
Thoughts stuck again, the three of them were silent for a while.
The air was quiet for a moment.
Li Yuchun lowered his head to carefully read the dossier, and Prefect Chen longingly sighed. The yellow-skirted girl fiddled with the feng shui disk at her waist, thinking that she had to leave the Jingzhao Mansion before sunset and go into the palace to find the eldest princess to rub a meal.
The craftsmanship of the palace cooks is first class in the world!
Compared to them, the yellow-skirted girl named Caiwei is more of a guest secretary, assisting in the case.
She was unofficial, and although she was one of the people in charge of the case, she didn't need to carry too much responsibility.
Prefect Chen's eyes moved slightly, and he tried to say, ''Right now, the case is progressing slowly, while time is running out, it's really urgent. Lord Li, why don't you, go and consult Duke Wei?"
The middle-aged man slanted a glance at him and grunted coldly, "You civil officials have a Jingcha, and so do we, the night watchmen. To tell you the truth, this is the test that Duke Wei gave me."
Prefect Chen smiled bitterly, "If I can't solve this case, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep my position under my ass. The court is watching us."
The two men stared at each other in silence, the atmosphere heavy.
......
"If it's a demonic creature at work, then I'm helpless!" Xu Qi'an's face turned white, feeling the deep malice of the heavens.
There were demons in this world, and the demon race had existed since ancient times, hunting and devouring each other with humans.
In the 100,000 mountains of the Southern Border, there was a Ten Thousand Demon Country, the largest settlement of the demon race.
Five hundred years ago, the western countries under the leadership of the Buddha Sect, declared war on the southern border of the ten thousand demon country, before and after the war, and finally flattened the demon country.
History books named this battle as the 'A Zi Swinging Demon'.
Since then, the demon race's fortune was damaged and gradually declined. The Buddha Sect, on the other hand, has since soared to the heavens, and the Buddha Way has flourished.
Using Xu Qi'an's later knowledge to understand, in this battle for the top of the food chain, mankind won.
If the tax silver was a demonic act, then the only way for him to save himself and preserve the Xu family was to recover the silver.
As an unyielding silver at the peak of essence refining, Xu Qi'an felt that there was no way for him to turn the tables.
In the fall season, the weather was wet and cold, and Xu Qi'an seeped out in a cold sweat.
He was afraid!
Having fused the original master's memories, he knew that it was impossible for him to break out of prison, and even more so, he knew that human rights were too weak in this society where imperial power reigned supreme.
Life and death are all in the hands of others.
In the past, he also fantasized about going back to ancient times to copy poems and pretend to be a pervert, and felt very cool, but the reality slapped him hard.
Traveled back in time and had to be beaten by society.
"No, this is just speculation, this is just the speculation of the government office of the capital, I can not be affected by their speculation, I will come by myself, I will analyze ..... myself. It can still be salvaged, it can still be salvaged ...."
The strong desire to survive made him quickly calm down, and his logic became rigorous and clear again.
"Why do demons steal tax silver, doesn't human flesh smell good ..... Even if there is a lack of silver, there is no need to stare at tax silver ..... I heard in the book that the demon women of the demon race are all charming and exquisite ..... I don't know if there are any cat ladies and dog ladies ...."
"Pah!" Xu Qi'an slapped herself, "Re-reasoning!"
The most important thing in reasoning was to subtract, to list the clues one by one and comb through them.
Otherwise it was a woolly mess that would only get messier the more one thought about it.
The two most obvious clues in the tax and silver case:
One: the demon wind!
Two: the explosion of the tax silver after it fell into the river!
Apart from Wufu, all major cultivation systems possessed the ability to blow demonic winds, so 'clue one' could only serve as corroboration that a 'cultivator' was involved, and could not give a more detailed target.
The suspicion of Uncle Two, who was a martial artist, was mitigated, although it could not be ruled out that he had conspired with someone.
The explosion in clue two is an unreasonable suspicion; it's normal for a high level practitioner to fight and trigger an explosion. But in this missing tax silver case, there was no forceful sparring, so the explosion was unreasonable.
"Unless it had to explode!" Xu Qi'an muttered.
"In the major cultivation systems, are there any occupations that need to rely on explosions to achieve their goals?"
Xu Qi'an thought for a few moments without arriving at a clue, then was shocked to realize that he had made the same mistake as the Capital Zhaopu.
The Beijing Zhaowu's thinking had gone wrong from the start, judging the murderer to be a demonic creature based on the most obvious clues in the case, and then running wildly down that road, never to return.
This wasn't wrong, the problem was that the judgment was too hasty.
Although Xu Qi'an had fused his memories, he was still dominated by a modern mindset, with his previous life's experience as the main focus, and he preferred to pull the threads out of the dossier to chew on the details that were not easily noticeable before jumping to conclusions.
"I can't figure out this path for the time being, so let's think differently and break through from other places. I'll first rule out it being a demonic disturbance, and assume that this is a well-planned, man-made event."
"Then, he's bound to leave a break in the case."
"Rockall's law of material exchange tells us that, but whenever a crime is committed, it is bound to leave direct or indirect traces at the scene ....
Traces of all shapes and sizes can be divided into two main categories, the specifics of which I can't remember too well, they should be hand and foot prints, fingerprints, traces of cars and horses, and traces of tools and instruments."
"The breakthrough is not in the two most conspicuous clues, but in these shaped and colored traces ....."
Based on the description of the dossier, Xu Qi'an replayed the process of Second Uncle's tax silver escort in his mind.
Adrenaline was secreted frantically, and the brain cells were highly active. If pheromones could be mimicked, they would be like koi carp in a pool, frantically fighting for food as the water boiled.
Over and over again, the rewinding, the nudging of the
The various information and clues on the dossier converged, and his brain was like a CPU running at high speed.
As the various information was pieced together, the case became clearer and clearer.
Unconsciously, Xu Qi'an felt that he had entered a certain state, and his soul flew lightly, breaking through the mortal flesh, breaking through the building, and coming over Kyoto.
Time seemed to flow backward, the east was slightly radiant, the sun was about to rise, Xu Pingzhi led a group of armored soldiers clad in hardened armor, escorting the tax silver to the Ministry of Revenue.
At this time, is the dawning of two moments ...... Traveled to Guangnan Street, suddenly a demon wind blowing, horses frightened, rushed into the river.
Boom!
The surface of the river exploded, and the turbid waves discharged into the air.
This explosion, as if it also resounded in Xu Qi'an's heart, he reflexively stomped his legs and came to his senses.
His eyes were tired, but they were full of exhilaration and ecstasy.
"I got it, I got it, hahaha, I solved the puzzle!!!"
Xu Qi'an laughed maniacally and pounded on the fence, "Come on people, come on people, come on people."
The jailer in charge of the guard was startled, carrying a fire stick and scolding, "Make a lot of noise, you're tired of living, aren't you."
The force knocked on the fence to scare Xu Qi'an.
Xu Qi'an took a step back and loosened his grip on the fence lest he be knocked off his fingers as he said in a deep voice, "I want to see the prefect."
"A prisoner, see the prefectural magistrate .... Nor do you take a piss and look at yourself." The jailer laughed in anger and stuck his fire stick into the fence to stab Xu Qi'an.
Xu Qi'an stepped back again to dodge.
"You still dare to dodge?" The jailer touched the key on his waist and laughed, "I'll break your legs today."
"I have important clues about the tax silver robbery case, I want to see the prefect, you'll be responsible for delaying the case." Xu Qi'an stared at him.
The jailer's face stiffened.
......
In the inner hall, the young girl who had finished her meat buns continued to nibble on the sugar cane, occasionally fumbling out a few candied fruits from her deer skin sachet to eat with it.
One side was sad and heartless.
"His Majesty has ordered us to solve the case within five days, this is because if we drag it out for too long, the tax money will most likely never be recovered." Prefect Chen paced back and forth in the hall, he couldn't sit still:
"But time is so tight, we are at our wits' end." It takes time to solve a case.
The prefectural magistrate 'snapped' his palm and said in a deep voice: "I'll personally go and beg Duke Wei to give me the dossier."
Li Yuchun hesitated, "I'll go with you."
The yellow-skirted girl glanced at him and said sweetly, "That's alright, with this great power hand of our Dabong stepping in, the two of you won't have to be held accountable by His Majesty."
"However, losing points in Duke Wei's heart is much more serious than being held accountable by His Majesty." She smiled, revealing two small, glistening white tiger teeth.
The middle-aged man's face sank.
A yamen in soap clothes bowed his head, came in briskly, and bowed, "Lord Prefect, the jailer reported that Xu Pingzhi's nephew, Xu Qi'an, has just said that he has important clues about the tax silver robbery case, and would like to meet with His Excellency in person."
The three men's gazes condensed at the same time.
Xu Qi An .... If they remembered correctly, this was just a fringe character who had nothing to do with the case, and after the initial interrogation and torture, he was recognized as an idle person who had nothing to do with the case.
Prefect Chen pondered for a moment and said, "Bring the person over."
In a few moments, Xu Qi'an, who was wearing a prison uniform with trails of dried blood on his body, was brought up by the magistrates, and the handcuffs and shackles clattered as he walked.
PS: As an eighteen year old, first book newcomer, the mood is apprehensive.
No more today, just three chapters.
