abnabooks Chapter 1558 Clues
Chapter 1558 Clues
Chapter 1558 Clues
How many eyes were watching him, openly or covertly? If there was any movement here, it would be easily over-interpreted by others.
What's more, he really has evil intentions!
"Just now, someone visited the villa through Fan Shuang and sold me black crystals worth 700,000 taels of silver. This person is a bit strange."
Seven hundred thousand taels? Such a large order? Dong Rui ate his cake in a daze: "You see guests all the time, what's so special about this person?"
Yongquan Villa receives a huge number of visiting invitations every day. If an ordinary person wants to meet He Lingchuan, he has to wait in line for at least ten years.
"He first bought the Fan family's land, and then came to the villa to find me through Fan Shuang's introduction."
"That's what smart people do, right?" Dong Rui took a sip of wine. "What's wrong with that?"
"The problem is, he doesn't seem to want to sell those black crystals." He Lingchuan also took a piece of cake to eat, "According to the market price, it should be around 550,000, but he insisted on setting it at 700,000. He doesn't show any sincerity."
“Then maybe they want to sell it at a high price.”
"I agreed to 700,000, and he was a little surprised." In fact, Tian Yun was right about one thing. If such high-quality black crystals were sold in bulk, the total price would only go up, not down. This is not like buying fruit in a vegetable market, where you can get a wholesale price if you buy more. "Besides, the bargaining process, he is not very experienced in business negotiations. Just now, when we were having dinner, I specifically asked him some common sense in the business world, but he turned out to be a little unfamiliar with his own chamber of commerce, and he didn't know much about the market in Tianshui City. In general, this person doesn't seem like an experienced businessman."
"Not experienced, but rich. At least a lot of black crystals?"
"Yes. Assuming his purpose is not simply to sell black crystals, then why did he come to me?" He Lingchuan pondered, "He also asked to fetch some spring water himself."
"Maybe I just want to get to know you?"
"His behavior does seem like he is trying to get close to us or use his connections, but the price is a bit high." The chips he threw out were black crystals worth seven hundred thousand.
Although He Lingchuan also paid, the other party did not suffer much loss.
The most important thing is that as soon as Tian Yun appeared, He Lingchuan felt danger.
Despite Tian Yun's attempts to cover it up, He Lingchuan always felt that this person was constantly evaluating him.
"There's something wrong with him."
He believed in his intuition honed on the battlefield, so he sent Wanqi Liang to follow Tian Yun to see which inn he was staying in and how many people were around him.
The situation is about to change, and He Lingchuan doesn't want any surprises at this time.
"Okay, I'm going to take a bath." Dong Rui stood up and stretched. After so many days of seclusion, it seemed like a layer of mud could be rubbed off his body. "Save me a braised pork elbow for dinner. Stew it until it's soft and boneless."
He Lingchuan went to tell Wang Fubao to let Gulin check the background of "Zhengxin Chamber of Commerce".
……
Since it is called Yongquan Villa, of course there is a hot spring pool suitable for bathing. The water temperature is 43 degrees all year round, and the colder the weather, the more comfortable it is to bathe.
Dong Rui soaked in the water for half an hour until his bones and tendons became soft, then he slowly got up.
Oh, it feels so refreshing, all the 84,000 pores on my body are relaxed.
After soaking for a long time, my stomach started to growl.
At this moment, the braised pork elbow should be waiting for him in the small kitchen. Dong Rui walked out and was about to call in the two demon puppets guarding outside, but he saw the branches on the tree shaking and chirping -
These two guys are fighting with each other, as if they are snatching something?
The ghost ape and the bat were both very fast, and Dong Rui couldn't see clearly. He could only look up and yell, "Hey, what are you doing!"
The two guys didn't give up and kept pulling and tugging. Dong Rui got angry and ordered, "Get down!"
Only then did the demon puppets roll down obediently.
"Let me see!"
The ghost ape rolled his eyes at the bat before spreading his palms right under his master's eyes.
In its palms lie two...
"Beetles?" They were round, one green and one brown in color, and one big and one small in size, but they were indeed beetles.
"What's so good about stealing this stuff?" People grabbed handfuls of it in the villa.
He did know that beetles were on the menu of ghost apes and bats. To them, it was just a small snack, not for its nutritional value, but for its crunchiness.
The bat chirped twice, and Gui Guess, not to be outdone, also roared.
Another magical sound piercing my brain.
Dong Rui's energy sank into his dantian, and he shouted, "Shut up!"
During non-combat time, these two things are actually quite troublesome.
"You first!" He pointed at the ghost ape, "Tell me what happened!"
According to the monkey, the bat had found something delicious and had been stealing the food, refusing to share it with the monkey.
"Delicious? What can two beetles consider delicious?" These two things have been with him for a long time. They have eaten all kinds of delicious food. Even Emperor Liujiang has licked a lot of them. Now they are fighting over two beetles?
He knew how picky the ghost ape was. Dong Rui had an idea and asked the monkey to turn the beetle in his palm over with its belly facing up.
"This!" Dong Rui's pupils suddenly shrank and his face suddenly became serious.
He asked the Bat Demon Puppet: "Where did you catch them?"
The bat squeaked twice.
"The entrance to the cave?!" Dong Rui's heart tightened. How could the bat catch these things at the door of his residence?
"Let's go back and look for it!"
At this moment, he no longer cared about the big pork elbow and ran towards his residence.
When he met Yang Shan's guard on the way, he only said one sentence: "Tell He Lingchuan to come to the cave to find me, now, immediately, right away!"
A quarter of an hour later, He Lingchuan arrived.
At the entrance of the mountain kiln, a dozen Yangshan guards were squatting in the grass and climbing up trees, as if they were looking for something.
He Lingchuan asked curiously, "What's this for?"
Dong Rui poked his head out of the cave: "Come in, close the door!"
He Lingchuan did as he was told and even set up a barrier.
Dong Rui threw two beetles to He Lingchuan, his face gloomy: "Trouble has come. Look at these two things."
He Lingchuan saw that it was no different from an ordinary beetle, and it was still dead. However, when he turned the beetle over, he saw a red line on its belly that extended all the way to its mouth.
Why does this red line look familiar?
Before He Lingchuan had time to think about it, Dong Rui handed him a small transparent glass bottle.
In the bottle, there is a small blue beetle.
He Lingchuan took a look and saw that the blue worm also had a long red line on its abdomen.
“Hey, this isn’t, this isn’t…?”
"This is the insect puppet that controlled the guards to attack Situ Yu at Yaopo!" Dong Rui said word by word, "We already know who its owner is."
He is the murderer who assassinated Situ Yu and also the "father" in Xiao An's mouth.
It was another demon puppeteer who had never shown his face.
After Situ Yu was murdered, Situ He came to find He Lingchuan and gave the bottle containing the blue beetle to Dong Rui for research.
This thing is undoubtedly a demon puppet.