"Mr. Chen, you are finally here." Even though the problem has been resolved, Sun Peifeng is still anxious.
Seeing a strange face, he asked, "Who is this?"
It was not known whether the existence of the Special Investigation Department could be made known to ordinary people, so Chen Ling asked Li Hongyu to introduce it himself.
Li Hongyu: "It doesn't matter who I am. You just need to know that I am here to help you clean up the mess."
Seeing Sun Peifeng's inquiring look, Chen Ling nodded, and then asked about the situation of the Sun family.
Sun Peifeng led his men towards the front door, "After you left yesterday, I tied him up with ropes again and kept him locked in the storage room."
Mrs. Sun had been waiting at the door early. When she heard the voices, she immediately opened the door and invited the group in.
The weasel hid in the backpack and didn't move when it arrived at its familiar environment. It knew that this was no longer its territory.
Chen Ling handed the parrot to Jiang Yu: "Hold it tight, don't let it fly around, it will lose its feathers."
Li Hongyu glanced at Jiang Yu. There was no expression on his face, only his eyes revealed reluctance. And even this tiny emotion was enough to make people retreat.
Just when everyone thought Jiang Yu would not lend a hand, the macaw was embraced by a pair of hands and was loosely embraced by strong arms.
Unexpected, but reasonable, Wu Weiwei stared at Chen Ling and Jiang Yu strangely for a few times, and couldn't help but sigh that only Brother Chen dared to order the big money boss around. And coincidentally, the big money boss seemed to be a little bit spoiled by Brother Chen.
A subtle relationship.
Li Hongyu moved his lips, breaking the atmosphere, and said to Chen Ling: "Can we go to the storage room first?"
"Okay." Chen Ling's expression was natural, not noticing the strange atmosphere at all. He gestured to Sun Peifeng and said, "Mr. Sun, please lead the way."
Guan Sunzhi's room is called a storage room, but it is actually a utility room. It is filled with cleaning tools and some unused flower pots. The air is filled with the smell of earth and fermented mop.
Sun Peifeng opened the door with his key and walked in first.
Sun Zhi, who had his eyes closed, immediately opened his eyes and looked towards the door when he heard the noise. In addition to Chen Ling and the other two people he had met, there was also a stranger he did not know.
Yesterday he heard Chen Ling discussing with someone that they would find someone else to capture him. If his guess was correct, it should be this person.
The man looked young, but he was wearing a black suit and a white shirt in the hot weather. He was thin but not weak.
Sun Zhi drooped his eyelids and thought, if this man came alone, perhaps he could find a chance to escape.
Li Hongyu walked to the front and loosened the rope on Sun Zhi.
Wu Weiwei shouted worriedly: "Why are you untying the rope? What if he runs away?!"
"You can't run away." Chen Ling pointed at Li Hongyu's back.
Wu Weiwei looked over and saw Li Hongyu taking out a talisman from his suit pocket. He then turned Sun Zhi over almost roughly and stuck the talisman on his back.
Sun Zhi only felt paralyzed all over, from his fingers to toes, every joint seemed to be stuck with paste and he could not move.
Immediately afterwards, Wu Weiwei saw Li Hongyu take out the Sanqing Bell.
He leaned forward and said, "Is this the principle of corpse driving?"
This was also the first time that Chen Ling saw a living person being controlled as if he were a corpse. He said thoughtfully, "The immobilization talisman should be an improved version."
As the Sanqing bell rang, Sun Zhi's body stood up from the ground uncontrollably. He showed a horrified expression and looked at Sun Peifeng fearfully, "Second Uncle, Second Uncle, save me, Second Uncle, save me."
Sun Peifeng's cheeks were bulging from being bitten, and he turned his face away and looked away.
Sun Zhi struggled desperately, but it was useless. This body seemed to have become a lifeless shell, and he was just a temporary soul.
Chen Ling walked beside Li Hongyu and asked, "How did you modify your talisman paper? Teach me."
"It cannot be passed on to outsiders except the disciples within the sect." Li Hongyu turned the corridor and moved his wrist. The ringing sound suddenly became louder and Sun Zhi was forced to quicken his pace.
Sun Peifeng quietly asked Wu Weiwei: "Where will Sun Zhi be taken? Is it the police station?"
But then I thought about it and felt that it was impossible. If he was really taken to the police station, the person who came would not be such a handsome young man, but a policeman.
Wu Weiwei didn't know either, so he ran to ask his brother Chen.
Chen Ling shook his head, looked at the back of Li Hongyu's head and asked, "What are you going to do with Sun Zhi?"
"You know that the Seventy-two Departments have offices in the world of the living, right?" Li Hongyu walked towards the entrance without looking back.
Chen Ling went over the functions of each of the 72 departments in his mind and hesitated, "The 33rd and 53rd departments?"
The Thirty-Three Departments are in charge of the looted surplus property department, which is responsible for making money. If the ill-gotten gains are obtained by bad means, not only will they be taken away, but the person will also be severely punished.
The fifty-three department is in charge of conspiracy. Anyone who plots to harm others will be punished by heaven.
Li Hongyu nodded, "You know it very well."
Chen Ling: “Not bad.” From the first day he arrived at Yuhe Mountain with Zhao Xunchang, he was ordered to copy down the duties of each department. Even now, in order to prevent himself from forgetting, he would occasionally review it.
But the two departments should still discuss how to deal with Sun Zhi specifically.
But there happened to be someone at the scene who knew the inside story.
Chen Ling took a step back and walked side by side with Jiang Yu. He scraped the parrot's warm beak with his hand and looked up and asked, "Do you know what the two courts will decide?"
Jiang Yu always answers any questions he has: "Strip away your wealth in this life, and live a life of poverty and destitution."
These two short sentences shocked everyone present, and the most excited one was none other than Sun Zhi himself.
He couldn't move, all his emotions were concentrated in his eyes.
Poverty is what he fears the most, otherwise he wouldn’t be in this situation today. He thinks that in the future he may have to live in a shabby house of a few square meters, eat leftovers, and no longer have cars or drivers to go out, but can only walk on foot or ride a dirty shared bicycle on the street...
After more than a decade of living a life of luxury, he had long forgotten how to lead an ordinary life.
Sun Zhi was almost driven crazy by his own future. He opened his mouth and cried loudly: "Uncle, I really know I was wrong. Please don't let him take me away and don't let me leave this family. I promise that I will be filial to you and aunt in the future and treat Jiayu as my own brother! As long as you are willing to accept me again, I will be willing to work like a cow or a horse."
"You can't let him stay here!" Mrs. Sun was afraid that her husband would be soft-hearted, so she pulled his arm and said, "Peifeng, do you still remember those ungrateful words he said before? He is not truly repentant, he just wants to trick you into letting him go."
At this time, Li Hongyu said: "I have already reported the arrest. The Thirty-three and Fifty-three Divisions have already filed a record. Even if I don't take you away, someone else will."
Sun Zhi's tears and snot flowed down his cheeks into his mouth. Now he didn't care whether it was disgusting or not. Even if he couldn't stay, at least he had to get rid of those terrible punishments.
He shouted anxiously, "I know I did something wrong. When you see me, you will remember those unpleasant things. How about this? You don't hold me responsible. I can go back to my parents' home or leave this city. I promise you will never see me again."
There was no real regret in Sun Zhi's eyes, he was just afraid and wanted to evade responsibility.
Chen Ling reminded: "You may not have understood what Li Hongyu said, but you can't escape the blame."
"Shut up, shut up!" Sun Zhi's eyes were red as if bleeding. He looked fiercely at the young man with a calm expression, and his chest was filled with unprecedented hatred.
"It's you, you nosy person. Why do you want to meddle in our family's affairs? Why!" He was gasping for breath, the veins on both sides of his forehead bulged, the blood vessels almost burst, and he looked like a devil.
One hand grabbed Chen Ling's shoulder and pulled him back. Jiang Yu stood half a step away, admiring the hideousness on the opposite side.
"The Seventy-Two Departments govern the good and evil of heaven and earth, and the reincarnation of life. From the moment you had the evil seed in your heart, your name has been recorded. Now, not only have you resisted arrest, but you have also committed verbal sins..."
Jiang Yu smiled softly, and his gentle tone was like a steel knife cutting into Sun Zhi's heart, "If you are punished for all four crimes, you should be sent to the Ministry of Punishment, deprived of your life and sent to hell to suffer all kinds of torture. What do you think?"
Sun Zhi's lips were trembling and the fear in his eyes was about to overflow.
There were so many words of begging for mercy in his heart, but he didn't dare to utter a single word.
In comparison, this always silent man is the most terrifying. The chill brought by his light tone makes him feel like he is in hell.
Li Hongyu's eyebrows moved and he turned his gaze towards Jiang Yu again.
But when they looked at each other, he felt heavy in his heart, and he had an unspeakable sense of depression.
Jiang Yu's lips were curled, but the smile did not reach his eyes: "Mr. Li, it's time to take the person away."
Li Hongyu withdrew his gaze for a long time, but the strangeness in his heart still did not completely dissipate. He couldn't help but become more and more confused about Jiang Yu's identity.
In fact, after reporting back to the Special Investigation Department this time, he specifically found his master and described Jiang Yu's appearance to him.
The master said: "As far as I know, there is no such person among the younger generations of various sects."
Then he warned: "Observe first, don't provoke, and act with caution."
Li Hongyu hid his doubts and rang the Sanqing Bell to enter the elevator. The elevator was small and when Sun Peifeng walked in, it was already packed.
Chen Ling's back was pressed against the cold elevator wall, and in front of him was Jiang Yu's broad back. It was too tiring to look up and stare at the back of someone's head, so he lowered his eyes, and his sight slid from the man's shoulders to his lower back, and he curiously measured the width with both hands.
Oh, a little thicker than mine.
But the lines wrapped by the shirt are very smooth and beautiful. I wonder if there are clearly defined abdominal muscles on the abdomen opposite the lower back.
Sun Zhi walked and cried all the way. He wanted to beg for mercy but didn't dare to. The expression on his face was terribly distorted.
He followed Chen Ling and others to the parking space next to him, where a high-end black sedan was parked. It was just enough for four people to sit, but there was no room for Sun Zhi.
It was really disgusting to look at his face with snot and tears all over it. No one cared whether he was willing or not. Wu Weiwei found an angle that the camera couldn't capture and pushed him into the trunk.
The trunk was clean and tidy, with soft cushions. He didn't feel uncomfortable curled up in it, but he felt humiliated in his heart.
Before I could even howl, the trunk lid was slammed shut by gravity, leaving only darkness in front of me.
Several people got into the car one after another. Jiang Yu sat in the driver's seat and drove, while Chen Ling sat in the passenger seat, holding the macaw in his arms, which dared not say a word in front of the ancestor.
Jiang Yu started the car and looked at the road ahead. "Where are we going?"
Chen Ling held the back of the seat and turned to look behind him: "Li Hongyu, did you drive here today?"
"It's open." Li Hongyu glanced at the back of Jiang Yu's head, and his tone unconsciously carried a hint of respect, "Mr. Jiang, can you take me back to the breeding base? I have something that needs to be given to Mr. Chen, and it's still in my car."
Jiang Yu: “Yeah.”
Chen Ling frowned: "What is it?"
"A ceramic jar with newly found remains inside." Without waiting for the young man to continue asking questions, Li Hongyu explained, "Last night, on my way to the Sun family, I received a call from my senior brother saying that a female skeleton was found at the foot of Sifang Mountain. There's nothing strange about this, and the Special Investigation Department shouldn't have been dispatched. But the owner of the land kept saying that he saw a woman in white wandering on the roadside."
Chen Ling listened carefully: "A ghost who died on the road?"
Li Hongyu shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be. We checked carefully after arriving and found no ghost or resentment. My senior brother said that maybe the master made a mistake or mistook a living person for a ghost. I think so too."
Wu Weiwei asked, "Then why did you bring the urn over here? For us to bury it?"
Li Hongyu: "According to preliminary judgment, the skeleton had been buried in the soil for at least two years without any identification, and during these two years, the public security organs had not received any reports from the family members that their daughter or wife was missing."
Chen Ling: "Have the bones been sent for examination?"
"We sent him for examination overnight. It was not poisoning, and there were no signs of sharp weapons on the bones. We cannot determine whether he was murdered or died of natural causes. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility of death from illness." Li Hongyu said, "We have tried to summon his soul, but it was useless. The deceased should have been reincarnated."
Chen Ling was silent for a moment, then said, "Then why did you think of our Yuhe Mountain?"
A subtle embarrassment flashed across Li Hongyu's face, and his voice dropped a few degrees. "After the skeleton was exposed, the family could not be found. To show respect, it must be buried as soon as possible, so as not to let the deceased rest in peace underground. But, but you also know the prices of other cemeteries. Our special investigation department has limited funds, and the finance department cannot approve it."
Is the Special Investigation Department so miserable? Chen Ling asked, "If you found something similar before, how did you solve it?"
"Before, a cemetery was willing to do a good deed and sold us graves at a low price. But in the past two years, the price of graves has become more and more outrageous..."
Chen Ling: “…”
After all, it all comes down to the fact that Yuheshan has a bad geographical location, a bad environment, and a cheap price.
Chen Ling pondered for a moment and said, "This skeleton can be buried in Yuhe Mountain. I won't charge a high price, but only this time." He paused and said with a bit of grievance, "We also need to make money. Look at this big family. Every day when we wake up, we have to open our mouths to eat and spend money. It's not easy for us either."
Li Hongyu: "Thank you."
Then he pointed at the backpack Wu Weiwei placed on his lap and said, "I know there's a Wong Tai Sin in there. Is it a newly caught one? What are you going to do with it?"
"Don't pay attention to it." Wu Weiwei hugged his bag and turned sideways to face the car door. "This is our new mascot from Yuhe Mountain..."
The parrot, who was afraid to speak because of Jiang Yu's aura, could no longer hold back and shouted bravely, "Mascot, I am the mascot."
Chen Ling stroked its head to comfort it, and said to Li Hongyu: "It is the guardian deity of Mr. Sun's family. It has never done anything evil."
Li Hongyu disagreed: "Huang Daxian has bad intentions. You are taking a risk by bringing it back."
Chen Ling assured: "I will take good care of it."
Li Hongyu still couldn't understand. He had followed his master and senior brothers in the outside world for a long time and had seen many evil spirits and monsters causing great harm to people. All the victims regretted their actions and regretted that they were kind-hearted and let the wolf into the house.
"It's up to you. Just don't make things too messy when the time comes." Li Hongyu said coldly, hugged his arms with both hands and stopped talking.
After about a few minutes, he suddenly remembered something and opened his eyes again.
"Mr. Chen, the owner of the land in Sifang Mountain is looking for someone to perform a ritual to exorcise the evil spirits. I gave him your phone number."
This can be regarded as introducing business to Yuheshan.
"Your special investigation department doesn't accept small orders like this?"
"Yes, but the man refused to let us do the job." Li Hongyu pursed his lips and did not give the specific reason. He only said, "If he goes out to look for it himself, there is a high possibility that he will be deceived. If he calls, you should take the order."
Even a mosquito leg is meat, as long as there is money in the pocket. Chen Ling nodded and agreed, "I understand, thank you."
Li Hongyu glanced at Chen Ling, who seemed to be always smiling. He nodded and stopped talking.
Arriving at the guesthouse of the breeding base, Chen Ling got out of the car first and moved the jar containing the bones from Li Hongyu's trunk.
Li Hongyu rang the Sanqing Bell and controlled Sun Zhi to climb from the trunk of Jiang Yu's car to his own car. Then he obtained the previously written description of the crime from Wu Weiwei, whispered a greeting, and left with his men.
Chen Ling asked Jiang Yu to wait for a moment and took Xiao Lan to the base to comfort the female parrot.
It is really cruel that the two parrots are forced to separate just after they form a pair. In order to prevent the female parrot from continuing to be depressed, Chen Ling promised Qian Qing that he would let Wu Weiwei bring Xiao Lan over every day so that the two parrots can have a date.
Qian Qing thanked him repeatedly, and then talked about the follow-up work: "You should know how precious the Hyacinthus Macaw is. When the breeding pilot project in Yuhe Mountain is built, I will take two days a week to go and take a look."
Chen Ling: “I understand.”
"I understand." Qian Qing sighed and said, "We didn't choose to exchange the female macaw for investment. It's because the base is really short of funds and there is no extra money to bring in a new one. The reason why the Southwest Base agreed to foster Xiao Lan with Mr. Zhao was that they were 'rich'. The Southwest has a natural monsoon climate, which is very conducive to the growth of tropical birds like macaws. I heard that they successfully hatched three chicks this year."
Those who suffer from drought will die of drought, and those who suffer from floods will die of floods.
Chen Ling said, "Sister Qian, I understand. Don't worry, I will take good care of them and keep in touch with the breeding base at all times."
Qian Qing pulled the corners of his mouth stiffly, wanting to say something but stopping himself. After a while, he said, "What I did yesterday was actually wrong. Regarding the anesthesia gun incident, the emergency situation is not an excuse. My actions at the time were indeed a bit extreme."
There was nothing wrong with using anesthesia guns to calm down escaped or out-of-control animals. Almost every base would be equipped with several anesthesia guns to deal with emergencies. But thinking back, compared with Chen Ling's gentle approach, Qian Qing felt that he was somewhat arrogant as a human being.
"Don't think about the past. Buy it more delicious food. Parrots are easy to please and don't hold grudges." Chen Ling looked up at the round wall clock in Qian Qing's office. Unconsciously, he had been in the base for more than half an hour. Then he went to the breeding room with Qian Qing and took Xiao Lan out.
Outside the base, Wu Weiwei was asking about Sifang Mountain in his information sharing group.
Sifang Mountain is located in the northwest of the north city. At the foot of the mountain there is a landscaping company that moved here from other places less than a year ago. The skeleton was found next to the planting area of the landscaping company.
The passenger door was opened from the outside. Wu Weiwei looked up and saw Chen Ling sitting in with the parrot in his arms. He quickly handed the chat history on his phone to the front.
"Sifang Landscaping Company?" Chen Ling sighed, "What a coincidence. I just wanted to buy saplings and turf from them."
Sifang Garden was moved here from the neighboring city because the market scope expanded and the planting scope also expanded, so new planting areas had to be opened up.
Sifang Mountain has beautiful mountains and water, and there happened to be a large open space at the foot of the mountain, so the owner of Sifang Garden bought the land. Because he liked the environment here, he moved his company here and changed the former company "Siping Garden" to the current "Sifang Garden".
All this information was on the introduction page of the company's website, and Chen Ling knew about it early on.
But he didn't expect that this incident would be related to Tang Siping, the owner of Sifang Garden.
According to the news in the information sharing group, Tang Siping found the skeleton when he was walking his dog in the evening. The dog was naughty and saw a wild vegetable it had never seen before and wanted to dig it out like crazy.
The roots of the wild vegetables were deeply embedded, and the dog went from playing around to digging seriously. No matter how hard the owner pulled, he couldn't pull them away.
Only after the pit was dug half a meter deep was the wild vegetable finally pulled out by the roots, along with a small finger bone.
The story was somewhat dramatic, and Chen Ling read it with great interest, his finger sliding upwards.
That’s all.
That’s all the information shared in the group.
Chen Ling handed the phone back to Wu Weiwei and said, "I don't see anyone in the group talking about the female ghost in white."
"Maybe it's really like what Li Hongyu said, I saw it wrong, or a woman in white just happened to pass by." Although Wu Weiwei was rude and unconvinced to Li Hongyu, he was still very confident in his abilities in his heart.
Since Li Hongyu said no, then it should really be nothing.
Chen Ling: "Let's wait and see if the boss will call us."
It was the sun's highest now, if the master went to the supermarket to buy vegetables and then came back to cook, he would be starving. Chen Ling took charge and found a restaurant to pack up the food and take it home to eat.
Zhao Xunchang hadn't seen his little apprentice for nearly a day and a half. Seeing that he had returned safely, he took Xiao Lan with a smile and touched her twice.
Then he whispered, "That's four orders in total. How do you feel? Are you scared?"
"Not afraid." Chen Ling shook his head, then nodded and said, "I was afraid of the first order."
Afraid that Jiang Yu would hear him, he covered his mouth and whispered to his master: "The ancestor is too powerful. Even the Three Pure Bells have no reaction to him. He is completely different from the ghosts I encountered before."
Ever since he met Zhao Xunchang and got the Sanqing Bell, whenever ghosts approach, the Sanqing Bell either vibrates or rings automatically.
Our ancestors were the only exception.
Your ancestor is worthy of being your ancestor, he is good-looking, has long legs, is rich, and is an encyclopedia that knows everything.
Thinking of this, Chen Ling couldn't hold back and was eager to express his gratitude to Jiang Yu for his recent help and advice. After dinner, he first briefly introduced the new member Little Weasel to Zhao Xunchang, then took the offerings and incense, and sincerely went to burn incense for the ancestors.
Before leaving, he thought of the skeleton, so he asked Wu Weiwei to take him with him, and he wanted to find a place on the mountain to bury the unknown skeleton. He also took the weasel to familiarize himself with the surrounding environment.
Knowing that he could learn something by going up the mountain, Wu Weiwei responded happily through the window in the room. Due to his excitement, he didn't look at the road when he ran out and almost bumped into Jiang Yu.
Jiang Yu's eyes passed Wu Weiwei and swept to Chen Ling who was standing at the gate: "Want to go out?"
Chen Ling waved the three incense sticks in his hand and the heavy paper bag of roast chicken hanging on his wrist at him, and silently said with his mouth: "Reward you."