Liu Shuyuan's followers actually kneeled and kowtowed to Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter?

When Qin Shaoyou heard these words, he couldn't help but raise his brows slightly.

As the saying goes: the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister.

Liu Shuyuan, as the inspector censor, his followers may not have much status in the capital, but when they come to the local area, it is unusual.

Especially since this entourage is still Liu Shuyuan's confidant, I am afraid that many local officials will have to curry favor with him.

Those who are qualified to make him kneel and kowtow are either Liu Shuyuan's relatives or elders, or they have unusual status.

Judging from the current situation, it seems impossible for relatives and elders.

If Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter are really Liu Shuyuan's relatives, then Liu Shuyuan can just take them over and reunite them. Why do they have to be so mysterious?

The biggest possibility is that the identities of Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter are different.

And this identity has to be kept secret, not too many people know, otherwise it will cause disaster and danger.

After Liu Shuyuan's relatives met Lao Zhangtou, Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter disappeared the next day.

It seems that it is really possible that Zheng Tu was taken away by Liu Shuyuan as Zheng Tu guessed.

And Liu Shuyuan left Mianyuan County on the front foot, and was ambushed on the bank of the Fazi River on the back foot.

Will there be any connection between these two things?

It wasn't because Liu Shuyuan discovered the secrets of the Fusang Ghost Tree and the Corpse King, but because he took away the old Zhangtou and his granddaughter, which caused the catastrophe?

What is the origin of the person who can be taken away by the inspector censor at the risk of his life?

Could it be from the palace?

In Qin Shaoyou's mind, stories like civet cats for princes and Zhao's orphans instantly appeared.

It seems that His Majesty, the current emperor who is obsessed with cultivating immortals, has never had a prince.

There are several daughters, but none of the sons.

It's not that they can't be born, but that they don't live long after they are born.

When Qin Shaoyou went out to drink with Ba'an and Xin Lu when he was in the Yaosi of Luocheng Town, he often listened to them pointing out the country and making some outrageous complaints after the general flags were drunk.

For example, complaining that the current emperor is not doing his job properly, and the government is in chaos and the people are not able to live. That's why God punished him and let his sons not live long.

He even half-jokingly said that he should find a way to be transferred to Zhoucheng, and establish a good relationship with the people in the Shu Palace. Maybe these vassal kings will inherit the Datong after His Majesty cultivates immortality and ascends to heaven.

Assuming that old Zhangtou came out of the palace, his granddaughter was actually the prince in disguise. Because some strange things happened in the palace, or maybe he didn’t want the prince to stay in the palace and die young inexplicably, so old Zhangtou took her to the palace. I brought it out to see if I could raise the prince among the people.

But the members of the Black Lotus Sect learned about this through some channels, so they wanted to arrest the prince.

After all, he is the prince of a country, whether he develops into a believer or uses it to worship evil Buddhas, it is a great benefit for the Black Lotus Sect!

Of course, these are just Qin Shaoyou's bold assumptions.

As for the truth of the matter, it has to be sorted out and deduced after finding more clues.

As the so-called bold assumption, be careful to verify it.

Maybe what Lao Zhangtou is raising is not some younger man disguised as a prince, but a girl whose soul has been scared out of her.

Maybe the identities of Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter are not as high as Qin Shaoyou assumed, but they just have a deep relationship with Liu Shuyuan, such as relatives, family friends, etc. When Liu Shuyuan left Mianyuan County, he followed him. In order to avoid the strange incident of missing children.

There may be many others like this.

The truth is not yet known.

While his mind was turning, Qin Shaoyou didn't stop talking, and continued to play with his lips.

He asked the aunt's daughter: "How did you see the old Zhangtou and old friends kneel down to them?"

Seeing that Qin Shaoyou was interested in what she said, the aunt's daughter was very happy. She recalled: "I made an appointment with Zhang Xiaoni that day to learn female celebrities, but she didn't come when the time came, so I went to her and saw her home. The door was closed, I was going to leave, but I heard someone talking in the house, so I went to the window and took a look."

"They closed the door, didn't they close the window?" Qin Shaoyou asked.

The aunt's daughter said: "The window is also closed, but there are holes in the window paper."

The window paper pasted on the windows is all specially made and brushed with tung oil. Although it won't break immediately, it's normal for it to be damaged after being pecked and bitten by sparrows after being exposed to the wind and sun for a long time.

Qin Shaoyou nodded, and asked again: "Didn't they find you peeking?"

The aunt's daughter seemed to be a little confused, she frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "I didn't peek, I just took a look and saw that person kneel down to them, was pulled up by Grandpa Zhang, and ran away quickly , I don’t know if they have discovered it, but probably not.”

The aunt looked at her daughter in surprise: "Why haven't I heard you mention this matter?"

Her daughter froze for a moment, frowned, and muttered in confusion: "Yes, why didn't I think of telling others about this before?"

After the disappearance of Zhangtou and his granddaughter, the officials came here twice to investigate and questioned their neighbors who lived in the same yard.

But it never occurred to her to talk about it.

It was as if there was some kind of power deliberately making her forget and forget about this matter.

Of course, the aunt's daughter didn't think too much about it. She felt that she didn't tell the officials who came to investigate this matter because those officials were either unattractive or vicious. It was too late for her to hide, so how could she dare to talk about it? ?

The little brother in front of me is better, he is handsome and has a nimble tongue, bah, and he speaks nicely, making her willing to say anything.

As for why she didn't tell her parents, the little girl doesn't know.

Qin Shaoyou had some guesses.

Old Zhangtou and Liu Shuyuan's companions are probably not ordinary people, they either know magic spells or have supernatural items on them.

The aunt's daughter went to peek, probably because she was caught, but they didn't want to make trouble~lightnovelpub.net~ so they didn't do anything to her, they just sealed her memory.

As for the little girl saying these words now, it may be because time passed and the spell cast on her faded, allowing her to retrieve this memory.

Of course, it's also possible because of Qin Shaoyou's clever tongue.

Qin Shaoyou's flexible tongue can also hypnotize and confuse the mind, and it is entirely possible to pry open the sealed memory of others.

Immediately afterwards, Qin Shaoyou asked some more questions. After thanking the aunt and her daughter, he followed the two sisters, Su Jianqing and Su Tingyu, into the house that Lao Zhangtou and his granddaughter had rented to check the situation.

It's a pity that after Lao Zhangtou left, the house was first searched by the officials, and then rented out to others, it was no longer what it was before.

Although the two sisters, Su Jianqing and Su Tingyu, cast a few trace-finding spells to help Qin Shaoyou find clues, they found nothing.

Under the reluctant eyes of the aunt and her daughter, Qin Shaoyou took Su Jianqing and Su Tingyu out of the yard next to the Sansi Bridge.

"Where do we go next?"

Su Jianqing originally wanted to float in the air, but was afraid of scaring the people around her, so she continued to walk like a child.

After thinking about it, Qin Shaoyou said, "Go to the county government."

This time he didn't go to visit Fifth Sister's family, but consulted the household registration information of Lao Zhangtou and Zhang Xingzu to see if he could find some clues.

At the same time, he also sent a few Qingji to call all the city gate guards in Mianyuan County to the town demon division. He planned to ask and see if anyone knew how old Zhangtou and his granddaughter got away. , Did he really follow Liu Shuyuan?

Anyway, in the past few days, the town demon division has sent night watchmen to help guard the city gate, and it will not cause any serious problems if the city gate guards leave for a while.