Chapter 59 Chapter 59 I really have the talent to be a detective...
The music and singing gradually died down, the lights went out, and after the final splendor, the statues in the temples were returned to their places and the tourists went home.
The night watchman struck the clapper, and Bai Lu suddenly woke up, jumping up from the position where he was leaning against Huo Xuexiang. How could he have reached this moment without realizing it? The sound of the clapper was like a reminder to him.
"It's time for us to go out." Bai Lu stood up and stretched her limbs, then did the tiger descending from the mountain style!
Bai Lu bravely jumped off the roof and followed the address to find the ancestor.
The hooded cloak that concealed their figures provided the best cover for the two of them, blending into the night. Bai Lu had a sense of mission that they were completing a task in secret... As long as they didn't speak carelessly to the emperor, their image would still be quite positive.
When they arrived at the first house, Huo Xuexiang wanted to take out the sachet, but he saw Bai Lu tiptoeing along the wall to the window.
He originally wanted to test it outside the house, but in fact there was no need to go inside. When he saw Bai Lu's actions, he stared at her without saying a word.
Bai Lu was still immersed in the sudden strange sense of mission and couldn't extricate herself. She used a dagger to pry open the window, then nimbly turned over and crawled in.
"?" Huo Xuexiang hesitated for a moment and followed him in.
Bai Lu was not familiar with the layout, so she wandered around and found the bedroom. She saw a baby lying next to his parents. She held her breath and moved closer, circling her hands above the baby a few times, as if performing some strange witchcraft.
But Huo Xuexiang knew that it was probably just a random action, and there was no such ritual in their plan...
"Master!" Bai Lu shouted in a breathy voice. He is acting here. Let's see if it is the ancestor.
So Huo Xuexiang cast a spell to test it, but unfortunately, the sachet did not react at all.
"Ah, no." Bai Lu put her hands back, sank her Qi into her Dantian, finished her exercise, and then crossed out the first name.
Shenguan Bay, which had been bustling all night, was now asleep, while Bai Lu and Huo Xuexiang were wandering around the town awake, looking for the figure of the Mini Ancestor.
Standing in front of a residential building, Bai Lu was extremely excited and whispered, "The last house should be here."
After climbing over the walls of seven houses, Bai Lu still couldn't find the real owner. This was the last home for a newborn baby in July. Bai Lu's heart was pounding. The first time was new, the second time was familiar. By the eighth time, it was so familiar that even the guard dog couldn't notice that a wizard was sneaking into the room.
The baby in this family did not sleep with his parents, but was placed in a separate couch that was converted into a crib. From the window, one could see at a glance that there was a baby sleeping peacefully inside.
There are flowers embroidered on the hat, oh, it's a baby girl!
"Old Ancestor, you have become a girl!" Bai Lu thought of the clothes she had bought for the Old Ancestor, "Then the clothes should be of different patterns. Okay, I will make a small skirt for the Mini Old Ancestor later."
Feeling that her goal was about to be achieved, Bai Lu was so happy that she couldn't help but pick up the baby and hold him high up, just like in the classic scene of "The Lion King", and she started to sing. The moonlight shone on the baby's face, like a layer of light, making everything mysterious.
"Na~zbonya~mama di chihuahua!"
The baby was also startled by the strange noise. He opened one eye and looked in front of him, then opened both eyes. He seemed to not understand why he could feel something in his body but didn't see anyone. He couldn't speak and could only make two "ah ah" sounds.
The sleeping couple stirred slightly, but were not awakened by the slight noise.
Bai Lu quickly winked at her master, saying, "That was a close call. She was too excited. Fortunately, the old master was relatively steady and didn't cry when he woke up."
Huo Xuexiang took out the armor of Immortal Lord Keyun to test it, but...
No response.
The baby only felt something cool touching his body, and his eyes widened a little.
How could that be?!
Bai Lu lifted the baby up again and asked the master to try again, but there was still no response after the retest.
Bai Lu was a little confused. This was the last one and it wasn't her baby yet? Was it because the previous measurement was wrong, or was there a July baby that was missed, or... was the birth time calculated wrong?
Bai Lu put the baby back in confusion and wanted to take out the list again.
"Woo——" As soon as his hand dropped, the baby pursed his lips and prepared to cry!
"Shh, shh, shh!" Bai Lu quickly picked up the baby again.
The baby felt his body sway and heard a hissing sound. His mouth opened in silence. He looked around curiously, looking for the source of the sound, and his hands started grabbing around.
As soon as he grabbed, he grabbed Bai Lu's clothes and started pulling them.
Don’t pull! Bai Lu also started to pull her clothes. The little baby is quite strong.
Huo Xuexiang helplessly watched Bai Lu and the baby fighting and playing...
All right, all right, I'll show you a magic trick. Bai Lu put the whole cloak into the space ring with a "whoosh", and performed a magic trick.
"Burp!" The baby burped in shock when he saw the stranger suddenly appearing in front of him!
Hahahaha, Bailu winked at her mischievously.
In the dark night, green eyes reflected the moonlight, and the tactless little baby was about to make a sound - a sparkling pendant fell down, dangling in front of the baby's eyes, making her forget that she was going to cry.
Interrupt the spell again!
The gemstone pendulum in Bai Lu's hand swayed rhythmically...
The baby stared at it, then his eyelids gradually drooped and he fell into a deep sleep in a short while.
"Hypnotism!" Bai Lu held the baby in one hand and said to her master coldly, "If Immortal Lord Keyun can't sleep, I will do the same to him!" Of course, the prerequisite is that they find the ancestor... Why is there not one baby ancestor among the eight?
Huo Xuexiang: “…”
"Nannan?" The mother on the bed murmured, and then as if she sensed something, she suddenly sat up and looked at the bed beside her in the moonlight.
But at a glance, the child was sleeping soundly on the bed, the moonlight was shining, the room was empty and there was no sound.
The mother rubbed her eyes, maybe she was dreaming...
Bai Lu hid herself in Huo Xuexiang's cloak and buried her face in Huo Xuexiang's chest.
——At the moment when the mother sat up, Bai Lu did not take out her own cloak, but directly lifted up her master's cloak and crawled inside!
Perfect, tight.
In fact, even if Bai Lu didn't hide inside, Huo Xuexiang would have had time to cast a spell at that moment, or Bai Lu could have taken out her cloak in time, or even cast a spell on the mother to make her fall asleep...
Huo Xuexiang felt Bai Lu move slightly, so he lowered his head and pulled his cloak together to cover him tighter. As expected, Bai Lu stopped moving.
After hearing the noise in the house disappear and the breathing return to normal, Bai Lu slowly raised her head, revealing her face. Her cheeks were still flushed from holding her breath, her green eyes were full of water, and she said in a very, very low voice: "Slip!"
Huo Xuexiang smiled, closed his cloak and hugged Bai Lu who was still hiding inside it, then jumped out of the window, landed steadily on the flying sword, and flew across the street in an instant.
"Almost discovered!" Bai Lu said, looking back.
Why did it feel like I had just finished a game of tag? Even though I was just about to be discovered by a mortal.
"But none of the eight babies is an ancestor. Didn't the two senior brothers and sisters in front of you find any babies?"
It’s not surprising that there are problems, otherwise how could it be their turn? The only thing is what to do?
Grandpa, grandpa, my mini grandpa, where are you?
Bai Lu pondered for a while and said, "Why don't we check the remaining twenty or so newborns born in other months, just in case we miscalculated the time, right?"
Let’s sort out these factors first.
Just doing this took most of the night, and still couldn't find the whereabouts of the ancestor. Bai Lu couldn't help but lament, why is it so difficult to be a detective!
"I've already said it, the people here should hand over the boys and girls!" Chao Tianzi couldn't help but speak out, why make so much trouble.
Bai Lu didn't say anything this time. If nothing had happened, the fixed procedure would have been more comfortable. She would have come over and revealed her identity and asked everyone to hand over the boys and girls... Oh, no, the reincarnated ancestor.
Well, Bai Lu thought of the leader of Shenguan Bay whom they met at the Lantern Festival. According to the master, this person is equivalent to the Cangyuntai here, responsible for public security, management, tax collection and other daily affairs.
"Let's go to the chief's home first. He must have written records." Bai Lu had a new idea and could investigate further. "What if the ancestor was abandoned or adopted? Or is it possible that the family was too poor and never saw a doctor, leaving no records?"
It was already broad daylight, and luckily the mayor was not that busy at work.
Bai Lu skillfully entered the master's house and found the study, flipping through the books frantically. There were a lot of documents on the desk, and a handkerchief embroidered with mandarin ducks was placed on the desk.
"Hey, the same style!" Bai Lu took the time to point it out in surprise. He and his master also had brooches with the same pattern.
Chao Tianzi: "What do you mean by the same style, mandarin ducks? Who did you become mandarin ducks with?"
Huo Xuexiang moved his lips but said nothing.
Bai Lu was busy looking for things and ignored him, she just shut up at Tianzi in anger.
There was a square box next to it. When Bai Lu opened it, she thought it contained documents, but it turned out to be filled with notes.
On it was a beautiful handwriting, reminding the mayor to take a rest after work, and the signature was "wife". Inside were notes with the same handwriting, but with different instructions, all stored together. Bai Lu even saw many of the same blessing charms she had seen at the Lantern Festival, praying for eternal love.
"They are indeed a model couple." Bai Lu closed the box again and continued to look for the documents, making a comment as well.
Huo Xue pointed his hand, and the correct document was pulled out by itself.
Bai Lu took a look to confirm that it was correct, and said with a smile: "Master, please click again."
Huo Xuexiang knew why, and with another click, the document was annotated with pinyin.
Very good, Master still understands me. Bai Lu picked it up and looked at it.
At this time, there was a clang from somewhere, and then a high-pitched female voice came from afar: "You still say you don't have it, who else knows besides you——"
Bai Lu stopped moving for a moment and pricked up her ears to listen.
What gossip, what gossip?
Then a male voice was heard faintly, as if explaining something, and the two of them started arguing.
Which direction is this coming from?
"It's a bit unclear. What are you talking about? Can't you speak louder?" Bai Lu walked towards the place where the voice came from, holding the book, and turned back to urge Huo Xuexiang, "Master, come quickly. They can't hear it over there."
Huo Xuexiang: “…”
Following the sound, she arrived at a courtyard and stood in front of the open door. Bai Lu took a look inside and saw a woman standing in the corridor with her hand covering her chest, and a middle-aged scholar in the courtyard. These were the two parties in the quarrel.
After seeing their faces clearly, Bai Lu found that they looked familiar. They were clearly the boss and his wife whom he had met last night, and they were also the owners of the office he had just been looking for.
Bai Lu listened while copying down all the information that needed to be excerpted without interrupting her work.
The wife of the leader looked a little different from the gentle and submissive look of last night. She even had a mocking smile on her face and said, "I was wondering why you are not good enough again. It turns out that you go out to drink with others every day. Well, that's where all the money is spent——"
The leader blushed instantly: "Shut up! I was just talking about business!"
Not to mention Bai Lu who came from the front yard, even the neighbors seemed to have heard it, and two maids secretly poked their heads out to look.
The chief's wife just sneered: "You are anxious, I am right, old man."
The chief scolded, "You bitch! I have no say over this money? I use it to contact people for business, but what about you? You're just giving it away to beggars!"
The chief's wife immediately said, "If you didn't have such a good reputation, who would care about you? I'm doing you a favor!"
As the two cursed each other, their voices became more and more vulgar. They looked like enemies instead of husband and wife.
While cursing, they were still talking about old things, from the conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to daily disputes. In the end, the quarrel escalated directly, and the couple fought each other. The head wanted to hit his wife, and his wife grabbed a pair of scissors and tried to stab him. The eavesdropping maid hurried over to stop them, and the whole thing became a mess.
Bai Lu originally thought it was just a little family quarrel, but as she followed their cursing, she opened her eyes wide in shock.
Aren’t the chief couple famous in the town...what’s the point of their deep love?
He had just seen their daily interactions in the study. They were simply a model couple. The way they were quarreling now stunned Bai Lu. If he hadn't known that they were husband and wife, he would have thought they were the murderers of his father.
Bai Lu opened her mouth to speak——
"You can never judge a person by his appearance. I thought they were so loving! I didn't expect they were just seeking fame and reputation!" Emperor Chao sighed.
Bai Lu lowered her head after being interrupted: "Oh, I told you not to show up casually."
It’s so annoying. Even he used such a high-level idiom as “seeking fame and reputation”.
Chao Tianzi was still unconvinced: "I didn't alert the enemy, unlike the master who woke up the children..."
Bai Lu was so angry that she said, "Why didn't you come out to help? How can you be a human spirit? It's your turn to come out."
Emperor Chao: “…”
Oh my bad again!
Humph, Bai Lu smiled victoriously. But what Chao Tianzi said was true, the chief couple were really good at acting.
Bai Lu found out the whole story of the gossip and walked out with the information in hand.
Huo Xuexiang: "Don't want to listen?"
"I don't want to hear it anymore." Bai Lu sighed, "I didn't expect them to be so hypocritical. They quarreled at home, but pretended to be harmonious in the family outside."
"That's right," Chao Tianzi said faintly, "You two must never quarrel like this in the future. It makes me depressed just listening to it."
Bai Lu didn't even think about it: "Yeah, definitely not."
Huo Xuexiang: “…”
…
Now that the information has been checked, Bai Lu will move on to verify the adoption situations.
Detective Bai Lu rushed around the town, checking every new possibility he could think of, including home birth, adoption, foster care, etc. He even hypnotized a midwife and talked to her for a long time to confirm the number of newborns in the town. He really checked them all.
However, none of them is the reincarnation of Immortal Lord Keyun!
But the armor was still glowing faintly, indicating that Immortal Lord Keyun was really in the town.
Bai Lu, who was about to collapse, saw a child who was at least three years old jumping around passing by, and she wanted to jump on him to check, "Is it you, Ancestor Ke Yun? You were reincarnated before you died, right—"
Huo Xuexiang grabbed Bai Lu and comforted her, "Don't worry."
Considering Bai Lu's understanding of the otherworldly world, and the fact that he was able to conduct such a detailed investigation without alerting the enemy, it was already extremely impressive, enough to demonstrate his meticulous mind and fearlessness of hardship.
Huo Xuexiang's hand stroked Bai Lu's forehead, bringing a sense of calmness. His cool hand also calmed Bai Lu's mood.
Chao Tianzi: "Master, I have a good idea. Let's arrest everyone in the town and interrogate them. If we can't find the child, then someone must be lying or hiding the child. Maybe he is the mastermind behind the murder of our Xuanshan people..."
Bai Lu: “…”
Huo Xuexiang's hand paused.
Chao Tianzi asked excitedly: "How is it?"
Feeling that Huo Xuexiang's hand had not moved, Bai Lu rubbed his face automatically and replied to Chao Tianzi: "Not very good. I think about brute force cracking every day. I have figured it out. I want to know clearly, not in a vague way."
The emperor was dizzy, wondering whether it was white or not.
We have now entered the town center, and the streets are bustling with activity.
"Selling gourds——"
“Ding ding ding.”
"Sweet fruit, each one is big and juicy——"
Some familiar hawking voices and calling out were heard, but Bai Lu was much calmer today. She did not rush in to buy things in large quantities. Instead, she calmly looked for a stall selling pastries.
"Excuse me, please be careful not to step on your feet!"
Someone was driving a mule cart passing by behind him. Bai Lu took a look and saw that there was an extremely large sacrificial lamp on the cart. He subconsciously gave way and was then stunned.
The familiar hawking sounds around now seemed to echo, giving people a strange feeling. Bai Lu hesitated and said, "Weren't the lamps for offering sacrifices to the gods burned together last night? This... will it be left there until next year? That's not right, isn't it said to prepare them before the Lantern Festival and burn them after the sacrifice to the gods?"
Bai Lu suddenly felt as if time was going backwards, and everything in front of her eyes seemed to have returned to the time before the Lantern Festival began.
Huo Xuexiang frowned slightly, also feeling that something was wrong.
Those moving the lanterns were still shouting at people to get out of the way, and passers-by would also teach their children to stay away so as not to bump into the sacrificial lanterns prepared for the Lantern Festival.
The Lantern Festival is clearly over...
Bai Lu said in horror: "Master, has time been reset?"
Is this a town where time loops endlessly? Suddenly, Bai Lu's mind was filled with many movie and game settings.
"The time is normal." Huo Xuexiang looked around. He did not realize that time was being manipulated.
What was going on? Just as Bai Lu was confused, two people who were hugging and fighting each other rolled over in front of her and took over the street.
Wow, this is lively too!
Bai Lu looked closely and found that the two people fighting each other looked familiar, but because they were too hideous, it took him a while to remember that they were the two scholars he met at the Shenguang Houye Temple last night. He gave him a free incense.
But last night they were as good as one person, and looked like a perfect match in the temple. But now they were fighting, and the expressions on their faces changed from joy to hatred, making Bai Lu almost unrecognizable.
It is this change that makes Bai Lu feel that time is indeed passing and the world is still changing.
A scholar grabbed the neck of the person he was holding hands with last night and said with gritted teeth: "Why do you search my book box?"
The other person pulled his hand and squeezed out a sentence: "It's ridiculous. When I saw you before, you didn't look like this. I knew you had changed your mind--"
Whether you are heterosexual or homosexual, married or not, there is a risk of quarrels.
Bai Lu looked at it and sighed: "It seems that the temple here is not very spiritual, Master."
"A clay statue made of gold cannot help but cross the sea of suffering." Huo Xuexiang said.
"That's right, that's right. The golden lotus and golden lotus roots grow in the bitter sea. The golden lotus roots are delicious..." Bai Lu remembered the taste of the golden lotus roots again.
Huo Xuexiang: "... peel some golden lotus roots to eat later. There should be some left."
Bai Lu immediately cheered: "Okay, okay!"
He and the Master are truly in sync and think the same way.
The two of them were discussing eating lotus roots, and the two scholars were so engrossed in the fight that they almost bumped into Bai Lu.
Last night, these two also gave Bai Luxiang as a present. Bai Lu hesitated for a moment and advised, "Forget it, forget it. Don't fight. You can't beat them anyway..."
Well, Bai Lu is not very familiar with the clichés for mediating fights. She learned them from the local aboriginal senior sister.
After hearing this, the two scholars' veins popped out, but when they glanced at Bai Lu and Huo Xuexiang, they seemed to recognize their group. They felt a little embarrassed to bump into someone they knew, after all, everyone went to pay homage to Lord Shen Guang last night.
Bai Lu said mischievously, "We meet again. It seems that you didn't ask Lord Shen Guang to protect you from quarreling?"
The two of them smiled awkwardly, and lost the energy to continue fighting. They even looked at the two people who were still in an intimate posture with some envy, wondering how could they have such a good relationship.
"Excuse me, brother." A scholar straightened his clothes and said, "Well, never mind, I'm going to buy some incense. See you at the entrance of the Shenguang Houye Temple."
Another scholar also snorted, "Then I'll go buy the offerings."
"Hey, brother, are you still going to worship?" Bai Lu was confused by them. He still insisted on superstition even though they had just finished quarreling three seconds ago.
The two scholars said as a matter of course: "Of course we have to go. It is precisely because we had a quarrel that we have to go to the Shen Guang Hou Ye Temple to seek peace."
…No, but it obviously has no effect.
Bai Lu was amused by their logic and asked tentatively: "If we still offer sacrifices to the gods tomorrow, will you still go?"
The two scholars were also at a loss for a moment, then said, "Of course we have to go. We must not neglect Lord Shen Guang."
Something is wrong. Something is very wrong!
Even after all this, they still have to worship Lord Shen Guang. Regardless of whether it is related to the matter they are investigating, there must be something wrong.
There is another clue.
Bai Lu said excitedly: "I really do have a talent for being a detective. Watson, follow me!"
He strode forward.
Huo Xuexiang paused for a moment, then followed leisurely: "Who is Watson?"
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