Chapter 369: You laughed very well, don’t laugh next time
Yun Fu shook her head: "I can't say for sure."
Because she didn't know what the situation was on the battlefield at that time.
"By the way, what do you think of what the old monk said?"
Yun Fu suddenly remembered the old monk’s last words about the fate of the eldest and second brothers of the Qi family.
"He was able to calculate the original owner's fate of early death, so he must be quite capable."
Yun Fu boldly hypothesized, "If, as the old monk calculated, Second Brother didn't die young, and his body was replaced for some unknown reason, then there's a possibility that he wasn't dead at all and is still alive."
"Still alive?" Qi Hanzhou's mind went blank. He was stunned for a few seconds before reacting. His eyes widened in disbelief, his heart beating violently.
"Don't get too excited. I just think there might be such a possibility." Yun Fu was afraid that he would have too much hope and end up finding it was all in vain.
"When the remains of General Qi Chuan and the two junior generals were brought back, who else saw them besides Madam Qi and Song Lingyun?"
There is no way to draw a conclusion on this matter for the time being. Everything is still hypothetical and needs to be investigated thoroughly.
Qi Hanzhou frowned and replied in a low voice, "Qi Dahai should be here too. Qi Xu and Aunt Liu might be here too."
Because the Qi family has very few relatives, the only relative is Qi Dahai's branch.
"Okay, then let's go back to Ghost Prison and ask them."
But before going back, they had to go to Haicheng.
The fact that the corpse of the second young master of the Qi family is fake does not mean that the corpse of the eldest son of the Qi family in Haicheng is also fake.
So, we still have to go to Haicheng.
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A few months later, in Haicheng, the easternmost city of Dasheng, which is on the sea.
The two men, covered in dust, entered the most prosperous street in Haicheng.
It’s still the same process as before.
When you get to the place, ask someone first.
This Haicheng is much more lively than Yun Fu had imagined.
On one street, several restaurants were full of people.
The two found a restaurant on the corner of the street and sat down.
Before Yunfu found a chance to ask the waiter.
The two of them heard words like "imperial court", "Shenyang", "general" and "stone coffin" in the conversation at the next table.
So he pricked up his ears and listened.
"Brother Wang, did you really see that coffin?"
"Of course, why would I lie to you? The coffin is made of black stone, covered in red symbols, and tied with such thick iron chains. It looks extremely weird."
"I heard that the coffin contained the remains of a general from the Qi family. It was transported thousands of miles from Shengjing to our Haicheng to suppress the general's ghost and prevent him from causing trouble and harming others."
"Is it really that scary? Fortunately, the coffin was transported out to sea and not left in our Haicheng."
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Has it been shipped out to sea?
Yun Fu thought that the third corpse that was rumored to have been transported to Haicheng was actually inside Haicheng.
Once out to sea, the range becomes much wider.
I listened to the conversation at the next table for a long time, but didn't get any more useful information about finding the location of the body.
The two finished their meal at the restaurant.
I plan to visit the port where ships go out to sea. The people there often deal with ships going out to sea, and should be more informed than the ordinary people in Haicheng.
The official ships were very large, and there were more than one of them. With such a large group going out to sea, there must have been people who saw them.
The two came to the largest port in Haicheng, but found that there were not many ships here, only a few small fishing boats floating on the beach.
"Logically speaking, isn't Haicheng the largest seaport in Dasheng? Why are there only a few small boats?" Yun Fu looked puzzled.
Qi Hanzhou's eyes darkened. "I came here a few years ago, and it wasn't this deserted."
"Oh? What's going on?" The two chatted as they approached the deserted port.
After a lot of effort, they saw a young girl on one of the small fishing boats. The girl might have seen them as well, and before Yun Fu could say hello, she hid in the fishing boat.
Yun Fu was afraid that Qi Hanzhou's icy face, which never changed throughout the year, would scare people away, so she asked him to stay where he was and went over to try to get closer to him.
"Xiao Fu'er, my expression can change, I can smile."
Qi Hanzhou was despised by his own little girl, and in order to prove himself, he forced a fake smile on his face.
Yun Fu's comment on him was: "You laughed very well, but don't laugh next time."
I don’t know if it’s because of the beard on his face, but Qi Hanzhou, after his disguise, gives people a sense of majesty.
When you fake a smile, if the smile doesn't reach your eyes, it will not make people feel close to you, but will instead give people a more gloomy and oppressive feeling.
"Wait until you take off the makeup on your face, then smile again."
Yun Fu was the exact opposite of him. After a simple disguise, because of her small frame and fair skin, she dressed as a man and smiled with her eyebrows curved, which added a bit of affinity and gave people a harmless feeling.
"Don't be afraid, young lady. We are not bad people. We are new to this place and are not very familiar with it. We want to ask you something."
Yun Fu bent down, her voice softened, and she looked weak and gentle.
After waiting for a long time, there was no response from the person hiding in the small cabin of the fishing boat.
Yun Fu patiently said, "If you feel it's inconvenient to come out, you can just answer a few questions in the cabin."
Perhaps because she was so gentle, the girl on the fishing boat timidly asked, "What do you want to know?"
Yun Fu said, "We wanted to hire a slightly larger boat at this port to go out to sea, but when we got here, we found that there was not a single large boat here. So, I want to ask you, young lady, where have all the large boats gone?"
Inside the cabin, the girl's voice rang out again: "The large ships parked at the port in Haicheng have all been requisitioned by the group of officers and soldiers from Shengjing."
"Requisitioned? I wonder how long I'll have to wait?"
"I don't think you can wait any longer. They have to transport a batch of supplies to the island every once in a while."
"Island? What island? Why are we sending supplies to the island?"
"It's an island. The soldiers from Shengjing wanted to build a very tall tower on it, so they captured all the men from the nearby fishing villages. There are a lot of people on the island right now, and the supplies are for them."
"There's not much food on that island. If we don't send supplies, many people might starve to death."
The girl started talking and became a little bolder, sticking half of her body out of the cabin.
During the conversation between the two, Yun Fu obtained a useful piece of information.
That is, every once in a while, a ship would depart from this port to transport supplies to the island.
Then they just need to find a way to sneak onto the ships transporting supplies and they can be taken to the island.
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