The Tale of the Kraken

Chapter 229 Xie Zhi's Request

When Yuan Mu arrived, the group of people had already started drooling over the prepared hot pot. As soon as he entered the door, the group of people stared at him with hatred.

"What's wrong?" Yuan Mu, who was worried that he had never done anything, looked at the resentful eyes in the room, feeling very inexplicable.

Seeing his inexplicable expression, the anger in everyone's hearts was about to burst out. At this time, Xie Zhi, who never liked to talk, opened his mouth. He pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, looked at Yuan Mu and said, "The non-workers Not to eat."

His expression was too serious, and Yuan Mu was taken aback for a moment before realizing what happened.

"That's right! Don't give it to him!"

"That's right! Those who don't work don't eat!"

"No food!"

"You..." Yuan Mu looked at the excitement of the crowd, stretched out his hand to interrupt, and asked, "What are you talking about... I don't understand..."

"People who haven't even done the preparation work are not qualified to eat hot pot." At this time, Xie Zhi spoke again. He glanced at the crowd, then turned to Yuan Mu and said: "This is the consensus of all of us."

"..." Hearing his words, Yuan Mu felt a little helpless, he blinked his eyes, "I want to help, but you don't wait for me!"

"It's been so long since you sent someone off?" Yue Bing looked at his innocent face, curled her lips and said, "Isn't it just to be lazy?"

"Hey! We're reasonable!" Yuan Mu stopped doing it as soon as he heard the accusation, and immediately defended himself, "I know that when you want to eat hot pot, you're almost done!

Only 15 minutes have passed since I answered the phone, but I came here without any delay. You can't be so unreasonable! "

"True? What is the truth... Can I eat it?" Facing Yuan Mu's strategy of using emotion to understand reason, Hong Yuan smiled disdainfully, saying that this trick would not work for her.

She pointed to the hot pot in front of her, "You said you didn't take part in the preparations, and if we let you eat it, others will be upset."

"Who? Who will be unhappy?" Yuan Mu raised his eyebrows when he heard her words, "If anyone is unhappy, I will make him happy."

"Speak up so that you can retaliate?" Hong Yuan turned her head to look at the crowd, and then said, "It's okay to let you eat...but I'll leave the washing of the dishes to you!"

"..." Only then did Yuan Mu realize that these people joined forces to let him wash the dishes until the end of the meal. What a scheming is this!No wonder Yang Yang would complain to himself when he had nothing to do, this is a group of scheming monsters.

"Okay, okay." After all, the arm couldn't twist the thigh, and finally Yuan Mu nodded, agreeing to their condition: "After eating, I will wash the dishes and I will clean up, okay? Isn't it just for this that you put in so much effort?" Is it?"

"Hey, it's good that you know." As soon as he agreed to come down, Xiaochen immediately stood up, waved her chopsticks and shouted: "Let's eat!"

That majestic shout made Yuan Mu feel that what she shouted was not for people to start eating, but for a general commanding thousands of troops on the battlefield.

However, Xiaochen's character has always been like this, talking about food is more exciting than anything else, so Yuan Mu didn't say anything, just smiled, picked up a pair of chopsticks from the side, rolled up his sleeves, and joined the army of grabbing meat middle.

Xiaochen himself runs a hot pot restaurant, from the seasoning to the knife, from the bottom of the pot to the ingredients, it is naturally the best. After eating this meal, everyone's stomachs are full.

Especially Yang Yang and Ning Yuan, in the end they were crying and hugging Xiaochen's thigh and not letting go: "Xiaochen! Do you know how hard it was when we were kidnapped! They didn't give us food!"

"That's right! Not only did they not give us food! They beat us and threatened us at every turn!"

"That's right! Not to mention eating, sometimes we are not even given water to drink! They are simply not human!"

"It's not human!"

Seeing the two singing and accusing the kidnapper of their crimes, Yuan Mu sighed helplessly.

I thought to myself, that’s not what you said when I rescued you today. Apart from not letting them out of the house, other things, they really made these two people feel at home. Not satisfied, what are they trying to do?God?
"Finish?" Yang Yang and Ning Yuan grabbed Xiao Chen and cried, trying to get another hot pot meal from here. Xie Zhi, who had already put down his chopsticks, stood up and walked to Yuan Mu and said, "Rest after eating." Come on, I have something to tell you."

"Yeah." Yuan Mu already knew that Xie Zhi's personality has always disliked excitement. If there is nothing wrong, this kind of lively place that is purely for gatherings will generally not see other people, "Let's go later?"

"No, I'll leave after a few words." Xie Zhi shook his head, rejected his proposal, and then said, "We almost have a clue on what you asked me and Xiaochen to investigate before."

"Speak." Hearing his words, Yuan Mu immediately straightened up, looked at him and said.

"It's nothing too big. The basic situation is similar to what we thought. Although the sale of monsters has always existed, it has always been underground.

But since this period of time, no matter the frequency or other things have increased greatly, they are no longer underground, and many sects in Taoism are also using it to make a living openly. "

"We have guessed about this for a long time, and it is not something to be surprised about." Yuan Mu nodded, and did not show an overly surprised expression at his news, but what Xie Zhi said next, let His eyes widened.

"However, among these many actions, some cases were not discovered until the end of our investigation, and they are inseparable from the Four Seas Demon Sect." Xie Zhi said, glanced at Yuan Mu with a surprised face, and continued: "It's you The meaning in mind, some cases, we even suspect that the Four Seas Demon Sect did it."

"Are you sure?" Yuan Mu raised his eyebrows and asked after hearing his words, "This is completely different from the usual style of the Four Seas Demon Sect!"

"I didn't believe it when I found out, but the evidence and the facts are in front of me, so I can't help but not believe it." Xie Zhi said, took out a badge from his pants and put it in front of Yuan Mu, "This, it's me. The evidence found in a case is not fake, right?"

Yang Yang took the badge, looked at it, returned it to Xie Zhi, and said, "It's true."

"I didn't believe it at the time, so I asked the merchant of the human race, and that person insisted that the supplier who sold the goods to him was wearing such a badge. He left the badge there, and he never came back to take it. .”

Yuan Mu looked at Xie Zhi's hand with the forbidden gluttonous badge, frowned and said, "Where did it land? How is it possible?"

"I also thought it was impossible at the beginning. We all know how important this thing is to them. They won't lose this thing if they lose it, so I went to check..." Xie Zhi said, sighing He said in a tone: "Finally, it was found out that it was indeed placed there on purpose by an elder from a Taoist sect."

"Then you still say..." Yuan Mu immediately opened his mouth when he heard this sentence.

But before he finished speaking, Xie Zhi interrupted him: He stroked the badge in his hand and said, "I also had the same reaction at the time, but I didn't know until I found the Taoist priest that I was wrong.

When I went there, I happened to see the Taoist priest trading with a monster. The Taoist priest gave the monster a few pieces of paper, and the monster gave the Taoist priest a pomegranate.And the badge in my hand is a token that was mortgaged by the monster to the Taoist priest. "

"Tengu?" Yuan Muwenyan raised his eyebrows and said, "This thing is not easy to catch, right?"

"It's not only difficult to catch, I haven't found one after searching for so many years..." Xie Zhi smiled helplessly and said: "It can be seen that even if the monster didn't catch the durian, it must have something to do with the world. The Demon Sect can't get away from it."

"Then what happened later? You just forget it?" Based on Yuan Mu's understanding of Xie Zhi, it's fine if he didn't see it, but as long as he saw it, he would never ignore it.

"It's up to what happens in the end!" Xie Zhi said, turning his head to look at Yuan Mu, "That durian is still at my house, if you are free someday, come and see it, or find Yue Bing arranged a place for it, my place...is not suitable for him."

Yuan Mu looked at him and didn't speak, he said, why did Xie Zhi, who was so nice and never liked the excitement, come to Yang Yang and Ning Yuan's meeting.

It turned out that he had something to ask Yue Bing for. He remembered the grievances between Xie Zhi and the Liuliu clan, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, I'll talk to Yue Bing later."

"Thank you, then I'll leave when I have nothing to do." Hearing that Yuan Mu agreed to his request, he stood up, stretched his waist and said, "Also, I checked the matter of Yang Yang's kidnapping. A few days before he was kidnapped, a strong qi came from the east, and Ying Long returned to the East China Sea, you should tell him about it."

Yuan Mu looked at Xie Zhi with some surprise, although he really wanted Xie Zhi to investigate Yang Yang's kidnapping, but he didn't expect him to give the answer directly.However, the latter didn't seem to see his expression at all, waved his hand at him and said: "Okay, you tell Xiaochen that I will go back first."

After speaking, he turned and went out the door.

While the others were either eating, or chatting and drinking together, no one noticed Xie Zhi's departure at all.

After a long time, Yuan Mu, who came back to his senses from a burst of laughter, blinked, reached out and took out the phone.

"Hello? Ying Long?"

(End of this chapter)