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The auction process was smoother than expected. Geng Shuyun successfully bought the stone sculpture of the twelve zodiac signs inlaid with sacrificial stones. After paying the money and goods with the auction house in the afternoon, she took the stone sculpture with her and prepared to leave City C immediately.

Fang Xia did not go with Geng Shuyun and the others. He planned to leave for Q City early tomorrow morning.Most of September has passed, and in a few days it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion night, and he needs to go back to Queshan Temple.The master is gone, but the three brothers and sisters don't intend to break the custom of reuniting on Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year's Eve when the master is there.

Queshan Temple is their home.

In fact, Fang Xia's two senior brothers each have family members.

Eldest brother Shan Yichun's family is in the countryside of K City. He has a younger brother, who is a very ordinary family of four.Shan Yichun's soul was unstable when he was a child, and he almost died several times, but it was Ma Guangping who pulled him back from the gate of hell.His parents asked him to worship Ma Guangping as his teacher and follow Ma Guangping.When Shan Yichun grew up safely, his honest parents asked him to be filial to Ma Guangping to repay his life-saving grace.Shan Yichun agreed and did the same.

The second senior brother Ding Ming also has his own family, but his parents divorced and started their own families, so he has long been ignored.He himself didn't want to go to his parents who didn't want to care about him at all, so he wandered outside alone. After meeting Ma Guangping, he brought him back to Queshan Temple.

After leaving the venue and parting with Geng Shuyun and the others, it was already dusk and night was about to fall.Fang Xia saw that it was about the same time, so she and Fu Jin took Wang Ke to find a restaurant near the venue for dinner.

After dinner, Wang Ke drove Fang Xia and the others back to the hotel.On the way back to the hotel, Fang Xia was sitting next to Fu Jin in the back seat of the car, looking at the night scene of the neon lights outside the car window. He was talking to Fu Jin about his two senior brothers when he felt his phone in his trouser pocket vibrate. .

Fang Xia took out his cell phone and saw that it was Geng Chaolin who was calling.

"Hello? Geng Chaolin?" Fang Xia answered the phone, "What's the matter?"

"Are you comfortable talking now?"

Geng Chaolin's tone was a little serious, obviously what he wanted to say was serious.

Fang Xia put down her crossed Erlang legs, and sat up slightly, "We are on our way back to the hotel, Wang Ke is driving."

"It's about Cheng Dong being sent to Uncle Zhong for interrogation." The Uncle Zhong that Geng Chaolin said was Geng Peizhong who was responsible for the inner ghost of the Geng family.

"It's almost half a month of trial, right? Is there a result?"

"Cheng Dong has never admitted that he is an insider." Geng Chaolin said, "He insisted that he was controlled by someone using magic, so he went to the study to steal the ticket for the auction. Uncle Pei and the others also I did a check on Cheng Dong, but I didn't check out any spells from him."

"Is he lying?"

"Uncle Pei is in charge of this matter and is very experienced in interrogation. He thinks Cheng Dong probably didn't lie."

If Cheng Dong hadn't lied, it meant that the remaining three people in the old house were not innocent, and they were still suspected of inner ghosts - including Wang Ke.

Fang Xia looked up at Wang Ke in the driver's seat in front.

Wang Ke held the steering wheel and stared straight ahead. The lights on the side of the road mixed with the light from the dial made his face reflected in the rearview mirror vague, and he couldn't see the expression on that face clearly.

"Pay attention to Wang Ke."

"I see." Fang Xia finished speaking and hung up the phone.

Fu Jin turned his head to look at Fang Xia, he heard everything Geng Chaolin said on the phone.He wanted to say something, but Fang Xia had already lowered his head and fell into his own thoughts.

Speaking of the night when Cheng Dong was caught, he felt that something was wrong.At that time, I felt that it was an unwise choice for Cheng Dong to deliberately bring out the admission ticket that could prove that he was the insider.Geng Lijie said it was because Cheng Dong didn't have time to open the envelope and didn't read the information on the admission ticket.That was indeed a reasonable explanation, so he didn't think about it any further.But looking back now, apart from the ticket being carried by Cheng Dong, there was also something wrong with Cheng Dong himself—from Geng Lijie discovering that Cheng Dong had stolen into the study, to Geng Peizhong coming to take him away, the whole During the process, Cheng Dong didn't say a word.

Judging from the situation that night, it seemed that after Cheng Dong was stolen and captured, his heart was ashamed, so he confessed without saying a word.But now that Cheng Dong insisted on denying it, it was obviously not a silence of submission, but more like a forced silence.But it is also possible that Cheng Dong's anomaly at that time was just acting, in order to match the current denial of the identity of the ghost?

No, no, if Cheng Dong had such a complicated and tortuous brain circuit, he wouldn't have to make a fuss and get caught, and the information about the auction hasn't been spread yet.An action plan that fails to achieve the ultimate goal is completely stupid.

Regardless of Cheng Dong, Wang Ke needs to be paid attention to now. He is also suspected of being a ghost... Fang Xia's expression suddenly changed when he thought of this.

Throughout the auction, Wang Ke followed them all the time.If Wang Ke was the inner ghost, then the news should have spread long ago, but there was no one bidding for the stone sculpture with Geng Shuyun at the venue, and Geng Shuyun successfully took a photo of the stone sculpture inlaid with sacrificial stones... Oops!Nothing will happen to Geng Shu, right? !

Fang Xia stared at Wang Ke in front of her, picked up her mobile phone and called Geng Shuyun.

The bell rang for a long time, but when it was picked up, the person who spoke was not Geng Shuyun, but one of the two offshoots of the Geng family brought by Geng Shuyun.

"We were about to call you."

"Where's Geng Shuyun?" Fang Xia's voice tightened.

"In order to confuse the public, we divided our troops into three groups. Two routes brought fake stone carvings, and the other route brought genuine ones. Shuyun was intercepted by Wang's family on the way, and the stone carvings were robbed—the one in her hand was the real one." The family quickly said, "Shuyun was chased too far and was injured. Let's send her to the hospital first. We have already notified the owner of this matter. Please help keep an eye on Wang Ke first, he is the ghost!"

Fang Xia hung up the phone, stared at Wang Ke who was driving ahead, and said coldly, "Stop."

The car turned into a deserted and secluded alley, and beside the alley was an old apartment complex.

"It seems that I have been exposed." Wang Ke turned off the fire, and he said in a non-emotional tone without looking back.

"You cast a spell on Cheng Dong and asked him to go to the study to steal the admission ticket?" Fang Xia asked.

"That's right, so that I can temporarily get rid of the suspicion and find an opportunity to act."

"But there are no traces of spells left on him." Fang Xia said.

"I'm using the Wang family's spell. After it's lifted, I won't be able to speak for a while, and it won't leave any traces."

Fang Xia recalled the situation that night. After Fu Jin put Cheng Dong down, Wang Ke was the first person to touch Cheng Dong by checking Cheng Dong's injuries.

"You broke the spell while checking Cheng Dong's injury."

"You're smarter than I thought, but it's too late." Wang Ke looked back at Fang Xia.

"Are you from the royal family?"

"Yes, I am from the Wang family. You were right that night." Wang Ke nodded, "I am from the Wang family from a family of magic spells. The son of the Wang family couple who sent me to the Geng family died young. That's why the Geng family checked my background, and everything they found was fake."

"You're quite honest." Fang Xia stuffed his hands into his trouser pockets and clasped a piece of talisman paper.

"I'm going back to Wang's house, and there's nothing to hide about it." Wang Ke said, looking sideways out of the car window, "By the way, I'll help you spend some time."

Fang Xia followed his gaze, and there was a young man standing on the sidewalk opposite.He stood under the street lamp, the brightness of the light was enough for Fang Xia to see the other person's face clearly.This person is none other than Min Xiao, who is exactly the same as the portrait that Fu Jin painted for him.

And just as Fang Xia was looking at Min Xiao, Wang Ke in the driver's seat pulled out a white paper talisman with cinnabar, and threw it at Fang Xia with his backhand.

Fang Xia caught a glimpse of Wang Ke's movements from the corner of his eyes, and the hand holding the paper talisman in his trouser pocket tightened, and was about to make a move, but saw Fu Jin raised his hand to intercept the cinnabar paper talisman, and the paper talisman was reduced to ashes between his fingers. , he leaned forward, reached out and grabbed Wang Ke's neck.

"Sure enough, I can't escape, but my mission has been completed." Wang Ke's original serious face suddenly changed, the corners of his mouth curled up strangely, the luster in his eyes faded, and it turned into a lifeless darkness.

"Stand-in puppet?" Fu Jin frowned.

The stand-in puppet is a puppet controlled by the original owner. Wang Ke left the stand-in puppet Jin Chan to escape the shell. The real master probably followed Geng Shuyun and the others when they left the venue, so even though Geng Shuyun and the others cautiously divided into three groups, they were finally intercepted by the Wang family. The man with the sacrificial stone.

As soon as Fu Jin finished speaking, small, dark runes appeared on "Wang Ke"'s neck. Those runes seemed to be alive, and climbed onto Fu Jin's hand that was pinching "Wang Ke"'s neck.

It's a spell!

"Fu Jin!" Fang Xia exclaimed.

Fu Jin's eyes turned cold, and evil spirit gathered in his hands.The rune in Fu Jin's hand was eroded, as if he had encountered a terrible natural enemy, he threw away his armor and ran back in an instant.However, the evil spirit quickly rushed to Wang Ke's substitute puppet, and the puppet twitched and struggled as if it had been epileptic.

After a few breaths, a blue flame ignited on the stand-in puppet, swallowing the entire body in an instant, and then the painting turned into a pile of black paper ashes, scattered on the driver's seat.

"It's okay." Fu Jin turned her head to comfort Fang Xia, "Spells don't work for me, I told you."

Fang Xia heaved a long sigh of relief. When he first met the puppet, Fu Jin did tell him, but seeing how the spell eroded Fu Jin, how could he still have time to recall what happened so long ago?

Fang Xia and Fu Jin got out of the car, and Min Xiao was still standing on the opposite sidewalk. He seemed very patient and was not in a hurry for Fang Xia and the others to make a move.

"Fang Xia, is that your name?" Seeing Fang Xia and Fu Jin getting out of the car, Min Xiao finally said, "How about I make a deal with you?"

"If I give you five yuan and you tell me the whereabouts of the Wang family, I have no objection to this transaction." Fang Xia replied.

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