[Old Nine Gates] Homecoming

By the floor-to-ceiling windows, there was a clean breakfast on the table.

Yu Manli wiped her mouth and said in a cold voice: "Breakfast is over, can you ask questions?" Her rare relaxation disappeared, and her spirit became tense again.

Zhang Qishan saw that Yu Manli was able to eat and her complexion was good, so it would not be too much to question him no matter how hard he tried.With a bottomed mind, he leaned forward slightly: "Yes. The first question, where did your golden nails come from?"

Yu Manli gently put the tissue into the ashtray on the table: "It's a long story. But since I'm not going to lie to you, I can only tell you that it was given by someone else. As for who, I'm looking too."

Zhang Qishan lowered his eyelids, then raised his head suddenly, his eyes fixed on Yu Manli: "Is it Lu Jianxun?"

Yu Manli frowned: "Lu Jianxun? Who is Lu Jianxun?"

Zhang Qishan folded his arms and leaned back on the back of the chair, but his eyes never left Yu Manli's face - the doubt in his pupils disappeared suddenly, but he didn't waver at all.

She was telling the truth.

But it cannot be proved that she has nothing to do with the person who stole the gold nail.Maybe Lu Jianxun "selected" her unilaterally, after all, Yu Manli is undoubtedly an excellent fighter.But since even she herself didn't know where the golden nails came from... Zhang Qishan suddenly thought about it.

"We make a deal?"

Yu Manli tapped the table lightly: "Let's listen."

Zhang Qishan said: "You just said that you are also looking for the person who gave you the golden nail. Coincidentally, I am also looking for it, why don't we look for it together."

Yu Manli changed from passive to active: "Cooperation is fine, but I won't tell you about issues that I don't want to talk about or can't talk about."

Without giving Zhang Qishan a chance to discuss it, Yu Manli immediately asked, "The second question?"

Zhang Qishan was about to speak, when Zhang Rishan's motorcycle stopped at the door with a howling sound, and Zhang Rishan stepped into the incense hall: "Buddha, I'm here."

Zhang Qishan pointed to Zhang Rishan: "Let him ask."

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The table was cleared by Qi Tiezui, and Yu Manli and Zhang Rishan sat side by side.

Zhang Rishan opened the cowhide notebook, and a photo was pasted on one page: "Have you seen the person in the photo?"

In sportswear, with a DSLR hanging around his neck, with a sunny smile and a pure, silly demeanor, he was the handsome guy she met yesterday.

Yu Manli nodded: "Yes."

"What time and place?"

Yu Manli recalled it carefully: "About nine o'clock, in the alley not far in front of the pillars of the tea village."

Zhang Rishan's delicate face suddenly tightened: "Did you remember clearly? If you recall it carefully again, could it be that you misidentified someone?"

Yu Manli folded her hands and placed them on the table casually: "No. Although I can't remember with a photographic memory, I am very good at recognizing people."

Zhang Rishan turned the notebook backwards: "We received a report at six o'clock yesterday morning, and the deceased was found at the entrance of the tea village. Take another look, is it wrong?"

Yu Manli was also taken aback when she heard the words, and reached out to take the notebook, but on it was a blackened corpse that had been chopped off at the waist.

Yu Manli's eyes suddenly tightened. She tried her best to suppress the anxiety and surprise in her heart, and pushed the notebook back to Zhang Rishan: "Maybe I really made a mistake."

Zhang Rishan felt a little regretful when she heard her confession: "Then think about it again. If you have any new clues or think of any key points, please contact me in time."

Standing up and walking to Zhang Qishan, he said in a low voice, "Lord Buddha, Old Dog Wu has not been found yet. There is also the police force..."

Zhang Qishan said: "I'll go back tomorrow. There is also this case. The deceased's death method is exactly the same as that of 'Yusheng blood, broken at the waist'. I think he may be related to the matter we are investigating now."

Zhang Qishan's eyes dimmed slightly: what he wants to do is to keep the world safe, but this safety may cost many lives in exchange.

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In the southeast corner of the tea village, Yu Manli carried a compass on her back, and took gold and silver nails to turn round and round at the entrance of the mountain.

The well was gone, not even the rope with her, nor her silver nails.

Yu Manli took out the compass—the compass in Tianchi pointed south steadily without any fluctuation.

Everything in front of me is peaceful, as if everything yesterday was a dream.

Yu Manli put away the compass and continued to walk forward. When she reached the entrance to the mountain, she was at the scene of the murder. There was a pool of blood on the ground, and the surrounding area was sealed with a seal.

Yu Manli wedged the gold nails on the rock not far away, stepped on her feet, and climbed up the rock wall.Looking down, there was still no difference.

Yu Manli had to re-examine herself, maybe everything yesterday was really a dream, and it was not like she had never been controlled by a dream.

Just as he was about to jump down, he suddenly saw a faint shining point in the grass.Yu Manli didn't have any ropes, so she had to wrap the straps of her backpack around the gold nails, then wrapped her feet around the straps of her backpack, and hung it upside down from the stone wall, only one meter away from the ground.After seeing that thing clearly, Yu Manli's mind went "boom": Isn't that the handsome guy's silver SLR camera strap.

The scene of meeting the handsome boy reappeared in his mind.

Yu Manli hurriedly jumped off the stone wall, took back the gold nails, and ran back to the inn without stopping.

Now there's one more way to prove if she's actually seen him: his DSLR.

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Qi Tiezui packed the whole chicken at the door, preparing to make a beggar chicken at night.

As soon as the chicken feathers were finished, Yu Manli was almost running over at a sprint speed.Qi Tiezui's first reaction was to hide the chicken.

Hmph, I agreed to come back at night, and I prepared a chicken.If two people eat together, wouldn't he only be able to eat half of it?

Qi Tiezui was stunned for a while, but Yu Manli had already run to the front, and hurriedly asked, "Boss Qi, where is Zhang Qishan?"

"gone."

"Gone?! When did you leave? Can you contact him?"

"Not long, not long before you came back..."

Before Qi Tiezui could finish speaking, Yu Manli ran out again in a hurry. Just two steps away, Zhang Qishan's jeep stopped at the door with a "whoosh" and half of her body leaned out of the window: "Where are you going in such a hurry?" ? Shall I send you off?"

Qi Tiezui looked up at the sky: one or two said they were leaving, but they all came back.He just caught a chicken off the mountain!

"Okay, Master Buddha is back, let's talk about it." Qi Tiezui turned his head to leave.

Who knew that Yu Manli called to stop him: "Boss Qi, maybe you can help me with the question later."

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Yu Manli sat nervously opposite Zhang Qishan, watching him call the police station.

"Yes, help me check the deceased's SLR camera and send me the photos inside. Immediately, immediately."

Zhang Qishan put down the phone, turned his head to Qi Tiezui, but turned his eyes to Manli: "You asked me for his photo in such a hurry, what clue did you think of? What kind of relationship do you have with him?"

Yu Manli frowned: "I can only be sure by looking at the photos."

Just as he was talking, Zhang Qishan's cell phone beeped, and the photos were sent one by one.

Zhang Qishan showed her the pages, and Yu Manli concentrated her attention, half expecting and half worried.Finally, when the last photo came, Yu Manli felt as if someone had hit her head with a stick: the person in the photo was none other than herself.

Zhang Qishan asked: "You knew him before?"

Yu Manli shook her head.

The dead bodies in the tomb were revived, and the dead people who entered the mountain pass were caught by her in the tea village.

She paused, then asked Qi Tiezui calmly: "Boss Qi, have you heard of resurrection from the dead?"