This year's monsters are super fierce [75]

"Yuan Qing is not the only prop master in the troupe."

Wei Kang is the rower of the water puppet show, and while he was leading Zhan Zhao to search the entire dock, he talked about the members of Water Flying.

The theater troupe does not only perform water plays in which puppets row boats, but more in the string puppet shows in Wasili, Goulan.Because the former spent too much money on props, even in a big city like Bianjing where people spend a lot of money from time to time, it is difficult to make a lot of money with water puppets.

"Water performances are inherently limited. In addition, it is difficult to design puppet movements, and it is difficult for the troupe to exit new stories one after another. Repeating a story, no matter how attractive it is at the beginning, will not last long.

It is inappropriate to say that the water puppet earns a lot of money quickly, but it invests a lot, so it must be supported by the performance of ordinary puppets with strings. "

Wei Kang specifically mentioned this point, which is related to Wu Meng, another prop master.

"Originally there were eight people in the theater troupe, two of them were prop masters, Wu Meng was in charge of making water puppets, and Yuan Qing was in charge of making string puppets.

The adults probably have already seen the difference between the two. The puppets performed on the water surface boats are smaller, no longer than an arm's length.String puppets are relatively tall, mostly exceeding the height of a person's waist.It doesn't sound like a lot of difference, but you can't be an inch worse when making a puppet. "

So, where did Wu Meng go?

Zhan Zhao flipped through Shuishangfei's registration list, and there were only six people registered on it, neither Wu Meng nor the partner Wang Yang mentioned by Wei Kang.

"My surname is Wu. Is Wu Meng related to the class leader? Where did he and Wang Yang go?"

Wei Kang took a look at the water of Jinming Lake, and said in a low voice, "Wu Meng and the leader of the class are both from Wujia Village, and they may be related for seven or eight generations. According to the leader of the class, Wu Meng doesn't want to go back to his hometown." I did. But, something feels wrong to me."

Performing water puppets puts a lot of emphasis on props.Although the class leader has always been stingy, he gave Wu Meng the highest salary, which may also be because they are from the same hometown.

"Three months ago, the theatrical troupe came to Yongqiu and bought a doll that was almost the same as a living person. The original troupe asked Wu Meng to try to make more similar dolls, but Wu Meng got the first doll. Qi Tian proposed to resign and quit. According to his intention, there is no way to imitate that kind of doll.

Of course the leader disagreed, it was similar to Yuan Qing's situation now, and early the next morning, we found out that Wu Meng had disappeared.The only difference is that there is one more letter, and Wu Meng left a text message saying that he has returned to his hometown. "

Whether Wu Meng has returned to his hometown in Xiangxi is still unknown.The class leader also sent a letter to Wujiacun, but has not received a reply so far.

What made Wei Kang feel that something was wrong was not only that Wu Meng left without saying goodbye, but also that the sailor Wang Yang left in a hurry.

As soon as the puppets come out of the water, not only the exquisiteness of the puppets, but also the word "playing in the water" is quite fancy.

Just as the troupe borrowed the dock this time, the small boat needed to be rebuilt by the troupe itself.

Earlier, there were no puppets that could move on their own, and the requirements for the hull were higher, and slides needed to be added to the ship board.

Even though there is a particularly dexterous puppet this time, the cabin in the middle of the hull is still different.The mechanisms that push the boat back and forth are placed here, and the people in the cabin are responsible for the control.

This is Wang Yang's job, and Wei Kang originally only gave him a leader.Now, just as Yuan Qing temporarily replaced Wu Meng, Wei Kang also temporarily replaced Wang Yang.

"Wang Yang left in a more hasty manner than Wu Meng. On the morning when Wu Meng didn't see him, Wang Yang simply packed his bags and left, not caring about the unpaid wages at all.

At that time, he said something unclear to me. I can only read and write, and I can't understand his riddles, but I remember the expression very clearly.It's fear, repressed fear. "

The book flute is sworn brother, and the acting king is also.

Wang Yang resigned in a hurry, and left as if fleeing, leaving only these eight words before leaving.

Three months ago, when Wu Meng and Wang Yang left, they more or less informed the members of the troupe.

In contrast, during the period from last night to this morning, Yuan Qing disappeared without revealing anything to anyone.

However, the patrolling troops stationed in the garden refuted the conjecture raised by the class leader about Yuan Qing's private escape.

Jinming Pond is open every day from 07:30 am to 05:30 pm.

Outside of this time, ordinary tourists are not allowed to enter, including most of the vendors are only allowed to enter and leave the park half an hour in advance or delayed.

However, the water flying troupe is not among them.Wu Yong paid a large deposit so that the troupe could live in the leased dock.

This arrangement is only for the troupe to have more time for rehearsal, otherwise, once the props are stored in the garden, how can a group of people live outside to train, let alone move the props around every day.

Since last night, the patrolling troops stationed in the park have not found anyone sneaking in and out of the park during the closing hours.

There is only a record of Yuan Qing entering the park at the third quarter of the unitary hour last night in the east and west gates. After that, even after the park opened, there is no record of Yuan Qing leaving the park again.

This is right with what the class leader Wu Yong said.

Because the second half of the water puppets was staged for the first time on the tenth day of March, the troupe rehearsed repeatedly last night.It was originally agreed that the troupe would rehearse as soon as Youshi arrived, but Yuan Qing was three quarters of an hour late.

Of course Wu Yong taught Yuan Qing a lesson, he vaguely knew that Yuan Qing was eating out with a bunch of gamblers.

After the lesson is over, the rehearsal will continue.

The theatrical troupe practiced for an hour and a half one after another, and almost everyone who passed the troupe fell asleep after Haishi.

"Because Yuan Qing was in charge of making the puppets, and Wu Yong asked him to imitate flexible puppets as soon as possible, so his room was located on both sides of the dock with the other five people, trying not to be affected by those ding-ding-dong-dong noises."

Yan Buzhou wanted to find the body with the broken arm, so she searched all the puppets in Yuan Qing's room to no avail, and then searched the entire dock, but still found nothing.

"I asked other people about this. Yuan Qing doesn't like others to disturb his carpentry work, and no one has ever entered his room. Usually Yuan Qing sleeps late, and other people occasionally hear the vague knocking on wood in his room. But last night's rehearsal was tiring, and I couldn't tell who was more tired, anyway, I didn't hear any movement in Yuan Qing's room."

At three o'clock this morning, the theater troupe assembled early as usual.The class leader found out that Yuan Qing hadn't arrived, so he didn't pay attention at first, thinking that Yuan Qing was a habitual late riser.

But at the second moment of Maozheng, half an hour before the opening of the garden, Yuan Qing was still there when everyone had to get in their positions. At the same time, they also found that the two puppets who were asked for 5000 taels were also missing.

The class leader Wu Yong decided that Yuan Qing fled privately with the money.Who made Yuan Qing mix with professional gambler Xiao Jin, and what made Yuan Qing more suspicious was that Yuan Qing owed gambling debts.

The reason is that the matter of Yuzan Guanpu the day before yesterday was not hidden.

Few people knew that it was Yan Buzhou who won a short hairpin casually, but someone recognized that Yuan Qing, who had lost all his money and was arguing with the straw hat stall owner, was from the Water Flying Troupe.

'Search the garden! '

Zhao Zhen came to Jin Mingchi one step later, originally worried that someone would deliberately spoil the plot of the second half of the water puppet to him.It never occurred to him that he didn't have the bad luck to encounter a spoiler, but he encountered a more terrifying breakup.

So, Zhao Zhen directly gave the order to search the garden.To see people in life, to see corpses in death, at worst to find clues to Yuan Qing's whereabouts.

Whether there are any signs of climbing on the four walls, and whether people will hide somewhere in the garden and want to take advantage of the chaos to leave.Ask the painter to draw Yuan Qing's portrait immediately, and today simply launch a search for Yuan Qing, and the imperial court will reward 100 taels of silver for anyone found.

Gongsun Ce can't say that searching the garden is adding to the chaos now, and the best way to find clues as soon as possible is to clear the field, but closing the garden for Yuan Qing is a must.In the past few decades, there have been homicides during the opening of the pond, and there has never been a closure of the park.

Since the field cannot be cleared, and more tourists will inevitably cause some clues to be destroyed, then rewarding clues is also a relatively good method.

"But there is still a flaw. People can swim in the water without flying from the sky or walking on the ground. Jinming Lake is a living lake, which flows from the north to the south and leads to the Jinshui River. Let three or four people in and out.

Although there should have been fences at both ends, the iron fence at the south exit was rusted.Before the opening of the pool this time, it was found that three or four railings were so rusted that they would break after being washed by the water. The gap in the middle was enough for a person to pass through, because the repair progress was very slow during the opening of the pool. "

As Gongsun Ce said, he stood by the window of Yuan Qing's room with a calm expression. After passing by the theater troupe, they confirmed that they hadn't touched the window. When he opened the door in the morning to look for Yuan Qing, the window was open.

There is only one door leading to the outside of the dock with a lock. After the lock is locked at night, there are no built-in door bolts in other rooms, and the door can be opened from both inside and outside at will.Therefore, it is impossible to determine a situation similar to the escape from the secret room-the door was locked, and Yuan Qing did not go through the door, but jumped out of the window and walked by water.

Talk about diving, not being pushed into the water.

Because on the window sill, apart from the broken arm of the puppet that Yan Buzhou found, there were no more signs of struggle.

What's more, Yuan Qing's underwater skills are better than anyone in the troupe, he can hold his breath underwater for nearly a cup of tea.Even if they pushed him into the water while he was unprepared, the rest of the troupe really couldn't do it easily if he wanted to beat Yuan Qing underwater.

The key to the gate is kept by the team leader. Wu Yongzheng thinks that Yuan Qing is the dock where he jumped out of the window and swam out. It is hard to say how to get out of the garden next.

For two whole days, the search of the garden was fruitless. Even when they dived to check the drain at the south end, they did not find any fragments of clothing at the break of the iron fence.

They couldn't find Yuan Qing, the big living person, not to mention the two precious puppets that disappeared together, and the puppet with the broken arm was also missing.

Jin Mingchi's clues were temporarily broken, or there was still a possibility that Yuan Qing's body sank at the bottom of the lake.But because Jiaoying went to the north to discuss the big business of pearl powder, no one can dive and search the entire Jinming Pond at this meeting.

Just because there is no clue so far, Yuan Qing is less like a simple escape with money.

Yan Buzhou was forced to interrupt the spring outing, and returned to Bianjing on the tenth day of March to follow up another suspicious clue—why Wu Meng and Wang Yang had to leave Shuishangfei in a hurry three months ago, and with the two dolls they bought Is there any connection?

If there was something wrong with the two puppets, and she didn't find anything wrong when she watched the performance that day, then the situation would be even more complicated.Does it have anything to do with another puppet with broken arms that Yuan Qing practiced?

With many questions in mind, he went to Ji Cheng, the son of an old carpenter in Yongqiu, who offered to sell off the doll at a high price.

"Ji Cheng is gone too."

Yan Buzhou looked for Ji Cheng in Bianjing for two days.Ji Cheng had been staring at Wu Yong to ask for money, who would have thought that after the day Yuan Qing disappeared, the innkeeper said that Ji Cheng hadn't come back, that the accommodation fee hadn't been settled and that his luggage was still there.

Zhan Zhao also had no good news. He wanted to know whether Yuan Qing had said anything to Xiao Jin the night before his disappearance.Went to several underground casinos to inquire, Xiao Jin promised to play, but was absent the day before yesterday and yesterday.The same is true, the luggage is there, but no one has returned to the inn.

"The three of them all disappeared. Including the two Wu Meng and Wang Yang who left in a hurry before, until now, the local verification information has not come. We can't think that they returned home alive."

At present, it is certain that the puppet with the broken arm has Yin Qi.

What is not sure is whether there is a problem with the two high-priced dolls.

The class leader admitted that the old carpenter Ji Yin was determined not to sell the two dolls at first, and it was Wu Meng's idea that it is better to start with the old carpenter's son and cooperate with Ji Cheng to let him steal the dolls out.

As for the rest, it is the matter of Ji's father and son.This time, Ji Cheng went to Beijing to accuse the Water Flying Troupe of coming up with this idea, which caused his father and son to turn against each other, and Ji old carpenter died of depression because of this.

"I'll go to Yongqiu to have a look." Yan Buzhou decided to go back to the source. He didn't need to ride a horse for this trip, and he could swim down the Bianhe River, and he could go back and forth in a day.There was still Liu Qin, an old acquaintance, who was the catcher, and now it was time to call him the head catcher of Yongqiu County, so he didn't need to bring another helper there.

Not long after Yan Buzhou left here, Nian Fei, wandering around the corners of Bianjing City, brought a new clue to Kaifeng Mansion.

Bao Zheng saw Nian Fei holding a wooden stick in his mouth from a distance, as if he was dragging something across the threshold. "Yueban, do you also have the bad habit of eating outside food?"

Nian Fei rolled her eyes directly. Its taste was not so casual, and she let go of the wooden stick in her mouth. It was clearly a puppet's leg.

The half-human puppet that was dragged in had its arms broken, two large holes were left on its shoulders, and its clothes were in dilapidated condition.

The broken-arm puppet kept its eyes closed, it was not an illusion, its body trembled slightly.

"Wow woof! woof—" Nian Fei yelled at Bao Zheng twice, and then yelled at the puppet, which frightened the broken-arm puppet to open its eyes.

"Hey, help. I don't want to be swallowed, I didn't kill anyone. I just want to take another look at this world. Who would have thought that Capricorn is so unreliable and chose such a body for me."

The mouth of the broken-arm puppet was half-opened and half-closed, and what it spoke was human words with a somewhat strange tone. "Master Bao, you must see clearly, I was wronged! Don't let the Xiaotian dog eat me."

Bao Zheng blinked, he seemed to understand something, and was a little dizzy.

He had to take it easy, the current situation was that the puppet was speaking human words, and even named a certain little fat monster and threatened to eat it.

Coincidentally, at this time, Zhan Zhao, who has half-knowledged about Nian Fei, is out to continue searching for clues, and he must ask Ying Wangdong to come to Kaifeng Mansion as soon as possible.

"Master Bao, I understand!"

At this time, Gongsun Tingzhi's excited voice came from the direction of Hou Ya, and he almost ran while talking. "Sworn with the flute, the king of acting. It comes from "Liezi? Tang Wen"."

Bao Zheng looked puzzled, did Gongsun Ce also play charades with him?Could it be that what he read was a fake soup question?How come I have never heard of this sentence.

Gongsun Ce took "Lie Zi" and turned to the article "Yanshi Dedicated Skills", "This is the last paragraph of this article, 'Fu Banshu's ladder, Mo Di's flying kite, they claim to be extremely capable. Disciples Dongmen Jia, Qin Hua Li heard about Yanshi's cleverness and told his second son that the second son never dared to speak well, but always obeyed the rules.'

What Wang Yang said, "The book flute is sworn brother, the acting king is also" is a misunderstanding.It should be Zhai who loses, and the king of Yanxi.Those two puppets made by Ji Yin are alive and well, and it is very likely that they learned from Yanshi. "

Folk anecdotes believe that Yanshu is different from a single mechanism technique, it is a powerful combination of mechanism technique and witchcraft, and it is more weird and unpredictable than mechanism technique.

Yanshi, who learned Yanshu, has long been extinct in the Jianghu.

The banks of the Yongqiu River.

Not long after Yan Buzhou got off the boat, when she was about to ask how to get to the county government office, a bird that looked like a parrot flew in front of her.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that it was actually a wooden bird covered with feathers.The wooden bird flew in the air and spoke human words, "Beauty, do you know how to get to Zhujia Lane? The young bald man over there asked you."

Under the tree on the river bank, the monk in white held a flower and smiled. As he walked step by step, it was like a fairy coming from Nine Heavens Kunlun. "Nagging, poor monk Wuyan, who came here to capture the traitor Ying Ji. May I ask what your name is?"