Chapter 1581: Clue

How many pairs of eyes were watching him in the open and in the dark? Any slight disturbance on his end could easily be over-interpreted if it spread. Moreover, he was truly harboring evil intentions!

"Just now, someone visited the villa through Fan Shuang and sold me 700,000 taels of silver worth of Profound Crystals. This person is a bit suspicious."

700,000 taels? Such a big order? Dong Rui ate the biscuit in a muddled way. "You meet guests all day long; what's special about this person?"

The visiting cards received by Spring Gushing Shanzhuang every day were as many as cartloads; ordinary people wanting to see He Lingchuan would have to queue for at least ten years.

"He bought the Fan family's property first, then came to the villa to find me through Fan Shuang's introduction."

"Smart people all do this, right?" Dong Rui drank some wine. "What's wrong with that?"

"The problem is, he didn't seem to want to sell those Profound Crystals." He Lingchuan also took a biscuit to eat. "Calculated at market price, it should be about 550,000, but he insisted on sticking to 700,000; there was no sincerity."

"Maybe the man just wanted to sell at a high price."

"I agreed to 700,000, and he was a bit surprised." In fact, Tian Yun was right about one thing: selling such high-quality Profound Crystals in a pile would only increase the total price, not decrease it. This wasn't buying fruit at the vegetable market where buying more meant wholesale prices. "Besides, during the bargaining process, he wasn't very familiar with business negotiations; just now at dinner, I specifically asked some common sense questions about the business field, and it turned out he was a bit unfamiliar with his own chamber of commerce and not transparent about the Heaven Water City market. Overall, this person doesn't look like a seasoned merchant."

"Not seasoned, but rich, at least has a pile of Profound Crystals?"

"Right. Assuming his purpose isn't simply to sell Profound Crystals, then why did he come to find me?" He Lingchuan pondered. "He also put forward the request to personally draw some spring water."

"Could it be that he just wanted to get close to you?"

"His performance indeed looks like he's trying to get close and pull strings, but the cost is a bit high." The chips he threw out were 700,000 worth of Profound Crystals.

Although He Lingchuan also paid, the other party didn't lose much.

Most importantly, this person Tian Yun made He Lingchuan feel danger as soon as he appeared.

Although Tian Yun covered it up in many ways, He Lingchuan always felt that this person was constantly evaluating him.

"He's a bit wrong."

He believed in the intuition he had honed on the battlefield, so he sent Wanqi Liang to follow Tian Yun to see which inn he was staying at and how many people were by his side.

The change was coming, and at this time, He Lingchuan didn't want any accidents.

"Alright, I'm going to take a bath." Dong Rui stood up and stretched; after being in seclusion for so many days, it seemed he could rub a layer of mud off his body. "Leave a braised pork knuckle for dinner, one that's stewed until soft and falling off the bone."

He Lingchuan immediately ordered Wang Fubao to have Gu Lin investigate the background of the "Zhengxin Chamber of Commerce."

Since it was called Spring Gushing Shanzhuang, there was naturally a hot spring pool suitable for bathing, with a water temperature of 43 degrees all year round; the colder it was, the more comfortable it was to soak in.

Dong Rui soaked for a full half-hour until his bones were crisp and his muscles soft before crawling out slowly.

Ah, refreshing; all 84,000 pores on his body were relaxed.

After soaking for a long time, his stomach began to growl.

At this moment, the braised pork knuckle should be waiting for him in the small kitchen. Dong Rui walked out slowly, just wanting to summon the two demon puppets guarding outside, but saw the branches on the tree shaking wildly and a piece of chirping—

These two guys were fighting over something? The Ghost Ape and the bat were fast, and Dong Rui couldn't see clearly, so he could only look up and howl: "Hey, what are you doing!"

The two guys still wouldn't stop, still pulling and tugging. Dong Rui was annoyed and gave an order: "All of you, get down here!"

Only then did the demon puppets roll down obediently.

"Let me see!"

The Ghost Ape gave the bat a fierce glare before spreading its palm under its master's eyes.

Lying in its palm were two...

"Beetles?" Round, one green and one brown, one big and one small, but they were indeed beetles.

"What's so good about this thing to fight over?" There were plenty of them in the villa.

He did know that the Ghost Ape and the bat's menu did indeed include beetles. To them, it was just a small snack; they didn't care about the nutrition, they just liked the crunch.

The bat chirped twice, and the Ghost Ape wouldn't be outdone, roaring as well.

Another round of magic sound piercing the brain.

Dong Rui sank his energy into his dantian and shouted: "Shut up, all of you!"

Outside of battle, these two guys were actually not worry-free.

"You first!" He pointed at the Ghost Ape. "Tell me what's going on!"

The monkey's version was that the bat found something delicious, and it had been stealing it just now, refusing to share a taste.

"Delicious? Can two beetles count as delicious?" These two guys had been by his side for a long time; what good ingredients hadn't they eaten? Even the Emperor's Dew had been licked quite a bit, and now they were fighting over two beetles? He knew how picky the Ghost Ape was. Dong Rui's heart stirred, and he had the monkey flip the beetles in its palm over, belly up.

"This!" Dong Rui's pupils shrank, and his face suddenly became serious.

He asked the bat demon puppet: "Where did you catch them?"

The bat chirped twice.

"At the entrance of the cellar cave?!" Dong Rui's heart tightened. The bat actually caught these things at the entrance of his residence?

"Go, go back and look!"

At this moment, he didn't even care about the big pork knuckle, lifted his legs, and ran toward his residence.

On the way, he met the Yangshan guards and only gave one instruction: "Tell He Lingchuan to come to the mountain cave to find me, now, immediately, right away!"

Two quarters of an hour later, He Lingchuan arrived.

At the entrance of the mountain kiln, over a dozen Yangshan guards were squatting in the grass and climbing trees, as if looking for something.

He Lingchuan asked curiously: "What is this for?"

Dong Rui poked his head out of the mountain kiln: "Come in, close the door!"

He Lingchuan did as told and also casually set up a barrier.

Dong Rui threw two beetle shells to He Lingchuan, his face as dark as water: "Trouble has come to the door. Look at these two things."

He Lingchuan took a look; these were no different from ordinary beetles, and they were dead. However, he flipped the beetle over and saw a red line on its belly, extending all the way to its mouth.

This red line, why did it look a bit familiar? He Lingchuan hadn't had time to think about it when Dong Rui handed over a transparent glass bottle.

Inside the bottle was a small blue beetle.

He Lingchuan took a look; the belly of this blue insect also had a long red line.

"Eh, isn't this, isn't this...?"

"This is the insect puppet that controlled the personal guards to attack Boss Situ Yu at the kiln slope back then!" Dong Rui said word by word, "We already know who its owner is."

It was the murderer who assassinated Boss Situ Yu, and also the "father" in Xiao An's mouth.

It was the other demon puppet master who had never appeared.

After Boss Situ Yu was murdered, Boss Situ He came to find He Lingchuan and handed the bottle containing the blue beetle to Dong Rui for research.

This thing was undoubtedly a demon puppet. ===== CHAPTER 1582 =====