Chapter 154: Hidden Spirit Robe

After the time of an incense stick, a short and fat old man wearing Gao family robes was brought into the law enforcement palace by several law enforcement team members in the market. This person was precisely the shopkeeper of Jin Baotang from before.

Seeing that the person sitting above was not the one he expected, the smile that had been on this Gao family cultivator's face instantly stiffened, and he hurriedly knelt down and bowed, shouting loudly.

"Small one, Gao Yufu, pays respects to Senior Song. I don't know what instructions Senior has for calling me here."

"Half an hour ago, someone came to me saying that Jin Baotang had swapped someone's second-tier magic robe. I don't know if Shopkeeper Gao knows about this?" Song Qingming saw this Gao Yufu looking respectful and still wanted to give him a chance, so he reminded him calmly.

Gao Yufu, upon hearing this, immediately shouted grievances loudly: "Senior Song, you must not easily believe the slander of those two people. Our Gao family has been operating Jin Baotang for nearly two hundred years and has always been doing business with a conscience. This is also well-known in the market. If you don't believe me, ask the Song family cultivators; which one of them has suffered a loss in my Jin Baotang?"

Seeing this person so stubborn, Song Qingming's expression changed instantly, and he didn't show him any more courtesy, shouting sternly with a serious face: "Humph! You ungrateful thing, it seems that today you won't shed tears until you see the coffin. Xinhu, go and bring that person up."

Song Xinhu, upon hearing this, immediately took the order, walked to a side hall to the side, and brought a cultivator who looked like a shop assistant into the main hall.

Gao Yufu, upon seeing this person, was shocked in his heart, and his face instantly turned pale.

This person was precisely the shop assistant Gao Yufu sent to greet the law enforcement team after the incident. When this person came to the law enforcement team, he thought that the one on duty today was their shopkeeper's acquaintance, Hu Maocheng, but he didn't expect to bump into Song Zhangxiong here.

The two captains of the law enforcement team change shifts every ten days. Apart from Song Zhangxiong of the Song family, there was another person, Hu Maocheng, Lu Yuanfeng's third disciple. This person was deeply trusted by Lu Yuanfeng and had been a law enforcement team captain in Qinghe Fang for more than twenty years.

The law enforcement team cultivator who should have been on duty today was Hu Maocheng, but it just so happened that he had something to do and changed shifts these two days, which turned into Song Zhangxiong being on duty.

Someone came to complain in the front, and in the back, he saw this person sneaking around to find Hu Maocheng. Song Zhangxiong immediately felt something was wrong and detained him on the spot. When Song Qingming came, he handed this person over to him together.

This shop assistant was just a rogue cultivator hired by the Gao family, and working under Gao Yufu was just to mix a meal. Now that he had fallen into Song Qingming's hands, he had long since become a frightened bird. Under the pressure of this Foundation Establishment cultivator, this person soon confessed everything about the origin of the matter.

He, a tiny shop assistant, was not the mastermind after all. The benefits he got from helping Gao Yufu run errands these years were just a drop in the bucket compared to what he embezzled, so naturally, it was not worth it for him to die for him.

"You dog thing, the Gao family hasn't treated you badly, right? As soon as you are full, you dare to come out and bite your master. Aren't you afraid of retribution in the future? It must be that this guy's own deeds were exposed and he is biting people indiscriminately. Senior Song, I hope you can look at the face of my clan leader and hand this person over to me to handle. After I go back, I will definitely make him hand over the embezzled things and give you, and the market, an explanation."

Although he knew the matter had been exposed, Gao Yufu still did not admit it directly. He still held a glimmer of hope in his heart, feeling that if he brought out Gao Jinhe, Song Qingming might be able to look at the face of this Gao family clan leader, not make a big deal out of this matter, and let him go.

Hearing this, Song Qingming chuckled twice and said: "For today's matter, I have already given you a chance, but it's a pity you didn't grasp it yourself. If you had admitted it directly at the beginning, looking at Daoist Gao's face, this matter could have been handled leniently. Your greedy and insatiable character is definitely not the first time you have done such sordid things. If I don't give you a lesson, how can I give an explanation to the many cultivators in Qinghe Fang?"

Upon hearing this, Gao Yufu instantly collapsed on the ground, begging for mercy repeatedly.

Song Qingming did not pay attention to him and said directly to the several law enforcement team cultivators below: "Take him down, pull him to the street and whip him fifty times, and notify the Gao family that Jin Baotang will be closed for half a year for rectification."

In the guest room of the law enforcement team's side hall, an old man with a worried face was pacing back and forth in the room.

"Grandfather, stop turning around. Things have reached this point, we can only try. If they are truly colluding, and we can't get back the Hidden Spirit Robe, we will just leave quickly. At worst, we will never come here again."

"Hongyu, you are too impulsive. Grandfather has told you many times, survival is the most important thing in everything. Wealth is an external thing. You made such a scene; if people hold a grudge and rob and kill us outside the market, I'm afraid by then, both you and I will be confused ghosts."

Just as the old man finished speaking, a sound of opening the door suddenly came from the door. The two grandfather and granddaughter raised their eyes and saw a young man suddenly push the door and walk in.

Sensing the aura on the person coming, the old man was instantly shocked and hurriedly pulled the young girl to kneel down together.

"Small one, Li Quan, pays respects to Senior!"

"Get up, no need for formalities." Song Qingming waved his hand to let them get up, raised his hand and took out a dark purple second-tier magic robe.

Upon seeing this object, the grandfather and granddaughter instantly showed a look of joy. After checking it, they hurriedly nodded and confirmed the object.

"You came to Qinghe Fang this time to sell this spiritual item?"

"Reporting to Senior, it is indeed so. We have long heard that Qinghe Fang has always been peaceful, so the two of us traveled thousands of miles to come here. We didn't expect to encounter such a thing, and it even disturbed Senior's great driving. I hope Senior can understand us two." After Li Quan finished speaking, he knelt down again to thank Song Qingming for his help.

Song Qingming nodded and continued: "What is the origin of this Hidden Spirit Robe? Can you tell me?"

"This Hidden Spirit Robe, when worn on the body, can help hide one's figure and aura for a period of time. It was passed down by our ancestors and has been over a hundred years. If Senior still doesn't believe it, send someone to Pingyang County to check and you will know." Before Li Quan could reply, the young girl who took the lead in complaining had already blurted it out first.

"Oh, so you are cultivators from Pingyang County?"

"We were originally cultivators of the Li family of Mount Cuilong in Pingyang County. Ten years ago, during the demonic beast chaos, our Li family suffered a disaster. There were not many cultivators left alive, and our original spiritual mountain was occupied by a group of outside bandit cultivators, so we were reduced to rogue cultivators." Li Quan said with a heavy tone about the destruction of his family.

The demonic beast chaos ten years ago was also experienced by Song Qingming, who had fought several great battles against demonic beasts in Pingyang County, so he naturally knew a thing or two about the situation there. Half of the territory of Pingyang County was occupied by demonic beasts back then, and many cultivation families suffered this devastating disaster, which indeed included the Li family of Mount Cuilong.

Need to correct it later.

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