"Master Pei, look at how this stone pavilion looks so similar to when we first met. You, His Highness the Crown Prince and Master Lin..."

Pei Wuyan smiled and nodded, "It's indeed similar. And similar pavilions are everywhere."

Pei Wuyan guided Yu Qingfeng to look at other paintings. There were similar stone pavilions in the paintings, as well as more buildings that were very familiar to Yu Qingfeng.

Lin Ming put it bluntly, "These are all scenes in the palace. I think most of them are Chunhua Palace."

Yu Qingfeng slapped her forehead and blamed herself for being slow:

"Let me just say that the clues will come to you on their own. Ma Lei would rather raise someone else's son than spend a lot of money to marry a young widow, and even risk going to the Netherworld Tower for this. That's because he knows that he can't be married in this life.

Dad, if you can marry a wife and get a son whose biological father died for nothing, then you are indeed making money."

At this moment, rustling footsteps were heard outside the courtyard gate.

The four of them looked back and saw an aunt about fifty years old looking inside.

As soon as the aunt saw the four of them, she turned around and ran away.

So Yu Qingfeng could let her escape? Hurry up and catch up.

"Auntie, auntie, don't leave, we are not bad people. We are here to buy paintings from Ma Lei."

As soon as Yu Qingfeng and the others chased them out, within a few seconds, the aunt disappeared outside the courtyard gate.

Pei Wuyan pointed to the adjacent yard with his eyes.

The aunt is definitely Ma Lei's neighbor.

"Auntie, I just want to ask you about this Ma Lei. If you help me, my young master will be rewarded." Yu Qingfeng knocked on the door and said in a very kind and approachable tone.

When the aunt heard "there is a reward", she opened the door a small gap.

Yu Qingfeng quickly took out the broken silver.

The aunt immediately took the broken silver and said, "Ask me."

"Ma Lei is a foreigner, right? He came here six years ago?"

The aunt shook her head.

Yu Qingfeng was so disappointed that she had to ask Pei Wuyan to reimburse her for the broken money.

As a result, the aunt said again: "I came here seven years ago."

Yu Qingfeng slapped her forehead, it was already the Chinese New Year, wasn't it seven years ago?

Pei Wuyan asked calmly: "Where is Wen Miaozi? Is she a local?"

"No, she came to Annan Prefecture alone a year ago. She said that her husband died of illness and her mother-in-law robbed her son and kicked her out. Where she came from, I have not heard."

Death warrior! Wen Miaozi is definitely a female death warrior!

"Where is Wen Miaozi's home?"

The aunt gave an address, which was very remote and perfect for destroying corpses and eradicating traces.

The four people found a corner, gathered around to discuss, and soon reached a consensus: without arousing Wen Miaozi's alert, they would take Ma Lei away for protection, pretend not to know that Wen Miaozi was a dead soldier, and secretly monitor him.

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Wen Miaozi's home was isolated, on the edge of Annan Prefecture. When they arrived, the door was closed, and there were two men at the door who seemed to be thinking about climbing over the wall to get in.

Judging from the way these two people are dressed, they should not be from a class willing to spend money to buy pictures of hell. Therefore, their purpose is obvious - free prostitution.

"Is Ma Lei in there?" Pei Wuyan asked the two people who were arguing over who was stacking Arhats at the bottom.

When the two of them saw the four dressed people, they unconsciously became respectful.

"Inside, we just heard a voice inside, and it was Ma Lei."

"Is Wen Miaozi here?" Lin Ming asked.

"No, the little widow went to the mountains to pick wild vegetables. Are you here to buy paintings?"

"Yes, in addition to buying paintings, we also want to ask Ma Lei to go back and paint us more pictures of hell."

Yu Qingfeng pretended to be a middleman, fancying business opportunities, and wanted to mass produce and resell. The reason why she told these two people was to let them send a message to Wen Miaozi.

Ma Lei inside seemed to have heard the voices outside and ran towards the door quickly.

The door was opened a small gap, and a pair of sneaky little eyes were revealed, looking at the four of them.

Soon, Ma Lei confirmed by dressing up that these four guests were indeed wealthy people who could make a lot of money with him. He hurriedly opened the door to welcome the guests and dismissed the two men who wanted to climb the wall.

"Are you Ma Lei?" Pei Wuyan showed a superior attitude.

"Yes, yes, I am. Who are you four?" Ma Lei nodded and bowed, extremely flattering.

"We came from Suzhou to run a painting gallery. I accidentally heard that you have a picture of hell in your hand." Yu Qingfeng improvised.

"Yes, yes. I have. I have been to hell and have seen it with my own eyes. If you don't believe it, ask the locals?" Ma Lei quickly grabbed the two men who were watching the fun that he wanted to send away just now.

Two real people nodded to testify.

"So, you, a painter who has seen hell with your own eyes, are more precious than the pictures of hell in your hands." Yu Qingfeng showed interest in Ma Lei, "How much can you earn from selling a painting? Are you interested in joining us?

cooperate?"

Ma Lei's eyes shone brightly and he nodded, "How to cooperate?"

Yu Qingfeng glanced at the two men who were watching the excitement, and made a "please" gesture to Ma Lei, "This is not the place to talk, how about we go back to the inn to talk in detail?"

Ma Lei hesitated.

Lin Ming took out a piece of silver and said, "You can keep the silver and leave a letter to your family telling you where to go."

When Ma Lei saw the money, he instinctively took it and looked at the two men warily.

"We just want to see the map of hell, we are not thieves!" the two people quickly expressed their stance.

"Don't worry, we are also witnesses. If the money is lost, these two people can't run away. If we go against you, these two people are also witnesses, and we can't run away either. How about that?"

Yu Qingfeng must dispel Ma Lei's concerns and take him away. It is not easy to see a living witness, so he must be taken down.

"Okay, you guys come in first and wait for me for a while. I'll leave a note so that Miao Zi won't worry."

The four of them entered the courtyard gate and looked around. There was a vegetable patch, cellar, firewood and a firewood ax in the courtyard.

Yu Qingfeng guessed that Wen Miaozi, as a dead soldier, must have thought of many ways to complete the task. He could kill Ma Lei, bury him under the vegetable field, throw him into the vegetable cellar, or chop him to death with a wood ax and kill the body.

Burned with firewood.

Thinking of this, Yu Qingfeng looked at the grinning Ma Lei writing a note to Wen Miaozi in the room, and felt extremely pitiful.

The reason why Wen Miaozi didn't take action was probably because she wanted to confirm whether Ma Lei was the eunuch of Chunhua Palace she was looking for; secondly, she also wanted to escape unscathed and planned a perfect murder plan.

Or a frame-up plan.

Wen Miaozi is a dead soldier, but she is also a human being. As a human being, she has the desire to survive. She does not want to sacrifice herself to complete the task. Like Zhou Lang before, since she is using the case to kill people, she naturally wants to escape intact.

For Wen Miaozi, the chance to escape unscathed came to her doorstep, and that was the local ghost case.

As long as Ma Lei is taken away by ghosts like those three people, wouldn't Wen Miaozi be able to escape unscathed?

As long as she killed Ma Lei, disposed of his head, disposed of his body, and took his head back to life, she would be able to escape unscathed.

But how can the ghosts take Ma Lei away? Wen Miaozi doesn't know how the ghosts choose their victims, so she can only take the initiative to let Ma Lei become the victim.

The method is to kill with a borrowed knife, and use love, marriage and the eldest son picked up for free as bait to lure Ma Lei, a painting fanatic, to visit the Nether Tower, the legendary entrance to hell.

If Ma Lei died inside, she would collect his body and take his head back to revive him.

If Ma Lei comes out alive, it doesn't matter. Since Ma Lei is a person who has been to hell, Wen Miaozi only needs to claim that he witnessed a ghost taking Ma Lei away, and his credibility will be very high. In this way, he took advantage of the ghost.

A free ride on the case.

The worst possibility is that Ma Lei disappears into the Netherworld Tower, with neither alive nor dead.

Wen Miaozi should be like Yu Qingfeng and others. She didn't believe in ghosts and gods at all. She didn't believe that the Netherworld Tower was the entrance to hell, so she didn't believe that Ma Lei would disappear in the tower.

Even if this is the case, if Wen Miaozi, a dead soldier, had martial arts, he would be confident enough to enter the tower and retrieve Ma Lei's body.

No matter what, Ma Lei must be taken away before dark tonight, otherwise this unlucky ghost will definitely become the fifth missing person that Wen Miaozi said was killed by ghosts tonight.

"Okay, let's go." Ma Lei walked towards them with cheerful steps.

When he set out for Wen Miaozi's house, Pei Wuyan had already sent one of his guards to open three rooms at the inn in the city, pretending to be a residence for them, travelers from the state, and then put Ma Lei under house arrest.

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Ma Lei must not be brought back to Prince Xiaonan's Mansion. For the same reason, Qi Yao, Zhan Yaoyuan, Fan Zhizhou and General Wei are all suspects.

Ma Lei, a disabled man, could not refuse the attraction of his family, his beautiful wife, and the temptation of his free son, just as he could not refuse the business opportunities that came to his door. He urgently needed the fifty-tael gift, but he also needed the future of his family of three.

Worry-free life.

Yu Qingfeng had great sympathy for Ma Lei. Maybe he knew that his paintings, even if they were processed and disguised, would make people in the palace see clues and doubt his identity. But he just loved painting, and he just wanted to turn his love into a career.

Maybe he knew that he should be wary of foreigners who suddenly appeared around him, but after meeting Wen Miaozi, he still fell in love and was carried away by love.

If he had confessed his shortcomings to Wen Miaozi and Wen Miaozi expressed that he did not dislike her, then he would definitely not miss such a woman, a beloved person who might bring him happiness for the rest of his life.

Yu Qingfeng made up her mind that Ma Lei must be kept alive no matter what, and they had to take him back to Dali Temple to protect him.

Taking a carriage back to the inn, the four of them pretended to be familiar with the journey, but in fact, under the guidance of the guards, they took Ma Lei into an unfamiliar guest room.

"Ma Lei, we hope that there is not just one picture of hell, but a total of eighteen pictures that can be put together to show the panoramic view of hell. In this way, there will definitely be collectors who will collect all eighteen pictures at a high price.

, forming a complete picture of hell.”

Yu Qingfeng tried her best to paint a picture of a bright future for Ma Lei to make a fortune.


Chapter completed!