Chapter 2500: Chapter 104: The Mooringless Boat (Part 4)
Jiang Wang initially wanted to say, "Is this person crazy?" But then he thought that this person was called Tian Anping, and it made sense. So he said, "He’s waiting for Lin Youxie to be ready to kill him, so he won’t proactively seek Lin Youxie?"
Zhongxuan Sheng stood up from the exceptionally wide chair and clapped his hands: "Correct."
"Then where should Lin Youxie’s matter fall?" Jiang Wang’s voice carried a hint of bitterness. Of course, Zhongxuan Sheng was much smarter than him, unraveling the threads and analyzing everything logically. But now, all clues have been ruled out, so where could one still look for Lin Youxie?
As Zhongxuan Sheng walked, he said, "I had Qingzhuan tell you that this matter might not be complicated. In fact, Bao Zhongqing has already given you the answer."
Jiang Wang frowned: "Bao Zhongqing?"
"Do you remember when I talked to you about how Bao Bozhao died?" Zhongxuan Sheng asked.
Jiang Wang shook his head: "That’s just your private speculation, there’s no evidence."
"Many things don’t need evidence." Zhongxuan Sheng said: "Even if one dies in the midst of thousands of soldiers, trampled into mince, some traces can still be found, it won’t be silent and soundless. During the battle at the mountain, Tai Yin stirred the Dao Principles, killed so many, there were still witnesses left. What about Bao Bozhao’s death? Noon Sun City troops, and then he vanished. If Tai Yin had killed him, where’s the head? Where’s the corpse? Where’s the Summer Country’s military honor record? There’s nothing; he died too cleanly, that’s the problem itself... Of course, as long as Bao Zhongqing stubbornly refuses to admit, no one can force him to confess. Back to the matter of Lin Youxie’s disappearance, don’t you think, she vanished too cleanly?"
He emphasized the word ’cleanly’.
Jiang Wang seemed thoughtful, his expression dim.
"So Miss Lin’s disappearance was Bao Zhongqing’s doing!" Having silently listened for a long time, Shisi suddenly realized.
Zhongxuan Sheng finally sighed, feeling a bit weary, and said: "The answer should still be in Deer Frost County."
He walked to the bookshelf, summoned a roll of Daqi’s territory map with his chubby hand, turned around, and spread it out on the desk.
With a large finger, he drew a big circle along the border of Deer Frost County.
"These days Zheng Shangming should have checked all the places that needed checking, there’s no trace found in any border county, no record of her passing..." He looked at Shisi: "Familiar, isn’t it?"
The chubby man tapped the map twice with his finger, said to Jiang Wang: "Have you ever thought that Lin Youxie might not have left Qi Country at all?"
At the time Shisi ran away, Zhongxuan Sheng was too anxious, overlooked the situation of darkness under the lamp, and didn’t realize that Shisi hadn’t left Qi Country at all.
But Shisi was directionally challenged, had never traveled far alone, Lin Youxie wasn’t.
As an excellent green card, a good tracker and thief-catcher, from whichever direction you look, she couldn’t possibly have gotten lost.
Jiang Wang spoke slowly: "But the Patrol Inspection Bureau checked, I also checked. There’s no clue in Deer Frost County. Three months have passed, even if there were clues, by now..."
"Don’t worry." Zhongxuan Sheng looked at him and said: "The day we found Shisi was the last time you met Lin Youxie, and you haven’t contacted her since, right?"
"Yes."
"She told you she was going to Triple Punishment Palace?"
"Yes."
"Besides that, think carefully, was there anything unusual about her?"
"You’re trying to say, could she have gone undercover and quietly went to investigate the Tian family?" Jiang Wang shook his head: "She is very stubborn, principled, but not foolish."
Deer Frost borders Da Ze, indeed, it’s hard to avoid such suspicions.
However, as for that past case, it was already over for the Queen. For Tian Anping, he didn’t mind being hated. As for Lin Youxie, she had sought the best outcome she could, restored her father and Uncle Wu’s reputation.
Even if she thoroughly investigated the Tian family, she wouldn’t gain anything more.
The highest will enveloping Qi Country had long since drawn a red line with its gaze, Lin Youxie wouldn’t fail to understand it. She wouldn’t be foolish enough to challenge Tian Anping, who had become a True Man of the Age, after everything had already settled.
"Then the outcome is clear." Zhongxuan Sheng said slowly: "I am now very certain, Lin Youxie never left Deer Frost County!"
