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Chapter 263 The Thief
As an alchemy practitioner, Xu Yuan certainly knew what the "Seven-sided Pitcher Plant" was.

This is a precious medicinal herb, but also a kind of evil spirit.

It will capture evil spirits for nourishment and also likes to feed on living people.

Although it is called "grass", this thing grows taller than ordinary trees.

Generally, after three years, this thing will grow to three meters high, and after five years it will be more than five meters high.

The branches and leaves spread out, covering an area of dozens of feet.

Each leaf is the size of a cattail fan. When seven dark ghost faces grow on the leaf, it will produce a lantern-like fruit.

The fruits do not fall all year round.

But once the fruit is picked, the thing dies.

This fruit is essential for a divine cultivator to advance to the fourth level.

In addition, martial artists who have advanced to the third level also need to use this fruit as medicine for medicinal baths.

It is priceless.

It is even called "wishing fruit" by some monks.

As long as you get one, you can make a wish to the monk.

Unfortunately, this "Seven-sided Pitcher Plant" can only be cultivated by evil spirits.

They cannot grow naturally.

People can't survive even if they are planted.

Zhang Laoya still felt aggrieved: "Actually, you can't blame me entirely. How would I have known that this 'Seven-sided Pitcher Plant' was their dowry?"

Xu Yuan covered his face and shook his head.

No wonder they are chasing you - Xu Yuan even suspected that Zhang Laoya was not telling the truth and he was just going for the seven-sided pitcher plant.

It is also very difficult for the evil spirit to cultivate the seven-sided pitcher plant, and it takes countless efforts and time to grow it into fruit.

"Have they found you before?"

"I've found them three times," Zhang Laoya said guiltily. "They always tried to get me to change my mind and go back with them. But... their attitudes got harsher each time, so this time, I'm a little unsure."

Xu Yuan grasped the crux of the matter again: "How did you escape the first three times?"

Zhang Lao Ya started to hesitate again.

Xu Yuan understood immediately: "Did you lie to her again, agreeing to marry her and then sneaking away?"

Zhang Laoya gave a thumbs-up: "Great minds think alike. You actually thought of this idea the first time..."

Xu Yuan slapped his hand away. "No wonder you're so nervous this time! You told me before that your life wouldn't be in danger. If I were those three, I'd swallow you the moment I found you, and we'd be together forever!"

Zhang Lao Ya vowed: "I don't think they would be so cruel to me."

Xu Yuan shook his head helplessly. It really is true that you can't judge a book by its cover.

When Zhang Lao Ya was teaching him the "Business Law", he acted like a senior master and a great practitioner of the law.

There is actually such a disgusting past!
Xu Yuan originally thought it was just a debt of love...

You underestimated Mr. Zhang.

"How did you manage to get to the sixth-rate level in business law when you are so dishonest?"

Zhang Lao Ya was displeased: "There is real affection between me and them, it's not a business deal!"

This old guy actually said this without blushing!

Xu Yuan didn't want to protect this guy anymore. Lin Wanmo brought in breakfast just in time, and Xu Yuan started eating. "You can handle it yourself. Don't even think about asking me to help you with this matter! The most I can do is to fulfill our previous agreement."

Zhang Laoya did not force Xu Yuan, nor could he force him, so Xu Yuan abided by the transaction agreement between the two parties.

But this old guy's eyes were rolling around, and he must be planning something.

After finishing his meal, Xu Yuan ran into Qin Ze head-on. "Why are you here?"

"Hehe!" Qin Ze smiled embarrassedly: "I'm not going anywhere today. I'm staying in the government office - I'll stay here tonight too."

Di Youzhi also arrived, laughing and mockingly saying, "Old Qin has a hot temper and has made many enemies on a daily basis. Today he's going to play the turtle and hide in the government office, not daring to go out. Hahahaha."

Qin Ze's face flushed: "Who among us who works here doesn't have a few enemies?"

"If it's a day when refining medicine and playing with pills are prohibited, I'm also afraid, but I will hide at home." Di Youzhi continued to expose his shortcomings: "Sir, do you think why Lao Qin doesn't dare to hide at home?"

Xu Yuan looked at Lao Qin and asked, "Have you offended all the neighbors?"

"It's not that serious. It's normal to have a quarrel over family matters..."

Xu Yuan knew it wouldn't be that simple. Old Qin had a bad temper, but he was only "well-behaved" in front of him.

"Okay, go ahead." Xu Yuan waved his hand to send him away.

After a while, someone from the office came to inform him, "Master Xu, Master Wen Bin has arrived."

……

Wen Bin was somewhat disappointed.

The case was settled before I even arrived.

This judge is going to be fearless and overcome all difficulties to uphold justice for a diligent little inspector of the Extermination of Filth Division!
Xu Yuan went to meet with Wen Bin and verified some details of the case.

Wen Bin wrote the file himself and sent Xu Yuan away.

After Xu Yuan left, he heard Wen Bin discussing with his staff inside: "...There is room for improvement."

"How about we adapt it to this: this little inspector, ignorant of his own limitations, punished the village massacrer according to the law, but he didn't expect the murderer to be from a prominent family. He was retaliated by the other family, thrown into prison, tortured into confessing, and nearly died unjustly in prison."

"His former colleagues, feeling sorry for him, secretly brought out a letter written in blood on his prison uniform and presented it to the Lord."

"The lord went incognito to investigate the case, repeatedly risking his life alone to find evidence, and even coming close to death several times. Only then did he obtain the crucial evidence, redress the injustice done to the innocent inspector, and severely punish the wealthy family...

The last scene is when the little inspector is released from prison, sees the light of day again, kneels at the feet of the adults and shouts "Blue Sky!"

Master Wen nodded repeatedly in praise: "Wonderful, truly wonderful!"

Xu Yuan: ...

Have you ever thought about the feelings of the “little inspectors”?

Forget it, as long as Wen Bin can find a way to prove this case true and prevent the Fu family and the Shanhe Division from taking action against him officially, let them make up whatever they want.

Lord Xu shook his head and left.

Just as he arrived at the yamen gate, he encountered several people rushing in. The one leading them was Wan Yun. Seeing Xu Yuan was like seeing a savior. His eyebrows were bright with joy and he said, "Brother, you've come at the right time. Please help me with some advice."

Then he dragged Xu Yuan to his duty room without saying anything.

"Brother Wan, what happened? Why are you so worried?"

Wan Yun frowned deeply: "It's difficult."

He personally poured tea for Xu Yuan and said, “Last night, there were several thefts in the city. They were all from famous wealthy businessmen in the city, and their treasuries were stolen.

The locks of the treasury were not opened, the night watchmen had not neglected their duties, and nothing unclean had been seen, yet all the silver in the treasury had been emptied."

Xu Yuan was stunned and thought of the nightmare last night.

Those three nightmare tapirs seem to be able to do it too...

Wan Yun said, "I suspect it might be something like 'Five Ghosts Moving'. I just took someone to check it out."

"How is the result?"

"It's definitely not 'Five Ghosts Moving'." Wan Yun said seriously, "These wealthy merchants have hired seventh-rate monks at their homes. Those crude 'Five Ghosts Moving' methods are simply not going to steal the treasury silver from under their noses."

Wan Yun felt rather embarrassed and hesitated as he said, "There's a family that's a distant relative of Lord Xie's who lost 70,000 taels of silver. Lord Xie has given me three days to solve the case, or... he'll strip me of my official uniform."

(End of this chapter)