WVKWnovel #191 - Six boxes
#191 - Six boxes
After learning that Princess Fu'an was being targeted by Prince Yun, Lu Jing proactively asked Gu Caiwei if she needed any help from him, but Gu Caiwei refused without hesitation.
Lu Jing naturally knew that Gu Caiwei didn't want to drag him into the matter, but it also showed that she and Princess Fu'an were not entirely unprepared.
Based on Lu Jing's understanding of Gu Caiwei, she wouldn't put on a brave face if she really encountered a problem she couldn't solve.
Therefore, Lu Jing felt relieved and only reminded Gu Caiwei to be careful and not to get too close to the royal family.
Because his acupoints had been sealed, the young man couldn't open his mouth to speak, but driven by his survival instinct, he kept looking at Lu Jing with pleading eyes, hoping for a miracle to happen and for the latter to have a sudden change of heart.
But even after arriving at the gate of the Imperial City Bureau, Lu Jing didn't release him, nor did he intend to let him speak.
Looking at the three imposing characters above his head, the young man disguised as a hunchback felt his soul scatter.
However, just as he was feeling desperate, Lu Jing finally stopped.
Instead of continuing forward to send him into the Imperial City Bureau, he led him into a small alley next door.
Perhaps because the Imperial City Bureau had too fearsome a reputation in the capital, there were usually not many people around here.
Lu Jing put down the young man disguised as a hunchback in the empty alley. The latter's eyes, which had been ashen, suddenly burst out with endless hope.
He quickly calculated in his mind how to offer enough benefits to make Lu Jing let him go.
However, Lu Jing didn't unlock his acupoints and let him speak as he had hoped. Instead, he reached out and searched his body.
He found six anonymous deposit slips from Duobaoge and two three-hundred tael silver notes.
After completing the process of collecting spoils, Lu Jing contentedly picked up the young man disguised as a hunchback again and strode towards the Imperial City Bureau next door.
Lu Jing asked the gate guard to call out Yan Guangbo.
Yan Guangbo was greatly surprised to meet Lu Jing again in the capital, but before he could go forward to reminisce, he saw a person flying towards him.
Yan Guangbo subconsciously reached out and caught the person who flew over, and then he heard Lu Jing say, "Has there been a flower-picking thief in the city recently?"
Yan Guangbo was stunned, "You know about this too? Wait, this guy shouldn't be…"
"I don't know, you have to interrogate him yourself," Lu Jing said, "I just happened to see him disguised as a hunchback, trying to work as a bodyguard in someone else's house."
"Rumor has it that the flower-picking thief is indeed famous for his lightness skills and disguise, and he also likes to sneak into the victim's house before committing the crime," Yan Guangbo said, overjoyed, "Prince Qi has been furious these days, putting pressure on the Bureau.
"We were also preparing to arrange manpower to capture this thief as soon as possible. We didn't expect that the superiors had just urged us, and you brought the person over."
Lu Jing became interested when he heard this, "You're planning to catch him? Is there a reward?"
Yan Guangbo's smile froze on his face when he heard this, "Ah? Reward, there… there shouldn't be one. This guy hasn't committed a crime for long, and the case file was only recently transferred from Lintian Prefecture to our Imperial City Bureau, so it won't be on the wanted list so soon."
"Okay," Lu Jing said, slightly disappointed, "Then there's no problem if I keep the things found on him, right?"
"Of course, that's always been the practice," Yan Guangbo nodded, and then couldn't help but ask, "Why, is Grandmaster Lu short of money recently?"
"Well, I just bought a house and got involved in something that will keep burning money, so I'm a little tight," Lu Jing said vaguely.
"Land prices in the capital are not cheap," Yan Guangbo agreed, and then said, "In that case, I wonder if Grandmaster Lu is interested in working for my Imperial City Bureau? Don't worry, you don't have to join us. Just help us hunt down the fugitives on the wanted list.
"Grandmaster Lu is now a first-class master on the Tianji List. Except for those few most powerful devils, I think everyone else is no longer your opponent. Our Imperial City Bureau will specially send a group of people to collect information for you, and you will only be responsible for taking people down in the end.
"And after capturing the person, all the reward money will be yours."
It had to be said that Yan Guangbo's proposal was quite tempting to Lu Jing, but he would be studying at the academy later, so he didn't have time to earn this extra money for the time being.
However, Lu Jing didn't completely reject the idea, and only said that he would go back and consider it.
After leaving the Imperial City Bureau, Lu Jing made another trip to the main branch of Duobaoge in Lintian City.
He gave the six anonymous deposit slips in his hand to the shopkeeper there and exchanged them for six boxes.
Lu Jing hired someone to pull the six boxes back to his house.
He opened one of them and looked at it, and found that it was actually filled with clothes and accessories. Lu Jing threw the clothes aside and found a human skin mask and a booklet underneath.
The quality of the human skin mask was the same as the one he had taken off the young man's face before. It looked very lifelike, and even the texture on the skin was very carefully made.
It was obviously the top-notch product, and could even be called a work of art. With Lu Jing's eyesight, he couldn't see any flaws on the young man's face before.
Lu Jing hadn't had much contact with similar things before, but he roughly knew that a good human skin mask in the Jianghu basically cost more than a hundred gold, and there was no market for it.
He flipped through the booklet next to him, which recorded the life of a man named Feng Jiulang, including his habits, the business he was engaged in, and his family members, in great detail.
Lu Jing knew that he had found a treasure this time.
Then he opened the other five boxes. Except for one that was empty, the things in the remaining four boxes were similar to the first one. There were old and young, male and even female.
Six boxes represented six different identities.
This was also an important reason why the young man could pick flowers everywhere in the capital but had not been caught. But now that these things had fallen into Lu Jing's hands, Lu Jing would naturally not use these things to continue harming those poor women in the capital.
But he would not refuse the six small accounts that were sent to his door.
These identities might be useful in the future.