System: I am a second-hand dealer in the world of immortality

"Do you still remember what I told you about what happened to Wu Zhiming in the study?" Jiahe asked.

"Remember, Wu Zhiming was a disciple who did not fit the personality and was judged to have failed the mission." Shen Xia recalled.

"Actually," Jiahe hesitated, "I suspect that he was not judged to have failed the mission by the system, but was killed by others."

The last time Jiahe went to Xuezhai, there were only five people in the whole Xuezhai including the gatekeeper. Yan was an old man in his fifties or sixties. When Jiahe asked him what he said, he couldn't remember exactly what he said. Such an old man with memory problems could actually describe Wu Zhiming's story completely, as if someone in the academy knew in advance that someone would come to investigate and told Jiahe specifically.

After returning that day, Jiahe thought more and more about it, and something seemed wrong, so she went to Xuezhai that night. She found Wu Zhiming's dormitory and went through almost all of Wu Zhiming's books and notes but couldn't find any clues. Just when Jiahe wanted to go to the school to take a look again, she heard someone talking in the yard and quickly escaped through the window.

"Dialogue? What dialogue?" Shen Xia asked.

"Probably... one person asked, 'Why are you asking me to accompany you out so late?', and another person said, 'Master just asked me to go to Wu Zhiming's room to get an article for him.' I didn't listen after that. Clear."

"Do you think the master and students who stayed in Xuezhai are suspicious?" Shen Xia continued to ask.

"The master's name is Jiang Hongkai, and the three students are named Ju Peng, Niu Kunrui, and Bao Huahui." Jiahe paused, "There is also a student named Sun Chen who lives near Ding Chenghe and their stall in Xihua Town. "

Ding Chenghe is the disciple who sells tofu. "So you think Sun Chen is more suspicious?" Shen Xia asked.

""The Legend of the Demon Fox" is a copy version. My father said that he didn't know who put it in a few big boxes at the door of the bookstore. It was originally intended to be given away as a gift, but during this period more and more people bought it. Just take them out and sell them."

"There are traces of pink potion under your fingernails, which means that those boxes of books were put away during the two days when Shaoning and the others sprayed the potion, and one night you happened to go to the school."

"Yes, the box appeared on the second day after I went to the evening school. Therefore, the master and the two students in the school can rule out suspicion. Then only the whereabouts of Bao Huahui and Sun Chen that night cannot be determined, and these two Everyone happened to have copied the book for the bookstore, so I carefully compared the handwriting. Although the author of "The Legend of the Demon Fox" wanted to hide it, the writing style was completely similar to Sun Chen's."

Shen Xia remembered the pink color near the tofu stall and sesame seed cake stall she saw in the sand table in the front hall, and asked, "Have you asked Ding Chenghe and the others? About Sun Chen's situation."

"That's where the problem arises," Jiahe smiled bitterly, "The four of them seemed to have discussed it, saying that after the competition, we need to give each of them 50 low-grade spiritual stones, otherwise they will not tell us any information about Sun Chen. And how they followed the four people in the academy these past two days."

Tianguan Sect can exchange mission points for spiritual stones. 1000 mission points = 1 low-grade spiritual stone. The missions for a school year are basically mission points, and Tianguan Sect does not allow outer disciples to use Tianguan. He went to pick up private jobs in Zong's name. In other words, the outer sect disciples usually save up to 10 low-grade spiritual stones by themselves in one school year, but Ding Chenghe and the four of them asked for 200 low-grade spiritual stones as soon as they opened their mouths.

Shen Xia can probably understand their psychology. She knows that there is no hope for her to be promoted to the inner sect this year. She specially selects the disciples who have the opportunity to be promoted to the inner sect. There are all kinds of cooperation ahead. She has some reliable information in her hand. Then the lion opened his mouth. But it's a pity that Shen Xia doesn't agree with them.

"Then ignore them. You can tell Yu Xifeng through Wang Cai that Ding Chenghe and the others have clues. If we don't take advantage of them, someone else will. However, Ding Chenghe and the others have probably sold the information to Yu Xifeng."

"But will this..." Jiahe was a little worried that the lack of some information would directly affect the final judgment.

"It's nothing, Jiahe, you forgot that the two of us have already been appointed. It's just that if we perform well in this task, we will have more room for choice. If you believe me, let go of Ding Chenghe's clues." Shen Xia remembered that Jiahe said that she met Deng Yi when she went to Xuezhai, and she also met Shaoning when she went to Zuiyue Tower, so Sun Chen's place would naturally be investigated.

The reason why Shao Ning wanted clues about the embroidery workshop was because the embroidery workshop had to gain the trust of the shopkeeper to get the portrait, and they didn't have that time.

"By the way, Jiahe, can you draw?" Shen Xia suddenly asked.

After Jiahe and Shen Xia finished chatting, it was already Haishi (21:00), and neither of them had any appetite to eat the food on the table.

After Jiahe left, Shen Xia went to the courtyard of Mr. Shen and Mrs. Lin. Their courtyard had an independent study room. Mr. Shen was reading in it, and Mrs. Lin had already gone to bed to rest.

"Dad." Shen Xia entered the study and stood up.

Mr. Shen put down the book, looked at his daughter and said dotingly: "Xia Xia is here, sit down."

"Dad," Shen Xia's voice was trembling. She took out a portrait from her arms and put it on the desk. In her panic, she knocked the inkstone on the table to the ground, "Why is there my portrait in the ancestral hall?"

Mr. Shen looked at the people in the portrait, and then at Shen Xia with white lips, and became panicked in his heart: "Who gave it to you?"

"Yu Xifeng..." Shen Xia's forehead was sweating, "Yu Xifeng said that I was the one chosen by the fox demon, so you, father and mother, set up a memorial tablet for me early. Dad, tell me, he Is what you said true, am I...am I dead now or not?"

Shen Xia seemed to be really scared. Mr. Shen felt that Shen Xia's hand holding his sleeve was trembling.

"Xia Xia," Mr. Shen helped Shen Xia sit down and wiped the sweat from her forehead, "Father and mother will not let you die, don't worry."

"Dad...who is in this portrait?" Shen Xia asked, pointing to the portrait on the desk.

Mr. Shen looked back at the young man in the portrait, sighed, and said, "He is dad's grandfather, which is also your great-grandfather."

"Dad, I'm so scared. Rumors are flying all over the world now, saying that our Shen family provoked the fox demon. They said... they said the only way to solve the problem is to sacrifice the Shen family to the fox demon. Dad... Xia Xia is not afraid of death. Xia Xia just...can't bear to leave her parents." Shen Xia cried in Master Shen's arms.

I don't know how long Master Shen comforted Shen Xia before Shen Xia's mood stabilized. Master Shen called Xiaocui and asked her to take Shen Xia back to rest.

After Shen Xia left, Mr. Shen picked up a book on the carpet, which was the improved "The Legend of the Demon Fox" that Shen Xia "accidentally" left behind.