Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1233 596: Which Side Is Huang Yuxian On?

There are still many places similar to Puluo State, where people might still have no understanding of how Puluo State, scattered like loose sand, managed to win that war.

Yes, the outcome of the war must be that Puluo State won, otherwise, the current Puluo State would have long ceased to exist.

Li Banfeng doesn't know precisely how they won, but he seems able to make some relatively reasonable speculations.

"Little Shen, will there be a third Puluo War?"

Shen Jingye shakes his head: "How would I know? Our stance will definitely not change; we still wish to resolve conflicts through peaceful means."

As they were talking, Shen Jingye's phone rang, it was Chen Changrui calling.

In front of Li Qi, Shen Jingye usually restrains his emotions, but this time he couldn't hold back.

"I told you all earlier this year to beware of Gourd Village, what did you listen to? Tell those people in the Investigation Department, this year's year-end bonus is gone!"

After hanging up, Shen Jingye rubbed his forehead for a long time and looked up at Li Banfeng: "Gourd Village has opened, more than ten people have fallen into it."

"What is Gourd Village?"

Li Banfeng, having lived in Yuezhou for a long time, really doesn't know of any urban village called Gourd Village.

Shen Jingye also didn't know where to begin: "Gourd Village opens for one month each year, usually at the end of the year, and the location is undetermined, but it's a key focus for local bureaus to guard against.

Today Gourd Village opened in Yuezhou, and there was no preparation here. Such a thing happening right under the nose of the central district is laughable!"

"What do you mean by opened?"

Shen Jingye was speaking in bits and pieces, and Li Banfeng truly couldn't understand.

"Let's discuss it on the road."

Li Qi laughed: "Little Shen, you and I are really good friends."

Shen Jingye nodded: "Yes, good friends indeed, I owe you for this, let's slowly settle this later."

The two got into a car to Jia District, and along the way, Shen Jingye's phone kept ringing, leaving no opportunity to explain the situation of Gourd Village to Li Banfeng.

The driver parked the car on Shunfu Road, in front of a pharmacy.

Once inside the pharmacy, the owner, Fang Dongchen, was describing the situation during the crime: "That guy often comes to buy medicine from me, says it's for his mom. That day, after buying the medicine, he didn't walk far, stood at my shop entrance, peering inside through the glass door.

He always pays in cash, and once I miscalculated and gave him one yuan less change, he stood at my door for several minutes.

This time, I thought I miscalculated again. We're honest businessmen and don't take advantage of others, so I specially opened the door to take a look.

Every day around three o'clock, the sun directly faces my door, it's a bit dazzling. When I pushed the door open and looked, that man disappeared in the blink of an eye."

Li Banfeng asked Shen Jingye: "Did you check the surveillance? Where did this guy go?"

Shen Jingye first let Li Banfeng get into the car, and once there, while blocking the monitoring facilities, Shen Jingye whispered: "Checked, according to the surveillance, the man just entered the pharmacy, but in reality, he entered Gourd Village."

Li Banfeng couldn't understand: "What's the connection with Gourd Village? Based on his description, the person might be an Illusion Cultivator, creating an illusion to fool the shop owner, or he could be a Traveling Cultivator, moving so quickly the shop owner didn't see clearly."

Shen Jingye shook his head: "That's not it, the lady was inside the house at the time, she couldn't see the village; Gourd Village opened its entrance right in front of her shop door."

They returned to the pharmacy, and Chen Changrui called in a taxi driver in his twenties to describe the situation again.

"When I passed by the pharmacy, I saw a man looking in my direction like he wanted to call for a taxi, so I stopped the car. When I turned my head to look again, the man hadn't moved to the curb, he was staring back.

I wondered what he was looking at, so I lowered the car window. Looking across, two women were standing there wearing clothes that barely covered them.

The two women waved to him, and the man went inside. Once I saw that it wasn't a proper place, I quickly drove away."

The shop owner interjected: "Dear comrades, don't listen to his nonsense; what's this about not being a good place? I sell legitimate medicine here, all with licenses."

"I didn't make it up," the taxi driver shook his head. "I don't know if I was seeing things that day, but the man didn't enter the pharmacy."

Li Banfeng roughly understood.

A man, after leaving the pharmacy, called for a taxi. When he turned back to look, the pharmacy had changed its facade; under temptation, he unknowingly entered someplace.

Li Banfeng asked, "Where is the person involved?"

Shen Jingye replied: "Disappeared, his family reported it to the police. The police checked the surveillance, reviewed videotapes, and after much difficulty traced it to here and found these two witnesses, only then did we know this matter is not simple."

The situation is not simple, but why must it involve Gourd Village?

Shen Jingye asked the taxi driver: "What did those two women look like?"

"It's been several days now, I can't remember...," the driver thought carefully for a long time, "I can't recall their looks, but their figures were especially good, narrow waist, extremely narrow, big above the waist, big below the waist, very big."

Li Banfeng said: "What you're describing sounds like a gourd."

The taxi driver thought about it and nodded: "If you say it's a gourd, it does look like that."

Shen Jingye held his forehead: "I'm afraid of this gourd, don't expect to have a good year."

Li Banfeng patted the Wine Gourd he carried: "Sister, do you know about this Gourd Village place?"

The Wine Gourd replied unhappily: "Little brother, didn't I tell you, don't pat the place below my waist, people will laugh at me."

PS: Sister Gourd is still so captivating.

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