My Endless Life

The meat supply of Linbian City generally comes from the largest street in the city.

It is also called the "morning market" by the residents of the city.

Many people can be seen selling meat here, including mutton, pork, chicken...almost all of which can be seen here.

But there is no beef.

After all, cattle are precious farming resources, and Daqi also prohibits the killing of cattle. Unless they are old or sick, beef will not flow into the market.

Although there is meat available in the morning market, most of these meat sellers are not real pig butchers.

They also "purchase goods" from butchers and then sell them in the morning market.

There are two butchers in Linbian City.

One is located in the east of the city, and the other is located in the west of the city. One is surnamed Wang and the other is surnamed Feng.

Both have their own pork supply sources. The external transport team sends live pigs to them. They are responsible for raising and slaughtering, separating the pig's internal organs from the meat, and selling them to vendors in the city.

Sometimes there are big households that go directly to them to purchase goods. If the county magistrate wants to eat meat, he will ask people to take the freshest ones directly from them.

Therefore, Liu Zhi was familiar with these two families.

Li Qi and Jiang Ming went to Wang the butcher's house in the east of the city first, and Liu Zhi followed them for some reason.

After all, he was an official of the court, and Li Qi couldn't just let him go, so he took him with him.

The group, together with several constables from the Six Gates, went straight to the east of the city.

When they arrived in the east of the city, before they arrived at the door of Wang the butcher's house, Li Qi smelled the familiar smell of pigs.

But this smell of pigs seemed to be a little different from the smell he smelled at the Feisha Gang's base and on the corpse.

However, Li Qi didn't think much about it. When he arrived at Wang the butcher's house, he ordered the constable to knock on the door.

Bang bang bang——

"Open the door, open the door! The government is investigating the case, open the door quickly!"

The constable shouted rudely.

Not long after, the door was opened from the inside, and a strong man with a bare upper body, a thick machete in his hand, and a rough cloth towel hanging around his neck came out.

He was stunned when he saw the people outside the door, and subconsciously tightened his machete in his hand.

However, he reacted quickly, and in less than two breaths, he put the machete behind his back, and asked in a panic:

"My lords... what are you doing...? I am an honest man, and I have never committed any crime!"

"It is not up to you to decide whether I have committed a crime or not!"

The constable who was responsible for knocking on the door stared at him and said.

The butcher just smiled.

Jiang Ming glanced at Li Qi beside him, and saw that he had no reaction. After thinking about it, he walked forward and asked the butcher directly:

"We are here to investigate the case. Are you Wang the butcher?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I am Wang Dazhuang."

The butcher nodded repeatedly.

Jiang Ming looked him up and down, and suddenly sneered:

"Wang Dazhuang! Do you know your crime!"

"Oh! Sir! This lord! I really didn't commit any crime! You can't wrongly accuse a good person!"

When Jiang Ming said this, Wang the butcher almost knelt down to Jiang Ming.

Being inexplicably visited by the head of the police and being inexplicably charged with a crime would scare anyone.

Moreover, Jiang Ming only said, "Do you know your crime?", but he did not tell Wang the butcher what he had done. If it was a petty theft, it would be fine if he was framed, but if it was a serious crime like murder, Wang the butcher would never admit it.

Besides, Wang Dazhuang really did nothing!

"Okay." Li Qi couldn't stand it, and said to Jiang Ming, "Don't say those useless things, just go in and investigate."

Hearing what Li Qi said, Jiang Ming scratched his head awkwardly.

Threatening and deceiving first is also a common routine used by these detectives.

After all, they often face people from the underworld, and people from the underworld have more or less criminal records. No matter whether they have criminal records or not, they can cheat and get unexpected gains.

Jiang Ming forgot that Wang the butcher was not a person from the underworld, and it seemed that the new Xunyou Envoy did not like this routine either.

After two dry laughs, Jiang Ming stopped entangled with Wang the butcher and sent everyone into the courtyard.

As soon as they entered the courtyard, the stench of pigs, the smell of blood, and various strange smells hit their noses.

This smell was even stronger than the smell of the rotting corpse, making everyone present cover their mouths and noses.

Li Qi's face was normal.

Although his practice made his five senses sharp, he also had his own way to block his sense of smell. When he came in, he sealed his sense of smell after determining the source of the smell, so the smell here did not affect him.

Moving his eyes left and right, Li Qi looked at Wang the butcher's courtyard.

The courtyard was not big. There was a row of bacon hanging under the shed to the east, and a few pigs to be slaughtered were placed in the shed on the right.

In the corner, there were useless internal organs and some scraps left after the pigs were slaughtered, and near the room, there was pig blood.

Near the door, there was a slightly thick chopping board with half-chopped ribs on it.

It seems that before Li Qi and his group came, this butcher Wang was processing these ribs.

At first glance, there was nothing unusual, just like this in an ordinary butcher's house.

Li Qi looked back and forth at the furnishings in the yard, and found nothing wrong.

After a little thought, he turned to look at butcher Wang and asked:

"Where were you last night?"

"Ah? I...I was sleeping at home..."

Butcher Wang was startled, then replied.

"Can anyone prove it?"

"Sir, I am a bachelor, I have no wife or children at home, where can I find a certificate for you."

Wang the butcher had a bitter face.

Everyone in the east of the city knew that he, Wang the butcher, was a bachelor for thousands of years. He was in his thirties and alone, without a father, mother, wife or children. Of course, he slept alone at night.

Where would he get this certificate?

Liu Zhi, who was listening on the side, said immediately:

"Okay, since you can't produce the certificate, then it's you! Arrest me!"

"Hey! Sir! All the lords! It's unjust! It's unjust!!"

Seeing that the detectives were about to take action, Wang the butcher looked at Li Qi and cried out that it was unjust.

He knelt down and kowtowed to Li Qi:

"Sir! I am just a butcher, I know nothing! Even if you tie me up and take me to the county government office, I can't say anything! Sir, please be kind and let me go!"

Wang the butcher was anxious, Li Qi ignored him, but looked at Liu Zhi:

"Who has the final say here, you or me?"

"Uh... Of course... Of course, you have the final say..."

Liu Zhi smiled dryly and apologized to Li Qi.

Li Qi said coldly: "Then did I ask you to do it?"

Liu Zhi opened his mouth to say something, Li Qi immediately said:

"And, if this was really done by him, do you think we can be his opponent alone?"

"..."

Liu Zhi didn't speak this time.

He just wanted to find a scapegoat. If he really met the thief who did such a bad thing, he would not have time to escape, how could he show off here.

Li Qi was too lazy to bother with Liu Zhi. He looked up and down at Wang the butcher, and then said to Jiang Ming:

"He should be fine. You take the others to Feng the butcher in the west of the city and wait for me. I'll walk around here."

"Yes, sir!"

Jiang Ming was not like Liu Zhi, who took over the job. After all, Liu Zhi did not belong to the Six Gates system, and the high officials of the Six Gates did not have much influence on him.

But Jiang Ming was a direct copper arrester of the Six Gates. If he had just spoken instead of giving orders, he would probably have been kicked to the ground by the patrol officer.

Now that the patrol officer wanted them to leave first, Jiang Ming did not dare to ask what the patrol officer was doing here, and hurriedly took Liu Zhi and everyone away.

After they left, Li Qi, who stayed in the butcher's yard, looked at Wang the butcher again.

All the constables had gone far away, and Wang the butcher could not help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that he had escaped.

He looked up at Li Qi and was about to thank him when suddenly a cold light slashed down on his head!

The cold light was extremely sharp, and the blade pierced through the air and went straight to Wang the Butcher's vitals.

Feeling the murderous intent and threat from the patrol envoy in front of him, Wang the Butcher almost instinctively drew out the machete from his waist.

In an instant, just a blink of an eye, there was a sound of "clang", and the straight knife and the machete collided together!

"What a fierce knife!"

Sensing the murderous intent on Li Qi's knife, Wang the Butcher's pupils shrank slightly.

Li Qi's stubbled mouth corners also slightly raised, and he smiled and said:

"Wang the Butcher, what a fast knife."

"..."

After subconsciously attacking, Wang the Butcher, named Wang Dazhuang, realized that his martial arts had been exposed.

He took two steps back, put the machete in front of him, and looked at Li Qi vigilantly.

"How did you find me? I think I disguised myself pretty well."

Whether it was his own martial arts or his own blood, he did not reveal a single bit when talking to Li Qi just now.

Even though Liu Zhi was aggressive and wanted to take him away, Wang the Butcher knelt down without hesitation to plead for mercy to Li Qi.

This appearance did not look like a martial artist at all. Normally, no one should have noticed that he was wrong.

"The disguise is indeed good, but unfortunately, my martial arts are special and can detect the blood in other people's bodies. You should be almost innate, and your strength is about to become innate internal energy."

Li Qi smiled at Wang the Butcher.

Wang the Butcher's disguise is indeed good. If Li Qi did not have superpowers, he would probably not be able to see the other party's true strength.

But unfortunately, Wang the Butcher's strength is nowhere to be hidden in front of Li Qi.

After years of observation, Li Qi has become familiar with the strength of the warriors in this world. The appearance of the warriors and ordinary people is still different. As long as they have practiced martial arts, even if they are not good, Li Qi can tell that the other party is a martial artist.

In Li Qi's eyes, Wang the Butcher is a martial artist, and his acquired energy is integrated, and he is about to give birth to the innate energy.

This is a seventh-grade peak warrior, who only needs to step into the innate.

Such a seventh-grade warrior, pretending to be a humble butcher, aroused Li Qi's curiosity, so Li Qi tried to test it.

Wang the Butcher knew that he could not hide it from the other party, and he could not help but say coldly:

"Since you have discovered it, what do you want to do, sir?"

Li Qi did not seem to be very hostile, after all, he had dismissed his men before he tried to test it.

It was precisely because of this that Wang the Butcher did not run away immediately, he knew that Li Qi should want to say something to him.

But having said that, Wang the Butcher was also alert, after all, he did not know what Li Qi was going to do.

His identity could not withstand investigation.