People's first impressions are often incomplete and incomplete, but for most people, they easily ignore this and often insist on believing in their first impressions.
He Zhongheng is a person with a straightforward personality. His first impression of He Ping was very good. Coupled with He Ping's family background, he did not have too many doubts about what He Ping said.
Chang Fugui, the "Lord Tianjiu" of Gambling Gang, had never had a deal with him in the past. Chang Fugui's Gambling Gang was even more a tyrant of Longhe County. This man ignored the ban and even set up a private gambling house. He also secretly engaged in loan sharking and harmed many families.
The first time He Zhongheng took office, he picked a few hidden gambling houses, which made "Lord Tianjiu" lose face, and the two sides formed a feud.
On the scale of He Zhongheng's heart, compared with Chang Fugui, Mi Family, the Mi Liang master, is undoubtedly the standard of a good family, while the other is a great evil person. The evil forces entrenched in Longhe County; the other is a businessman with an innocent family background. When he first came to Longhe County, he was entangled by local ruffians. Anyone who thinks about it will find the former more suspicious.
He Zhongheng had made up his mind about the matter. He stood up and said goodbye to He Ping, then left in a hurry.
Seeing He Zhongheng leaving in the background, He Ping laughed softly.
"Master, why are you laughing?"
He Fusheng couldn't help but ask.
"I laugh at this He Zhongheng that he is about to die but doesn't know it."
He Ping restrained his smile and spoke indifferently, "That Gambling Gang's 'Lord Tianjiu' Chang Fugui is a big benefactor and God of Wealth to Longhe County's order and all the officials in the county government. Chang Fugui relies on He worked in a gambling house, lending and collecting loans, and made a fortune in Longhe County. It can be said that he is making money every day. Since He Zhongheng took office, he has not dealt with the God of Wealth and repeatedly made trouble for him. How could those people in the county government leave him alone."
"You mean..."
He Fusheng asked cautiously.
"In the next few days at most, He Zhongheng will be in trouble. Let Qi Baiyi and his men keep a close eye on this man. He can still be useful to us."
He Ping gave an order.
He Fusheng nodded, turned around and left.
Sure enough, He Ping received the news soon, and He Zhongheng went to find "Lord Tianjiu" Chang Fugui to confront him that day, and the two sides became very unhappy.
According to some rumors, He Zhongheng even got into a fight with Chang Fugui's martial arts guard. In the end, it was Head Constable Liu, the county government's arrest squad, who came forward to stop the situation from getting worse.
"This move of 'throwing bones on the ground, throwing food and bait' really hit the passenger car, further deepening the conflict between He Zhongheng and the government!"
He Ping held the tea and sipped lightly, thinking that his plan was half successful. In fact, Chang Fugui of Gambling Gang didn't know about the disappearance of Wu San and others. His information was spread by He Ping and spread to Chang Fugui's ears.
Chang Fugui's Gambling Gang was very powerful. He planned to buy a few shops in good locations in the downtown area and open a few gambling parlors. However, when he went to negotiate with the shop owners, the prices were pushed down so low that the shop owners of those shops were unwilling to sell.
Lord Tianjiu was not in a hurry. He had many ways to slowly force the shop owners of these shops to take action, but he did not expect that He Family would intervene midway.
He Family made a very generous move. He seemed to be eager to get the store and didn't care too much about the price. He just bought it with his free money.
Those shop owners were originally worried about being targeted by Gambling Gang's people. Their shops had become a hot potato and they were anxious to take action. He Family intervened at this time. The owners of several shops were also overjoyed. They quickly handed over the real estate deeds to the shops, took the money and left.
Chang Fugui was very angry about this. Naturally, he was jealous of the unruly He Family. Hearing the gossip from outside, he thought he was getting a convenience and asked the county magistrate to send a Yamen police officer to investigate the matter.
As a result, He Zhongheng, a stubborn person, ran to Chang Fugui and asked him for personal and material evidence. "Lord Tianjiu" was also blind. If he wanted to have this evidence, he would just ask the county magistrate to arrest Mi Family. Why bother...
"He Zhongheng's recklessness, the arrogance of these local gangs, and the greed of the drunkards in the county government will all accelerate the conflicts between them. As long as the fire is raised skillfully, it will naturally be of great convenience to me when the fire burns!"
He Ping put down the tea in his hand and turned his mind to another aspect. During this period, he did not trouble the local gangsters. Instead, he got a few people from Black Flag Stronghold and threw them into the "haunted" village at night for testing.
As a result, there were a few more figures "into the picture" on the wall. However, taking these human lives to test was not without results. At least He Ping had a deeper and deeper understanding of Painted Wall's "spell prohibition", and he also figured out a lot of things from it--
"On the surface, it seems that these people were sucked into the paintings on the wall, but in fact this is not the case. The real cause of this abnormal phenomenon of 'living people entering the paintings' should be due to other reasons..."
He Ping held "Puppet Eye Spirit Orb" in his hand, and through the power of his soul, his vision reproduced the scene of those ruffians and Black Flag Stronghold bandits being devoured by Painted Wall in the cabinet for several days.
Without exception, during this process, the bodies of these people softened as if they had lost their bones, melting into white and soft corpse-colored flesh. Then, the sticky mud-like flesh melted again, quickly dissolving into colorful liquids, which were absorbed by the ground and further transferred to the walls.
"Colors, colors have changed!
He Ping seems to have grasped something important.
"Could it be that the true identity of this thing is paint, paint for painting?"
He was very pleased with this discovery. He continued to stare at the pool of liquid in his field of vision, and found that there was a dull sheen like an oil film on it, and there were countless tiny squirming particles in it. No, they were even tinier than ordinary particles.
"Insects? No, they should be things that are even more subtle than bugs. What I saw should be the conditions when these things reproduce rapidly and move violently. These things are even more subtle than imagined, just as big as microorganisms..."
He Ping realized clearly that the real thing in the haunted pavilion should be this thing. In other words, the truth behind the haunting in the backyard pavilion is a layer of "paint" on the surface of the mural.
This kind of pigment is very special. It is not a dead thing, but composed of countless microorganisms as fine as dust.
"As small as dust, it can cause harm to others. Speaking of which, doesn't it sound like some kind of evil magic?"
This also reminded him of something--
"By the way, Gu insect?"
The art of witchcraft exists in this world. He Ping has heard that most poisonous insects like yin and hate yang. This can also explain why the strange phenomenon of "living people entering the painting" only occurs at night.
"I finally understand! This is not a magic spell, but a kind of 'pigment' made from poisonous insects. The masters of Painting Immortal Path use this pigment to put it into the painting and seal it into the four walls. No wonder they will seal living people into the painting after nightfall!"
He Ping felt unusually excited, but soon, his mood calmed down again, and his thoughts were racing.
After he guessed this, he had another doubt in his heart, that is, why did the master of Painting Immortal Path place this kind of "paint" in the cabinet, and what was the reason for the other party to do this?
"Perhaps I need to test it myself!"