Folk customs begin with the entire funeral procession

Chapter 224 Entering the situation

The next morning, Chen Miao and Yang Jiuhua arrived in Shannan City.

Xie Songde had been waiting for a long time.

After the introductions, the three of them, along with Xie Songde's secretary, headed straight for the airport.

Chen Miao's trip to Hongye City this time was not mainly about Yang Jiuhua's matter, but about the scorpion breeding base that Xie Songde bought.

For the past month, Chen Miao's ghost-patterned scorpion has been eating two scorpions every day.

Besides occasionally picking out some scorpions from Shi Lang, Chen Miao would also bring back two boxes of 2,500 scorpions each time he returned, to cultivate them into second-stage scorpions for food.

Breeding scorpions in the second stage is time-consuming and expensive. At Chen Miao's frequency of going to the Shilang base once a week, he can only breed four or five second-stage scorpions a month, which is only enough for two days' worth of food.

As for the scorpions to be selected, once the high-quality scorpions were picked out one by one, there weren't many left.

Chen Miao estimated that after another month or two, there wouldn't be many ordinary scorpions comparable to those in the first or second stage.

That's why he planned to go to Xie Songde's scorpion breeding base. He could also check along the way to see if the Management Bureau had resolved Yang Jiuhua's matter, so that Yang Jiuhua could rest assured.

At 1:30 p.m., Chen Miao and his three companions arrived in Hongye City.

The breeding base is not located in Hongye City, but in a town under the jurisdiction of Hongye City.

Many people lease land in the surrounding rural areas to open factories, and since raising scorpions is much more profitable than running a factory, the villages don't object to it.

Some young people in the village even organize to catch scorpions after school and during holidays to sell to breeding farms.

Logically speaking, the farm shouldn't accept such scattered goods, but the owner is tactful and accepts all children as long as they come.

After Chen Miao arrived, he toured the entire farm under the guidance of the farm owner, Lao Yang.

This farm is much larger than the one in Shilang; just visiting it took Chen Miao half an hour.

However, this farm only raises one type of scorpion, namely the East Asian scorpion, which has medicinal value.

The owner didn't keep emperor scorpions or other scorpions that were mainly kept for ornamental purposes.

After thinking it over, Chen Miao suggested to Lao Yang that he wanted to gather the scorpions together.

Old Yang was surprised, but Xie Songde told him to do it directly.

The rest was simple. The farm had five breeding rooms, and the scorpions from each breeding room were gathered in the corresponding empty room for collecting scorpions.

Chen Miao spent five hours selecting five scorpions from five rooms!
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they are one in ten thousand.

Chen Miao gave Xie Songde five spirit-suppressing talismans, requiring him to stay here for five days and come here every day to pick out scorpions. Old Yang and the others had to cooperate.

Xie Songde naturally agreed without hesitation.

Although Lao Yang didn't know the significance of doing this, it wasn't a troublesome matter for him.

Because the scorpion farm already had automated equipment, it would take Chen Miao less than an hour to pack all the scorpions after he finished selecting them.

And it's only for five days; whatever the boss says goes.

After lunch, Chen Miao led Yang Jiuhua and the others toward Shiyang County.

Chen Miao hadn't originally intended to take Xie Songde with him, but since there were no more flights back today, and Xie Songde could sleep anywhere anyway, Chen Miao didn't say anything more.

Before nightfall, the four arrived near the cemetery.

"Chen Miao, why do I feel a little cold?"

Chen Miao glanced at Yang Jiuhua's thin clothes, shook his head and said, "You should put on another layer of clothing."

He knew what Yang Jiuhua meant by those words, but he couldn't sense any increase in the surrounding Yin energy, nor did he see any movement through his Yin-Yang Eyes.

"Let's go, let's take a look at that grave."

Chen Miao looked at the sky, which was still not dark, and said to Yang Jiuhua.

Yang Jiuhua hesitated for a moment, but still led the way.

Upon arriving at the cemetery, Chen Miao activated his Yin-Yang Eyes, pointing to a spot.

As far as the eye could see, the concentration of yin energy was indeed much higher than outside, but it was not as high as the concentration of ghosts and spirits that would normally be born.

Either the ghost haunting Yang Jiuhua is a special case, or the Yin energy here has been dealt with by the Bureau.

As Chen Miao was thinking this, he saw two people walking towards him.

One of them was carrying a pesticide sprayer on his back, the kind with a pump on the left that sprays water mist from a nozzle on the right when you press it.

When the two arrived, they initially only glanced at Chen Miao, but soon the middle-aged man without a carrying bucket turned his gaze to them. Chen Miao didn't know who the other man was looking at.

Before long, the person carrying the pesticide bucket started spraying pesticides on the graveyard, while another person walked towards Chen Miao.

Chen Miao's heart stirred, and he used his Yin-Yang Eyes to look at the people spraying pesticides with pesticide barrels over there.

Under the vision of the Yin-Yang Eyes, what was spraying out of the bucket was not an ordinary gray substance, but a pale purple mist.

After the water mist appeared, it spread in all directions, instantly dissolving the yin energy within a two- or three-meter radius around the person.

Larger water droplets fell directly to the ground, covering it with a light purple layer.

Chen Miao put away his Yin-Yang Eyes and looked at the person who was walking towards him.

Therefore, we can probably guess the identities of these two people.

"Are you Yang Jiuhua?"

Yang Jiuhua frowned as he looked at the middle-aged man heading straight for him.

"who are you?"

The man took out an ID card.

"The Emergency Management Bureau needs your cooperation in the investigation. Please come back with us in a bit."

"What Administration Bureau..."

Yang Jiuhua was puzzled and was about to say something when Chen Miao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Handling paranormal events."

Before Yang Jiuhua could even express his surprise, the investigator opposite him looked at Chen Miao with astonishment.

"You know the Administration Bureau?"

"I am an external investigator."

"Oh?"

The man's face softened with a smile.

"Who are you working for? I might know you."

Chen Miao shook his head. "I'm from another province. Yang Jiuhua is my friend, so I just happened to be passing by and came here to see if things had been resolved."

Upon hearing that he was from another province, the man's smile took on a different meaning.

"Investigators from other provinces come to our Shiyang County to conduct investigations? Don't you know what the rules are?"

Chen Miao felt a trace of malice emanating from the other party and was speechless. He really didn't expect this to happen.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. Chen Guokun from the Tianmen County Administration Bureau wanted the investigators from Shannan City to help him, but it was Zhong Cai who finally managed to get Qi Ning to come.

The barriers between counties and cities are like that, so it seems normal that they exist between provinces as well.

Chen Miao had already made up his mind not to talk to this person anymore, but the other party was not prepared to end things so easily.

"You'll come with us too; I need to verify your identity."

Chen Miao said, "I have my identification."

As he spoke, Chen Miao took out his certificate from his bag.

The middle-aged man took it, glanced at it, and then put the certificate away.

"I need to go back to the station to confirm; you have to come with me."

Chen Miao frowned and subconsciously touched his left arm.

Are you really going?

Seeing the other person staring at him, Chen Miao didn't say anything more, but simply picked up his phone and sent a message.

Chen Miao's gaze passed over the middle-aged man and landed on the person still spraying pesticides in the cemetery.

It must be said that the Administration has quite a few methods at its disposal.

After waiting for about ten minutes, the person who was spraying the pesticide finished their work.

Chen Miao glanced around. After all that treatment, the concentration of Yin energy in the graveyard had dropped to one-tenth of what it was before Chen Miao arrived. Looking at the thin layer of pale purple covering the ground, the Yin energy in the graveyard probably wouldn't be too high tonight.

"Brother Han, it's over."

Xu Baiyu jogged over carrying a bucket on his back.

Ye Shuhan nodded, then turned to Chen Miao and the others and said, "Let's go, everyone."

Xu Baiyu glanced at Chen Miao and the others with some doubt, but said nothing.

After leaving the cemetery, when they were about to drive, Ye Shuhan asked Xu Baiyu to get into Chen Miao's car and drive, while he drove Chen Miao.

Speechless all the way.

Upon arriving at the Shiyang County Administration Bureau, Ye Shuhan instructed Xu Baiyu to take Chen Miao and the other three to a room and wait.

During the process, no one saw Chen Miao pull down the clothes on his left hand.

After Xu Baiyu left, Yang Jiuhua and Xie Songde turned to look at Chen Miao.

"Mr. Chen, should I call someone to make a contact?"

Chen Miao shook his head and said to Xie Songde, "I've already made contact. The situation here is complicated, and it's difficult for ordinary people to get involved in this kind of thing."

Then, Chen Miao said to Yang Jiuhua, "Just tell him whatever he asks you. There's nothing to hide. Your problem was probably solved by those two."

Yang Jiuhua nodded, then frowned and said, "Chen Miao, why do I feel like that kid is hostile towards us?"

"Don't worry about it, it's fine."

……

In another room, Ye Shuhan was drinking tea and watching the surveillance camera.

Xu Baiyu, who was standing nearby, heard the conversation on the monitor and asked Ye Shuhan in surprise.

"Brother Han, does that kid know about our Bureau?"

Ye Shuhan gave a soft "hmm" and tossed the documents onto the table.

“An investigator from another province, probably with some props, wanted to put on a show and then go back to get some benefits from the people next to him.”

Xu Baiyu suddenly realized.

"The quality of the peripheral members is still too uneven."

Xu Baiyu had just finished speaking when the office phone rang.

As a newcomer, he naturally got up to answer the phone.

"Brother Han, it's a call from Captain Wang in the city."

Upon hearing the name of Captain Wang, Ye Shuhan immediately put down his teacup and went over.

"Captain Wang, is there a mission...? Yes, what is it...? Okay, I understand."

After hanging up the phone, Ye Shuhan looked at the surveillance camera with some surprise.

"Go and question them, and once you've checked and found nothing wrong, let them leave."

Xu Baiyu was taken aback.

"Everyone?"

"Yes, let them all go. We already know everything about Yang Jiuhua, there's nothing more to investigate."

"Yes!"

Soon, Chen Miao and the other three left the room.

When Xu Baiyu returned, he held up his tablet and said in surprise, "Brother Han, look at Chen Miao's file, he's not simple!"

Ye Shuhan took the tablet and looked at Chen Miao's historical records.

Seeing those comments and the progress of the four tasks over six months, Ye Shuhan's expression turned somewhat unpleasant.

Although these people are called peripheral figures, they can actually be promoted to full-fledged employees with just a word.

If someone had connections, they wouldn't have ended up like him, stuck in a county for ten years, with several waves of new subordinates while he remained stagnant.

Recalling the time when Captain Wang called, Ye Shuhan snorted coldly.

"Another one with connections. So what if he's not simple?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Baiyu's expression turned somewhat unpleasant.

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(End of this chapter)