He Zhizhou was poured into a bowl of sober soup and woke up with an earth-shattering cry.
After drinking Jiuzhou Spring Return, he immediately cut off the film, and now he can't remember anything. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a few strange faces with different expressions, including Ning Ning and Pei Ji who he knew.
"Continent."
Ning Ning's eyes are very complicated, He Zhizhou has never seen her so cautious, as if he is a baby who needs to be taken care of, if he is not careful, it will shatter: "You remember, it happened last night and today. What's the matter?"
He shook his head blankly.
The tip of the nose was lingering with a light incense, which was the smell he had come across in Hualou.
Looking around, there are vermilion carved wooden chairs, pink and white embroidered butterfly gauze tents, and incomparably warm smoke. At first glance, it looks like it has followed the Pansi hole.
He Zhizhou's eyes darkened.
No, no, no.
With so many girls, how could he be such a beast? Looking at this battle, even if he squeezed all the spiritual stones out of his body, he would definitely not be able to pay the price!
"Don't worry, you didn't do anything to them."
Ning Ning could see what he was thinking at a glance, and quickly spoke out to dispel He Zhizhou's doubts and fears.
This should have been a good thing, but she always used the same tone of mourning, not like coming to Hualou to pick him up, but attending a memorial service in memory of Comrade He Zhizhou: "There is a girl here who wrote down what happened last night, you ...would you like to take a look?"
He Zhizhou's thoughts were still a little fuzzy, thinking hard with the little brain with congenital dysplasia and acquired deformity. Since he didn't do anything shameful to the girls, of course there was nothing to be afraid of—
Could he still persecute himself
He nodded without thinking, and one of the young girls hesitated, handing him a mirror.
Through the sight of the spirit, the scene of the warm jade pavilion singing and dancing peacefully was projected on the mirror in an instant.
In the depths of the hundreds of flowers at night, there are many people and silhouettes, and the women passing by are dressed in fragrant clothes and wink like silk. The chatter, shouts, and the sound of cars and horses are all swallowed up by the tidal laughter, and under the flickering firelight, the eaves are reflected. The outline of the mahogany flower carving above.
In the crowd of people coming and going, it didn't take long before two very familiar shadows appeared.
It was He Zhizhou and Tian Xianzi.
Ning Ning and Pei Ji should have watched this video, but they were silent at this moment, staring at the mirror.
"Two sons."
The two of them were handsome, and as soon as they entered the door, they attracted the attention of many girls. One of them came forward to say hello with a smile, and shyly covered his lips with a fan: "Young masters are coming to visit, do you have a favorite girl?"
The person who asks is serious, and the person who listens is not necessarily.
He Zhizhou outside the mirror watched his former self burst into tears in an instant, and said to the girl very sadly: "Sister, we are not here to spend money as guests - please take us in and let me be the oiran here!"
He Zhizhou was stunned, and looked at Ning Ning in horror.
The latter shook his head sympathetically, indicating that there was more behind him.
"Master, are you drunk?"
The woman's eyes twitched, and she smelled the increasing smell of alcohol on them. She was scared and took a few steps back: "You two big men, what's the use of staying in the Nuanyu Pavilion?"
"I was also forced to be helpless."
He Zhizhou wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeves, and choked at Tian Xianzi beside him: "Have you seen my second uncle? Pity him at such a young age that he has end-stage smallpox. I will treat him for money and do everything. Can do it - quick! Second uncle!"
The last three words can be described as low-pitched roars, a bit mean to hate the mother-in-law to make things difficult for the daughter-in-law.
Tian Xianzi was still in a daze, and was taken aback for a while. After staring blankly at him, he began to shiver all over his body with great cooperation, rolling his eyes and twitching.
Outside the mirror, He Zhizhou's little heart was also twitching.
- Help! In order to be a courtesan, he even forced Uncle Tianxian to do such a thing!
Fortunately, the uncle did not see this video here, otherwise the dinner of the Xuanxu Sword Sect tonight would probably be stir-fried He Zhizhou meat.
wrong.
Maybe he'd seen it before
Where has the woman in the mirror encountered such an outrageous thing, and when she heard the word "smallpox", she was immediately scared and continued to retreat.
In a panic, I heard He Zhizhou continue: "If it's just this kind of disease, maybe I can sell iron to cure him, but who would have thought that my second uncle would suffer from hysteria soon after!"
After he finished speaking, he gave him another stern glance. Tian Xianzi bowed his head willingly, and continued to twitch like an electric shock, while crying and laughing in his eyes, his mouth was muttering, it was terrifying.
He Zhizhou no longer dared to look down, and shrank on the stool and shivered.
At the same time, he heard his own voice in the mirror: "Not only that, he was diagnosed with gastroenteritis, pharyngitis and severe postpartum depression yesterday - my second uncle! If you hadn't dropped out of school for me to study, I would have How could he grow into what he is now!"
This time, even He Zhizhou himself couldn't help but complain.
- Get out! Your second uncle's bowels are regretful after you have grown up like this! And what's going on with that "severe postpartum depression"! Are you sick! ! !
Tian Xianzi in the picture showed a somewhat embarrassed look, his expression froze, and when he stared at him blankly, he met He Zhizhou's sinister gaze again.
He Zhizhou finally knew why he felt that his eyes were very familiar.
Isn't that the way the concubine, the villainous concubine in the palace fighting drama, poured breaking poison into Xiaobai's fireworks fodder.
Tian Xianzi was so wronged that he even spoke in a soft voice: "I won't..."
He Zhizhou squinted his eyes, his two eyes were fierce and powerful, and he let out an old cow-like growl from his throat: "Huh—?!"
Not really human.
A tear fell silently from the corner of his eye.
He watched himself in the mirror becoming more and more hideous and hideous. Uncle Tianxian was pitiful and had no way to escape. The people around were attracted by them, and many of them turned their heads curiously.
Under He Zhizhou's vicious coercion, when Tian Xianzi fell back with red eyes, the blood spit out from his mouth was as poignant as a dream.
He has the spirit of craftsmanship, and adhering to the principle of never cheating, he directly slapped his chest with sword energy and ushered in a performance belonging to the Xuanxu Sword School in front of everyone's eyes.
The young man in white sank to the ground, the blood on the corner of his lips was so clear, after a brief stagnation of the picture, Tian Xianzi began to tremble wildly.
That is no longer a pose that humans can imagine.
At first, he just lay on the ground shivering all over, his limbs twitching, and it didn't take long for him to have a hysterical attack, and he gradually murmured, crying and laughing like he was wearing a mask of pain, which was very terrifying.
And when he stretched out his hands, this shocking scene reached its peak.
But seeing Tian Xianzi shivering and muttering to himself in a little girl's voice, he covered his stomach with his trembling left hand, bowed his body into the shape of a shrimp, and choked his throat with his right hand. A few hoarse and sharp coughs: "Uh uh-"
This scene is really weird, and several girls screamed in fright, while He Zhizhou next to him cried so loudly, shouting sincerely: "Second Uncle! I will definitely be the Hua Kui to cure you! You must hold on!"
A good teacher, kind and filial piety, very touching, comparable to a world famous painting, it is suggested to name it: Zhizhou's Repayment of Gratitude.
There was an uproar in the crowd, and I don't know if anyone recognized that the brother who fell to the ground and kept twitching was the well-known Elder Tianxian of the Xuanxu Sword Sect.
The girl who received the two at first was so frightened that she couldn't move.
Amidst the chaos, a woman in a red dress suddenly stepped forward. After inquiring about the ins and outs, she said slowly and hesitantly, "These two are probably drunk and unconscious... It's not easy to act like this, just act like this. Accumulate virtue and let the two of them stay for the time being."
The screen stopped abruptly.
He Zhizhou was about to shove his entire fist into his mouth, trembling for a while, before he asked tentatively, "My uncle Tianxian, who is the first person in kendo, I am handsome, dignified and arrogant, does he know about this?"
Ning Ning shook his head, looking at him as if he was looking at a dead person: "He doesn't seem to have sobered up yet, I don't know if Master will remember this, you can ask for more blessings."
She paused, then said, "Not only that, but you also took away Miss Hongyu's coat later, pretended to be her, and hid in the guest's bed—"
He Zhizhou: …
He Zhizhou: "Can you leave me alone? I want a face."
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He Zhizhou suffered a lot of psychological trauma. After crying and apologizing to the girls in the Nuanyu Pavilion, he locked himself in the room and thought carefully about how he should face his uncle Tianxianzi later.
Ning Ning sighed and patted him on the shoulder: "At this time, just smile."
She wanted to stay in the Nuanyu Pavilion to continue inquiring about Luanniang, so she was not in a hurry to leave; and in the depths of Baihua, there were not many guests during the day, so the girls also happened to have time to spare, so they deliberately found a room and chatted again. Say it.
"We said earlier that although Luan Niang never went to school, she suddenly began to write and read poems - her strangeness doesn't stop there!"
The cat-eye girl blinked, and sat on the chair with her legs dangling: "I am a few years younger than her. When I came, I only needed to learn etiquette, and I didn't have to be busy with hospitality, so I had more free time than others. Much more. At that time, I was bored all day, so I would go to see what other sisters were doing from time to time, and I accidentally discovered a tricky thing about her. "
Her tone was mysterious, not only Ning Ning, but even the girls in the Nuan Yu Pavilion beside her showed curiosity, urging her to continue.
The cat's eye girl pursed her lips and smiled, and deliberately lowered her voice: "Miss Luan, she seems to be communicating with someone."
"Communication?"
"That's right! It's a pigeon at night, the letter is put on it, and the pigeon is passed on to another person."
She hummed and said: "At midnight, I couldn't sleep standing in front of the window looking at the scenery, but I didn't expect to see a carrier pigeon flying into her room, like a thief, for fear of being seen by others."
"So, Mother Luan has been able to write since then."
Ning Ning asked her curiously, "Why don't you use a communication talisman?"
This time another girl chuckled: "Miss Ningning, it takes spiritual energy to activate the talisman. We have never learned the immortal art, so we don't know how to use it."
"I wonder if the girl has heard a rumor in Luan City?"
Another person spoke softly: "It is said that using the soul as a bargaining chip and blood as the medium, if you make a wish to Luanniao, the wish will come true - the sacrifice of the soul, doesn't it correspond to 'the Taoist can't ask for the soul'?"
This is a legend that Ning Ning has never heard of.
In her heart, Luanniao has always been an auspicious beast that symbolizes well-being, and it has nothing to do with such cruel sacrifice. What's more, if all the wishes of all people can be realized in this way...
That would be too easy.
"The city lord also married a wife before."
Seeing that she was dubious, Miss Cat Eye continued, "You would never have imagined that Luan Niang's temperament changed drastically, I caught her passing letters in the middle of the night, and the last city owner's wife was seriously ill... at the same time."
Ning Ning was stunned for a moment, listening to her restraining her smile and saying in a deep voice, "The reason why she knows the method of sacrifice must be the instigation of the person who sent the letter. First, let the real city owner's wife die violently, and then slowly put herself to death. Become the most desirable appearance in the city lord's heart, and set up a set of tricks to approach him step by step - if you think about it, wouldn't it be done in one go?"
As a result, who was secretly communicating with her became the biggest doubt in the whole incident.
But what is his purpose of helping Luan Niang? Were the two of them also responsible for the disappearance of the girl after that
Ning Ning couldn't find an idea after thinking about it, so she had to put this person aside first and concentrate on asking for clues about Luanniang: "You guys talked about her 'big change in temperament', I don't know where this happened?"
"Let's put it this way, she, who grew up in Huajie since she was a child, is the most ordinary woman who is in the dust. When she gets a guest, she will go up to greet her. She will talk to people and talk to ghosts. We all have this kind of virtue. Nothing to talk about."
The cat's eye girl said: "But since one day, she suddenly became not quite right, and I can't tell exactly what it is, I always feel like a different person, always standing on the side gloomy, I don't know what I'm thinking. "
"That's right! She seems to be aloof and aloof for some reason."
The little girl with pigtails was lying on the table, even if she just raised her eyebrows slightly, she also had a soul-sucking charm: "Luan Niang used to be no different from us, since she started approaching the city lord, she didn't like to laugh. He doesn't like to talk either, at best he just smiles at him casually. Just two or three times, the soul of the city lord has been completely hooked away."
After she said it, she thought for a while, and concluded with a hammer: "She seems to know what kind of woman the city owner will like, and she has completely changed herself into that type."
This sentence is extremely appropriate, and it attracted several girls present to nod their heads in agreement.
Only one person frowned and said softly to Ningning: "Miss Ningning, don't listen to their nonsense. Luanniang and I grew up together, and we know her character best, she is by no means sinister. , would never do such a scandalous thing.”
It was the Ruby Girl.
"She has always worked hard, and once she has made up her mind, she will definitely not let go. In the past, when she wanted to raise enough ransom to leave Baihuashen, she did everything she could to attract guests; if she wanted to marry the city lord, she would study calligraphy and poetry for him. I have become the temperament he likes, and there is a reason to follow, where will it be related to the gods and ghosts."
She is the oldest among the little girls. Although the others are not convinced, but out of admiration for Hongyu herself, they puffed out their cheeks and said nothing, listening to her continue in a gentle and gentle voice:
"We were born poor and lowly. If you say that you don't want to live a good life, it must be a lie. Even if Luan Niang deliberately changed herself into another appearance in order to get close to the city lord, in my opinion, there is no shame in it."
"Sister Hongyu, are you still helping her?"
The cat's eye girl snorted coldly: "Since she married into the city lord's mansion, she has never contacted us again. The last time we met her at the lantern festival, the woman clearly saw you, but she seemed to be looking at a stranger - this is clearly Something's wrong!"
Hongyu touched her head: "It is reasonable for her to deny our identity. Although I feel disappointed and annoyed, I don't want you to impose crimes on innocent people out of personal likes and dislikes."
Although she said so, from the clues Ning Ning had already grasped, the truth behind the disappearance of the Luancheng girl was probably inseparable from Luanniang.
But to find out… where do you start
The thoughts in Ning Ning's head were a mess, with no head and no tail. While thinking silently, he suddenly heard the wooden door of the room suddenly pushed open, and He Zhizhou's unlovable voice came from his ear: " Ningning, help! My money... all my money is gone!"
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He Zhizhou's wallet was empty.
He had obtained treasures in the Buddha Tower before, and this time he picked up a lot of spiritual plants in the secret realm. He happily sold them at will, and it was a pocket full of cute little spiritual stones.
However, when he finally got drunk and sobered up, in the desperation after persecuting his uncle, in order to make himself happier, he wanted to take out the spiritual stone in the money bag to take a closer look, but found that there was not a single ash left.
There is no joy at all, and the whole person is even more desperate.
Just like the heroine in romance novels is the hero's life, those stones are also the life of the poor little ghost He Zhizhou. Thanks to him, Ning Ning and Pei Jitou entered the Criminal Court in Luan City for the first time.
There is not much difference between the Criminal Division and the police station. After the public reported the case, the surveillance camera was called very quickly, that is, the image of the city recorded by the Luan Bird Statue.
According to the criminal minister who received them, thanks to the techniques set up by the city lord, Luancheng has been closed at night and has not picked up things on the road these days. It is a talent to be able to lose all of his belongings under this ethos.
The picture kept cruising in the depths of hundreds of flowers in the middle of the night. After an unknown amount of time, two very familiar shadows finally appeared in the profound mirror.
Or him and Tian Xianzi.
He Zhizhou remembered the tragedy in the Nuanyu Pavilion again, and almost lost his footing.
Tian Xianzi in the mirror stood blankly on the side of the road, with a strange man standing in front of him. The man held a lush and lush potted plant in his hand, and smiled all over his face: "This is our ancestral money tree. As long as you give me money, I can make double spiritual stones."
As he said, he took out three low-grade spirit stones, swayed behind the potted plant, and then opened his fingers, it turned out to be six.
-Because there is still a huge pile hidden in the basin.
This is an extremely mentally retarded street trick, but any normal person will never be fooled.
It's a pity that Tian Xianzi was not a normal person at that time.
"It's amazing, it's amazing!"
Tian Xianzi clapped his hands in a daze, grinned foolishly under the constant instigation of the man, and took out a pitiful hundred spirit stones from his purse: "This is all the money on my body, please!"
Although the liar saw that this was a drunken fool, he never imagined that he was still a pauper who was so poor that he was so poor.
However, one hundred is still money. Just as the man took them in his hands, he suddenly heard He Zhizhou's righteous roar from not far away:
"Master, what are you doing!"
He Zhizhou outside the mirror was so happy that his mouth crooked, and he patted his thigh: "See! As expected of me, I can stay sober even after being drunk!"
Then I saw him in the picture raising his head and laughing loudly, then stood staggeringly in front of the man, and compared three with his fingers: "The money tree is so magical, how can a hundred spirit stones be enough! I will add more!"
The tea He Zhizhou had just drank was sprayed out by puff puff, and he took a sharp breath, and in the thumping heartbeat, he heard his own voice: "Add to vote! Three! Thousand! Ten thousand!"
After he finished speaking, he grasped Tian Xianzi's wrist, his eyes filled with tears of excitement: "That's great, uncle! All the miracles in this world have been met by us! We are really lucky and lucky!"
He Zhizhou: …
He Zhizhou didn't catch his breath, rolled his eyes and rolled off the chair, completely unaware that the sum of his entire net worth was not even a fraction of 30 million.
It's a pity that no matter how much he regrets at this moment, the scene in the profound mirror will not be reversed or stopped.
Being defrauded of 30 million overnight by the cash cow scam, Senior Brother He seemed to be 30 million years older in an instant, sitting on the floor with all the vicissitudes of life, and suddenly heard Ning Ning's voice: "Wait—the thing you gave him doesn't seem to be a silver note. "
He Zhizhou returned to the light, turned into a stick man, and jumped up from the ground.
I saw him in the mysterious mirror holding a pen and paper to write and draw. After writing, he immediately handed it to the liar beaming.
At first glance, the white piece of paper was not a silver note. The man was still smiling impatiently, and when he glanced at it, his expression suddenly became uncomfortable.
"The spring breeze brings warmth, and thousands of families laugh together. Your friends give you 30 million—"
He started to shiver as he read, his teeth trembled with anger, and his voice trembled: "must be happy, be happy, be healthy. With these 30 million, a happy new year must be Wang - I want your mother to be a hammer! Brat dare to play with me?!"
He Zhizhou cried with joy and experienced the great joy and sorrow of life in just a short moment: "As expected of me!!!"
As soon as the man said these last words, Tian Xianzi, who was half-stupid and half-dazed by his side, drew his sword out of its sheath and frowned in the mighty sword light, "Who are you calling a stinky boy?"
Although Tian Xianzi was drunk, the instinct to protect the calf was still in his mind.
His cultivation base is extremely high, and now, just by drawing his sword and aiming at a man not far away, he has already caused the latter to spit out a mouthful of blood under the pressure of layers, unable to stand, and fell to the ground.
Even a fool can see that these two have a lot of backgrounds.
"You, you wait!"
A man knows his right and wrong, and his skills are not as good as others. If he really fights, not only will the hundred spiritual stones he cheated be reduced to nothing, but he will also have to pay a large amount of medical expenses by himself. .
The man can bend and stretch, he barely got up from the ground, stumbled and ran back, and said the most cruel words in the most cowardly tone: "Two idiots! Don't let me meet again!"
The liar just ran away.
This plot has a thousand twists and turns, and there are twists and turns everywhere. Even He Zhizhou, who is the party involved, is confused. Where did his money go
"You, you, what are you doing! Is this a place where you can roam freely?"
He was stunned and froze in place when he suddenly heard the harsh voice of the criminal officer behind him, followed by an inexplicably familiar voice of a young man: "I, I, I'm looking for someone—the one inside! Hey, Young Master He! "
The three of them turned back together and saw a young man in white clothes dripping with sweat.
"I finally caught up with you! As expected of a cultivator, how can you go so fast?"
He wiped his sweat with a handkerchief and laughed softly: "Young Master He, there is one more cemetery you bought last night that needs to be confirmed by fingerprints, otherwise I won't be able to pay."
He Zhizhou was completely stunned: "Wait! What tomb, cemetery?"
"You bought it from me last night!"
The young man grinned: "Don't remember? You bought more than a dozen cemeteries for yourself, saying that you want to make the entire cultivation world your grave!"
Let the entire cultivation world become his grave.
He Zhizhou's heart froze.
"This, this," the young man continued to speak professionally without changing his smile, "you have already made a plan last night, your head will be placed in Beihuang City, your body will be buried in Zhuluzhou, and your hands and feet will be scattered in the frontier city-states in turn. ,Thus-"
As he said, he took out a map and connected these points carefully, and it turned out to be a stickman shape all over the world:
"In this way, if you plant a few He Zhizhou in spring, you can harvest thousands of He Zhizhou in autumn. When He Zhizhou all over the country unites, a single spark can start a prairie fire, overthrow feudal rule and build a great new socialist country. —I don’t understand what it means, but you did tell me that last night.”
He Zhizhou: …
Another tear fell from the corner of his fragile eye.
This is where to buy a cemetery.
This is the one who gave himself a five-horse corpse.
Ning Ning shook her head and just wanted to give him a thumbs up: "As expected of you."
"That's not the point."
Only Pei Ji frowned and said solemnly: "Since the city lord's wife has a problem, and she specifically instructed us to drink Jiuzhou Spring Gui that is not quite right... Haven't you noticed? Senior Sister Zheng, who should have been with Senior Brother Shizun. , when we were just looking through the images, we didn't notice her figure in the entire depth of the Hundred Flowers."