The call of Master Yao made Yao Yao's whole body goosebumps. She didn't expect that she had only been out of the palace for a few years, and the maids in the palace had become so beautiful and sweet-tongued.
She glared at Han Changmu and said, "Don't you need to give me an explanation?"
Han Changmu raised his eyebrows with an innocent look on his face: "You want someone to serve you."
"..." Yao Yao covered his heart, he couldn't talk to this bottomless scumbag anymore, he would be pissed to death.
Han Changmu walked up to Yao Yao with a smile, leaned forward slightly, and said in a low and deep voice: "She is an eyeliner."
Yao Yao pouted.
Eyeliner, and she also has lipstick.
Anyone who likes an eyeliner wants it, but she doesn't want it anyway.
She was about to refuse, but the slap in the face caught her off guard.
She watched Lan Tiao walking over with two three-layered octagonal food boxes, opening them one by one, and placing them on the stone table at the door of the small room. She also laid out dishes, bamboo chopsticks, and even mouthwash after meals. Prepared.
Even if he is an eyeliner, he is also a considerate eyeliner. Anyone who doesn't use it is a fool. Enjoy every day.
Qingxu Hall has one main hall and two side halls. Behind the main hall, there is a row of four reverse-seat rooms connected together.
Since the Qingxu Hall was transformed into the Qingxu Palace of the two Taoist priests, the craftsmen built a hall in the open space between the reverse seat room and the main hall, connecting the reverse seat room and the main hall together, and sealed it. The original doors and windows of the reverse chamber were removed, and two additional heavy iron doors were built between the reverse chamber and the main hall.
The most severely damaged area this time was the inverted room used for alchemy.
Han Changmu did not enter through the main hall door of Qingxu Hall, but went around to the reverse seat room at the back and walked in from the half-collapsed reverse seat room.
The ground was covered with debris from collapsed houses. Several red-gold beams hit the ground and broke into several sections of different lengths, revealing the original color of the wood.
Han Changmu ordered the guards to light lamps and search around, then he walked over with the lamp and squatted next to the broken beam. The light of the lamp fell on it, and he gently brushed away the dark cloth on it. Ashes, red gold brilliance bloomed on the beams, and the original glory and splendor could be vaguely seen.
Several internal guards lit the lamps and candles and found a suitable place to place them. The tragic situation in the reverse room was suddenly exposed to everyone's eyes.
Yao Yao exclaimed while watching: "This, the fever is a bit miserable."
Lan Tiao stood obediently next to Yao Yao and pointed to the half-collapsed wall next to her: "The wall is burnt black."
Han Changmu patrolled several beams carefully, without raising his head, and shouted softly: "Yao Junjun, come and take a look."
Yao Yao responded, dropped Lan Tiao, and walked over quickly, only to see Han Changmu's finger pointing to the section on the beam.
She looked over intently, and saw that the section was uneven, with black scorch marks still remaining after being burned by the fire. It looked like it had been severely burned before it collapsed and broke into several sections.
"This, the beam is not very strong?" Yao Yao asked uncertainly.
Han Changmu tapped the beam with his finger, pointed at the cross section, and said impatiently: "Take a closer look."
Yao Yao lowered his head suspiciously, wishing he could plunge into the cross-section of the beam. He carefully rubbed his hands on the uneven cross-section, and his fingers tingled slightly with sharp sawdust of different lengths.
Her fingers moved slowly on the section. When she touched the bottom of the section, her hand
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After a slight pause, she was stunned for a moment and looked up at Han Changmu in surprise.
Han Changmu nodded: "Yes, the cross section is neat."
Yao Yao gasped and turned over the beam, which was not very long but very heavy, and saw the section she had touched just now.
It was completely different from other places. Although the shallow mark was overfired and burned black, there was no burr or sawdust at all. It felt very smooth and neat, and it was the mark of being cut by a sharp instrument.
Yao Yao and Han Changmu looked at each other with shock in their eyes.
Someone scratched the beam, and then the alchemy room caught fire and the beam fell down. If there was a person standing under the beam, or if the saint happened to be standing under the beam.
Yao Yao trembled.
You can't think about it. Just thinking about it is like ransacking your home and destroying your family.
Han Changmu was still calm and composed. After all, he grew up in conspiracies and intrigues. If he was too scheming, he wouldn't be alive now.
He looked at the other beams with a calm expression.
Yao Yao despised his lack of knowledge and determination, and went to look for other things.
The search really shocked the two of them.
There are four beams and four columns in the renovated alchemy room. The red-gold ones are the beams and the vermilion ones are the uprights. They fell into the burnt black and ashes-covered rubble. Even if there is only a little bit of color left, it looks very good. conspicuous.
Han Changmu and Yao Yao found all four beams and arranged them neatly in the open space outside Qingxu Hall. They found that all the cross sections had marks scratched by knives.
The knife marks are all the same narrow one, clean and neat, and the knife is very neat.
The two looked at each other.
One knife mark can be said to be justifiable, but with so many knife marks, it would be a bit self-deceiving to call it a coincidence.
Lan Tiao was very alert. When she saw Han Changmu and two people rummaging through the rubble for red-gold beams, she had some guesses in her mind. She followed them and found the vermilion pillars, and placed them one by one. On the open ground.
When Han Changmu saw this scene, he pursed his lower lip slightly and walked over to take a closer look.
The vermilion pillars were much more complete than the red gold beams. Although they had been burned beyond recognition, the four pillars were not completely broken, but some places were burned to ashes by the fire, leaving only a thin layer still connected together.
However, after it was burned like this, the pillars were not broken. This shows that the craftsmen did not dare to cut corners when building this alchemy room.
Han Changmu tapped the pillar twice with his fingers and said expressionlessly: "It's nanmu."
"It's really luxurious to build an alchemy room with nanmu." Yao Yao looked around and realized that no matter how precious the nanmu was, it couldn't withstand a fire.
Lan Tiao said at the right time: "All the palaces in this palace use nanmu as beams and pillars. It's not a luxury."
Han Changmu didn't speak. When he raised his eyes, he saw black ash on Yao Yao's face. He subconsciously raised his hand and wiped it on her face.
Yao Yao hurriedly stepped back as if he was frightened, his apricot eyes widened, and he looked at Han Changmu in surprise.
Han Changmu pointed at Yao Yao's face awkwardly: "It's dusty. It's dirty."
Yao Yao raised his chin and sneered: "Sir, your hands are not clean either."
Han Changmu raised his hand and saw that it was covered with black ash. He chuckled and rubbed his hands in embarrassment.
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Seeing this, Tiao pursed her lips and smiled, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, and gently wiped Yao Yao's face.
Yao Yao couldn't help but sigh, otherwise everyone likes gentle and beautiful women. The red sleeves add fragrance and feel comfortable.
Han Changmu became even more embarrassed. He stood up on his knees, turned around and walked deeper into the ruins.
The entire Qingxu Palace was covered with gold bricks, and the same was true for the floor of the alchemy room. After most of the alchemy room collapsed, the glazed tiles, beams and columns on the roof were all smashed to the ground, and large blocks of indestructible gold bricks were smashed. There were tiny cracks, winding and dense like a spider web.
But if you remove the broken glazed tiles that cover it, you can still see the gold bricks shining under the light.
But when we walked to the middle of the alchemy room, a large piece of the flat gold brick floor was deeply sunk. On the sunken floor, not a single gold brick was complete. They were all fragments of different sizes, scattered in all directions. Splashy messy look.
Han Changmu stood on the edge of the depression, looking at the hole that was half a person deep, and was stunned for a moment: "What was originally a place here?"
The attendant Xiao Neijian heard this, ran over with his head lowered, and replied tremblingly: "Little man, I don't know, ever since the two immortal masters moved into Qingxu Hall, they have been served by two little Taoist boys. , the two immortal masters said that the little people are ordinary people, and breaking into the Qingxu Hall without authorization will pollute the palace with filth, so the little people never entered the Qingxu Hall again."
"It's a lot of nonsense." Han Changmu sneered and waved his hand: "Stay back."
The young eunuch, as if he had been granted amnesty, wiped his hands with cold sweat, bent over and walked out backwards.
He walked in a hurry, tripped over a candlestick lying on the ground, and fell on his back. He was suddenly frightened even more, and he rolled and crawled away without a trace.
When Han Changmu heard the movement, he looked back in surprise, full of confusion.
Yao Yao quickly glanced at Han Changmu and murmured in a low voice: "It's rare for the living King of Hell to not know it yet."
Han Changmu heard Yao Yao's muttering, but didn't hear clearly what she said. He raised his eyebrows and asked, "What?"
"Ah, no, it's nothing." Yao Yao turned around quickly and stepped on the ground twice guiltily. There was a crashing sound, and a lot of rubble and rocks rolled down from the edge of the depression. Her foot slipped and she almost fell into the pit.
"Don't move." Han Changmu, with quick eyes and quick hands, grabbed Yao Yao's arm and took a step back.
The two of them stood firm, and Han Changmu suddenly squatted down and picked up a half-palm piece of purple gold copper among the rubble.
Yao Yao also squatted down and continued to find purple gold and copper pieces of different sizes in the rubble, placing them all aside.
Lan Tiao also followed suit.
The three people rummaged through it and found hundreds of large and small pieces of purple gold and copper.
Han Changmu looked at it for a moment, then suddenly raised his head: "This is the alchemy room, but we have been in here for so long, but we haven't seen the alchemy furnace."
Yao Yao looked around and was also stunned.
Han Changmu held the piece of purple gold copper and said solemnly: "These copper pieces should be the alchemy furnace. This deep pit is the trace left by the explosion of the alchemy furnace." He paused and continued: "This fire, It should be caused by the explosion of the alchemy furnace."
When Yao Yao heard this, the first thing he thought of was the scene in Journey to the West where Sun Wukong kicked over the elixir furnace of Taishang Laojun.
It's a pity that there is no Journey to the West at this time.
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