Leng Linjiang walked, looked and bought.
He Dengglou also acted as a conscientious servant. Boxes of various sizes were stacked one after another in his arms, and the top box gradually exceeded his head.
He looked out from the gap between the boxes, with a white face and panting: "Mr., Master, let's not buy it."
Leng Linjiang glanced at He Denglu with disdain: "What, you can't hold me anymore?"
"..." He Denggou's hands and arms were so sore that he couldn't carry so many things. However, he was a martial artist who could wield a machete, and he was just walking around with his young master Shao Yin. Taking something out of the street and saying "tired" wouldn't it mean that your face would be stamped on the ground, which would be embarrassing and embarrassing.
He Denglou didn't dare to complain about being tired, and muttered angrily: "Other adults rely on their brains to investigate cases, but you, sir, rely on money to investigate cases."
"What did you say?" Leng Linjiang glanced over.
He Denglu shrank his neck: "No, it's nothing."
As the night gets darker, the bustle in the ghost market has not dissipated. On the contrary, the crowds are getting bigger and bigger.
The dots of fireflies and candles are brilliant and bright, illuminating this dark and strange underground paradise as bright as day.
"Sir." The detective who was following Lan Yinge's incense-making master quietly walked up to Leng Linjiang and told in a low voice the places where the woman had just been.
Leng Linjiang's expression changed slightly, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "You went in and didn't come out again?"
The detective whispered: "Yes, Bei Zhi and Wu Qiang watched her go in with their own eyes and never came out."
Leng Linjiang stared at it and said, "Have you ever gone in to check?"
The detective shook his head: "Wu Qiang went and knocked on the door. There was clearly someone's voice inside, but no one opened the door. I was afraid of disturbing the situation, so I didn't force my way in. Wu Qiang was standing guard outside, and I came back first."
Leng Linjiang squinted his eyes, thick clouds rolling in his eyes: "The last place she went to was a three-story wooden building?"
"Yes." The detective nodded heavily.
Leng Linjiang stared: "What's the name of the building upstairs? Is there a plaque on it?"
The policeman shook his head: "There is no plaque on the wooden building, and the door is closed." He paused slightly and thought for a moment: "But I smell the smell of powder, and there are two willow trees carved on the door."
"Powder smell!" Leng Linjiang's heart skipped a beat. The orchid catkins, and the so-called "catkins" in catkins refer to catkins. His eyes narrowed coldly, and he said thoughtfully: "Gather the people, Go see what the hell that place is."
In a narrow alley with few people, a dilapidated wooden building loomed in the darkness, its outline blurred.
The two lanterns under the eaves of the corridor were extinguished, like two deep black eyes flashing and swaying in the night wind.
A ray of dim yellow light leaked out from the crack of the closed door, like a little firefly, rising and falling between the feet.
The night wind blew rustlingly, and the dilapidated wooden building made a desolate and desolate creaking sound. The deathly silence inside and outside the building became more and more permeable, making people's hair stand on end.
From the outside, this wooden building looks dilapidated, but inside it has spacious halls, painted pillars and carved beams.
The lights fell on the floor paved with golden nanmu, and strange golden light filled the room.
The dome of the hall is extremely high, and the wooden dome is painted with flowers and plants of various colors. I don’t know whose hand it was. The flowers and plants are painted lifelike and the colors are bright and strong. When placed next to this simple wooden building, there is no sense of incongruity at all. On the contrary, it is quite beautiful.
There are two bamboo windows on the east and west gables. At this time, the windows are half open, and the night wind blows slowly. The clouds hanging in front of the windows rise and fall, as if the red sun illuminates the brilliant clouds on the horizon when the sky first breaks. .
A semicircular platform with two steps was built under the north wall of the hall. The dragon silk gauze was slowly lifted to both sides, hooked up by carved gold hooks, and hung on both sides of the high platform, revealing the carved golden nanmu table on the high platform. Head-turning case.
At this time, there was no one on the high platform, and there was nothing on the carved head table.
There were dozens of people sitting in the hall, including men and women, old and young. All of them were richly dressed and well-dressed. They were all staring at the empty desk with their eyes feverishly.
as if
There are countless amounts of real money on the empty desk!
"Hey, what rare items do you think there will be in today's auction?"
"It's hard to say, but the auction only happens every six months, so it won't disappoint."
"That's right. I heard that that thing actually appeared at the last auction!"
"Shhhh, keep your voice down. If outsiders hear it, we won't have anywhere to buy that stuff in the future."
When everyone heard this, they looked at me and I looked at you, and they all understood and closed their mouths.
There was silence in the hall for a moment, and a burst of not-so-light footsteps broke the anxious silence.
Everyone's eyes slowly moved along with the footsteps, watching a short and fat woman slowly walk up to the high platform.
"This is Master Fu from Xuguo Tower."
"Master Fu, this auction is hosted by Master Fu himself!"
"Master Fu personally came forward, so there must be a treasure!"
As soon as this short and fat woman appeared, the people sitting under the high platform suddenly let out a burst of exclamation.
Hearing everyone's undisguised exclamations, the woman smiled slightly proudly and said loudly: ""The guests who came today are all distinguished guests from Xu Guolou. I think they all have met the little woman. They are so fragrant and talented tonight. The auction will be hosted by the little lady. Thank you all for your support. "
Although this short, fat woman was born with an unattractive appearance, her voice was clear and melodious, like the tinkling of spring water, which made people feel happy.
"Master Fu is so polite!"
"That's right, we all trust Master Fu."
When Fuyu heard this, her smile became more sincere, making her originally ordinary appearance look a little more gentle.
She said with a smile: "Tonight's auction, I think all of you distinguished guests already know about it. The auction items are all treasures that have never been sold publicly in Xu Guolou. The finale is an ancient recipe."
"Ancient prescription, Master Fu, what ancient prescription is it?"
"Yes, ancient prescriptions are different from ancient ones. Some are precious and some are lousy."
Fuyu pursed her lips and smiled: "What kind of ancient recipe is this? I'll forgive you for showing off for now, but this is the first auction item, and I can let you all have a quick look at it. I won't disappoint you all."
Everyone started whispering.
With a smile on her lips, Fu Yu looked around at everyone and gently clapped her hands three times.
From behind the silk gauze came out a plain-faced cardamom girl with cloud-like black hair combed into double rings. She was wearing a water-colored skirt and shirt. She walked like a weak willow supporting the wind, creating a faint fragrance.
The fragrant wind is not the smell of incense, but the innate body fragrance, which is faint and dark, as if it is not there.
The cardamom girl walked to the high platform holding an indigo flower brocade box that was as wide as the palm of her hand and as long as an arm. The bright candlelight shone on it, and there was a hint of water flowing on the indigo brocade.
The brocade box that was held up so solemnly must not contain ordinary things.
Seeing the surprised expressions on everyone's faces, Fu Yu smiled lightly and slowly opened the brocade box.
The moment the brocade box was opened, a faint fragrance spread out.
This scent is particularly strange, I have never smelled it before.
The expressions on everyone's faces suddenly became fanatical. If they hadn't known the rules of Xu Guo Tower, these people would have pounced on them.
"Master Fu, this fragrance is very strange. I have never smelled it before."
"Yes, yes, what kind of fragrance is this?"
Fuyu squinted her eyes and smiled enigmatically: "Don't worry, everyone." She slowly took out a palm-sized white porcelain round bowl from the brocade box, opened the lid of the round bowl, and the lingering fragrance became stronger and stronger. .
This rich and strange fragrance is also mixed with a faint trace of blood smell that is not easy to detect.
This bloody aura made the blood boil, and his mind suddenly became much clearer.
Everyone looked at each other in shock and doubt.
"This is?"
"Master Fu, don't be too pretentious, please tell me what kind of rare thing this is!"
Fragrant but still smiling without saying a word, whetting people's appetite, he took the purple-gold copper Boshan stove held by the cardamom girl, took out a spoonful of incense powder from the white porcelain round bowl, threw it into the incense burner and lit it.
A thin wisp of azure smoke overflowed from the Boshan stove. The light smoke swirled, dispersed and swayed on the Boshan stove, gradually weaving into a layer of mountains.
The light azure smoke also turned into a patch of dark green and light blue, and the hazy mountains became more and more lifelike.
Seeing this scene, everyone sitting in the hall stopped talking involuntarily, and even their breathing became lighter.
Someone sniffed the tip of their nose gently and found that a moment after the incense was lit, the faint fragrance disappeared.
"It's a green mountain in a thousand mountains. It's a green fragrance in a thousand mountains." The man suddenly stood up when he noticed that the fragrance dissipated, and brought the bed down with a "crash", and shouted loudly with a look of shock on his face.
Hearing the words "One Thousand Mountains and One Green Mountain", the expressions of everyone sitting under the high platform changed, and their eyes were fixed on the round white porcelain bowl with crazy eyes.
The legendary "One Thousand Mountains and One Green" can open up spiritual wisdom. It is a rare dense fragrance in the world and extremely difficult to prepare.
It is not accurate to say that this "Thousand Mountains and One Green" is a spice. It is already considered a fragrant medicine. All the medicinal materials used are fragrant. These medicinal materials are not difficult to find. What is difficult to find is the main medicine.
What is circulated on the market is the fragrance of "One Thousand Mountains and One Green". There is no complete recipe of "One Thousand Mountains and One Green", and no one knows what the main ingredient of this fragrance is.
I don’t know if the “One Thousand Mountains and One Blue” auctioned by Xuguolou was obtained by chance or if it was prepared by myself.
Of course, no one would doubt that the "One Thousand Mountains and One Green" on the high platform is a fake.
Xuguo Tower suddenly appeared in the ghost market ten years ago. As soon as it appeared, it released a lot of secret incense that shocked the world, triggering countless people to rob it.
This is how Xuguolou became famous overnight.
A shop like this would never do anything to ruin its reputation.
There was silence for a moment under the high platform, and suddenly someone blushed and asked, "Is it the Qianshan Yibi who can refresh the mind and make stupid people smart?"
Hearing this, everyone stared at Fuyu closely, waiting for her to speak.
Fu Yu smiled faintly: "There is no way to make a fool smart." She paused slightly, glanced at the complicated expressions of everyone, and there was a hint of pride in her smile: "But the Qianshan Yibi in the little woman's hand , but it can make ordinary people smarter."
Hearing this, everyone cheered up.
The temptation to make ordinary people smarter is greater than the temptation to make stupid people smarter.
After all, no one wants to admit that he is a fool. At most, he is willing to admit that he is a mediocre ordinary person.
Oh my god, the first lot is so shocking, not to mention the rest of the lot, they would be too much to grab in Chang'an City!
There was an eerie silence in the hall for a moment, and suddenly someone with a lot of money called out: "Master Fu, tell me how much I can sell this Thousand Mountains and One Bi." As he said that, he took out a thick stack of silver from his arms. The ticket was slapped heavily on the table, and he shouted even more arrogantly: "I have a lot of money! This is a thousand mountains, one green mountain, no one can rob it from me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone burst into laughter.
Where did such a stupid man with a lot of money come from? Do you understand the rules?
The living, tall and thick man had already begun to roll up his sleeves and prepare to hit someone.
Fuyu glanced at the excited crowd with interest, and smiled as usual: "The rules of Xuguolou are that the highest bidder will win all the items. The starting price for this piece is 5,000 taels of silver, and the price will increase each time." , no less than five hundred taels."
As Fu Yu's words fell, the hall was eerily silent for a moment, and then there was a series of bidding calls, the sound was so loud that it went straight into the sky.
The hall suddenly fell into a fierce fight.
"Sir, this is it." In the darkness, the dim wooden building not far away let out a low whimper.
Wu Qiang, who had been waiting in the darkness for a long time, had not yet adapted to the sound. He raised his hand to touch the goosebumps on his arms and looked around cautiously, as if a ghost would rush out of the darkness. .
Leng Linjiang and his party were hiding in the shadows around the corner. Before they even got close to the wooden building, he could already smell the scent of the powder that the detective had just mentioned, which was very faintly carried by the wind.
"Sir, it does smell like powder." He Denglu sniffed the tip of his nose twice and said in a low voice.
Leng Linjiang said "Hmm" and said with deep eyes, "It's Yu Rongxiang."
"..." He Denglu stared wide-eyed and complimented sincerely: "The flower girl in Pingkangfang likes to use Jade Rong Incense the most. You are really well-informed."
"..." Leng Linjiang's mouth twitched slightly, was he praising someone? Is such a stick really He Dengglou?
God knows how much restraint he had to use to not kick He Denglu out!
Wu Qiang glanced at He Dengglou in surprise. Is this guy with a missing piece of his mouth really their leader He?
Why do you want to slap someone into a pig's head every time you praise someone?
Is it possible that compliments are as popular as curses in Beijing these days?
It's not that he doesn't understand, it's that the world is changing too fast!
He Denglou touched his chin, and seemed to realize that he had made a mistake in boasting. He touched his chin with an embarrassed smile and changed the subject: "Sir, this is Xu Guolou."
Leng Linjiang stared at the pattern carved on the door leaf, which was exactly the willow tree drawn by two knives and pens, and sneered: "It looks like it can't be wrong."
He Denglou was about to ask why, when he looked up and saw the two willow trees carved on the door leaf, and his heart skipped a beat, Xu Guolou was not like that.
"Sir, I'd rather go over and take a look at my humble position." He Denglou grabbed Leng Linjiang and said, he just flattered Leng Linjiang and slapped him on the horse's leg. Now he had a chance to make a difference, so how could he let it go.
"Wait, wait," Wu Qiang grabbed He Denglou and whispered, "Captain, there is a lot of noise in that building. There seem to be a lot of people. They knocked on the door, but no one opened the door."
"There are quite a few people. What are those people doing in the building?" Leng Linjiang narrowed his eyes and asked, "You can always hear the noise if you can't get in, right?"
Wu Qiang nodded heavily: "I heard it. There seemed to be something being auctioned in that building. I heard someone shouting thirty-five thousand taels, and then there was a woman's voice inside, saying something called Lost Soul Incense. Then someone came towards the door from inside. I was afraid that my whereabouts would be exposed, so I quickly retreated here and stared."
"Lost Soul Fragrance!" Leng Linjiang's expression changed and he shouted in a low voice, "Did you hear that right? It's Lost Soul Fragrance?"
Wu Qiang said firmly: "Hongzhi definitely heard it right, it's the fragrance of lost souls."
Leng Linjiang was unspeakably shocked and even knocked on his head.
"..." He Denggou and Wu Qiang looked at each other, then turned to look at the detectives hiding in the darkness in the distance, feeling a sense of joy in their hearts.
Fortunately, they were hiding far away. Otherwise, if they saw their young master Shao Yin going crazy, the news would spread all over the capital in less than a moment, and he might not be able to tell what he was like.
"Sir, sir, what the hell is Lost Soul Incense?" He Dengglou asked suspiciously.
Looking at the curious faces of He Denglu and Wu Qiang, Leng Linjiang thought solemnly for a moment, and sighed faintly: "Okay, if you know more, you will be more defensive in your actions in the future."
Having been used to seeing Leng Linjiang's carefree appearance, He Denglu and Wu Qiang were somewhat unaccustomed to the sudden sight of his serious appearance, and both felt strange solemnity in their hearts.
Leng Linjiang glanced at the faces of the two of them painfully and slowly, and said in a deep voice: "The former Emperor Ming wanted to live forever, and the red pill he took required a piece of skin from the cardamom girl's heart. It had to be voluntary, and he would be killed alive. What is peeled off is the purpose of the Lost Soul Incense, which is to control people's minds and do whatever they want without resisting."
Hearing this, He Dengglou and Wu Qiang both hissed. Hearing what this meant, as long as you use this Lost Soul Incense, you won't even be afraid of pain.
How can this be a dense fragrance?
This is obviously an evil medicine!
"Well, then this happened decades ago. In all these years, I have never heard of this thing. Where did this thing come from?" He Denglu's eyes widened and he stumbled. Baba asked.
"I don't know." Leng Linjiang shook his head: "The previous dynasty was destroyed, and after Emperor Ming committed suicide, the recipe for the Lost Soul Incense was destroyed in a fire, and the incense never appeared again." He stared at the building in the distance. Ordinary but weird Mulou, his voice was so cold that it could freeze everything: "But I didn't expect that this incense would appear in the ghost market."
"Sir," He Dengglou suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind and said hurriedly: "Sir, weren't the two cases of pregnant women whose minds were controlled by others? Could it be that this lost soul incense was also used?"
"It's not the same," Leng Linjiang shook his head and said, "Sun Wu has tested it, but," he paused slightly and smiled thoughtfully, "the person who can make the incense of lost souls must be extraordinary." No matter whether the person has anything to do with those two cases or not, once the Lost Soul Incense flows into the public, it will definitely cause an uproar and lead to crimes. Such people must not be let go."
"What your lord said is that I will bring someone to kill them all at once!" He Denglu was so angry that he rolled up his sleeves and was about to rush over.
"Wait, catch the head, I still have something to say about my humble position." Wu Qiang grabbed He Denglou again.
He Denglou angrily jumped to his feet and cursed: "If you have something to say, can you finish it all at once!"
Pulling his sleeves again and again like this would easily miss his waist!
Wu Qiang said angrily: "My lord, I'm arresting the head. I'm humble. I just saw Wang Yansheng, the young eunuch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, come in!"
These words were a thunderbolt, more frightening than any lost-soul incense, and directly knocked Leng Linjiang and He Denglu into despair.
"Wang Yansheng, the young eunuch from the Ministry of Internal Affairs?" Leng Linjiang's face turned pale: "Shouldn't he have followed him to Yuhua Mountain? How could he be here?"
Although the young eunuch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is not as noble as the chief eunuch, he is also the saint's confidant. The saint went to Yuhua Mountain, but he stayed in the capital, and even secretly came to Xuguo Tower to buy banned drugs. This made people feel more confused. think.
He was a eunuch, why did he buy these shameful things, and who would they use them for?
It can’t be for yourself, right?
Of course, there are some people in the inner prison who are twisted and perverted, but you can't kill a whole boatload of people with one blow. There are always a few normal ones.
At least the people serving in front of the emperor must be normal!
Then, the things he bought are worthy of further investigation.
The people in the imperial court have the most rigorous reputation, and they only take orders from one person!
Leng Linjiang looked struggling.
His identity is sensitive. The saint is not afraid that he is a playboy and has no future, but is afraid that he is too capable and knows too much!
He had been keeping a low profile for a long time. If he got involved in the whirlpool, let alone whether it would bring trouble to himself, at least the case would not be investigated.
Seeing that Leng Linjiang was speechless for a long time, He Denglou cautiously tried: "Sir, our errand can't be done..."
His voice gradually became lower and finally stopped abruptly.
He is well aware of the difficulties of his young master Shao Yin.
Don't be afraid of mistakes, just be afraid of merit.
If you make a mistake, you'll get scolded at most and get the reputation of a playboy, but if you have merit, it will be ruined!
It is not easy to trust someone in a superior position, and suspicion can happen in the blink of an eye.
"You've come here, how can you come back empty-handed!" Leng Linjiang glanced at He Denglou, narrowed his eyes and said: "Since he came here in brocade clothes at night, he must not want anyone to know his identity. In this case, let's Just pretend that you didn't see him and just let him walk at night in his splendid clothes."
He Denglu narrowed his eyes: "What do you mean, sir? Let him go and only arrest the people behind the scenes?"
Leng Linjiang thought for a moment: "We have to do it without revealing anything. We can't let him know that he is from Jingzhao Mansion, let alone let him go on purpose!"
"..." He Denglu covered his head.
It was too difficult. His brain was not strong enough.
