After passing through the alley, his eyes suddenly opened up. A street appeared in front of Fatty Jiangcheng, and it was as lively as the previous street.
The fat man was stunned for a moment, no, no, this street is the same street just now, "What happened? Why... why are you back?"
Jiang Cheng half-turned around and looked behind him, only to see that the alley behind him had long since disappeared, but was replaced by a solid blue brick wall.
There is a large signboard hanging near the brick wall, with the words Tianfuzhai Teahouse written on it. The words are white on a black background and written in a dragon-snake style. It looks quite impressive.
"It's not that we're back, but we're always here."
After Jiang Cheng said this, he walked straight to the teahouse. Several beggars in ragged clothes were squatting in front of the teahouse to bask in the sun. When they saw someone approaching, they immediately picked up the broken bowl in their hands and grinned, revealing yellow teeth. The wrinkles on his face were all piled up together, "Sir, please be kind, I haven't eaten in several days."
Not talking nonsense, Jiang Cheng took out a small piece of broken silver from his arms and threw it into the beggar's broken bowl with a clang. "Let me ask you, have you been here just now?"
The beggar stared at the silver in the bowl, his eyes widened, and he nodded frantically for a long time, "Yes, that's right, sir, the little ones have always been here."
"Then did you notice me?"
The leader of the beggars dug out some silver and carefully stuffed it into his clothes. Then he smiled and said auspicious words, "Of course I noticed you, old man. Your good fortune shines brightly. I noticed you even though you were so far away. You are so graceful." You are so handsome and talented, and your face is full of energy. I am afraid that there will not be a few handsome men in Luo'an City who are more outstanding than you. If you go to Yanliu Alley in the south of the city, the courtesans will have to pay a lot of money to accompany you."
The beggar thought that his words were perfect, but when he saw the face of the young man in front of him turned cold, "Speak in human terms! What did you see me like just now?"
"You...you and your fat boy walked over from the other side of the street, and then for some reason you two stopped moving. After standing there for a while, the fat boy suddenly fell into a trap. I dare to pull you."
"As a domestic slave, you can't get used to this problem." Another beggar said with a flattering look, as if he was still hoping to get some benefits from Jiangcheng.
There were noisy voices along the street. Everything looked the same as before, but Jiang Cheng knew that the street he experienced just now definitely did not belong to this world, and facing the scene just now, he actually felt familiar.
It was that strange sense of familiarity that reminded him that he was able to realize in a short time that he had stepped into a trap, and he also found the source of the familiarity, which was the street where Yamamoto's ancestors were on their mission.
The scene just now was like pulling him back into his memories and experiencing it all over again, but the level of risk was even greater. If Fatty hadn't pulled him out at the last moment, the consequences would have been disastrous.
Tianfuzhai Teahouse is famous throughout Loan City, especially the frozen top oolong tea brewed with the morning dew, which is the best among the teas. Now, in the elegant room on the third floor of the teahouse facing the street, there are two tea drinkers. Sitting by the window, mist floats from the fragrant tea in your hand, and the tea leaves swirl in the bright tea soup.
"Failed?" Looking at the retreating figure of Fatty Jiangcheng, Lu Qin's face showed no expression.
Shao Tong, who was sitting opposite her, was much miserable, with cold sweat on his forehead. His whole body was trembling slightly due to lack of strength. He was so weak that he could hardly lift the tea bowl. "It was interrupted at the last moment."
"It's a pity, it was just a little bit close." Lu Qin took a sip of tea, put the tea bowl back on the table, and looked at Shaotong calmly.
Shaotong felt uncomfortable looking at her and couldn't help but shake his head: "Don't think too much, it's not just a little bit worse, it's a lot worse. It seems like it was interrupted at the last moment, but in fact Jiang Cheng realized something was wrong a long time ago. I read part of his memory, and there was such a disaster in his memory. I just visualized this disaster."
"I told you before, this is too hasty, and the probability of success is very slim." As if unwilling, Shaotong defended himself again, "They have guessed that something is modifying their memories. The paper in Jiang Cheng's arms That’s the proof, and I think they’ve probably got us.”
"The fact that they can be suspicious of us, rather than the ghosts in the mission, is enough to show how difficult they are. Now we can be said to be the target of public criticism."
"You don't need to lecture me, you just need to follow the command, but..." Lu Qin leaned forward, her fat face close to Shaotong, staring into his eyes, "You really tried your best. Really? Or...are you perfunctory with me? "
Shaotong was shocked when he heard this. He immediately raised three fingers and swore to the sky: "Oh my god, doctor, please listen to what you are saying? You treat me like a second parent, and you promised me to heal me." If you later give me my freedom, how could I not do my best and repay kindness with evil? Am I still a human being?"
"Tidy up, let's go." Lu Qin stood up and walked out.
Shaotong drank up the hot tea in one gulp and followed quickly.
After working hard all day, when we returned to the Hou Mansion, the sky had already darkened. Everyone was sharing today's harvest. After all, tonight and tomorrow night are the highlights, so everyone was relatively well prepared.
Li Bai used his expertise and went to the pharmacy to prepare many kinds of herbs, most of which were for hemostasis and analgesia, and some for detoxification. He divided them into small packages and placed them on the table.
Tang Qisheng seemed to have thought of something. He leaned over and sniffed gently, then reached out to take out a packet of medicinal powder and opened it. He couldn't help but nodded his head the next second, "It's amazing. I didn't expect Miss Li Bai to have such knowledge. She even removed the corpse." I can come up with a recipe for any poison.”
"The prescriptions are all dead, but I didn't expect that such a border city could have so many medicinal materials. It seems that we are pretty lucky." Li Bai replied.
Yao and Shunyu brought back a book, which was full of local customs and customs. The most important thing was that there was a incomplete map in it. Yao, Shunyu carefully spread out the map, pointed to one of the locations and said: "This is Spring God Lake." Then he moved his finger to another place, "This is probably where we are now, Zhennan Hou Mansion."
From the map, the distance between the two places is not too close, dozens of miles, and both are rugged and difficult mountain roads. But what really surprised everyone is that the proportion of Spring God Lake on the map is very high, almost It is as big as two Luo'an cities and looks more like a sea at first glance.
There are also three points marked near the center of Spring God Lake. The three points are connected to each other with dotted lines to form an irregular triangle.
(End of chapter)
