After a while, a middle-aged man with a rich appearance and dressed as a butler walked up to the group of people with his hands behind his back and raised his chin.
"The Hu family in Willow Lane, load the goods into the car, here are three people."
Zhao Lin didn't say anything, and none of the Lifu dared to move.
Seeing that no one was moving, the housekeeper thought they were showing humility to each other, so he stretched out his finger and nodded at three people: "You, you, and you..."
Zhao Lin had outstanding physique and was also selected by the housekeeper.
Zhao Lin sat motionless, turned to a tuft of hair and said, "I'm not going, please find someone to take my place."
"Okay!" A Tuft of Hair agreed hastily.
The housekeeper twitched his lips and looked a little sullen, "If you don't do any work, what kind of job are you doing here?"
Zhao Lin ignored him and yawned loudly, making the housekeeper stare in anger.
In the next hour, several more employers came to recruit workers, but Zhao Lin remained indifferent.
The Lifus all felt strange and wondered what he was planning.
It was not until noon that the people from Chu Mansion came.
A man in his thirties wearing a satin robe walked over from a distance, followed by two attendants.
"Who is that person?" Zhao Lin asked a bunch of hair.
"Steward Sun Er of the Chu Mansion." A tuft of hair replied.
Zhao Lin nodded, knowing what he was doing.
There are three housekeepers in the Chu Mansion, the first housekeeper is in charge of the inside, the second housekeeper is in charge of the outside, and there is a female housekeeper in charge of the inner house.
"Shopping from the Chu family on Sajin Street, five cents, six people."
Before Steward Sun's family could reach the front, the entourage behind him shouted loudly.
Zhao Lin stood up first, brushed the dust off his body, and bowed.
Based on the monitoring over the past few days, he knew that the second housekeeper liked to put on airs, so he deliberately showed a humble attitude.
Sure enough, Butler Sun nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, you come!"
I picked a few that I liked among the Lifu and went to the rice market together.
While walking on the road, Zhao Lin quietly reached into his arms, twisted out a ball of black powder, flicked it with his finger, and hit Butler Sun on the back.
A special fragrance slowly spreads.
The musk powder prepared by Old Man Ma has a long-lasting smell. As long as it stays on the clothes for a moment, the smell will penetrate into the texture. Even after changing clothes or even taking a shower, Zhao Lin can still find people.
Butler Sun was still unconscious and walked slowly with square steps.
There are hundreds of people in the Chu Mansion, who consume a lot of food every day and have to buy it every few days.
Butler Sun purchased a large amount of rice, grains and meat, and Zhao Lin and several other laborers carried the carts on their shoulders to the east gate of the Chu Mansion.
"Take the things to the dining room, be quick with your hands and feet, and don't look around."
Butler Sun gave a warning and directed everyone to move things inside.
"The second housekeeper is back."
The head guard guarding the side door greeted.
When Zhao Lin went out in the morning, he had already suppressed his strength and returned to the strength realm, not worrying about his cultivation being seen by others.
laugh……
As he passed by, Zhao Lin popped up a ball of musk powder, hitting the guard leader's ribs at the hem of his clothes.
Following Butler Sun, they came to the dining room on the east side of the main hall. Zhao Lin and others moved the ingredients into the woodshed.
"You guys have done a good job, this is your wages!"
Butler Sun settled the bill happily, and then said to an attendant: "Xiaosi, please send them out."
Zhao Lin glanced sideways at the dining room and saw four dining rooms side by side, with words on the doors: upper, inner, outer, and small.
He had an idea and thought to himself: "It is better to take it internally than to apply it externally. Instead of taking medicine one by one, it is better to stew it in a spoonful!"
Once the musk powder enters the stomach, it will be slowly released with body fluids and can last for several months.
Shuntian Liang Diaoliu, the man who made the mountain leopard in the first place, swallowed a musk pill before he died, and his body was found by a scent-sniffing mink in the spring.
This is a good idea, but... why are there so many dining rooms?
"Brother, your Chu Mansion is so impressive!"
As he walked out, Zhao Lin said in a complimentary tone, deliberately adding an accent to "you".
When the follower heard this, the corners of his mouth split unconsciously, and he said proudly: "That's right. It is said that the south is rich and the west is noble. When it comes to Nancheng, the Chu family can count them on one hand!"
Zhao Lin nodded in agreement and said, "That's right, when I was moving the goods just now, I saw that there were four dining rooms, and there seemed to be something written about up, down, left, and right?"
When the attendant heard this, he couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Don't talk nonsense. Where it means up, down, left, and right, it is clearly up, inside, outside, and small."
"Yeah."
Zhao Lin deliberately patted his head and said, "Brother, don't blame me. I don't know much about reading, so I read it wrong."
Then he made a serious expression on his face asking for advice, "Brother, please tell us, what does upper, inner, outer, and small mean?"
"If we knew, we would have a reason to brag when we go out, and our trip to Chu Mansion would not be in vain."
The entourage laughed when he heard this, "Actually, it's nothing, it's the same for all wealthy families..."
Then he explained.
The original four dining rooms are: upper dining room, inner dining room, outer dining room, and small dining room.
The upper dining room is for the exclusive use of the Chu family.
The inner dining room is used to cook meals for people with certain statuses such as housekeepers, guards, escorts, masters, and teachers.
The external dining room is used to cook meals for the servants.
As for the small dining room, the stove fire stays on all year round, ensuring that when the master and his wife want to eat, they can be there at any time without waiting.
"Oh, I have learned so much!"
Zhao Lin sighed, and several Lifu also looked stunned.
…
At midnight, the crescent moon hangs high in the sky.
Zhao Lin dressed in black and quietly came outside Chu Mansion.
After finding a place where there was no one nearby, the spiral energy spurted out from the hole, and the body slowly rose into the sky.
The situation of the entire Chu Mansion can be seen at a glance.
There are many guards in the mansion, including warriors of the second and third levels of the Strength Realm, and two Qi Realm masters, both of whom were invited by the Chu family at a large price.
Zhao Lin released ultrasonic waves to locate all patrolling and hiding guards.
It has to be said that money can make things work, and the guards are very dedicated. They are still vigilant at this time, but none of them can imagine that there is someone above their heads.
He flew all the way to the dining room, landed slowly, and walked into the "upper dining room" first.
The pots and pans were neatly placed on the stove. Zhao Lin looked left and right and opened the lids on the vessels one by one.
When I opened the lid of a large casserole, a fresh, rich and mellow aroma hit my nostrils.
There is stock in the casserole. In this era, there was no MSG, and the cooks were all good at making stock, which was used to enhance the freshness of cooking and soup.
"I'll give you some extra ingredients."
Zhao Lin smiled slightly, took out the musk powder from his arms, poured some into it, took a spoon and stirred it in.
When I lifted my nose and smelled it again, the smell of the medicinal powder was diluted by the broth.
It seems to be more fragrant.
Then he went to the inner dining room and the small dining room, and followed the same method, adding musk powder to the stewed soup and stock.
When passing the dining room, Zhao Lin paused, thought for a while, and did not go in.
If the Chu family contacts Chu Liu, it is unlikely that they will send their servants there.
If everyone in Chu Mansion is drugged, it will lead to too many tracking targets, which will not be conducive to finding people.
After finishing the work, I took off and went back to Tongpu to sleep.
The next day, Zhao Lin did not go out to look for work. He just wandered around the Chu Mansion and listened intently to what was going on inside.
The medicine has been given, it just depends on whether they will take it.
…
In this era, ordinary people have two meals a day, but rich people, like modern people, eat three meals a day, or even four or five meals.
At noon, the Chu family sat in the main hall and began to eat.
"Let's eat." Chu Hongtai picked up the chopsticks and said.
"Mom, drink some soup."
Mrs. Chu had bad teeth, so her eldest daughter-in-law personally served her a bowl of soup.
"good."
Mrs. Chu scooped up the soup with a spoon and took a sip. The wrinkles on her face spread, "Today's soup...is so delicious."
Chu Hongtai smiled when he heard this and said, "Really? I'll try it too."
The servant waiting on the side quickly stepped forward and filled a bowl. Chu Hongtai took it and tasted it. He nodded and said, "It's really good. Come on, you all have a taste."
Perhaps it was the musk powder that added the finishing touch, and the family drank up the soup.
Chu Hongtai was in a happy mood and called the cook over to praise him.
On the contrary, the cook was confused. He frowned and wondered how today's cooking was different from the past.
After hearing this, Zhao Lin felt confident.
As long as you drink this soup with added ingredients, these people will be walking trackers for you, leaving a special smell wherever they go.
…
In the next two days, Zhao Lin observed people coming and going at the main entrance of Chu Mansion. Anyone who looked like he had some identity smelled of musk powder.
From then on, Zhao Lin no longer monitored Chu Mansion.
Instead, I walk around Qinghe County every morning, noon and evening.
Whenever someone goes out of town, the smell is left behind.
The rest of the time he spent walking around the city. If Chu Liu got brave enough, he would hide in Qinghe County. As long as he dared to come into contact with people from the Chu Mansion, he could find him out.
Zhao Lin does this every day, one day, two days, three days...
At noon on the fourth day, I finally smelled two musk scents outside the city.
Someone is out of town!
Zhao Lin perked up and followed the smell. Within half an hour, he saw a convoy marching ahead in the distance.
There are more than twenty cars in the convoy, and judging from the emblems on the cars and the clothes of each person, there are at least five merchants.
"It turned out to be a caravan transporting goods to other places."
Zhao Lin said to himself.
In the past, merchants had to hire escorts to transport goods to other places.
However, since the Zuanshanbao gang was wiped out, merchants no longer have to worry about their goods being robbed, so as long as they are not going too far away, most of them form their own caravans, and each family provides a few guards to share the risk.
This has greatly affected the escort agency's business.
The Chu family has two silk weaving workshops that spin raw silk transported from other places into satin, which is sold in Qinghe County and also shipped to other counties.
Zhao Lin hesitated for a moment and decided to follow.
After observing the convoy for a while, I recognized that the leader of the Chu family's convoy was Chu Zelin, Chu Hongtai's fourth son and Chu Liu's fourth uncle.
Chu Zelin once practiced martial arts in a martial arts school and reached the Qi realm, but he could never enter the first level of the Qi realm. When he got older, he returned to the family and was responsible for external business.
There is also a leader named Geng Jin, who is a senior guard leader in the Chu family. He has worked in the Chu family for more than ten years and is a third-level warrior.
Both of these people smelled of musk powder, and there were several other guys who were not on Zhao Lin's radar.
On the way, Zhao Lin monitored the conversation between Chu Zelin and Geng Jin, but just like in the Chu Mansion, the two never mentioned Chu Liu's name, as if they were under a curse.
Zhao Lin cursed in his heart, "The people in Chu Mansion are so careful that they don't even mention their names. But the more you are like this, the more I think there is something wrong with you!"
Two days later, the convoy arrived in Lushan County. Chu Zelin and Geng Jin unloaded the goods to their store and headed back home without stopping.
This disappointed Zhao Lin, and he thought, is it really just transporting goods?
But since I had already followed, there was no reason to give up halfway, so I patiently continued to follow the convoy back to Qinghe County.
There was silence all the way, and the motorcade stopped when it arrived at Baisha Town, more than thirty miles away from Qinghe County.
Chu Zelin and Geng Jin ate something, and then bought a lot of food in the town: pastries, roast chicken, beef, sliced duck, soju...
"We're almost going home, why are we buying so much food?"
Zhao Lin frowned, feeling a little confused, but he didn't pay too much attention.
Maybe the food here is delicious and this is what people like.
But soon, something more suspicious appeared: the convoy left Baisha Town, but Geng Jin did not go with the convoy, but stayed alone.
"Could it be that Geng Jin's family is nearby and he is shopping to visit his family?"
Zhao Lin took the initiative to help Geng Jin find a reason, but subconsciously hoped that this was not the case and that it would be better to have other ideas.
After the convoy left, Geng Jin wandered around the town for a while before carrying a package full of food and heading north.
To the north was Mount Paektu. What was a guard leader doing there?
Could it be that he was also born in the mountains?
Zhao Lin was suspicious and felt that things were not that simple, but he did not follow immediately.
Geng Jin smells of musk powder, so he must not let the other party notice him if he follows him.
Otherwise, if you scare the snake, the cooked duck will fly away.
He calmed down and waited for a while, until Geng Jin's figure turned into a small black dot, then he stood up and walked out of Baisha Town.
Geng Jin walked extremely carefully, looking behind him from time to time, and sometimes even taking a detour to hide somewhere to see if anyone was following him.
If it weren't for Zhao Lin's keen sense of smell and super long-range hearing, he might have been exposed.
Geng Jin went all the way north until the sun was about to set, when he came to a place called Sanmo Village.
Sanmo Village is the closest village to Mount Paektu. Further on... there are no people around.
Seeing Geng Jin continue to walk forward, Zhao Lin's heart started pounding, and he vaguely guessed who these things were for.
Carrying so much food can't be a picnic, right?
Entering the deep mountains, Geng Jin no longer hid his whereabouts and walked faster and faster towards the hinterland of Mount Baekdu.
The sky is getting dark and the mountain wind is about to rise.
Although it is spring in March, it is still cold in the mountains, and there is still snow in many places.
The further we walked deeper into Mount Paektu, the more snow there was on the ground and the woods became denser and denser. After two hours of walking, Geng Jin found the sky completely dark.
At this time, Zhao Lin no longer had any doubts in his heart. Geng Jin was definitely looking for Chu Liu.
“It’s a good place to hide in Baekdu Mountain!”
In the shadows, Zhao Lin saw Geng Jin walking to a mountain and finally stopped.
Zhao Lin looked at the mountain peak in the moonlight and was greatly surprised. Here is Laolingfeng!
(End of chapter)
