In the dungeon of Fengxiang Mansion in Qi Kingdom, under the astonished gaze of the empress, Li Maozhen crushed the cracked clay sculpture in his hand with a little force, then picked up a handful of clay sculpture powder and took it closer to examine it carefully.
The empress raised her hand, caught off guard, but it was too late to stop her. Her throat moved slightly, and she wanted to say something, but she hesitated and finally did not say anything.
The clay sculptures have been crushed into powder, and there is no need to say these words to stop them.
"Why!"
The empress sighed secretly in her heart. All these changes came too fast. Her performance was obviously good enough. Brother Wang felt very guilty and helped open the Longquan treasure box, but the plan could not keep up with the changes. Who would have thought that Longquan would be like this? After the treasure box was opened, the clue was lost?
Li Maozhen didn't know the empress' sigh, but she was competing with the clues in the Longquan treasure box.
After the clay sculpture was crushed, the soil inside it was also exposed. The handful Li Maozhen just picked up was the soil inside the clay sculpture.
Putting his nose on the soil in his hand and smelling it carefully, Li Maozhen's brows suddenly relaxed. Different from the fine ash smell rubbed off the surface of the clay sculpture, the soil inside the clay sculpture obviously had a decaying smell.
The smell was not pleasant and a bit pungent, but for Li Maozhen, it already gave him some ideas.
Perhaps, the clues to this Longquan treasure box are not broken!
Thinking of this, Li Maozhen quickly lowered her head and rummaged through a pile of dust turned into clay sculptures, and soon found the withered flower bud.
Li Maozhen picked it up and put it on the pile of soil in his hand. They brought it close together and observed it carefully. After combining the two, he quickly confirmed the suspicion in his mind.
Picking out the withered flower buds and gently shaking off the soil in his hands, Li Maozhen pointed to the pile of soil on the bluestone bricks and explained: "This is the unique rot soil of Sichuan."
Then he handed the withered flower bud to the empress. The empress took it with doubts on her face and secretly wrote down the word "Sichuan" in her heart.
"Then this is?"
The empress carefully looked over the withered flower buds. She didn't know much about flowers, and now that they were in such a withered state, it was really difficult to identify what kind they were.
"One-leaf orchid, also known as ice ball, is a rare flower that grows in Sichuan and Rao. It grows on mulch. The mulch of Shu is particularly loved by it. It is famous for its fragrance. Smelling it can soothe the mind and make people feel happy. The Holy Gu of Xinjiang must feed on the fragrance of flowers, so that it can unknowingly confuse people's minds in a short period of time." (After looking for the prototype of the flower that the Holy Gu crawled out of in the anime for a long time, I found that Dugaran The orchid is the most similar, that is, the one-leaf orchid. If you are interested, you can go to Baidu to search for it.)
Li Maozhen explained endlessly the origin of the soil used to make the clay sculptures, the origin of the flower buds that wither when exposed to air before they bloom, and the reason why the Raojiang Holy Gu confuses people's minds and causes them to commit suicide.
"Then this clue is in Shu?"
The empress actually didn't understand much. She really didn't understand these things, but seeing that her brother Wang's words were clear and logical, she was doubtful.
Li Maozhen nodded thoughtfully: "Although the Longquan treasure is closely related to the Twelve Cave, it cannot be in Raojiang. It does not belong to the Central Plains after all. The possibility of Shu is indeed very high. After all, there have always been dragons there. The legend of Xing Land!"
Shu is rich in products and is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is indeed an excellent place for rebellion. It is absolutely reasonable for the Longquan treasure to be buried in Shu.
The more I think about it, the more likely it is.
Li Maozhen looked at the Empress with some excitement, but the Empress frowned slightly and raised a question again: "The land of Shu is so big, it's hard to find this clue!"
"That's really a problem."
Li Maozhen was also thoughtful. She lowered her head to pick up the Longquan treasure box on the ground. She wanted to search it again to see if there were any other clues or things containing clues besides the clay sculptures. However, she was inadvertently biased again. The pile of clay sculptures on the ground turned into soil.
His heart suddenly moved, he looked at the empress and asked, "Do you still remember the appearance of that clay sculpture?"
The empress paused for a moment, then closed her beautiful eyes gently. After thinking for a moment, the appearance of the clay sculpture appeared in her mind.
This clay sculpture has been around for a little longer. The empress also looked at it a few more times out of curiosity, so she was quite impressed by it.
The empress's eyes slowly opened, her moist eyes full of confidence, "I can draw it!"
Immediately, the empress raised her hand to take a dead branch from the next cell. The Phantom Sound Jue was activated, and the internal force was transmitted to the dead branch through the medium of the arm. In an instant, the dead branch was so fragile that it could be broken by just touching it. A sharp tool can easily leave obvious marks on the bluestone floor tiles with just one stroke.
Because of Jiang Yunqing, the empress has been very free in the past year or two, and she has slowly picked up her painting skills.
The movement of the dead branches can be described as a quick stroke. Influenced by Jiang Yunqing's sketches, the empress used the dead branches in her hands particularly skillfully. She imitated Jiang Yunqing's sketching method, using only some simple lines to draw the dead branches. The face of the clay sculpture is outlined.
"It seems that my little sister's hands are not unfamiliar!"
Li Maozhen looked at the portrait on the bluestone floor and sighed sincerely. Not only was it not unfamiliar, but it was an improvement. It was still painted on the bluestone using dead branches. If there were good pen and ink, Paper and inkstone, I am afraid it is more vivid and lifelike.
"I picked it up in the past two years. Yun Qing said this painting method is called sketching. It emphasizes form rather than spirit!"
The empress shook her head with some emotion. She was not familiar with him. It was just that in the past two years, someone had become her god and liberated her.
Li Maozhen handed the opened Longquan Treasure Box to the empress, pointed to the clay sculpture portrait on the bluestone floor tiles and said: "You can search again in the Longquan Treasure Box to see if there are any other clues. If there are none, just Send someone to Sichuan to look for this portrait, maybe you can actually find the person in the portrait."
"Can the person related to the Longquan treasure still look like this?"
This Longquan treasure has been buried for at least 30 to 40 years. I am afraid that the children who were once are now very old. Could they still be the prophets who painted the portraits of the future decades in advance? (The information I found shows that burying the Longquan Treasure was the last mission before the bad guys were disbanded, so the Longquan Treasure didn’t last long)
Even if there is an immortal existence like Yuan Tiangang, the empress has new doubts about it. At least Yuan Tiangang is just a special case.
Li Maozhen shook his head and said with a smile: "In Raojiang, the method of maintaining beauty is not uncommon, but the price required is different. As far as I know, there are even among the twelve caves that can make people stay young forever. It’s a poison that only ages when you die.”
"So magical?"
The empress was a little shocked. As a woman and in the position of King Qi, she knew a lot about beauty techniques, but she had never heard of such a magical one.
"This is a forbidden technique, and it is also banned in Twelve Cave!" Li Maozhen smiled to dispel the empress' curiosity and patted the empress on the shoulder: "Okay, it's time for me to leave!"
Immediately, he turned around and left.
"Then...Brother Wang, will you come back?"
The empress held the Longquan treasure box and raised her hand towards Li Maozhen's back.
Li Maozhen kept walking and waved her hand behind her.
"Yes, this is my Qi country. I will bring Aman back. I'm afraid your dowry will be taken back by then!"
