Chapter 14: The Art of Seduction

Mo Caicai reluctantly walked out of the inn with her sleepy body, she always felt that someone was staring at her last night, she slept extremely unsteadily at night, tossing and turning on the bed, even Qin Keke was almost woken up by her, and she finally stayed up until the sky was bright and she gradually fell asleep. After a while, Coco called her up again, dressed and washed in a daze, and then followed the rest of the people to Jinye Town.

"Caicai, didn't you sleep last night? ”

Qin Keke probed Tancai's forehead with his hand, "It doesn't seem to be sick." ”

At this time, Lin Ye also looked at her, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, maybe I didn't sleep last night. Rest assured. Mo Caicai shook his head a little groggily, patted his face with his hand, stretched his breath, and then approached the forest and said to him, "Let's go, don't delay business." ”

Lin Ye saw that her face softened a little, and his heart calmed down a little, so he stopped inking, bent down and hugged Caicai and put her on the horse, and then he got on the horse, and then turned his head to signal to the others that he could go. The rest of the people also got on their horses and headed for the town of Golden Leaf.

Today's luck is really good, after they arrived at Jinye Town, the light rain has a tendency to gradually stop, and there is a trace of golden light hidden in the gray sky, and it is about to break through in an instant, "It's going to be clear." Caicai leaned on Lin Ye's arms and looked at the sky with her hands half-covered with her eyes, "I finally saw the sun." Lin Ye snorted in response.

"Woo ......" several people grabbed the reins at the same time, and they arrived at the shopkeeper's herbal tea shop. Lin Zhi walked in first and waved his hand at the shopkeeper who was in a daze, "The shopkeeper?"

"Yo, you, ......" The shopkeeper was almost half frightened to death by Lin Zhi absentmindedly, and he didn't say a complete sentence. When he saw the few people behind Lin Zhi, who were the same people who listened to him tell the story yesterday, he immediately adjusted his mentality, with a smile on his face, bypassed Lin Zhi who was standing in front of him, and walked directly in front of Lin Ye, "Childe, you are really here, please come in, please come in." ”

Mo Caicai couldn't get used to the virtue of this shopkeeper, and looking at this bustard-like attitude, it suddenly made her heart full of evil. She felt a little sorry for Lin Zhi, who was neglected, and His Royal Highness would also encounter such an eyeless person, hehe.

"Old man, are you blind? Don't you see me?"

Sure enough, the most unbearable thing in the life of our highness is the neglect of others, he put aside his good cultivation, and roared angrily at the shopkeeper, "This son stands in front of you with a dignified appearance, and your eyes have grown into the ground?"

was yelled at by Lin Zhi, and the shopkeeper realized that there was a mistake in his professional ethics, and hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "This son is clumsy and clumsy, I am really sorry, I can't help it, please come in." ”

"Hmph. Lin Zhiyi flicked his sleeves and walked straight into the tea shop.

Everyone else also rushed in, and the shopkeeper's smiling eyebrows and eyes were connected, and this business came as soon as it was said. When everyone sat down, the shopkeeper poured herbal tea for everyone like a dog's leg, and also served some country snacks, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the millet crisp made by the townspeople themselves." ”

The shape of this millet crisp is not as single as the ordinary rice crisp, there are star-shaped and various small animals, and the taste smells sweeter, Caicai picked up a hand and pinched it, it was soft and felt very good, she couldn't help but take a bite, "Well, it's delicious." "The taste is soft and sweet, which is very suitable for her appetite. At this time, the shopkeeper's eyesight rose, and he brought a plate of rice crisp and put it in front of Mo Caicai. Caicai's eyes were very satisfied with this kind of operation, and she smiled at the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, don't be busy, my friends also want to hear your story, sit down and talk to us." ”

"Yo, what the villain said is real people and real things, not just making things up. The shopkeeper mistakenly thought that Mo Caicai didn't believe what he said.

Lin Zhi took advantage of Mo Caicai to talk to the shopkeeper, twisted out a ray of white light with his hand under the table, and probed it towards the shopkeeper, and the tip of the white light that fell on the shopkeeper suddenly turned black, which was not a good thing. Lin Zhi's face sank, but Coco watched the changes on his face and asked him quietly, "Is there a problem?" Lin Zhi nodded, and said to Lin Ye and the two in a secret voice: "There are remnants of the demon clan on the shopkeeper's body. ”

The same expressions appeared on the faces of the two of them as Lin Zhi, especially when Sutar's hand was already quietly clenched. Caicai didn't notice their abnormality, and was still eating the millet crisp on the plate selflessly.

"Shopkeeper, we want to go to the back mountain today, do you think it's convenient to go with us?" The shopkeeper did not refuse Lin Ye's words, and happily agreed.

The road to the back mountain was muddy, and Mo Caicai walked with difficulty with one foot deep and one foot shallow. She was just eating at the herbal tea shop, and Lin Ye and the others stood up and said to leave, so she hurriedly took two rice cakes and put them in her arms, and she didn't know if they were crushed or not. She glanced complainingly at Lin Ye, who was still graceful walking in front.

"Are you looking at me?" Lin Ye slowed down and walked to Caicai's side, he was always feeling cold behind him just now, and when he turned his head, he found that Mo Caicai's watery eyes had been staring at the back of his head.

Caicai pouted, "I didn't look at you, I was looking at the scenery." ”

"Then you can start to look at me now, I'm better than the view. Lin Ye's face was really thick, and Cai Caipi nodded yes with a smile.

After a while, everyone had already walked to the back mountainside. There is no longer the pomp and circumstance of the golden-leaved elm that it used to be, but the stumps can be seen everywhere, and it is the height of summer, but it is particularly depressed here. "Shopkeeper, haven't you people here thought about re-centering the golden leaf elm?" Qin Keke likes to plant flowers and plants very much, and when she saw this scene in front of her, she couldn't help but feel sorry, if her little medicine pu was like this, she would probably be sad for a while.

The shopkeeper explained: "This young lady, you don't know, now there are only the old, weak, sick and disabled in Jinye Town, who has the strength to come up to the back mountain to plant trees, and the largest golden leaf elm near the Lang family in the town is gone, the old people think that it is a bad omen, and naturally no one is willing to plant trees." ”

Lin Ye squatted down and picked up a yellow leaf that had fallen into the mud, and sniffed it close to his nose. frowned, walked forward again, picked up the stump on the ground and looked at it carefully, then faced Lin Zhi behind him, and said to him, "It's the Awakening Soul Incense." ”

"What?" Lin Zhi was taken aback, and hurriedly took the leaves in Lin Ye's hand and sniffed them, "Sure enough." Could it be him?"

Lin Ye didn't shake his head or nod, he had always remained silent about things he couldn't be sure.

"What kind of dumb riddle are you two doing?" Qin Keke also walked up to them, and before he could pick up the leaves, he smelled a familiar but disgusting smell. She threw the leaves on the ground with a flick of her hand, "Hmph, Awakening Incense, that's it." ”

"Coco..."Lin Zhi was embarrassed, he knew that Coco would react like this.

"What's your name, I don't know if it's Coco. Qin Keke turned her head angrily and leaned towards Caicai.

"Why do you take your anger out on me every time? Miss Qin, you..."

Lin Zhi called innocently in place, but Ke Keli ignored him. Seeing all this in Caicai's eyes, her curiosity was aroused, so she grabbed Qin Keke's arm and asked, "Is there a problem with that leaf?" ”

"I'll talk about that later. Lin Ye took Caicai's words, "Shopkeeper, have there been strangers other than us in the town?"

"Let the little man think about it. The shopkeeper scratched his head, thought for a while, and said, "There really haven't been any strangers to our town in the last few months, except for you, no, it should be more than a year, except for a silver-haired gentleman, he has come to us." But he didn't enter the town either, and sat at the entrance of the town for a while before leaving. ”

"How can the shopkeeper remember so clearly?" asked Suzu with narrowed eyes and unceremoniously.

Facing the heart that didn't have a good face, the shopkeeper's voice began to tremble a little, "The little man happened to be playing chess with Uncle Li at the entrance of the town that day, and the silver-haired gentleman also chatted with the villain. Therefore, the villain remembers it very clearly. ”

"What did he talk about with you?" Lin Zhi took out two silver coins and shook them in front of the shopkeeper. "Say it well, say it all right, it's all yours. ”

"Yes, yes, he told the villain that he had traveled here, and he wanted to visit the Lang family and his wife in the town, but only when he came here did he know that the old man had gone, and he would no longer enter the town to add grief. We thought that Mr. Lang was also Mrs. Lang's friend, but the gentleman said that he was a friend of Mr. Lang. He also said that Grandpa Lang was a very good person, and when his son married his daughter-in-law, he was very guilty because he didn't catch up with the wedding wine because of trivial matters. I told him about the Lang family, and the gentleman was silent for a while, and then left without saying a few words. "For the sake of money, the shopkeeper can't wait to dig out everything in his head to show them, and it's really not easy to say it in such detail. Mo Caicai looked at Lin Zhi suspiciously, what kind of character is this silver-haired gentleman?

After listening to the shopkeeper's narration, Lin Zhi and the others were now more sure of who had appeared here. "Alright, there's nothing more to see, let's go. Lin Ye also felt that the matter was finally half clarified here, "Shopkeeper, you go first, we don't know the way." ”

The shopkeeper heard that he had him, and led the way in front.

"Smack. The ghost flashed behind the shopkeeper and stunned him with a palm.

"What are you doing?" Mo Caicai screamed and ran to the shopkeeper's side, stopping Xinsu from making his next move.

Before Antares could speak, Lin Ye had already pulled Caicai to his side, "He has a charm technique on him, and Antarite wants to help him expel the spell." Caicai realized that she didn't understand anything, and almost made a mistake, so she had to stand obediently beside Lin Ye.

Antarite put the fainting shopkeeper on the ground, and took out a stack of charms and pasted it in the shopkeeper's people, Yongquan, and Tianning acupoint, after pasting, he recited two spells in his mouth, only to see a jet black smoke coming out of the top of the shopkeeper's head, after a while, the black smoke gradually dissipated, and the shopkeeper lying on the ground shook his body unconsciously, and slowly calmed down. Qin Keke stepped forward and took out the small medicine bottle he was carrying, pulled out the lid and put it on the front of his nose to shake it from side to side, and the shopkeeper slowly opened his eyes, "Why am I on the ground?"

"You accidentally fell, but luckily I saved you. Qin Keke didn't blink his eyes when he lied.

"Miss is really a kind person, and good people will be rewarded. The shopkeeper gratefully bowed to Coco. Coco shook his hand, "It's a trivial matter, don't worry about it." Let's go, don't fall down again. Go well. ”

"Yes, yes, yes. ”

Mo Caicai found that the faces of the men and women of this human race were as thick as the city wall, and she felt that her level in this regard was still not as high as theirs, so she silently followed down the mountain.

After a few people went down the mountain, they didn't stay too much in Jinye Town, and after throwing two more silver coins to the shopkeeper, they went back to Qicheng directly. Cai Cai didn't speak again all the way, and she noticed that Lin Ye and the others didn't look good after coming down from the mountain.

It was just noon and they returned to the inn. Lin Zhi arranged for the store to prepare a simple meal and bring it to his room, and when the meal was complete, after the store closed the door for them, Lin Zhi spoke: "It's Ji Wufeng." ”

"It's not that he has anyone else, the kind of awakening incense that is made under him is only used by people like him. As soon as Qin Keke heard the name, he became speechless.

"Coco, do you have a grudge against him?" Mo Caicai picked up a piece of meat and was about to put it in his mouth, but when Qin Keke said that, he put down his chopsticks and asked curiously: "What kind of grudge do you have between you?"

"Heh, who wants to have a relationship with that kind of person. Qin Keke turned his face away and didn't want to mention it. Caicai had no choice but to look at Lin Ye, and Lin Ye understood. He picked up the dish he had just sandwiched and put a piece into the Caicai bowl, and then said: "The silver-haired Mr. in the shopkeeper's mouth is called Ji Wufeng, and he is under the tutelage of Yao Xiangu, Mr. Jinghua." is also Coco's senior brother. This man is poisonous, and poisonous. He ......"

"I'll say it myself," Coco interrupted Lin Ye. The family teacher was originally only one of my apprentices, it was Ji Wufeng who used a trick to deceive the trust of the family teacher, accepted him as a closed disciple, and saw that he had a good talent, and made an exception to make him my senior brother, and he could enter the forbidden area in the valley at will to learn the method of using poison, the master only thought that he could understand the world's poisons before he could practice medicine and save people in the future, but how did he know that Ji Wufeng had evil thoughts, and just after completing his studies, he began to harm the people, put a poison in the west, and put another one in the east, just to find happiness for himself, the master was angry after learning about it, and went out of the valley to clean up the door, Ji Wufeng was unwilling to be arrested, and even deceived the master to destroy the ancestors, poisoned the master, and the master was kind and did not pay attention, I was poisoned by him, fortunately, the master had a special physique, and barely survived back to the valley, after that time, his old man was completely sad, and he never wanted to go out of the valley again, and he also completely closed the medicine fairy valley, and I was also driven out. Hey, I don't know if the master is okay or not, I visit every year, but now the entrance to the Medicine Immortal Valley has been hidden by the master. Ay. ”

Speaking of later, Qin Keke's face was buried lower and lower, and Caicai couldn't bear to comfort, "Don't be sad, Coco, I'll accompany you to go again when I'm free in the future, and I'll help you find the entrance." Let's go together to open your master's heart knot and make him happy. ”

"Caicai, you're so nice. Coco lifted a teary-eyed little face and rubbed it against Caicai. Mo Caicai flicked her sleeves in disgust, "Sister, you rubbed your snot on my clothes." ’

No one noticed that Lin Zhi's drooping eyelids, who were sitting next to Coco, were shining with anger.

Qin Keke brome nose and continued with a bit of nasality: "Ji Wufeng not only betrayed the master, he also left evil deeds everywhere, and later he actually became the dog leg of the demon clan. What was found in the town of Golden Leaf today was indeed the Awakening Incense, a poison that was not fatal, but it could control a person's mind for a long time and make them obey the words of the person who used the poison. ”

"Ah, wouldn't he be able to summon anyone? Caicai wondered when she would meet this kind of god and have some fun with him.

Lin Ye seemed to be able to see through her thoughts, and pinched her waist hard under the table. "Oops. Caicai screamed without any embankment, and then pinched the forest back. Lin Ye gave her a wide roll of the eyes and fisted her restless hand into his own hand. Seeing this, Caicai had no choice but to give up.

"Awakening Soul Incense is indeed powerful for ordinary people, but it is useless for people like us who have cultivation, so he bullies and bullies ordinary people to satisfy his vanity. ”

Coco kindly explained to Caicai again. She was taken back to Yaoxian Valley by her master to study pharmacology since she was a child, and she has always been a master who is closer to her father, and she hates Ji Wufeng in her heart, and she has been paying attention to Ji Wufeng's whereabouts all these years, and she is always thinking about cleaning the portal for her master.

This Lin Zhi knocked on the table, "Let's eat first, the dishes are cold." Let's talk about it after eating. ”

The dishes on the table are still full of color, flavor and flavor, everyone is busy all morning, and they are all hungry, so they all move their chopsticks, only to see Mo Caicai inhale all kinds of delicacies like a cloud, and the other four people eat very elegantly, even Qin Keke, who usually doesn't look like the prime minister's daughter, eats slowly. Mo Caicai bit the beef that had just been put in his mouth, and sighed in his heart, he was worthy of being a child who grew up in the palace.

After Caicai finished drinking the soup in the bowl, Lin Ye spoke: "The townspeople of Golden Leaf Town should have been first used by the demons to use the charm technique to let those young people follow him away, and then Ji Wufeng went to give a soul awakening incense to some of the remaining people in the town, forcing them to think that those who left would come back in a few years." That way, there won't be more trouble. I estimate that the master who put the charm on the invitation is very likely to be the person sent by Ji Wufeng to do the play. ”

"But why did the demons take away the people of Golden Leaf Town?" Coco asked. "What do they want so many people to do?"

Lin Ye shook his head to say that he didn't know, he looked at Lin Zhi, Qin Keke also changed his gaze to Lin Zhi, Lin Zhi groaned slightly, and also shook his head, "This point has to be investigated again, Antar." ”

"Yes. The named Xinsu knew that he was probably going back to the palace first, and his eyes unconsciously looked in the direction of Lin Ye, but Lin Ye didn't notice her. Her heart slowly sank again.

"Xinsu, you go back to the royal city tomorrow, and report the situation here to the king and the high priest, and we will stay here until the king makes a decision, and then you will come back to join us after a hard trip. Lin Zhi took out the majesty of His Royal Highness, and commanded Xinsu unhurriedly, he understood that this matter could not be solved by themselves, it was related to the relationship between the human and demon races, and it had to go through his father. He himself does not have the right to make certain decisions.

After everything was arranged, Qin Keke took Caicai's hand, mysteriously dragged it aside, and whispered to her: "Let's go, go find Yuan Gongzi." ”