Chapter 123: The Mirror I

The three of them stood in front of the door and waited for a while. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoSoon, someone walked into the courtyard at the door.

"Is Qingyang Pharmacist here?" a thin white-haired old man stumbled into the courtyard, his eyes were very dark, and he looked sluggish. After a few strokes, he threw himself in front of the door and slammed on the door.

"Elder Yu!?" Dong Qi was taken aback when he saw someone coming, "How did you become like this?"

The old man seemed to notice Dong Qi standing next to him, and turned his head to look at Lu Sheng and the two of them standing on the side.

"It turned out to be Dong's niece, I haven't seen her for a long time.... The old man has important matters to discuss with the pharmacist. I wonder if you've seen Qingyang Pharmacist?"

"No.... I haven't seen it, and we've just arrived...."Dong Qi replied in a low voice.

Suddenly, the old man exhaled in disappointment, didn't ask about the identity of Lu Sheng and the others, turned around and walked away slowly.

After a while, several people came looking for the pharmacist one after another, and when they found that the person was not there, they all felt extremely disappointed. These people are all high-level tea gang leaders, but they all have one common characteristic, that is, dark eye circles and a serious look of poor rest.

Lu Sheng noticed that most of them looked frightened and in a trance, and they didn't know what they had encountered.

The three of them waited in the courtyard for about half an hour, and finally, an old man with gray hair and a hunchback slowly walked into the courtyard.

"Dong's niece.... You're hereβ€”" The old man's face was blank, with a hint of blue. "Do you want to come and see my treasure mirror too? It's okay, Uncle will take you in to see it. When he spoke, it should have been in a cordial tone, but he said it in a musmo, even a little sluggish, but it looked weird and awkward.

"That's the case, Uncle Qingyang, I have two friends who want to see the treasure mirror too, I don't know if it's okay?" Dong Qi squeezed out a smile and whispered to the old man.

"Yes, why not?" Zhuo Qingyang smiled and glanced at Lu Sheng and the others.

"Come on, I'll give you a good look. He took out the key, opened the big lock that hung in front of the door, and pushed it in.

Dong Qi shrank and glanced at Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng nodded at her, and she walked in slowly.

The three of them entered the room, which was a very ordinary bedroom, but unlike other rooms, there was an additional glass mirror more than one person high.

The mirror was facing the door, and as soon as I opened the door and entered, I immediately saw my own appearance reflected in the mirror.

Lu Sheng is nothing unusual, but Xu Chui saw the glass mirror for the first time, and he looked at himself in the mirror again and again with curiosity, which was quite novel.

"Feel free to look at it.... If you're tired, go and rest first.." Zhuo Qingyang sighed, walked to the bed, and as soon as he fell, he didn't care about anything, and fell asleep.

Lu Sheng was about to ask him about something, but when he saw this person, he felt that something was wrong. This person's demeanor is similar to that of others, he is also in a trance, and he is weak when he speaks, compared with Dong Qi, his spirit is far behind. But since he brought the mirror and got along day and night, it couldn't be as ordinary as everyone else.

At this time, he also believed what Dong Qi said. This pharmacist Zhuo Qingyang is indeed a little weird.

"Let's look in the mirror first. Lu Sheng walked straight to the glass mirror that was more than one person high.

The outside of the glass mirror is square and the inside is round, the outside is a square frame frame, and the inside is an oval tall mirror, the frame is made of copper, and there are many delicate and complex patterns engraved on it.

Lu Sheng walked to the mirror and reached out to gently stroke the pattern.

The frame is engraved with the patterns of three animals: a phoenix, a fox, and a dog.

All three animals are stretched out and have a strange sense of quaintness. And it looks like it's all flying around the whole mirror.

Xu Chui looked at Zhuo Qingyang, who was already asleep on the bed.

"He wasn't even worried about us breaking his mirror, which was a glass mirror, a rare item of great value. ”

"Maybe he knew we couldn't break the mirror. Lu Sheng said lightly. He turned the mirror around, and the huge force directly looked at the base of the hundred-pound bronze mirror, and gently stretched out his hand to turn it over.

There are also a lot of animal patterns on the copper frame behind the mirror, and in addition, the back of the mirror seems to be a little rough, as if someone can scribble on the back with a knife or something.

"Behind this.... It seems that there are words. ”

Xu Fu leaned over to take a closer look.

"I've seen this kind of writing, it seems to be Tang Chinese, the official script used in the previous dynasty, and it was implemented for a period of time at that time, but because it was not practical, there were many problems, and it was slowly abandoned. ”

"Tang Wen, do you know what it means?" Lu Sheng also had some impressions, as if he had seen some records in the books he had read before.

"I don't know.... The subordinate is also the father of the family heard the old man talk about it before his death, because the first sentence of the family motto at that time was written in Tang Chinese, so he was quite familiar with this kind of writing, but he didn't know it. Xu Chui shook his head and said, obviously his family heritage is still quite profound.

Lu Sheng carefully touched the text on the back of the glass mirror, there were only three words in total, but there were a lot of strokes, and each word needed at least fifteen strokes or more to finish.

"So, who is likely to know?" Lu Sheng said, his eyes unconsciously watching Zhuo Qingyang on the bed.

"I.... I'll wake him up..."Dong Qi took a deep breath, knowing that she could only step forward by herself at this time, but although she was afraid, there were two people behind her, and it was broad daylight, so she was not so frightened.

Lu Sheng nodded at her, signaling that she could come forward and call someone.

Dong Qi hesitated for a while and was about to walk over.

Suddenly, I saw Zhuo Qingyang standing up straight from the bed, his eyes open, and Mu Ran looked at the three of them.

"Is there something wrong?"

Dong Qi hurriedly approached and introduced the identities of Lu Sheng and Xu Chui, and seeing that Zhuo Qingyang still had no expression, he also said about the words behind the mirror.

"That's.... I don't know what it means, but when I got the mirror, it was already engraved on it, and at first I thought it was just a pattern, but then I found out that it was simply another person who used a knife to scratch it. ”

"You really don't know?" Lu Sheng walked over, stood on the edge of the bed, and looked at Zhuo Qingyang condescendingly.

He looked arrogant, and the muscles on his body bulged three times larger than the old man, and he felt that he could pinch Zhuo Qingyang to death with one hand.

"I really don't know.... However, if the envoy wants to know the meaning, he can look for a dictionary, and the helper was fortunate enough to collect a royal Song Zheng dictionary, which is extremely valuable, and it is in the study. ”

"Then I'll take this mirror away first, and after the investigation is clear, I'll return it to you, okay?" Lu Sheng stared at Zhuo Qingyang and said slowly.

Zhuo Qingyang smiled when he heard this.

"Of course, the envoy is free. He didn't seem to care about the mirror that he cherished so much.

This person is really strange, knowing that Lu Sheng is a big gang envoy, he still dares to sit on the bed and talk, completely ignoring the etiquette or something. But the tone of his voice was clearly respectful.

Lu Sheng looked at Zhuo Qingyang carefully, no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't feel anything abnormal on his body, whether it was in terms of his breathing, heartbeat, or qi and blood flow, at most he was an ordinary old man who had practiced martial arts and was in a weak state.

"Okay. Xu Fu, remove the mirror and go to the study here. Lu Sheng commanded.

"Yes, sir. ”

Xu Fu and Dong Qi said a few words, and soon called the two guards guarding outside, and the three of them quickly walked out of the room with the glass mirror and walked in the direction of the study.

Lu Sheng noticed that from beginning to end, Zhuo Qingyang was sitting on the bed, looking at them calmly and looking up in the mirror, without the slightest expression.

Xu Fu and the three went out, and Dong Qi also pointed in the direction of the study. Suddenly, only Lu Sheng and Zhuo Qingyang were left in the room.

"Qingyang Pharmacist, you should know the purpose of this trip, right?" Lu Sheng said in a deep voice. "It's to investigate the reason why so many people disappeared mysteriously before, as well as the accidental death of the gang leader Dongsheng.

What clues do you have for this?"

Zhuo Qingyang opened his eyes, his eyelids didn't blink, he turned his neck stiffly, facing Lu Sheng.

"The envoy wants to know any clues, the gang leader Dong Sheng's life was not killed by me, and the missing person has nothing to do with old decay, so it's useless for you to ask me. ”

"I ask you because you are the most suspicious. Lu Sheng replied, "If you can't clear the suspicion, then I can only arrest you. With a hint of threat in his expression, he stared at Zhuo Qingyang.

"I don't know anything...."Zhuo Qingyang said indiscriminately. "If you want to catch it, you can do whatever you want. ”

Lu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and he didn't expect him to answer like this at all.

After looking at Zhuo Qingyang fixedly for a while, he snorted coldly, turned around and left quickly.

After the glass mirror was moved to the study, Lu Sheng asked Xu Fu Dong Qi to find out what the words on the back of the mirror meant.

The meaning was quickly clarified.

"My lord, I checked it clearly, and those three words were, number, to, and ten. ”

Xu Fu took Dong Qi, whose face was frighteningly white, and came back to Lu Sheng, who was resting and drinking tea in the lobby, and said with a straight face.

"Count to ten?"

Lu Shengyi, what does this mean? I can't hear what it means when I suddenly say it inexplicably.

"The Admiral... I don't know it, but these days, I often have a dream, a nightmare about a little girl playing hide and seek, abandoned by her peers in a straw field.

The little girl in there, Lingling, was playing a game called counting to ten..."Dong Qi's face turned pale.

"Oh?" Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes and looked at Dong Qi. "Tell me the details. ”

Dong Qi bit his lip and felt his heart beat hard.

"That dream, it's like this.," she recounted the dream carefully.

"Then where did the little girl Lingling go, and what was the ending?" Xu Chui couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know.... Perhaps, there is less bad luck..."Dong Qi gasped for breath, even if he recalled the content of the dream, he felt that it was difficult to breathe.

"Let's go back and look at the mirror. Lu Sheng stood up and drank the tea.

The three of them walked together in the direction of the study.

Dong Qi arranged for two men to guard the door of the study and not let anyone approach. Seeing them coming, the two quickly nodded and came up.

"Envoy, eldest lady, you are here, the things are inside, and absolutely no one has ever entered it. ”