At this time, in the interrogation room, the mushroom dealer was no longer calm, his face was anxious, and he began to make an impatient defense, which is exactly what I expected to see. I put my mind at ease, crossed my arms, and silently watched Xiao Lei's performance.

"That's impossible, comrade, there are a lot of people who eat this mushroom there, it just makes people excited, a little dizzy when they are done, and they can't die. The mushroom dealer finally couldn't stand the pressure and began to speak, and under the influence of Xiao Lei, he spoke not so standard Mandarin.

"That's wishful thinking, if the person who eats the mushrooms has some kind of disease, or allergies, I'm sorry, it will definitely kill someone. ”

"Moreover, according to the information we have, your downline also mixed hallucinogenic mushrooms with some other unknown substances and gave them to the victims, maybe to enhance the effect, but for heart disease and kidney disease, I am afraid that one bite will kill people. ”

"Moreover, we don't know how many goods your downline still has, and how many people he will sell to, you think you are just a peddler, but you are actually already a co-conspirator of your downline, this is not based on your judgment to convict, but we, the judicial department, will determine, you have to figure out the seriousness of your problem. ”

"Let me tell you this, if you cooperate with us and catch your downline, then you are at most guilty of selling contraband, if you don't confess, we can also catch your downline, then you are an accomplice, and your fate can only depend on the severity of your downline's crime. ”

Don't give the mushroom dealer any time to think, whether it is intimidation or exaggeration, the purpose is just to disrupt his normal thinking, as long as there is a loophole, you can take advantage of the victory to pursue and completely break his psychological defense. Xiao Lei's interrogation skills have matured day by day.

"Officer, can you give me a cigarette to smoke" The mushroom dealer kept pressing his hands to his temples, and began to look exhausted. And he took the initiative to smoke, which was undoubtedly the beginning of his inner collapse.

Xiao Lei took out a cigarette, threw one to the mushroom dealer, and helped me and Lao Lin light it, and everyone didn't speak, just watched the smoke slowly rise, intertwining strange pictures in the hut.

After smoking a cigarette, the mushroom dealer wiped his face twice with his hand, and did not look at us, as if everything he said afterwards had nothing to do with him, looked at the small window, and slowly opened his mouth thoughtfully.

Tang Mingjian became a mushroom dealer, not out of chance, or some kind of profit temptation, in a sense it was fate, at least in his expression, this meaning became more and more obvious, of course, it was also very unexpected situation, but it also instantly aroused my curiosity.

In other words, when it comes to selling hallucinogenic mushrooms, Tang Mingjian has a family history and origins.

Tang Mingjian's ancestor came from the Central Plains, and he could already see the clues from his appearance and physique, I thought they were northerners who fled to the south because of the war during the Northern Song Dynasty, but in fact, his ancestor was a pill pharmacist who pursued cultivation into immortals, and he had entered Sichuan in the early years of the Tang Dynasty.

Taoism cultivates into immortals, which is roughly divided into qi training and alchemy, that is, the so-called inner Dan and outer Dan two schools, which have been divided around the Qin and Han dynasties. But after two thousand years of development, the alchemy school has evolved into hundreds of different branches. There is the pursuit of refining, that is, the fire of Danding, which can now be called the hybrid purification school; there is the pursuit of Dan, that is, the formula that emphasizes the Dan material, which is more similar to today's research on chemical reactions; of course, there is also the Yaoshi School that pursues strange prescriptions and strange medicines, and the Baicao School that pursues pure plant preparations, in short, there are all kinds of things.

However, it is undeniable that if the original intention of the pharmacist is not considered, then basically ancient chemists, metallurgists, purifiers, botanists, and botanists are all from these people.

Tang Mingjian's ancestor was a pill pharmacist, but the method was a bit special, and he should be called a medicine poisoner. Alchemy with poison has been countless since ancient times, mineral toxins, animal toxins, and plant toxins are not extreme, but the poison of the Tang family is a hallucinogen, to be precise, hallucinogenic mushrooms, which should belong to a very niche branch.

Due to the special ingredients in hallucinogenic mushrooms, the brain can hallucinate, amplify certain senses, and even with a little guidance, the user can feel as if he is in a fairyland, and even see the immortal in the illusion. This kind of experience is extremely magical, and it can often make immortal cultivators mistakenly think that the Great Dao will finally be completed, even if it is only for a short time.

The most important thing is that if you eat too many hallucinogenic mushrooms, you will be addicted and dependent, which is an endless supply for immortal seekers, and for simple pill pharmacists who think otherwise, this is a stable way to make money.

Lao Lin was still a little unimpressed with Tang Mingjian's memories, his thoughts were simple, if this was a way to make money, then hallucinogenic mushrooms would not have been flooded earlier, and there would definitely be more records.

Tang Mingjian nodded, agreeing with Lao Lin's opinion, but told us that the problem was that hallucinogenic mushrooms, especially the kind of mushrooms that can produce fairyland immortal hallucinations, are very rare.

Mushrooms are different from other plants, in fact, they are highly dependent on the environment, and hallucinogenic mushrooms also have a characteristic, that is, this fungus must have a host, some special branches after decay, and it must be in a specific climate and humidity environment, just like the formation of agarwood, the conditions are extremely harsh. As soon as the environment changes, the effect changes greatly, which is also doomed to the inability of hallucinogenic mushrooms to be cultivated.

The most interesting thing is that even if the same kind of hallucinogenic mushroom grows on different hosts, the hallucinogenic effect is completely different, for example, the hallucinogenic effect of the same Qing, Cinnamomum and Camphor is much better, while the one that grows next to oak and shrubs is worse.

And the mushroom that can make people have fairyland and immortal hallucinations must be next to the thousand-year-old Nanmu, what is the difference, the Tang family has no way to verify, but it has been passed down from generation to generation.

After listening to Tang Mingjian's introduction, I couldn't help but be curious, and subconsciously asked, "Tang Mingjian, have you also tried hallucinogenic mushrooms?"

Tang Mingjian shook his head, "No, never." Our family has a family rule that we are not allowed to eat hallucinogenic mushrooms. ”

"But your ancestor is a pill pharmacist, and alchemy is for taking it, otherwise what kind of pill would you refine?" Xiao Lei asked on the side.

"Our branch, since the Southern Song Dynasty, no longer alchemy, but specially collected herbs for other pill pharmacists, the main of which is hallucinogenic mushrooms, which have been around for thousands of years. Tang Mingjian reached out and picked up the paper cup in front of him, took a sip, and his initial nervousness recovered.

"Our ancestors originally lived in Fengxiang, Shaanxi, and later moved to Meishan, Sichuan, moved to Anshun, Guizhou during the Ming Dynasty, and moved to Yunnan in the Qing Dynasty. Tang Mingjian came out of a sentence for no reason, and I suddenly realized the meaning.

"Your family's migration must be related to hallucinogenic mushrooms, is it because of excessive collection and reclamation, which has led to the extinction of phantom mushrooms, and you have to keep moving south?"

Tang Mingjian glanced at me in surprise and nodded, "You are right, hallucinogenic mushrooms are still different from ordinary mushrooms. Generally, mushrooms are connected by hyphae in the soil, connected into a circle, we call it a mushroom circle. If you pick mushrooms, as long as you don't damage the mushroom ring underground, the mushrooms can still grow when the temperature and humidity are right. ”

"Hallucinogenic mushrooms, such as seeing hand green, the mushroom ring is very shallow, and the substances with good medicinal effects are concentrated in the root of the mushroom, and it is too difficult not to destroy the mushroom circle when collecting, so it is basically nine out of ten bad. In the Song Dynasty, there were many alchemists seeking immortals, and in the Central Plains and even in the Qinling Mountains, good mushrooms were extinct, and they had to go south. Our family has basically become a professional medicine picker. ”

"Our Tang family, every time we move, we will open a pharmacy, called Pucaotang, to treat people, sell herbs or something, after all, we are counting on selling hallucinogenic mushrooms, although the profit is high, but it is rare to open a single one, and we can't support such a family. ”

"In other words, your alchemy family called the Medicine Poison Master still exists, and you brought mushrooms to sell to them?" Xiao Lei realized the key point and interrupted Tang Mingjian's memories.

Tang Mingjian shook his head, "At the beginning of liberation, there were still cultivators of immortals and alchemy, but there were very few of them, in the past, cultivating immortals and refining pills was not something that ordinary people could afford, and the wealth of the family was not as good as a furnace of danxiang, the rarer the recipe, the more expensive it was, so behind the cultivation of immortals and alchemy was either supported by high-ranking officials and families, or the alchemy itself was a big family, you think, after the war from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, and the anti-feudal superstition movement after liberation, how can there be alchemy?"

"That's weird, there's no customer, who are you selling those mushrooms to?ah, I see, it's a substitute for those addicts. Xiao Lei scratched his head and asked.

Tang Mingjian drank another sip of water and lowered his eyelids, which could be regarded as an affirmation of Xiao Lei's judgment. "Our craft, in fact, has been lost to my father's generation, because in 97 years, I met a Henan man who was harvesting mushrooms in Yunnan, and he asked me to help him find a green hand. After talking to him a lot, I learned about the doorway inside. ”

"Before my father died, our family was almost all four walls, and he only left me a book called "Hundred Miasma Spectrum", which was said to be handed down by the family, which was useless and should be used as a souvenir. I remember that there were all kinds of poisonous mushrooms recorded in that book, and even the dozens of species were distinguished, and the general location of the mushroom circles in the mountains in various places was also recorded. Later, I relied on this book and became an expert in our collection of young people. ”

"Tang Mingjian, you said before that the family rules require you not to eat hallucinogenic mushrooms, the addicts who have been smoking hallucinogens over the years are completely different from the alchemy of poisonous mushrooms back then, how do you judge the actual effectiveness of mushrooms?" I couldn't help but ask curiously.

(If you think wrongly, you will feel that all walks are wrong, and prevention should be like crossing the sea and floating bags, and you should not allow a needle to be missed; all goodness will be worthy of your life.) Cultivation should be like the Lingyun treasure tree, and it must be supported by fake trees. --"Caigen Tan")