Chapter 400: Selling Opium
The demon looked at me again.
"Say?" I looked at some abnormal evil spirits, how did they become twisted today.
The evil spirit came up to me and whispered in my ear, "Chen Miaoji is looking for you in the courtyard." ”
I smiled at the demon, this guy is really sensible.
"Don't worry!" I said to Mu Xue, "You go back and wait for my good news." With that, I motioned for Mu Xue to leave through the back door first.
I ran up behind Chen Miaoji, patted him on the left shoulder, and then stood behind his right shoulder.
He reacted before he looked at me.
"Why are you here?" I laughed.
"I'm going to go to the back mountain later, will you go?" Chen Miaoji asked.
"That's right, I'm fine, let's go together." I didn't dare look him in the eye when I lied.
Because I'm also planning to go to the back mountain to find the ghost king, it's not like I have nothing to do.
Mu Xue looked at the situation in the courtyard through the crack in the door in the house...... Then he was blocked by the evil spirit with his body.
"Aren't you leaving?" The evil spirit asked, looking at his expression, he didn't like Mu Xue as a person.
"Zixuan is my junior sister, can I go and see her?" Mu Xue looked a little weak.
The evil spirit didn't know what to say for a while.
"I'll just take a sneak peek." Mu Xue said again. "Don't let her see me."
The evil spirit got out of the way, and then followed Mu Xue to Zixuan's room.
When I first arrived at the door, I already saw Zixuan sitting on the edge of the table, her eyes were empty. When Mu Xue's eyes looked at her, she suddenly seemed to move.
Mu Xue subconsciously took a step back, and shouted in her mouth: "It's none of my business." ”
"What's wrong?" The demon seemed to sense that something was wrong.
"It's fine." When Mu Xue was looking at Zixuan, she still had empty eyes.
"Has she always been like this now?" Mu Xue asked the evil spirit.
"You don't know yet, do you?" The demon spirit asked, surprised.
"No~ because hasn't she been like this for a long time? It's been a while since I got out of the maid's hand, hasn't it? Mu Xue said.
The evil spirit looked at Mu Xue with suspicious eyes, and Mu Xue suddenly felt uncomfortable.
"I'm fine." Mu Xue hurriedly glanced at the evil spirit, and hurriedly said, "Then I'll go back first." As he spoke, he quickly walked away.
"What are you doing?" Chen Xin came in from outside the courtyard and saw the evil spirit standing alone at Zixuan's door.
"Where have you all been?" The demon asked rhetorically.
"I'm going grocery shopping." Chen Xin said.
"Didn't you say before that you could defeat the Zombie King by collecting all the golden imps?" Chen Miaoji locked his eyebrows, unable to figure it out. "But we don't even see the shadow of the zombie king now. There has been no recent news of villagers missing. ”
I looked at Chen Miaoji: "Is this going to be peaceful?" ”
"I think it's more like a storm coming." Chen Miaoji said.
I immediately lowered my head. "Actually, I feel it too, and I've always felt very unsteady lately."
Chen Miaoji touched my head.
I looked at him with a smile on my face. "We only know that this zombie king is Yang Qiuwei now, but we haven't seen him recently."
"The maid is Japanese, so he must be inseparable from the Japanese." Chen Miaoji took my hand and suddenly changed his mind, not going to the back mountain, but to the market instead.
"Why don't you go to the back mountain?"
"We can't find them if we look blindly like this, so instead of wasting time, let's do something interesting." Chen Miaoji took my hand and put her other arm on my shoulder.
"That~ listen to you." I smiled sweetly at him.
When I arrived at the market, I found that many people were sick and unenergetic, and they were all men.
"What's wrong with them?" I asked Chen Miaoji in surprise.
Chen Miaoji also looked at those people, and then he tightened his brows, staring at those people and observing. "They seem to have eaten something."
"Is it poisoning?" I asked.
"I don't see it." Chen Miaoji glanced at me.
We tacitly followed a middle-aged man in front of us, and then we saw him enter a shop with a smoke shop written on it.
"They're big smokers?" I looked at Chen Miaoji in horror.
"Yes."
"How could there be so many people all of a sudden? Does the court not care? ”
"It's not that simple." "The imperial court has not indicated that smoking is prohibited now, nor has it been stated that it is illegal," Chen said. But how these big cigarettes were transported here, and whose hands they were, it is estimated that we still need to investigate. It is not ordinary people who can open such a large smoke house openly. ”
When I was impulsive, I was going to go home to my little brother and ask him to seal these tobacco houses.
Chen Miaoji grabbed me. "It's useless, we can only use it if we find out who is behind this and catch him."
I looked at Chen Miaoji with apprehension.
"Let's go." Chen Miaoji pulled me aside.
I saw a carriage coming, and then stopped at the back door of the smoke house.
"Wait a minute, I'll follow the wagon, and you'll be here to keep watch." Chen Miaoji said: "These people now not only want to rob us of the territory of the Qing Dynasty, but also destroy our fighting spirit. ”
"Is it so serious?" I was puzzled and said, "Is that the same with Uncle Shi?" ”
"Uncle Shi's is quite light, he just smokes. But these are opium. ”
"These people don't want to make money, don't they die? In fact, they are using this tobacco house to cover up the facts, and they are actually using the tobacco house to sell opium, right? ”
Chen Miaoji nodded.
"Didn't Lin Zexu burn it when Humen sold cigarettes before?"
"The ones that are burned are just the tip of the iceberg, and these people seem to have a steady supply of goods." Chen Miaoji touched my head and said, "It's not as simple as you think. ”
"But I want to go with you." I say.
"We don't have much time, so we have to split up. I'm going to track down the whereabouts of the source, and you're here watching to see if any important people are coming. ”
I had no choice but to agree.
After Chen Miaoji left, he was still quite bored alone. When I looked up, I saw a person sneaking in through the back door.
It took a long time to come out.
When he came out, the owner of the tobacco shop personally came out to deliver it.
As soon as the man walked on his front foot, I followed.
Not long ago, the other party seemed to notice that someone was following him, and I immediately stopped, leaning my back against the wall, not daring to look in.
It's been a long time, and there has been no movement. Then I found that the person who had just come out was gone.
I hurriedly chased after him, and saw that the figure not far away was missing in front of me.
By the time I caught up, the other party had already gotten into the carriage and ran away.
Looking at the sedan chair of the carriage, I recognized that it was Luo Siyu's.
But what does this have to do with Luo Siyu? (To be continued.) )