When Xiao Zibai woke up the next day, he saw a very familiar big bird in his arms.

…… The big bird's feathers were also stained with suspicious liquids.

"Hey, am I drooling when I sleep?" Xiao Zibai tried to get through the trick with haha, but was brutally slapped by Tang Lin.

On this morning, Tang Lin's face was dark. Xiao Zibai knew that he was at a loss, and followed him when he went out, wanting to hold hands for fear of Tang Lin's suspicion, and he was unwilling to go away, so he kept spinning not far behind Tang Lin's buttocks. Tang Lin walked and he followed, Tang Lin ate and he watched, Tang Lin couldn't stand it and pushed breakfast in front of him, he had to look up at Tang Lin when he took a bite, as if he was afraid that he would grow wings and fly if he didn't pay attention to Tang Lin.

Well, but in all fairness, it's not entirely out of the question......

After Tang Lin was stared at by Xiao Zibai for a long time, he finally impatiently blocked his mouth with a bun: "Eat your meal, don't look at me!" He reprimanded, Xiao Zibai choked on a mouth full of buns, and subconsciously wanted to swallow it, but the whole bun could not be swallowed in a short time, but choked in his throat.

Tang Lin disliked him on the side: "The monks of the Jindan period can still be choked!" While hurriedly filling Xiao Zibai with soy milk, and when it was easy to swallow the buns, both of them breathed a sigh of relief, and the previously stiff atmosphere had dissipated invisibly.

"I won't buy buns anymore." Tang Lin said, glancing at the few remaining buns on the table, and reached out to push them far aside. Xiao Zibai coughed twice, rubbed his throat and said, "It's okay, it's okay, you believe me, I will definitely not be stuck in the bun next time!" ”

"Do you want to have a next time?"

Tang Lin's eyebrows were raised high, Xiao Zibai quickly stuck out his tongue, and said pleadingly: "No, no, there will definitely be no next time." When he said it, he didn't forget to glance at Tang Lin carefully, obviously a pun. Tang Lin's eyes froze, and he snorted softly: Xiao Zibai won't be choked by buns next time, he believes it, but will that happen again last night......

"Next time, I'll ......," he said quietly, holding out a finger and swiping it lightly across the table—leaving a long, deep notch.

Xiao Zibai swallowed quietly, but quickly reminded weakly: "This is someone's table." ”

The shopkeeper who opened the breakfast shop was bravely glaring at Tang Lin, his eyes as sharp as ice and snow.

Tang Lin was silent for a few seconds, and then slapped a silver ingot on the table that weighed five taels: "Shop, check out." ”

The shopkeeper's eyes when he looked at Tang Lin immediately became warm as spring.

……

After breakfast, Tang Lin and Xiao Zibai began to look for the fat powder shop in the city. About because Lelang Mansion itself is a prosperous rouge township, there are a lot of fat powder shops on Shili Eight Street, and Tang Lin saw a shop from a distance before he went far after the breakfast shop.

After he saw the shop for the first time, he couldn't help but poke Xiao Zibai's waist, pointed to the shop and said, "Look." Xiao Zibai looked over suspiciously, and the pale pink peach-shaped lantern was swaying at the door of the store.

At that moment, Xiao Zibai's eyes were almost desperate.

"What's wrong with the people in this city!" He couldn't bear to cover his eyes suddenly: "This kind of house! This color scheme! Why do you like pink so much! ”

Tang Lin couldn't help but smile and pulled him in the direction of the shop, Xiao Zibai struggled slightly, then gave up, and buried his whole body in Tang Lin's arms listlessly, not wanting to look at the pink lantern at all.

"There's a lot of people around." Tang Lin looked at the flow of people, reached out and patted Xiao Zibai's shoulder, and motioned for him to get up from his arms. Xiao Zibai arched in his arms, because his face was buried in Tang Lin's arms, and his voice was a little muffled when he spoke. "What if there are too many people." He simply reached out and hugged Tang Lin's waist directly: "We don't have anything to see." ”

When he said this, he was a little angry, Tang Lin knew what he was angry about, and reached out and rubbed the top of his hair affectionately: "I don't think we can't see anyone or anything, it's just that I can't go far if you lie on top of me...... We're going to get in the way. ”

Justified.

Xiao Zibai raised his head from Tang Lin's arms unhappily, glanced around, and after confirming Tang Lin's words, he reluctantly straightened up, pulled his hand, and said, "Let's go." ”

Although he knew that Tang Lin was telling the truth, Xiao Zibai's mood was still irrepressibly low, and Tang Lin sighed softly: "No, I'll leave later." When Xiao Zibai looked back suspiciously, he took the opportunity to lower his head and kiss Xiao Zibai's forehead.

"Alright, let's go." Tang Lin pursed his lips and slapped his palms in satisfaction.

When Xiao Zibai was led by him to walk into the rouge shop, every step was fluttering as if he was stepping on the clouds. Tang Lin originally thought that he would be fine soon, but this time he floated for a long time, until they walked into the shop, Xiao Zibai still looked like as long as Tang Lin let go of his hand, he could float to the sky at any time.

Tang Lin looked at him again and again, and finally couldn't help but cover his forehead: "It's not the first time again, it's been so long, why are your reactions so big?" "It's just a kiss! Just a kiss! Tang Lin really couldn't understand Xiao Zibai's brain circuit. The edge ball has also hit home plate, and various postures have been tried, how can it be that a simple kiss can still make him ...... Let him...... Rippled like this?

Probably awakened by Tang Lin's words, Xiao Zibai finally fell from the sky back to the ground. Faced with Tang Lin's question, after thinking for a while, he still shook his head incomprehensibly:

"I don't know why I'm so happy, but honestly, the moment you kissed me, I felt like the whole world lit up."

When he spoke, his expression was extremely serious, Tang Lin blushed a little when he heard it, and simply said to him with a half-smile: "Tell me honestly, did you secretly read some love stories or something?" "Teach you how to catch up with the Taoist"? Xiao Zibai shook his head solemnly: "I only read the "One Hundred Styles of the Guide to Double Cultivation". ”

Tang Lin: "...... What is that! ”

In fact, while saying this question, Tang Lin had clearly realized "what is that", but he still looked at Xiao Zibai with the last ray of hope, but Xiao Zibai smiled brightly at him, and said directly and seemingly tactfully: "Didn't you notice that I have recently renovated my tricks?" ”

“…… I thought it was just your whim. Tang Lin was silent for a moment, and quickly changed the topic: "Let's take a look at the fat powder of this house, I'll see if there is any demonic energy, you can write down the brand first, and then go to another house to compare it." ”

Xiao Zibai nodded clearly, and responded with a smile.

The layout of this fat powder shop looks quite exquisite, and the fat powder balm inside is also dazzling. Xiao Zibai and Tang Lin are not very conspicuous in the pile of men buying fat powder for their wives/lovers in the store, they look no different from every customer who comes to the store to pick fat powder - maybe even more picky. Xiao Zibai was okay, just took a quick look, but Tang Lin seriously took a closer look at each kind of fat powder, and after reading it, he didn't have any intention of buying, which caused a lot of white eyes from the guys in the store.

He didn't care about this: Tang Lin didn't want to buy fat powder in the first place, he was just simply distinguishing the demonic energy in fat powder.

Now Tang Lin's sense of smell is getting sharper and sharper, but an overly keen sense of smell is sometimes not a good thing. For example, at this moment, the smell of hundreds of kinds of fat powder swirled around the tip of his nose one after another, and Tang Lin needed to use all his willpower to restrain his urge to sneeze. He took the trouble to look at the fat powder one by one, and Xiao Zibai wrote it down beside him. After a while, they all raised their heads in unison, and their eyes met in mid-air for a moment:

How are you?

I'm all right.

After their eyes met, they tacitly did not enter the flow of people in the store, Tang Lin walked outside the store with his sleeves in the disgusted eyes of the guys, but Xiao Zibai took a few fat powder boxes and went to the shopkeeper to pay the bill.

"I feel like there's really something wrong with Lelang Mansion right now." When Xiao Zibai paid the bill, Tang Lin carefully said to him through the contract: "Either there is something wrong with my sense of smell, or ...... There is a demonic spirit in every kind of fat powder sold in this shop. ”

Xiao Zibai's action of paying the bill did not pause at all: "I also feel that something is wrong with this mansion." Do you know? I just found out that the fat powder sold in this shop is all made in the same place. ”

Tang Lin's eyes widened in surprise slightly, Xiao Zibai walked out with a fat powder box to meet his sight, and with a slight movement, the lid of one of the delicate powder boxes lit up towards him: on the lid of the box, a small multicolored butterfly was about to fly.

- Butterflies.

Tang Lin's expression was in a trance for a moment, and Xiao Zibai's voice was still ringing in his heart through the contract: "Do you remember Lang Huan Wonderland?" Isn't that the way the big butterfly shrunk? And those flowers...... I just asked, and they said that the rouge was all wrung out of flower juice......"

- Rouge.

How many mansions were destroyed in the first row? Three or four? There were definitely more than two anyway, and he remembered seeing "several" mortal towns at the beginning! Tang Lin tried hard to get more clues from the original text of that few words, but Xiao Zibai was still talking to him through the contract: "I really should have explored Lang Huan's fairyland at the beginning." If that's the case, they must have a place to make the demon flowers into rouge, and there is no way that many flowers can be left to wither......"

- Demon Flower.

Butterflies cultivate demon flowers, and demon flowers are made into rouge. Several questions seem to be interlocked, but when you think about it, you don't feel right, as if something is missing from them.

…… What's missing?

Tang Lin's temples hurt a little, he closed his eyes, and the dazzling sunlight turned a warm red through his eyelids. Xiao Zibai, who had been chattering, finally noticed that something was wrong with Tang Lin, he closed his mouth, stuffed the obstructive fat powder boxes into the storage bag in his arms, strode over and rubbed Tang Lin's temples, rubbing and rubbing, Tang Lin suddenly asked him: "Do you think these things seem to be connected by a thread?" ”

Xiao Zibai was stunned by this brainless question, but soon he entered the state, and while massaging Tang Lin, he thought about it and said: "These things are definitely not simple coincidences, but I don't know what makes them linked." Collecting mortal alchemy or something, can it be so complicated? ”

"I'm afraid the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes is not to use mortal alchemy." Tang Lin opened his eyes and said in a cold voice: "His spirit is very big." ”

Several prefectures and cities, with a population of tens of millions, were wiped out overnight, just to pour a basin of dirty water on his head that could not be washed away.

Xiao Zibai's action of massaging Tang Lin's temples stopped, he was silent for a few seconds, and said in a casual tone: "That's right, maybe the whole city is a net, the demon flowers in Hecang Mansion are all over the place, and the rouge shops in Lelang Mansion look like there are a lot. ”

"We've ruined those flowers in Kawakura Mansion." Tang Lin said suddenly, he shook Xiao Zibai's hand suddenly, his fingers were cold, and even cooled Xiao Zibai's body temperature as an ice-based spirit: "If it's just a simple interlocking chain, the collapse of the previous ring will inevitably have an impact on the next ring - but the demon flowers over there in Hecang Mansion are ruined, but these rouges in Lelang Mansion are still being sold, where do their raw materials come from?" ”

"Hoarding? Flowers are not like other things, and after picking them off for a long time, they will gradually dry and become no longer juice at all. Rouge and the like are made from fresh flowers, so would anyone hoard flowers in large quantities for the sake of possible accidents? Even if it is frozen or storage bags, although it can be kept fresh, how can anyone be so troublesome? ”

Tang Lin quickly went all the way down, but stopped when he said this. He clenched Xiao Zibai's hand tightly, and the Adam's apple rolled with difficulty, and an answer was already coming out of his throat.

…… What they found was not a line, but a net.

A carefully woven web that radiates layer by layer.

The place where demon flowers are planted is not only Lang Huan Wonderland, but the city full of demon flowers is not only Hecang Mansion, there must be other and more bases where demon flowers are planted. There is more than one place to plant demon flowers, but what about the one who sells rouge? Is it just Lelang Mansion? Where is rouge done? How was it transported from the place where it was grown and made to the place where it was sold?

Kawakura? Lelang House? It's just a peek in the tube.

How big is the power behind this? Tang Lin didn't dare to think about it further, and he wasn't even willing to say that guess.

Xiao Zibai quietly hugged him and kissed Tang Lin's cheek gently.

"It's fine." He whispered, as if he knew what Tang Lin was worried about, Xiao Zibai took Tang Lin in his arms, hugged him and shook him for a while, before he said: "Their power is very large, and our power is not small." ”

"I don't know how much hidden power the Imperial Beast Sect has, but I know that from the cultivation realm to the mortal realm, any weapon shop that sells swords, swords, and axes can more or less be related to the Lingshan Sword Sect." As he spoke, he hugged Tang Lin hard: "Knife sellers, sword sellers, sword casters, knife casters, mining stones, ore sellers...... You see, when you think about it this way, isn't it a bigger net? Doesn't it sound a lot scarier than selling rouge? ”

"Although such a big stall is useless - there is no fight in the Xiuzhen Realm now, there are few people who buy weapons, and we, the largest weapons dealer, are already poor enough to sell! As a dart master nurse - but even if they are so poor, my master and they have never thought of letting go of the resources in their hands. ”

"So when you go to a mine and take a closer look, you will probably find: Hey, this mine belongs to the Lingshan Sword Sect! Then you go to another mine, and take a closer look: Hey, this mine is also from the Lingshan Sword Sect! Three thousand worlds, which world does not have a mine or weapon shop in Lingshan? We've just seen some rouge demon flowers in the two mortal mansions now, and it doesn't matter. If that person has done a lot of business in the cultivation realm, then we can still look up to him...... It's just a glance. ”

Xiao Zibai touched Tang Lin's hair and comforted him: "Don't worry, nothing will happen." If you look at the location that person chose, there were all blank spaces where there was no cultivation power, and he knew that he would not see the light. Let's go back and report the matter, saying that the situation is much stricter than we thought at first, and that will naturally attract everyone's attention. ”

"Anyway, everyone's strength is always stronger than the two of us are fooling here, right?"

He finally concluded, Tang Lin smiled reluctantly and leaned lightly on Xiao Zibai's body.

"Let's go to another rouge shop." He whispered to Xiao Zibai: "At least we have to find some evidence to prove that there is a connection between the incidents in Hecang Mansion and Lelang Mansion." Butterfly demon flower rouge and the like, it's just our own guess, what we really want to say...... You have to find evidence. ”

Xiao Zibai nodded, but did not let go of the hand that hugged Tang Lin.

They hugged quietly for a while, and finally parted reluctantly under the washing of the gradually bustling crowd, but still holding hands, they began to look for other fat powder shops together.

Second, third, fourth...... When he came out of the fifth fat powder shop, Xiao Zibai suddenly pinched Tang Lin's palm and asked him, "Have you found anything in common with these fat powder shops?" ”

Tang Lin hadn't reacted yet: his nose was still immersed in the afterglow of various aromas, and he was struggling with the urge to sneeze. Xiao Zibai looked at his appearance, and simply stopped leaving suspense, and directly revealed the bottom: "There is a pink lantern hanging at the door of every shop." ”

And what I saw that day in the west flower street of the city...... Lanterns of the same color. ”

"yes, that's a coincidence?" Tang Lin rubbed his nose, and a hint of interest flashed in his eyes. He glanced at Xiao Zibai, and when he walked into the next shop, he pretended to inadvertently inquire about the lanterns.

If the guy replied that the color of the lantern was a rule of the trade, it wouldn't be intriguing, but the guy replied, "Our boss likes this color." I changed to the next one, but the answer was very different, except that it was a lantern that I chose at random, and I looked at the shape and didn't pay attention to the color. If you change another one, the statement is even more different. After changing shops for a few times, they were almost sure: there was definitely something wrong with this pink lantern.

It's just that...... What's the problem?

They had been wandering outside from the dawn of the morning until it was dark, and they still had no clue when the thousands of lights in the city were lit one by one. Xiao Zibai thought about it for a while, and said to Tang Lin: "Maybe we can have an in-depth understanding of the so-called Oiran Conference." ”

"That's fine." After being woken up by his words, Tang Lin's eyes suddenly lit up: Yes, in the city of Lelangfu, the place where the pink lanterns are hung is not only the fat powder shop, but also the various flower buildings in the flower street in the west of the city.

And what is the common connection between Hualou and Fat Powder Shop?

- Woman, a woman who lives in a flower building and uses all kinds of fat powders; Or those singers and prostitutes with different styles, charming eyes like silk, leaning on the building and laughing.

After Tang Lin told Xiao Zibai about the connection he had just discovered, the latter immediately remembered the Guldex he met in the flower building yesterday, and couldn't help frowning and asked Tang Lin: "Speaking of singing girls and prostitutes...... What are you doing this morning to give that woman a silver ticket? He also said that he wanted to come out to do business...... What if she really looks for you and wants to open a store? ”

"Then let's go." Tang Lin didn't pay any attention to this: "To open a shop in the mortal mansion city, even if it is to open for three hundred years, how many spirit stones can it cost?" Besides, if she really wants to come out and do the fish belly business, maybe it will be quite prosperous: to be honest, the fish belly she cuts is quite delicious. ”

"But you gave her a token!" Xiao Zibai didn't give up, Tang Lin smiled at him, and took down a small storage bag on his waist to show him: "It's the leftovers I got when I practiced the magic weapon making zuò, you see, there are a lot of them here." As he spoke, he shook the storage bag in his hand, and the large piles of jade plates and iron pieces inside were turned upside down with Tang Lin's movements.

Xiao Zibai endured for a moment, and finally couldn't help but say, "...... Why are you so special to her? ”

The vinegar in these words was so strong that Tang Lin's nose could smell it after being hurt by various fragrances all day, and he couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

"Didn't I treat her specially? If you want to say special, I'm only special to you. ”

Tang Lin chuckled and shook his head, stretched out his finger and pointed at Xiao Zibai's head: "Your memory has always been very good, did you just remember my jade and silver tickets, and forgot the name I reported to her at that time?" ”

The ...... reported to her Name?

Xiao Zibai's eyes lit up little by little, he thought of something, but he couldn't believe what he thought.

"You...... What do you mean......" Xiao Zibai Ai said, Tang Lin sighed lowly, and walked over and pressed his forehead against his.

"We're not going to have a wedding anyway."

As he said this, the tip of his nose lightly touched the tip of Xiao Zibai's nose.