Qin Yuesheng said happily: "What you said is clear-sighted, then you tell me what happened to the loss of the craftsman." ”

"Childe, it costs money to inquire about it, and I don't have the surname Bai. The shopkeeper rubbed his index and middle fingers with his thumb.

This posture is very obvious, which is the meaning of the people who let people give money.

"Well, as long as I get the information I want, money is not a problem. Qin Yuesheng nodded.

got this reply, and the shopkeeper talked about it.

"Our porcelain in Jingdezhen is very famous in the south of the Yangtze River, the former Emperor Deshun had personally come to the south of the Yangtze River in the spring breeze in April, and also specially allocated funds for Jingdezhen in that year, and built a Zen temple on the east slope forest outside the town, leaving countless stories. ”

Qin Yuesheng wondered: "Does this have anything to do with the disappearance of the craftsman?"

"Absolutely. The shopkeeper immediately said: "This ancient temple has not been affected by the replacement of the country, but because of disrepair, many things have become dilapidated, and the missing porcelain craftsmen were invited to the ancient temple to repair a white porcelain wall before disappearing." ”

"What's so unusual about this ancient temple on weekdays? ”

"This is not true, it has stopped very much, and now there is an old monk still living there, chanting sutras and chanting Buddha every day, and occasionally coming to the town to make fate. ”

"Those missing porcelain craftsmen, how are they popular in the town?"

"Hey, it's all masters, it's not much worse. ”

"Is there anything else you'd like to add? ”

"Childe, that's all I know. ”

Qin Yuesheng suddenly showed a trace of disgust on his face: "As far as you still ask, the little thing you just said is some popular goods that can be turned over in the town chronicles, I can find out by asking a townsman casually, is there anything else?" Otherwise, with this bit of news, you can't earn silver taels from me." ”

Qin Yuesheng patted the evil suppression knife he had placed on the table, but he was hinting at something.

"Yes. Betting on the name of Jing Porcelain Zhenbao to inquire, the shopkeeper patted his chest: "More than ten years ago, strange things happened in that ancient temple, but because no one had an accident at that time, it didn't spread, after so many years, there must be not many people who still remember it, but I am one of them." ”

Qin Yuesheng asked, "What's weird?" ”

"Someone has been rushing through the Dongpo forest at night, see the ancient temple in the brilliance, glowing, suspected that there are a large number of women singing and dancing in the temple, this person listened to it and fell into a fascination, in a trance and then woke up, in the blink of an eye it was early morning, dawn broke. ”

"Oh?" Qin Yuesheng said, "Is there anything else?" related to that ancient temple. ”

"No, that's all, but I can tell you about the missing porcelain makers. ”

"No need. Qin Yuesheng directly threw out two taels of broken silver, and saw two pieces of broken silver whizzing around on the table.

"Let your cooks make the noodles faster, I still have something to do after eating." ”

"Okay. Bao Sanxiao picked up two pieces of broken silver and smiled from ear to ear.

But what he didn't expect was that the moment his palm just touched the broken silver, a shock came from the broken silver, and his palm was directly shaken seven or eight inches away.

Bao Sanxiao looked at Qin Yuesheng with an incredulous expression: "Childe, this is?"

Qin Yuesheng picked up the evil suppression knife and slapped it on two pieces of silver, forcibly stopping it.

The ancients once had a saying that 'lifting weights is light, lifting lightly is heavy', and people who suddenly increase their strength by thousands of catties must be very abrupt in their daily life.

For example, take a bowl and crush the bowl, use chopsticks to break the chopsticks, shake the sheets and tear the cloth, and so on.

Only after he controls his power can he return to a normal life.

It's called 'retracting'.

Obviously, Qin Yuesheng has not yet mastered the shock energy to the point where he can retract and release it freely, so the current situation will appear when he exerts force.

......

After eating the hot Yangchun noodles and borrowing an oil-paper umbrella from Bao Sanxiao, Qin Yuesheng left the inn and went to the house of the townsman who reported to the official.

The official named Chen Chun is a craftsman who weaves straw sandals and lives on the edge of Jingci Town.

When Qin Yuesheng came to his destination, he saw a courtyard fenced off and a mud-tiled house in the courtyard.

There was an old yellow dog leashed at the entrance of the courtyard, and as soon as he saw Qin Yuesheng approaching, he immediately bared his teeth and roared.

It's old, and its shouting sound is like a leaky bellows, whining.

"Is anyone there?" Qin Yuesheng shouted with an umbrella in the rain.

Soon a young man ran out of the tiled house wearing a cloak and a hat.

It was Chen Chun.

"You are?"

As soon as this person approached, he immediately asked the old yellow dog to shut his mouth, and asked Qin Yuesheng at the same time.

"Official, because you went to the Yamen of Qingyang City to report the case before, I specially came here to accept this matter. Qin Yuesheng said.

As soon as he heard Qin Yuesheng's words, this person's face suddenly couldn't help but show joy: "Great! ”

Qin Yuesheng said indifferently: "No need, just take me directly to the place where those porcelain craftsmen disappeared, hurry up." ”

"Good. ”

Chen Chun walked out of the courtyard gate, took the fence gate, which had no defense capability at all, and then led Qin Yuesheng to the outside of Jingci Town.

In the southeast direction of Jingci Town, about 100 zhang steps, there is a hillside, which is called Dongpo Forest by the locals because it is relatively close to the east.

The ancient temple was built on this eastern slope forest.

On rainy days, the slope is slippery and difficult to walk.

Chen Chun relied on the trunk of the tree and the wooden branch to stabilize his body, walked in front to lead the way, and at the same time told Qin Yuesheng about the reason for the case this time.

Chen Chun's parents died when he was a child, and he was adopted by his uncle.

My uncle is a porcelain craftsman, and a few days ago he was summoned by the mayor of the town to repair the porcelain in the ancient temple on the Dongpo forest.

He was accompanied by four old masters from the town, a total of five.

It is said that the reason why the mayor of the town wanted to restore the porcelain in the ancient temple was because he wanted to curry favor with his father-in-law Guangzhao, who had just been sent to Yangzhou from Chang'an.

Nowadays, the status of the eunuch party is increasing day by day, and if you can win the appreciation of a father-in-law, the mayor of a small town can easily be reborn as the county magistrate of such and such a place.

The temptation is great.

The five porcelain craftsmen worked in the ancient temple for a few days, and suddenly disappeared the night before yesterday, there was no trace of a struggle at the scene, and their families searched for a long time in the ancient temple and on the east slope forest, but they did not gain anything.

Today's situation is really that there is no life, no death, no corpse.

Chen Chun had no choice, his uncle raised him to be as kind as a mountain, and he couldn't watch his uncle's whereabouts unknown, so he went to the Yamen of Qingyang City alone to report to the official.

As he walked farther and farther away, Qin Yue was born in the forest and could already see the towering ancient temple located on the mountainside of the forest on the eastern slope.

It is worthy of the construction of the previous emperor's appropriation, and even after so many years, it still has a breathtaking grandeur.

When he came to the gate of the ancient temple, Qin Yuesheng took the umbrella and walked in, because there was a corridor to shelter from the rain, but there was no need to use the oil-paper umbrella anymore.

"Poor master, go this way. Chen Chun took Qin Yuesheng to the main hall with a familiar car.

I saw that there was no Buddha statue in the hall for a long time, and a layer of dust had accumulated on the stone platform with scars and corners.

There are cockroach carcasses on the ground, moth carcasses, and even dried mice carcasses, and it is not known how they died.

"Poor master, this is it, my uncle and they repaired that white porcelain wall. Chen Chun pointed to the wall and said.

It was a piece of light wall embedded in a mud wall, and it was quite large, no less than two carriages, and I don't know how many years of history.

On the wall is a picture of the palace cross-view, in which the pavilions and pavilions, the corridors are meandering, there are ponds and gardens, there are groups of maids, and the female officials sit in the hall and drink, all of which are colored material crafts.

There is no doubt that this is a precious and rare antique, but the multiple cracks that appear at the edges greatly reduce its original value.

"This is a good wall. Qin Yuesheng praised.

Chen Chun: "Originally, there were a lot of treasures in this ancient temple, but later a lot of them were stolen by robbers, and now there is still this one that is not easy to take away." ”

The whole piece of white porcelain is so big that if you can't pry it off and take it away, but break it, it will have no value.

And if you want to take away the whole piece, it is absolutely impossible to do it without enough people to come and help.

"Is that what you disappeared here?" Qin Yuesheng asked.

"In those days, my second uncle and they stayed here every day, and the meals were sent to the temple by their respective families to eat, if nothing very serious happened, it would be absolutely impossible for my second uncle and them to leave this ancient temple without repairing this piece of wall. ”

Chen Chun looked serious: "They must have encountered something unexpected." ”

Qin Yuesheng stretched out his hand and touched the surface of the wall, and his hand was cold and smooth as jade.

"I see. ”

There are still traces of a bonfire burning in the main hall, as well as some scattered repair tools, which are the ones that the porcelain craftsmen eat.

At that moment, Qin Yuesheng made three guesses.

(1) The porcelain craftsmen were taken away.

(2) What danger did they encounter and fled.

(3) When I encountered danger, I couldn't escape, and I was eaten all away.

If Qin Yuesheng hadn't considered the third guess before, he would naturally not have considered the third guess, but now, after seeing a lot of sneaky and strange things, he deeply felt that there was such a possibility.

"I already know the situation, I will stay to investigate this ancient temple, you can't help much, just go back first." Qin Yuesheng said.

If there is really any sneaky and strange here, ordinary people like Chen Chun are cannon fodder, and they don't even have the ability to resist before they die.

Seeing that his parents died when he was a child, and now even the uncle who raised him has disappeared, which is also ill-fated, Qin Yuesheng asked him to go back, so as not to lose his life due to bad luck.

For Qin Yuesheng's words, Chen Chun naturally wanted to listen, in his opinion, Qin Yuesheng was an official errand, a person who even the mayor of the town had to treat with respect, how could he go against his will as an ordinary person.

So Chen Chun immediately said goodbye to Qin Yuesheng and returned to Jingci Town.

After Chen Chun left, Qin Yuesheng took out the evil toad from the Heavenly Demon's waist bag, and immediately patrolled the entire ancient temple, intending to see if there was anything particularly obvious about the anger.

But after spending half an hour walking through the entire ancient temple, the evil toad did not react at all, this place is obviously normal, not to mention the existence of any sneaky and strange things.

"Doesn't it have anything to do with sneaky and demonic?" Qin Yuesheng wondered.

If it weren't for this reason, then it was for people, but who would come to this Dongpo forest to arrest five porcelain craftsmen?

This is completely meaningless, even if you want to earn a ransom, you can't make much, and it's worth not as much as robbing a merchant's goods.

"It seems that I have to live in this ancient temple tonight, and I didn't open a guest room in Jingci Town before I knew it. Qin Yuesheng put away the evil toad.

......

Chen Chun is a very enthusiastic person, although his life is ill-fated, but it has not affected his desire to love this world.

For his neighbors, as long as he can help him, he will do it.

And he himself is also a very hard-working person, very able to endure hardships, and respects the old and loves the young, likes small animals, is kind, and never envy others.

But even so, at the age of nineteen, he was still a bachelor.

After all, there is no way, the poor man's family has no money, and he can't get a daughter-in-law.

It was getting dark.

Chen Chun was worried that Qin Yuesheng would have nothing to eat in the ancient temple, so he specially cooked a pot of sweet potato porridge and steamed three large pieces of potatoes, which were packed in a wooden box and prepared to be sent to Dongpo Forest for Qin Yuesheng for dinner.

However, when he came to the main hall of the ancient temple, he didn't see any trace of Qin Yuesheng, and he didn't know where he would go.

"Poor master?" Chen Chun shouted in confusion, but he didn't get a response, there was no way, he had to put the wooden box in a clean place, find something to sit on, and start quietly waiting for Qin Yuesheng to come back.

After waiting, he looked boredly at the white porcelain wall.

No matter how many times he has seen it, every time he looks at this wall, Chen Chun will feel sincerely admired.

If I had this kind of craft, I guess I would have become very rich, and I would not be as poor as I am now.

Suddenly, a little maid on the wall blinked her eyes violently, and she trotted happily in the palace, and the maids who were originally standing with her strode after her, and for a time they were playing and playing in the wall.

Chen Chun couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and rubbed his eyes vigorously.

What is the situation?

I'm dazzled?