Chapter 279: Disguise
In the afternoon of the next day, the sun was shining, and at the back door of the Jinyang Mansion, a fortune teller in a gray and shabby robe and a tall man dressed as an apprentice in white were extremely ugly.
The fortune teller was small, fair-faced, with a small goatee, but his eyes were covered with a black cloth. Holding a thin bamboo pole in his hand, he looks like a blind man. The man behind him, whom he called his apprentice, was tall and majestic, but his face seemed to have been burned, and his face was ugly and terrifying.
The ugly apprentice helped the thin master and asked as he walked, "Where are you going?" ”
The master stopped, touched his beard with a smile and replied: "For the master, I plan to open your eyes, let's go to the door of the largest flower building in Jinyang Mansion to set up a stall!" ”
The ugly apprentice laughed, opened a little distance, and looked up and down: "It's not proper!" ”
The master picked up the bamboo pole in his hand and gently knocked on the ugly apprentice's head: "I am the master, I have the final say." Hualou is a place like this, and there are the most people in the three religions, and we will definitely have a 'good business'! ”
The ugly apprentice helplessly took his bamboo pole: "Insurmountable!" ”
The master laughed like a fox stealing chickens: "That's nature, even if you need to go in, I'll ask you to go in for me, okay?" ”
The ugly apprentice choked and sighed: "Let's go!" ”
This pair of masters and apprentices are Chu Qingruo and Fu Lingyun in disguise.
While the two were talking, they came to the door of the largest flower building in Jinyang Mansion, the Yinxiang Pavilion. Fu Lingyun set up a stall and helped Chu Qingruo sit down. Chu Qingruo took out an abacus, picked up the abacus decently, and made a "snap" sound: "Measuring words and looking at appearances, divination fortune telling~~"
It's a pity that there are many onlookers, but there are almost no people who come up to tell the hexagram, Chu Qingruo is also happy to be leisurely, cocked Erlang's legs, and sat leisurely, not in a hurry.
Gradually, the sun began to set in the west, and the sky began to darken.
As the business of Yinxiang Pavilion got better and better, Chu Qingruo's fortune-telling booth was also full of people looking at faces.
Sitting in front of her at this moment was a black and thin scholar, with a dejected face, and said the word "also", asking Chu Qingruo to calculate it for him. Chu Qingruo frowned: "There is no wealth, there is no soil, and it is difficult to plant phoenix bamboo." There is no water in the pond, and it is difficult to raise arowana. Sir, you are an empty fate of a bamboo basket to draw water. ”
When the scholar heard this, he sighed heavily: "Hey, Mr. is really a god, isn't there any way to resolve it?" ”
Chu Qingruo asked, "Sir, can you tell Poor Dao, what happened?" ”
The scholar seemed hesitant and difficult to speak, and after struggling for a while, he made up his mind and said: "Don't hide it, sir, I have repeatedly gone to Beijing to take the exam over the years, but my name has fallen to Sun Shan, and now I am old, and I have a wife and children to support at home, so I really have no intention of going all the way to Beijing to catch the exam." ”
"Since you don't want to take the merit test anymore, it's better to stay at home, what's there to worry about?" Chu Qingruo said with a smile, but she also knew in her heart that if it was so simple, this person would not be so troubled.
The scholar said again: "I wanted to stay at home with peace of mind, but when my wife came back that day, she mysteriously asked me to pack up my things and go to Beijing to take the exam, and said that this time I will definitely go to high school!" ”
Chu Qingruo was surprised: "Why is Mrs. Ling so determined?" ”
The scholar also said, "Yes, I asked the same question." She took out a bag, saying that she asked for a god, and said that what god can be cured, omnipotent, and powerful, as long as you believe in it, not only can you be immune to all diseases, immortality, but also can make your wishes come true! ”
"What god is so powerful?" Everyone was curious.
"Can you take a look?" Fu Lingyun stretched out his hand to ask the scholar for the bag on his waist, and the scholar didn't think much about it, so he took it off and handed it to him.
This is a palm-sized sachet embroidered with the words "no taboo" on a green background and red thread, revealing a pungent inferior fragrance. Fu Lingyun and Chu Qingruo glanced at each other, and after Fu Lingyun opened the sachet, he poured out a handful of incense ashes from it, and there was a black thing in the incense ashes.
The scholar was also curious, stretched his neck to take a look, and immediately turned pale with fright. This black thing turned out to be a baby's hand that had turned into a dried corpse!
"Vomit~" There was a sound of vomiting around him.
The scholar covered his nose and asked in horror: "Sir, this, this...... What kind of spell is this, so evil? ”
Chu Qingruo was also shocked, but he forced himself to calm down, covered his mouth and nose and explained: "What Mrs. Ling met should be a Taoist priest of the Demon God Sect, and it should be one of the evil arts of the Demon God Sect, please little ghost." ”
When the onlookers heard this, they said nonchalantly: "It turned out to be the Demon God Sect, I've heard of it." ”
"Yes, yes, I also know that there is another person in our town who abandoned his family and joined the Demon God Cult."
Some people even shouted: "The magic power of the demon god is boundless, cross us out of the sea of suffering!" ”
Fu Lingyun's eyes darkened, and he glanced at the corner of the street. Immediately from the corner of the street, a few people dressed as hawkers crowded into the crowd and quietly took those people away.
Back at the mansion, the thin black scholar wiped his face, revealing a white face, which turned out to be Gao Bo. The three of them staged a "brick throwing to attract jade" at the door of the Silver Fragrance Pavilion, causing the onlookers to relax their vigilance and tell what they knew.
Chu Qingruo and Fu Lingyun interrogated those on the street overnight and learned two pieces of news: First, the top brand of this Silver Incense Pavilion, the green bead girl has a good match, I heard that she is a Taoist who is generous, and it is rumored that this Taoist is the great protector of the Demon God Sect.
Second, in Chang'an Town, under Jinyang Mansion, there is a member of the Demon God Sect, but he hasn't returned home for several years. Recently, I heard that for some reason, I suddenly came back, and I don't know if it's true or not.
With these two pieces of news, Chu Qingruo and Fu Lingyun decided to go their separate ways tomorrow. Chu Qingruo took Gao Bo to Chang'an Town to visit this sect member, while Fu Lingyun went to the Silver Incense Pavilion to meet the lover of the Great Dharma Protector, the Green Bead Girl!
The second day was sunny and cloudless, making it a good day for a trip. On the way to Chang'an Town, there was an ordinary horse-drawn carriage driving on a road full of golden rape flowers on both sides.
On the carriage were Chu Qingruo and her master, Xiao Yao.
Xiao Yao glanced at Gao Bo, who was dressed up in handlebar style outside the carriage and was driving the car, and asked in a low voice: "Qingruo, why don't you let General Gao go to Hualou to inquire about such a thing?" ”
Chu Qingruo raised his eyes and smiled: "Master, General Gao is thoughtful and simple, and he is easily provoked, so he is not a good candidate to inquire about the news." ”
"Then, you can rest assured......" Xiao Yao stopped talking, with a worried look on her face.
"Master, I believe in him." Chu Qingruo patted the back of Xiao Yao's hand with confidence.
Xiao Yao no longer spoke, but the expression on her face was complicated and difficult to understand.
"Madame, Mademoiselle, we have arrived."
Today, they are dressed as the wives and young ladies of large families, all in luxury, to visit the "immortals" who live in Chang'an Town, and Gao Bo is their subordinate.
"Old man, I heard that there is a living immortal in your Chang'an Town, and our mother and daughter came from afar first, wanting to visit this living immortal." Gao Bo parked the carriage under a willow tree by the river, and then asked the two old men sitting by the river who were playing against each other.
One of the old men was very enthusiastic, smiling and stroking his beard: "Oh, you are looking for a living immortal!" ~ Walk along this road, cross three streets and ask again to find it! ”
The other old man urged impatiently: "What a living immortal! The charlatan who deceives the gods and deceives the ghosts, hum! It's your turn, let's play chess! ”
After Gao Bo thanked the two, he led Chu Qingruo and Xiao Yao to find them according to what the old man said.
Unexpectedly, when they got there, the building was already empty. Chu Qingruo probed the residual temperature of the food on the table, and his hands were still slightly hot, obviously he had not left for a long time.
Gao Bo went to the neighbors to inquire about the left and right, and when he came back, his face was ugly.
Chu Qingruo asked, "General Gao, what's wrong with you?" ”
Gao Bo's face changed pale for a while: "My lord, do you know what the surname of this family is?" ”
"What's the last name?" Chu Qingruo heard him say this, and there was a faint feeling of uneasiness in her heart, could it be someone she knew?
"Surname Lou! The member who joined the sect was Lou Xiong! Gao Bo slammed the table, and said hatefully with a dark face and a head hanging down.
"What?" Chu Qingruo and Xiao Yao were both taken aback. That Lou Xiong is really a member of the Demon God Sect? Isn't that the child of the Zhong family......
Chu Qingruo felt a little resentment in his heart, hating the Demon God Sect for being too cunning, and at the same time secretly swore in his heart that he would bring this person to justice and rescue the Zhong family's child.
Just when Chu Qingruo's search in Chang'an Town was frustrated, Fu Lingyun also encountered something in Yinxiang Pavilion.
Fu Lingyun pretended to be a suave rich boy today, spent a lot of money in the Silver Fragrance Pavilion, and successfully paid the attention of Luzhu. A little maid invited him into Green Bead's room and withdrew.
Fu Lingyun sat in Luzhu's room, waiting patiently, but he used his spare eyes to carefully look at the room. A faint, unknown fragrance filled the nose, and speckled sunlight poured in from the hollowed-out carved windows, and at the end of the room was a soft wooden bed, with a purple veil hanging haphazardly. The guqin stands in the corner, the bronze mirror is placed on the wooden dresser, and all the furniture is made of fine wood, which looks like it is from the hands of famous artists.
Fu Lingyun sneered, a small county town oiran can have such a skill? The suspicion of this Oiran girl in my heart became deeper and deeper.
"Childe, I've been waiting for a long time!" A soft voice from Wu Nong gently came into his ears.
After seeing the handsome Fu Lingyun, Lu Zhu shook his mind slightly, and soon regained his composure, picked up the wine glass, and was just about to send it to Fu Lingyun, when he asked impatiently: "Why did the girl invite me here?" ”