When Liu Fan opened the paper bag and saw the items inside, he immediately gave Zhang Banxian a thumbs up with admiration, for no other reason, because at this time, the bronze mirror in the paper bag was gone, replaced by a handful of so-called evil rock grains, twisting a few rock grains casually, Liu Fan asked with a little curiosity what is the use of this thing?

Seeing Liu Fan thumbs up to himself, Zhang Banxian's face was full of triumphant expressions, and when he heard Liu Fan's inquiry, Zhang Banxian casually explained: "This thing is called evil rock particles, which are particles taken from cinnabar stone, cinnabar stone is a crystalline material, like a stone but not a stone, the cinnabar stone skin is gray-white, and the inside is bright red."

This kind of cinnabar stone is an item controlled by the imperial court, the yamen extracts cinnabar with cinnabar stone, and the weaving workshop takes away the bright red core inside the cinnabar stone, and throws the gray-white shell on the ground, because it is rumored that cinnabar can ward off evil spirits, so people take the shell of cinnabar stone, crush it into granules, and sprinkle it in front of the mansion to ward off evil spirits.

In the past, no one wanted cinnabar stone shells thrown on the street, but since it was rumored that the cinnabar stone shell could ward off evil spirits and suppress ghosts, people began to collect this kind of thing, which made the price of cinnabar stone shells continue to rise, and some traders saw the profits and mined cinnabar stone privately for profit.

In view of the increasing scale of private mining of cinnabar stone, resulting in less and less cinnabar kernels that can be extracted by the government, in view of this, during the reign of the first emperor, the imperial court also listed the shell of cinnabar stone as a controlled item, except for the monk Taoist department and the yamen weaving office, the people are not allowed to privately possess and trade this thing.

Of course, the imperial court is not so unkind, the yamen issued a notice, if there are residents in the house of evil spirits, evil ghosts entangled, you can go to the local temples and Taoist temples to ask people to exorcise evil spirits, can also use cinnabar stone shell made of evil rock particles to suppress evil spirits, but afterwards the parties must be registered, sealed for the record. ”

"So strict?" Liu Fan didn't expect this evil rock grain to be so sought-after, as he spoke, he put a few rock particles in his hand back into the paper bag, and then took the paper bag in front of him and stuffed it into his arms, seeing that Zhang Banxian wanted to be anxious after seeing his actions, Liu Fan immediately changed the topic: "Banxian, do you want to make a fortune?" ”

"Big money? How to earn? Sure enough, this sentence instantly diverted Zhang Banxian's attention.

In front of Zhang Banxian's divination booth, looking at Zhang Banxian's suspicious eyes, Liu Fan smiled slightly, he picked up a piece of paper from Zhang Banxian's stall, wrote a line of words with a pen, and then he folded the paper neatly, and asked Zhang Banxian to send the paper to the hands of the host of Qihong of Hanshan Temple, saying that the above is a recipe to resolve someone's demonic obsession.

After writing, Liu Fan saw that Zhang Banxian was reluctant to go, and asked vigorously how to make a lot of money? So Liu Fan lied that as long as he was willing to send the letter over, the host of Qihong would reward him with five taels of silver, and when he heard that there was money to earn, and it was five taels of silver, Zhang Banxian immediately came to talk about the spirit, he snatched Liu Fan's letter, and began to close the stall without saying a word, and then hurriedly left the market.

After Zhang Banxian left, Liu Fan also left the bazaar, he did not go to other places, but walked in the direction of the Hongyun Inn in the suburbs, after yesterday's investigation, some things he already knew in his heart, but some things were always puzzled, maybe the Hongyun Inn had the details of his negligence, he needed to take a look again.

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Traveling all the way, Liu Fan returned to the abandoned mansion of the Hongyun Inn again, he went straight to the Qin Courtyard, and checked several rooms in the Qin Courtyard one by one, when he walked to the door of the east side room, there was a trace of thought in his eyes, this is the room of Zhu Zishan's eldest son, and the main house where Chun Ling lives is next to each other, only separated by a wall.

After going around the east side room, Liu Fan entered Chunling's room again and checked, the room was about fifty square in size, with a rectangular structure, surrounded by solid wood walls, and the bottom plate was also wooden, and the beds, tables, benches, shoe racks, dressers, and wardrobes were all placed in the room.

Because it is rumored that there is a ghost bride asking for a soul, no one dares to touch the things in Chunling's room, even thieves dare not steal the things in this house, so that the things in this room are still the furnishings of Chunling in the world, although they are all dusty at the moment, but it can still be seen that Chunling was a clean and careful person before his death.

The reason for this is because the teacups in the room are all placed face down, arranged very regularly, the clothes in the wardrobe are sorted and hung, the bedding on the bed is neatly folded, a pair of pillows are spread side by side below, stacks of boxy bedding are placed on top, the shoes on the shoe rack are all facing outward, and the benches are placed in a circle.

After checking in the Chunling room, Liu Fan came to the courtyard to observe the architectural pattern of the Qin Yuan, in order to see the panorama of the Qin Yuan more comprehensively, Liu Fan slowly retreated while looking for a suitable observation angle, and when he retreated, he accidentally stepped on a dead branch, and with a soft "click", he instantly knocked on the door of Liu Fan's heart.

Bending down to pick up the dead branch under his feet, Liu Fan's mind suddenly appeared in the scene of Zhang Banxian using his technique to drop the rune paper, he always felt that he seemed to have missed a certain problem, but when he combed it carefully, he didn't find anything abnormal, but when he saw the dead branch, a glimmer of brightness flashed in his eyes.

Holding the withered branch in his hand, Liu Fan turned around and walked out of the piano courtyard, and when he came to the door, he looked at the four elegant courtyards arranged in a line. At the beginning of the establishment of the inn, because he was worried that there would be guests evading the ticket, when designing the elegant courtyard, Zhu Zishan specially sealed the backyard, so that everyone could only enter and exit the elegant courtyard through the main entrance of the inn.

Now the Hongyun Inn has no longer flourished before, the courtyard has fallen down, collapsed, and the gate is even more dilapidated, fortunately, the main body of the building of the Hongyun Inn is high-quality wood, so the main building of the front yard and the main body of several elegant courtyards are still standing, but the courtyard walls on both sides have collapsed a lot, reflecting a kind of decay atmosphere.

Liu Fan stepped on the collapsed courtyard wall, went around to the back of the courtyard, before he only cared about checking the inn, did not notice the situation behind the courtyard, when he came to the back of the courtyard only to find that it was a narrow alley, the alley is about one meter wide, this side is the back wall of the elegant courtyard of the Hongyun Inn, and that side is the wall of the opposite shop.

This alley is actually the dividing zone of the two buildings, there is a ditch in the middle of the alley, which is used for drainage, when it rains, the rainwater will flow down the tiles into the ditch to drain away, the reason why this dividing zone is left, one is that the rainwater will flow into the courtyard next door, and the other is that the next door will affect the building when the wall is demolished.

The architectural styles on both sides of the alley are distinct, the right is the all-wood structure of the Hongyun Inn, the left is the green brick mixed with solid wood shop, Liu Fan slowly went deep along the alley, he knocked left and right, and walked forward, the foundation of the walls on both sides was covered with moss, and it was slippery and slippery when walking on it, and if you were not careful, you would slip and fall.

Fortunately, Liu Fan was emaciated, otherwise he really wouldn't have been able to enter the alley, only to see Liu Fan holding on to the wall with both hands, stepping on the moss with one foot deep and one foot shallow, these mosses were too smooth, the soles of his shoes were slipping on them, and the soil in the alley was soft, so he moved his steps carefully, for fear that he would slip if he was not careful.

When Liu Fan stepped on the moss and walked for a while, he suddenly found that there was no moss in a certain section, and the soil on the ground was actually hard, and it was hard to step on, but after walking through this section, the moss appeared again, and the soil on both sides was also restored to softness, Liu Fan walked along the alley until the end, and then turned back the same way.

He went back to the place where there was no moss, and stepped on the hard soil under his feet, he squatted down and carefully examined the soil under his feet, and carefully observed, there was actually moss under his feet, but it was stepped into the soil, and when the soil here hardened for some reason, the moss became extinct and never grew.

After Liu Fan looked at the moss under his feet, a smile appeared on his face, and then he stopped in place to inspect the wall, and found an inconspicuous gap under the wall, this gap is rectangular, about one and a half meters long, about half a meter wide, and there is a groove at the bottom end, which happens to be put into the palm of a hand.

This is a rectangular special secret door, the secret door is about one meter long, about half a meter high, lift it hard, the secret door can be opened upward, Liu Fan lay down, gently rolled inside, and then, his body passed through the wall of more than 30 centimeters, and entered the inn from the secret door.

When Liu Fan entered the inn, he saw a bed board, looked carefully, looked at the surrounding environment through the gap under the bed, it seemed a little familiar, the space under the bed was narrow, he couldn't get up, if he wanted to move, he could only lie flat or crawl on his stomach, Liu Fan turned over and crawled out quickly.

Crawling outside from under the bed, Liu Fan got up and stood up, looking at the dresser in front of him and the neatly stacked bedding on the bed, Liu Fan showed a trace of surprise and understanding, this was actually Chunling's boudoir, seeing the scene here, Liu Fan crawled under the bed on his stomach again, and the entrance to the secret door happened to be hidden at the edge of the bed.

This secret door is very delicately designed, it is a cut sawed from the entire wall, there is a small mechanism on both sides of the inside and outside, the secret of opening the mechanism is hidden in the groove, as long as you put your hand into the groove, you can open this secret door with a little effort, if you don't pass through the groove, even if you use great strength you can't open the door.

Looking at this small organ in front of him, Liu Fan sincerely showed a look of admiration, and he had to admit that he underestimated the talents of this era.

However, although he sighed that he had missed this place before, when he saw the mechanism in front of him at this time, the corners of Liu Fan's mouth couldn't help but raise slightly, and he whispered to himself: "It's a little interesting." ”