Volume 1: Yellow Springs December One Hundred and One: For the Snake

The flower alley of Wule City has always been very lively, and the little girls especially like it here. At first, it was a flower market, but later it expanded a lot, and everything was sold. Every 10 steps away, there must be a jewelry store, and 20 steps to an aromatherapy shop. There are even more people who sell rouge gouache, and many fabric shops have good materials shipped from other places. Some sons and brothers like to run here, just to buy things to please women. From rewarding maids to giving gifts to the house, you can pick out suitable objects from here.

But just two days ago, someone here who shouldn't have come came.

He was dressed in black, carrying a horizontal knife, and the aura of murder around him was incompatible with the warm and fragrant streets, and everyone avoided him when he walked, and did not dare to look at him more.

He walked all the way to a small remote shop in the depths of the alley. This shop also sells fat powder, but when you get here, there are almost no customers. Walking into the store, the fragrant aroma made him frown. If anyone kills someone here, he suspects he can't smell blood.

"What do you buy, little brother?" the very young girl propped her face in front of the counter and said to him in a childish voice, "There are discounts for regular customers." ”

"Don't talk nonsense," he threw a tape, "the person has been killed, show it to the employer." ”

The strap was light and fluttering, and it was about to fall to the ground when I saw it. At this time, something invisible stuck to it, and hooked it into the girl's hand. The little girl's dark eyes widened, and she looked at them carefully, and sniffed at the tip of her nose. It was a moon-white headband, mottled with blood, and snowflake-like dark lines could be faintly seen on it.

She smiled sweetly, at an age when it seemed like she should be scared of blood, she looked sophisticated and calm.

"Hmm...... It's okay to have the money paid to you in advance now, do you want it? ”

"Aren't you afraid that if you didn't kill Zuo Jimen, the employer won't admit it?"

"No, I have friends who are old acquaintances with him."

Behind her, slender unidentified limbs stretched out, dancing in the shadows. On the left, I'm rubbing a few teacups, and on the right, I'm pounding something red, which should be flower petals.

"Is there any other list in the local area? Anyone can do it. ”

"Not for the time being," she propped up her face again, "even if there is, there is no reward." ”

If there is no reward for the list, Tang He will never accept it. But he still asked more, is it the six realms of impermanence that are responsible?

"Uh-huh, you guessed it. In this area, only one half-demon is still running for his life. ”

"Half-demon?"

"It was the one who killed the upper and lower parts of the Takifu," she dyed her nails with the flower juice next to the counter, and the smell of spices made the other party shy away, "Actually, it's an adopted son of the Taki's family." Because their eldest daughter and youkai had a child, in order to keep their reputation, they were adopted and raised well. Their family pretended to be nice to him, and made him respect them and love them. Until there was a conflict at home, Chen Sesame and Rotten Grain came out and said that he was exposed, and in a fit of anger, he killed them all. ”

"How do they know it's a youkai's child?"

"Because, back then, she laid an egg. Hahahaha......"

She let out a crisp laugh, and the black sharp hook behind her put the two teacups up. Inside are those crushed unknown petals. She poured water into it, and the blood-like liquid rose higher and higher.

"Boring."

"Isn't it funny?"

"If your master knows everything, why should you let other impermanence ghosts investigate?"

"No good? You don't do business that doesn't make any money, do you? ”

Tang He frowned and chuckled, and turned to leave.

"Don't go, have a cup of tea first?"

He didn't answer and left the shop. The girl stirred one teacup with a thin stick, but the other cup was lifted by a hand outstretched from the shadows. The hands were pale, and the forearms were covered with smooth soft armor.

With his other hand, he picked up the headband on the table and glanced at it. He was dressed in satin, which looked expensive, and the light goose yellow coat was faintly covered with snake scales. His hair was black, and the bangs of his right eye were slanted down and covered with a green blindpatchβ€”even the eyepatch had two thin white snakes sewn into it. The left eye is black like the hair, and there are two moles under the eyes.

"That kid from the Snow Yan Sect, if no one assists him, he will definitely not be able to become a big climate. As soon as he saw the spell in Cheng You's letter, he couldn't sit still. If he hadn't written impetuousness on his face, Yan Muxue wouldn't have seen the clues. ”

"I can't lose my life," Miss Zhu Tong shrugged, "Okay, go and show him." ”

"There is still a way to go from the nearest spiritual vein, and there is no shortage of such a moment."

"Say, what if he denies it? I heard that Miss Yan had a letter with her, do you want to tell him? ”

"Not yet. You have to pretend that it is the news that the Shadow Pavilion has been searching for for a long time, so that he can be grateful. Didn't that letter say a blank piece of paper? It's not too late to wait for them to find out. He wouldn't deny it, as long as he stopped her to see the girl, he would pay whoever it was. Anyway, it's a grab, and Zuo Jimen can't find him if he wants to find trouble. ”

"Tang Shaoxia is not afraid."

"You're really, what are you doing with him so much?"

"Hey, how long do you guess, who is willing to spend a lot of money to find out about him?"

Two empty teacups sit on the table, leaving a rich fragrance.

And two days later, the people in Zhu Tong's mouth appeared.

It was a leisurely afternoon, and everyone was walking in the alleys with unhurried steps, looking east and west. Only a few people hurried through the crowd. The girl at the head was not very steady, but her speed was very fast, and she didn't apologize when she hit someone, and walked forward recklessly. The mountains and seas behind her apologized to passers-by again and again, and they chased her all the way to the deepest part of Flower Lane.

The green ghost said that there was a girl in the flower alley, and she knew all the information in the world, but she only came once in a while. In recent days, she seems to have been in that rouge shop for a while, and she probably didn't leave.

Mu Wan must go to her, and must know who killed Yan Muxue.

When she first broke into the store, Zhu Tong was startled. She saw only a crazy man, with a white face and straight eyes, staring at her in a daze. Before she could speak, the man ran forward in three or two steps, and said in a loud voice as if questioning:

"You...... Is that you? You know ......."

Her companions finally caught up, ran into the store to stop her, and apologized to Zhu Tong, who was stunned there.

"Sorry girl, she, she's not very energetic, we ......"

"Zhu Tong?" Dai Luan blurted out.

Everyone else looked at her, and then at Zhu Tong. Dai Luan was sure she was right.

"Really! She was dressed the same as she was that day! And this rosy belt, I remember it all! ”

In an instant, the mountains and seas and the face of no abandonment sank.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ It turned out to be Gao Yuejun's subordinate. We still remember your scorpion sister's account. ”

"And there is no shadow of the Ten Thousand Ghosts."

"Oops-" Zhu Tong raised his hand and stepped back again and again, "It's none of my business!" ”

Mu Wan didn't care about those old accounts, she just wanted to know the question she wanted to know the most.

"I know that you should know everything, I said straight to the point - my senior sister was killed, let me ask you, is the person who killed her called Tang He? Where is he?! ”

Zhu Tong pursed his lips and slowly sat back in his chair. She crossed her arms and made a round circle with the hand on it, meaning to ask for a copper plate.

"Anyway, if you're a businessman, can't you talk to me about the price first? If it weren't for Miss Luan's face, I would have swept you out of the house a long time ago. ”

"Girl, they don't have a lot of money recently" Duan Yuesheng said sincerely, "Your price, please take it and open the ......"

"No, we don't want to be vague about Liangqiu's affairs, you can just make an offer," Shi Wuqi said coldly, "And we don't want to owe the Shadow Pavilion a favor." Even if you don't have enough money, if there's anything we can do for you, or anything else you need, it's up to you. ”

"Hey, Shi Gongzi, it's very dangerous to talk too absolutely."

Looking at Zhu Tong's tone, he didn't intend to buy it. Rin Shankai stood aside, feeling that it was not appropriate for him to say anything. After a pause, Duan Yuesheng broke the embarrassing situation.

"In this way, you will count the price as mine, and I will also settle the account with the kid surnamed Tang. After all, my newly bought knife was interrupted by him, don't you say? ”

After speaking, he scratched his head again, and said a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, Miss Liangqiu, I didn't know your surname before, it has two words......"

Mu Wan didn't care about these anymore, she just wanted to know who the murderer was. But she was still sober, and knew that the letter in her hand was never to be revealed to the people of the Shadow Pavilion.

"Besides him, I want to ask you alone" Mu Wan's hands were propped up on the table, staring at her big eyes, "I also want to know who is going to kill my senior sister." ”

Zhu Tong picked up the teacup unhurriedly.

"Do you have to know? You're going to be sad. ”

"What do you mean by that," Mu Wan's lips trembled, "Of course I want to know." ”

Shi Wuqi also folded his arms, tilted his face slightly, and looked at this unpleasant girl with contempt.

"You make an offer."

"I want ...... Hmm, I think about it. ”

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Tong fell into some hard meditation, and he didn't know if he was really pondering. It was a long time before she opened her eyes, put her hands on her face again, and said what she wanted revenge.

"I want the blood of five and a half demons."

As soon as these words came out, several people didn't know what to say. This makes people say yes and no. A while ago, I heard Jiyuejun and Ye Yuejun say that they were tracking down a half-demon who killed the upper and lower levels of the Takifu, and now the people of the Shadow Pavilion have mentioned this stubble, and it is difficult not to suspect that it was a deliberate request.

"Miss Zhu Tong......" Shanhai said slowly, "You are making things difficult for us." ”

"Where," she said, her eyes widened, "if you don't do it, there are not no people who are willing to take money to do things." ”

They stopped talking.