The third round: the Beijing flower family

Hou Dayong took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed one to me and Luo Blind.

I took the cigarette, lit it, and took a puff before I said slowly, "Luo Blind, one last question." ”

Luo Blind also took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Little Hu Ye, do you want to ask where this ghost city is?" ”

I nodded and said, "That's right! ”

Luo Blind shook it with a smile and said, "The old man can't do anything about this!" ”

Hou Dayong was furious when he heard Luo's blind man's words, slapped the table and said, "What do you mean by being a fake blind man?" I'm pretending to be garlic with Lao Tzu, isn't it? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu, I turned you into a real blind man? ”

Luo Blind smiled and waved his hand, and said with a slow smile: "Master Hou, don't worry!" Old man, I dare not fool the uncle here, the two masters are not. Although I know the origin of this ghost money, I really don't know anything about the ghost market. Second master, you don't want to think about it, this ghost city Hades Palace only distributes three ghost coins every year, and the masters who can get this thing are either rich or expensive! How could someone like me go to such a place? Do you say? ”

Blind Luo pleaded with a pleading face, and looked at Hou Dayong with a little flattery, and after a while, Blind Luo slowly continued: "It is said that the random object and a piece of news in the ghost market are all valuable!" If you two want to go to this ghost city, I think you should go to ......."

Hou Dayong grabbed Luo's blind man by the collar and asked loudly, "Who to go to?" ”

Before the blind man could speak, there was a sudden sound of brakes at the door of the Golden Spoon Hotel.

The car came in a hurry, and the people came even more urgently, and as soon as the brakes fell, four or five big men in black suits suddenly rushed in from outside.

After a grim-looking middle-aged man looked around the room, his gaze finally fell on the three of us.

After the middle-aged man walked a few steps towards us, he asked, "May I ask who is Hu Tian, little Hu Ye?" ”

I took a look at this middle-aged man, medium height, sturdy, dark skin, half-clenched fists, and a thick layer of calluses at the joints.

Seeing me looking at him, the middle-aged man looked at me without hesitation, and said slowly: "You are Hu Tian, little Hu Ye." ”

I smiled and said, "Yes, I am." Excuse me, who are you? ”

The middle-aged man's tone was neither humble nor silent, and he said slowly: "I'm just a small person, and my name is not worth mentioning." Since you are a little beard, then please come with me! ”

After speaking, the middle-aged man made a "please" gesture to the door, and the four or five men in suits behind him consciously dodged to both sides and made a way.

I looked at the man in the suit, then at Hou Dayong, and then said slowly, "Come with you?" Why do I want to go with you? At least you've got to give me a reason to go with you, don't you? ”

The man in the suit looked at me and said slowly: "There is no reason, there is a name." ”

Hou Dayong gripped his teeth and asked, "Name of person?" Who's such a big wrist, let me hear it. ”

The man in the suit said slowly: "Hua Muling! ”

Hua Muling, the fourth lady of the flower family in the capital.

Under the eight gates of the capital eight families "Hu Sun into the marquis, falling flowers and flowing water", the flower family is one of the handkerchiefs of the heirs.

The most fantastical sect in the lower eight lines is the red handkerchief.

The ancestor of the Red Handkerchief Gate is the strange girl of the late Han Dynasty, and the red dress is not her name, but her nickname. There are only a few sentences of introduction to this woman in the wild history notes, but there are many legends of the outer eight elements of this woman's heavenly illusions.

Legend has it that she once performed on the streets, took a hemp rope in her hand, and between her shaking hands, the hemp rope stood straight on the ground like a bamboo pole, and then he climbed up along the hemp rope, the rope was extremely long, and it was difficult to see its end.

The surrounding spectators saw that she did not come down for a long time after she went up, and there was a bold person who pulled the hemp rope that stood on the ground, who knew that when he touched it, the hemp rope actually collapsed, and the person who climbed to the top of the rope did not know where to go.

The long-rumored "divine clue" on the rivers and lakes also got its name from this.

In fact, the red handkerchief is commonly known as tricks, traditional Chinese tricks, of course, it can also be called blinding or illusion. The illusion of the red handkerchief is very different from the magic of the West, but look at the low-level illusion of the red handkerchief that is now spread in the world, Dan, sword, bean, and ring. These tricks are all about "turning up and down, and passing through diplomacy." "It is to light up the front and back of the hands, the left and right sides in front of the audience, and let others see the inside and outside of the props clearly. And then it works. And what about magic? The magic technique is to pay attention to "digging up and down, left and right." "When the magician points to a certain point, look at his other hand! His other hand must have been digging some ambush.

It's a pity that a lot of authentic crafts of red handkerchiefs have been lost, and the heirs of the listing are also low-key and abnormal, otherwise it would be the turn of foreign small arts to come to my Chinese popularity.

After a few digressions, let's get back to the point, back to the flower family.

Among the four masters of this flower family, only the fourth lady Hua Muling is a girl, and only she is talented, and she has shown a very high talent since she was a child, and it is rumored that she learned the long-lost divine clue by chance when she was eighteen years old. Last year, the old man who played the flower handkerchief suddenly fell ill, and passed on the position of the flower handkerchief as a family member to his favorite little daughter before he died.

Therefore, at the age of early twenties, Hua Muling took over the name of the flower handkerchief and became a talker among the eight families of the lower eight families.

This incident caused a lot of sensation in the rivers and lakes back then, although I have not seen this Miss Hua Si, but the name is naturally known.

As the so-called "the name of the person, the shadow of the tree", he is also a member of the Lower Eight Gates, and this face should still be given.

So, ten minutes later, I met in the back seat of an Audi A8 with this Miss Hua Si who is enough to describe the national color and natural fragrance and the shy flower of the closed moon - Hua Muling.

It's just that, compared with the rumors that she is as beautiful as a flower, Hua Muling at this time is a little haggard, her face is pale, and her eyes are red, as if she hasn't slept for a long time.

Hua Muling held a cup of Starbucks in her hand, looked me up and down for a while, and then said coldly: "You are Hu Tian?" ”

I smiled and nodded, and said, "That's right, it's me!" I don't know what happened to Miss Hua Si asking me to come? ”

Hua Muling took out something from his pocket and handed it to me, and said, "Do you know this?" ”

I took it and looked at it, and I couldn't help frowning, "Ghost money? ”

Hua Muling nodded slightly and said, "You really recognize it!" ”

I looked at Hua Muling and asked, "Why do you have this too?" Where did you get this? ”

Seeing me asking, Hua Muling couldn't help but look at me with a complicated look for a while, and then said slowly: "You don't know the origin of this thing?" ”

I was surprised and asked, "Should I know?" ”

Hua Muling said: "Shouldn't you know? ”

I smiled and said, "Is it funny for the two of us to talk like that?" I'll be honest with you, our old man has just disappeared, if you have nothing else to do, I'll leave first, if ......"

Before I could finish my sentence, Hua Muling suddenly interrupted me and said in a slightly trembling voice, "My mother is missing, and this thing was found in her room. ”

Hearing Hua Muling's words, my whole body shook violently, and I said loudly: "Your mother is also missing?" ”

Hua Muling nodded, trying to control her emotions for a while, and then continued: "I didn't have any clues, until Hua Bo, the old housekeeper of our Hua family, saw this thing...... He said to me......"

I hurriedly asked, "What do you say?" ”

Hua Muling said: "This thing is from the hand of your old man, saying that this thing has something to do with an incident sixty years ago. ”

I hurriedly asked, "Does it have anything to do with an incident sixty years ago?" What's the matter? ”

Hua Muling shook her head and said, "I don't know! Hua Bo only remembered that your father gave this thing to the head of the Eight Families back then, and asked everyone to keep a secret, as for what this matter was, he didn't know, and our old man never mentioned it to the second person. So, I can only come to you. Hey, it seems like we're back to square one now......"

I couldn't quite understand what Hua Muling was talking about later, because at this time, my mind had been thinking about what happened in her mouth sixty years ago.

What could that be?

What is it that will make the people in the lower eight doors tight-lipped?

What the hell is this thing?

Is it really ghost money?

Or is it just a ghost money?

If it's not ghost money, then what would this thing be?

Why did it suddenly appear everywhere it happened?

And just as I was lost in thought, I was suddenly interrupted by a rapid phone ringing.

I pulled my phone out of my pocket and looked at it, and there was a string of unfamiliar numbers on the screen.

I frowned, hesitated, and pressed the answer button, "Hey, who?" ”

After the phone was connected, a strange voice came from the other end, and it was obvious that this voice had undergone electronic voice change processing: "Little Hu Ye, I think you have seen the token, right?" ”

I said, "Who the fuck are you?" What do you want? ”

The voice giggled and said, "Little Hu Ye, why are you so angry, I just want one thing." ”

I said, "If you make such a big move, I guess I can't give you what you want!" ”

As soon as my words fell, Hua Muling on the side suddenly slapped me, and then handed her phone in front of me.

I took a look at Hua Muling's phone and saw that it was a photograph, very dark, obviously taken in a dark place, and it looked like a burial chamber.

And what shocked me even more was the content of this photo. I saw that there were eight uncovered coffins in the center of the photo, and five of them were already lying down, Hua Muling took the phone, enlarged the photo on one of the coffins, and said to me with a lip shape, "This is my mother's ......"

She didn't make a sound, but I could see it clearly.

At this moment, the voice on the other end of the phone giggled again, and said slowly, "Do you see the photo?" ”

I gritted my teeth and asked, "Your uncle, what do you want?" ”

The voice said slowly: "I want the token of your Hu family's theft - the Sifang Seal!" ”