Chapter 1: Mushan Visits Relatives in Kunming
[The book continues from the above, and the last book said that Mu Qing was suspicious after watching the eldest sister of the Immortal Dao leave, and determined that there must be a cult lurking in Kunming City, and wanted to get rid of it. The big sister in black then appeared at the Immortal Dao General Altar in the belly of Mingfeng Mountain, canceled the plan to seize the dragon qi, and decided to plot the demonic qi in Mu Qing's body. The case of the floating corpse became an unsolved case, Mu Qingming sent antiques to the door according to the requirements of the shopkeeper, noticed the evil spirit in Chen's mansion, and secretly paid attention to his eyes; Mu Shanshu suddenly visited, and saw Mo Han smiling. γ
Since Mu Qingming and Mo Han left the Formation Eye, the evil people who disappeared have not reappeared, and they have no idea of locking the Dragon Formation again; The Array Eye Seal was unharmed, and the city of Kunming returned to calm and tranquility.
Mo Han took Mei Xiang and moved to the second floor of the east wing in Mu Qingming's small courtyard, where Miao Jue lived in the original house. In the past, he helped Miao Jue cook and wash Mu Qingming's clothes or something; Miao Jue moved to the empty room under the pharmacy and continued to do the work of purchasing daily necessities.
And Mu Qingming still went to work as usual, going out early and returning to his home and Kun Bao Zhai every day, and continued to do his palm work as if nothing happened.
Zhao Liang visited the door twice, both for the floating corpse case, but he didn't know what was happening in front of him; And after not finding out that Mu Qingming had any motives and suspicions, he didn't come again.
The floating corpse case has also become an unsolved mystery in the police department, and after a few days, the people in Kunming gradually forgot about it.
It was just dawn that day, Mo Han had already gotten up, and after getting dressed, he folded the quilt for the sleeping Mei Xiang and went downstairs, went to the kitchen, and helped Miao Jue make a fire and cook.
After a while, the door of the main house opened, and Mu Qingming, who was yawning, walked out rubbing his sleepy eyes. He stood in front of the well, yawned again, and looked at the smooth railing.
"Wake up." Mo Han, who was wearing a waistband, heard the sound, walked out of the kitchen and saw Mu Qingming stunned by the well with a look that he hadn't woken up at all, and then looked at the other party's shirt that was not buttoned properly, and hurriedly stood opposite Mu Qingming and helped him button the mouth carefully.
"Didn't you sleep well last night?" Mo Han asked and picked up the copper basin, turned around and went to the kitchen, and after a while, he brought out half a basin of hot water, took cold water from the well and mixed it into it, and then reached out to test the water temperature was just right, and then stood aside and waited.
"Last night, I went to the ghost market with Miaojue, and I wanted to inquire about the mysterious eldest sister, but I didn't hear anything, but I saw a few flower girls selling girls in it, so let Mei Xiang not run around these days." Mu Qingming said, squatted down and picked up the warm water in the basin, stood up after washing his face, took the towel and wiped his face indiscriminately.
"Well, I'll take care of her, come and eat." After helping Mu Qingming hang up the towel, he went into the kitchen again.
After Mu Qingming had breakfast, he went out to work.
After walking for a while, I came to Mu Qingming on Dongsi Street, and walked to the front of Kun Bao Zhai and stood still. Seeing that the door was still closed, he reached out and knocked on the door.
"Who?" After a while, a female voice as crisp as a silver bell came from inside the door.
Mu Qingming immediately heard that this was Zhang Qianqian, the daughter of the shopkeeper, and hurriedly returned: "I, Xiaomu." βγ
As soon as the words landed, the door opened from the inside, and a young woman dressed in a blue cloth sesame gauze black dress with shoulder-length hair stood in front of Mu Qingming. Her delicate and delicate face, small and delicate nose on both sides, a pair of eyes that looked like a pool of clear water, and a faint slender eyebrows, there was a little black mole.
It was the eldest sister of the Immortal Dao who trampled on the corpse chaser with two feet that night.
But that night she wore a mask, and her body was tightly wrapped in black clothes, and she also used ventriloquist skills to speak, and changed into a childish child's voice, so although Mu Qingming had known her for several days, and she was also in and out of Kunbao Zhai all day, Mu Qingming was stunned and couldn't recognize that this eldest lady who was not squeamish at all was the leader of the cult that night.
Not to mention Mu Qingming, even Mo Han, who had brought him lunch a few times and had a few encounters with Zhang Qianqian, failed to recognize the other party.
"Young Master Mu is here so early." Zhang Qianqian smiled, turned sideways to welcome Mu Qingming in, and asked, "Have you eaten breakfast?" βγ
"I've eaten it." Mu Qingming walked in, and saw the shopkeeper Zhang sitting in the store with a big bowl of rice noodles, gulping down the rice noodles. On the table in his hand, there was another bowl of steaming rice noodles, but the bowl containing rice noodles was slightly smaller than Zhang's shopkeeper's, and it seemed to be Zhang Qianqian's.
"Looks like I'm here early and disturbing your meal." Mu Qingming smiled a little apologetically and sat down on the circle chair in the corner that used to sit for the guests.
"It's cold, it's late at dawn, you can actually sleep more." Shopkeeper Zhang swallowed the chewed food in his mouth and smiled at Mu Qingming.
"I'm used to it, and I can't sleep when it's time." Mu Qingming also panicked inadvertently, obviously he was yawning before he walked to Dongsi Street, but now he said it reasonably and his tone was natural.
"That's it, anyway, there aren't many customers in the cold weather, so the store and I can be busy; You send this thing to the Chen Mansion on Guangju Street for me, and then take it back and go home to rest. Saying that, Shopkeeper Chen got up, went to the counter, took a small piece of red cloth wrapped in something, and handed it to Mu Qingming.
"Young Master Mu, do you want to give the palm eye first? Estimate? Mu Qingming took the red cloth, and Zhang Qianqian, who was not far away, held her chin with both hands, looking at Mu Qingming and winking playfully.
"Then I'll be ugly." As he spoke, he gently opened the red cloth, but saw that it was wrapped in a pale yellow and slightly green Hetian jade pen, with a little reddish-brown on it, carved into a bamboo row carrying the appearance of two boys, the latter was in the shape of a boat, and the former was holding a fish basket and leaning over to pounce on the fish.
After Mu Qingming looked at it, sniffed and stroked, he immediately sighed and said: "Hetian old jade is warm, smooth and delicate, the water head is also very good, and the carving is a short thin yin line carving unique to the Tang Dynasty, using the thin yin line to express the details of the character, this is a piece of jade from the Tang Dynasty." How to say that this piece of pen is also worth 700 oceans. βγ
"Good eyesight." Shopkeeper Zhang was not surprised, Mu Qingming had never missed it; So he hurriedly stroked his palm and smiled: "But Master Chen is our regular customer, just accept him six hundred and eight." βγ
"Okay." Mu Qingming nodded, wrapped the pen in red cloth again, carefully put it in his pocket, got up and said goodbye, and went to Guangju Street after leaving Kunbao Zhai.
"Qianqian, what do you think of Qingming?" Looking at his departing back, the shopkeeper smiled meaningfully.
"It's good, with good eyesight and good temper." Zhang Qianqian, who didn't know what to do, continued to bow her head and eat breakfast.
"Now that you're done with your studies, you're not too young, why don't you get your dad to match him with you?" Shopkeeper Zhang, whose daughter is the leader of the cult at all, asked with a smile.
"Dad, you said this again, and people ignored you." Zhang Qianqian, who was stunned for a moment, suddenly had red cheeks, and hurriedly lowered her head......
This Guangju Street is later known as Jinbi Road, which is located in the area of Jinma Biji Fang. After the opening of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway at the end of the Qing Dynasty, many merchants from Guangdong and Guangxi settled here, so it is also commonly known as Guangma Street.
At that time, the eastern section was called Youxin Xinchengpu, in addition to the rich merchants and common people of Guangzhou, there were also foreigners and many Vietnamese; The western section of Bijipu is close to the ferry, so it is very lively.
It was just dawn, and the vegetable seller and the water bearer walked through under the Jinma Biji Fang, and Mu Qingming squeezed in the crowd and walked slowly, heading towards the eastern section.
On the east section, there is a brick and wood structure, with three entrances and three slope roofs, three bays on the front faΓ§ade, and a big house with blue brick and stone feet and a stone door set in front of the gate, which is the home of Master Chen.
Because Mr. Chen came from Guangdong to do business, the house style was built into a Cantonese-style "three-sided" layout; There are "three heads" composed of foot doors, sliding doors and gates.
Mu Qingming stood still in front of the iron gate, knocked on the door, and after explaining his intention under the inquiry of the porter, the porter opened the door, looked Mu Qingming up and down for a while, and invited him in.
Mu Qingming followed the porter to the hall and sat down, suddenly feeling cold and shivering.
This hall is the main building of the Chen Mansion, with the largest area and the highest ridge. The whole hall is red (the main beam is painted red), black cypress (wood corner oil black), and white tile (the lining tile is painted white), spacious and grand. In order to make the hall brighter, the roof is staggered with bright tiles, that is, glass tiles, so that the sunlight shines in without leakage and sprinkles all the corners of the hall.
Although it is a harsh winter on the ice at this time, Kunming is famous for having no severe cold in winter, so how cold can it be? What's more, the sun is shining!
But in the huge hall, it was cold-cold, like an ice cave. This strange feeling made Mu Qingming very uncomfortable.
But Mu Qingming, who has been dealing with demons and monsters for a long time, knows very well that only ghosts and evil spirits in this world can be so cold. And the ghost qi and the yin wind go hand in hand, and there is no yin wind here, so Mu Qing expects that this house is full of evil energy.
At that time, the people of Chen's house were going in and out of the hall, and he couldn't open his eyes to find the source of the evil qi, so he had to temporarily put away the doubts in his heart, and casually picked up the hot tea sent by his subordinates, and waited for Master Chen while drinking......
Just when Mu Qing was in Chen's mansion, a tall and sturdy middle-aged man dressed in a finely handmade black cloth robe and brown horse coat, wearing a borscht hat, stood in front of the small courtyard of the Mu family in Shala Lane.
On the square face with thick stubble, there is a scar more than a foot long under the right eye across the face, two curved eyebrows like paint, and a pair of eyes that shoot cold stars. He looked around the gate, and suddenly there was a tragic scene of a ghost born and a hanged ghost, and his eyes came into view.
But under the man's gaze, the two little ghost "door gods" actually trembled.
"This baby is very good at choosing places." The man muttered to himself, and stretched out his hand to push open the hidden door. Behind the door, surrounded by the main room and the inverted seats, the narrow patio covered with bluestone slabs caught his eye.
Immediately after that, the man saw a five or six-year-old girl in the courtyard, turned his head when he heard the sound, looked at him with a pair of big watery eyes, and asked again and again, "Who are you?" Who are you looking for? βγ
"Am I in the wrong place?" The man muttered to himself, but when he saw that the moon mastiff following the little girl saw him, he first roared in a daze, and then galloped over, wagging his tail and circling around him.
"What's wrong, Mei Xiang?" Mo Han, who was busy in the kitchen, heard the sound and hurriedly came out to take a look, but saw the man standing in front of the door, and saw that the other party had a striking scar on his face, and his face was slightly fierce. βγ
"You're Mo Han." The man did not answer her question, but first put a snail on his head, a white moon-colored blouse with a pipa placket, and a knurled lace collar, sleeves, placket, and hem, and a dark blue long skirt, and Mo Han, who was covered with a flaming red cotton jacket on the outside, looked up and down, and his eyes fell on the shadow at the other party's feet. Just like when Mu Qingming was inspecting Mo Han under the West Temple Tower, the shadow that caught his eyes was not a human form at all, but the shape of a fox with three tails.
"Who are you?" The even more confused Mo Han's vigilance has increased instead of decreasing.
"Under the surname Mu Ming Yama Tsung." The man smiled, his smile was not kind at all, but rather hideous because of the scar on his face.
Why is Mu Shan Shun allowed? What is the relationship with Mu Qingming? And can Mu Qingming successfully find the source of evil qi in the Chen Mansion? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.