In the office, Qi Lu asked him while looking at the embroidered photos on Lao Wu's mobile phone: "The little guy who served Hu Qingyun, have you talked to him?" ”

"Nope." Lao Wu said: "I heard from other fox demons that Hu Qingyun disappeared after he was hospitalized. ”

"Huh?" Qi Lu tightened his eyebrows: "This is really strange. ”

After being silent for a moment, Qi Lu suddenly pointed to the cross-stitch that Lao Wu brought back and said, "What do you think this is?" ”

Looking at the lower right corner of the embroidery that Qi Lu pointed to, Ding Xiaolan replied: "It's just a leaf." ”

"Maybe." Qi Lu called up the other photos in Lao Wu's mobile phone and said to her: "You look at the lower right corner of each embroidered picture." ”

Ding Xiaolan took the phone and looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but be surprised: "The same leaves are embroidered in the lower corner of each picture." ”

"Ancient Chinese painters had the habit of inscription after completing their paintings, and some even stamped their own seals. I think this leaf pattern is the mark left by the embroiderer. ”

Ding Xiaolan smiled and said: "Don't be funny, if people want to leave a name, they will directly embroider their own names and nicknames, why use a leaf instead." ”

Lao Wu said with a calm face: "Don't be fooled by the illusion, this is actually the word female Jiao of Liti." ”

"Nujiao?" Ding Xiaolan looked at the embroidery upside down for a long time, and what caught her eye was still a leaf, and she couldn't see the words embroidered on the leaf at all.

Lao Wu smiled and said, "Xiao Ding, have you seen a three-dimensional map before?" ”

"Yes."

"You try to look at this leaf in a three-dimensional way."

Ding Xiaolan was stunned when she heard this, but she still did what Lao Wu said. After looking at it for less than a minute, the image of the leaves blurred in her vision, and then two three-dimensional characters appeared in her eyes: Nujiao!

"What's going on?" Ding Xiaolan was taken aback again, she didn't expect that someone would use such an obscure method to hide her title.

"Humans don't write this way." Qi Lu's face became extremely grim, and he said word by word: "There is only one possibility to express it in this way, he is a god!" ”

"What!" Ding Xiaolan was even more surprised, and she asked, "You say this is the way God writes?" ”

"Yes." Qi Lu nodded and said, "The will of the gods is not easily revealed to mortals. What you see now is the way the legendary Divine Book was written. ”

"How do you know the expression of the gods?" Ding Xiaolan looked at Qi Lu with incredible eyes, but Qi Lu did not answer her question. Ding Xiaolan was stunned for a moment, then turned around and asked, "Then what does it mean for this god to write the word "girl?" Could it be that her name is Nujiao? ”

"You have some point, but the answer is unlikely."

"Why?" Ding Xiaolan became more and more confused.

"Do you know what kind of god Nujiao is?" Qi Lu said coldly: "She is the mother of Xia Qi, the king of all beginnings in the world. ”

"Xia Qi?" Ding Xiaolan read it repeatedly, always feeling that she had heard of this name somewhere before.

"That's right, that's right!" Finally Ding Xiaolan remembered, she looked at Qi Lu and said: "Xia Qi is the founder of China's first dynasty, the Xia Dynasty, and he is the son of Dayu. ”

"Yes, his mother, that is, Dayu's wife, is named Nujiao. Dayu made immeasurable merits because of water control, and finally their husband and wife were ranked in the immortal class. ”

Ding Xiaolan nodded frequently when she heard it, she had heard the story of Dayu passing through the house three times without entering the house in order to eradicate the flood.

Qi Lu said again: "Nujiao is not an ordinary god, she has a prominent background. ”

Ding Xiaolan asked, "Oh, let's hear it." ”

"Her father is the Tu Shan clan, the first divine beast under Nuwa Niangniang's seat, and she herself is the ancestor of all fox demons, the nine-tailed heavenly fox!"

"You're not kidding, are you?" Ding Xiaolan asked in surprise: "If this is the case, then what is the name of the king of ten thousand foxes you know, isn't it also her descendant?" ”

"Yes." Qi Lu said in a deep voice: "The place where she and Dayu got married back then was called Tu Mountain, and it was also the place where she helped her husband meet the princes of the world to kill the Fangfeng clan who did not obey the order. After she became a god, because she didn't like the quiet life of Heavenly Court, she used her divine power to transform Tu Mountain into another sacred mountain, that is, the world-famous Qingqiu. Not to mention Qianyehua, all the gods and demons living in Qingqiu Country regard her as the ancestor. ”

"This is impossible, if there really is such a noble deity, she will come to our small city, or what is the purpose of her here?"

"I don't know, mortals can't speculate on God's intentions, or they will cause endless calamities." Qi Lu said softly: "But in any case, we finally know the reason why Hu Qingyun collected the paintings embroidered by the female Jiao herself." I boldly speculate that it is very likely that Hu Qingyun went crazy because he leaked the secret of the ancestor. ”

Ding Xiaolan stood there in a daze, not knowing what to say, and getting so much unexpected information at once, she still hadn't fully understood the mystery contained in it.

"But as far as I know, Nujiao has passed away in the catastrophe of the last days, how can she reappear in the world." Qi Lu doesn't seem to believe that this is the work of Nujiao.

Lao Wu sighed and said, "If it were the same as before, I wouldn't believe it." Have you forgotten that Birch didn't escape the catastrophe? What's more, at the time of the catastrophe, a few empty realms such as Qingqiu were not disturbed by the plague. ”

"If you make some sense, then things are getting more and more complicated."

Lao Wu asked, "What should we do next?" ”

Qi Lu thought for a while and said, "Let go of everything first, let's first determine whether Nujiao has really come to this city." ”

"How do you check?" Lao Wu said disapprerovingly: "If she is really hidden in this city, we will not be able to find out her whereabouts." ”

"Aren't there still these paintings, Hu Qingyun can get these paintings, can't we find them?" Qi Lu said with a smile: "Hu Qingyun obtained these embroideries in two ways, one is to steal them, and the other is to get the permission of the female Jiao and buy them openly." ”

"Thief, does he have the guts? That would be tantamount to self-defeating. Lao Wu said: "The second possibility is more likely, after all, Hu Qingyun is a descendant of Nujiao, maybe Nujiao secretly has some kind of connection with him." ”

Qi Lu nodded and said, "I am also inclined to the second inference. Then we only need to follow the source of the embroidery to find out where the girl lived. ”

"Well, it's worth a try, but what do you want to track down next?"

"I'm afraid I have to use Liu Chenfei's power." Qi Lu said: "You go to him to check that there are those people with the word Nujiao in their names who come to the hotel to register for accommodation this year; In addition, check if there are any stores in recent years that start with the word "female Jiao". ”

"Cut, that's your good idea!" Lao Wu began to refute Qi Lu: "Who would live in a hotel and be stupid enough to use a real name, just use a pseudonym." Besides, if she opens a shop to sell embroidery, won't she have nothing to do when she is full, and it will be easy to reveal her whereabouts! ”

"Do you have a better idea?"

"Of course!" Lao Wu said proudly: "Didn't Hu Yuxuan put a lot of eyeliner in this city, just let him check it." ”

"Don't do that!" Qi Lu said sharply: "The Shan clan originally belongs to the fox clan, not to mention that Hu Yuxuan knows the whereabouts of Nujiao, even if he knows, he will not tell us." ”

"That's right." Lao Wu suddenly understood, he touched his chin embarrassedly and said, "Who would allow outsiders to investigate the privacy of their ancestors." ”

"Then hurry up and find Liu Chenfei, I'll wait for your news today." Qi Lu urged Lao Wu.

"In such a hurry! Besides, aren't you going with me? ”

"No need, I'm going to sort out these messy clues to give myself a clear idea." Qi Lu glanced at Ding Xiaolan, who was still in a daze, and said with a grin: "Just teach the beauty to do some spells or something, so you can pass the time." ”

Lao Wu suddenly came to his senses, he picked up his briefcase and went out.

Qi Lu turned on the computer and got busy, Ding Xiaolan saw that he was reading the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" again, and kept looking up relevant information on the Internet, so he stepped forward and asked if he wanted to help.

Qi Lu smiled and refused her request, and asked her to continue reading those Taoist law books.

Ding Xiaolan sat aside and flipped through the book, feeling that she was being treated as an outsider.

Qi Lu stole a glance at her and knew that she was being wronged in her heart. For a few seconds, Qi Lu wanted to step forward to explain all this, but then he held back, because this was the result of a discussion between him and Lao Wu in advance. After experiencing the Guanyin Temple, he really didn't want Ding Xiaolan to be in danger again.

Time passed minute by minute, and when Qi Lu and Ding Xiaolan had just finished lunch and were packing their lunch boxes, Lao Wu came back in a hurry.

"I said you kid, do you really have a special inspiration or a blind cat caught a dead mouse, there is really an antique shop in the city called Nujiao."

"Really?" Qi Lu hurriedly asked, "Then have you gone to this store to investigate?" ”

"Go." Lao Wu sat down and took a breath and said, "It was opened by a female boss in her twenties surnamed Hu." The store is not big, and she is alone. ”

"Surname Hu?" Qi Lu's eyes lit up and said, "She's a nujiao?" ”

"It's just an ordinary woman, and she doesn't have any demonic and fairy energy on her body."

"That means I misjudged, and the name of the store is just a coincidence." Qi Lu's face was a little disappointed, if it was a female deity, Lao Wu would never look away.

Lao Wu laughed hesitantly and told Qi Lu a shocking truth.

"Even though the landlady is a human being, the things she sells in her store are eye-opening."

"What antique got into your old fritter?"

"Except for a few worthless antiques, she sells all of them." Lao Wu took out his mobile phone again.

Qi Lu took a look, and the whole person stood up in shock. Ding Xiaolan also curiously leaned over to look at the picture on his mobile phone, and was also speechless in surprise.

The new photos in the mobile phone are all embroidered, although they are landscape paintings with different patterns, but the style is exactly the same as the cross-stitch stolen by Lao Wu, and the lower right corner of each embroidery painting is embroidered with that weird green leaf!

"So, she sells all the works of the female Jiao?" Qi Lu hurriedly asked Lao Wu: "Didn't you ask the proprietress who embroidered these embroidered paintings?" ”

"Of course I asked, and she actually said that she embroidered it herself." Old Wu Yulu was disdainful.

"It's absolutely impossible!" Qi Lu frowned and said, "Even if she has ingenious craftsmanship, it is impossible for her to know the secret of the divine book." It is absolutely impossible for human beings to embroider the illustrated book of God! ”

"I have an idea, the owner of this shop is"

Before Lao Wu finished speaking, Qi Lu said: "She is Nujiao's agent in the world!" ”

The atmosphere in the office suddenly became tense, and Qi Lu and Lao Wu looked at each other silently.

Qi Lu smoked a cigarette depressedly, and it took him a long time before he said to himself: "Hu Qingyun's paintings were originally obtained from this shop. It seems that he already knows the secret of the female girl, so he doesn't come to this store, but asks the personal servant to buy it. ”

This is the most plausible explanation. Why don't I spy on this female boss from tomorrow? ”

"No way!" Qi Lu categorically denied it. "If you expose your whereabouts and anger the girl, she can kill us with a single finger!"

"So what do you say?"

"We'll meet the proprietress tomorrow." Qi Lu snuffed out the cigarette butt fiercely, and his eyes showed a resolute light.