The eyes of several people suddenly drifted to Fourteen's side, and Bai Ling only noticed that Fourteen was leaning over as if to find something.

Fourteen's movements stopped, and he took a slight step back, so that his body no longer blocked the view of Bai Ling and the old woman.

Then, he pointed to the bottom of the display shelf very calmly, "Can you look at the things contained here?" As always, the old man asked a few times before he understood what Wei Fourteen meant.

She raised her eyebrows slightly and said with a smile, "It's better not to." ”

"Better not?"

"Because there's nothing to see in there," the old man said slowly, she looked at Wei Shixi and Bai Ling, and a kind smile appeared in her eyes, "It's just an old woman's treasure, a little memory of the past." ”

"I was presumptuous." Wei Fourteen said softly.

Bai Ling summoned Wei XIV back to her side, and then she discussed with the old man the trick she wanted to order.

Bai Ling and the old man went to the display shelf in the room and carefully looked at the yellow and white roses on each snuff bottle.

"Aunt Shen herself here, didn't she put red roses?" Bai Ling asked with some curiosity.

"I don't do that often." The old man replied, "Generally, when there is an order outside, I put pen to paper." White roses are also very pretty, aren't they? Don't you want some of Childe? ”

Bai Ling smiled, "That's another kind of good-looking, but it's not the one I'm looking for." ”

Ah Li sat on the side the whole time, listening to Bai Ling seem to have been asking about something related to Rose, and couldn't help but be a little anxious. He set his eyes on the bamboo basket that Fang Cai Wei 14 wanted to explore, only to feel that there was a real clue there.

But a coffee table divides the room into two sides, and the old woman is already standing in the narrow hallway leading to the inside, forcing her inside, which will only arouse suspicion.

Bai Ling's conversation lasted for half an hour, and she seemed to have a good time, while Wei Shixi sat down peacefully drinking tea and adding water to herself, as if no one had any intention of digging into the details.

This was very different from the inquiry that Ah Li had expected, and he had hoped that this Bai Si Yao would use some unexpected means to trick some old woman into saying things that the old woman would easily not mention to outsiders.

However, now it seems that tonight's time has been wasted, and he might as well investigate it himself!

Late at night, Bai Ling and the three of them left from the flower alley, and before leaving, Bai Ling even bought three or five snuff bottles that she looked particularly eye-catching.

The old woman sent them to the door of her house, and Bai Ling thoughtfully advised her to stay and not to send them again, as if she were really a simple guest who had come to pick up things. Ah Li looked at the real tightness in his chest, and followed behind Bai Ling and Fourteen in silence, without saying a word.

When he walked to a no-man's land, Bai Ling looked back at Ah Li, "You have made a great contribution, Ah Li." ”

Ah Li was stunned for a moment, then tightened his eyebrows, and Fang Cai's uneasy feeling was aroused by Bai Ling's praise for no reason.

"What a great achievement, I didn't even hear about anything." Ah Li muttered.

Bai Ling shook his head and smiled.

In fact, he saw that there was no malice or disdain in Bai Ling's smile, but it reminded him of the complex expression that Bai Yi often showed to him when he was persuading him to study.

He looked at Bai Ling in front of him, who was about the same age as him or even a few years younger, and said seriously angrily, "I don't know what Bai Siyao is laughing at?" ”

"It doesn't matter," Bai Ling waved his hand, looked up at Fourteen, and said softly, "I guess this Aunt Shen spent a long time in Ruyang when she was young. ”

Wei XIV looked at her.

Bai Ling dug into her sleeve, lined up the few snuff bottles she had just bought in her hand, and by the faint light of the roadside lights, she picked one of them and handed it to Fourteen, "Look at this." ”

Fourteen took it, and the inside of the snuffbox was frescoed with a flower that he didn't recognize.

"There is a southern wilderness volcano outside Ruyang Pass, and there is a strange plant on the mountain, called Jian Ju. The plant is said to live for more than 90 years and only blooms once in its lifetime, so the locals believe that the petals of the sword chrysanthemum can be used in medicine to cure diseases. Bai Ling said softly, "This flower is very recognizable, because when it blooms, it often spreads long white petals all over its body, like a sword inserted into it. ”

The white petals are stretched up and down? Wei Shixi looked at the snuffbox in his hand, and the painting on it was indeed as depicted by Bai Ling.

"And then there's the White Rose." Bai Ling pinched a snuff box again, "This is not an ordinary rose flower, but a very valuable variety of white roses, Ruyang is generally called white jade beauty, this kind of rose is not only used for ornamentation, but also has a very important use is to use it to make spices, which is said to have a calming effect."

"The soil of the Nanhuang volcano is very suitable for growing white jade beauties, because this flower likes the sun and is not moisture-tolerant, so it needs to be planted in well-drained, loose and fertile soil, and it is very much in need of fertilizer.

"I asked her just now, she has raised the rose on this painting, she said that she had, you can directly take the seeds of the rose to raise seedlings, but this kind of thing is almost impossible to do without the volcanic soil, Pingjing should also have flower farmers to raise white jade beauties, but they must only use the cuttings of the year's shoots to raise seedlings, otherwise the survival rate of this flower will be very low."

Bai Ling said two more snuff bottle paintings in his hand.

"These clues all point to her living in the Ruyang area, so she is so familiar with the endemic plants there."

Bai Ling thought about it and said, "If the information Ah Li gave earlier is credible, and she has lived in this Baihuaya for almost twenty years, then the matter will be easy to investigate." We only need to look at the major cases that led to the criminals being escorted to Beijing more than 20 years ago, and a family of men, women, and children were all implicated, and we can probably find a little clue about the identity of this old woman. ”

Hearing this, Wei Shishi's eyes were slightly dark, and he had already sensed something, and Ah Li's previous anger was gone, he looked at Bai Ling in a daze, "How do you know this?" ”

Bai Ling thought for a moment and replied seriously, "Because I read a lot of books." ”

Ah Li's expression was complicated after hearing this, and he gritted his teeth with a serious face.

Bai Ling looked at him, a little imperceptible smile on her face, she knew that when Ah Li returned tonight, she would probably start to get busy with literacy.

Although he seriously investigated it, after Bai Ling came to the Great Zhou, in addition to the laws of the Great Zhou, he read the most books. I can know so much with my ears and eyes, and thanks to a father who always drills into the deep mountains and old forests when he has nothing to do.

However, there is no need to clarify this point to Ah Li for the time being.

After bidding farewell to Ah Li, Bai Ling and Fourteen returned with a dozen horses, and the two rode very slowly in the night, and deliberately ran two more laps around the street market outside Chaotian Street, so that Bai Ling could find the feeling of cycling. Although in the end, Fourteen had to dismount and lead himself and Bai Ling's mount forward at the same time, Bai Ling really tried.

She really has no talent in horseback riding, and this has always made Wei Fourteen, who has no teacher in riding, unable to understand.

In the dead of night, the streets were silent, and only the footsteps of two horses and Fourteen could be heard.

Bai Ling clenched the iron ring in front of the saddle with both hands, and looked down at the person in front of him, "Fourteen, when I said about Ruyang twenty years ago, did you think of anything?" ”。