Even if the housekeeper had many questions, he had to swallow them in his stomach at this time and hurry up.

I returned to Hu Dingtang's side and watched him wrinkle his brows in pain even though he was asleep, and felt very uncomfortable.

Why did you get sick all of a sudden? What went wrong?

Is it really because of the weather?

Also, after such a long time, there is not the slightest movement on the side of the old mansion, which is also quite abnormal.

I can't control anything else, now I can only find a way to make Hu Dingtang better, the only way I can think of is to use the flowers and vines of the mandala to consolidate Hu Dingtang's bones, if my internal strength reaches a certain level, ordinary mandala is also okay, but now I am not capable enough, so I can only rely on the toxicity of the mandala itself.

Therefore, the more the mandala grows in the place where the yin qi is deep, the more useful it is, but as the housekeeper said, it is difficult to find an ordinary mandala this season.

Sure enough, it was dark in the blink of an eye, and the housekeeper only brought back a dozen ordinary mandala fruits: "Miss Meng, we have searched for a hundred miles, and we only found these, and we will find a way to find them elsewhere tomorrow." ”

"No need, continuous search may attract the attention of others, I'll figure it out." I stopped the butler and asked him to crush the mandala fruit and take the juice, which I then used a silver needle to send the juice into Hu Dingtang's knee to relieve his pain.

But this is also a palliative rather than a cure.

I have to find a way to get those things I want, and there is one place, there must be, that is, the junction of yin and yang, a bazaar that unites the two worlds of yin and yang, called the ghost market.

But the ghost market is not something that ordinary people can enter, and I have only heard about it for so many years in the Yin Division Bureau, and I have never been there.

Now like this, I can't even find the door of the ghost market.

I scratched my head anxiously, feeling powerless than I had ever been, and thinking about it layer by layer, it really made me think of a person.

When even asked the butler to prepare a carriage for me: "Butler, let someone take me to the city overnight, I will go to see Vice General Lu." ”

"Miss Meng, my third master can't do without you now, don't ......" The housekeeper stopped talking.

I understand what he meant, this time I came back from the old house, even Hu Yunzhi didn't come with me, the housekeeper was already very uncomfortable, I suddenly had to go out overnight, he was afraid that I would abandon Hu Dingtang and run for my life alone, right?

I comforted him and said, "Butler, don't worry, it is impossible for me to leave Hu Dingtang, the medicinal properties of the mandala will keep Hu Dingtang's knee less painful for four hours, and I will come back in that long." ”

The housekeeper gritted his teeth, still not at ease: "Or ...... Why don't I come with you? ”

"No, butler." I refused, "Hu Dingtang is like this now, maybe someone in the mansion can't stand it anymore, you have to stay to stabilize the morale of the army, believe me." ”

The housekeeper pondered it again and again, and knelt down for me with a pop, so frightened that I hurriedly went to help: "What are you doing here?" ”

The housekeeper hugged my leg and begged: "Miss Meng, you must come back, you are gone, the third master really can't hold on." ”

"I swear, if I don't come back, there will be five thunderstorms in the sky."

When the butler heard me say this, he finally let go of me, and prepared the carriage for me, and gave me two men besides the coachman.

These two people, one is called Hu Jianbin and the other is called Hu Jianbang, they are brothers, I have seen them before, but I am not familiar with them, I only know that their status in the mansion is second only to Hu Yunzhi, and they are the right-hand men under Hu Dingtang.

These two people are worthy of being brought out by Hu Dingtang, their faces are darker than the other, they sat in the carriage all the way, guarding me like two generals, and I felt like they were going to be stared at by two holes in my body.

Lu Youcai didn't expect me to come in the evening, after the outside report, we went directly into the Lu Mansion, and Lu Youcai hurriedly greeted him: "Miss Meng has something to do with the next person, why do you go back and forth in person so late?" ”

"There's something I'd like to talk to you about alone." I said it directly.

Lu Youcai collected his color, withdrew everyone, took me into the ear room, poured tea, and then asked: "Miss Meng has something to say, if I can do it alone, I will do my best." ”

"I really can't think of a second person who can help me in this matter, so I can only come to the door and beg you." I lowered my voice and said, "Your ancestors dealt with Yin soldiers, so you should know about the ghost market, right?" ”

Lu Youcai's face became even more solemn: "The ghost market must be known, but I haven't been there." ”

"Haven't been?" I was immediately disappointed, "That's not going to be easy." ”

Lu Youcai asked me, "Does Miss Meng need to go to the ghost market to buy something?" ”

"I need a taste of medicinal herbs, I'm in a hurry, I think about it, maybe only the ghost market can buy it, but I can't find someone who can help me buy it, and I can't take it online." I'll tell you the truth.

"This matter, you have to give me some time, I'll see if I can contact the people on the Yin Dart Bureau, if I'm lucky, maybe I can give you an answer on the first day of the next junior high school." Lu Youcai said.

I just remembered that the ghost market only opened on the first and fifteenth days of the new year, even if Lu Youcai could find a way to enter, he would have to wait until the first day of the next lunar month at the earliest, and Hu Dingtang couldn't wait that long.

Then he asked Lu Youcai: "You just said that you know someone from the Yin Dart Bureau?" Is there a team for the dart in this area? ”

"It's my grandfather's subordinates, who retired from the battlefield and did this business, the team is not big, and I don't want to cause trouble easily, I have gradually disappeared in recent years, after all, we are old, and we haven't been in touch for a long time." Lu Youcai said, "But the old love is there, as long as I go to the door to beg, for my grandfather's sake, if I can help, he will definitely help." ”

"Is he living far from here? Can you take me to meet me? I quickly asked.

Lu Youcai hesitated for a moment, and then nodded: "I definitely don't dare to bring others over, but Miss Meng is his own person, and he should be willing to see it." ”

"Thank you so much." I say from the bottom of my heart.

Lu Youcai waved his hand: "It's not certain whether I can help you in the end, if you return in vain, Miss Meng, please don't be surprised." ”

"Where is this, you try your best to help me, it's too late for me to thank you." I said.

Lu Youcai said: "Okay, you wait for me for a while, I'll prepare something, and we'll set off." ”

I waited in the yard, and after a while, I saw Lu Youcai coming over with a small cloth bag and getting into the carriage with me, I sniffed my nose and asked, "Is it tobacco?" ”

"Yes, it's tobacco." Lu Youcai said with a smile, "The old man of Jinshan and Yinshan doesn't love it, he loves this mouthful, all year round, the big cigarette pouch does not leave his body, let's take this, so as not to eat the closed door." ”

Yes, this door-to-door harassment in the middle of the night, I must not be happy to go to the house empty-handed, or Lu Youcai thought thoughtfully.

I then asked, "Is the family all right?" ”

Lu Youcai nodded: "I remember everything you told me before, and when there is good news, I will report the good news to you as soon as possible." ”

"I hope your wish comes true." I laughed.

Along the way, with Lu Youcai and me talking to me, the atmosphere was much better, just as those two brothers were transparent.

The carriage ran all the way for an hour, it had already been far away from the city, the road was getting more and more bumpy, I thought to Hu Dingtang, it seems that I can't go back in four hours, I don't know what will happen to the mansion.

At that time, I couldn't think about it so much, it was not easy to come out once, I had to seize this opportunity, maybe I could really find what I wanted.

I thought that the place where Lu Youcai was going to take me would be very remote, but I didn't expect that the Yin Dart Bureau was in the old suburbs next door to Lin'an City, with rows of courtyard houses, which looked old but solemn.

Our carriage stopped at a gate called Zhang's Dart Bureau, and Lu Youcai asked us to wait in the carriage, and he stepped forward to knock on the door.

At that time, it was almost twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and it was raining lightly at night, and it was cold, the more such weather, the more difficult Hu Dingtang's life became.

After waiting for a while, Lu Youcai finally came back, lifted the curtain of the carriage and said, "I have to bother the two of you to wait in the carriage for a while, the old man only sees Miss Meng." ”

The two brothers got out of the carriage with me, and stood under the eaves in front of the gate and waited, I couldn't say anything, so I had to follow Lu Youcai in.

Entering the gate, there is a huge drum erected in the courtyard, the drum is the thickness of my forearm, the east and west sides are all wings, the main hall is lit up, Lu Youcai took me in, and I saw a little old man in his seventies sitting on the main seat of the main hall, he was wearing a gray-blue cotton robe, wrapped in a cloth hat of the same color on his head, leaning obliquely on the Taishi chair, holding a large smoking pot in his hand.

The big smoke pot looks very old, the e-liquid is very heavy, but what attracts me the most is the smoke pole that supports the big smoke pot, after so many years, the rod is oily and slippery, glowing with ancient yellow, I squinted my eyes and looked at it several times before I recognized that it should be made of sheep bones.

On the table on the side was the tobacco leaves brought by Lu Youcai, and the old man was twisting them little by little and stuffing them into the big smoke pot.

Lu Youcai and I stood in the hall, watching the old man slowly make it, watching him light the tobacco, take a deep puff, close his eyes, and the smoke rings came out from his nostrils one by one.

Waited until a bubble of cigarette was halfway smoking, then squinted his eyes, turned his shrewd little eyes to me, looked up and down, then sat up straight, and asked, "You are Meng Jiusheng?" ”

"Yes." I don't know what to say, Lu Youcai told thousands of people along the way, this old man is not easy to speak, moody, and wrong, so be concise and to the point, so you won't make mistakes.

The old man nodded: "I heard that you are going to the ghost market?" ”

"I want to buy a medicinal herb to save people."

"The ghost market is not so easy to enter, that person is very important to you?"

"It's important."

"More important than your own life?"

I frowned, I want to save Hu Dingtang, why does it have anything to do with my life?

"Hesitant, it seems that he is not as important as you think."

"He's important, if he doesn't survive, my life won't be saved."

"Oh, it turned out to be a grasshopper on a line."

I don't like the way this old man speaks, a little aggressive, the kind that pierces people's backbones, his eyelids droop, only a little gap is exposed, but the bean-sized light that shines through the gap is shrewd and frightening.

I didn't say anything, but the old man knocked the big cigarette pot on the corner of the table, and the big cigarette pouch hanging from the cigarette stick shook a few times, and it was dirty with a heavy pudding on it.

He touched the big cigarette pouch and muttered to himself: "Tobacco is good tobacco, but this guy with tobacco is not useful." ”

Before I could react, Lu Youcai, who was standing next to me, immediately said: "Uncle, Miss Meng's embroidery skills are amazing, let her embroider a new cigarette pouch for you, you can do whatever you want." ”

As he spoke, he pushed his elbow against me, and I immediately understood, and said, "Yes, I can embroider whatever you want." ”

"Can the head of the Panjin Nine-clawed beast be embroidered?" The old man stared at me with burning eyes.

As soon as he asked this, I was in my heart at the time, because I can embroider this golden nine-clawed beast head, but I have only embroidered it for one person, and I am the only one who can embroider it in the entire Yin Division.

If I say I can embroider, then my identity is immediately revealed, and more importantly, why did he suddenly say that?

Is it to embarrass me, or is it to tempt me?

At that moment, the soles of my feet felt like a thorn, and I wanted to turn around and leave, but I finally held back.

The old man didn't embarrass me, but laughed: "Teasing you, even if you can embroider, I don't dare to let you embroider, you will lose your life, right?" ”

I wanted to laugh with him, but I couldn't, and the more he said that, the more I felt uneasy.

"Tell me, what do you want, for the sake of the talented face, and as a return gift for the cigarette pouch, if you can help, I will definitely help." The old man said.

Lu Youcai and I didn't expect this old man to speak so well today, especially Lu Youcai, who was very excited, and hinted at me with his eyes, but I was a little hesitant and always felt that something was wrong.

But I had no choice but to say what I was here for: "I would like to ask you to help me find a mandala flower or fruit, or even a rhizome, that grows in a shady place." ”

The old man knocked the big cigarette pouch again and said, "Don't you, you, it sounds awkward, just call me Uncle Zhang in the future." ”

I frowned, this person is the same age as my grandmother, but let me call me Uncle Zhang, this is even more awkward, right?

He said again: "As for the things you want, it's a coincidence, I bought some in the ghost market before, and before I used them up, I cheapened you." ”

I was overjoyed: "You...... Uncle Zhang, do you really have one here? How many? ”

"Hey, this girl is really greedy, how many do you expect me to have such a rare thing?" As he spoke, he stood up and turned to go to the back.

Lu Youcai and I are still standing, my hands are nervously squeezed together, no matter how much Uncle Zhang can give me, even if there is only one flower, it can keep Hu Dingtang for a while.

After this hurdle, I will think of a way, maybe I can go to the ghost market, and then I will ......

I was thinking about it, when Uncle Zhang came out and handed me a red purse, the front of which was embroidered with a black flame, which pierced my eyes at once.

I took the purse, and it was biting cold in my hand, but I didn't rush to open it, pointed to the black flame on the purse and asked, "Uncle Zhang, is this purse yours?" ”

Uncle Zhang was stunned for a moment, then sat back on the Taishi chair, and said impatiently: "I am alone, how can there be such a girl's thing, I brought it when I bought this mandala." ”

So that's the case, I touched the black flame on the purse, and there was a pain in my heart for no reason, this sign was, how familiar it was.

When I opened the purse, there were two gray-black mandala fruits lying inside, and from the color to the cold air that emanated, it was clear that the growth environment of this thing was definitely not ordinary.

I put my purse in my arms, and then bent down to thank Uncle Zhang: "Uncle Zhang, thank you, I will make the cigarette pouch another day, and I will personally deliver it to the door, if ...... If Uncle Zhang still walks the dart, I think, can you take me next time? ”

I know it's a presumptuous request, but it's the only glimmer of hope, and you have to try it anyway.

Uncle Zhang said: "My dart is not something I can walk if I want to, and I am also subject to the deployment from above, but I am here, you can come often, okay, I'm tired, where to go, I can't even sleep well in the middle of the night." ”

Lu Youcai hurriedly pulled me to thank me, and then got out of the dart game, and when he turned around, no one saw the light in Uncle Zhang's eyes, complex and profound.

The rain outside was heavy, and as soon as the Hu Jianbin brothers saw me coming out, they hurriedly opened the carriage curtain and helped me into the carriage, and returned all the way to send Lu Youcai back, and I thanked me again.

Lu Youcai said: "Miss Meng, don't thank me, you helped me so much before, this is what I should do, besides, the old man will only help you if he falls in love with Miss Meng, and it has nothing to do with me." ”

"I still have to thank you, it's not you, I don't even know who Uncle Zhang is." I was grateful.

After talking again, he came out of Lu Mansion and rushed all the way to Mingyang Mountain.

Hu Jianbin finally couldn't help but ask me: "Miss Meng, is the third brother saved?" ”

I nodded: "If it goes well, I can keep him for at least two months." ”

"I can do a lot in two months." Hu Jianbang said.

Hu Jianbin nodded: "Fortunately, there is Miss Meng." ”

As soon as his words fell, the carriage slammed down, and then the coachman outside said loudly: "Second master, why are you here?" ”

Second master? Hu Dingkun?

I lifted the curtain and looked ahead, and I really saw that Hu Dingkun, dressed in a white robe, was standing on the side of the road with a white oil-paper umbrella, looking at us.

I subconsciously protected the purse on my chest, this Hu Dingkun didn't come to rob me of something, right?

Hu Dingkun had already walked over, stood on the side of the carriage, and looked up at me: "Miss Meng, are you going to the mansion?" ”

I looked at him vigilantly, didn't speak, and said again: "I just want to tell Miss Meng that you may not be able to go back to the mansion for the time being." ”

"Hu Dingkun, what do you want to do!" I said angrily.

Hu Dingkun hooked the corners of his lips and said, "I'm just kind enough to remind you, such a beautiful person is broken like this, it's quite distressing." ”