The color was bewitching, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air, which made me think of blood.

I tried to continue to follow Liu Banxian's words to see if I could light it with an open flame, and after a while, the corner of the corpse began to emit smoke like a cigarette.

The green smoke rising from the burning part carried a sweet fragrance, and I remembered that the main ingredient was corpse wax, so I quickly covered my mouth and nose and snuffed out the spark.

At the door, I took a big breath of fresh air. Thinking of the abnormality I had just discovered, I called Liu Banxian.

But Liu Banxian's phone was not answered.

It's almost six o'clock now, and maybe he's going home at this time, and this matter can only be pushed back.

However, I always feel that things may not be as simple as they seem.

The sweet smell in the air seemed to linger for a long time, and I turned on the ceiling fan to ventilate it to no avail.

I was so tired these days that I went to bed early after the night was closed.

When I woke up, I was covered in sweat. I was awakened by a nightmare, I dreamed that Mr. Chen, who was covered in tree bark, came to look for me, and his mouth came and went with the words, help me, save me...

Seeing that it was only three o'clock in the morning, I got up to find water to drink, and when I came out of the bedroom, I smelled a sweet smell again.

I followed the scent to the antechamber, and I saw a glimmer of light at the counter.

Looks like someone is smoking there!

I immediately turned on the light and saw a wisp of green smoke rising from the counter!

Why is the corpse on fire again? I remember snuffing out the sparks!

I felt a little hairy in my heart, but I went over as soon as I could, and poured the water in my hand on it!

Yikes!

When it came into contact with water, it was immediately extinguished when it was exhausted, but it also dyed the water red, and the dripping water dripped onto the counter like blood.

Seeing that the corpse was about to melt, I immediately picked it up.

It burns when it meets fire, and it melts when it meets water. This seems to be a little different from what Liu Banxian said, it seems that this thing is not necessarily the corpse that Liu Banxian said.

What's that, exactly?

Except for Liu Banxian, if it is possible to know, it should be Baye.

He must know what this thing is, but Baye is ruthless, and it is one thing whether he will tell me or not, and if he thinks it is profitable, maybe I will encounter uncontrollable dangers.

I wrapped it in a cloth and hid it in a place where others couldn't find it.

After all this, I didn't feel sleepy anymore.

By six o'clock, I was open.

Before I had breakfast, someone called me, and I saw that it was Liu Banxian.

After picking up the phone, I asked about the abnormality of the corpse on hand, and Liu Banxian said that the phone was not clear, so I asked him to come to my store, and I invited him to breakfast.

After more than half an hour, Liu Banxian came.

He saw that my shop was quite new, and I beckoned him to join him after breakfast. Just to get to the point.

Liu Banxian took a look, and I still had a small half of the corpse left. After pondering for a long time, he finally said that this thing should be similar to the corpse, but it is indeed a little different, but there will be a strange fragrance when burning, which is the same.

He asked me, where did this thing come from?

I didn't tell him the truth, I just told him that it was from a ghost market.

Liu Banxian said, no wonder...

It seems that he also knows about the ghost market, and for him who runs the rivers and lakes, it is normal to know this.

Later, he chatted with me for a few words, and finally said that he wanted to introduce me to a business, and all I was thinking about during this time was the matter of corpse exhaustion and mermaid oil, so I didn't think much about it, thanked him, and sent him away.

For the next few days, the store was still deserted. The time for the appointment with Baye is getting closer and closer, but there is no clue yet.

Zhang Qian hasn't seen anyone in the past few days, but only told me that the matter of shark oil has eyebrows, she is in the field now, and she will ask someone to send me something when the time comes.

All I can do now is wait, and hopefully there won't be any more moths.

At noon that day, someone came to the door, a man about thirty years old, holding a cloth bag in his arms, looking in a hurry.

At first, I thought he was the person called by Zhang Qian, but this person said to me, "I heard that the statue can be repaired here?" ”

Repair the statue?

All I'm thinking about now is shark oil, and I want to send that plague god away as soon as possible. Now that I have come to the door, it is still rare to meet a guest once.

I was a little disappointed, and my face may have shown it unconsciously.

The man in front of me reached out and lifted his gold-rimmed glasses and asked me if I couldn't fix them.

After I came back to my senses, I greeted him and replied that he could fix it, so let me see the painting first.

He opened the cloth bag in his arms and handed me the portrait.

The conservation of the statue is very bad, it can be said that it is quite bad.

The figure in the portrait painting can be vaguely recognized, it is an old man with white temples, an eight-treasure hat, a few goatees, and a green shirt and horse coat, which seems to be a person living in the late Qing Dynasty.

However, the facial features and clothes are already blurred, and it will take a lot of hard work to repair them.

Also, it's quite difficult to fix.

I told him, are you sure this painting needs to be repaired?

My implication is that this painting will be more troublesome to repair, and the remuneration will be higher.

He also seemed to understand and said to me, "Money is not a problem, as long as it can be fixed!" I was introduced by Liu Banxian......"

Liu Banxian?

At this time, I remembered that Liu Banxian had said that day that he would introduce me to a business, and it turned out to be this person.

Originally, I didn't want to take this job, because this painting is quite labor-intensive and time-consuming, and how much money should be charged, there are rules in it that you can't just take it randomly.

However, this was introduced by Liu Banxian, the so-called going out to rely on friends, if I turn this job away, I am afraid that no one will introduce me to business in the future.

I told him that since it was introduced by Liu Banxian, it was easy to say.

I negotiated with him, and he would receive 700 yuan for repairing it.

He readily agreed and asked me when I could get the painting.

I said it would be a week at the earliest, and he looked a little anxious and asked me if I could hurry. I said that this is the fastest speed, and there is no way to rush it.

If I didn't have anything to do, I could have completed it in two days, but now there is the matter of Baye, which is pressing on my heart, and it is not easy to go wrong if I have enough time to repair the painting.

After leaving his contact information, he left.

After I repaired the statue to be restored, I called Liu Banxian, in addition to thanking him for his introduction, I told him that this person was refreshing, and he asked for 700 yuan and did not bargain.

Liu Banxian was silent on the other end of the phone, his voice raised a little, and he said, "You took seven hundred yuan?" That man is a big fish, if you charge him three or five thousand, he can agree! Oops, hey... Brother, you're too soft-hearted..."

Through the phone, I can imagine Liu Banxian beating his chest.

I can see that the man just now is a gold master, but there are some rules to be followed in this business.

The painting of the remains is different from the painting of the cultivation of Danqing.

Danqing painting, as long as the painter decides that the price is right, you can take it.

Posthumous portrait paintings are often linked to life and death, so the rule of only accepting odd numbers must be observed. That is, you can only receive one, three, five, seven, and these four numbers take the lead in the reward.

I once asked my grandfather, why don't you charge nine?

His old man's original words were that nine is the ultimate number, but the number of emperors, and the people who painted the portraits were ordinary people who couldn't afford this kind of life.

There have been so many things that have happened recently that I have to face up to the rules that my grandfather told me.

I told Liu Banxian about the rules of the older generation, and Liu Banxian asked me, how are the rules of my family so similar to those of them?

Then he said that he would have a good chat with me for a drink.

Hanging up the phone with Liu Banxian, I thought back to his words, and I remembered the soul brush. And the thaumaturgy that my grandfather refused to pass on to me.

If only I could learn ......

But thinking about it, I shook my head, grandpa said that I have to suffer three times if I learn, I don't have a car, no house, no wife, or forget it, the main thing now is how to send Baye away as soon as possible, otherwise I will be entangled by the black-clothed head master every day, and it will be really difficult to sleep and eat.

Finally, the day before the date agreed with Valle, a courier arrived at me.

It was sent by Zhang Qian from Shaanxi, and after I opened the package, there was a bottle inside, and the contents were as black as shoe polish, and there was a fishy smell.

I refined it according to the method in the ancient books, and it was barely able to make do.

I was about to call Valle when I received a text message from Valle on my phone, which was very short, only four words.

Tomorrow's Action...

When I saw these four simple words, I couldn't help but be shocked!

It was only half an hour since he got the shark oil, how did Baye know?

Could it be that he is spying on me somewhere?

I felt a chill in my heart, he had been watching me......

But how did he know that I was only missing this one piece of material?

The uneasiness in my heart began to spread...

And I took a look at tomorrow's calendar, it is the first day of the seventh lunar month, and it is actually the day of the big break once in half a year?