Chapter 16 Tricking Liu Minglou
Let Bai He and two sedan chair men wait outside a shop in the West Market, this store is large, with three floors, and there are a variety of shops buying and selling jewelry and tailor-made clothes, even if you wander inside for an hour, no one will be suspicious. And this store is very close to the store she is going to, about five or six minutes walk.
Taking out the clothes that imitated Tang last time from the baggage, Jiang Cailing put on a hat and walked out of the back door, when passing by Bai He's side, Bai He suddenly smelled the familiar smell of orchids, looked around, and then said suspiciously to the palanquin man next to him, "Have you seen our girl?" ”
Jiang Cailing didn't continue to listen, without much delay, and immediately found the store according to her memory.
It was a pharmacy, and the wooden plaque was carved with the three big characters of Ankang Pavilion, and you could smell the smell of medicinal herbs when you walked in.
At the beginning, Emperor Zhaohong had ordered someone to teach Jiang Cailing to practice medicine, and there was some research on medicinal materials, but later she specialized in how to develop poisons. When I walked into the store, I saw a white-bearded old man with fairy wind bones, standing behind the wooden platform, five young men wearing uniform blue cloth clothes, there were many people in the store, the guys were orderly and orderly to grab medicine for patients, and the whole pharmacy was in order.
Between Jiang Cailing and the shopkeeper talking, they looked at the pharmacy from time to time, and there was a thousand-year-old ginseng tied with a red string on the counter, placed in a red flannel cloth, covered with a glass round bowl on the outside, and a delicate small oil lamp next to it, which was more and more dazzling.
It seems that it should be the treasure of the town store, and it is placed on the counter to attract customers.
Continuing to observe, I saw a man come out from behind a screen carved with Hua Tuo, looking dressed as a guy here, but unlike other young guys, this man looks like he is about middle-aged.
When the man walked to Jiang Cailing's side, he smelled a vague fragrance on him, which was exactly the same as the fragrance in He Xiangxiang's room.
Apricot eyes were half narrowed, Jiang Cailing and the shopkeeper said, "That person is your buddy, and the sachet on his body smells very strange and smells very good." ”
When the shopkeeper heard this, the muscles on his face were a little tense, obviously a little nervous, and his expression when he looked at Jiang Cailing was also vigilant, and he said, "That guy likes to drink flower wine, I guess which girl brought it back!" ”
A look of disappointment appeared on Jiang Cailing's face, "I don't know what kind of sachet that girl uses, even if I ask me to give her a lot of money, she is willing to tell me the recipe." ”
"That's all an evil recipe for a bad girl, if the girl likes spices, I also have them here, the taste is light, and it can also help the girl to maintain your beauty."
As he spoke, he brought a herbal sachet, the taste was light, not the smell in He Xiangxiang's room.
She deliberately tried to say that she was willing to spend a lot of money to find incense, but the shopkeeper refused to show her to take a look, which shows that there is really something wrong with the fragrance.
After buying the sachet and looking for money in the shopkeeper, Jiang Cailing looked at the back room behind the screen again. I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in my heart, she didn't have anyone around her now, if she could have let the spy find out what she wanted to know at night, now she had to rely on herself.
It seems that when she has time, she will have to hire a person with strong martial arts skills by her side.
Just when he was about to walk out of the pharmacy after settling the bill, through the white veil of the hat, he saw a golden figure, which was Liu Minglou of Qizhenju.
The red lips outlined a light smile, she was worried about how to get in, but she didn't expect to meet Liu Minglou.
Last time, he knocked her unconscious and sold her to Renyazi, if it weren't for her luck, she would be working as a concubine in a bad old man's house now. When Liu Minglou met her today, he could only say that he didn't look at the yellow calendar when he went out.
Liu Minglou hummed a little song, and a look of joy appeared on his handsome face. He just sold ten rejuvenating creams today, and earned ten taels of gold at once, so he simply closed the shop early and wandered around Luoyang, shaking a small gold fan in one hand and holding a small bamboo basket in the other, which were all the things he bought all the way, heavy, but it did not prevent him from enjoying the leisurely leisure of stealing half a day.
The sachets of this house taste very good, so I came to buy some sachets, just when he finished settling the account, he felt a person's bump into him, Liu Minglou grew up in the market since he was a child, and naturally knew that he would let people steal, so he immediately held it and looked at the money bag, and saw the lovely and delightful silver lying quietly in it, thinking that the person who hit him just now was a person with no eyes.
When I walked out of the gate with confidence, I heard someone shouting, "Someone has stolen!" ”
A sneer appeared on his fair-skinned and almost transparent face in the sun, and he didn't know which thug had stolen something again, but fortunately he was clever just now, and someone touched his money bag immediately after hitting him. Anyway, he didn't lose any money, and when he learned that someone had stolen money, he still had a little look of excitement in his heart, shaking the golden fan and walking forward.
A rough voice rose behind him, "Stop!" ”
Liu Minglou turned around curiously, wanting to see what the gangsters who stole money and the unlucky ones who lost money looked like, but when he turned around, he found that the guys in Tsing Yi in the store were all holding sticks and sticks, chasing him!
Liu Minglou is arrogant and expensive, he has been cared for by his parents since he was a child, and he also learned some boxing and kicking at the beginning, but he gave up because he was too tired to practice basic skills, and now he saw a group of people walking towards him violently, and he couldn't help but be a little flustered, "You, what are you doing!" ”
"Thief, stop me!" seemed to react that he seemed to be the thief in their mouths, and although he wanted to explain it in his heart, he subconsciously ran away with his legs looking at the hideous faces of the guy in his hand......
Jiang Cailing was not in the mood to appreciate the scene she had created, she had just deliberately hit Liu Minglou, and quickly put the thousand-year-old ginseng of the treasure of the town store into his basket, Liu Minglou was obviously vigilant, but he only paid attention to whether he had something less, and did not find that he had more things. When Liu Minglou walked out of the store five or six steps, she immediately shouted to catch the thief.
When the shopkeeper saw that the thousand-year-old ginseng, the treasure of his town store, had been taken away, he immediately beckoned his fellow to grab it back, and Jiang Cailing took advantage of the chaos to get into the back room behind the wooden carved screen.
There was no one in the back room, there were all kinds of medicinal herbs on the wooden cabinet, and there were healing pills on the table, which seemed to be a very normal medicine room. After walking a few more steps inside, he found a place separated by wood, locked with a lock, Jiang Cailing sniffed lightly, and smelled a familiar fragrance.
Pulled out the hairpin, pricked the lock, and everything was opened, Jiang Cailing opened the door, and the pungent fragrance rushed to her face, and she coughed a few times.
There was only room for one person in the room, and there were boiling spices on the wooden table, and a layer of ice on top of it, and five bright red pills were placed on top of the ice cubes.
The color is intense, like blood.
Jiang Cailing is no stranger to this device, and has seen it in books. The boiling spice flavor is used to smoke into the pill to mask the taste of the pill itself, and the ice cubes are chilled to prevent the pills from melting, and the ice cubes need to be changed frequently.
However, because of the troublesome process, few pills need to be smoked like this, and the spices are usually added directly. Unless there are medicinal herbs in the pill that have a very strong taste, and it cannot be covered up by adding spices directly, this method must be used.
Now this pill should have just been made, Jiang Cailing picked one up, put it to the tip of her nose and sniffed it, and her apricot eyes were immediately stained with a look of shock.
The smell of rust, the blood is pervasive, crush it with the index finger and thumb, in which the blood streaks are clearly visible.
Emperor Zhaohong first ordered people to teach Jiang Cailing medical skills, and later learned the art of making poison. Master said that there was a medicine that was banned by the previous dynasty, that is, the medicine extracted from the blood of the newborn baby and the menstrual blood of the mother after giving birth, which has a significant beauty effect, and the person who takes it will have a bright complexion in a short time, and exudes a faint fragrance from the bones, hence the name Yan Gu Pill.
Because some people pretended to be midwives to get the baby's heart's blood, causing many babies to die after birth, so for a while, if a pregnant woman did not find a trusted midwife before giving birth, she could not give birth.
This pill is comparable to the price of gold, and once you take it more than three times, you will become addicted, causing the person who takes it to do something terrible.
Some addicts later robbed because they couldn't afford to buy medicine, and Master said that he was a young child at the time, and the girl in the neighborhood had killed his biological parents in order to raise money to buy this pill, and in short, there were many murders because of this.
The previous dynasty once banned medicine, but I didn't expect that now Da Zhou still has this kind of poisonous and evil recipe left, which is not only chilling.
He Xiangxiang was indeed radiant in those days, much better than before, but he didn't think that he was taking this pill.
Hearing footsteps approaching, Jiang Cailing immediately left the wooden house and hid behind the door.
The shopkeeper walked in happily, walked straight into the wooden house, and didn't see Jiang Cailing hiding at the door, playing with gold in his hand, and said to himself, "There is a big order again, it seems that some more raw materials need to be imported." ”
Jiang Cailing took advantage of the shopkeeper's lack of attention and was about to leave at this time, and then the shopkeeper saw at a glance that the medicine had been moved, and hurriedly shouted, "My medicine!" Someone touched my medicine! ”
When I turned around, I happened to see Jiang Cailing, who was just about to go out, and stomped her feet and shouted, "Catch her for me!" ”
Jiang Cailing's eyes tightened, and she took out a smoke bomb from her arms, and the guy hurriedly ran in when he heard the boss's voice, and saw Jiang Cailing reaching out to catch it.
Dodging the outstretched hand, Jiang Cailing threw the smoke bomb on the ground, and suddenly there was a white expanse in front of her, even if she stood opposite, she couldn't see the figure clearly, and Jiang Cailing hurriedly left the pharmacy at this time.
When Jiang Cailing was about to join Bai He along the alley, one hand pulled her into a dim alley, and the other hand covered her mouth, as if there was a grudge, as if he wanted to suffocate her to death.
The man was a man, a head taller than her, Jiang Cailing gathered the strength of her whole body on her heels, and kicked between the legs of the person behind her steadily, fortunately, the person reacted quickly and dodged, so as to avoid being inhumane in the future.
The man was at a distance from her, and Jiang Cailing turned around sharply and saw a very embarrassed Liu Minglou.
The jade crown of the high bundle has fallen obliquely on one side, and the double-beaded gold silk forehead that originally looked merry now fell loosely to the neck, and the golden fan that was shaking in his hand has long been lost to know where it was lost, but the basket on his arm is still held in a silky way, which is enough to see the importance that this person attaches to money.
Jiang Cailing pretended to be surprised and spoke, "Isn't this the owner of the Treasure Residence, Liu Gongzi, why is he like this now?" ”
Liu Minglou said viciously, "Don't pretend, didn't you put that ginseng in my basket just now!" ”
"I don't understand what Liu Gongzi said. If Childe has nothing else to do, I'll leave first. ”
"Stop!" Liu Minglou's young man was thin, but his strength was so great that he couldn't break free for a while, and crashed straight into his arms.