Chapter Seventy-Five: Investigation
Lie Yinghao denied the fact that seafood can increase people's spiritual power, and Mo Lun said: "Since there is no seafood that can increase people's spiritual power, then the seafood we eat must have been specially added with some kind of medicine to increase spiritual power. "If they're just trying to get customers, that's fine, and if there's any other conspiracy, we'll have to be careful." Huang Fei said. "So far, we haven't had any special reaction, we just want to eat again, and I think a little bit in my heart, not to take a bite, like a shortcoming or something. Tie Yingnan said, he ate the most yesterday.
"Let's wait a few more days to see if there is any other reaction, no one can go to Fumanlou during this period, if there is nothing wrong, I ask everyone to go a few more times." Morren said. The others also nodded in agreement, and Mo Lun turned around and walked out of the island owner's mansion, came to the food stall opposite Fumanlou, asked for a bowl of tea, and drank it slowly. There was still an endless stream of people who came to eat in Fumanlou, and there was a long queue, "Are there always so many people who come here to eat?" asked the owner of the food stall. "This Fumanlou has only been open for eight days, except for the first day, there are many people every day, and there are more and more people. The boss said. "Do you know why there are so many people?" asked Moren again. "According to people who often come to me to drink tea, their seafood is very special, after eating this meal and wanting to eat, one day I don't want to eat it panic, a cultivator also told me that after eating their seafood, you can also increase your spiritual power, but if you don't eat it for a few days, your spiritual power will decline, and the decline will be more than the increase, in order to keep your spiritual power from falling, you have to come here to eat seafood without interruption. The owner of the food stall said. Morren listened. It's just stunned. "Spiritual power will also decline. Why didn't I feel it?" thought to himself.
"Is that true of all people?" asked Morun as he sipped his tea. "According to them, the more you eat, the faster your spiritual power will grow, but if you don't eat, the faster your spiritual power will decline. The boss was busy talking to Morun. Mo Lun finally figured out the reason, he was the one who ate the least, and he hadn't felt the drop in spiritual power yet, he wanted to go back and ask Tie Yingnan about the situation. After giving the boss the money for tea, he returned to the owner's mansion.
As soon as he entered the door, he asked, "Where is the third brother?" "It's depressed inside! Mo Lun and Merry came to the backyard together, and saw Tie Yingnan being angry there, "How can the spiritual power in my body be reduced, I also eat seafood, how can you be fine, but I will be fine?" "That's because you are too greedy and eat too much!" Mo Lun walked over with a smile and said. "I eat the least, so I don't feel it, you eat the most. Only then did I feel the lack of spiritual power. Morren explained. "How do you know?" asked Tetsu Yingnan. "I just went out for a spin and heard from someone. There are many people who feel the same way as you, and the more they eat, the worse the lack of spiritual power becomes. Morren explained. "Let's go, let's go to him!" Tie Yingnan had suffered such a loss, and stood up and was about to go to Fumanlou. Mo Lun dragged him back and said, "Don't worry, sooner or later we will have to look for him, but before we look for him, we must first know what he put in the seafood, who this person is, and what is the purpose, so we can't go to him now." ”
"Then what should I do, just wait?" Shanhai asked, "You wait here for a few days, I'll go and investigate everything, and then we'll go find them together." After saying that, Mo Lun walked out of the backyard and went to find Lie Yinghao. Under the arrangement of Lie Yinghao, Mo Lun changed his face and became a young man in Fuman Building. During the day, Mo Lun served food and poured wine, busy and happy, walked a table will have the next table will come immediately, the whole day, Mo Lun's busy pace has not stopped, until the middle of the night, finally sent the last wave of guests away, even Mo Lun felt that his legs were a little sore, the other guys had already sat down, wiped the sweat on their faces, a young man said: "Hurry up and rest for a while, I will go to prepare tomorrow's seafood." After saying that, he drank a cup of tea and sat there kneading his legs.
After a short break, I heard the leader shout, "Have you cleaned up?" Come out and prepare tomorrow's seafood, and when it's ready, you can go back to sleep." "Morun can go without sleeping, but for the average guy, every day is so tiring, who wouldn't want to go back to bed early. Hearing the shout, they all got up from the stool and came to the backyard of the restaurant, the backyard is the kitchen of the restaurant, in a space of dozens of meters, there are six or seven large vats, and all kinds of seafood are placed in the tank, and their task is to pour out these seafood, clean them, and wait until tomorrow to use them.
There are seven guys in total, and each guy is responsible for a kind of seafood. After Mo Lun washed his sea crabs, he was about to put them back in the tank, and the leader looked at them and said, "After they are loaded, soak them in the water in the pot." Only then did Moren notice that behind them there was a row of steaming cauldrons. "Isn't it okay to soak in cold water? "No, there is material in the hot water, but not in the cold water, and you are new at first glance." The leader said impatiently. Morlun didn't tell anything else, and channeled all the hot water from the pot into the vat. Then he helped a young man next to him clean the jellyfish, and said while washing, "If you have to soak it in hot water, what's in the hot water?" "There was an herb soaked in the hot water, and the guests loved to eat it. "What herb is so powerful that it arouses the cravings of the guests?" "I don't know what it is, but when they finish soaking in water, they take out that grass and burn it, you see, it's still a little bit unburned." The young man used his mouth to pout in the direction of the cauldron, and Mo Lun glanced at it, silently, and when he helped the young man carry water, he took the opportunity to carry the unburned herbs into his arms.
After all the work was done, Mo Lun secretly returned to the island owner's mansion, came to his room, took out the remaining herbs, carefully observed, searched for the memories of herbs in the Hundred Herbs Sutra, and after a long time, suddenly a name appeared in his mind, "Nine-leaf Trillium!" It turned out to be it, no wonder there were such symptoms. In his memory, the nine-leaf trillium is a small yellow grass, with nine leaves in the mature period, the highest is only one meter, the slurry of this grass can improve people's spiritual power, but it will be addictive after use, the more you use it, the faster the spiritual power will improve, once you don't use it, the spiritual power will drop exponentially, and it will be unbearable, if you don't take the antidote, the person's spiritual power will continue to decline until the spiritual power is exhausted.
"What a vicious person, this is to control the cultivators on the Southern Islands under his command!" Mo Lun thought of this, and recalled the antidote of this grass, and after a while, a knowing smile appeared on his face. According to the records of the Book of Hundred Herbs, the mulberry leaves are the nemesis of the nine-leaf Trillium, as long as the mulberry leaves are used to make tea every day, after seven days, the toxins of the nine-leaf Trillium will be completely removed, and there will be no longer any effect. And the mulberry tree is everywhere in the Southern Islands, but it tastes a little astringent.
Early the next morning, Mo Lun called Huang Fei over, told him how to make tea with mulberry leaves, and told him not to reveal this secret first, so that everyone else could just drink it first, and if you didn't drink it, you would find a way to pour it hard. After saying that, he went to work with a smile. This night, Mo Lun did not return to the island owner's mansion to live, but stayed in the restaurant, on the grounds that he was on duty. After all the people left, Mo Lun closed the back door, and then fell on the roof of the house opposite the restaurant, in a place where the moon did not shine, looking at everything in the restaurant, there was also a room in the restaurant with lights on, Mo Lun hid his spiritual power, and came to the outside of the room with the lights on, there were a few people in it who were still drinking, "The business has been really good these days, and I can earn more than four thousand spirit stones every day, our boss is really powerful!" a guy said with some drunkenness. "Where is the boss powerful, it's not all the herbs that are powerful, people want to eat it a second time after eating it once. The other said disdainfully. "Our boss said that after everyone in the city has eaten once, we will increase the price, and after a while, we will close. "Shut down, you're not mistaken, why close the door when it's so profitable?" asked the drunken man.
"You don't know this, after everyone has eaten our seafood, they can't eat it if they want to, and when the time comes, everyone won't have to listen to us, they have to do whatever we want them to do, otherwise they won't be able to extricate themselves!" Mo Lun wanted to break these people into pieces, but when he thought that their boss had not yet shown up, and the real culprit behind the scenes did not know who it was, he endured it. Mo Lun just wanted to go back to his room to meditate and cultivate, when he heard the slightly drunk man ask, "I haven't seen our boss for the past few days, where has he gone?" "This is not what we should ask, we should come back tomorrow." A man said.
Mo Lun returned to the room and began to meditate cross-legged, thinking about the conversation between those people, it was really terrible, if he hadn't discovered the problem of seafood, the Southern Islands would have been theirs sooner or later, could it be that they were also from the Tengu Clan? Mo Lun was suspicious, but he was not sure, he had to wait until the boss came back and took them all down, and he would know as soon as he asked.
The next day, the people of Fumanlou are still the same, the guests who eat are waiting in a long line, here has become a unique landscape, the restaurant next to it, the restaurant is empty, the other bosses stand up in front of their own door to look at the prosperous business of Fumanlou, the heart is not a taste at all.
Mo Lun was serving food to the guests on the second floor, when a middle-aged man came up and walked straight to the top floor, Mo Lun saw it, rolled his eyes, immediately stepped forward, and said politely: "I'm sorry, guest officer, it's not a business place above, please stay." The man glanced at Morun and said, "I'm not here to eat, I'm here to find your boss." With that, he went up to the third floor. Mo Lun stood there, Mo looked at the people who walked up expressionlessly, and said in his heart: "Find our boss, you are our boss, and you are still pretending to be with me!" (To be continued......)