Not long after, the middle-aged man, Boss Li, came back with a few small wooden boxes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Lu Gongzi, you first take a look at my new cinnabar," Boss Li, a middle-aged man who gently placed the small boxes on the table, smiled enthusiastically and stretched out his hand to Lu Qing, and then sat down on the side.

Let's go.. Lu Qing nodded with a light smile, and directly reached out and picked up one of the small boxes, and carefully opened it, revealing a square block with a slightly dark red color and about the same size.

"Is this cinnabar? Shouldn't cinnabar be red? Why is this color so dark?" Wang Yan on the side couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Moreover, cinnabar should be powdered, right?"

Hearing Wang Yan's words, Boss Li, who glanced at her unexpectedly, couldn't help but smile on his face.

"Yan'er.. This cinnabar is generally lumpy when bought. The difference in color is mainly due to the fact that some other materials have been added after different processing," Lu Qing coughed lightly and said with a slight embarrassment. said what she said just now, Wang Yan was obviously a layman.

Noticing the smile on Boss Li's face, Wang Yan couldn't help but blushed slightly and nodded in response: "Oh.."

Next, Lu Qing gently scraped some cinnabar with his fingernails, crushed it into fine powder with his fingers and looked at it, and then leaned under his nose and sniffed it.

"Master Lu, please!" Boss Li on the side took out a tray from under the table, on which were placed an empty small bowl, a small cup containing half a cup of water, an inkstone dyed dark red, a piece of yellow paper pressed by a paperweight, and other miscellaneous delicate gadgets.

Lu Qing skillfully took some cinnabar and put it into the inkstone, poured a small amount of water, grinded, and grinded it into a slightly viscous dark red liquid, and then went to a small fine brush on the side, dipped it in some dark red liquid, and wrote it on the yellow paper like a cloud, and wrote a 'edict'. The dark red inscription, as if glowing with blood, looked very dazzling on the yellow paper.

"Well, it's not bad!" Lu Qing, who picked up the yellow paper and looked at it, nodded slightly and said with a little satisfaction.

After speaking, Lu Qing, who put it down again, couldn't help but smile and looked at Xiao Xiaobai on the side and said, "Brother Xiaobai, come, you can take a look too! ”

"Okay!" nodded and reached out to take the small box handed over by Lu Qing, Xiao Xiaobai also learned from Lu Qing's previous appearance, scraped a little cinnabar with his fingernails, crushed it with his fingers, and sent it to his nose to smell it.

Xiao Xiaobai, who closed his eyes and felt it carefully, compared some information about cinnabar and herbs in his mind, and quickly identified that this cinnabar was mixed with a few rare herbal ingredients. This is not natural cinnabar, after special treatment, it can indeed make the effect of cinnabar better, but compared with the ratio of cinnabar and herbs in Xiao Xiaobai's memory, it is obviously far behind. Xiao Xiaobai has a simpler and more ordinary herbal ratio, and he can prepare better cinnabar.

"Brother Xiaobai, how is it? How is this cinnabar?" Lu Qing asked with a light smile.

Xiao Xiaobai, who opened his eyes lightly, said with a chuckle: "I can only smell that this cinnabar is mixed with a lot of herbal ingredients, but since Brother Lu said it is good, it must be not bad." ”

"This little brother, can you actually smell the ingredients of this cinnabar Chinese herbal medicine ratio?" Boss Li looked at Xiao Xiaobai in surprise.

Xiao Xiaobai waved his hand and smiled: "Boss Li, my nose is not so smart, but I just smelled a few medicinal ingredients." I studied medicine and have been recognising herbs since I was a child, so my nose may not be so familiar with other smells, but I still have some confidence in herbs. ”

"Oh, I see!" Boss Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The ingredient formula of this cinnabar herbal ratio is also a secret of this industry, and it is generally inherited in an orderly manner. If it was sniffed directly by Xiao Xiaobai, it would be interesting.

Instead, Boss Li hurriedly smiled and greeted: "Two of you, let's take a look at the others!"

"Oh," Lu Qing, who nodded and smiled, also greeted Xiao Xiaobai: "Xiaobai, let's watch it together!"

Xiao Xiaobai also nodded, and Lu Qing chose one of the remaining small wooden boxes and looked at them separately. The cinnabar has a slight difference in color, and it is obvious that it is not ordinary cinnabar, but is made by adding herbs or other substances through a special process.

After checking the two in succession, Xiao Xiaobai, who frowned slightly, and a faint look of disappointment flashed in his eyes, when he checked the third type, he just opened the box and smelled it, and he couldn't help but smell it carefully with a slight expression. Although it was processed, Xiao Xiaobai still keenly smelled the faint smell of blood.

"Added blood, not the blood of spirit beasts, nor the blood of monks, it should be the blood of other animals, vaguely with a very faint aura, it should be a very spiritual animal," Xiao Xiaobai secretly guessed.

Xiao Xiaobai, whose eyes flashed, hurriedly looked up at Boss Li and said, "Boss Li, I want this, how much is it?"

"Eight thousand eight!" Boss Li said to Xiao Xiaobai with a smile.

When Wang Yan heard this, she stared at Boss Li in disbelief: "Eight thousand eight, this is a little more cinnabar? You want so much, you rob the money? This cinnabar is not worth so much mixed with gold dust!"

"This young lady, the things we have here have always been genuine," Boss Li said with a calm smile.

Although he heard Lu Qing say that the cinnabar here is very expensive, Xiao Xiaobai was a little mentally prepared, but listening to the cinnabar of eight thousand eight hundred and one taels from Boss Li's mouth, Xiao Xiaobai couldn't help frowning slightly. Ordinary cinnabar is only about one yuan and one gram, and one tael is only fifty yuan. Even after special processing, the cost cannot reach more than 100 times that of ordinary cinnabar.

Even Lu Qing couldn't help but glance at Boss Li in a little surprise, and then hurriedly reached out and took the box of cinnabar from Xiao Xiaobai's hand: "I'll take a look!"

"I see! I didn't expect that Boss Li still has such good goods here," Lu Qing, who had a little inspection, couldn't help but look at Boss Li with bright eyes: "Boss Li, how many such goods do you have here? Except for the box that Brother Xiaobai wants, I want all the others." ”

When Boss Li heard this, he smiled a little helplessly and said, "Master Lu, I'm sorry, it's just this box." ”

"What? just this box?" Lu Qing, whose face changed slightly, couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

"No way!Lu Gongzi, you should also know that this kind of goods is in demand!" Boss Li said.

Lu Qing, who was silent, couldn't help but turn to look at Xiao Xiaobai: "Brother Xiaobai, this box of cinnabar.."

"Brother Lu Qing, you accompanied Xiaobai to buy cinnabar today. Now that he's picked it, you're going to stop Hu from it, isn't it okay?" Before Lu Qing finished speaking, Wang Yan couldn't help but chuckle.

Hearing this, Lu Qing, whose face changed slightly, nodded helplessly with a slightly wry smile, and handed the box of cinnabar in his hand to Xiao Xiaobai: "Brother Xiaobai, it's yours." ”

"Thank you, Brother Lu!" Xiao Xiaobai would not be polite to him, and reached out directly to take it as he spoke.

Seeing this, Boss Li smiled and said, "This little brother, you can see the other cinnabars."

"I just want this box, Boss Li, I don't want the rest," Xiao Xiaobai shook his head and said, "In addition, I also want to buy some yellow paper, just ordinary yellow paper." ”

"Okay, no problem!" Boss Li, who nodded with a smile, was a little disappointed when he heard that Xiao Xiaobai only needed ordinary yellow paper, and then looked at Lu Qing and asked, "Young Master Lu, look at these kinds of cinnabar..."

Lu Qing stretched out his hand and picked up the box of cinnabar that he first looked at, and said casually to Boss Li: "I bought this box!"

"Okay, Lu Gongzi's box of cinnabar is also one tael, and it costs five thousand two," Boss Li nodded happily.

Wang Yan couldn't help but say, "Wow, the price is so much different, it's almost doubled!"

Hearing this, although Lu Qing still had a smile on his face on the surface, he couldn't help but flash an unnatural look in his eyes.

At this moment, a faint noise came from outside, but it made Boss Li frown slightly and hurriedly got up and smiled at Xiao Xiaobai and the others: "Several, I'm sorry! ”

When Boss Li went out, the noise outside not only did not subside, but seemed to become louder.

"It seems to be Sun Feifei's voice!" Although it was noisy outside, Xiao Xiaobai still keenly heard Sun Feifei's familiar voice.

Wang Yan on the side couldn't help frowning and said, "What's the matter? Let's go out and have a look!"