From Jiu Shu's world

But thinking of Ren Tingting, whom I haven’t seen for a long time, and Ji Mengyu, who is in retreat, Henry Zhang still nodded and agreed: “Let me see the style.”

While choosing a style, Henry Zhang asked as if gossiping: "Boss Bai, what did Captain Yang mean when he asked you just now?"

Boss Bai was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "It's not because I can't find any clues, so I'm here. It's normal for a girl to come to buy things. It's none of my business. Besides, there are so many people, except for the two eldest ladies of the Liu family. , I can’t remember either.”

Henry Zhang listened and said, “Oh, do the two of them come here often?”

Boss Bai said: "Ms. Liu and Jia come here often, but most of them come to play with incense. We who like to play with incense get together to discuss the way of incense, and see each other's ability to make incense. But the two ladies are just getting started. , and more to listen to us.”

Speaking of this, Boss Bai paused, and sighed: "Oh, but after this incident, I'm afraid they won't come here again."

Hearing that they had a party, Henry Zhang became interested and asked, "Oh, do you usually get together?"

"Every three to five."

Just after Boss Bai finished speaking, a person walked in and said, "Boss Bai, have I ordered the clothes yet?"

The voice of the visitor was very nice, just a single sentence made people listen to a song like a singing voice.Henry Zhang turned his head and looked, it was a handsome man in his 30s and [-]s. He was wearing white clothes, with light makeup, and his demeanor seemed to be weak, and he looked like a woman.

Boss Bai saw him and said, "Mr. Li, it's you. Please wait a moment. Your clothes are ready."

He welcomed the man surnamed Li into the door, apologized to Henry Zhang, and then went to the back room to get clothes for the man.Henry Zhang noticed that this man surnamed Li was not only a bit feminine, but his ten fingers were also very slender, no less than girls.When he picked up the teacup, he first took a deep smell of the tea, and then saw Henry Zhang looking at him, he smiled slightly, and raised the tea to signal.Then he savored the hot tea in his hand.

Not long after, Boss Bai took out the clothes to the man surnamed Li, and gave him a picture scroll along with the clothes.The man surnamed Li said: "Thanks for your hard work, Boss Bai, your craftsmanship is really not bad."

Boss Bai said: "It's not hard work, it's not hard work, just come and sit when you have free time."

After seeing off the man surnamed Li, Boss Bai came to greet Henry Zhang and asked, "What kind of clothes did you pick?"

Henry Zhang picked out a red dress and a white floral skirt, handed them to Boss Bai, and said, “Make two new ones according to this style.”

Henry Zhang reported to Boss Bai the size, and then asked, “Boss Bai, who was that person just now?”

Boss Bai won the business now, so he didn't mind chatting for a while, and said, "You mean Mr. Li Xiuli, right? He was a famous actor in Liyuan before, and he has a voice given by God. I don't know how much he has been fascinated." People. For some reason, I fell in love with Wanxiang, so I went to Qinglin Town to live in seclusion. That is, when we used to have a party at Wanxiang, we would sing a few lines, and the voice was really amazing."

"Is he also one of the people you met in the past?"

"Of course, we welcome Mr. Li who likes to play with fragrances. Not to mention his ability to paint and make up, the two ladies of the Liu family like to talk to him closely. He designed the clothes just now. I But just do it."

The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is interested. This Li Xiu came from outside, and he is actually proficient in the art of painting. Thinking of his hands that are better maintained than girls, could it be that he was the apprentice of the second cobbler back then.

Henry Zhang had such a guess in his heart, but to be cautious, he had to ask Captain Yang to check when this guy came to Qinglin Town.And whether it is true or not, with the help of this ghost-headed mantis tonight, maybe we can figure it out.

Chapter 121

It was evening when Henry Zhang bought all the things and returned to Liu’s house. Instead of going to the mourning hall and Huai Bailiu to continue the ritual, he went to the empty yard of the Houfu. The Liu family knew that Henry Zhang wanted to find the people behind the scenes, so He didn't dare to disturb him, but ordered someone to close the gate of the courtyard after delivering the dinner.

The technique of the Kongming Lantern is very cumbersome to prepare, not because it is difficult, but because there are a lot of things that need to be prepared.Take the Kongming lanterns that guide the way as an example: the yellow paper is the leather and the bamboo is the bone, and the red lines connected together are fire.

This Kongming lantern was not bought casually outside, but Henry Zhang had to make it himself. As the saying above, this material must be covered with yellow paper for drawing symbols, and then implicated with red thread soaked in cinnabar.

Henry Zhang folded the Kongming Lantern, took out a brush and dipped it in cinnabar, and began to draw symbols on the yellow Kongming Lantern. The ability of this Kongming Lantern to find people and things depends on these spells.For about half an hour, almost half a person with high ears and Kongming Lantern was finally covered with spells by Henry Zhang. Although the red charms were strange, the Kongming Lantern looked a little better.

Henry Zhang took out a yellow talisman, inspired by spiritual power, the yellow talisman ignited spontaneously without fire, and then Henry Zhang used the yellow talisman to light the fire plate of the rosette of the Kongming lantern, and the heat rose, swelling the Kongming lantern, and then hanging in mid-air.

Henry Zhang released the frozen ghost-headed mantis from the black coffin space at this time. After the ghost-headed mantis was frozen, he could not resist being taken into the black coffin space, so the person who controlled it might have thought that the ghost The first mantis is dead, which is convenient for Henry Zhang to act.

Henry Zhang took out the black bone dagger, held it horizontally, and directly cut off the basketball-sized head of the ghost-headed mantis.Then he split open the head and began to grope inside.

The methods of controlling Gu worms are actually similar, the easiest way is to form a habit through feeding and then use various sounds and smells to control it, this method can also be used by ordinary people, but when the Gu worms become extremely powerful, it is easy to be backlashed. Or turn the host into the gu master and offer blood to the gu worms in exchange for protection.

Obviously, this ghost-headed mantis is as big as a calf, and it certainly cannot be controlled with such a simple method.Then there must be a restriction on it, but whether the Tao is a spell or something else.

After groping for a long time, Henry Zhang found out a domino. This domino 2 was engraved with a spell of unknown specific content. If it did not predict, it must be the key to controlling this ghost-headed mantis.

Henry Zhang put the domino in the palm of his hand, turned the fingers of his left hand into a sword, gathered his spiritual power to condense on the fingertips, and then tapped on the domino, smashed the domino, and then pulled out the breath from it.

With a wave of his fingertips, he threw the blue breath into the Kongming Lantern, and then cut the red thread binding the Kongming Lantern, letting the Kongming Lantern fly in the night sky.

The Kongming Lantern flew higher and higher, but it didn't keep flying up like ordinary Kongming Lanterns. It reached an altitude of about 600 meters. It was suspended in mid-air, and then slowly flew towards the southwest of Qinglin Town as if driven by the wind. past.

Henry Zhang packed up his things and walked out of the yard quickly. When he passed the mourning hall, he saw that Huai Bailiu and the Liu family were all here, and hurriedly said: "You stay here and protect yourself. I will go and see with this Kongming lantern. Can you find the person behind the scenes?"

Several people looked up, and they saw a Kongming lantern flying to the southwest.Liu Zhengyang said: "Master Taoist, be more careful."

Huai Bailiu said: "I'm here, go."

Henry Zhang nodded, and walked out of Liu’s house quickly, but when he reached the door of Liu’s house, he stopped in his tracks. Huai Bailiu was recovering from his injury, and he might not be able to defeat the person behind the scenes. If that person sent the ghost-headed mantis to come again There is no guarantee that something will happen, and it is still uncertain who is behind this scene.

Thinking of this, Henry Zhang released the metamorphic snake minibus, and he said: "Mini bus, go to the smallest size to guard the three of Liu's family."

The metamorphic snake minibus became more than ten centimeters long, and its figure rushed into Liu's house like lightning, and disappeared.Henry Zhang stayed behind, and then followed Kong Mingdeng closely.

The night in Qinglin Town was the same as when Henry Zhang first arrived, empty and empty, only the sound of Henry Zhang’s footsteps echoed in the streets and alleys.

Henry Zhang landed 200 meters behind the Kongming Lantern, and he chased farther and farther away from the center of the town, thinking that he should be able to find the person behind the scenes in this way.

Unexpectedly, suddenly there was a buzzing sound in the sky, the sound was so loud that it seemed that a group of things had come.Henry Zhang’s face changed, and he was careless.This time, the person behind the scene who was looking for with the Kongming lantern was a ghost-headed mantis, and that thing could fly.

He quickly chased after it, and released blood-eating locusts and flying-winged ice silkworms to stop it, but he was a step too late, and watched more than a dozen small basketball-sized ghost-headed praying mantises knock down the Kongming lantern.

Then the dozen or so ghost-headed mantises scattered in a bang, and flew out in all directions. Even if a group of Gu insects intercepted by Henry Zhang, they only killed half of them, and the others disappeared into the night.

Henry Zhang came to the place where the Kongming lantern fell, picked up the Kongming lantern and looked around. This place is already close to the edge of Qinglin Town, and there are not many people living nearby.Henry Zhang was thinking to see if he wanted to overwhelm the blood-eating locusts to investigate the situation.

But there was a signal from the metamorphic snake minibus, and something came to Liu's house, and it was not weak.Henry Zhang said in his heart: "Oops, could it be that he fell into the strategy of diverting the tiger away from the mountain."

Flying and rushing back, it took more than ten minutes to arrive at Liu's house, but at this time, the gate of Liu's house had already collapsed, and the door was opened.Henry Zhang didn't care about the door panel, so he walked quickly into Liu's house and rushed to the mourning hall. As soon as he entered, he saw the transformation snake minibus transformed into a giant, fighting with a three-meter-tall ghost-headed mantis.

This ghost-headed mantis is obviously not the opponent of the metamorphic snake minibus, but its tentacles are very annoying. It always wants to sneak attack the three members of the Liu family behind the metamorphic snake minibus, or Liu Jingya.In addition, the metamorphic snake minibus seemed to want to keep alive, so he tied his hands and feet.

But when Henry Zhang came here, his anger was still in his heart, and he said to Huasheng Snake: "Minibus, don't keep your hands, tear it up."

The transformation snake minibus got the order, and the body of more than ten meters skyrocketed again, turning into a giant snake of 30 meters, crowding the courtyard to the brim.The three-meter-tall ghost-headed mantis never expected that the metamorphic snake could grow bigger, and it was directly entangled.

Turning into a snake minibus, he bit the head of the ghost-headed mantis with his mouth, twisted it lightly, and removed the head of the ghost-headed mantis with a click.Then the body entangled violently, squeezing the ghost-headed mantis completely twisted, it couldn't die anymore, dark green blood flowed all over the ground.

Henry Zhang stepped forward and cut open the head of the ghost mantis with a black bone dagger. After searching for a while, he found that there was no domino in the head of the ghost mantis. He took a closer look and found that there was a longan in the head of the ghost mantis. There are many small and large thread balls, and many thin threads are separated from this thread ball, stretching like other places in the head.

Henry Zhang slashed with the black bone dagger, but failed to cut through all of them, and at this moment the ball of thread suddenly swelled a circle, and then quickly retracted the separated thin thread. At this time, the thin thread was quickly withdrawn, as sharp as a knife, All of a sudden, the head of the ghost-headed mantis was cut into pieces, like a pile of minced meat, and the ball of thread finally exploded.

Henry Zhang retreated in time, and he was not touched by the blown pieces of meat, but Henry Zhang did not study clearly what the ball of thread was.Only the black bone dagger cut off a small piece of silk thread.

"A curious means of control."

Henry Zhang ignored the corpse of the ghost-headed mantis for the time being, he took back the metamorphic snake minibus, and then walked to Huai Bailiu and the others.

Huai Bailiu came up with a sigh of relief, "It's a good thing you secretly left behind, otherwise something will happen."