On her wedding night, she went into exile with her pharmacy arsenal

In the alley, Mr. Mo knocked on the wall of the carriage. The strange man got on the carriage and sat opposite him woodenly.

Mr. Mo looked at him and laughed softly: "This is the second time."

"Our princess should have noticed you. Tell me, is she curious about who you might be?"

The strange man said nothing and did not move, just like a puppet.

Mr. Mo glanced at the wound on his body and said, "Don't worry. I'll let you meet again in two days when your wound is almost healed."

"If you have any, and you don't tell me, the princess might tell me when she's in a hurry."

He knocked on the carriage again, and the driver drove away.

……

Yan Ruyu felt that her accelerated heartbeat was gradually improving and she felt much better.

But she was full of doubts. She was definitely not dazzled. She just saw that person again.

Who is that? Thinking back to the last time I felt uncomfortable, it was when that person appeared.

Could it be that there is some connection between the two?

Who is he?

Yan Ruyu thought about it for a long time but had no clue. She thought that she would have to discuss the matter with the abbot after returning.

After this delay, when I looked down, the candied haws seller had already left.

Just at this time, Huo Zhongmao also came back, and Yan Ruyu showed him the candle she got from Wu's house.

"Look, is there anything added in here?"

Huo Zhongmao took it with both hands, held the candle farther away, and lit it aside.

"Your Highness, you may not know. I smelled that some spices were added to this just now. I was afraid that you might feel uncomfortable, so I held it farther away." He fanned the smoke and smelled it carefully. "Sure enough, spices were indeed added."

"What's the use?" Yan Ruyu asked.

"It should be Wuxian," Huo Zhongmao said, looking at the smoke. "This kind of incense has a light fragrance, but the smoke is slightly thick. It is not often used. It is usually used on special occasions, such as when Taoist priests perform rituals."

"With the mist and some spells, it will..." Huo Zhongmao smiled lightly and said implicitly, "It will be easier to convince people."

It's easier to play tricks.

Yan Ruyu didn't comment on this point: "Anything else? For example, making something invisible appear?"

Huo Zhongmao nodded: "Princess, I am wise. I was just about to say this. This spice has another effect. It can make the fog appear. In addition to the fog, it also has a manifestation effect."

"I heard there is a kind of ink that has something in it. If you use this ink to write or draw, after a while, the writing or drawing will become invisible."

Yan Ruyu nodded: "I have heard this from the prince, but the prince said that this was originally a method of sending secret letters and intelligence at the border. Now many people know about it and it has long been eliminated."

The letter that the Eighth Princess sent to the capital two days ago used this method.

Huo Zhongmao smiled lightly: "What the prince said is to add a kind of potion into it. The ink they use should be added with spices. When this spice meets the fog, those invisible things will appear."

"However," he changed the subject, "it's not easy to make it appear. It requires a lot of candles. For candles like this, at least 20 or 30 of them need to be lit together and the smoke needs to be produced together to achieve the desired effect."

Yan Ruyu recalled that there were more than thirty candles surrounding the body of Boss Wu in the study room of the Wu Mansion yesterday.

"I see."

Huo Zhongmao said, "Princess, please think about this method of revealing things. Although fog revealing is not difficult, it requires the addition of candles. Moreover, who would light so many candles for no reason? Therefore, if you want to hide something with this method, you can still hide it very well, unless you know where to hide it and deliberately use dozens of candles to light them and then produce smoke."

"After the fog rises, you have to look for it as soon as possible. It will usually appear within half an hour. However, things hidden in this way can only be revealed once."

Yan Ruyu was slightly surprised; she had not expected this.

"Can it only be shown once?"

"Yes, it is said that the spices mixed into the ink are not easy to obtain. The one who can use this method must be extremely important. For the sake of safety, it is only revealed once to prevent the enemy from knowing the method. If it is used repeatedly, it will lose its meaning."

"That makes sense," Yan Ruyu asked, "Then what is added to the ink?"

Huo Zhongmao blushed: "I really don't know that."

"Don't worry, Princess. I will study it later."

"No hurry, take your time," Yan Ruyu didn't take the candle he handed over, "I'll leave this to you."

"Thank you, Princess."

"How are the incense and candles we sent to the temple today? Is everything going well?"

"Everything went smoothly. They were very satisfied and said they wanted long-term cooperation. I went again a few days later and they said it was useless and it still had to be settled on the contract."

Yan Ruyu was very relieved about Huo Zhongmao. She glanced at the recliner and said, "Don't work too hard on weekdays, and don't stay up late. Business is important, but health is more important."

"You are in charge here, and Mrs. Rong is in charge of the dim sum shop. If I get sick from overwork, people will say I have no moral integrity."

Huo Zhongmao said quickly: "What are you talking about, Princess? If you have no virtue, then there is no one with virtue in the world."

"If the princess hadn't helped us, we would have died on the road, let alone lived a good life. It's a great honor for my husband and I to be able to do something for the princess. My little daughter Qinxiang can still go to school and learn a lot, which is really..."

Yan Ruyu waved her hand: "Forget it, I just remind you to rest well and not overwork. Some things are not urgent, and you don't have to think about making your business big right away."

“It’s good to have steady growth.”

"There's no need to mention favors or anything like that. I said it from the beginning. What I need is not a buddy, but a partner."

Huo Zhongmao nodded repeatedly and wanted to say something else, but there was a sound on the stairs and the waiter said outside the door: "Princess, shopkeeper, Brother Song Pingsong is here to see you, Princess."

Song Ping is here, so there must be something going on.

Yan Ruyu asked Song Ping to come in and asked, "What's the matter?"

Song Ping said quickly, "Princess, according to the prince's instructions, we went to the governor's mansion early in the morning and reported that someone saw the master of the Wu family being pushed down the hillside and died. The yamen runners sent someone to bring the body back."

This was indeed the plan. Huo Changhe had arranged people last night. After they went back, they thought that something was not right with Old Master Wu. They thought that there must be something on Boss Wu's body that they had overlooked. They wanted to test it out and asked the bailiffs to take the body back to the morgue to see how Old Master Wu would react.

Zhao Yan came to pay a visit early this morning and reported what had happened. Yan Ruyu already knew the key points.

This plan is actually no longer useful.

Yan Ruyu said, "That's right. What about the body? Did you take it back?"

"We did bring it back, but..." Song Ping frowned slightly, "The corpse was ripped out by the evil spirits and was in tatters. The yamen runners who went to get the corpse were almost vomited from fear."

Yan Ruyu was stunned: "What? Where did this evil ghost come from?"