Lu Hua Zhi You Feng Lin Lou

After entering the villa, as expected, it is a deserted and empty village.

The dark guards turned on the lights in the yard and glanced around, but the scene of overgrown weeds did not appear. The yard must have been sprinkled with something. The dirt floor is very smooth, paved with clean bluestone slabs, and so is the house. It is intact and undamaged. Rows of wooden shelves are placed near the wall, surrounded by green vines. It looks very lively, and the strange atmosphere dissipates instantly, making people feel like they really entered someone by mistake. Like a summer retreat at home.

Lu Xiaofeng told the hidden guard: "Go inside and have a look."

The door of the hall was open, and one could see the empty ground inside, except for the necessary furniture, there was nothing superfluous.

Anfeng and Anhua went in holding fire sticks, and the room was lit up immediately. Looking up, there was a plaque of Shijing Hall hanging in the middle, and a picture of the four seasons of spring, flowers, autumn, moon, summer, rain, winter and snow hung on the wall next to it. made.The tables and chairs on both sides were neatly arranged, and upon closer inspection, a dust-proof bead was placed on each chair.

"There is no breath of life." Hua Manlou followed up, "But there is no smell of decay either."

Lu Xiaofeng nodded: "Indeed, it seems that there are still people living there."

Unlike the Qianxun Temple, which was hidden deep under the sea by an agency, it was sealed in dust, waiting for a specific moment to be opened by a specific person, so that people could see the appearance of the sleeping hall for the last time, and recall what happened in the past. The stories there, like a flash in the pan, eventually dispersed.

But this villa, the first impression they gave them after entering was not scary or desolate, but it seemed that everyone in the family had gone out, and they were just a group of outsiders who broke in unintentionally.

"Go look in the backyard and see if you find anything." Lu Xiaofeng said to An Feng, "Be careful."

The four of them responded and walked back separately.

"I think there's a very familiar smell here." Hua Manlou sniffed, and Night Breeze sent over a faint scent, which made him seem familiar.

Lu Xiaofeng trusted his nose and followed him out: "Where is it?"

Hua Manlou raised his hand to point in a direction.

Lu Xiaofeng leaped up to the roof and looked towards the side of the villa that Huamanlou was pointing at. Beyond the three-story courtyard wall, there was a vague mist, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

"I'll go over and have a look." He lowered his head and called to Hua Manlou, "You wait here for me."

But Hua Manlou had put away her fan and jumped up, with a calm expression, "I'll go with you."

Lu Xiaofeng was stunned for a moment, then the corners of his mouth curled up and down, and he leaned over to rub his cheeks with him, as if he thought he was a little fluffy chick: "Worry about me?" Hardly ever strayed ten paces away.

Hua Manlou's ears were reddish behind his hair, and he pushed him away: "I think this smell is very similar to that Bai Que's body, there should be a clue." After speaking, he went there first, without waiting people.

It's really serious and deserves to be rewarded with a little red flower.

Lu Xiaofeng followed behind and pretended to make a face. Now that Hua Qishao likes to investigate cases more than him, is this the so-called "marry a chicken and follow a chicken?"

Very good, very good.

When the two of them arrived at the place where the mist was transpiring, they saw that it was a natural hot spring lake, and it was hot under the moonlight.But what makes this hot spring unique is that its shape is very similar to a Taiji diagram, cut off by a winding stone wall in the middle, one side is transparent and white, and the other side is clear azure.And on the stone wall in the middle, there is a row of unknown flowers blooming. The green stems are neither spreading nor branching, and the light golden petals are huge and fluffy, swaying in the night wind, which has a special charm.

"What kind of flower is this?" Lu Xiaofeng saw such a beautiful flower for the first time, and couldn't help but want to pick one and show it to Huamanlou.

Hua Manlou couldn't see that he didn't know what was going on in his heart, and didn't care about reaching out to grab him, and dared to rush forward without knowing anything, and he wasn't afraid of being poisoned.

"It's okay, I just drank the wine soaked in the spring water of Ximen Chuixue's house yesterday, the effect of the medicine is probably not gone yet, it should be immune to all poisons now." Lu Xiaofeng patted his hand, "I'll pick it for you, you can smell it It's not this smell." There is a sulfur smell in the hot spring water, which will disturb Huamanlou's nose.

After Hua Manlou heard him talk about this place, he suddenly became entangled in the fact that there were flowers that he had never heard of.

"Ah!" Lu Xiaofeng yelled again, "There are bugs!"

"..." Hua Manlou hugged the person who jumped on him speechlessly, shouldn't he be afraid of bugs?

"No." Lu Xiaofeng was rarely surprised, "Just now a blue butterfly with a fat belly flew past my clothes, and it scared me. How come there are butterflies in only two months?"

Hua Manlou said: "Probably because there is a hot spring here, a blue butterfly with a fat belly? Is there a little black on the tip of the wing?"

Lu Xiaofeng glanced at the butterfly that landed on the petals, and nodded: "It's a little dark." Then he wondered, "How can this butterfly be so fat and chubby." It is not light.

Hua Manlou shook his head: "This is not a butterfly, but Yangxiangniang."

Lu Xiaofeng opened his mouth, Yangxiangniang?Is the textile girl her little sister?

Hua Manlou walked a few steps towards the pool, squatted down and looked down through the lake, although he couldn't see anything at all. "This hot spring is not for soaking, someone raised incense pearls in it."

Lu Xiaofeng knew that Huamanlou was well-informed, but he really couldn't understand the two words he said just now. Could it be that Emma was so ignorant and inexperienced that she was separated from Hua Qishao by such a long distance? Well, from now on, how can Qin Se and Ming raise their eyebrows together.

So he immediately humbly asked for advice: "What do you mean?"

"You know that in ordinary tombs, rich and noble families will hold Dingyan beads in their mouths, so that their appearance will not rot for ten thousand years." Huamanlou explained, "This incense burning beads are for living people. It is probably similar to the tortoise in martial arts. Just like the method of breathing, if a living person puts this incense bead on his body, it will make him not die or grow old as if he is in a dream."

Lu Xiaofeng was puzzled: "Then why not just use the method of turtle's breath?"

Hua Manlou said: "The method of tortoise breathing can only be used for a short period of time, and it is usually used to escape, but I heard that this incense burning pearl depends on the raising of Xiangniang to pass the incense from generation to generation, and it must be under suitable natural conditions for a hundred years. Breed one, and once it is triggered, it will make people fall into a deep sleep. But I have never seen it."

"So this bead is the same poison as intoxication?" Lu Xiaofeng shook off the goosebumps on his hands, luckily he didn't touch the flower.

Hua Manlou's legs became numb after squatting for a long time, and he helped him to stand up: "It's different, people who are intoxicated will die, but people who use incense beads will not die."

Lu Xiaofeng took a look at the hot spring, thought it was quite beautiful just now, but now it seems like a man-eating monster, pulling Hua Manlou to stay away: "Being asleep all the time, it's no different from being dead."

Hua Manlou sighed: "Not necessarily, if you hate someone so badly, and you can't let him die because of other reasons, you can give him incense beads and let him fall into a deep sleep in the most beautiful dream. A sweet torture, but also a merciful punishment."

Lu Xiaofeng was speechless: "Hua Man Lou, why do you have such weird thoughts?"

"It's not me." Hua Manlou tugged at his hair, "It's a story in a book. It is said that the incense beads were invented by a master incense maker. When he was about to die, his childhood sweetheart who had become the world's number one incense maker regretted his past and wanted to go to the underworld with him, but he refused and gave him incense beads. One went to death and the other slept forever. People will never see each other again.”

"What happened later?" Lu Xiaofeng was fascinated, "Is that childhood sweetheart dead?"

Hua Manlou lowered his voice and said, "Of course he couldn't die by himself, but one day his disciples burned him alive. It is said that it took three days and three nights to burn him alive, and there was a strange smell when he burned it. It stretches for ten miles, and the sound of two teenagers chatting and laughing can be heard in the hazy fragrance. The people who were present at that time fell ill after returning and almost died. That's why it was named Xiangfenzhu. After all, this Only the master incense maker who died first knows the original name of the bead."

Lu Xiaofeng swallowed, hearing this kind of story in the deep mountains and old forests was quite frightening.Then he looked up and saw Hua Manlou's narrow smile.

"Okay, you are full of flowers," he pounced on him and tickled him, "you actually deliberately scared me!"

Huamanlou naturally wanted to hide, laughing and protecting his itchy flesh from falling into the hands of someone who took advantage of it: "Where is it that I deliberately scare you, it is clear that you are timid, Lu Xiaofeng is afraid of ghost stories, who can tell?" letter."

When Anfeng came to find him, he saw his young master and uncle chasing each other and making a mess under the moonlight, and they could hear their sticky movements from a long distance away, squatting helplessly on the roof and picking out their ears , after trying for a long time, I found the opportunity to shout out:

"Master, we found a study room, do you want to come and see it?"

We have strayed into the ghost village now, are we looking for clues to investigate the case, please, please have a little bit of atmosphere, it is really sad for us familyless people who are glued to each other every day.In the past, when we all had no family, the young master always played with us wherever we went... Uh, just kidding.

Alas, when my son-in-law entered the door, the hidden guard threw it over the wall.

There was even a hint of jealousy.

Hua Manlou pulled Lu Xiaofeng's face to make him stand still, and straightened his messy clothes before seriously answering: "Well, we'll go there right away."

Double standards cost seven or less.

The study is behind the front hall. It is a single three-story building surrounded by emerald stone railings, and green vines are also wrapped around it. There are scattered colorful stones in front of the door, embedded in the soil. Chic, probably decades old.

"These are all valuable stones." Anxue and Anyue were squatting on the ground and trying to dig out.Although the owner is the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River and is not short of money, it is a gem that no one wants after all. It is not stupid to pick it up for nothing.

Anhua bent over to look at one railing after another. The railings were all made of rare jade, with exquisite pictures carved on them, and creatures that had never been seen before were lifelike.Just pull one out and carry it home, and you don’t have to do anything in the future. Marrying a wife and having a baby is enough for the baby to marry a wife and have a baby.

Lu Xiaofeng came over to take a look, but couldn't laugh or cry, this house is probably even more luxurious than the royal garden, yet no one has ever known about it.

Take the dust-proof beads in the front hall as an example, it is hard to find even one, but it is a bit too much to put one on each chair here.

Hua Manlou didn't care about these, he wanted to know what was in the study.

"Study?" Lu Xiaofeng looked curiously at the plaque on the door. In terms of the style of this manor, these two straightforward words are incompatible.

"There are still words below." An Feng held up a torch to show him.

It was only then that Lu Xiaofeng discovered that there were two small characters in the lower right corner of the word "study room": 常峣.The elegant Chang and the sharp Xi are not close to each other, separated by a very familiar figure in the middle.

He couldn't help showing a sneer, rubbed the phoenix ring on his right index finger, raised his head and tail, and drew it with ingenuity, it was a unique phoenix bird.

Hua Manlou listened to An Feng's talk, and raised his hand to hold Lu Xiaofeng's hand on the ring: "So someone wants us to come here. I just don't know who the owner of this place is." Chang, who is it? Could it be the person on the little statue whose name they still don't know?

But no matter what, they have constant contact with Lu Xiaofeng.

"Go ahead and have a look." Lu Xiaofeng took his hand and held it in his palm.Then he turned his head and said to the hidden guard who was still squatting on the ground, "When you go back later, pick up all the gems on the ground, don't keep any of them, and sell them for a tael of silver when you go back."

Since it belongs to my own family, why be polite.

The hidden guards burst into tears of joy, knowing that my uncle is not only a prodigal hero, but also a very rich man!She is completely worthy of our young master, and it is not a loss to marry him!

But my uncle doesn't seem to know how to do business, so how can I sell it for a tael of silver and return it to the second young master, guaranteeing that 1000 taels is a small amount, and it is gold, so I can make a huge profit.

Huamanlou opened the door one step ahead of Lu Xiaofeng, and a wind mingled with the fragrance of ink whistled out. The two of them instinctively raised their hands to cover their faces, and then looked up, only to see that there was only a tall and empty house in the three-story building outside. In the middle of the room, there is a hollow staircase spiraling upwards, with strings of wind chimes hanging on both sides, and accompanied by the ringing of the bells, are hanging silk scrolls, there are hundreds of scrolls, and all the paintings are A person, a person with different appearances from different angles and occasions.

The same person as the one on the Mutian portrait.