When Xiao Zibai woke up the next day, he saw a very familiar big bird in his arms.
... Big Bird looked at him expressionlessly, with some suspicious liquid still stained on his feathers.
"Hey, did I drool while I was sleeping?" After realizing what happened, Xiao Zibai yelled and tried to get away with it, but Tang Lin slapped him hard.
This morning Tang Lin's face was dark.Xiao Zibai knew he was in the wrong, and followed him when he went out, wanting to hold hands for fear of Tang Lin's resentment, he was unwilling to go far away, so he kept circling not far behind Tang Lin's buttocks.He followed Tang Lin as he walked, and watched Tang Lin eat. Tang Lin couldn't stand it anymore and pushed the breakfast in front of him.
Uh, but in all fairness, this possibility is really not completely impossible...
After being stared at by Xiao Zibai for a long time, Tang Lin finally blocked his mouth impatiently with a bun: "Eat your food, don't look at me!" He scolded, Xiao Zibai choked on the bun in his mouth After a while, I subconsciously wanted to swallow it, but I couldn't swallow the whole bun in a short time, but it was choked in my throat instead.
While Tang Lin disliked him, "Cultivators in the golden core period can still be choked!", he hurriedly poured soy milk on Xiao Zibai, and when he finally swallowed the buns, both of them breathed a sigh of relief. They were a little stiff before. The atmosphere has also dissipated into the invisible.
"I won't buy buns in the future." Tang Lin said, glanced at the remaining buns on the table, and pushed them aside with his hand.Xiao Zibai coughed twice, rubbed his throat and said: "It's okay, it's okay, you believe me, I will never be stuck by a bun next time!"
"Do you want another time?"
Tang Lin raised his eyebrows high, Xiao Zibai quickly stuck out his tongue, and begged for mercy: "No, no, there will never be a next time." He did not forget to glance at it carefully when he said it Tang Lin, there is a pun in the inside and outside the words.Tang Lin's eyes were fixed, and he snorted softly: He believed that Xiao Zibai would not be choked by a steamed stuffed bun next time, but will something like last night happen again...
"Next time, I will..." He said calmly, stretched out a finger, and stroked across the table lightly - leaving a long and deep scratch.
Xiao Zibai swallowed quietly, but quickly reminded in a low voice: "This is someone else's table."
The owner of the breakfast shop was bravely glaring at Tang Lin, his eyes were as cold as winter in March.
Tang Lin was silent for a few seconds, then patted an ingot of five taels of silver on the table, and said, "Shopkeeper, pay the bill."
The shopkeeper looked at Tang Lin with warm eyes immediately.
Xiao Zibai held back a few times and said, "Pfft!" Then he was attacked by Tang Lin's furious eye knife.
……
After leaving the breakfast shop, Tang Lin and Xiao Zibai began to search for cosmetic shops in the city.Probably because Le Lang Mansion itself is a prosperous town of rouge, there are quite a lot of cosmetic shops on Shiliba Street, and Tang Lin saw a shop from a distance before he left the breakfast shop.
After he saw the shop for the first time, he couldn't help but poked Xiao Zibai's waist, pointed to the shop and said, "Look." The door swung pretentiously.
At that moment Xiao Zibai's eyes were almost desperate.
"What's wrong with the people in this city!" He couldn't bear to blink and covered his eyes: "This kind of house! This kind of color scheme! Why do you like pink so much!"
Tang Lin held back a smile and pulled him towards the shop. Xiao Zibai struggled a little, then gave up, and buried himself listlessly in Tang Lin's arms, not wanting to look at the pink lantern at all.
"There are quite a lot of people around." Tang Lin looked at the crowd, reached out and patted Xiao Zibai's shoulder, motioning him to get up from his arms.Xiao Zibai arched in his arms, because his face was buried in Tang Lin's arms, and his voice was muffled when he spoke. "So what if there are too many people." He simply put his arms around Tang Lin's waist: "There is nothing shameful about us."
He was a little angry when he said this, Tang Lin knew why he was angry, reached out and rubbed the top of his hair affectionately: "I don't think we are shameful or anything, it's just that you lie on top of me I can't go too far...we'll get in the way."
Justified.
Xiao Zibai raised his head from Tang Lin's arms unhappily, glanced around briefly, and after confirming Tang Lin's words, he reluctantly straightened up, pulled his hand, and said, "Let's go."
Even though he knew that Tang Lin was telling the truth, Xiao Zibai's mood was still uncontrollably depressed. Tang Lin sighed softly: "No, I'll leave later." At this moment, he took the opportunity to lower his head and kissed Xiao Zibai's forehead.
"Okay, we can go now." Tang Lin pursed his lips and clapped his palms in satisfaction.
When Xiao Zibai was being led by him to walk into the rouge shop, every step was as light as stepping on a cloud.Tang Lin originally thought that he would recover soon, but this time he floated for a long time, until they walked into the shop, Xiao Zibai still looked like he could float into the sky at any time as long as Tang Lin let go .
Tang Lin looked at him again and again, and finally couldn't help covering his forehead: "It's not the first time, I've been an old man for so long, why is your reaction so strong?" It's just a kiss!Just a kiss!Tang Lin really couldn't understand Xiao Zibai's brain circuit.He also hit the home plate and hit the sidelines, tried various postures, how come now, a simple kiss can make him... make him... rippling like this?
Probably awakened by Tang Lin's voice, Xiao Zibai finally fell from the sky to the ground.Facing Tang Lin's question, after thinking for a while, he still shook his head inexplicably: "I don't know why I am so happy, but to be honest, the moment you kissed me, I It feels like the whole world lights up."
When he spoke, his expression was very serious. Tang Lin blushed a little, and said to him with a half-joke: "Tell me honestly, did you secretly read some love stories or something? "Teaching You How to Chase" How about "Taoist Companion"?" Xiao Zibai shook his head solemnly: "I only read "One Hundred Forms of Dual Cultivation Guide"."
Tang Lin: "...What is that!"
In fact, when he asked this question, Tang Lin had already clearly realized "what is that", but he still looked at Xiao Zibai with the last ray of hope, but Xiao Zibai smiled brightly at him, seemingly tactful but actually Straightforwardly: "Didn't you notice that I've changed my style recently?"
"...I thought it was just a whim on your part." Tang Lin was silent for a moment, then quickly changed the subject: "Let's take a look at the cosmetics of this store, I'll see if there is any evil spirit, you should write down the brand first, wait I will go to another place to compare."
Xiao Zibai nodded his head clearly, and said hello with a smile.
The layout of this cosmetic powder shop looks quite exquisite, and the cosmetic powder and balm inside can be regarded as a dazzling array.Among the men who bought makeup for their wives/lover in the store, Xiao Zibai and Tang Lin were not very conspicuous. They looked the same as every customer who came to the store to choose makeup—maybe even more picky.
Xiao Zibai was fine, he just took a quick look, but Tang Lin seriously took a close look at every kind of makeup, and after looking at it, he didn't have any intention of buying it, which provoked the shopkeeper Lots of supercilious looks from guys.
He didn't care about it: Tang Lin didn't want to buy makeup in the first place, he was just trying to distinguish the evil spirit in the makeup.
Now Tang Lin's sense of smell is getting sharper and sharper, but sometimes an overly keen sense of smell is not a good thing.For example, at this moment, the smell of hundreds of kinds of cosmetic powder swirls on the tip of his nose, Tang Lin needs to use all his willpower to restrain his urge to sneeze.He took the trouble to look at the cosmetics one by one, while Xiao Zibai memorized them all by the side.After a while, they raised their heads at the same time, and their eyes met in mid-air for a moment: How are you?
I'm ready.
After their eyes met, they tacitly merged into the crowd of people in the store. Tang Lin walked outside the store with ease under the waiter's disgusted eyes, but Xiao Zibai took a few cosmetic boxes and went to the shopkeeper to pay the bill.
"I now feel that there is something wrong with Le Lang Mansion." When Xiao Zibai was paying the bill, Tang Lin carefully said to him through the contract: "Either my sense of smell is wrong, or... this shop sells There is a demon in every kind of makeup."
Xiao Zibai paid the bill without hesitation: "I also feel that something is wrong with this city. Do you know? I just found out that the cosmetics sold in this shop are all produced in the same place."
Tang Lin opened his eyes wide in surprise, Xiao Zibai walked out holding a powder box to meet his gaze, and lightly lightened the lid of one of the exquisite powder boxes to him: on the lid of the box, a small The colorful butterflies are about to fly away.
--Butterfly.
Tang Lin's expression was in a daze for a moment, and Xiao Zibai's voice was still ringing in his heart through the contract: "Do you still remember the Langhuan Wonderland? Is that what the big butterfly looks like when it shrinks? And those Flowers... I just asked, and they said that these rouges are all squeezed out of flower juice..."
--rouge.
How many prefectures were destroyed in a row?Three or four?Anyway, there are definitely more than two, he remembers seeing "several" mortal towns!Tang Lin tried his best to dig out more clues from the original text of the few words, but Xiao Zibai still told him through the contract: "I really should have investigated Langhuan Wonderland at the beginning. If things are really like that , they must have a place to make demon flowers into rouge, so many flowers can't let them wither..."
——The demon flower.
Butterflies cultivate demon flowers, which are made into rouge.Several questions seem to be interlocking, but after careful consideration, they feel wrong, as if something is missing.
...what is missing?
Tang Lin's temples hurt a little, he closed his eyes, the dazzling sunlight turned warm red through the eyelids.Xiao Zibai, who had been chattering all this time, finally realized that something was wrong with Tang Lin. He closed his mouth, stuffed those obstructive powder boxes into the storage bag in his arms, and strode over to massage Tang Lin's temples. Rubbing, Tang Lin suddenly asked him: "Do you feel that these things seem to be connected by a thread?"
Xiao Zibai was taken aback by this nonsensical question, but soon he got into the mood, and while giving Tang Lin a massage, he thought about it and said: "These things are definitely not pure coincidences, but I don't know if they are. What connects them together. How complicated is it to collect mortals for alchemy?"
"I'm afraid the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes is not to use mortals to make alchemy." Tang Lin opened his eyes, and said in a cold voice: "His courage must be very strong."
Several prefectures, with tens of millions of people, were destroyed overnight, just to pour a basin of dirty water on his head that couldn't be washed away.
Xiao Zibai stopped massaging Tang Lin's temples, he was silent for a few seconds, and said in a casual tone: "That's right, maybe the whole city is like a net, and the demon flowers of Hecang Mansion are all over the place. It seems that there are quite a few rouge shops in Le Lang Prefecture, if they attack together, they will be on fire everywhere."
"We have already destroyed those flowers in the Hecang Mansion." Tang Lin said suddenly, he grabbed Xiao Zibai's hand suddenly, his fingers were icy cold, even colder than Xiao Zibai who is an ice spirit body Body temperature: "If it's just a simple interlocking chain line, the collapse of the previous link will inevitably have an impact on the next link-but the demon flowers on the side of Hecang Mansion are destroyed, and the rouge in Le Lang Mansion Still selling, where do their raw materials come from?"
"Hoarding? Flowers are not like other things. They will gradually dry out after being picked for a long time, and there will be no juice at all. Like these rouges, they are all made of fresh flowers. Could someone Are you hoarding flowers in large quantities for possible accidents? Even if it is frozen or stored in a storage bag, although it can be kept fresh, how could someone be so troublesome?"
Tang Lin spoke quickly all the way down, but stopped when he said this.He tightly grasped Xiao Zibai's hand, rolled his Adam's apple with difficulty, and an answer was ready to come out in his throat.
... What they found was not a thread, but a net.
A carefully woven, radiating web.
The place where demon flowers are planted is not limited to Langhuan Fairyland, and the city where demon flowers are everywhere is not only Hecang Mansion, there must be other, more bases where demon flowers are planted.There is more than one place where demon flowers are grown, so what about the place that sells rouge?Is it only Lelang Province?Where is rouge made?And how is it transported from the place of planting and production to the place of sale?
Hecang Mansion?Le Lang Province?It's just a glimpse of the leopard.
How big is the power hidden behind this?Tang Lin didn't dare to think about it any further, and he was not even willing to say that guess.
Xiao Zibai hugged him quietly, and gently kissed Tang Lin's cheek.
"It's okay." He said softly, as if he knew what Tang Lin was worried about. Xiao Zibai held Tang Lin in his arms, shook him for a while, and then said: "They are very powerful. The power is not small."
"I don't know how much hidden power the Beastmaster Sect has, but I know that from the cultivation world to the mortal world, any weapon shop that sells swords, knives and axes is more or less related to Lingshan Sword Sect." As he spoke, he hugged Tang Lin vigorously: "The knife seller, the sword seller, the sword maker, the knife maker, the ore digger, the ore seller... Look, if you think about it this way, isn't it a more A bigger net? Does it sound scarier than selling rouge?"
"Although such a big stall is useless-there is no fighting in the cultivation world, and there are few people buying weapons. We, the largest weapon dealer, are already poor enough to sell! We are bodyguards and nurses-but even so Poor, my master and the others never thought about letting go of the resources in their hands."
"So if you go to a mine and take a closer look, you may find: Hey, this mine belongs to Lingshan Sword Sect! Then you go to another mine, and take a closer look: Hey, this mine belongs to the Lingshan Sword Sect! It is also from the Lingshan Sword Sect! Three thousand worlds, which world does not have Lingshan’s mines or weapon shops? We just saw some rouge demon flowers in the mansions of two mortals, it doesn’t matter. If who The business is full of comprehension circles, so we can still look at him... It's just a look."
Xiao Zibai stroked Tang Lin's hair, and comforted him, "Don't worry, nothing will happen. You see, the places that person chose are all blank spaces without any cultivation forces, and he also knows that he can't see them." It’s light. Let’s go back and report this matter, saying that the situation is much more serious than we thought at first, and that will naturally attract everyone’s attention.”
"In any case, the combined strength of everyone is always stronger than what the two of us have imagined here?"
He finally concluded that Tang Lin forced a smile and leaned lightly on Xiao Zibai's body.
"Let's go to another rouge shop." He whispered to Xiao Zibai: "At least we need to find some evidence to prove that there is a connection between the events in Hecang Mansion and Le Lang Mansion. Butterfly demon flower rouge and the like , It's just our own guess, if we really want to say... we need to find evidence."
Xiao Zibai nodded, but he didn't let go of Tang Lin's arms.
They hugged quietly for a while, washed away by the gradually bustling crowd, and finally parted reluctantly, but still holding hands, they started looking for other cosmetic shops together.
The second, the third, the fourth... When he came out of the fifth cosmetic shop, Xiao Zibai suddenly pinched Tang Lin's palm and asked him: "Have you noticed any similarities between these cosmetic shops?" ?”
Tang Lin has not yet reacted: his nose is still immersed in the aftertaste of various aromas, and he is struggling to fight against the urge to sneeze.Seeing his appearance, Xiao Zibai didn't leave any suspense at all, and said directly: "There is a pink lantern hanging at the door of every shop."
"Lanterns of the same color as the ones I saw in the flower street in the west of the city that day."
"Really, what a coincidence?" Tang Lin rubbed his nose, and there was a gleam of interest in his eyes.He and Xiao Zibai exchanged glances, and when he walked into the next shop, he pretended to inquire about those lanterns casually.
If the guy answered that the color of the lantern is an industry rule, it wouldn’t attract people’s attention, but the guy’s answer was: "Our boss likes this color." After changing to the next one, the answer was very different. The selected lanterns are based on the shape, not the color.Change to another house, and the statement is even different.After Rushi changed several stores, they were basically sure: there must be something wrong with the pink lantern.
It's just... what's the problem?
They wandered outside from the dawn until it was dark, and when the thousands of lights in the city lit up one by one, the two of them still had no clue.Xiao Zibai thought about it, and suggested to Tang Lin: "Maybe we can think about it carefully, what is the connection between these places with lanterns?"
"This is fine." After being awakened by his words, Tang Lin's eyes suddenly lit up: Yes, in Lelangfu City, places with pink lanterns are not only cosmetic shops, but also Chengxi Flower Street The various flower houses in the garden.
And what is the common connection between Hualou and Zhifenpu?
——Women, women who live in a flower building and wear various kinds of makeup; or those singing girls and prostitutes with different styles, winking eyes like silk, and smiling while leaning on the building.
After Tang Lin told Xiao Zibai about the connection he had just discovered, the latter immediately remembered the Gulidaisi he met in the flower building yesterday, and couldn't help frowning and asked Tang Lin: "Speaking of singers and prostitutes?" Son... What did you do this morning to give that woman a bank note? You said you were going out to do business... What if she really asks you to open a shop?"
"Then open it." Tang Lin didn't care about it at all: "Opening a shop in Mortal City, even if it takes 300 years, how many spirit stones can it cost? Besides, if she is really willing to come out Maybe the fish bread business will be very prosperous: to be honest, the fish cakes she cuts are quite delicious.”
"But you gave her back the token!" Xiao Zibai refused to let go, Tang Lin smiled at him, and took off a small storage bag from his waist to show him: "It was when I was practicing magic weapon making. Look, there are a lot of leftovers.” As he spoke, he shook the storage bag in his hand, and the piles of jade plaques and iron pieces inside were knocked upside down by Tang Lin’s movements. There was a loud bang.
Xiao Zibai endured for a moment, and finally couldn't help but said: "...Why are you so special to her?"
The jealousy in these words was so strong that Tang Lin's nose, which had been hurt by various scents all day, could smell it, and he couldn't help laughing.
"I'm not special to her? If I say special, I'm only special to you."
Tang Lin smiled lightly and shook his head, then pointed at Xiao Zibai's forehead: "You have always had a good memory, don't you just remember my jade badge and silver ticket, and forget the name I gave her at that time?"
Give her... name?
Xiao Zibai's eyes lit up little by little, he thought of something, but he couldn't believe what he thought.
"You...you mean..." Xiao Zibai said Qiaiai, Tang Lin sighed lowly, walked over and put his forehead against his.
"We're not short of a wedding anyway."
As he said this, the tip of his nose lightly touched Xiao Zibai's.
... Big Bird looked at him expressionlessly, with some suspicious liquid still stained on his feathers.
"Hey, did I drool while I was sleeping?" After realizing what happened, Xiao Zibai yelled and tried to get away with it, but Tang Lin slapped him hard.
This morning Tang Lin's face was dark.Xiao Zibai knew he was in the wrong, and followed him when he went out, wanting to hold hands for fear of Tang Lin's resentment, he was unwilling to go far away, so he kept circling not far behind Tang Lin's buttocks.He followed Tang Lin as he walked, and watched Tang Lin eat. Tang Lin couldn't stand it anymore and pushed the breakfast in front of him.
Uh, but in all fairness, this possibility is really not completely impossible...
After being stared at by Xiao Zibai for a long time, Tang Lin finally blocked his mouth impatiently with a bun: "Eat your food, don't look at me!" He scolded, Xiao Zibai choked on the bun in his mouth After a while, I subconsciously wanted to swallow it, but I couldn't swallow the whole bun in a short time, but it was choked in my throat instead.
While Tang Lin disliked him, "Cultivators in the golden core period can still be choked!", he hurriedly poured soy milk on Xiao Zibai, and when he finally swallowed the buns, both of them breathed a sigh of relief. They were a little stiff before. The atmosphere has also dissipated into the invisible.
"I won't buy buns in the future." Tang Lin said, glanced at the remaining buns on the table, and pushed them aside with his hand.Xiao Zibai coughed twice, rubbed his throat and said: "It's okay, it's okay, you believe me, I will never be stuck by a bun next time!"
"Do you want another time?"
Tang Lin raised his eyebrows high, Xiao Zibai quickly stuck out his tongue, and begged for mercy: "No, no, there will never be a next time." He did not forget to glance at it carefully when he said it Tang Lin, there is a pun in the inside and outside the words.Tang Lin's eyes were fixed, and he snorted softly: He believed that Xiao Zibai would not be choked by a steamed stuffed bun next time, but will something like last night happen again...
"Next time, I will..." He said calmly, stretched out a finger, and stroked across the table lightly - leaving a long and deep scratch.
Xiao Zibai swallowed quietly, but quickly reminded in a low voice: "This is someone else's table."
The owner of the breakfast shop was bravely glaring at Tang Lin, his eyes were as cold as winter in March.
Tang Lin was silent for a few seconds, then patted an ingot of five taels of silver on the table, and said, "Shopkeeper, pay the bill."
The shopkeeper looked at Tang Lin with warm eyes immediately.
Xiao Zibai held back a few times and said, "Pfft!" Then he was attacked by Tang Lin's furious eye knife.
……
After leaving the breakfast shop, Tang Lin and Xiao Zibai began to search for cosmetic shops in the city.Probably because Le Lang Mansion itself is a prosperous town of rouge, there are quite a lot of cosmetic shops on Shiliba Street, and Tang Lin saw a shop from a distance before he left the breakfast shop.
After he saw the shop for the first time, he couldn't help but poked Xiao Zibai's waist, pointed to the shop and said, "Look." The door swung pretentiously.
At that moment Xiao Zibai's eyes were almost desperate.
"What's wrong with the people in this city!" He couldn't bear to blink and covered his eyes: "This kind of house! This kind of color scheme! Why do you like pink so much!"
Tang Lin held back a smile and pulled him towards the shop. Xiao Zibai struggled a little, then gave up, and buried himself listlessly in Tang Lin's arms, not wanting to look at the pink lantern at all.
"There are quite a lot of people around." Tang Lin looked at the crowd, reached out and patted Xiao Zibai's shoulder, motioning him to get up from his arms.Xiao Zibai arched in his arms, because his face was buried in Tang Lin's arms, and his voice was muffled when he spoke. "So what if there are too many people." He simply put his arms around Tang Lin's waist: "There is nothing shameful about us."
He was a little angry when he said this, Tang Lin knew why he was angry, reached out and rubbed the top of his hair affectionately: "I don't think we are shameful or anything, it's just that you lie on top of me I can't go too far...we'll get in the way."
Justified.
Xiao Zibai raised his head from Tang Lin's arms unhappily, glanced around briefly, and after confirming Tang Lin's words, he reluctantly straightened up, pulled his hand, and said, "Let's go."
Even though he knew that Tang Lin was telling the truth, Xiao Zibai's mood was still uncontrollably depressed. Tang Lin sighed softly: "No, I'll leave later." At this moment, he took the opportunity to lower his head and kissed Xiao Zibai's forehead.
"Okay, we can go now." Tang Lin pursed his lips and clapped his palms in satisfaction.
When Xiao Zibai was being led by him to walk into the rouge shop, every step was as light as stepping on a cloud.Tang Lin originally thought that he would recover soon, but this time he floated for a long time, until they walked into the shop, Xiao Zibai still looked like he could float into the sky at any time as long as Tang Lin let go .
Tang Lin looked at him again and again, and finally couldn't help covering his forehead: "It's not the first time, I've been an old man for so long, why is your reaction so strong?" It's just a kiss!Just a kiss!Tang Lin really couldn't understand Xiao Zibai's brain circuit.He also hit the home plate and hit the sidelines, tried various postures, how come now, a simple kiss can make him... make him... rippling like this?
Probably awakened by Tang Lin's voice, Xiao Zibai finally fell from the sky to the ground.Facing Tang Lin's question, after thinking for a while, he still shook his head inexplicably: "I don't know why I am so happy, but to be honest, the moment you kissed me, I It feels like the whole world lights up."
When he spoke, his expression was very serious. Tang Lin blushed a little, and said to him with a half-joke: "Tell me honestly, did you secretly read some love stories or something? "Teaching You How to Chase" How about "Taoist Companion"?" Xiao Zibai shook his head solemnly: "I only read "One Hundred Forms of Dual Cultivation Guide"."
Tang Lin: "...What is that!"
In fact, when he asked this question, Tang Lin had already clearly realized "what is that", but he still looked at Xiao Zibai with the last ray of hope, but Xiao Zibai smiled brightly at him, seemingly tactful but actually Straightforwardly: "Didn't you notice that I've changed my style recently?"
"...I thought it was just a whim on your part." Tang Lin was silent for a moment, then quickly changed the subject: "Let's take a look at the cosmetics of this store, I'll see if there is any evil spirit, you should write down the brand first, wait I will go to another place to compare."
Xiao Zibai nodded his head clearly, and said hello with a smile.
The layout of this cosmetic powder shop looks quite exquisite, and the cosmetic powder and balm inside can be regarded as a dazzling array.Among the men who bought makeup for their wives/lover in the store, Xiao Zibai and Tang Lin were not very conspicuous. They looked the same as every customer who came to the store to choose makeup—maybe even more picky.
Xiao Zibai was fine, he just took a quick look, but Tang Lin seriously took a close look at every kind of makeup, and after looking at it, he didn't have any intention of buying it, which provoked the shopkeeper Lots of supercilious looks from guys.
He didn't care about it: Tang Lin didn't want to buy makeup in the first place, he was just trying to distinguish the evil spirit in the makeup.
Now Tang Lin's sense of smell is getting sharper and sharper, but sometimes an overly keen sense of smell is not a good thing.For example, at this moment, the smell of hundreds of kinds of cosmetic powder swirls on the tip of his nose, Tang Lin needs to use all his willpower to restrain his urge to sneeze.He took the trouble to look at the cosmetics one by one, while Xiao Zibai memorized them all by the side.After a while, they raised their heads at the same time, and their eyes met in mid-air for a moment: How are you?
I'm ready.
After their eyes met, they tacitly merged into the crowd of people in the store. Tang Lin walked outside the store with ease under the waiter's disgusted eyes, but Xiao Zibai took a few cosmetic boxes and went to the shopkeeper to pay the bill.
"I now feel that there is something wrong with Le Lang Mansion." When Xiao Zibai was paying the bill, Tang Lin carefully said to him through the contract: "Either my sense of smell is wrong, or... this shop sells There is a demon in every kind of makeup."
Xiao Zibai paid the bill without hesitation: "I also feel that something is wrong with this city. Do you know? I just found out that the cosmetics sold in this shop are all produced in the same place."
Tang Lin opened his eyes wide in surprise, Xiao Zibai walked out holding a powder box to meet his gaze, and lightly lightened the lid of one of the exquisite powder boxes to him: on the lid of the box, a small The colorful butterflies are about to fly away.
--Butterfly.
Tang Lin's expression was in a daze for a moment, and Xiao Zibai's voice was still ringing in his heart through the contract: "Do you still remember the Langhuan Wonderland? Is that what the big butterfly looks like when it shrinks? And those Flowers... I just asked, and they said that these rouges are all squeezed out of flower juice..."
--rouge.
How many prefectures were destroyed in a row?Three or four?Anyway, there are definitely more than two, he remembers seeing "several" mortal towns!Tang Lin tried his best to dig out more clues from the original text of the few words, but Xiao Zibai still told him through the contract: "I really should have investigated Langhuan Wonderland at the beginning. If things are really like that , they must have a place to make demon flowers into rouge, so many flowers can't let them wither..."
——The demon flower.
Butterflies cultivate demon flowers, which are made into rouge.Several questions seem to be interlocking, but after careful consideration, they feel wrong, as if something is missing.
...what is missing?
Tang Lin's temples hurt a little, he closed his eyes, the dazzling sunlight turned warm red through the eyelids.Xiao Zibai, who had been chattering all this time, finally realized that something was wrong with Tang Lin. He closed his mouth, stuffed those obstructive powder boxes into the storage bag in his arms, and strode over to massage Tang Lin's temples. Rubbing, Tang Lin suddenly asked him: "Do you feel that these things seem to be connected by a thread?"
Xiao Zibai was taken aback by this nonsensical question, but soon he got into the mood, and while giving Tang Lin a massage, he thought about it and said: "These things are definitely not pure coincidences, but I don't know if they are. What connects them together. How complicated is it to collect mortals for alchemy?"
"I'm afraid the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes is not to use mortals to make alchemy." Tang Lin opened his eyes, and said in a cold voice: "His courage must be very strong."
Several prefectures, with tens of millions of people, were destroyed overnight, just to pour a basin of dirty water on his head that couldn't be washed away.
Xiao Zibai stopped massaging Tang Lin's temples, he was silent for a few seconds, and said in a casual tone: "That's right, maybe the whole city is like a net, and the demon flowers of Hecang Mansion are all over the place. It seems that there are quite a few rouge shops in Le Lang Prefecture, if they attack together, they will be on fire everywhere."
"We have already destroyed those flowers in the Hecang Mansion." Tang Lin said suddenly, he grabbed Xiao Zibai's hand suddenly, his fingers were icy cold, even colder than Xiao Zibai who is an ice spirit body Body temperature: "If it's just a simple interlocking chain line, the collapse of the previous link will inevitably have an impact on the next link-but the demon flowers on the side of Hecang Mansion are destroyed, and the rouge in Le Lang Mansion Still selling, where do their raw materials come from?"
"Hoarding? Flowers are not like other things. They will gradually dry out after being picked for a long time, and there will be no juice at all. Like these rouges, they are all made of fresh flowers. Could someone Are you hoarding flowers in large quantities for possible accidents? Even if it is frozen or stored in a storage bag, although it can be kept fresh, how could someone be so troublesome?"
Tang Lin spoke quickly all the way down, but stopped when he said this.He tightly grasped Xiao Zibai's hand, rolled his Adam's apple with difficulty, and an answer was ready to come out in his throat.
... What they found was not a thread, but a net.
A carefully woven, radiating web.
The place where demon flowers are planted is not limited to Langhuan Fairyland, and the city where demon flowers are everywhere is not only Hecang Mansion, there must be other, more bases where demon flowers are planted.There is more than one place where demon flowers are grown, so what about the place that sells rouge?Is it only Lelang Province?Where is rouge made?And how is it transported from the place of planting and production to the place of sale?
Hecang Mansion?Le Lang Province?It's just a glimpse of the leopard.
How big is the power hidden behind this?Tang Lin didn't dare to think about it any further, and he was not even willing to say that guess.
Xiao Zibai hugged him quietly, and gently kissed Tang Lin's cheek.
"It's okay." He said softly, as if he knew what Tang Lin was worried about. Xiao Zibai held Tang Lin in his arms, shook him for a while, and then said: "They are very powerful. The power is not small."
"I don't know how much hidden power the Beastmaster Sect has, but I know that from the cultivation world to the mortal world, any weapon shop that sells swords, knives and axes is more or less related to Lingshan Sword Sect." As he spoke, he hugged Tang Lin vigorously: "The knife seller, the sword seller, the sword maker, the knife maker, the ore digger, the ore seller... Look, if you think about it this way, isn't it a more A bigger net? Does it sound scarier than selling rouge?"
"Although such a big stall is useless-there is no fighting in the cultivation world, and there are few people buying weapons. We, the largest weapon dealer, are already poor enough to sell! We are bodyguards and nurses-but even so Poor, my master and the others never thought about letting go of the resources in their hands."
"So if you go to a mine and take a closer look, you may find: Hey, this mine belongs to Lingshan Sword Sect! Then you go to another mine, and take a closer look: Hey, this mine belongs to the Lingshan Sword Sect! It is also from the Lingshan Sword Sect! Three thousand worlds, which world does not have Lingshan’s mines or weapon shops? We just saw some rouge demon flowers in the mansions of two mortals, it doesn’t matter. If who The business is full of comprehension circles, so we can still look at him... It's just a look."
Xiao Zibai stroked Tang Lin's hair, and comforted him, "Don't worry, nothing will happen. You see, the places that person chose are all blank spaces without any cultivation forces, and he also knows that he can't see them." It’s light. Let’s go back and report this matter, saying that the situation is much more serious than we thought at first, and that will naturally attract everyone’s attention.”
"In any case, the combined strength of everyone is always stronger than what the two of us have imagined here?"
He finally concluded that Tang Lin forced a smile and leaned lightly on Xiao Zibai's body.
"Let's go to another rouge shop." He whispered to Xiao Zibai: "At least we need to find some evidence to prove that there is a connection between the events in Hecang Mansion and Le Lang Mansion. Butterfly demon flower rouge and the like , It's just our own guess, if we really want to say... we need to find evidence."
Xiao Zibai nodded, but he didn't let go of Tang Lin's arms.
They hugged quietly for a while, washed away by the gradually bustling crowd, and finally parted reluctantly, but still holding hands, they started looking for other cosmetic shops together.
The second, the third, the fourth... When he came out of the fifth cosmetic shop, Xiao Zibai suddenly pinched Tang Lin's palm and asked him: "Have you noticed any similarities between these cosmetic shops?" ?”
Tang Lin has not yet reacted: his nose is still immersed in the aftertaste of various aromas, and he is struggling to fight against the urge to sneeze.Seeing his appearance, Xiao Zibai didn't leave any suspense at all, and said directly: "There is a pink lantern hanging at the door of every shop."
"Lanterns of the same color as the ones I saw in the flower street in the west of the city that day."
"Really, what a coincidence?" Tang Lin rubbed his nose, and there was a gleam of interest in his eyes.He and Xiao Zibai exchanged glances, and when he walked into the next shop, he pretended to inquire about those lanterns casually.
If the guy answered that the color of the lantern is an industry rule, it wouldn’t attract people’s attention, but the guy’s answer was: "Our boss likes this color." After changing to the next one, the answer was very different. The selected lanterns are based on the shape, not the color.Change to another house, and the statement is even different.After Rushi changed several stores, they were basically sure: there must be something wrong with the pink lantern.
It's just... what's the problem?
They wandered outside from the dawn until it was dark, and when the thousands of lights in the city lit up one by one, the two of them still had no clue.Xiao Zibai thought about it, and suggested to Tang Lin: "Maybe we can think about it carefully, what is the connection between these places with lanterns?"
"This is fine." After being awakened by his words, Tang Lin's eyes suddenly lit up: Yes, in Lelangfu City, places with pink lanterns are not only cosmetic shops, but also Chengxi Flower Street The various flower houses in the garden.
And what is the common connection between Hualou and Zhifenpu?
——Women, women who live in a flower building and wear various kinds of makeup; or those singing girls and prostitutes with different styles, winking eyes like silk, and smiling while leaning on the building.
After Tang Lin told Xiao Zibai about the connection he had just discovered, the latter immediately remembered the Gulidaisi he met in the flower building yesterday, and couldn't help frowning and asked Tang Lin: "Speaking of singers and prostitutes?" Son... What did you do this morning to give that woman a bank note? You said you were going out to do business... What if she really asks you to open a shop?"
"Then open it." Tang Lin didn't care about it at all: "Opening a shop in Mortal City, even if it takes 300 years, how many spirit stones can it cost? Besides, if she is really willing to come out Maybe the fish bread business will be very prosperous: to be honest, the fish cakes she cuts are quite delicious.”
"But you gave her back the token!" Xiao Zibai refused to let go, Tang Lin smiled at him, and took off a small storage bag from his waist to show him: "It was when I was practicing magic weapon making. Look, there are a lot of leftovers.” As he spoke, he shook the storage bag in his hand, and the piles of jade plaques and iron pieces inside were knocked upside down by Tang Lin’s movements. There was a loud bang.
Xiao Zibai endured for a moment, and finally couldn't help but said: "...Why are you so special to her?"
The jealousy in these words was so strong that Tang Lin's nose, which had been hurt by various scents all day, could smell it, and he couldn't help laughing.
"I'm not special to her? If I say special, I'm only special to you."
Tang Lin smiled lightly and shook his head, then pointed at Xiao Zibai's forehead: "You have always had a good memory, don't you just remember my jade badge and silver ticket, and forget the name I gave her at that time?"
Give her... name?
Xiao Zibai's eyes lit up little by little, he thought of something, but he couldn't believe what he thought.
"You...you mean..." Xiao Zibai said Qiaiai, Tang Lin sighed lowly, walked over and put his forehead against his.
"We're not short of a wedding anyway."
As he said this, the tip of his nose lightly touched Xiao Zibai's.
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