Jiang Qing

On the No. 14th floor of the Tower of Rebirth, in the room facing Bai Bingchen, "Young Master" is leaning against the window, holding a diorama in one hand, watching every move of Bai Bingchen in the opposite room.

A pot of new tea was brewing on the table of the starving ghost, and Bai Bingchen was bored of waiting and was pouring the tea.

It's just such an ordinary movement, but the young master stared at it for a long time. He stretched out his hand in the void to make a gesture of holding a cup. In contrast to Bai Bingchen's movements, he drank tea with his eyes down, and put the cup with a flick of his sleeve. Subtle expression and posture.

The starving ghost who had been standing beside him for a long time bowed his head silently, rubbing his thin hands, hesitant to speak.

It wasn't until Bai Bingchen stopped his movements and lowered his hair in a daze that the young master stopped imitating. He looked at himself in the mirror, stroked the corners of his eyes, and sighed regretfully: "I can't learn this look. If he stays here for a long time, he may be able to learn a little bit by comparison."

Hearing this, the starving ghost immediately flattered him and said, "Shall I arrest him for you?"

The young master rolled his eyes and saw that the starved ghost lowered his head before he said slowly: "It's much more useful for him to stay outside than inside. You've stayed here long enough, I'm afraid the two distinguished guests won't be able to sit down." Come on, take the list of hanged ghosts with you."

The starved ghost was only dissatisfied with the price that Mei Shao offered just now, and his heart was already itching. Even though he knew that there was another purpose for entertaining these two young masters, the starved ghost still tried tentatively: "Then Mei Shao mentioned it just now. Is your business still available?"

The young master flipped through the roster and found the names of Mei Shao and Bai Bingchen, and tapped them with his slender fingers.

He smiled and glanced at the anxious look of the starving ghost monkey, wrote down Mei Shao's dark marriage, and blew on the ink that was still wet: "I am also considered the beauty of an adult, and I have fulfilled his wish. I will give the list to you later." You should know how to let Bai Bingchen discover this good thing without any trace."

"Mei and Bai." The young master said with a smile, "It wouldn't be a good show without either of these two people."

Holding the eyebrow pencil on the dressing table, the young master added a few strokes to the mirror, and asked, "Did you find the scroll?"

"No..." The starved ghost muttered, burying his head even lower, not daring to make a sound.

When the frozen air was about to suffocate him, the starving ghost finally heard a jeer: "An old man can't catch it, what a bunch of waste!"

After being scolded, the starving ghost calmed down quickly. As long as the young master is willing to get angry, he can barely keep his head.

"The old man is not young, but his feet are fast. He has already sent the best follower, but he still lost several times." The starved ghost quickly poured out all the progress.

"Forget it. Let the hag come back from Wudu. Although it is unusual for Tong Shen to enter the capital this time, she has gone to investigate for so long and there is no result. The clue must have been broken long ago. Let her go directly to find the scroll. You don’t need to report to the officers, you can adjust them yourself.” The young master said harshly, “There’s no need for people to stay alive, just solve it on the spot, I don’t want this good show of two people’s fight to end just after the beginning.”

"Yes." He replied, thinking that he was going to meet the top killer hag in the Anxiang Pavilion, the starving ghost couldn't help but shudder.

The ghost woman is a hunched white-haired old lady who can't even open her eyes in the Tower of Rebirth, but she is a charming and beautiful young woman in the Anxiang Pavilion.

The Chen family in Lanzhou is good at changing appearances, and what changes is the appearance, but the witch is good at changing the bone image.With this skill, she was able to walk through the busy city, killing people invisible.But she killed too many people, even with thick makeup, it couldn't cover up the bloody smell from the inside out.It was precisely because of her murderous intent that no one dared to deal with her.She is also used to being alone, only the young master's words can still be listened to.

The starving ghost was going out with the roster in his hands, and the young master picked up the diorama again, watching with interest Bai Bingchen was fiddling with with his head down.He squinted his eyes for a long time before he saw that there seemed to be a dagger hidden under Bai Bingchen's cuff.Glancing at the starving ghost who had just stepped out of the room, the young master let him go away without making a sound.

There was a sound at the door, and Bai Bingchen covered his sleeves with concentration, pretending to be making tea.

The starving ghost didn't make any detours, took out the roster and spread it on the table, pointed to the few pages of papers that Bai Bingchen had bought for lonely pillows over the years, and said, "These are all your accounts." He tore off the pages and handed them to him.

"Okay." Bai Bingchen took the few pieces of paper with a smile, as if he accidentally knocked over the teacup on the table,

The starving ghost rushed over immediately, baring his teeth in distress: "Oh, this is the new spring tea!" He was frantically cleaning up the broken cups on the ground, and the cold tip of the knife was already on his neck.

Bai Bingchen did not strike lightly, and the sharp dagger drew bloodstains all at once, deterring the starving ghost's hand that wanted to pick up something.

With his back to Bai Bingchen, the starving ghost didn't dare to act rashly, so he had to let him find out the signal tube he wanted to throw.

"You have to know where you are standing. This is the Tower of Rebirth. If you hurt me, you can't get out." Looking sideways at the dagger on his neck, the starved ghost threatened.

In order to ensure the safety of ghost merchants, there are patrol posts on each floor of the Tower of Rebirth. As long as there is any movement, they will be surrounded from both sides. No matter how strong your martial arts are, it is difficult to fly with wings.

Bai Bingchen glanced at the shadow of the patrol outside, turned his head, and without hesitation slashed the starved ghost unconscious with a knife, gently supported his body, leaned against the table and pretended to be at his desk, and sat on the other side, looking at the roster Come.

In this way, with the reflection of the night pearl, from the outside, it looks like the two of them are sitting at the table and discussing business, there is not much wrong with it.

After arranging everything, Bai Bingchen opened the roster. Even though he was mentally prepared, he still felt a shock when he saw the handwriting similar to his own.If such a roster falls into the hands of Zhang Xiang, he will inevitably be recognized as the master behind the ghost market.

A roster is divided into two parts, and each transaction has its own number, which is recorded separately by the seller and the buyer, and the number is combined into one to form a complete business transaction.Therefore, the few pages that the starving ghost voluntarily tore to himself were only information about himself as a buyer.

Such a roster is kept in the hands of ghost merchants, which can not only prevent unruly people from buyers and sellers to the greatest extent, but also serve as a basis for the credibility of transactions.

After flipping through it hastily and figured out the rules of the records in the roster, Bai Bingchen roughly picked up the names of several familiar officials and compared them. After a while, he saw Fan Hongxin's name in the column of ghost marriage business buyers.

After searching his mind for the past about this Minister of the Ministry of War, Bai Bingchen remembered that Fan Hongxin had a son who died of illness years ago.Could it be that Fan Hongxin bought the ghost marriage for his son?But what does this have to do with the case of the Chen family, is it worth the Master Shangshu to lead me to check this list?

Thinking of this, Bai Bingchen couldn't help speeding up the roster, wanting to find the complete record of the ghost marriage, but saw Mei Shao's name in the buyer column at the end.

Bai Bingchen's originally fast fingertips stopped suddenly, and his heart suddenly lifted.Compared with the ink marks on it, this handwriting is much newer, which means that Mei Shao is very likely to be in this tower now.

It was no coincidence that Mei Shao came to the Pagoda of Rebirth as soon as Zhang Jiudai challenged Fan Hongxin in the court hall. It seemed that he had already taken refuge in Zhang Jiudai.While using Zhao Zhen's hand to return to the court, he relied on Zhang Jiudai to overthrow himself.Bai Bingchen had never discovered that he had such deep thinking, and he still used it on himself.

He laughed at himself. Zhao Zhen lured such a jackal back to Pingdu, did he want to regain the military power, or did he want to use him to contain himself?The former rulers and ministers did not doubt that there seemed to be a crack invisibly long ago. When it was discovered, it had become a gap and it was too late to mend it.

While meditating, there was a knock on the door outside. Bai Bingchen was startled, put the roster in his arms, looked around, turned behind the screen, saw a door, and rushed in.

I thought it would be a long corridor after opening the door, but it turned out to be another room. Bai Bingchen was stunned for a moment, and saw the person sitting at the table. "do not move!"

It wasn't until he got close that Bai Bingchen noticed that the people in the room were also wearing ghost masks. They must be the customers who were placed here by the starving ghost. Seeing the surprise flashing in his eyes, he seemed to be frightened by himself, and Bai Bingchen couldn't help but soften. He said: "Use your house to hide for a while, as long as you cooperate, I will not hurt you."

Hearing this, the man's eyes under the mask curved up, and he nodded to express his cooperation, but Bai Bingchen saw a trace of familiarity in his smiling eyes.

I seem to have seen such a pair of eyes before.

Before Bai Bingchen could think of a name, his wrist was suddenly broken and the dagger was taken away.In just an instant, Bai Bingchen's hands were locked behind his back, unable to move.Leaning his back against the strange chest, Bai Bingchen was almost completely nestled in the man's arms, and the strange breath suddenly invaded him, making him subconsciously straighten up.

A hand stretched out from behind, poked into his lapel, and took out the roster, and then a familiar voice rang in Bai Bingchen's ear, teasingly said: "Thank you, Mr. Bai, for sending it to the door in person."

The words were ambiguous, and for a moment I didn't know whether he was thanking Bai Bingchen for sending the roster, or sending himself.

Hearing that the person behind it was Mei Shao, Bai Bingchen felt ashamed and annoyed for a moment, but he couldn't move, so he simply raised his head and slammed it back hard.Expecting his move a long time ago, Mei Shao turned slightly to avoid it, but she didn't expect the force of Bai Bingchen's impact. She was temporarily at a loss, and staggered back a few steps, but the hand that restrained Bai Bingchen did not let go.

Bai Bingchen fell back into Mei Shao's chest like this, and when he heard Mei Shao's inhalation sound hitting the corner of the table, he cursed inwardly that he deserved it.

The shaking table pushed the vase down, and the crisp cracking sound stunned both of them.

"Something went wrong, hurry up!"

The footsteps of the guards came from outside the door, Mei Shao hurriedly grabbed the waist and brought him up, picked up the roster and was about to leave, but Bai Bingchen held him tightly.

Seeing him relentlessly standing on tiptoe to grab the roster, Mei Shao reprimanded in a low voice: "Do you still want to live? If we are discovered, we can't leave, come with me."

"Wake up!" The guards had already arrived next door, shaking the starved ghost lying on the table.

With such a close distance, someone only needs to turn around a few steps to find them. Bai Bingchen pursed his lips and let go of his strength.The hand that originally stopped Mei Shao was held backwards, leading him to slip out through the side door.

The guards in the curved corridor were all gathered at the door of the starving ghost's room. With the help of the curved angle, the two of them barely covered their bodies and rubbed against the wall towards the exit.

Bai Bingchen's body temperature was already cool, but he held his breath at this moment, only the hand held by Mei Shao was slightly warm, and he gradually broke out in a little sweat.

Dodging layers of guards in fear, Mei Shao led Bai Bingchen and slipped out through the back door of the Tower of Death.

As soon as they got out of the tower, the two leaned against the dark place of the alley and took a breath. Mei Shao realized that the hands of the two were still holding each other belatedly. , The street suddenly became noisy.

Teams of well-trained men in black came out of the Tower of Rebirth and scattered to all the streets of the ghost city to question them.

"Ghost soldiers go out, it's troublesome now." Mei Shao frowned.

The ghost soldiers on the street were getting closer and closer, and Bai Bingchen could see their black clothes embroidered with golden and ferocious pictures of hundreds of ghosts.

Mei Shao sighed heavily, as if she had made a major decision, she grabbed Bai Bingchen and went deep into the alley.He seemed to be very familiar with this area, and he led Bai Bingchen through the alleys, but he didn't meet a single ghost soldier.

Along the way, Bai Bingchen didn't make a sound. Intuitively, he could feel that the place Mei Shao was going to was probably his small stronghold in the ghost city. He was afraid that after he made a sound, Mei Shao would change his mind.

Mei Shao pulled him away in a hurry, without giving him any time to stop, and just like this all the way to a black door.

Looking around, after confirming that there were no ghost soldiers, Mei Shao picked up a small stone and threw it in through the wall.

Not long after, the door opened, showing a surprised face: "The owner?"

"Let Uncle Shui come to see me." Mei Shao turned sideways and let Bai Bingchen go in first.

Seeing that there was a person hiding behind Mei Shao, the guy's eyes were even more astonished, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he hurriedly led the two people in and introduced the situation outside: "Who are the ghost soldiers dispatched this time?" Little, I guess the front door has been searched by now. You can make do with it in the warehouse first. I'll call Uncle Shui right away."

"Wait." Mei Shao called to stop him, looked at Bai Bingchen hurriedly from top to bottom, and said, "Bring a piece of clothes that he can wear, the kind he wears in the front hall."

After running all the way for so long, neither of them had time to take off the masks on their faces.At this time, there were only the two of them in the warehouse. Mei Shao took off the mask on his face and reached out his hand to Bai Bingchen. Bai Bingchen knew what he meant, so he took off the mask and put it in his hand.

Put the two masks on the ground and lay hay on the ground. Mei Shao was looking for flint, but Bai Bingchen had silently lit a firewood beside him, and lit the hay on the ground.

Seeing that the two masks were completely swallowed up by the fire, the two did not speak the whole time, but seemed to know what the other was thinking, and cooperated to dispose of the ghost mask.

"Villa Master." There was a soft call from the door, and Mei Shao opened a crack in front of Bai Bingchen. Seeing that it was Shui Bo, he opened the door halfway.

"Do you think this one is okay?" Shui Bo handed over a set of clothes.

Mei Shao looked through it roughly, and instructed: "Ask some careful and appropriate people to clean up my usual room and make some traces, so that the ghost soldiers won't see anything."

Through the crack of the door, Bai Bingchen could only see Uncle Shui hunched over and hurried away. With just one glance, he couldn't tell what kind of place this was.

"Put on your clothes. When you go out later, don't make a sound, just follow me." Mei Shao handed over the clothes, but turned her eyes away.

Seeing his rare expression, Bai Bingchen was a little puzzled, but thinking that Mei Shao didn't do anything harmful to him this way, he smiled politely and thanked him, but the moment he shook off his clothes, his smile froze on the face.

The clothes are very light, as flimsy as a cicada's wings.

Through this layer of clothes made of light gauze, Bai Bingchen could see Mei Shao's sideways face and dodging eyes, and he suddenly knew what kind of shop Mei Shao opened in the ghost market.

Taking a deep breath, Bai Bingchen asked in a calm voice, "You really want me to wear this?"