Dragon Pattern Roll Set

Lin Yehuo was staring at the mirror and was infatuated with his own appearance. Unexpectedly, the mirror suddenly shattered, and at the same time, he saw a person appearing in the mirror.

It would be acceptable to say that those who died before were timid, frightened by their own shadows in the mirror, or misjudged their hearts, but who was Lin Yehuo?

Although he is usually a little off-line, a little narcissistic, and occasionally he can't look directly at him, but he is also one of the best masters in the martial arts today.It can scare him to death and swear... Isn't it a hallucination?

Bai Yutang walked to the mirror, pulled up a stool, and stared at the cracked mirror.

After watching it for a long time, he asked Lin Yehuo in puzzlement, "Is there anyone there?"

Lin Yehuo pointed, "Look for yourself."

Bai Yutang thought for a while, and moved closer to the mirror. Then, he froze for a moment, raised his head and frowned.

"What's wrong?" Zhan Zhao also went over.

Bai Yutang stood up, asked Zhan Zhao to sit down, and took a closer look.

Like Lin Yehuo just now, Zhan Zhao took a closer look in the mirror, then scratched his head, "Hey, if you see it in the middle of the night, it can really scare people enough."

"Is there really someone?" Pang Yu was curious, so he also sat down to look at it, and before he could see it on the mirror, he sat back in fright, and sat on the ground, "Wow! A ghost face, it scared my father to death!"

Before he could finish speaking, Grand Master Pang gave him a slap on the head.

Master Bao also went over to watch, Bao Yan lay on his father's back, resting his chin on Master Bao's shoulder to watch with him, and trembled when he saw it, "Wow, the heads of these two ghosts are as black as coal balls. One is as white as an egg, black and white are impermanent?"

Master Bao glanced at him helplessly, then turned around and continued to sigh——Your son is so white!

"Two heads?" Lin Yehuo was puzzled, "Just one."

"It's not a ghost face, it's a shadow."

Gongsun took a closer look, and seemed to have discovered some reason. He asked the fourth son to bring a small medicine box, found a blade, pried open the broken ice jade, and broke off a piece for everyone to see.

I saw that the ice jade was not a whole piece, and the back was not smooth, it was a little uneven, and from the back, there were many seams.

"Huh?" Bao Yan was curious, "Isn't it a whole piece?"

Bai Yutang picked up a piece, touched the edge, nodded, and said, I said, how could such a large piece of ice jade be used as a mirror surface.If there is such a large piece of ice jade, you can buy a few thousand taels of gold for just making a jade carving, so why use it to make a mirror.

"You can't tell from the front," Bao Yan said.

"It's ice jade and then sealed it with a thin layer of colored glass, so you can't see it. In fact, the problem is not the front, but the back." Gongsun pointed to the uneven back of the mirror. "The uneven back is painted with silver powder. Then use that layer of gray paste to smooth it. The weather has been humid for the past few days, so this layer of paste has expanded and shrunk, and the ice jade is not connected at all. If a person gets close, there is heat and water vapor in the breath, if it happens to be at the location of the crack, it is likely to make the pimples of the mortar swell quickly, just like Lin Yehuo just now, it will explode when you look at it."

"Oh..." Everyone nodded and nodded, that's why.

"Then how to explain that ghost image?" Everyone asked again.

"It seems that only the center of this mirror can be seen clearly, without distortion." Gongsun said, "After it is split, the original center becomes the edge, and the portrait is naturally distorted. In other words, what you see should be your own distorted image. It's not just a ghost face, but it's really scary."

Everyone once again said, "Oh...so that's what happened."

"Mr. Gongsun is really knowledgeable." Master Bao nodded in appreciation, "And observe the subtleties."

Gongsun smiled and said Master Bao was polite.

The others looked at each other in blank dismay. Thinking about it, it seemed that Gongsun was the one who did the most serious things every time he solved a case.

Zhao Pu nodded frequently at the side, so he said - if I get a nerd, I will have the world!It really is my son's father, haha.

Lin Yehuo pouted, "So that's the case, I was so scared to death, I thought the mirror was blown away by me."

"I'm disgusted by you." Zou Liang interjected at the right time, and it turned out...

Everyone tacitly ignored Lin Yehuo and Zou Liang who were fighting together.

"No wonder, when I hear that now, all the mirrors of water jade and ice jade are broken." Pang Yu said to himself while resting his chin.

"That's a short period of time." Gongsun studied the gray lump and said, "This thing is very fluffy, it should shrink sharply in winter, and it will open again in summer. These mirrors will shatter soon."

Ye Quan sighed, "It's true that my master didn't sell it for a long time. If that's the case, I guess I'll have to pay a lot of money. These mirrors probably won't be sold in the future."

"So..." Everyone subconsciously looked at Lin Yehuo.

Lin Yehuo and Zou Liang were pinching each other.

Xiao Liang tugged at Lin Yehuo, "Oh, turkey."

Lin Yehuo stopped and glanced at him, "What are you doing? Don't interrupt when adults are fighting children!"

The corner of Zou Liang's mouth twitched, which seemed to be the same sentence when his mother and father were pinching each other.

"Are you manic now?" Xiao Liang asked him.

Lin Yehuo blinked, "That depends on whom."

"Do you want to kill someone?" Xiao Liang then asked.

Lin Yehuo glanced at Zou Liang, and Zou Liang felt chills on his neck. This look...

"Have you ever thought about killing anyone you see?" Xiao Liangzi asked again, but got a hammer.

Lin Yehuo grabbed him and knocked him on the head, "Think about it, let's beat you first, okay?"

Zou Liang ran around with his head in his arms, and was finally rescued by the fourth son, who rubbed his head distressedly and looked at Lin Yehuo.

Lin Yehuo clapped his hands and drank tea aside. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he was puzzled, "What are you doing?"

"There seems to be nothing unusual." Zhan Zhao said.

Everyone nodded.

"So, maybe the problem is not the mirror, but the bird droppings?" Bao Yan asked.

Everyone nodded.

Bai Yutang asked Ye Quan, "How many water jade and ice jade mirrors have you sold?"

"Shuiyu, the concubine of Chen Yuanwai at the South Gate bought one, and then the daughter of Wang Yuanwai's family bought one. In addition, sister Yao has a folding mirror of ice jade, which was given to him by the master. Others Someone has placed an order, but Master is still working on it, and it hasn't been delivered yet." Ye Quan said.

Zhan Zhao was curious, "Sister Yao? It's rumored outside, who is your master's best friend?"

Ye Quan scratched his head and nodded, "Yes, her name is Xu Mengyao, and she is the top card in Mengfang Garden."

"Mengfang Garden?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao said, "Oh, it's the largest kiln in Changzhou Prefecture, and the girls in it all have the word dream in their names..."

Before Zhan Zhao could finish his sentence, he saw Bai Yutang staring at him, that means - do you know quite clearly.

Zhan Zhao was helpless, "Everyone in Changzhou knows it, but I have never been there."

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, judging from the shock of Zhan Zhao's stray into the kiln last time, he probably had never been there before, so he felt a little better.

"Why don't you go to those young ladies and bring back the mirror first." Mr. Bao said, "By the way, did she also pass by Old Crow Valley?"

"My lord, do you doubt..." Zhan Zhao asked Master Bao.

"Don't you think it's a coincidence?" Master Bao gently stroked his beard, "Everyone who bought a water jade or ice jade mirror has been to the Old Crow Valley, and they have all been photographed by such a coincidence...then they all went crazy and killed people. Among them, there seems to be something."

Zhan Zhao nodded.

Afterwards, everyone split up, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went to Mengfang Garden to find Xu Mengyao, the shadow guards went to two Yuanwai's house to get the two vanity mirrors, Gongsun and the others went outside Old Crow Valley to prepare.

When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang arrived at Mengfang Garden, they saw that the gate was closed and a servant was sweeping the floor.

Zhan Zhao stepped forward to inquire, and the servant entered the room and called out a girl.The servant girl told them, "The young ladies have all gone on the lake with Mr. Meng's boat."

"Young Master Meng?" Zhan Zhao asked, "Which Young Master Meng?"

"Mr. Meng Qing, Mr. Meng, you are inviting guests today, so I asked the girls in our building to accompany the drinking and dancing. Sister Yao is also going. If you want to ask questions, she will be here at night."

Zhan Zhao nodded and left.

Pausing for nothing, Bai Yutang asked, "Since we are swimming in the lake, we should be on the boat in the river, why don't we ask?"

"Uh..." Zhan Zhao waved his hands and said, "Don't worry, I'll ask tonight. Let's go to Old Crow Valley first."

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, who scratched his chin and raised his face.

Don't look at Zhan Zhao who is usually quite skinny and capable of mischief, but he is also an honest character, especially not deceptive.

Bai Yutang immediately felt that there was something wrong with him, that Meng Qing...could it be that he knew Zhan Zhao?

"You know that Meng Qing?" Bai Yutang asked.

Zhan Zhao blinked, just in time to see a few shadow guards coming back carrying mirrors, and said, "Oh, it seems to be going well there."

Saying that, Zhan Zhao ran to owe Bian.

Bai Yutang didn't ask any further questions, he looked at Zhan Zhao's back and touched his chin.

The shadow guards were very successful, and brought two vanity mirrors, which were not broken yet. When the two members heard that they had something to do with the murder case, they quickly asked them to move away.The two ladies had never been to Old Crow Valley, let alone been photographed by bird droppings, so there should be no danger.

After they put their things in Zhanfu, they rushed to Old Crow Valley.

Outside the valley of the Old Crow Valley, many people gathered, Gongsun and the fourth son came.

Each of the shadow guards was well-wrapped, and each held an umbrella, and two big black dogs were also well-wrapped.

When Zhan Zhao first arrived, he saw a "cloth dog" and was startled.

"Are there so many people going in?" Zhao Pu asked.

"Less people." Ouyang said to Zhao Pu, "Don't go, I will bring the shadow guards in."

"I'll go too." Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang said.

Zhao Pu also had no objection, Gongsun asked everyone to be careful.

Before entering the valley, Zhan Zhao hugged his fourth son and rubbed and rubbed...

The fourth son got used to Zhan Zhaoceng, seeing his frightened look, he simply put his arms around his neck and kissed him on the cheek.

Zhan Zhao immediately gained confidence.

For the sake of fairness, today the fourth son came with a big "kiss" gift, everyone who went in gave a kiss, making Xiao Liang jump up and down, saying that he would go in too.In the end, the fourth son also kissed him, but held his hand and refused to let him in.

……

Zhan Zhao and the others carried umbrellas and entered the Valley of the Old Crow.

Several dogs walked forward, looking back at the crowd from time to time, but they didn't know where they were going.

As Zhan Zhao was walking, he heard the sound of "click, click, click" from the umbrella above his head...

Bai Yutang looked at the top of Zhan Zhao's umbrella, and then at the top of other people's umbrellas... Strange, why are those crows staring at Zhan Zhao to shit?Or is it just a coincidence?

"It's also on Zheying's umbrella." Ziying pointed to Zheying's umbrella, and then everyone found that it was also on Chiying's umbrella, but there was none on other people's umbrellas, and Bai Yutang's umbrella was even more so. No splash at all.

Bai Yutang looked at the three people who were attacked by bird droppings, and suddenly said, "Red clothes?"

Everyone couldn't help but nod their heads.

Zhan Zhao's red clothes, Chi Ying's and Zhe Ying's clothes are also red, and Lin Yehuo is even more red.

"Could it be that they specifically attacked red clothes?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

"Actually..." Heiying looked at the crowd helplessly, and said, "Birds are different from other animals. They don't pull when they want to. They pull anytime, anywhere."

Everyone knows that Heiying likes birds very much, and his ventriloquism is top-notch, so it turns out that Hei Ying still has research on birds.

"They are the same as chickens, they are convenient anytime and anywhere, so." Heiying looked at the dense flock of birds above, "They may stay above the red area for a long time."

Everyone nodded—it makes sense.

"Crows eat carrion." Bai Yutang looked at the flock of birds, "They are used to following their prey, and only eat it when the prey is dead. People are alive, why should they follow, and they seem to like following people in red clothes? Could it be that their food has something to do with red?"

"Why don't you follow the birds?" Ouyang Shaozheng pointed to the front, "It seems that there are more flocks of birds over there, and it's above the valley. Let's climb up and have a wider view."

Everyone nodded and walked uphill together on the side of the valley.

……

Outside the valley, Gongsun Zhao Pu and others waited anxiously.

Zhao Pu asked Gongsun, "Bookworm, how is your shit research going?"

Gongsun gave him a blank look, "It's bird droppings."

Zhao Pu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Is it bird droppings? What's the matter? Did you find anything?"

Gongsun thought for a while and said, "I haven't found out yet, but I'm sure it's poisonous."

"Poisonous?!" Zhao Pu raised his eyebrows.

Gongsun Dao said, "There are many kinds of poisons that can make people manic. The problem is that there are many other poisons. If the dosage is very small, it will also make people unconscious and hallucinating, and thus become very manic. In addition, I haven't seen it yet. I used the gray stuff, but the gray mud used to paint mirrors should be the same as the poison in bird droppings."

"That is to say, the crow ate the gray corpse, so the feces it pulled out were poisonous?" Zhao Pu was curious.

Gongsun nodded, "But it's strange why the crow didn't die, it just got bigger?"

Zhao Pu couldn't figure it out either.

While speaking, I saw a group of people walking from the road of Old Crow Valley.

This should be a dart team, because there is no dart flag, and the car is also an empty cart, so it should be the people who sent the darts back.

A few people were holding umbrellas, and a few people were walking out quickly without umbrellas.

Zhao Pu and others gave way to the side of the road so that everyone could pass.

The first one saw the yamen servant and asked, "What happened?"

Zhao Pu didn't speak, Gongsun said, "Oh, we are from Kaifeng Mansion."

"Oh?!" The big man in the lead asked with a smile, "Is Brother Zhan back?"

Gongsun nodded with a smile, "Yes, brother Zhan went to Old Crow Valley to do something."

"Brother Zhan is back?!" Everyone in the bodyguard seemed to know Zhan Zhao, and said with a smile, "We went to see him at night, we haven't had a drink with him for a long time."

Gongsun nodded with a smile.

The bodyguards said a few more polite words to Gongsun and the others, and then left happily.

The head of the escort was wiping his neck with a handkerchief while walking, and an escort next to him even joked with him, "Look, you master! Being hit by bird feces is not necessarily a bad thing. Brother Zhan is back, it's not a big deal." Is it a good thing, so don’t believe that there is nothing left, go back and take a shower and prepare to find your little brother for a drink at night.”

……

Gongsun and Zhao Pu looked at each other. Could it be that... the head of the bodyguard was hit in the neck by bird feces?

Zhao Pu winked at the two shadow guards behind him, they nodded, and quietly followed the bodyguard team, secretly observing the situation of the bodyguard leader.

……

Zhan Zhao and the others climbed to the top of the hillside, looking down, they were all a little embarrassed.

The terrain of this Old Crow Valley is too complicated. Apart from two mountains and a ditch, the backs of the two mountains are almost rocky mountains. Big rocks and small rocks are piled up, and there are gullies and forks everywhere. What do you have to find when?Moreover, there are many stones blocking the line of sight, and the valley is deep. If you stand tall, your vision may not be good.

Everyone stood on the mountain and sighed.

At this time, the black shadow suddenly imitated the voice of a crow and let out some cries.

Everyone looked at him curiously, what does that mean—you are communicating with them?

Heiying didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "No, I just imitated a crow's cry."

"What's the use?" Bai Yutang was curious.

"Oh, the crows in every place have different calls. My call is imitating the crows in the Western Regions. In other words, although I don't know what it means, I probably have a foreign accent." Hei Ying said with a smile , "Crows are very protective of food. If they hear that there are foreign crows, the first thing they do is to snatch their food, eat up the uneaten food, or surround the food, emphasizing their own Territory, so..."

Before Hei Ying finished speaking, Zi Ying pointed towards the distance, "It seems that they are all flying there!"

Everyone looked over again, and saw that as expected, a group of black crows flew to a mountain depression in the west.The col is behind a huge rock, which seems to be very deep.

Everyone looked at each other, they couldn't get through with the dog, Ouyang Shaozheng left Chi Ying and Qing Ying waiting in place with the dog, and the others used their lightness kung fu to fly towards the col.

Soon, everyone reached the edge of the col.

"There seems to be something down there." Ouyang Shaozheng said, took out two things that looked like thunderbolts from his arms, and shot them at the place where the crows gathered above the col.

This thing seems to be used to disperse birds of prey or wild beasts on the battlefield. When it suddenly exploded in mid-air, a red flame flashed, and the crows flew into the air in shock, and fled in all directions.

At this time, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had already landed on the edge of the col, and when they looked inside, they gasped.

"Wow, what's the smell?!" Ziying and the others also arrived, covering their mouths and noses and looking into the valley, their eyes widened in shock.

I saw that the depths of the mountain depression were really like a mass grave, full of corpses. These corpses were horrifying, with twisted limbs, and they were all in a dry state, strange gray, and had a strange smell.

The most bizarre thing is that on both sides of the pile of corpses, there are two red flowers that are bigger than people.The shape of this flower is somewhat similar to that of a normal canna, but the flower is really too big, as red as blood, especially glaring.

On the other side of the col, there is a broken cave...some bones fell out from there, and many gray human bones were scattered nearby.

Zhan Zhao and the others didn't want to look at that strange mountain anymore. It looked a bit like a huge flower pot, and instead of using soil, two stinky and ugly flowers were planted with corpses.

When they arrived at the breach, everyone found a basket, which seemed to be too heavy and was broken, so they threw it on the side of the road. There were two skulls in it.

Zhan Zhao looked at the basket, and found that there were two words "Linchun" on the quilt upstairs.

"Wang Linchun and his wife left behind, right?" Bai Yutang asked.

Zhan Zhao nodded, looked around, "How did you get so many corpses here?"

Ouyang Shaozheng looked in from the outside of the cave.

Zhe Ying held him back, "The corpse may be poisonous, so be careful, those crows eat the flesh of the corpse, and the excrement they pull out will make people poisoned and go crazy, right?"

While talking, Ziying suddenly found something, pointed to the side, "What is that?"

When everyone looked over, they saw something next to the hole, which was glowing with lavender light under the sunlight.

Take a closer look.

Ziying picked it up lightly with her sword... picked up a jade pendant.

This is a top-quality purple jade pendant, which is carved with a peony flower, and the workmanship is excellent.

"Is it Wang Linchun's wife?" Ziying asked.

Bai Yutang looked at the jade pendant and shook his head, "This is not something that ordinary people can have."

"How to say?" Ouyang was curious.

"This kind of purple jade is very rare, and this piece is definitely more expensive than that ice jade vanity mirror." Bai Yutang said, "Also, that kind of knot is very strange, I have never seen it before."

Zhan Zhao took a bag made of oiled paper wrapped by Gongsun, and put the piece of purple jade in it. The shadow guards originally wanted to wrap some bones back, but on second thought, let Gongsun take a look, this scene... If those people were all murdered, how many people should have been killed? !

Leaving Old Crow Valley and going back outside, Zhan Zhao told what had happened, Gongsun was startled, left the fourth son outside for Xiao Liang to watch, and he went into the valley with everyone, this time Zhao Pu also followed.

Gongsun covered his mouth and nose, glanced at the flower, and pulled everyone out, "I'm going to die, so it's this thing." After speaking, he led everyone back to the mansion, and hurriedly prescribed a prescription for medicine, saying that it was for detoxification.

"What kind of flower is that?" Everyone returned to Zhan Zhao's old house, drank the antidote, and asked Gongsun puzzled.

"That's a magic flower! That flower eats people!" Gongsun said.

"Flowers eat people?" Everyone looked at Gongsun in horror.

Gongsun frowned, "That flower is called Shisuihong, and it grows in the deep mountains and old forests, and they are all in the south, deep in the mountains in Yunnan and Guizhou. Most of these flowers grow in the bowl-shaped mountain depressions, and their roots will spread the entire bottom of the mountain depressions. They are all covered, and then release a strange smell that smells like smell and smell, attracting large beasts or people to pass by. The edges of the depression are basically very wet and slippery, once people and animals fall into that bowl, they will be spent The root system is entangled, and then slowly absorbed and eaten up, and then the corpse will become a part of the flower root, which is quite scary."

Everyone stared at Gongsun with their mouths wide open. It was obviously the first time they had heard of such a terrible thing.

"But it's strange. It's hard for this kind of flower to survive outside the humid and warm southern forest." Gongsun touched his chin, "Did someone plant it here purposely?"

Everyone frowned—someone planted it on purpose?That is to say, someone really used that mountain as a flowerpot, and then used people to plant magic flowers?

"But where did those corpses come from?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "Changzhou Prefecture doesn't have a record of a large number of missing persons."

"In other words, they are not from the state capital." Master Bao frowned.

At this time, Gongsun felt that the fourth son was pulling his clothes, and looked down at him, "What's wrong, the fourth son?"

The fourth son pointed to the cage with the crow hanging in the corner of the yard, and said, "The crow is dead."

Everyone was stunned, they were fine in the morning, why did they die suddenly?

Zhe Ying took down the birdcage and put it on the table, and opened the covering cloth curtain, and everyone was startled when they looked inside.

I saw the crow fell to the bottom of the cage, already dead, and the weirdest thing was——that crow was not black in the morning, but turned gray, and it seemed... petrified.

Gongsun opened his mouth wide, "What's going on?"

Apart from opening their mouths wide, everyone also looked at Gongsun, which means - you don't know what's going on?Where do we know to go?

……

In the west of Changzhou City, there are several painted boats parked beside the beautiful embankment.

On the painting boat, a gentleman from Qingshan was leaning on the bow of the boat drinking, watching several beauties playing the piano.

At this time, a little maid uploaded from the shore, holding a fruit plate and wine jug in her hand.

"Sister Yao."

When the maid put the things away, she leaned over to Xu Mengyao who was concentrating on playing the piano, and said, "The people from Kaifeng Mansion came to look for you just now."

Xu Mengyao was slightly taken aback, "A person from Kaifeng Mansion?"

"Yes, Mr. Zhan is looking for you." Xu Mengyao said with a smile, "You are so handsome."

Xu Mengyao smiled and sighed, "It's probably about asking Boss Wang."

At this time, that Young Master Qingshan came over and asked with a smile, "Zhan Zhao alone? To Mengfang Garden?"

"No, Young Master Meng." The little girl said, "There is also a young man in white."

"Young man in white? What does he look like?"

The little girl blushed, "You are so handsome and dignified, like a nobleman."

"Oh?" The young man in the green shirt lightly held his face and smiled, "Your noble...hehe."

……

"Ah..."

In the Kaifeng mansion, Zhan Zhao suddenly sneezed.

Bai Yutang looked at him.

Zhan Zhao rubbed his nose—he had an inexplicably bad premonition, thinking of this, he picked up the fourth son...

This time, before Zhan Zhao could start rubbing against him, the fourth son started rubbing against him, still muttering, "Bad luck, Feifei~~Flying away, 嫑 pestering Maomao."