Taoist night sword

Chapter 36: The Man in the Mirror
In the lobby downstairs.

The bloody water under the feet was mixed with the smelly filth, the corpses were lined up, and the mucus was stained on the soles of the feet. Lou Jinchen raised his feet and felt a shock, so he stomped his feet. The woman sitting in front of the mirror table on the second floor shook her hands, The hand holding the handkerchief on his chest turned pale again.

"I'm just thinking about it in my heart, won't this villain be able to perceive it?" The woman thought in a panic.

Lou Jinchen went straight up the stairs to the second floor, and the sound of "dong dong dong" went up the stairs under her feet, as if every foot was stepping on her body.

Several paper figurines with different styles retreated one after another, and Lou Jinchen went straight into the room.

A strong fragrance rushes into the nose.

"What fragrance is so strong?" Lou Jinchen looked around. The style here is mostly pink. The curtains hang by the doors and windows. There is a tall flower stand in the corner. The flower stand has three floors, and there are colorful flowers of different colors on it. .

There are three colors of purple, red and black. The first layer is big purple, where you can see flowers but not leaves; the second layer is black, like a dark night; the third layer is bright red, even the leaves and stems are red.

Lou Jinchen thought about such a gaudy color combination.

"Ding! Dang!" There was a crisp sound of cups and saucers falling to the ground.

"Ah!" Immediately afterwards, there was a scream, but it stopped abruptly, as if he was frightened to make a sound, but was frightened by something frightening and forcibly suppressed his own voice.

Lou Jinchen looked towards the place where the sound came from, and saw a woman sitting there in the pale pink cold red curtain, faintly visible, Lou Jinchen walked over and opened the curtain with a sword scabbard.

"Ah!" The woman inside seemed to have her clothes pulled off, her hands tightly hugging her chest.

"You, are you the landlord?" Lou Jinchen asked, a bit of weirdness flashed in his heart, after all, the title of "landlord" is very special to Lou Jinchen.

"Hmm!" The woman responded, and Lou Jinchen looked at her carefully, with a pair of long black braids hanging on her chest, holding tightly with one hand, and one of the white handkerchiefs was tightly twisted between her fingers. .

She has an oval face, big eyes, matte red lips, and a straight nose, but there is still one pair of eyebrows that haven't been drawn yet.

There are some cosmetics on the table, including brushes and rouge.

"What? Is it or not?" Lou Jinchen asked, but he was wondering whether the woman's skin was real or painted by himself.

"Yes." The woman said weakly, her eyes full of fear.

"What's your name?" Lou Jinchen asked.

"Lou Jiling!" She blinked her eyes, looking carefully at Lou Jinchen's face.

"Really?" Lou Jinchen was a little surprised, and then asked, "Which building?"

"Mi Nu Lou!" Lou Jiling said.

"Oh, I thought I met someone from my own family. My name is Lou Jinchen, the Lou next to the wooden characters." Lou Jinchen said, "You just said that your painting skins are all made of fish skin? Is that true?"

"It's true, here are the receipts." Lou Jiling took out a stack of papers from the zipper of the dressing table and handed it to Lou Jinchen. Lou Jinchen already believed it, but since he handed it over , and took it along with the trend, and flipped through it one by one.

Sure enough, it was a receipt for buying fish skin, it was from Biyan Lake, and the seller's surname was Hu.He remembered that Biyan Lake was in Qunyu Mountain, and the person named Hu in Qunyu Mountain was a fox fairy. Lou Jinchen was a little surprised that they actually did this business.

Then there is the product from a person named Zhao Zhongqiang. The skin of the fish is clearly written on the receipt, and the place of origin is in the sea or in the river. It seems that Zhao Zhongqiang is also a second-hand dealer.

Lou Jinchen took a look at the required currency by the way, and found that gold and silver were also used as coins, but whether there was any error in the unit price or the total price, he felt dizzy after looking at it, unless he took out a piece of paper to list such things Only then can the answer be calculated, otherwise the mental arithmetic will be stuck in a certain link in the mind, and the mathematics is incompetent, so we can only do more reading comprehension.
So he didn't look too much, handed the receipt back, and said: "I'm near the Huolingguan Building, and I heard that there is a painter here who is good at painting, so I came here to learn from him."

Lou Jiling breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself: "He really doesn't want to kill me. He came to learn painting. Then, will he give Shu Xiuxiu? Yes, looking at his appearance, it seems that he is not going to give it, so why not teach him for nothing? I will reject him forcefully, and he will kill all my guests. "

"Yeah, but I don't know how to teach people!" Lou Jiling thought like lightning in his heart, but he stuttered when he refused.

"It's okay, let's work together, overcome each other, and work hard for each other." Lou Jinchen said with a smile.

Lou Jiling's face froze, his heart was in a mess and he was at a loss.

"Is it okay?" Lou Jinchen scratched his itchy ears with the hilt of his sword.

"Yes, yes." Lou Jiling replied stiffly.

"Then let's start, the sooner you teach, the sooner I will learn too!" Lou Jinchen looked around the room, looking for a good place to teach painting.He found that it seemed inconvenient here, so it was better to go to the downstairs table to teach, but there were still corpses and filth.

Lou Jinchen said, "Why don't you ask your people to clean up the downstairs."

"Oh, okay." Lou Jiling was thinking a lot, but the words that came to his mouth were only a few short words.

……

In a village tens of miles away from this mountain, a shadow entered a room through a crack in the door, and fell into the body of a person sitting cross-legged on the bed.

The man was gasping for breath as if he had suddenly woken up from a nightmare.

He wanted to stand up, but he staggered and almost fell. He came to the door, opened it and shouted outside: "Come on."

Soon a servant came quickly.

The man quickly wrote a letter on the desk, handed it to the servant, and said, "Send it to Deputy Chief Bai's residence in Swimming City, hurry up."

After the servant received the letter, he quickly went out, mounted his horse, and rode the moonlight all the way to Yushui City, and then came outside the city to call the city guard on the city gate. After identifying himself, he rode a hanging basket to the city gate, After taking some money in his pocket and giving it to the team leader of the city gate guard, he quickly went down the tower and went to Deputy Butou Bai's house.

The guard captain who guarded the gate at night said to the new team members who had just been transferred to the night city gate guard team: "Look, I said that there will be oil and water at night. Those who want to enter the gate at night must be in a hurry, so there must be something urgent." Don’t be sad for the reward, your wife and daughter are missing, just save some money and marry another one.”

The swordsman's face is full of pain, his wife and daughter have been missing for more than 30 days, he feels better, but he feels more and more lonely.

The servant knocked on Deputy Catcher Bai's door, and after delivering the letter, he withdrew to the side. Deputy Catcher Bai read the letter, his face changed slightly, and he didn't reply, he said directly to the servant: "Go back and tell you Master, just say I know."

After the servant left, Deputy Catcher Bai went back to the room and sat down quietly. There was a weak light next to him. The news was sudden, which made him a little uneasy about the big things he was about to do in the near future.

After sitting for a while, he decided to get in touch, both as a complaint and a discussion.

Picking up the lamp in his hand, he came to a small room in the middle. There was a table inside. On the table was a small box covered with a black cloth. The box was inlaid with seven-star gems, arranged in a mysterious pattern.

He put down the lamp and opened the box. There was still something wrapped in black cloth inside the box. He opened it, and it was a mirror. In a pool of water, the light cannot be reflected in the mirror.

He put the lamp in his hand in front of the mirror, and lifted the wick, so the light became brighter.

Then, with a cup of silver knife in the hand box, lightly slashed across the pulp of the right index finger, and a red line appeared instantly.

He stretched out his hand and began to scribble words one by one on the mirror.

"See the Overseer."

As the four blood characters seeped into the mirror surface, invisible waves began to appear on the mirror surface. After a while, light appeared in the depths of the mirror surface, and it seemed that the fire reflected in front of the mirror was welcoming the presence in the depths of the mirror. .

Deputy Catcher Bai was in awe, watching a shadow figure in the mirror getting closer and closer, and finally merged with the reflection of the lights, like a burning man, and nothing at all, but Deputy Catcher Bai could clearly see from the mirror felt the gaze.

"What is calling me?" A voice came from the mirror, and it seemed that the light in his hand was speaking.

"Du She sent people to report that between Xushi and Haishi, the Huoling Guanlou broke into the painting building, killed several people who came to buy the painting skins, killed Du She, and kidnapped Lou Jiling." Vice-Catcher Bai said.

"Du She? Lou Jinchen?" The person in the mirror seemed to be thinking about these two names, and said, "This Du She and Lou Jinchen seem to have heard you tell them before, right?"

"Yes Governor, Granny Du of Du's Manor was once angry at the Lord of the Fire Spirit Temple because of her grandson's death, and this Lou Jinchen was killed by the Fire Spirit Temple in the end, and made a big fuss in front of the Du's Manor After a while, Du She also reported this matter to his subordinates, who ordered him not to tamper with, and after the previous person who supervised the studio was transferred, Du She was replaced."

The governor in the mirror pondered, and said: "Painting the building is the most important thing, especially Lou Jiling. Her painting skin can help us achieve great things. Go and see what the purpose of this Lou Jinchen is to paint the building. If he doesn't know about us, he must be careful not to expose it, if he knows, then he must not be allowed to go back alive."

"Yes, this subordinate understands." Bai Butou said, "But, this Lou Jinchen is nothing more than that, but behind him are Ji Mingcheng and Huoling Guanzhu. Could it be that they sent this Lou Jinchen here?"

"It needs to be investigated carefully." The governor in the mirror said: "But you must be careful not to expose it. The last time someone failed to intercept and kill Ji Mingcheng, it may have made him vigilant." The governor in the mirror Said.

"This subordinate will take people to the painting building." Deputy Bai Butou said.

After he finished speaking, the darkness in the mirror began to ripple again, engulfing the reflected lamp flame.

Bai Catcher rewrapped the mirror, covered the wooden box, covered it with a black cloth, took the lamp and came out of the dark room, blew out the lamp in his hand, his body was submerged in darkness, the door suddenly opened, and then closed quietly again, But can't see people.

　I hope that when we update tomorrow, we can hear good news about unity.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)