I see You Lian is the ally

Chapter 38
On the second day, Zhang Hui reported the information about Mrs. Cui to Hua Jiao.

Cui's wife, whose boudoir name is Lanshu, is the daughter of Cui Chong, the imperial envoy.There are quite a few big families with the surname Cui in Lan'an City, but Zhang Hui ordered people to guard Dali Temple, and found that only Cui Chong, the imperial envoy, had been in and out of Dali Temple, apparently for the sake of the case, so Mrs. Cui must be Cui Lanshu.

Cui Lanshu is a well-known talented woman in Lan'an City, known for her good painting and charity.Every winter solstice, she would personally go to Changjie to serve rice and porridge.All the beggars in the Town God's Temple knew about her, and the beggar who went to the Raoliang Pavilion also said that Cui Lanshu was indeed mentioned unintentionally in the Raoliang Pavilion.In this way, her disappearance was also involved with the Raoliang Pavilion.

I don't know if this monster will attack other people.If you start, it will be in these few days.Because Qu Ale, beggar Lao Yang, and Cui Lanshu disappeared very close to each other.

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Finally, Zhang Hui handed a small portrait of Cui Lanshu to the corner of the painting.

It is said that Cui Lanshu is a typical lady of the family and rarely leaves the house. This is when she was giving out porridge last year when a person who was good at painting saw her and was amazed by her beauty, so she secretly drew it.Later, the painting spread among the market.

Now this small portrait has been copied many times, and it may have lost its authenticity.

The corner of the painting glanced down at the portrait.

This is a small fine brushwork portrait, probably the artist admired the person in the painting very much, and painted her dignified and noble, it looks like a portrait of Guanyin Bodhisattva.She was dressed in plain clothes, with elegant skirts and flowing silk, like flying apsaras on a mural.

Huajiao glanced at it, suddenly remembered something, and looked at it carefully for a while.

Why does this Cui Lanshu look familiar?

She didn't know many people in Lan'an, and since they felt familiar, she must have seen them.

She thought about the woman she had seen recently, and was taken aback for a moment. Isn't that the woman in gorgeous clothes she once borrowed face from on Jiumian Mountain?

Hua Jiao's shock was no small matter: "Zhang Hui, have these cases of disappearance been handed over to Tianshu Division by Dali Temple?"

Zhang Hui nodded and said: "I heard that the Tianshu Si Dujian personally intervened, and it has been handed over."

What would happen if Yu Taiqing met Cui Lanshu?

Thinking of what he said that day, maybe he will really accuse Cui Lanshu.If Cui Lanshu really went to jail, it would be her own fault.

However, Cui Lanshu is not stupid, she will definitely tell Yu Taiqing that she has been cheated.

In that case, I always feel that Yu Taiqing will soon suspect her.

Hua Jiao was a little panicked, she had to rescue the missing people before Yu Taiqin, especially Cui Lanshu.

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Huajiao and Zhanghui set up a game.

Let the beggar go to the Raoliang Pavilion again, and also look for the courtesan from last time, who is said to be Xianglan, pretending to mention another kind-hearted person to her unintentionally.Not a fabrication, but a genuinely good person.

Shopkeeper Liu of Hu Cake Shop in Xishi.

It is said that shopkeeper Liu will give the beggars the unsold hu biscuits of the day before closing every day.

Two days later, a maidservant in the Raoliang Pavilion went to the Hu Bing Shop and asked for a stack of Hu Bing, and asked shopkeeper Liu to deliver it to the Raoliang Pavilion in person, saying that her wife would give a reward in person.

Huajiao cast the spell again, borrowed shopkeeper Liu's face, put on men's clothes, and went to the Liang Pavilion.

The face-borrowing technique can only last for half an hour at a time, so she deliberately collected a few drops of shopkeeper Liu's blood, in case the time is too long, so that she can continue several times.

It was not yet noon when Huajiao arrived at the Raoliang Pavilion.

The entire Raoliang Pavilion was silent, and most of the courtesans hadn't gotten up yet.She followed the maid along the path, with finely carved wooden doors on both sides, and a low snoring sound could be faintly heard behind the closed doors.

The maid stopped in front of a door, raised her hand and knocked on the door.

There is a wooden sign on this door with two characters engraved on it: Pandan.

This is the nickname of a courtesan.

The maid pushed open the door and said softly, "Lady, Shopkeeper Liu is here."

The curtains in the house were lowered, and the room was dark.The maid went to the window and rolled up the curtain. In an instant, sunlight came in through the window, reflecting the room brightly.

Huajiao looked up, and saw that Xianglan was still doing her makeup with her back facing her. She was holding a rhombic mirror in one hand and Daiqing in the other, and she was carefully tracing her eyebrows.

"I heard that you give the beggars in the Temple of the City God the unsold pancakes every day? Is it true?" Xiang Lan glanced at the corner of the picture and asked.

Hua Jiao lowered his eyes and said, "Exactly."

Pandan has no evil spirit.

Huajiao took two steps forward and mobilized all his senses to investigate, but still found nothing.

When the demon masters catch monsters, they all use the monster spirit to distinguish the monsters.However, even if there is no trace of demonic energy left, a demon is a demon, and it has lived as a beast or flower or tree for many years, but its true nature will still be leaked unintentionally.

Hua Jiao remained calm, trying to find flaws in her behavior, but she couldn't find any.

It is almost certain that Pandan is human.

Although it was because shopkeeper Liu had been revealed to her that there was an appointment at this moment.But this doesn't mean that Xianglan is a demon, maybe it's a monster secretly manipulating Xianglan.

Huajiao put the pancakes wrapped in oil paper on the table beside him, and said with a smile, "Miss Xianglan, you should use these pancakes while they are still warm, as they won't be crispy when they cool down."

Xianglan glanced at the corner of the painting with a pair of wonderful eyes, and said with a smile: "The shopkeeper Lao Liu delivered it in person, thank you for your hard work."

She put down the Linghua mirror in her hand, picked up a coral hairpin from the dressing table, and handed it over.

Hua Jiao said thank you, and bowed to pick it up.Xianglan put the coral hairpin in Huajiao's hand, stretched out her fingers and scratched Huajiao's palm intentionally or unintentionally, and said with a charming smile: "Shopkeeper Liu, have you never been to the pavilion? I will use this coral hairpin to keep you here." How about a good night's sleep?"

There was a moment of silence with the corner of the painting facing shopkeeper Liu's thin face with a few sparse goatee beards.

Shopkeeper Liu's appearance is not impressive, what is Xianglan's plan?

Send him a hairpin and beg him to sleep?
Just because he is kind?

She glanced at the bed with hanging curtains, nodded as if flattered, then shook her head: "Don't dare, don't dare. The old man will take his leave now."

Xianglan giggled coquettishly: "What are you thinking, I just want you to sleep and have a dream, what are you afraid of?"

dream?

Is shopkeeper Liu's dream very valuable?
Or maybe it was testing her, if shopkeeper Liu was a bad person, would he let her go?

"That being the case, I'll rest here for a while, and please don't dislike it, little lady." Hua Jiao walked towards the bed, secretly scrutinizing Xiang Lan's expression, very surprised, did not see anything in her expression Change, just staring at her with a charming smile.

Hua Jiao lay sideways on the bed, glanced at Xianglan, and saw that she and the maid were sitting and standing without moving.She suddenly felt that the two of them were like Gong Shuyu's puppets, they were all manipulated by others.

She waited patiently, knowing that the monster behind her was about to appear.

(End of this chapter)