Martial Arts and Longevity: Starting from the Spiritual Beast Picture

Chapter 172 So You Are Here
After a while, a rich-looking middle-aged man dressed as a butler, with his hands behind his back, walked up to the group of hard workers and raised his chin.

"Hu's house in Wicker Lane, load the goods into the car, three people here."

Zhao Lin didn't speak, and the Lifus didn't dare to move.

Seeing that no one moved, the butler thought they were giving way to each other, so he stretched out his finger and pointed at three people: "You, you, and you..."

Zhao Lin has an outstanding physique and was also selected by the housekeeper.

Zhao Lin sat without moving, turned to a bunch of hairs and said, "I won't go, you can find someone to replace me."

"Okay!" A pinch of hairs hurriedly agreed.

The housekeeper twitched the corner of his mouth, a little sullen, "If you don't work, what are you doing here?"

Zhao Lin ignored him and yawned big, causing the housekeeper to stare in anger.

In the next hour, several employers came to recruit workers, but Zhao Lin remained indifferent.

Li Fu felt strange, not knowing what he was planning.

Until noon, people from the Chu Mansion came.

A man in his thirties, wearing a satin robe, walked over from a distance, followed by two followers.

"Who is that person?" Zhao Lin asked a pinch of hair.

"Second Housekeeper Sun of the Chu Mansion," Yizhuo Mao replied.

Zhao Lin nodded, knowing what to do.

There are three housekeepers in the Chu Mansion, the first housekeeper is in charge of the interior, the second housekeeper is in charge of the outside, and a female housekeeper is in charge of the inner house.

"Buy from the Chu family on Sajin Street, five cents, six people here."

Before Steward Sun's family could reach the front, the attendants behind him shouted loudly.

Zhao Lin was the first to stand up, brushed the dust off his body, and bowed in salute.

According to the monitoring in the past few days, he knew that the second butler liked to put on airs, so he deliberately showed a humble attitude.

Sure enough, Butler Sun nodded in satisfaction, "Okay, you come!"

He picked a few more pleasing ones from Lifu, and went to Mishi together.

Walking on the road, Zhao Lin quietly reached into his arms, twisted out a ball of black powder, flicked it with his fingers, and hit Butler Sun on the back.

A special fragrance slowly spread.

The musk powder prepared by the old man Ma has a long-lasting scent. As long as it stays on the clothes for a while, the smell will soak into the skin. Even after changing clothes or even taking a bath, Zhao Lin can still find people out.

Butler Sun didn't realize it, and walked slowly with square steps.

There are hundreds of people in the Chu Mansion, who consume a lot of food every day, and have to buy it every few days.

Steward Sun purchased a large pile of rice, grain and meat, and Zhao Lin and several Lifu carried the carts on their shoulders and pushed them to the east gate of the Chu Mansion.

"Send things to the dining room, be quick with your hands and feet, and don't look around."

Butler Sun gave an order and directed everyone to move things inside.

"The second butler is back."

The guard leader guarding the side door greeted.

When Zhao Lin went out in the morning, he had already returned to Hai Jue against his luck, and suppressed his strength back to the strength realm, so he didn't worry about his cultivation base being seen out.

laugh……

When he passed by, Zhao Lin popped out a ball of musk powder, which hit the guard leader's ribs on the hem of his clothes.

Following Steward Sun, they came to the dining room on the east side of the main hall, where Zhao Lin and others moved the ingredients into the firewood room.

"You guys did a good job, this is wages!"

Butler Sun happily settled the bill, and then said to a follower: "Little Four, you can send them out."

Zhao Lin glanced sideways at the dining room, and saw four dining rooms side by side, with words written on the doors: upper, inner, outer, and small.

With an idea, he thought to himself: "It's better to take it internally than to apply it externally. Instead of taking medicine one by one, it's better to have a spoonful of stew!"

When the musk powder enters the stomach, it will be slowly released with body fluids and can last for several months.

Shuntian Liang Diaoliu, who drilled mountain leopards back then, swallowed a musk pill before he died, and his body was found by Scented Mink in spring.

That's a good idea, but...why are there so many dining rooms?
"Brother, your Chu family is really magnificent!"

When walking out, Zhao Lin said in a flattering tone, adding emphasis on "you".

When the attendant heard this, the corners of his mouth split open unconsciously, and he said triumphantly, "That's right, everyone says that the south is rich and the west is rich. In Nancheng, the Chu family can count on one hand!"

Zhao Lin nodded and agreed: "That's right, when I moved the goods just now, I saw that there were four dining rooms, and there seemed to be something written about them?"

Hearing this, the entourage couldn't help laughing out loud, "Don't talk nonsense, where is up, down, left, and right, it's clearly up, inside, outside, and small."

"exactly."

Zhao Lin patted his head on purpose, "Brother, don't blame me, we don't know much, so we misunderstood."

Then there was a serious expression on his face asking for advice, "Brother, please tell us, what do you mean by up, inside, outside, and small?"

"If we find out, we will have a reason to brag when we go out, so we won't come to Chu Mansion for nothing."

The entourage laughed loudly when they heard the words, "Actually, it's nothing, it's the same for big families..."

Then he explained.

The original four dining rooms are: the upper dining room, the inner dining room, the outer dining room, and the small dining room.

The dining room is dedicated to the Chu family.

The dining room is for people with certain status and status such as housekeepers, guards, bodyguards, masters, and teachers.

The dining room is for the servants to cook.

As for the small dining room, the stove is kept on all year round, ensuring that when the master and wife want to eat, they can be there on call without waiting.

"Oh, I've learned so much!"

Zhao Lin sighed, and the few Li Fu also looked stunned.

……

In the middle of the night, the crescent moon hangs high in the sky.

Dressed in black, Zhao Lin quietly came outside the Chu residence.

He found a place where there was no one around, and the spiral energy was ejected from the acupuncture point, and the body slowly rose into the sky.

The situation of the whole Chu Mansion is under his eyes.

There are quite a few guards in the mansion, among them there are many warriors of the second and third levels of strength, and there are also two masters of Qi who are hired by the Chu family at a high price.

Zhao Lin released ultrasonic waves to locate all the guards who were on patrol and hiding in the dark.

It has to be said that money can turn ghosts, and the guards are quite dedicated, and they are still vigilant at this time, but none of them can imagine that there is someone above their heads.

He flew all the way to the sky above the dining room, landed slowly, and walked into the "supplied dining room" first.

The pots and pans were neatly placed on the stove, Zhao Lin looked left and right, and opened the lids of the utensils one by one.

When the lid of a large casserole was lifted, a fresh, rich and mellow aroma came in.

There is broth in the casserole. There is no monosodium glutamate in this era, and cooks have the ability to make broth with their own hands. It is used to enhance the freshness of stir-fried vegetables and soups.

"Add some food for you."

Zhao Lin smiled slightly, took out the musk powder from his pocket, poured some into it, and stirred it with a spoon.

Lifting the nose and sniffing again, the smell of the medicine powder was diluted by the broth.

It seems to be more fragrant.

Then he went to the inner dining room and the small dining room, and did the same thing, adding musk powder to the braised soup and broth.

When passing the dining room, Zhao Lin paused, thought for a while, and didn't go in.

If the Chu family contacts Chu Liu, it is unlikely that they will send someone there.

If drugging everyone in the Chu Mansion would lead to too many targets being followed, it would not be conducive to finding people.

After finishing the work, I took off and went back to Tongbu to sleep.

On the second day, instead of going out to collect work, Zhao Lin wandered around the Chu Mansion, listening intently to what was going on inside.

The medicine has already been taken, and it depends on whether they will take it into their stomachs.

……

In this era, ordinary people eat two meals a day, but rich people eat three meals a day, or even four meals and five meals a day, just like modern people.

At noon, the Chu family sat in the main hall and began to eat.

"Let's eat." Chu Hongtai picked up the chopsticks and said.

"Mom, drink the soup."

Mrs. Chu has bad teeth, so the eldest daughter-in-law served a bowl of soup herself.

"it is good."

Mrs. Chu scooped up the soup with a spoon, took a sip, and the wrinkles on her face unfolded, "Today's soup...is really delicious."

Chu Hongtai laughed and said, "Really? I'll try it too."

The servant serving at the side hurriedly stepped forward to serve a bowl, Chu Hongtai took it and tasted it, nodded and said: "It's really good, come on, you all have a taste."

Maybe it was the musk powder that made the finishing touch, and the family drank up the soup.

Chu Hongtai was in a happy mood, and specially called the cook over to praise him.

Instead, the cook was baffled, frowning and thinking hard about the difference between what he did today and what he did in the past.

Hearing this, Zhao Lin was determined.

As long as you drink this soup with added ingredients, then for yourself, these people are walking trackers, and they will leave a special smell wherever they go.

……

For the next two days, Zhao Lin observed the people coming and going at the main gate of the Chu Mansion, and everyone who seemed to be of some status smelled of musk powder on their bodies.

From then on, Zhao Lin no longer monitored the Chu House.

Instead, walk around Qinghe County every morning, noon and night.

As long as someone is out of town, the smell will remain.

The rest of the time, he walked around the city, and if Chu Liu was daring, he would hide in Qinghe County. As long as he dared to contact people from the Chu Mansion, he would be caught by himself.

Zhao Lin does this every day, one day, two days, three days...

At noon on the fourth day, I finally smelled two scents of musk outside the city.

Someone is out of town!
Zhao Lin regained his energy and followed the smell. Within half an hour, he saw a convoy marching ahead from a distance.

There are more than [-] vehicles in the convoy. Judging from the badges on the vehicles and the clothes of each person, there are at least five merchants.

"It turned out to be a caravan transporting goods to other places."

Zhao Lin said to himself.

In the past, merchants had to hire bodyguards to transport goods to other places.

However, since the Drilling Mountain Leopards were wiped out, merchants don't have to worry about their goods being robbed, so as long as they don't travel too far, most of them form their own caravans, and each family sends out a few guards to share the risk.

This has greatly affected the business of the Escort Bureau.

The Chu family has two silk weaving workshops, which spin the raw silk brought in from other places into silk and satin, which are sold in Qinghe County and shipped to other counties at the same time.

Zhao Lin hesitated and decided to follow.

After observing the convoy for a while, he recognized the leader of the Chu family's convoy as Chu Zelin, Chu Hongtai's fourth son and Chu Liu's fourth uncle.

Chu Zelin used to practice martial arts in the martial arts hall, and his cultivation reached the Qi state, but he couldn't enter the first level of Qi state. When he got older, he returned to the family to take charge of foreign business.

There is also a leader named Geng Jin, who is a senior guard leader in the Chu family. He has worked in the Chu family for more than ten years, and he is at the third level of strength.

Both of them smelled of musk powder, and there were a few other guys who were not in Zhao Lin's attention.

On the way, Zhao Lin monitored the conversation between Chu Zelin and Geng Jin, but just like in the Chu Mansion, the two never mentioned Chu Liu's name, as if under a curse.

Zhao Lin slandered in his heart, "People in the Chu family are so careful that they don't even mention their names. But the more you are like this, the more I think you have problems!"

Two days later, the convoy arrived in Lushan County. Chu Zelin and Geng Jin did not stop, unloaded the goods to their own shop, and went straight home.

This disappointed Zhao Lin, wondering if it was really just a shipment?

But since he had already followed, there was no reason to give up halfway, so he patiently continued to follow the convoy and returned to Qinghe County.

There was nothing to say along the way, and the convoy stopped when it reached Baisha Town, more than 30 miles away from Qinghe County.

Chu Zelin and Geng Jin ate something, and then bought a lot of food in the town: pastries, roast chicken, beef, sliced ​​duck, shochu...

"I'm almost home, why buy so much food?"

Zhao Lin frowned, a little puzzled in his heart, but he didn't care too much.

Maybe the food here is delicious, so I like this one.

But soon, something more suspicious happened: the convoy left Baisha Town, but Geng Jin did not go with the convoy, but stayed alone.

"Could it be that Geng Jin's house is nearby, and the shopping is to visit family members?"

Zhao Lin took the initiative to help Geng Jin find a reason, but subconsciously hoped that this was not the case, and it was better to have other ideas.

After the convoy left, Geng Jin wandered around the town for a while before heading north with a package full of food.

To the north is Paektu Mountain. What is he doing there as a guard leader?
Could it be that he was also from the mountains?

Zhao Lin became suspicious and felt that things were not that simple, but he didn't follow up immediately.

Geng Jin has the smell of musk powder on his body, so he can't lose it, so he must not let the other party find out.

Otherwise, if you startle the snake, the cooked duck will fly away.

He settled down and waited for a while, until Geng Jin's figure turned into a small black dot, then he got up and walked out of Baisha Town.

Geng Jin walked extremely carefully, looking behind from time to time, and sometimes deliberately took a detour to hide somewhere to see if anyone was following him.

If it wasn't for Zhao Lin's double blessing of keen sense of smell and super-distance hearing, he might have been exposed.

Geng Jin went all the way north until the sun was about to set, and he came to a place called Sanmo Village.

Sanmo Village is the nearest village to Mount Baitou, further ahead... there are no people.

Seeing Geng Jin continue to walk forward, Zhao Lin's heart was pounding, and he vaguely guessed who these things were for.

With so much food, it can't be a picnic, right?

Entering the deep mountain, Geng Jin no longer hides his whereabouts, and walks faster and faster towards the hinterland of Mount Baitou.

The sky is getting dark and the mountain wind is about to rise.

Although it is March in Yangchun, the mountains are still cold, and there is still snow in many places.

The further you go to the depths of Paektu Mountain, the more snow on the ground and the denser the forest. Geng Jin walked for two hours, and the sky was completely dark.

At this time, Zhao Lin no longer had any doubts in his heart, and Geng Jin was definitely looking for Chu Liu.

"It's a good place to hide in Paektu Mountain!"

In the shadows, Zhao Lin saw Geng Jin walking in front of a mountain, and finally stopped.

Zhao Lin looked at the mountain peak by the moonlight, and was very surprised, here is the old Lingfeng!
(End of this chapter)