Day and night tour

Chapter 130 Old Painting Studio

"I haven't asked yet?"

Zhou Xuan was very surprised by the eyes in the blood well. It looked at him without him asking any questions.

Then he saw a picture - an old bookstore that also sold small antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

The shop used a piece of white cloth to make a door curtain with three words written on it: Lao Hua Zhai.

Zhou Xuan had an impression of this bookstore. When he and Lu Mingkun came to Shande Hospital from Dongshi Street in the morning, he noticed this bookstore on Dongshi Street.

It is a funeral street where every household is involved in funeral affairs. A bookstore opens in the street, which is very eye-catching.

"Is this a refinement of the last divination instructions?" Zhou Xuan understood a little.

The last time he borrowed blood from the well on credit was to ask for more specific tattoo opportunities.

The blood well guided him to Dongshi Street, where he had just arrived at Mingjiang Prefecture. Now, after accepting the sacrifice, the blood well upgraded the divination content again, making the direction even clearer.

"There is an unexpected gain. Perhaps the offerings exceed the requirements... Isn't a spring dream four incense sticks?"

Zhou Xuan thought about it and felt that it was unlikely. The incense of the five incense sticks was much stronger than his, and it was unlikely that the dream could be controlled.

"The incense of a spring dream may be close to five sticks of incense."

The four incense sticks are also divided into different grades. The four incense sticks that have just been raised are four incense sticks, and the four incense sticks whose head can be seen are also four incense sticks.

Although they are at the same level, the gap between them is quite big.

"Xuejing was very satisfied with the quality of Chunmeng's offerings, so he made the divination more specific."

From a business perspective, Xuejing is very fair and never cheats anyone.

When Zhou Xuan figured out the key point, at this moment, the eyes on the temple wall seemed to have rested enough and opened again, with a bit more greed in their eyes when they looked at Zhou Xuan.

An idea popped into Zhou Xuan's mind.

"Ask, and continue to ask divinations. You can ask on credit. Ask as much as you want, as long as you can find the sacrifice in time."

This bewitching thought almost made Zhou Xuan lose control. He wanted to ask his next question out loud, and then silently said "on credit".

His question was - why were the Tattooed Ancient Clan staring at him.

But this problem is too big. Just learning the tattoo method to collect incense requires four incense sticks as offerings. This problem directly points to the secrets of the ancient clan. The price of the blood well must be very high, so high that it may not be paid.

Therefore, Zhou Xuan did not want to buy on credit this time, but wanted to ask for the price first.

"I'd like to make it clear in advance that I won't sell on credit this time. I'd like to make it clear again that I won't sell on credit this time. You know the doubts I want to find answers to. Please tell me the price first."

As soon as Zhou Xuan had the thought, it started snowing in the Xuejing Ancient Temple.

The snowflakes wrote a word on the ground.

"six!"

Six incense sticks?!

Well, the price is indeed clear, but I just can’t satisfy it for the time being.

Not to mention how difficult it is to kill a Six-stick Incense Patch, it takes a lot of effort to find the Six-stick Incense Patch scattered among the people.

However, there is a place that has a lot of six-stick incense - the God-Traveling Department. But is that the place where you can purchase offerings?
Faced with the high price of the sacrifice, Zhou Xuan sighed in despair and cut off the connection with the blood well.

"Six incense sticks?" Zhou Xuan returned to reality and thought, "It seems that even the Food for the Heaven behind the kidnapper doesn't have six incense sticks."

Shi Wei Tian is a 30-year-old White Walker, and he is almost impossible to find. If it were easy to find him, the God of War would have caught him long ago.

Zhou Xuan no longer thought about the price of Blood Well, but shifted his attention to his chest.

In addition to being the sacrifice chosen by Zhou Xuan for the Blood Well, Du Kaili is also the target of revenge for the obsessed "Eyeless".

Now that she is dead, the exoneration of "Wuyan" is over, and the exoneration talisman in Zhou Xuan's arms began to vibrate.

Zhou Xuan held the Book of Cleansing Wrongs in one hand as if no one was around, and turned to the last page by perception. The handwriting had changed.

Before clearing the injustice, the handwriting read "no eyes, clear the injustice", with a long blank space in the middle.

"Wuyan, on August 19th, Mingjiangfu Mingdong Shande Hospital, cleared the name of the injustice."

The book is written in a very formal way, just like a record book of a mysterious organization carrying out a mission. This mysterious organization seems to specialize in targeting obsessions, but it is definitely not the Youshen Division. The Youshen Division cannot see obsessions.

It was at this moment that Zhou Xuan saw the obsession "Eyeless" walk out of Du Kaili's bones.

"Wu Yan" kowtowed to Zhou Xuan again to express his gratitude. As he kowtowed again and again, his body turned into countless fluorescent spots and drilled into Zhou Xuan's eyebrows.

The moment Zhou Xuan was exposed to the fluorescent light, many names and introductions, as well as memories of many people, appeared in his mind.

"Zhao Baoping, a worker at the Twisting Bureau in Mingjiang Prefecture; Liu Yuxi, the accountant at Li's Clothing Store on Huisi Street in Mingjiang Prefecture; Li Lingzhang, the owner of the Old Painting Studio on Dongshi Street in Mingjiang Prefecture..."

The obsession disappeared, and the more than 30 people who made up the obsession turned into fragments of memory and poured into Zhou Xuan's body.

That was Zhou Xuan's mental fortitude. If it were someone else, the massive amount of messy information alone would be enough to cause their brain to crash.

Zhou Xuan carefully analyzed the memories of these people and made an unexpected discovery - Li Lingzhang, the owner of Lao Huazhai, was actually dead!

"What about my chance to get a tattoo?"

Xue Jing just reminded you that the opportunity to get a tattoo is in the "Old Painting Studio".

Zhou Xuan quickly searched the memory of the shop owner Li Lingzhang.
Li Lingzhang actually lives a very simple life. He has no children and his wife ran away with someone a few years ago. He is all alone running a used bookstore. The money he earns every month is equivalent to that of a dock worker. His life is ok, but definitely not good.

Zhou Xuan used his perception to browse through his memories from birth to death, but he couldn't find anything related to tattoos. "If the tattoo opportunity is not with the boss, then it must be in his shop?

His shop is a used bookstore... Is there any book or pamphlet that records the method of raising money through tattoos?"

Zhou Xuan was very excited, but also a little worried - the boss had been dead for a few days, were the things in the bookstore still there? Was the store taken over by someone else?
Thinking of this, Zhou Xuan ran out of the hospital.

"Wait for me."

Lu Mingkun shouted at Zhou Xuan's hurried back.

……

Lu Mingkun was very disappointed.

He was ready for a bloody battle with Chun Meng, but he didn't even raise a hand until Chun Meng died.

"I finally got myself motivated and excited, but in the end I kept it all to myself."

Lu Mingkun had been waiting to make a move, and after hearing Chun Meng's roar, he felt something was wrong, so he went to the hospital corridor and saw Du Kaili, who had turned into bones.

"Junior brother, are you really the second incense stick? Du Kaili died in your hands like this?"

He wanted to ask Zhou Xuan how he killed him, and to tell him about his frustration, but he encountered Zhou Xuan in a daze. After waiting for his junior brother to stop being in a daze, he actually walked away...

"Hey, little junior brother, are you almost forgetting that we brothers and I are here to do things together?" Lu Mingkun felt aggrieved.

……

"Mr. Yuan, Du Likai is dead." Zhou Lingyi said.

"My disciple and Lao Wu can easily kill a kidnapper who has lived for four incense sticks. The kidnapper doesn't have many means to counter the dream."

Yuan Buyu was fiddling with the radio without even raising his head.

"Old Five didn't do anything, but my younger brother used only dreams to drive Du Kaili crazy. Du Kaili is a master of kidnapping - Spring Dreams. According to the news from the God-Worshiping Department, she is growing very fast. She has been worshipping the gods in Yin for less than eight years, and she is already close to the level of Five Incense Sticks."

Zhou Lingyi knows them all by heart.

Yuan Buyu, however, acted calm and composed, opened his folding fan with a snap, and said, "It only takes two incense sticks to kill a master who takes almost five incense sticks. This is the style of our storytellers. The first Sun God in the world is not just a name."

Zhou Lingyi smiled when she heard this.

Yuan Buyu is a man who knows his own business and knows the storyteller's skills very well.

Even if the kidnapper's means of countering the dream were extremely bad, it was only at the level of almost five incense sticks. A normal two-incense stick storyteller's dream would definitely not be able to control her.

This disciple of mine, with one inch of incense and one layer of means, also has the spiritual connection with the blood well. The quality of the dream he created is not comparable to that of ordinary two incense sticks, but he can't control Du Kaili. He can kill Chun Meng alone, there must be a hidden story...

...But, so what?

In the final analysis, was it the apprentice who had only been in the apprenticeship for two incense sticks that defeated the master of kidnapping who had been in the apprenticeship for almost five incense sticks?
For people who travel around the world, there are not so many coincidences and accidents. If they win, they just stand there, embrace the fame, and let their master brag about it. If they lose, they just lie down and be carried away in a coffin. What's the point of talking so many roundabout ways?
"This time Du Kaili went crazy in public and committed suicide in a strange way in Shan De Hospital, which was equivalent to exposing the kidnapper's hidden line in the hospital. In the next two days, some big shot will cause trouble for the kidnapper."

Zhou Lingyi smiled, her eyes narrowed into crescents, and said.

Yuan Buyu shook his head: "The backer of Shan De Hospital is Bai Yun Gentleman. That group of people can stir up some trouble in Pingshui Prefecture, but their influence in Mingjiang Prefecture is probably limited..."

It is known to many people that the backer of Shan De Hospital is Bai Yun Gentleman.

Zhou Lingyi closed his eyes and said, "Mr. Baiyun is just a figure who was pushed to the front. The organization behind them is the real power. This time, the kidnapper will cut off their flesh... It will hurt them for a long time..."

……

"Fifth Senior Brother, I'm in a hurry. Let's not take the rickshaw, let's take the tram." Zhou Xuan persuaded Lu Mingkun who was soliciting rickshaws.

Lv Mingkun was confused and said, "We are unfamiliar with the place. We don't know where the tram stop is, how to get there, or which line to take. If we ask, it will take more time than taking a rickshaw."

"Don't ask, just follow me."

Zhou Xuan absorbed the memories in his obsession. Most of the thirty people were native Mingjiang Prefecture residents. As soon as he absorbed their memories, he felt that the map of the entire Mingjiang Prefecture suddenly lit up.

He led Lv Mingkun for a few hundred meters, turned into an alley, walked another two or three hundred meters, turned into a small alley, and walked forward for a while, and suddenly they came to a road that was neither wide nor narrow.
The road was paved with tram tracks.

"How did you know this road?"

Lu Mingkun has traveled a lot and is quite knowledgeable. For example, he has been to Mingjiang Prefecture several times, but he is only familiar with some of the iconic buildings. However, Zhou Xuan is like a local and has no trouble finding the winding alleys.

"As soon as I got off the train from Mingjiangfu, I told you that I felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity with this city."

Zhou Xuan didn't want to tell Lu Mingkun about his obsession, so he just extended the topic from the last time. As for whether Fifth Senior Brother believed it or not... could it be harder to believe than a two-incense stick expert killing a four-incense stick expert alone?
"Let's wait here."

Zhou Xuan made his living by a cake shop.

“There’s no sign here?”

There are many signboards at tram stops, but the number of signboards is limited and some places have many people riding the tram.

In order to cater to these businesses, trams would also stop there, and it gradually became a customary station.

“Yingyingying!”

The tram with a rather effeminate whistle slowed down and stopped at the side of the road.

Zhou Xuan confirmed the bus number, which was for Dongshi Street, and called out to Lu Mingkun to get on the bus.

At the moment when the tram door closed, Lv Mingkun suddenly thought of something and whispered in Zhou Xuan's ear: "Something is wrong... There is something we forgot to do."

(End of this chapter)