Chapter 25 Luoyang Ghost City

Author: Xiyumu

Chapter 25 Luoyang Ghost City

"You said that Lord Meng actually arranged a secret agent in this case? He also received a secret report?" Ling Changfeng, who was late, was looking at the Qin County Magistrate opposite him with confusion. After he finished telling about Meng Ziyan's arrangement today, he couldn't help but exclaim.

Xiaolan, who was holding Xiaoyu, was also curious about the matter of a secret agent. After all, he had always been so surprised that his young master from home was seldom showing such a surprise. He wanted to ask, but when he saw that County Magistrate Qin was here, he only thought about it in his heart and did not speak.

Seeing that Ling Changfeng was also full of doubts about this matter, the magistrate of Qin County continued, "The lower official is very confused about this matter. Since Lord Ling does not know about this matter, there may be a reason for it."

Ling Changfeng nodded, knowing that County Magistrate Qin was asking him. But he did not answer, but just pondered for a moment and said, "No matter where Lord Meng's news comes from, we should go to the rosin production site to ask."

The Qin County Magistrate replied: "At this moment, Wei Duwei has sent people to visit all kinds of rosin making workshops in the city, but there is no news yet."

Ling Changfeng smiled and pondered for a moment and said, "If I were the murderer, I wouldn't have bought rosin in workshops of all sizes in the city... I should have gone to the ghost market!"

After listening to the scene, Xiaolan immediately asked curiously: "Young Master, where is this ghost market? Is there really a ghost in this world?"

Ling Changfeng briefly explained: "This ghost market is also called the night market. It is a place where some vendors sell goods at night. Of course, since they are not allowed by the government, the people there call it the ghost market. Tonight we will go there to find out."

Although the magistrate of Qin also knew about the "ghost market", he had never been there. He didn't know how dangerous it was, so he immediately asked, "Master Ling, can you ask the officials to accompany you?"

Ling Changfeng waved his hand and signaled that he didn't have to worry, but asked him to help prepare two sets of casual clothes, two pairs of masks, and some ash. When the magistrate of Qin heard this, he went out to ask his servants to arrange it.

Xiaolan asked in confusion: "Young Master, why do you want the pot of ashes?"

Ling Changfeng pointed at Xiaoyu and said with a smile: "We want to go straight to the face. Xiaoyu has no choice but to blacken it with grievance."

When Xiaoyu saw the two of them looking at her, she felt a little scared and immediately started to "meow".

After a while, the magistrate of Qin brought in with a piece of stuff, put it down, and then surrendered.

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There are three strange things about ghost market Taobao:

First, the ghost market gathers in the middle of the night, the roosters crow and disperse, coming and going without a trace;

Second, there are all kinds of things sold in the ghost market, regardless of the categories, nor are they neat and regular. Whoever comes early and who takes up the space first:

The third is the rare treasures of the ghost market, which are mixed with pearls, which are both incorrect and have strange goods to live in. The source of the transaction is not related to the transaction.

This is why people are curious about Ghost Market and like to Taobao here.

There is also an unwritten rule for visiting the ghost market: you cannot ask the source of the object, the purpose of the object, and the origin of the seller.

In addition, there is another rule: buyers and sellers are negotiating, and others are not allowed to interrupt, otherwise it will make people sneer.

It is said that in order to avoid interrupting others, Guishi has its own set of "black words". Here we rarely hear the numbers we usually say, but use some other sounds instead. For example: "Pinch, clamp, early, long, crook, scratch, pick, Kang, Wang, and sea." This represents what we usually say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

At midnight, it's late at night.

The market in the west of Luoyang City has long been closed, but at this time, two people in coarse linen clothes, one tall and one short, were walking slowly on the street. Both of them were wearing a green-faced and fanged mask on their faces, which was quite insidious. The short man was holding a pitch-black kitten in his hands, and their whereabouts seemed quite mysterious.

After a moment, they walked to a remote alley. The tall man held an iron rod in his hand, knocked it hard, and three times, and knocked a stone slab on the ground of the alley in a regular manner. The stone slab was empty!

After a while, a question came from the ground: "Thousands of lights shine on the blue clouds."

The tall man immediately replied, "There are many guests in Hongxiu." After that, he tapped the iron rod in his hand three times and then hit it harder.

After a while, the person inside did not respond. The shorter man was about to ask, but was gently pulled by the person who spoke. He signaled him to wait for a moment.

The stone slab slowly opened, revealing a dark hole. The hole was extremely narrow, and a stone staircase was built to extend to the depths of the ground. The stone staircase only allowed a man to pass sideways.

At this time, a man wearing a ghost mask held a candlelight in his hand and signaled the people on the ground to come in. If he were not familiar with the people here, he would probably scream when he saw such a terrifying scene late at night.

The tall one was headed and the short one, and the two outside followed the candlelight to the depths of the ground one after another. The stone slab at the entrance of the cave made a "click" and returned to its original state. From the ground, there was no abnormality at all.

After walking about a cup of tea, the vision suddenly became wide. A wide circular hall appeared in front of the two of them. Caves covered with wooden doors were opened around the hall. There were holes of different sizes on the top of the hall and connected to the outside world, which was estimated to be about ten meters high.

At this time, many people were talking about business, without exception, wearing hideous masks and coarse slutty shirts. They also spoke in a low voice when communicating, for fear that someone would guess their identity based on a clue.

After Xiaolan came in, she took a breath behind her mask and found that although the air was mixed with the smell of underground moisture, it was not stuffy. Instead, she felt a hint of cool breeze coming. I guess the ventilation design here was very good. I don’t know who spent so much effort to build this Luoyang Ghost Market.

Needless to say, the two of them were Ling Changfeng and Xiaolan, and the black kitten was Xiaoyu dyed with pot ash. In the afternoon, the two of them had a lot of effort and several dried fish to complete the dyeing task.

Xiaolan was here for the first time and was quite interested in everything. Although the stalls around were scattered and the stalls were not big, they were filled with strange things.

So he begged his young master to take him around. Ling Changfeng nodded helplessly, explained the rules of the ghost market to Xiaolan, and then took him around.

Seeing that the stall in front of him was not big, there were some very rare jewelry necklaces on it, Xiaolan immediately signaled Ling Changfeng to go over and take a look.

Ling Changfeng whispered in his ear: "These jewelry necklaces are probably from tomb robbers. Are you sure you want to go over and check them?"

After hearing this, Xiaolan felt a chill behind her back. She felt that after putting it on, the tomb owner would come to find her in the middle of the night, shake her head desperately, and quickly pull her master to the next stall.

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Chapter completed!