"I want to have a drink of this wine." The sloppy Taoist priest smiled "hehe" at Lu Bai.
Lu Bai asked him to go aside.
"Perhaps you can persuade the wicked monk to go." Lu Bai laughed.
The wicked monk touched his bald head and thought it was okay. "You have to give me money."
They are monks, so naturally they don't have any money on them.
"have to."
Lu Bai understood that he was asking for money from him.
He asked Monk Wicked to get it from Yun Niang tomorrow, "Oh, by the way -" Lu Bai did not forget to tell them when he stood up, "Remember to bring me some wine, so I can taste how delicious it is.
"
The wicked monk made a gesture to reassure Lu Bai.
Lu Bai went back to the study to sleep.
Gu Qinghuan went to the mountain gate. Now he was alone. He planned to go to the mountain gate to take a look tomorrow morning.
Since the mountain gate was built, Lu Bai has not been there yet.
Let's take advantage of the case to come to an end to arrange some sect affairs so that the door-to-door service can get back on track as soon as possible.
However, after all, there is still a shortage of manpower.
Lu Bai thought it would be better to call in Yancheng's manpower as soon as possible. After two or three years of training, those gang elders and sect disciples and stewards are now capable of taking charge on their own.
He had already sent a letter a few days ago. I wonder if Zai Wanger and the others have left.
However, Lu Bai's plan still failed.
The next day, as soon as he woke up, a disciple hurriedly came to him and said, "Master, the Taoist Master sent people to spread the word that Tan Desi is about to be recruited."
Lu Bai was still confused at first, but when he heard this, he immediately jumped up from the bed.
He hurried to see Tan Desi.
Tan Desi's hair was withered, his face was pale, and his eyes were gloomy and gray. He seemed to be sweating profusely and breathing heavily not long after he woke up.
After he saw Lu Bai, his nostrils flared like a goldfish, but his throat couldn't make a sound. After trying again, he made a dry and hoarse voice, "Lu, Lord Lu, if I, I said, you
, do you really let my family go?"
Lu Bai knew as soon as he heard this that he was tortured by the nightmare card.
He nodded.
Tan Desi closed his eyes after hearing this. All that flashed in his mind was his son lying on the butcher table with a human head and a pig body, waiting to be cut. His daughter, a human head and a pig body, was being led to be bred. He even saw him.
Going to breed.
It's too terrible to look at.
At first he thought it was just a nightmare, but these days, all he has been thinking about is that his children will be pigs in the next life. Even his parents and his wife are also pigs, groaning in the mud pit, and he just
Can't bear to remember.
He opened his eyes and said to Lu Bai with a decisive look on his face: "Master Lu, I know that my sins are serious. I will not forgive myself. I hope most that my family can be spared."
Lu Bai reassured him that he kept his word, "As long as you tell me who is behind this, I will let your family go."
"Okay." Tan Desi closed his eyes again.
After breathing for a moment, he slowly said: "It starts from ten years ago. A beautiful woman came to me. She told me that he knew the inside story of our family sending pork to the palace."
Tan Desi was so panicked that he almost peed his pants.
Then, Tan Desi had the idea of killing him. He wanted to find out the identity of the man in front of him so that the father-in-law of the East Factory or the West Factory could kill him.
I have dealt with this matter several times.
However, the beautiful woman soon spoke again.
She told Tan Desi that now the two factories had given her the way to get the "meat", and she would be the one to get the "meat" from now on, but she had to entrust Tan Desi with the method of sending it to the palace.
In other words, she will take over the "pork" business of the two factories in the future.
Tan Desi didn't believe her at the time, but the beautiful woman soon showed her sincerity - the palace purchased pork, and the eunuch who secretly accepted the "pork" told Tan Desi that he would buy it from a lady named Crane in the future.
Get the goods here.
This Lady Crane is that beautiful woman.
From then on, all the "pork" needed in the palace was delivered by beautiful women.
"Who is this Mrs. He?" Lu Bai couldn't help but ask.
This is almost certainly someone behind the scenes.
Tan Desi shook his head. This Lady Crane was so elusive that he couldn't figure out her identity. He knew that Lady Crane had great magical powers and had a backstage and connections, so she could solve many difficult things.
In the past, there was a newly appointed guard at Donghua Gate, who was unaware of these secret activities. When they sent the "pork" into the palace, they carefully inspected it and even opened the knife edge of the pork to look inside.
The guard looked at Tan Desi and the other boys delivering the meat strangely, then waved his hand to let them go.
After all, Tan Desi had a guilty conscience.
After delivering the pork to the father-in-law who purchased it, he asked someone to tell Mrs. He when he got back.
Of course, the guard died quietly.
"She also changed our rules for delivering meat." From then on, Tan Desi only delivered the meat to the palace gate, and the purchasing eunuch came out to collect the pork and send it to the palace.
That's not all Mrs. He's magical powers are.
Once his manor was robbed, Tan Desi was so frightened that the secrets of the manor were discovered. The next day after taking over the manor, he hung the thief's head on the jujube tree in the yard, and the lost property was also found.
came back.
"There are all kinds of things." Tan Desi said breathlessly.
Seeing that his lips were dry, Lu Bai waved his hand and asked his disciple to give him a glass of water to moisten his throat.
Tan Desi rested for a while and continued: "That's all I know about Mrs. He. The rest I don't know where she comes from, why she has so much power, and why she controls the 'pork' business."
Even after this line is on the right track, as long as there are no other changes, it will be difficult for Tan Desi to see him.
"The last time I saw her was four years ago," Tan Desi said.
It was the subsequent change of the pig line that asked him to divide the "pork" business and send a lot of "pork" to the palace. These instructions were all conveyed through the person who sent the "pig", and Mrs. He did not show up at all.
Another beautiful woman.
Lu Bai was certain that this beautiful woman was the same person as the beautiful woman recorded in Zuo Peiyang's notes.
From Jinyiwei Fu Baihu to Tan Desi.
From this point of view, this whole chain is managed and established by a beautiful woman.
It seems that this beautiful woman is the mastermind behind the scenes.
But this Mrs. Crane——
Based on Tan Desi's words, trying to find Mrs. He is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
He could only ask Tan Desi, "Does this Mrs. Crane have any characteristics?"
Tan Desi tried to recall, "She is dignified and charming, and her temperament is that of a serious lady from a wealthy family. If she hadn't asked me to do this kind of thing, I would have just thought she was a good housewife when I saw her on the street."
people."
This woman is also very well-dressed.
"She was wearing a red silk dress, on which a crane was rusted with silver thread. It was lifelike and lifelike. I don't know what kind of female red needlework was used to weave it. When viewed from different angles and illuminated by light at different times, that
The postures of the cranes are different." Tan Desi is amazed when he remembers it now.
Later, he also wanted to buy a set of clothes like that for his wife, but he searched all over the capital and could not find any silk clothes sold with that kind of stitching.
"That kind of weaving method is really ingenious." Tan Desi said.
He later asked Mrs. He repeatedly where she bought the silk clothes.
Mrs. He smiled and said nothing at the time, but after thinking about it carefully, Mrs. He should have knitted it herself. Otherwise, she would have become famous all over the world and made a lot of money thanks to this famous woman.
Lu Bai frowned.
Judging from the two pieces of information provided by Tan Desi, it is still limited and it is difficult to find Mrs. Crane in the huge crowd.
Fortunately, Tan Desi also holds another clue.
"Who are they who deliver pork to your manor all day long?" Lu Bai asked.
Tan Desi should know this.
Otherwise, Tan Desi would not have kept his mouth shut until now, and he had to use the nightmare card for nearly ten days before he spoke.
After a moment, Tan Desi actually nodded.
He told Lu Bai that the people who sent "pork" were all kinds of people, old and young, and most of them were born in poverty. They looked very miserable, and most of the workers who worked on weekdays were probably not easy.
"Although I don't know these people, but after so many years -"
Tan Desi smiled bitterly and shook his head.
You will always see one or two familiar faces in the capital.
He once saw a boatman with a scar on his temple that looked very similar to one of the masked men who had given him pork a long time ago.
At that time, when the boatman was pulling him, his eyes were still evasive, which made Tan Desi somewhat convinced.
"In addition, one time when a person was delivering 'pork', he was so busy that he threw a bamboo sign onto the car delivering the meat."
That's a small bamboo sign.
The bamboo sign said the man's trade - he was a charcoal worker in a charcoal shop.
At that time, Tan Desi quietly collected the bamboo cards and destroyed them, because he knew that you could not know the identity of others when doing this kind of business, otherwise there would be endless trouble.
"That person didn't even come looking for Zhupai. He probably knew that he couldn't expose this matter, let alone let others know that he had exposed his identity," Tan Desi said.
Lu Bai didn't listen to what he said later, because he was like an enlightenment and suddenly understood the key point of his several investigations-Zhuyingtang!
The charcoal business, the pig-killing business, the construction business, the teeth business, the boat business - if there is a force that can connect these businesses, among all the forces that Lu Bai knows, only Zhuyingtang can do it.
Fang Qianhu once said that Zhuyingtang has almost a monopoly on all the businesses in the capital that are not on the market. Even if the business is on the market, it depends on the face of Zhuyingtang. Anyone who does business can hardly avoid Zhuyingtang.
Cinema.
With such a huge convenience and network of connections, if Zhuyingtang colluded with the people in the inner study hall to do the food demon's deeds, Lu Bai had no doubt that they would end up like this.
"Zhuyingtang, Tangzhu!"
Lu Bai couldn't help but think of Tang Zhu from Zhuyingtang who came by boat and talked and exchanged information with him on the Qinhuai River.
It was a middle-aged man wearing a white Confucian shirt, a silk scarf on his head, and a bamboo fan in his hand. His face was elegant and calm, and he was indescribably graceful.
At that time, Tang Zhu told him that he was not the master of Zhuying Hall, but his surname was Tang.
But judging from the meeting that day, even if Tang Zhu was not the leader of the Bamboo Shadow Hall, he was still a person with a strong voice.
Now we must find the people from Zhuyingtang.
Lu Bai turned around and left in a hurry.
The sloppy Taoist priest stopped him from behind, "Master, what should I do with him? If you don't treat him today, I don't think he will survive today."
Lu Bai stopped when he heard this.
He turned around and looked at Tan Desi who was looking at him expectantly and let out a sigh of relief.
He sighed: "Don't worry, don't worry, I will definitely do what I promised you - and besides, I will try my best not to let your children die in their hands."
Tan Desi smiled when he heard this.
He nodded slightly and imperceptibly, then lay on the bed waiting to die.
Snapped!
The wicked monk waved his hand and swept his sleeve across Tan Desi's cheek, causing Tan Desi to die completely.
Lu Bai was shocked, "You, what are you doing?"
"Let him go to see the King of Hell." The wicked monk said matter-of-factly.
"No, he was going to see the King of Hell, why did you do it?" Lu Bai asked.
The wicked monk clasped his hands together and chanted a Buddhist chant, "Amitabha, the leader, the monks are compassionate. He is in so much pain, and he has to leave early on the road to hell, so I will send him off in advance."
"Well--"
Lu Bai looked at him speechlessly.
This reason was so powerful that Lu Bai was speechless.
After a moment, he seemed to be talking to himself or asking, "Aren't you a monk? A monk is not easily involved in the sin of killing? What's more, you are like this."
The wicked monk still has good reasons, "I am not as good as hell, who will go to hell?"
Lu Bai was completely speechless now.
The sloppy Taoist priest laughed loudly beside him, "Now do you know why he is called the Wicked Monk?"
Because what the monk did was very unethical, not only unethical to others, but also unethical to himself.
Lu Bai nodded, and it turned out that the nickname was not wrong.
However, the wicked monk's wickedness does not end there.
Yesterday, the slovenly Taoist priest mentioned that he wanted to drink the private wine brewed by the new wine slave Jier on the Qinhuai River. However, the wine was not usually brought out to entertain people. It was only brought out to share a drink after someone paid money to sit on her pillow mat.
The wicked monk became a suitable candidate.
After he took the money from Yun Niang, he immediately went to see the wine slave at the urging of the sloppy Taoist priest.
An old monk went on a boat on the Qinhuai River to buy a drinking slave for a night. This news would make people laugh out loud.
The wine slave is another new girl who has emerged in the limelight and is about to become a famous prostitute on the Qinhuai River.
Naturally, she didn't want to and wouldn't agree to the old monk's request.
However, the wicked monk gave too much.
In the end, the wicked monk managed to spend the night with the drunkard, but the night was extremely long for the drunkard. It was so long that she would rather receive seven or eight guests and play together until dawn than entertain the wicked monk again.
There is no other reason than that the wicked monk is too strong.
The battle lasted all night until dawn.
When the rooster crowed, he still showed no sign of stopping and his interest waned, while the wine slave was already in a state of ecstasy - the wicked monk read Buddhist scriptures to her all night long, and discussed Buddhist scripture annotations with her from time to time.
Whenever she responded casually, the wicked monk couldn't help but nod his head and said that there are hundreds of interpretations of Zen. The girl's interpretation was not only rare but also unique, which showed that she had Buddha nature.
The wine slave couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this.
nonsense!
From ancient times to the present, there probably has never been a monk who approached his sister to explain Buddhist scriptures. Her casual approach certainly had unique insights.
The old monk's compliment of "having Buddha nature" was even more intolerable to her, as if she were a Bodhisattva who was delayed by a brothel. If the alcohol slave hadn't been determined, she would have had her hair cut off and become a nun after this night.