Chapter 632 What month does the sweet-scented osmanthus bloom?
Lin Jizheng was listening intently, and suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.
Turning around, he met Lu Zhaoer's cold eyes.
"Why, you feel itchy? Want to take a look?"
"Absolutely not."
"Then you were so distracted by what you heard?"
"I'm curious about Minghua House." Lin Ji shook his head and said with a smile, "There was also Minghua House in Qingyang County back then. As a brothel, its name is not really brilliant, but it happened to be in Xiushifang City, Wucha Town.
A place with the same name.”
"It's just a coincidence, right?" Lu Zhaoer didn't care about this.
Lin Ji shook his head and said: "I have a good friend named Zhou Qian. He also participated in Minghua Building in Qingyang County. After he got married, he left Qingyang County and went to the Hehuan Sect, which is in Xiangzhou. And if
Not surprisingly, his status in the Hehuan Sect is not too low now, and he once told me that he had heard of the money-making method of choosing the oiran every month."
Hearing this, Lu Zhaoer's face showed a bit of contempt.
"Master Lin actually has such a friend?"
"We are just subordinates from Qingyang County. Everyone's situation is different." Lin Ji smiled bitterly, "It's not like you don't know that I'm still a boy."
"Bah, I'm getting thicker and thicker now!" Lu Zhaoer's face turned slightly red, he spat softly, and then said, "My ability is limited and I can't get involved in the affairs of Mengxian Sect. As for the so-called Minghua Tower and you, I still don't know.
Whether they are real or fake friends, I am not very interested in them, I want to go back to my room to practice."
"I can vaguely feel that I have broken through the bottleneck of the daily travel realm."
"When?" Lin Ji asked somewhat unexpectedly.
"I felt something on the way to Wucha Town, but I have just hit a bottleneck. If I want to break through, it will probably take at least a year and a half, but even so, I can't relax."
"After Wucha Town, you have to go to Yangzhou with me. Will it delay your practice?"
"Not really. You can't rush this kind of thing. It's up to you to be careful."
After the words fell, Lu Zhaoer glared at Lin Ji fiercely, then went upstairs and disappeared.
After watching Lu Zhaoer's figure disappear at the corner of the stairs, the expression on Lin Ji's face gradually calmed down, he picked up the teapot on the table and drank it all at the spout.
This action made the shopkeeper not far away look helpless.
"Guest! You can't drink this black tea like this! Even if the Yuanshen monk comes, you can only taste it slowly!"
"Hiccup...is there such a thing?" Lin Ji put down the teapot and burped.
The pot was empty.
The shopkeeper smiled bitterly and said: "The soothing incense from Buddhism cannot be smelled for a long time. The soothing incense can only be used to the third level at most, let alone this black tea?"
"Then what happens if I drink all this drink?"
"You will faint on the spot! If you want to wake up again, it will take at least three to five days, but at most a year and a half... Huh? Why haven't you fainted yet?"
When Lin Ji heard this, he glanced at the teapot in his hand and bowed to the shopkeeper.
"Maybe this tea doesn't have enough stamina?"
After he finished speaking, Lin Ji flipped his hand, and more than a hundred yuan crystals appeared on the counter, and he walked towards the table where the oiran was discussed.
"Fellow Taoists, how do I get to Minghua Tower?"
"North of town."
"Thank you."
After thanking him, Lin Ji quickly left the inn.
After Lin Ji walked away, the waiter came to clear the table.
When passing by the shopkeeper, the waiter was a little surprised and said: "Shopkeeper, that customer drank a pot of black tea in one gulp, why is everything okay? It's different from what you said."
The shopkeeper already understood at this time and glared at the waiter.
"Don't pry if you shouldn't! Have you forgotten about Miss Geng from Sanshengdong a few months ago? She also drank the whole pot of black tea in one gulp, lay down on the spot and was taken back by the people from Sanshengdong.
I slept for half a month."
The waiter nodded repeatedly after hearing this.
"Yes...but why is that gentleman okay?"
The shopkeeper lowered his voice.
"Because that gentleman just now is probably more powerful than Miss Geng."
Hearing this, the waiter's eyes widened immediately, he didn't dare to ask any more questions, and left quickly.
The shopkeeper also pretended that this never happened.
Seeing Yuan Jing on the counter, which was much more than the money for tea and food, he smiled and ordered the chef to add two more side dishes to each table of the guests who were still there.
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Wucha Town.
Lin Ji was strolling leisurely, but did not go in the direction of Minghua Tower, but wandered around wantonly.
He walked further and further, and finally stopped in front of an inconspicuous courtyard.
This courtyard is far away from the bustling area of Wucha Town and is somewhat remote, but the front door has been cleaned quite cleanly and the knocker on the door has been polished black and shiny.
In addition, Lin Ji's attention fell on a big tree at the entrance of the small courtyard.
This is an osmanthus tree. The osmanthus flowers on the treetop are already full, and a lot of them are scattered on the ground.
If you get closer, you can smell the sweet scent of osmanthus in the air, which is so pleasant!
At this moment, the door of the small courtyard was pushed open, and a beautiful girl in her early thirties came out, holding a broom and dustpan in her hand, and walked towards the sweet-scented osmanthus tree.
When she saw Lin Ji, she was slightly stunned.
"Why is this gentleman stopping at my door?"
"This sister-in-law has a nice face, I always feel like I've seen her before somewhere before." Lin Ji smiled and cupped her hands.
When the beautiful lady heard this, the smile on her face faded a little.
"My husband-in-law is at home, sir. Please respect yourself."
When Lin Ji heard this, he couldn't help laughing.
He cupped his hand again, closed the folding fan in his hand, and pointed at the osmanthus tree above his head with the folding fan.
"Sister-in-law, is this an osmanthus tree?"
"Of course yes."
"In what month does the sweet-scented osmanthus bloom?" Lin Ji asked again.
The beautiful lady's expression froze, and her originally stern expression softened.
"It should open in September."
"What now?"
"The first month."
The smile on Lin Ji's face became even bigger.
"Does my sister-in-law think I'm kind now?"
There was a bit of a smile on the face of the beautiful lady, and she nodded and said, "I must have seen you in Sishui County, right? Is it Lin Zhangling from the Supervisory Tiansi Division?"
"It's me." Lin Ji responded.
"Are you here alone?" Meijiao Niang asked again.
Lin Ji thought for a while and answered truthfully: "I brought my fiancée with me, but her cultivation has reached a bottleneck and she needs to practice, and she can't get involved in this matter."
Hearing this, the beautiful girl's smile gradually turned cold.
"She can't help, what about you?"
The expression on Lin Ji's face gradually faded.
"Even if it can't be solved, saving your life...can always be done, right, Mrs. Fang?"
Mei Jiao Niang looked Lin Ji up and down for a moment, and her eyes stayed on the fan in his hand for a long time.
Finally, she nodded.
"Fellow Daoist Lin, my husband-in-law has long said that you are coming."
"Yes, Mr. Fang left without saying goodbye that night, which really made Lin feel very sorry."
"He is in the house, go in and find him yourself." Meijiao Niang shook her head slightly, picked up the broom in her hand and began to clean.
What I was sweeping was the sweet-scented osmanthus scattered on the ground.
Lin Jize thanked her, then passed Meijiao Niang and entered the inconspicuous courtyard.