A few days into winter, the cold wind withered the branches and the wintersweet bloomed.
Cao Xiwan decided to stay at Chen's house.
Chen Ming did not avoid the cold winter and traveled on horseback every day. He found an excuse to go to the Marquis's mansion to pay his respects in order to observe the Marquis's body.
When he went to the outer study, he saw the dark look on Marquis Nankang's face. He was shocked and fled back to find Cao Xiwan in a desperate manner.
But Cao Xiwan was happily collecting the gambling money.
As soon as Chen Ming entered the yard, he saw several boxes in the yard. In front of the boxes was a high-ranking female official. She brought several large boxes of property. Madam Yang ordered the ladies to carry them in, and then dismissed her servants. Cao Xi
I opened the box in his room at night and glared at him.
Li Caihu sent a part of the secrets of the former dynasty in the hands of Shi Mingniang.
"Did you really bet on the secret treasure?" Chen Ming was surprised.
"Yes. But I won't tell anyone else. I'll just leave it here with you and say that these are the medicinal materials you bought."
Li Caihu ate tea indifferently.
Cao Xiwan was smiling and crackling her abacus. She was dividing the bet with Shi Mingniang and counting out a large stack of silver notes for Li Caihu to take back.
This time, it was Li Caihu who won big by betting on the Qingluo female ghost.
Cao Xiwan was overjoyed when she saw the roster, and quickly pointed to the secret treasure: "If you like it, I'll give you one."
Li Caihu said coldly: "No." She turned and left.
"What's wrong with her?" Cao Xiwan looked at Chen Ming. Mrs. Yang hurriedly went out to see off the guests.
"You killed Princess Dai." Chen Ming glared at her.
"Fair duel, no, they beat me six to one. Can't I fight back?"
"...She is unemployed. She will definitely not be able to be a female official in the palace." Chen Ming decided to reason in a way that she could understand.
"I understand." Cao Xiwan nodded deeply, feeling the same.
The secrets of the previous dynasty were indeed extraordinary.
She actually found more than a dozen bottles of writing potions used by Liu Ruhai, several broken maps of Yanjing City, and several boxes of other weird and trivial items.
"It looks... not very valuable." Madam Yang thought to herself and helped her register. The good-looking ones were all Western Region glass. Cao Xiwan generously gave Madam Yang a set. But the others were all useless.
Weird stuff.
Cao Xiwan was still pointing at the broken map happily: "Here, this is the former cemetery! Oh, the map says that there are hundreds of years of ancient barracks and grain depots under the cemetery. Yes, it is very big underneath, with corpses
There are many, many beautiful bones—"
Chen Ming came over to look at the ancient military camp and thought she was talking nonsense.
Madam Yang was busy counting the boxes and didn't pay attention, but she couldn't help it, fearing that she would suffer a loss in the bet, so she reminded her.
Cao Xiwan quickly replied: "Yes, Mrs. Shi must have kept all the valuable ones and given me the worthless ones." She smiled, but she still made a profit. The boxes contained all kinds of rare gadgets from all over the world, thousands of miles away from the Great Wall.
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In order to get this little thing, she went around bragging about gambling on the secret treasure. Even if she succeeded Shi Mingniang, she would definitely be willing to gamble.
Because she, the Qingluo female ghost, also has good things.
"What did you bet on?"
"How many boxes of groceries." She was betting on how many boxes of groceries she got from the house when she went with Jinyi Yamen to raid the Twelve Dukes' Mansion.
It was either property or some groceries that had not been sold. Shi Mingniang heard about it from somewhere and wanted to bet with her.
Chen Ming fumbled around in the secret box and saw a few bundles of medicinal materials that met his interest. He decided to have a good talk with Cao Xiwan.
"What kind of poison did you inflict on Mr. Hou?" he asked Cao Xiwan in a good voice.
"...I didn't poison." Cao Xiwan hurriedly asked Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu to follow Li Caihu and find Li Funing. In the past few days, they had taken the pills made by Chen Ming, but they didn't know if they were of any use.
"Stop lying to me. I know you hate Mr. Hou." Chen Ming urged her to tell the truth.
"..." Madam Yang paused and looked at her husband and Madam Cao staring at each other like cross-eyed cocks.
"You are so cruel. I just went to see him and found out that the Marquis was poisoned by Biying Palace. Wasn't it you?"
"The Marquis has been poisoned by the Biying Palace?" When Cao Xiwan heard this, she was suddenly poisoned as it was not the case yesterday. She smiled: "I understand."
Chen Ming was startled and guessed: "If it's not you, could it be Su Yingtian?"
While packing the box, she pondered: "Is there a reward?"
"No. The Hou Mansion doesn't know yet."
"Forget it, if there is a reward, we will go catch Su Yingtian."
Chen Ming didn't dare to say anything because he suddenly remembered that he and Su Yingtian were good friends and would be implicated: "Forget it, I'll pretend not to know. The Marquis has blue beads on his body."
Cao Xiwan nodded in agreement, and the two of them laughed and picked up some medicinal materials from the box. Madam Yang listened dumbfounded.
Li Caihu left and got into the big car. It was not that she didn't notice someone following her. She expected that someone must be following her.
But she didn't expect it to be a puppet.
There were people trying to create puzzles at the forks in the middle of the road, but Xiaowen and Xiaowu kept an eye on Li Caihu's cart and followed it all the way. Gradually, they followed it to the back streets of Prince Qin's mansion.
Li Caihu entered the Prince's Mansion.
The secret room in the mansion.
The Prince of Qin was practicing. Suddenly, he opened his eyes, his whole body exploded, and eight phantom bodies exploded in the secret room.
"Nine Nether Eight Lotus Bodies!"
Wen Ruo and Wen Sheng were overjoyed. The Crown Prince of Qin followed the instructions of Master Feng and took a large amount of longevity pills. He was able to break through to the eighth level of the Nine Transformations of the Netherworld?!
The prince also laughed endlessly. He would not let himself be stabbed in vain! He wanted to kill the Qingluo female ghost himself!
Xiaowen and Xiaowu had sneaked into the secret room silently.
The two puppets clung to the wall and watched quietly. They just felt the breath of their companions.
I felt the aura of the puppet who had practiced the Nine Transformations of Netherworld.
They looked at Li Shuyu curiously.
Is this a strange little friend?
——Neither the prince nor Wen Ruo nor Wen Sheng saw them.
But in the Taoist temple in the mansion, Feng Junqing lowered his eyes and smiled, muttering to himself: "Have you mastered it? It's not like all my hard work was in vain. Eunuch Dong's refining puppet finally fell behind."
In the imperial mausoleum, the most incredible puppet is nothing more than the corpse of Nanyu, Duke of Liang.
But he, Feng Junqing's puppet refining was so mysterious that Li Shuyu couldn't tell the difference from ordinary people.
He looked at the medicine in the medicine cauldron in front of him. He was the one who sprinkled the puppet poison powder in the palace prison tunnel.
On that day, no one in the tunnel could escape.
Including Cao Xiwan.
"Sir, Eunuch Zheng has been discovered and we have no choice but to kill him."
"It doesn't matter." He stared at the medicine cauldron and the furnace of puppet powder. He originally wanted Eunuch Zheng to spread it into His Majesty's Palace of Cultivation of Heart.
But changing a eunuch is just a small matter.
"Sir, those puppets that escaped?"
"Don't worry about it, they are just puppets and idiots! If you use them, they will only be controlled by the Qingluo female ghost."
"yes."
Chen family.
In Chen Ming's side courtyard, the lights are bright and people are laughing and talking.
Because a generous female guest came.
Cao Xiwan wanted to stay for a few days, so in addition to giving a set of glassware to Chen Ming and his wife, she also rewarded them heavily.
In front of me, on the lacquered table in the main room, there are six dishes, one soup, and two jars of fruit wine.
This is also the food and wine that Cao Xiwan paid to order from outside, so that Madam Yang would not dislike her as a guest and cause trouble.
She had just eaten her second chopstick when Mrs. Chen sent her mother-in-law to invite her in the main room.
The mother-in-law was outside the window and said with a smile:
"Mrs. Nephew, our wife said that Mrs. Liu Qianhu is here and said that if Madam Qing has not eaten, she should go over to have dinner with the young master and his wife."