Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 134 Return the lady to me
Tao Huayuan took out the yin-yang puppet, and transferred the injuries on her body to the puppet little by little.

Fifth-rank onmyojis have this method, no matter the magic circle, magic weapon or puppet, as long as there is still one breath, they can always find a way to save themselves in the methods.

After her face was restored, Tao Huayuan's qi was exhausted, and her burnt hair could not be restored for the time being. She was annoyed when she suddenly heard someone laughing on a tree.

"Laugh! Try laughing again! See if I don't cut off your tongue!" Tao Huayuan shouted angrily.

He Fang stuck out her tongue on the tree and said, "Senior Sister, are you really willing to cut it?"

"Either watch a play, or laugh, are you here just to join in the fun?"

"Senior sister has such a violent temper, if you don't agree, my younger sister will not dare to help."

Tao Huayuan raised her head, looked at He Fang with a smile, and said, "Good sister, come down first, Senior Sister has something to say to you."

He Fang shook her head and said: "Come down now, why don't you ask the senior sister to beat you? There are some pills here, the younger sister, the senior sister takes it first to replenish Qi and blood."

Tao Huayuan carried the elixir with her, but it was a pity that she was shattered by the torture device in the green lantern just now. Although she somewhat disliked this junior sister, it was more important to replenish qi and heal her injuries.

After taking the elixir, Tao Huayuan transferred all the wounds to the puppet, and her hair recovered.

Seeing that Tao Huayuan's mood improved, He Fang jumped to her side and asked, "My little sister is willing to help my sister. I wonder if my sister will agree?"

Tao Huayuan sneered and said, "If you don't help me, I will hate you, but if you want to help me, I will ask why!"

He Fang asked in surprise, "Is my sister unreasonable?"

Tao Huayuan said fiercely, "If you help me for no reason, I'm afraid that you will harm me."

"The reason is easy to say," He Fang raised her head, "I have an affair with Xu Zhiqiong."

Tao Huayuan said in amazement, "What are you talking about?"

He Fang said: "I'm not like my sister. I like her in my heart, but I don't admit it."

Tao Huayuan said angrily, "When did I ever like him?"

He Fang said: "I just like him. I look forward to him coming to the Onmyoji Department day and night, and I even more hope that Master will recruit him as a disciple, so that I can see him every day!"

Tao Huayuan smiled and said, "Okay, tell Master this, but don't let him wrong me again."

He Fang said: "I told Master a long time ago that when he enters the Onmyoji Division in the future, I will marry him. On the day we drink Hebei wine, you will come, but you are not allowed to cry, and you will feel uncomfortable again. Don't cry."

"Crazy hoof, what are you talking about? It seems like you are going to get married tonight!" Tao Huayuan couldn't help but smile, "How can you help me first?"

He Fang said: "Senior Sister, you sneaked up on Xu Zhiqiong in the beginning and wanted to kill Xu Zhiqiong. At that time, Xu Zhiqiong knew nothing about you and had no defenses, but you failed. Now he has seen you. Be on guard at all times, if you want to capture him alive, wouldn't it be a dream?"

Tao Huayuan frowned and said, "Are you going to teach me a lesson?"

"Faithful words are hard to hear, and besides the restraint of the master, the senior sister showed mercy to Xu Zhiqiong, but the heartbroken man beat him to death. If this continues, my sister will suffer a lot."

Tao Huayuan said: "I have already suffered a great loss. I have been suffering a lot since I met him. If I use you as a bait to lure him out, we two will be able to catch him together."

He Fang sighed and said: "At the beginning, I plotted against his righteous brother, and he was very wary of me, but I couldn't be the bait, but someone can, let's find a place to rest for a while, and then I will talk to my sister slowly."

Tao Huayuan said in a low voice, "Don't rush to rest, I'll clean the tail first."

He Fang exclaimed: "Sister, do you have a long tail? Let me see!"

"Don't talk nonsense, the sixth princess sent someone to stare at me, and now they are chasing after my fake body."

He Fang smiled and said, "It's that Han again, that stupid guy is quite interesting, maybe he can come in handy tomorrow."

……

At dawn the next day, Tao Huayuan came to the morning market for a casual stroll, passing by a stall selling paper umbrellas, and stopped.

"Little pump girl, your umbrella is so beautiful." Tao Huayuan knelt down and played with a red umbrella for a long time.

"Guest officer, you have good eyesight. This umbrella is made by the old Shu family of Baziqiao. It is a good umbrella with eighty-four bones and a purple bamboo handle. An umbrella costs sixty-two yuan. If you think it is expensive, you can buy it in the morning." Go to the market and look around to see if there is one that is more affordable than mine."

The girl who sells umbrellas is none other than Xia Hu.

Tao Huayuan looked up at Xia Hu: "Little pump girl, your umbrella is beautiful, and you are also handsome."

"How dare you compare with the guest officer, the guest officer looks like a fairy."

Tao Huayuan is indeed beautiful, not worse than Xu Zhiqiong's junior sister surnamed Han.

But Xia Hu was a little disgusted by her mouthful of a little girl.

Seeing that she is in her early twenties, she is only one or two years older than Xia Hu, so should she be called Xiaopianniang?
Forget it, it's all business.

"Guest officer, which umbrella do you like?"

Tao Huayuan got up, thought for a moment and said, "I want it all."

"All of them!" Xia Hu pointed at the stall and said, "Guest officer, I have more than seventy umbrellas here!"

Tao Huayuan smiled and said, "I still think it's too little."

"Guest officer, each umbrella costs sixty-two Wen."

"I'm too lazy to settle the accounts, I'll give you all of these!" Tao Huayuan threw a silk bag to Xia Hu. Xia Hu weighed it, and it weighed about ten taels. When she opened the bag, she saw that it was real money. Under the envious gazes of the surrounding vendors As soon as Xia Hu went out of the stall, he made ten taels of silver and immediately cleared the goods.

This was unusual, Xia Hu stared at Tao Huayuan with the pupil of sin.

This person has a fifth-grade cultivation base, so I'm afraid he has other plans.

She poured out the money face to face, and took less than half of it, and returned the cloth bag and the rest of the money to Tao Huayuan: "Guest officer, you keep it, these are enough."

Tao Huayuan didn't accept it: "Little pump girl, my sister likes you, so the money and bag are given to you. If you don't accept it, it will be disrespecting my sister."

Xia Hu said with a smile on her face: "Sister is so generous, this umbrella is not easy to hold, I will hire you a strong man."

I said Hire Lifu because I was worried that the other party would let her deliver the goods. Although not all people with high cultivation level are bad people, it is better to have less contact with such people.

I thought Tao Huayuan would insist on letting Xia Hu deliver the goods, but she readily agreed: "It's good to hire someone, let's go!"

Not long after, Lifu came, carrying an umbrella, and followed Tao Huayuan.

Xia Hu thanked her repeatedly, found an empty corner, and checked the money and bag again.

There is no problem with the silver, but this bag may have some tricks. Although it is only the size of a palm, it is made of high-quality materials, exquisite workmanship, and exquisite embroidery. It is a rare item, and it is impossible to give it away casually.

Xia Hu is used to stumbling and crawling in the market, and ordinary means can't figure her out, so this kind of thing can't be kept by her side.

There was a filthy ash pit (garbage pit) at the corner of the street. Xia Hu threw the bag into the pit casually, and was about to find a place where no one was around to punish the criminal with the money.

After taking two steps, Han Di suddenly rushed up in a hurry and bumped into Xia Hu.

Xia Hu was completely unprepared, she staggered when she bumped her, took two steps back, stepped into the dirt pit, and hit the silk bag with her heel.

Tao Huayuan, who was hiding in the dark, used a spell, and a burst of smoke and dust floated out of the silk bag, and the mouth of the bag opened wide, swallowing Xia Hu whole.

When the smoke and dust cleared, the silk bag returned to Tao Huayuan's hands, and Tao Huayuan slapped it in disgust for a long time.

"Does this woman really work?"

He Fang said: "It works, Xu Zhiqiong is very close to her, and even called her a lady."

"That's what you call a lady? Xu Zhiqiong's vision is not too high."

He Fang smiled: "Sister, is this jealous? This lady should be left to the senior sister, right?"

Tao Huayuan sneered: "I feel sorry for you, everyone has a regular wife, can you still be a concubine?"

He Fang said: "Anyway, this woman is in our hands. If we kill her, Xu Zhiqiong will stop thinking about it."

"Whether to kill or not, it doesn't matter what you say, it's up to the master," Tao Huayuan took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped the stains on the cloth bag, "You say you, I have to put my cloth bag in the ash pit, as long as this pump Mother touched my cloth bag, I can put her in it at any time, why make so many twists and turns?"

He Fang whispered: "Sister, in broad daylight, suddenly there is a person missing on the side of the road, which inevitably arouses suspicion. Besides, it is very interesting to play tricks on this fool surnamed Han."

Han Di originally came to follow Tao Huayuan, but now he lost track of him, feeling very impatient.

When Shicai collided with Xia Hu, he didn't take it seriously at first, and only scolded Xia Hu: "You don't have eyes when you walk!"

Unexpectedly, Xia Hu fell into the filthy ash pit and disappeared.

Han Di wanted to leave quickly, but He Fang shouted from a distance: "A girl fell into the ash pit, and this person pushed her into it!"

A passerby also shouted, "She pushed it in!"

The crowd gathered around and said in one voice:

"Where did this girl go?"

"The pit is so deep, it's tens of feet long, and it's hard to tell where it went."

"What enmity do you have with him? Why did you do this!"

"Quickly report to the police and save the girl!"

Han Di was trapped in the crowd, unable to argue.

……

At dusk, Xu Zhiqiong came to the yamen to watch the night.

The gatekeeper Lang Ning Wenyi said to Xu Zhiqiong: "Just now a girl came to you and gave you something."

"What is it?" Xu Zhiqiong took a look and saw that it was a dried flower, jasmine.

He recognized this thing. He bought three plants and gave them to three girls. The budding one was given to the senior sister, the half-opened and half-closed one was given to the second sister Lin, and the most delicate blooming one was given to Xia Hu.

This plant was given to Xia Hu.

There is also a note hidden in Jasmine's bamboo tube, with four words written on it: Li Qi Tea House.

"Ning Denglang, who gave this to you?"

Ning Wenyi shook his head and said, "That girl didn't leave her name, but she is really handsome."

Chu He joked: "Is it more handsome than our Junior Sister Han?"

Ning Wenyi sighed: "If you talk about appearance, it's hard to say who is high or low, but this girl is much more stable than Miss Han. Zhiqiong, brother, I have good eyesight. Since this girl is interested in you, if the family is right, You can't miss it."

The crowd booed, and Ma Guangli sighed, "This idiot is really lucky!"

Ning Wenyi said: "I remembered, that girl still has a peach blossom on her head."

Xu Zhiqiong heard the words and said to Meng Shizhen: "Brother Meng, I have something to do tonight..."

Meng Shizhen frowned and said, "If you're looking for a beauty, I'll let you go. If you're looking for an enemy, you have to call your brothers. I remember that woman from last night also had peach blossoms on her body."

Wang Zhennan also said aside: "Zhiqiong, don't be rash, you alone are no match for her."

"Thank you two brothers, I really went to find a beauty, that is my wife."

Everyone laughed when they heard the words, and Xu Zhiqiong also laughed.

"That's my wife, really my wife."

……

Late at night, Xu Zhiqiong came to Li Qi Teahouse, entered the elegant room on the second floor, and sat in front of Tao Huayuan.

Li Qi Tea House is a painting tea house. People who come here to drink tea will gather together to learn about painting skills. If the painting skills are excellent, if you draw a fine painting, you can buy a painting from the shopkeeper of the tea house.

To spend money to buy paintings, you have to come to your tea house to drink tea, you have to be excellent in painting skills, and you have to produce high-quality paintings to be eligible to buy paintings?

Who is the shopkeeper?So arrogant?
It's really that arrogant!
The shopkeeper of Li Qi Tea House is the number one painter of Daxuan, Li Shabai!

The guests who come to the tea house to ask for paintings every day line up from the inside of the tea house to the opposite side of the street. If He Fang hadn't had wrists, there wouldn't even be a place to stand in the hall, let alone a private seat.

Tao Huayuan doesn't know much about painting, but she thinks the environment of this tea house is not bad. Although there are many people in the hall, the elegant room is very quiet, and I don't know what sound insulation method is used, as if this room has been isolated from the world.

The two drank two cups, and Xu Zhiqiong looked at Tao Huayuan: "I really didn't expect that your actions were so dirty."

Tao Huayuan sneered: "I invite you to the Peach Blossom Path, and you send me to the Mountain of Swords and Fire, so what happened last night is not dirty?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "I didn't harm your family."

"Do you know where my family is?"

"Is the sixth princess your family?"

"Forget it, go find her and see if you have the guts?"

"That's all!" Xu Zhiqiong waved his hand, "Give me back my lady, and I'll go with you."

"What do you want? If you give that little girl back to you, are you still willing to leave?

You go with me first, and I will let that girl go after I meet the person I should see. "

Xu Zhiqiong drank another cup of tea, licked his lips and said, "Well, take a step back, I'll go with you, let me see my wife."

"You are such a life-saving person, are you willing to work hard for this mother?" Tao Huayuan was a little incredulous.

Xu Zhiqiong said: "That's my wife, don't you think you shouldn't work hard?"

"What does this have to do with me?" Tao Huayuan held the silk bag in her hands, and after a puff of smoke, Xia Hu got out of the bag.

Xu Zhiqiong stepped forward and hugged her: "Miss, have you suffered?"

Xia Hu can speak, and can barely move her hands, but her legs can't move: "It's okay, I fell into this woman's trick."

"Tell who is the wife!" Tao Huayuan glared at Xia Hu, then turned to Xu Zhiqiong and said, "I saw it too, come with me!"

Xia Hu burst into tears and said: "Officer, where are you going, can you not go?"

Eyes met, Xu Zhiqiong understood Xia Hu's meaning: If you leave, she might kill me.

Xia Hu's eyeballs swayed from side to side at the same time, meaning: she has another helper.

Xu Zhiqiong turned his face to Tao Huayuan and said: "I'm going, there are many dangers, and I don't know when I will meet with my wife in the future. Let us have a little reunion, okay?"

Tao Huayuan asked in surprise, "Aren't you guys getting together?"

"Don't you know what the purpose of the gathering is?" Xu Zhiqiong's eyes were sincere, and Xia Hu's cheeks were flushed.

Tao Huayuan understood what they wanted to do.

"Here? You are so shameless!" Tao Huayuan also blushed.

Xu Zhiqiong said indifferently: "Otherwise, where else can we go? You can't let us go."

While speaking, he secretly wrote a word on Xia Hu's back with his finger: Yi!

It means to go to Uirangwon.

Shy, Xia Hu slipped into Xu Zhiqiong's arms and wrote a word under his ribs: "Punishment!"

She wants to punish the evil company.

Xu Zhiqiong wrote a word on her armpit: Officer!

Listen to the officials.

Xia Hu suppressed her laughter.

It's not good to write anywhere, it's not a creaking nest.

The two looked at Tao Huayuan silently.

Tao Huayuan sneered and said, "You want to play tricks again? Okay, come on, I'll watch and see how you get out of this room."

Xu Zhiqiong asked in surprise, "Are you watching?"

"Yeah, aren't you not ashamed? Are you still afraid to watch? Come on!"

"Okay!" Xu Zhiqiong agreed without being polite.

Xia Hu was polite for a while, and then she was not polite anymore.

The two started.

Tao Huayuan turned around, gritted her teeth and said, "What a pair of brazen fellows, I have learned a lot today!"

Turning around for a moment, the aura of the two disappeared.

(End of this chapter)