Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 315 The Good Jade of Huazhou

In Daxuan, apart from the capital city, Huazhou is the most prosperous and prosperous place.

There are three slides in Huazhou.

One is water slide.

Daxuan Hot Spring has one hundred eyes, and eighty-eight eyes are in Huazhou.

Huazhou is full of hot springs. There are three famous springs in Yuling City, the capital of the state. They are Xiangzhi Pond in the city, Rouyu Tang in Tianmu Township in the east of the city, and Soft Smoke Spring in the south of the city under Baiqing Mountain. There are countless other unnamed springs.

Xu Zhiqiong was soaking in the soft smoky spring at the foot of Baiqing Mountain. The soft and warm spring water was sticking to his body with soft white smoke, like a pair of soft red lips, taking away the dirt and exhaustion of these days from every day. Suck it out of a pore.

In the first month of the lunar year, it is very cold and humid, which is a good time to soak in soup.

Xu Zhiqiong put a beard on his face, drew a few wrinkles, and soaked for half an hour.

Fortunately, Tao Huayuan's makeup skills are superb, she is not afraid of water, and it is not soaked. She looks like a middle-aged man.

After learning about water slide, I went to the greenhouse to learn about the second slide, rock slide.

The smooth and warm pebbles stick to the skin from head to toe. When encountering painful areas such as shoulders, necks, waists, calves, and soles of feet, the pebbles have to be rolled over and over again.

In addition to water slippery, stone slippery, there are people slippery.

People in Huazhou are really slippery.

A handsome waiter rolled a stone on Xu Zhiqiong's back twice and started to do it.

Gently rubbing his soft hands on his back, the waiter said softly, "My guest, the humidity is a little heavier."

Xu Zhiqiong's whole body tensed up, and he turned to the waiter and said, "Brother, take it easy, I don't feel stressed."

The little brother pressed Xu Zhiqiong from head to toe, and Xu Zhiqiong soaked in the pool for another hour. Seeing that it was getting dark, Xu Zhiqiong called the waiter and asked, "Don't you say that Liu Tongzhi often Are you coming to the Soft Smoke Spring? Why haven’t I seen anyone after soaking here all day?”

The waiter said blankly, "This guest officer, which Liu Tongzhi are you talking about?"

Xu Zhiqiong asked in surprise, "How many Liu Tongzhi are there? Liu Jiangpu Liu Tongzhi, you Huazhou Tongzhi, but you don't recognize them?"

The man shook his head and smiled: "What is my identity, how can I recognize such a noble person? Guest officer, it's getting late, you can find a room with us."

Xu Zhiqiong sighed and said, "Since Liu Tongzhi is not here, why am I still here?"

The clerk smiled strangely: "I don't know Liu Tongzhi, but I do recognize a few pieces of good jade, and send them to the guest officer's room at night, so that the guest officer can play with them."

"Jade?" Xu Zhiqiong rolled his eyes, "You come to my room to sell jade in the middle of the night?"

"Yes, they are all good jade. When you come to Huazhou, how can you not taste Huayu? Don't worry, guest officer, we will never force you in our store. If you like it, you can buy it. If you don't like it, just take it away from us. "

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "I don't want any jade."

The guy tried to persuade him again and again: "It's getting dark, you can stay with us, maybe the person you're looking for will come tomorrow?"

The man didn't say any more, turned and left.

It seems that Xu Zhiqiong must stay here tonight.

Ruanyan Spring is worthy of being a famous spring. There are more than a dozen large and small soup pools. two floors.

Xu Zhiqiong opened an upper room on the third floor of the back building. The upper room is divided into two rooms inside and outside, the front room welcomes guests, and the back room sleeps.

Xu Zhiqiong ordered some food and wine, and ordered the waiter to deliver them to the room. After the waiter left, Xu Zhiqiong arranged a yin-yang circle to isolate the sound, pulled out a peach petal, and gently injected a period of energy.

Not long after, a few peach blossoms fell from the roof, and Tao Huayuan appeared among the peach blossoms.

"Thief boy, how about Tangquan in Huazhou?"

"Okay!" After soaking for a day, but a layer of skin peeled off, Xu Zhiqiong poured a glass of wine for Tao Huayuan and fed it to his lips, "I said to go directly to the prefect to arrest Liu Jiangpu, and you must let me stay here. The place is waiting, who knows how often Liu Jiangpu can come to soak in the hot spring?"

Liang Xianchun asked Xu Zhiqiong to be the vanguard, and Xu Zhiqiong took Qingyi Pavilion all the way to Huazhou three days ago.

He was not in a hurry to go to Qiluo County. Regardless of whether there really was the main altar of the Blood Evil Sect or Gao Renxiao intentionally left a trap there, Xu Zhiqiong did not dare to take the risk easily, and settled Qingyi Pavilion in Quequan Township on the border of Raozhou. The girl's house took a good bath in the spring and recuperated for a few days. He came to Yuling City, where the state capital was located, alone.

Staying in Yuling City for a day, Xu Zhiqiong found Tao Huayuan with peach petals. He wanted to join forces with Tao Huayuan to directly arrest his fellow acquaintance Liu Jiangpu, but Tao Huayuan insisted on letting him wait for Liu Jiangpu to show up at the soft smoke spring outside the city.

"Wait here for three days at most. The local yin and yang practitioners know that Liu Jiangpu must come to the Soft Smoke Spring once a month. There are only three days left in the first month. He hasn't been here since the New Year."

Xu Zhiqiong picked up his glass and took a sip: "Why does he come here every month? I don't see anything special here."

Tao Huayuan helped Xu Zhiqiong peel a crab claw, dipped it in some vinegar and ginger, and brought it to Xu Zhiqiong's mouth: "The reason for this has not been found out, but you must not go to Tongzhifu, there is a magic circle there, even I can't help it." I can't solve it, last time an Onmyoji broke into Tongzhi's mansion by mistake, not only got injured all over his body, but also left his hands and tails, Liu Jiangpu sent people to search around, almost exposing the Onmyoji."

Xu Zhiqiong was startled, Tao Huayuan is best at magic circles: "If even you can't break it, is it still Yin-Yang magic circle?"

Tao Huayuan pondered for a long time and said: "The magic circle in front of Tong Zhifu's gate smells of yin and yang, but I can't see the origin of the energy. It is very different from the magic circle I have learned. If Junior Sister He is here, maybe I can Think of something."

Xu Zhiqiong blinked: "Your junior sister He is He Fang? Could it be that she is more proficient in magic circles than you?"

"It's not proficient, but she has special methods. In order to deal with you, I almost died at the hands of the servant Lu Yunxi. He Fang used a strange magic circle to help me escape. I haven't figured out the way of that magic circle until now." , perhaps Master taught her some strange arts."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen Miss He for a long time."

"What are you doing seeing her?" Tao Huayuan pushed aside a clam and stuffed it into Xu Zhiqiong's mouth, "You just stay here and soak in peace, wake up tonight, and continue soaking tomorrow morning!"

Seeing Tao Huayuan's jealous face, Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "Good Taoer, don't be angry, there will be a guy selling jade later, I'll pick one and give it to you."

"Yushi?" Tao Huayuan was taken aback, "Isn't it Huayu?"

"Yes, it is Huayu. According to what he said, it seems to be a specialty of Huazhou."

"Thief boy!" Tao Huayuan grabbed Xu Zhiqiong, "There is a mouthful of misting spring on the top of Baiqing Mountain. The hot spring water can make people's skin peel off and rotten. If you dare to buy that slippery jade, I will throw you into the misting spring tonight." Spring!"

What is the origin of this slippery jade that made Tao Huayuan so angry?
Xu Zhiqiong was puzzled, when he heard a knock on the door, Tao Huayuan formed a magic circle, and told Xu Zhiqiong before leaving: "If you see Liu Jiangpu, don't act in a hurry, the guards around him are extraordinary. generation."

After Tao Huayuan left, Xu Zhiqiong put away her bowls and chopsticks, untied the magic circle, and pushed open the door.

The buddy waited at the door with a dozen pieces of slippery jade.

It really is a high-quality jade.

Pure color, well-proportioned size, crystal clear, soft and smooth.

The clerk took more than a dozen yuan into the outhouse, and ordered: "Say hello to the guest officer."

More than a dozen young beauties saluted Xu Zhiqiong neatly.

It turned out that this was slippery jade.

The clerk laughed and said, "The first-class Huayu has both talent and appearance, not inferior to a famous lady in the capital. The guest officer only needs five taels of silver to play with it all night. Is this a fair price?"

Staying overnight in Yinggeyuan costs at least fifty taels of silver.

Regardless of their talents, these girls are not inferior to the musicians of the Wuying Pavilion even if they are not as beautiful as the Pavilion Master.

Xu Zhiqiong nodded repeatedly and said, "Fair, really fair!"

"Guest officer, please choose at will. If you don't like it, you can change it within an hour."

Xu Zhiqiong then nodded and said, "So sincere!"

The waiter said: "Miss Qingyu is good at playing the pipa, Miss Hongyu is good at playing the flute, and Miss Baiyu is good at playing the Yaoqin. I wonder which piece of jade the guest officer has chosen?"

Still have such a good talent?

Xu Zhiqiong was taken aback, he didn't see any of the pipa, dongxiao, or Yaoqin.

"Where are all these instruments?"

The man laughed and said, "It's all on the guest officer."

Xu Zhiqiong suddenly became enlightened, and with a smirk for a while, he looked at the petals in his hand and asked, "It is rumored that there is a Miequan in Baiqing Mountain, is it true?"

The man nodded and said: "But there is such a spring water, open the fresh fish and suck it clean, soak it in the spring water, and it will be cooked in an instant. If the guest officer likes the flavor, I will cook some for the guest tomorrow."

Xu Zhiqiong nodded and said, "Forget it, I don't want this jade anymore."

The buddy was taken aback, why did the guest officer's attitude change when Miequan was mentioned.

What does this have to do with Miequan?
The man thought for a moment, ordered these girls to leave, then smiled and said: "Since the guest officer doesn't like slippery jade, I still have a few pieces of emerald jade here, and I invite the guest officer to enjoy them."

Not long after, the buddy brought a few more handsome men.

So emerald!

Huazhou is really a good place, and the number of roads is still higher than that of the capital.

"I don't want Cuiyu either." Xu Zhiqiong flatly refused.

The clerk frowned, took "Cuiyu" out of the room, closed the door, and asked, "Since the guest officer is not here to buy jade, why did you come to Soft Smoke Spring?"

How about a hot spring?Isn't hot spring bathing the main business here?
Xu Zhiqiong said: "Brother, I made it clear before that I'm here to find someone."

The clerk was silent for a moment and said, "I don't know why the guest officer came to see Liu Tongzhi."

Xu Zhiqiong smiled, this little brother hides really deeply.

"I'm from the capital, and I'm looking for Liu Tongzhi to ask for money."

The clerk frowned: "Guest officer, you should think carefully. As far as I know, anyone who comes to see Liu Tongzhi will lose money."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "I'm not an ordinary person, just give this silk handkerchief to Liu Tongzhi, he will know it immediately."

The man took the silk handkerchief and saw several green bamboos embroidered on it, and the bamboo branches were interlaced to form a character "Zhang".

The clerk looked at it for a long time, took the silk handkerchief, and bowed to Xu Zhiqiong: "Guest officer, please stay in the shop for two more days, and the expenses for eating and drinking, and even jade appreciation, will all be charged to the shop's account."

(End of this chapter)