Yin Yang Tomb Raider

Chapter 263 Hookah, dry tobacco, and snuff
"Because someone is using the same method to renew his own life." I said, "It's just speculation now, but the method is very similar, but there is a difference. This person is very sure that your brother is trying."

Sister Xu stood up with a "whoosh" and said, "It's that person!"

"Who?" We asked in unison.

"My brother took the risk after hearing that kind of statement from someone." Sister Xu said: "My brother and I have been dependent on each other since we were young. He has a terminal illness. We have thought of every possible way. live, right? My brother thought it was fine to live the last few months, but one day he went out to eat with friends, drank too much, and was sick, so he fell asleep on the way back. After waking up, I met a person on the road, in the middle of the night, my brother thought it was a ghost for the first time."

Lao Jiu and I looked at each other, ghost?Well, it's kind of interesting.

Sister Xu continued: "I don't know how my younger brother greeted that person. I only know that after he came back, he seemed to be a different person. He locked himself in the room and talked, and sometimes suddenly excitedly talked to him. I said he didn’t need to die because he found a way to avoid death. I was also worried when I heard it. Did he worry too much about death, so his brain went wrong? You all know what happened later, he killed someone, and immediately The mother who was about to give birth, the baby also died... What a tragedy, because our relatives are far away from us because of this, for fear of being infected with the plague, alas, no matter what, that is my own brother, after hearing that he was arrested Not eating or drinking, just talking nonsense all day long, the police asked me to chat with him, this is the so-called family affection offensive."

Lao Jiu and I looked at each other again, the key is at this point in time, right?

"What did you two say?" I corrected the statement: "No, it should be said that your brother told you something?"

"The two of you are really not ordinary people. I don't read much, but I have been in business for so many years, and I have met everyone. The two people are different from the people I have met before." Sister Xu said: "My brother told me That person of mine harmed him, saying that sucking baby's breath can extend his life, and that he can succeed by taking this step, he figured it out, that person is using him as an experiment, alas, no one will say this kind of thing I believe that only by insisting on this point can he escape, as long as he doesn't have to be shot, he can live for a few more months."

"About that person, did your brother say anything else?" Lao Jiu said, "This is very important to us."

"You said that man was yin and yang." Sister Xu said, "Like a dead person. By the way, that guy's accent is from the imperial capital, and it smells like the imperial capital. Also, he smells like cigarettes, which is different from ordinary people. The smell of the smoke is completely different, and my brother can't tell what it is."

"Hookah, dry tobacco, or snuff?" I shook my head and said, "These are the only three types of smoke I can think of."

"My brother said there was a strange fragrance." Sister Xu said, "There are only so many things about this person. Later, my brother did not prevent death. He died of terminal illness. I moved away and cut off contact with relatives. I have started a family here until now, if you hadn’t come here, I would have almost forgotten about it.”

Can you really forget?If I really forgot, this elder sister couldn’t have spoken so smoothly, even those details were clear, I sighed in my heart, the death of every relative is a scar, time may make it fade away, Let us face it calmly, but it will definitely become an unforgettable memory and dust in our hearts. We cannot decide the past that has happened, we can only decide the attitude towards the past.

Fortunately, sister Xu and I chose to face it calmly.

I have finished all that can be said. Lao Jiu and I wanted to leave some money as a thank you, but was rejected again. When we were sent out, Sister Xu only said lightly: "Although I don't know who you are, but It would be great if I could find that guy, although my brother will die no matter what, but the way of death can be better."

At this moment, my heart tugged and I felt a dull pain. Sitting in the car, I called Tao Ran. She has returned to the imperial capital and is sorting out the collected information. She is going to come back to us when she has the results. Our side There is also progress, just meet at the police station to clarify.

I can’t remember how many times this is the first time I’ve been to the police station. I still remember that after the murder at the police station, the three of us were reluctant to pass by here for a long time. Every time we would rather take a long way to avoid the police station. The police let us kill indirectly. This matter has not changed, but this time, Lao Jiu and I walked into the third floor of the police station with our chests up. When we entered the office, we saw Team Leader Wen sitting at the conference table. On one side, Hwaseong stood by his side, and when he saw us coming in, he was as cold as before, without raising his head.

Team leader Wen greeted us to sit down: "I heard that there is progress. I think everyone is very excited. Tao Ran, please report the situation of your investigation first, then listen to Lin Tianyi and synthesize the clues."

"We went to the places where the three cases took place, interviewed the families of the victims and insiders, and came to a conclusion. Before the three cases happened, some people had seen a strange person appearing. The description of this person is roughly as follows , he is not tall, about 1.6 meters five to 1.7 meters, his body is thin, he always likes to wear black flat shoes, his hair volume is less, his forehead is higher, his facial features can't tell what is special, but he agrees to describe him The human skin is fair, unhealthy white. Different witnesses saw him. Hwaseong and I visited at different times, and the key words were the same. So I drew the suspect's face based on the descriptions of these people. Portrait, take a look."

We have learned Tao Ran’s painting skills before, and it’s no surprise to see vivid figures. Unfortunately, this time, the facial features are not distinctive, but the gloomy temperament is drawn, just like what sister Xu said, like a ghost, "You can't find him by looking at his facial features. If we meet him on the street, we can recognize him at a glance." Lao Jiu said, "We see such a person appearing in different places. How could it be such a coincidence? It's almost the same. "

"We think so too." Tao Ran said, "This visit is very meaningful, how about you?"

I explained sister Xu's situation one by one, and Tao Ran was very concerned about the smell of smoke: "According to you, what kind of smoke is the different smell of smoke?"

"Men smoke cigarettes now, and cigars are a higher grade, but what about different kinds of smoke, hookah, dry tobacco and snuff," I said, "Hookah is a tobacco product that originated in the Middle East. Tobacco is made from honey or fruit and is smoked in hookahs, similar to cigarettes, but it is more poisonous and more harmful than cigarettes."

Hwaseong suddenly said: "The existence of shisha in our country is very controversial. It has not been said that it is legal, but there is no regulation specifying that it is illegal. It has always existed in a gray area."

I nodded and said: "That's right, hookah is different from other tobacco products. It uses the residual heat of coal to make the smoke rise. When smoking, the user needs to put burning charcoal on top of the tobacco to help the tobacco burn. Smoking hookah There is water at the bottom of the box, and tobacco on the top. The smoke from the burning tobacco is filtered by the water, and then passed through a straw to smoke the hookah, which is very complicated to use.”

"How about using tools?" Team Leader Wen asked.

"The original hookah smoking set includes a cigarette bottle, a pipe, an air valve, a pot body, a cigarette tray, and a smoke bay. It is composed of a coconut shell and a diabolo pipe. It is mainly used to smoke old-fashioned black tobacco. Later, the structure and material were improved. The transformation is more like a work of art with Arabian style. It is just like a decoration at home. Generally speaking, smoking hookah is more troublesome because the tools are larger. By the way, hookah was introduced to China during the Ming Dynasty, and it later became Lanzhou hookah. Shaanxi hookah and other varieties have almost disappeared due to the shrinking market.” I said, “I’ve been in the antique business for so long, and I’ve never had any contact with anyone smoking hookah.”

Hwaseong glanced at me unexpectedly, and then said: "In this case, the hookah can be ruled out, because the hookah tool is not easy to carry, this guy often travels around and won't cause trouble for himself, next is Hanyan."

"Han tobacco is an old tradition in our country." I said: "Many mountainous areas still have preserved tobacco, but I don't think it is dry tobacco. Ms. Xu said that the smell of smoke has a strange aroma. Dry tobacco is generally prevalent in rural areas, and it is not that big. Rural people smoke their own tobacco leaves, which are called dry tobacco. When planting, some fertilizers such as cow dung and donkey manure are applied, and the tobacco leaves grown are absolutely green without chemical pollution. food."

"Tobacco leaves are grown, picked, a few leaves are bundled, and dried in the sun. No other processing or processing is required. When eating, crush the dried tobacco leaves with your hands. You don't talk about grades when you eat tobacco, but soft and hard. The quality of tobacco Softness and hardness are not the softness and hardness of the material, but the feeling of the smoker to the smoke, or the stimulation of a certain content of the smoke to the human senses. The smoke is catchy, and you can feel it at once, and you will immediately say : Too soft, or too hard. The feeling is: hard smoke is a bit choking, soft smoke is not choking, and too soft smoke has a bit of grassy smell. It is grassy smell, which has nothing to do with the aroma. Although the dry tobacco is used The tool is simpler than a hookah and is easy to carry, just like the long one you see in TV dramas.”

"The tool for hookah is wrong, the taste of dry tobacco is wrong, and the only thing left is snuff." Tao Ran said, "Lin Tianyi, what do you think?"

When I mentioned snuff, I thought of the snuff bottle I gave to the professor. I sighed in my heart and said, "Snuff is made by grinding high-quality tobacco into very fine powder, adding musk and other precious medicinal materials, or extracting it with flowers. It is very elegant, and there are five kinds of smoke flavors: mutton, paste, sour, bean, and bitter. Because snuff is easy to ferment in snuff bottles, it is usually sealed with wax for several years or even decades before it is sold."

The head of the text team showed joy: "It's interesting, let's go on."

(End of this chapter)