The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 144: Pointed Red Lips (8)

We rushed forward and probed into the store. There were several people in the store, but there was no sign of Bu Ying.This store has an up and down structure, so we all thought he went upstairs.Ji Mingmei looked at the stairs suspiciously, and muttered: "He won't really go to buy rouge, should I call him cousin or cousin from now on?"

When I thought that there might be two Ji Mingmei from now on, I didn't know whether it was sadness or joy.We stood outside the shop for a long time, but Bu Ying never came out.Ji Mingmei felt strange, so she went upstairs with me to check, but there was no one there.

Ji Mingmei was stunned for a moment, and asked me, "Where is the person?"

"He had spotted us a long time ago. He must have just gone out through the back door downstairs, but he misled us into thinking that he was upstairs." I replied, "Strange, what is he going to do, why must he leave us behind."

Ji Mingmei also shook her head in bewilderment, since Bu Ying had disappeared, Ji Mingmei simply started wandering the street.She didn't enjoy shopping when she first came here yesterday, and now she has nothing to do, so she naturally wants to have a good time shopping.I walked with her until it was getting dark, and then I found a place to eat, and then we went back to the hotel together.

After returning to the hotel, as soon as I walked to the door of the room, I found that the room was actually lit.Naturally, we all thought that Bu Ying had come back, so we just asked him where he left us during the day.Unexpectedly, after opening the door and entering, we found that there was a man with his back facing us, sitting at the table and doing makeup in front of the mirror.

There is also a large bunch of rose flowers on the table, facing us, the flowers are shockingly red, like blood clotted.Ji Mingmei and I saw this scene as soon as we entered the door, and our blood turned cold immediately, and we saw horror in each other's eyes-this person with his back to us doing makeup is unexpectedly Bu Ying!
On the table was the box of rouge given to Ji Mingmei by Mrs. Qi. Bu Ying's lips were red, obviously she had applied a lot of rouge.He didn't buy rouge when he was on the street, but for some reason he stole Ji Mingmei's rouge for lips after returning to the hotel.He was still wearing the clothes he wore in the daytime, and he didn't change clothes, but with that mouth that was almost dripping blood, his whole person was really full of indescribable strangeness.

Both Ji Mingmei and I were shocked. He went out to do things alone during the day, and he encountered some strange things to make himself look like this.Bu Ying's eyes were slack and he couldn't focus anymore, and he didn't seem to see us when we walked in.My heart trembled, and I called softly, "Buying!"

Bu Ying had a panicked expression on his face, but he didn't seem to have heard my voice, but saw something else.Immediately afterwards, the expression on his face changed again, sometimes excited, sometimes disappointed, sometimes happy, sometimes depressed.But what is certain is that we were standing right in front of him, and he didn't see us at all.

"He has been to Qi's house." Ji Mingmei pointed to the bunch of roses on the table and said, "For some reason, Mrs. Qi gave him a bunch of roses. Then when he returned to the hotel, he became like this. "

"Look at him, doesn't he seem to be trapped?" I said nervously, "He went to Qi's house to meet Mrs. Qi, presumably he has already found out something, so Mrs. Qi trapped him. All this , it really has something to do with Mrs. Qi!"

"So we will return to Caoxi Town for no reason, and it is also related to Mrs. Qi?" Ji Mingmei said, looking at Bu Ying worriedly, and walked over to grab Bu Ying's hand.

Bu Ying let her hold his hand, only then did I notice that his face was blushing, and I also stretched out my hand to touch his chest.Bu Ying's heart was beating extremely fast, as if he was experiencing something extremely exciting.I was startled, but there was nothing I could do, so I had to move him to the bed with Ji Mingmei.

Fortunately, although he was stunned, he didn't resist.After I put him on the bed, I went over to pick up the rose on the table and smelled it, only to find it fragrant, but there was nothing unusual about it.Ji Mingmei also came to take the bouquet, smelled it and said, "Nothing unusual, why does he look like this?"

I shook my head, and Ji Mingmei asked again: "Then what should we do now?"

"We can only wait for Bu Ying to wake up by himself. Mrs. Qi can actually make people be haunted. At that time, the woman in Caoxi Town seemed to be a monster. What relationship do you think there will be between them?"

"These two people don't look alike, could it be that woman's ghost got on Mrs. Qi's body?" Ji Mingmei was a little terrified.

"If she really has such abilities, Lao Yan and shopkeeper Chu should have died more strangely, instead of being poisoned." I replied.

We didn't know what happened to Bu Ying, and we couldn't guess what, so we just sat on the chair and chatted a little bit, and then we got sleepy, and fell asleep on the table.After waking up, I realized that I forgot to take care of Bu Ying, and I couldn't help feeling extremely guilty.But thinking about how he could still thrive despite more than [-] times of beatings, half of the guilt disappeared.

When I woke up, I didn't know how long it had been. I was about to lift my head from between my arms, but unexpectedly I bumped into an extremely large head.I was so frightened that I lost all sleep and fell off the chair to the ground.Bu Ying stretched out his hand to pick up the rose on the table, and murmured: "What a pair of dogs and men, they actually slept so soundly on the rose that I brought back."

Ji Mingmei also woke up at this time, she jumped up and said, "You're fine!"

"What can I do." Bu Ying threw the flowers back on the table, her brows were furrowed, as if she couldn't remember anything, and she was a little distressed.

"You left us yesterday, where did you go?" Ji Mingmei asked.

"I don't know." Bu Ying stretched out his hand to wipe the rouge on his lips, and immediately said angrily, "Who put the rouge on me?"

"Didn't you put the rouge on yourself?" When we came back, we saw that he had already put on the rouge. When he asked this question, we were all surprised.

"Did I wipe it myself?" Bu Ying asked strangely, "I don't remember...I don't remember...I don't remember..."

He said three times in a row that he didn't remember, and his behavior was very strange.Ji Mingmei and I were horrified, what happened to him?
After Bu Ying said a few words to himself, he sat down next to us and stared at the rose and rouge on the table in a daze.After a while, he suddenly said: "What happened yesterday, tell me everything you know."

Ji Mingmei and I looked at each other again, and Ji Mingmei told him what happened yesterday.Bu Ying listened very carefully and didn't interrupt. After we told him everything we knew, he pointed to the rose bush on the table and said, "So, I brought this bouquet back?"

"When we came back, the flowers were already on the table. As for whether you brought them back, we are not sure. You...have you forgotten all about yesterday?"

"Yes." Bu Ying replied, and suddenly laughed, "I forgot all about it."

"You don't have to be so happy if you completely forget it." Ji Mingmei said cautiously, "You...you won't be out of your mind, right?"

"You're out of your mind." Bu Ying said angrily, "Do you know why I'm so happy? Oh, you don't need to answer, I know you can't answer with your brains—forgot all, explaining my guess correct."

"What guess?" We were still baffled, but seeing his expression inviting us to hit him on the nose, we were relieved that this man was not out of his mind.

"Conjecture about how you got to Caoxi Town." Bu Ying replied, "The answer lies in this clump of roses."

Ji Mingmei and I looked at each other suspiciously, "Is there a ghost in this rose?"

"There are no ghosts on the rose, ghosts are under the rose." Bu Ying replied, "You checked in by yourself at the time, but you didn't have any impression of it. I was a little suspicious at that time."

"What do you suspect?" Ji Mingmei asked with a frown.

"I suspect that you are poisoned." Bu Ying said, "You claimed to have been to Caoxi Town, the predecessor of Yanzhi Town, and you forgot all about checking in. At that time, I vaguely remembered something that might meet you related to these things.”

"What?" I was a little nervous, "Is this rose poisonous?"

"The rose is not poisonous, but the things under the rose are poisonous - a kind of mushroom grows under the rose. This mushroom called Amanita muscaria can make people have hallucinations, and at the same time, it is accompanied by a certain degree of amnesia." Bu Ying said, his eyes sparkling Looking at us intently, "When I heard your self-reports, I felt that your behavior was too much like being poisoned by Amanita muscaria."

"So you went to Qi's house to look for Amanita muscaria?"

"That's right. I think the reason Mrs. Qi planted so many roses is to cover up the Amanita muscaria, and to provide shade for Amanita muscaria, because Amanita muscaria is naturally shade-loving."

"However, even if we are poisoned by Amanita muscaria, how can we have hallucinations about Caoxi Town? We have never heard of it before."

"Do you still remember what Mrs. Qi was doing when we went to Qi's house today?" Bu Ying asked us.

Ji Mingmei and I both concentrated on thinking about it, and then I frowned and said, "Madam Qi is painting?"

"That's right!" Bu Ying clapped his hands, "I don't know exactly what method Mrs. Qi used, but since she can draw, she must be good at drawing. If she had shown you the picture scroll about Caoxi Town in advance, it would be in your mind Leave a deep impression, and then when you return to the hotel, the toxicity of Amanita muscaria will attack and you will have hallucinations, then the 'Caoxi Town' in your mind will come to life at this time, allowing you to be in it."

It turns out that this is the case, and it is precisely because "Caoxi Town" was drawn on paper, that in the end, when "the sky fell", we found that it seemed to have turned into a piece of paper again, because the toxicity of Amanita muscaria gradually Fading, we start to regain our sanity and subconsciously know that it is a piece of paper.

And because we have hallucinations independently, and the hallucinations are not connected, Ji Mingmei and I have disagreements on many details.Both Ji Mingmei and I had a sudden realization. Although we don't remember when we saw the picture scroll about "Caoxi Town", according to Bu Ying's narration, even if things were not like this, they shouldn't be far off.

"I didn't expect Amanita muscaria to have such a magical function." Ji Mingmei exhaled from her mouth, and then had doubts, "But how did we get poisoned when we didn't touch the rouge shop in Qi's house? Mrs. Qi Since it can poison us unconsciously, presumably Lao Yan's death was also written by her?"

"Lao Yan's death is different from yours. He was 'shot to death' by Mrs. Qi several feet away, and at the moment Mrs. Qi said 'bang', the timing was exactly the same. This is so weird " Bu Ying shook his head and said, picked up the box of rouge on the table and motioned to us, "It's true that you didn't touch any water in Qi's house, but you didn't get poisoned in Qi's house."

"This box of rouge!" I cried out, but I was still puzzled, "If there is poison in the rouge, it is reasonable for Ji Mingmei to be poisoned, how could I be poisoned?"

"That's right," Bu Ying looked at me playfully, then at Ji Mingmei, "You put rouge on her lips, how did you get poisoned?"

Ji Mingmei glanced at me with a flushed face, then quickly turned her face away, kicking the ground with her toes.I was speechless too. She put rouge on her mouth, but we were both poisoned at the same time. This is really unbelievable.I wanted to explain a few words to Bu Ying, but I had no choice but to completely forget what happened at that time, so I could only stare at him.

"What are you looking at, you still want to kill someone?" Bu Ying said sternly, "It's really a downturn in the world. Hey, Miss Ji, your normal behavior should be crying now. What does this beaming face mean? ? Excited that someone finally got on your thief ship?"

"Oh, I hate it! I hate it! I hate it!" Ji Mingmei covered her face and stomped her feet repeatedly, but one eye peeked at me from between her fingers.Listening to the two brothers and sisters singing together, and seeing Ji Mingmei's shy face, I couldn't help shivering, and hurriedly interrupted: "By the way, you are going to Qi's house to find Amanita muscaria, what are you doing without us?"

"Aren't you just following me? How can I leave you alone?" Bu Ying said indifferently, "Amanita muscaria is very likely to cause a certain degree of amnesia, so I need you to follow me, and when I try to poison you And when it does, someone can remind me what's going on."

Therefore, he knew that Ji Mingmei would drag me to follow him, so he deliberately threw us away.After he left us, he went to Qi's house by himself. On the way, he found a few beggars to inquire about the situation in the town.When it comes to understanding the local situation, no one can compare to the local beggars.

After revealing his identity, he casually threatened those beggars to send them to the poorhouse.The current situation is chaotic. Compared with going to the poorhouse, begging in the street is more free, at least you will not be abused.So those beggars were terrified, and they answered all his questions.

After learning about the general situation from the beggars, he went to the Qi family, and lied that Ji Mingmei liked the roses of the Qi family, so he came to the door with the audacity to ask the Qi family for a bouquet of flowers.The Qi family and his wife were not there at the time, so they must have gone to discuss with Feng and Quan about taking over the Yan family's shop.

(End of this chapter)