In the lobby downstairs.

The blood and water under his feet were mixed with the stinking filth, corpses were lined up, and mucus was stained on the soles of his feet. Lou Jinchen raised his feet and felt his diaphragm respond, so he stamped his feet. The woman sitting in front of the mirror table on the second floor shook her hands.

The hands clasped against his chest and wringing the handkerchief became a little pale again.

"I'm just thinking about it in my mind. This evil person won't be able to sense it, right?" the woman thought in panic.

Lou Jinchen walked straight up the stairs to the second floor. The sound of her feet going up the stairs was like "dong dong dong", as if every foot stepped on her body.

Several paper figures with different painting styles retreated one after another, and Lou Jinchen walked straight into the room.

A strong fragrance rushed into the nose.

"What kind of fragrance is so strong?" Lou Jinchen looked around. The style here was mostly pink. Curtains were hung beside the doors and windows. There was a high-legged flower stand in the corner. There were three floors of flower stands, each with rich flowers of different colors.

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There are three colors of purple, red and black. The first layer is deep purple, with only flowers and no leaves visible. The second layer is black, like a dark night. The third layer is bright red, even the leaf stems are red.

With such a gaudy color combination, this thought flashed through Lou Jinchen's mind.

"Ding! Dang!" There was a crisp sound of cups and saucers falling to the ground.

"Ah!" was followed by a scream, but it stopped suddenly, as if he was frightened to make a sound, but was frightened by the fearful thing and forcibly suppressed his voice.

Lou Jinchen looked towards the place where the sound came from, and saw a woman sitting there, looming, in the light pink and cold red curtains. Lou Jinchen walked over and opened the curtains with his sword scabbard.

"Ah!" The woman inside seemed to have had her clothes pulled apart, holding her hands tightly to her chest.

"Are you the poster?" Lou Jinchen asked, a hint of weirdness flashed in his heart. After all, the title "poster" is very special to Lou Jinchen.

"Hmm!" The woman responded, and Lou Jinchen looked at her carefully. A pair of long black braids were placed on her chest, and she was holding them tightly with one hand. One of the white handkerchiefs was tightly twisted between her fingers.

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She has an oval face, big eyes, matte red lips, and a straight nose, but one of her eyebrows has not been drawn yet.

There are some cosmetics on the table, including paint brushes and rouge.

"Uh what? Yes or no?" Lou Jinchen asked, but in his heart he was wondering whether this woman's skin was real or if he drew it himself.

"Yes." The woman replied weakly, her eyes full of fear.

"What's your name?" Lou Jinchen asked.

"Lou Jiling!" She blinked and carefully looked at Lou Jinchen's face.

"Really?" Lou Jinchen was a little surprised and asked again: "Which building?"

"Mi Nu Lou!" Lou Jiling said.

"Oh, I thought I met someone from my family. My name is Lou Jinchen, Lou by the wooden character." Lou Jinchen said: "You just said that the skins of your paintings are all made of fish skin? Is that true?"

"It's true. There are receipts here." Lou Jiling said, taking out a stack of paper from the box on the dressing table and handing it to Lou Jinchen. Lou Jinchen already believed it, but since he handed it over

, he just took it and flipped through it one by one.

Sure enough, it was a receipt for buying fish skin. It came from Biyan Lake, and the seller's surname was Hu. He remembered that Biyan Lake was in Qunyu Mountain, and the people named Hu in Qunyu Mountain were fox fairies. They actually did this business.

Lou Jinchen was a little surprised.

Then there was the supply from a man named Zhao Zhongqiang. The documents clearly stated the fish skins, and the place of production was either in the sea or in the rivers. It seemed that Zhao Zhongqiang was also a second-rate dealer.

Lou Jinchen took a look at the required currency and found that gold and silver were also used as coins, but whether there were any errors in the unit price and total price, he felt dizzy after just taking a look at it. Unless he took out paper to calculate this kind of thing

Only then can you calculate the answer. Otherwise, the mental arithmetic will get stuck in a certain link in your mind. You will be incompetent in mathematics and can only do more reading comprehension.

So he didn't look at it much and handed the receipt back and said, "I'm in Huolingguanlou Jinchen. I heard that there is a painter here who is good at painting, so I came here to learn from him."

Lou Jiling breathed a huge sigh of relief and thought to himself: "It seems that he really doesn't want to kill me. He is here to learn painting. Then, will he give me some training? I heard that all human apprentices will give me some training."

"Looking at him, it seems like he doesn't want to give it to me. Should I just teach him this plainly? If I refuse him forcefully, he will kill all my guests."

"But, but I don't know how to teach others!" Lou Jiling thought in his heart like lightning, but when he refused, he stuttered a little.

"It doesn't matter, let's get along with each other, overcome each other, and work hard together." Lou Jinchen said with a smile.

Lou Jiling's face froze, his heart was confused and at a loss.

"Is that okay?" Lou Jinchen scratched the itchy back of his ear with the hilt of his sword.

"Yes, yes." Lou Jiling replied stiffly.

"Then let's get started. If you teach early, I will learn it early!" Lou Jinchen looked around the room, looking for a good place to teach painting. He found that it seemed inconvenient here, so he might as well teach at the table downstairs.

But the place was still full of corpses and filth.

Lou Jinchen said: "Why don't you let your people clean up the downstairs."

"Oh, okay." Lou Jiling was thinking a lot, but the words that came to his lips were only a few short words.

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In a village dozens of miles away from this mountain, a shadow slipped into a room through the crack in the door and disappeared into a person sitting cross-legged on the bed.

The man seemed to be suddenly awakened from a nightmare, gasping for air.

He wanted to stand up, but staggered and almost fell. He came to the door, opened it and shouted outside: "Here comes someone."

Soon a servant came quickly.

I saw this man quickly writing a letter on the desk, handing it to the servant, and saying: "Send it to Deputy Bai's Mansion in Swimming City. You have to hurry."

After the servant received the letter, he quickly went out, mounted his horse, and took advantage of the moonlight to swim all the way to the city. Then he came outside the city and called the defender on the city gate. After identifying himself, he went up to the city gate in a hanging basket.

He took some money in his arms and rewarded it to the team leader of the city gate guard, then quickly went down the city tower and went to Deputy Bai's home.

The guard captain who guarded the gate at night said to the new team member who had just been transferred to the night gate guard team: "Look, I said there will be oil and water at night. If you want to come in at night, there must be something urgent, so there must be something urgent."

I'll give you a reward, don't be sad, your wife and daughter are missing, just save some money and marry another one."

The swordsman's servant had a grimace on his face. His wife and daughter had been missing for more than thirty days. He felt better, but he became increasingly lonely.

The servant knocked on Deputy Bai's door, delivered the letter, and stepped aside. After reading the letter, Deputy Bai's face changed slightly, and he did not reply. He said directly to the servant: "Go back and tell you."

Master, just say I understand."

After the servant left, Deputy Inspector Bai returned to the room and sat down quietly. There was a weak light next to him. The news was sudden, which inevitably made him a little uneasy about the big things he was going to do in the near future.

After sitting for a while, he decided to get in touch, both to report and to discuss.

He picked up the lamp in his hand and went to a small room in the back. There was a table inside. On the table was a small box covered with black cloth. The box was inlaid with seven-star gems, arranged in a mysterious pattern.

He put down the lamp and opened the box. There was still something wrapped in black cloth inside the box. He opened it and found a mirror with a foot. After standing it up, in front of the lamp, the mirror surface turned out to be a deep image.

In a pool of water, the light cannot be reflected in the mirror.

He placed the lamp in his hand in front of the mirror and lifted the wick, making the light brighter.

Then, with a silver knife in the handbag, he gently scratched the pad of the index finger of his right hand, and a red line appeared instantly.

He reached out and started scribbling out characters one by one on the mirror.

"Please see the Governor."

As the four words in blood seeped into the mirror, invisible ripples began to appear on the mirror. After a while, light appeared in the depths of the mirror, and it was as if the fire reflected in front of the mirror was leading the existence deep in the mirror to arrive.

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Deputy Capt. Bai was in awe as he watched a shadow in the mirror getting closer and closer, and finally merged with the reflection of the lights. It looked like a burning person, but also seemed to be nothing. However, Deputy Capt. Bai clearly saw the shadow in the mirror.

I felt the gaze in my heart.

"Why are you calling me?" A voice came from the mirror, and it seemed like the light in his hand was speaking.

"Du Desheng sent people to report that between Xu Shi and Hai Shi, Huo Ling Guan Lou broke into the painting building and killed several people who came to buy paintings. He also killed Du Desheng and kidnapped Lou Jiling." Deputy Bai

The head catcher said.

"Du Desheng? Lou Jinchen?" The person in the mirror seemed to be thinking about these two names and said, "I think you have reported this to Du Desheng and Lou Jinchen before, right?"

"Yes, Lord Governor, Granny Du of Dujiazhuang once vented her anger on the leader of Huoling Temple and Lou Jinchen because of the death of her grandson. In the end, they were both killed by Huolingguan, and they still made a big fuss in front of Dujiazhuang.

After a while, Du Desheng also reported this matter to his subordinates, who ordered him not to touch it without permission. After the previous person who supervised the painting studio was transferred, Du Desheng was replaced."

The governor in the mirror pondered and said: "The painting building is an important place, especially Lou Jiling. Her painting skin can help us achieve great things. Go and see this building. What is the purpose of Jinchen going to the painting building?"

If he doesn't know about us, he must be careful not to expose it. If he knows, then he must not be allowed to go back alive."

"Yes, I understand." Deputy Bai said: "But Lou Jinchen is fine, but behind him are Ji Mingcheng and Huoling Guanzhu. Could it be that they sent Lou Jinchen here?"

"It needs to be carefully investigated." The secret master in the mirror said: "But you must be careful not to expose it. The last time someone tried to intercept and kill Ji Mingcheng failed, it may have made him wary." The secret master in the mirror said.

said.

"This subordinate will take people to the painting studio right now." Deputy Bai said.

After he finished speaking, the darkness in the mirror began to ripple again, engulfing the reflected lamp flame.

Captain Bai wrapped the mirror again, covered the wooden box, covered it with black cloth, took the lamp and came out of the dark room, blew out the lamp in his hand, his body was submerged in darkness, the door suddenly opened, and then closed quietly,

But I couldn't see anyone.
Chapter completed!