"Where is that bag of powder?" Gongsun was curious.

Tan Shaoyan said, "I'm back."

Gongsun narrowed his eyes, that's what - how honest you are, at least keep some of it yourself!

Zhao Pu asked him, "You suspect there is a case because of Chen Sangua's words?"

Tan Shaoyan shook his head, "Of course what Old Chen said made me a little concerned, but I couldn't draw a conclusion so rashly, and then I investigated it."

Everyone thought the young man spoke in an orderly manner and looked like he was a brainy person. I guess he had found something.

"After Lao Chen and I drank, we put the shop and went to the old house to find my master." Tan Shaoyan said, "As soon as I told the master about the incident, the master frowned and asked me to push the business."

Zhan Zhao was curious, "Do your master know what?"

"My master told me some things about gold-dending techniques." Tan Shaoyan said, "The gold-dending technique originated from the ancient alchemy technique. Nowadays, alchemy is no longer popular, so many skills have been lost."

Everyone nodded.

The little fourth son raised his face and asked Gongsun, "Dad, are tofu also obtained by elixir?"

Gongsun rubbed his head and nodded and said yes.

"Those people did create a lot of strange things for immortality," said Tan Shaoyan. "It is said that there is a skill that can add gold utensils that are harder than iron and bronze utensils. This technique is called blood and bones and gold utensils."

"Blood and bone..." Gongsun touched his chin, and the rest of the people frowned. It seemed that the name was not a good trick!

"Master told me that this kind of blood and bone blending technique uses a rare herb and bone meal to alchemy." Tan Shaoyan continued, "but it is not simply to mix herbs and bone meal with each other and mix it into gold and water. Instead, people should take the highly poisonous herbs first. After seven days of eating this poisonous weed, they will die and then cremate the person... the corpse will become very flammable. Originally, the ashes of adults could have a jar after cremation, but the ashes burned after being infected with this poison are red, similar to iron powder, and the quantity is very small, only one ounce. The pack of medicine powder he gave me that day was three or two."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this.

Xiao Sizi calculated by counting with his fingers, then opened his mouth wide and looked up at his father, "Dad, are there thirty people?"

Gongsun touched his chin and said to himself, "It's also a blessing that you didn't take this deal, otherwise you should have lost your life!"

Everyone looked at Gongsun.

"The ingredients of the powder he gave you should be similar to those of Fire Corpse Powder, which is highly poisonous!" Gongsun said.

Everyone grinned. What kind of rare poison is it?

Tan Shaoyan was also surprised, "My master only knows that this thing is highly toxic, but he doesn't know what it is made of..."

Gongsun waved his hand and explained to everyone, "The so-called highly toxic herb should be Fire Corpse Grass. This grass can be used as medicine. If you eat too much, you will die. Eating less can cure the disease. It is miraculous to treat symptoms such as crunchy bones and is also suitable for the elderly. However, the amount must be very small! After eating too much for seven days, the bones of the whole body will turn red after death, hence the name! Once the powder left behind in this poisoned corpse is cremated, it becomes a kind of strange poisonous fire corp. This □□

It is quite dangerous. If you take it, you will be poisoned by blood and contact with the skin. If you smell it for a long time, you will be poisoned, and the symptoms vary according to the measurement. This poison is a dry poison. After poisoning, people will have symptoms of red eyes and hot all over the body, and they will die of mania, and the skeleton of the corpse will still turn red after death. However, this poison has been extinct for a long time... Because the fire corpse grass has almost become extinct, I have never seen a living tree in these years."

Everyone nodded after hearing this - so that's it.

Tan Shaoyan frowned and gently touched his chin as if thinking, "That's probably not wrong..."

"What's wrong?" Zhan Zhao asked him.

Tan Shaoyan frowned and said, "Three days after I took the deal, the man came again. I just told him that my master said he was old and had bad eyes, so he couldn't take on this job. In addition... my master told me to say something more."

Everyone looked at him.

"Master asked me to tell him that no one in the world can do this, so he should give up." Tan Shaoyan said, "After he took the medicine bag, he weighed it, and found that there was no less, so he took it and left. He never saw him again."

After hearing this, Zhan Zhao was also a little concerned, "Where did he get his bag of medicine powder? Thirty lives are involved?"

"It's not necessarily true." Bai Yutang said, "After all, it's hard to tell whether it is true or false. There is only one pack of medicine powder."

Gongsun nodded, "That's right, no one knows if the bag is really apart of fire corpses."

Tan Shaoyan looked at everyone and said, "If I stop here, I won't come to find you."

Zhan Zhao was shocked, "There is a follow-up? Didn't you say you've never seen him again?"

"Although I didn't see what he looked like, I heard the tone of his speech, and it seemed to have a Suzhou accent." Tan Shaoyan said, "It's so coincidental that I am from Suzhou Prefecture and have many friends there, so I sent a lower-write letter to talk about this."

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Tan Shaoyan said, "My home is by Yangcheng Lake..."

As soon as Tan Shaoyan spoke, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang almost reacted together, but the contents of the two of them said in unison were very different.

Zhan Zhao said, "Crab!"

Bai Yutang said, "Eryan Palace."

After saying that, Zhan Zhao blinked.

Tan Shaoyan touched his chin and looked at Zhan Zhao again, feeling that he had a new understanding of the legendary Nanxiake, Royal Cat and Little Palace Master of the Demon Palace.

Zhan Zhao added, "Of course...there is also Eryan Palace."

Bai Yutang holds his forehead.

Xiao Sizi thinks Zhan Zhao is right. When he talks about Yangcheng Lake, don’t he want to say red hairy crabs? What is Eryan Palace?

Zhao Pu held a cup, "Although I am not from the Jianghu, I have heard of Eryan Palace."

Gongsun also nodded, "It seems to be a big sect."

Bai Yutang nodded, "There are many powerful sects in the Taihu and Zhejiang areas. The largest are four, all built on the mountain and lakeside. They are large in scale and have a long history. They are Eryan Palace, Shihu Hall, Donghuangmen and Luojiazhai."

Zhao Pu nodded. These sects are indeed very famous, so he asked Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, "How much do you know each other?"

Zhan Zhao shrugged, "I'm fine. I know a few, but I don't have much contact with the gang." As he said, he looked at Bai Yutang, "You're different. These four are all famous and upright sects, and they should have a lot of contact with the Tianshan sect."

Bai Yutang thought for a while and said, "It should be a relationship, but I don't care about the Tianshan Sect... I only heard that the Tianshan Sect has a good relationship with Eryan Palace and Shihutang, and then there is business dealings between Luojiazhai and Xiankong Island. My second brother and Luo Manjin seem to have a good relationship."

"I grew up near Eryan Palace. At that time, many of my friends went to Eryan Palace to learn martial arts, but I didn't go, so my father didn't allow me to join other disciples." Tan Shaoyan said.

Zhan Zhao knew in his heart that after the Demon Palace, he did not want his descendants to join other sects to learn martial arts. On the one hand, he was afraid of trouble, and if his identity was exposed, he might be excluded. On the other hand, most of the Demon Palace had good abilities from his ancestors, and no matter how he practiced, he would not be worse than what other sects learned.

"I have a brother who has been together since I was a child, who is from Eryan Palace." Tan Shaoyan said, "After I wrote to him and talked about this, he told me something."

Everyone held their chins and listened.

"There has not been a peaceful area in Suzhou recently, and several murders have occurred one after another." Tan Shaoyan said, "The elder brother among the four disciples of Eryan Palace died half a month ago."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were both stunned.

"Big Disciple..." Bai Yutang thought for a while, "Yan Tiankai?"

Tan Shaoyan nodded.

Zhan Zhao felt incredible, "The four major disciples of Eryan Palace have a low status in the world. Why haven't I heard of such a big thing?"

"It's true that it's not reported. The palace asked to keep the secret." Tan Shaoyan said, "I heard that death is strange."

"Is he killed?" Gongsun asked.

"I don't know." Tan Shaoyan shook his head and said, "There are different statements about where he died. Some say he died in the forbidden area of ​​Eryan Palace, some say he died in his own room, and some in the guest room, but the basic statements of death are unified... It is said that his joints were broken all over his body, and he should have been broken by internal force, and then his whole body was wrapped with golden threads, hanging on the beam like a puppet doll."

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a while and looked at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang also frowned - he has been in the world for so long, and hasn't seen any sect killing people like this, so much trouble, and personal grudges?"

"I have seen Yan Tiankai, too." Zhan Zhao touched his chin, "He is very easy-going, the most important thing is... He has such a good kung fu, but he actually dies like this?"

Tan Shaoyan spread his hands, "Yan Tiankai is the senior brother of Eryan Palace. He just died like this and was not a joke. Eryan Palace should not give up."

Gongsun asked, "Do you think that murderer has something to do with the person who asked you to build those ten rings?"

"Well..." Zhao Pu also felt it was possible, "So coincidentally, this way of death has something to do with those rings."

"You just mentioned a few murders..." Bai Yutang asked, "It's not just Yan Tiankai who died like this?"

"Yeah." Tan Shaoyan nodded, "It is said that people died in Shihutang and Donghuangmen. The situation in Luojiazhai is unclear. The way of death is the same. These sects are not at first, and the relationship is even more tense."

"It's indeed a bit weird." Zhan Zhao shook his head, "I haven't asked about the world for too long? In the past, if those sects had murders, they would be publicized all over the world and held martial arts conferences, and so on. Is it so low-key recently?"

Tan Shaoyan laughed, "I used to hear my father say that the big sect is a bit secret, and I think there may be some hidden secrets that I don't want people to know."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao also nodded, thinking that some sect-related secrets might be involved.

"And another thing." Tan Shaoyan continued, "A very famous gold casting master suddenly passed away recently."

Everyone asked, "Who?"

"I only learned about it when I was making things for the gold shop shop." Tan Shaoyan said, "I don't know if it was a coincidence. The gold casting master is from Suzhou Prefecture, and his name is Jinbaoshan."

"It's indeed very famous." Bai Yutang had obviously heard of it, "The gold and jadeware produced in Baoshan are famous for their luxury. The phoenix crown made by Concubine Pang when she got married was made by Jin Baoshan."

Tan Shaoyan raised his eyebrows, "Fifth Master knows how to do it. Jin Baoshan is in his seventies this year, and he is one of the best gold casting masters in the world!"

"How did he die?" Gongsun asked.

"It is said that it is a sudden disease or a fever, and the eyes are red and feverish, and they die of fever." Tan Shaoyan said, "It is close to what Mr. Gongsun just described, the way to die of Zhonghuo Zi San."

Gongsun frowned, "Did he take that deal?"

"I asked in detail. It is said that he did take on a business before his death, and then worked intently for several days like a possessive demon... So his family thought he was a strange disease caused by overwork." Tan Shaoyan said, "When I talked to my master about this, my master only said 'doing evil', and told me to be careful in taking business in the future, and not accepting customers who are unknown."

Tan Shaoyan said this and said to everyone, "That's what I know."

Zhan Zhao and others nodded. How to say... Judging from their years of experience in handling cases, it is definitely a bit related to this. Moreover, this is not a small case, but a big case. If you are troublesome, you will be involved in the grudges in the world. The sects want to settle the matter privately but do not report to the official. There may be many obstacles to investigation.

"I always feel a little frustrated after thinking about it." Tan Shaoyan said, "If it weren't for Old Man Chen who happened to come to drink and remind me that day, or my master didn't know the legend of the art of gold mixing, in short, even if I accidentally took on this job, I might be the one who died today."

Everyone nodded, and they were indeed scared when they remembered.

"I have no grudges and no grudges with that man. It's too much to harm people!" Tan Shaoyan said to Zhan Zhao, "Mr. Zhan, if you go on a tour after the New Year, you might as well go to Suzhou Prefecture to have a look."
To be continued...