Day and night tour

Chapter 146 Totem Hall

The three yellow-skinned men knelt down and kowtowed to Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan sat back in his chair and said to them, "If you want to see the person in charge here, I'll be waiting for him here."

The largest of them, the yellow fox, straightened up, barked three times, and then jumped into the pond with the other two. Then, it took two steps at a time and ran to the hill behind the pond and hid in the forest.

Zhou Xuan had been waiting from noon till 1:30. He was so tired that he leaned back in his chair, pulled his hat down over his face and dozed off. After a while, he heard the sound of crisp footsteps.

He pulled his hat higher and looked in the direction of the voice. A young woman in cheongsam, exuding graceful charm, walked towards him step by step.

The woman had a round face, bright eyes, wavy curly hair, her hands clasped at her waist, and a purse hanging from her wrist. The sequins flashed as she walked in and out under the shadow of the eaves, looking like a modern girl from Mingjiang Mansion.

"The girl from the Yellow Gate?"

"The word 'girl' tends to make people sound rustic, so calling her 'Sister Huang' sounds better."

"We are from the small town of Pingshui Prefecture, and we can't use a name that sounds too foreign."

"Then you should call me more intimately."

The girl walked to Zhou Xuan and sat sideways on the stone railing, making her figure more prominent.

"My name is Huang Xi, from the Huang family's Qing generation. I felt that adding the word Qing to my name didn't sound nice, so I omitted it. If you want, you can call me Xi..."

"Miss Jubilee."

“……”Huang Xi.

"You are really unromantic. Your name is Zhou Xuan, right? You are quite handsome." Huang Xi stretched out her jade finger to touch Zhou Xuan's chin, but was gently slapped away.

"Miss Xi, I'm in trouble and need your help."

"Do you want money or people? As for money, Huangmen is also living a tight life. It's ok to give some relief, but too much can't be given. As for people, let's talk in the room?"

Huang Xi still raised his eyebrows playfully, his hint was very direct.

Zhou Xuan didn't want to practice Taoism with the yellow-skinned man, so he made his thoughts clear: "I want to find Huang Men to investigate someone."

"Who is he? Is he as handsome as you?"

Zhou Xuan: “…”

He heard from Yuan Buyu that the spirits from the Fox Gate loved to talk about love, and the wild fairies from the Yellow Gate were no less so.

"Cha Siming!"

"Who? Brother Xuan, do you know that Siming is the master of the thief hall?"

"Your little yellow-skinned people from the Huangmen are everywhere in the city. When they climb over walls and steal chickens, do they care who the head of the hall is? No one is more informed than you Huangmen when it comes to getting information."

Zhou Xuan hugged his knees with both hands and added: "I just asked you to help me find out Siming's exact wealth. It would be best if you can also find out what level of incense he has."

"Difficult!" Huang Xi pouted and shook his head slightly.

"You can ask me for a price." Zhou Xuan said with a smile.

"Really?" Huang Xi's eyes lit up when he heard that Zhou Xuan was willing to bid.

"If you are willing to offer, we can talk." Huang Xi said with a smile: "To be honest, we respect Lady Lianhua of Pingshui Prefecture, but she thinks our lives are too cheap for you to make us eunuchs of Mingjiang Prefecture obey your orders with just a ring of your finger."

"I understand your idea, let's put it this way." Zhou Xuan said, "In business, we should cater to the needs of the other party. I think your Mingjiang Huangmen's treasury should be quite full and you are not short of money. If you are not short of money, I am afraid I will be rejected if I offer money. So, Miss Xi, tell me yourself, what does Huangmen lack?"

"Brother Xuan speaks very sharply and sensibly. I like people like you. Let me be frank," Huang Xi said.
"The person with the most say in the Huangmen of Mingjiang is Huang Changdeng, who is also my grandfather, but he doesn't like to be in charge of things, so the ones who really hold power are my father and his four brothers. Huangmen likes to be officials and also likes to practice Buddhism.

My father loves to practice Buddhism. Among the other four brothers, the eldest uncle and the second uncle also love to practice Buddhism. The fourth uncle and the fifth uncle are addicted to officialdom. If you can handle the five of them, let alone investigate Siming's background, we would dare to investigate the City God."

Huang Xi revealed his true colors, and there was some confidence in his words. It was obvious that the eunuchs in Mingjiang and the eunuchs in Pingshui Prefecture who were devoted to Buddhism had very different styles of doing things.

"Okay, how long will it take you to find out Siming's wealth and the level of his followers?"

"Within one day." Huang Xi said.

"Then you Huangmen should go check Siming first. I will wait for you here at this time tomorrow. I will give you something in exchange for your information. This thing will surely satisfy you Huangmen."

Zhou Xuan stood up, put on his top hat, and walked into the old painting studio.

"You want us to check first? We have never done business like this!"

"That's because you haven't met me. If you had met me, you would have done it a long time ago."

Bang! Zhou Xuan closed the door of the old painting studio.

"Brother Xuan is really domineering."

Huang Xi's charming smile stirred up a gust of yellow wind. When the wind stopped and the dust settled, her figure had already entered the forest behind the pond.

……

After Zhou Xuan knew the preferences of the Huang family in Mingjiang, he already had a way to deal with them.

Don’t you love to practice Buddhism?

I will tattoo a "Buddha head" for you. Buddha nature is a scarce commodity in Jingguo. Even though the Buddha nature of the Buddha head is not strong, it is already a good treasure that many Buddhist believers covet.

As for the fourth and fifth sons of Huangmen, do they like to be officials?
"Does having a tattoo help someone become an official?"

Zhou Xuan wasn't sure, anyway, it was pretty good if he could deal with three of the five brothers. It would be best if he could deal with the remaining two, but if he couldn't, it wouldn't be a big problem.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xuan planned to go to the mother palace world of the stone slab to take a look. Now that he had burned an inch of incense, he should learn to tattoo more patterns. He walked to the top of the stone slab pit. Yun Ziliang had cleaned up the pit and laid an iron cover. He pulled the iron cover open, but found that the pit was empty. There was nothing but soil.

"Where's my slate?"

Zhou Xuan was a little confused, but not very panicked.

First of all, he was sure that the stone slab had not been stolen - he tried to pry it open, but it was motionless, as if it had taken root in the ground.

Besides, even if you can really pry it open, what can you do after stealing it?
Learning tattoos? The blood tree doesn't tie him up as fertilizer.

"I entered the Mother Palace by using the Cleansing Wrongs Scroll."

When Zhou Xuan thought of this, he quickly took out the Book of Cleansing Wrongs - it had changed!
The name of the Xiyuan Lu has changed.

Originally, there was a blank space between “洗怨” and “箓”, but now there are two more words in the blank space - return to the palace.

Clear the wrongs and return to the palace!
Zhou Xuan opened the Book of Cleansing Wrongs, and after flipping through several pages, he saw the pattern of the "Mother Palace World" on one page.

“Why are there still pictures?”

Zhou Xuan recalled the last time he entered the mother's palace through the stone slab - it was to nourish his bones and teeth!
"After I raised my bones and teeth, I got the magic weapon for the tattoo hall. I also learned tattooing in the mother palace. Now, I am considered a proper tattoo artist."

Zhou Xuan thought, maybe the Mother Palace had completely accepted him, so the pattern of the Mother Palace appeared on the Cleansing Wrongs Sutra.

However, the name "Mugong" was given by Zhou Xuan himself, but its real name is not this. In addition to the pattern on the Xiyuan Lu, there is also a text introduction below.

"Totem Hall, the main hall of the Tattoo Tree Clan. If a disciple wishes to return to this hall for meditation, he must clear his grievances once."

Totem Hall is the real name of the Mother Palace World.

Zhou Xuan finally understood why the full name of the "Xiyuan Huidian Lu" was "Xiyuan Huidian Lu".

It turns out that clearing a wrongdoing is a mission, and returning to the palace is the reward after the mission is completed.

The "hall" in the Huidian refers to the main hall of some halls.

"The Tattooed Tree Clan? Shouldn't they be called the Ancient Clan?"

Zhou Xuan had never heard of the name "Tree Clan". Could it be that it was a rumor that had spread and the name had changed by now?
Regarding this name, it is not Zhou Xuan’s priority at the moment. Without the stone slab, how to return to the Totem Hall is the top priority!
He held the talisman for redressing injustices and carefully examined the pattern of the "Totem Hall". His first reaction was whether it would be like the "Blood Well". He meditated on the pattern of the Blood Well to open the passage into the secret realm.

Thinking of this,

Zhou Xuan closed his eyes and meditated, checking his surroundings every five minutes to see if there were any changes. He did this three times in a row, but there was no change.

“Wrong method.”

Zhou Xuan flipped through the book of clearing injustice again and turned to the last page, which recorded Zhou Xuan's achievements in clearing injustice - Wuyan was cleared on August 19th at Mingdong Shande Hospital in Mingjiang Prefecture.

Only after you have cleared your grievances can you return to the palace!
Zhou Xuan figured it out, unscrewed the pen, and drew a long horizontal line on the merit of "Wuyan" clearing his name.

Suddenly, the words about the merit of "Wu Yan" clearing the wrongs on the clearing wrongs scroll quickly disappeared. At the same time, the environment around Zhou Xuan began to change. The purple sky shrank and expanded, and the plump blood trees...

"I'm in. I'm finally in."

Zhou Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, and he entered the Totem Hall again - the main hall of the Tattoo Clan.

“It turns out that the Wrath-Clearing Scroll and the stone slab are the two items that are complete only when they are put together.

This stone slab can lead to the Tattoo Hall. Does it mean that there are many similar stone slabs in this world that can be integrated with the Cleansing Wrongs Talisman?

The truly complete Xiyuan Huidian Scroll contains passages to many lost halls and main halls!"

Zhou Xuan had always suspected that this talisman did not belong to the Youshen Division. Now it seemed that it definitely did not belong to the Youshen Division, but to an organization with a more mysterious background.

"Since it is an organization, I am not the only one who holds the Wrath-Clearing Scroll... Who could they be?"

……

Zhou Xuan put away the talisman for cleansing injustices and walked towards the blood tree. The blood tree was now in a full state with waving branches and leaves.

He sat on the cushion where he first learned tattooing. The lantern bride walked out of the secret realm and merged into one with the blood tree.

Because he was sitting very low, Zhou Xuan naturally looked at the purple sky.

The sky expands and contracts rhythmically like the walls of the mother palace.
When it expanded, the purple sky became translucent, covered with intricate blood-colored threads, like blood vessels on the palace wall.

But at this moment, Zhou Xuan felt that these silk threads that looked like blood vessels were not blood vessels, but like a tattoo.

But he couldn't see clearly.

“These silk threads have the beauty of patterned lines, but it’s a little hard to tell what they are depicting…”

"Snapped!"

Zhou Xuan, who was immersed in thought, was hit by a branch on his back. The branches of the blood tree were shaking, and the leaves made angry sounds, just like an old pedant in a private school who, seeing his students distracted, would hit them with a ruler and then scold them angrily.

"I'll listen to the class carefully, please stop smoking."

Zhou Xuan felt a little pain, but also a little happy. He withdrew his gaze from the sky and focused on the branches of the blood tree.

At this time, the blood tree was full of babies.
There were three idle branches that first drooped to the ground like tentacles.

Three cracks appeared under the flesh-like ground, and three ghosts with different identities crawled out from the cracks.

(End of this chapter)