Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

The breakfast queue today was particularly long, and the noodles couldn't be cooked early, otherwise they would become clumpy and not tasty. Jiang's mother and Jiang Shangxian were busy, one cooking noodles and the other adding toppings. When the yamen runners sat down and ate with their mouths full of oil, they saw Lu Xingzhou who was late, and then they realized why they didn't see Cui Bianxu.

Lu Xingzhou ordered a bowl of shredded chicken noodles and waited on the side. He didn't hide anything when he heard it. "Yesterday, Cui Shaoqing and Wang Sizhi arrested a fake Taoist priest who was selling fake talismans. They only had time to try him today. Now they are all in the Dali Temple prison. I'm afraid I won't be able to have breakfast this time."

Cui Shaoqing was obviously the one who was most looking forward to coming to the cafeteria for dinner, but he was dragged by Wang Sizhi to interrogate some fake Taoist priest. Fortunately, he escaped quickly this time, wow.

Jiang Shangxian felt a little melancholy. They worked in the same company, so shouldn't they see each other seventy or eighty times a day?

They were all cattle and horses, so she could only express her understanding. However, Jiang's mother, who heard him talking about a fake Taoist priest selling fake talismans, patted the flour on her hands and said, "What does that Taoist priest look like? It's New Year, and there are so many people buying talismans!"

When Jiang Shangxian said this, he glanced at her and reasonably suspected that her mother was afraid that she had bought a fake talisman. On the second day of the New Year, each person in their family was allocated a peace amulet that Jiang's mother had bought for emergency safety.

However, Jiang Shangxian has solemnly stated that next time she will ask for the money seed from the God of Wealth Temple. The so-called money seed is actually a small copper coin that has been offered on the altar of the God of Wealth and placed in the purse. It has the meaning of "one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things."

Jiang Shangxian said that he must not miss anything that can bring him wealth!

There was no confidentiality regulation at that time. Whether one could tell the truth or not depended entirely on one's own way of thinking. The fact that Wang Leisheng was cheated of money by a fake Taoist priest was naturally something that could be told!

Lu Xingzhou immediately betrayed Wang Leisheng completely. After hearing this, Jiang's mother couldn't wait to take out the triangular talisman from her purse, carefully opened it and took a look. The first glance almost made her nose twist in anger: "This is a piece of shit!"

"Is it true?" Jiang Shangxian didn't expect that her mother would fall into the gutter over such a feudal and superstitious matter.

Jiang's mother was furious. She raised her hand and slammed the talisman on the table. "How could it be fake? Just like what Lu Zhubu said, there's no seal on it, just six fingerprints!"

She was different from Wang Leisheng. Wang Leisheng didn't understand, but she did. The strange thing was that when she bought the talisman, the fake Taoist priest had folded it and gave it to her. In order not to affect the effect, he didn't reopen it to check.

As she moved, Jiang Shangxian felt a strange smell entering her nose. She wrinkled her nose uncomfortably, picked up the talisman with two fingers and looked at it over and over again for a while in disgust. She felt even more strange. Why did it smell like BBQ?

Finally, she mustered up the courage and leaned in to take a deep breath. That breath nearly killed her. The unpleasant stench of corpses mixed with the smell of protein filled her nose. She couldn't help but retching and threw the talisman away.

As soon as she got the amulet, she threw it to Jiang Wangri. She was a loving sister and believed that for such a feudal and superstitious activity of ensuring safety, she should give her brother double insurance!

"What's going on here?"

Jiang's mother hurried over to calm her down, muttering, "It's okay, don't be angry. Aren't they already in the Dali Temple? Let's talk to Cui Shaoqing and have that bastard Taoist return the money for the talisman!"

In fact, she was not sure whether the person who deceived her and Wang Leisheng was the same person, but it didn't matter. Even if they were not the same person, these fake people must be in the same group. People said that it is easy to get things done with someone in the government office. It should be possible to get the money back while Cui Shaoqing is investigating the case through the back door.

Jiang Shangxian felt his stomach feel a little better, and then he said to the stunned Lu Xingzhou: "Master Lu, there seems to be something on this talisman..."

She said it with some difficulty, feeling that her self-awareness was true, but also afraid that her guess was true, and was particularly entangled: "The smell of human oil."

"what?!"

Lu Xingzhou stumbled, a trace of pain flashing through his tears. Heaven has given great responsibility to such a person... He just wanted to have breakfast, why treat him like this? Oh, God!

"That's just my guess. It would be best to let the coroner take a look." Jiang Shangxian quickly tried to appease him. What was going on? Why was Lu Zhubu so vulnerable to such a blow?

Fortunately, they had already had breakfast, ah...

Lu Xingzhou steadied himself, his expression serious as if he was about to take a test. "How did you guess this flavor, Miss Jiang?"

It is impossible for a normal young lady to smell the smell of human oil.

"Master Lu, to be honest, I've been smelling a foul odor since I came to the Dali Temple yesterday. The odor was strongest outside the courtyard of the coroner..." She said cryptically, twitching her eyes meaningfully.

Talking about the olfactory shock she'd suffered over the past two days, Jiang Shangxian wanted to grab two noodles and hang them on her face. It was so miserable, so inhumane! Money is hard to earn, and shit is hard to eat. If Cui Bianxu doesn't give her enough this time, she will unilaterally end this ambiguous relationship!

Although Lu Xingzhou felt a little awkward with her suggestive gesture of twitching eyes, fortunately he understood that she was talking about the stench of corpses in the morgue. At the same time, he couldn't help but wonder, this Miss Jiang's nose is really too sensitive?

In order to strictly protect the Dali Temple's last pure place - the canteen, the morgue is far away from here.

"This talisman has a smell of fried lard. You know that smell, right?" Jiang Shangxian looked at Lu Xingzhou opposite him, unsure whether this seemingly gentle and weak chief clerk knew that there was such a thing as fried lard in the world.

Lu Xingzhou nodded. Of course he knew! He went home last night and went to his mother, asking her to use the leftover lard from frying the cabbage in the future!

"The smell of fried lard is strong, the smell of corpse is light, and there is a hint of rust. It should be blood." Jiang Shangxian stated the basis for his speculation. It was precisely because of the addition of blood that the fake talisman on it had a strange color. It was not pure black ink. When looking closely against the light, there was a flash of dark red light.

There was absolutely no way she could have mistaken the stench of a corpse. This smell had taught her a profound lesson. Yesterday, when she was passing by Ding Yuan's office after get off work, out of curiosity, she sniffed hard several times.

This action directly resulted in her nose being filled with the foul smell all the way from the Dali Temple to the Jiang family. When she took a shower, she deliberately picked her nose and washed it with water several times. Even though her nose was completely clean, the stench of corpse was still there.

Lu Xingzhou suddenly felt that he didn't have to eat cabbage fried with lard.