Chapter 506 The Real Blood Lotus
"This is a good idea. Okay, you young people have a chat, and we two old people will leave first." Prime Minister Lin stood up and said to several people, he was going to the morning court.
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After Prime Minister Lin and Aunt Lin left, the few of them were not as restrained as they were at the dinner table. They looked a little relaxed at this moment. Lin Yue looked at Zi Han with curiosity and admiration in her eyes, and said, "I don't know what I am." I know such an outstanding young man.”
"Mrs. Tao, thank you for the award." Zi Han said with a faint smile, lowering his eyes and drinking tea without looking for a topic.
After all, she was from outside, and she was not familiar with these princes and nobles, and they had no common topics. It was better for them to find topics.
"Haha, actually we only met Mr. Zi last night, but we felt like old friends at first sight. It happened that Mr. Zi came here to play, and Wanyan doesn't come out often, so I thought it would be more fun with the few of us." Lin Shu smiled. , looked at Lin Yue and the two of them, "I have nothing to do today, so why don't you come to the lake together? There are many people and it's lively."
"Yeah, that's fine." Lin Yue nodded.
At this moment, a family member came in from the door and said to Lin Shu: "Master, it has grown again."
Lin Shu's expression was stunned, his eyes flashed, and he waved his hand and said: "Send someone to pick it."
"Yes, young master." After the servant finished speaking, he went down.
The expressions of several people were a little confused at this moment. Wanyannuo was the seventh prince. Even if he had a good relationship with Lin Shu, he would not be able to come out often. Although he knew a little about their family's affairs, they had only been passed down through word of mouth, and so far he had not heard of them. Having never seen it with my own eyes, I was a little curious at the moment, so I asked: "Lin Shu, what is going on with your lotus pond? I heard a lot of rumors in the palace."
As soon as he asked this question, Zihan gave Wanyannuo a thumbs up in his heart, awesome! It's just perfect!
"Oh, don't mention it." Lin Shu sighed, "It has been three years now, and new blood lotuses will grow almost every ten days and a half. Our Lin Mansion has taken many measures to no avail. Even the people in the Jianghu Those warlocks were also invited back, and it was still the same. Over time, we got used to it, and our Lin family didn't do it because of that. If something weird happens when the blood lotus appears, just treat it as transparent and pick it when it grows. After all, it is blood red and looks weird." Lin Shu said with a somewhat obscure expression, although this matter was very complicated. It was weird, but it really didn't have any impact on their family. At most, it was just comments from outsiders.
"Oh?" Wan Yannuo raised his eyebrows, "Can you take me to take a look? I've been to your Lin Mansion so many times, but I've never seen it before."
Lin Shu nodded, "Let's go, it's not a secret anyway."
After saying that, he said to Zi Han: "Young Master Zi is from out of town. Maybe you haven't heard of him. Let's come and see him together."
After saying that, he ordered the servants to stop picking the blood lotus and wait for a few people to watch before picking it.
Zi Han followed Lin Shu with a suspicious expression on his face and asked, "I didn't know that there were such strange things happening in Mr. Lin's house. I happen to be quite interested in this matter and have cracked several cases before."
"Oh?" Lin Shu raised an eyebrow after hearing this and said with interest: "That's great, maybe you can solve this mystery for Mr. Zi."
"Haha, but don't have too much hope. I did it by mistake." Zi Han smiled lightly, but he was saying in his heart that this is my first time to solve a case~~~ I must solve it successfully, otherwise She was eliminated!
"You can't say that. Our Lin Mansion has invited many capable people back for this purpose, but they have not been able to crack it successfully so far. If Mr. Zi is interested, I will let you take over the case and play with it. It's been three years anyway, and we don't care. "Yes, I just want to know the reason." Lin Shu waved his hand, and the Lin family spent a lot of money unjustly because of this.
"Let's see. If I really have the ability, I will take over." Zi Han replied lightly, but he was complaining in his heart, "Nima, I have the ability to take over. If I don't take over, she will lose this competition." This is the end~~~
Lin Shu led a few people to the back of Lin Mansion. Along the way, Zihan saw the flowers and rockeries around him. The structure of the entire mansion was just like those in the parks. The paths under his feet were made of milky white. It is paved with cobblestones, and the flowers and plants planted on both sides are trimmed extremely smoothly. There is not a blade of grass or a flower extending into the path. I believe people with obsessive-compulsive disorder will feel very comfortable walking here.
The Lin Mansion was very big, and a few people were walking and chatting all the way. Zi Han felt that they seemed to have gone around the backyard of the Lin Mansion. From a distance, she saw a pool of lotus blooming under the fence in front of her, and there was only one lotus. , as red as blood, it is blooming straight in the center of the pond.
It seems that compared to other lotuses, the blood lotus blooms larger and brighter, more than twice the size of the surrounding lotuses.
Several people approached the lotus pond and stood in the small pavilion extending into the lotus pond. Their eyes were a little curious, especially Wanyannuo and Zihan. After all, the others were not used to it, and they were the only two. They had never seen it before. At this moment, the eyes of the two of them were a little bright as they stared at the blood lotus in the lotus pond.
Zi Han looked at the blood lotus and looked at the bottom of the water. It shouldn't be a problem with the water quality. After all, if the water quality was a problem, it shouldn't be just like a lotus. But looking at the expressions of the people in the Lin Mansion, it wasn't It seems too man-made, after all, there is no reason!
Zi Han's eyes flickered, and he looked at Lin Shu and said, "Master Lin, can you pick up the blood lotus for me to see?"
Lin Shu's expression was a bit obscure when he heard this, and he said to Zihan: "If Master Zi doesn't mind that it has some ominous meaning, I don't have any objection. I'm just afraid that this blood lotus will bring bad luck to Master Zi, and what will happen to him then?" It’s not good.” “Huh?” Zi Han frowned, “What happened to the people who came into contact with it?”
Lin Shu sighed, "Yes, many people who came to our Lin Mansion to investigate the blood lotus died because of exposure to the blood lotus."
Zi Han's eyes flickered when he heard this, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "It doesn't matter. I have never believed in evil. Everything happens for a reason. Maybe it's just that those people were unlucky." She smiled, looking a little unconcerned.
Seeing Zi Han's behavior, Lin Shu no longer stopped him. After all, not everyone who had come into contact with the Blood Lotus died, just some.
The servant placed the picked blood lotus in front of several people. Wanyannuo and Zihan gathered around it, not seeming to be taboo at all.
Lin Shu originally wanted to stop Wanyan Nuo, but thinking about his temper, he couldn't help it, so let him do it.
Looking at it from a distance, the blood lotus seemed to be even more red. It was lying quietly on the chopping board with a piece of cloth underneath, which was wrapped by the servants to prevent it from coming into contact with the blood lotus.
After all, they still believe in evil. Although Lin Shu and others say they don't believe in ghosts and gods, they don't dare to touch the blood lotus.
There are still some water drops on the blood lotus, and it is like a clear pearl, so bright.
Zihan reached out and picked out a piece of blood lotus petal, put it in his hand and looked at it quietly. He wanted to put it to his nose and smell it, but found that Lin Shu and others around him looked at him a little strangely, so he inadvertently collected it with his fingertips. After gathering the petals, they still put them back on the cloth. I glanced at the joint where the petals were removed. Are even the insides of the petals bright red?
Then she looked at the root of the blood lotus, which was the root of the blood lotus. She asked Lin Shu: "Is this blood lotus cut in the middle?"
"Well, because the water in this lotus pond is relatively deep, it is impossible to send people to the bottom of the pond to pull out the roots every time, so they cut it off at the middle section." Lin Shu replied, with a suspicious look in his eyes, "Is there any problem, Mr. Zi? ?”
"No." Zi Han shook his head, his eyes flashing with light, "I just think it's a little strange that there are no roots at the roots. It turns out that it was cut from the middle, so that's how I explained it."
Seeing Zi Han say this, Lin Shu nodded, "We have sent people to pull it out from the root before, but we found that no matter what we did, it still grew back, so there was no need for Fei Zhouzhang." .”
"Have any of the people who came to Lin Mansion to study the Blood Lotus been there before?"
"Of course there is, and there are quite a few of them. They all thought that there might be something underneath the pond, so they dived in personally and brought the mud up. However, they found that there was nothing special. As time went by, no one went down. Those who came down were all monks and Taoists, either practicing or chanting sutras. They were all mysterious, but of no use." Lin Shu looked a little contemptuous. How could a real master come to decipher such mundane things? They are all a group of people. Just a casual person.
"So that's it." Zi Han nodded and stopped asking.
"Master Zi, what did you find when you saw this blood lotus?" Lin Shu asked curiously when Zi Han stopped talking.
She shook her head and said with a wry smile: "I haven't discovered anything, but I'm very curious and want to take over this mystery for fun. Mr. Lin, can you agree?" When she said this, she kept looking at a few people from the corner of her eyes. facial expression.
"Of course. Anyway, I wish Mr. Zi could stay in my house for a longer time." Lin Shu agreed, and with a wave of his hand, he asked the servants to take away the blood lotus and burn it.
When Wanyannuo saw the blood lotus being taken away, his face looked a little strange and said: "This is really strange. There were red lotuses from abroad as tribute in the palace before, but they were different from the ones here. They were real red lotuses, and this It's a blood lotus. The colors of the two are really surprising. I heard that the red lotus was soaked in paint and raised from a young age, so it got that red color. But your blood lotus can appear like this if it is raised in clean water. Color? What a weird thing”
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