Chapter 7 The Meeting Place (I)

　　"Arrangements that's for sure. Just ......" 　　Fatty is a little difficult, what kind of people are in this black meeting? 　　Murderers, robbers, mountain bandits, thieves, whatever people of unknown origin can enter, in case Brother Sheng accidentally clashes with someone and injures which, that would be a wrong. 　　"It's just that I better keep a low profile, right?" Lu Sheng smiled, knowing the other party's concern. 　　He didn't just represent himself, but also the Lu Family within Jiu Lian City, and once he suffered any damage, the Lu Family would definitely settle the score with him, Zheng Xian Gui. 　　"You know it is good, Brother Sheng your identity is different, if it is someone else, I am not so worried ......" Zheng Xiangui sighed. 　　"I know, you arrange it for me, I must get my hands on this thing." Lu Sheng could not help but say. 　　"Alas ......" Zheng Xiangui had no choice but to respond. 　　Lu Sheng and him carefully determined the time when the black meeting would start, and then waited for Zheng Xiangui to have someone send over a VIP invitation. 　　He took the invitation, which led him out of the restaurant. 　　"Fine rouge and powder ah, girls and ladies come and take a look." 　　"Good first-class goods, only from Zihua City came in from the Central Plains!" 　　"Purple Sun Flower Fragrance blush, no other store has it!" 　　On the street outside the restaurant, one by one, vendors pushed wooden carts for buying water powder, slowly moving along the street. 　　Lu Sheng swept his eyes, this street was originally specialized in selling blush and water powder. 　　Many women's families liked to come here to shop. 　　The sun set in the west, the street had just had a light rain, the ground was wet and somewhat reflective, being reflected on a light red. 　　Lu Sheng breathed out, just as the breath exited, it turned white and slowly dispersed. 　　He looked back at the restaurant, the large shadow of the Goldfish Restaurant was cast down by the sunlight. 　　This largest restaurant in Jiu Lian City was at a bustling time, with an endless stream of guests coming and going in and out of the restaurant to eat. The sound was unusually loud. 　　Lu Sheng stood in the shadows of the restaurant and looked to both sides. 　　Other than the mouth of the restaurant, the rest of the place was a bit cold. 　　One hawker pushed a gouache cart and moved slowly, constantly moving in the shadows. 　　As Lu Sheng looked, he wanted to buy some small gifts for Erniang and Yi Yi, incidentally, to go back. These gouache were not expensive, and the quality could occasionally be found in good condition, so they were good little gifts. 　　He walked a few steps along the street, wanting to pick and choose to see which vendor was better. 　　In the afternoon, the street was getting colder and many stores were closed. 　　There weren't many passersby on both sides of the street either, and only a few could be seen occasionally. 　　What is strange is that these vendors who buy water powder clearly see that there are not many people around, but also sell their smiles and yell. 　　The yells rose and fell, echoing in the empty street. 　　Lu Sheng squinted his eyes and didn't find it strange, thinking that perhaps it was a unique phenomenon of rules in this world. 　　He sifted around and found a vendor whose cart was painted light red. This peddler had a step streamer sticking out of his cart, and on it was written: Central Plains Rites of Passage Gouache. 　　The vendor pushed his cart and moved slowly, with a smile on his face, wearing a gray cloth coat and a gray and white melon skin hat. 　　"I remember that Liji Water Powder is one of the more formal and old merchant houses in Central Plains." 　　Lu Sheng recalled from his memory, then slowly walked towards the vendor's cart. He intended to pick some good water powder for Erniang and Yi Yi. 　　That peddler slowly walked forward, with a few playing children chasing and making games on the side. 　　The cart slowly passed the small children and then turned towards an alley in the shadows of the street. 　　Lu Sheng estimated that he was about to close the cart, so he was ready to speed up his pace to catch up. 　　"Hey! Brother Sheng!" 　　Suddenly, a voice called out to him from behind. 　　The voice was quite familiar and seemed to be someone he knew. 　　Lu Sheng turned back to see a dark-skinned strong scholar walking over quickly. 　　"Lu Sheng?" 　　He hesitated and recognized the other party's identity. 　　Lu Sheng, Lu Junyi, and Lu Sheng were also the standard wealthy sons of Jiu Lian City, but he was different from the others, this guy, had a meritocracy. He had taken the Xiu Cai exam not long before, and was said to be quite literate. 　　Lu Junyi was actually generally related to him, only because his name was the same as there was a Liangshan man, so Lu Sheng remembered his name after hearing it once. 　　"Brother Sheng, jianghu rescue, jianghu rescue!" Lu Junyi took two steps closer to him with a red face. 　　Lu Sheng instantly understood what this guy was looking for him for. Although he was a son of a rich family, this guy was extremely fond of gambling, often making him shy and borrowing money all over the place. 　　Right now, he was probably out of gambling money again. 　　He smiled and touched out ten taels of silver from his waist pocket, handing it over. 　　"How's your luck today?" 　　"Not bad, not bad, hahaha, or Brother Sheng is righteous enough." 　　Lu Junyi took the silver and hurriedly left. 　　Lu Sheng shook his head, the money was trivial, anyway, the Lu family was a big family, someone would send money back. 　　He turned his head and went back to the vendor selling water powder. 　　That vendor's cart had already entered the alley, with a small half left outside. 　　He took three steps and quickly walked over. 　　Followed by turning into the alley. 　　"Huh??" 　　Lu Sheng's footsteps abruptly stopped. 　　This alley, was actually a dead end! 　　It was empty, where was there any cart, not even a single silhouette. 　　His eyes narrowed, and his body was already slightly on guard. 　　He inspected this dead end alley carefully from head to tail, from left to right. 　　The alley, which was only a dozen meters long, was flanked on both sides by the gray and black walls of houses, and the end was blocked by a black wall that looked a bit old, with a few seals pasted on it. 　　The white paper and red letters of the seals looked a bit gloomy under the setting sunlight, and there were edges turned up that seemed to have run out of adhesion. 　　"There is no secret door on the wall, so where did the cart go ...... to?" 　　Lu Sheng repeatedly recalled, are clearly remembered, that cart is into this alley hutong. 　　He withdrew and saw a few small children who were still chasing and playing on the roadside. 　　These few small children were dressed rather plainly, and looked like children from ordinary families. 　　Lu Sheng changed into a smiling face, fished out a few copper coins from his coat pocket, and pulled a little girl who was chasing people. 　　"Little girl, ask you one thing, okay?" 　　"Brother what do you want to ask you say." 　　Little girl tied with two crochets, ninety years old, face red, perhaps often play in the street, also not afraid of strangers, generous back. 　　"Brother would like to ask, you see just now that rite water powder cart passed through here? Did it enter this small hutong?" 　　Lu Sheng stuffed two copper coins into the little girl's palm. 　　This little one instantly smiled with joy. 　　"Didn't see the water powder cart? We play here every day, the gouache cart usually comes over to sell in the morning, and in the afternoon it goes over to the antique street." 　　"Didn't see it?" 　　Lu Sheng froze, thinking that it was a small child deliberately lying. 　　Seeing his expression, the little girl opened her eyes wide and seriously back. 　　"I'm telling the truth, today the street what cars are not, do not believe you go to ask other people, the street is empty and nothing." 　　At this time the rest of the several small children also ran over to agree. 　　"Yes, yes, my mother was going to come over to buy some things, those carts actually disappeared, it's really strange." 　　"This brother said that he just saw a Li Ji Water Powder." The little girl pointed at Lu Sheng and said. 　　"Where is it? Where?" 　　"Didn't see it, it's just this big on this street." 　　"Brother saw it in his dream, right? Hee hee hee ......" 　　The group of little ones started laughing and joking again as they talked. 　　The smile on Lu Sheng's face gradually disappeared. 　　He twisted his head to look at the Goldfish Tavern. 　　The restaurant in the shadows was bustling with people coming and going. 　　It was bustling over there, in stark contrast to the coldness of this side of the street. 　　"So have you guys seen ......" 　　Lu Sheng turned his head back and his voice ended abruptly. 　　The few small children around him, actually didn't know when, all of them had disappeared. 　　A glance at the surrounding streets was cold, empty, and nothing. 　　Not even pedestrians. 　　The children's noise instantly disappeared, according to reason, this age of children, it is impossible to be so tacit, all at once disappeared without sound. 　　Lu Sheng confident, he at least is also practiced the Black Tiger Sword people, listening to the wind defense position even wolves can detect, actually did not find a few small children left the sound. 　　Looking at the deserted and dead streets, he suddenly shivered and walked quickly towards the Goldfish Restaurant. 　　Snapping ...... 　　The sound of footsteps was clear and unusual, and the closer he got to the tavern, the more he felt a wave of warmth all over his body. 　　Wow! 　　Suddenly, as if breaking the surface of the water from underwater all at once, Lu Sheng violently felt everything around him come alive and full of life. 　　One by one, guests with body heat passed by him, and someone accidentally bumped into him and hastily apologized to him. 　　There were also women who got down from the carriage and slowly walked into the tavern with a smile on their face, and were welcomed in by the boy. 　　Standing in front of the restaurant, Lu Sheng went to look at the street where the water powder was sold, but the upper side did not know when there were more pedestrians. 　　It was completely different from the previous coldness. 　　Lu Sheng sucked in a breath of cool air and quickly stopped a carriage. 　　"Go to the Lu Mansion." 　　"Alright, you sit tight!" 　　The coachman whipped the horse, and the thin old horse slowly moved its feet. 　　Sitting in the car, Lu Sheng was thinking back to the things he encountered before. 　　That peddler, that group of small children, they were all very abnormal. 　　As he recalled now, the smile on that peddler's face seemed to be motionless, giving off an extremely false flavor. 　　Associating it with the Xu family tragedy, he suddenly had a feeling that a mountain rain was coming. 　　"This city, it's really getting more and more dangerous ah ......" he muttered. 　　The carriage quickly arrived at the gate of the Lu Mansion. 　　The concierge saw Lu Sheng sitting in the carriage and hurriedly greeted him. 　　"Grand Duke, you're back?" 　　The concierge's surname was Wang, the eighth in the family, everyone usually called him Xiao Hachi, a quite resourceful young man, only seventeen this year, he had inherited his father's job, and had also come to the Lu family to work as a concierge. 　　Little eight and Lu Sheng also quite familiar, often will give Lu Sheng said some city outside the city rumors of interesting anecdotes. 　　This was also what Lu Sheng loved to hear. 　　"Is the master here?" 　　Lu Sheng asked casually as he got off the bus and paid the money. 　　"Master has gone to the government office again, the governor summoned him as if he was looking for something." 　　Xiaohachi laughed. 　　"Looking for something?" 　　Lu Sheng had been busy with his own affairs for the past few days, but he didn't care about the mansion. 　　"What things?"