"Cheng Mo and I have already started investigating, and I believe there will be a result in a few days."

Qi Yuanjing nodded and said, "That's good. I am also troubled by these censors."

After coming out of the palace, Gu Lingze waited for news at home.

Fortunately, there was progress within two days, and the news that came back said that these ladies were taking a white powder.

However, the Xuanyi Army took advantage of the fact that no one was searching around and did not find the powder in the mansion. After thinking it over, they decided to come back and report the situation.

"White powder?"

Gu Lingze pondered for a while and decided to go there with Zhao Chengmo in person at night to take a look.

The destination was chosen to be the residence of the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of War, because the Xuanyiwei who were responsible for monitoring the place reported that they had never seen the Vice Minister's wife take this powder.

As soon as night fell, the two set off.

The wife of the Right Vice Minister was named Jiang. The two men had just found Jiang's bedroom and had not yet lifted the tiles on the roof when they heard a roar coming from inside.

"What did you say? The master is staying in that bitch's room again tonight?!"

The maid in front of Jiang knelt on the ground trembling, not even daring to raise her head.

The two men lifted the tiles and saw a burly woman who was furious and using obscene words.

After scolding for a long time, Jiang herself was out of breath. After telling the maid to get out, she sat in front of her dressing table and began to draw her eyebrows and hair.

Finally, she pulled out the last layer of the dressing table and took out a paper bag.

Gu Lingze immediately stared intently at the thing in her hand, and when he opened it, it was indeed that kind of powder.

Jiang poured all the powder into his mouth, then picked up the teacup beside him and took two sips.

Then she turned around and scared Gu Lingze directly, but it was not because of his action.

It’s because the makeup is so unsightly that the whole face looks like a color palette, it’s simply clumsy and ugly.

Zhao Chengmo frowned at this time. He felt that since Jiang swallowed the powder, her whole person had changed, as if she had become slimmer and more beautiful.

After Jiang left, Zhao Chengmo immediately told Gu Lingze everything he had seen.

"You mean she's become prettier?" Gu Lingze was silent for a moment, then looked at his waist and said, "Didn't you bring the giant clam beads?"

"I put them together when I changed my clothes."

Gu Lingze nodded. He now had some idea of ​​the matter.

He thought about it and decided to go to the concubine's room to check. The two of them listened to the noise and went over there.

Jiang had already reached the concubine and forcibly called the right assistant minister out of bed.

The Right Assistant Minister didn't seem angry either. He put on his clothes and went back happily with Jiang.

Gu Lingze took a look at the concubine's appearance. Although she was not as beautiful as a flower, she was much better than Jiang.

It seems that the other person is indeed more beautiful in the eyes of men.

As soon as the Right Assistant Minister entered the room, he couldn't wait to hug Jiang and want to be intimate with her, but Jiang used a coquettish voice and took the opportunity to make the Right Assistant Minister agree to many things, and then she half-heartedly started to make love with him.

Seeing the two men begin to undress, Gu Lingze and Zhao Chengmo went down from the roof and returned to the general's residence.

"It seems the problem lies with this powder."

The medicinal materials he used to make the beauty pills all came from the medicine basket in the secret realm, and spiritual energy would be attached to them over time.

However, this powder is an evil thing. If you take his beauty pills after taking it, the two will cause black spots to appear due to the conflict between them.

These ladies gained more benefits from the powder than from the beauty pills, so they blamed the mistakes on the beauty pills.

The whole story is already very clear, now we have to see where the powder comes from.

The next morning, Zhao Chengmo ordered the Black Cloth Army to keep a close eye on the ladies who had taken the white powder, and to report back immediately if there was any unusual movement.

This wait lasted until the middle of the month, the day of the full moon.

The black-robed soldiers that had been arranged earlier sneaked back into the general's mansion one after another. It turned out that these ladies had all put on cloaks and sneaked out of the house around midnight.

Gu Lingze and Zhao Chengmo set off immediately and followed the signs along the way to find the Black Cloth Army that had been following them.

"Report to the commander, those ladies have entered this place one after another."

Zhao Chengmo nodded and asked them to stay put while he and Gu Lingze went in to find out what was going on.

There is a hidden back door here. Now there are blue bricks piled in front of the door, covering the entrance, but Gu Lingze recognizes the main door here.

This is a charity hall.

During every festival, the General's Mansion would send some food and cloth, and from time to time would send people to take care of the old and young here.

The two looked at each other, then turned over and went in.

The charity hall was pitch black at this moment, as if everyone inside had fallen asleep.

Gu Lingze took out a paper bird from his sleeve, dotted its eyes with cinnabar, and threw it into the air. The paper bird then flew away quickly in one direction.

The two followed them to a courtyard at the back. Gu Lingze took the paper bird back and walked inside to observe it carefully.

But the two of them walked around inside and found nothing except an old bed.

Gu Lingze and Zhao Chengmo exchanged glances, and finally their eyes fell on the bed.

The two of them moved the bed one by one, and sure enough, they found a secret door there.

Gu Lingze handed Zhao Chengmo a breath-suppressing talisman, unfastened the ring on it, and walked down the stairs silently.

Zhao Chengmo led the way and when he reached a corner, he immediately raised his hand to signal.

The two exchanged positions, and Gu Lingze leaned forward slightly, only to see a very strange scene.

Everyone inside was wearing a hooded cloak, each holding a white candle in their hands, and they were sitting in a circle.

Gu Lingze narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling that the scene before him looked like a cult gathering he had seen before.

Everyone was muttering to themselves, and at this moment, a masked woman in red standing in the middle slowly began to dance.

Although they were in an underground secret room, there was wind blowing from time to time. Gu Lingze knew that this was the negative energy gathered here.

There was an indescribable weirdness to the woman's dance, and her body movements were extremely exaggerated.

At the end of the dance, another woman came over with a tray and something that looked like a pestle in her hands.

There were five pieces of blood jade on the tray. When the people sitting around saw these things, their breathing suddenly quickened.

At this time, everyone made gestures in unison and shouted something in a language that the two could not understand.

The woman in red placed the blood jade in the bowl. There was a crackling sound, and she actually crushed and ground the blood jade directly.

It seems that this white powder is what happens when these blood jades are crushed.

Gu Lingze carefully observed the facial features of the two women and found that the parts of their eyes that were exposed were somewhat sunken and their eyebrows were very thick, somewhat like the people of the Territory in the modern world.

The woman ground the five pieces of blood jade one by one, sifted them and poured them into paper bags one by one.