The three of them exchanged glances in silence, only Ke Ran complained about it until Chai Jin interrupted him.

"Then can you find any difference in it?"

"Strange?" Ke Ran slurped the words in her mouth, "You didn't bring anything out, so it's hard for me to tell what's abnormal, but it must be a fraud for a pilgrim to pay ten taels of silver in this temple."

His topic returned to ten taels of silver, and Chai Jin slapped his forehead, remembering the drugged tea leaves.

"Ke Ran, just look at this."

He opened the handkerchief, and the shriveled tea leaves were absorbed by the handkerchief, making them even drier and darker in color, as if they were old-fashioned.

"Luo Yu said that this was the tea that the little monk brought her. She didn't drink it carefully, but found that there was something strange in it."

Chai Jin explained, but these words made Xue Lince's heart skip a beat.

He subconsciously squeezed his wife's hand tightly, but Tang Luoyu looked calm and patted the back of his hand comfortingly, "Don't worry, I didn't drink at all, I felt strange and poured it out."

Ke Ran took the tea wrapped in the handkerchief, looked left and right, sniffed it, and finally picked up a small piece to taste, and then spit it out quickly.

"It is true that medicine has been added, but many of the medicinal materials have no taste and are difficult to identify clearly. Only one flavor of mandala is particularly obvious, and it should be the most added."

Chai Jin caught the key word, "Mandala? Isn't that..."

"That's right," Ke Ran nodded, and wrapped the tea leaves again, "Mandala can be used as Mabosan, or as a drug. If it is used too much, the eater will faint on the spot, and the rest of the medicinal materials need to be returned. It takes careful study to find out.”

"No," Tang Luoyu objected, "I thought it was some kind of drug before, so I deliberately pretended to be unconscious, but after listening to the discussion between the little monk and his brother, it seemed that they were surprised to see me unconscious. As simple as making people unconscious?"

Ke Ran didn't say much, she just raised her hand to pinch Tang Luoyu's pulse, to make sure she didn't have any signs of traditional Chinese medicine before she was relieved.

Chai Jin saw something strange, "What's wrong?"

"To tell you the truth," Ke Ran also took out a paper bag from her arms, with a somewhat smug face, "I was bored when I was waiting outside, so I went into the main hall and felt that the incense smelled strange, so I picked it up from it. I dug out some incense ash and bagged it out."

Tang Luoyu raised his eyebrows quickly, "Did you enter the hall in front of so many pilgrims and search for incense ashes from other people's temples?"

Ke Ran didn't have the slightest remorse, "I also wanted to find out the truth. I believe that the Bodhisattva will not blame me. I even made a few bows for the Bodhisattva."

The three of them exchanged glances wordlessly.

"Nobody saw you when you went in?"

Xue Lince asked with some concern.

"I'm so hidden, how could anyone find out?" Ke Ran was very confident. "Of course people who come to pray for the Bodhisattva can only see the Bodhisattva. I am quick and quick, and even the monks walking around didn't notice the difference." , I even put a few copper coins in the merit box when I went out, alas, if I knew you would have to pay ten taels of silver, I wouldn't have put it in..."

"Show me what's wrong with that incense ash," Chai Jin couldn't help but stop his attachment to the ten taels of silver, "but there's also a mandala?"

"I didn't notice it. I just smelled something strange. The smell is extremely weak. Presumably the earliest medicine was not put in the incense ash, but mixed in accidentally."

Ke Ran opened the paper bag and showed everyone the ashes inside. There was nothing wrong with the ashes to the naked eye, and there was no abnormal smell.

"This month's old temple is really strange," Chai Jin squeezed his chin, "The incense ashes and tea are all drugged, could it be that these pilgrims are also affected by it?"

The four of them gathered together and couldn't come up with a conclusion. Xue Lince suddenly remembered that the monk had given him two pieces of red paper to write about the appearance and character of the woman he liked.

"He said he would come back in ten days so that I could see the girl with my own eyes."

The three of them looked at each other, feeling a little unbelievable.

"Is there such a strange thing in the world that you can find the woman you want with just two pieces of red paper?" Chai Jin was puzzled.

Ke Ran was keenly aware of the red mark on his hand, so she pulled him over and spread his palm, "What is this?"

"The imprint on the red piece of paper," Xue Lince became nervous when he saw that he was serious, "is it also drugged?"

Ke Ran lowered her eyebrows and sniffed, "The taste is very similar to the incense ash I brought out, and it also smells like mandala, but it's still far from the tea Luo Yu drank, and it can't make people faint."

"It seems that nothing in this temple is safe." Chai Jin crossed his arms and was very dissatisfied. "It's either a mandala or a drug. Everything you encounter is poisonous."

The four of them discussed all the way back to Yuedong's mansion. Although the journey was smooth and smooth, it was still dark when they arrived at the mansion. The streets were lit up with lights, and it was very moving to see the dots of light from a distance.

After washing off their exhaustion and taking off their dusty clothes, everyone sat down in the hall again and made hot tea to discuss countermeasures.

Ke Ran brought a cup of tea, used the tea lid to skim off the froth on the water, and blew on it for a long time without drinking.

"Now I understand that the problem definitely lies in the Yuelao Temple on Yudai Mountain," he nodded while scanning the crowd, "Perhaps the people who were looking for marriage in the temple before were also bewitched."

Xue Lince looked at the smear of red that remained on his fingertips, "Since they added mandala to the tea and incense ash, the dosage of this medicine must be huge, and where did they pick it? Could it be that there is a special person supply?"

These words made the eyebrows of the rest of the people jump, and their eyes fell on Ke Ran.

Sensing everyone's attention, Ke Ran straightened her back pretentiously, took a sip of tea as if nothing had happened, and finally cleared her throat: "Not necessarily, if the area is open, the air is humid, and the land is soft, you can grow datura. but……"

He pinched his chin, lowered his voice, and frowned slightly.

"But what?"

Chai Jin couldn't help asking.

"However, these mandalas are all distributed in the Western Regions, and few people grow them in the Central Plains. If others see them, they probably won't recognize them." Ke Ran looked serious, "And, if these demon monks deliberately conceal it, then it will be even more difficult. It's hard to find."

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell into a brief silence. Tang Luoyu thought for a moment, thinking of the tea leaves brought back during the day, "Did you find out the other things in the tea?"

"It hasn't been verified yet," Ke Ran was at a loss, "This medicine is very strange. It has never been seen or smelled before. It looks like some kind of oily substance. It should be Datura as a medicine, and it will work when mixed with tea. Drug effect."

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