Chapter 72: When the Flowers in the World Bloom Again
Xu Qingmu stared at the girl named Liu Liu, feeling a little cold in his heart. He was only thirteen or fourteen years old, why was he so scheming and indifferent?
However, at that moment, he still took out the money he had, which was enough for fifty taels. Xu Qingmu looked at the group of faces in front of him that were emaciated due to long-term hunger, and felt a little unbearable when he thought of the embarrassment of his youth.
When the boy in charge saw the money, his eyes were obviously burning, and he hesitated about the dagger he was holding.
He is weighing.
If you get these silver coins, it will be enough for this group of young brothers to stop going hungry for at least half a month. He turned to look at his good friends who were following him, and they all nodded in acquiescence.
That's enough, at least I can eat some steaming food that I can only watch from a distance on weekdays.
Just when Gao Rui was about to step forward to catch Yinliang, Liu Liu behind him shouted to stop.
"How about sending beggars away? I followed you secretly for five miles and saw with my own eyes how rich you are, and now you are sending us away with only fifty taels?"
Then he walked closer slowly, hiding his right hand behind his back.
"And you, Gao Rui, are you a man in vain! Are you satisfied with just such a small amount of money?"
The boy named Gao Rui was a little angry. He turned his head and said a few words through his teeth: "We are beggars."
Liu Liu yawned and looked at Xu Qingmu with a sweet smile. Xu Qingmu discovered the girl's face through the moonlight. She was delicate and pretty, but the anger in her eyes was too heavy.
Gao Rui and others still took the fifty taels. Xu Qingmu smiled at the boy and others without speaking. Then he looked at Liu Liu who had already walked beside him:
"How much do you want?"
Liu Liu still hid his right hand, looked at Xu Qingmu, stretched out his left hand, and raised an index finger.
"One hundred taels?"
The girl shook her head and stared at Xu Qingmu, still smiling.
"One thousand taels?"
The girl still shook her head and stared into Xu Qingmu's eyes. At this moment, Gao Rui, who was behind him and took the money, suddenly shouted:
"Master, be careful..."
But before he finished speaking, Liu Liu suddenly turned gloomy, and his right hand that had been hidden behind him suddenly waved forward, and a burst of red powdery mist suddenly dispersed, accompanied by Liu Liu's voice:
"A life!"
The red powdery mist seemed to be spiritual, and it quickly enveloped Xu Qingmu, but did not spread around. Soon, Xu Qingmu's entire body was wrapped in red mist, and outsiders could not see what was going on inside.
Xu Qingmu, who was in the red mist, felt even more shocked.
It looked like mist, but it was actually countless tiny bugs. Xu Qingmu could clearly feel the stinging sensation when these bugs sucked blood from his body. The next moment, his body felt like it had been hit by countless paralyzing poisons, and all its strength was relieved.
Just when Xu Qingmu gradually lost his strength and almost fell to the ground, the blood coffin sent by Chen Yehan suddenly floated out. The blood coffin that Xu Qingmu couldn't open suddenly opened the top, like a whale sucking, countless red mist was absorbed by it.
Breathing it in, the feeling of powerlessness in Xu Qingmu's body gradually receded. When Xu Qingmu wanted to see clearly what was going on in the blood coffin, the blood coffin that had swallowed countless red fog bugs had already closed.
Just when Xu Qingmu was amazed by the magic of the blood coffin, Liu Liu on the opposite side had already shouted hysterically: "Give me back the insect Gu!"
Having said that, he waved his old sickle forward, intending to do the same thing as a moth flying into the flame.
Xu Qingmu had no choice but to move out of the way and cut the girl's neck with a hand knife. The originally aggressive girl Liu Liu fainted instantly and collapsed to the ground like soft mud. Xu Qingmu quickly held her hand and looked at Liu Liu who was lying on her body.
Liu, Xu Qingmu could smell an extremely strong fragrance, which was very familiar.
The group of boys felt a little frightened when they saw that the man in front of them had easily defeated the girl who was fighting with them with just one blow. Gao Rui gently placed the silver coins on the ground and said to Xu Qingmu:
"We were only bewitched by Liu Liu, and that's why we offended the master. This money..."
Gao Rui hesitated again and again, turned to look at the brothers who had escaped with him, and gritted his teeth: "We will return the money to you, please let us go."
Xu Qingmu hugged the unconscious girl with one hand and put away the blood coffin with the other. He said to himself:
"Liu Liu, it's a very nice name."
Then he looked at the group of teenagers, raised his head and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, it's yours. You can have a good meal."
After much hesitation, Gao Rui did not pick up the silver pattern. All the boys behind him swallowed their saliva, but no one made a sound.
After all, they are children who have suffered, and there are always some sufferings that adults should have to endure, but they have experienced them in advance.
Xu Qingmu was a little helpless and had to say: "When Liu Liu attacked me just now, thank you for reminding me. I will treat this money as reward. How about that?"
Gao Rui thought for a moment and finally picked up the fifty taels and took out five taels of broken silver. The remaining forty-five taels were given to Xu Qingmu: "The reward is only worth five taels. We will give you the rest."
When he handed over the money, there was some awe in his eyes. The knife strike just now made these children a little scared.
Seeing the dozen or so teenagers leaving relaxedly and happily, Xu Qingmu felt a little warm in his heart, remembering the mantra of the owner of the Talisman Shop:
"This is excellent."
Those teenagers were obviously no longer restrained except in the alley, and they were responding to each other. No one blamed their boss for giving up the forty-five silver taels. Instead, they were all dancing happily. They were very satisfied. After all, these five taels were enough to make people happy.
Tonight, they had those steaming steamed buns——
All you can eat!
Xu Qingmu looked at the group of satisfied children with a smile on his face.
A dark tree will flourish if it faces the sun again.
But then the current trouble gave Xu Qingmu a headache. Looking at the girl Liu Liu who was limp in his arms, he immediately scratched his head. Send her back to Taofu Lane? But what if there is a safety problem?
Bring back?
Xu Qingmu thought of the late Cao Dan. When he brought Ye Qingxian back for the first time, Cao Dan's expression was vivid in his mind. Xu Qingmu sighed and could no longer see that jealous expression.
But now she had no choice but to do this, we couldn't let her stay unconscious in this alley. So Xu Qingmu changed his arms from his arms to his back, carrying the girl who weighed less than 100 kilograms, and walked quickly towards Chen's mansion.
After passing the main gate, the two yamen guarding the door saw this. A slightly fatter one took the initiative to help Xu Qingmu carry the girl, but was stopped by another lean boy who cursed in a low voice: "
Is your head bulging? These young men like to go out to hunt for women, why don’t you come forward to look for them?"
The fatter boy reacted immediately and gave a standard military salute:
"Young Master is in good health!"
Xu Qingmu said politely and walked towards the house very quickly. He vaguely heard an underestimating voice behind him: "You are really not picky."
It wasn't until he entered the door of the house that Xu Qingmu shouted: "Ye Qingxian, come to help."
The sword attendant who had finished washing, wearing a relatively transparent nightgown, came out of the door yawning. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw his master carrying a young girl on his back. He immediately became interested and deliberately walked in the direction of Cao Tong's house.
, shouted loudly: "Master, where did you bring back a little beauty? Oh, why did you faint? Tsk, tsk, tsk, this little beauty has such a handsome face..."
Xu Qingmu quickly signaled to be silent, but it was still a step too late.
Over at Cao Tong's house, two little heads quickly popped out, one up and one down, with different expressions on their faces.
The Xu Luo above has a disgusted expression as if "birds of a feather flock together and people are divided into groups".
Cao Tong below has an expression on his face: "I'm such a scumbag for not letting him go at such a young age."
The person involved, Ye Qingxian, was not a fuel-efficient lamp, so she said: "Master, do you still remember what I said? I am an adult, and I can also..."
Xu Qingmu, who didn't want everyone to know, blushed terribly at that moment. He handed Liu Liu on his back to Empress Ye Qingxian and hurriedly fled from the place where the trouble was. Before leaving, the young monk Shouyuan said something sincere to Xu Qingmu: "Under the mountain
"Women are like tigers", Xu Qingmu didn't care at first, but now, he seems to understand.
Out of sight and out of mind, Xu Qingmu stayed directly in Li Chengru's room, took out the blood coffin and asked some questions.
"Kowloon Soul-Suppressing Coffin? Boy, where did you get this evil thing?"
At that moment, Xu Qingmu told the story of meeting his second uncle Chen Yehan on Baizhang Mountain in the backyard of the Chen family, as well as the wonderful sight of looking at the long river with his hand, including the blood coffin, which Chen Erbo said was originally the property of his master Song Zihan.
It's just a return.
After listening, Li Chengru was silent for a moment and said:
"Kowloon Soul Suppressing Coffin, do you know whose soul is suppressed? Have you ever opened this coffin?"
Xu Qingmu shook his head and said that he had used a lot of strength, but the four nails on it did not move at all. When he met the Gu insects released by the girl Liu Liu in the alley, the magical coffin actually flew out on its own, and
He took the initiative to open it and absorbed the red Gu worm, and also told him about it.
Li Chengru sighed: "I will bite your finger and the first drop of blood will be on the coffin. But I have agreed in advance that what you see next may be a little unbearable for you. It is up to you whether you want to see it or not."
Xu Qingmu thought for a moment, then reached out and bit his fingertips.
As a drop of blood dripped into the blood coffin, the brick-sized blood coffin suddenly enlarged and turned into a real coffin lying across the room. A spooky and strange atmosphere continued to pour out. Xu Qingmu took a deep breath, stretched out his hand and slowly opened the coffin.
He pushed the cover away, but what he saw next completely stunned him.
Lying in the coffin was none other than his master, the one who in the letter said he would kill himself by piercing his body with ten thousand swords——
Song Zihan.
Xu Qingmu took a few steps back and murmured: "How is it possible? How could he be my master?"
The person lying in the coffin, fully clothed, seemed to be asleep, without the stiffness and coldness of a dead person at all.
"this......"
Xu Qingmu was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He looked at Li Chengru with a look of disbelief on his face.
"what on earth is it?"
Li Chengru clasped his hands together, clapped his hands suddenly, and pressed his palm on the coffin. The coffin lid slowly closed and turned into a small blood-red coffin the size of a brick again. However, this time the blood coffin did not fall on Xu Qingmu's hands, but on Xu Qingmu's hands.
After spinning in the air for a few times, Didi Liu Liu flew directly into Xu Qingmu's eyebrows and disappeared.
Xu Qingmu rubbed his forehead vigorously, but there was no difference. He looked at Li Chengru, who said:
"Soul-suppressing, as the name suggests, means to suppress one's soul in it. Master, you..."
Li Chengru sighed, looked at Xu Qingmu and said:
"Even if you die, I don't worry about you living alone. He sealed part of his soul in this blood coffin. After death, the body can be immortal. When you encounter unsolvable difficulties in the future, this Song Zihan will
He will break out of the coffin and protect you."
Li Chengru added: "It's just this method that can be described in eight words -"
"You can't live, you can't die."
Xu Qingmu stood blankly in the room and cursed with tears: