Chapter 195 The old man in yin-yang robe! Pick up yang and replenish yang!
Yin Shi.
It's the transition between day and night before dawn.
It was already Yinshi time when Jin'an and the abbot of Bailong Temple returned to Fucheng.
There is only one hour left before sunrise at Mao hour.
The Taoist Priest Yuanshen and the old monk Faxiang were walking and chatting about Wang Long. It was still an hour before dawn and it was still early.
After saying goodbye to the host at the gate of Bailong Temple, Jin An continued to return to the Five Zang Taoist Temple.
When passing by the Jia family, the lively banquet of the Jia family was still going on. Jin An was surprised to see that the Jia family actually held a flowing banquet all night long.
As expected, the Jia family is indeed a big family and a big business.
Jin An paid attention for a while and saw that there was nothing unusual about Jia's family. He looked deep in thought and his soul drifted away.
Oh oh oh
At this time, in Fucheng, the loud crow of a rooster can be heard from time to time. The rooster is the ancient red bird in mythology, and the rooster's crow means that it is almost dawn.
Because of this, there are rumors among the people that the crowing of roosters can ward off evil spirits and scare away evil spirits.
Jin'an has the Yang God Yellow Talisman to protect the soul path, so now his soul can still wander outside and is not afraid of the rooster's crow.
As the rooster crows, people in the city get up early and start another busy day.
The sound of a scholar reading aloud...
The proprietress of the tofu shop opens the door and prepares to sell tofu...
The owner of the wonton stall carried a load and carried a bamboo stick and started walking around the streets selling wontons...
The fishermen at the mouth of the river began another day of fishing and casting their nets...
The dock porters whose business had plummeted came to the dock with half-full stomachs to look for work...
Everything in the world is painted in front of this sunrise picture.
"drink!"
When Jin An's soul floated near a wealthy family, he heard the sounds of two people fighting, mixed with the sounds of women practicing martial arts.
Jin An raised his head and looked curiously towards the direction where the sound of martial arts training was coming from. It was coming from that wealthy family.
"Jiang Mansion?"
"I remember that there is one of the largest chambers of commerce in Fucheng named Jiang Lai, who controls most of the merchant ship trade and shipyards in Fucheng."
"This mansion is so grandly built. The two stone sculptures of the dominators in front of the door alone are one story high. Looking at the whole city, it is difficult to find a more domineering mansion than the Jiang family. Even the He Mansion and the Xue Mansion
, the Jia family is a little bit less interested. It seems that this Jiang family should be the Jiang family, the largest chamber of commerce in the city."
According to what Jin An has heard about the Jiang family, it seems that the Jiang family has only become more prosperous in the past ten years or so.
From a small wealthy businessman, it only took a decade or so to annex all the large and small ship merchants, ship gangs, wharves, shipyards, wharf gangs... and expand into the largest chamber of commerce in Cheng Fucheng.
And the Jiang family seems to be more than just a business in Wuzhou Prefecture. As the business grows bigger and bigger, there have been rumors in recent years that the Jiang family's fleet has begun to intend to develop into HNA and has been working hard to find
Golden Channel.
If the Jiang family is really allowed to find the golden waterway, in another ten years, the Jiang family will be able to develop into a wealthy country.
In fact, this is not alarmist at all.
The merchant ship is on the endless ocean, as vast as a grain of dust, stretching as far as the eye can see and seemingly thousands of miles away.
If there is no safe channel, merchant ships will either capsize in the ever-changing storms at sea; or they will get lost in the ocean, wandering for more than ten years without encountering a ship.
But the most terrifying thing is that people died of thirst at sea before even carrying it for a few days.
In the boundless ocean, in addition to getting lost, reefs, storms, and waves, the most feared thing is not being able to find an island in time to replenish fresh water.
Therefore, whoever masters a safe golden waterway will be able to accumulate wealth that rivals other countries. The vast ocean in this world is vast, and people live in a corner. The major continents are separated by the endless ocean. This world will eventually become
The world of Golden Passage.
Not to mention anything else, the inland river journey alone takes a month and two months. If it were a maritime trader, it might take half a month with a favorable wind.
Moreover, sea-going ships can be built larger, have deeper drafts, and can carry more than several times the cargo at one time as inland ships.
One goes down and the other goes down.
The gap is getting wider and wider, as maritime merchants have larger fleets and build larger ships.
In the future, it would not be surprising to occupy a large island and establish himself as king.
For details, please refer to Jizi, Siam, Xingzhou, Luzon, etc.
Jin An quickly found the direction from which the sound of the martial arts competition came at Nuo Dajiang's house. The main reason was that the opponent was too obvious under the night sky. His body was as strong as a furnace and his blood was strong. In the eyes of the soul, it was like seeing a ball of flames.
Burning.
She was a clean-looking woman about eighteen or nineteen years old.
Despite her young age, this girl looks like a little female leopard, with a strong and fierce personality, and she is competing with others in the open space of a martial arts hall.
The two fought fiercely.
The energy and blood in a man and a woman are burning like a ball of fire. Ordinary Xiao Xie Sui would be driven to death by the masculine blood energy without being able to get close to the two of them.
The man who competed with the little female leopard was an old man in his fifties or sixties.
His palms were as red as a hot soldering iron, and he seemed to be a master of palm skills.
"What a strong spirit. Both of them are among the first-class masters, especially the woman. She is still so young and another generation of geniuses has risen. If they can grow up safely and do not die prematurely, they will be one of the best in the martial arts world.
He’s a rising star in martial arts.”
"It's a pity that the outcome of this competition was doomed from the beginning. The old man is afraid of the young. Even though the old man is also a first-class master, his old age and weak body, and lack of energy and blood burst, doomed his defeat from the beginning."
puff!
Jin An had just finished his thoughts. Sure enough, the old man knew that he had insufficient physical strength and was eager to seek credit. The woman deliberately sold him a flaw and got close to him. He didn't react enough and was continuously pursued by the opponent. His body fell back again and again, his breath was disordered, and finally he struck with a caring palm.
On the old man's chest.
The old man immediately vomited blood and fell to the ground.
Lost the ability to fight.
Jin An thought that the contest was over at this point, but unexpectedly, after the old man lost his ability to resist, the woman did not stop and continued to strike.
She had the wind in her ears, her fists were packed with the force of a tiger's attack, and she slapped the old man's temples hard.
"puff!"
The old man spat out blood again, his face was red, his eyes were bloodshot, he fell to the ground and died suddenly.
His cerebral blood vessels were blown out by the woman.
After the woman killed the old man mercilessly, a servant of the Jiang family immediately handed the woman a handkerchief to wipe the blood on her hands.
Jin An frowned.
This woman is a little cruel.
However, before understanding the actual situation, Jin An would not easily criticize the right or wrong of the Jiang family woman. If the old man was an assassin who broke into the Jiang family at night, it would be understandable for the Jiang family to kill him.
Next, the Jiang Family Nursing Home began to come forward to clean up the blood stains and corpses.
Looking at the Jiang family nursing staff's skillful cleaning of corpses, it seems that they have become accustomed to this kind of situation. They have cleaned the corpses of their own ladies in the martial arts hall more than once...
Jin An's originally frowning frown became even tighter.
Then his spirit drifted away.
Return to the Five Zang Taoist Temple.
Not long after Jin An left, he didn't see that in a dark courtyard of the Jiang family's residence, the door opened from the inside and a trembling old man came out.
The old man was wearing a yin-yang robe, and his face and hands were covered with blue-gray age spots. The spots were so densely packed that he looked like a corpse covered in spots after a long death.
The aura on his body was gloomy and gloomy.
It has the cold aura of a dead coffin.
After he walked out of the house, he raised his head and glanced in a certain direction above Jiang's house.
That direction in the void is exactly the direction where Jin An's soul was just now.
At this time, a servant who had been outside the house saw the old man walking out of the house and hurriedly and respectfully stepped forward to help him.
At that time, he was about thirteen or fourteen years old, which was the age when his qi and blood were the healthiest and most vigorous. He had thin skin, tender flesh, and beautiful features.
That old man is really too old.
He is so old that it is difficult for him to walk and he needs help from others.
He has reached the age where his life is exhausted and he looks much older than his ninety years old.
And just as the old man walked out of the house and stood under the eaves, part of his body happened to be illuminated by the moonlight above him, and then a strange scene happened.
The palms of the old man's exposed sleeves were densely packed with large and small blue-gray age spots. Under the moonlight, strange changes occurred, and the age spots quickly turned into corpse spots.
The body temperature is getting colder and colder.
The yin energy in my body is getting heavier and heavier.
Even the skin began to turn into the grayish-white color of a dead person, and the blood energy rapidly declined.
The ground has the aura of filthy earth, and the moon above the head has a lunar yin.
The dead are most taboo about having their feet on the ground and the moonlight shining on the corpse. Therefore, when handling the dead body, people should prevent the corpse from landing with its feet on the ground and the moonlight shining on it to prevent corpse fraud.
The situation of the old man in yin and yang robes in front of me is just like deceiving a corpse.
The old man noticed the changes in his palms. He covered his palms with his sleeves calmly, then looked at the man waiting at the door kindly, came over to support the handsome young man with delicate skin and tender flesh, and showed a kind and friendly smile: "Young man, you
What's your name? You're very handsome, I don't think I've seen you before at Jiang's house?"
The young servant hurriedly lowered his head and replied: "My name is Yuan Yan, and I am a servant who has just joined the Jiang family. The housekeeper said that you like young people to serve me, and you like young people to be energetic, so I was ordered to serve you."
As the young man spoke awkwardly, his nose twitched, as if he smelled something strange on the old man's body.
But he is a servant.
At this time, I didn't dare to raise my head at all.
Afraid of bumping into the old man in front of me
Even though the oil was exhausted, the old man still smiled kindly and said: "Yes, yes, old man, I like energetic young people best."
"Being with young people makes me feel much younger."
"As long as I can serve you well, this is Yuanyan's blessing. The housekeeper said that you are very talkative, and as long as I serve you well, Yuanyan will soon be able to collect the medicine for her mother's medical treatment." The young man said.
The servant plucked up the courage and said.
After hearing this, the old man smiled more kindly.
The young servant who had been lowering his head to answer did not notice that at this moment, the age spots on the old man's face gradually turned into corpse spots and spread rapidly under the moonlight.
"I didn't expect that he is still a filial son. I am really touched by the old man. Old man, I like young people and filial sons the most in my life."
"Yuanyan, besides your sick old mother, do you have any other relatives in your family?"
The old man, whose oil has run out and his lamp has dried up, is lifeless.
Looking behind the old man covered with age spots, he saw that the light in his house was dark and the other layout of the house could not be seen clearly. He only saw an ironwood coffin painted with black paint.
But then the black coffin opened.
"My only relative is my mother." The young servant replied respectfully.
"It's great to be young..."
“Tender skin and tender meat…”
"It's really enviable and missed..."
"Yuanyan, I'm a little tired. Please help me back to the house."
The young servant said respectfully: "Okay, sir."
When the young man helped the old man in yin and yang robes back to the house, bang, the door was closed, and the room fell into darkness. Soon after, the sound of chewing flesh and bones could be heard.
It looked like some monster was devouring flesh and blood.
The smell of blood permeates the moonlight.
The sound of chewing bones and flesh lasted for about a stick of incense. In the originally dark room, lights and candles lit up, and then the door opened from the inside, and an old man in a yin-yang robe walked out.
The clothes and corners of the mouth of the old man in yin and yang robes are still stained with fresh blood, but the corpse spots on his face, hands, and skin have receded, and even the age spots have receded a lot, making him seem a few years younger.
, even the legs and feet are more agile.
This time when he went out, he no longer looked like he needed help from someone before.
Even the body temperature has warmed up a lot.
Strong Qi and blood.
When the old man in yin-yang robe came out this time, a young man was already standing in the yard outside the door.
"Sir, why did you wake up from your deep sleep early? Didn't you say you won't wake up until the passage opens?"
The young man asked respectfully.
At this time, the old man in yin-yang robe had regained his strong energy and blood. Even if he stood under the moonlight, the age spots on his body no longer turned into corpse spots. He stood in the yard like a normal person, looking up at the moon: "I sensed that the passage was opening.
It's about to happen, so I went out early to stretch my body, which was stiff from sleep, so as not to lie in the coffin all the time and sleep stiffly. Did anything important happen in Fucheng during the days when I was sleeping?"
"During the days when Mr. Xiang was sleeping, several major events did occur in Fucheng. First, the Yinyi River was cut off, and hundreds of people in the government died; second, the Dragon King case; third, the civil strife in Bailong Temple; fourth, the Jia family fell into the water.
The lady who drowned and was captured by the Dragon King to be the Water Goddess is back again. Last night the Jia family held a banquet all night long. Sir, you must save me. That stinky bitch came ashore to kill me."
The young man asked the old man in yin and yang robes for help.
This person is clearly the nephew of Zong Ren who killed his uncle and his nephew and stole the pieces of Luo Geng’s jade plate!
Unexpectedly, after he came back that night, he sneaked into Jiang's house.
"Oh? She drowned in the Yinyi River, and was captured by the Dragon King to become the Water Goddess. She was full of resentment, and her three souls and seven souls were all in the Yinyi River. How did she get ashore?"
Zong Ren said in a panic: "Someone must have gone into the water to retrieve the body and carried this stinky bitch on his back!"
"I didn't take her ashore that night. Fortunately, I looked behind me before I went ashore. I found out early and scuttled the boat. She and the boat sank into the river on the shore. I didn't tell her the specific location.
People know where she and the dead body of the ship were. But just yesterday, the Jia family gave her a big banquet! She landed yesterday! I don’t know who brought her to the shore. She was dead, and only the living could be fished out of the water.
The person who pulled the corpse ashore has no idea how terrifying the Water Goddess is, and many, many people will die in this city!"
"Sir, I dedicated the Luo Geng Jade Plate to you. You must save me this time!"
The old man in yin and yang robe looked thoughtful and said, "I will personally visit Jia's house tomorrow to see what's going on."
After the old man finished saying this, he no longer cared about Zong Ren, but turned to look in the direction of the courtyard door: "The eighth lady is here."
"Master."
An eighteen or nineteen-year-old woman walked in outside the yard and saluted the old man with her fists clasped.
It was the ruthless young lady from the Jiang family.