Chapter 10: You can support your family by crying out pearls. That’s great!
The upper body of the mermaid is only the size of a palm, but its tail is extremely long, almost twice as long as its body. The long tail fin sways in the air, creating layers of colorful luster.
He swayed in the air, his expression cold and with a hint of ferocity.
He was wearing a black suit made of shark silk, with his cuffs and waist embellished with various gorgeous jewels. With his pretty little face, he looked like an extremely valuable figurine.
It was just like the figurines at home had become spirits. Seeing the mermaid pursing his lips with a somewhat unhappy expression, Zhu Huai hesitated for a moment, but still carefully held him in the palm of his hand.
The mermaid quickly and nimbly climbed to his palm, and immediately wrapped its fish tail around his wrist tightly, as if it was its own property. After doing all this, he raised his face and stared at him triumphantly.
After a while, the merman opened his mouth and uttered a few words: "Human, I seem to have seen you somewhere before."
Zhu Huai looked at the familiar face and was in a trance for a moment. He did not expect that Liu Xiang would reappear in front of him in this way, nor did he think that he would see the other party so easily.
The previous second, he was still thinking about his past with Liu Xiang, worrying whether he should repeat the same mistake and return to the depressing and cold Liu family ancestral home to see the trapped sacrificial god.
The next second, this beautiful little mermaid suddenly appeared in front of him.
To say he wasn't surprised would be a joke. Zhu Huai stretched out his finger and poked the little mermaid in front of him, causing him to frown. After hesitating on the edge of death, he said in an amazed tone:
"Isn't this an illusion? How come you just appeared when I thought of you?"
"Are you thinking about me?" Liu Xiang was stunned at first, and then a hint of joy involuntarily appeared in his heart.
It was as if when Liu Xiang was looking for the prey that made him feel excited, the prey he was chasing was also missing him.
This short sentence made him feel an unprecedented happiness, a tacit happiness.
His eyes changed. The merman stared at the human in front of him with a fierce gaze and said to Zhu Huai without any disobedience: "I have come to find you. You have the contract I left on you. You are my property."
Liu Xiang's words sounded overbearing and arrogant, yet so natural.
He came here following the trace of this contract. When he came before the human, the call from his soul was so clear that he could fully recognize the person in front of him.
They are like two vines intertwined, twin trees that coexist with each other, their souls even connected, and neither life nor death can separate them from each other.
Almost at the moment he saw Zhu Huai, Liu Xiang knew that Zhu Huai must be his and he should stay by his side. The possessive desire that arose from his soul was a desire that could not be suppressed by any means.
From the moment he saw Zhu Huai, Liu Xiang wanted to get him.
Or perhaps this desire occurred even longer ago.
Even though Liu Xiang now had no memories and his five internal organs were missing, he couldn't even feel his own heart, but he knew that his soul was trembling for the person in front of him.
Therefore, he expressed his desire and greed so bluntly. In terms of the relationship between the master and the wife, Zhu Huai, who signed the contract with him, was indeed his property.
Even from the perspective of other spirits, they have to admit that what Liu Xiang did was reasonable.
Now that the contract has been signed, why should you let your pledged child stay in a place where you cannot reach?
Since ancient times, these powerful spirits have been known to be cruel and overbearing in their possessiveness of their partners.
"Contract, do you mean these tattoos on my body?"
Zhu Huai thought about what had just happened, and he understood what had happened.
It was because the evil ghost attacked him and alarmed the contract, causing Liu Xiang to realize that something was wrong, so the mermaid in front of him hurried over.
He pinched the mermaid's tail and it felt cold. There was no slippery mucous membrane, but rather it felt more like touching cold jade.
The merman still had his wrist tightly wrapped around him. This domineering look made Zhu Huai want to laugh. Liu Xiang did not stop Zhu Huai from stroking his tail.
Only the merman's partner can touch their fishtail. Such a bold touch is no less than face-to-face courtship, and it is the most direct and passionate courtship.
Liu Xiang's fish tail trembled, and he couldn't help but pat his tail fin happily.
His partner was warm and lovely, and they signed a contract with him.
Although Liu Xiang no longer remembered what happened, he could vaguely remember that the person in front of him had once sat on his lap, curled up on his shoulder, and stared at him with wet eyes.
Those scenes flashed by, but they made Liu Xiang more certain of his thoughts. He became more and more satisfied with Zhu Huai. She was simply the most perfect wife who best suited his preferences, a well-behaved and enthusiastic wife...
"You are my pledged wife. I am Liu Xiang, the Liu family's deity. This is my water-phase incarnation. Although I don't know who you are, as my wife, you should come back to the Liu family with me."
Liu Xiang opened his mouth, his voice was like lifting a thick curtain, telling stories that were submerged by time in a deep and gorgeous melody.
The song of the mermaid can make people forget their troubles and worries, and Liu Xiang's voice seems to touch the soul, making people involuntarily chase the hoarseness in his voice and become intoxicated by it.
Zhu Huai's nerve endings seemed to be teased subtly. This voice seemed to be able to evoke the deepest memories in everyone's heart, but his eyes changed at this moment.
Zhu Huai said, "Don't you know me?"
"You don't remember me or know who I am?"
Zhu Huai's black eyes were fixed on the mermaid in front of him. The slight joy he felt when he met a familiar person at the critical moment was suddenly disturbed. Liu Xiang didn't remember him.
And the reason why he came here was only because of the contract.
Zhu Huai said, "This is a huge misunderstanding. You don't even know me, but as long as I sign a contract with you, are you going to chase after someone and call them your wife?"
Thinking of this, he felt inexplicably unhappy.
Liu Xiang frowned and looked at him. In that brief moment, the person in front of him seemed a little angry.
Liu Xiang didn't know what was going on, but he was also keenly aware of why the human was unhappy. Liu Xiang said, "The person who signed the contract with me is you."
"Really? But I don't know where this contract came from. I don't even know what it is."
"So you don't want to come with me?"
Liu Xiang's brows relaxed and his expression became a little cold.
"I don't know you, and you don't know me, so why should I go with you?"
Zhu Huai stopped touching his tail and kept a distance from Liu Xiang, staring at him.
The warm aura of his partner dissipated, and he became sharp-tongued and particularly difficult to deal with. Hearing his words, Liu Xiang slowly narrowed his eyes and suddenly said:
"You lied to me."
"You know me, you know who I am."
Liu Xiang said: "When you saw me, you called my name, so you are my pledged wife."
"Is this how you call everyone your wife? You're so shameless! I don't want to go with you."
After saying that, Zhu Huai pursed his lips expressionlessly and turned his face away from the man on the spot.
Liu Xiang was so angry that his fish tail was stretched straight. The fish was floating upright, his dark golden eyes widened a little, and he was so angry that he almost died on the spot.
He really wanted to just capture the human in front of him, but Zhu Huai seemed to have guessed his thoughts accurately.
Even though Zhu Huai lowered his eyes and didn't look at him, he caught a glimpse of his expression out of the corner of his eye. Immediately, Zhu Huai sighed.
He said to himself, "You don't even remember my name, which shows you don't really want to come to me."
As he said this, the smile on his face faded, his brows drooped, and a hint of sadness appeared on his face.
Mermaids are selfish, tyrannical creatures. When they see someone or something they like, they will definitely take it back to the deep sea.
But when he saw Zhu Huai's appearance, Liu Xiang's heart was in a knot. Zhu Huai looked at him again and sighed again. His black eyeballs seemed to be immersed in water, emitting a bright light.
As soon as he showed this expression, Liu Xiang's domineering and twisted evil thoughts seemed to be hurt by an invisible blade, and they disappeared in an instant. In front of Zhu Huai in this state, he had no power to fight back.
Had he forgotten something truly important? Had he forgotten his partner's name?
Liu Xiang looked deeply at Zhu Huai in front of him, his mind was blank, his chest was empty, and his body, sitting in the ancestral home, dug up his flesh and blood, but could only see pale bones, and could not find anything useful.
He suddenly began to hate himself. How could he be so incompetent? He even lost the most important thing?
He dug his fingers into the chest and searched hard, blood oozing out, but he couldn't find a working heart.
He had no way of answering Zhu Huai's words. He stood straight in the cold and lonely hall like a motionless sculpture, his wounds filled with black blood.
Liu Xiang's dark golden vertical pupils blinked. Far outside the ancestral home, the mermaid, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly widened his eyes, and a string of pearls flowed from the corners of his eyes.
Zhu Huai: "Eh, eh?"
The incarnation formed by Liu Xiang's internal organs has a slightly different personality from the original body.
At this moment, his real body was standing in the ancestral home. The layers of dark fog spreading out from him were like a big mouth that could tear the void apart, opening its ferocious fangs and slowly swallowing everything around it.
The entire ancestral home was quickly covered by the thick fog. The servants walking around in it screamed in horror when they saw this scene. The first to suffer were the evil spirits who were melted into leather puppets and their souls and freedom turned into playthings.
The warehouse filled with rare jewels and luxurious toys was filled with wild roars. Through the candlelight, the puppets trembled, jumped and screamed, and knelt on the ground begging for mercy, just like a big drama on the stage.
After so many years of living in fear, the evil spirits had already lost their original arrogance, so that when faced with Liu Xiang's anger, they could only perform such despicable actions.
In front of Zhu Huai, the little mermaid pounced in front of him. Being pushed to the extreme and unable to answer, he wished he could swallow Zhu Huai into his stomach and lock him up so that he wouldn't have to worry about him leaving.
The merman was so anxious that he jumped to his feet. In a rage, he threw himself on Zhu Huai and said fiercely: "I don't care, you are mine, you are my wife!"
Round pearls rolled down from the corners of his eyes, like mermaid tears falling into beads, clattering to the ground. Zhu Huai lowered his head and looked at the large mass on his chest. He suddenly felt less angry.
"You really can't remember, or you don't know me at all?" Zhu Huai said.
"I lost four of my five internal organs. The most important memories are in my heart. I lost a lot of memories. I only vaguely remember that I should find someone, and that person is you."
The merman raised his face and looked at him, a stern look in his dark golden eyes: "Once I find the other four organs, I will definitely remember what happened."
"So you didn't mean it."
Zhu Huai felt a little sorry for him. He reached out and picked up the mermaid, picked up a falling pearl, and found that each pearl was round and delicate, white with a hint of pink, and each one was a fine product.
This is simply a new way to make a fortune. The last time Liu Xiang cried like this, the pearls that fell out were enough for Zhu Huai to eat for a month.
At the same time, Zhu Huai also recognized the species of this fish, the black-tailed mermaid.
But Liu Xiang was not so crybaby before, Zhu Huai thought.
Or perhaps, in Zhu Huai's mind, that guy has always been a superior whose emotions are difficult to discern, and Zhu Huai needs to constantly figure out his thoughts. Does this mean that after he becomes smaller, his brain will also become smaller?
Or would he lose something by losing his internal organs?
Zhu Huai lowered his head and looked at him. He said, "If that's the case, then I forgive you."
Liu Xiang slowly narrowed his eyes: "You haven't agreed to go with me yet."
"It's not the same thing."
Zhu Huai looked away: "Since you can leave the ancestral home, why are you in such a hurry to go back? I will help you find your internal organs. In this case, you might as well stay with me."
Liu Xiang stopped crying, and the black fog in the ancestral home was slowly absorbed into his body. He sat back on the wooden chair, supporting his face, and the wailing and begging in his ears slowly stopped.
As soon as Liu Xiang stretched out his hand, a small leather doll appeared in his palm, trembling and begging for mercy, but was torn into pieces bit by bit by Liu Xiang.
The leather puppets fell down piece by piece, and Liu Xiang tore the other's bodies into pieces as if to vent his anger. This horrifying and terrible scene happened frequently. Torturing these evil spirits was Liu Xiang's pleasure in his spare time.
Suddenly, his eyes widened, and a name flashed through his mind: "Zhu Huai."
He chewed on the name slowly, and a smile finally appeared on his face again. He clenched his teeth, as if chewing on that person inch by inch...
He remembered that Zhu Huai had been lying on the bed, begging him for mercy with an angry voice.
"Zhu Huai."
The merman suddenly called out his name. Zhu Huai was slightly startled, and saw Liu Xiang in front of him smiled: "I remember now, this is your name."
"I haven't remembered anything else yet, but one day, I will remember everything we've been through. When that time comes, don't even think about running away from me."
Hearing his words, Zhu Huai looked away. How fierce! Liu Xiang's temper was still exactly the same as before.
However, if he was not lying, then was Liu Xiang in front of him also reborn with him?
Thinking of this, Zhu Huai's last bit of worry disappeared.
After knowing that ordinary people could not see Liu Xiang in this state, Zhu Huai put Liu Xiang in his pocket.
But the mermaid flicked its tail and flew out in displeasure, turning into a black shadow and lying on his shoulder, asserting its sovereignty possessively.
After dealing with the female ghost, Zhu Huai prepared to turn back and look for Zhu Zhe and others.
However, when he was about to return to Ji Yan's ward, he saw several unfamiliar figures and heard a quarrel coming from among them.
"Who is this Zhu Huai you're talking about?"
Ji Yan's father stood in the room and asked in a low voice: "After receiving your message, I hurriedly invited Master Luo to come over and also brought out the magic weapon against the evil spirits.
Didn’t you say you saw a ghost? Xiaoyan, tell your dad the truth.
“Dad, what I said is true, but Master Zhu has already helped me solve this matter. I didn’t know you would invite Master Luo.”
Ji Yan's gaze shifted to another person. Master Luo was standing aside with his eyes closed, resting, and he didn't show any embarrassment at meeting a colleague.
On the contrary, Ji's father was a little anxious: "What should Master Luo do with you? Wouldn't this make his trip a waste?"
"That thing is so weird, you said you saw a ghost, but I saw that kid Bai An, he really had two broken legs.
You said there were marks on your legs left by evil spirits, but now you're jumping around like a jack-in-the-box. It doesn't look like you saw a ghost, it looks more like you twisted your ankle."
"Besides, the master you mentioned is very young. I have never heard of his name."
The more he spoke, the stranger Ji's father's tone became. It was not like he had never seen a case of money being scammed.
Rich businessmen like them, who want to protect their family wealth and turn misfortune into good fortune and have a good fortune, have no choice but to contact Feng Shui masters.
Master Luo is the most reliable Feng Shui master in Ji's father's eyes, and the Master Zhu that Ji Yan mentioned... he has never heard of him.
Looking at his daughter's unshakable expression, Ji's father slowly pondered the cause and effect, and gradually a strange look appeared in his eyes.
"Master Luo, please let me take a look at you."
Father Ji still asked the person next to him for advice. He raised his voice, and Master Luo knew exactly what he wanted to see.
He finally opened his eyes, and a glint of light flashed in them, which seemed to be a bit mysterious. Master Luo said, "There is indeed a hint of ghostly aura about her."
"I just said, he won't lie to me."
Ji Yan also seemed to have gained confidence and said.
"However, this ghost energy is very weak. I already know Miss Ji's situation. If it is really as she said, then the evil ghost that can enter the body and even control the living must be a fierce ghost that is difficult to subdue and requires magical tools to deal with.
You don't know how difficult these things are. Ordinary demons can't do these things."
Master Luo's words confirmed that Ji Yan had encountered a ghost, but he was not sure what kind of ghost it was.
Father Ji understood what was going on, and he immediately added, "So... maybe what Xiaoyan encountered wasn't a fierce ghost at all, but just some ordinary tricks?"
"Perhaps so. That Master Zhu might indeed be a fellow practitioner. However, if people like us want to set up a trap, we can certainly make it look real.
I just hope he won't use such means to defraud ordinary people. If I could meet that fellow Taoist, I would definitely warn him..."
"Sorry I'm late."
A pleasant voice sounded, and Master Luo raised his head. Only then did he finally realize that there was someone outside the door.
And the moment he raised his face, Zhu Huai appeared in front of him. At the same time, Master Luo saw a figure that he could not look directly at or see.
Zhu Huai had black hair and dark eyes, and a handsome face. He was tall and straight, standing in front of the door. His eyes swept past Master Luo and he continued, "I just went to deal with that evil ghost, so I'm a step late."
"Are you the Master?"
Just as Father Ji was about to speak, his forehead was covered with cold sweat. He lowered his head in an instant, not daring to look directly at Master Luo, who just said:
"I'll definitely tell him you're awesome!"
Zhu Huai: “?”
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Master Luo: I almost died today, but luckily I thought of a way to save my life within 0.01 seconds [dog head holding a rose]
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