Chapter 304 Wang Longqi and His Fathers [End of this Volume]
"Master Yu..."
Wang Longqi looked at the old Taoist priest with tears in his eyes, "It's already this critical moment, let's not play ethics jokes, right?"
“Haha.” Yu Qian’an smiled, “Sorry, it’s just professional habit.”
Dulanke, who was standing by, kept this scene in mind.
I thought to myself that if I want to gain a foothold in Deyun School, I must increase my efforts and master the traditional art of ethical comedy.
Li Chu asked Wang Longqi to sit down, and then asked: "What happened?"
"well--"
Wang Longqi let out a long sigh.
"To get to the root of this matter, I am to blame. If I hadn't quarreled with my family and ran to Shenluo City, my father wouldn't be unhappy. He was unhappy so he ran to Tiannanzhou to collect medicine. Who knew that this trip would lead to such trouble."
Then, he began to tell the story slowly.
As mentioned before, the Wang family's main business is collecting sea goods from the East China Sea and transporting them inland. They do a lot of business, but the main one is the pharmacy.
In addition to the East China Sea, we sometimes go to Tiannan Prefecture to collect medicinal herbs. After all, the types of medicinal herbs grown along the coast and inland are completely different.
Wang Longqi's father traveled all over the country when he was young. Now that he is old, he rarely goes into battle himself, but he can't sit still and goes out for a walk with his men from time to time.
A while ago, when Wang Longqi was not at home, he went to Tiannan Prefecture with others to collect medicine.
The area of Tiannan Prefecture can be roughly divided into two parts, the vast land of Nanjiang in the east and the rugged mountains in the west.
Their team for collecting medicine was composed of three old shopkeepers who were familiar with each other, each with one or two assistants, and they also invited an experienced Taoist priest Cen from Hangzhou to escort them.
This kind of exchanges may happen dozens of times a year, and everyone is very familiar with each other, so they just treat it as a trip and relax.
Because we had made fruitful gains over the past few days, everyone was in a good mood, so we walked west for two more days and arrived at a slightly unfamiliar village.
In that village, they saw a strange scene.
In a cemetery outside the village, there was a grave with fresh soil. In broad daylight, there were seven or eight wild dogs gathered around and were digging the grave!
Although they were just passing by, they did not stand idly by and went forward to coax the wild dogs away. Those skinny wild dogs actually had fierce looks on their faces. If it weren't for Master Cen's flying sword killing one of them, I'm afraid they would not leave!
When everyone was wondering, Taoist Cen's expression suddenly changed.
It turned out that he saw that a large area of yellow sun grass had grown around the new grave.
Several old shopkeepers also recognized this kind of grass. It often grows in places with rich spiritual energy. It is a very worthless companion grass. I don’t know why Master Cen was so shocked when he saw it.
Then I heard Taoist Master Cen frowning and reciting: "People eat medicine, medicine eats people, yang grass grows in the grave, and wild dogs dig up new graves."
Wang Longqi's father didn't understand and asked, "You are full of jingles, do you want to be the top scholar?"
Taoist Master Cen, without intending to be joking, told everyone that there has long been a legend circulating in southern Xinjiang about "medicine eating people".
Since ancient times, people have always eaten medicine. But since when, when some precious medicines have developed their own spirituality, they also want to eat people.
After death, people who have eaten these "medicines" will turn into something similar to "drug residues" with a strange aroma, which is very attractive to wild dogs in the mountains. Where their bodies are buried, yellow sun grass will grow.
When these two characteristics appear, it is very likely that a mysterious case of "medicine eating people" has occurred.
They quickly found the village chief and gathered a group of villagers, young and old, to inquire about the situation of the grave.
After asking, we found out that the owner of the tomb was called Heizhu, a strong man. When he died a few days ago, the villagers were also very surprised. Because when he died, he was found in a bathtub, his body was soaked in water, almost red and rotten, as if he was boiled to death!
As for the murderer, everyone suspected it was his newlywed wife.
Yes, half a month ago, this poor man married a beautiful young lady from nowhere. At that time, he was very secretive, rented a sedan chair at night and carried the bride back home, and never took off the veil from beginning to end.
The reason why he knew that the bride was beautiful was that there was a beggar among the people he invited to help carry the sedan chair. He happened to catch a glimpse of the bride's face when the wind blew, and found that her skin was as white as jade. He was immediately shocked by her beauty, and then the news spread in the village.
Everyone was envious of Heizhu's good fortune, but who would have thought that he would die so tragically within a few days, and the bride whose origins were a mystery disappeared.
After hearing this, Taoist Cen immediately understood that the so-called wife of the black pillar must be the legendary "Medicine Beauty"! That is, the human body transformed from the magical medicine in the mountains.
With just a few words, they determined that the evil spirit had been found. Suddenly, a bald-headed young man knelt down and shouted, "Master, save me!"
It turned out that the young man was the second leper, and Heizhu's missing bride was hiding in his house.
After killing Hei Zhu, the woman went to Er Laizi's house and said that Hei Zhu treated her badly and often beat her when he was drunk, so she kept adding firewood while giving Hei Zhu a bath, boiling him to death.
She was desperate and said that as long as Er Laizi took her in, she would be willing to treat him as her husband.
Er Laizi was also a poor bachelor, so he gritted his teeth and agreed. Just two days into his good life, he learned that the woman was the incarnation of evil spirits, and he dared not to protect her anymore.
When Taoist Master Cen heard this, he lifted up Erlaizi's sleeve and found a red mark on his wrist.
No one knows.
Taoist Priest Cen explained that in the past, herbalists would tie a red rope on the herbs that were not old enough, and when the herbs were ripe, they would come back to pick them.
Later, when the medicine beauty wanted to harm someone, she would plant a red line on that person. This red line would gradually grow, and when it completely encircled the wrist, it meant that the person was "mature" and could be removed. This line could be said to be a sign, or a curse.
The red line on the second beggar's wrist was about to close, and it was clear that he would not live long.
Immediately.
There was no need for the villagers to beg, as Taoist Master Cen was determined to eliminate evil and defend the way of righteousness. He followed the two beggars with a sword in hand, and the villagers, young and old, followed behind with sticks and pickaxes.
But this group of people rushed in with great momentum but ended up with nothing.
Er Laizi's house was empty, and the woman had long disappeared. Er Laizi felt as if he had lost his parents. Even if his real wife was lost, he would not be so sad.
That night, Taoist Cen stood guard outside Erlaizi's house with a sword, hoping to see if he could wait for the evil spirit to come and take his life.
The night was calm.
But when he knocked on the door again, he found that the second beggar in the house was gone.
The villagers went out to look for him and eventually found his body on a barren hill. His body was almost crushed by a heavy hammer. If it weren't for his clothes, it would be hard to recognize him.
Taoist Priest Cen was also helpless and could only say that the evil spirit was powerful and let the villagers go for help.
The group of people who collected the medicine then returned home.
But who would have thought that before they returned to Hangzhou, they discovered...
The three shopkeepers, several employees, and even Taoist Master Cen, all had a red line on their wrists! The righteous Taoist Master Cen was furious: "This evil spirit has such a vicious heart. We just saw injustice and helped him. Before we could save that person, it actually hated us. Don't panic, I will go back to the temple and ask my senior brother to see how to subdue this evil spirit."
This impassioned speech put the shopkeepers at ease.
Then the next day, Taoist Cen died.
He died tragically in his own Taoist temple, his body was pitch black and almost burnt to charcoal.
His senior brother was obviously helpless in doing anything about it.
Now the others were panicking. They reported to the Heavenly Palace and spent a lot of money to invite experts from all over the place, but in just a few days, not many people could be invited. Some cultivators said they could not do anything when they heard about this. Others took the money to do the work and stayed close to their employers.
But the other two shopkeepers and their employees died tragically one after another.
It's impossible to hold on! The red line on Wang Longqi's father's hand was still growing slowly, but it had grown by nearly half in seven or eight days. If it continued like this, he would not survive another seven days.
The mansion was in a gloomy mood these past two days. When Wang Longqi heard that Li Chu had returned, it was like he had grabbed a life-saving straw and he hurried to ask for help.
…
After listening to his story, there was a brief silence in the backyard of the Taoist temple.
Li Chu looked directly at Yu Qian'an and asked, "Master, do you know the root of this?"
"Well, this matter..."
The old Taoist stroked his beard.
"I know, but solving it is not that difficult, but it is not that easy either. Xiao Wang, let me ask you..."
He raised his eyes to look at Wang Longqi and asked very seriously: "Are you on good terms with your father?"
"..." Wang Longqi was speechless for a while: "No matter how good the relationship is, everyone has to have a father..."
Yu Qian'an hesitated again, then raised his eyes again and said, "Do you think I can do it?"
"Please be a human being! Taoist Master Yu!"
Wang Longqi couldn't help but yell, "If you really have an idea to save my father, I really don't mind recognizing the thief as my father. If you don't have an idea, then don't use me to make fun of me, okay?"
"Hey." Yu Qian'an waved his hand. "I'm just trying to ease the oppressive atmosphere. How can I not have an idea? You underestimate me."
"Adoptive father." Wang Longqi said straightforwardly, "Then please save my biological father."
“Haha.” Yu Qian’an smiled and said leisurely: “If you want to resolve the obstacle of killing yourself, you need to go to Southern Xinjiang.”
(End of this chapter)
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