Chapter 313: Fortunes Fill the World and the Family
After leaving the Ghost Market, the three of them rushed back to Jiangnan Prefecture.
Although the trip to Southern Xinjiang was hasty, what he saw and heard left a deep impression on Li Chu. Compared with other prefectures in the Heluo Dynasty, Tiannan Prefecture was indeed a kind of "lawless place" and barbaric.
Apart from other things, the Medicine Master Demon actually dared to rob an entire village of people for interrogation. If this behavior happened in other places, it would be a shocking case. But in Southern Xinjiang, it was silent. If they hadn't happened to run into it, I don't know how many days it would take for someone to investigate.
This also made Li Chu feel a little bit of dislike for the so-called "Seven Families of Southern Tian".
The existence of these ancient families prevented the imperial court from entering and controlling this land, but they themselves obviously did not fulfill their obligations as administrators.
When they returned to Yuhang Town, it was already daybreak. Just in case, Li Chu also came to Wang's house.
As soon as Wang Longqi entered the yard, he shouted, "Brother! Brother! I'm back! Dad is saved!"
"Xiao Qi, you're back?"
Wang Longqi's elder brother, Wang Dalong, rushed out from the backyard, so excited that he didn't even put on his shoes.
"Yes, we have gone through so much hardship and finally..." Wang Longqi nodded repeatedly, but he couldn't explain it clearly for a while. He paused and asked, "Um... Is Dad okay?"
This was what he was most worried about along the way.
Although he had the life-saving medicine in his hands, what if the spider spirit was wrong? Or what if the fish man was a liar? He had to see that his father was safe and sound before he could rest assured.
"this……"
Wang Dalong's face suddenly looked a little ugly.
He stammered, "It's hard to say whether it's okay or not. I'll call the fathers over first and let Taoist Xiao Li take a look."
As Wang Longqi's eldest brother and living in Yuhang Town, he has long been aware of Li Chu's strength.
"OK!"
When Wang Longqi heard that his father was still alive, he thought it was true and nodded happily. After all, if the life-saving medicine was false, his father might have been in trouble.
But Li Chu keenly caught the wrongness in Wang Dalong's words.
"Dads...?"
Is this some strange way of addressing someone in the Wang family? Perhaps it's similar to "brother", expressing affection? Later.
Wang Longqi's father was called over one after another.
That's right.
Just one after another.
First and last.
one by one.
They arrived one after another.
At first, Wang Longqi was sitting in the hall. When he saw his father walking in wearing a cotton coat, he immediately jumped up and ran up to hug his father.
When Shopkeeper Wang saw his son like this, he was very moved and patted him on the back.
"Son, you're back."
“Dad…I…”
At this critical juncture of the story of loving father and filial son, Wang Longqi was preparing to say something, but suddenly the words stopped.
Because he looked over his father's shoulder and saw another man in a cotton robe coming in through the door... Shopkeeper Wang.
"ah!"
Wang Longqi was so frightened that he took several steps back and immediately stopped being filial.
"What's going on?"
The two Shopkeeper Wangs smiled bitterly together, and before they could say anything, they saw another Shopkeeper Wang come in from outside the door.
Then, another one.
There were four shopkeepers named Wang standing in a row at the door.
Fortunately, they were wearing different clothes, otherwise it would be hard to tell them apart.
They looked at each other, shrugged, spread their hands, and said in unison: "I don't know either."
“This…” Wang Longqi suddenly felt overwhelmed.
After Wang Dalong informed the fathers, he also returned here and said with a wry smile: "Now you know what's going on, right?"
The Wang family father and son looked at each other, and the atmosphere was very awkward for a while.
It was Old Du who broke the silence in time. He smiled and said, "No matter what, I still have to congratulate you, Seventh Young Master. Originally, I just wanted to save a father, but now, four things have come together."
"It's not true that more of this stuff is better." Wang Longqi said bitterly, "It's all because of your bad words, 'too many fathers are not a burden to have', now it's come true, right?"
Du Lanke didn't say much, he turned his head and looked at Li Chu, "Master, this..."
Li Chu had never encountered such a strange thing in his life, so he asked first: "Has anything unusual happened in the mansion since we left?"
"If we talk about strange things, there is one." Wang Dalong said.
"Last night, a young scholar suddenly came to my house and said that he saw a strange and deadly aura in my house and was afraid that someone would be harmed by an evil curse. He gave me three freshly made clay figurines and asked me to put them under the bed of the cursed person, saying that they could ward off the disaster."
"Who knew that the next morning..."
"Four of my fathers came out, and the three clay figures disappeared..."
Wang Dalong also looked confused.
Then among these four people, maybe three of them are transformed from clay figurines?
Li Chu scanned them with his mind's eye technique and found that the auras in the four people were almost the same. He was not familiar with Manager Wang, so naturally he could not tell which one was the real one.
"Where is that young scholar?" Li Chu asked again.
"He didn't leave his name, and I don't know where he is from, so how can I find him?" Wang Dalong said angrily, "I was also worried about my father's curse at the time, so I was desperate and tried all kinds of treatment."
Dulanke asked, "What about the curse? If it's really Shopkeeper Wang, there should be a red curse on your wrist."
"Yes." Wang Longqi said, "Not everyone has a curse, right?"
He hurriedly checked the wrists of several shopkeepers Wang and found that there was indeed a red line on the wrist of each of them, and it was exactly the same as the curse.
"It's useless." Wang Dalong sighed, "I tried everything from physical signs and appearance to private family matters before you came back. All the fathers were the same and answered fluently."
"hiss……"
Wang Longqi took a breath of cold air.
"What about the bloodline?" Li Chu suddenly asked, "Even if the evil spirits are transformed, they cannot copy the bloodline. The royal family members all use this to test it."
The reason he mentioned this was because he remembered what happened to the King of Jiangnan.
"this……"
Wang Dalong's expression changed again.
The expressions of the four shopkeepers Wang also changed one after another.
It's like some weird human-to-human transmission phenomenon.
"I have tried blood tests with my blood before..." Wang Dalong stammered.
Seeing his disappointed look, Wang Longqi asked, "Do all four match?"
"No." Wang Dalong shook his head and sighed, "None of the four match."
“……”The air suddenly became quiet.
"well!"
The four shopkeepers Wang sighed in unison.
"If this hadn't happened, the old maid in the mansion probably wouldn't have told me the truth..." One of the shopkeepers, Wang, said, "When Dalong's mother was alive, I treated her so well."
"I can't believe it... I can't believe it..." The other shopkeeper Wang also shook his head.
"She actually went behind my back... and found another man behind our backs."
Faced with the same tragic experience, several Wang shopkeepers suddenly became united in their hatred of the enemy.
"But don't worry, Dalong." The last shopkeeper Wang comforted his son: "The affairs of the older generation will not involve you. The four of us will always be your only fathers!"
Wang Dalong stroked his forehead with his hand, not knowing whether to cry or laugh for a moment.
Wang Longqi, on the other hand, showed an expression of sudden enlightenment:
"I used to wonder why I was so unlucky to be cuckolded. Now I know it's genetic."
The four Wang shopkeepers glared at him together: "You little bastard, if you can't speak, don't speak!"
"Can this thing be passed down from generation to generation?"
"Go to hell!"
“Never heard of it!”
“…”
After a while, Li Chu said goodbye first, leaving Du Lanke to look after the place.
If it is just the incarnation of evil, then you can find a magic mirror or go to Frost Shell Temple to ask the monk with divine eyes to come, and you should be able to tell the real from the fake.
But according to Wang Dalong, the young scholar said that this could help Manager Wang ward off disaster.
It doesn’t seem that simple.
After thinking about it, Li Chu felt that it would be safer to go back and ask his master first.
Wang Longqi saw him off.
"Take it easy." Li Chu saw that he was a bit worried and said comfortingly, "A little more is better than nothing."
Wang Longqi rubbed his temple.
"I was a little scared at first, but now I'm a little more open-minded." He sighed, "You're right, it's better than nothing. My dad used to say that we brothers didn't like to accompany him, but now it's good, he can get together a mahjong table by himself."
"Is that so?" Li Chu asked tentatively.
"Of course not." Wang Longqi almost knelt down immediately. He pointed at the couplet on the door and said, "It's almost the New Year. I have to change the couplet to 'May the world be filled with blessings and the family be filled with fathers'. Please save my brother."
With this question, Li Chu returned to Deyun Temple.
The scenery of Shilipu remained the same. After passing through the front yard and arriving at the backyard, I found that there were guests in the yard again, drinking tea and chatting with Yu Qian'an.
Seeing Li Chu coming, the man turned around.
It turned out to be a young scholar in white clothes and a Confucian hat.
He faced Li Chu and showed a gentle smile: "Master Li, I have long admired you."
(End of this chapter)
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