Dreams
Dream.
Xu Shulou lay flat on a stone bed with an extremely calm look in his eyes.
Chen Zhuang stood on the right side of the stone bed, and spoke to this rare volunteer in a gentle tone, as if he was afraid that she would regret it at the last minute: "Don't be afraid, I'm going to tie you up now, just to prevent you from moving around when I switch legs, there's no other intention."
"I understand. I naturally trust Mr. Shen. You can do whatever you want."
"You can tell me what you feel during the leg replacement process. Maybe it can help me improve the suturing process."
"good."
Seeing her so sensible, Chen Zhuang was even more satisfied and promised: "I can only put humans and animals together now, but I always fail to put people together. When I figure it out in the future, I will definitely replace your legs with human ones. As long as you cooperate well today, when you walk on the street and see any girl's legs, I will kill them and take them for you."
"Thank you, Mr. Shen."
"Then I'll start." Chen Zhuang said no more. He held Xu Shulou's thigh with his left hand and cut with the knife in his right hand.
He carefully avoided the meridians and cut a very deep incision on the thigh. The sound of cutting flesh was so loud that it made people's scalps numb. He glanced at Xu Shulou, but saw that she looked normal, which made him a little more excited. He thought that after replacing her legs, she would be able to communicate with him frequently about which meridians were blocked or which were not well connected, so as to help him improve. She was not like those who were forced, who would want to tear him apart even if they were sober for a moment.
He couldn't resist the temptation. He knew Lu Beichen would be angry when he found out, but besides being angry, what else could he do to him?
Another knife fell, and just as he was getting more and more excited, with a "clang" sound, the door was kicked open, revealing Lu Beichen's angry face outside the door. He rushed in quickly, and saw the blood on Xu Shulou's leg at a glance, and he was immediately furious: "Stop! Stop right now!"
Chen Zhuang's face didn't look very good, but he stopped as he was told.
Lu Beichen shouted angrily, "Mr. Chen, are you turning a deaf ear to my words? My concubine, Lu Beichen, has a beast's leg on her body. If this gets out, will I still have any shame?"
Chen Zhuang was interrupted when he was excited. He was unhappy and spoke in a sarcastic tone: "Didn't Patriarch Lu take the demons into the backyard? Do you still need this beast leg?"
"you!"
"Husband," Xu Shulou hurriedly advised, "It's all my fault. I begged Mr. Shen again and again before he agreed. He is a man of great talent. Husband, please don't bother with him because of me."
“I care? You ignorant woman! Do you know how much of an impact this will have on me if it gets out? How many heroes are willing to follow me because of my chivalrous spirit? How will they think of me after they learn about this?” Lu Beichen snorted coldly, “Great talent? What kind of great talent is this?”
Chen Zhuang's face looked very ugly, so gloomy that it seemed as if water was about to drip out.
Originally, Lu Beichen wanted to secretly use his money to fight with the orcs and belittle him. Who would be happy to hear that?
At this moment, he couldn't help but add thorns to his tone: "Chivalrous and righteous? Master Lu, you must have forgotten who spent money to buy you a good reputation when the mortal world was hit by drought?"
No one likes to be brought up about the past. Lu Beichen stared at him and said, "We are only mutually beneficial. I used your money and provided you with shelter. I did this so that you can create your little gadgets with peace of mind, not so that you can buy a beast leg for my concubine while I'm away!"
Chen Zhuang actually knew that he was somewhat at fault in this matter, but he still explained in a stiff tone: "I was planning to replace her with deer legs, which are the same height. With my skills, as long as she doesn't take off her skirt in front of outsiders, how can outsiders tell?"
Lu Beichen stared at him incomprehensibly: "Then what should I do? She is my concubine. When I favor her, how can I be interested in seeing a deer leg?"
It's endless, isn't it? Do you think I don't know that Xu Shulou is not favored at all? Chen Zhuang sarcastically said, "Don't you have two concubines from the demon clan? I thought you just liked this!"
"You..." Lu Beichen was choked with anger, and felt that this guy's words were getting more and more unpleasant. He didn't realize that Chen Zhuang had always been like this, but he had to rely on the money in Chen Zhuang's hands, so he could temporarily endure it and chat and laugh with him. Now that the resources in Chen Zhuang's hands are no longer a necessity for him, he doesn't need to endure it. It was actually him who changed, not Chen Zhuang.
Xu Shulou hurried forward to calm him down, and changed the subject: "Husband, didn't you lead people to wipe out the remaining demons, to avenge Elder Fan Yang, and to spread my Ling Xiao's reputation? Why are you back so soon?"
"Stop interfering in these matters," Lu Beichen's face turned even worse when he mentioned this matter. "I was wondering why you are so bold. I guess you are thinking that I am not in Lingxiao Sect and want to kill me first and report later."
Chen Zhuang smiled and said, "Why are you so angry? Maybe you lost the fight against the demons and are taking it out on me?"
Lu Beichen kicked over the table where he had placed the knives. "I'm telling you, as long as you're in Ling Xiao Sect, you have to follow my rules. If you do it again, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
He grabbed Xu Shulou's wrist and strode out the door, not caring whether her still bleeding leg could keep up with his pace. Xu Shulou looked back and glanced at Chen Zhuang apologetically.
The latter stared at the scattered knives on the ground with a gloomy face, and no one knew what he was thinking.
After returning, Xu Shulou was naturally punished. She knelt in the yard and allowed the maids and Taoist children who came and went to point and criticize her. She had gotten used to it and did not feel ashamed.
Flowers are blooming and the fire is boiling.
Lu Beichen seemed to be in a very successful position at this moment, but his foundation was fragile. If anything went wrong, his foundation would collapse bit by bit.
Kneeling beside Xu Shulou was the haggard Ling Yuechan. She was from the demon clan and didn't fit in here. She lived in a separate courtyard by herself. Everyone was on guard against her in everything. She didn't even know about Lu Beichen leading his men to attack the remnants of the demon clan until he returned.
"What a delicate and lively face she had back then," Xu Shulou was actually in the mood to talk to her, "Why has the little saint of the demon clan become so haggard now?"
Ling Yuechan couldn't stop crying: "Don't mock me, you're living a precarious life yourself."
Xu Shulou looked at her and said softly, "They won't tell you anything, right?"
"Would you?"
"Just think of it as me feeling sorry for my own kind," Xu Shulou sighed, "The Lingxiao Sect suffered heavy casualties this time. The Demon Lord tried to self-destruct and killed many people. Lu Beichen brought back the Demon Lord's remaining head and hung it above the Lingxiao Sect's gate as a warning to others."
Ling Yuechan's body trembled violently, and she fell to the ground and cried at the top of her lungs. She rushed into the main room crying, but was stopped by a servant, who said that Patriarch Lu had important matters to attend to and was temporarily too busy to see her.
Xu Shulou listened to her intermittent wails for a long time.
Xu Shulou knelt beside her for a long time, until dark, until Ling Yuechan fainted from crying and then woke up.
Ling Yuechan managed to calm down and murmured, "He clearly promised me that he would not kill us all..."
Xu Shulou raised his eyebrows: "You really loved him, didn't you?"
"Yes, I met him when I first came to the cultivation world," Ling Yuechan recalled the past with clear eyes, "He was exactly the kind of elegant young man in white clothes in my dreams. He helped me, smiled at me, coaxed me with soft words, and told me that there was no difference between demons and cultivators, and that the two worlds would be able to coexist harmoniously. I really believed his lies..."
“…”
"Why don't you say anything? Are you laughing at me in your heart?"
Xu Shulou looked at her sideways: "Afu, Gao Ning'er, and even Bai Roushuang all married him for other purposes, but you are the only one who has genuine love for him. What a pity."
Ling Yuechan half paralyzed and half sat on the ground: "It's me who caused trouble for my father."
"Don't take it too seriously," Xu Shulou comforted her, "You'll die sooner or later."
Ling Yuechan no longer had the energy to be angry, and just looked at her strangely: "Is this how you comfort people?"
"It's just the truth," Xu Shulou looked around, "Everyone will die sooner or later."
Ling Yuechan looked at her: "You are crazy... That's right, you should have been tortured to death over the years."
"It's okay to be crazy," Xu Shulou said seriously, "Reason can only restrain oneself, but not others, so what's the point of it?"
“…”
"By the way," Xu Shulou mentioned casually, "I heard that you demons have a very powerful curse?"
"I know what you are talking about. It's just a rumor from the outside world. It's not a curse, but a poison." Ling Yuechan shook her head. "Father hates that kind of thing and never lets us touch it. I don't have it here."
“…”
Ling Yuechan looked at her, as if she had figured something out, and suddenly said, "I don't have it here, but I know there's a guy who once rebelled against the Demon Palace, he must have it in his hands."
"You don't ask me what I want to do?"
"It's time for me to go crazy," Ling Yuechan shook her head indifferently, "No matter who you want to kill, I'm happy to see it happen."
“…”
After a while, another member of the demon clan, Xuanyang Demon Lord, came to snatch the Demon Lord's head and a battle broke out. Lingxiao Sect was caught off guard and he managed to escape. When the matter was finally settled and Lu Beichen was trying desperately to restore the reputation of the sect, there was news that an epidemic had broken out in Ruzhou City.
Ruzhou City is where the Xuanwu Tower is located. It is one of the few cities where cultivators and mortals live together. It is said that this epidemic has infected many cultivators. After a few days, news came again, saying that it did not seem to be an epidemic, but that someone had poisoned the well water.
Now Xuanwu Tower is nominally a vassal of Lingxiao Sect, and if Lu Beichen doesn't go there to take a look, it would be embarrassing. Although he suspected that this was the work of revenge by the demons and was afraid that he would be affected, he was extremely reluctant, but he still led people to Ruzhou City.
He didn't expect that his kindness would be taken for granted. When he arrived at the earthly realm, the owner of Xuanwu Tower actually questioned him, asking if he had sent people to make the poison, which allowed the monks to enter their mouths without being detected by their poison-avoiding beads.
The two parted unhappily, and Lu Beichen had secretly made up his mind that he could not keep this guy any longer. He might as well take this opportunity to get rid of him.
Later it was traced back to the fact that the poison came from a brothel run by a demon clan. A butterfly demon was the first to be poisoned. When he transformed into his original form and flew, the scales scattered on his wings passed the poison to others.
Lu Beichen simply gave an order to kill all the monsters here and set the brothel on fire.
In the end, most of the people in Ruzhou City were killed or injured, and most of those who survived were monks. The owner of Xuanwu Tower, perhaps because he had visited brothels too many times recently, was deeply poisoned and could not be saved.
After hearing this explanation, the people from Xuanwu Tower all felt sad, but they could only accept this "fact" for the time being.
The Xiao Kingdom's royal family wanted to make trouble again. Ruzhou was under the jurisdiction of the Xiao Kingdom, and they felt that Lu Beichen's actions in Ruzhou City were really over the line. Lu Beichen insisted that he only ordered the killing of the monsters, and did not kill civilians, so it was not considered over the line. He believed that the Xiao Kingdom was just making trouble because of Xiao Ya's death, and he was very unhappy.
During this period of time, Lu Beichen was simply running around. It seemed that there were always things one after another that needed him to deal with, and gradually he felt overwhelmed.
After returning to Lingxiao Gate, Xu Shulou quickly brought a bowl of calming soup. Lu Beichen was suspicious: "How did you know I would come back at this time?"
Xu Shulou shook his head: "I don't know, I just prepare a dose of calming soup every day and wait for my husband to return."
Lu Beichen's expression finally eased a little: "You are thoughtful."
Xu Shulou was praised and smiled happily: "Yes, I believe that as long as a person has a will, no matter how difficult the task is, he can always accomplish it."
Lu Beichen nodded nonchalantly: "You really did put a lot of effort into this for me."
Xu Shulou lowered her eyes shyly: "Fortunately, my husband is worth it."
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