The dream continues
Dream.
Lu Beichen sat on the chair with his arms and legs spread out, looking at the three women standing in front of the hall. Two of them were trembling all over and were in a state of panic, with even the animal ears on their heads popping out uncontrollably. Only Xu Shulou was very calm, staring down at a black spot on the ground, wondering what she was thinking.
"Tell me, where did you go?" Lu Beichen's tone was not very good.
"My dear husband, Lingxiao Sect has been in trouble recently. The two demons, Bingji and Yugu, are your favorite concubines, but you have no consideration for them and instead want to defect at this time. They are worthy of death," Xu Shulou said. "Fortunately, I discovered them in time and followed them to capture them."
Lu Beichen looked at the two monster concubines in shock and anger: "Why did you two run away? Is it because you are resentful of me for killing the monsters in the brothel?"
The one in red raised his eyes to look at Lu Beichen, ignoring the one in white's attempt to stop him, and said, "So what?"
"Ridiculous!" Lu Beichen shouted, "They were all poisoned. My solution was just a temporary solution. You only care about the demon tribe, but don't you consider the people of Ruzhou?"
"They are poisoned, why don't you think about how to detoxify them first?" The red fox demon said sarcastically, "May I ask Master Lu, if they were cultivators, would you kill them without saying a word?"
Lu Beichen's eyes flickered, and he was obviously stumped by the question. However, he had been in a high position for a long time and could not tolerate others questioning him. His first reaction was not guilt but anger. He asked coldly, "Are you questioning my decision?"
The red fox demon clenched his fists and said, "I don't dare, so the two of us can only run away, away from you!"
"Master Lu, we would never dare to do anything bad to you," Bai Yi knelt down and begged, "I only ask you to set us free."
“The monsters on that first floor have no relationship with you, yet you two are going to betray me for them?” Lu Beichen found it unbelievable.
"They are indeed not related to the two of us, but this incident is enough to show your contempt for the demon race." The red-clothed man had tears in his eyes, but he stubbornly refused to let the tears fall. "In your eyes, how are we different from them?"
"Of course I treat you differently. I provide you with fine clothes and delicious food. How could I make a mistake?"
The red-clothed demon clan looked very cold: "On the eve of your fight for fame and fortune, my sister and I risked a hundred years of our skills to let you take our essence. We think that we did not eat your food in vain!"
"You are very clear about what you are arguing with me!" Lu Beichen was furious, "Come here, take them both back to the room, let them reflect on themselves, and have someone guard them, and don't let them step out of the room!"
When being carried by the servant boy through the door, the red-clothed demon said to Xu Shulou: "Xu Shulou, you are helping the tyrant, you will not have a good end!"
Xu Shulou smiled brightly: "I really don't have any, you can rest assured about this."
After she finished speaking, she stopped looking at the two astonished demons and just went over to ask Lu Beichen for a reward.
Lu Beichen rubbed his brows, clearly very tired: "They are still looking for trouble at this critical moment. They are not as sensible as you."
Xu Shulou stood behind him, massaging his shoulders with the right amount of force: "You two sisters are still young, your husband will slowly train them."
"You did a good job this time," Lu Beichen looked at her, "You know how to share my worries, you have improved."
Xu Shulou lowered his head: "It's just that my power is low, and I was injured by the two of them during the pursuit..."
Lu Beichen felt comfortable with her massage and casually threw her a porcelain bottle: "It contains a pill that can improve your power. It's a reward for you."
"Thank you, my husband," Xu Shulou accepted it carefully, "By the way, I am no match for the two of them. If it weren't for a Taoist friend's help, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to come back to see my husband. He is waiting outside now."
Lu Beichen could only cheer himself up: "Let him in."
Upon hearing this, a servant went to call for someone. After a moment, a man came out from the door with a smile on his face. He bowed to Lu Beichen and said, "I greet Patriarch Lu."
Lu Beichen looked at the man indifferently. Seeing that he looked wretched, he felt a little displeased and just planned to give him some spirit stones to get rid of him.
Xu Shulou whispered, "On the way, I realized that this fellow Taoist is actually Chen Zhuang's senior brother. Husband, don't you think it's a coincidence?"
“Oh?” Thinking of Chen Zhuang, Lu Beichen felt a headache again.
Xu Shulou added: "He is responsible for repairing puppets for the Qingcheng Sect. Qingcheng is the largest sect in the cultivation world. Anyone who can work there must have some ability. I am wondering if he can be used by my husband."
“It’s good that you can think of this, but…” Chen Zhuang’s bad temper is enough. Lu Beichen shook his head. He didn’t want to get another one.
Seeing him shaking his head, Xu Shulou felt very regretful: "I knew it wouldn't work. I only found out halfway that Chen Zhuang had already betrayed his master and had a bad relationship with this senior brother. The two of them must not be able to work together. I was thinking of asking my husband if there was any way. Since you said so, there is no way. What a pity."
Upon hearing this, Lu Beichen's expression softened and he started talking to the man: "Were you and Shen Zhuang taught by the same master? Did you learn the same skills?"
"Not quite the same," the man looked at Lu Beichen's face and added quickly, "but they are similar in nature. My attainments in puppetry are no less than his."
Lu Beichen thought for a while and said, "We at Lingxiao Sect are in need of a useful puppeteer. What do you think, sir?"
"Of course I want to join a wise master." This person actually just did odd jobs when the puppets of Qingcheng Sect broke down, helping to repair them. He didn't earn much, so he naturally wanted other opportunities. He also heard that his junior brother Chen Zhuang was very important here, so wouldn't he be jealous? "It's just... my junior brother Chen Zhuang and I don't have a good relationship. I'm afraid he won't tolerate me. I don't know if Master Lu will make it difficult for me..."
Lu Beichen frowned: "When did I have to look at his face? Am I the sect leader or is he the sect leader? Does the emperor of the mortal world have to ask whether this person has any grudges with other officials before appointing an official?"
The man waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, that's not what I meant."
Lu Beichen then continued, "If you don't mind, you can stay at my Lingxiao Sect for a while. After you are settled, I will take you to meet your junior brother and see if you understand the things he is tinkering with. If you can make something useful, I have the manpower and material resources to provide you with."
"Yes, thank you, Master!" The man's face was immediately filled with joy.
"Back off."
Xu Shulou looked at his back, a little puzzled: "Didn't my husband just say..."
"You naturally don't understand. I still need Chen Zhuang, but his temper is always a problem," Lu Beichen sighed, "It's just right to kill his arrogance and let him know that I don't need him."
Xu Shulou showed an expression of sudden enlightenment: "My husband is wise."
"Okay, go down."
When Xu Shulou left the main courtyard, the man was still waiting for her outside the courtyard. When he saw her coming, he exchanged glances with her.
Seeing that no one was paying attention, he leaned over and whispered, "Thank you, ma'am."
"No need to thank me, just deliver what you promised."
"Of course," the man hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help asking, "May I ask how the lady came to find me? And why did she give me the credit for capturing the sect master's concubine?"
Xu Shulou glanced at him, and the man actually shrank under this look, but she just smiled: "I happened to hear Chen Zhuang mention you, and I know that your relationship is not very good. The opportunity has been given to you. Whether you can be reused like Chen Zhuang depends on you."
The man didn't dare to ask any more questions, and Nuo Nuo responded with a "yes".
———
Outside the dream, Xu Shulou could only watch himself in the dream making arrangements and maneuvers bit by bit, worrying about everything.
She watched Chen Zhuang and Lu Beichen gradually drift apart. In the eyes of Shen Zhuang, Lu Beichen's "knock" was just a "knock" that Shen Zhuang valued a mediocre person more, and she became more and more disappointed. Especially since puppetry can be put on the table, of course, except for the real-life puppets, in the eyes of the uninformed, compared to Chen Zhuang who studies behind closed doors every day but doesn't know what he is doing, at least the results of the senior brother are visible. The trend of flattering the powerful and trampling the weak in Lingxiao Sect also gradually made the two of them treated differently.
Chen Zhuang and Lu Beichen began to quarrel constantly, and under the instigation of their senior brother, the quarrel finally reached a point of no return.
She couldn't dream the entire plot. As time jumped forward, the situation in her dream took a turn for the worse.
In an extremely delicately decorated boudoir, the once expensive ornaments have turned into worthless fragments. Bai Roushuang is lying on the ground, her beautiful face twisted and deformed by pain, blood constantly oozing out of the corners of her mouth, and she is struggling to reach out to grab the antidote scattered on the ground.
When she was about to touch the pill, Xu Shulou stepped on her fingers and crushed them one by one. Listening to her wailing, he did not stop until her five fingers were crushed into a bloody mess.
At her feet, there were maids and Taoist priests lying on the ground, all of them dead.
Bai Roushuang looked at her fiercely: "You took advantage of your husband's absence to do such a thing. How will you survive when he comes back?"
Xu Shulou's eyes were very strange, and his voice was very soft and gentle: "He won't be back in a short time. The beastmen under Chen Zhuang accidentally ran away and destroyed a city in Xiao State. The people inside were eaten up. My husband is very worried, afraid that others will find out about him."
Bai Roushuang was filled with resentment: "Senior brothers will never let you go!"
"Don't worry, even if you die, I won't let them live alone," Xu Shulou looked towards the direction of Wuchen Island, "Shan Yu, Ji Ci and the others might be able to be one step faster than you."
Bai Roushuang asked with a trembling voice: "What on earth did you do?"
Xu Shulou squatted down, pointed the knife at her lower abdomen, and stabbed it in inch by inch.
Bai Roushuang was so frightened that her heart and gallbladder were broken: "Senior sister, senior sister! Please, I am your youngest junior sister, please love me."
Xu Shulou patted her face and said, "You have been hostile to me since the first time we met, but now you want me to let you go? What is there about you that deserves my mercy?"
"It's true that I'm hostile to you," Bai Roushuang gritted her teeth, "but what about you? Have you ever fulfilled your responsibilities as a senior sister to me?"
"You're right. If one of us had been more sober, things wouldn't have ended like this. Maybe we would have had a chance to be a normal pair of sisters," Xu Shulou smiled. "Unfortunately, there are no ifs in the world. We have come to this point today, and you have to die."
She used a knife to dig out Bai Roushuang's golden elixir alive, held the bloody thing in her hand and looked at it for a moment: "I'll take this thing first."
Bai Roushuang fainted from fright, but was awakened by the pain. She no longer had the strength to speak, and just fell to the ground, looking at her sadly.
"You used this expression to trick those idiots into helping you steal a lot of my things," Xu Shulou raised the knife, "but after all, you are not the culprit, so I'd better give you a quick death."
She raised her knife and ended Bai Roushuang's life.
When she drew her sword, warm blood splashed out from Bai Roushuang's chest and all over Xu Shulou's face. She blinked, expressionless, not moved at all by the death of her junior sister. There was no hatred on her face, nor the joy of revenge.
Bai Roushuang's eyes were wide open, obviously she was not closed, but unfortunately Xu Shulou was not kind enough to help her close her eyes.
She stood up and left Bai Roushuang's body behind her, lying among the maids and Taoist children. It was just an insignificant object and she didn't even look back at it.
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