She seemed to think that her behavior was too strange. After giving the flower to Leng Xiangying, she turned into a ball of red mist and disappeared.
The flowers of the other shore bloom for a thousand years and fall for a thousand years, the petals and leaves never meet, it blooms in the underworld and blossoms on the Naihe Bridge. People in the underworld often say that the flowers of the other shore beside the Naihe Bridge have heard thousands of years of sorrow and seen the suffering of all living beings.
There are tears in the flowers, which make them more beautiful when they bloom.
The petals are like blood threads, bright red like fire, able to burn away all the beauty.
The flower is poisonous and even a hint of the stamen is enough to kill someone.
The red spider lilies on the Naihe Bridge all have spiritual power, but it's a pity that ordinary ghosts are not lucky enough to enjoy them. Among the underworld officials, only Meng Po and Hades are completely unaffected by the flower poison. Leng Siqing probably hasn't changed. Knowing that she is afraid of poison, they specially use their power to seal it.
The color of the frozen red spider lilies in the palm of my hand is darker than those in the flower field. I don’t know if it’s because of the power of Meng Po.
Leng Siqing's kindness gradually warmed her heart, and the warmth that spanned thousands of years surged into her heart again.
The lights beside the Naihe Bridge had been turned off long ago. She had long been accustomed to the dim environment. Suddenly, a bright fire rose in her heart, and she felt a little lost.
Leng Xiangying held the red spider lily in her palm and slowly bent down: "Thank you, sir."
She didn't know whether Leng Siqing could hear her or not, but she should thank her. After all, in a sense, this was a blessing from the underworld, a gift recognized by heaven and earth.
Yin officials will not easily give away objects that are tainted with their own power, because once the objects are destroyed, it will also be a loss to them.
Even when Hades bestows power, it is mostly in the form of runes and spells, and rarely is it bestowed on objects that are worn on the person.
She bent her waist for a long time and was reluctant to stand up again. With her eyes lowered, the hot tears rolling down her face would not wet her skin, but would drip directly into the underworld and disappear.
The soft, white, and slender palm gently supported the back of Leng Xiangying's hand.
Leng Xiangying raised her eyes in surprise, but it was Xiaochun she saw. She felt a little disappointed and gradually straightened her back.
She was disappointed and Xiaochun was very unhappy.
"If it weren't for your order, I wouldn't have come to help you. A messenger has received such a good reward from our master, let alone bowing to express my gratitude, even kneeling and kowtowing is what I should do! I don't know why your master insisted that I come to help you."
"The officer must take good care of this red spider lily and don't destroy it easily. After all, our master has carried this red spider lily with him for a thousand years and it has been stained with a lot of his blood. If the flower is destroyed, he will definitely be hurt."
She was still chattering, never giving others room to speak after she finished a sentence. Probably the only one who could control her was Leng Siqing.
Xiaochun no longer liked her as much as when she first met her. After Leng Siqing gave her the red spider lily, Xiaochun no longer looked at her with a friendly look, and even had deep resentment: "I don't know what's so good about you. You clearly look very weak. It's better to give this flower to me than to you!"
Leng Xiangying burst out laughing. Normally she was the one who kept talking, leaving everyone around her speechless. But today, all the words were spoken by the girl named Xiaochun. She didn't even have a chance to interrupt and could only listen to her many complaints in silence.
Leng Xiangying was very patient. She put away the red spider lily, reached out her hand and gently pinched Xiaochun's cheek. Finally, a little smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Miss Xiaochun, I am definitely better than you."
"Xiaochun is just a Yin servant, how can I compare with you!" Xiaochun grumbled in dissatisfaction, but her face became redder and redder, and her voice became softer and softer: "Although the master gave you the red spider lily, you are just a little Yin servant, I am not worthy of the master, and I am a girl. Our master should like boys. After all, they all say that the master was married before his death. The master gave you the red spider lily probably because he thought you were too weak. Yes, that must be the case!"
Leng Xiangying laughed and took back her hand, her eyes a little dazed: "How could I like adults, she is..."
Aunt.
Leng Xiangying smiled bitterly and swallowed the rest of her words.
The relatives should be sober-minded. They are no longer aunt and niece, and their souls are not connected by blood. In addition, although they have not been reincarnated, one is a ghost official and the other is a ghost messenger, and they both have new entities.
The blood is not connected and the memories have been washed away.
It's no longer the same as before.
Perhaps, Leng Siqing still remembers her.
Otherwise, why would she give her the red spider lily?
Leng Xiangying was hoping that maybe if she met Leng Siqing more often she would get the answer.
But she soon received an order from Hades, forbidding her to contact Leng Siqing again.
King Shenyuan, the main culprit, patted her on the shoulder with a smile and told her the follow-up of the handling result. Although Leng Xiangying failed to persuade Leng Siqing, King of Hell knew that Leng Siqing loved to listen to stories just because she was bored, so he captured a lot of animal souls with newborn intelligence for Leng Siqing. Leng Siqing liked them very much and no longer listened to the repetitive stories told by those lying ghosts.
Pluto's ears are now much quieter.
King Shen Yuan still hugged her with a smile, and shamelessly asked her for the red spider lily: "Xiaoying is very useful, why don't you give me that red spider lily, and I will give you a better one."
Even the Yin officials are not immune to the toxins of the red spider lily. Although they have come into contact with it, the exposure is not much.
Not to mention how powerful the poison of the red spider lily that Meng Po has fed for thousands of years is, and no one has ever seen it. King Shenyuan is not short of power, but he thinks that this flower is valuable just for collection.
"No." She rejected King Shen Yuan and pushed away the smiling face.
She was not angry when she was pushed away, and still smiled: "Xiaoying, don't die, if you meet someone you can't beat, just run away. I won't blame you. After all, this is the wish of Lady Mengpo."
"Lord Shen Yuan, eavesdropping is shameful!"
The officials of the underworld may have lived too long, and they are so honed that most of them are hard to understand and have thick skin. No matter what Leng Xiangying said, she did not feel ashamed and openly admitted that she had eavesdropped. Not only did she eavesdrop, but she also eavesdropped with Hades.
Hades had expressly forbidden her from contacting Leng Siqing again, but he actually came to ask her if he could give her the red spider lily, and even lied to her that it didn't matter if he gave her the flower, after all, Leng Xiangying could still ask Leng Siqing for it again, and maybe Leng Siqing would give it to her.
Then could she revoke the order that forbids her from contacting Leng Siqing before asking for the money?
Leng Xiangying was extremely disgusted by their behavior of taking advantage of her and then throwing her away, and even trying to defraud her.
Flowers cannot be transferred, and orders cannot be revoked.
Thanks to them, Leng Xiangying, who used to stand far away and peek at Leng Siqing, turned into someone with spiritual eyes open, watching from afar!
Well, she also bought a telescope a few years ago.
Of course, with the guarantee from King Shenyuan, Leng Xiangying confidently became the most fearful ghost messenger in the underworld. She would report immediately when she encountered a fight she couldn't win, and she would never try to be brave, let alone fight to the death. To be honest, before she met Ren Qiao, many of her missions to capture and kill the ghost king were completed by her direct leader Bai Wuchang himself, which was why she was always ranked in the top ten ghost messengers.
However, Bai Wuchang had a very good relationship with her. After all, Leng Xiangying was slacking off, and she was also slacking off under the pretext of helping Leng Xiangying.
There are many things to do in Chenyuan Palace. Black and White Impermanence are both the right-hand men of King Chenyuan. In addition, King Chenyuan is very lazy and rarely has free time on weekdays. Every time he wants to take a break, he says he is here to help Leng Xiangying kill the Ghost King.
Hei Wuchang was often full of resentment, and kept wondering why Leng Xiangying was not under her control.
But because Bai Wuchang helped her, her performance was still only in the top ten, not even in the top five of the Yincha. King Chen Yuan often suspected that the two ghosts were up to something, but she was really worried that Leng Xiangying was dead.
It's nothing else. The main reason is that Leng Xiangying is not only known as Meng Po's old friend, but also has the real red spider lily. King Chen Yuan is mainly afraid that she will use the red spider lily and cause too much impact on Leng Siqing.
She may not care about Yinchai's death, but she cannot ignore Mengpo's body.
After all, no Yin official wants to make soup!
Not only will it consume your spiritual energy, but you may also get poisoned!
The most important thing is that one pot of their medicine is only as effective as one spoonful of other people's medicine, and what they boil out may not be successful. There are also some Yin officials who have to boil several pots before getting one successful pot.
King Chen Yuan would rather do more work at Chen Yuan Palace himself than have the current Meng Po suddenly close down.
After all, Leng Siqing is the only Meng Po who has survived the two thousand years of curse.
So when she asked King Chen Yuan for the Ghost Card on behalf of Ren Qiao, King Chen Yuan just grabbed her collar and asked her, "Are you sure this female ghost will help you with the mission? In other words, with her, you won't need Xiao Bai to help you anymore, right? She also has the ability to ensure that you don't die, right!"
After she nodded and promised that with the Ghost Card she would no longer need Bai Wuchang to help her complete tasks, and after Ren Qiao's ability became very powerful, King Chen Yuan gave her the Ghost Card without saying a word.
I haven't even seen Renqiao in person, try Renqiao.
Hades didn't want to pay any attention to the matter and just let her send away the ghost card, which symbolized her identity as a ghost messenger.
There are many advantages to being able to use the backdoor, but the disadvantage is that she has a very bad reputation among the underworld.
It was so bad that they spread the news of her abnormal relationship with King Shenyuan everywhere, causing many ghost hunters to avoid her.
But she wasn't being lazy on purpose. She had almost disappeared several times over the years and her strength had declined a lot.
Especially after the incident with the Jiang family twenty-five years ago, her cultivation level was only 30% left. What could she do without Ren Qiao!
To be honest, she could have let Bai Wuchang go to the Jiang family, but that was to help Ren Qiao get the Yinhun tablet, so no matter how risky the subsequent tasks were, she had to bite the bullet and do it herself. She didn't expect that the Jiang family was so dangerous.
It was almost gone.
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Leng Xiangying's story is very long, spanning more than three thousand years.
Even though they had known each other for a hundred years, Ren Qiao only truly understood Leng Xiangying today. She used chatterboxing and self-praise to cover up her inner pain. She was only seventeen years old when she died. What kind of strong belief did it take for a seventeen-year-old girl to decide to sacrifice everything to remember a piece of tenderness.
It was also the first time that she knew that Leng Xiangying almost died in order to give her the ghost card.
Although the Ghost Card did not have great power, it did provide her with convenience. At least the ghost would not target her anymore.
"Officer Shen, please take me with you next time we are in danger." She pleaded sincerely, her gentle eyes full of worry for Leng Xiangying. Such sincere and gentle care was very much like Leng Siqing.
Ren Qiao is indeed the same type as Leng Siqing.
Ever since she heard the story of Ren Qiao, she felt that Ren Qiao was very much like Leng Siqing, a more pitiful Leng Siqing. This was because Ren Qiao was not Meng Po, and she did not have as many followers around her. She was much lonelier than Leng Siqing, and she didn't even have a grave to rest her head in.
If he hadn't met Jin Banwei, Ren Qiao would probably still be wandering.
Precisely because of that similarity, she would try her best to get the Ghost Tablet for Ren Qiao. Now she can no longer be said to be protecting Leng Siqing, but when she helps Ren Qiao, she feels that she is not that weak.
Jin Banwei is different from Ren Qiao. She is emotional but also retains some rationality. Almost as soon as Leng Xiangying said that she almost died in the Jiang family, Jin Banwei found something strange: "Officer Shen, you didn't use that red spider lily, right?"
"I forgot to bring it." She evaded the question.
But how could she not carry with her the red spider lily that Leng Siqing gave her?
She was just deeply confused at that time, and repeated failures made her doubt the meaning of her existence.
She was too weak and always in danger.
Looking back at her experience, you can find that she really failed.
He didn't do very well as a human being, nor did he do very well as a ghost. As a ghost messenger, he was always in danger and couldn't even save himself.
She couldn't help Leng Siqing in anything, and even had to rely on Leng Siqing to run rampant in the underworld.
Apart from being able to remember Leng Siqing's name, it's useless.
Even this is probably an insignificant matter to Leng Siqing. Now she is the high and mighty Meng Po, surrounded by countless ghosts. How can she care about the memories of the past?
Failure after failure, and feeling her own weakness over and over again, gradually changed Leng Xiangying's mentality as she believed in keeping Leng Siqing in mind.
Is she really qualified to feel sorry for Leng Siqing?
Or does Leng Siqing really need her pity?
She was so weak and nearly died many times.
Jin Banwei was smarter than Ren Qiao. She had already guessed what Leng Xiangying was thinking without Leng Xiangying saying anything more.
"But if Officer Shen died, Miss Si Qing would be very sad. She might even think that Officer Shen hated her and that's why he didn't use the power of the red spider lily."
She did not call Leng Siqing "Princess", nor did she call her "Lady Mengpo", but "Miss Siqing".
Although they have similar personalities, their minds are always different. Jin Banwei was able to find Leng Xiangying's expectations and Leng Siqing's expectations from the story told by Leng Xiangying, and she hit the nail on the head.
If it was Leng Siqing in the story, she would definitely like this title. She is not someone's wife, nor a princess in a cage, nor a not-so-highly-expected position as an official in the underworld.
Would Leng Siqing feel that she hated her?
This was something she had not considered, she was just a little confused.
"I am just a ghost messenger, and a weak one at that. Am I really worthy of using Meng Po's power to protect myself?"
"But Miss Si Qing gave the red spider lily to Shen Charen because she thought you were worthy of her protection, right? Why do you think so? You are the person Miss Si Qing cares about the most."
Leng Xiangying was confused by what Jin Banwei said. She opened her beautiful eyes in disbelief and stared at Jin Banwei without blinking: "Who do you care about the most?"
"Well, she has no children and has never felt the warmth of family love. You think that when she is warming you, you are also warming her. Otherwise, how could she find you so quickly after hearing that you were dead?"
"Wouldn't the Yellow Spring Soul Guide bring the dead to the most important person? Didn't Officer Shen ever think about why only Miss Si Qing arrived at your side so quickly when you obviously have so many royal sisters?"
She suspected that Jin Banwei was fooling her, but every word she said struck Leng Xiangying's softest heart and was very touching.
In the past, she had never thought about why, when the enemy was at the gates that day, there should have been a river of blood and more people in the royal family should have died before Leng Siqing, but it was Leng Siqing who came to find them first.
The only explanation is probably that Leng Siqing died before the country was destroyed. Perhaps she heard the news of her death and died first without the supervision of the imperial master.
She went to die on purpose after hearing about her death.
The curses in my ears were no longer so harsh and unpleasant, and my increasingly cold heart was filled with warmth again.
"But I failed, didn't I? I didn't do anything well."
Leng Xiangying was like a faithful believer at this moment, waiting for God's consolation.
Jin Banwei seemed to be able to read her mind and knew what she wanted to hear.
Although she is young, she feels particularly safe when she is serious.
"Officer Shen is also very kind and gentle. Although I haven't met Miss Si Qing yet, seeing Officer Shen is like seeing Miss Si Qing. Officer Shen looks a lot like your aunt."
“Jin Banwei…” She murmured, her eyes gradually brightening up. The next moment, she excitedly grabbed Jin Banwei’s arm and said, “Jin Banwei, you are really good at talking! That’s how you tricked Ren Qiao into getting him! Ah, I will never call you a little devil again. I think you have a lot of tricks! You can even convince an old demon like me with thousands of years of experience!”
…
She looked like she was getting better, but she was getting better in a different way.
If Jin Banwei wasn't hallucinating, Leng Xiangying would have actually called herself an old witch.
Also, she had no tricks or coaxing, she just said what was in her heart. Jin Banwei has always been a meticulous person, she only closes her emotions when it comes to the mother-daughter relationship, but when it comes to other emotions, she resonates very strongly, as if she were there herself.
As for her mother...she remembered the pain she brought her clearly, so when she saw other mothers and daughters being intimate, all she could think of was escaping.
Why did Leng Xiangying's thoughts jump to her deceiving Ren Qiao? She clearly hadn't had a heart-to-heart talk with Ren Qiao.
It’s all because of that experience card!
But without the Good Wife Experience Card, she would not have met Ren Qiao.
Leng Xiangying was in a better mood, but Jin Banwei became a little withdrawn.
Leng Xiangying looked at Jin Banwei, then at Ren Qiao, and winked at him: "Ren Qiao, I understand why you like her, but you have to stay sober. After all, she looks good and can deceive people."
Ren Qiao was still feeling touched by Leng Xiangying's devotion for her, when Leng Xiangying's attitude suddenly changed. She pinched her palms uncomfortably and forced a smile.
Leng Xiangying was completely unaware and ignored the fact that Ren Qiao and Jin Banwei could no longer keep up with her expression. She counted on her fingers very seriously, "Young, playful, sweet-talking, very gentle, and especially good at lying. This is definitely the standard of a scumbag."
She wiped the corners of her eyes, which were completely tearless: "Ren Qiao, you are so pitiful."
Jin Banwei regretted it. Why did she bother to persuade Leng Xiangying? It would be better to let her immerse herself in her memories. At least he looked like a serious and solemn ghost messenger.
She helped her get rid of the pain, but Leng Xiangying turned around and scolded her to Ren Qiao.
Leng Xiangying has no heart!
Ren Qiao frowned and thought about Leng Xiangying's words more seriously: "Well, I also think Xiao Jin is very gentle and speaks very nicely."
She only agreed with two points and regarded this as Leng Xiangying's compliment to Jin Banwei.
Jin Banwei felt warm in her heart, Ren Qiao was indeed the best.
Ren Qiao would never despise her. If she could forget about the Good Wife Experience Card, she would definitely be more touched.
She responded to Ren Qiao quickly, with a bright smile on her face: "Sister Ghost is also very gentle and speaks very nicely!"
This is absolutely true.
Ren Qiao is very gentle, as if he has no temper. His voice is also very pleasant. Even if he doesn’t speak, just his soft breathing in your ear is very pleasant to the ear.
The more Jin Banwei thought about it, the redder her face became.
How could someone think about these things while standing in a pile of graves!
Such an obvious change naturally would not escape the eyes of Ren Qiao who was always watching her. Ren Qiao's fingertips gently landed on Jin Banwei's flushed cheek: "Xiao Jin, what's wrong with you? Did you absorb too much resentment from the Curse Spirit Monument and feel uncomfortable?"
Jin Banwei's face turned even redder, and only her head was shaking slightly.
Just at this moment, a young man, no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, floated out from the tombstone closest to them.
He was wearing a grey robe, revealing a large area of snow-white skin on his chest. Looking lazy and casual, he glanced at Leng Xiangying and snorted lightly, ignoring Leng Xiangying.
When he glanced at Ren Qiao and Jin Banwei, he looked a little more disgusted: "Hey, are you going to leave or not? This is the Curse Spirit Monument, not a place for you to show off your affection."
Jin Banwei finally woke up.
Looking at the densely packed graves, I suddenly felt my whole body go numb. I bit the tip of my tongue lightly before slowly regaining my movement.
"Sorry, sorry, we'll leave now!"
She apologized repeatedly and reached out to pull Ren Qiao away, but Leng Xiangying stopped her: "Why are you apologizing?"
Leng Xiangying was no longer as withdrawn as she was just now, and those curses could no longer touch her pain. A little smile appeared on her lips, weird and evil: "Don't you think it's rude to show up when they are in love?"
The young man sneered: "You come to the graveyard to fall in love, and you bring a light bulb with you. This is quite perverted!"
"Ren Qiao is a ghost! The graveyard is her home. Is it too much to fall in love in front of her home?"
She was full of twisted ideas. The boy pondered for a moment and finally said, "Leng Xiangying, I really don't like you."
Obviously, this young man is not the ghost in the cursed monument.
He and Leng Xiangying seemed to know each other.
There are too many ghosts who hate Leng Xiangying, so they don’t care about this one.
The boy had a bad attitude, and Leng Xiangying was not much better.
She quickly stepped forward and grabbed the young man's gray robe, which was already loose and slipped down again. "Stop talking nonsense. Did you eavesdrop on our conversation just now?"
The young man pushed Leng Xiangying's hand away coldly and slowly put on his grey robe, but his chest was still exposed with a large area of white skin. He didn't look strong, but deep lines could be vaguely seen: "Although I really want to listen, it's a pity that I can't hear it. There is indeed something wrong with your ghost card. I am one level higher than you, and you used the power of the ghost card to create a barrier, but I can't break it."
"His Highness Chen Yuan is really good to you! Then you should just obey His Highness Chen Yuan obediently."
"Tsk, you really are like a resentful ghost who can't get the love he wants." Leng Xiangying heaved a sigh of relief when she heard the young man say that he didn't eavesdrop on what she had just said. She thought that the ghost card was enough to block the eavesdropping of all the ghosts here, but she forgot that there was a colleague here. Fortunately, the power of her ghost card was strong enough.
Without the worry of her secret being discovered, Leng Xiangying introduced the young man to Jin Banwei and the others: "His name is Bai Lian, one of the Ten Great Underworld Marshals of the Underworld. He is at the same level as Sister Bai, and is currently one of the supervisors of the Ghost Market and the Curse Spirit Monument. He is also one of the suitors of Lady Mengpo."
Jin Banwei's pupils dilated in horror: "But he looks like a child!"
Bai Lian is not tall, his face is very childish, and his body is fair and slender. Although he has tight skin, he still looks too young and thin. Moreover, he is shorter than Leng Xiangying.
Although Leng Xiangying was indeed taller than them, Bai Lian and Leng Xiangying had to look up when they looked at each other.
Bai Lian's face was not very good. He stared at Jin Banwei and said word by word: "Little devil, who are you calling a child!"
"Don't be fooled by his appearance. He is actually nearly ten thousand years old." Leng Xiangying touched her chin and smiled maliciously: "Although the Hades cannot calculate age based on appearance, he looks too young. People with higher positions than him and the same level like to call him little ghost. He can only call you little ghost to find the feeling of old age."
"It's unlikely that a little ghost could catch up with Lady Mengpo. After all, even the Yin servants around Lady Mengpo think he is a little ghost. In addition, he chased after Lady Mengpo and called her "sister" in order to get close to her. In Lady Mengpo's mind, he should be no different from a child."
"That's because you don't understand the benefits of sister-brother relationships." Bai Lian gritted her teeth and said, "You are still too young. You don't understand how good a sister is. Sisters are wonderful, sisters..."
Jin Banwei was still listening to Bai Lian talking, but Leng Xiangying, who had long been fed up with listening, pushed her waist.
Leng Xiangying pointed at her and then at Ren Qiao, and Jin Banwei immediately understood what she meant.
She held Ren Qiao's hand tightly, interlocking their fingers, with a gentle and shy expression: "Lord Bai Lian, I think I should know how good my sister is."
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