Chapter 1049: Changing Life
Zhao Xian tried hard to recall for a while and soon remembered something.
"On the day when the King's son was one month old...
It was on the day when it hailed that I escorted the Emperor back to the palace.
Because the road was too slippery, the carriage overturned halfway.
The entire carriage fell apart, the driver died on the spot, and the two horses were seriously injured.
Fortunately, the emperor was not injured.
We later found a message written in blood on the bottom of the carriage."
Xiao Xixi hurriedly asked: "What is the word?"
Zhao Xian: "It's a broken character."
Xiao Xixi was stunned.
Zhao Xian: "Afterwards, I had someone check it out, but no one knew who wrote that broken character. I suspected someone was playing a prank on me, but since the emperor never mentioned it again, the matter was left unresolved."
Xiao Xixi didn't hear a word he said.
There were only five words left in her mind -
Widows, widowers, orphans and the disabled.
There is an unwritten saying in Taoism that anyone who practices cultivation will suffer from one of the five disadvantages and three deficiencies.
This is the price to pay for revealing the secret.
The five evils refer to widowhood, orphans, loneliness and the disabled.
The three deficiencies refer to money, power and destiny.
This statement has no actual basis, but if you think about it carefully, it seems to be true.
For example, almost all the people in Xuanmen are orphans, so they are "orphans". Xiao Xixi has both parents, but she is destined not to live past the age of nineteen, so what she lacks is life.
But Luo Qinghan is not a cultivator, so logically speaking he has nothing to do with the five disadvantages and three shortcomings.
Considering what Xuanjizi had said before, Luo Qinghan's fate was likely tampered with by someone.
A bold guess quietly emerged in Xiao Xixi's mind -
Could it be that a cultivator was trying to exchange fate with Luo Qinghan?
Generally speaking, changing one's fate can also be considered a way to change one's destiny.
Because the ultimate goal of changing one's life is to change one's own destiny.
Some people, because they are dissatisfied with their own fate and hope to get a better fate, will use the art of changing fate to plunder other people's luck and take other people's good fate for themselves.
However, the success rate of this approach is very low and it is very easy to backfire.
Once the backlash occurs, you will definitely die without a burial place!
Therefore, this kind of life-changing technique is classified as evil magic and is a taboo that cannot be mentioned.
When Xuanjizi was teaching, he had emphasized the dangers brought about by the art of changing lives.
Not only can it take away a person's luck, it can even take away his lifespan.
There was once a person whose family was destroyed overnight because his fate was replaced. That person didn't know that his fate had been taken away by someone else until he died.
But more people suffered backlash because of their failure to exchange their lives, and died suddenly in an instant, and their deaths were extremely horrific.
Xuanjizi said so much mainly because he wanted his disciples to be more cautious about this kind of evil magic and avoid being tricked by others.
As for the specific operating procedures of the life-changing technique, he did not say much. There are relevant records in the Xuanmen's library. If you are interested, you can check it out yourself.
Xiao Xixi had no interest in reading. From childhood to adulthood, she had only set foot in the library a handful of times, so naturally she had never read any books with relevant records.
Only the eldest and second brothers often go to the library.
Especially the second senior brother Wen Jiucheng, he is an absolute bookworm, he has read all the books in the library, some of them he even read over and over again many times, he must know what the relevant records of the life-changing technique are.
Thinking of this, Xiao Xixi calculated the time in her mind. The eldest and second brothers should already be on their way back to Beijing. She wondered when they would arrive in Shengjing?
She was looking forward to her eldest and second brothers returning to Beijing as soon as possible.
But in the end, it was the third senior brother Pei Qianhuo who came back first.
When Pei Qianhuo appeared in front of Xiao Xixi, he was exhausted.
He has always been a beauty-loving person, and he likes to dress up himself and his junior sister. He always dresses up beautifully every time he goes out to meet people.
But now he was wearing dusty clothes, and it was unknown how long he hadn't changed them. The collar and sleeves were worn and discolored, his hair was messy, his hairpin was tilted to one side, there was a thin layer of blue stubble on his chin, and his face was full of fatigue and anxiety.
When Xiao Xixi saw him like this, she was immediately frightened.
"What happened to you? Did you get robbed on the road? Or was your wallet stolen?"
Pei Qianhuo opened his cracked lips and made a hoarse sound.
"Get me something to eat first. I haven't eaten in two days."
Xiao Xixi quickly asked someone to prepare the meal.
Pei Qianhuo: "Don't make it too complicated, hurry up, I'm so hungry."
Baoqin cooked a large bowl of noodles with bone broth, covered it with the leftover braised pork from lunch, blanched two green vegetables, and sprinkled some chopped green onions.
She placed the hot braised pork noodle soup in front of Pei Qianhuo.
Pei Qianhuo's eyes were immediately attracted by the oily and translucent braised pork.
He has a physique that makes him gain weight easily. In order to manage his body shape, he seldom eats meat, especially this kind of oily braised pork.
But he couldn't care about anything at the moment.
He hasn't had a proper meal for a long time, and now this braised pork is his life!
He picked up the bowl and chopsticks and started to eat with relish.
Baoqin brought out another plate of peeled pomelo flesh.
Pei Qianhuo soon finished the whole bowl of noodles, without even a drop of soup left.
The bottom of the bowl was as clean as if it had been licked.
Xiao Xixi asked him if he wanted more?
Pei Qianhuo relied on his strong self-control to shake his head and refuse.
"No, that's enough for me."
If you eat more you will really get fat.
Xiao Xixi pushed the fruit plate in front of him, motioning him to eat some pomelo flesh to relieve the greasiness.
Eating grapefruit won’t make you gain weight, so Pei Qianhuo picked up a piece of grapefruit and started eating it without hesitation.
Xiao Xixi asked: "Didn't you go to Huafu Mountain? Why did you take so long to come back?"
At normal speed, he will be back in a month at most.
But he was gone for more than two months before coming back.
If communication wasn't inconvenient these days, she would really like to make a phone call and ask him what he was doing outside.
Pei Qianhuo swallowed the pomelo flesh in his mouth and began to tell his experience.
"I went to Huafu Mountain first and found Dafu Village. The place was just as Li Qingyan described. The whole village was burned to ruins. Nothing was left..."
The sky was already very dark, and the dark clouds in the sky kept gathering, as if they could come down at any time.
Pei Qianhuo walked around the village twice but found no useful clues, so he had to return empty-handed.
But just as he walked out of the village, heavy rain suddenly fell down.
In the blink of an eye, it started to rain heavily!
It was raining so heavily that the mountain road must be difficult to walk on, so Pei Qianhuo had no choice but to return to the village.
He found a half-collapsed house and crawled inside to shelter from the rain.
The rain splashed up mud spots that stained his clothes.
This made Pei Qianhuo, who was particularly fond of beauty, feel very uncomfortable.
But there was no place for him to change his clothes, so he could only endure his irritation and huddle in the corner that was leaky and windy.
(End of this chapter)
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