Chapter 67 Chapter 67 "You and I are made for each other..."
In his hazy state, Chen Qing's soul seemed to transform into a feather, landing on a river lantern, bobbing in the water. Suddenly, the lantern ignited, and the feather, caught off guard by the flames from the wick, curled up. Chen Qing felt the pain of the burning feather firsthand, and he struggled uncontrollably.
Someone held her hands and feet, and Shen Qing felt someone piercing her ankles with long needles and then squeezing them hard.
She cried in pain and struggled harder, but the hands holding her down became stronger and she couldn't move at all.
When she was feeling uncomfortable, Chen Qing kept calling out "A'niang". Perhaps she heard her call, and in a moment, she came to an extremely soft and warm embrace.
Someone patted her back gently, and she nestled her head in the woman's arms, breathing in the rhythm of her heartbeat, and fell asleep again.
The room returned to silence, and no one could hear a cold electronic voice: "Ding, activation of protection mode."
This time, her dream was strange and bizarre.
Most of the strange scenes flashed by quickly, but she couldn't remember any of them. Shen Qing only remembered the last scene, when Li Yu ran over with the faceless man and said excitedly, "Shen Youan, I want to marry him!"
The faceless man raised his head and suddenly rushed over to hug Chen Qing. His gaunt face was filled with an infatuated expression. He said, "We are a perfect match."
Chen Qing was unable to move for a moment. She looked down and found that her body had swelled several times over, turning into a bare-chested and bulging clay sculpture of Maitreya Buddha.
Bai Shuisha pouted and prepared to kiss Maitreya Buddha's belly affectionately...
"Get out of here!" Chen Qing sat up with a somersault.
She felt a piercing pain in her ankle. She looked down and saw that her foot was tightly wrapped in gauze, which felt heavy on her leg like a stone.
She wiped her face and suddenly remembered that she seemed to have had a long dream before, but it was too long and she had forgotten everything after waking up. Only the soreness in her heart lingered for a long time.
Then she thought of the last strange dream again. She rubbed her soft belly in fear, and her delicate eyebrows were frowned.
What a strange dream...
"Cui Ya." Chen Qing realized belatedly that her throat felt dry and hot, almost smoking. She was extremely thirsty.
The sound startled the little girl lying under the bed. Cui Ya stood up and knelt beside the bed. Seeing Chen Qing sitting up, her eyes were red, "Madam, you are finally awake."
Finally, after drinking the first sip of tea after waking up, Chen Qing breathed a sigh of relief. She felt as if her whole body had been run over by a car. Not only was it painful, but she also felt weak and powerless.
Just after the You hour, the candles in the house were lit one after another. Many bean-sized fire particles gathered together and instantly illuminated the entire house.
Chen Qing held Cui Ya, telling her not to disturb her parents, and then asked her, "How many days have I slept?"
"Twenty whole days."
Not only that, Li Daoxuan did not return for a full twenty days after leaving Yuanchun Tower that day. During this period, there was no news from him, and not even a signal flare was fired.
Elite disciples from Dongshan Temple went out to search for him, but there was no trace of him. There was also no news of the dreaded Red and White Demons.
When the news came that two great monsters had appeared in Chang'an City and so many people had died at once, the whole city was in a state of gossip. Every household would close their doors at dusk, and many people would go to Dongshan Temple and Xuanji Pavilion to seek talismans.
This is too much of an exaggeration. Only one person died in Yuanchun Tower...
Thinking of this, Chen Qing was breathless, her heart choking. She asked, "Where's Senior Brother? Did he take anyone to Mount Li?"
Cui Ya clearly knew what her mistress was most worried about. She said, "Deputy Envoy Liu and a group of Taoist priests went to Mount Li, but they were a step too late. It's said that there's a dilapidated temple hidden deep in the forests of Mount Li, and underneath that temple is a huge tomb. By the time Deputy Envoy Liu and his companions arrived, the temple and the tomb had already collapsed, and Mount Li had even shrunk an inch."
Chen Qing pulled her aside and asked, "Have you found any corpses?"
As expected, Cui Ya shook her head.
In the previous life, since the case of the ghost attack came to an end and the saint sent people to seal off Mount Li, no one has ever discovered the tomb in Mount Li. Therefore, no one in the previous life knew that there was an underground palace of the Baishuisha hidden under Mount Li.
But now, just as Liu Jiuyue and his group were about to go to Mount Li, the Lishan mountain range collapsed.
Chen Qing suddenly thought of a word: destroy the body and cover up all traces.
If we think about it more deeply, could it be that those minions were originally summoned by humans in order to prevent anyone from going up to Mount Li again, thereby covering up the truth hidden in Mount Li?
What about the Liu family? Where is Liu's mother?
She suddenly got out of bed barefoot like a madman and was about to run out of the house. Cui Ya hugged her tightly, thinking that her wife had fallen into a nightmare again. She cried out, "Wife, please wake up!"
These words were like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, and Shen Qing froze in place.
Cui Ya took advantage of this opportunity to drag her back to the bed and wrapped her in the quilt.
"Twenty days ago, you broke your foot and it became inflamed. After draining the fluid from your ankle, the doctor told you not to get out of bed for a month, or you'd develop a serious condition!"
It was only after Cui Ya had concentrated a little that she discovered that she had many more bandages on her body. After thinking about it carefully, she realized that it was probably caused by falling from the beam during the battle with the Happy Funeral Demon.
But at that time she was holding her breath all the time and was worried, so she didn't notice it.
She asked, "Where are the Dali Temple Minister and his family? Where are they being held?"
Cui Ya's face changed, and she said with some taboo, "Madam, it was the Dali Temple Minister's family who died in Yuanchun Tower that day." She leaned closer and said, "It is said that Prince Cang had evil intentions towards Madam Liu, so he used his status to detain her family in Yuanchun Tower. Unexpectedly, a great demon suddenly attacked, indirectly causing the deaths of Liu Siqing's family, and even the fake mother of Yuanchun Tower."
"Right now, rumors are circulating in Chang'an that the Fourth Prince, feeling guilty, has taken refuge under the guise of hunting monsters."
Chen Qing raised his head suddenly, "How could this be?"
Cui Ya thought she was asking about the Fourth Prince, so she said, "The Fourth Prince's reputation in Chang'an has been mixed in the past few years. It's no wonder that he has done such a thing now. Madam, I just hope that the Fourth Prince will not come back, otherwise I will marry into a den of cannibals and my life will be ruined!" She said angrily.
"How did the Liu family die?" Shen Qing's eyes were burning.
Cui Ya's voice faded. "I'm not too sure. It's said that they were killed by two demons... Anyway, their bodies were found in Yuanchun Tower. The next day, the entire Liu family was brutally murdered, not even a bird was spared."
"So many people died" was the literal meaning of the sentence. It turned out that she had misunderstood...
Chen Qing grabbed Cui Ya and shouted, "Go, find senior brother immediately! Ask 'Shadow' to invite him!" Shadow was Chen Qing's most capable assistant, and only they could avoid the inspection of Wu Hou who was patrolling the streets under curfew and invite Liu Jiuyue without anyone noticing.
Cui Ya didn't dare to say anything more and immediately pushed the door open and walked out.
Shen Qing sat cross-legged beside the bed for a long time in a daze.
I wanted to be more low-key, but I didn't expect that I would alert the enemy and be noticed by the people in the dark.
Now, the underground palace of Mount Li was completely destroyed, the fake mother died tragically, and the entire Liu family was wiped out. Anyone who had any connection to the old story of the happy funeral monster was killed.
Thinking back carefully, the only old people in Yuanchun Tower who knew what happened ten years ago were Shancha, Haitang and the fake mother. Chen Qing couldn't help but wonder if the fourth wife happened to kill Shancha and Haitang because there was another hand secretly messing around?
Chen Qing thought to herself that at least the Shen family had managed to escape the disaster, her parents were still alive and well, and she, Chen Qing, was no longer the fatherless, motherless and rootless person in her previous life.
At least I have successfully passed one level, and things will get better and better in the future.
The tip of my nose gradually felt sore, and I felt deeply sad. My eyes were red from crying.
When Liu Jiuyue arrived, he saw Chen Qing's red eyes through the window lattice. Seeing this, he also felt distressed, but his expression did not show it, and it could even be said that his brows were cold.
He did not step into Shen Qing's boudoir, but instead tapped the window frame with his knuckles through a window, startling the people in the room.
Chen Qing wiped away her tears carelessly and huddled in her quilt. Because of her leg injury, she couldn't get out of bed, so she could only say softly through the bed curtain: "Senior Brother..."
Liu Jiuyue shrank her fingertips slightly, suppressed her heartache, and said with a gloomy face: "Why did you call me here?" Her tone was extremely indifferent, as if the person in front of her was just an unimportant stranger.
Chen Qing had never seen his senior brother act like this before, and was momentarily stung by his cold tone.
"Senior Brother?"
Liu Jiuyue took a deep breath, closed his eyes and said, "If you have something to say, please say it. Xuanji Pavilion still has a lot of internal affairs waiting for me to deal with."
The brother and sister were only separated by a window, but it seemed as if there were two mountains between them, an iceberg and a volcano.
Chen Qing knew that she had annoyed him, and she felt a little uneasy. However, there were still many things that needed to be resolved, so she could only bite the bullet and touch the iceberg.
"Brother, the two demon corpses may be in the Buddha statue's belly."
Liu Jiuyue opened his eyes suddenly and looked at her with a stern gaze.
Chen Qing's scalp tingled under his gaze. She pursed her lips and continued, "When I disappeared at Madam Zhang's birthday party, I entered the underground palace under Mount Li. It was Li Daoxuan who brought me out. Before I left, I happened to run into Bai Shuisha returning. At that time, he said something to the Buddha statue in the temple."
"You and I are made for each other."
A dream brought Chen Qing back to the night she left the underground palace, when Bai Shuisha spoke affectionately to the Buddha statue. At the time, she had simply thought Bai Shuisha was mad, acting crazy towards the Buddha statue, but now, thinking about it, the truth behind it might be worth investigating.
"The two demon corpses may be inside the Buddha statue."
After hearing this, Liu Jiuyue said, "I understand." Then he turned around and was about to leave.
Chen Qing subconsciously stretched out his hand, "Senior Brother——"
With a loud "thump", Chen Qing fell head over heels.
Chen Qing, who had forgotten she was sitting on the edge of the bed, sat up with a grin and rubbed her head. Fortunately, there was a cashmere blanket in the room, so apart from the dizziness from the fall, everything else was fine.
She subconsciously looked up and saw that Liu Jiuyue's expression had finally broken. She was delighted and grinned at him brightly.
Seeing that she was as clumsy as she was when she was a child, Liu Jiuyue's cold expression finally broke and he sighed deeply.
Whenever the little girl made a mistake, she would always hold her brother's hand miserably and sincerely admit her mistake in a soft voice. If that didn't work, she would cry loudly. By then, her brother's heart would be turned into stone, and he would be coaxed into a soft stone by his own sister.
This trick works every time.
So Chen Qing hopped on one foot to the window frame, grabbed Liu Jiuyue's sleeve before she could leave, and shook it.
Liu Jiuyue was instantly coaxed into a state of disarray, her heart melting into a puddle of water, and she was almost being led by the nose by her.
"Brother - I was wrong. I will never dare to do it again." She was referring to her secret involvement in the Yuanchunlou case.
Liu Jiuyue's brows gradually relaxed.
"Good senior brother, I will come to see you in person tomorrow and we will go to Mount Li together." Only by personally confirming whether the corpse is there can she feel at ease.
After the two demons fled that day, Li Daoxuan immediately chased them, leaving him no time to move the bodies. After the Lishan Underground Palace collapsed, everyone's attention was likely focused on the interior, and few paid much attention to the dilapidated temple.
It is often said that the most dangerous place is the safest place. Chen Qing was gambling. He was gambling that the person in the dark would never think that after Chen Qing woke up, he would lead people to the ruined temple in Mount Li to make a surprise attack. He was gambling that they had not yet moved the body.
Before Liu Jiyue could respond, Chen Qing pulled her around and said, "Come and see Senior Brother off!"
As soon as he finished speaking, two "shadows" suddenly appeared, one on the left and one on the right, carrying Liu Jiuyue over the wall. Their movements were so gentle that Liu Jiuyue felt a sense of... respect in this strange way of sending someone off?
After leaving the Shen Mansion, the two shadows bowed to him and said, "Sir, take care. My wife will come to see you tomorrow."
Liu Jiuyue raised her hand almost unconsciously, "Thank you very much, no need to be so polite."
The shadow nodded slightly and slipped back into the yard.
It was not until they walked some distance that Liu Jiuyue suddenly realized what he had just agreed to.
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