Chapter 52

Li Banfeng didn't remember the short blade at all; he was currently sitting at the doorway of the main room, talking to himself.

"The phonograph didn't kill me; she still has a good impression of me."

"But when she suddenly started singing, it was a bit scary."

"What's scary about it? She sang so well."

"Singing well is useless; one day she'll eat you without even spitting out the bones."

"If she wanted to eat me, she would have done it long ago; she probably doesn't like eating living things."

"What if she changes her taste one day? She'll roast you until you're crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, person and soul alike, not even leaving any residue!"

"You're the one without a conscience; the phonograph protected you from beginning to end, how can you slander a girl like that?"

"How do you know she's a girl? She might be a ferocious evil spirit that can sing!"

Li Banfeng waved his hand toward his own forehead; arguing with himself was truly meaningless.

Focus his thoughts and think about how to deal with this phonograph.

Throw her away?

Not to mention that such a good house spirit is a pity to throw away.

The key is that Li Banfeng doesn't dare to throw her away either!

I'm afraid that as soon as Li Banfeng has this thought, he'll be scalded to death by the phonograph.

She killed Luo Yuni in seconds; for someone like me, a single burp would be enough to scald me to death.

The ideal result is to successfully subdue the house spirit, but the prerequisite is that I must know the house spirit's name.

Where can I find out?

The only channel I can think of right now is Shopkeeper Feng.

I have to go back to Ligou.

But before going back, I have to clean up this house.

The owner of the house and the house spirit are both gone; Li Banfeng felt very sentimental and had to help them tidy up their relics.

Li Banfeng didn't value that bit of money; it was mainly out of respect for them.

Li Banfeng went to the cellar first; Xiao Yeci said there were quite a few things here.

She indeed hadn't lied; the old lady usually kept most of the things she robbed in the cellar, and some were hidden in the cabinets in the main room. Li Banfeng gathered these things together; the cash alone amounted to 763,236 yuan.

Besides this, Li Banfeng also found quite a few gold and silver ornaments and some valuable personal items; because he wasn't familiar with the prices, he estimated them at 200,000.

Before, he had sold the elixir and bought the phonograph, and there were 230,000 left.

Not counting the small change used for daily expenses, Li Banfeng had assets of 1,180,000.

Is this real?

I have 1,180,000!

From birth until now, Li Banfeng's assets had never exceeded 10,000.

Now he actually had 1,180,000!

Of course, this money wouldn't even be enough for a down payment in Yuezhou.

But for Li Banfeng, this could be considered his second peak of wealth.

The first peak was when he sold the snake-spot elixir.

There were some sundries in this house that Li Banfeng could also use.

The second son, Demao, was a martial cultivator; there were quite a few martial arts classics in his room. Li Banfeng picked out a few and kept them.

There was a table and two chairs in the old lady's room that looked good; Li Banfeng kept them. Also, the sewing board was quite good, so Li Banfeng kept that too.

There was also a pocket watch, which should have been robbed from a passerby; this watch was gold-plated and looked stylish, but the actual workmanship wasn't as exquisite as the pocket watch Shopkeeper Feng recommended.

Li Banfeng had always wanted a timing tool, so he kept this one too.

Demao also had a bathtub; Li Banfeng kept that too. Usually in the Suishenju, he could only take some water with a wooden bucket to wipe his body; he hadn't had a refreshing bath for a long time.

After tidying up the useful things, there were some that didn't seem useful for the moment, but Li Banfeng kept them anyway.

A pile of bottles and jars and some special medicinal materials that Decai used to refine poison; Li Banfeng kept them. It's hard to say what use these things might have.

There was a long spear in Demao's room; Li Banfeng didn't know how to use this kind of long weapon, but Demao had relevant books, so he could learn slowly in the future.

There were quite a few hidden weapons shaped like shuttle darts in Decai's room; they smelled fishy and should have been soaked in poison. Li Banfeng didn't know how to use hidden weapons, so he kept them first.

After tidying up the things, Li Banfeng first found the corpses of Decai and Demao.

These two corpses were originally intended to be sent into the Suishenju for refining elixir.

But under the current circumstances, Li Banfeng was a bit afraid to go back.

However, thinking about it carefully, fear was useless; he had to return to the Suishenju for at least two hours every day; this was the foundation of a residential cultivator's practice.

Li Banfeng braced himself, opened the door, and dragged a large pile of things—cash, valuables, tables and chairs, corpses... all inside.

The phonograph didn't make a sound; he didn't know if she was fast asleep.

The copper lotus also didn't move.

This shouldn't be.

With such good corpses placed in front of it, doesn't it want them?

Li Banfeng looked carefully for a moment and found a halo of light on the copper lotus.

It was refining elixir.

What elixir was it refining?

Oh no, that blade! That short blade that liked to drink blood!

That was a top-grade weapon; was it just refined like that?

Li Banfeng's heart ached terribly; he wanted to pry open the lotus petals and snatch the blade out.

There were too many sundries in the room; just as Li Banfeng walked to the side of the lotus, he accidentally tripped over the bathtub and almost fell, and the cloth bag at his waist fell off.

Clang!

The pendulum inside the cloth bag slid out.

Whoosh!

The phonograph's firelight lit up.

Sss, sss, sss~

Steam emerged.

Was the phonograph woken up?

Clang, clang, clang~

"Oh my~ husband!" The phonograph began to sing.

"Oh my~ lady!" Li Banfeng also sang along.

The phonograph is a person who can communicate; she is not scary at all.

"Oh my husband~ where did you get so many household goods?"

The phonograph's voice was very gentle; she was not scary at all.

"Oh my lady, I got them along the way."

Li Banfeng wiped his sweat and slowly walked toward the doorway.

"Husband has worked hard~" This was sung with deep affection and warmth; she is not scary at all!

"My lady has also worked hard~" Li Banfeng ran outside and closed the door.

The phonograph sprayed a mouthful of steam, carrying a set of tables and chairs to the wall, and stood the bathtub upright in the corner.

Beside the bathtub, the phonograph saw the snapped pendulum; this was Luo Yuni's only relic.

Sss, sss~

The phonograph was somewhat displeased; she didn't like this thing.

"This madman is really something, why bring this broken thing back again?"

Hiss, hiss, hiss~

The copper lotus petals opened, swallowing the corpses on the ground along with the snapped pendulum into the lotus heart.

Sss, sss~

The phonograph sneered repeatedly: "Oh my~ just now you didn't want this pendulum, but now you've picked it up to eat. It seems you are truly hungry and can't endure it, and you don't care about your face anymore.

You bitch, you used to dominate and be majestic, but now you've fallen to this, picking up trash to fill your stomach; it's truly chilling, laughable, extremely laughable! Hahahaha~"

Pfft!

A clear dewdrop sprayed out from the lotus heart, landing accurately on the phonograph's large horn.

The laughter stopped abruptly.

"You dare to spit on me?" The phonograph was furious; all three horns smoked together, and a burst of steam wrapped around the copper lotus. "You've rebelled, today I'll show you the family rules!"

The lotus was fearless; drops of dew flew up and down in the steam.

Li Banfeng returned to the courtyard and looked up; the familiar wall was gone, and in front of him was a dense forest.

The old lady was dead, Luo Yuni was gone, and the wandering souls had all been eaten by the phonograph; all the illusions had disappeared.

After walking through the forest for a long time, Li Banfeng saw Xiao Yeci and Lu Chunying.

The mother and daughter were covered in bruises, hugging each other, not daring to move.

Seeing Li Banfeng walk over, Xiao Yeci shouted with a trembling voice: "Benefactor, you've finally come; we encountered a ghost wall."

Without needing to ask, Li Banfeng could see what they had encountered.

"You want to go to Ligou, right?"

"Yes, benefactor!" Xiao Yeci and Lu Chunying nodded vigorously.

"If I send you to Ligou, how much money can you give?"

"You name the price, benefactor!"

"One thousand!"

"Deal, benefactor!" Xiao Yeci was very pleasantly surprised; this was less than she had expected.

Li Banfeng didn't ask for more; he remembered that under the Bitter Fog Mountain, the medicine shop had pressed the price of snake-spot chrysanthemums down to twenty-five.

One thousand yuan could exchange for forty snake-spot chrysanthemums, which could make many people risk their lives; this amount was truly not small.

Of course, some prerequisites had to be made clear.

"One thousand yuan is just the basic fee for escorting you. If we really encounter villains, we'll have to see the situation and add money. If I suffer any losses, you'll also have to compensate according to the price."

These rules were reasonable; Xiao Yeci nodded repeatedly.

Li Banfeng led Xiao Yeci and Lu Chunying toward the outside of the forest.

Along the way, Xiao Yeci was trembling with fear, and Lu Chunying hid tightly behind Xiao Yeci.

They had been scared by the tree branches, but following Li Banfeng all the way, they hadn't been hit once.

The wandering souls in the trees were all gone, so naturally, they wouldn't be hit, but they didn't know the inside story.

"What kind of person is this..." Xiao Yeci was very surprised, "He's so good at fighting, and he even knows magic, and he can even subdue wandering souls."

Lu Chunying tugged at Xiao Yeci's lapel: "Mom, use your mouth's ability and subdue him."

Xiao Yeci shook her head: "Mom doesn't have this ability; you go ahead."

Walking out of the forest, Li Banfeng saw a stone tablet.

On the stone tablet were written three characters: Changliu Village.

When entering the village, Li Banfeng had seen this stone tablet; at that time, he had really thought there was such a village.

Now it seems that the so-called Changliu Village was an illusion created by the old lady and her house spirit Luo Yuni; there was only a forest and a house here. No wonder when Li Banfeng entered the village, only one household had its lights on.

But this stone tablet looked like it had been there for years; it didn't look fake.

Perhaps there really had been a Changliu Village here before; perhaps all the people in the village had been harmed by the old lady and Luo Yuni.

A village disappeared; did no one care?

When Li Banfeng argued with the ticket seller at the station, someone did care.

Puluo Continent, what kind of order is this?

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