Chapter 189

A strange thing happened on Jingxia Street recently. Every night after the old and young men of each household fell asleep, they always dreamed of an unknown strange bug covered in white hair, gnawing on everything they encountered in their dreams.

When the sky brightened and everyone got up, they always felt that they had forgotten something, like drinking and breaking the film.

This matter was evil. Someone suggested, why don't we go to the temple to find a high person who understands the line to see, maybe we can see some problems.

The widow of the incense shop heard that she was going to raise money to make up for the ritual gift money, and she was not happy in her heart.

Those who recite scriptures and jump gods, nine out of ten are swindlers.

Giving them ritual money, what is the difference between that and meat buns hitting dogs?

Boss Cheng was anxious at that time, but she couldn't go against the neighbors, which would set off her small family spirit and not consider for everyone.

"This matter cannot invite a master!"

When everyone's eyes looked over, Boss Cheng blurted out: "What is the use of inviting a master? You have eyes but don't know the true god. Isn't Shopkeeper Xu of the mortuary shop a ready-made master? I see that he performs rituals better than those masters in the temple, maybe he has the ability to look after the house. Furthermore, he is a scholar, with literary spirit on his body, and small ghosts and monsters dare not get close. With such a ready-made candidate, why do you have to look far away and find a master?"

"In my opinion, masters may not be as effective as Shopkeeper Xu."

What kind of person is Cheng Caiyun? That is a small woman who cares about a few eggs. Once she encounters something that touches her small treasury, her brain turns faster than the wheels!

"Makes sense! Then raise some profit, pack a red envelope and send it to Shopkeeper Xu, let him come out to see."

"Raise what profit, everyone is a neighbor, look up and see, we really send money, Shopkeeper Xu may not necessarily accept it, you must not forget, scholars are the most noble."

"Then according to Boss Cheng's statement, how should this matter be handled, we can't go empty-handed..."

"If I want to say, it's better to send some eggs."

Mortuary shop, Xu Qing looked at the basket full of eggs on the counter, a burst of wonder.

"You said you always have dreams at night, dreaming of a white-haired giant bug taller than the city gate tower, gnawing on things in your dreams?"

"And then you feel like you've forgotten a lot when you wake up, and your head is dizzy?"

The carpenter who does coffin work at the end of the street, the widow of the incense shop, and some neighbors talked to each other, making things evil.

But after hearing Xu Qing's question, everyone felt strange in their hearts: "Doesn't Shopkeeper Xu have this dream?"

Xu Qing glanced at the person who asked, and said casually: "I haven't lived in the shop these days, I come to the shop to take care of it during the day, I don't close my eyes, so naturally I won't have dreams."

"Okay, I'll take a look for you. Maybe it's because our street is doing funeral business, so we attracted some unclean things. You don't have to worry, it's just a hairy bug. Wait for a while, I'll find a rooster that avoids evil, perform a ritual, and collect it."

"Then there is Shopkeeper Xu."

"This is not raw, everyone is a neighbor, there will be less contact in the future, don't be polite."

"..."

Contact? A group of neighbors heard this, and didn't feel anything at first. After all, everyone's business is related to the funeral industry, and there will be less contact, but when they saw Xu Qing's smiling expression, they felt uncomfortable all over.

This Shopkeeper Xu's eyes are more naked than a lecher looking at a good family woman!

Sending away a group of neighbors, Xu Qing reached out and took an egg from the basket.

The corpse tooth stretched out, pierced the eggshell, and the slightly fishy and sweet egg liquid had a different flavor.

But when Xu Qing sucked an egg and picked up the second one, he remembered one thing—

Almost forgot, he is now a zombie, no longer need to drink blood, eat those raw and cold food.

Leaning against the counter, Xu Qing was not in a hurry to perform rituals to clear the demonic atmosphere.

He hid his left hand under the counter, silently urging the mountain forest, black water, and gloomy fire to nurture his hand bones.

It wasn't until he saw Xuanyu, who was out for a walk, return that he stopped his hand movements.

"Xuanyu, come here!"

Xu Qing beckoned to Xuanyu and asked: "Where is the white bug you raised?"

Xuanyu jumped off the counter, bit the insect jar, Xu Qing took a look.

Good, this big white bug is still sleeping inside!

Let's say, where does it have such a big sleepiness?

Xu Qing waved his hand at Xuanyu and whispered in his ear.

Xuanyu's cat ears trembled, a little itchy.

A zombie and a cat whispered and muttered, and I don't know what secret words they were saying.

Anyway, after the words were finished, the lazy white bug that was sleeping in the insect jar was picked out by a big hand, and the next step was the three-hall trial.

Xuanyu's face was very serious. This bug, as a pet it raised, if it really made trouble outside and did bad things, then it, the cat master, would not be glorious.

Xu Qing, with the purpose of exploration, started from the dream giant white bug mentioned by the neighbors, and he thought of the lazy white bug that always liked to sleep in the thousand-insect jar.

In the way of witchcraft, there is no lack of dream-related insects, such as dream-stealing spiders, lovesickness bugs, dream-making bugs, etc.

Dream-stealing spiders are good at using spider silk to invade dreams, and through the vibration of spider silk, they can replicate other people's dreams to make trouble.

Lovesickness bugs pass feelings through dreams that are difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Dream-making bugs can weave dreams, making people fall into a dream cycle and unable to wake up.

Xu Qing learned a lot about insects when he transcended the Great Witch of the Son-Sending Temple.

These dream-related insects seem difficult to deal with, but in fact, it is not easy to drive them away!

According to Xu Qing, these dream-related insects are extremely rare. Except for finding the person who controls the insects to break the spell, there is only a rough way to maintain sobriety by one's own will.

But there is also a sentence inside, called—bugs enter with dreams.

What is called bugs enter with dreams? No matter how strong your will is, as long as you are tired, the dream bug will take advantage of the void.

You can resist once or twice, but if it lasts for a long time, people's spirit will inevitably wither. At that time, it will not be easy to get rid of the dream trouble.

Xuanyu didn't understand the bug's words, Xu Qing understood more foreign languages, but he could barely be a translator.

Since opening his ear consciousness, Xu Qing has been able to hear ghost words and god sounds, and can also communicate with birds, beasts, fish, and insects, but there are also differences in difficulty.

Birds and beasts have clear spirits, and language is easy to understand, while fish and insects have chaotic spirits, and communication is the most laborious.

The white bug before Xu Qing, although it has some spirituality, it is only some.

At this time, he interrogated the white bug, which was no different from communicating with a mute, and it was as laborious as it could be.

Fortunately, the fat white bug chirped and chirped, gesturing with its six small short hands, and Xu Qing could barely understand some things.

For example, the long-haired bug that is taller than the city gate tower in the mouth of the neighbors is the product of this little thing.

Xu Qing has heard of dream-stealing spiders and dream-making bugs, but this is the first time he has seen a bug that can change its form and gnaw on the memory of the dream owner.

Looking at the fat white bug before him, Xu Qing looked at it like a bear child. You say why are you so able to cause trouble?

Dozing off all day, he could cause trouble for him.

Fortunately, Senior Yizhen hasn't been here recently, otherwise if something went wrong when dreaming, I'm afraid Jin Luan would have come to ask for sin on the spot.

By then, if he wanted to handle that greedy chicken, he would have to go to the Bird and Flower Market and buy some bugs to block its mouth.

Xu Qing pulled his face and taught the white bug a lesson. He didn't know if the bug understood, anyway, it looked aggrieved, as if it realized its mistake.

Finally, Xuanyu also said seriously.

"Did you hear that? You can't cause trouble again in the future."

The tone was the same as an ordinary family of three educating a bear child, one playing the red face and one singing the white face.

Here, a zombie and a cat just finished family education, and a person walked into the mortuary shop.

White clothes and white boots, sword tassels fluttering, it is a good skin bag.

Xu Qing took a look, oh, this is a distinguished guest.

The person who came was not someone else, but the white-clothed swordsman Shang Shaoyang whom Xu Qing met at the noodle stall when he first returned to Linjiang County.

Why is this person a distinguished guest? A jianghu hero who kills people when he says he kills, without any ambiguity, isn't he a distinguished guest in his mortuary shop!

Whether it is killing thieves or bandits, or being caught by the government and beheaded, in the end, they have to walk through his place.

But this person was taken away by the government, how come he came out after only a few days?

Shang Shaoyang looked at the environment of the mortuary shop and nodded with satisfaction.

"It's hot and unbearable outside, but this place is quite cool, not bad!"

Xu Qing was happy, swept the coffin lid with his sleeve, and greeted: "Brother, sit down and talk."

"..."

Shang Shaoyang held the sword and remained unmoved.

Xu Qing didn't care, sat on the coffin by himself, and asked: "Brother killed several people on the street. According to the Great Yong Law, it is a capital crime. Now that you appear here, is it possible that you escaped from prison?"

Shang Shaoyang looked down at Xu Qing and said faintly: "I said, I am a direct descendant of the Qianxi Shang family. The official character is written for these big clans. Those who bully the good and fear the evil, kill them if they kill them. The government will not uphold justice for them."

"But this official side has to be justified..."

"What to say? I killed the river pirates, the government rewarded me with two hundred taels of silver, what else can I say? Do you still want me to wear red silk and ride a horse to tour the street?"

"..."

Xu Qing was speechless.

If the world is full of such bullying second-generation ancestors, why worry that the world is not clear?

Shang Shaoyang scanned the furnishings in the shop. There was only a rattan chair near the counter.

But a black cat was resting on that rattan chair at this time.

He didn't want to sit on the coffin, so he had no choice but to stand.

"How should I address you?"

Shang Shaoyang raised his eyebrows and asked.

Xu Qing smiled and said: "My surname is Xu, you can call me Shopkeeper Xu, Mr. Xu, or Boss Xu!"

"Boss Xu, when I left the noodle stall, I heard you soliciting business on the street..."

Shang Shaoyang paused and continued: "Now I have a friend who needs to be buried, please ask Boss Xu to arrange it properly."

After speaking, Shang Shaoyang took out the funeral expenses, which were exactly two one-hundred-tael banknotes.

"These are counted as funeral expenses, Boss Xu doesn't need to find change."

Xu Qing looked at Shang Shaoyang. This person's free and easy nature is really like a jianghu hero walking in the world.

"Brother, don't worry, as long as it is a guest accepted by my mortuary shop, it will definitely make them feel at home."

"I don't know where the guest is now, do you want me to go and welcome them, or temporarily pick them up here to stop?"

Shang Shaoyang shook his head and said: "No need to bother, the government officials will send her here later."

Xu Qing poured a cup of tea for the other party, and Shang Shaoyang did not refuse.

Not long after, two government officials drove a carriage and sent a corpse wrapped in a straw mat.

Xu Qing collected the corpse, spread out the straw mat and took a look, and was stunned for a moment.

Not for anything else, just because the corpse before him was the woman who asked Shang Shaoyang for food.

Xu Qing looked up at Shang Shaoyang, who lowered his eyelids and remained silent.

Shaking his head, Xu Qing didn't intend to ask him.

Three sticks of incense were inserted in front of the corpse, and a pair of candles were lit at the heel of the corpse. Next was the makeup of the corpse.

Xu Qing was focused, carefully repairing the face and dressing the female corpse before him.

When it was almost done, Xu Qing looked at the revolving lantern of the female corpse under his hand.

The female corpse's original name was Yu Qiulan, and she was originally a good family member in Yaozhou. Needlework and needlework, it can be said that she was proficient in everything. Ten miles and eight villages praised her as a good woman. Whoever can marry her home in the future will be a blessing for two lifetimes...

Later, Yaozhou had a sudden flood, and the Yu family moved the whole family, but how can natural disasters be avoided, and human disasters are difficult to prevent.

The Yu family's few people finally crossed thousands of miles to come to another province, but encountered thieves burning, killing, and looting. Some of those thieves could vaguely see armor inside their clothes. These people killed and robbed money, and didn't forget to cut off people's heads and bring them together.

The Yu family's few people could not be spared. Only she was amused by those thieves because of some beauty. Finally, when she was about to approach the city wall, the leader suddenly ordered her to be executed.

Fortunately, the teenager who was ordered to execute had some conscience. During the execution, he gave her a way to live.

Yu Qiulan listened to the teenager's words and screamed miserably, only then did she save her life.

However, the road to escape disaster was destined to be uneven. Yu Qiulan just escaped from the tiger's mouth and was hungry. A passerby human trafficker took out a deed of sale and asked her to sign and draw a press, but the selling money was just a full meal that saved her life.

Yu Qiulan knew what signing and drawing a press meant, but she didn't refuse.

When food and clothing are sufficient, you know honor and disgrace, but when people are extremely hungry, they have no dignity.

In the end, everything is just to live.

Xu Qing continued to look back. Yu Qiulan followed the human trafficker all the way to Jinmen. On the way, she saw many refugees who couldn't even eat a mouthful of food, and she felt inexplicably lucky for a moment.

Being a prostitute doesn't seem to be bad.

She was just a bitter person who sought survival in the cracks and lived under the stick. After saving enough money in the future, she would redeem herself, and all the pain would pass.

But when Yu Qiulan arrived in Jinmen, she found that those human traffickers just treated her as livestock to earn silver, and didn't treat her as a person at all.

Xu Qing frowned and quickly skipped some pictures that even he, a zombie, felt unbearable to look at.

It wasn't until he saw Shang Shaoyang helping the other party out of the sea of suffering in front of the noodle stall that Xu Qing's face eased slightly.

It's just that the good times didn't last long. Since Shang Shaoyang was taken away by the government, Yu Qiulan felt that she had harmed her benefactor. What face did she have to survive in the world?

Just like that, a woman who traveled thousands of miles just to survive, finally had hope of living, but cut off her own way of life again.

Finally, the Scripture of Saving People gave a reward, a Human-grade, high-quality rice bowl.

Although the rice bowl is only Human-grade, high quality, it is a magic treasure that can be infinitely improved in grade.

It is said that when the Taiping Dao uprising occurred, they borrowed a bowl from the Five Pecks of Rice Sect, which is the fellow disciples of the Orthodox One Sect. The name of this bowl is the rice bowl.

The rice bowl is considered the treasure of the Orthodox One Sect, but after the Taiping Dao was destroyed, this bowl was completely lost. Some people say that the magic treasure is self-obscure, and some people say that the rice bowl is born in response to the fortune, and it comes out in response to the tribulation. At present, the trace of the rice bowl is not seen, just because the time has not come.

Therefore, everyone says that the birth of the rice bowl is the year of the great tribulation when the starving people are everywhere and the people cannot live.

The so-called great tribulation and small tribulation also have sayings. There are small tribulations of yin and yang and great tribulations of water, fire, and soldiers. Small tribulations cannot be avoided by ordinary people, and great tribulations cannot be escaped by the honorable and noble.

This is fate. If the fortune comes, you live; if the fortune is exhausted, you die.

The rice bowl can collect endless rice and grain, which is the product born in response to the tribulation.

Xu Qing looked at the bowl before him, thinking, is it really going to be the year of the great tribulation?

(End of chapter)