Chapter 31: Two-Faced Three-Knife Technique

No matter which dynasty or generation, buying a house and land is a big deal. It's not like you pay the money, I open my mouth and agree, and the transaction is completed.

That's just playing around.

In Dayong, if you want to buy a house and land, you must first draw up a contract between the buyer and the seller, and then go to pay the deed tax. Only after the government's approval is the transaction considered complete.

Xu Qing drafted a contract with the agency manager, and then went to the government office together to be registered by the clerk in charge of household registration.

After doing this, he still had to pay for several "official deeds" himself.

There were four copies of the official deed in total, and each copy had to be exchanged with real gold and silver.

The clerk in charge of handling the house deed was clearly an old acquaintance of the agency manager. Upon meeting, after greeting and asking about the house information, the clerk was happy.

He almost said the witty remark "Welcome Manager Xu to come again when selling the house" to his face.

"This house is not just good; you are truly blessed!" When the clerk said this, his face didn't even turn red, because he had already turned red when he handled this house before!

The clerk only cared about doing his own work. As for whether the person who bought the haunted house lived or died, it had nothing to do with him.

After handling the contract, the matter wasn't over. Xu Qing still had to go to the Tax Department to pay the "deed tax."

After the whole process, he didn't feel tired. After all, if he found these things troublesome, where would he get a big house to hide more corpses in the future?

Dayong Dynasty, if nothing else, the efficiency of handling things with money is fast. Xu Qing went to the Tax Department in the afternoon, and the official deed was delivered to the agency in the evening.

Seeing Xu Qing happy after receiving the house deed, Fourth Master Li, who still had some conscience, finally couldn't hold it back.

Others might not know, but he knew it clearly!

Was that house of Old Third Huang's for people to live in? That was clearly a haunted house he used to "give birth to cubs" to support his own old age!

"Brother Xu, I don't think you're a stupid person. Don't be confused. We know our own business. That house really can't house living people!"

Xu Qing thought to himself, I never said I was a living person!

Besides, no matter how haunted the haunted house is, can it be more haunted than him, a real zombie?

"I appreciate Fourth Master's kindness, but I must live in this house!"

Xu Qing ignored Fourth Master Li's dissuasion, only saying that he knew a little about feng shui and it wouldn't matter.

The agency manager on the side also followed: "Fourth Master, Manager Xu is a capable person. Maybe he can really bring that house to life..."

Fourth Master Li shook his head when he heard this. Don't talk about bringing it to life; as long as there are no more dead people in it in the future, that's enough!

Sunset, dusk, lanterns gradually lit up.

Outside the mortuary shop, Xu Qing borrowed a flatbed cart from Hu Baosong, then put the corpses that had been squeezed of value in the coffins onto the cart, and covered them with coarse cloth.

He was just tucking the corners of the quilt for the corpses on the cart when Wu Yaoxing of the paper-craft shop suddenly opened a door panel and greeted him.

"Yo, Brother Xu, you're finally back!"

"I haven't seen you all day. I just heard movement and thought I'd come out to see. Why do you look like this? Are you going out again?"

Xu Qing tucked the coarse cloth and said with a smile: "I just rented a courtyard, and I'm planning to move the things that can't fit in the shop over there."

Wu Yaoxing came to the front and looked at the bulging flatbed cart that seemed to be full of goods, and didn't think much.

"You weren't here today. Two people came to find you one after another. One was the mortician from the guard room who came last time, and the other was quite unfamiliar. Looking at his mourning appearance, he was probably looking for you to handle things because someone died in his family..."

Xu Qing didn't care: "Fate brings people together from a thousand miles away; without fate, they won't meet face to face. This is fate not arriving, and it's meant to be missed."

Wu Yaoxing smacked his lips and joked half-jokingly: "Brother Xu seems to have read books. You speak in sets. I think you might as well go to the spring exam with my boy tomorrow and take a scholar's exam..."

Scholar? Xu Qing was happy. He had opened the "Book of Documents" on a scholar before. This book was a collection of Dayong's classics and articles. Let alone a scholar, even if he took a provincial graduate exam, it wouldn't be a problem.

But it was useless for him to take that. He didn't intend to be an official. If you say taking a scholar's exam to exempt miscellaneous taxes and corvee labor, that would be a bit practical.

After the small episode at the shop entrance, Xu Qing pushed the small flatbed cart and creaked into the street alleys.

At this time, the clouds were floating, the moonlight was bright and dark, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the street.

The new house was five or six miles away from the shop.

Xu Qing walked through the streets and alleys. Just as he was about to go halfway, there was a sound of gravel knocking and shaking.

He looked sideways at the sound and saw cats walking and jumping along the eaves of the houses connected to the roadside.

Xu Qing withdrew his gaze and continued to push the flatbed cart unhurriedly.

Before long, there was another ethereal bell sound coming from around, near and far.

"This bell sound is a bit familiar."

The cart hub stopped turning. Xu Qing held his breath and concentrated. With a shake of his wide sleeves, a pair of finger tigers were put on his hands.

The wind was silent, and there was no one on the night road.

Suddenly, a sound of gravel breaking rang out abruptly. Xu Qing didn't think, his whole body was like a cannonball out of the chamber, his legs exerted force instantly, and in an explosive posture, he retreated three feet away!

In place, the unknown creature that attacked from overhead smashed heavily on the ground, and a sound that didn't sound like a human roar came from it.

Xu Qing was fully prepared, focused his eyes and looked.

Often in contact with corpses, he saw the strangeness of the other party at a glance. His nostrils flared, and the Qi-Gazing Art unfolded.

Xu Qing smelled the familiar corpse smell coming from the air and saw the gray-white mist emitted from the other party.

Combined with the bell sound he heard earlier, he already had a judgment in his heart.

This is a fellow practitioner who wants his life!

At the same time he retreated and dodged, another zombie blocked his way not far behind him.

The bell sound rang again, not any melody in the corpse-driving spell, but a spell he had never known before, full of killing intent.

Looking at the fierce zombies attacking from both sides, Xu Qing thought calmly and gave up the idea of using finger tigers to fight violently.

Originally, he thought the one attacking him was a strong person in the Jianghu, or some night bandit.

Now looking closely, it turned out to be two thick-skinned zombies controlled by a fellow practitioner, and they hadn't even been refined into iron-clad corpses.

Seeing the two "lively" corpses killing to the front, Xu Qing silently took out the corpse-driving whip from his sleeve pocket.

Like to pretend to be a corpse and scare people in the middle of the night, right?

Xu Qing waved the human-grade superior corpse-driving whip. Only a bang was heard in the silent dark night, and the deep red and black whip, like a spinning top, heavily whipped the attacking zombies.

He had a bit of anger in his heart, and when he whipped the whip, he used all his strength!

Really treat him as a corpse-driver for nothing, what kind of corpse dares to run in front of him and shake!

The two zombies had never seen such a fierce person. After a round of rattan stir-fry meat, the bell sound controlling them from afar was broken.

Xu Qing taught the two zombies who wanted to escape a lesson while unfolding the Qi-Gazing Art to search for the position of the controller behind him.

Finally, the whip sound stopped, and only two twitching corpses remained on the ground.

Xu Qing put away the corpse-driving whip and walked straight to the alley at the corner of the street.

About two feet away from the alley entrance, a hoarse and low voice suddenly came from the deep and dark alley:

"Young man, don't go any further. Today's matter ends here."

Xu Qing's footsteps paused, and the hand wearing the finger tiger was clenched into a fist.

Then, he continued to step forward.

Don't go forward? You hide in the alley in the middle of the night, drive corpses to scare people, and now that you see the situation is not right, you want to run. How big is your face?

"Enough!"

Seeing that he was still going forward, the person hiding in the short alley seemed to be really anxious.

"Boy, you just arrived in Linhe, I won't care about you, but as a senior, I must warn you: the corpses in Linhe are not yours alone. Other families also need to leave a mouthful of food. You collect corpses for four taels each, which has already cut off other families' financial path. I am kindly reminding you now that tonight's matter is considered a tie, neither of us owes the other, and I won't find trouble with you in the future..."

Xu Qing stared at the dead alley in front of him and asked a soul-searching question: "Do you really think it can sneak attack me?"

Before the words fell, Xu Qing's face suddenly twisted, and another face appeared on the back of his head.

At the same time, he showed a baring smile at the cat-faced zombie that sneaked behind him.

Two-Faced Three-Knife Technique!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 32 =====