Chapter 35: Not a Family, Don't Enter a Family

Killing and setting fire brings a golden belt, building bridges and repairing roads has no corpse bones.

In the current world, the treacherous sit high in the bright hall, and the loyal lie low under the eaves. There are often sighs of valley colts, but no phoenixes perching.

Those who build bridges and repair roads have no food to fill their stomachs and cannot make ends meet. Those who kill and set fire walk through the market with wealth.

Linhe now has a cleaner, who doesn't show his shape or reveal his outside on weekdays, but often does things like stopping killing with killing and treating fire with fire. Over time, although there is no merit in building bridges and repairing roads, it makes the heavy world a little clearer, which can be considered as immeasurable merit.

The night mist was heavy. Xu Qing finished handling the things at hand, pushed the flatbed cart and went out. He hadn't walked a few streets when he heard the watchman's shouting:

"Third watch, all is well—dong! —dong, dong!"

Immediately followed by the slow and two fast watch-beating sounds.

The flatbed cart creaked past. The watchman came face to face. When he saw Xu Qing, he took a look with a lantern. He felt familiar, but he didn't think of who it was. He should have seen it somewhere before...

Seeing Xu Qing looking sideways, the watchman smiled and said: "I think you look familiar. In the middle of the night, you are still out pulling work?"

Xu Qing looked at the copper gong in the watchman's hand and the clapper cylinder hanging on his waist, thinking that if he lifted the cloth cover on the flatbed cart, the next moment the other party would beat the copper gong fiercely, pulling his rooster throat and shouting "Murder! Robbers are out to kill! Everyone wake up! Prevent theft and theft—"

Tsk, it's really troublesome. No wonder thieves hate watchmen and dogs the most. Both of them have loud voices!

Xu Qing stopped the cart, turned out a bank note from the Heaven and Earth Bank used for burning to the dead from his pocket, took out a charcoal pen and wrote on it.

After writing, he handed the paper to the watchman, bared his teeth and smiled: "To tell you the truth, I just bought a new house yesterday, and I'm planning to move things that can't fit in the shop over there. But since you asked, this is my shop's main business, you might as well understand it!"

The watchman took the dead paper money, looked at it roughly with a lantern, and didn't understand it.

"I don't know characters, you tell me, what business does your shop have?"

Xu Qing smiled shyly and stated the various service items of his mortuary shop simply and clearly.

In short, whether it's looking at graves for the living or lying in coffins for the dead, you can come! Even if you don't have money, it doesn't matter. The shop also has new items for charitable care.

Even if you are wandering the streets, have no money or silver, and are a beggar who froze or starved to death, as long as someone helps send you over, you will be arranged for burial for free, ensuring that you can be buried in the soil, and you will want to come again next time you are reincarnated!

The watchman's face turned green when he heard this. After asking, it turned out to be a dead person's shop that had just opened on Jingxia Street not long ago.

No wonder he felt the other party looked familiar. His second grandfather died not long ago, and wasn't it this person who did the ritual and funeral?

The watchman thought to himself, you can shut up quickly. You dare to say anything dirty. With your dead person's shop, even if you invite me with an eight-carrying sedan chair, I wouldn't bother to go!

The two people running work at night parted unhappily. Xu Qing returned to the new house. The two pits dug in the courtyard in advance could only bury two people. He had no choice, picked up the hoe and iron shovel again, dug four new pits, and only then buried all the corpses transported this trip.

The night was quiet, Xu Qing leaned on the iron shovel, looking at the fertile land in front of him, where more than twenty corpses were lying, just waiting to gather a hundred, waiting for the evil spirit to condense and refine, and then he could bear the fruit of the Chang general ghost soldiers!

However, although the feng shui of the new house was good, there was still potential that hadn't been fully excavated.

Early the next morning, Xu Qing ended his cultivation of swallowing moonlight and yin energy. At the time when the sky was about to be bright but not yet bright, he headed to the Miscellaneous Street in the East Market.

At this time, the residual lanterns illuminated the market. Through the thin dawn, one could vaguely see the high-tiled pavilions in the distance.

Xu Qing stepped into the Miscellaneous Street. The merchants who got up earlier than chickens had already started business.

There were also people of various colors walking and stopping in the morning market on the street.

Xu Qing turned around the street and the end of the street, but found that the corpse-refining materials for breaking through the silver-clad wandering corpse had reached a bottleneck. He had been paying attention for a long time, but hadn't collected the last few key items.

"Yin Ghost Jade, Old Cat Evil, Ghost Face Soil Three Feet Under the Grave..."

Each of these things was not a common item in the market. It had to be found through the channels of the Yin Sect industry.

Xu Qing wanted to find the hunter he had dealt with before to ask about this, but that hunter hadn't been seen for several days, and he didn't know if he had gotten those dozens of taels of silver and was too lazy to come out to sell fur again...

However, he didn't come to this morning market just to find corpse-raising materials, but intended to find some items that could improve feng shui to further excavate the potential of his haunted house!

All morning, Xu Qing pushed the flatbed cart, which was full of all kinds of strange objects.

Like locust tree seedlings that could raise yin and gather evil, swaying bell flowers that could sense corpse energy and bear fruit similar to paulownia bells, as well as evil-welcoming beasts, cow skulls, pig skulls, as well as antique chairs with missing legs, strange Buddha statues of unknown origin, and dressing mirrors that could distort people's faces when reflected...

These gloomy and broken objects that ordinary people avoided like snakes and scorpions were, on the contrary, infinitely useful to him.

After planting the locust tree seedlings in the courtyard and sowing the swaying bell flower seeds, Xu Qing spent a lot of effort to hang various animal heads in the ventilated place. After they were naturally air-dried, they were beautiful decorations.

Outside the mortuary shop, Xu Qing just returned the flatbed cart borrowed from the coffin shop on the street, and before he had time to open the shop for business, he saw a strange client holding bacon gifts, wandering at the door of his shop.

The customer was wearing a gray long gown, with a bun tied on his half-white temples. Besides that, he also had a clean white towel draped over his shoulders.

Xu Qing raised his eyebrows at this dress and strode over to open the door for business.

No matter who it was, the visitor was a guest. Could he be afraid?

"Are you Liu Shi's disciple?" The half-hundred old scholar holding the bacon gift suddenly asked.

"Yeah!" Xu Qing took down the door panel, raised his chin, and looked quite proud.

"..."

Wang Lingyuan sighed faintly, revealing a reminiscent expression.

"The old man also studied under Liu Shi for a period of time... It's a pity that I couldn't enter Liu Shi's eyes. But I didn't expect that he would accept you as a disciple now."

"..." This time it was Xu Qing's turn to be silent.

What kind of development is this? Liu Youdao's former follower came to find him, the current disciple, to reminisce about the past?

After entering the shop, Wang Lingyuan looked around roughly. Before he could look carefully, he saw the memorial tablets of Liu Shi and Yang Shigong.

"Liu Shi has really left..." He muttered to himself, and then said to Xu Qing: "I learned art under Liu Shi. Speaking of which, he can be considered half a mentor to me. Please borrow two sticks of incense to let me worship, to express my respect and love."

Xu Qing had no objection, and the two simply worshipped together.

In the end, Wang Lingyuan couldn't help but ask him about Liu Youdao's cause of death.

Xu Qing shook his head and sighed, his face unable to hide his deep pain and sorrow.

He only said that the son wanted to provide for his parents but they were not there. He thought that the Heavenly Heart Sect evil person came and went without a trace, and he, as a disciple, wanted to avenge his master, but couldn't do it.

It was really shameful to his heart, shameful to his former master, and also shameful to heaven and earth.

Xu Qing narrated the past with seven parts true and three parts false. Wang Lingyuan felt the same, and also showed sorrow and tears.

It was really the creation of people.

"Brother Xu, you are alone. If there is anything you need help with, just come to the guard room to find me. Although I am just a mortician who examines corpses, I have places where I can help."

Seeing Wang Lingyuan's true feelings, Xu Qing simply went with the flow and did a favor: "Brother studied art under my master first, so the two also have a master-disciple relationship. In the future, Brother might as well call me Junior Brother, no need to be too distant."

"Then Junior Brother?"

"Hey, Senior Brother!"

Wang Lingyuan's beard trembled with excitement. Xu Qing took the opportunity to ask: "Senior Brother examines corpses in the guard room, which can be considered a skill to make a living. To tell you the truth, I also want to learn a skill to make a living. I don't know if I can follow Senior Brother in my spare time to be an apprentice of corpse examination..."

"Of course, I don't need wages. Junior Brother just loves to learn this kind of skill, no other meaning."

"Junior Brother is so eager to learn, no wonder Liu Shi would accept you as a disciple. I am ashamed of myself." Wang Lingyuan sighed again when he heard this. As for Xu Qing's request to learn art, he naturally agreed happily.

Afterward, Wang Lingyuan discussed the past of examining corpses and investigating crime scenes, and his words were full of respect for Liu Youdao.

Perhaps he still had doubts about Xu Qing's identity, so he asked about professional topics such as how corpse-driving craftsmen raise corpses, collect corpses, and refine corpses.

Xu Qing answered fluently from beginning to end, and there were many brand-new insights into corpses in his words. Wang Lingyuan was also a fellow practitioner who loved corpses. When he heard the wonderful parts, he couldn't help but praise them again and again.

He only said that he was worthy of being Liu Shi's high disciple. Although he was older, he didn't learn one ten-thousandth of what his Junior Brother learned.

In just one or two hours, two strangers who had never met before suddenly became a family because of talking about corpses.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 36 =====