Chapter 63: Cut to the knee
Such a bargain is not a cut in half at all, but a direct cut to the knee! Speaking of it, it is no different from a robbery.
You must know that the rent of houses and shops is not selling cabbage on the street, you can shout when you open your mouth, and it is already difficult to cut one or two golden beans.
"Hehehe...... Hahaha......" Ma Pan was stunned for a moment, and then knocked on the table with a cigarette stick, and the cigarette ash fell to the ground. He chuckled, and at last he simply laughed, and even the tea on the table shook out.
"Hmph!" After a moment, Ma Fan slapped the table violently, making a "pop" sound, which frightened Liu Sheng and the shopkeeper.
Although the old man was thin, his anger was extremely vicious, and he was quite imposing.
"Boy, are you running over and deliberately teasing the old man......!?" Ma Pan roared, and there was a faint murderous aura in his voice.
Liu Sheng had already stood up, looking wary, but Xu Hao was still unmoving, the old god was there, bowing his head and holding the teacup lid and drawing calmly.
Everyone's eyes were focused on him, and even the air pressure in the air suddenly dropped.
"......Huh" Xu Hao put down the teacup, sighed, looked up at Liu Sheng and the shopkeeper and said, "Please go out first." ”
The two hesitated, especially the shopkeeper, glanced at Ma Pan, and only then retreated after getting permission.
"Ma Lao was digging in the soil when he was young, right?" Xu Hao's voice was calm, and he said a simple sentence, but this sentence was more shocking than the words he had just bargained! The so-called digging in the soil is good, to put it bluntly, he is a tomb robber!
In Xiluo Continent, tomb robbery is an extremely immoral thing, it is known that he can't raise his head for the rest of his life, and even if he is killed, he will never reveal the slightest, Ma Pan suddenly got up, his eyes glared angrily, and he shouted with extreme vigilance: "Nonsense! Who are you! What do you want to do?"
At first, his old god was there, and he kept his composure, but now he was nervous by a word.
"Don't be afraid. Xu Hao's voice was calm, more and more unfathomable, and continued: "I smelled it from the moment I entered the door, only people who have eaten in the soil have that musty smell on their bodies, I call it corpse poison...... If you earn enough money but fall ill, your body will gradually become spots, your bones will be painful and fragile, especially on rainy days. ”
Ma Pan's whole body was shocked, his old face twitched, extremely ugly, his calmness and self-cultivation quickly collapsed, his secret didn't even know much about his wife, but it was told by such a little guy, it was terrible!
"You can smell this, this, this with your nose......" He couldn't believe it, his face changing suddenly, and sweat slid down his cheeks. The heart is like turning over the sea, thinking about various possibilities and the purpose of the other party.
"Of course, it is impossible to rely on smell alone, but it is only based on comprehensive judgment based on experience. Xu Hao looked at him and replied directly, while continuing: "For so many years, you must have no way to seek medical treatment and suffer a lot. ”
Ma Pan stared at him, his eyes rolled, and after a while, he suddenly said, "Little brother wants to take down my shop and open a pharmacy instead...... Is it ......? Do you have a way to cure my disease——?
The old man was quite clever and thought of the possibility in an instant.
"If you can cure my illness, you can ...... anything" Ma Fan's words came to an abrupt end, and he completely understood that Xu Hao was going to exchange with himself to reduce the rent.
Twelve golden beans became five......
"Seven golden beans...... This...... Isn't it too expensive...... "He said bitterly, for people, the consumption power of golden beans is quite high! It is difficult for ordinary people to save a few golden beans in their lifetime.
For the poor, it is even possible to buy a few human lives!
At the beginning, Sun Chu, the village doctor, used five golden beans to rent a courtyard in Cloud City during the full moon tide, and he was indeed slaughtered, which can be said to have almost emptied the old man's money.
"And the price is for three years. Xu Hao clasped his hands and looked at the old man playfully, there was no room for turning, profiteers, who was more treacherous.
If you are soft-hearted, you can only wait to suffer!
No matter how experienced Ma Fan is in this regard, his concentration is not as good as the former poison path devil.
"This—well! As long as you can cure me, five golden beans will be five!" the old man gritted his teeth fiercely, as if he had torn off a piece of flesh from himself, and he could imagine that after all, he had exchanged his life for money.
Xu Hao looked at him with a smile, in fact, he could have been more ruthless.
But the tomb robber is an evil end, and he is despised by others like his Five Poisons Sect, and he is still merciful here.
"Deal!" Xu Hao smiled and got up, originally wanted to use Gu magic to control this guy, but he didn't want to meet a tomb robber.
If so, things will be simple.
"Boss...... What are you talking about......" On the way back, Liu Shengne asked, his brain was still buzzing, and when he first heard the price of rent, he almost knelt down for Xu Hao!
If you change it to yourself, you don't know how to negotiate this kind of price if you want to break your head.
Xu Hao smiled and didn't answer, Ma Fan's privacy can't be easily revealed, even if it's his own person. Now the top priority is to help the old man get rid of the poison in his body.
"Corpse poison ......" Xu Hao frowned, this poison is very different from ordinary poisons, it is very difficult to remove, especially for such a long time, after penetrating into the inner abdominal bone marrow, it is almost equivalent to a terminal illness.
And although you have the means, you also need to find specific medicinal materials.
Back in the room, Xu Hao cleaned up a little, and he left the county alone in the evening.
In the distance, the Broken Sky Mountain Range stretched across the earth, pitch black and blind, and the vastness reached straight to the sky.
Not long after the full moon tide, the wilderness was still a ruined scene, the trees were crooked, and the smell of rancid smell was raging. Accompanied by the white-haired wind, whining and crying, like a hundred ghosts howling at night.
Occasionally, there are residual poisonous insects hissing and rustling, and the scalp of those who listen to it is numb.
The mist was shrouded in the trees and jungle, and the forest was cold and lonely, and it would not be surprising if a ghost fire suddenly erupted in such a place.
However, Xu Hao didn't care at all, walking in the desolate wilderness was like walking on flat ground. His thin body was like a spring, containing great strength.
The sky is getting dark, the moon is high and the wind is tight, and the cold is biting.
The mountain road of the "Blind Village ......" is desolate, Xu Hao thinks about it while walking, this is the news that Liu Sheng helped to hear, as the village that suffered the most from the full moon tide, the village was almost completely wiped out, only some old and weak remained, and the situation was extremely miserable.
Xu Hao's purpose here is the "Flame Scorpion", which is more poisonous than ordinary fire scorpions, and it is a fierce yang poison. Only by finding this thing can Ma Fan's corpse poison be cured.
The Blind Village is the most likely, this place is located in the southwest of the county town, close to the Broken Sky Mountains, even if you take the official road to walk a full two days, and the road is muddy and rugged is very difficult to walk.