The two returned along the same road, and under Wan Ning's constant persuasion, Yun Youzi finally no longer had a cold face, and Wan Ning could occasionally barely have a few words of communication that were not salty or light.

"Shopkeeper Kui, is Brother Zhou awake? ”

Wan Ning saw the shopkeeper sitting at the door of the Zhou Mansion at a glance, he walked over and said with a smile.

"Thank God, you're okay, you don't know how worried the boss and I are about you, he is now waiting for you to come back in the hall, and as for Zhou Jiang, that kid is also in the hall waiting for the boss's fate... I wonder who this is...?"

Seeing Wan Ning return safely, the shopkeeper Kui was surprised and delighted, took his hand and said in a loud voice, and then the shopkeeper looked at the blue-clothed young man behind Wan Ning, and asked with some doubts.

"This is my cousin, who is also a spiritual cultivator, who used to work for people in Chang'an Mansion, and I was worried that it would be difficult to capture the thief, so I specially called him for help. ”

Wan Ning explained to Shopkeeper Kui without blushing and heartbeat, then turned his head and winked at Yun Youzi.

"I've seen Shopkeeper Kui. ”

Yun Youzi wouldn't be able to slap his face here, and it was impossible for him to reveal his identity by himself, so he still replied respectfully to Shopkeeper Kui.

"Daoist friends are very polite. ”

Seeing that the young man in blue was so polite, without any spiritual shelf, and seeing his handsome appearance, he couldn't help but feel good, and he didn't ask anything else, so he let Yun Youzi enter the house.

"Brother Zhou, are you sober?"

When Wan Ning walked into the hall, he saw Zhou Tai who was sitting at the head, so he hugged his fists and greeted.

"It's better not to wake up with this wine. During the time you left, Zhou Jiang had already explained everything to me, and I don't know what Brother Wan gained from chasing the murderer this time. ”

Zhou Tai sighed softly, looking at Zhou Jiang who was trembling in the corner, his face turned cold again.

"There must be a harvest, otherwise I would have worked hard all night. ”

Wan Ning smiled at Zhou Tai, took out a small box from the storage ring, opened the lock with a "bang", and then pushed the box to Zhou Tai.

"Ahh !!Yes... Everyone who is a wandering Taoist... Head !!"

Out of curiosity, Zhou Jiang, who was standing on the side, also leaned over to watch, but was frightened by the terrifying sight and stammered.

"Brother Wan didn't expect that he was also a decisive person. ”

Unexpectedly, Zhou Tai not only did not feel disgusted, but he picked up the head, looked at it carefully, and then put it in the box, buckled the wooden cover, and there was a look of admiration for Wanning in his words.

"I fought fiercely with that Taoist all night, and in the end he was seriously wounded, and I wanted to use the Escape Technique to die, in order to stop his spiritual art, I had to cut off his head with a sword, so I brought it back to you for an errand. ”

Wan Ning talked eloquently, describing the thrilling and dangerous battle, coupled with the human head on the table that everyone confirmed, no one suspected that he was lying, except for the real Yun Youzi and the little plum blossom in the Wanning Divine Sea.

"In this case, even if Brother Wan's task is completed, in addition to the basic remuneration of one thousand spirit stones promised before, whatever you want, as long as I, Zhou Tai, can do it. ”

Zhou Tai gave Shopkeeper Kui a look, Shopkeeper Kui immediately took out a storage ring from his pocket and handed it to Wan Ning, Wan Ning infiltrated it with his divine thoughts and counted it slightly, and it did contain a thousand spirit stones, no more, no less.

"To be honest, I do need one more thing from Brother Zhou. ”

Wan Ning twisted for a long time, but still decided to say, after all, he still emphasizes face, but he has to take his life.

"You want something, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

Zhou Tai said unsurprisingly, he thought that Wanning had indeed helped him a lot, and it was understandable to ask for more money.

"I want the pine snow incense stone from before. ”

After a long time, Wan Ning still said this. After all, he didn't think that Zhou Tai would definitely give it to him, because Zhou Jiang did not hesitate to act with Yun Youzi for the sake of that gem before, Wan Ning didn't think that he would let Zhou Tai agree to the request if he didn't say a word.

"That's easy to say, shopkeeper Kui, go get the pine snow incense stone. ”

I didn't expect Zhou Tai to say so cheerfully, without the slightest perfunctory in his words.

"Father, why did you give away this pine snow incense stone so preciously..."

Zhou Jiang saw that the stone he had tried his best to seize was actually given to Wanning like this, and he said unwillingly.

"Shut up, you're not my son anymore. Brother Wan, don't mind going out with me first. ”

Who knew that Zhou Tai waved his hand at Zhou Jiang tiredly, leaving Zhou Jiang, who was at a loss for what to do, and walked towards the gate.

"Well... Well said, the cloud... Uh, Ah Yun, you wait for me in the Zhou Mansion first, and I'll be back later. ”

Wan Ning followed Zhou Tai and walked out, then turned his head and instructed Yun Youzi, and in a panic, he almost blurted out the three words Yun Youzi.

Yun Youzi nodded silently at him, which was a response.

"Do you know what's going on with the whole layout? Zhou Jiang had already confessed to me last night. ”

Zhou Tai asked Wan Ning. This was the first time they went out without taking a sedan chair, Zhou Tai walked in front, Wan Ning followed him behind, and he didn't know where the middle-aged man in front of him was going.

"I don't know. Wan Ning didn't have time to ask Yun Youzi, he really didn't know.

"The general details are similar to ours, but behind it is Yun Youzi who made a thousand dollars in the gambling house, so that Zhou Jiang owes him a huge gambling debt, Zhou Jiang can't take out so much money, and he also knows that he can't ask me for money now. ”

"At this time, Yun Youzi proposed that he only needed the pine snow incense stone in my hand to pay off the debt, so there were those things after that. ”

As the two walked, Mannings suddenly found himself back in front of the slum grave again.

"But why do they draw paper ghosts like that? ”

Wan Ning lightly buckled the jade tube hanging from his waist, looked at the endless large and small tomb bags, and said suddenly.

"That's a period of my past before, I originally wanted to hide it like this for the rest of my life, but I didn't expect the crooked beating to be dug up by Zhou Jiang, it seems that God destined me not to bury my sins until I die. ”

Zhou Tai led Wan Ning to a small tomb, he squatted down with difficulty, and carefully lit three fine incense sticks. At the head of the grave stands a simple tombstone with the words "Liu Li, Liu Anxin Burial Tomb".

"It seems that Brother Zhou still has something to hide from his brother. ”

Wan Ning casually found an empty place to sit down and said lightly.

"Actually, in my self-description to you that day, I missed a paragraph, of course, I buried it on purpose, but now my wife and children are gone, and I am already alone. And being haunted by their souls, although they were fake, for so long, I finally let go of these things and decided to face my sins calmly. ”

Zhou Tai was fat and couldn't squat for too long, so he also sat in front of the tombstone with Wan Ning. He raised his head and looked at the girls in Dongchun Building who were still early in the distance and sent the man away in disheveled clothes, with a look of memory on his face, and continued-

"After my wife died of illness, I also liberated my long-suppressed nature, crazy nonsense, drunk and dreamed of death in the Spring Garden of the Red Mansion every day, and occasionally went home, or because of Xiao Zhou Jiang's affairs. It was during that time that my weight skyrocketed and I went from being a normal person to being fat. Of course, not as fat as it is now. ”

"I thought that the happy life would continue like this, until one day I met the new head of Dongchun Building, Liuli. ”