Chapter 173: The price of the corpse

Cao Yi looked away from the classics indifferently, glanced at Xu Keming, and said, "Really not leaving?" ”

"Uncle Shi, Uncle Shi is sincere and willing to accept any test."

Xu Keming's face was sincere.

Cao Yi's patience ran out and directly opened the Spirit Gathering Array.

The Sam King, who had disappeared for a while, reappeared, and the rich aura of plants and trees also appeared, and the shrine was shrouded in green for a moment.

"What is this?"

Xu Keming looked at the green shrine with a surprised face.

Soon, as if he had smelled poisonous gas, his head tilted and he stuck to the ground, and his body kept shaking. The face that was originally well maintained became red like a boiled lobster.

Cao Yi ran the gold liquid return method, his chest kept sinking, and then he sucked it violently. Most of the aura of plants and trees in the shrine disappeared in an instant, and because of absorbing too much aura of plants and trees at one time, a layer of light green appeared on the surface of Cao Yi's skin.

"Ahem......"

Xu Keming, who had relieved a lot, struggled to get up while coughing, but he didn't succeed.

"Teacher, uncle, save ...... Save me, save me......"

Xu Keming begged for help with difficulty, and his voice became lower and lower.

Cao Yi's eyes moved to a futon on the side, and his heart moved.

The futon stuffed with sawdust inside swished, ran under Xu Keming's body, and then left the shrine with Xu Keming on his head, at a height of more than a foot from the ground......

Three or four minutes later.

Xu Keming woke up from the cold and found himself lying on the steps in front of the Taoist temple.

After greedily inhaling the cold air, he got up, hugged his fist towards the Taoist temple, and walked away with a complicated face.

A few minutes later, I arrived at the wooden bridge of the inlet, got on the boat I drove, and sailed into the vast Taihu Lake.

In winter, the weather is very cold. In the Taihu Lake, where there is no barrier, the cold wind is not small.

Xu Keming shrank his neck coldly, and a pair of eyes that were already a little presbyopic were half-squinted.

When he was still seven or eight miles from the shore, a picture came into his eyes.

A small boat carrying three pilgrims he had recently met in the inlet of the island. and a boat carrying a middle-aged man and a child, brushing by, a huge impact, put all five people into the cold lake.

The two empty boats went in opposite directions, leaving five men struggling in the water.

"Ahem, help......"

"Help, ahem......"

……

A cry for help mixed with choking water came.

Xu Keming sped up and drove to the vicinity, then cautiously drove to the side of a fat man who was constantly struggling, reached out and grabbed the fat man's clothes and pulled them up.

People wear a lot in winter, and it is heavier when it gets wet, and it is a big fat man, and the elderly Xu Keming took a lot of effort to eat milk before pulling the fat man, that is, Mu Heng, up.

The latter drank a lot of lake water, and was frozen by the cold lake water, and after coming up, he fainted directly.

Xu Keming didn't have time to get out the water that Mu Heng drank, and then saved the next person, in view of the lesson just now, this time he saved a child who weighed no more than a few dozen catties.

It didn't take much effort to save the child.

"Ahem, help, save my dad"

The child spat out a few mouthfuls of dirty lake water, shouted, and then lay down straight.

Xu Keming's eyes swept towards the lake and saw a middle-aged man who couldn't support it.

It should be the father of the child.

"Help, cough cough ......"

The middle-aged man struggled and called for help.

Xu Keming drove the boat over, but he didn't control it well and hit the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man snorted and sank.

Xu Keming's eyes widened, and he blamed himself, saving others by himself turned into murder.

But fortunately, the middle-aged man quickly surfaced again.

Xu Keming hurriedly rescued the person.

The impact just now not only caused the middle-aged man to suffer a lot of bleeding from the head wound, but also made the middle-aged man drink a lot of water.

Xu Keming hurriedly moved the middle-aged man over, leaned down, and slapped him on the back a few times.

"Vomit ......"

The middle-aged man vomited a lot of water.

Xu Keming, who breathed a sigh of relief, was about to save the remaining two people (Zhang Shan and Li Si), but found that one of them (Li Si) had sunk.

He hurriedly drove the boat over and stretched out his hand to save people, but was unexpectedly dragged into the cold water by the struggling Zhang Shan.

Xu Keming, who couldn't know water, choked on water, and his legs and stomach cramped, and he couldn't use his strength.

"Save"

As soon as Xu Keming shouted, he was kicked a few times by Zhang Shan, who was struggling wildly, and his whole body sank, and the endless cold lake water burrowed into his mouth and nose.

Finished!

Xu Keming's mind was full of these two words, and it didn't take long for his consciousness to fall into darkness.

Zhang Shan, who dragged Xu Keming into the water and kicked down, miraculously climbed onto the boat after more than a minute.

Half a minute later, Li Si, who had sunk before, surfaced, and happened to be next to the boat.

Zhang Shan spent all his strength and dragged Li Si, who was desperate for survival, up.

One minute, two minutes, but Xu Keming didn't come up.

As if to pity the dead, white, clear snowflakes fell from the sky, and the cold north wind also joined in the fun, blowing the snowflakes all over the sky.

Three minutes later.

Zhang Shan and Li Si, who were relieved, woke up Mu Heng, and the three of them shouted at the lake for a while, but they didn't see the old Taoist priest who saved them come up.

It was cold and tight.

In desperation, the boat was driven away.

It wasn't long before the snowflakes were replaced by snow bigger than goose feathers, and the lake was white.

……

An hour later.

In the emerald green shrine, the green on Cao Yi's skin completely receded, replaced by a white and rosy complexion.

"Whew"

Exhale a puff of pale green gas like a dragon snake and open your eyes.

Outside, the fluttering snow and the whiteness of the snow come into view.

"It's snowing"

Cao Yi got up, walked out of the shrine, and walked through the snow, leaving no trace.

He had now touched the threshold where he could make his body light with just a little aura.

"I don't know how to sell jadeite and buy precious herbs?"

A thought crossed my mind.

Cao Yi stepped out of the Taoist temple.

After a while, I came to the wooden bridge covered with heavy snow, and my footsteps lifted lightly, and I landed on the wooden boat, which was also covered with snow.

As soon as his mind moved, the fiery aura came out of his body, and the snow on the wooden boat underwent a process of melting and drying at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Cao Yi sat down, his mind moving. The two oars on the boat, as if they were being held, ran to the sides and swung quickly in the water.

The boat sailed briskly towards the depths of the snow-covered and white lake.

Ten minutes later.

Two ships came into view.

On a boat, a sturdy middle-aged man was holding a rope in his hand, as if pulling something.

On the other boat, there were three people standing, Mu Heng, Zhang Shan, and Li Si.

As the distance got closer, the sound of clear speech entered the ears.

"30,000 yuan for a corpse, not a dime less"

"30,000 yuan per person, why don't you rob it"

"Lao Tzu went into the water four times and lost half his life, more than 30,000 per person?"

"You"

"If you can't afford to pay, inform the Taoist temple that the monks and Taoists are all very rich these days."

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