After three o'clock in the morning, the entire city of Xudu was closed, and there was a crisis everywhere, how capable is this person, can he safely reach more than half a step?

I glanced at Jiu Gu, who stuck the door on the door, and I stood on the other side of the window and looked down.

Old man Yang was busy downstairs, and after a while, he brought up a crockpot, which had a lid, and he couldn't see what was inside.

But when he brought the white noodles just now, it was in a big bowl, so this crockpot should probably be red meat.

He held the kettle in the other hand and staggered upstairs, although one foot was a little lame, it did not hinder his movement at all, and even his movements were faster, and he was more neat than normal.

Although this shop is not big, it is not easy to make it so orderly.

After a while, there was a knock on the opposite side, I hurriedly walked over, Jiugu had already opened a little crack in the door, we looked at the opposite side through the crack in the door, and saw a woman's hand stretched out and took the things in Old Man Yang's hand.

We couldn't see the appearance of the guest opposite, except for the slender white hand, all that was left was the long hair that was unintentionally lifted when the door was closed.

That long hair, it should be very long, after all, the ends of the hair that show the crack in the door, according to my height, should be below the thighs.

The door on the opposite side was closed, and Old Man Yang limped downstairs, without any communication the whole time.

We also closed the door, and we couldn't tell what it was like.

The person living opposite should be a woman, relatively cold, when the old man Yang sent us up, he kept talking, but in front of him, honestly, he didn't put a fart, this is not his personality.

Either the person on the other side is worthless, or he is a ruthless character, the kind that even Old Man Yang does not dare to provoke easily.

I wish it was the former, but my intellect tells me it's probably the latter.

In the space of Xudu City, which eats people and does not spit out bones, how can a person who can enter more than half a step at almost four o'clock in the morning be safe and sound, how can he be a cultivator?

We don't know what the other side is coming from, so we have to be vigilant, hoping that it is not coming at us, otherwise......

I don't know why, but when I sat down again, my head kept replaying the last hair on the other side, the long and black hair, which inexplicably evoked some bad memories in my mind.

I had something on my mind, I sat and didn't speak, Jiu Gu stood at the window and looked down for a while, then came back and said to me: "I'll go down to find out Old Man Yang's tone, and I'll be back in a while, don't move in the room, wait for me." ”

I grabbed Jiugu and shook my head: "Jiugu, don't go, I always feel that something is wrong." ”

"Are you afraid of the other side?" Jiu Gu asked me with a frown.

I glanced at Mo Xianye, and I was very conflicted in my heart, we are really in a dilemma now, and if we wait, Mo Xianye may really be hopeless.

But now go to Old Man Yang, if there is a dispute and cause a dispute, we may not even have a chance to escape.

I didn't have so many worries before the person on the other side came, but after the person on the other side came, I always felt that we were already being targeted.

This kind of mentality disturbs me for a moment.

I held Jiu Gu's hand tightly, my mind was full of 'what to do, what to do', I really don't know what to do.

At this time, there was a sudden commotion downstairs, and Jiu Gu and I looked towards the window at the same time, and saw a group of yin cha standing at the door more than half a step, and Old Man Yang was standing opposite them with his waist pinched, as if they were arguing.

"What's going on? Isn't it said that Yin Difference is not allowed to enter more than half a step? "More than half a step is the only refuge in the city, is it a rumor?

Jiu Gu's brows were twisted into flesh lumps, and after looking at it for a while, the dispute below had entered a white-hot state.

Then, we watched as the leader of the yin cha advanced more than half a step, and the guests eating below took out something for the yin cha to check.

Jiugu said: "It is worthy of being a new official to take office, and it used to be more than half a step away from being allowed to enter, but now it is impossible to avoid the process of checking the road." ”

"I have the way, but I'm afraid they're coming for us." I worried.

Jiugu raised her hand and waved: "There is a road guide, don't be afraid for the time being, a team of ten people came, but only the leader was put in for inspection, which shows that they are still afraid of more than half a step, and it is impossible to spread wild on Old Man Yang's territory, even if they are coming for us, we take out the road guide, and they don't dare to do it without more than half a step." ”

I breathed a sigh of relief and took out the three lukes from my arms, but fortunately, the number happened to be enough.

Yin Cha looked around below, pulled out a man who had no guide, and then squeaked up the stairs.

We pricked up our ears and listened to the footsteps and went to the right-hand side first, and our hearts fluttered, and after waiting for about ten minutes, there was a knock on our door.

I took the guide and opened the door, handed it over to him to check, everything went well, and the guide was also taken back.

After more than half a step, he soon entered the ghost gate, and the guide lost its own role.

After closing the door, we didn't leave the door, but waited quietly for the knock on the opposite door.

But what shocked me and Jiugu was that after checking our room, Yin Cha and Old Man Yang went downstairs directly, and didn't knock on the opposite door at all.

"What's going on?" I lowered my voice in disbelief.

Everyone was cross-examined, why was the woman on the other side of the street excluded?

Did Old Man Yang deliberately conceal it, or was it something else?

Old man Yang wants to hide it, but he can't hide it, after all, a big living person lives in the opposite room, and the yin can be sensed.

Unless......

Unless even Yin Cha doesn't dare to provoke the woman opposite? Or are they themselves accomplices and do not need to be cross-examined?

Either way, it's not a good thing for us.

At that moment, I felt like we were birds trapped in a cage, staring at us with a bunch of fierce eyes, and we couldn't even think of escaping from this cage.

At this time, Mo Xianye on the bed suddenly turned around, lying on the edge of the bed and vomiting a mouthful of black blood.

I rushed over and saw specks of black blood moving.

Jiu Gu gasped: "It's bad, there are corpse eggs in the blood, Ah Ye is infected." ”

I stood up all of a sudden, and said solemnly to Jiu Gu: "Jiu Gu, I can't wait, I can't watch Mo Xian endure this kind of torment at night, even if I exchange the Yin Yang Order, I have to exchange the antidote back." ”

"Bai Li, don't be impulsive." Jiugu still wants to stop me.

I pushed her away: "Jiugu, some things can be weighed slowly, but some things are imminent, every minute and every second is alive, the yin has already come, who knows what else Huang Yilin will do next?" Instead of waiting in horror and waiting until the end of being caught in the urn, it is better to take the initiative to attack, if more than half a step is really messed up, maybe it will become an opportunity for us to enter the ghost gate. ”

Before the Yin Cha came, our thoughts must have been conservative, but now not only has the Yin Cha advanced by more than half a step, but even the woman opposite us has posed a certain threat to us.

More than half a step is no longer a safe haven for us.

Jiu Gu closed her eyes and shook her head: "The Yin and Yang Order can't be lost." ”

"I have done a certain analysis of Old Man Yang, he is also a human being, he is not a yin, he can be in charge of more than half a step, it is not the right granted to him by the underworld, but the right left to him by his master."

"More than half a step of the successive shopkeepers, when they reach a certain age, they will choose their heirs, they are people, but they are free from the boundary of this Xudu City God's Temple, the status is there, and the money is countless, but there is no sense of belonging."

"I think that Old Man Yang's greatest hope in this life is to be able to become a real person from the underworld, not to suffer from reincarnation, and to be in charge of this half step for eternity, right?"

"Even if he thinks so, what can we do to help him?" I was puzzled.

Jiu Gu smiled meaninglessly, looked at me and said, "Of course I can help him, Bai Li, keep a good night, and wait for me to come back." ”

After saying that, she turned around and left without hesitation, and I couldn't hold it.

After Jiu Gu went out, I ran to the window and looked down, and soon saw Jiu Gu going downstairs to find Old Man Yang.

My heart was pounding, I was very scared, I didn't know what Jiu Gu wanted to exchange with Old Man Yang.

But then I thought, the man in the black robe.

Does Jiu Gu want to use that person to make a promise to Old Man Yang?

……

It didn't take long for me to see Jiu Gu come back again, hurrying upstairs, and Old Man Yang was standing at the top of the stairs, looking up at our room.

I quickly retracted my body, not daring to look at Old Man Yang.

Soon, Jiu Gu knocked on the door, I opened the door, she came in sideways, and I grabbed her: "Are you okay?" ”

"I'm fine, but ......" Jiu Gu's face was irritable, "Old man Yang, he, he ......"

"You guessed wrong, your conditions can't meet Old Man Yang." I said, "He wants to talk to me, right?" ”

Jiu Gu didn't speak, but it had already been explained, and I guessed right.

I chuckled, and at that moment, I was not only not afraid, but relieved.

"Jiugu, he has a plan for us, this is a good thing, no matter what he wants, it is actually something outside the body, today he can take it away, in the future, we are confident that we will take back what he took away, right now, it is important to save Mo Xianye."

Jiu Gu glanced at the dying Mo Xianye, and finally lowered her head.

I patted Jiu Gu on the shoulder and walked out.

Jiugu grabbed me, very tightly, and then, slowly, little by little, let go.

She was unwilling, but there was no way.

I turned my head, without further hesitation, and headed downstairs.

When I went downstairs, Old Man Yang kept staring at me with his head up, looking at each other, and he smiled.

Because of the invasion of the yin, most of the people who were eating downstairs went upstairs, and the two cauldrons on the stove were bubbling and bubbling, and the strong smell of meat mixed with the faint fragrance of noodles came to my face, and I couldn't help but swallow my saliva.

Hungry.

After a night of hard work, we had already consumed the food in our stomachs, and the three bowls of white noodle soup we ordered did not move a bite, but fortunately they were placed on the table in the room.

This time I smell the meat and can't wait to pounce on it and feast on it.

But Jiugu confessed that she only drank white noodle soup and did not eat red meat.

When I walked to the bottom of the stairs, Old Man Yang turned around and drove a few people upstairs who had not gone upstairs to sleep.

He cleaned up a table, sat me down, turned around and brought a large bowl of white noodle soup to me, and pushed it in front of me: "Eat, let's talk when we're done." ”

"Why don't you serve that pot inside?" I couldn't help but ask.

Old man Yang's face changed, but he didn't shy away: "That's not for people to eat." ”

This sentence was enough to dispel all my curiosity, and I didn't want to move my chopsticks when I looked down at the bowl of white noodle soup.

"Let's eat, if you take more than half a step, and then you want to eat a bowl of steaming white noodle soup, it will become delusional." Old man Yang said sincerely.

Yes, after more than half a step, I went to the underworld, where did the heat come from in that cold place?

I picked up the chopsticks, no longer tangled, and gulped down the soup and noodles.

This white noodle soup has no oil or salt, a bird fades out of its mouth, the noodles have no gluten at all, melt in the mouth, and are far less delicious than the noodles I cooked myself.

Eating and eating, I suddenly remembered that at the beginning, when I first met Mo Xianye, I almost always cooked noodles for him to eat, and in the end, he teased me, 'Are you only able to cook noodles?', now that I think about it, I feel sad, but I feel inexplicably that kind of ordinary life is the happiest.

My eyes began to moisten a little inexplicably, and I picked up the bowl and raised my head to drink the last mouthful of soup, so as to hold back the tears that swirled in my eyes.

Putting down the bowl again, I looked at Old Man Yang, and no longer beat around the bush: "Jiugu came down just now, what should be said, I should have already told you, you want to see me, say, what do you want, let's be straightforward." ”

Old man Yang groaned, the fine left leg lifted the right leg, shook twice, and said, "As soon as you entered the door, I noticed you, you are a treasure." ”

"How many more years have I lived in this half-step? One hundred and sixty years? Or is it one hundred and eighty years old? I can't remember. ”

"I was only thirty-eight that year, and it was the first time I took my wife to walk alone, oh, I forgot to tell you, my ancestors walked on yin darts, you know how to walk yin darts?"

I shook my head.

"In this world, the most ridiculous and saddest thing is that when people are alive, they are not cherished, and when they die, they are constantly worried, and those who are alive in the yang world are either true love, or indebted, or have a weak heart, in short, they want to make up for the people they once loved and owed, but how can the things in the yang world enter the underworld?"

"At this time, they need us who walk the yin dart to escort their things to the underworld safely, to put it simply, just like the couriers in the yang world today, and at that time, the things we escorted were between the yin and yang worlds, just a little difference."

I don't understand why Old Man Yang suddenly reported his family background to me, if he really wants the Yin Yang Order or the Seven Tricks Exquisite Heart, it doesn't have to be like this.

Could it be that he has other plans?

"Thirty-eight years old, the best age for a man, I just took over the family business, waiting to show my skills, my master, the last shopkeeper who was more than half a step, took a fancy to me at a glance, forcibly imprisoned me at more than half a step, forced me to learn things, let me take over his class, you see my legs are ......"

"I thought it was polio." I'll be honest.

Old man Yang waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "I am also a man who stands up to the sky, in terms of your current unit of measurement, the net height is more than one meter and eighty, but my master ruined me and turned me into this person who is not a ghost or a ghost." ”

"In order to force me to stay in peace, he slaughtered my whole house, imprisoned my wife and children, and later ...... When my master died, I had the opportunity to find the bones of my family and bury them, but my wife and children have not seen anyone alive or dead. ”

"More than a hundred years have passed, they should have ...... long ago"

"But some people say that my master didn't kill them all back then, my wife and children may still be in the underworld, and there may be descendants flowing into the yang world, and I have been inquiring."

"What are you telling me all this for?" I sympathized with his plight, but I was even more anxious, and I didn't get into the topic after talking for so long, which made me impatient.

Old man Yang was not in a hurry: "As soon as you came in, I sensed the Yin and Yang Orders on your body, as well as your heart and mouth......"

"Do you want the Yin Yang Order or the Seven Tricks Exquisite Heart?" I clearly marked the price, "Take the antidote to the female corpse cockroach in exchange." ”

"The Seven Tricks Exquisite Heart has not yet been formed, and it is useless for me to ask for it, I wanted the Yin and Yang Order at first." Old man Yang didn't hide it, but the words changed, "It's a pity that it backfired, and the sky in the capital city has changed." ”

"On the first day of the new overseer's appointment, Yin Errand entered you more than half a step, which has never happened before, and your methods are not as good as your master after all." I scoffed.

"Yes, I'm not as good as my master." He said, "That inhuman guy, who only has money and power in his eyes, is ambitious, and running more than half a step is his life's work, and I am different, I took over more than half a step, I was forced from the beginning, and now there is a ruthless role, which makes me realize that in his position, he does not seek politics, and in the end he can only be ridden by someone on the neck to and pee." ”

"More than half a step can't be lost in my hands, I want to keep more than half a step, and I have to train the next successor, the burden on my shoulders is heavy, and I can no longer ask the people I care about as recklessly as before, and I can't pinch my weaknesses in the hands of the Inspector, more than half a step is more than half a step, it can't be touched by the Inspector."

"So?" My heart has risen to my throat.

Old man Yang sighed, and with some reluctance, he took out a black box from his arms and pushed it in front of me: "Here are the antidotes for two female corpse cockroaches, this quarter, there are only three antidotes in Yaoxiangju, I will give you two, one to save your companions, and one to keep for your occasional needs, is it sincere enough?" ”

Without hesitation, I held the box in my hand and looked at him: "Conditions? ”

"The condition is to help me find my wife and children, or offspring, to see people alive and corpses when I die." Old man Yang offered a price code.

I didn't say yes to him.

This condition did not make me breathe a sigh of relief, although he didn't want the Yin and Yang Order, and he didn't want the Seven Tricks to be exquisite, but what he wanted me to do was more difficult.

Finding two people in the yin and yang worlds who don't know whether they are dead or alive is more difficult than looking for a needle in a haystack.

"You just gave me the antidote, aren't you afraid that I will delay and not help you find it?" I asked, "What about your strings?" ”

For example, the deadline, for example, the antidote is added to the material, which can control our clouds.

Old man Yang smiled: "You are very cautious, yes, I should give you a little additional conditions, but I give up, if I can withstand the pressure of the new inspector and keep more than half a step, I will go to you in the future, if I can't stand it, then, even if I find my wife, children or descendants, it is meaningless, and you will avenge me, this is enough." ”

I stared at Old Man Yang with wide eyes, this person was too rational and too shrewd.

He was determined that Huang Yilin and I would not share the same sky, and we would eventually fight against Huang Yilin, and we could be regarded as having a common enemy.

Now he and I are standing in the same trench, we are friendly troops, and it is his sincerity that does not impose conditions on me.

It wasn't until this moment that I was really relieved, and the palms of my hands holding the antidote were full of sweat, and at this moment, I don't know if I should thank Huang Yilin, it was his radical approach that gave me a turnaround.

If it weren't for him to let Yin Cha come to check the road and give Old Man Yang a blow to the head, my Yin Yang Order would definitely not be able to keep it today, if Huang Yilin knew this, I guess he would be so angry that there was smoke on the top of his head.

"I'll do my best to find it for you, but my wife and children and I don't know each other, even if we pass by in the future, we may not know each other, do you have any tokens between you?" I asked.

Old man Yang carefully took out a bronze whistle from the cuff, the whistle was carved with complicated patterns, it was very old at a glance, he stroked the whistle, reluctantly, and handed it to me after a while: "This is a token of my Yang family's Yin Dart Bureau, you bring it with you, if my wife is really alive, she will definitely be able to sense it." ”

Then he raised his left hand again, and it was the first time I had seen it so closely.

His left hand is completely different from his right hand, his right hand is rough and dark, and it looks like a man's hand, but the left and right are slender and white, like a woman's hand, and most importantly, the index finger is very long, a cut longer than the middle finger.

He retracted his left hand and said, "Do you see clearly?" This is our Yang family's family inheritance, the index finger grows out of the middle finger and half a finger, a hand designates the Qiankun, only the helmsman of our Yang family's Yin Dart Bureau will inherit such a finger, if you see such a genetic person in the vast sea of people, it must be a descendant of my Yang someone. ”

"If you do meet him, no matter what he is doing now, you must take him with you and protect him."

"Okay, I promise you." I agreed, "But I hope you can withstand it and come to me one day." ”

Old man Yang suddenly laughed: "Of course." ”

I thought about it for a while, and finally decided to ask, "Can you tell me where the woman who lives across from us is coming from?" ”