Volume IX, Chapter 17: Gambling
"Big sister! Are you okay? Gou Fugui exclaimed and ran over. Seeing Ning Caichen lying at the entrance of the cave, Gou Fugui exclaimed, "You also rescued this nerd?" Then he noticed Li Mujiang's pair of aura and inner eyes, and said happily: "Eldest sister, why don't you look like you're injured, but your martial arts have grown a lot?" Li Mujiang was a little helpless: "You ask so many questions, which one should I answer you?" Gou Fugui patted his head: "Ha, isn't it a little happy to see that you are fine." Then let's go down first, I guess Shi Li will be back soon. After a while, they walked through the mountains and forests and returned to the deserted village, and from a long distance, they saw a fiery red horse, and it seemed that Shi Li had also returned.
Shi Li's face was originally very gloomy, but after seeing Li Mujiang, he was overjoyed and greeted him: "Sister, you ......" Li Mujiang shook his head and said: "I'm fine, find a place to sit down and talk slowly." Several people came to a dilapidated house in the deserted village, and Li Mujiang first briefly talked about what happened to him and Ning Caichen.
After listening to this, Gou Fugui couldn't help but sigh: "In such a dangerous situation, you have greatly increased your skills, eldest sister, your luck is really not covered, you make me want to try it......"
"Standing and talking doesn't hurt your back," Li Mujiang pouted, then raised his palm, black qi surged, and stretched out in front of Gou Fugui: "Don't you want to try?" Come on, I promise, there's a good chance you'll keep the whole corpse. β
"No, no, I can't bear it......" Gou Fugui shrank his head with a smile, and then he said with a straight face: "I really can't imagine that grandma and a group of them are doing such a thing underground...... In that case, in the end, it was the female ghost named Xiaoqian who helped you? Li Mujiang thought about it seriously, and still said: "Alas, whether she is an enemy or a friend, I don't dare to make a conclusion...... Tell me about you, what happened outside that night? Gou Fugui patted the grass clippings on his head: "Do you still need to ask, I led the big dog to look for you all night." Li Mujiang saw that his face was tired and his eyes were black, so she knew that what he said was true, and her heart was a little touched, and she arched her hand: "It's hard work." Gou Fugui waved his hand: "My own people, don't talk about this." It's good that everyone is safe. Shi Li also spoke: "I'm going to report to the government of Jinyang Mansion." Li Mujiang's eyes lit up and asked, "How is it?" How soon will the officers and soldiers come? Shi Li's face immediately showed resentment: "Those bastards." β
"What's going on?" Gou Fugui also came up. Shi Li said: "I rode a fast horse and ran to the mansion, but it was dawn for a long time, but no one came to open the door......" The decay of the Jinyang official mansion has reached this point, Li Mujiang couldn't help but shake his head secretly.
"After waiting for a long time, I finally saw the prefect, and I told him about the haunting here, but before I could talk about the things underground, he yawned impatiently...... Then he interrupted me and said that in the past two years, hundreds of people have reported the haunting of the deserted village. Li Mujiang looked at the abandoned houses around him, and thought that it was these aborigines who went to report to the official.
"I said, since so many people have reported to the official, why don't you come to reinforce them? He suddenly lost his temper at me, saying that the village was very good, prosperous and peaceful...... He also said that I, like the previous group, was crazy and went crazy with him! Li Mujiang already knew what was going on, and she took over: "Then he kicked you out as a madman, and he didn't plan to care about it at all?" Shi Li's face turned dark when he heard this, and he took out a silver ingot from his arms: "This bastard prefect!" I also threw this piece of silver to me, saying that this is the two taels of silver that the official privately sponsored you, and quickly went to the hospital to find a doctor to see your brain...... It's so deceitful! So saying, he threw the silver at the bitter end.
Li Mujiang patted him lightly on the shoulder: "Ali, why be angry for this kind of villain." Shi Li said angrily: "Fortunately, sister, you are safe and sound, otherwise...... I'm going to have to cut off this dog's head. Li Mujiang wanted to say something, but at this time, Ning Caichen's voice came from behind: "Hmm...... What's wrong with me? Everyone turned their heads, only to see that Ning Caichen had woken up, and Li Mujiang said: "Ning Gongzi, we have come out, this is in a deserted village." Ning Caichen raised his head in confusion: "Li Nuxia, Second Master Gou, Brother Shi Li...... Well? Where did Miss Xiaoqian go? Li Mujiang walked up to him: "Thank you for your willingness to believe her." Ning Caichen said strangely: "What? Li Mujiang said: "This is what she asked me to bring to you." β
"Believe? Of course I believe her......" Ning Caichen muttered, and then he asked, "What about her?" Li Mujiang's eyes were complicated: "She went back to Shen Xia's side." β
"What!" Ning Caichen was shocked, and Huo got up: "How can this work?" Is sheβwill she go back to the devil and continue to do evil? Li Mujiang shook his head: "No one knows ......"
"No," Ning Caichen immediately denied his claim: "I believe she will not repeat the mistakes of the past." Li Mujiang frowned: "It stands to reason that she should be facing Shen Xia, which is why I suspected her before." But then she helped us a lot, and she treated you with sincerity, and her words did not seem to be false...... It is also good and evil, friend and foe, but it is not clear. Ning Caichen said firmly: "Xiaoqian is a person with a conscience, she will not be our enemy again." Li Mujiang smiled: "I hope as you said, my suspicion is wrong." Seeing that everyone's information was almost exchanged, Li Mujiang nodded and walked among several people: "So, let's talk about what to do now?" Gou Fugui immediately said: "Of course, he rushed into the ground and brought those evil ghosts to justice." Seeing that Shi Li and Ning Caichen also nodded in agreement, Li Mujiang said: "It seems that everyone thinks the same, so how to attack?" Shi Li pointed to the top of the mountain: "Attack from there." Li Mujiang shook his head: "Then what if they are defeated and escape from the bottom of the well?" Gou Fugui interjected: "Then the soldiers will be divided into two roads, one way from the top of the mountain, and all the way to the bottom of the well to cut off their back road." Li Mujiang looked around at a few people and asked, "Has anyone seen Shen Xia?" Ning Caichen said: "I've seen her." Li Mujiang was a little disappointed, but still asked, "How is her martial arts?" Ning Caichen was embarrassed, and then said: "I don't know martial arts, I can't see it, I've only seen her look when she skins people......" As soon as he briefly described the scene at that time, Gou Fugui immediately slapped his thigh: "Blood corpse technique!" Good guy, this Shen Xia really has a lot to do with the Three Puritans. β
"You know this kung fu?" Li Mujiang Road. Gou Fugui nodded, and then continued: "I have come into contact with several people from the Three Puritans, one of them, one of them, she is the one who practiced this kung fu, and after peeling off the human skin, she gnawed on the essence and blood...... There is only the blood corpse technique of the Three Puritans in the world that is so evil. β
"Is this a great kung fu?" Li Mujiang asked. Gou Fugui's face suddenly showed a look of fear: "I don't know how far Shen Xia has practiced, anyway, the crazy woman of the Three Puritans I know, it's okay to beat me ten with one hand......"
"That's it," Li Mujiang said: "No one can understand Shen Xia's martial arts, if we divide our troops into two ways, we won't be sure at all ......"
"Do you want to let these villains go unpunished?" When Ning Caichen heard this, he was very indignant. Li Mujiang waved her hand, then sat down again, and after thinking for a long time, she raised her head and looked around at everyone: "We can only gamble now." β
"Bet? What to bet on? Gou Fugui said. Li Mujiang looked at Ning Caichen: "Betting on Ning Gongzi's way of sage has really changed Nie Xiaoqian. Then she pointed to the ground: "Bet on what Nie Xiaoqian can do underground." Gou Fugui was a little unconfident: "But can we win the bet?" β
"Yes!"
"I don't know." Two voices rang out at the same time. Li Mujiang looked at Ning Caichen and said softly, "Young Master Ning, I hope you are right." Ning Caichen nodded confidently.