Chapter 10: The Skinner
Although the old man had a little embarrassment on his face when he spoke, but when he looked closely, the old man didn't really feel embarrassed at all, on the contrary, the obscene expression on his face gradually crept up.
Zhang Chuxue didn't care about this, because she had already heard from the old man's words, and the old man should know Zhou An.
"Senior, do you know Zhou An?"
Zhang Chuxue asked softly.
When she finished asking, she immediately looked at the old man with a look of expectation, Sun Xiang was the same, if the old man wanted to say that he didn't know Zhou An, then the two of them didn't know what to do.
I only heard the old man sigh lightly, he did know Zhou An, and he also knew what Zhang Chuxue and the two of them wanted to do when they came to him, but this matter could not be solved by simply saying two good words.
"How did you two know about me?"
Hearing this, Zhang Chuxue and Sun Xiang were stunned, they thought that this old man knew everything.
At that moment, the two told the old man everything that happened after coming to Jinhai, and also told Kuang Wei and Zhou An about it, but the two of them didn't say anything about the evil corpse.
"Kwong Worry ......"
When he heard the name, the old man was obviously caught in the memory, he was selling meat in the morning market, and a large part of the reason was this Kwong Wei, he didn't want to hear any news about Kuang Wei.
"Do you know what the relationship between Zhou An and Kwong Wei is?"
The old man didn't say what Zhou An's situation was now, but talked about the matter between Zhou An and Kuang Wei, but how could the two of them know about this kind of secret.
I only heard the old man sigh softly, he forgot what his name was, he only knew that his surname was Qi, Zhou An always called him Old Man Qi, and this name was more than 400 years.
More than 400 years?
Zhang Chuxue and Sun Xiang's eyes widened at the same time, so this old man is still a human?
Unexpectedly, Old Man Qi smiled, the four hundred years he said were when he had a good relationship with Zhou An, and he forgot how long the relationship was bad.
"Senior Qi, you have lived so long...... Don't the people around you think it's strange?"
Maybe at the beginning, Zhang Chuxue and Sun Xiang were a little surprised to hear that Old Man Qi had lived for so long, but after getting along with Zhou An for a long time, there were other strange things that were worth shocking them for a long time.
Old man Qi laughed loudly, just as Zhang Chuxue asked, at the beginning, the people around him regarded him as a monster, because no one could live so long, but then Old Man Qi found a way.
"Back then, I fell into the demon barrier, if that kid hadn't pulled me in time and let me stop the precipice."
"Now, I'm afraid I don't know how many times I've been in the eighteenth layer of hell in the underworld."
Old man Qi is one of the few remaining skinners in Daxia, unlike those who resell furs, Old Man Qi peels human skins, and his ancestors have always been engaged in this industry.
In the feudal society, when the emperor gave an order, who did he want to peel off, it was a matter of one sentence, if this matter was not done well, it was not just a matter of losing his head, but of the nine clans. new
To say that the first generation of skinners was forced to evolve during the feudal period.
"This skinning is a handicraft that not only ensures the integrity of the human skin, but also ensures that those who have committed capital crimes cannot die before the skin is finished."
"If these two points can't be guaranteed, then the skinners themselves will die."
When Old Man Qi said this, a look of remembrance flashed in his eyes, and he also forgot that he had served a total of several emperors, but he remembered clearly that the skin was in his hands, a total of four thousand seven hundred and eighty-two.
The reason why he can live for so long has a lot to do with the industry he is engaged in, Old Man Qi remembered that when Emperor Lexi was Emperor, someone once approached him, saying that he wanted a complete human skin, in exchange, he could tell Old Man Qi the secret of being able to live forever.
"What?"
"Immortality?"
Zhang Chuxue's performance caused the old man Qi to laugh again, which was exactly the same as when he heard the news.
"Yes, it's immortality."
"Who can resist the temptation of immortality?"