Chapter 172: The House Is Haunted (For the Alliance Leader "Yi Qiu")
At night, Song Qing, who successfully sent the death row prisoner to be reincarnated, had dark circles under his eyes and was ready to go downstairs to find food and solve the problem of food and clothing.
As he walked, he thought, "No, grafting can be used on the human body, for example, damaged organs can be replaced."
"So, can it be a little more subtle? such as the rebirth of a severed limb.... Well, this is an ability unique to Takeo Sanpin. If I could study the mystery in alchemy, the world would surely shake.
"Xu Ningyan said that biological alchemy should be something more subtle... But the human eye can't see those tiny things in the dust... With that, I can make something like a telescope. ”
Telescopes existed, and after the discovery of glass, it didn't take long for concave-convex mirrors to be developed. Telescopes were quite popular in the military and were usually given to ordinary soldiers.
Elite scouts are rarely used, because after practicing the Qi Realm, Takefu's eyesight will be greatly improved. The stronger the strength, the stronger the five senses. The telescope is a bit of a chicken.
"Where did the fragrance come from?" Song Qing twitched.
He followed the fragrance and walked to the stove room downstairs, and saw Chu Caiwei calling a few white clothes, steaming something in the pot.
"Yo, there is also chicken soup, Senior Sister Caiwei has a heart. Song Qing saw the chicken stewed in the small stove, and his mood improved.
"Go, go, go. Chu Caiwei smacked him: "This is the alchemy that Xu Qi'an taught me, if it is done, it can make the whole world full of delicious food." ”
Listening to Chu Caiwei's explanation of the principle of chicken essence and monosodium glutamate, Song Qing groaned and sighed: "Xu Ningyan is really a strange person. ”
That's right, this is also alchemy.
Extracting the essence from medicinal herbs to condense into elixir, purifying steel from ore to make weapons, and presently, extracting umami from shiitake mushrooms to make monosodium glutamate.
It is consistent with what he learned when he started the lecture that day.
Alchemy encompasses many realms, and the mystery is to extract what is not seen.
"I don't have a clue about the MSG he said because he didn't provide the process, he simply said stay away, it is extracted from grains. Chu Caiwei said.
"Senior brother will help you. Song Qing touched Chu Caiwei's head.
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The renovation of the new house was completed two days ahead of schedule, and Xu Qi'an asked the yamen for leave to help the second uncle and aunt move together.
The aunt, who was wearing a dark blue Luo robe and a coat of the same color, pinched her waist with one hand and waved a handkerchief with the other, looking like a general leading the troops in battle, directing her subordinates to carry things.
This posture, if you change to a mediocre woman, it will appear that the market is strong and unpleasant.
can be replaced by a thirty-six-year-old aunt who is like a young woman in her early thirties, with a beautiful and delicate face and a plump and graceful body.
Xu Qi'an thought about whether the girl with beautiful appearance and three-dimensional facial features next to her would be as charming as her mother in another twenty years.
Or even better.
Eh, Lingyue is also old enough to get married, I don't know which guy is lucky enough to marry such a beautiful girl.... Xu Qi'an sighed with emotion, and the woman was not staying, and she and her second uncle acted as porters.
Because he hired enough carriages, it only took two trips to finish moving the things in the house. Some bits and pieces, which my aunt planned to buy in the inner city, just took the opportunity to change them.
The aunt and second uncle are elders, although the house was bought by Xu Qi'an. The main house on the east side was reserved for two people.
When the house was assigned, Xu Lingyue, who has always been gentle, rarely had a quarrel with her aunt.
The house in Sanjin is very large, but the inner courtyard of the core is actually limited in rooms, and the master will certainly not live in those guest rooms and the area for the servants of the palace to live.
According to the aunt's meaning, the townhouse room in the west wing belongs to Xu Qi'an, after all, he will marry a daughter-in-law in the future.
But Xu Lingyue has the cheekiness to live in the past, and she wants to live next to her eldest brother.
My aunt said, "You are a big girl who lives so close to your brother, and you are not ashamed."
Xu Lingyue suddenly became anxious, argued loudly, and quarreled with her mother.
In the end, she also lived in the West Chamber, but her aunt also arranged Erlang's room in the West Chamber, and discussed with Xu Qi'an, and when he had a daughter-in-law in the future, she would let Lingyue and Erlang go to live in the North Chamber.
Xu Qi'an was a little reluctant, because if he lived too close, he would not return at night in the teaching workshop, and his sister would find out. When the time comes, you have to complain again.
Xu Lingyin was arranged in the room of her uncle and aunt, the child knew the bed and the environment, and the aunt was afraid that the young girl would not sleep well at night and have nightmares.
Anyway, the east wing is very large, three townhouses.
Xu Qi'an quickly arranged his room, his original small courtyard was almost decorated, and there were not many things that needed to be decorated.
He walked out of the room to bask in the sun, and saw Xu Lingyin squatting alone by the well, his frightened little face was pale, but he tried his best to endure and not let himself escape.
"What are you doing here?" asked Xu Qi'an.
"Big brother..."Seeing the strong brother coming, Xu Lingyin was relieved, and pointed to the wellhead with some fear: "This place is haunted." ”
"So, what are you doing squatting at the mouth of the well?" Xu Qi'an was a little incomprehensible.
Since you know that it is haunted, you shouldn't be afraid to hide far away? Why do you want to squat by the mouth of the well, and insist on it while being afraid?
"My sister said that ghosts eat children. Xu Lingyin frowned.
"And then?"
She suddenly got sneaky, trotted over, and whispered, "I'm lying to it, shhhh Don't let it hear. ”
“???”
Xu Qi'an looked at her blankly for a long time, and gave a thumbs up: "Those who know food are Junjie." ”
People have ideals, Xu Lingyin found his ideal at a young age: there is nothing in this world that cannot be eaten, only whether I want to eat it or not.
For the sake of deliciousness, you can use yourself as bait... This determination and perseverance is, in a sense, a genius.
"Then you continue to work hard, and when the ghost comes out, the eldest brother will make you something delicious. Xu Qi'an touched her head.
"Hmm!" Xu Lingyin pecked at his brain with both fear and yearning.
Before dusk, in the restaurant not far from the new house set a box, the family went down to the restaurant to eat extremely satisfied, although the taste is not as good as Guiyue Lou, but it is cheaper, the distance is close, and you can often go down to the restaurant in the future.
Xu Qi'an was lying in a spacious and comfortable new room, looking at the beams above his head, and suddenly remembered something.
It seems that he didn't write to Jiro about moving?
"Forget it, I don't have to worry about this, sleep. ”
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East House.
The aunt coaxed Xu Lingyin to sleep, returned to the bedside, and looked at her husband who was sitting cross-legged and contemplating, she suddenly felt a little worried:
"Master, if Ning Yan marries a daughter-in-law in the future, will he fight with me for the power of the housekeeper?
"I heard that my daughter-in-law is very vicious, and I always think of ways to fight my mother-in-law. ”
The aunt is happy, when she married the second uncle, the two high halls of the Xu family had long since passed away, and she had not been oppressed by the evil mother-in-law.
But I've never eaten pork, I've always seen pigs run. Especially this house was bought by Xu Qi'an, and her "mother-in-law" is not right.
Xu Pingzhi opened his eyes and thought for a while, "With your temper and character, you can't fight others." ”
"Hmph!" the aunt snorted at a lossless point.
Xu Pingzhi comforted: "Maybe Ning Yan will marry a stupid daughter-in-law in the future." ”
When the aunt heard this, it made sense, and secretly prayed that her nephew would marry a stupid daughter-in-law in the future. So that she can bully people.
"By the way, I haven't written to Erlang yet, let's move to a new house, he didn't know about it yet, he went back to the outer city, and he couldn't find us. "My aunt cares about her son.
"You don't need to worry about this, you don't know a few big words. Xu Pingzhi, who is also not very literate, said:
"Ning banquet wrote. ”
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After two days, Xu Qi'an's life was very peaceful, patrolling the streets every day, practicing, and taking time to go to Haoqilou to exchange feelings with Wei Yuan.
Because of the fall of the Ministry of Labor, the struggle between the various parties has cooled down a lot, and for the time being, no party has targeted the watchmen.
That night, Xu Qi'an went home and found that the second uncle was not there.
"Today's night watch. The aunt replied.
It's also possible that I've gone to the Workshop Division... Xu Qi'an complained in his heart.
The second uncle is a hundred households of the Imperial Sword Guard, sometimes patrolling the streets during the day, sometimes patrolling the streets at night, and the working mechanism is the same as that of the watchman. If Xu Qi'an is involved in so many cases in a row, what awaits him is also the work of white and black.
In the past, Xu Qi'an also trusted his second uncle as much as his aunt, but since that "chance encounter" in the Teaching Workshop Division, and later the operation of using orange peel to remove the smell of perfume, Xu Qi'an has understood.
A man's mouth, a deceitful ghost.
I don't seem to be qualified to complain about the second uncle... Xu Qi'an lowered his head to eat.
At night, Xu Qi'an was suddenly woken up by a scream, he opened his eyes, turned over and sat up, and at the same time, he reached out and grabbed the black gold long knife leaning against the side of the bed.
When I came to the courtyard, I saw Lingyue's maid sitting on the ground, the candlestick fell to the ground, her face was pale, pointing in the direction of the well, trembling and unable to speak.
"What did you see?" said Xu Qi'an in a deep voice.
The door behind him opened, and Xu Lingyue, who was dressed in a coat, came out to check the situation.
On the east side, the candlelight in the aunt's room was also lit, and she went out with Lu'e to follow the sound.
"What's wrong?" said Auntie frowned.
After the number of people increased, the fear in the maid's heart weakened a lot, she pointed to the mouth of the well, and said in a trembling voice: "Well, there is a head in the well." ”
Several screams rang out at once.
Xu Lingyuehua's face was pale, she shrank behind Xu Qi'an, and grabbed his sleeve tightly. The aunt also leaned over in fear.
"You, didn't you say...," Auntie's eyes widened in horror.
She didn't say the phrase "the ghost has been dispersed", and she couldn't let the people in the house know about it.
Xu Qi'an clenched the black gold long knife, pressed his hand, and motioned to his sister and aunt not to panic, and he slowly approached the well.
The evil spirits in the well have indeed been eliminated, and the well used to raise ghosts in the thieves' den has also been purified, so it is said that there can be no such thing as a ghost again.
Could it be.... Xu Qi'an strode over, went around to the back of the well, and sure enough, he saw Xiao Douding sitting on the edge of the well, looking sleepy.
"It's a cauldron..."
Woke up by Xu Qi'an with a scabbard, Xiao Douding rubbed his eyes and muttered.
"Why are you here. Xu Qi'an said that it was indeed so.
"I was hungry, and I came out looking for something to eat. Xiao Douding looked at the wellhead with a convinced look: "It can really hide, and children don't come out until they come to the door." ”
Xu Qi'an estimated that the head he saw when he touched the maid was Xu Lingyin lying at the mouth of the well, and he had a rare feeling of grievance that he couldn't spit out when his stomach was full.
"Big brother asked the kitchen to get you pastries. Xu Qi'an picked her up and walked back.
"Suzune?" the aunt was taken aback, and then her eyebrows rose, "You dead child, sneaking out in the middle of the night is scary..."
Only then did she realize that Suzune was not in the house.
Xu Qi'an interrupted his aunt's roar angrily: "She's just hungry." ”
Although she ate three bowls for dinner, she was just hungry.
The aunt is now lacking in confidence, snorted, pinched her waist, stared at Carslan's big eyes, and glanced at the young girl.
Xu Qi'an comforted his sister and aunt, as well as a few maids, coaxed them to sleep, and went to the kitchen to get some pastries to feed Xu Lingyin.
Xiao Douding didn't need to be coaxed, he ate and ate, and fell asleep.
Xu Qi'an returned her to Lu'e, went back to the house and continued to sleep, and in a hazy way, he heard someone knocking on the door.
"Big brother..."Xu Lingyue's crisp and pleasant girlish voice came from outside the door.
"What's wrong?" Xu Qi'an didn't open the door, in the middle of the night, when his brother couldn't open the door for his sister, Yu Li didn't agree.
"I, I can't sleep, I'm afraid..."Xu Lingyue paused and added: "My mother can't sleep either, just now Lu'e asked, and my mother told me about the haunting of the house." As they spoke, they were also scared.
"Dad wasn't at home, so they didn't dare to sleep. ”
They don't dare to sleep with me, everyone sits down and rubs mahjong all night? Xu Qi'an recalled himself when he used to move, and felt the same way, so he said patiently:
"Don't be afraid, there are no ghosts in the house. ”
Xu Lingyue didn't reply, hesitated for a few seconds, "Can the eldest brother accompany us?" ”
PS: This chapter is yesterday's plus update.