Chapter 38: Bloodshed
The rainwater flows down the corners of the eaves, forming an intermittent curtain of water, which is blown by the cold wind and slanted into it like broken jade.
Xiangzhou is located in the southwest, the winter is cold and dry, when it rains, it is cold and damp, and the cold is soaked to the bones.
The crowd sat around the campfire, with plenty of firewood, and the flames dispelled the coldness of the rainy night.
"The demon slaying conference convened by Aunt Chai Family?"
Li Lingsu's expression became strange, and he asked, "Demon Slaying Conference, who is being slaughtered?"
Xu Qi'an fiddled with the bonfire, and suddenly understood why Tianzong wanted to arrest the Holy Son and Holy Daughter together.
Li Miao's true chivalry and righteousness may not be wrong in the eyes of Tianzong. Her real fault lies in her inflated sense of justice and in being trapped by "love".
In the same way, Li Lingsu's real fault is not that he sleeps with women everywhere, if the Holy Son is ruthless, Tianzong may not bother to care about his.
He was wrong about having feelings for every woman he had ever taught.
As soon as he heard that it was related to the Chai family, this kid couldn't sit still.
"Brother Tai is not from Zhangzhou?"
Feng Xiu asked with some surprise.
Xiangzhou is a state under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou, and she directly pointed out non-Zhangzhou people, which shows that the so-called "Demon Slaying Conference" is no longer limited to Xiangzhou, but the entire Zhangzhou is well known?
Xu Qi'an came up with a corresponding speculation, and then listened to Li Lingsu answer with a smile:
"The destination of our trip is Yongzhou, passing through Xiangzhou, and we don't know much about things here. ”
Feng Xiu nodded suddenly, looked at Li Lingsu's handsome face a few times, and said:
"More than half a month ago, there was a big incident, the head of the family Chai Jianyuan was killed in the house, the murderer was his adopted son Chai Xian, after this person killed his father-in-law who was so kind to him, he went crazy and killed dozens of people in the house, all the way out, and there has been no news since. ”
"Chai Xian........"
Li Lingsu muttered this name, and it seemed that he was no stranger to this person.
Xu Qi'an added a piece of firewood and said with a smile: "Listen to the girl's meaning, this Chai Xian is still in Zhangzhou and has not left?"
This man is very perceptive......... Feng Xiu was a little surprised, and said softly:
"Your Excellency is right, after Chai Xian killed someone, instead of fleeing Zhangzhou, he claimed that he was wronged and that someone framed him. He threatened to find out about the matter and clear his name.
But later, there were frequent murders in various parts of Zhangzhou, especially in Xiangzhou, where some people saw him killing people and refining corpses. At first, all the people killed were Jianghu people, but later even ordinary people were poisoned by him, and the Xiangzhou government began to intervene in this matter.
The aunt of the Chai family took the opportunity to hold a "demon slaughter conference" and called on people from all over Zhangzhou to go to Xiangzhou to unite with the government and crusade against Chai Xian. ”
Wang Jun, who was in a black suit, snorted coldly: "The evil demons are outside, and they kill the people, and everyone will be punished." ”
Scholar Lu Wei was silent and quietly moved closer to everyone.
Xu Qi'an took off the water bladder, took a sip, and added some water to the little white fox's bowl, which stretched out its pink little tongue and licked it silently.
The little white fox is reserved and elegant, with bright fur color, delicate and dusty, plus a small one, delicate and cute, which can best stir the heart of a woman.
Feng Xiu stared straight and said happily: "What a beautiful little fox, can I hold it?"
The little white fox raised his head and just wanted to say: No!
Mu Nanyu took the first step to pick it up, blocked its mouth, and said lightly: "No!"
Feng Xiu looked disappointed.
Wang Jun, who was in a black suit, saw that the woman he liked touched the nail, and snorted: "It's just a fox, what's so rare, Senior Sister Feng, when the rain stops tomorrow, I'll go to the mountains to catch one for you." ”
Feng Xiu shook his head: "Forget it, don't bother." ”
She just thinks the little white fox is cute and wants to hug it, but if she really wants to raise one by her side, she doesn't have the energy and interest.
As she spoke, she subconsciously glanced at Li Lingsu again, and just happened to collide with the other party's gaze, and this handsome man with a good demeanor actually threw a wink at her.
Feng Xiu immediately looked away, the deer in his heart collided, and his face burned with it.
Alas, my damn charm......... Li Lingsu sighed, like a peerless powerhouse in a high place.
Then, he heard Xu Qian's voice: "That Aunt of the Chai family is your concubine?"
How do you know....... Li Lingsu was dumbfounded, and almost blurted out a rhetorical question.
"I don't remember saying that. He replied.
"When you hear about the bloody case of the Chai family, you are only surprised and not worried, which means that you confirm that your concubine has no accident. So I guess it's the Chai aunt who made the call. Xu Qi'an said.
"Seniors are discerning!" Li Lingsu said.
"What do you think of this case?" asked Xu Qi'an.
Li Lingsu fell into memories and said leisurely:
"I used to travel to Zhangzhou with my sister Miaozhen, and I met the Chai family by chance, and the leader of the team at that time was a woman with a sad color like a lilac, which was pitiful.
In the early spring of that year, the apricot blossoms were slightly raining, she wore a long water-green dress, held an oil-paper umbrella, and stood by the boat to watch the rain.
"She was depressed when she had not long been widowed, so I invited her to drink and get drunk to relieve her sorrows, but she ignored it at first, and treated me coldly, and then she became annoyed and even spoke ill of her. ”
Mourning, mourning? What is the difference between you and Cao Thief?!
Xu Qi'an was shocked.
Later, she said that there is a thousand unique valleys in Zhangzhou, and there is a pair of strange beasts in the valley, and the male and female are never separated. Near their nests grows a strange flower called "white head", and if you can get that flower, you can stay with your loved one for the rest of your life.
"If I can pick that flower, she'll drink with me. ”
Hearing this, Xu Qi'an nodded slowly: "You got that flower, so you captured the heart of the beauty?"
The Holy Son shook his head:
"There is indeed a pair of strange beasts in the Valley of a Thousand Uniques, extremely ferocious, with the blood of gods and demons, not to mention the fifth grade, the fourth grade master goes, and he can't deal with it. There are no flowers near the nests of the male and female, she lied to me.
"But I went anyway, fought with the two beasts, plucked one of their tail feathers, and escaped with serious injuries. I found her, gave her the tail feathers, and left. ”
And that's it? different from what I thought......... Xu Qi'an frowned, and said, "What happened later?"
Li Lingsu said "hehe" twice, and said:
She chased me out and asked me, with tears in her eyes, asking me why I did this, knowing that there were no so-called strange flowers in the valley, and knowing that she was lying to me. Why risk your life?
"I said, 'Beautiful girl, love you is my unchanging faith all my life, and to enter your heart is my longing of dreams, and this heartfelt feeling will not be changed by the diversion of the river, nor will it be buried by the collapse of the mountains.
"Even if it's a little joke of yours, I'm willing to try it with my life. It's a pity, my girl, that I can't get into your heart. So, I'm going to get out of here and go into the distance.
"She threw herself into my arms desperately........."
Good guy, does Tianzong still accept disciples, I want to go to study for a few years....... Xu Qi'an's cold voice interrupted:
"That's enough, get down to business. ”
Li Ling ended the topic unsatisfactorily, and said:
"I've seen Chai Xian a few times, he is a person with a pure temperament, not like a thief who would commit the evil act of killing his father and relatives. There may be a hidden ......... in this."
He wanted to speak, but he stopped.
Xu Qi'an, whose mind was full of thoughts of killing his father, said: "If you have something to say, say it." ”
"I want to go to Chai's house to see her and learn about the case. Li Lingsu said tentatively.
Xu Qian gave him the feeling that there was no lack of coldness in mildness, not like the kind of person who would meddle in things, so he couldn't guess what he thought.
Xu Qi'an nodded: "It must not exceed three days." ”
He actually agreed........ Li Lingsu was overjoyed.
...........
The night is getting darker and the rain is dripping.
The crowd sat cross-legged or lay on their sides, resting in the cold night.
The bonfire dimmed, and the fiery red charcoal emitted heat, trying to dispel the chill.
In the silence of the night, the faint light of the fire distorted the shadows. In the corner of the south wall, the coffin board of the old coffin slowly opened in the silent darkness.
A blue-black hand, poking out of the coffin, with its nails black, pressed against the edge of the coffin.
"Bang dang!"
After a few seconds of silence, the coffin board flew violently and fell heavily to the ground with a loud bang.
A figure stood up straight from inside the coffin, his knees as if they wouldn't bend.
The huge noise woke up everyone who stayed in the deserted temple overnight, Wang Jun, a man in a black suit, and Feng Xiu, who was neat and short, were the first to wake up, and subconsciously grabbed the weapons around them.
"Sonorous!"
The sword was unsheathed at the same time.
Mu Nanyu traveled for several days and was exhausted, and after being woken up, he rubbed his eyes and opened his eyes.
I saw Wang Jun and Feng Xiu holding weapons, carrying everyone on their backs, facing the coffin to the south, and in the seeping coffin, there was a figure standing upright, he was hidden in the dark, and only a general outline could be seen.
The two sides seem to be facing off.
At this time, the figure in the coffin jumped out of the coffin gently, and his jumping posture was very strange, as if his knees would not bend, and he jumped straight and straight.
The firelight illuminated the man's appearance, white eyes, blue-black flesh covered with ulcers, sparse hair, wearing tattered clothes, and the smell of corpses rushed to his face.
Where is this person, it is clearly a corpse, a corpse that moves.
Mu Nanyu's pupils dilated slightly, his expression froze, and after a few seconds, he let out a high-decibel scream.
"Ah........h
The little white fox also let out the scream of an immature girl, and the person stood up, hugging Xu Qi'an's calves with his two front paws, trembling.
The scream seemed to stimulate it, and it let out a penetrating roar from its mouth, and with a flick of its legs, it pounced on everyone.
The scholar Lu Wei screamed and fled to the corner in fright.
"It's a bloody corpse!"
Wang Jun, who was in a black suit, roared in a low voice, and the long knife slashed vertically, wanting to cut the bloody corpse in half.
"The blood corpse is an evil thing that survives by devouring the essence and blood of the living, and above the blood corpse is an iron corpse, and the defense power of the iron corpse is equivalent to the copper skin and iron bones of the six grades. Back then, the ancestors of the Chai family relied on thirteen iron corpses to defeat the invincible opponents in Xiangzhou. ”
Li Lingsu explained.
The bloody corpse clasped his hands together and clamped the blade, Wang Jun pumped a few times, but he didn't pull it out.
The power of this bloody corpse was far beyond his imagination.
Feng Xiujiao scolded, took two quick steps, and kicked the bloody corpse in the chest, bang!
The bloody corpse's body was shrunk like a shrimp, but its feet were firmly rooted and did not move for half a minute.
In the next second, it stood up and shook Feng Xiu away, and then, it swung its arms sideways and swept Wang Jun away.
Two fledgling young men and women fell in different directions, moaning in pain.
Wang Jun was swept in the arm by the bloody corpse, the bone of his big arm was cracked, he endured the pain, while his luck was relieved, he picked up the saber, and was about to continue fighting, suddenly, his legs were weak, and his dantian was like a knife.
"Ah.......h
On the other side, Feng Xiu seemed to have suffered a similar situation, his face was pale and weak.
Poisoned......... Wang Jun's heart sank, and he immediately understood his situation.
"Brother Wang, Miss Feng, she is worthy of being a master from a famous family, she was hit by my soft muscles, and she has only had a seizure until now. ”
In the corner, scholar Lu Wei walked out of the shadows with a smile and came to the campfire.
His face was delicate, but he didn't have the gentleness he had before, and he was even a little hideous under the firelight.
"It's you?!"
Feng Xiu was taken aback, completely unexpectedly that things would develop like this.
"You're a corpse keeper, no wonder you didn't let me chop the coffin just now, because I haven't had a chance to poison it yet?"
Wang Jun staggered to his feet with a knife, his face pale.
Lu Wei bowed his head and said: "That's right, my bloody corpse is not yet complete, although it is no problem to kill you two, but if you want to escape, it will not be able to catch up." ”
"Why are you doing that?"
Feng Xiuxiu is not as good as Wang Jun, and he can't stand up.
Lu Wei was about to answer, when he suddenly heard the man in Tsing Yi, who was sitting cross-legged by the campfire and unable to move, answered:
"Of course, it's to sacrifice blood corpses and improve cultivation. ”
Lu Wei glanced at him a few times, confirmed that he was just an ordinary person, there was no threat, and said with a smile: "That's right. ”
Xu Qi'an said again: "So you disguised yourself as a scholar and wandered around to deceive passers-by? ”
Feng Xiu and Wang Jun's faces were instantly ugly, they were passers-by who were deceived.
Lu Wei smiled and looked at the man in Tsing Yi again.
"This road frequently causes people to die, and the government doesn't care?" Li Lingsu asked as he fiddled with the bonfire.
"This time is different from the past, that Chai Xian kills people and refines corpses everywhere, and the city is full of storms. We just follow him and drink a sip of soup, anyway, we end up throwing our sins on him. ”
Lu Wei's eyes were gloomy, as if he didn't want to talk nonsense, and said, "Let's take you ordinary people first." ”
Manipulating the bloody corpse, he walked towards Li Lingsu.
Why was I the first person to die, was it because I was too handsome?
Li Lingsu was a little angry.
"The essence and blood of ordinary people are not very useful, but they can accumulate over time. I see a few people who are in good health, and their qi and blood are extremely vigorous among ordinary people. ”
As Lu Wei spoke, the bloody corpse had already bounced in front of Li Lingsu, opened his foul mouth, and bit the Holy Son fiercely.
Li Lingsu shook his head, sideways to avoid it, got up, took off the hosta that tied his hair, and threw it gently.
The hosta shot out with electricity, shooting through half of the face of the bloody corpse, and the tip of the hairpin pierced out a black ugly Gu worm, which seemed to be given life, and returned to Li Lingsu with a turn.
The bloody corpse staggered two steps forward, fell to the ground, and never said again.
"What?!"
Lu Wei's eyes almost popped out, he had worked hard for several years, and the blood corpse that was more powerful than the Qi Cultivation Realm was destroyed by the other party so easily.
Shock, amazement, and disbelief first swelled up, followed by fear and anxiety, and cold sweat poured out.
Obviously, he has met a real master.
Maybe the next moment, he will be like a bloody corpse, completely transformed into a corpse.
Feng Xiu and Wang Jun were desperate, surprised, happy and dazed. However, compared to Wang Jun, who was full of joy and pure escape from death, the beautiful Feng girl looked at Li Lingsu stupidly.
It turns out that he is so powerful.........
Xu Qi'an beckoned, took the hosta, stared at the Gu worm at the tip of the hairpin, shook his head and said:
"The mutated corpse Gu is not authentic enough. ”
As he spoke, Lu Wei's expression changed through a series of changes, and finally his heart was crossed, and he rushed out of the broken temple at an extremely fast speed, trying to escape.
"Whew!"
The hosta roared out, piercing the chest of scholar Lu Wei, bringing out a stream of red blood, and the person fell to the ground.
Feng Xiu and Wang Jun, who witnessed Lu Wei being killed like a mustard, took a deep breath, suppressed the complex emotions surging in their hearts, and said in a respectful tone:
"Thank you two seniors for saving your life. ”
Xu Qi'an threw a piece of firewood into the fire and sighed: "Is Xiangzhou already so messy?"
Feng Xiu pursed his lips, "When the disciple was in the sect, I only heard that Chai Xian was in Xiangzhou and other counties and counties, and there was no peace. Now it seems that some of these murders are fished in troubled waters by unscrupulous people like Lu Wei.
"It's me and Brother Wang who believe in the wrong person, if it weren't for the two seniors who are also in the temple today, I'm afraid we won't be able to survive. ”
She thanked her again for saving her life, but her wonderful eyes focused on Li Lingsu most of the time, believing that this handsome man was the core of the small team.
Li Lingsu bowed slightly: "Deal with the bloody corpse, continue to rest, and wait for tomorrow on the road." ”
Mu Nanyu watched Wang Jun drag the bloody corpse away, turned his head in fear, and glared at Xu Qi'an:
"Did you already know that there were ghosts in the coffin?"
Xu Qi'an shook his head:
"I don't know, but it's definitely weird to have a coffin in a broken temple. It was a place where people often rested, and the tables were chopped into wood and burned, but the coffin was intact. Such a big flaw came out at a glance. ”
As for later, the scholar secretly threw the smoke into the bonfire, and he couldn't hide it from the drug expert.
Mu Nanyu snorted, lay down with Bai Ji in his arms, facing Xu Qi'an sideways, and the curves of his waist and buttocks were extremely moving.
"It's hard, it's uncomfortable, don't sleep with me in your arms......."
The little white fox struggled.
Xu Qi'an lay down sideways and hugged Mu Nanyu's slender waist.
Her delicate body stiffened, but she didn't resist or speak.
...........
The next day, early in the morning.
Mu Nanyu woke up and found himself curled up in Xu Qi'an's arms, frightened last night, and subconsciously leaned against him when he fell asleep, seeking a sense of security.
She looked like a girl who had not yet come out of the cabinet, her face was slightly red, and she was forced to pretend that nothing happened.
After a while, everyone woke up one after another, Xu Qi'an boiled a pot of hot water, first gave each person a bowl of hot water to cold steamed buns, and then used the remaining hot water to brush their teeth and clean their faces.
Everyone went on the road together, and on the way, Xu Qi'an asked:
"What are the special delicacies in Xiangzhou?"
Li Lingsu thought for a while and said, "The bacon is good, when I enter the city, I will take my seniors to taste it." ”
Xu Qi'an looked at Mu Nanyu and saw that her face was moved, so he smiled and said, "Okay." ”
Feng Xiu and Wang Jun followed behind them with some restraint, and did not dare to take the initiative to speak, but when they heard Li Lingsu respectfully address the man in Tsing Yi, they looked at each other in some surprise.
He addressed the man as a senior in a respectful manner........ Feng Xiuyuan's eyes widened slightly, could she guess wrong, this man in Tsing Yi is the core figure?
Before noon, a group of people came to Xiangzhou City, the city wall is three zhang high, the pedestrians are sparse, the clothes are ordinary, and it is rare to see people in fresh clothes and angry horses.
Xiangzhou is not rich, and it is not even as good as Leizhou, which is located on the border.
After entering the city, Feng Xiu and Wang Jun said goodbye and left.
Li Lingsu led the way, Xu Qi'an led the little mare, and followed behind, and half an hour later, they stopped outside a large manor.
The red gate is hung with a plaque of "Chai House".
The young and strong porter greeted him and said, "Which sect are you?"
Li Lingsu replied: "There is no door and no faction. ”
"Do you have an invitation?"
"Nope. Li Lingsu shook his head.
The porter frowned, and was about to speak, when he heard the handsome young man say:
"I am an old friend with Chai Xing'er, you go in to report, and say that Li Lingsu asks to see you. ”
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PS: Today I was sleepy all day, weak, and looking at the computer screen was ghosted.