Chapter 43 Dojo
Chapter 43 Dojo
As the night deepened, there were rumors of ghosts, so everyone closed their doors, and the town became even quieter, with only the faint barking of dogs and the chirping of insects. Li Wuxiang took a few deep breaths to make his body soft and light, and jumped lightly onto the roof of Chen Sanyao's neighbor's house without making any noise.
This should be the Chen Er that Chen Sanyao mentioned. He looks well-off and his roof is covered with tiles. Since Chen Sanyao said he could see Zhao Qi coming to his house from his own house, it should be the roof on the adjacent side. Li Wuxiang turned over the tiles carefully and finally found another talisman after uncovering more than 30 tiles.
Unwrapping the layer of oil paper wrapped around the surface, a folded talisman was revealed. It was not the yellow paper Zhao Qi had just used, but the familiar bamboo paper, folded into the shape of a little man. Li Wuxiang carefully unwrapped the thing and saw what was drawn on it... It was hard to say it was a talisman.
It was actually a little man, painted with cinnabar, shaped like a sitting fat boy, named Li Wuxiang, who looked a little familiar...
It was the Kitchen God I saw at Wang’s house!
The Wang family's Kitchen God was very delicately sculpted, a fat, grinning man. The reason why it was so impressive was not only because it had appeared that night, but also because its grinning mouth was full of sharp teeth, which made it look a little ferocious.
The image of Kitchen God is depicted on this piece of bamboo paper.
At this time, the one that was taken out from Chen San's stomach was also dry. Li Wuxiang carefully unfolded it and found that it was the same as Chen Er's.
He put the talisman paper of Chen Er's family back to its original place and continued to fly in the night. Fortunately, there was a moon in the first half of the night, and it gradually became cloudy in the second half of the night. After checking a few more houses, he found the talisman paper of the Kitchen God left by Zhao Qi in the shelter of the roof. He continued to work hard and finally found 93 households, all of which were like this. The remaining two households were the town owner Chen Xin's family and the Xue family.
It goes without saying that Chen Xin's family must have it too. As for the Xue family - when Li Wuxiang found the same talisman paper on the roof of the main house where Xue Baoping lived, Xue Baoping heard the sound and walked into the yard lightly holding a bolt, with a look of three parts panic and seven parts fierceness on his face, as if he was going to have a good fight with someone.
Li Wuxiang couldn't help laughing when he saw her like this, and jumped down from the roof: "It's me."
Xue Baoping put down the bolt and let out a sigh: "I thought there was a thief. Why did you come back just now?"
Li Wuxiang was about to answer her when the clouds in the sky suddenly dispersed slightly, allowing him to see Xue Baoping more clearly. Perhaps because she had accidentally fallen asleep and had just woken up, her clothes were loose, so her exposed shoulders and neck looked particularly smooth and delicate under the moonlight. Her hair was fluffy and messy, hanging down from her ears and cheeks, and she looked like a pair of black clouds, which was extremely seductive.
When he first saw her, Li Wuxiang thought she was just a pretty girl, but now under the moonlight, she looked even more beautiful... She had grown into a charming beauty.
Xue Baoping noticed the way he was looking at her, and her face immediately flushed. She wanted to avoid him, but she was a little reluctant to do so. Just as she was thinking about saying something quickly, she heard Li Wuxiang ask, "How old are you this year?"
Xue Baoping's head buzzed softly. He bit his lower lip hard and looked up to meet Li Wuxiang's gaze: "I'm going to be seventeen. When my mother was seventeen--"
"Where are Wang Wen and Wang Wu?"
"Ah?" Xue Baoping was stunned for a moment, and the bolt she was holding fell down with a clang. She leaned over to pick it up, and with her back to Li Wuxiang, she let out a sigh of relief, and then said, "About twenty-three or twenty-four, what happened?"
"Oh." Li Wuxiang took two steps back and looked at her again, thinking for a moment, "I came back late because I went to catch ghosts with Zhao Qi. There was a ghost in Chen Sanyao's house, and something unexpected happened when we were catching ghosts."
As he spoke, he walked into the kitchen and saw embers in the stove. Xue Baoping left him a small bowl of fish noodles and two raw eggs. He slowly ate the fish noodles while telling him everything that had just happened. When talking about letting Chen Sanyao go, Xue Baoping frowned worriedly: "What if he...really can't get over it and comes back to cause trouble again?" "He has no money, no food, no water. If he can really get to Qingjiang City, the first thing he has to do is to solve the problem of food and drink and find someone to treat his injuries. If he can solve the problem of food and drink in a month, I would underestimate him. He can't come back."
Then he went on to talk about the talismans he found on the roofs of houses in the town. Xue Baoping immediately looked up, and Li Wuxiang nodded: "Yes, we have one too. Zhao Qi has been very busy since he came here, and he is not as idle as he looks."
Xue Baoping frowned and scratched his neck: "So, those talismans...he...is actually busy keeping everyone safe?"
"Then he wouldn't do it secretly." Li Wuxiang looked at her and was silent for a moment. "I want to tell you something that makes you unhappy."
"Ok?"
"You said that you occasionally saw Wang Wen and Wang Wu in the past two years, right?"
"……Yes."
"But a few days ago, they suddenly became attracted to you. We are neighbors, and they were so crazy that they came to your house at night and raped you—"
Xue Baoping was stunned for a moment, then he straightened up immediately: "No, I, I, I didn't... I didn't..."
"I'm not saying you're wrong." Li Wuxiang breathed softly, "I just thought about this before - you live very close to the Wang family, they should have seen you occasionally, but why did they suddenly become obsessed with you when you went to them to exchange food that day? You can't figure it out, right? But I think it's because there is no mirror in your house anymore, and you usually just wash in front of the water, and you didn't realize that you have suddenly become a beauty."
Xue Baoping's heart skipped a beat and she felt like she was almost suffocating. But she knew that Li Wuxiang didn't say this to praise her beauty, but for something else, but she didn't understand what it meant.
Li Wuxiang sighed, "You said Wang Wen and Wang Wu are twenty-three or twenty-four years old this year, but to me they look like they are around thirty. Maybe because he is a hunter, he looks old due to the wind and sun... But Chen Sanyao told me tonight that he is only eighteen years old. To you, he looks like seventeen or eighteen, eighteen or nineteen, or twenty-four or twenty-five?"
Xue Baoping felt that she had grasped something. She took a deep breath, frowned and thought for a while: "It seems... yes... Before, Wang Wen, Wang Wu, and Chen Sanyao were not as, so..."
"Mature, or old-looking. Your town leader Chen Xin doesn't look like he's in his 50s, but more like he's in his 60s." Li Wuxiang looked at her, "I thought before that maybe it's just the people here who look old. But you, Aquarius, if I saw you half a month ago, I would only think that after two or three years, you've grown so beautiful."
Xue Baoping's heart suddenly rang, and his eyes widened suddenly: "You mean Zhao Qi, those talismans——"
"Maybe he is stealing your Yang Qi, life span, and life span. Whatever you call it, I think I have guessed what he wants to do." Li Wuxiang nodded, "Remember when I was trapped in the stove? His master Zhao Kui is doing a Taoist temple in a conch shell. Zhao Qi doesn't have his ability, but I think he is doing a Taoist temple with gold and water.
(End of this chapter)