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"Master, the human tripod has been placed on the altar." Chengyi walked into the ancestral hall and said to Fengren who was sitting in front of the carved scriptures.
"The blood sacrifice to the Wuxin Bell absorbs the essence of the entire city. Yier, do you think I was wrong?" Feng Ren murmured, his voice vague and bewildered.
Bow your head with sincerity and respect: "Live for the Tao, die for the Tao."
"You? Haha..." Feng Ren said sadly, "Is this why you poisoned me?"
"This is all Master's fault." A trace of resentment appeared in Chengyi's eyes: "If not, how could I obtain the Longevity Guide?"
"Without the Longevity Induction, I cannot cultivate the Armor Soul, open the Heavenly Gate, and see longevity." Chengyi became more and more excited.
"Live for the Tao! Die for the Tao! Master, you taught me that!"
"With Cheng Ming here, you don't need it, you really don't need it..." Feng Ren sighed, and blood began to drip from the corner of his mouth.
"Chengming, Chengming, it's Chengming again! This Changshengyin is also prepared for Chengming!" Hatred appeared in Chengyi's eyes.
"Hehe... Immortality Inducement? It's the Immortality Poison..." Feng Ren opened his mouth and blood quietly flowed out of his mouth, dripping down his chin onto his clothes, slowly soaking the ground.
The dark red bloodstains spread from where Fengren sat, getting bigger and bigger until they covered half of the ancestral hall.
"Don't blame me, Master, I just want to see that wonderful world." Chengyi's eyes were bloodshot and a tear fell from the corner of his eye.
"Live for the Tao, die for the Tao..." In the ancestral hall, only this obsessive murmur remained.
……
"Brother Chen, please give me some rice balls. I'm really hungry." Cheng Ming poked his head out from behind the curtain with a smile, and kept begging by pulling on Chen Mu's shoulders.
"Give it to you, give it to you, give it to you! Don't touch me, I'm annoyed!" Chen Mu pretended to take out a fist-sized cloth bag from the cloth bag in his arms and threw it to Cheng Ming.
Inside was a set of five fasting pills.
"Thank you, Brother Chen!"
"When my master and senior brothers come to pick me up, I will ask them to treat you to a big dinner at the largest restaurant in Nanyang Prefecture!" Cheng Ming smiled happily.
"Go away, that chef might not cook as good food as I do."
"If you want to repay me, just ask your master to give you the money directly!"
"No problem!" Cheng Ming said generously, "You can cheat as much as you want. My senior brother has plenty of money. Hehe!"
Cough!
Jiejia coughed twice and suddenly turned to look at Chengming.
"Grandpa, what's wrong?"
"I have rice balls too." Jie Jia smiled and said, "Do you want to buy some?"
“You can keep accounts.”
Chen Mu looked at Jie Jia with emotion.
He used to think that Jiejia’s bottom line for making money was not high.
But the fact is that he doesn't have it at all.
What the hell are you talking about! You're going to sell the rice I gave you for free?!
"No problem! My senior brother is so nice to me! He gives me as much money as I want." Cheng Ming looked happy.
"Keep the account! Keep the account!"
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 53 Fog
In an ordinary small courtyard in Ping'anfang, east of Qingshan County.
Although the house is small, it has everything it needs, including a well, a stove, a vegetable garden, and a pig pen.
Early in the morning, Old Man Liu lay down in the rocking chair, staring lazily at the sun in the sky that was obscured by fog and looked like a fluorescent lamp.
"I'm old, I'm old after all. But after working hard for half a month, I'm still exhausted. I'm getting more and more tired." He couldn't help squinting his eyes.
"Finally settled down."
"When the fog clears, I'll go find Matchmaker Zhang."
The terrible foggy day still couldn't affect his good mood.
"Find a concubine and a warm bed. I will be satisfied in this life."
"We should also go and find out which families have children that they can't afford to raise. The children can't be too old, otherwise they will be someone else's when they grow up."
Old man Liu showed a longing smile on his face.
"Wait until the fog clears, go. Wait until the fog clears, go..."
He murmured softly, with hope in his heart, slowly fell asleep, and slowly died.
……
The backyard of Qingshan County Government Office.
Since the county magistrate disappeared, County Magistrate Li Qing has actually taken control of Qingshan County.
He moved to the county magistrate's residence openly.
The world is in chaos, and no one will care about a small Qingshan County.
As the sky gradually brightened, Li Qing slowly stood up. He felt a headache, swollen eyes, and sore limbs, as if he had not slept all night.
"Someone come here." He shouted weakly with a hoarse voice.
But after shouting for a long time, no one came to help him get up.
Li Qing endured the discomfort all over his body and struggled to leave the bedroom angrily.
"I have to see a doctor." He clearly felt that something was wrong.
Rushed into the small compartment next to the bedroom, which was the temporary residence of the personal maid.
The maid who should have gotten up early was still curled up in bed.
A maid gets up later than her master? !
Damn!
He ran to the bed angrily and raised his hand to beat the maid.
But what I saw in front of me was an extremely pale face.
If it weren't for the slight rise and fall of her chest, he would have thought that this maid was dead!
"Something's wrong!" Li Qing staggered back.
Did someone poison me?
He rushed out of the room in a hurry.
Then I saw the servants and guards standing outside the room staggering like they were drunk.
Pale face, lack of energy and blood!
"Something's wrong! Something's very wrong!"
"Somebody come!"
"Someone is coming!"
……
The official road south of Qingshan County.
The long convoy suddenly stopped and a noise came from the front of the convoy.
"What happened?" Chen Mu tried to look forward.
But the thick fog obscured everything and nothing could be seen clearly.
"Zhen Fan, go check out the front!" Zhang Ye stuck his head out of the window and shouted to the carriage behind him.
"okay!"
A thin man jumped off the carriage at the back and quickly disappeared into the fog.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the thin man returned again.
"Boss, there's a dead person ahead."
"It is said that he is a young master of the Zuo family who was born out of wedlock."
"Silent and sudden death."
"That young master's mother is making a scene in front."
Chen Mu frowned slightly, wondering how could someone die suddenly?
"Someone died just as we set out. This is not a good sign." Zhang Ye sighed, and then complained, "This young master didn't even consider the time of death, but chose to die now. Isn't this delaying things?!"
"Something is wrong." Chen Mu frowned tightly.
"Don't be afraid, brother. It's just one person who died. I'm here..." Zhang Ye patted Chen Mu's shoulder and laughed.
Chen Mu glanced at the other person indifferently.
Zhang Ye felt a knot in his chest. He felt a familiar feeling of weakness in his limbs, and he dared not move. He opened his mouth but could not utter a word, like a duck with its neck pinched.
When he came to his senses, he was immediately ashamed and angry. He was actually frightened by a pale-faced scholar!
He was about to give the other person a fierce look with his eyes wide open, but he found that Chen Mu had turned his head away and ignored him.
"What's wrong?" Jie Jia turned and looked at Chen Mu.
"It's too quiet."
He lived in Xiaodongshan for three months, with insects chirping and birds singing every day.
He felt something was wrong when he came here in the morning, and now he finally realized it.
A cold light flashed in Jiejia's eyes, and his figure suddenly disappeared.
Three breaths later, he emerged with a thumb-sized gray spider in his hand.