Chapter 228

Chapter 222

When Lin Shuyou heard the sound coming from the ward next door and saw the girl who appeared there, he was completely stunned.

Negative Meng was also very surprised. She hadn't expected Brother Xiao Yuan to bring A Li over.

Actually, the reason A Li hadn't gone out in the past was that her illness made her resist contact with outsiders, but A Li wasn't unable to go out.

Previously, when the young man in Shi Gang was attending high school, A Li would often sit on Run Sheng's tricycle, find a quiet alley to stay, and wait for the young man to finish school so they could go home together.

There weren't many people at the midnight clinic, and the patients were all in their own wards. Earlier, when A Li passed through the corridor, her breathing was slightly rapid, but as long as the young man was by her side, she could completely bear it.

When Li Zhuiyuan went back to tell the girl the situation, the girl immediately put down the matter in her hand and proactively held the young man's hand.

As for whether this matter was a *bo* and whether it would involve A Li, there was fundamentally no need to worry, because A Li had originally always been walking the river with him.

Zhao Yi said that an honored elder in his family with a certain position once had a dream. In the dream, two dragons roamed above Jiu Jiang.

That old person regarded it as an auspicious sign and directly forced against opinions, sending that invitation with a marriage proposal nature to Grandma Liu's hand.

The dream should have been true, but the interpretation was likely wrong.

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the end of a thread and handed it to A Li's hand.

A Li took the thread and wound it around her fingertip.

After testing that this curse power was extremely sensitive and obsessed with spiritual thoughts, the matter suddenly became simple. After all, in this world, when it came to spiritual thoughts... whether in quantity or quality, there weren't many who could compare to A Li.

As long as it could be lured out, then its existence wasn't much of a threat.

Li Zhuiyuan wasn't worried that A Li would suffer harm from the curse power, because every evil shadow in A Li's dreams could be understood as a curse seal. Any one of them taken out casually could not compare to the one inside Liu Jinxia's body.

The formation opened, A Li closed her eyes, opened her walk yin, and entered the dream.

In an instant, the curse power inside Liu Jinxia's body fell into madness. With almost no hesitation, it immediately came out of Liu Jinxia's body and followed the thread, transferring into A Li's body.

Perceiving the curse power adding to her body, A Li's face remained calm, her eyebrows not even furrowing once.

Liu Jinxia, who had fallen into a coma, began to vomit black water. Negative Meng immediately helped her up, letting her vomit into the spittoon, and conveniently patted her back lightly, afraid the old person would choke.

This was the start of Liu Jinxia's body detoxifying after the curse power left.

Li Zhuiyuan looked towards A Li. A Li opened her eyes, nodded to the young man, and a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"Meng Meng, A You, you two stay here to clean up."

"Understood."

"Understood."

Li Zhuiyuan held A Li's hand and left the clinic. Run Sheng pushed the tricycle out and carried the two people home.

Previously, across the fields, they could see the east room door open and the light on. By the time the tricycle went up the embankment, they discovered the door was closed and the light was off.

Her granddaughter was out at night, and the old lady was worried, but she wouldn't let her worry add to the chaos.

For this, she even refused Qin Li from following out to accompany them from a distance as was the past convention.

Previously, she only thought it was a blessing that her granddaughter's illness could improve. Now, she could even make more dreams.

"Brother Run Sheng, please trouble you to decoct the medicine according to this list and then send it to the ward. This share is for Grandma Liu, and this share is for Aunt Xiang Hou."

Sending the Buddha to the west, Liu Jinxia was saved back by him. He conveniently sent a soup medicine to regulate her, which was Li Zhuiyuan's specialty.

As for sending a share to Aunt Xiang Hou as well, it was because the young man was clear that Aunt Xiang Hou must have made more preparations for tonight's 'transfer'.

Her mother and son had figured out folk methods themselves. They had some effect, but the side effects were also too fierce.

When he had just returned to his hometown, Aunt Xiang Hou had been particularly good to him because he was Li Lan's son. Li Lan didn't accept this feeling, but he had to accept it, purely as repaying a favor.

"Okay, don't worry."

There really wasn't a lack of medicinal materials at home. If people didn't drink, dogs also wanted to drink.

Decocting medicine was a technical job, but it wasn't difficult for Run Sheng. As long as the steps were clear for the matters Xiao Yuan instructed him, he never made a mistake.

Just as he lit the coal stove and put the clay pot on, Xiao Hei yawned and walked in, sniffing towards the clay pot.

Run Sheng patted its dog head: "Not for you."

Xiao Hei heard the words, simply lay down at Run Sheng's feet, used Run Sheng's shoe as a pillow, and went back to sleep.

This five-black dog was personally selected and bought back by Aunt Liu.

It was always supplied with good food, good drink, and good medicine. Its qi and blood were more sufficient. The bit of blood everyone needed daily was fundamentally nothing to it.

The past small puppy was now very sturdy. It clearly didn't like to exercise, except for eating and sleeping, but the meat under its fur was truly solid.

Run Sheng reached out and touched its body. It felt like touching a sturdy calf.

Xiao Hei smacked its lips a few times, moved its body, and offered its belly to Run Sheng, convenient for him to continue massaging it.

Li Zhuiyuan brought A Li back to his own room on the second floor. The curse power had been absorbed and needed to be handled.

But this way of handling needed to depend on the specific situation.

The two people sat facing each other, their hands clasped, both closing their eyes.

Li Zhuiyuan came into A Li's dream.

Now, A Li's dream was really much quieter. Standing inside this flat house, they no longer heard the past noise, and even the small-scale chatter had disappeared.

The initial thick fog hadn't disappeared, but it wasn't on the ground. It had all floated into the air, and vaguely, black shadows existed within the fog.

This scene had a visual sense like a painting scroll of the Buddhist Lei Yin Temple.

But those above might not be all celestial gods and Buddhas. The reason they were high above was purely that they didn't dare to come down.

When Li Zhuiyuan stepped over the threshold and walked out, the fog above immediately rose rapidly, forming layers of clouds.

However, this time, Li Zhuiyuan's target wasn't them.

Just after stepping over the threshold, he turned around and looked towards the curse power curled up in the wall crack.

It had a head and four limbs, and it was skinny and small, like a one-eyed monkey.

At this moment, it was just trembling, not at all recovering its previous excitement.

It originally thought it had found an organization. Who knew that after coming in, it discovered that the people inside the organization... were even more miserable.

Li Zhuiyuan walked closer to it, his gaze slightly condensed.

The one-eyed skinny monkey immediately knelt down and began to kowtow.

Li Zhuiyuan squatted down, reached out and grabbed its small head, making it lift its head.

Within its one eye, various expressions constantly changed and alternated. It seemed it still wanted to resist and launch a sneak attack on the young man, but it endured.

What kind of curse technique could make the curse power itself have self-consciousness, like a living thing?

Li Zhuiyuan speculated that this should be related to the sacrifice at the time of casting the curse, most likely casting the curse with a living thing as a sacrifice.

Just at this time, the one-eyed skinny monkey, which had originally been under huge pressure, seemed finally unable to support it. A group of special halos overflowed from its one eye, which was karma.

It was very miscellaneous and chaotic, like various periods and various components of karma being forced to fuse.

This feeling was very similar to the bustier Xin Jiyue initially used to store karma.

General Xuan Men people, no one would foolishly go touch this. Everyone thought of breaking cause and effect themselves to ensure cleanliness, touching this and touching it so crudely...

Li Zhuiyuan confirmed that this was a *bo*.

Tan Wenbin had already been arranged by him early on to be responsible for one line in the Zhoushan Islands. That ahead was another line given to him by the *bo*.

If analyzed purely from a rational angle, the two times clues were given were quite thoughtful and clear.

One time was proactively delivering Xin Jiyue, and one time was proactively going outside to retrieve Liu Jinxia after she was cursed.

Even between the first line and the second line, he could still spare time to take Tai Ye to Beijing to play a circle.

The river water in this *bo* gave a kind of never-before-seen inclusiveness and gentleness.

This also meant that this *bo* was not simple.

But, standing from the question setter's angle, it should have been through Liu Jinxia's death to convey the message about the ritual done by that household in Yancheng, leading out this line.

The question setter should not have expected that he could successfully draw out this curse power.

According to reason, if the cursed person's body died, it also meant that this curse power would dissipate.

The young man turned his head and said to the girl standing at the threshold: "A Li, I want to draw it out from your dream."

The girl nodded.

Li Zhuiyuan's figure disappeared from the dream, and he opened his eyes back to reality. The girl was still closing her eyes.

The young man took over the blank book, opened it to the second blank page, placed his right hand palm on it, and held the girl's hand with his left hand again.

Li Zhuiyuan went back to the girl's dream again.

The one-eyed skinny monkey, which had originally curled up in the wall crack, had by this time run to the open space in front and was constantly emitting shrieks towards the 'all celestial Buddhas' above, as if begging them to lend a hand.

But they above all pretended to be dumb, no one dared to come down at this time.

Li Zhuiyuan walked out. The skinny monkey was preparing to slip away, but the young man just opened his left hand, black fog rose, and restrained the skinny monkey back.

Even now, Li Zhuiyuan didn't know exactly what he had done to the Fengdu Great Emperor in the dream ghost dream, but he was very clear that every time he used the power of the in A Li's dream, it was equivalent to 'falsely transmitting imperial edicts' time and time again. The stains of the river water he walked were splashed one after another on the Great Emperor's body.

Just based on this point, the Great Emperor hating him and wanting to kill him was really not wronged.

Li Zhuiyuan suspected that this was probably the reason the Great Emperor, although in Fengdu, sat by and watched his bloodline descendants gradually decline.

To them, that kind of existence, bloodline not only lost the meaning of inheritance, instead became a flaw in their own cause and effect.

But the Great Emperor didn't expect that the Yin family's degenerate Twelve Methods could be reverse-pushed back to the Twelve Decrees by a young man. This counted as the person sitting at home, and the direct descendant came himself.

Grandma Liu could vomit blood by looking at a painting. The Great Emperor's Decrees being vigorously stirred like a bamboo pole in the river water by him should also not feel too good.

The skinny monkey was desperately dragged to the young man's front.

The young man covered the top of its head with his right hand palm.

In reality, the blank book trembled lightly. The first page, which had already turned to powder, the , actually floated out a head at this time again, curiously looking towards its neighbor on the second page.

It was imagining what kind of sacred being this would be.

Soon, the picture inside the second page appeared. It was a small iron cage, and a monkey was locked inside the cage.

was very surprised, and subsequently burst out strong dissatisfaction.

This was the prison that imprisoned it. How could even this insignificant thing also be imprisoned in it?

Compared to 's dissatisfaction, the black shadows in the high place of A Li's dream then collectively fell into panic.

They didn't know the cause and effect, didn't know that this time Li Zhuiyuan was just using A Li's dream as a transit station, or a temporary detention center.

From their perspective, what they saw was the young man just like that taking away something that already existed in the dream!

From the earliest use of a lantern to guide and catch people, then to taking lantern fish, then directly detaining with the Fengdu Decrees, this time it was good, it became a directional transfer and prison imprisonment. This young man, at intervals, could bring them different shocks.

According to this momentum, if it continued to develop, then what exactly would they and others become?

They clearly came to add insult to injury and curse and intimidate the orphan. Now, how did it almost become proactively coming to surrender?

At this moment, some black shadows had already started to leave. Staying here, they were originally waiting for an opportunity, hoping for a chance. Now, the matter had become more and more uncontrollable.

The contemporary young man of the Qin Liu two families who walked the river, perhaps now didn't have the power to face the Dragon King like in their era, but the young man's methods made them feel despair.

Li Zhuiyuan stood up, patted his hands, and lifted his head to look at the air.

Now he had matters in hand, and except for the kind of people in black robes like last time who proactively came over, the insignificant trash staying here no longer met the question setter's difficulty requirements.

But this didn't mean Li Zhuiyuan would let them go. He saw that a part had already left.

Just, what kind of place was this? Want to come just come, want to go just go?

Li Zhuiyuan walked back into the room and asked the girl standing there:

"A Li, do you all remember them?"

A Li nodded.

That was the nightmare she had to face from a young age. How could she not remember?

"Then just wait a little longer. Later, we'll sweep them all clean together."

They all came over and cursed, all left marks. This was mutual. Since they could come over, A Li could also proactively go find and sense them.

The experience and cognition accumulated from fighting wits and courage with the question setter would not become useless because the river walk was successful.

Li Zhuiyuan believed that in the future, he would have enough methods to help A Li deepen this causal relationship and let them have nowhere to hide.

When he became the Dragon King, his companions would also grow to a quite powerful level. At that time, they could be dispatched separately to search for and solve.

Moreover, at that time, the river walk's causal constraint would no longer exist. Uncle Qin and Aunt Liu could also join in. Even a Dragon King order could make forces like the Jiu Jiang Zhao on the Jianghu all move to help him conduct a big cleanup.

The young man was still young. Even now, he could still be called a 'child'. Therefore, he was too lazy to choose to believe in the wisdom of later generations.

He would personally clean up the leftover tails that the past Qin Liu two families Dragon Kings didn't finish.

In reality, the two people simultaneously opened their eyes.

Li Zhuiyuan's gaze looked towards the second picture inside the blank book. The skinny monkey was nervous, feeling fear of the environment here.

At the same time, the young man also detected resentment from the first picture.

He flipped back to the first page. The skull's mouth was wide open, as if denouncing and protesting.

Li Zhuiyuan placed his finger over it.

It seemed you had a lot of energy, so it was just right to use up today's deduction amount.

After the deduction ended, the skull turned to powder again, and it quieted down.

Li Zhuiyuan opened his right hand palm. Blood fog pervaded the center, and the red thread could already be coiled up.

This length was barely usable, but during a normal fight, companions' positions would be very spread out. It was impossible for them all to squeeze together. So, this length still needed to continue to be extended in order to cover the entire battlefield area.

Li Zhuiyuan looked again towards the skinny monkey locked in the cage in the second picture. He discovered that the cage in the picture hadn't changed, but the skinny monkey inside the cage had changed direction.

The young man closed the blank book and rotated it, then opened it again. The sitting posture of the skinny monkey in the second picture had changed direction again.

The change was based on the direction of the paper, but actually, the skinny monkey's one eye was always facing a fixed direction in reality.

Li Zhuiyuan took out paper and pen, first calculated the skinny monkey's direction angle, then in his mind, a map floated up.

From his location, drawing a line according to this direction would be biased towards the southeast, which could lead to the Zhoushan Islands.

As for Yancheng, it was in the almost opposite direction.

Liu Jinxia had been cursed in Yancheng. According to common sense, he should first go to Yancheng to find clues and then follow the vine to find the melon, but now... he could skip a step.

The young man closed the blank book, patted the book cover lightly. This book was indeed a good thing, no wonder that reader, even without understanding, loved it and was reluctant to part with it.

Next, he could pack up and prepare to go to Zhoushan.

Li Zhuiyuan sent A Li downstairs and came to the east room. The room door wasn't locked. The girl pushed the door open and walked in. When closing the door, her eyes met the young man's.

Li Zhuiyuan went back upstairs to wash up and rest.

A Li walked to the bedside. In the past, she always slept on the inside of the bed, and Grandma slept on the outside.

Tonight, Grandma was lying on the inside, seeming to be asleep.

A Li just lay down on the outside.

Liu Yumei opened her eyes, a smile on the corner of her mouth.

A Li turned her head and looked at Grandma.

But soon, the girl turned her head back again and stared at the beam above, always not closing her eyes to sleep.

Liu Yumei picked up the thin quilt, lightly covered it over her granddaughter's body, and softly said:

"Our family's A Li also wants to go out and accompany him..."

A Li didn't speak, her two hands placed on her abdomen lightly twisted together.

"Grandma can see. Actually, to Xiao Yuan, being able to see you every time he returns home after going out is already very content, really."

A Li's two hands crossed, her fingertips calmed down.

"There will be that day. When our family's A Li's illness is better, she can follow Xiao Yuan out together. We're not in a hurry, we'll take it slowly."

A Li closed her eyes.

Liu Yumei stared at her granddaughter's exquisite and smooth side face.

Although Xiao Yuan was a descendant of the Qin Liu two families, she already treated the young man as her own family child. But this didn't affect her hope that her granddaughter, one day, could also personally stand on the river surface.

After all, her granddaughter's body flowed with the blood of the Qin Liu two families.

Although the Qin Liu two families had ancestral homes, they didn't have a hometown because their home was just on this river.

The old lady reached out and lightly stroked her chest. She suddenly felt fortunate, fortunate that Xiao Yuan and A Li were one male and one female, and the two children's relationship was already so intimate that even 'childhood sweethearts' wasn't enough to describe it.

If there were really two children of the same sex, one propping up the household, and the other's illness gradually getting better, even if both sides were reasonable, it would inevitably cause some contradictions.

Now it was good. The contradiction hadn't even been born yet and had already been pinched dead.

Liu Yumei smiled unconsciously again. This day was indeed getting better. She could actually be distracted to think about internal conflict this kind of matter.

Putting it in the past, this was something you didn't need to think about because even if you thought about internal conflict, the home didn't even have enough people.

Liu Yumei reached out and lightly stroked the blue silk on her granddaughter's cheek, then she also closed her eyes.

She should also sleep. Everything was in the dream.

......

Early the next morning, Li Sanjiang walked out the door. He woke up much earlier today than in the past. When he went downstairs, he saw A Li walking towards the stairs.

"Morning, girl."

A Li stopped, looked at Li Sanjiang, then continued walking towards the stairs.

Shan Da Ye also woke up and sat up from inside the coffin.

The two people drank a lot last night. When worried, it was easy to get drunk. Similarly, when worried, you didn't stay drunk for long.

Li Sanjiang opened his mouth and asked: "Shan Pao, how's the new house acceptance?"

Shan Da Ye: "Soft and spacious. Although that girl has a bad temper, her craftsmanship is really something to say."

Li Sanjiang: "That may not be true. Craftsmen who didn't starve to death in the famine year are much steadier than you who always rely on heaven for food?"

Both were corpse salvagers. Li Sanjiang had transformed early into the upstream business of white affairs, so he had more opportunities to sit for rituals.

Shan Da Ye only occasionally sat for rituals in the village. Most of his income still relied on salvaging corpses. But whoever was thrown into the river or slipped and drowned before also wouldn't say hello to you or arrange an order table in advance. It truly was a business that relied on heaven.

"If her temper could be a little better, that would be good. I heard that the women over there love to eat spicy food and are all very fierce."

Li Sanjiang rolled his eyes at Shan Da Ye: "Someone with a soft temper wouldn't dare jump into a pit like your family. Be content, you motherfucker, and you still have the nerve to be picky."

Shan Da Ye didn't retort. He flipped out of the coffin and said: "Only this lad Run Sheng is taciturn. He's not as smart as your family's Xiao Yuan Hou."

Li Sanjiang: "I think Run Sheng Hou's brain is also quite good. He understands not to use his brain in front of smart people, which just exceeds too many 'smart people' in this world."

The two old men habitually bickered, but as they bickered, both stopped, feeling no energy.

Shan Da Ye: "Let's go, go receive her."

Li Sanjiang nodded: "Receive her home."

They had been in contact with death so much. They were clearer than doctors about what a dying person looked like. It seemed the person was energetic, but actually, the death qi had already permeated to the corners of their eyes.

Yesterday, Liu Jinxia was in this state.

They had eaten this meal their whole lives, so they naturally believed their own judgment.

Shan Da Ye packed up incense, candles, and paper money into a worn cloth bag. Li Sanjiang then found two black veils and tied them on himself and Shan Pao.

Aunt Liu stood at the kitchen door. Seeing the two old men come out, she stopped shelling melon seeds and said: "Breakfast hasn't started being made yet. You'll have to wait a while."

Li Sanjiang: "No need to make ours. We're going now. Perhaps we can still see Liu Xiazi's last side."

Shan Da Ye: "It can be made. We'll eat after we receive her back."

Li Sanjiang: "Shan Pao, you're still thinking about eating at this time?"

Shan Da Ye: "If I don't eat my fill, how can I help her arrange the aftermath?"

Li Sanjiang pushed the tricycle out. Shan Da Ye sat back. The two old men left the embankment.

Aunt Liu spat out a melon seed shell from her mouth. She felt that Liu Xiazi shouldn't have died, otherwise Xiao Yuan wouldn't have gone out in the middle of the night and tossed around for so long, even bringing A Li.

Li Sanjiang and Shan Da Ye came to the ward door and pushed. The door was locked.

Shan Da Ye immediately shouted: "There's no need to rush to lock the door even if the person is gone, right? Person, hey, person, hey?"

Li Sanjiang also echoed: "Yes ah, quickly open the door. We're here to receive her home."

The doctor and nurse were called over. Hearing the noise from the two old men, the doctor quickly asked the nurse who had gone?

At this time, the ward door was opened.

Liu Jinxia stood at the door, her face filled with shame and anger.

This appearance startled both Li Sanjiang and Shan Da Ye, making them think Liu Xiazi had come back to life.

But looking closely, they discovered that Liu Xiazi was indeed not dead, and her spirits had recovered to normal. Even the strange state she had been in yesterday was no longer visible.

Liu Jinxia apologized to the doctor and nurse, then glared at her two old friends, signaling them to come in.

Shan Da Ye: "Liu Xiazi, are you really good?"

Liu Jinxia: "Good. I have a tough life. I wouldn't dare to walk ahead of you two."

Shan Da Ye: "You walk back before me, I acknowledge it. Walk back before him, pending."

Li Sanjiang: "Hey, this is really strange. Liu Xiazi, where did you accumulate such great virtue before, that it made you turn a corner before the ghost gate?"

Liu Jinxia: "Who knows. I haven't done anything bad in my life."

Even those who came to ask her for blessings and talisman water, she would repeatedly admonish people to strictly follow the doctor's orders.

Li Sanjiang: "Then why didn't you open the door for so long inside? It made me and Shan Pao both think you were already gone and lying in the ward."

Hearing this made her angry. She had been relieving herself in the spittoon in the ward, and these two old things were just knocking hard outside!

Liu Jinxia pointed at the two people and said: "Good ah, you're really impatient ah. You've even tied the black veils. You really want to drink my funeral wine badly."

Shan Da Ye immediately pulled down the black veil.

Li Sanjiang doubted: "Hey, you can actually see."

Liu Jinxia: "I had cataract surgery done a long time ago."

Shan Da Ye: "Then why do you always pretend to be blind?"

Li Sanjiang hit Shan Da Ye on the back of the head: "You deserve to be poor all the time, you old boy!"

Liu Jinxia: "If I'm not blind, then I'm not spiritual. How else would I make a living?"

Li Sanjiang took out an envelope from his clothes lining pocket. Inside were photos:

"It's good that you're not blind, it's good ah. Just as Shan Pao is also here, come, let's look at the photos I took in Beijing together."

Liu Jinxia wondered: "Didn't you come to collect my corpse early today? You actually still brought these photos?"

Li Sanjiang: "Xiao Yuan Hou had several copies developed for me. This copy, you wouldn't have seen in your lifetime. It was originally planned to be burned to you."

Liu Jinxia was so angry she laughed: "Li Sanjiang, I thank you ah. You really won't let me go even as a ghost."

Li Sanjiang "pushed" out a sound and said: "What nonsense are you talking about? Don't let Xiang Hou hear and misunderstand. I'm one generation older than you. Right, where is Xiang Hou?"

Liu Jinxia: "She slept with a crooked neck and it hurts. She went to find a doctor to help with bone-setting."

The doctor was surprised by Liu Jinxia's recovery after making rounds and advised her to stay in the hospital for a few more days of observation. Liu Jinxia refused, insisting on being discharged today.

Just like that, after Li Juxiang came back with a crooked neck, they went to handle the discharge procedures. Two tricycles carried four people back to Li Sanjiang's home.

Li Sanjiang instructed Aunt Liu to make the lunch richer today to celebrate Liu Xiazi's discharge.

Liu Xiazi saw Liu Yumei sitting there drinking tea and also modestly moved over.

In the past, during leisure time, Liu Xiazi would also organize people to come here and play bridge with Liu Yumei.

Liu Yumei laughed: "In the end, you suffered a disaster ah. It's a good thing you pulled through."

Liu Jinxia: "Yes, I thought I wouldn't get through this hurdle."

Liu Yumei: "This is the blessing from your good deeds and accumulated virtue."

Liu Jinxia: "I don't deserve you saying this. It's purely God's blessing."

Liu Yumei pushed the pastry in front of her to Liu Jinxia, signaling her to eat.

Liu Jinxia "agreed" and indeed was hungry. She picked up a pastry and ate it.

In the past, she always relied on leftover rice and tea water to lure those old card friends to play cards with her. Coming to Liu Yumei's place was like a switch.

People not only didn't dislike her reputation for having a tough life and being unlucky, but the pastries were always different and very delicious. As for the tea, although she couldn't taste it, she felt it was fragrant to drink.

Liu Yumei saw Xiao Yuan come down, just beckoned to him, then told Liu Jinxia that they would play cards in the afternoon, and stood up to leave her seat and enter the east room.

Li Zhuiyuan first chatted with Liu Jinxia for a few sentences, congratulating her on her recovery and discharge, then entered the east room.

Liu Yumei got straight to the point and said: "Xiao Yuan ah, when do you think A Li can go out?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Later, we're not in a hurry. It shouldn't be too far off."

Actually, the matter last night was just an insignificant small episode. From an emotional angle, Li Zhuiyuan didn't hope A Li would follow him on the river walk adventure.

Moreover, although A Li's illness had recovered a lot now, and she could overcome avoiding some crowds when he was by her side, going out to walk the river was still not too realistic.

In the middle of a river walk, she might not only encounter crowds. The last time, the corpse group, the general tomb under the ghost group, these would all easily cause A Li's illness reaction.

Liu Yumei nodded: "I also think so, but A Li wants to help you."

Li Zhuiyuan: "I know, and A Li has already helped me a lot."

Liu Yumei: "I'm very relieved that you have a plan in your heart. These matters, you look after and arrange."

At this time, Uncle Qin came in from outside. Aunt Liu had asked him to come and get the ointment to apply to Xiang Hou.

Liu Yumei pointed at Uncle Qin and said to Li Zhuiyuan:

"Not only A Li, but also like A Ting, and this A Li, you should also start planning and arranging. He's a bit stupid, but it's good he has strength."

Uncle Qin's steps paused. He didn't know whether to continue into the room to get the ointment or stand in place and wait for arrangements.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Grandma, we're all family, there's no need for arrangements."

Liu Yumei waved her hand: "Without rules, there is no order. Even if it's family, there needs to be a head of the family to be peaceful. Grandma, I just hope you grow up quickly and take over this burden."

"I will, Grandma."

At this time, there was no need to decline.

Liu Yumei looked towards Uncle Qin, raising her eyebrows: "Did you hear?"

Uncle Qin: "Heard. I will convey it to A Ting."

Liu Yumei: "Where does A Ting need you to convey? She understands everything. Take care of yourself first."

Uncle Qin: "Yes."

On the embankment, Lin Shuyou was just sitting on a small stool peeling green beans.

Negative Meng walked over and sat down on the stool next to him, reaching out to grab a handful, planning to help him peel together.

Lin Shuyou immediately pulled that handful back in front of himself: "Peeling this easily hurts your hands."

Negative Meng: "I don't cook, what are you afraid of?"

Lin Shuyou: "It's inauspicious."

Negative Meng secretly pulled Lin Shuyou's sleeve and softly said: "Did you notice, that Xiang Hou is always looking at you?"

"At me?"

"Yes. I say, were you discovered by her?"

"No."

"When did she wake up?"

"Run Sheng sent us medicine. When I was feeding her medicine, she woke up."

"Did she see you?"

"No, the sky was still dark then. She didn't see my appearance. I just warned her and said if she dared to move and resist, I would be impolite to her mother and daughter, then she obediently drank the medicine."

"Did she recognize your voice?"

"I deliberately pinched my throat to change my voice. How could I make such a low-level mistake?"

"Pinch your throat and still change your voice?"

"Right, to ensure she wouldn't recognize it."

Negative Meng: "Come, repeat after me, Fuzhou."

Lin Shuyou: "Hu Jiu~"

Negative Meng shrugged her shoulders.

Lin Shuyou: "Is it not standard? I probably never speak with an accent."

In an environment where everyone spoke the Nantong dialect, speaking Mandarin was already very abrupt, let alone speaking Mandarin with a Fujian accent.

Negative Meng: "You go find Brother Xiao Yuan and confess yourself."

Lin Shuyou stood up, saw Brother Xiao Yuan come out of the east room, and he immediately ran over.

After a while, Lin Shuyou sat back down.

"Brother Xiao Yuan said that even if Xiang Hou suspects, if there's no concrete evidence, the problem isn't big. And she didn't say anything about being knocked unconscious. She should have seen her mother's illness improve and understood the mysterious person's intention, so she proactively helped keep it a secret.

Besides, we're setting off tomorrow to Zhoushan to find Brother Bin and start solving this *bo*."

Negative Meng: "Then you should still practice Mandarin, otherwise it will be easy to be exposed next time."

Lin Shuyou suddenly smiled. Brother Xiao Yuan had just said to him that it wasn't just these things.

"Meng Meng, how many is this?"

Lin Shuyou opened both hands to Negative Meng, showing ten fingers.

"Ten ah, what's wrong?"

Lin Shuyou showed Negative Meng four fingers: "How many is this?"

"You're really childish, ten ah."

......

Island life was very boring. Tan Wenbin at first just fished, except for entertaining.

There were more or fewer fish, but there should be more and more entertainment.

Because the people who came here to wait for the ship to Wuxin Island to 'deliver goods' were continuously increasing.

This scale was clearly organized by someone.

Among this group of people, some came from the Northeast, some came from Hainan. It truly included north, south, east, and west.

And they generally had a characteristic, which was that their original sect family inheritance was very similar to Lin Shuyou's Official General Chief, all following the path of possession and inviting gods.

Originally, Tan Wenbin felt regret not bringing Lin Shuyou along. With A You here, he could probably blend in better.

But after he fanned the Yin wind on both sides, causing the two people to fight with red faces, Tan Wenbin discovered that he had thought too much. It was good he didn't bring Lin Shuyou.

Because this group of guys, possessed possessed, invited gods invited gods, called Great Immortals called Great Immortals, all seemed to have the effect of possession. The movement during the fight was also not small, but even with him and his two dry sons on his shoulders, three pairs of eyes straining to look, it was hard not to see what exactly was possessing these two people.

Clearly, nothing was invited down, yet they had the power of successful invitation.

After a little more undercover exchange, Tan Wenbin discovered another common characteristic of this group of people. Basically, they were all expelled from their sect families after committing mistakes.

Some broke the incense connection with the Great Immortal, some had their names erased from the temple register. That is to say, unless they could switch like Lin Shuyou, letting the White Crane Boy take over, otherwise they had actually already lost the qualification to possess and invite gods.

If he brought Lin Shuyou, he would have a proper possession, inviting down a Yin god, and instead would directly become an absolute anomaly in the field.

Once people tasted the flavor of that power, it was very hard to accept losing it. At this time, someone appeared and said they could give this power back to you, and you would really do anything.

Tan Wenbin knew those few people at first. They were quite straightforward, especially the woman called Xin Jiyue, who truly believed she was acting chivalrous and righteous, punishing evil and promoting good.

The batch of people who came back had denser karma in their bodies and their personalities were more extreme and twisted. It was very obvious that they were doing 'acting chivalrous and righteous' as a business. To gain more karma, they didn't hesitate to be deliberately extreme and exaggerated.

Although his family's Brother Xiao Yuan also liked to destroy households, there truly wasn't anyone innocent. But they, with one mind, rushed to destroy households and get involved, afraid that the implicated karma wasn't deep enough.

The day to board the island was getting closer and closer, and new disputes also appeared.

Cases of forming gangs and cliques to snatch karma objects from others occurred, and they were increasingly intense.

What was more ridiculous was that when killing and snatching from each other, they would still shout out "Your karma is deep, I'm here to punish you on behalf of heaven!"

The first to be killed and snatched from were those guys who still retained a sense of simple justice. They often acted alone, and their strength was relatively ordinary.

Tan Wenbin was busy everywhere these two days, but instead, he saved several.

Mainly, he knew these few guys early on. Although they did things relatively roughly, they truly weren't bad people at heart. Furthermore, their characters were straightforward, which was also convenient to utilize.

But what Tan Wenbin didn't expect was that after he saved people, a small group formed around him, and gradually, people began to proactively approach him, wanting to join and seek protection.

At night, fish were roasted over a bonfire.

Tan Wenbin sat there, his face illuminated by the bonfire, alternating between bright and dark.

Outside, three people sat, and even further outside, six people sat. This didn't even count the night sentries Tan Wenbin arranged to guard.

Xin Jiyue walked over and said to Tan Wenbin: "Brother Bin."

"What's wrong?"

"Those several gang leaders sent people to convey that they wanted to invite Brother Bin to a meeting to negotiate early."

"I know. You first help me look after things here. I'll go to the village below."

"Brother Bin, are you going alone?"

"Don't worry, I can hide my body's karma. It's very safe."

Actually, Tan Wenbin's body fundamentally had no karma. People who walked the river, even if they originally had remnants in their bodies, would have them dissolved by merit after a *bo*.

There was a telephone in the village. Tan Wenbin was going to make a phone call.

Before, he would make a standard call to Brother Xiao Yuan every three days to inform Brother Xiao Yuan that he was still alive.

Things had been more numerous these two days, and the situation had changed rapidly. He felt he needed to make a formal call to Brother Xiao Yuan to report.

"Brother Xiao Yuan ah, you haven't come yet, and I'm already close to becoming a boss."