Qingguan Nightmare Shadow

Chapter 17

Nie Qiu took Yunli to the wilderness, and the two were intercepted by the casino owner who was "thirsty for talents". You can no longer hide yourself, and go to crowded places for fear of being beaten.Nie Qiu didn't tell the other party the truth until after Yun Li had had an extremely uncomfortable sleep the next day. As a result, Yun Li picked up the coat that hadn't dried all night, and gave him a slap in the face.

Nie Qiu said brazenly: "Brother hit me with such a valuable thing, it's really frustrating."

Yun Li put on his coat and said, "I don't mind selling you for money, I'll go by myself, don't follow me."

Nie Qiu: "Don't, don't, don't... besides, brother, can't you find your way?"

"I went to a crowded place and asked, and I found the way naturally. I can still walk without you, and I can walk comfortably." As soon as Yun Li raised his foot, he heard Nie Qiu behind him. He made the big move of "crying, making trouble and hanging himself three times", but his ears automatically eliminated the noise that rushed in.

Nie Qiu: "Brother, don't you want me? Are you willing to leave me here alone?"

"..."

"Brother, in my next life, oh, no, in this life, I will be a cow for you and immediately go down the mountain of swords and flames! Please take care of me, a loner!"

"..."

"Brother, look at me, look at me, I've already put my neck in! If you don't save me, I'm going to die, and if you die, you'll never see third uncle again...cough...coughcoughcough..." Nie Qiu was trying to make Yunli "change his mind" with his lame tricks, but he slipped and actually stuck his head into the clothes hanging from the tree branch.In desperation, he kicked his legs, crushed the pile of wood used for tiptoes, and hung himself in the air.

Yun Li heard a strange voice, turned around, and saw that Nie Qiu was raising his hand to separate his neck from his clothes, and fell to the ground with a thud, falling into the pile of logs used to light the fire last night.The wood pile was full of sharp edges and corners, which made Nie Qiu scream.

Yun Li really regretted that he turned off the fire yesterday, otherwise he would have eaten the meat that he jumped in and roasted himself.

Nie Qiu simply sat in the pile of logs, "speak harshly" to the indifferent Yunli: "Little brother, if you leave me now and go, when you arrive at Xiuzhu, I will follow, our relationship will be broken It's not as good as it is now. At that time, don't blame me for pestering you. No matter how bad my image is in Xiuzhu, I can make your image in Xiuzhu worse."

Yunli didn't even think about Nie Qiu's self-confidence, thinking that he had a good relationship with Immortal Si Ming.But Yun Li thought about it following Nie Qiu's train of thought, and combined with the various heinous actions of the stinky wizard, he actually felt that what this guy said was really reasonable.He is planning to stay in Xiuzhu for a long time, and if Jing Nieqiu gets smeared, he is guaranteed to change his face before he dares to come again.

Yun Li thought he was unlucky, and walked back with a dark face.

Nie Qiu changed her tone of beating and said: "Brother, you are the best."

Yun Li knew that he was on a pirate ship, "If you come, you will be safe," said authentically, "Let's go."

"Huh," Nie Qiu tilted his head, "What is this?" What he was referring to was the three characters "Po Shen Xian" carved on the ground by "Po Jian" last night.

Yun Li held down the fidgeting "broken sword" in the scabbard: "This sword is written."

Nie Qiu stared wide-eyed: "Sword?"

Yunli successfully absorbed the skills of Nie Qiu's nonsense, and said: "This sword was restless last night, wandered around the sky, accidentally knocked over the wine pot of a fairy, and was kicked off by the fairy. It was almost caught in the fairy furnace and melted into molten iron. It was so angry that it wrote these words when it came down."

Perhaps because Yunli's words ruined his image in front of outsiders, "Broken Sword" wanted to come out to clarify himself no matter what he said, and immediately rushed away from Yunli's hand that was holding him down. Take the posture of swaying a long masterpiece.Yun Li lifted the "Broken Sword" to the ground, pulled it back to the scabbard and said, "Look at it, don't you believe it?"

Nie Qiu: "Oh... the sword of Xianmen is different, it has spirituality."

Hearing this, "Broken Sword" felt very relieved and settled down. When Yun Li moved his foot away, it obediently inserted it back.

The two of them, with one sword, set off steadily towards Xiuzhu in Shuzhou.

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Yunli followed Nie Qiu for half a month in front of the village and back of the shop, and his body became dirty, only a head of dog-tooth cut hair was missing from his real relative who became the "Third Uncle".Yunli endured it for many days, and when he learned that the two were passing by the nearest town to Xiuzhu, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, left Nie Qiu in his favorite wilderness, and went to the town to find an inn After taking a shower, I went to the market to buy a ready-made garment, and returned to the inn to spend the most comfortable night in these days.

Nie Qiu slept on the tree as usual, waiting for Yunli to come back.

As the sun rose in the east, Nie Qiu leaned against the tree trunk and vaguely saw Yun Li walking back from the direction of the town.He was about to go down to greet him, but when he looked closely, he found a murderous look on Yunli's body, he immediately retracted his protruding legs, hugged his knees and shrank back.

Yun Li approached, although he still had the feeling of "the visitor is not kind", but Nie Qiu no longer felt scared when he looked at it, and laughed out of nowhere.

Yun Li stood still, raised his eyes and said, "What are you laughing at?"

Nie Qiu: "Laugh at the light on your body."

It was only then that Yunli realized that when he walked here from the town, he was sullen all the way, and he was unknowingly surrounded by the green light that radiated out of himself because of his loss of control.But what's so funny about that? !Yun Li felt even more furious, so he sent "Po Jian" to stab the guy off the tree, but since "Po Jian" was praised by Nie Qiu, he treated Nie Qiu better than his own master, so he didn't want to say anything at this time Listen to the words of "breaking the gods" to offend your own admirers.

Yunli stretched out his hand to draw the sword, but the "broken sword" seemed to be stuck and refused to move.

Nie Qiu: "Brother, the spiritual power externalized by immortal cultivators has different colors, and the color of spiritual power is affected by the mind of the person who uses it. Although I have not met many immortal cultivators, but I think you The color of this spiritual power must be very rare." He guessed rightly, if the disciples of the immortal sect in the world are pure in heart, the externalized spiritual power will generally be white; if there are distracting thoughts in the heart, the color of the spiritual power will turn black, Gray evolution.High-level immortal cultivators will condense spiritual power of other colors to show their status, but immortal cultivators at this stage are rare, because this shows that they have the qualifications to become immortals, and probably will not stay in the mortal world. , Most likely flew into the sky.

In today's world of cultivating immortals, green spiritual power is not rare, but none at all.

Yun Li is not a cultivator, he uses his innate immortal power instead of spiritual power.

But Nie Qiu misunderstood that Yunli belonged to the immortal sect, which was exactly what Yunli wanted for this trip.

Wait, then again, so, what's so funny about that?

Nie Qiu had a premonition that Yunli's green light would hit him in the next moment, so she hugged the branch before the other party could move, and said, "I don't know why it's funny, I just think that if you succeed in cultivating immortals and be recorded in the annals of history, After thousands of years, the color of your spiritual power will overwhelm your own limelight."

Yunli: "..."

Nie Qiu: "Brother, who provoked you again?"

The thing is this: the inn where Yunli stayed this time, the payment will be settled after the stay is over.When Yunli left in the morning, the boss gave a sum, and he couldn't even get enough of it with all the money he had on his body.Yunli asked the boss to do the calculation again, but the boss said that there is no need to forget it, if he really can't afford it, he can just wear the clothes and keep the rest of the money.

After listening to Yunli's brief introduction, Nie Qiu blinked and said, "You gave it?"

Yunli: "Give it."

Nie Qiu almost fell down, Xin Dao Yunli was blackmailed by the boss, and repeated what he said: "You are a young man who knows nothing about the world."

Yun Li said: "Because I think what he said makes sense."

"What did he say?"

"He said that in his shop, customers have water to drink and bathe. If the fee is too little, the bamboo repairers next to him will flock in."

"Well...but the plague of Zhuzhu has dissipated, and the Zhuzhu people went to give gold to the boss. What is the boss worried about?"

Yunli: "He doesn't know that the plague has dissipated."

Nie Qiu said anxiously: "Brother, you should tell him."

"Tell me, he doesn't believe it." Yun Li squeezed his chin, "If it were me, I wouldn't believe it either."

Nie Qiu was completely shocked, unable to speak, "You are so 'understanding and caring for the boss', why are you angry?!" In fact, Yun Li didn't blame anyone, he was just angry about the fact that he was in the mortal world. The first bucket of gold is gone.

Yunli's thoughts are so clear that even Nie Qiu feels ashamed.

Nie Qiu: "Brother, you are extraordinary and refined, why bother to be sad for mere money? Besides, I took you to Xiuzhu for a large sum of money. Isn't it that we will be going to Xiuzhu soon? You just need Invite your friends from Xianjun to show off your might and spread the rain, Xiuzhu Baixin and the prefect of Shuzhou will definitely appreciate your kindness, and you will have rich clothes, fine food, carriages and houses at your disposal."

Yun Li just nodded when he heard this, but the "Broken Sword" was much more excited than its master, and instantly unsheathed itself, drew a trail with afterimages in the low sky, and showed the two of them how he had been repaired for a few days. vitality.Yunli was about to ask what it wanted to do, when the "broken sword" came down from the air, walked close to the ground, penetrated under the soles of Yunli's shoes, and lifted its owner up smoothly.

Yunli understood, and said to Nie Qiu: "You come up too, this guy finally knows who he is." "Broken Sword" consciously acted as the master's means of transportation, although it might be just a whim, but it is not in vain for Yunli Some fairy power awakens its spirituality.

The flying skills of "Broken Sword" have been greatly improved, so Nie Qiu can stand firm on it without supporting Yunli; the surrounding vegetation, earth and rocks pass by rapidly, and are abstracted into silk-like colors by people's vision, colored silk Interwoven to form a coherent and flowing cloth.

After a while, the color of the "cloth" changed from light to dark, from emerald green to withered yellow.

The farther forward, the worse the material of the silk thread.This is because the drought in Xiuzhu killed the trees, leaving only decayed dead branches and weeds.

Nie Qiu moved her nose and said, "Here we are."

"Broken Sword" understood, slowed down, put Yunli and Nie Qiu down gently, and then returned to the scabbard at the waist of the master.

In the dead silence under the scorching sun, the two of them actually heard the "clucking" of chickens.

Nie Qiu pricked up her ears and said, "Did I hear you right? At this time, someone has chickens at home. No one has rice to eat. Listening to that sound, how can poultry live so comfortably?"

Yunli: "It should belong to Mr. and Mrs. Cheng's family."

Nie Qiu's eyes slanted to the upper right: "Mrs. Cheng... Oh, by the way, when the people here invited me, they gave me a bag of broken silver. They said they paid for it."

Cheng's family is a well-to-do bamboo cultivator with a vast field. Since the family's only son died early due to illness, the old couple will hire someone to take care of it during the farming season.The Cheng family is rich but not arrogant, wealthy but not extravagant, and friendly to others, so they have a very good reputation in the village.When the plague and drought first broke out, the old Cheng and his wife used their own food to help their neighbors. However, although people have a heart, no matter how strong the financial resources of a single family are, it is just a drop in the bucket for the whole Xiuzhu.

Nie Qiu took a few steps forward, feeling strange: "Brother, how do you know Mr. and Mrs. Cheng?"

Su Tong is a bamboo cultivator, and Yunli naturally knows about his neighbor here.

Yun Li didn't explain, but said, "I've heard about Xiu Zhu's people and things."

Nie Qiu walked in along the dry path, preparing to take Yunli through this area and go to the north to directly meet the prefect Xiuzhu.He was looking around cautiously, worried about meeting familiar faces who had given him fists and slaps, when he was suddenly distracted by a woman's voice.Looking in the direction of the sound, the two vaguely saw two figures separated by several layers of dead wood.

Nie Qiu poked her neck, and hurriedly dragged Yun Li to detour.

I'm really afraid of what's coming.

Nie Qiu said as she walked, "Since you have heard about Xiuzhu and the old couple, you must also know how powerful that shrew is. Hey, if I marry her, I will hit the wall and die." Memories swept across Then, the baptism of the "Lion's Roar Skill" that he had accepted incidentally when he was beaten that day suddenly recurred in his ears at this moment.

Yunli said, "You mean... Meizi?"

Nie Qiu said, "Yes."

"Who was that person next to her just now?"

"Which one?"

"An old lady."

Nie Qiu shook her head.He only cared about avoiding that shrew, so he didn't care about seeing who the other person was. "However, old lady, maybe it's Mrs. Cheng." Nie Qiu said.

Yun Li: "It's not her."

At this point, the two of them suddenly heard Meizi's highly recognizable voice: "Old Ancestor, what do you think you are like? Why don't you go back with me? I usually miss your meal or beat you Why did you scold you? Ancestor, I, Meizi, patted my chest and said to you, at this moment, Mumu and I can be hungry, but Yanshan can’t be hungry, and the mother who gave birth to Yanshan can’t be hungry. No matter how difficult our family is, we will survive. It can always pass, but you made such a fuss and broke your body, how do you want me to explain to Yanshan, how to explain to my deceased father..."

Nie Qiu was listening, Yun Li lowered his voice and said to him, "There are people over there."

A little far away, a man was striding towards him, looking around.

Caught by people on both sides, Yunli and Nie Qiu had no choice but to find a hidden place and squat down to see what happened.

Yun Li cast his eyes on Mei Zi and the old lady next to her again.The old lady was sitting on the ground, supporting her trembling body with trembling hands, her mouth was wrinkled due to the missing teeth, and she made some sounds that only people nearby could hear clearly.

On the other side, the man obviously didn't see the woman and the old lady here, nor did he hear their conversation. He looked around as if he was looking for something.

Meizi said again: "Old Ancestor, look at me bringing you the rice. Here, here, let me show you what it is, rice! We still have some rice left, so we have something to eat! You drink it This porridge, just go back with me, okay?"

The old lady murmured: "I don't drink it, you drink it, Mumu drinks it, Yanshan drinks it."

This time Yun Li heard and recognized clearly.This old lady is Meizi's mother-in-law. She has handicapped legs and feet. She lies in bed all year round and almost never goes out. The neighbors have almost forgotten her existence.

The old lady kept rejecting the porridge that Meizi handed her with intermittent words, saying things like "I'm old and useless, you just let me die here and never go back".

bang.

The old lady brushed the porridge, but Meizi lost control of her hand and spilled the porridge.

Rice soup and a few grains of rice splashed out in an irregular shape.

Food, this is food.

Meizi hurriedly lay down on the ground, dreaming of "holding up" the porridge, but after working for a while, she only picked up a few grains of dirty rice clinging to the sand.After crying for a while, she rubbed her hands together abruptly, not choosing what to say, pointing at her mother-in-law in a panic and cursing: "Immortal...you immortal..."

The porridge was overturned by herself, and the old lady couldn't feel better than Meizi, shaking her disobedient hands to save the rice grains in the mud.

When Meizi scolded, her voice soared, and she finally attracted the man over there.

That man was her husband Yanshan.

What Yanshan happened to see was the scene where Meizi was yelling at the old lady, his expression changed suddenly, he rushed forward to pick up his mother, and walked past Meizi sullenly, he paused for a moment when he passed the overturned porridge bowl, and lowered his head for a while. way back.Meizi picked up the bowl, and said to her husband's back at a loss, "Listen to me..."

Yanshan was walking with his mother on his back, and met the old Cheng couple walking towards each other.Mrs. Cheng looked at Yanshan and then at the old lady, and said with a sigh of relief: "I found it? It's good if I found it." Just as he was speaking, the pale-faced Meizi chased after her, seeing the old couple as if they were seeing each other. The savior said in a hoarse voice: "Uncle Cheng, Aunt Cheng, help me persuade Yanshan, at least let him listen to me."

This Meizi usually swears, but at home she is a capable person who can stand up to the sky with Yanshan, and now she is begging for help in a crying voice, Cheng felt distressed when she heard it, and hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with you two?"

Meizi: "I..."

Yanshan interrupted: "Uncle Cheng, Aunt Cheng, you two, don't listen to her nonsense, I have seen everything she did, I married a vicious woman in this life, I think I did something outrageous in my previous life, I I admit it. Uncle Cheng, Aunt Cheng, please go away, don't let her dirty your ears again. "

Meizi stared at Yanshan in a daze, her eyes burst when she suppressed them.