Chapter 97 - The Cantong Qi
Edited by Molly
Because he hadn’t opened his eyes, Lin Shu couldn’t see the surrounding scenery, he only felt that the journey was very b.u.mpy.
In the end, the carriage finally calmed down.
The wind had stopped.
What he felt all over his body was no longer the dry and cool breeze in the wilderness, but a certain kind of very bleak air.
There were voices and footsteps in the distance, disorganized and echoed.
Lin Shu judged that they had entered the room.
While the black market was in the wild, when they came, they only saw tents scattered high and low, but no formal buildings.
——So, they should be in the mountains now.
The earthy smell coming from the tip of his nose further confirmed his conjecture——the so-called “night market” is probably a s.p.a.ce dug out in the mountains.
As they moved on, the human voices gradually became louder, which can be said to be noisy. The earthy smell was mixed with the smell of heat of the human body, spices, wine, and some other strange scents that couldn’t be described.
The man said, “Delivery.”
A strange voice replied, “What are you selling?”
The man said: “Selling my daughters.”
“Where are they?”
“Here.”
There were a few footsteps getting closer and closer.
The strange voice smiled mysteriously: “Where did you get such beautiful girls?”
“If you open their eyes, they’re 100% perfect.” The man said with a laugh, “How about it?”
“Bring me some water.”
The next moment, cold water was splashed on Lin Shu’s face.
He heard the cough of Ling Fengxiao beside him, and his hand was also grasped by Ling Fengxiao. He knew it was time to wake up.
The next moment, he opened his eyes and was immediately hugged by Ling Fengxiao. Hearing Ling Fengxiao’s panic-stricken voice: “You…you…here is…”
“Tsk tsk tsk.” A sharp-mouthed man with a puffed cheek looked them up and down: “I have been in the night market for 20 years. This is the first time I have seen this kind of goods. Are they clean? I have to check them.”
“No need for inspection, they’re not clean. They came from the red tent.”
“Not clean?” The man pondered for a while: “I’m afraid they’re not as good as clean ones, but they’re good enough for the rest of your life.”
The man laughed: “How much is the price?”
“In this way, four hundred taels of gold, give me the two little girls, or send them to auction, the price is forty to sixty percent, you’ll get forty.”
“Forty to sixty?” The man was very dissatisfied: “Usually you only get 20%.”
“10% of buying, 60% of selling.” The man wanted to bargain, but the man was not good at it. He said slowly, “If you sell someone who is not a ‘clean goods’ , and I still have to carry it in the night market. Isn’t it worth 60% of the price?”
Lin Shu pretended to be in fear nestling in Ling Fengxiao’s arms with trepidation, thinking that this is probably the most terrible person since the establishment of the night market.
The Eldest Lady of Phoenix Mountain Villa, the Eldest Princess of Southern Xia, is a rare treasure in the world.
The man pondered for a long time: “Four hundred taels!”
The man said slowly: “Okay, go down and get the money, turn it into silver, and give these little ladies to us.”
The man looked at them suspiciously, and finally said, “Okay.”
Between forty percent and four hundred taels. They chose four hundred taels which were relatively safe. It seemed like they were sure that they couldn’t be sold for more than one thousand taels of gold.
Lin Shu and Ling Fengxiao continued to huddle and shiver, though no one cared how scared they were.
The man looked at them with a smile, and said to himself, “Stupid people who have no eyesight can be sent away by 400 taels. No matter how beautiful the girls are, I can’t sell them for a thousand taels. But although I have no cultivation, I’ve been looking at people for 20 years, and I can see that there is a very good furnace inside. ”
Lin Shu: “?”
Then, he felt Ling Fengxiao’s actions pause.
After that, the man said to the outside of the room, “Mr. Zhou, please.”
After a while, a white-haired old man came over with a cane.
The man said: “Mr. Zhou, I think this little lady in the red dress looks like a furnace cauldron.”
At that time, Mr. Zhou took out a few weird-looking stones, a total of five, which seemed to be entangled with spiritual power.
Then he spread out the five stones, took out a compa.s.s and murmured something.
The hands on the compa.s.s trembled.
Mr. Zhou said, “Well?” He said, “It’s really possible. Let me extract some blood.”
The man drew a silver knife from the buckskin sheath, smiled, and pulled Ling Fengxiao’s arm up, to nick him with the knife.
The next moment, the sharp light of a sword flashed.
Mr. Zhou was slashed on his neck and fell to the ground. Before he could see the situation clearly, the sword was put on the man’s neck again.
The sword, of course, was the Big Miss’s sword.
Lin Shu didn’t know why the Big Miss stopped acting, so he watched silently.
The tip of Ling Fengxiao’s sword swept across the man’s neck gently, and asked, “Looking at me like a furnace cauldron?”
“This…” The man’s voice shook, and his legs trembled like they were worthless: “Woman, please spare my life, I beg you!”
“Don’t look at me.” Ling Fengxiao said lightly: “Look again and I will dig out your eyes.”
The man’s eyes wandered erratically, and had nowhere to look, so his gaze landed on Lin Shu.
Ling Fengxiao said: “Don’t look at her, do you have two lives?”
The man closed his eyes in despair.
“Sell us, and we won’t kill you.” Ling Fengxiao said, “Sell us to the people in the royal capital of Northern Xia, the higher the status, the better.”
The man was pointed at by such a murderous knife, and he didn’t dare to nod, for fear that he would be stabbed in the neck with a flick. He only said in a voice: “Okay, okay.”
Ling Fengxiao also said: “Those men who sold us, I want you to cut off their hands, then dig out their eyes and throw them into the mountains.”
The man’s face was pale, and still said, “Well, girl, you let me go first.”
“If I let you go, you will immediately send a message to the steward of the night market, am I stupid?”
The man was sweating like rain.
Ling Fengxiao took out a purple black pill and put it into the man’s hand: “Eat it.”
“Poisonous,” The man said.
Ling Fengxiao: “If you are obedient, you will not be poisoned.”
The man: “I don’t believe it.”
Ling Fengxiao: “You have no other choice but to believe it.”
The man: “I don’t want to eat.”
Ling Fengxiao smiled: “Are you sure I have to ask you?”
The man said: “Woman, don’t poison me, I will naturally help.”
Ling Fengxiao just laughed.
Then, her left hand formed a palm, with a lightning flint, hit the man’s chest, and knocked him to the ground!
Then, she dragged the man to the table and tore his upper cloth so that half of his shoulder was exposed.
Lin Shu was puzzled and watched quietly.
He saw the Big Miss taking out a black stone box in the brocade bag.
As she opened the box, the evil spirits rushed towards his face.
Inside was some thick red liquid, lining the black box body, which was very strange.
Ling Fengxiao had already disabled the man’s joints, making him unable to move, then a pile of cloth was stuffed into his mouth, she then pressed the stone box, and took out a very weird tool from the popped out chamber. .
It looked like a needle, but it was much more powerful than a needle. On the thick silver handle of one finger, there were a lot of long black needles fixed. The needles were long and sharp, with their tips facing down. If they pierce the skin, they will immediately make one bleed.
Ling Fengxiao slowly dipped the tip of these needles in the red liquid and said, “If you had eaten the pill, you would have suffered less.”
That man couldn’t move, he could only stare with his pair of small eyes as big as a bra.s.s bell: “You… What do you want to do?”
Ling Fengxiao said: “Naturally I’m going to pierce you.”
Then a barrier was formed in the room, and she said, “It’s a very dirty work, so little girl, don’t look.”
Lin Shu was stunned, and it took him three seconds to realize that this “little girl” she was referring to was himself.
He turned his back with an “Oh”.
The next moment, behind him, that man suddenly let out a stuffy scream from his throat.
The sound was so terrible that it didn’t sound like it was coming from a human being.
Lin Shu couldn’t imagine how much pain would make a person cry like that.
But it was just the beginning. The screams were incessant, and it lasted for the time it took three incense sticks to burn.
The man’s voice was completely hoa.r.s.e. When Lin Shu turned back, he saw that he was like a dead fish, collapsed on the table, panting. His face was like ashen, and he was sweating like rain.
Ling Fengxiao slowly put away her tools and said, “It’s so painful… you worthless thing.”
Lin Shu saw that there was an impressive blood-red complex symbol on this person’s shoulder!
The color of the symbol was gradually becoming darker, closer to black.
Lin Shu was familiar with the shape.
Mantra!
It is exactly the same as the one on his cousin.
Oh, his cousin is the Big Miss, so the Big Miss also has such a thing.
So, the Big Miss just carved the mantra on this person?
It seemed that the man finally recovered, refuted the “worthless thing” and said: “You… You should try it.”
“Me?” Ling Fengxiao enabled the man’s joints back one by one, and a sneer rose from the corner of her mouth: “I won’t cry out.”
“Bah!”
Lin Shu was a little stunned.
Yes, the Big Miss has a mantra on her body, so she had endured this inhuman pain.
The Big Miss engraved a mantra on this man, making this man keep the news that they were not ordinary people.
And what kind of secret is the mantra on the Big Miss?
He couldn’t think of anything — what kind of secret would be kept in this way?
It should be noted that Ling Fengxiao was already a reliable person, and it is impossible for her to disclose secrets.
So, was that mantra on her carved out of her own will? Or was forced?
Lin Shu had always lacked curiosity, but at this time, Ling Fengxiao was at stake, but he wanted to know.
Unfortunately, with the mantra of truth, the Big Miss can never tell the secret.
When the man finally came over, Ling Fengxiao asked slowly: “Sell or not sell?”
“Sell.”
“Say it or not?”
“Not,” he said
“We can’t be sold separately.”
“No separation.”
“Be obedient.”
“I will listen.”
This man, who was a thief with a rat’s eye, was now twelve points low browed, which made Lin Shu want to laugh a little.
If this man had known that this would happen today, I’m afraid he would not have said “I think you are like a furnace cauldron”.
Lin Shu boasted that he had been with the Big Miss for quite a long time. He has found out about the lady’s temper. He guessed that the reason why the Big Miss suddenly stopped acting must have been because of the word “furnace cauldron”.
However, does Big Miss really have the const.i.tution of a furnace cauldron?
Lin Shu’s heart suddenly jumped, thinking of the article in《Nourishing Meridians》that he had read before.
The article was called——《The Furnace Cauldron》.
His brain was a little stiff for a moment.
The man lowered his eyebrows, put on his clothes pleasingly, and said, “I’ll sell you.”
Ling Fengxiao said, “Go.”
The man left and even closed the door respectfully.
Ling Fengxiao slowly wiped her sword.
Lin Shu went over and sat down beside the Big Miss to observe.
He found that Ling Fengxiao’s eyebrows were a little more indifferent and cruel than usual.
After wiping the sword, the hostility had disappeared.
Lin Shu looked a little cautiously, and then met the Big Miss’s eyes.
The Big Miss asked: “Did I scare you?”
Lin Shu shook his head.
——The blowfish is still the blowfish.
“That’s good.” Ling Fengxiao said: “I thought we could be sold smoothly, but I didn’t expect these people to act like this. Did they touch you?”
Lin Shu shook his head.
He was just dragged a few times, they didn’t touch any major places, but the Big Miss was touched a few times, and it was expected of her to explode at the moment.
“If they really touched you, one life might not be enough.” The Big Miss sheathed her sword and said, “There is another reason for not putting on the act anymore. Although I can hide my realm, I can’t disguise my blood. If they see through my const.i.tution, I’m afraid it will cause more trouble.”
Lin Shu asked, “Do you have the const.i.tution of a furnace cauldron?”
Ling Fengxiao: “Yes.”
Lin Shu: “Very advanced kind?”
Ling Fengxiao smiled: “The kind that is number one in the world.”
Lin Shu: “?”
He didn’t quite know what that meant.
Ling Fengxiao didn’t reply positively, but asked him: “Do you know why Phoenix Mountain Villa is very rich in the world?”
Lin Shu: “I don’t know.”
“Wealth, honor and splendor are never without reason.” After the night, the Big Miss seemed to be a little tired. She closed her eyes and said faintly, “The lineage of the Phoenix family, regardless of men or women, has special characteristics. One of them is the furnace cauldron——in fact, it is not a furnace cauldron, it’s only helpful to each other when they are in dual cultivation, and it’s only effective for the first time. Therefore, every generation of empress is the blood of Phoenix Villa. Even if the emperor does not cultivate immortality and marries a woman from the Phoenix family, he can prolong his life and eliminate all diseases. ”
Is that so?
Phoenix Mountain Villa has been standing for a hundred years. This is the origin of its great wealth and power.
In this world, there is no wealth without reason.
Phoenix Mountain Villa brings the orphan girls who have lost their way to the world under its wings. Shops and banks spread all over the country and enjoying half of the country, it’s not without a price.
However, will there be any hidden dangers of marriage between close relatives?
Lin Shu thought about it carefully and felt that in this feudal society, the emperor had many concubines, and the prince also had many mothers. The one who became the emperor in the end was not necessarily the queen’s son, and the hidden danger of marriage between close relatives was not too big.
Just like Xiao Lingyang, he is quite good-looking, but after all, he is not as beautiful as Ling Fengxiao. Lin Shu had long suspected that they were not of the same mother.
He was thinking wildly. He did not know when Ling Fengxiao had opened her eyes. She looked at him with interest: “What are you thinking?”
Naturally, Lin Shu couldn’t say, I was thinking about the issue of marriage between close relatives in your family, and could only say: “Nothing.”
“Uh huh.” Ling Fengxiao turned his head away, seeming a little awkward: “I thought you were thinking about dual cultivation.”
Lin Shu: “!!!”
Dual cultivation.
That, Big Miss means…
Before he could use his brain, he heard the young lady say softly, “I’m the blood of Phoenix Mountain Villa, and I’m the Phoenix Blood. In the future, you and I will get married. After dual cultivation, no matter how bad your body is now, it will change. You will possess the best meridians in the world, and there will be no future trouble. ”
Lin Shu was a little fl.u.s.tered.
He didn’t know what to say.
His brain is blank.
But looking at the Big Miss who turned away from him, he felt that the Big Miss’s brain was a bit blank at this time too, and he was a little embarra.s.sed.
The suffocating embarra.s.sment was broken by the sound of the door opening, and the man who went and returned said: “Woman, I sold you two.”
Ling Fengxiao: “Oh?”
“Sold to a big shot.”
“Not bad.” Ling Fengxiao said: “What kind of big shot?”
“——It is said that he is a n.o.bleman in the royal capital. This time he came to the night market because he heard of a secret book that the night market will auction tonight, and he wanted to dedicate it to the great witch.”
Ling Fengxiao said: “Are we also dedicated to the great witch?”
“This little person doesn’t know.” The man scratched his head and said, “I sold you two and they bought it.”
“Well.” Ling Fengxiao said, “Take us.”
The man said, “Please.”
Ling Fengxiao took Lin Shu’s hand and was led to the corridor by the man.
On the way, Ling Fengxiao seemed to think of something again and asked, “How much did you sell us for?”
Man: “….”
Lin Shu sympathized with him.
He was coerced into selling someone, and had to help count the money.
No, no, now is not the time to sympathize with others.
Dual cultivation.
He has read books, too.
The 《Cantong Qi》 said: “Dual cultivation of life, take the hurdles and fill in the distance. It is true when the spirit is bright, and it is true when the spirit is dense.”
He had also taken biology cla.s.s.
Combining 《The Cantong Qi》 with 《Junior High School Biology Textbook》, he came to a conclusion: To restore his meridians, it is necessary to have a physical relationship with the Big Miss.
——And this physical relationship is not the physical relationship of touching, holding hands, and kissing the forehead.
He started to panic.
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