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Chapter 204 Painting Ghosts (2 in 1)

That night.

The dark clouds in the distance looked like a mass of heavy sand, rolling in with the wind, covering the stars and moon over Richan Town.

The air was stuffy and heavy.

The wind and sand are coming.

A Biren couple are walking on the streets of Richan Town, which is deserted.

The woman held an orange cat in her arms.

"Meow."

Curled up in the woman's arms, Xiao Fengmiao raised her head, whimpered, and pressed her paws on the soft place that blocked her nose.

The big pillow made Miao'er flustered.

"Good, don't make trouble."

Xie Luohe comforted her softly, and Miao'er quickly calmed down.

After appeasing Xiao Fengmiao, Xie Luohe raised his eyes, and his eyes fell into the distance.

On the roof of the house, there were vague figures, hidden in the night, she subconsciously clenched her fists.

"It's almost home, don't worry."

Zheng Xiu smiled slightly, and put his arms around the woman's shoulders.

Xie Luohe lowered his head: "Yes."

The two returned home safe and sound, and lit the oil lamp.

"Husband, I have a bad feeling."

After dinner.

Zheng Xiu took out the dusty wooden box from under the bed.

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Blowing away the dust on the wooden box, Zheng Xiu slowly took out the Luohe brush that had been dusty for many years.

Xie Luohe, who was lying on the bed early, turned around lazily and watched Zheng Xiu's movement of picking up the brush quietly. Her gaze also inadvertently fell on the longbow that had been hanging on the wall for many years.

Zheng Xiu walked out of the house, fetched a bucket of clean water from the well, wet the towel, and sat at the door to carefully wipe the stains on the Luohe pen.

Not long after, the Luohe pen stirrup was as bright as new.

Go back to the house and close the door tightly.

Zheng Xiu pressed the Luohe brush under the pillow and blew out the oil lamp.In the darkness, Xie Luohe's bright left eye stared straight at him.

"Tonight, sleep well."

Zheng Xiu rubbed Xie Luohe's soft long hair and said with a smile.

Think of what happened in Mohexuan during the day.

Xie Luohe felt a little uneasy inexplicably.

"Husband, I always have an ominous premonition."

"Don't worry, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge."

"They're not going to let it go."

"Hehe, of course."

"But they inquired about the Green River Trade Road because of..."

"I guess something happened in the Central Plains."

Zheng Xiu sighed lightly: "The confrontation between countries has never been so simple. But, what does these have to do with ordinary people like us who have no power to restrain chickens?"

Hearing this, Xie Luohe was silent, turned around and closed his eyes.

huh... huh... huh...

By midnight.

There were different movements outside the house.

Xie Luohe tossed and turned on the bed.

She got close to Zheng Xiu for a while, touched Zheng Xiu's chest for a while, rubbed Zheng Xiu's cheek for a while, and covered her ears tightly for a while.

Xie Luohe suffered from insomnia.

In the darkness, she sat up suddenly, stared out of the window through the coarse cloth window, and subconsciously made a movement of "tightening the gloves".

The other hand sneakily protruded from the bed. It turned out that the husband was not asleep. He precisely inserted five fingers into Xie Luohe's fingers, intertwined with each other. Take control with your little hands.

"Why, stay up most of the night and do such weird movements."

Zheng Xiu rubbed his five fingers and said with a wicked smile.

"My husband hates it." The domineering Xie Luohe in the past, after ten years of married life, has already become a smart young woman who knows everything.When she saw Zheng Xiu's movements, she knew what Zheng Xiu was implying, and the murderous aura in her heart disappeared without a trace, and said with a smirk.

"Can't sleep?" Seeing that Xie Luohe's killing intent had calmed down, Zheng Xiu hugged Xie Luohe, pressed her back into the bed, and asked softly.

"Noisy..." Xie Luohe said pitifully.

Zheng Xiu thought about it.

"to make."

He only said one word, then got up in the dark, and lit the oil lamp.

"what are you doing?"

Xie Luohe looked at her husband in surprise, left his wife behind in the middle of the night, lit a lamp and rubbed ink, and said curiously.

"Suddenly I became interested and wanted...to draw something."

Blank sheets of paper were spread out on the long table.

After grinding, Zheng Xiu dripped a few drops of blood into the ink.

In a corner of the room, a cat named Xiaofengmiao suddenly raised its head, its green eyes were calmly watching Zheng Xiu.

Zheng Xiu sat cross-legged, stroked his sleeve with his left hand, and held a pen with his right hand, motionless, as if hesitating.

Xie Luohe asked: "Is this really good?"

Zheng Xiu shook his head: "I know you don't like making noise, since you are out of the arena, don't go in again."

"But you."

"I'm still a painter."

Zheng Xiu, who was still a bit hesitant, finally made up his mind at this moment, with a bulging vein on his forehead, as if he was using the strength of a fist, he pressed the pen tip heavily on the drawing paper.

"Demons and monsters."

Zheng Xiu first drew a dense black night on the paper with thick brush and ink.

Immediately after, I lighten the ink color, and outline with a few strokes in the rich "night color", leaving many light-colored "spots", which look like faint eyes.On the drawing paper, the boundless night is full of ghosts, as if there are many unknown evil spirits hidden in it.

"All right."

Zheng Xiu got up, and while Xie Luohe wasn't paying attention, he secretly pressed his unhealed finger into the "ghost".

Lights off.

The two hugged each other, and Xie Luohe's expression gradually calmed down.

She greedily curled up in Zheng Xiu's arms.

I want time to stop at this moment.

On the painting scroll, the "spots" outlined little by little, the patterns like "eyes", started to rotate.

"Go to sleep."

……

The next day.

Three poles in the sun.

At the corner of the street, many desert residents surrounded.

Brother Ridi is now the patriarch, and he is busy running around in Richan Town.

The neatly dressed Boss Mo held a breakfast in his hand, whistled, and walked slowly towards Mohexuan. When he was about to open the shop, Ridi hurried past Zheng Xiu.

"Brother Di, what happened?"

Zheng Xiu grabbed Ridi and asked.

"A strange thing happened." Ridi, who had just become the patriarch for a short time, didn't want to pay attention to it, but when he looked back, he turned out to be his friend Boss Mo from another race. He could only stop and smiled bitterly: "I don't know what happened on the street this morning. There are many crazy Western Region merchants. If ordinary merchants are insane, they will go crazy, but this group of Western Region merchants are full of strange powers, crying and laughing, beating and smashing, causing chaos in the tribe."

Zheng Xiu asked calmly: "Can't we send them back?"

"Yes," Ridi shook his head helplessly, "We have to find a way to send them back. It will cost a lot of travel expenses to go back and forth."

"It's okay, I'll come out."

Zheng Xiu offered.

"Ah? Are you coming out? But..." Ridi was dumbfounded when he heard this.

Boss Mo is a businessman, how could he take the initiative to do business that is clearly losing money?

"It's okay. I have been taken care of by your tribe for many years. The Great Elder just left. I managed to gain a firm foothold here. If you run into trouble, you should do something."

While talking, Zheng Xiu followed Ridi to an open space.

I saw a man with a longbow on his back, a spear in his hand, and a battle pattern in the scorching sun, tightly tying up the demented merchants from the Western Regions.

Sure enough, as the sun said, these Western Region businessmen are all crazy.Crying and laughing, some people shouted "Mom", some people exclaimed "Ghost, ghost".People from the Lie Sun tribe circled around a few times, pointing at those lunatics.

While Japan and Earth were maintaining order, Zheng Xiu went back to the store, took out a wad of gold leaves, and wrapped them carefully.

After handing over the "travel expenses" to Ridi, Zheng Xiu gave a few instructions and then returned to Mohexuan.

In the shop.

Xie Luohe, who was wearing a woman's bun, was lying on the counter, holding up a wooden board in boredom, clapping left and right.

When Zheng Xiu entered the shop, he couldn't help laughing: "Ma'am, let alone people in the shop, there isn't even a single fly. If you continue to slap, with your strength, don't accidentally knock the table down." smashed."

"I want you to take care of it!"

Xie Luohe walked over with Xiao Fengmiao in his arms, leaned into Zheng Xiu's ear and lowered his voice: "What did you do last night?"

She didn't understand Zheng Xiu's operation.

These years, Zheng Xiu has been silently cultivating the skills of "painter". In obscurity, Xie Luohe has retreated into the world for many years. She no longer knows how deep Zheng Xiu has penetrated into the door.

Zheng Xiu saw that there was no one around, and something happened in the city today, thinking that no one would come to drink.So they closed the door early, and hung a sign "The Proprietor Makes Happiness" at the door.

"The human soul is divided into four parts: shape, meaning, movement, and direction."

Zheng Xiu raised four fingers.

Xie Luohe nodded, she naturally knew this.

"I drew a piece of night, where ghosts and monsters hide. This 'scene' temporarily replaced the surroundings of our yard last night. When they broke in, they were eaten by 'ghosts'."

Xie Luohe frowned slightly: "Have you eaten?"

"Not completely eaten." Zheng Xiu smiled: "'Ghosts' are just 'paintings', not real. I use 'painting ghosts' to absorb part of their human souls, that is, 'meaning', and they become" Frustrated people' will naturally go crazy."

He was understating a terrible thing.

But Xie Luohe was unmoved, she didn't want Zheng Xiu to go deep into the door step by step, and sighed softly: "It's better to kill, once and for all."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Xiu grabbed the board from his wife's hand and hit her on the head.

Unexpectedly, Xie Luohe didn't expect her husband's sudden stalwart, so she covered her head and said nothing in a daze.

"Women, what's the point of shouting and killing all day long?"

Zheng Xiu scolded with a straight face.

"It's against you!"

Xie Luohe slapped the table, stepped across the counter with a move of scissors, and locked Zheng Xiu between his legs.

"How dare you shrew!"

"Why don't I dare?"

The two rolled under the counter to fight.

On the side, Xiao Fengmiao weakly covered her eyes with her paws.

She didn't know that Zheng Xiu had the same thoughts as her, and Zheng Xiu didn't want Xie Luohe to go further into the door.

Ever since he glimpsed the murals on Sunset Mountain and saw the end of the "Sun Chaser", Zheng Xiu had vaguely noticed that thaumaturgy is not a risk-free way of practice.

The reason why Zheng Xiu bravely went deep is because he is used to it; secondly, he has never forgotten that his real way is "prisoner", not "painter". Xiu thinks it's not a big problem.

He didn't have any serious "side effects", unlike Fengbei and Xie Luohe, who gained power but also came with a price.

After fighting for a while, the two were out of breath.

Xie Luohe held a bunch of silk scarves in his mouth, smoothed his long hair behind his head with both hands, tied it tightly with one hand, and took off the silk scarf in his mouth with the other hand to tie up his hair.

The long ponytail flicked.

Xie Luohe's face remained flushed, and she asked curiously: "Then they, are they like this?"

After being whipped by her husband under the counter, Xie Luohe will be honest now.

Zheng Xiu lifted his trousers and tightened his belt. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "That's not true. When I go back tonight, I just need to burn that painting, and the 'spirit' trapped in the painting will escape, and I will return soon." To the human soul, to return to completeness."

Xie Luohe nodded: "My husband is kind."

Zheng Xiu's eyes flashed: "I hope I can use this to make an example to others."

A few days passed so peacefully.

A group of troops from an unknown country came from the west, and stopped outside Richan Town after exhausted boats and vehicles.

The leading man was tall, almost two meters tall.He was riding a camel with jet-black hair, and the camel was also covered with thick armor.The camel has a pair of dark red eyeballs, and it looks restless under the man's crotch.

"Dilu! Agua, Uraduo!"

The tall man took off his helmet and shouted into the town.

His voice was like a Hong Zhong, which swayed far away and spread throughout Richan Town.The pigs and sheep raised in the town crashed into the fence in panic, and the two camels raised by Zheng Xiu and his wife were also frightened and lay on the ground, foaming at the mouth and trembling.

"drink!"

"drink!"

"drink!"

Behind the man, hundreds of soldiers in strange armor took out a strange weapon about four feet long and shaped like an iron fan from their waists, and neatly knocked on the round armor on their chest, roaring loudly.

"Husband."

Xie Luohe, who was washing dishes in the back kitchen, rolled up his sleeves, walked out with wet hands, and patted the man who was dozing off on the counter with his palms to wake him up.

"I heard."

Zheng Xiu rubbed his eyes, sleepy-eyed, and stretched.

"Then we..."

Xie Luohe wiped his hands with a towel, showing a questioning look.

"Wait."

Zheng Xiu got up, persuaded the innocent tea guests in Mohexuan with good words, and asked them all to leave.

Then, the door was wide open.

He put a few small dishes on the table, and put two small wine glasses on the table, filling each one up.

out of town.

Armies from foreign lands are negotiating with the sun and the earth in dialects.

Although the Lieyang tribe is not a soldier guarding the frontier of Dagan, this place is their homeland.As the new patriarch, Ridi will never allow anyone to get involved.

Since ancient times, the desert has been a natural barrier between the Central Plains and the Western Regions.No army has ever traversed the desert without a map.

The passage of the Green River trade route is already a matter of the previous dynasty.

Today, the details of the Green River trade route are only known to the people of the Lieyang tribe and a few others.

Not long ago, soldiers from the Western Regions pretended to be merchants and entered the town to inquire about the Green River trade route, which aroused Zheng Xiu's vigilance.

The expert sent by the patriarch to the Central Plains to inquire about the news has not yet returned, Zheng Xiu does not know what this means.

The negotiation took a total of half an hour.

The tall general at the head laughed three times after the negotiation, took off his armor and threw it aside.

The armor he unloaded, every time he unloaded, hit the ground heavily, making a muffled "boom".

It can be seen that the armor he is wearing is extremely heavy.

The rest of the soldiers got off their camels in one order and camped in place.

The warriors of the Lieyang tribe held longbows and looked vigilant, watching the foreign soldiers encamped in the open space outside the town from a distance.After the tall man took off all his armor, he finally thrust the fan-shaped strange weapon into the sand, and calmly entered the city.

In the past ten years, the comfort and gradually affluent life in the desert has made Richan Town in the west of the desert develop from a tribe with only a hundred people at the beginning to a city of nearly 1000 people.

There is no law, no government, and maybe even Dagan, who is suffering from civil strife, does not know that there is such a rich town bordering the Western Regions, which is becoming more and more prosperous under the management of the Lieyang tribe.

It's like a paradise here.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
The tall man walked steadily and powerfully with every step.

With his armor removed, he only wore a vest-like lining on his upper body, exposing his strong shoulders and arms.

It is covered with deep and shallow scars that have already healed, which shows that he has experienced many battles.

The man finally came to Mohexuan.

The sharp gaze swept inside, and the man was taken aback for a moment.

I saw that the tables and chairs had already been set up inside, and a handsome man happened to be sitting on one side leisurely, with food and wine on it.

"Hahaha!" The man was stunned for a while, then laughed loudly: "Shache Kingdom, Atulu! Drink!"

(End of this chapter)