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Chapter 316 Ferryman: Qing Shisan! (4500 words)
"Sure enough, there is a bug?"

"Is there the same 'ferry man' monster in this world?"

Looking at the translucent black heart, Zheng Xiu gradually realized it.

"Similarly, the painter and traveler on my body may also exist... a second stranger with the same skill?"

"What will happen if the same weird thing meets?"

Zheng Xiu's face was solemn, and he would only know the answer to this kind of thing when he encountered it.

The black tentacles on the black heart stretched in the same direction.

Give Zheng Xiu a feeling like a "compass".

If Zheng Xiu guessed correctly, this should be the echo of two identical "black hearts", and the direction the tentacles point to should be the location of the other black heart.

This world brings more and more sense of disobedience to Zheng Xiu.

Now, he can't understand what happened to him.

No one can tell him the answer.

Holding the heart in his hand, Zheng Xiu walked out of the dungeon as if he was in no man's land, and returned to the street.

There were few pedestrians on the street, and in the middle of the night, he sneaked into the Ba Liufu Medical Center.

Ba Lao Liu's thunderous grunt came from the next door.

in the dark.

The room was filled with a rotten corpse-like stench, extremely unpleasant, it came from Qing Shisan, no wonder Scar Lao Liu would rather sleep in the woodshed than here.

bass.

Just as Zheng Xiu sat down next to Qing Shisan, Qing Shisan suddenly opened his eyes.

"It's you."

Qing Shisan lay on his back, opened his eyes and stared straight at the beam.

"Well, it's me."

Zheng Xiu replied indifferently, biting his finger, he stained his finger with blood, and drew a lantern on the floor.

The ground was bloody, and the lanterns on the plane strangely "floated" from the floor, floating like balloons, floating in the room, emitting a hazy light, reflecting the room into a gloomy blood color.

Zheng Xiu showed "this hand", and Ling Qing Shisan's eyes flashed a strange color, but the next moment, the strange color in his eyes faded silently.

"kill me."

Qing Shisan said indifferently.

Zheng Xiu shook his head.

"Save people to the end."

Qing Shisan said again.

Obviously at this moment, he thinks that letting him die is a kind of "salvation" for him.

"Ji Hongou... really died? Did you see it with your own eyes?"

Zheng Xiu asked.

Ji Hongou and Qing Shisan have known each other for many years, and Zheng Xiu knows this.But what he didn't know was that Ji Hongou's death would deal such a fatal blow to Qing Shisan, making him so depressed that he lost all interest in life.

What is the relationship between them?
Zheng Xiu was puzzled.

In the past, when Ji Hongou was someone else's wife, she didn't see what happened to Qing Shisan.

Zheng Xiu suddenly discovered that he actually did not know Qing Shisan as well as he imagined.

Hearing this, Qing Shisan nodded slightly.

Zheng Xiu asked again: "You are not surprised, why do I know Ji Hongou?"

"Heh," Qing Shisan's attitude towards Zheng Xiu was much better at the moment, and he grinned. This smile tore his dry lips a few times, and blood leaked out. He laughed with a strange laugh Said: "Many people know... they all know that we are a repeat offender of the imperial court."

"Don't want revenge?"

"It has already been reported."

"Tell me?"

Qing Shisan was silent for a while.

"Second prince."

"Ah?" Zheng Xiu was stunned: "The second prince with a cheap mouth?"

When Qing Shisan heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "It's him. I sneaked into the palace, gouged out one of his eyes, stuffed it into his butthole, pulled out his tongue, and put it in his eye socket. While he was still awake, I cut open his chest, dug out his heart, and put it in front of his other eye, so that he could watch his heart lose temperature little by little."

He talked about one of the cruelest murders in the calmest tone.

It turns out that Qing Shisan killed the second prince.

The second prince is dead?
Uh……

No wonder Qing Shisan's legs were broken by Shi Wentong.

Once this kind of criminal escapes, it's really a big deal.

He finally understood that Uncle Huo was really kind to him and his father.

Scar Lao Liu didn't even know what happened to him, and slept soundly next door.

Zheng Xiu probably made up the story of "this side".

Qing Shisan and Ji Hongou failed to meet him, failed to join the Zheng family, they did not have proper occupations, and in order to make a living, they still lived a life of licking blood on the edge of a knife, working as assassins, doing small jobs and so on.

Ji Hongou was killed by the second prince.

In order to take revenge, Qing Shisan sneaked into the palace alone. While killing the second prince, he was caught for a long time because of the torture and killing, and was thrown into the prison.

Coincidentally, Lao Wei died, and maybe the death of the second prince was something that many people would like to hear, so Qing Shisan was thrown into the sky prison, his legs were broken, and he was raised like this. Until now, life would be better than death.

Zheng Xiu nodded: "I heard that when the knife cuts out quickly, when the heart is dug out, people can still live for a few seconds, and can look at their own heart. Is it true?"

Qing Shisan is not sure: "Is it? Maybe my knife is not fast enough, he died as soon as he saw his heart."

In the bloody room, the two masters and servants who used to be the master and servant were silent for a while, and suddenly each chuckled.

"For some reason, I feel like I've known you for a long time."

Qing Shisan said sadly.

When Zheng Xiu heard this, his pupils shrank.

He recalled what Ba Laoliu said "Shi Wentong is dead again".

Zheng Xiu took a deep breath.

"Interested... listen to me tell a story?"

"……Oh?"

He was about to say he wasn't interested.

But I don't know why the words didn't come out.

Qing Shisan wanted to die with all his heart, so his expression seemed to be lacking in interest at the moment, but he still gave Zheng Xiu a face with a soft "oh".

Zheng Xiu's voice suddenly became low and magnetic.

It's a great voice for storytelling.

"A story about... the Red King and Qing Shisan."

……

"There was a precocious handsome boy whose parents died when he was young."

"Depending on each other for life with my sister, I have been bullied and stared at."

"one day……"

Zheng Xiu told about his time with Qing Shisan in those years, bit by bit.

from the first encounter.

On the thirteenth day of Qing Dynasty, he settled in the imperial city.

Later, Ji Hongou and Pei Gaoya also came, and they secretly protected the Zheng family.

Ji Hongou got married, Qing Shisan was a little disappointed and a little bit happy.

Qing Shisan works as a coachman during the day, and stays on the roof of Zheng's house from time to time at night.

The story between him and the Red King is plain and unremarkable, far less ups and downs than "Sikong Zhuiming".

When Zheng Xiu finished talking about Qing Shisan's secluded life as a retired old assassin on the "other side" in a calm tone.

Qing Shisan, who was lying on the straw mat, had already burst into tears.

He choked up and asked, "Is what you said... true?"

Qing Shisan's reaction surprised Zheng Xiu: "Do you believe it?"

"I believe..." Qing Shisan closed his eyes: "Except for her, there is no third person who knows the name 'Qing Shisan'."

"When we wandered around the rivers and lakes back then, the two of us had a good drink once. She smiled and asked me, if one day, if I had the opportunity to wash my hands and hide my name, what identity would I use."

"I said, I will use the pseudonym 'Sikong Ming'."

"She laughed at me and said that this name is not a good person."

"She said that incognito means you have to use a low-key name."

"Qing Shisan...she chose the name casually."

"I thought that in this life, I would never be able to be 'Qing Shisan'."

"..."

Qing Shisan's choked voice gradually returned to calm.

After he told the origin of the name "Qing Shisan", he turned his head for the first time all night and looked at Zheng Xiu's face.

"You think I'll work for you?"

Zheng Xiu shook his head: "No. If you believe that what I said is true, you should believe it. I will not threaten you with anything. I may have done something wrong. Coming here has changed many things. I I just want to get some things back on track, I don't dare to say that I can make Ji Hongou come back to life, but as long as I am alive, everything is possible, isn't it?"

Zheng Xiu's original intention was just to give Qing Shisan a reason to "live".

If Qing Shisan wanted to die, even if Zheng Xiu wanted to save him, he couldn't save a person who didn't want to live.

Obviously, his purpose seems to have been achieved.

Zheng Xiu pointed to the scarlet lantern hanging in the room and smiled: "Want to learn?"

Qing Shisan nodded.

For a moment, he longed to live, longed to see, what Zheng Xiu said...another possibility.

Zheng Xiu pressed the translucent heart into Qing Shisan's body.

In an instant, Qing Shisan trembled all over and twitched uncontrollably.He gritted his teeth hard, his lips were cracked, and a lot of blood oozed out.

The process of merging with a warp is painful, and not everyone succeeds.

By mistake, Zheng Xiu wanted Qing Shisan to become a stranger in the way of "walking feet", but Qing Shisan refused.So Zheng Xiu cooked the [Abyss Walker] with the [Big Crucible].

Now, in order to save Qing Shisan and make up for his guilt, Zheng Xiu handed over the "Ferryman" to Qing Shisan.

One drink and one peck is God's will, how is it better, Zheng Xiu can't tell.

He has already mastered the skills of entering the Bund. To be honest, the "Ferryman" monster is a bit tasteless to him, and he can freely enter and exit the Bund without the "Ferryman".Furthermore, now that his [Prisoner] is inexplicably down, and the panel is garbled, he can't create a new clone. Instead of keeping the [Ferryman] trick, it's better to use it here to save Qing Shisanyi's life.

Perhaps Qing Shisan will embark on a different trajectory from "Once Upon a Time", he will not become the Scarlet King, and Sikong Zhuiming will not become "Qing Shisan".But just like what the old man said: life deserves no regrets, and death has no regrets.Zheng Xiu believed that Qing Shisan would be reduced to this point because of his selfishness. He selfishly wanted to keep his father alive regardless of the consequences, which led to this series of accidents.

Zheng Xiu waited until Qing Shisan's breathing became stable before leaving the Baliufu Medical Center.

As Huo Huo said, the life and death of an assassin who killed the prince with a broken leg is no longer cared about.

After Lao Wei's death, there was a turbulent undercurrent in the court, but the death of the second prince was something that some people liked to hear, and he died in vain.

The fact that he rescued Qing Shisan from the prison and hid the wanted criminal was not as important as killing Shi Wentong.

According to Huo Huo, Shi Wentong belonged to another faction. If his killing of Shi Wentong was revealed, the Zheng family would be placed in the "royalist" camp. This is what Zheng Xiu was most worried about.

But do they have evidence?
Zheng Xiu thought it was impossible.

Now there is no Ye Weiyang in the city.

"Should I create Ye Weiyang?"

Zheng Xiu stroked his chin and thought.

Soon he shook his head again, denying the matter.

Wouldn't that make him a "Night Lord"?

There is another thing that Zheng Xiu doesn't understand, why the "candle" will be lost when the world line shifts this time.

"Could it be that he accidentally slipped away, turned into a human pillar, and then... went in right away?"

If so, everyone will be happy.

A few days passed without incident.

When I went to the Baliufu Medical Center again, Qing Shisan's shattered kneecap healed, and granulation sprouted from the wound.

[Ferryman] Even if he is not an alien like [Ascetic Monk] who is specialized in physical recovery, his vitality is far beyond that of ordinary people.

When Scar Six was changing the dressing on Qing Shisan's legs, he watched Qing Shisan standing up with a calm expression, and he was dumbfounded.

After being dazed for a long time, Ba Lao Liu happily ran in the yard.

"Father! I'm promising!"

"I have become a miracle doctor!"

"The living dead, flesh and bones! I have become a miracle doctor!"

"Hahaha! Hee hee hee! I have become a miracle doctor!"

Qing Shisan was cured, but another one went crazy here.

Zheng Xiu brought clean clothes, a bamboo hat, and a pair of straw sandals.

Qing Shisan changed into the clothes that Zheng Xiu brought, threw the dirty prison uniform into the brazier and burned it to ashes.

He was wearing straw sandals, and the bamboo hat was lowered. When he laughed, a row of yellowish teeth were exposed under the bamboo hat.

"Here."

Zheng Xiu threw a tobacco rod and brought a pack of expensive tobacco leaves.

Qing Shisan didn't want it at first, but when he touched the pipe, his eyes suddenly lit up under the bamboo hat, and the hand holding the pipe trembled slightly.

He lit the pipe, took a puff, and coughed violently.

After a while, Qing Shisan seemed to get used to it, and the smoke lingered around him.Looking at the figure lingering in the smoke, Zheng Xiu suddenly felt that the "former" Qing Pi had returned.

"Sikong Zhuiming, next, what are your plans?"

Zheng Xiu asked Qing Shisan.

Qing Shisan was smoking a cigarette, squinting his eyes, and said with a smile, "Sikong Zhuiming died that night."

"Oh?" Zheng Xiu smiled.

Qing Shisan held down his bamboo hat and raised his head.Wisps of sunlight came in through the gaps in the bamboo hat, casting mottled shadows on his face.

"The story you tell is better than the storyteller in the teahouse. So, if General Zheng Shao doesn't mind, Qing would like to stay with you for a while and listen to the... ending of the story."

"Okay, the Zheng family welcomes you."

"The Ferryman,"

"Celebrate Thirteen."

……

……

What the hell is the monster?
The existence of creepy things seems to be "unique".

If it is not unique, a bug will appear.

Qing Shisan temporarily lived in Zheng's house.

As a major general, it is reasonable for him to recruit a "servant".

Although Zheng Haoran and Chuntao felt strange about Zheng Xiu recruiting a servant, they didn't think much about it.

Even if Huo Huo came, as long as Qing Shisan didn't show his face, he wouldn't associate this person with Sikong Zhuiming who broke his legs.

As Qing Shisan himself said, Sikong Zhuiming is dead.

Not long after he became a [ferryman], he told Zheng Xiu that he could vaguely feel something attracting him on the other side of the mountain, far, far away.

Zheng Xiu told Qing Shisan that it was "another strange ferryman" that existed in this world.

Qing Shisan understood what he said, and kept silent.

Shi Wentong's death caused turmoil in the city, and more than a dozen people went back and forth to the place where Shi Wentong's body was parked for autopsy.

In these two lifetimes, Swen Tong may have been autopsied more times than others.

Zheng Xiu even wondered curiously, if "being autopsied" is also a kind of "rule" and there is a way, will Shi Wentong walk out of a path of "death change".

This is naturally a joke, Swinton can't come back to life - at least not in the current world line.

All the autopsies were repeated over and over again, and after a few days of autopsy, it was still concluded that Shi Wentong died of "horse wind".

He is doomed to die of "horse wind".

On the tenth day after Shi Wentong's death, Zheng Xiu drew a horse in his diary, and immediately drew a Shi Wentong.

When Huo Huo came, he didn't say much, he just said three words "It's all right", everything was said in silence.

Zheng Xiudao thanked, and secretly gave Huo Huo the "Heart Protector" used by Zheng Haoran 20 years ago.

Huo Huo really deserved to be a "Haoran fan", his face remained calm, but secretly he felt like he had found a treasure, and swished "Zheng Haoran's used heart mirror" into his arms in front of Zheng Xiu.

"Uncle Huo will keep it for General Zheng first, keep it."

The corner of his mouth twitched and he stepped out of Zheng's house.

Zheng Xiu looked at the back of Huo Huo leaving, and felt calm this time.

Then he and Yue Linglong spent a few days of peace.

until the end of April.

One fine night.

A mysterious female thief was captured by Qing Shisan on the eaves of Zheng's house, breaking Zheng Xiu's peace.

(End of this chapter)