Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 305

If ancestral graves were simply places to bury deceased ancestors, that would be fine. But those old fogies of the Zhao family, except for one who is in the treasure vault, are basically all lying in the ancestral graves.

Even if Li Zhuiyuan didn't mention it, once they arrived at the Zhao family and the treasure trove was inventoried, Zhao Yi would find a way to invite the man surnamed Li to visit his family's graves, and ideally, have the man surnamed Li personally offer incense and pay his respects.

Young Master Zhao is determined to do this kind of thing—open the door to thieves!

“Hey Li, you called me here, there must be more to it than just this, right?”

"Hmm." Li Zhuiyuan took a step back and pointed to the crisscrossing ink lines on Runsheng's body. "Take a look for me using the Gate of Life and Death."

Zhao Yi stepped forward, looked at Runsheng, and his gaze narrowed slightly.

He didn't believe that the man surnamed Li was simply showing him the ink marks. Soon, he discerned the underlying patterns and true intentions from the variations in ink depth and the subtle ink splashes on both sides.

Zhao Yi looked up, incredulous, and said:

"Hey Li, are you trying to dig a Grand Canal out of Runsheng's body?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "This was my major in college."

Zhao Yi: "Are you taking advantage of the fact that I didn't go to college?"

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and patted Runsheng's arm: "Brother Runsheng, you can get up now and wash off the ink stains."

"it is good."

Runsheng got up and left the table. There was a group of old ladies playing cards on the dam. Instead of going to the well to fetch water to wash, he went directly to the small river next to his house.

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the well, pressed the water out, and found laundry detergent residue on the edge of the well opening, which had solidified into clumps. He could grab a handful and rub it after wetting his hands.

Zhao Yi followed him out, bent down, and lowered his voice, saying:
"I don't believe you can't think of a more reliable way to solve Runsheng's problem. Haven't you already solved Ayou and Zhuangzhuang's problems quite well?"

Li Zhuiyuan shook the water droplets off his hands: "The risk is indeed very high, which is why I specifically asked you to come and take a look."

Zhao Yi: "It's not a big problem anymore. Just by taking a quick look, I can already spot thirty-six fatal acupoints."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Thirty-six places?"

Zhao Yi: "What, are you scared now?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "I noticed forty-two places."

Zhao Yi: "I only glanced at it briefly."

Li Zhuiyuan: "You've memorized all the ink marks. So you'll have to work hard to sort them out first. You need to find at least forty-two fatal flaws, and then come up with a solution and submit it to me as soon as possible."

Zhao Yi: "Hey, hey, hey, you're not going to hide it from people anymore, are you? You really think I'm the unofficial team leader that Tan Wenbin was talking about?"

As Li Zhuiyuan stood up, he nodded: "Aren't you one of us?"

Zhao Yi pursed his lips: "Hey Li, are you trying to mess with me like that girl under the peach grove?"

Ironically, after hearing those words, Zhao Yi felt quite pleased, experiencing a comfortable and slightly giddy feeling.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Time is limited, so let's hurry. Once Runsheng's problems are resolved, I have to return to Jinling."

Zhao Yi: "What major event is about to happen in Jinling?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Binbin, Ayou, and I have to go back to school to take the final exams."

Zhao Yi's lips twitched: "This really is a huge deal."

After a pause, Zhao Yi asked again, "Mr. Li, are you going to start the excavation yourself?"

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "No, I don't have that level of carving skill."

Zhao Yi: "It's rare that there's something you don't know."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Time and energy are limited. Who can learn everything well? Just getting by is enough."

Zhao Yi: "Then I'm curious, who do you plan to ask to help you with the carving? This carving is not just about the body, it has to touch the soul. Even if the plan finds and solves all the fatal flaws, when it comes to actually doing it, you don't even need to shake your hands. Just a simple distraction can shatter Runsheng's soul and kill him instantly."

Li Zhuiyuan: "You'll know when the time comes."

Zhao Yi: "I really don't understand, you're so ruthless to your subordinates, how come they're still so loyal to you?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "I didn't plan to do this at first."

Zhao Yi: "Hmm?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "After Runsheng came back from Fengdu, he became much quieter."

Zhao Yi was taken aback upon hearing this.

When he came to his senses, the boy had already returned to the house and gone upstairs.

Zhao Yi rubbed his chin with his hand, then turned and walked out.

They happened to run into Runsheng, who had just finished bathing in the river and was soaking wet, leaving a trail of footprints with each step.

Zhao Yi: "Thank you for last time, you saved their lives."

Runsheng: "Now too."

Zhao Yi: "I will."

Back at Big Beard's house, Xiao Yingying was sitting on the dam making paper offerings.

Zhao Yi squatted down next to her, using whatever was available, and with a swift movement of his fingertips, a paper figure began to take shape.

Xiao Yingying stopped what she was doing and looked at it intently.

Zhao Yi "sculpted" a very tall paper puppet. Even without coloring or painting, its size alone gave Xiao Yingying a sense of déjà vu.

Zhao Yi: "Want to learn?"

Xiao Yingying: "I can't learn it."

Zhao Yi stood up, picked up "Baiban Runsheng", went inside and upstairs to his assigned room.

A paper figure was placed in front of him, and a sheet of white paper was spread out before him. Zhao Yi held a brush and drew on the paper while making notes on it.

Old Tian brought in a plate of sliced ​​fruit with toothpicks stuck in it.

"Young master, have some fruit."

"Put it there."

"Young Master, what are you doing?"

"To accompany that guy surnamed Li in his madness, to do something that is almost impossible to succeed."

"Hehe, young master, what you're saying is true. In my eyes, with that person and you joining forces, it seems there's nothing in this world that they can't accomplish."

"Even if you remove the latter, this statement still holds true. It's just that the guy surnamed Li has a lot of things to do, so he dumped this time-consuming and laborious preliminary work on me."

"Master..."

"What's wrong?" Zhao Yi put down his brush and looked at Old Tian.

"There's something you might not know, young master."

"You said."

"It's that Liu Jinxia. Everyone in the village says she has a tough fate and is a jinx to her husbands."

"No, Lao Tian, ​​do you really want to find a partner?"

"Ah? No, no, no, of course not." Old Tian hurriedly waved his hands. "It was something you said casually earlier, and I happened to overhear it outside, so I just mentioned it to you casually."

Zhao Yi lowered his head, writing as he spoke:

"Old Tian, ​​you need to give me some time to calm down."

"Young Master, I really have no such intention. Please don't overthink it."

"It's hard for anyone to accept having a stepmother quickly."

Old Tian's nose suddenly stung, and tears welled up in his eyes. He quickly reached out to wipe them away.

"Young Master, you're busy, I'll go cook."

"Ah."

After Old Tian left the room, Zhao Yi looked up again at the door, shrugged, and sighed:

"This village really is a nurturing place."

……

Li Zhuiyuan put down his pen and rubbed his slightly sore wrist.

He has just finished writing the latest two chapters of "Code of Conduct for Walking Along the River".

The first part is a complete record of the previous wave, with the ending interspersed with reflections on each of my choices, as well as my new understanding of "divine beings" such as the Great Emperor and Bodhisattvas.

The second piece is a straightforward narrative, consisting entirely of what was seen and heard, without any reflections, like a travelogue written by a primary school student after a spring outing.

The places to visit aren't remote; anyone can go, making it a popular tourist attraction.

She got up, stretched, and walked over to Ah Li's side.

The girl's drawing is finished; after all, there's a lot of blank space, so it didn't take much effort.

At this moment, Ah Li placed a whetstone with a jade-like material in front of her and began to polish her carving tools.

A gentle breeze blew in from outside the screen door, swaying the girl's dark hair by her side, and the boy seemed to hear the tinkling of wind chimes.

As he watched and listened, Li Zhuiyuan supported his head with his hand and slowly closed his eyes.

The girl placed the carving knife in front of her, examined it carefully, and then turned her head to look at Li Zhuiyuan, who was already asleep.

On a hot summer day, a stolen breeze is the perfect way to sleep.

Ah Li put down what she was holding, and mimicked the boy's posture, propping her head up with her hand and facing him, studying him closely. Every now and then, a faint dimple would appear at the corner of her mouth.

In the lobby on the first floor, Tan Wenbin sat on the coffin lid, legs crossed, holding half a watermelon in his arms, eating it with a spoon while watching TV.

Just as I was engrossed in watching, the television suddenly flickered and went out.

Tan Wenbin reached out and pressed the light switch, but there was no response.

Walking onto the dam, Tan Wenbin looked around. It was daytime, and no one had their lights on, nor did they all have color TVs facing the windows.

Tan Wenbin's ears twitched slightly as he heard a radio playing the news on the wall of a house in the distance.

Then it's not a power outage.

Tan Wenbin walked towards the back of the house, just as Lin Shuyou came out of the workshop hut.

"Brother Bin, did the power trip?"

"Ah You, did you do this?"

Lin Shuyou scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly and said apologetically, "I accidentally pressed the switch on the polishing machine while I was reading in the workshop, and then the light went out."

"I'll go check if the power has tripped."

"I'll do it, I'll take care of it."

Lin Shuyou immediately ran over to check, and soon returned: "Brother Bin, it's not a power outage, it looks like something's burned out there, there's a burnt smell."

Tan Wenbin: "I'll go find the village electrician."

Lin Shuyou: "I have the tools at home, I can just go and fix it."

Tan Wenbin: "You can fix it?"

Lin Shuyou: "What's so difficult about that? Besides, the electricians are all at work. By the time he gets off work and goes back to the village, it will be dark."

Tan Wenbin: "Then you should give it a try."

Lin Shuyou: "Brother, just you wait and see."

Tan Wenbin went back and continued eating watermelon.

Liu Jinxia, ​​having received no bye, first left the table to touch the porcelain jar. When she came out, she saw Lin Shuyou climbing on the wall and repairing it.

"Is it burnt out?"

Liu Jinxia was playing cards outside, and she really didn't know if the power was out.

Lin Shuyou: "Hmm."

Liu Jinxia: "Are you fixing it?"

Lin Shuyou: "Yes, it'll be fixed soon."

Liu Jinxia: "Hehe, as expected of a college student, she can do all kinds of jobs."

Get it done.

Lin Shuyou pushed the switch up, but he forgot to turn off the grinder after the power went out. As soon as he pushed it up, there was a loud crackling sound.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Lin Shuyou's body trembled, and his vertical pupils were activated by the electric shock.

"Snapped!"

It burned out again.

After the power went out, Lin Shuyou breathed a sigh of relief, reached down to press down his hair that had been standing up from the electric shock, and started tidying it up again.

Liu Jinxia was startled by what she saw. The young man had been electrocuted, but seemed completely unaffected afterward. She could only sigh in amazement.

"No wonder he's a college student, he can even withstand electric shock."

"Blind Liu, it's your turn. Get on the table!"

"Here I come, here I come!"

After the repair was completed, Lin Shuyou did not turn off the switch. Instead, he went down to the cabin, turned off the machine, and unplugged the power. Then he came back and turned the switch back on, and the power was restored.

Upon entering the living room, Lin Shuyou saw Tan Wenbin watching TV again, so he went over, picked up a spoon, and started eating watermelon.

Tan Wenbin shifted his attention from the television, glanced at Lin Shuyou, and asked in confusion:

"Did you use hairspray?"

Lin Shuyou: "No, I was feeling sleepy while reading, so I took a shock, and I felt much more alert."

Tan Wenbin didn't expose him: "I'm full, you can eat the rest. If it's not enough, there are still some in the well, you can go open it."

"I've had enough, enough for me to eat. Sigh, Brother Bin, I've found that I feel most comfortable reading in the classroom at school. Reading in other places is so inefficient."

"Just say you miss Chen Lin."

Who is Chen Lin?

Lin Shuyou paused for a moment before finally connecting the name with the person.

The main reason is that the last experience was too fast, it came and went in a hurry, and I really didn't get to know the name well.

Tan Wenbin: "Keep pretending."

Lin Shuyou: "I didn't."

Tan Wenbin patted Lin Shuyou on the shoulder: "Don't worry, Shuyou, I understand you. You miss her, right? You want to use this as an excuse to go to Jinling to find her as soon as possible, right?"

Lin Shuyou: "Me...? Did I?"

Tan Wenbin: "I will mention it to Brother Xiaoyuan, but depending on the situation, Brother Xiaoyuan plans to go to Jinling after resolving Runsheng's problem, so it should be soon."

Lin Shuyou: "Oh."

Actually, Tan Wenbin didn't know whether Lin Shuyou was thinking about Chen Lin, but he was thinking about Zhou Yunyun.

At this moment, Tan Wenbin's pager went off. He picked up his mobile phone, pretended to look for a place with a good signal, and walked out of the living room. The number belonged to Nanjing.

Hey, just like that, he appeared as soon as you thought of him.

After the call connected, Tan Wenbin spoke into the microphone:
"Hey, darling."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone before the reply came:

"You should call him Daddy."

"Oh, Director Tan, what brings you to call your son who's been living away for so many years?"

"Where are you?"

"In Nantong."

“I have a colleague who was recently injured on duty and is hospitalized in the city’s People’s Hospital. Could you go and visit him in my place? I have a case to handle and can’t get away.”

"OK, no problem."

Tan Yunlong gave the other person's name, and Tan Wenbin would have to ask for the specific room number himself later. "Also, your mother, Yunyun, and Yunyun's classmate Linlin went on a trip together."

"Where have you been?"

Changzhou.

"Hey, why go so far on a trip? It's dangerous to travel from Nanjing to Changzhou."

Tan Yunlong naturally picked up on the sarcastic tone in his son's words; indeed, this provincial tour was rather uninteresting.

“It was originally a benefit from my workplace that allowed me to bring one family member. Since I couldn’t go, I sent Yunyun to accompany your mother. As for Linlin, she paid for her own trip.”

"Dad, to be honest, it's only because your son is outstanding that Mom would have divorced you and gone on to pursue new happiness and freedom, since she thought she had already accomplished her mission of raising a child well."

In our family photo album, in the pictures taken during your last trip with Mom, there's no picture of me, right?

"If you have some free time, you can go to Changzhou to find them."

"I'm very busy. I just got back from my internship and I have to go to Nanjing in a couple of days to take my final exams."

"Okay, that's all. I'm hanging up now."

Tan Wenbin put away his cell phone and called out to Lin Shuyou, "Shuyou, I'm going to the hospital in the city to visit a colleague for my dad."

Lin Shuyou wiped the watermelon seeds from the corner of his mouth and nodded, saying, "Don't worry, Brother Bin, you can go with peace of mind. I'll take care of things at home."

Tan Wenbin got into the pickup truck and drove away.

After arriving at the Municipal People's Hospital, Tan Wenbin asked around and found the ward. He then went in carrying the fruit basket and nutritional supplements he had bought along the way.

A middle-aged man was lying on a hospital bed, with a young man sitting next to him, presumably his son.

Tan Wenbin noticed that this young man, who was a few years younger than him, had a tuft of bright and vibrant color along the edge of his black hair.

She probably dyed her hair to express her individuality, but her own father forced her to dye it back black.

The middle-aged man's surname was Liu, and his name was Liu Qiang. He was transferred here during Tan Yunlong's last year at the Shigang Town Police Station, so Tan Wenbin was not familiar with him.

He sustained a head injury while apprehending a fugitive, but the injury was not serious and he needs to rest.

Liu Qiang greatly admired and worshipped Tan Yunlong. He had personally witnessed Tan Yunlong's rise from the town police station, and Liu Qiang believed that Tan Yunlong was far superior to him, not only in his work but also in his marriage and family.

He got divorced, and his son stayed with him. However, his son failed his high school entrance exam; his score was so low that he was too embarrassed to ask for help or connections.

After completing the visiting procedures on behalf of his father, Tan Wenbin left the ward.

The car was running low on gas, so I drove to a gas station to fill up. On the way back, I had to pass by the hospital again. As a result, at the entrance of the hospital, I saw Liu Qiang's son, Liu Ping, smoking and talking with a group of guys with brightly colored hair.

Liu Ping saw Tan Wenbin in the car, threw away his cigarette, waved to Tan Wenbin, and Tan Wenbin smiled back at him.

Every young person goes through a period of pursuing individuality. In police families, the father's role is often more authoritative and domineering, which can, to some extent, inspire greater rebellion.

As Tan Wenbin drove, he wondered what his life would have been like if his father hadn't brought Xiao Yuan into the house that evening during his summer vacation after his second year of high school.

Hey, that's actually quite interesting to think about.

While waiting for the green light, Tan Wenbin lit a cigarette and placed his hand holding the cigarette outside the car window.

I spent a year in my senior year of high school, and now I'm nearing the end of my freshman year of college, so it's only been two years.

Two years have passed so quickly, so quickly that it seems to have slipped away unnoticed; yet it has also passed so slowly that now when I look at Liu Ping, I feel like I'm looking at him from the perspective of my parents' generation.

Traffic control measures are in place ahead, and traffic police are directing traffic.

Tan Wenbin looked diagonally ahead and saw the gate of a middle school.

The area outside was already crowded with people, and now the students inside were rushing out, causing the crowd to erupt in excitement.

Tan Wenbin then remembered that today was the first day of the college entrance examination, and according to the schedule, the afternoon session was for mathematics.

Tan Wenbin had planned to drive away slowly, but he noticed three familiar figures: Lei Zi, Pan Zi, and Ying Zi.

Tan Wenbin rolled down the car window and called out to them.

Even excluding Xiao Yuan's connections, these three are still his juniors, especially Pan Zi and Lei Zi. In the past, when Tan Wenbin got into fights with people at school, these two would watch excitedly from the sidelines.

"Brother Bin."

"Brother Bin."

Panzi and Leizi shouted enthusiastically.

Tan Wenbin asked, "Where's your school bus?"

Shigang Middle School is not a college entrance examination venue. Just like last year when the examination venue was Pingchao Middle School, the school organized buses to pick up and drop off its students to the examination venue.

Panzi: "There are no school buses this year, but the school has given us tickets. Look, the bus stop is right in front of us. You can take a direct bus to Shigang from there."

Last year the exam venue was far away, but this year it's in the city, much closer, and there are direct bus routes to the towns and villages, so there's really no need to organize school buses anymore.

Of course, if the family is well-off, the parents can take care of picking up and dropping off the students for the exam, or they can simply book a hotel nearby.

Actually, there was one more thing Panzi and the others didn't mention: this year they could move directly into the student dormitory of this test center school and eat in the cafeteria, but each person would have to pay a fee for food and lodging.

None of the three told their families. Panzi and Leizi had no hope for the college entrance exam in the first place, and were just going through the motions. They knew they wouldn't pass, and Yingzi's parents weren't home. She was currently living with her grandparents, so she was too embarrassed to ask them for money.

"Come on, get in the car, I'll take you back."

"Thank you, Brother Bin!"

Pan Zi and Lei Zi got into the back seat.

"Thank you, Brother Bin." Yingzi also went to the back seat.

Tan Wenbin: "Don't squeeze in, sit in the front passenger seat."

Yingzi responded and walked around to sit down.

The traffic ahead was quite congested, so Tan Wenbin followed slowly, asking as he went:
"Will this year be difficult?"

Pan Zi: "Brother Bin, you've asked the wrong person."

Lei Zi: "We can't taste the saltiness either."

Tan Wenbin looked at Yingzi, who nodded and said, "The reading comprehension in Chinese is a bit tricky, and the math is difficult, but not as exaggerated as the previous year's."

"Haha." Hearing this, Tan Wenbin couldn't help but laugh. Last year's math exam was truly insane. He still remembered that many students looked like the sky had fallen when they walked out of the exam room, and quite a few even walked out crying.

I later learned that Ge Jun was the one who set the math exam for that year's college entrance exam.

When Tan Wenbin was studying in Nanjing, he saw an interview with Ge Jun in the Yangtze Evening Post.

He doesn't usually read newspapers; Yin Meng showed them to him at the store, saying that Xiao Yuan Ge was mentioned in them.

The main headline of the interview is "Special-Grade Teacher" and "College Entrance Examination Mathematics Question Setter"... The subheading below is "My Promise with the Provincial Top Scorer".

Tan Wenbin then realized that Xiao Yuan had known the test setter for a long time, and the two had even talked. Moreover, the article used phrases like "had a very pleasant conversation" and "shared similar ideas."

That is to say, Xiao Yuan was the first prize winner in the International Mathematical Olympiad that year; otherwise, this report would not be suitable for publication and would attract great controversy.

As for the difficulty of that year's math exam, the article also provides a very reasonable explanation: I am holding you to the standards of the top scorers in the college entrance examination.

Tan Wenbin: "Forget about each exam after you finish it. Now, relax and do your best."

Yingzi clenched her fist and nodded, "Yes!"

Tan Wenbin noticed that Yingzi's face had an unusual flush.

At first, he thought it was because she had just finished the exam and her anxiety hadn't subsided, but now that the car had been driving for quite a while, Yingzi was still like this.

Are you feeling unwell, or do you have a fever?

"No, I feel fine. I was actually sick from stress, but after taking the folk remedy that Brother Zhao gave me, I feel much better now."

Zhao Yi's folk remedy?
Tan Wenbin remembered this incident. That night, Xiao Yuan didn't eat at home. Aunt Liu said that Xiao Yuan's grandfather had come to invite him to eat at home and had also specially invited Zhao Yi.

Since Brother Xiaoyuan knows, then Yingzi should be fine.

Besides, Zhao Yi had no reason to cheat Xiao Yuan's relatives.

Yes, something just doesn't look right. It's like a "last gasp" before a serious illness strikes.

But considering that it's during the college entrance examination period, you can't even say it's a bad thing.

Doping is prohibited in physical exams, so it shouldn't be considered cheating in written exams, right?
You either know it or you don't. You can't just stomp your feet excitedly and suddenly get the answer.

Along the way, Tan Wenbin stopped in front of a relatively large store by the roadside and offered them drinks. This store had a standing refrigerator, so the drinks were chilled, but not like the freezer in Aunt Zhang's convenience store, where drinks would only freeze into ice cubes.

The three of them were sensible and chose the bottled citric acid, but Tan Wenbin pushed them back and asked for the canned version instead. The advantage of the bottled citric acid is that it is cheap, but there is a certain probability that it is not clean and that drinking it will cause diarrhea.

After driving into the village, they stopped the car, and the three thanked them again before getting out.

When Aunt Liu saw Tan Wenbin return, she called out:
"Dinner's ready!"

Tan Wenbin and Lin Shuyou have just recovered and are continuing to nourish themselves, which is when their appetite is at its greatest. In contrast, Runsheng ate very little tonight.

Lin Shuyou: "Runsheng, what's wrong with you today... Ouch!"

Tan Wenbin stomped hard on Ah You's foot under the table.

Aunt Liu noticed it too, but she didn't ask.

Because of his sitting angle, Li Sanjiang could only see the three biggest eaters huddled around the big basin, munching away on their food, and didn't notice that one of them had no appetite today.

It was late at night, and everyone was asleep.

Lin Shuyou sneaked out of the coffin and tiptoed to Tan Wenbin's coffin, peering into the cracks, trying to see if there was any light inside.

The next moment, the flashlight inside turned on, and Lin Shuyou saw the eyes pressed against the crack.

Even as a True Lord and Ghost General, he was startled.

Tan Wenbin: "What?"

Lin Shuyou: "It's getting windy tonight. I was worried that you'd catch a cold, Brother Bin, so I thought I'd get up and tuck the corners of your coffin in."

Tan Wenbin: "I'm not reading anymore. I've already reviewed everything, as I've already said."

Lin Shuyou: "Mhm."

Ah-you returned to his coffin and fell asleep peacefully.

Tan Wenbin turned on his flashlight, lit it, and continued studying.

A moment later, he heard a noise coming from Runsheng's coffin next door. At first, he thought Runsheng had gone out to relieve himself, but soon he heard the sound of a tricycle driving out of the dam.

That's strange, what's Runsheng doing out so late?

The tricycle sped along the road late at night, with Runsheng holding a "cigar" in his mouth, which he was both smoking and using as a headlight.

Arriving at the riverbank, Runsheng got out of the car and sat down in the same spot as before, gazing at the calm river surface under the moonlight.

After a while, on the distant river, a large white rat with a spatula tied around its waist swam towards them, pushing a pot with its legs.

The white rat swam around while cursing:
"Ordinary people are lucky if they can get one free meal in their lifetime. How can you be so addicted to this place that you treat it like a canteen?"

I was sound asleep when I was woken up to cook! This is unbearable! Someone, please save the rats!

……

The following afternoon, Zhao Yi, with bloodshot eyes, handed a thick notebook to Li Zhuiyuan.

Li Zhuiyuan sat down on the rattan chair on the terrace and began to quickly flip through the pages.

After reading through them, there were a total of forty-five acupoints that could cause serious injury, and each one was labeled with a solution.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Very good, you've worked hard."

Zhao Yi: "I know that Runsheng is following the path of the Qin Family's Observation of Dragons Method, but I have made too many changes here in order to avoid these forty-five fatal acupoints. You have to make modifications and integrations according to my ideas, otherwise it will not be compatible."

Li Zhuiyuan: "It's alright, we can directly modify the 'Qin Family Observation of Dragons Method'."

Zhao Yi blinked, unable to refute for a moment.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Go and rest."

Zhao Yi: "When will the excavation begin?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "It'll be evening soon."

Zhao Yi: "Okay, then I'll take a nap and come over to watch the ceremony tonight."

Li Zhuiyuan entered the room, sat down at the desk, picked up a pen, and placed Zhao Yi's notebook in front of him, flipping through the pages while he worked on the final planning and design.

Ah Li stood beside the boy, and she would take each painting he finished and examine it carefully.

late at night.

Tan Wenbin and Lin Shuyou cleared out an area in Grandpa Li's field and set up an array around it.

Runsheng wanted to help, but was refused.

At Li Zhuiyuan's request, Runsheng sat on the bench in the center of the circle.

Next to Runsheng, there were several stools of different heights.

Zhao Yi walked over while yawning, and Lin Shuyou called out, "Three-Eyed, come help set up the formation."

"Ah~" He rubbed his eyes, walked up to Lin Shuyou, reached out and grabbed a handful of small black array flags from his arms, then casually tossed them into place. All the small array flags were planted in the ground.

Lin Shuyou: "What are you doing?"

Zhao Yi: "This is called the rice seedling throwing method."

Lin Shuyou: "How can you be so irresponsible?"

Zhao Yi waved his hand helplessly: "Go ahead and verify the calculation, hurry up."

Lin Shuyou glared at Zhao Yi. Although he knew that with his three eyes, he wouldn't make a mistake, for Runsheng's sake, he still recalculated each line one by one. Yes, there was no mistake.

Zhao Yi walked up to Li Zhuiyuan and asked, "Who is the sculptor? I can't see him."

Li Zhuiyuan looked behind him and said, "They're here."

Zhao Yi turned around and saw A Li, dressed in a pale yellow dress and with a wooden hairpin in her hair, carrying a small basket as she walked over.

"I knew it would be her."

A Li walked up to Li Zhuiyuan. Li Zhuiyuan condensed a blood-porcelain-colored array flag in his right palm. With a wave of his hand, the array was activated, and Tan Wenbin, Lin Shuyou, and Zhao Yi all stood outside the circle.

Runsheng took off his shirt and sat there shirtless.

Li Zhuiyuan took a small hammer and a chisel from the basket in A Li's hand, placed them in the palm of his right hand, and let the blood-porcelain-colored array flags adhere to them, staining their surface with a layer of crimson.

Immediately, Li Zhuiyuan handed the tool set back to A Li.

Ah Li took the chisel and small hammer, stepped onto a stool, and went to the highest point.

At this moment, A-Li was standing behind Run-Sheng, and Run-Sheng's head was right in front of and below A-Li.

The girl raised the chisel, which activated the surrounding array's energy, and she pressed the chisel against the center of Runsheng's head.

Zhao Yi lit a cigarette and took a deep drag.

Lin Shuyou, standing beside him, remarked, "Three-eyed, didn't expect that, did you? It's nothing, because I didn't expect Brother Yuan to choose this method to solve Runsheng's problem either."

Zhao Yi forced himself to swallow the cigarette before coughing, and finally exhaled slowly through his nose, echoing:

"Yes, I really didn't expect that. As expected of your Brother Yuan, you are truly extraordinary."

"That is."

Zhao Yi flicked his cigarette ash and looked at the young men and women in the circle. In his mind, he recalled the elder who had taken it upon himself to deliver a marriage certificate to him.

He said he dreamed of two dragons soaring over Jiujiang, which is an auspicious omen for the Zhao family of Jiujiang!

Elder, you are not mistaken, there are indeed two dragons here.

Looking up, Zhao Yi saw a Gu worm flying around, its wings flapping incessantly while its two tentacles intertwined, as if it were extremely nervous and uneasy.

Within the circle,

Ah Li raised the small hammer with one hand, the blood-red light on it combining with the array to gain power, and then smashed it down on the chisel that she was holding with her other hand.

"boom!"

"Roar!"

Runsheng, who was sitting there, first let out a roar like a wild beast, followed by a series of ear-piercing tearing sounds. Many cracks appeared on Runsheng's face, and they continued to widen until the white bones inside were clearly visible.

And that wasn't all; accompanied by a series of chilling, crackling sounds of friction...

Runsheng,

Skull fracture!
(End of this chapter)