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Chapter 338 Buying a Life
Xu Yuan frowned; forcibly pulling him out wouldn't work.

Pidan spread out three zhang (approximately 10 meters), blocking all the sunlight that was shining towards the courtyard gate.

The purplish-black mist on the courtyard gate lessened somewhat.

Xu Yuan opened his mouth and spat out a sword pellet.

The sword pellet flashed with a cold light and struck the doorpost with a clang—but dared not strike the door itself, lest it open and the pellet fall into the other world, from which it might never be retrieved.

Where the sword pellet struck, a purplish-black mist erupted like ignited gunpowder.

The chilling aura instantly made the sword pellet feel incredibly heavy.

Xu Yuan immediately retrieved the sword pellet.

As the sword pellet flew back, its speed decreased more and more, and it kept falling.

Xu Yuan caught it and quickly used the fire in his abdomen to temper it, slowly dispelling the cold and heavy feeling.

“We’ve tried everything, this thing can’t be attacked by force,” Miao Yu said hurriedly. “No matter what it is, it will be infected as soon as it comes into contact with it.”

Xu Yuan nodded; it was similar to the black fire from before.

“If we can’t attack by force, then…” Xu Yuan searched his pockets and found only a hundred or so taels of silver notes.

This is probably far from enough.

Xu Yuan then asked Zhu Zhanmei, "How much money did you bring?"

Zhu Zhanmei's eyes lit up, and she immediately began searching her body.

It totaled more than two thousand taels.

"It's still not enough."

Miao Yu's eyes darted around, and he immediately said, "Old Zhang, take my waist token and go to the Qingyuan Bank on the next street to borrow 100,000 taels of silver!"

"Two hundred thousand!" Xu Yuan estimated and said.

Zhu Zhanmei immediately took out her waist token as well: "Tell the bank that my Zhu family will repay the money."

Inspector Zhang hurried off.

While waiting, Xu Yuan suddenly saw Da Fu standing to one side with his head tilted to the side, looking dazed.

So I reached out and pulled it back a little.

But Dafu moved forward even further.

"Danger!"

Dafu ignored him, his eyes gleaming with excitement.

Inspector Zhang returned with a stack of silver notes, which Xu Yuan then took and used his commercial law to its fullest extent.

Then, not daring to risk handing it over himself, he first took back the animal sinew rope, wrapped it around the silver note, and stuffed it into the crack in the door.

Zhu Zhanmei and Miao Yu stared nervously at the door.

Whether it succeeds or not will soon be clear.

The gate remained motionless, and a purplish-black mist drifted and rose.

The longer Zhu Zhanmei waited, the colder her heart became, and she couldn't help but feel a deep sorrow. Was her younger brother really beyond saving? Were her parents going to have to bury their son?

Tears welled up in her eyes, and Zhu Zhanmei cried out in anguish, "Little brother, I... I'll never scold you again—"

Zhu Zhanlei forced a smile that looked more like a grimace: "Third Sister, in our next life..."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly felt a blur before his eyes, and a white shadow suddenly darted to his feet.

"what?"

The thing even opened its mouth towards him—Zhu Zhanlei finally realized it was the goose Xu Yuan raised.

I did say I wanted to eat roast goose, but you can't kick me while I'm down by opening your mouth to me now, can you?
Daifuku pecked off a piece of the purplish-black mist in one bite.

Xu Yuan was taken aback and looked closely: the purplish-black mist turned out to be countless tiny flying insects!
Daifuku took a bite and found it delicious.

But it was too little; it wasn't enough.

So it flapped its wings and pounced...

Xu Yuan suddenly realized that his "business law" was working.

Suddenly, the two doors opened, "spitting" Zhu Zhanlei out.

"Ouch!" Zhu Zhanlei was caught off guard and sat down on the ground with a thud.

Then, all the purplish-black mist on the portal whooshed back into it. *Clang!*

The two doors slammed shut, and Dafu crashed into them.

Its flat beak pierced the door panel like a chisel, leaving it awkwardly hanging in mid-air.

clap clap clap...

Dafu panicked and flapped its wings desperately, but it couldn't break free in time.

After Xu Yuan saw the purplish-black mist recede, the courtyard gate returned to its ordinary state.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

It's unclear whether it was his own business acumen or Dafu that saved Zhu Zhanlei.

Or perhaps, both have an effect?
"Little brother!" Zhu Zhanmei rushed towards her younger brother, but halfway there her body went limp and she fell to the ground.

Xu Yuan was the closest person to Zhu Zhanlei and had the opportunity to help Zhu Zhanmei, but Lord Xu was more concerned about his goose, so he rushed to Dafu's side and pulled it off the door.

When she turned around, Zhu Zhanmei was already lying on the ground.

Zhu Zhanlei was mostly unharmed. He quickly helped his sister up and said earnestly, "You just said you would never scold me again."

"I won't scold you anymore." Zhu Zhanmei's tears kept flowing, and she wiped them away with her hand only to have them flow again. "Whatever you want to do in the future, I will support you. If you want to stay in Zhancheng, I will find a way to transfer you here."

Dafu was pulled out of the rice rut and was still in shock.

It had never experienced anything like what it just went through; it was terrified, fearing it would be stuck on the door for the rest of its life...

If that's the case, I won't be able to open my mouth, and I'll starve to death.
Thinking of this, Dafu sneaked around behind Zhu Zhanlei and suddenly pecked him on the back of the head.

"Ouch!"

Zhu Zhanlei let out a miserable scream, and a cloud of purplish-black mist rose from his hair bun!
Dafu leaped up and swallowed it all in a few gulps!
The Zhu siblings were dumbfounded.

Xu Yuan then took the opportunity to pat Zhu Zhanlei on the shoulder and said earnestly, "From now on, don't mention wanting to eat roast goose in front of it."

Zhu Zhanlei nodded like a chick pecking at rice: "Definitely, definitely!"

But then he said to Xu Yuan, "Are you going to sell this goose? Name your price, I won't haggle..."

Dafu flew up and pecked him again.

This time it was pure damage, there was no other reason.

Zhu Zhanlei, with a mournful face, rubbed his cheek that had been pecked swollen by Dafu, and dared not mention the matter again.

"Alright, I should go back now. I won't feel at ease leaving the yamen unattended on this day of prohibition against peeping."

Xu Yuan waved and took Dafu away.

The Zhu siblings escorted Xu Yuan all the way out of the Shanhe Si Yamen (a government office), thanking him repeatedly at the gate.

Zhu Zhanmei watched Xu Yuan walk to the end of the street and disappear completely after turning the corner before saying to her younger brother, "I will return to Luocheng tomorrow and write home to explain this matter."

Our family has always been clear about right and wrong. Inspector Xu saved your life, and the family must repay him handsomely.

Zhu Zhanlei casually remarked, "It would be best to help him get a promotion, but unfortunately, our family doesn't have anyone in the Exorcism Department."

……

Xu Yuan, with Dafu in tow, didn't dare to walk too fast. By the time they returned to the South City patrol post, it was already dinnertime.

The sun was setting in the west, and its light was fading from the earth.

Throughout the day, the ominous creatures that had been stirring in the void finally fell silent.

Only on this day do people eagerly anticipate the arrival of night.

After another hour or so, it finally got completely dark.

In the patrol room in the south city, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

As Xu Yuan ate his dinner, he was still thinking about the "real seed".

"Is this true seed really not suitable for me?"

"After learning about this true seed, things have been very unlucky."

"Something always comes up and delays me, preventing me from setting off for Ghost Witch Mountain..."

Xu Yuan therefore had a bad feeling.

(End of this chapter)