I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 13 Freeloader

The silver snowflakes are scattered, and the ownerless corpse is collected.

The body in front of him was from the yamen prison and was only wrapped in a piece of rag. According to the yamen runners, this person died of fear of crime and committed suicide in prison at night.

But when Xu Qing unfolded the rag, he found that the body inside was naked, without even a piece of cloth covering the belly button.

Looking at the man's death posture, he was curled up with his hands on his knees. It was obvious that he died of starvation and cold, not of fear of crime!

With the idea of ​​finding out the truth, Xu Qing reached out and touched the other person, trying to awaken the immortal book of salvation and read his life story.

But what surprised Xu Qing was that the Sutra of Saving People in his mind did not respond at all.

What went wrong?

Could it be that this body is fake?

Xu Qing immediately ruled out this possibility. Even if it was a fake human body, it would not be possible with just four taels of silver, let alone be sold to him!

Then it can only be that his posture of salvation is wrong.

Carefully recalling the process of liberating the corpse, Xu Qing suddenly had an epiphany.

When he was performing the ritual of salvation for the corpse workers at Cui's Mill, those corpse workers looked no different from ordinary corpses.

The only difference is that in order to refine a complete corpse worker, one must go through layers of processes such as the Resurrection Spell and the Corpse Raising Spell. Finally, a special type of corpse talisman must be engraved on the corpse to give the corpse the procedural consciousness to work.

If an ordinary corpse is not treated, the soul will leave the body and gradually dissipate over time.

Including when he was helping Liu Youdao to reincarnate, it was because the other party was about to die and his soul had not yet left his body, so he could be reincarnated.

As for Mr. Liu a few days ago, it was because Liu Youdao had planned to dig up his grave and make a corpse from him to make a second profit before setting up the mourning hall.

By the time Xu Qing arrived at Liu's residence, Mr. Liu had already been cursed with a corpse and was in a state of resurrection.
After reviewing his past experiences in salvation, Xu Qing seemed to have discovered the problem.

The corpse in front of me died of starvation and cold, and the time of death was obviously longer than the period when the soul lingered.

In other words, he needs to summon the soul before he can perform the salvation.

After finding a solution, Xu Qing was inexplicably excited.

This might be the first time he has raised a corpse since he became a corpse driver!
After closing the shop door and lighting a stick of incense, Xu Qing waited until he calmed down. Then he took out the items needed for corpse-driving, put on fish-skin gloves for protection, and lined them up on the edge of the plank bed.

Soul-chasing bells, corpse-chasing whips, ink fountains, black-lined eight-diagram mirrors, and red-pen cinnabar purple incense burners.
No matter whether it is useful or not, just a glance at it will make everyone, whether an expert or a layman, exclaim "authentic!"
Look at this thing, this is probably all the treasures he has collected in his lifetime of corpse-carrying, and he has taken them all out!
"Green protects the soul, white serves the spirit, red nourishes the qi, black circulates the blood. No foreign souls may come, no dead souls may leave. Listen to my curse quietly. The remaining soul will enter the dream, the gates of heaven and earth will open. The golden sparrow will transform into a spiritual body, and the wandering soul will return to see the body. The soul-binding disease lasts for thousands of miles. Quickly return to your true nature!"

He took out the soul-chasing bell and chanted the resurrection spell from the thirty-six corpse-chasing spells. When the bell and the spell reached a certain frequency, a gust of cold wind suddenly rushed in from the windows and door cracks of the coroner's shop. The invisible and colorless wind swirled, seeking a direction, and finally fell on the ownerless corpse.

The next moment, the stiff corpse curled up on the plank bed suddenly trembled, making a crisp sound of bones stretching and shifting.

When the noise stopped, the ownerless corpse with its limbs completely laid out suddenly opened its gray eyes, and a hoarse, sour sound like a windlass turning came out of its mouth.

"It's cold, so cold! Lend me your skin!"

Suddenly something strange happened, and Xu Qing was caught off guard and was so scared that his hair almost trembled. The Thirty-Six Corpse-Driving Spells did not say that the corpse would speak after the ritual was completed!

Seeing the corpse on the couch raising its arms as if to tear off his skin, Xu Qing almost subconsciously threw a punch!
This was followed by the second punch, the third punch, and then raindrop punches!

Only after shaking the couch and making the scary corpse twitch with beating did Xu Qing stop.

"That's it?"

Reaching out and pressing the twitching frozen corpse under him, Xu Qing began to turn the pages of the Sutra of Salvation in his mind.

The corpse was named Qu Zhicai. He was a playboy who was proficient in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. All day long he was either on the way to the gambling house or galloping on the unknown roads of brothels.

At the age of 20, Qu Zhicai, who had just come of age, set a great ambition. He wanted to travel to all the casinos and brothels in the Dayong Dynasty, and then write a book to become a founding figure.

To put it bluntly, he is just a scumbag who only wants to gamble and visit prostitutes and has no ambition to make progress!
After setting his ambition, Qu Zhicai went to the county town under the pretext of studying hard and striving to pass the imperial examinations. He borrowed money and donations from relatives and friends, and since then there has been no news of him.

Did he really go to the county town to study?
You know what, he actually went to learn it!

However, after he arrived in the county town, he did not learn poetry and classics, but how to roll dice and how to visit brothels!
Having no money and tired of having fun in the county town, Qu Zhicai borrowed some money from his friends in the county town, saying that he would pay it back in a few days.

But when the agreed repayment date came, the creditors inquired about it.

Well! Where in the entire county town can you find even a single hair of Qu Zhicai!
At this time, Qu Zhicai had already taken the money and ran away to another city to live a happy life!

In the next six months, he repeated this method over and over again, and actually developed a momentum of great ambition and hope!

On this day, Qu Zhicai, who walked in a erratic manner as if he was about to become an immortal, arrived in Tianjin. If he arrived in Tianjin, he would definitely not do well if he did not visit the famous Linhe Painting Boat!
There is no curfew in Linhefang. Even in the dead of night, there are still all kinds of idle people walking around the gambling houses and brothels.

Qu Zhicai is among them.

For example, if his luck was bad in the gambling house one day, he would go to the brothel opposite and find a girl to eat with him to improve his luck. When he felt that his luck was back, he would go back.

This would not have been a big deal for a playboy, but Qu Zhicai was possessed by evil spirits and did something stupid that he should never have done!
He was unlucky that day and went to Cuiyun Tower to moisturize his hands. As a result, after moisturizing his hands, he accidentally saw the girl's jewelry box!
There are not only gold and silver hairpins, but also various pearls, jades, and broken gold and silver.

Qu Zhicai asked the girl: "What are you saving so much money for?"

The girl said: "Today is my last business. After this business is over, I will take the money I have saved over the years and go to my godmother to redeem myself."

The girl also said: "You are the last noble man on my way to redemption, I will definitely serve you well." In the girl's eyes, Qu Zhicai was the last wisp of wind and a speck of dust she met on her road of love, so she used all her years of learning, all the knowledge that could be used and couldn't be used, to serve him well!
After Qu Zhicai left, the girl took the jewelry box and found her godmother. When she was about to redeem herself and get back the indenture contract, she suddenly found that all the valuables in the jewelry box were missing!

This is her life for the rest of her life!

The girl almost lost her temper at that time, but luckily the madam of Cuiyun Tower had a bottom line and asked her the reason. Without her saying anything, all the friends who had received her body as alms in their youth came to the streets and alleys!

Old, young, those on crutches, those carried on stretchers, anyone who could still breathe came!
Although it is a bit exaggerated, it does highlight the connections of the female Bodhisattva!

The crowd was furious and cursed, ready to turn Linhefang upside down.

The commotion was so loud that it soon alerted the police station and the soldiers stationed in the neighborhood.

The policeman was originally still angry, wondering what these prostitutes and gamblers were doing in the middle of the night.

When they arrived at the place and heard the reason, the anger in the hearts of the policemen suddenly increased!
But this time, the rising anger was directed at the freeloader!

As the old saying goes, thieves don't steal diseases, and thieves don't steal prostitutes.

The former means that the money collected from a sick person for medical treatment cannot be stolen, and the latter means that the money collected from a woman who sells her body cannot be stolen!

Even in the lowest class of professions, this is the bottom line rule that must be adhered to!

After all, stealing the money earned by a prostitute is a lack of virtue. If it gets out, not only ordinary people but even petty thieves will feel ashamed!

Just when a group of people were looking for someone in front of Cuiyun Tower, something happened in Lihuayuan across the street!
It turned out that Qu Zhicai was not satisfied with stealing once. He went to the gambling house and lost his money, then he came back again. Although he was scheming this time and found another girl from Lihuayuan to steal, this time he was not only unlucky, but also unlucky in love, and was caught red-handed by the girl.

In desperation, Qu Zhicai had no choice but to jump out of the attic and run away with his bare butt.

Although it was not broad daylight, running naked under the moon was not a big deal. A night patrol officer saw this and thought it was a flower thief committing a crime at night. He immediately chased the man without thinking, just like a dog seeing a cat.

Over at the brothel casino, the patrol captains and the soldiers stationed in the neighborhood also heard the news and started to search towards Lihuayuan.

After passing through Caishikou and going around Tongzi Street, they chased the suspect to the outside of Cui's Mill, where the patrol captain finally met up with the night patrol officer.

"Where are people?"

"Captain, the thief has gone into the alley!"

"Oh? If I remember correctly, it should be a dead end alley."

"You guys come with me!"

Patrol captain Zhao Zhonghe rushed into the alley first to capture the prostitute. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the alley, he saw a man next to the prostitute, who was about to climb over the high wall of the mill.

This is truly the case of 'good things come in pairs, and thieves also come in pairs'.

Seeing that the man was about to retreat back to the yard, Zhao Zhonghe took out the crossbow he had prepared long ago without thinking.

When Xu Qing saw this, his vision went dark.

It was because the small crossbow was shot at none other than him, Xu!

When he was trying to escape from the prison by climbing into the alley at the Corpse Mill, he encountered a group of soldiers rushing towards the alley. He never thought that it would end up being because of such a trivial matter!
When Xu Qing saw this, Qu Zhicai's "legendary" life had not yet ended.

It was the coldest time of the year in the first month of the lunar year, and Qu Zhicai, naked, was taken to the classroom by a group of people.

After interrogating him all night, everyone learned from Qu Zhicai that he had used all the money for redeeming the girl to improve the performance of his gambling house!
Tsk, you are quite kind-hearted!

The gambling house owner thought to himself, how come this matter has something to do with me? If this gets out, will our gambling house’s reputation be ruined?

Thinking of this, the gambling house owner held his breath and raised the money to redeem the girl.

Look, the awareness of a person who runs a gambling house is higher than Qu Zhicai!
At this time, not only the people in the brothels and gambling houses, but also the people in the prison were burning with anger, so they secretly planned to do something bad and came up with a trick, which was to withhold bedding and clothes from Qu Zhicai.

The next day, when I looked through the prison door, I saw that the people involved in the theft, prostitution and gambling had curled up in a ball, completely silent.

Having seen so many freeloaders in his life, Xu Qing seemed to be filled with rage and wanted to kick the other party a few times.

If Qu Zhicai had not run into the mill alley, he would not have been shot by the patrol captain.

He still remembered that when he met the captain of the police two days ago, the other party was holding his dog-beating stick and said that he smelled of powder and was a woman!
The more I think about it, the angrier I get!
Finally, the Sutra of Deliverance gives an evaluation of the corpse: the character "人" is of the lowest grade.

After seeing the ratings, Xu Qing felt inexplicably relieved.

This was the first time he wished the corpse rating wasn't so high.

As for the reward for the Sutra of Saving People, it is a witch spell from Shu called the Green Dragon Returning Money Curse.

There was a record in the Southern Xinjiang Witch Chronicles that there was an insect in the south called the Qingjiao, which looked like a cicada but was larger than a cicada. Whenever the Qingjiao gave birth to its eggs on the leaves, if you took its larvae, the mother Qingjiao would fly to you no matter how far away you were.

Some witches use this as a magic trick. Taking advantage of the fact that the Qingjiao gives birth to a child and that the mother and child will reunite after separation, they smear the blood of the Qingjiao mother and child on money. The money smeared with the mother's blood or the child's blood will fly back after it is spent. This is the origin of the saying "Qingjiao returns the money".

However, the Qingqiu Money Returning Curse in front of Xu Qing did not require the use of the blood of the Qingqiu mother and child. It only required pinching the money return spell on the silver and coins to give the money the property of automatic return.

After Xu Qing understood this method, he was speechless for a long while.

Isn’t this just freeloading?
This freeloader's obsession with getting something for nothing was so strong that even after his death he still had this instinct.

(End of this chapter)