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

Chapter 140 Thunder strikes from the sky
After a woman gives birth, there are many taboos before the lochia is cleared, let alone before the placenta falls out.

As soon as Xu Qing finished speaking, the peasant woman's face turned as pale as liver sauce.

She said uncomfortably, "What do you, a man, know about women's affairs? Is there anything wrong with me letting my sister-in-law drink some hot soup to warm herself up?"

Seeing the people in the yard gathering around her, the peasant woman seemed to have gained confidence, and her momentum became more powerful.

Xu Qing bared his teeth and said, "You don't think you're the only one who knows this method of harming people, do you? Let me tell you, I was the one who built the Temple of Childbirth. I've interrogated many of those nuns about how to harm mothers and kill babies. I just don't know how much punishment you can endure!"

When the peasant woman heard that Xu Qing was the murderer who destroyed the Songzi Temple and killed so many nuns, her face turned pale.

The maid who was helping Liu Wenpo lifted the door curtain and asked what was going on. After learning the whole story, the maid hurried back to the house and told Liu Wenpo about it.

Soon, Mrs. Liu came out of the house with a gloomy face. When she saw the broken soup bowl on the ground and the peasant woman who avoided her gaze and didn't dare to look her in the eye, Mrs. Liu spat and cursed, "What a rotten-hearted old biter! You don't have children yourself, but you can't stand seeing other families have children. How can there be such a vicious person like you in the world!"

Li Mugen was unable to get a word in, his mind buzzing with confusion until midwife Liu turned around and said, "Madam Li, your wife gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, a perfect match. But this old pig-dog is determined to harm your wife. You can handle this matter on your own!"

Liu Wengpo explained it clearly, and Li Mugen was happy at first and then angry.

When the peasant woman who was delivering the soup saw Li Mugen walking towards her with his sleeves rolled up, she trembled like a sieve and fell to her knees, begging for mercy.

"I've lost my mind, I've been confused. Mugen, please don't tell anyone about this. If it gets out, my sister-in-law will be humiliated!"

The mouth of a bamboo snake and the sting of a wasp's tail.

Xu Qing watched coldly. The woman knelt down to apologize not because she knew she was wrong, but because she was afraid that the news would spread. As for intentionally harming others, she did not feel any remorse at all!

Li Mugen obviously loves his wife and children very much. This can be seen from the fact that he agreed to Xu Qing's request to go in and deliver the baby without hesitation.

After knowing what happened inside, Li Mugen dragged the woman out of the house.

It looks like he's going to be paraded through the streets.

Liu Wenpo said with a somewhat embarrassed expression, "The countryside is full of dirty things. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Brother Xu."

Xu Qing shook his head slightly and said, "As long as mother and child are fine, everything else is trivial."

As he spoke, Xu Qing took out a pen and paper and copied down all the knowledge he knew about childbirth, midwifery, and postpartum care.

"Sister Liu, as far as I know, temples like Baixiantang and Liuxiantang are good at curing illnesses and warding off disasters. You can pass on these methods related to childbirth to these temples, and also to midwives in other villages."

"These are all immeasurable meritorious deeds. Not only can they accumulate virtue for one's family, but perhaps future generations will also benefit from them one day."

Upon hearing this, Liu Wenpo quickly reached out to wipe her body, and then took the handwritten copy written by Xu Qing as if it were a treasure.

"What's the name of this book?"

When Xu Qing heard Liu Wengpo's question, he thought for a moment and replied, "These books that should be popularized by the world should not be given difficult names. Why not call them Midwifery Manuals?"

When Xu Qing left Li Mugen's house, he heard that Li Shan's wife had hanged herself.

Between social death and biological death, the other party clearly chose the latter.

Xu Qing smelled the odor of a corpse and didn't care about whether it was raw or cold. He followed Li Mugen to Li Shan's house. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a peasant woman lying on a wooden board with her tongue sticking out and her eyeballs turned out and falling out.

Although this person is dead, the necessary procedures still need to be followed.

"Are you her husband? This isn't a big deal. Don't worry. I know some medical skills. Let me see if she's still breathing."

Xu Qing walked forward and took the pulse of the corpse.

If you take the zombie's pulse, even if there is a little heat, you have to kill it!

Xu Qing's face was solemn, and the pages of the Sutra of Salvation were turning in his mind. The shadow of the Forgetful River rushing by, carrying corpses and ghosts, flashed by.

There was nothing interesting about the peasant woman's life. Xu Qing quickly skipped over the trivial matters and looked directly at the reward.

Evaluation of the corpse: Low quality human.

The Sutra of Saving People rewards one item: Thousand Insect Gu Jar.

There is a saying about Gu: Gu is a mysterious thing. It is a gathering of insects placed in a dish. They eat each other and the ones that survive are called Gu.

There are also rumors that there are women who are poisoned in the remote areas of the southwest. They are all beautiful women, but they are cruel.

The method of making Gu is very strange. For example, hundreds of insects are taken and placed in a jar. The person making the Gu recites a spell to make the insects fight each other. The last one to survive is the Gu insect.

The Thousand Insect Gu Jar that Xu Qing obtained, as the name suggests, is a container that can hold thousands of poisonous insects. Just put the poisonous insects in and let them fight and devour each other. The one that survives at the end will be the Gu King.

However, poisonous insects are mostly found in the south, and there are not many poisonous insects in Tianjin for him to make poison.

After putting the Thousand Insect Gu Jar into the Mountain and River Map, Xu Qing stood up, shook his head, sighed, and then left the farmer's house without saying a word.

His behavior was exactly the same as that of an old doctor who treated terminally ill patients.

Outside Jiugou Village, Xu Qing, riding on a spotted horse and accompanied by Huang Xiaopi, bowed to the crows circling in the sky.

Now that he was on a business trip, the funeral of Guan Huapo had been completed, and the hidden dangers left by the Songzi Temple had also been resolved. It was time for him to set off and return to Linhe.

At dusk, just before the Linhe city gate closed, Xu Qing appeared on the official road.

The gatekeeper recognized Xu Qing and deliberately asked the soldiers at the city gate to slow down the speed of closing the city.

"Have you finished your business with that fat guy, Manager Xu?"

Xu Qing nodded, and then couldn't help asking about the effect of posting the funeral notice himself.

The doorman's brows twitched, thinking to himself, what effect will this have? Will people still line up to support your business?
Seeing that Xu Qing asked seriously, the gatekeeper had no choice but to grit his teeth and say a few perfunctory words to get the matter over with.

To put it bluntly, this is not a store selling daily groceries. If the items are cheap or discounted, people might buy some.

But yours is a funeral business after all. Even if you offer huge discounts and many preferential policies, do you really want people to die on the spot for you?
Hearing the doorman's answer, Xu Qing couldn't help but sigh, "Business is so tough these days. I'm thinking of becoming a coroner. After all, that's a stable job."

The doorman looked as if he had a toothache. What I mean is, there are so many jobs in the world, why do you have to be involved with the dead?
How unlucky!

After entering the city, Xu Qing strolled along the familiar streets. Huang Xiaoliu was a newcomer and found everything new and interesting.

As the sky gradually darkened and there were not many pedestrians on the road, the little yellow fox ran and jumped following Xu Qing. Occasionally, when it saw something new, it would stand up and stop to look at it.

When Xu Qing walked a little further away, the little yellow-skinned boy quickly collected his thoughts and caught up with him.

After crossing the Tanggu Bridge and walking about two miles, Xu Qing suddenly stopped.

At the corner of the road, there was a half-broken elm tree stump that had been struck by lightning, still rooted in the soil.

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Xu Qing blinked, feeling puzzled.

He remembered that there used to be a big elm tree with lush branches and leaves here. Whenever he came here with an umbrella at noon, he would always see people holding palm-leaf fans or bringing small stools to sit under it to enjoy the cool air.

How could such a beautiful road view be destroyed by lightning?
This Lei is too immoral!
Xu Qing walked forward and looked around the wooden stake.

The Qi-gazing technique was activated, and the energy of thunder and fire lingered on the wooden stake.

Tsk, it's a natural lightning-struck tree. Xu Qing looked around and saw that no one was paying attention at the intersection. He squatted down, reached out to hug the elm stake, and with a little force, pulled the lightning-struck tree out by the roots.

Huang Xiaoliu didn't know what Xu Qing was doing, so he followed his example and pulled up the elm saplings next to him.

Xu Qing couldn't help but laugh when he saw the little yellow fox dragging the elm sapling to him like presenting a treasure.

"well done!"

Xu Qing was generous with his praise.

After putting away the elm stump, Xu Qing buried the elm sapling pulled out by Huang Xiaoliu in the original location of the old elm tree.

After tamping the soil and pouring some water in the water strainer, Xu Qing found some bricks and stones and set up a small feng shui layout.

After finishing all this, Xu Qing turned around and saw Huang Xiaoliu holding an object that looked like a black chess piece in his claws and chewing it in his mouth.

The teeth of the yellow-skinned creature that has become a spirit are extremely sharp, and it can even chew hard stones into pieces in one bite!
But even though the black chess piece was gnawed by Huang Xiaoliu, it was still intact.

Xu Qing was curious and used the Qi-gazing technique to observe. He found that there was still some residual aura of thunder and fire on the chess piece, and it was obviously stronger than the aura of thunder and fire on the wood struck by lightning.

"Xiao Liu, let me play with that thing in your hand."

Upon hearing this, Huang Xiaoliu immediately ran over and presented the black chess piece to Xu Qing.

"Why does this Heizi look familiar?"

Xu Qing played with a black chess piece the size of a fingernail, feeling as if he had seen it somewhere before. He injected Yin energy into it, and electric snakes appeared on the surface of the black piece.

He felt his palm go numb and almost threw the black piece away!

"What the hell?"

On the way back to Jingxia Street, Xu Qing made many attempts on the black chess piece in his hand.

The Mountain-Driving Technique was ineffective, and the Qi-Returning-Origin Technique and the Stone-Turning-Gold Technique also had no effect.

Xu Qing didn't believe it, so he roasted it with smoldering fire, but it triggered an electric snake as thick as his little finger, which split a small hole in the bluestone road surface.

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Xu Qing decisively gave up the idea of ​​using his own corpse teeth to test the hardness of the black chess pieces.

As he stepped into the underground street and approached the coroner's shop, Xu Qing casually used the black chess pieces as supplies for his deception technique and began to chant incantations.

"The breath of all things gathers and grows in my body, and the form of all things is borrowed from my body."

As soon as the spell fell, Xu Qing, who had no expectations, saw a dazzling white light coming out of the indestructible black chess piece. The next moment, the chess piece the size of a fingernail collapsed rapidly and finally turned into a mustard seed light spot and completely disappeared.

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Xu Qing was stunned. How could I, such a big and hard chess piece, disappear just like that?
At the same time, outside Luojing City.

Jiangbei's divine fortune teller Jiang Banxian was resting in the chicken feather shop.

What is a chicken feather shop? A chicken feather shop is a cheap, humble shop where people are so poor that they use chicken feathers to keep warm.

This kind of hotel had no bedding, only a large bunk bed with a horizontal board hung above it, and the board was covered with chicken feathers.

Every night, the poor people lay on the big bunk bed. The shop assistant would loosen the rope and put up the wooden board covered with chicken feathers on top, which became their quilt.

Jiang Banxian is the fortune teller of Jiangbei. He has always been rich, so he shouldn't live in such a poor little inn.

But there is no way, people always have the bad luck of having to drink cold water and getting food stuck in their teeth!
Just a few days ago, he secretly told fortunes for people behind their backs, but he didn't get what he wanted to know. Instead, he violated the taboo of Jingmen and brought down divine punishment.

In an emergency, he had to take off his clothes and throw them on the tree, using the substitute method to help himself avoid the disaster.

But he forgot that his purse was also on the robe!

Jiang Banxian just felt unlucky, but there was nothing he could do. This was how things were. He was also afraid of offending the masters, so he had to leave Tianjin overnight and rush all the way to the capital.

The capital city is a big place, and it is where all the fortunes of the dynasty gather. No ordinary people dare to cause trouble here. As long as you arrive in the capital city, you will be completely safe!
However, as soon as he arrived in the capital, he discovered something strange. Why did the dragon of national destiny over Luojing become so much thinner?

Weird, really weird.

Jiang Banxian counted with his fingers and saw that dark clouds were gathering in the sky. Moreover, the dark clouds did not go anywhere else, but only a small piece of them covered his head.

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He had never done this before! How could he do it once and then the punishment from heaven would come again?
Are you still being unreasonable?

Jiang Banxian took off the only coat he had left on his body, and then threw away the white mole on his face with a painful look. When the sound of lightning and thunder sounded behind him, he was left with only two copper coins on his body.

It just so happened that outside Luojing City, the price of staying in a chicken feather shop was only two copper coins.

Lying on the big bunk bed, Jiang Banxian tossed and turned but couldn't fall asleep.

The poor laborers around were snoring so loudly that it made people feel annoyed.

OK! Let’s go out for a walk!
After leaving the shop, Jiang Banxian staggered into the yard. The moon was very round tonight and the dog in the backyard was barking.

Jiang Banxian breathed in the fresh air, looked up and began to observe the stars at night.

As a fortune teller, this is the only hobby he has.

As I watched, I suddenly saw a black and white light spot in the sky getting closer and closer. As it fell, it continued to expand and change, and finally a dazzling white light appeared.

When Jiang Banxian was wondering what kind of astrological sign this was, the white light suddenly tore into white thunder and fell towards him!

Oh no! No!
Jiang Banxian turned around and ran wildly, and the next moment white thunder fell to the ground.

The chicken feather shop suddenly became as bright as day, and the sleeping coolies rushed out in a hurry. When they arrived at the yard, they only saw a charred mark on the ground in the middle of the yard, and a few scattered chicken feathers.

"What happened? Who set off the firecrackers?"

"Why do I feel like there's thunder?"

"Where did the thunder come from when the sky is full of stars?"

Everyone was discussing this when a naked middle-aged man suddenly emerged from the chicken coop in the yard.

"I was wondering where this bolt from the blue came from. It turns out you, an ugly guy, are ruining the chickens in my shop!"

When the guests staying in the hotel heard what the waiter said, they immediately came to their senses.

It turns out that this man was obsessed with sex and did something so shameful that even God couldn't help but send down thunder!

In the chicken coop, Jiang Banxian's face turned red.

He didn't even tell fortunes once this time, so why was he struck by lightning?
Isn't this obviously bullying honest people?

(End of this chapter)