Shopkeeper and God

Said someone who was in the dark.However, no one answered, and only a sticky silence flowed in the courtyard.

Lu Xing smiled and walked into the house.On the contrary, it was Baochen who looked at the gate of the courtyard a few more times before following Lu Xing inside.The area of ​​this Chinese-style house is not small, and the various corridors and courtyards are winding and deep.Flowers, plants and clear springs are decorated quite artistically, and every step and every scene is a garden-like delicacy.It's just that the night is dark now, and there is no light or fire in the courtyard, it seems that a layer of dark blue frost has formed on the grass, trees, bricks and tiles.Although it looks comfortable, the whole house seems to be solidified with a death-like depth.

This is clearly not a friendly place.Baochen looked at Lu Xing's back, his light-colored gown seemed to be dyed with dark blue dead silence.He looked at it for a while, probably because Lu Xing felt his too focused gaze, couldn't help but look back at him, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Baochen looked at the clarity in Lu Xing's eyes, and asked, "Who do you think would do this?"

Lu Xing thought for a moment, shrugged his shoulders, and said with a relaxed smile, "Naturally, the one who caused trouble for Qi Xie."

"Looking for trouble? Do you know who it is?" Baochen only knew that Qi Xie was opening a shop for monsters, but never thought that there were monsters who would cause trouble for Qi Xie.

"Of course I don't know who it is, but some guys just like to make trouble for Qi Xie." Lu Xing said that he was used to it, and then bet with Bao Chen jokingly: "Do you believe it or not? Isn’t it the mastermind behind the scenes? I guess, that guy’s goal should be to get the ink painting, and the green clam is just a means for him to use.”

"Then we..." Baochen frowned.

"I can't find that guy. But—" Lu Xing smiled again, "He should be hiding somewhere in this house, and then watching our every move. In fact, there should be two reasons for us to come here. One purpose. First, to see if the money can be returned; second, to ask Qing Chi about that guy." After Lu Xing finished speaking, he continued to walk forward.Baochen pondered for a while, then chased after him and said, "This kind of thing is not easy, right?"

Lu Xing looked at him and smiled, and said, "Of course it would be best if it could be simple, but I think we can go there and have a look now." Following Lu Xing's words, Bao Chen realized that the corner of the corridor in front was There is a candle in a house, which seems to be the only light of life in this dark blue dead world.

"That's—" Bao Chen had vaguely guessed something.

"Well, it's the person we're looking for." Lu Xing walked forward as he said that, not caring whether the owner of the room would care, he pushed the door and walked in while saying: "The owner of Xia Qixie, Lu Xing, how many people are there?" Please forgive me for bothering you." However, as soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to be startled by something in the room, took a small step back, and couldn't help but raise his hand to cover his surprised expression.

But from his performance, he didn't see that something dangerous would happen, Baochen was half relieved, and when he also entered the room, he was also shocked by the scene in the room and gasped.

The room was extremely empty but was almost filled with tall seven-branch candlesticks. Thin veils hung from the extremely high beams. They were dyed with warm colors by the fire, as if they would be burned out of thin air.In the center surrounded by the candlesticks, there was only a lonely crib, and beside the bed stood a brightly dressed woman who was shaking the crib and humming a little song, as if coaxing the baby in the crib to fall asleep early.However, no matter whether it was Lu Xing or Baochen, they didn't see any babies in the crib. It was just stuffed with banknotes indiscriminately, and those that couldn't fit even fell to the ground. There was also a thick layer beside the crib. .

There is no doubt that the money should be the one that was missing in the suitcase.

Baochen took half a step forward, but was restrained by Lu Xing's raised hand.The two of them had stood for so long, but the woman beside the crib hadn't noticed their existence, which was obviously not an unusual situation.Lu Xing looked at her expression again, and then said again: "The owner of Qixie, Lu Xing, I'm bothering you."

Lu Xing spoke more clearly this time, and the woman obviously heard it too. Her humming stopped, and her body became inexplicably stiff.She gradually opened her eyes wide and raised her head to look at Lu Xing in a slow and weird manner. The expression on her face was somewhere between madness and blankness, which sent chills down the spine.

However, Lu Xing was not afraid. Instead, he bowed to the woman and called out respectfully, "Madam".

The expression on the woman's face softened a little, and then she trembled her chapped lips and said: "Qi Xie, Qi Xie... I don't have it, I haven't looked for you... You, what are you doing here?" He was a little wary He lowered his body down and made a gesture of protecting those banknotes.

"Madam has never entrusted me to do anything, but someone entrusted me to find Madam. I wonder if Madam knows about these banknotes?" Lu Xing said straight to the point, "Someone used these banknotes to buy money from the Jinchan family. A neat treasure, then the banknotes disappeared, and the items have been sold. The Jinchan family ran out of money, so they had to entrust it to me. I found that these banknotes were stained with the blood of green gnats, so I came here. Madam But what can you remember?"

The woman didn't react very much after hearing Lu Xing's words, but her eyes widened again, and she muttered: "What blood? Whose blood? What's wrong? My child! What's wrong with my child! Where do you want to take my child!?" As she spoke, she suddenly became nervous, and suddenly picked up a ball of banknotes from the crib, stepped back half a step and fell to the ground, nervously twisting her body Curled up into a ball, even holding on to the banknotes in his arms.

Seeing her like this, Lu Xing bit his lips, resisting the urge to go up to help her up, and heard her tremblingly say: "They took my child away and said they would return it in a few days But where did they take my child? They won't let me out, I want to see my child, my child... This is my child, my child is back, isn't my child back... Where is my child..." The woman panicked, looking around the brightly lit room, the money in her arms spilled out in large swaths.

Lu Xing was silent for a while, before finally speaking, his voice was a little low and said: "Madam, please forgive me. Your child is probably already gone."

The woman glared at Lu Xing instantly, her eyes were terrified and sad.Her lips twitched, and it took a long time before she screamed: "You nonsense! My child! My child is clearly here...my child..." As if to prove something, she randomly grabbed a few handfuls of banknotes and held them in her arms. In his arms, tears gradually flowed from his wide-open eyes.She began to cry gradually, her voice hoarse and broken.She crawled to the crib and curled up, desperate as if the sky was falling.

Lu Xing closed his eyes, calmed down and said, "I hope Madam will show her condolences, but if Madam asks, I will help Madam find out the murderer and give Madam an explanation."

The weeping woman seemed to wake up a little after hearing his words. He looked at Lu Xing suspiciously, and said, "You? Can you help me?"

"Exactly. I am the owner of Qi Xie. Qi Xie can accept the commission from monsters. As long as Madam entrusts me, I will definitely give Madam an explanation." Lu Xing emphasized again.This time his voice was more sincere.The woman tilted her head, as if thinking about the feasibility of this matter, but after a while, she seemed to think of something, and suddenly stood up and said angrily: "Are you also here to take my child away! No! I won't do it again Hand him over to anyone! Get lost! No one is allowed to take my child away!" The woman suddenly became hysterical, and she waved her hand violently, knocking over the candlestick beside her.Burning candles were poured into the crib full of banknotes, and the whole bed instantly burst into flames.

The woman screamed frantically, and she threw herself into the fire desperately to hold as many banknotes as possible in her arms.Lu Xing never imagined that his words would cause the woman to overreact. He instinctively wanted to go forward to help the woman, but was suddenly pulled by Bao Chen behind him. In the blink of an eye, he saw a burning veil The belt fell to his feet.It turned out that the high flames from the crib had ignited the hanging tulle. Dry textiles are the best combustibles. In an instant, the whole room was filled with heat and thick smoke.

The woman was still screaming crazily, not knowing whether it was from the burning pain or the mental breakdown from the separation of mother and child.Her figure distorted by the flames frantically ran to another exit of the room, but knocked over more candlesticks along the way, making the fire more ferocious.Lu Xing was already choked by the smoke and couldn't speak, and was dragged by Bao Chen to reluctantly run out of the room.Within a few seconds of the two running out, the house was completely surrounded by flames, in a dead dark blue, as if from the karmic fire from the other side.

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The flames burned like a tornado, involving more wooden buildings around them, and the flames surrounded the two of them in an instant.The high temperature and thick smoke seemed to explode on the dry skin. Lu Xing had just been burned by the thick smoke, and he only felt that coughing was burning.Baochen could see that Lu Xing clearly wanted to find the woman, so he whispered "Let's go" in a low voice, intending to drag him around to the side where the fire hadn't yet been reached.Unexpectedly, the two of them had just run a few steps when a starlight flashed in the air like arrows, and in the blink of an eye dozens of arrows were shot at them overwhelmingly.

Baochen reacted quickly, and immediately twisted the golden light and swiped down in the air