It was more than half a month ago, when Zhou Shi was still in the Yinhun Inn of Zhoujiadian, he entertained a mountain guest named Wang Zhuang. He was poisoned by bloody ginseng and died in the mountains!
Blood ginseng was originally a poison produced in southern Xinjiang. It was transplanted to the mountains near Jiangdu by a poison master and finally disposed of by Zhou Shi.
"After your ginseng planting was discovered, how did the clan deal with it?"
"As the leader... I was severely punished as the main criminal and thrown into the river... The land we opened up was confiscated..."
"Where are those ginseng?"
"I don't know...it should have been destroyed..."
No, when I think about it carefully, the blood ginseng I saw was already quite mature, which made me mistakenly think it was a wild ginseng that was more than ten years old. But Wang Zhuang knows the situation in the mountains very well. There is such a treasure that has grown over time in the mountains. How did he do it before?
Do you know?
Zhou Shi had a guess: the blood ginseng discovered by Wang Zhuang was transplanted from Wei Yuan!
He gave the seedlings he got from southern Xinjiang to the Wei family and asked them to cultivate them secretly. However, they were discovered by the Huo family two years later and had to be transferred to Jiangdu. However, they were still destroyed by the rogues...
"Let me ask you, when was it that you were thrown into the river?"
Perhaps because the memory of the resentful spirit was incomplete, Wei Yuan raised his head blankly, was silent for a while, and said:
"That day, it was a full moon..."
The fifteenth day of this month has not come yet. If it were the fifteenth day of last month, then it would be a few days before Wang Zhuang discovered the blood ginseng, which would be enough time for the poison master to transplant the blood ginseng. The time matches!
"You have a pearl in your mouth, what's going on?"
"The dead man holds beads in his mouth...the tradition of the Fire family..."
"You remain motionless in the river. What grievances are there that are difficult to resolve?"
"I...I..."
The yin fire swayed, and the shadow on Wei Yuan's face disappeared, revealing two holes with blood and tears.
"I was wrong...I harmed my people...I'm sorry for them..."
The dark wind rose again in the room, and Wei Yuan's body became distorted, and his voice hurt people's eardrums.
Zhou Shi clutched Duke Hu tightly, ready to throw it onto the corpse at any time to scatter the resentful spirit.
"Don't get excited yet. I can help you. Tell you your birthday."
Three times five divides two, four times five makes one.
Life and death are determined by fate, and grudges must be repaid in person.
"The Yang life span is forty-nine, and the remaining life span is...zero. It seems that this calamity is inevitable in his life. There is no way he can return to Yang."
Zhou Shi carried the iron abacus behind his back and said, "I can temporarily replace your human soul and let you entrust dreams to someone. You decide who to choose."
Borrowing souls to entrust dreams, this is also the unique skill of the walker.
Yin souls only have earth souls, and walkers can temporarily "lend" their human souls to the Yin soul, allowing it to move freely and come into contact with living people. But it can only be felt by ordinary people in dreams.
"I...I have thought about it...please..."
Zhou Shi sat down cross-legged, placed the iron abacus across his knees, closed his eyes, and fiddled with it a few times, feeling as if his consciousness had been pulled out of his body.
He "saw" himself flying out of the morgue, upstream along the river, and into the mountains.
A village can be faintly seen next to the tributary flowing out of the mountain. It seems that this is where the Huo family members live.
Zhou Shi's perspective is completely controlled by Wei Yuan, and it is difficult to observe the surrounding terrain, but he still tries to keep the scenery along the way in mind.
Wei Yuan aimed at one of the buildings and dived down.
In the wooden hut, a white-haired old man was sleeping. It was obvious that he was not sleeping soundly, and his mouth opened and closed, as if he was snoring or talking in his sleep.
Wei Yuan did not hesitate and let the human soul borrowed from Zhou Shi merge with the old man's three souls——
Under the starry sky, there are endless wheat fields. The evening wind blows, setting off a golden wave.
An old man stood not far away, looking up at the stars.
"The patriarch..."
The old man turned his head and spotted Wei Yuan.
"Ayuan? How did you..."
His long white eyebrows flew up and down. He lowered his voice and said viciously: "What are you doing here, a sinner? Do you want to take my life?"
Wei Yuan rushed over and fell to his knees with a plop.
"Daddy, I know I was wrong, daddy..."
The old man's hands trembled, but he did not touch Wei Yuan.
"Oh, you little bastard..."
My vision gradually blurred, and I was about to wake up from my dream.
Like a sap, Zhou Shi suddenly woke up and found himself in a morgue, with the flames of Huozhezi only the size of red beans.
"Wei Yuan is gone...Fortunately, this guy's resentment is not that serious and can be easily resolved."
A bead on the iron abacus rotated, and the reward of this dead account arrived.
There was a dull pain in his temples. He rested for a while, then slowly stood up, put away the fire certificate, and went out to find Fu Yujiang.
Let's wait until we get back to Fengde Building to see the rewards. After all, this is someone else's territory.
"Oh, okay?"
"The enmity is over."
"As expected of a walk-on! Come on, this is yours."
Fu Yujiang handed Zhou Shi a grilled fish skewered on wooden sticks.
"This is the fish I just caught in the river, while it's still hot."
Zhou Shi took the grilled fish with scalding skin, blew it for a while, and then carefully tore off a small piece of fish skin. Immediately, the aroma billowed in his mouth, and even the breath had a smoky aroma.
Delicious... fresh fish is really incomparable to dead fish.
He sat down by the fire and told Wei Yuan's story while warming himself. Of course, he did not say that he knew what medicinal materials the Wei family grew.
"Mr. Mo said that people's anger and resentment will emerge from the seven orifices. I guess the pearl was held in his mouth and absorbed a lot of resentment, so it glowed."
"That's right, hehe, that's a treasure." Fu Yujiang said with a smile, "How about you give me this pearl for fifty taels?"
"You were the one who fished out the body, so why am I so embarrassed..."
"You're welcome, you're welcome. Let's see each other more often..."
Fu Yujiang insisted on giving money, but Zhou Shi gave in a few times and finally agreed.
Taking this opportunity, he also wanted to know more about things on the river.
"Brother Fu, I think everyone in the Qinglong Gang respects you."
"Who is trying to make a living on the river and won't help us collect the corpses? If anything happens to them, they will have to rely on us to collect the corpses."
"What's your relationship with the fishing boats? I want to know where those fishing boats unload their cargo and how they sell the fish to the market."
Fu Yujiang smiled and said: "Why, Fengdelou has already set his sights on fish? Unfortunately, if you want to rely on connections to collect fish, I'm afraid there is no chance."
"How to say?"
"Not to mention my relationship with the fishermen, how much fish can your Fengde Tower eat? They will not be willing to provide you with fish unless you are willing to pay much higher than the market price. The aquatic products of the entire Jiangdu
You have to trade in the fish market, so you should go find fish somewhere."
It seems that the plan to reach a private deal with the fishermen has been ruined.
"But I heard that the water in this fish market is very deep..."
"Indeed, the fish market will give priority to supplying good products to large restaurants like Wangjianglou. What can be put up for sale are actually defective products, and restaurants that have not dealt with the Baitiao Gang will definitely be slaughtered."<
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"The Baitiao Gang is the boss behind the fish market, right?" Zhou Shi heard customers talk about this organization.
"Yes. They have occupied the fish market for many years, forcing all fishermen who want to sell their catch in Jiangdu to deliver their goods to the fish market, and then take a commission from it. If a restaurant wants to buy good fish, it must first pass their test.