The sky is getting brighter, and the eastern sky reveals a touch of fish-belly white. The gentle sunshine shines in the courtyard, as if the earth is covered with a layer of broken gold.
Li Shengli woke up slowly and looked confused when he saw the scene around him.
Where am I?
What's wrong with me?
Why does my chest hurt so much?
Li Shengli felt that his internal organs were burning, as if someone had disemboweled him.
"You're awake!"
Qin Jiuge's voice stirred up Li Shengli. When he saw the young master and the housekeeper looking at him eagerly, he almost peed in fear and stammered.
"Young Master... Steward, is there something wrong?"
"Did you know that you turned into a zombie at night and killed several people?" Qin Jiuge asked.
Did I become a zombie?
And killed someone?
Li Shengli was immediately confused!
"Young Master, I'm wronged! How could I kill someone if I'm so good?" Li Shengli cried out, as if he were mourning his heir, with a sad look on his face.
Qin Jiuge told Li Shengli about turning corpses into corpses. After hearing this, Li Shengli's face was full of horror, and a bone-chilling chill enveloped his heart, as if he was in the cold weather.
"Think carefully, have you ever touched something that others haven't touched, or eaten something that others haven't eaten before." Qin Jiuge pointed at Li Shengli and guided Li Shengli's memory.
"No!" Li Shengli said with a bitter look on his face, "I sleep and eat together with other people, how could I come into contact with such evil things..."
Before he finished speaking, a flash of inspiration flashed through Li Shengli's mind, making him look like he suddenly understood.
"If I talk about the things I have eaten alone, it's not that there are none, it's just... it's..."
Seeing that Li Shengli was hesitant and hesitated to speak, Qin Jiuge spoke directly for him.
"It's the tea you stole, right?"
Li Shengli's face suddenly froze and he did not dare to look directly at Qin Jiuge.
"Master, you know this!"
Qin Jiuge nodded and did not hold Li Shengli responsible: "You were the only one who stole tea?"
Li Shengli gritted his teeth and said with a wry smile.
"It's just me!"
"They are all cowards, they don't know how to taste tea."
"Steward, take out all the tea leaves, I want to check them!" Qin Jiuge ordered, and the steward quickly sent someone to move all the tea leaves out of the granary.
Qin Jiuge opened the box, took out a piece of tea, and looked at it carefully.
This is a new tea that was just released this year. It is dark green in color and exudes a light fragrance. The quality is very good. Qin Jiuge checked it several times and found nothing unusual.
Seeing nothing strange, Qin Jiuge simply tasted it and held the tea leaves in his mouth. In an instant, he jumped up.
Corpse spirit!
In his mouth, he clearly felt the corpse energy. Although it was very faint, Qin Jiuge was still aware of it.
These corpse qi come from tea leaves.
"Where did these teas come from?" Qin Jiuge turned to ask the housekeeper.
When the housekeeper saw that these tea leaves were the culprit of Li Shengli's corpse transformation, he quickly took a few steps back, fearing that he would get too close to the tea leaves and turn into a zombie.
"Master, these tea leaves were purchased from a tea merchant in recent days."
"These teas are of good quality. The tea merchant wants to go to Beiyuan and hopes that our grain transport team will take him there, so the price is 30% lower than what is on the market. I was greedy and agreed, but I didn't expect that it would cause such a disaster.
"The butler's face was full of pain and remorse.
"But why do these tea leaves contain corpse energy?"
Qin Jiuge shrugged and had a guess in his mind: "Maybe these tea leaves grew in the cemetery and were exposed to corpse aura for many years, so they became contaminated with corpse aura."
When Li Shengli heard that these were tea leaves picked from the cemetery, his stomach acid kept churning and he almost vomited out his overnight meal.
The businessmen of Jin Dynasty are really merciless!
Even an old man like the housekeeper is impressed.
Qin Jiuge shook his head and said fiercely: "Draw the portrait of that tea merchant and give it to me. I will take it to the Qintian Prison and label him as an evil cultivator. He will be wanted throughout the city."
The housekeeper took the Four Treasures of the Study and began to draw a portrait of the tea merchant.
"Master, can I still be saved?"
"I haven't married yet! I don't want to die!"
Li Shengli burst into tears. If there was a regret medicine in the world, he would never steal tea. Even eating dog feces is better than eating tea. At least eating dog feces will not turn into a zombie.
"Bake more sunshine, don't go to the cemetery, eat something tonic that can replenish your yang energy, and you will be fine after a month of recovery." Qin Jiuge said calmly.
Li Shengli was lucky. The transformation into corpse was not serious. As long as he stopped eating these problematic tea leaves, he could still be saved.
"Thank you, Master!"
"Thank you, Master!"
"I won't eat everything next time!"
"snort!"
"Do you still want to have a next time?"
"I'll fine you half a year's salary!" Qin Jiuge glared at him and said coldly.
After a while, the portrait of the tea merchant was completed.
When Qin Jiuge saw the person in the portrait, his hands shook and he almost tore the portrait apart.
The person the butler drew was actually Chen Qi, whose flesh he wanted to eat and drink his blood.
"Did you draw it correctly?"
"No!"
"Master, I haven't become an old fool yet!" the butler assured.
Click click click!
Qin Jiuge clenched his fists tightly, and his joints collided, making a crisp sound.
No matter how hard you try, you won't be able to find anything, and it won't take any effort at all!
Chen Qi, I finally found you!
"Butler, is he going north with the grain transport team?"
"That's right!"
"That's easy to handle. Send him a message and ask him to come here to discuss the trip north." Qin Jiuge said through gritted teeth.
"Master, I'll do it right away!" The housekeeper hurriedly sent a message to Chen Qi.
Qin Jiuge wanted to tell Zhou Xuan the news, but Zhou Xuan was still at the mass grave. Going back and forth to the mass grave was too time-consuming. For fear of letting Chen Qi escape, Qin Jiuge simply went alone.
Chen Qi himself is nothing to worry about, but the Zi Zhan he manipulates is a big trouble.
In the small wooden house in Guangguang Yin Cave, Chen Qi had arranged five purple zombies, so the number of purple zombies around Chen Qi to protect him would definitely not be less than five, or even ten.
If Qin Jiuge encountered ten ninth-level monsters and ghosts in the wild, he would turn around and run away.
However, Qin Jiuge has no chance of winning if he attacks his home base.
The talisman array is Qin Jiuge's greatest confidence.
The Jiuqu Changhe Formation Talisman Formation can trap even an eighth-grade expert for a cup of tea, let alone a ninth-grade purple zombie.
As long as Chen Qi enters the talisman formation, he will not be able to escape even if he has wings!
Qin Jiuge took out the Jiuqu Changhe Formation talisman and arranged it in the granary. He quickly completed the arrangement of the Jiuqu Changhe Array and waited for Chen Qi to come to the door.