Picking up a greedy snake [Liao Zhai]

Chapter 4 Sapphire Smoke

The man glanced at Gu Huai who was lying on his back unconscious on the ground, and picked up the sharpened knife again.The blade was polished smooth and sharp, and the candlelight shone brightly on it.

He slid the blade into the collar of Gu Huai's single clothes, and cut open his front with a "squeak", revealing a white chest.

The blade sliced ​​across his chest, hitting just below his collarbone.

"It can be seen that you are also a kind person. Don't blame me. You can join a good family in the next life..." The man sighed heavily, and slightly exerted force on the hand holding the knife. String of blood beads.

He closed his eyes, raised his knife and stabbed at Gu Huai fiercely.

Suddenly, there was a strange laughter behind him.

The man trembled all over, and the hand holding the knife froze in mid-air.

"Hahahaha, hee hee hee hee..."

The laughter was lingering and ethereal, full of joy, but listening carefully, it made one's scalp tingle.

"Who is it? Don't pretend to be a ghost!" The man raised his knife and pointed at the air, shouting in a rough voice.

"Hehehe, hehehe..."

The laughter seemed to be playing hide-and-seek with the man, surrounding him.The man held the knife and turned around in a circle, but he couldn't tell where the laughter came from.

He simply ignored the laughter, and pointed the blade at Gu Huai again.

At this time, several children's skins hanging on the wall suddenly flew up unsteadily, and rushed towards the man.The man was horrified, screaming and slashing at the few pieces of human skin.

"Hey hey, give me back my heart, give me back my heart..." Those pieces of human skin surrounded the man in the center, flying around him, and couldn't help it while talking. Laughing like that.

When the woman and the girl heard the voice, they also hurried in.When they saw the scene inside the house, they all looked ashen and terrified.The girl exclaimed, rolled her eyes and passed out.The woman hugged her quickly, and the two of them slumped and sat on the ground weakly.

The few human skins in the air suddenly turned and flew towards the girl lying in the arms of the mother. The woman held the girl tightly in her arms, and let the skin ghost's sharp claws scratch her back dripping with blood.

Seeing this scene, the man uttered a deafening roar. With red eyes, he rushed towards those human skins, protecting them in front of the mother and daughter, chopping randomly.

"Give me my heart back, give me my heart back...hahahaha..."

Not long after, the man's whole body was covered with blood spots, and the bones could be seen deep.

The few pieces of human skin trembled in the air, they all rushed towards the man, drew out a long sharp claw, and dug down towards the man's chest.

"Stop!" There was a loud shout, and a green light blocked the man's chest. With a sound of "铛", several human skin ghosts were shocked and flew backwards.

Three dazzling rays of light flashed and fell to the ground, turning into three people.

One was dressed in green and brocade robes, with a long body and a handsome appearance. It was Erqing, the green snake who had turned into a human form.

The other two, one black and one white, were tall and slender, with hooked noses, and chains that "jingling, jingling, jingling" in their hands.

Gu Huai lay lifeless on the ground, his hair was untied, and his black hair was scattered all over the ground in a mess. The ground beside him was smeared with blood, and the front was cut, revealing a white chest covered with a thin layer of muscle.Erqing glanced at him, his thick black and straight eyebrows furrowed in displeasure.

"You... who are you?" The man looked at his wife and daughter behind him, and then turned to look at the three people who appeared suddenly with a murderous look, and the strength of the knife in his hand tightened a bit.

The white man flipped his long sleeves and rolled out a scroll.

"Wang Erya, Qian Gousheng, Sun Erdan, Zhang Tiezhu," the white man stretched out the scroll, and read aloud with a smile on his face, "You four, why did you escape from the underworld and return to the world?"

The four human skins floating not far away suddenly fell weightlessly to the ground, and four transparent child-like ghosts floated out of them.

"My lord, I'm so wronged!" The four ghosts fell to their knees one after another, and a boy with a bun tied his fists and cried childishly to the black and white ghost messenger, "I'm passing through Heilonggang with my mother. , went to Yangzhou. Passed by here, stayed here, but was gouged out by this unscrupulous shopkeeper, and died on the spot. The young man was only just in the age of Huangkou, so I really don’t want to be reconciled!"

"Then even if you escape back to the world, you won't be able to pay back Yang, so what's the use?"

The four ghosts suddenly turned their heads to look at the owner's family in unison, with hatred shining in their immature eyes: "We want him to pay for his life!"

"Yes, pay for your life!"

"Kill their family!"

"Peel the skin and dissect the heart!"

The four children sprang up from the ground, trying to pounce on them again and tear the owner's family to pieces.

"Presumptuous, don't be rude!" The white ghost scolded sharply.I saw him throwing the chains in his hand to the four children, and the four ghosts were immediately tied into a thin strip, and there was no movement.

The shopkeeper and proprietress were so frightened that their faces turned pale, the blood on their lips faded, and they were trembling violently.

The girl lying in her mother's arms woke up slowly, she rubbed her eyes, and sat up leaning on her mother's body.Seeing two ghost messengers, one black and one white, in front of him, he screamed in fright.

"Li Sheng," the white ghost officer said to the family of three, "You killed innocent people indiscriminately, killing nearly a hundred people for nothing, and messing up the life and death records of the underworld. What should you do?"

The man stopped trembling, his plump lips moved, and he said slowly: "I know that I have committed a heinous crime, and all the crimes will be borne by me."

"Father!" The girl cried and threw herself into Li Sheng's arms.

"Ninny," Li Sheng patted his daughter's back lightly, with a gentle tone that didn't match his figure, "These things have nothing to do with you. After daddy is gone, you should take care of your illness..."

"No...it's all my fault..." The girl looked up at her father's face, crying uncontrollably.

Li Sheng closed his eyes, the flesh on his face trembled in pain, and he said softly, "I don't blame you, I don't blame you..."

The black and white ghost messenger stepped forward, put an iron chain around Li Sheng's neck, and pulled him up.

The girl wanted to pull her father, but her feet got caught and she fell back heavily.

The black and white ghost messenger nodded to Er Qing and said, "Third Young Master, we will take our leave now."

Er Qing nodded, and hummed the word "um" from his nasal cavity.

The black and white ghost messenger dragged Li Sheng away, carrying the four ghosts tied into a strip.Li Sheng's eyes turned red from holding back, his small mung bean-like eyes opened wide, as if they were about to burst out of their sockets.

The girl watched her father being taken away, and fell down crying in her mother's arms. Her legs were so weak that she didn't even have the strength to stand up again.

Erqing ignored the crying mother and daughter, walked straight to the unconscious Gu Huai, knelt down, grabbed him by the collar, and pulled him into his arms.

Erqing's spotless sleeves were stained with blood, and he frowned in disgust.He hates all filth, including human blood.

He opened the palm that supported Gu Huai's head, and seeing the bright red above, complex emotions flashed in his eyes.

At this moment, an embarrassing "gulu" sounded from Erqing's belly.He is hungry and he needs food.After being in human form for so long, his physical strength is almost exhausted.After a while, it will turn into a snake again.

The person in his arms can't die yet, if he dies, there will be no one to feed the snake-shaped self.Erqing thought so.

At least not yet.

He slowly raised one hand, bringing up a string of bamboo-green light particles.The slender five fingers turned in the air, twisting the light particles into a spiral shape, and slowly pushing them into the wound on the back of Gu Huai's head.

The wound on the scalp slowly heals as the light particles disappear.

Erqing pulled Gu Huai's torn clothes, put one hand under his armpit and the other through his leg, and gently picked him up.As soon as he took a step, he was blocked by a figure flying up.

"Let my father go, okay?" The girl's long and narrow eyes were swollen, her hair was disheveled, and her body was so thin that it seemed that it would turn into a wisp of green smoke and drift away in the next moment.

"Ninny..." The woman sat aside and murmured as she looked at her daughter with tears in her eyes.

Erqing gave her a sideways look, didn't bother to pay attention, and wanted to go around her, but the girl went around to Erqing again and blocked him.

"Let my father go, and I will pay you with my life."

Erqing said impatiently: "Your grievances have nothing to do with me, if you continue to entangle like this, don't blame me for being rude to you."

The girl clenched her teeth, and the mandible, which was particularly protruding because of her thinness, moved.Suddenly, she picked up the long knife on the ground that was discarded by her father and plunged it straight into her chest.

"I... I will... give you my heart... back!" The girl tremblingly pulled the knife stuck in her chest, blood splashed everywhere, and the whole world seemed to turn red, "Forgive my father..."

Her voice gradually weakened, and in the end, her whole body fell straight into a pool of dark red blood as if being emptied.

Er Qing hugged Gu Huai and flashed back, he only felt that the blood splattered out was dirty.

"Ah! Girl!" The woman's thin body burst into a heart-piercing cry.She stumbled towards her daughter's body, howling like crazy.

Erqing felt his brain hurt from being quarreled by this woman, and didn't want to stay here for a moment, so he hugged Gu Huai and walked away at a faster pace.

When Fuan woke up from the coma, he felt sore all over his body, and his head was so chaotic that he couldn't remember anything.It took a long time before I remembered that I was fainted by a ghost.

He looked around in panic and found that Gu Huai could not be found anywhere, he was terrified, his young master has become the belly of that female ghost, right?

Just when he was about to cry, a light green figure appeared outside the door, holding an unconscious man in his arms, and that man was Gu Huai.

Fu'an greeted him with a cry of surprise, and helped the green-robed man carry Gu Huai to the bed.Touching Gu Huai's forehead, he asked in fear, "What's wrong with my young master? How could there be so much blood? There is no wound."

"It's okay, I'll wake up in a while."

As soon as the words fell, Gu Huai's fan-like eyelashes moved, and they fanned up, opening a pair of black and white eyes.

He rubbed his eyes, got used to the sudden light, saw a handsome strange man standing in front of him, was slightly taken aback, tilted his head unconsciously, and asked, "Fu'an, this is..."

"Why, don't you know each other?" Fu'an looked at Gu Huai suspiciously, then at the man in green robe, "This young master sent you back just now."

Gu Huai's consciousness was a little trance, he shook his head, and the memory slowly came back to his brain.He remembered that he was almost cut open by the owner of this black shop, and after that, he didn't know anything.

Now, he is still alive and well, so to speak, it is the strange man in front of him who saved him.

He stood up on the bed, cupped his hands at the man and said, "Thank you for saving my life, my lord. My name is Gu Huai, and my name is Zihong. I don't know your surname?"

The man raised his lips as plump as petals, and his voice was mellow and elegant: "Sapphire smoke."