Chapter 476 Misstep: a metaphor for making a serious mistake or (thought and behavior) going bad
Fang Lansheng raised his voice to cover up his guilty conscience, and walked quickly towards the outside of the courtyard, and just a few steps away, he saw a gray shadow swaying in front of him from behind, which made him take half a step back, and said dejectedly: "I really don't know how big brother Zhou is. Where did he go, but I saw him in Yecheng near Gusu, so he must have gone east."
"I didn't ask this." Baili Tusu shook his head, looked at Fang Lansheng and said, "A gentleman keeps his word. We agreed to teach you the art of star accumulation, so you can tell me about Shao Gong. You have learned the technique, it's time to tell me about Shao Gong."
"This. Me." Fang Lansheng averted his eyes with some guilt, his brain was running fast, thinking about how to deal with it.
Baili Tusu felt something was wrong, and reminded: "Didn't you say that Shaogong wrote a letter? What about the letter?"
"Xinxin. Believe me and throw it away after reading it?" Fang Lansheng saw that Baili Tusu's expression became a little dissatisfied, and quickly added: "I'll ask my second sister in a while, she must know."
"You are lying to me." Baili Tusu frowned slightly and said angrily.
Seeing Baili Tusu leave angrily, Fang Lansheng wanted to take two steps forward to persuade him, but he accidentally touched the sword bag on his back. Baili Tusu felt the evil spirit of Fenji that was about to be activated, and waved his hand to cut off the evil spirit. At the same time, Fang Lansheng was pushed back a few steps.
The stone passing by was unknown, so he hurriedly stepped forward to support the young master, and reprimanded him: "It's against you, how dare you hit the young master?"
"Stop talking, go back."
Fang Lansheng didn't expect Baili Tusu to react so violently. He originally planned to apologize, but seeing Baili Tusu's attitude, he became angry, glared at the stone angrily, and walked towards his yard.
The two walked away, and when Baili Tusu was about to go back to his room, he suddenly saw Fang Lansheng's Qingyu Sinanpei fall to the ground.
Maybe it was knocked down subconsciously just now. Baili Tusu wanted to go and return him, but saw the maid next to Fang Ruqin coming, saying that the lady invited him to go over.
Baili Tusu was actually still sulking with Fang Lansheng in his heart, so he decided to wait until he saw Fang Ruqin before returning the jade pendant, but he didn't know that this delay was mistaken by Fang's servants for stealing the jade pendant and planning to run away.
Back then in Tianxing Pavilion, he was wronged by his fellow sect to kill Zhaolin, and now he is wronged again, the grievance and anger surged endlessly, as if he saw Zhaolin's body lying in a pool of blood, and Lingduan's reprimands of suspicion and rejection.
After leaving Fang's house, Baili Tusu forcibly suppressed the evil spirit of Fen Ji and finally passed out on the side of the road, and was taken home by the town's catcher Wu to recuperate.
Fang's house won't be going, but he still wants to wait for Ouyang Shaogong to come back, so he stays with Butcher Wu temporarily, and helps investigate the case to earn some rewards.
Zhou Ji has been isolated from the world in the sea of thunder clouds for the past two years, and he doesn't know what happened to Tianyong City. The thunder mark left on Qiu Xinrui and Miss Huashang has not been activated, which means that the seemingly unchanged Things have been quietly changing.
It turned into a flying rainbow and landed on Qinchuan Town, Zhou Ji suddenly smelled a ghostly aura floating from a distance.
Qinchuan is an outstanding person, and there should be no monsters. Zhou Ji was curious and followed the remaining traces of monsters to find it. He walked through the market and came to a deserted alleyway. Looking up, the camphor tree branches in the open space in the distance The leaves are lush, and a bright orange color appears and disappears between the shadowy branches and leaves. When you get closer, you can see a little girl in an orange blouse and puffy trousers, lying listlessly on the branch and taking a nap.
"I'm so hungry"
"I'm so hungry"
"Ouch~!!"
Unintentionally, the little girl caught a glimpse of a strange man standing under the tree out of the corner of her eye. In a panic, she lost her balance and fell from the branch with a snap.
Clearly close at hand, Zhou Ji only needs to reach out to receive it, but he still stands with his hands behind his back, lest he avoid it.
Crack~!
The little girl fell headfirst to the ground, face first, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Zhou Ji stepped back half a step and waved his sleeves. After the dust cleared, he looked down at the orange-clothed **** pia who was on the ground, and said as usual, "Did you stumble?"
"Stumbled."
The orange-clothed girl seemed to be in pain from the fall. She lay on the ground without lifting her head, and said while suppressing her resentment.
Zhou Ji raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, nodded and said: "Well, it seems that I have indeed made a mistake."
"If you stumble, you stumble, why am I lying to you?" The orange-clothed girl finally broke out, got up in disgrace, and said out of control, "Is it true that if others don't take (get) angry, they will be fooled by others? That's how it is. I'm fine up there, why did you let me fall?"
Zhou Ji shook his head when he saw her making trouble out of no reason, "Isn't it because you climbed so high by yourself that you couldn't sleep well and stumbled? How can you blame others?"
The girl in orange said angrily: "Then you just watch from the side and don't give me a hand? Let me land smoothly?"
"You have too much evil spirit, I'm afraid of getting bad luck." Zhou Ji wrote lightly.
"Yao Yaoqi?" The orange-clothed girl paused for a moment, broke away from the hysterical state, and said with a wary face: "How do you know?"
"Nine-tailed spirit fox blood, half-human, half-demon body, you are walking in the mundane world without any disguise, are you not afraid to meet some monks and be "killed demons and demons"?"
Zhou Ji revealed the other party's identity with a calm face. The girl in orange clothes didn't care about tidying up her appearance, and turned her hand to call out the magic weapon, the bird fan, and bared her teeth at Zhou Ji as if she was facing a formidable enemy. "Who the **** are you?"
"Just a passerby." Zhou Ji said indifferently.
The girl in orange clothes said vigilantly: "Then you are here to catch me?"
Zhou Ji said casually: "If you harm others, someone will catch you."
"I, I didn't harm anyone!" Xiangling put away the fire bird fan and said anxiously, "My name is Xiangling, I'm here to find someone, and I haven't harmed anyone."
Sure enough, it was her.
Zhou Ji smiled and didn't respond, just passed her and walked towards the other side of the street.
Xiang Ling breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Zhou Ji hadn't made a move, she bared her teeth viciously at him, turned around and jumped onto the roof next to her in her original form, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"Hey~ Have you heard? Another girl was fainted by a flower picker last night."
"You mean Liu Yuanwai's house in Hexi, right?"
"No~ You've got news from the day before yesterday. I'm talking about Boss Zhang Dong's daughter."
"Hey, this flower picker is a ghost, and he has been harming several girls in a row these few days."
"Who says no? But, I heard that a strange person came here not long ago, so maybe he is the flower picker."
Before entering the door, Zhou Ji heard that the content of their chat was related to the recent flower pickers. Seeing a customer coming, a fat man with a round body exuding a faint evil spirit came out of the shop and greeted him, "Guest officer, please , we have the camellia Jianercui newly picked last month, how about some for the guest officer?"
The guests at the table next to him saw Zhou Ji's expressionless face, combined with the "weird person" just mentioned, they looked at each other and whispered: "Is this the person you are talking about? Seeing that he is handsome and unrestrained, he doesn't look like picking flowers." thief?"
The little fat man heard the whispers of the guests at that table, passed by with a teapot, and deliberately raised his voice, "Master, you haven't returned to Qinchuan for two or three years, right?"
"You know me?" Zhou Ji asked in surprise.
"Hey~ the whole of Qinchuan, ah no, there is nothing in this rivers and lakes that I, Cha Xiaoguai, don't know~" Cha Xiaoguai proudly showed off.
"Then do you know where the flower picker is?"
A calm and plain familiar voice came from behind, Zhou Ji turned around to look at Baili Tusu who was walking, and said with a smile: "Tu Su, long time no see."
"Zhou Yi?" Baili Tusu temporarily stayed at Wu Tutou's house, and wanted to catch the flower picker in exchange for some rewards, but unexpectedly met Zhou Ji here.
Meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign land, no matter how introverted Baili Tusu's personality is, after wandering alone for so long, when he met an old acquaintance, his clear and clean eyes couldn't help showing a slight wave, "Why are you here?"
"Three years of wandering, I wanted to go back to Tianyong City to visit everyone. I passed by Qinchuan to settle down and see my old friends." Zhou Ji looked Baili Tusu up and down, and said with a smile: "But Tusu, are you going down the mountain to practice? "
"." Baili Tu Su didn't talk much at first, and didn't want to lie against his heart, so he fell silent.
Seeing that he didn't answer, Zhou Ji didn't press the question any further, and asked instead: "Just now I heard you asked about flower pickers, but are you planning to eliminate harm for the people?"
"Yes." Baili Tusu nodded, looked at Cha Xiaoguai next to him and said, "Since you claim to know half of the sky and everything on the earth, do you have any clues?"
Baili Tusu's flattering tea boy was very useful, so he sat down and said, "There are indeed a lot of rumors about the flower pickers recently, but you haven't paid back the credit you last time?"
"I have no money." Baili Tusu said in a deep voice.
"It doesn't matter if you don't have money, am I the kind of person who is greedy for money?" Cha Xiaoguai glanced at Zhou Ji and winked at Baili Tusu as he spoke.
"What happened to your eyes?" Baili Tusu asked doubtfully.
"Hey, I mean, since you don't have one, you can borrow it from a friend~" Cha Xiaoguai seemed to have completely forgotten what she just said, and lifted the teapot to pour a cup of tea for Zhou Ji, "This young man has a detached temperament and extraordinary clothes. , must be very rich, right?"
"It's okay, it shouldn't be a problem to buy the entire Jiangdu County." Zhou Ji took a sip of tea and smiled.
Baili Tusu acted as if he had never heard of it, and said in a deep voice: "Uncle Wu said, there will be a reward for catching the flower pickers, and I will give it to you when the time comes."
Zhou Ji put down his tea cup and shrugged his shoulders at Cha Xiaoguai.
"You still want to be an empty-handed white wolf?" Cha Xiaoguai touched her chin helplessly, and said tentatively, "Aren't you a sword fairy? When you came out, your teacher didn't let you bring some private magic weapons with you." What kind of demon-revealing mirror, demon-suppressing talisman?"
"A sword and a bell are gone." Baili Tusu said in a deep voice.
"Hey, then give me the bell, and I'll exchange your messages ten times." Cha Xiaoguai's eyes lit up, and he stretched out his hand to signal.
Baili Tusu said unmoved: "No, the bell belongs to my brother too."
"Why are you so stingy? Apart from being worthless, you are worthless. It's useless for me to open the back door for you?" Cha Xiaoguai turned to look at Zhou Ji, and said helplessly, "My lord, why don't you give me the money?" How about you? Seeing that you have been in the Jianghu for many years, you should really know that Jianghu has rules, if no one gives me money, how can I, Bai Xiaosheng, make a living?"
"In this case, I bought the information on the flower picker."
Zhou Ji took out a silver ingot from his sleeve and put it on the table. Baili Tusu hesitated to speak, and said 'thank you' softly.
Cha Xiaoguai held up the silver ingot full of joy, motioned to the two to wait a moment, ran back to the store and found a map of Qinchuan Town, spread it out, and marked for Zhou Ji the houses that had been picked flowers these days.
Zhou Ji glanced at the crime trajectory delineated on the map, raised his eyebrows and said: "This person committed the crime from the west side of Qinchuan, and the trajectory has been moving to the north of the city. As long as there is a normal intelligence arresting yamen servant in the yamen, he should be able to get it." Can you see it?"
"." Cha Xiaoguai was speechless for a while, looked at Baili Tusu, and analyzed to him: "This flower picker commits crimes from house to house, and he only picks those rich families with beautiful women. According to my analysis, his subordinates The target is either the Fang family in the west of the city, or the Sun family in the north of the city. The second young lady of the Fang family is as beautiful as a flower, and the young lady of the Sun family never leaves home. No one knows what she looks like. If you were a flower picker, how would you choose?"
"Hey~ I'm the one who paid the money?" Zhou Ji shook his head helplessly when he saw that Cha Xiaoguai had turned into one-on-one teaching, enjoying Baili Tusu's appearance of being enlightened or thoughtful.
"Second sister, I heard that the flower picker has been haunting frequently recently, in case he bumps into our house. Our family had better take some precautions."
At Fang's house, Fang Lansheng happened to be talking to Fang Ruqin about this.
Fang Ruqin didn't take it seriously and said: "Where did the flower picker come from? If anyone dares to come to our house, let him enter vertically and exit horizontally."
"Hey, don't say that. The world is dangerous. I heard that the flower pickers are haunted. Although our family has some nurses, we don't have any experts. If the flower pickers really come, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with."
Before Fang Lansheng was angry with his second sister, he ran away from home to find Zhou Ji to "travel the rivers and lakes". After going through ups and downs along the way, he was no longer as arrogant as before. He didn't care much when he saw Fang Ruqin, and said seriously, "How about waiting for someday?" Brother Zhou is back, let me ask him to teach you some techniques of cultivating immortals, shall we?"
After running away from home, although Fang Ruqin was still somewhat resistant to Lan Sheng's cultivation of immortality, she was no longer as strong as she was in the past. Seeing that Fang Lansheng was actually caring about herself, she rolled her eyes at him and said with a smile: "I It seems that you are too free, tossing around, thinking about cultivating immortals all day long, why not read more books or take over the family business"
"What's wrong with cultivating immortals? It's still useful to learn something." Fang Lansheng pursed her lips and walked towards the courtyard angrily: "I'm going to cast a spell right now. It's best if the flower pickers don't come. If they do come , you will know if it is useful!"
(end of this chapter)