050 “Blessing from Heavenly Official” Chapter 49

☆, Chapter 49 The exquisite dice is only for one person 2

Seeing that he was about to leave, Lang Qianqiu immediately said: “Stop!”

Xie Lian really stopped.Lang Qianqiu gritted his teeth for a while and said: “You… have to give me an explanation.”

Xie Lian said: “What do you want to explain?”

Lang Qianqiu said: “The grievances of the ancestors, the country hates the family, and you hate Yong’an. It’s not that I can’t understand it. But…”

He choked for a while before he could barely continue speaking, and said in a trembling voice: “But the Imperial Master, my father, the Queen, and I, are not good to the remnants of the Xianle Kingdom? I am good friends with many Xianle people, and I, I have always tried my best to protect them.”

Everything he said was true.

After Xianle was destroyed, many remnants of the old country never forgot their identity. Even after Yongan founded the country and began to rule, this group of people and their descendants still regarded themselves as Xianle people and often clashed with the citizens of the new dynasty.

The first few generations of the Yong’an royal family used high-power policies to suppress and massacred many Xianle survivors who resisted.In turn, many Xianle people formed an alliance and planned to assassinate the princes and nobles of Yong’an, and succeeded several times. In this way, the feud became deeper and deeper.

But the generation of Lang Qianqiu and his parents adopted a completely different and gentle attitude towards the survivors of the previous dynasty.They have been working hard to integrate the citizens of the new dynasty with the remnants of the old country. They have even considered the almost absurd step of naming a descendant of the Xianle royal family as king, regardless of opposition, just to show their sincerity and treat each other with courtesy.Lang Qianqiu himself has never had any prejudice against the Xianle people because of the hatred of his predecessors.

The Imperial Master Fang Xin back then was extremely mysterious and never revealed his identity, so no one knew who the murderer of this bloody gilded banquet was.However, Yong’an and Xianle had a deep grudge. No matter what happened to either side, they would assume that the other side was behind the scenes. The Yong’an royal family and court officials who were lucky enough to escape the disaster believed that the forces of the Xianle survivors must be behind the incident. Therefore, many people expressed their hope that this would be used as a reason to completely clear out the Xianle survivors of Yong’an.However, these proposals were rejected by Lang Qianqiu.

His determination saved the lives of countless innocent Xianle people, preventing them from being inexplicably massacred.But, looking back now, I feel how wronged I feel now despite how good I was at the beginning.

It’s not that I feel unworthy, but that I feel wronged.Doing the right thing is never worthless. However, even though you have given goodwill but do not receive corresponding goodwill from others, you will inevitably feel aggrieved.

Lang Qianqiu’s eyes were red and he asked: “National Master, what did I do not do well enough? What did my parents do wrong? Do you have to treat me like this?!” The more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became, and he managed to raise his upper body under the restraint of Ruoxie and said: “Don’t you think you have to give us an explanation?!”

Thanks for the pity: “I can’t give it.”

He answered simply and choked Lang Qianqiu back, saying: “National Master, you have changed a lot. You were not like this before.”

“…” Xie Lian rubbed the tip of his brow with his knuckles and said, “I remember I told you a long time ago. Don’t build a sacred and inviolable monument for me in your heart without authorization. I am not what you imagined. In the end, it is you who will be disappointed.”

Lang Qianqiu lay back on the ground and murmured: “…I can’t figure out which one is the real you, the you before or the you now.”

Xie Lian said: “It’s all me. But you were only seventeen years old in the past. Now that you are so old, the things I teach you are naturally different.”

Lang Qianqiu shut up and suddenly said, “Is it because your seventeenth year is a hurdle, so you want to turn my seventeenth year into a hurdle too?”

Thanks for saying nothing.

Seeing that he didn’t answer, Lang Qianqiu’s anger surged up, and after holding back his breath, he yelled: “If you have this intention, I will not be as good as you want!!”

Hearing this, Xie Lian’s eyes widened slightly.

Lang Qianqiu couldn’t stand up, but his eyes were bright and his voice was sonorous, as if white flames were burning in his pupils.He seemed to be angry or declaring war, and said sternly: “If you want me to become resentful like you, I won’t! If you want to force me to give up on myself like you, I will never. Never! No matter what you do to me! I will never become like you!!!”

Xie Lian was stunned when he heard these heroic words.After a long while, he gasped and finally laughed out loud.

Lang Qianqiu’s eyes filled with tears, and he roared with passion. However, he was breathless by this laughter, and he was suddenly shocked and angry.Xie Lian laughed and clapped his hands, and the more he laughed, the more unrestrained he was, and said loudly: “Okay!”

He couldn’t remember the last time he laughed so heartily. He finally stopped, rubbed his eyes, nodded, and said: “Okay. Remember what you said today. You will never become like me!”

Huacheng kept holding his arms and watching with cold eyes.As soon as Xie Lian finished speaking, a burst of red smoke exploded in front of him!

Xie Lian was startled by such an unexpected explosion. He thought it was Lang Qianqiu who had used some strange trick, so he quickly avoided it and stayed on guard.However, although this explosion was loud, it seemed to have little lethality.But after the smoke dissipated, where Lang Qianqiu originally lay, the figure disappeared, leaving only a roly-poly standing there swaying left and right.

This roly-poly has a round head and body, like a big gourd, with long eyebrows and black eyes, a tiger-like head and a tiger-like brain, and is very naive. At this moment, his eyes are glaring, bulging with anger, and he has a broad-edged sword on his back. He is very impressive. He looks exactly like Lang Qianqiu, but he has turned into a big toy that a child can’t put down.Xie Lian stopped smiling and said: “Qianqiu?!”

Ruoxie had no one to tie him to and wrapped his wrist back in a whoosh.Huacheng walked over leisurely, flicked on the tumbler, and sneered: “This man looks so stupid in any shape.”

Xie Lian lifted the tumbler up, dumbfounded, and said: “This…this…Sanlang, is this Qianqiu? How did it become like this? Stop playing with him and change him back.”

Huacheng said: “No. Let’s take him with us.”

Thanks for the pity: “Where to go?”

At this time, the two of them had arrived in front of a narrow cave.Huacheng didn’t answer. A dice was thrown and landed on his palm. He looked down and entered the cave first.

Turning people into roly-poly is a very naughty spell. It has the style of Huacheng, but it is also very difficult to solve. Xie Lian can’t solve it anyway, and there is no guarantee that other gods can solve it. So he has to hold the Qianqiu roly-poly in his hand and catch up.Suddenly remembering that Fang Xin was still on the ground, he quickly went back to pick up the sword, put it on his back, and followed Hua Cheng in.

He wanted Huacheng to solve the spell, but Huacheng was noncommittal.After the two of them walked in the cave for a while, the narrow cave at the entrance became wider and wider. The sound of footsteps echoed in the empty cave, and there was a faint sound of fire and singing coming from the front.

When Xie Lian was looking for Ji Le Fang in the ghost market, he also heard a burst of singing first. However, the songs of the eerie girls from Ji Le Fang were as if they were gentle whispers, making people’s hearts enchanted.But this burst of singing was like a bunch of demons dancing around, it was messy and ugly, and they couldn’t be compared to each other.Xie Lian couldn’t help but said: “Sanlang, where is this place?”

Huacheng whispered: “Shh.”

The voice that Xie Lian originally asked was also very soft. Hearing this voice, he almost held his breath.Soon, he discovered why he was quiet.From opposite them, several green flames floated.When these flames came closer, he saw clearly that they were several imps in green clothes.

Each of these little ghosts has a ball of light on their head, which looks like a big blue candle from head to toe.There is nowhere to escape in this cave passage, and we meet on a narrow road.Xie Lian was about to hold Fang Xin on his back with his backhand, but he immediately remembered that he should use Ruoxie and put down his hand again.

Unexpectedly, those little devils glanced at them and ignored them, and continued to walk forward while whispering.It’s not like I didn’t see them, it’s like I saw them, but I wasn’t surprised.Xie Lian looked at Huacheng, and where was the extremely handsome ghost king in red standing next to him?He was clearly a pale kid with a green flame on his head.

It turned out that Huacheng had replaced both of them with fake leather at some point.When Xie Lian thought that there must be a green light on his head at this moment, he couldn’t help but touched the top of his head and said: “Why bother…” Why bother to look so strange?

Although he didn’t say it clearly, Huacheng obviously understood what he meant and said: “Qinggui Qirong, I have already said that he has low taste. All the little ghosts under him have to dress up like this.”

Unexpectedly, Huacheng actually brought him to Qinggui Qirong’s territory.

In the past, when the Heaven Realm and the Ghost Realm mentioned Green Ghost Qirong, they would ridicule him for his poor taste. Xie Lian still didn’t quite understand why. Now that he learned that all his little ghosts wanted this look, he finally understood.Just listening to the sentence “night tour with green lanterns”, there is a hint of eerie elegance. However, if it is a “night tour with green lanterns” in such a simple and crude literal sense, it is still a bit different from what he originally imagined.Thanks for the pity: “Hasn’t his cave been taken over by you a long time ago?”

Huacheng said: “It was taken, but he escaped. It took fifty years after escaping to build a new nest.”

Xie Lian put Lang Qianqiu’s tumbler into his arms. Seeing that there was no one around, he whispered: “Sanlang, are you here to find Qinggui? How about you break Qianqiu’s spell first and let him leave first, and then I will accompany you?”

Huacheng couldn’t refuse and said: “No, you take him. I want Lang Qianqiu to meet someone.”

Xie Lian felt strange. Looking at Huacheng’s reaction, it was clear that he didn’t think highly of Lang Qianqiu. Who would he specifically ask him to meet?It’s hard to say much now that we’re in a dilemma.After a while, the two finally walked out of the cave.After their eyes suddenly opened up, more caves appeared in front of them.

Caves were dug out on all sides of the mountain, and the caves were connected to caves, and the caves were connected to caves.There are demons and ghosts with green lights above their heads coming and going in and out of each cave entrance, like a huge beehive and ant nest.If Xie Lian came to walk alone, he would definitely not be able to remember the way after walking for a while.However, Huacheng felt like he was at home, traveling through the caves without hesitation, with great ease, as if he knew the route by heart.

Both of them were wearing the skin of the Qingyan kid. Seeing that there was no one to stop them, Xie Lian breathed a sigh of relief. Huacheng thought he was sighing and said, “What’s wrong?”

Xie Lian said: “No, I thought you would break into the mountain head-on, but I didn’t expect you to sneak in. You are not good at fighting, so I was relieved.”

When he said he was “not very good at fighting,” he meant it sincerely.Fighting is good, but the aftermath is bad.Huacheng seemed to smile when he heard it, and then said: “Last time I ran into the mountain head-on, but Qi Rong ran away after knowing the news. This time I want to find him in person, so naturally I can’t let him notice.”

Xie Lian said heartily: “Could it be that the person Saburo wants Qianqiu to meet is Qinggui? Is there any relationship between these two people? Hey, I don’t know what he wants to do. Anyway, let’s go with him first, and slowly ask him to undo the spell on Qianqiu.” Because he still remembers that he burned down the Ji Lefang in Huacheng, and he inevitably feels guilty.Just as he was thinking about it, Huacheng said again: “This waste can’t do anything, but he is very vigilant. The kid can’t get close to him, and his confidants can’t disguise themselves. There is only one way to get close to him.”

At this time, four little ghosts walked towards each other, talking and laughing.Huacheng slowed down, and Xie Lian followed suit.I saw that behind these four little ghosts in green, they were dragging a line of living people with ropes.

This group of living people included some in rags, some in luxurious clothes, and they all seemed to be young men and women under the age of thirty. There was also a child, who was tightly holding on to the clothes of a young man. He was probably a father and son who had been captured.Their hands were tied and they were walking in this devil’s cave, all of them looking frightened and almost fainting.Huacheng passed them by, then turned around without leaving a trace and followed the end of the team.He only lightly touched Xie Lian with his elbow, and Xie Lian kept pace with him. Looking at Huacheng again, he suddenly changed his skin. This time, he was a young man with fine features, and he was probably of the same type.

The team made twists and turns and walked through the cave.The few little green ghosts in front seemed very satisfied with their job. They always remembered to show their authority and shouted at the team behind them at every turn, saying: “Everyone, be honest, don’t cry! You are crying with snot and tears on your face. It has turned off the appetite of our nobles. I will teach you what life is worse than death!”

Among the so-called four major evils in the ghost world, the other three have never heard of them eating people. Only Qinggui Qirong still can’t give up his greed. No wonder he is ridiculed by colleagues and enemies at the same time for “not being able to stand on the stage” and “not being able to broaden his horizons.”Huacheng just now said that there is only one way to get close to Qinggui Qirong without being noticed by him. It seems that it is to mix it into the ingredients.As Xie Lian walked, he went to catch Huacheng’s hand. He caught it for the first time. He felt that Huacheng froze and seemed to want to pull away.Xie Lian was not unaware, but he couldn’t think too much about the situation at this time. He squeezed Huacheng’s hand tightly and gently wrote a word on his palm: “Save”.

Now that he saw it, this group of people had to be saved. This was the action Xie Lian wanted to take after telling him.

After writing this word, Huacheng gently closed his fingers and held the palm of his hand.After a while, the team exited the tunnel and entered a huge cave.

As soon as he entered the cave, a dark thing came into view. Xie Lian squinted his eyes. Before he could see clearly, he felt Hua Cheng grabbed his wrist with his backhand and wrote a few words on the back of his hand: “Be careful with the top of your head. Don’t touch it.”

At first, Xie Lian thought that there were many rags hanging down from the top of the cave. Unexpectedly, when he took a closer look, his pupils suddenly shrank – what kind of rags were they?It was clearly a large, dark, dense group of people, with their feet pointing up and their heads pointing down, hanging in mid-air.

A forest of hanging corpses!

However, although there was a forest of hanging corpses, there was no rain of blood, because these were all mummified corpses, and there was no blood left to shed.The expressions of the mummies were extremely painful, with large mouths and a layer of snow-like crystals on their faces and bodies.That’s salt.

In the deepest part of the cave, there are bright lights. There is a huge chair, a long table, golden cups and jade cups. It is so magnificent that it does not look like a deep mountain cave, but more like a palace banquet hall.A little further away from the long table, there is a huge iron pot that can accommodate dozens of people. The red boiling water is rolling in the pot. If anyone accidentally falls in, they will be overcooked in an instant!

The four brats drove a group of people toward the pot. When some saw this, they were so frightened that they knelt down, beating, scolding, and pulling. Xie Lian suddenly felt Huacheng’s arm next to him stiffen and stopped.

He turned around and saw that although Huacheng still had the handsome face of a young man, his eyes were filled with monstrous anger.

Although Huacheng is always smiling, Xie Lian is very clear that his emotions have always been well hidden.Xie Lian has never seen such an angry look in his eyes.He looked along Huacheng’s line of sight, and the next moment, his breathing seemed to be stagnant.I saw a person kneeling in front of the gorgeous giant chair.

At first glance, it looks like a person, but after a second look, you can see that it is actually a stone statue the same size as a real person.This stone statue is very strange. It is carved into a kneeling posture, with its back to him, and its head is downcast. At first glance, it looks like a portrayal of the four words “a bereaved dog”.It is conceivable that the only purpose of carving such a stone statue was to humiliate this man.

And Xie Lian didn’t even need to turn the stone statue over to know that the face of the stone statue must be exactly like him.