Chapter 74 Cold
After negotiations with the black-faced butcher, Pan Qi did not stay much, but returned to his white case. When she really returned to her scope of work, she took a breath, put on the seeds of fear sowed when talking to the two, and grew a towering tree, and the feeling of fear almost devoured Pan Qi.
But it doesn't matter. Pan Qi knows that he has succeeded. But now I have only established the majesty of the fat man in blue and the black-faced butcher, and I still need to sow seeds in the hearts of all the cooks. Only in this way can freedom be achieved.
Pan Qi gave herself a piece of time to adjust her mentality, and then she put down the work in her hand and swaggered to the kitchen door. She has to walk out of the room without asking anyone for instructions during her working hours. This was unimaginable when Deng Bai was still alive. She must do this. Only in this way can she establish her position in the house. Only by having this position can the next plan be realized. Dancing on the tip of the knife and taking chestnuts from the fire seems to be a meaningless adventure, but it is actually a helpless choice. Pan Qi has thoroughly grasped the character of the fat man in blue and the black-faced cook. The fat man in blue is suspicious and the black-faced butcher is superstitious. The weaknesses of these two people are mastered and will definitely stop him. He just hopes that there will be no life in other cooks.
Every step of Pan Qi looked very easy, but it was extremely heavy in her heart. Sweat soaked the socks, her toes were unusually uncomfortable in her shoes, and there was a cold sweat on her back, which made the previously injured wounds on her back extremely itchy. These things were tormenting Pan Qi, but she could only insist. She knew that the more calm she was, the less danger she would suffer.
She felt that some gangs had put down their jobs and stared at themselves, which was what they wanted. The fat man in blue and the black-faced butcher will definitely not come forward to stop them. The seeds of doubt in their hearts just constrain each other, and neither of them dares to do it first. Pan Qi was getting closer and closer to the door. She felt that her breathing was getting faster and she couldn't control it.
"Pan Qi, wait." At this time, there was a voice that Pan Qi didn't want to hear. Her plan was vacant here. Once someone stopped, she could not explain why she wanted to go out. At that time, the suppression of the fat man in blue and the black-faced butcher would easily collapse.
Pan Qi turned her head and had to see who she was. You must calm down and muddle through.
Waiting for Pan Qi to turn around, he found that he was talking about hairy eggs. Mao Dan held a coat in his hand and ran over: "You forgot to wear a coat. It's cold outside." With that, he handed his coat to Pan Qi. Then he returned to the room.
This dress is hairy, and Pan Qi's warm coat has been scraped away for a long time. But because of Mao Dan's call, Pan Qi had a chance to turn back, so she looked around for a week and suppressed the whole audience with the prestige of her eyes. The tense atmosphere just now changed. She turned around and took two quick steps and pushed the door of the room.
Although Pan Qi is not the head of the gang now, he can leave the room without authorization and be recognized by the fat man in blue and the black-faced butcher. In the hearts of the gangsters, he will take it for granted. Pan Qi is a person with a big *, and they can't afford to provoke such a person. This is Pan Qi's plan. Thinking about it, Maodan's act of sending clothes just now happened to be at the most dangerous moment. At that time, many people must be ready to stand up and challenge themselves, but Maodan's stupon made these people lose the best opportunity to make trouble.
It can only be said that this is a divine pen. The third step of the plan was successful.
It was indeed a little cold outside. Pan Qi put on the coat of hairy eggs and rubbed his hands in the winter wind. It's late winter now. She carefully calculates the days, but she gets nothing. She doesn't know when the Spring Festival will come. I don't know if I will spend the old and new as a slave. No, you can't think about this anymore. Let it go. After the gate of memory opens, the past will emerge like a tide. I am now Pan Qi, the ghost of the half-day castle. He can take human life by muttering. Pan Jinlian can't survive in the half-day castle, but Pan Qi can and will be free!
Pan Qi stayed outside for a quarter of an hour. She didn't do anything. She just stood by the kitchen and breathed the winter air, constantly rubbing her hands and stamped her feet to keep warm. This time is longer than solving the big hand, which can highlight the particularity of your own coming out this time and deepen the deterrence to everyone. But she must go back, and the work still needs to be completed. Once the work is biased, it is bound to cause unnecessary trouble.
When she opened the door and walked back, she already felt the different eyes of everyone. It is no longer as doubtful and cold as when I went out, and it seems that the purpose has been achieved.
It was very warm near the oven of the white case. Pan Qi stretched out his hand to bake for a moment and rubbed it again. He felt that his numb hand had regained consciousness.
"It's quite cold outside, isn't it?" The hairy egg asked in a low voice while working.
"Well, it's cold. Thank you for your clothes." Pan Qi took off his coat and put it next to the hairy egg.
"This is just a ghost tribute like a half-day castle. Oh, yes, I did some work for you and should not delay your breakfast for a while. After saying that, Mao Dan fell into silence.
Ximenqing
When eating breakfast, Ximenqing's eyes kept jumping. He was a little nervous. Today is a big day for him, and because of this, he slept very poorly last night.
He is also anxious about whether Li Wu's plan can succeed or not. Even in the end, Li Wu did not say that there was anything else in the silver held by Wu Song. This made Ximen Qing begin to suspect that Li Wu also knew nothing about it, rather than being as taboo as his own performance.
Ximenqing has thought of a way out for himself. If the plan really fails, he can only go away from home. He has secretly turned some valuable things into silver these two days, so that it won't be too miserable to live elsewhere. Even Ximen Qing had some hope that the plan failed, so that he could give himself a reason to live elsewhere and break this unchanged life.
Go to a place where no one knows me, do a small business, and start all over again. There is no two-sided three-sided swords for these shopkeepers and guys, nor the oppression of Wu Song's forces, let alone the title of Fengyue Prodigal Son. Maybe I can marry a girl who I like and like me, and then my children and grandchildren are full.
But without this external force, Ximen Qing can't convince himself to leave Yanggu and start again. This is the inertia and embarrassment of Ximen Qing's life that belongs to him.
When he was eating, the pharmacy shopkeeper came in from the outside.
"Where's Li Wu?" Ximenqing asked the shopkeeper nervously.
"He has left. He should go to an ambush." The shopkeeper made a slow statement.
"Is there any problem with the body?" Ximenqing himself knows that this question should have been asked more than 20 times from last night to now.
"I promise you that there is absolutely no problem." The shopkeeper vowed, and at the same time pulled a chair and sat next to Ximen Qing.
"After all, this is a temporary change plan yesterday. I'm afraid there is something unexpected. Once there is a mistake, Li Wu can escape. We are the residents of Yanggu, and the monk can't run away from the temple." Ximen Qing shook his head.
"In my opinion, the original plan is not as good as this. Wu Song also wanted to die and insisted on marrying Qi Si. He probably thought that this method of buying people was a wonderful move, but he did not know that it was right in our arms. Yesterday, as soon as Grandma Wang came to buy the body, I had already thought about it, and then discussed it with the owner and Li Wu. The three of us should have deduced all kinds of things, and there will be no mistakes, which is more rigorous than the original plan. When the pharmacy shopkeeper said this, there was unparalleled excitement in his words.
"What if Wu Song doesn't go?" Ximenqing looked sideways at the pharmacy shopkeeper.
"It's impossible not to go. Wu Song's move is to buy people's hearts. Therefore, when he is married, he must be by his side. He watched the two coffins open and put the bones in a coffin. Otherwise, it would be meaningless for him to toss around like this. When the pharmacy shopkeeper spoke, he tapped his finger on the table, emphasizing the correctness of his speculation.
Since Li Wu came, the apoor's arrogance has risen again, and Ximen Qing and his status seem to return to the dummy ginseng incident, which makes Ximen Qing feel very uncomfortable.
"You are so excited about this plan, presumably Li Wu has given you a lot of benefits alone." Ximen Qing turned around and looked at the pharmacy shopkeeper with a sneer.
"No, there is absolutely no such thing. Don't doubt it. This time, Li Wu has given great benefits to our pharmacy. How can he be willing to give me an extra one? I think that the water is rising and the owner has got enough benefits, and he will naturally help me, so I feel happy when I think about it. The explanation of the pharmacy shopkeeper seems to be quite pale and powerless.
Even if there are any benefits alone, Ximen Qing is powerless. He is used to being manipulated and manipulating others is a feeling he has never experienced before.
"Then tell me the whole plan again." Ximen Qing knew that this was the fifth time he had asked this question. He repeatedly asked the pharmacy shopkeeper the same question, hoping to hear some differences at one time and spy on more mysteries of this operation.
"Then the owner, I'll tell you again. In fact, after saying so many times, you have known the details for a long time. Our plan can be said to be foolproof. The pharmacy shopkeeper couldn't help complaining, but forced himself to take out a sketch from his arms, looked at the picture, and began to introduce to Ximen Qing: "The body sold to Grandma Wang yesterday is a poisonous corpse soaked in poisonous water. However, the method of soaking is special. Poisonous water is poured into the mouth with a long tube, which is soaked from the inside out. After death, the meridians are blocked, and the poisonous water cannot return to the body surface, so even if you touch the skin of the body with your hand, you will not be poisoned. According to the custom of yin marriage, the ceremony will be held in the afternoon or even in the evening. At that time, the yin qi is heavier, and it is the time when the corpse poison is the strongest. Unfortunately, the body was originally made to sell medicine to others at a good price, but now it can only be used for other purposes. The pharmacy shopkeeper shook his head repeatedly, with a rather reluctant expression on his face.
"It doesn't matter. If you lose this little money, you will lose it. Going on, the following plan is what I'm really worried about. Ximenqing is very impatient. He didn't know at all until yesterday that Ximen Pharmacy was still dealing in the business of dead people and selling corpses, and Grandma Wang knew that she, as the owner of the pharmacy, knew nothing about it. The man who wants to talk around has done dirty things for so many years, and his disgusting plan is to spit it out.
"The following is the most wonderful step. Wu Song held this ceremony for Qi Si, and he definitely hoped that as many people as possible could see it. I think two-thirds of the officials in the government will come to the scene. When opening the coffin, it must be that Qi Si's tomb had been dug, and then Qi Si's coffin was first opened, Qi Si's body was taken out, put into the new coffin, and then the coffin of the female corpse was opened. At this time, everyone must be surrounded. Yin relatives are not often seen in Yanggu. How can they know that the coffin containing the female corpse has long been made special. As soon as the coffin is opened, the gunpowder under the body will burn, and in an instant, together with the coffin, the poisonous corpse will be blown up. At that time, the corpses will fly around and poisonous water will splash everywhere. Even if these government officials can't be caught all, they will definitely die. Wu Song, as the organizer of this yin marriage, is bound to stand in front of the crowd, so even if he can survive, he must be seriously injured. After the coffin exploded, on the mountain bag on the south side of Qi Si's tomb, there were several brothers brought by Li Wu, who would immediately burn arrows through the clouds and send a signal to Yanggu County. After seeing the signal, Li Wu himself will carry the forged documents to the county government office to take over the power of the county magistrate and raid Wu Song's home. That's the plan." The shopkeeper spread out his hands and signaled that he had finished talking.
Ximenqing seriously recalled that he had heard the process of the pharmacy shopkeeper's complete retelling of the action for himself, but strangely, these five retellings were surprisingly consistent, which made people very suspicious. Because the pharmacy shopkeeper recounted the process of the plan and did not hold any written records, it required him to constantly recall, and then make words and sentences like himself. And this kind of propaganda is bound to be a little different every time. For example, the transposition that connects the sentence, or the person who makes the action in a certain sentence, and even the words "corpses flying around and poisonous water splashing" are unchanged, which must be problematic. The pharmacy shopkeeper did not tell the truth. What he said was not the real plan, or not the whole plan. What he repeated was only the lines he had memorized before, so every time it coincided amazingly.
Ximen Qing confirmed his idea.
"What should I do? Just sit in the pharmacy and wait for the result?" When Ximen Qing asked this question, he deliberately looked frivolous.
"Well, you can go to Guihualou at noon and have a table of wine for a good meal. Then when Li Wu starts to raid the house, he will divide some people to go to the Osmanthus Building, and you can take over the Osmanthus Building after eating. As Li Wu told us last time, Guihua Building will be your property in the future, which is just a little sincerity of him. The pharmacy shopkeeper kept rubbing his hands when talking.
The weather today is really cold. Ximenqing can even see himself exhaling heat when breathing, which condenses into white frost when it does not dissipate.
"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot. I told Li Wu for you yesterday, and Li Wu promised you to send Wu Song's wife Haisha to you after raiding the house. That peerless beauty can't be blind. Presumably, the sea sand will be more charming after being ** by you. The pharmacy shopkeeper's more and more ** words (harmonious with your uncle's vertical and horizontal) words.
"What about Wu Song? Wu Song has not been mentioned in your plan. As you just said, Wu Song may not die and may be seriously injured. What is Li Wu's plan to deal with the half-dead Wu Song? This is the best time to ask this question. Li Wu should have arranged the plan. The pharmacy shopkeeper can't use a sentence, "I don't know about this. You should ask Fifth Master Li to prevaricate yourself."
"This... In fact, there is no plan. Wu Song's property can't be carried with him, and he will definitely leave it at home. After raiding the house, Takematsu is not very important. He is just a reckless man. Don't you think that anger is the best revenge for him to see his family property and women belong to you? The pharmacy shopkeeper smiled.
No, he is lying to me. Ximenqing knows very well that property can't be put on him, which is something that everyone knows. The pharmacy shopkeeper stressed here that in fact, he subconsciously redefined the word property. It is likely that he also knew that there was a special existence in that batch of silver, and such a cover-up statement showed that the special existence was carried by Wu Song. When Li Wu told me these things, he deliberately only opened the pharmacy shopkeeper, creating the illusion of exclusive secrets for me. It seems that he did the same on the pharmacy shopkeeper. No, he didn't even need to help me out, just need to find an occasion where I was not there.
Do you really think you are lucky? Ximenqing looked at the pharmacy shopkeeper and fiddled with his fingers. The more you know about this secret, the faster you may die. No one will pay attention to the lack of a pharmacy shopkeeper in Yanggu County. Li Wu is ready to sacrifice you to give you so much information.
Now it seems that I should be able to live, but I don't know how to live in the future and how long I can live. Ximen Qing became more and more unable to control his pessimism.
"Well, my husband, I still have some things to do. I have to go to the county government office to greet those officials who have contacted by Fifth Master Li and ask them not to attend the Yin Qin ceremony today, so that the people who stay are available. In order to keep it secret, Li Wuye didn't have a plan to tell them at all, so now I have to inform them immediately. The pharmacy shopkeeper stood up and said goodbye to Ximen Qing.
"Go ahead. Oh, yes, eat better at noon. Ximen Qing took out 20 taels of silver from his pocket and handed it to the pharmacy shopkeeper.
Ximenqing looked at the back of the pharmacy shopkeeper and felt more that this person was going to die today.