The words of the master's wife were ambiguous.
She is mine now? So can I do whatever I want with her?
However, there was no hint of lewdness in my heart. After knowing the truth about my adoption by the Master, I have understood one thing - the human heart is unknowable in black and white.
Nowadays, it's hard for me to trust anyone completely, not to mention that Shifu is still a demon.
I keep her around because I am all alone and feel lonely.
I gently pushed away from Shifu, Shifu's eyes had a hint of surprise, but it quickly subsided.
She said to me.
"I have some bad news for you."
"Go ahead."
"You have been taking the poison for too long, and part of the snake poison has penetrated deep into your bone marrow, even if I exhausted all my cultivation, I was not able to eradicate it."
"So I'm still going to die?"
Shifu shook her head.
"Dying is not going to kill you, but there is a chance that you will occasionally get sick and you will feel the pain of the burning fire again."
I nodded and didn't say anything more, I was able to save my life and avenge my biological parents, I was already content.
Shifu hesitated for a moment and asked me.
"You don't blame me?"
"I don't blame you, you did the best you could."
If Shifu deliberately retains her cultivation without trying her best, the four ghosts will definitely be able to find out.
"Chen Jiu, what are your plans next?"
I took a look at the body of my master.
"Master in this condition, there is no way to disguise it as a natural death, this village we can not stay, wait for darkness and leave."
"Where are we going?"
I am confused, since childhood, I have been to the farthest place, is 30 miles away from the village of the town, where should I go at the moment?
Shifu thought about it and made a suggestion.
"Since we have to go, go farther, I'm also tired of staying in the mountains, want to go to a prosperous place to live, I have a few demon friends, living in the spring city, I heard it's all good, why don't we go there too?"
Quancheng? I had seen this city in the textbooks when I was in school, the capital of Lu Province, famous for its springs and water beauty.
"Okay, just go to the Springs."
I had just been detoxified and had no strength, but many things had to be done now, so I asked Shifu for help.
"Sifu, you ..."
Who knows that my words just out of the mouth, the master mother face became very ugly.
She said to me in an angry tone.
"No more calling me Master!"
I opened my mouth and changed it.
"Okay, Hu Mei, you help me take the master's body and drag it to the bedroom."
Hu Mei did as he was told, while I went to the master's study.
Once again, I pried open the floor tiles under the master's desk and took out the book "The Book of Ghosts".
Although I didn't like my master's skills very much, I promised the four ghosts that I would carve images for them and pretend to be gods, so I couldn't go back on my word.
In addition, Hu Mei said my body snake poison is not fully resolved, and later want to eradicate, certainly in this line of work to seek ways.
After getting the book, I rushed to my master's bedroom, where Hu Mei had thrown his body on the bed.
I started rummaging through the boxes and Hu Mei asked me.
"What are you looking for?"
"Money, we can't go out and make a living without money."
After searching for half an hour, I found a total of three thousand bills and a bank book.
I put the bills in my pocket, and the bankbook is thrown away.
Hu Mei picked up the passbook and asked me in disbelief.
"There's a hundred thousand dollars on it, don't you want it?"
"Can't take it, before we leave tonight, we have to destroy the body, the golden cicada, if we take the money out of the passbook, in case someone checks it later, we will be exposed."
"You have a point."
After packing up everything I could take, I went to the woodshed and brought in two barrels of diesel.
I spread the diesel fuel evenly in each house, and then wait until midnight after the village people are asleep, a fire to the house to light up.
The fire burned so badly that I was sure there was absolutely no way for the villagers to put it out before the house burned to ashes.
Hu Mei and I stood not far from the entrance to the village, looking at the village bright fire, I have mixed feelings.
"Let's go!"
"Good!"
I left the village where I had lived for eighteen years with a bag and a water bottle on my back.
The kettle was not filled with water, but with the four ghosts that helped me kill my master.
In order not to leave their whereabouts, Hu Mei and I did not take the train or coach, but spent six hundred dollars to find a black car driver, so that he sent us to Quancheng.
The car drove all night and we finally arrived at the Springs at dawn the next day.
The driver thought Hu Mei and I were a young couple visiting Quancheng, and he put us at the south gate of Daming Lake Park.
"The place opens at six o'clock, the view inside is good, there are many hotels nearby after shopping, you can find an affordable one to stay."
I said thank you to the driver and said goodbye to him.
Hu Mei stretched his back.
"Where are we going now? Should we find a place to sleep first?"
I nodded, I had been up all day and two nights, and at the moment my eyes were dry and my spirit was depleted.
The two of us walked east down the street and then found a small hotel in a hutong.
When I entered, there was a little girl at the front desk who was crawling on the desk and sleeping. I went up and knocked on the desk, and she raised her head sleepily.
"Do you want to stay at the hotel?"
"Yes, are there still rooms available?"
The young girl looked it up on the computer.
"There just happens to be one king room left at a special price of three hundred dollars."
I was a little hesitant. A room, or a king-size room, how can I sleep in this?
"OK, just open this for us!" ...
I looked at Hu Mei in surprise, and she snorted at me.
"I'm getting sleepy, it's good to have a place to sleep, don't pick and choose."
I paid the money and found our room with my room card.
Without saying a word, Hu Mei took off his jacket and went under the covers.
The room was small and there was no couch, so if I didn't sleep on the bed, I had to sleep on the floor.
The key is only a quilt, just when I was torn, Hu Mei asked me in surprise.
"Aren't you going to sleep?"
"Sleep."
I was thinking of taking off my jacket and laying it on the ground, casually coping with it, but I didn't think Hu Mei had lifted the quilt off his side.
This is for me to sleep on the bed.
"Aren't you afraid that I'll plot against you?"
"Why don't you think that it was me who tried to plot?"
Hu Mei said this, eyes flooded with peach blossoms, particularly seductive, a time, my heart beat much faster.
I couldn't even tell if she was joking or if she was serious.
But she said so, I no longer insisted, and climbed straight into bed.
I was so tired that when I closed my eyes, I fell asleep.
I had a dream that the evil spirit that my master had kept in captivity, ran to seek revenge on me, and it choked me so hard that I couldn't breathe.
"Ah!"
I woke up with a start and opened my eyes to find Hu Mei sticking her chin out and staring at me, her eyes blinking and blinking, very nice.
"Nightmares?"
I hmmed and sat up with a sweaty head.
"Did you just look at me?"
"Yeah, I suddenly realized that you are quite handsome, how about we discuss something?"
"What is it?"
"How about ... you marry me!"