Copper Coins

The chubby thing spat out a puddle of clear water without saying a word, and it was about to spread to the soles of Xuan Min's feet.He stared at the bead, obviously cold and expressionless, but with an indescribable meaning: "Are you going to spit this pool of water back?"

Xue Xian ignored him, still bubbling water, quite hopeless.

"And then you're going to soak in the water you spit out?" Xuan Min raised his lips and said indifferently.

Xue Xian: "..."

Jin Zhudang even stopped.

After a while, Xue Xian said quietly: "You are really disgusting with this stick..."

"No talent, thank you." Xuan Min averted his eyes lightly, raised his feet and walked towards the nearby stone statues.

Xue Xian hesitated for a while, then rolled over and followed him, "Pick me up first, I'm dizzy."

Xuan Min glanced at the glowing water marks on his body: "Let's wait until the soaking water on your body dries up."

"..." Xue Xian froze for a moment on the spot, and said angrily, "If you're so disgusting to me, I'll chase you and vomit all by yourself, believe it or not?!"

"Trust." Xuan Min stopped, looking down at him rather unbearably, and finally picked him up.It's just that I threw it into the dark bag as soon as I got it, as if I didn't want to touch it for a moment.

"Do you have the face to despise me?" Xue Xian said softly in his pocket, "Aren't you also soaked in water, are you soaked?"

Xuan Min paused, without saying a word, made an incision on his fingertips, squeezed out a string of blood beads without hesitation, and drew a seemingly simple rune on the palm of his hand.In an instant, all the water from his body was squeezed clean, not a single drop was left, and the thin linen monk's clothes were instantly dried up, as light as cloud and snow, not even a trace of water remained on Xue Xian's body. .

Xue Xian's goal was achieved and he was quite satisfied.

What made him even more satisfied was that the position around Xuan Min's waist seemed to help him digest. He could clearly feel that what he had sucked in from the black soil earlier was merging with the gold beads little by little.

When he was delirious before, he inhaled it without even seeing what was buried under the black soil, but now when it was mixed together, he felt something—what was buried under the black soil, It should be a part of his body, or blood, or a few spines, or a piece of dragon tendon.

Not much, and not complete.But when it slowly melted into the golden bead, he felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction, so that he suddenly felt that the spine that had been empty for half a year finally began to have some touch and warmth.

Whether it is nourishing the spirit or nourishing the bones or flesh, there must be a starting material.Just like planting flowers and trees, there must always be a seed.

Xue Xian had spent more than half a year refining Qi and transforming into form, barely pulling a thread on his spine so that his upper body could move like a normal person.After all, Qi is much different from bones, and what is empty is not real after all.This time, he really felt like planting a seed.

Xuan Min didn't know what Xue Xian was thinking about in his dark pocket, as long as he didn't act like a monster, he would be fine.

There were too many stone statues on the stone bricks of the pool, and it was impossible for him to check them all, so he only picked out the ones that were damaged.

The appearance of these stone statues is not static. In fact, after looking at a dozen or so of them, there are three kinds of appearances in total. One is glaring, one is crying with eyebrows hanging upside down, and the other is grinning with a high nose and wide mouth with.The corpses wrapped in these three stone statues are also different.

In the stone statues with angry faces, the corpses are missing heads; in the stone statues with sad faces, the corpses are missing both feet; in the stone statues with laughing faces, the corpses are missing hands.

"Did you see anything?" Xue Xian asked, "What are these stone statues wrapped in corpses used for? It looks very sinister."

Xuan Min frowned and said, "I know a little bit."

Xue Xian's tone was rather puzzled: "Why do you know everything?"

Xuan Min said indifferently: "Maybe I saw it in the book before and left some impressions."

These hundreds of stone statues were not casually made to be buried with them.Doing so carefully must have its purpose.In this kind of place, things related to three are always full of tricks.Although Xuan Min didn't remember where he saw it, he did remember this statement——

It is said that there is a kind of feng shui formation to change the Universiade, called Baishi Tuiliu Bureau, if it is done well, it can avoid natural disasters and man-made disasters, and it will be smooth for a hundred years. It is a very good result. The only problem is that it is too insidious. hand.

Because this hundred-push game will cost 300 lives.

One hundred evil generals, one hundred poor people, and one hundred traitors.

The stone statues with different faces are just corresponding to them: the stone statues with angry faces are evil generals, the mournful ones are poor people, and the grinning ones are traitors.

"300 people..." Xue Xian was taken aback by the huge evil formation, "It's really a toss, a mortal is no worse than me as a demon. Where can I get these 300 people? This is not a small number , Even if it is cut in half, it will cause some commotion, right? Hundreds of people have disappeared, even the blind should be aware of it."

While he was talking, there was a "ding dong" sound from the stone statue that Xuan Min was looking at, and something fell down.Judging by the timbre, it's probably something like a copper-skinned iron sheet.

After all, it was something on the corpse, at least it was stained with rotten pickles, Xuan Min frowned, and couldn't help tearing off a small piece of white linen from the hem.

Xue Xian snorted and said, "If you tear it off like this again, this monk's robe should be shortened."

This is of course an exaggeration, Xuan Min's robe is not dusty, but it is actually quite long, almost covering the entirety of his feet.Walking almost touches the ground, but there is always such a distance.And every time he tore it off in this way, it was not even half a slap, even if he tore it seventeen or eight times, it might not be much shorter.

But Xue Xian couldn't keep his mouth shut, and wanted to provoke him from time to time.

Through the white linen cloth, Xuan Min picked up the fallen things in his hands, and looked at them carefully under the dim light.

It was a small piece of iron, with a beast head carved on one side and a name on the other side, but the side where the words were engraved was smeared out with a knife edge, and the original characters could not be seen clearly.

Seeing that Xuan Min didn't pay attention to him, Xue Xian took advantage of the bald donkey's squatting body and silently nodded his head from his secret pocket: "Hiss—this thing looks familiar."

"Have you seen it?" Xuan Min originally wanted to push him back, but after hearing this, he temporarily stopped and handed the iron sheet to him.

"I remembered." Xue Xian said, "On the way to Wolong County, there are many abandoned temples in the mountains. We picked up one when we were resting in it. There were still bloodstains in the temple. I reckon there was a lot of it. Fighting. Later, before entering the city gate of Wolong County, the nerd and I picked up another one at the foot of the city gate."

Such identical items were obviously produced uniformly, most likely from the military.

All the generals in the army are walking on the road of life and death, but all those who have really fought have human blood on the tip of their swords, which fits the so-called "bad generals".It's just that the officers and soldiers in the army are under strict control. How could it be possible that a hundred people suddenly disappeared without reporting?

Xue Xian has only wandered around the market for the past six months, and knows little about the army, but Xuan Min has heard a little about it.

Everyone in the army has such an iron plate. First, it is convenient for compiling headbooks; second, it is convenient for interrogation; The card will replace the corpse, and the fallen leaves will return to their roots.

If he did not die in battle, but was old and frail, lost his limbs, or suffered serious injuries like these, and could no longer go to the battlefield, he would be resigned.The iron plate will not be taken back, but the name engraved on the iron plate will be erased.

"Where did you hear this?" Xue Xian asked with his face raised.

Xuan Min was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I forgot, maybe I heard people talking about it in the corners and alleys."

Xue Xian felt that this bald donkey was also a strange person—judging from the spider mole, he was probably sick, but judging from the fact that he didn't recognize anyone when he opened his eyes, it seemed that he was not clearly sick.But just such an unlucky monk who seems to be suffering from soul-loss disease, and always puts on the air of a cold monk, rejecting people thousands of miles away, can actually mix up so much information in the market, it is really unimaginable.

Xue Xian asked: "Do you look like someone who can speak human language and chat?"

Xue Xian replied, "Not like."

Xuan Min's expression remained the same, he stretched out his finger to push his round head...or maybe his body, whatever, he pushed it back into his pocket.

"The evil generals are those old or injured generals, what are the poor people and traitors?" Xue Xian muttered again when he was pushed in.

"It's beggars and bandits."

It was not Xuan Min who answered him, but another slightly gentle voice.

Xuan Min turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw that Lu Shijiu and old man Liu woke up at some point and were walking towards this side.

Old man Liu's old body needless to say, Lu Shijiu is weaker than Jiang Shining, how did he wake up so quickly?You know, whether it is the drag of the vortex or the force of the slap on the bottom of the pool, it is enough to cause injuries all over the body, but these two have no new injuries at all.

What did they look like when they met behind the stone gate before, and what they still look like now.Even the degree to which the clothes were soaked in water, some bruises on the body have not changed in the slightest.

Xuan Min glanced at them up and down, didn't say anything, just looked at the remaining hundred stone statues and asked, "How do you know?"

Lu Jiujiu raised the wooden branch in his hand, moved his fingers, and said, "I can see and count, I just touched a few nearby."

"These soldiers were intercepted on the way back to their hometown." He said quietly: "It's actually quite easy to get rid of such soldiers. Turn around and say that they have already died in battle, and their bodies can't be found, so they can be sent away." , and will not arouse suspicion.”

As for the beggars and refugees... one more and one less, maybe no one noticed at all.It is even easier to say that the bandits are in the eyes of the people around them. It is best if they are wiped out. As for whether they will be imprisoned or beheaded after the suppression, and where they are sent, no one will ask.

When all three are ready, the game is set.

Lu Shijiu's blind eyes were much more useful than ordinary people at this time. He turned around and scanned around, and raised his finger to point to two places: "There is something."

Hearing this, Xuan Min stepped over and took off a piece of stone from each of the two pool walls, and he could feel the runes engraved on the stone piece just by touching it with his fingers.Xuan Min held it in his hand and looked at it carefully for a moment, then frowned and said, "It looks familiar."

"What familiar?" Xue Xian asked.

Xuan Min: "The rune, I seem to have seen it elsewhere."

But the light in this tomb is really too dim, no matter how you look at it, you can only see a rough outline.

When he was looking at the stone, Lu Nianqi on the side turned his head to look at Lu Nianqi who was fainting not far away, and suddenly said to Xuan Min: "Nianqi he..."

Hearing his hesitation, Xuan Min said without raising his head, "He seems to be particularly afraid of water."

Xue Xian, who was in the dark pocket, said lazily: "Yes, during the period when I was unconscious, I couldn't notice anything else, except I heard him howling at the top of his throat."

Lu Jiujiu lowered his gaze: "It's my fault."