Yin Yang Pharmacy

"Do you want some soup?" the cat woman asked.

Another plate was placed on the table, gurgling, and took another spoonful into it.

Jingle again, jingle.

Zhai Sheng hung the spoon back to the side of the pot and picked up the saucer.

Yang Youyun didn't know if it would be hot to drink, anyway, Zhai Sheng drank it clean in just three or two sips.

Also, it smells delicious.

As soon as Zhai Sheng put down the plate, Yang Youyun's stomach groaned.

Li Chongcoffin: "..."

There were two blushes on Yang Youyun's face, and he laughed awkwardly.

"Do you want some soup?" the cat woman asked persistently.

Yang Youyun: "Gu——"

Li Chongguan: "...No, thank you."

Yang Youyun: "Gu——"

Li Chongcoffin: "..."

The catwoman just looked at them with a smile.

"I want soup." Di Sheng said suddenly.

While talking, he scooped up a plate for each of Li Chongguan.

Li Chongguan looked at Di Sheng in a daze, and Di Sheng repeated it solemnly: "I want to drink." People who don't drink soup are not allowed to enter the hot soup house.

"Yang Youyun and I will leave today." Li Chongguan said suddenly.

Now it was Yang Youyun's turn to be confused, he looked at Zhai Sheng, then at Li Chong's coffin.

"Let's go." Li Chongguan actually turned his back and pulled Yang Youyun, without even looking at Di Sheng, he strode back.

The catwoman giggled behind their backs.

The moment he stepped over the threshold, the door of Retangju closed with a creak.

Yang Youyun looked at Li Chong's coffin, and then at his own feet. When he came, there were three people and a cat, and when he left, there were only two people left.

The God of Wealth also slipped away halfway.

"What's going on?" Yang Youyun said, "Brother Quan, you..."

"Youyun." Li Chongguan said, "Do you still remember what the cat woman said last night?"

"You can call me 'Yang Zi'," Yang Youyun scratched his cheek, and said, "Which one? Drink soup?"

"No." Li Chongguan said, "It's 'three living, one dead'."

"I was wondering 'Where is the dead man'?" Li Chongguan led Yang Youyun and walked slowly, intending to return to Xiaoquan Hall, "Then last night, I saw Zhai Sheng woke up."

"Isn't he just fainting?" Yang Youyun asked in surprise.

"That's true, but at that time..." Li Chongguan saw the newspaper stand on the side of the street, squatted down, and said, "Here's a copy of the morning newspaper."

The guy who watched the stall was a little kid, he looked at Li Chong's coffin as if he was insane, rolled his eyes, and said mockingly: "Sir, let's see what time it is, which morning newspaper should I buy?"

Li Chongguan rolled up his sleeves and looked at his watch, only to find that the minute and minute hands were motionless as if they were rusted, only the second hand was walking alone.

Standing behind Li Chong's coffin, Yang Zi suddenly said, "...Brother Quan, look up at the sky."

When Li Chongguan turned his head, he was filled with the orange-red glow, the blood-stained glow was like the expensive rubies embedded in the queen's jewelry, and he couldn't help but think of those blood-red eyes.

It's sunset.

Yang Youyun suddenly squatted down again, and asked the child with a kind smile: "Hey, what day is it today?"

The child reported the time impatiently.

yesterday.

"Today" is still yesterday.

damn it.

"Let's go." Li Chongguan shook his head and said.

"Then Zhai Sheng..." Yang Youyun frowned and said.

"Let's go back and talk about it." Li Chongguan only said, "Go back and talk about it."

As soon as Li Chong's coffin entered the door, the first thing he did was to search for something in the incense burner.Turned out a new note unexpectedly.

There are three sentences written on it.

"[-]"

"[-]"

The remaining sentence seemed to be a couplet. Li Chongguan didn't look at it any more, and directly crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it into the trash can.

"Three living people and one dead person." Li Chongcoffin leaned on the chair of the Eight Immortals, and his expression was rather gloomy. He lowered his head and put a hand on his forehead. After a long time, he said, "I didn't I expected that there would be three living people and one dead person..."

The "dead man" is Zhai Sheng.

"what……?"

"……what did you say?"

Yang Youyun murmured in disbelief.

"The dead person is...Zhai Sheng?"

"Zhai Sheng woke up last night." Li Chongguan said softly, "In the middle of the night, he got up alone and went out without looking back."

"The movement is extremely fast, and it really doesn't look like a living person."

"It's more like... a cat."

Li Chongco said.

"That night, Di Sheng's shadow reflected on the wall."

"It's also a cat."

Yang Youyun didn't speak for a long time.

"It's getting dark, what to eat." Li Chongguan got up and said, "The marinated eggs will be here soon."

Yang Youyun suddenly lost his appetite, so he forced a smile to make his expression not so scary, and said something casually.

"Brother Quan, I...we," Yang Youyun asked hesitantly, "will you go back?"

"Yes." Li Chongguan avoided Yang Youyun's eyes and said, "But not for Zhai Sheng."

"It's for the Heavenly Master, I know it." Yang Youyun said, "I know it all."

Li Chongguan only glanced at Yang Youyun with a hint of pity, fixed his eyes on his feet, and replied: "You... don't know anything."

These words somehow hit Yang Youyun's pain point, he threw the bag on his shoulder to the ground with a bang, and shouted: "I know everything! Brother Quan!"

Li Chong'an lightly said "heh" and shook his head.

I don't know if there was something in his heart, or he was stung by Li Chong'an's noncommittal attitude, Yang Youyun's eyes turned red, and he sat down on his buttocks, and the tall and thick old men sat on the ground and began to wipe their tears.

Li Chongguan made some simple food, then sat on the table beside him, watching Yang Youyun sobbing and crying like a little girl, and he took the time to eat.

Yang Youyun was already starving to death, but when he smelled the scent, he immediately lost the strength to cry, and moved to the table while wiping away his tears and started to gobble it up.

Li Chongguan couldn't hold back, lowered his head, and smiled secretly.

Yang Youyun noticed it, glared at Li Chong's coffin, and continued to eat while crying.

I don't know if the rice tastes too salty.

After the meal, it was almost dark, Li Chongguan packed up his things, sat with his legs crossed, propped his head with his hands, and looked at Yang Youyun.

"Yang Zi." Li Chongguan said, "You said you know everything, so what do you know?"

"Let's talk about it," he said.

When Yang Youyun heard this, he felt uncomfortable again, and after a long time, he choked out a sentence: "I once stayed at Zhai's house for a while."

Li Chongguan nodded, and said: "Well, I know, it's like a secret agent lurking in the enemy's army during the Republic of China."

Yang Youyun couldn't say yes, and he couldn't say no, so he shook his head and said, "Almost."

"I went to the library of the Zhai family," Yang Youyun said softly, "I read the diaries of the previous heads of the Zhai family."

"...Have you lived many years?"

Li Chong'an's expression suddenly changed.

"There are five gatekeepers in total, Li Chen Lu Zhai Luo, they are all in name only."

"When did you start, and gradually become busy?"

"Or because of something," Yang Youyun asked, "there are suddenly more demons and monsters in this world?"

"Brother Quan." Yang Youyun said.

"'That thing', what is it?"

Li Chongguan lowered his head and sat on the Eight Immortals chair with his legs crossed, without making a sound.

"Brother Quan."

Yang Youyun said again.

"...You don't need to know." Li Chongguan said suddenly, "You don't need to know."

"The Yang family is not even one of the five sects, do you know that?" Li Chongguan crossed his hands in front of his mouth, and said, "As for what you just said about sneaking into the Zhai family as an undercover agent, I have every reason to kill you now." it's here."

"You don't need to know so much," he said. "Who did you talk to about these things?"

Yang Youyun keenly felt a murderous look in Li Chong's eyes.

Just as Yang Youyun was about to say something, he heard a slightly cold female voice.

"Then I need to know so much?"

"Brother Quan?"

It's Lu Dan.

"I know you have lived for many years, and I know 'that thing'." Lu Dan looked at Li Chong's coffin and said word by word, "Do I need to know how many years you have lived and why? After working so hard, why can’t we do it after death?”

"Lu Dan, the current head of the Lu family, the third of the five sects," Lu Dan said softly, "is a lonely ghost."

"Is it necessary to know?"

Li Chongguan didn't speak anymore.

Li Chongguan wanted to say that it was unnecessary.

No need.

To Lu Dan's eyes, he couldn't say anything.

This is the first time that Lu Dan used "you" to him in many years.

So Li Chongguan backed away. He thought for a while, looked into Lu Dan's eyes, and replied, "Now is not the time."

Now is not the time.

Lu Dan sneered, and made a small, almost inaudible sound, but it hit Li Chong's coffin hard like a thunder.

Now is not the time, it is the same saying as "you don't need to know", he Li Chongguan said it to Lu Dan and Chen Zhinan, I don't know how many times.

Even to Chen Xu, Li Chongguan had never been honest.

She was thinking too much, why is it necessary?

"Chen Zhinan is gone," Li Chongguan said after finishing the topic and talking about business, "he's not dead."

"Go find him later, Retangju."

Lu Dan nodded and said, "Okay."

After a while, he said again, "This is the last time."

"Brother Quan, I'm a little tired."

"This is for Brother Nan, the last time." Lu Dan turned his back and said, "The things are also with you."

"Reincarnation... forget it." She said softly, "Forget it."

"Are you... are you a human or a ghost?" Lu Dan said, "It doesn't matter anymore."

Yang Youyun didn't say much all the way, but at least with Yang Yue's instructions, he should do everything properly, and the two of them quickly returned to the door of Retangju, pushed the door and went in.

Just as night fell, the cat lady didn't guard the door, and finally he didn't have to worry about whether to drink the "hot soup" with unknown ingredients, which made Yang Youyun feel a little more relaxed.

Li Chongguan took them all the way in, until "last night" when he saw the man's house, he touched it.

There were still bright red lanterns hanging high outside, lighting up the sky so red that it looked like fire.

There was still a luxurious bronze mirror hanging inside, and a man in a mandarin jacket stood inside.Wearing braids of the Qing Dynasty, he looks pretty good, with a nose that is a nose and eyes that are eyes, and thick lips, with an honest and honest appearance.

The man saw Li Chong's coffin again.

He reached out and tapped on the mirror.

"Hello." Li Chongguan said, "Can you tell us who you are?"

[You should leave, leave immediately. ] The man mouthed excitedly, [You shouldn't appear here again, 99 people are already here, it's too late, this place is going to disappear...]

[Leave, leave now! ]

The man slapped the mirror desperately, and the knocked mirror made a clanging sound, which was particularly harsh in the silent night.

After communicating with Li Chongguan, Lu Dan already understood what happened during this period of time, so he raised his index finger to his lips and let out a "shh".

"Don't move too much, it will attract cats." Lu Dan said slowly.

"Our friend has disappeared, and we won't go away until we find him."

"We need your help."

After listening to Lu Dan's words, the man stopped beating the bronze mirror desperately, and urged them to leave.

[Too late, today is the fourth day. ]

[Five more days, five more days. ]

[Before the ninth day, you have to leave. ]

The man said.

At this time, Dangdang, the bell rang again.

[It's midnight, you can't stay outside anymore. ] As the man said, he tapped the bronze mirror lightly again, [She will investigate from door to door. ]

"he?"

[Catwoman. ] The man said, [My love. ]

[My... former lover. ]

Li Chongguan wanted to ask more questions, but there was no time, so the three had to leave in a hurry and returned to the original room.The quilt was spread messily, and Zhai Sheng was not on the bed.

The next morning was the fifth day.

When Li Chongguan opened his eyes, he saw Di Sheng lying beside him.Zhai Sheng woke up and saw Li Chong's coffin, he didn't seem surprised at all, even nodded slightly, and said: "Morning, Brother Quan."

Then Carp got up stiffly, went to the door, and started to make soup.

Everything is so strange and harmonious.

During the day, Lu Dan was not there, and there were three living people and one dead person left. Yes, the God of Wealth also came back, nestling comfortably in Li Chong's coffin.

It's a pity that the dead person didn't realize that he was a dead person, and the living person in Li Chong's coffin didn't realize that he was a living "person" at all.

Li Chongcoin, Zhai Sheng and Yang Youyun started wandering around the Retangju, trying to find some clues.Knowing that Retang Juli's time passed extremely slowly, Li Chong'an was no longer so anxious, so it was still a long time before Chen Zhinan's "first seven".

He just hoped that the night would fall quickly so that he could meet the so-called "lover" of the catwoman at night.

Retangju's original straight alley that can be seen at a glance seems to be different, and the narrow alley is still as narrow as before, but it is winding like a maze, turning left and right, in a mess.Yang Youyun and Li Chongguan fought, and in the end Yang Youyun won and said to go to the right, so the four of them turned to the right when they met the intersection.

Until a strange-looking cat blocked their way.

Uh, no.

He was very ugly, with braids on his head.