Way of the Devil

Chapter 1: Taoism is ruthless

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The cold wind was like a knife, and the snow was flying.

As soon as Lu Sheng opened his eyes, he saw that he was sitting in a yellow-gray carriage. The carriage was shaking a little, and there was the voice of a little girl talking softly beside him.

Outside the carriage, there was a lot of noisy voices.

There are cries, shouts, and cheers. And the laughter of children.

Lu Sheng sighed deeply.

He knew that he couldn't go back. It had been five days since he was an old oily guy in a state-owned enterprise waiting to die, and woke up to this world after getting drunk.

He sniffed his nose, the air smelled of wine, pancakes, and fried fruit.

"Oh, the white osmanthus wine in the osmanthus workshop is getting more and more fragrant."

The personal maid in the carriage, Xiao Qiao, said with a milky voice.

Xiao Qiao is only twelve years old this year. Coupled with her natural baby face, she is also small in stature. It looks like a ten-year-old child. The little face is chubby, rosy, wearing a small green cotton skirt, and the little hands are still rubbing the hair rope that Lu Sheng is about to get out of the car to tie his hair.

This kind of hair rope is made of a very expensive bark, which will naturally emit a light fragrance, but the only disadvantage is that it will harden when it is cold, and it needs to be rubbed with hot hands to soften it.

Lu Sheng smiled, but didn't speak.

The carriage stopped quickly.

He opened the curtain and got out of the car. The gray-white street was paved with bluestone bricks, each of which was the size of a washbasin.

There were cars and cars on the street, and there were people leading horses to and fro.

The hawkers and the girls and female relatives who came out to hang out were not shy, and they laughed coquettishly in public.

Lu Sheng looked up at the wine shop in front of him.

The white plaque is in the shape of a rectangle, with three big characters written in the middle of the dragon and phoenix dancing: Osmanthus Square.

"Young Master Lu is here! Please come inside! The A-size wing room is reserved for you!" A servant came up to him with a smile on his face.

Lu Sheng nodded, acting like a rich man, took the silver-edged white paper fan from Xiao Qiao's hand, shook it lightly, and the fan unfolded, on which was a picture of mountains and rivers, mountains and rivers rising and falling, overlapping light and dark, and At a glance, it is the inscription of everyone's demeanor.

He followed the boy into the winery with ease.

The wine shop is divided into two floors. There are many people sitting in the lobby on the first floor listening to people singing.

A girl in green clothes stood crisply in the empty space, her voice was melodious, and there was a middle-aged woman playing a pipa beside her.

The song is a biography of Sanhui, which is about the poignant love between the expedition general and the mountain fox girl.

It's a pity that the drinkers present are all rough people, only a few literati can still understand, and the rest turn a blind eye to the two young girls. There are not many rewards.

Lu Sheng stopped in his tracks, seeing how lively the first floor was, he simply found an empty seat on the first floor and sat down.

"Who ordered the biography of the three sessions?" He casually asked the servant.

His status in this sweet-scented osmanthus shop is different. If this sweet-scented osmanthus shop is equivalent to a high-end entertainment club on earth, then he is the supreme VIP customer here. A master who spends at least hundreds of thousands a year.

Such expenses are already considered top customers in a small northern city like Jiulian City.

"It's Young Master Zhou. Zhou Que, Young Master Zhou." The servant replied in a low voice.

Lu Sheng didn't make things difficult for him, so he let him go with a wave.

After pulling Xiaoqiao to sit down, he glanced around the crowd on the first floor, and soon saw a pale and thin young man, dressed in white, holding a golden lotus-leaf folding fan with a bag in his hand, lightly rocking.

"I guess I fell in love with that little singing girl again." Lu Sheng shook his head.

"The eldest son just warned him last time, this guy is really a bad guy!" Xiao Qiao pouted dissatisfiedly.

Lu Sheng smiled and stopped talking. Start listening to the music quietly.

A table of wine and food was quickly served on the dark red wooden table, and Lu Sheng picked up a pinch of fried shredded pork with lettuce and put it in his mouth. Take another sip of white cinnamon wine, which is similar to a drink. The light sweet and floral aroma is mixed together, just like drinking fruit juice.

"Beautiful clothes and good food, no worries, and little beauties and maids warming the bed, this kind of life is simply too corrupt." Lu Sheng sometimes wondered whether he should just live like this for the rest of his life, anyway, this kind of rice bug This life is also what he has been pursuing in his previous life.

Take a sip of food and drink a sip of wine.

Open her mouth again and let Xiao Qiao stuff a peeled brine ice shrimp.

In Snow City of the Northland, the ice shrimp is a specialty here. If you fish it in the thick ice hole, you can get a lot of translucent shrimp.

This is ice shrimp.

The body length of ice shrimp is half that of ordinary shrimp, but its taste is extremely delicious. The shrimp meat melts in the mouth, and it is delicious.

Of course the price is also very expensive. Eating once a month is considered a luxury for ordinary people, where can you have every meal like him.

While Lu Sheng was eating delicious food, drinking fine wine, and listening to a little song, he was thinking about other things.

It has been so many days since he came to this world similar to ancient China. But according to his observation, the world has many oddities.

At first he thought he was back in ancient times, but then he found out that he was not. The customs and festival climate here are far different from any dynastic region he knows.

Lu Sheng was thinking about something, but the door of the winery opened again.

A group of strong men in short jackets walked in one after another, found a table near the corner and sat down.

These strong men were not locals at a glance. Their clothes looked more like they came from the Central Plains, and their clothes were not as rough as those in the Northland.

"well."

The burly man at the head had a bald head, copper earrings, and a swollen face, but at this moment he sighed: "I can't live through this day."

"Brother, what are you worried about? We can't get through Li's Village. We can take the second route. It's okay to take a detour from Zhang Village." Another man frowned.

"What do you know, when I came to meet up, I came from Zhang Village. The situation is similar to that of Li Family Village, and many people died." The flesh on the bald face trembled, and his expression became more sad.

"What happened in the end, big brother, you tell the brothers to hear, and let us increase our knowledge." A man urged.

The bald-headed man sighed again: "I don't know exactly what happened. I only know that accidents happened in several fishing villages by Suiyang Lake. It seems that there are water ghosts."

"Water ghost!? Isn't it?"

Lu Sheng's table was not far from them, and they could hear their undisguised chat. Originally, he was just listening to it for fun, but he didn't expect these people to chat about supernatural things.

The Lu family in his current life is one of the most powerful families in this northern ice city, and their wealth is still small. If you compare it on the earth, it is at least a rich person with assets exceeding 100 million.

When he went out to drink these few days, he also heard a lot of rumors about monsters, gods and ghosts in the wine shop, but most of them were legends. This is the first time that these people have had such a personal experience.

So Lu Sheng pricked up his ears and listened carefully. Fortunately, those few people did not hide it. Continue to chat loudly about the strange things in the fishing village.

"That water ghost, I saw it with my own eyes. It is more than ten feet tall, with a blue face and long fangs, covered with a lot of water plants. Be good, if it weren't for your big brother, I can run fast, and now you don't even want to see me." I still have lingering fears.

"Brother, do water ghosts really exist?" A man didn't believe it.

"I'm afraid it's not a story you made up, brother?" Another man laughed.

Lu Sheng also found it funny when he heard this, probably some brash braggart came out of nowhere.

During this period of time, he had seen a lot of people like this.

After eating and drinking, he asked the boy to bring over the showgirl's playlist, and browsed at will.

Although the biography of the Three Sessions was good, but it wasn't suitable for the occasion, so he planned to change it to a more cheerful one.

Snapped!

But at this moment, the bald man blushed and slapped the table.

"You really think that I, Boss Hu, can only brag!? Look, look what it is! A piece of bone that the water ghost fell on the ground! I picked it up secretly afterwards!" He carefully took out a piece from his bosom. A jade-like green stone was slapped on the table.

"Isn't this just a piece of miscellaneous jade!" A man laughed.

"Miscellaneous jade? This is miscellaneous jade?! Put your mother's shit!"

The bald man blushed.

"This brother. Can you show me this thing."

Suddenly a gentle voice came from the side.

Lu Sheng stood by the table with a smile on his face, his eyes swept over the green jade on the table.

"Do you dare to ask for this thing? It's something left by the water ghost." The bald man said in amazement. He just took it out now, and planned to throw it away in a while. After all, this is not something left by people. If you really want to attract water ghosts to make trouble, then the loss outweighs the gain.

"It's okay. I'll just take a look." Lu Sheng didn't believe in water ghosts, he just saw that the jade looked good, not like ordinary miscellaneous jade.

You should know that general miscellaneous jade can be bought everywhere in the shops and stalls. The scraps of jade are polished at will, and the price is extremely cheap. But for some reason, when he saw this piece of jade, he felt something was wrong.

Hu Boss, a strong bald man, looked at Lu Sheng, and saw that he had an extraordinary temperament and was dressed in a luxurious manner.

She was dressed in white fox fur in Tsing Yi, wore a sapphire official hat, and black-soled boots with moiré patterns embroidered with silver thread. A whole set of clothes can be spent in this sweet-scented osmanthus workshop for several months, even enough for ordinary people to live for more than a year.

"My lord, it's not impossible, eh... just a tael of silver!" The strong man hesitated for a while, and tried to speak.

"Okay." Lu Sheng asked Xiaoqiao to take out a piece of silver and put it on the table.

"This is yours." The bald head decisively picked up the jade and stuffed it into Lu Sheng's hand. Several people exchanged glances, got up and left.

Lu Sheng didn't speak, and watched them leave, holding the jade in his hand, and took a closer look.

"One tael of silver, if you change it to China on Earth, the purchasing power is equivalent to a thousand yuan. It means that you can be so rich and powerful in this life."

He shook his head, one tael of silver was nothing to him, according to the memory of this body, his monthly expenses on weekdays were at least a hundred taels of silver. Occasionally there are many, and it may cost thousands of taels. That's millions!

Thinking of this, he thought to himself that he was a prodigal. Holding the jade, he ignored the eyes of the guests watching the excitement, but left the winery with Xiao Qiao on his feet, and walked towards the waiting carriage outside.

But just after he left the winery, before walking halfway, he was startled suddenly, picked up the jade and put it in the palm of his hand.

The jade was in the palm of his hand, in the palm of his right hand, and it actually melted.

The originally hard stone turned into a ball of dark green mucus in just a few seconds, and a scream came from the mucus.

puff!

The whole mucus exploded suddenly, turning into a cloud of green smoke, which slowly drifted away from Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng stood there in amazement, and when he glanced at it, the jade was still in his hand, but the green inside had quietly disappeared at some point.

"That was just now..." He stood there in a daze, recalling the previous scene for a while.

"Young Master? Young Master??" Xiao Qiao kept calling him from the side.

Lu Sheng came back to his senses, and looked at the jade in his hand, it was just an ordinary pebble, not even jade.

His heart was a little hairy, but he vaguely understood something.

"Let's go, go back to the house!"

Xiaoqiao blinked her eyes, a little unresponsive: "Oh...."

The two got into the carriage, the coachman picked up the whip and whipped it a few times, and the two long-haired black horses started to walk slowly.

In the carriage, Lu Sheng kept looking at the pebbles in his hand without saying a word.

Xiaoqiao also noticed the strangeness of the stone at this time.

"I've been fooled again!" She murmured in her heart, not saying much, the eldest son is not bad this time, the biggest time he was cheated before was for a so-called antique jug, which cost thousands of taels of silver , almost pissed off the master.

This time it was only a tael of silver, and sometimes the young master would spend more than that for a meal.

The carriage went all the way home. When passing by the gate of the city, Lu Sheng heard someone shouting outside.

".....I heard that the water ghost was eliminated before! A wandering Taoist took action to relieve the danger of the fishing village!"

"Has anyone come from the court?"

"It's early. I heard that even the Ouyang catcher of the prefect's yamen in the city almost fell into it. Fortunately, I met a wandering Taoist. It is said that when the Taoist made a move, a golden light flashed, and the water ghost screamed on the spot and turned green. slime, and then exploded into a cloud of smoke."

"Didn't it be done by the masters of the imperial court?"

"of course not!"

Lu Sheng heard that it was the officers guarding the city gate chatting.

He would pass by the city gate on purpose from time to time. The officers and soldiers here are well-informed, and they all like to brag about strange things everywhere.

"It's a coincidence..." Lu Sheng remained calm. He recalled the piece of jade before, and his heart sank.

The carriage slowly drove towards the most prosperous Kurong Street in the city.

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