Ye Sanqi took out two chopsticks from the chopstick holder on the table and placed them on the table. The Ninth Prince laughed and picked up one of them: "In terms of Qimen's skills, I am not as good as Brother Ye. I always like to fight with others, so the layout is left to me."
I couldn't help but frown when I heard this:
Ye Sanqi's meaning is very obvious. Only by holding two chopsticks can you put the food on your plate. The Ninth Prince and Ye Sanqi are equivalent to these two chopsticks, both of which are indispensable.
As for how to distribute the benefits, that is a matter after putting the vegetables in the bowl.
However, the Ninth Prince said he wanted to fight with others. Wasn't it left to Ye Sanqi to fight against ghosts and gods and contend with fate?
Ye Sanqi was afraid that he would suffer a loss.
Unexpectedly, Ye Sanqi nodded, and the two of them walked back to the bell tower and sat under the bell. Ye Sanqi spoke first and said, "You can tell me the conditions."
Zhong Ling, who was hanging upside down in the copper bell: "You release me and drive away the people who banned me. I can tell you everything you want to know in Xinggu City."
The bell tower in the ancient city, in addition to ringing the bell to tell the time, its greatest function is to summon the soldiers and civilians in the city. Especially in border towns, the sound of bells represents the whole city's preparations for war.
The bell spirit transformed from the ancient bell is equivalent to the god who protects the ancient city. It knows everything about the city.
Ye Sanqi looked at the Ninth Prince opposite, who smiled and said, "Then tell me who sewn you into this bell!"
Zhong Ling said quietly: "The person who sewed me up was a tailor named Jiang."
Seventeen years ago, a man named Jiang Leyou opened a tailor shop in Xinggu City.
When Jiang Leyou settled down, he didn't visit the pier or visit the neighbors, and quietly opened Jiang's Tailor Shop.
As a result, in less than three days, gangsters came to the door. Jiang Leguo welcomed him in politely. Not only did he show his filial piety, but he also gave each of them a new dress of good material.
Those gangsters thought they had Jiang Leyou under control, so they went out to eat and drink with the money they had knocked from Jiang Leyou. They drank until dark, but they found that there was no one eating around them, and there were even some people who usually looked like them. Anyone who knows them will run away when they see them.
While a group of people were still wondering, there was a sharp-eyed gangster who noticed that the stall owner always glanced at them furtively, and then quickly turned his head as if he didn't see anything.
The gangster looked more and more wrong, so he went up and arrested the boss: "What the hell are you looking at? I have flowers on my face?"
The boss had no choice but to ask: "You... why are you drinking while wearing a shroud?"
The boss's words frightened several gangsters so much that they woke up from alcohol. Only then did they see that they were wearing shrouds.
Several people cursed and tried to take off their clothes, but the shroud seemed to have grown on them and they couldn't take it off.
Someone took a knife and scratched his clothes, but made a gash on himself.
At this time, those gangsters could not understand that they had met an expert. They were so frightened that they ran to the tailor shop overnight, hoping to beg Jiang Leyou for mercy.
That night, half of the people in Xingu City saw a few gangsters wearing shrouds, running like crazy on the street. They ran past the Jiang's tailor shop several times, but they didn't seem to see the front of the tailor shop.
The next morning, people in Xingu City saw several gangsters who had been exhausted to death.
That afternoon, people from the yamen came to Jiang's Tailor Shop. However, before they reached the door, they were blocked by Boss Pei, the largest fabric merchant in Xinggu City. Boss Pei himself went to visit Jiang Leyou respectfully.
When Boss Pei saw Jiang Leyou, he gave him a big gift. The two only chatted for less than half an hour before Boss Pei welcomed Jiang Leyou into the Pei family courtyard and treated him as an honored guest.
In less than a month, news came out in Xinggu City that the daughter of the Pei family was getting married, and the groom was Jiang Leyou.
The Pei family is one of the largest families in Xinggu City, so it is natural for their daughter to get married in a glamorous manner. Boss Pei specially blocked a street and planned to hold a street-wide feast for three days. Anyone from Xinggu City could come and have a feast.
The strange thing is that during the three days of flowing water, the groom only came out three times. Each time, he walked from the street to the end of the street to look around, and then never showed up again.
Until the day when the main banquet started, Jiang Leyou walked around the streets as usual and returned to the Pei family mansion.
The door to the Pei family's mansion was also closed, forcibly barring all the guests from outside.
Celebrities from all walks of life who came to congratulate were waiting outside the gate at first, but as time went by they began to complain. Finally, a gangster leader asked someone to kick down the door of Pei's house, which almost scared the guests crazy who came to congratulate him.
There were dozens of people from the Pei family. Although they were all sitting in the yard looking in the direction of the auditorium, their heads had been peeled off. Looking around the yard, there were corpses everywhere with red and bloody heads that looked like peeled watermelons.
All the people who came to congratulate were scared away. When people from the Yamen arrived, they found out that the Pei family, the bride and groom had all died in the auditorium.
The old couple had their skins peeled off while sitting on chairs, while the bride and groom died in the auditorium. The corpses still maintained the posture of worshiping, but there was no human skin on the heads.
After that day, the Pei family became a haunted house.
People in Xinggu City often see faceless ghosts wandering around the Pei family's mansion. Since then, corpses with their faces uncovered have often appeared in Xingu City.
Seventeen years ago, in order to promote the tranquility of the ancient city, I rang the bell late at night and invited the man to come to the bell tower to meet him.
I originally wanted to persuade that person to leave Xinggu City, but he was forced to sew it in the bell.
Several ghosts and gods I had become friends with were also captured by the other party and taken away to other places. I think they must have been poisoned by the other party!
Zhong Ling stopped here. The Ninth Prince waved his fan and smiled without saying a word, but Ye Sanqi glanced at me.
At this time, I remembered that Ye Sanqi had said that I would take the lead if we encountered the secret again, and he would hold the line for me.
Ye Sanqi wants me to talk!
I raised my head and said, "Is it a human being or a ghost that sewed you here?"
"I don't know!" Zhong Ling said: "I don't even have a chance to fight back in front of him, how can I tell where he comes from?"
I asked again: "You were sealed in the bell, why did you find a mortal to ask for help?"
Zhong Ling smiled bitterly and said: "You mean, the streets are full of ghosts and gods outside, why no one helps me, right?"
"When a mortal is in trouble, how many people will come out to help him?"
"The ghosts outside are the greatest help to me if they allow mortals to approach the bell tower. If it weren't for your advanced cultivation, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to get here."
Zhong Ling's words sounded reasonable, but they didn't convince me.
I quickly asked: "Why did you choose us?"
