If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 211: Saving the Ghost with Clever Words
"Woof woof woof~~~" At midnight that night, Xiaoyu heard Xiaoqiang's cry again.

"Stop screaming~~~" Xiaoyu leaned his head out of the window and shouted softly, then turned around to look around.

It was already after three o'clock in the morning.

Tianbao Residence was dark. Shaoyao, Heimei and the maids all turned off the lights and went to rest.

I don't know if they were woken up. Hei Mei, Shaoyao, and Kunlun slave Pang Moler were probably awake, as they know martial arts.

Xiaoyu felt a little embarrassed and blamed Gouzi.

It doesn’t need to be shouted at all.

She can hear its evil cries and will not mistake them for the barking of another wild dog, so she just needs to bark softly outside.

"Why are you yelling so loudly? Hey, you wild ghost, you are so brave to come to me."

Xiao Yuru flew over seven or eight feet in the air and landed lightly. Just as he was about to teach Xiao Qiang a lesson, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew in from the entrance of the alley.

She didn't even need to turn around to look, she could already sense the evil spirit.

The distance was quite far, and it was a dark mass, so it wasn't very clear.

She took a few quick steps and saw a ball of black wind spinning at the foot of the wall. Inside it was a female ghost with long hair, white clothes and a white coat, and her tongue hanging to her chest.

His face was swollen and blue, his eyes were bulging and bloodshot, and his sticky tongue was big and fat, very ugly and scary.

The hanged ghost stared with eyes wide open, and asked, "Are you the righteous Yu Fengxian? The Yu Fengxian who killed the gods at the gate of the government?"

"It's me, isn't it? Are you Zhang Xiaoqiao from Qinghe Village, whose husband's soul was captured by the flat-headed general?"

Xiao Yu started to be alert, and although he didn't show it on his face, his spiritual eyes in his heart were investigating everywhere.

She saw a member of the Guan family.

The Guan family members had a sad look on their faces as if their brother had died. They were squatting on a distant rooftop, gazing at the moon in a daze. Now they floated over, looking at Zhang Xiaoqiao in surprise and doubt, and kept approaching until they were within five meters.

"It's me, Zhang Xiaoqiao, a commoner, asking the hero to save my husband!"

After confirming Xiaoyu's identity, Zhang Xiaoqiao immediately knelt on her knees and cried out.

"You get up first." Xiaoyu looked around and said, "You can float. Come with me to the yard to talk."

It is inconvenient to talk in the small alley. Not to mention the neighbors nearby, there are drunkards passing by from time to time on Xianyang Avenue outside.

"I can't go." Zhang Xiaoqiao's call made Xiaoyu stop.

"Where can I go? I live there." Xiaoyu pointed at the stone steps of Tianbaoju.

"I can't enter that yard. It's a pagoda. There's Buddha's light shining from inside. Ghosts are not allowed to approach." Zhang Xiaoqiao said.

Xiaoyu looked towards Tianbaoju in surprise.

She had felt that the seven-story tower looked a bit like a pagoda, but she had never expected that.
“It’s not a pagoda, it’s where I live.”

"It is the pagoda. I see the Buddha's light." Zhang Xiaoqiao insisted.

Xiao Yu resisted the urge to enter the ghost path to check out Tianbaoju, and said, "Let's go to the rooftop opposite to talk."

She leaped up and down, covering a distance of seventy to eighty feet, and landed on the roof of her neighbor's house.

This time, Zhang Xiaoqiao came over with a gloomy wind.

"Did you go to Xiaojingxuan to see me last night?"

Zhang Xiaoqiao nodded and said, "My husband's soul was seduced by the flat-headed general. I went to Guaizi Mountain to look for him, but was caught by the flat-headed general and was humiliated and tortured in various ways.

After escaping with great difficulty, I was introduced by a good ghost to go to the City God Temple in Tianmen Town to find Guan Chenghuang.

Although Guan Cheng Huang is amiable, he is useless. "

Wen Jiaju was so angry that he almost couldn't help but step forward and scold.

Zhang Xiaoqiao could not see the duty officer in the crack of the "divine way" and continued, "I was sent to the underworld by Guan Chenghuang, and I cried out to the judge and the ghost messenger, but they were just cruel to me and locked me in a dark room.

I howled every day and screamed every night, and finally escaped again.

I heard the ghost messenger and the evil ghost were talking about the righteous Tian Yu Fengxian, and I also heard that you lived in Soy Sauce Lane.

Then I came to you.

I didn’t find you yesterday, so I planned to go home to check, but I was caught by General Flathead again.

I came to see you again today. Your big yellow dog seemed to be psychic and led me here."

Xiao Yu asked: "Since you were captured by General Biantou, why did you escape?"

Zhang Xiaoqiao said, "General Bietou told me that if I lead you outside the city, he would release my husband."

After a pause, she continued, "He told me not to tell you these words, and only lied to you that my husband was doing hard labor somewhere on Lianghe Beach, and there were only a few ghost soldiers guarding him, and asked you to go and rescue him."

Xiaoyu looked at her in surprise for a long time, not sure whether this hanged man was a fool, a shrewd one, or just a wise fool?
"Since General Biantou asked you to lie, why did you confess?"

Not only is he being honest, but he is also being honest first and then telling a lie.

Zhang Xiaoqiao's swollen, dark face was expressionless, and her eyes were dull. She said, "If the righteous Yun Tianyu Fengxian is really loyal and came with me to Guaizi Mountain to save my husband, she is our family's great benefactor, and I must not lie to her.

I said this to General Bietou.

He whipped me with a whip, left for a while, and then came back to tell me that he would not hurt me, he just wanted to see me.

If you are determined not to go to Lianghe Beach with me, I will ask you - do you still remember your father by the Liusha River? "

Xiao Yu was about to twist his expression for "the father king by the Quicksand River" when the "method of killing the Dune King" that had disappeared was reactivated.

Her expression didn't twist, and her mouth didn't twitch; there was only a dull look on her face.

——How did Da Mie Ba get reactivated? Even if General Biantou is the King of Dune, they haven't met yet!

Is it true that after death, in order to resume the Great Destruction of the Father, it is not necessary to meet with the ghost?
Hey, what's going on with this damn Dune King? His Purple Mansion is actually running at full capacity. Could it be that the "Pure Yang Sword Qi" can't kill him?
"Yi Bo Yun Tian Yu Feng Xian, you will go out of the city to rescue my husband, right?"

When the hanged ghost saw her in a daze, his eyes suddenly became sharp and there was a more eerie and strange aura about him, making him look even more frightening.

Xiaoyu came back to her senses and stared at her for a while, vaguely feeling that this hanged man had reached some critical point.

Once she passes the critical point, such as when she is flatly rejected and completely despairs, she may transform into some kind of vicious monster.

She didn't feel any fear in her heart, just some emotion and curiosity.

I feel sad for the suffering Zhang Xiaoqiao has gone through, and I wonder if she can transform from an ordinary resentful spirit into a giant monster like Sadako and Kayako.

Even if it was really Kayako or Sadako, Xiaoyu now only felt curiosity and had no fear at all.

"Why do you have to save your husband? Is it because you love him and can't live without him, or do you think a wife must find a way to save her husband?"

The hanged ghost was stunned for a moment and murmured, "Is there any difference?"

Xiao Yu pondered and said, "The difference is a bit big, you like him, and you saved him for who he is.

If it was because the latter saved him, it was for moral reasons.

If it is for the moral obligation between husband and wife, I cannot help you, because it is immoral for you to let a stranger, a righteous man, go out of the city and take risks. "

If it didn't involve the Eight Ghost Kings of Guaizi Mountain, and it was just an ordinary evil ghost abducting the souls of the villagers, and a ghost asked her for help, she really wouldn't mind spending half the night going out of the city to kill the evil ghost.

If Zifu could quickly deduce a method to kill General Biantou, she might also find a way to get King Shaqiu closer to Tianmen Town so that she could go out and meet him.

It's very strange. He was just a mortal with no martial arts when he was alive, but now General Biantou can't be killed directly by the Pure Yang Sword Qi.

Zifu was currently developing a new and complex method of killing, but progress was still slow. It wasn't that the Pure Yang Sword Qi was useless, it just couldn't completely kill the Flathead General.

The hanged man begged, "Please, save my husband. I, I like him. I am saving him for him."

Xiao Yu stared at her for a while and sighed, "Well, go find General Biantou outside the city and tell him, 'Humans and ghosts have different paths, so it's better not to meet.'"

She was deeply touched by Zhang Xiaoqiao's persistence and experience.

After the Flathead General took away her husband's soul, causing his physical death, she immediately hanged herself and followed him.

After discovering that her husband had not entered the underworld, she began to search everywhere for his soul.

He even ventured alone into the ghost country of Guaizi Mountain many times.

After escaping from Guaizi Mountain, he looked for ghosts for help everywhere and finally went to the City God Temple.

She was sent to the City of the Dead by the ghost messenger of the City God Temple, but she was still obsessed with it and escaped again, and came to her to rescue her husband.
She certainly would not risk leaving the city for this strange hanged man, even if she might become "Zhang Zhenzi".

But even without leaving the city or taking any risks, she was certain that she could reunite the couple.

The chances are pretty good.

But everything has a price.

Tonight she helped Zhang Xiaoqiao, but from now on her evil son Chi Miao might have to suffer.

"He told me that he would only release my husband if you went to Lianghe Beach to see him." said the hanged ghost.

"Then add one more sentence - Zhang Xiaoqiao is a pitiful person. If father still cares about our old friendship, then let them go. And..."

Seeing the hanged ghost looking silly, Xiao Yu sighed and said, "Can you carry the letter?"

The hanged ghost said, "You'd better burn the letter for me."

"Then wait a moment."

Xiaoyu quickly returned to Tianbaoju and wrote a few lines on the paper with a brush.

Without any flowery words, he just repeated what he had said to Zhang Xiaoqiao in plain language.

Of course, "it doesn't matter if we don't meet" was a much more tactful way of saying it. She also said that she was extremely happy to hear the news about him and would definitely burn more paper money to honor him.

In short, be very polite first, and then make your request.

In addition to releasing Zhang Xiaoqiao's husband, more content explains her relationship with the ghost messenger Chi Miao: He is my godson and your grandson, we are all a family, let him go too.

After returning to the roof of the house opposite with the letter, the fire stick and the black iron sword, Xiao Yu asked, "Can you read?"

“I only know a few.”

Xiaoyu unfolded the letter and asked her to read it. "Are there any words you don't recognize?"

"No." The hanged man shook his head.

Xiaoyu set the letter on fire, and then saw with his own eyes Zhang Xiaoqiao bending down and taking out another intact letter from the "ghost path".

"Go."

Xiaoyu waved her hand, and the hanged ghost turned into a gust of cold wind and disappeared in front of her.

She stood on the roof, the night wind blowing her hair and skirt, and she didn't move for a long time.

Ghosts walk on the ghost path, which is much faster than humans walking on the human path.

People walked on the road, and it would take several hours to get from Tianmen Town to Lianghe Beach, a distance of more than 100 miles on horseback.

The ghosts walked on ghost roads, and the hundreds of miles from Feixiandu to Hengshaguan were just like ordinary people strolling around the night market in Tianmen Town, taking a leisurely walk.

In less than half an hour (one hour), the hanged ghost Zhang Xiaoqiao came in front of the flat-headed general.

The flat-headed general rode a tall horse.

The warhorse's eyes were emitting green fire, its skin and flesh were rotting, and maggots could be seen crawling among the bones and rotten flesh.

"General Biantou, Yiboyuntian Yu Fengxian has a letter for you."

The hanged man handed over the letter and quickly repeated the contents of the letter.

"Damn it, that bastard actually dared not listen to me——"

"you shut up!"

As the flat-headed general uttered a curse, thick darkness came like a tide, drowning him and the hanged man.

The hanged man was in a daze, like a wooden stake, and did not hear the loud shouts of "Shut up!" at all.

Prince Lu appeared silently in front of Zhang Xiaoqiao, his eyes flashing a strange red light.

"Tell me everything that Yu Fengxian said to you."

Zhang Xiaoqiao's already dull face became even more confused and foolish, and her cloudy, bulging eyes completely lost their luster.

"She asked me why I had to save my husband."

As long as it was still in her memory, she described it in detail.

Prince Lu's figure slowly dissipated in the thick black fog.

"Brother Wang?" General Biantou was a little at a loss.

Prince Lu ignored him and returned to the palace of Prince Lu and asked, "What does Yu Fengxian mean?"

The shadow smiled faintly and said, "It's clearly stated in the letter."

Prince Lu said: "I am not talking about the content of the letter. She asked the hanged ghost whether she saved her husband out of personal preference or for moral reasons. What is the deep meaning?"

The shadow thought for a moment and said hesitantly: "She probably wants to put off the hanged ghost. She doesn't want to risk leaving the city for a strange ghost."

King Lu said: “She said it directly, it is very immoral for the Hanged Man to let her, a stranger, go out of the city and take risks.

Being able to say such words, Yu Fengxian's reluctance is almost directly exposed on the table."

The shadow sighed, "She really isn't that easy to fish out."

"But she definitely doesn't understand the Eight Kings Palace and doesn't know we are trying to lure her. The danger she thinks is just that it's very dangerous to meet the ghost soldiers in the wilderness." King Lu said.

The black shadow groaned for a while and said, "Release the hanged ghost and her husband, and then test Yu Fengxian's attitude."

"She also wants to release her ghost messenger." Prince Lu said in a matter-of-fact tone: "Obviously, she only cares about the ghost messenger, and she is only perfunctory to the hanged ghost.

If you want to gain her trust, being a hanged husband is far from enough."

The shadow said calmly: “The hanged ghost’s husband is a complete stranger and means nothing to her.

It means nothing to her and it has no value to us.

So you can let him go first and test her attitude.

If she releases her ghost messenger now, all her efforts might end up in vain.

Keep her son and release her hanged husband. If she dares to treat you perfunctorily, you will make her son wail in agony!!”

King Lu agreed with these words very much.

(End of this chapter)