Not a god

Chapter 153 The Teacher and the Rich Girl

"Where is this?"

Chen Xi looked around and saw thick clouds rolling in the sky and crowds of people on the ground. It seemed as if he was in... an ancient vegetable market.

Blood spread along the cracks in the bluestone slabs, and raindrops smashed the wilted cabbage.

The crowd rushed towards the execution ground, and the crushed lychees splattered their scarlet flesh. The wind blew away half of the notice, revealing the words "Thousand Cuts". The sound of iron chains mixed with the crowing of chickens in cages, and a ray of light leaked through the thick clouds, shining on the executioner testing the blade on the stage, and... the woman in prison clothes.

When Chen Xi saw the figure in prison uniform, his heart sank.

He grabbed a person nearby and asked, "Fellow villager, may I ask what this is for?"

The man glanced at him and gestured to the stage, "Lady Lonely Moon was captured by the government and will be executed today. Everyone come and watch."

"Lady Lonely Moon?" Chen Xi was a little confused: "Fellow countryman, who is Lady Lonely Moon?"

The fellow villager gave him a strange look and said, "You haven't heard of Lady Lonely Moon? She's a famous expert in Jiangnan!"

"...I'm from the outskirts of the Great Wall, and I've never heard of him. Can you tell me who this strange man is?"

"It doesn't hurt to tell you, ahem!"

The fellow villager looked Chen Xi up and down, cleared his throat, and said:
"Speaking of this female knight Lonely Moon, her surname is Su and her given name is Jiuer. I don't know where she learned her martial arts skills. She first became famous when she broke into the headquarters of the Chuzhou Salt Smugglers alone.

She took advantage of a rainy night and split the thousand-jin black iron gate with a sword, killing 72 drug dealers and salt smugglers in a row. Finally, she nailed the main culprit to the imperial archway engraved with "Peace in the World". She became famous after the battle.

Later, because the previous prefect had privately levied the "Dragon King Tax", Su Jiuer crossed the turbulent river alone in a boat, and faced the entire "Black Scale Guard" that the prefect had raised at a high price.

She made the waves of the Yellow River into swords, and the water drops suspended on the crests of the waves became sword energy, which could penetrate eight hundred armors without wetting the corners of her clothes. The boat songs all added the lyrics "Where the sharp sword passes, the turbid waves part", and this time she became famous all over Jiangnan.

And there are more..."

The man became more and more excited as he spoke, describing the past of the Lone Moon Heroine in vivid detail.
"That evil monk from the Western Regions used young boys and girls to make the "longevity fat". In order to deal with him, Su Jiuer pretended to be a sacrificial bride and sneaked into the altar. Under the wedding dress, there were ninety-nine silver needles soaked in kerosene. When they were worshiping in the hall, the celestial maidens scattered flowers towards the phosphorescent lamps, instantly igniting the entire underground palace.

The evil monk summoned bronze-armored corpse puppets to besiege her, but she used the aroma of the wedding wine to fan the fire, and used her sword to burn away all the evil spirits.

That night, people all over the city saw the fire dragon rising into the sky, and many people heard Lonely Moon Heroine laugh happily after she killed the evil monk in the night.

This man knew everything about the deeds of the Lone Moon Heroine. Apart from these major cases, she also robbed the rich to help the poor, eliminated violence and protected the good, killed evildoers, and punished corrupt officials. He seemed proud of it as he talked about it.

Chen Xi frowned, looking at the miserable figure of Su Jiuer who was being held in the vegetable market, and said:
"But how did such a powerful female hero get caught by the government?"

"Oh, it's like this. Earlier this month, the people of this city pretended to be harassed by bandits and were in great distress. They asked for help from Lady Gu Yue. In fact, they had already contacted the government in secret. They ambushed hundreds of experts in the Baihua Tower in the city, and the four major detectives went out together to capture Lady Gu Yue."

Chen Xi couldn't help but laugh out loud, and asked, "Why would you Jiangnan people team up with the government to harm such a female hero who kills evil and protects the good, and..."

He looked at the vegetable market at that time. The crowd was crazy and looked like they wanted to eat their flesh and drink their blood. If you didn't know, you would think they were evil people.

"Hey, you don't know this!"

The fellow villager looked very proud and said, "Mr. Bujing from the north of the city said that Su Jiuer must have taken some magical medicine, otherwise how could she have such powerful skills at such a young age? Even the four great detectives could hardly catch her.

The effect of this elixir is still in her body. If she could get a bite of its flesh, she might be able to become a rare master like her. Even if she can't get a bite of its flesh, drinking a mouthful of its blood would extend her life..."

……

"Su Jiuer! You lynched an official and you should be cut into pieces!"

The execution sign thrown down by the prefect turned out to be the wooden sign that she had distributed porridge to the refugees that year, except that the word "ji" was scratched and changed to "ji".

Su Jiuer suddenly remembered the night when she killed the first corrupt official. The people kneeling in the long street begged her to chop slower: "Let this dog official howl a few more times, it will be worth our ten years of resentment."

At this moment, the same street was crowded with men and women holding ceramic bowls, waiting to cut her into pieces and divide her flesh and blood.

As the prefect announced the sentence, the flaying began.

The first cut was on the left shoulder, and the crowd cheered.

Chen Xi below wanted to go up and rescue the people, but then he found that all his supernatural powers and abilities were gone.

He was dressed in cloth, standing outside the crowd. He was just an ordinary passerby in this vegetable market and could only watch Su Jiuer being cut into pieces.

Even though he knew that this was just an illusion, Chen Xi felt heavy in his heart when he saw this scene.

Another knife cut her arm, the third knife, the fourth knife... Su Jiuer gritted her teeth and said nothing, the sweat on her cheeks like a waterfall showed her pain at the moment.

The people below were scrambling, holding up clay basins, competing for her flesh and blood, and everyone's faces became blurred.

She was barefoot and had disheveled hair. The dozens of kilograms of standing yoke pressed on the back of her neck, making it difficult for her to lift up her head.

More and more skin was exposed on her body. After being cut by the knife, her originally graceful body had nothing to do with spring scenery. It was just a piece of rotten flesh and withered bones. However, because of her strength of the second-level monarch, even in such a miserable state, she still had a breath of life left.

In fact, after more than thirty cuts, Su Jiuer was already in so much pain that she was unconscious. Her eyes were dazed as she looked at the people below who were using pots and pans to collect her flesh and blood. The faces in front of her were all familiar, but now they were slowly becoming so blurry.

She didn't know when it started, but she seemed to hear someone talking to her in her ear.

"Oh my, did you see that?"

"See? These are the people you protect."

"The consumptive scholar you saved is now picking the flesh from your legs - last month his mother was coughing up blood, and you cut your wrist and used the blood as a medicine, right?"

"Do you see the old woman in the blue coat on the left? You rescued her grandson from the fire, and now she's holding half of your intestines to make medicinal wine to cure her husband's rheumatism."

"Hahaha, look, look, you were distributing pancakes to the orphans from the west of the city the day before yesterday. They were chewing on your spleen and saying, 'The meat of a chivalrous woman is much more fragrant than the flesh of Guanyin.'"

"Look back, there is no 'umbrella of the people' behind you. It is clearly a thousand claws stained with human oil, waiting to tear you into strips and eat you with sauce.

The people you once protected now want to eat you..."

Su Jiuer was only breathing her last breath at this moment. Her body no longer looked like a human being. She just felt annoyed by the noise in her ears.

She cursed weakly: "Stop, stop making noise..."

It was at this moment that everyone in the market noticed that the Lone Moon heroine, who had been cut into pieces but had never uttered a word, actually raised her head.

She looked in a certain direction of the crowd, looking at Chen Xi who had just been discussing her with someone over there, opened her mouth, and explained with a trembling voice due to the severe pain in her body:
"The Four Great Constables... couldn't beat me. Well, that day it was just my bad condition..."

After saying this, he died and lost his life.

"..."

Is this the time to care about this? The man who secretly whispered in her ear had already accumulated a lot of anger in his heart, and said angrily:
“The third time, the third reincarnation, what’s wrong with this person? He has felt the filth of human nature so many times, and he still doesn’t understand?
In this world, you either eat people or you are eaten. It is like this for everyone, so why should we struggle? "

"Is she really so stubborn?!"

"And what exactly is 'pretending'? Why do you have such a deep obsession with 'pretending' in the depths of your soul?"

At this moment, another voice came from the side. That person sighed and said:

“Don’t worry. If you can taint this innocent heart, the malice she generates will be no weaker than that of a Daluotian-level evil corpse… Let’s start the reincarnation again.”

"The 'Ten Reincarnations' given by the Master are only enough for her to reincarnate ten times. If it's not enough even ten times..."

"After ten reincarnations, all her memories of reincarnations will be detonated. I don't believe it. Her heart is really made of diamond."

"Then let's start the reincarnation again."

"Let's start the reincarnation again."

"..."

"Speaking of which... just now, why did you suddenly feel something strange?"

"Really? It's just that you've been too tired lately."

"probably."

……

In her first life, Su Jiuer was a female doctor at Lingnan Pharmacy.

As a result, the church hospital slandered her, saying that her vaccines contained witchcraft, and in order to receive church relief money, tobacco farmers collectively accused her of gouging out the eyes of dead babies for use in medicine.

When she was tied up and taken to the Thirteenth Lines Wharf to be stoned to death, the girls she had saved rushed to throw the first stone at her because the foreigners promised to reward the one who hit her with a piece of candy. In her second life, Su Jiuer was a village teacher who carried her students across the river to see a doctor late at night.

……

In her third life, she was a famous female knight in Jiangnan. She punished evil and promoted good, robbed the rich and helped the poor. She froze fourteen states with one sword, and was eventually cut into pieces in front of the vegetable market...

In her fourth life, she was the daughter of a wealthy silk merchant in Luoyang.

She wore a silk dress embroidered with peonies in gold thread, and her hair was inlaid with pearls and rubies. She wore jade bracelets on her snow-white wrists, and the jade pendants around her waist jingled. She looked at the visitor and asked:
"You are the teacher my father hired? What can you teach?"

Chen Xi looked at Su Jiuer in front of him and had a thousand complaints in his heart.

Are you saying that the girl in front of me, dressed like a rich girl, is my junior sister who is a gym student and speaks with a Northeastern accent?

Did you know that your character is seriously ooc?
Besides, your height, appearance and voice haven't changed at all, so why has your solid figure turned into such a horrible bulge?

Are you trying to smuggle something into the illusion?
“…I teach you everything.”

At this time, a maid came over from the side room, looking confused: "Miss, the kitchen said that the big meat buns that were baked this morning were missing four just now. Did you eat them?"

Su Jiuer coughed twice and looked at the new gentleman with a guilty look: "I, I didn't eat..."

"Eh? Weird... Miss, why do you smell like meat buns..."

The maid was so confused when she saw Su Jiuer that she even forgot there was a man next to her and asked directly:
"Miss, Miss, why is your chest swollen?!"

“Ah ...

Chen Xi turned away expressionlessly.

That’s right, it’s still his silly junior sister.

"Come to class at 7:00 pm. Don't be late. Today we will be teaching "Essentials of Zhenguan Politics".

Chen Xi did not live in ancient times, but through "being good at obeying orders" and through hundreds or thousands of people, he saw a different world, including many ancient people.

However, having seen it is one thing, and living in an era that has long passed is another.

He walked around the large courtyard, observing the world here, the clothes of the people, the whispering maids, the hummingbirds landing among the flowers... everything seemed so real.

Illusion, Chen Xi knew that what he was in now was probably the illusion created by Bujingcai to bewitch Su Jiuer.

This is a world full of malice that targets Su Jiuer everywhere.

He was asked to bring Su Jiuer back to the human world, but Old Ginger did not tell him clearly how to do it.

Not knowing what to do, he could only take one step at a time.

……

Su Jiuer had an unrealistic impression of the teacher at the first meeting, and felt that her future days would not be easy. However, when she arrived at the classroom at noon, the teacher did not mention what had just happened, but taught her seriously.

Don't you mind your indecent play at all? Maybe... you are a very good teacher!

I just don't know what this person is talking about, I can't understand...

Occasionally, she pretended that she was studying seriously, but in fact, she was thinking in her heart that this person would never guess that, although she looked like a dullard in his class, she was actually disguising herself as a man for many years, providing relief to refugees, and even privately established a "women's escort agency". She was a master respected by everyone in the world!
Whenever she thought about how a great master like herself had to disguise herself as an uneducated rich girl... she even began to fantasize and set up a plot in her mind, imagining that one day she would be forced to reveal her identity to him.

When Su Jiuer thought of that scene and the shocked expression on the teacher's face at that time, she felt secretly happy.

Of course, she would not let her identity be exposed. The Women's Escort Agency had done many "righteous things". If it were exposed, it would also bring trouble to her family.

"If you let your mind wander again, I will tell your parents about your ridiculous behavior."

Su Jiuer, who was still fantasizing, froze all over and looked at the man fiercely. She knew that today, they had a grudge against each other.

However, in their later interactions, the teacher and the student got along peacefully.

But for some reason, Su Jiuer always felt strange. She felt that the way this gentleman named Chen Xi looked at her was as if he could see through her.

Could it be that this person is also a master?

Once, she secretly hit his knee with a flying stone, and the teacher accidentally fell into the water. He looked quite embarrassed, but she also concluded that this man was definitely not a master.

But the next day, the teacher looked at her with a sinister look, as if he knew that it was her who did it yesterday and that he had already taken revenge on her.

Seeing the teacher in this state, Su Jiuer just pretended to be stupid, and when the teacher turned around, she grinned.

These days, she had a good relationship with her teacher. The teacher was capable and was appreciated by her father. He became a manager in her house.

Although her husband was not much older than her, he had a much calmer personality than her. As time went by, she could no longer hide her straightforward (naive) and honest (silly) character.

Sometimes I feel like I have said something stupid and feel annoyed, but when I see my husband acting so calm and collected, I feel like a childish kid in front of him.

In fact, I am a great hero, a great hero!
However, sometimes she felt that this was not a bad idea.

This was her daily routine until one night, when he caught her hiding the blood-stained Persian scimitar in a book box.

She secretly said to herself, "Oh no!" However, the next day, he continued teaching as if nothing had happened, but he specifically chose "Biographies of Assassins" as the content of his lecture.

Su Jiuer said nothing. That day was the day she attended class most seriously.

Days like this passed one after another in peace and tranquility.

One day, he saw a secret letter with rice grains stuck to it under the inkstone, and at noon he changed his calculation to the example of "Three Ships of Corn Passing Tongguan". The answer was wrongly marked as "800 dan", which was exactly the amount of grain stored by the corrupt official she needed to rob tonight.

One day, she stole her father's tribute-grade fire-proof cloth in order to save a singer who was being abused by a noble. He remained calm and added "30 pieces of moth-eaten cloth" to the account book.

One day, when the morning dew had not yet dried, I caught a glimpse of canal moss on the hem of her skirt. In the afternoon, the "Shui Jing Zhu" suddenly changed to talk about the "Three Gates of the Dizhu" - the reef map was exactly the key path for robbing the salt ship tonight.

……

……

……

It was the night before the autumn execution when it rained heavily. Su Jiuer, who was in the prison van, saw him standing at the door of the punishment department holding a dripping lantern. He had done everything he could to bribe the clerk to falsify her age so that she could be spared the torture of lingchi.

……

Before the executioner's knife fell, she tasted a hint of sweetness on the tip of her tongue. It was the taste of the maltose he had stuffed into the prison food that morning.

She looked at the people watching in the audience. Many of the people were secretly rescued by her, but her identity was exposed because of these people, just because... just because they could exchange them for the five taels of silver from the government.

Perhaps in order to reduce her guilt, the people she had rescued now all looked at her with hateful faces, cursing her "crimes".

But among the crowd, there was only one person who was different.

Even though she was about to be beheaded, the teacher remained calm and indifferent.

so good

She actually wanted to be like him, remaining calm even when faced with a catastrophe, because she felt that was really pretentious.

She just wants to be that kind of cool person.

It’s a pity that the teacher teaches everything except this.

From a while ago, someone has been nagging in my ear. It's really annoyed.

Shut up to your dad!
When she was dying, Su Jiuer looked at the gentleman over there and smiled widely.

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PS: This book has only one female protagonist. The relationship between Su Jiuer and Chen Xi has always been that of senior brother and junior sister, and in fact, they are portrayed more like a master and disciple like Bodhi and Monkey.

Maybe if the character of Su Jiuer is written as a male, it will not cause readers to have too many fantasies, and writing it as a male will not affect the plot, but if it is written as a male, it will not be so interesting.

Except for Emperor Wanwan, all other characters in this book do not describe any romantic relationships with the male protagonist.

(End of this chapter)