I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 91 Wedding Banquet
June is hot and humid, and it is the beginning of summer.

Xu Qing has been very busy with work recently. In addition to the fact that the corpses planted in the Shuimen Bridge house are about to bear fruits and need to be taken care of, the talented Wu Zhiyuan from the wallpaper shop has also sent a wedding invitation.

Ever since Wu Zhiyuan won the first place in the student selection exam, the threshold of the paper-making shop has been almost trampled down by passing matchmakers.

Wu Zhiyuan was born with handsome features, and with the reputation of having ranked first in the provincial examination, even though his family was in the funeral business, it did not stop the matchmaker from trying to act as an intermediary.

As the saying goes, when a house is deserted, there will be few visitors, but when you become famous, the whole world will know you.

When Zhang Yong, the chief officer of Baisha County, heard the name of the Wu brothers, he went to investigate privately in his ordinary clothes.

The result was just as the rumors said. Wu Zhiyuan really had the good qualities of a young man and was very well-spoken. If given time, he would surely be like a dragon in the pond, leaping into the sky and soaring.

Zhang Yong had two daughters. The eldest daughter had already found a husband, but the youngest daughter was still unmarried.

He was impressed by Wu Zhiyuan's talent, so he specially asked an intermediary to mediate, hoping to marry Wu Zhiyuan as his son-in-law and establish harmony between the two families.

In order to impress Wu Zhiyuan, Zhang Yong said that his family had a large collection of books and that he had made friends with famous teachers, who could pave the way for him in the future and fully support him in passing the imperial examinations.

Although the Wu family came from a peasant background and had run a paper-making shop for generations, they were not snobbish.

During this period, Wu Zhiyuan visited the county magistrate's house, ostensibly to visit, but actually to investigate.

He met Miss Zhang as he wished. She was very gentle and of above-average appearance.

The two of them exchanged glances, showing that they were in love with each other.

Therefore, at the end of May, the two families chose an auspicious day, and Xu Qing received an invitation to the wedding banquet.

"The daughter of County Magistrate Zhang?"

Xu Qing immediately thought of the county magistrate's daughter who had the innate ability to grind tofu.

However, when he asked Wu Zhiyuan for her name, he learned that the lady who loved men dressing up as women to go to brothels to listen to music was the eldest daughter of the county magistrate, and she had already found a husband.

"Zhiyuan, do you really want to be that son-in-law?"

Wu Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "If I get married, I can't let Miss Zhang live with me in the paper-making shop. The county lord cherishes his reputation and doesn't want his beloved daughter to marry out of wedlock, so he let me stay in the Zhang Mansion temporarily, not to marry into the family.

The county lord has also told me that once I have established myself and achieved success, I can move out of the mansion and start my own family."

Xu Qing nodded and said, "That makes sense. However, County Magistrate Zhang doesn't have a son, so he can't continue the family line."

"Don't let the fake play become real in the end and you really become a son-in-law. Then your father will probably come to me every day to complain."

"Brother Xu, don't worry. Although my name, Wu Zhiyuan, isn't particularly impressive, I do have some backbone."

Wu Zhiyuan laughed heartily, feeling quite happy as if he were in high spirits upon experiencing something joyful.

After watching Wu Zhiyuan leave, Xu Qing unfolded the invitation and looked at the date.

However, it was only one day after the funeral date that Hu Baosong had previously set.

Well, he is really busy with his business!

In the evening, a woman wearing a fragrant gray embroidered jacket came to the coroner's shop.

Xu Qing took a quick look and saw that the man was wearing a green silk headband with flowers on his head, and he looked very familiar.

"Hey, isn't this Matchmaker Wang? Do you have any business to introduce to me?"

"Bah, bah, bah, what nonsense!"

"How can I, a matchmaker, come here to introduce you to business?"

"Then what are you doing?"

"Xu Xiucai, auntie is asking you, do you want a delicate young lady?"

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Xu Qing straightened up and answered the question irrelevantly: "Sister Wang came to see me suddenly, is it possible that someone asked her to do so behind the scenes?"

"As expected of a scholar, your mind works so quickly!" Matchmaker Wang came closer, holding a handkerchief in her hand. She smiled and said, "Auntie, I heard from Wu Yaoxing that you came in fourth in the provincial examination, yet you still don't have a wife. So, Mr. Wan, a big businessman in Caishikou, heard about this and is thinking of pairing his daughter with Young Master Xu."

"Mr. Xu is a scholar, and this funeral shop is not a long-term solution. If he passes the imperial examination in the future, he might even be able to earn an official position."

"When Master Wan heard that Master Xu had no family or relatives, he specifically told him that he was willing to vacate a house for Master Xu to live in, and that he was willing to fund his studies and help him achieve success in the imperial examinations."

Xu Qing glanced at Xuan Yu, who was sitting at the counter watching the fun and not minding the trouble, and thought that Wu Yaoxing really knew how to cause trouble for himself.

His funeral shop was doing well, and he thought no one would come to visit this unlucky place, but he never expected that one day a matchmaker would come to introduce him to someone.

Xu Qing felt happy and found it interesting.

He had nothing to do at the moment, so he just started chatting with Wang the Matchmaker.

He first asked what business Mr. Wan from Caishikou was doing and how much the betrothal gift was.

You should know that when a woman marries into her husband's family, the woman has to provide the betrothal gift and the man has to provide the dowry.

Xu Qing thought that if there weren't a thousand or eight hundred corpses, they probably wouldn't be enough to marry him.

"Master Wan is in a big business, making a lot of money every day. Even for two meals a day, he has delicious fish and meat. He will definitely not treat Xu Xiucai badly."

"Are you talking about Wan the butcher who slaughters pigs at Caishikou?"

"How can you say that? Even though Mr. Wan is a butcher, he's also the top man in the slaughterhouse. No matter what, his business is more prosperous than Xu Xiucai's current business."

Xu Qing's expression brightened when he heard that. He thought it was some wealthy man, but it turned out to be the butcher who often sold him pig blood.

He had heard a little about the other party's daughter. She was indeed a rich lady, but not in the sense of a rich lady, but a thousand pounds in the literal sense.

Xu Qing compared himself with Wu Zhiyuan next door.

Well, in the end, eating the melons, I ended up having fun.

"Sister Wang, please don't come to me for matchmaking in the future. I'm not interested in that. But if you need funeral business, you can come. I'm sure you'll get some money."

After sending matchmaker Wang away, Xu Qing asked Xuanyu to look after the shop while he returned to Shuimen Bridge alone.

In the Feng Shui treasure house, hundreds of corpses have been nurtured in the burial ground, and have accumulated enough dense evil to condense into a rampant general.

Xu Qing set up the incense table and placed a flag horizontally on the table.

Earlier, when he was saving his fellow souls, he had obtained a method of raising evil spirits and a flag to command evil spirits.

Now that the ritual is complete and the evil spirits have gathered into clouds, it is the perfect time for him to train his evil generals and ghost soldiers!
Holding three incense sticks in his hands, Xu Qing lit the incense and performed a ritual. After the incense in the incense burner attracted the evil spirits in the courtyard, he began to chant the "Yichang Bing Curse".

"Just when he was injured, the leader turned to good deeds.

The Heavenly Master has ordered that the evildoer be caught quickly.

Traveling through the nine lands, killing ghosts and capturing the wounded."

While chanting the curse of conscripting soldiers, Xu Qing waved the flag. Suddenly, a cold wind blew violently in the yard. The corpses buried in the ground emerged from the ground like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, revealing their skulls.

Driven by the curse, the skeletons turned their necks, as if on pilgrimage, and looked towards the direction of the ritual altar.

Xu Qing seemed unaware and let the skulls around him roar at him.

Dark red deadly aura gushed out from the skull's mouth, like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue, spewing out wisps of blood-colored smoke, which sank into the formation diagram drawn in front of Xu Qing.

“Good deeds bring blessings, while evil deeds bring disaster.

The wicked hate me and will kill me in revenge.

I will now make you act recklessly."

As the soldier finished his incantation, the sound of firecrackers suddenly rang out in the courtyard, and hundreds of skulls turned into white powder.

Xu Qing made a hand gesture of "Chang'an", and blood-red runes suddenly lit up on the Chang'an flag in his hand.

Those runes gathered in the middle of the flag. When the light faded, an ancient pictographic character "Chi" appeared on the flag.

Feeling the mysterious induction coming from the flag, Xu Qing couldn't hide his excitement.

This will be the first Changjiang Yinzu he obtains, but it will definitely not be the last.

As the Zombie King, it should be reasonable for him to go out and lead an army of thousands or even tens of thousands of soldiers, right?

Xu Qing looked around the courtyard. Apart from the area of ​​the formation carved on the ground in front of him, there was no trace of evil energy anywhere else.

The deadly aura in this courtyard has been completely devoured by the trained and powerful general.

Show yourself, little darling!

Xu Qing looked at the small area of ​​ground in front of him where the evil aura was extremely dense, and the expectation in his heart was beyond words.

As the thought moved, an evil red light appeared on the flag in his hand.

The ground in front of him, which was filled with evil spirits, suddenly began to tremble, and black deathly energy emanated from the soil.

Xu Qing raised his brows slightly; the commotion seemed to be bigger than he had imagined.

In the courtyard, a demon formed by the evil spirits of hundreds of corpses slowly crawled out from the ground. The first thing that crawled out was a bare bone claw covered with black mist, more than two feet long and about one foot two inches wide. When it was stretched out, it was a circle larger than a palm-leaf fan. When it was clenched into a fist, it was as big as a jar of soy sauce or wine. It was very scary!

I'm afraid this little baby of mine is a little big
As the general broke out of the ground, the ground in front of the altar with array patterns carved on it seemed like a dragon turning over, cracking inch by inch.

Xu Qing watched helplessly as a demon with deep red skin and a body as big as a pavilion roof appeared in front of him.

"Minzhongji" once recorded that there was an object in Gailing Mountain that looked like a large jar, with a head like a pig, ox hooves, and a rabbit tail that was larger than a dog. It was good at biting people, and its nature was greedy and fierce. Its sound was like a child crying. After eating, it would also kill people. When people saw it, it would sink into the ground and never be seen again.
According to legend, a dragon and a pig intertwined to give birth to the monster Rang. Although Rang's body was human, it also had the unusual features of an ox-hoofed demon head.

At this time, the general in front of him stood silently in front of Xu Qing without making any sound.

Xu Qing was not sure whether Chang Jiang's cry would be as loud as a baby's cry.

"This thing is too big, but fortunately it can be put into the Changqi."

The generals in front of him seemed to have physical bodies, but Xu Qing knew in his heart that if one looked into their essence, these generals and ghost soldiers were still a gathering of evil spirits. Although they could follow orders, they had no self-spiritual nature.

Xu Qing wanted to test the strength of the general, but was afraid of damaging his own house.

After thinking it over, he raised his hand and threw the abandoned stone mill in the yard into the air.

Chang gathered the evil energy in his left hand, and just by raising his hand, the stone mill weighing hundreds of pounds was wrapped in the evil energy and stopped in the air.

The bone claws as big as jars and pots closed, and the stone roller suddenly turned into a handful of blue-white stone chips like scattered snow.

Chang will quietly stop.

Xu Qing was delighted upon seeing this. This arrogant general's ability far exceeded his expectations. Based on the force he had used to throw the stone roller just now, if he wanted to make it hover, he would need at least a hundred years of cultivation.

Even if one is a martial artist, he must be an experienced Ning Gang martial artist to take it on.

After putting General Chang under Chang's banner, Xu Qing turned around and looked towards his own courtyard.

There were hundreds of pits on the ground, as if radishes had just been pulled out.

After taking out a shovel and digging, the corpses originally buried at the bottom of the pit had turned into gray-white bone powder, and there was no intact body left.

Xu Qing felt the evil aura in the courtyard almost dissipated, and felt uncomfortable all over.

Zombies are naturally fond of extreme dangers. If this Feng Shui treasure land is no longer dangerous, how can they live there?
For the first time, Xu Qing felt worried.

"The only way to relieve my worries is to collect the corpses."

That day and night, there were zombies looking at the moon and sighing.

The fourth day of June is auspicious for getting married or moving; inauspicious for opening a business or breaking ground.

At the invitation of Wu Zhiyuan, Xu Qing went to Baisha County to attend the wedding banquet.

Before leaving Jingxia Street, he deliberately turned into Hu Baosong's coffin shop.

Hu Baosong, who was already skinny, looked even more listless at this moment, as if he would turn into a pile of dead branches if a gust of wind blew past.

"I haven't seen you for a few days. How come you look like this?"

Xu Qing frowned slightly and glanced at the neatly stacked funeral clothes placed on the other person's knees.

Hu Baosong has no children, and when others ask him about it, he often responds with various explanations.

Sometimes it is said that his brothers and nephews were greedy and took away his property, so he broke off contact with them and came here to seek a livelihood.

Sometimes it is said that they were fleeing from disaster and became separated from their relatives along the way, and had to make a living independently.

However, the version that Old Man Hu told the most was that he had hooked up with too many female confidantes when he was young. In the end, in order to avoid the entanglement of those women, he came here and opened a coffin shop to live a leisurely life.

But no matter what the reason, there is only one result, that is, the old man is a lonely old man and has no relatives or friends to take care of him.

"Old Hu, I have some elixirs here. They are elixirs I obtained from the shamans in the past. Although they can't prolong your life, I think they can help you regain some strength."

Hu Baosong smiled when he heard this, then shook his head and said:
"I have lived for over two hundred years. Now my time has come. My body has long since become a hollow shell. No matter how many miraculous medicines I take, they will be of no use."

After a pause, Hu Baosong suddenly looked at Xu Qing and said with a smile:

"Xu boy, I was wrong about you. Of all the people I've ever met, you're the most humane one."

Xu Qing raised his eyebrows.

I thought to myself, you are so unlucky. The only human being you met is not alive.

"Old Hu, the boy from the Wu family is getting married today. It's in Baisha County, only a few dozen miles away. How about I take you there for a feast so we can share in the good fortune."

There was suddenly some light in Hu Baosong's cloudy eyes.

"Then go and have some fun?"

"Going right now!"

Xu Qing chuckled, closed the shop door, and took Hu Baosong on a carriage to Baisha County.

"Old Hu, let me put some makeup on you. If we dress up smartly, you'll definitely make the old ladies at the wedding banquet unable to walk when they see you!"

Xu Qing often practiced by applying makeup to corpses, and his makeup skills had already become extremely proficient. At this moment, he took out the makeup box and quickly applied makeup on a living person for Hu Baosong.

Passing by a clothing store, Xu Qing asked the shopkeeper to pick out a new set of clothes and hat for the old man, and the shopkeeper praised him for being filial.

Hu Baosong looked radiant. Although he had not taken any magic medicine, he seemed to be ten years younger and walked with great vigor.

"Xu boy, there is no time for a cultivator. Even if you live for five hundred years or a thousand years, in the end, it will all be in vain."

"It's better to take advantage of your youth, meet a good partner, and have children." At this point, Hu Baosong suddenly smiled and said, "If you ask me, what is immortality? The continuation of the bloodline and the uninterrupted worship of the ancestral temple are immortality."

"Xu boy, I am a lesson for you. You should think carefully in the future, lest you end up like me."

Xu Qing smiled slightly but did not respond.

Zombies reproducing? He had never heard of it.

Besides, to say that he only lived for five hundred or a thousand years was to underestimate him.

"Let's set a small goal and live for ten thousand years first!"

(End of this chapter)