Underworld entries, starting with ghost stories.

Chapter 84 Three in a Past Life, Three in This Life

"You don't need to call me 'sir' here; this era is different." Wu Qing held the girl's shoulders with both hands, looking intently at her face.

With her delicate oval face and beautiful willow-leaf eyebrows, she wasn't much different from Xiao Bai in her past life.

"My lady, are you now the daughter of Luo Yi, the Marquis of Jingbian in Youzhou?" Wu Qing asked, looking at the young woman.

"My name is Luo Zhuluan!" The girl raised her hand and stroked his face.

Her beautiful face, which she raised, was flawless, and her fair body was faintly visible through her slightly parted fur coat.

"I am now the advisor of Wuji Village in Yanyin Mountain," Wu Qing said. "When the world began to fall into chaos, I was displaced for more than half a year. Later, I was taken in by Miss Dou, the daughter of Dou Jiande, and stayed in Yanyin Mountain."

"I should have come to find my husband sooner," Luo Zhuluan said, nestling in his arms once more.

In this era, only those who held official positions were called "officials".

Calling one's husband "official" is a custom that originated after the Song Dynasty. Since they live in this era, they should naturally follow local customs.

She whispered, "I should have remembered my past life sooner. If I had met my husband earlier, he wouldn't have been wandering and homeless."

But before that, there was no "predestined relationship".

Wu Qing hugged her tightly: "It's not too late now. When I saw you the night before last, I was shocked. I never expected that you would be the daughter of the Marquis of Jingbian in Youzhou."

"I never expected to meet my husband under those circumstances!" Luo Zhuluan said. "So, my husband wasn't robbing people on Shaohua Mountain?"

"It's true that I followed Miss Dou to rule the mountain stronghold of Wuji Mountain, but I didn't rob anyone," Wu Qing said with a smile. "The incident the other night was just a misunderstanding."

Suddenly, a giggle came from the side: "Sister, you've been so focused on finding Brother Qing since you arrived, have you completely forgotten about your little sister?"

Wu Qing and Luo Zhuluan looked at it together.

A girl in a light blue high-waisted ruqun (a type of traditional Chinese dress) sat on a branch that stretched out to the side. Her hair was styled in a snake-shaped bun, and she wore pink and white embroidered shoes.

The girl jumped down from the tree.

Although Luo Zhuluan was annoyed, Xiaoqing had once again beaten her to it in this life.

But in the end, they were still sisters. After recalling her past life, besides thinking about her husband every day, she would occasionally miss her younger sister.

So he reached out and hugged the girl as well.

Wu Qing said, "In this life, Xiao Qing's name is Shan Ailian, and she is the daughter of Shan Xiongxin, the second master of Erxian Manor."

Luo Zhuluan exclaimed, "Ah! You mean Shan Xiongxin, the chief warlord of thirteen provinces, seven in the south and six in the north?"

Wu Qingdao: "You know?"

Luo Zhuluan said, "Although I didn't care much about the affairs of the outlaws before, I had heard a little about Erxianzhuang. My cousin is Qin Qiong, and he was rescued by this Master Shan when he was in trouble."

At this point, she looked at Shan Ailian with some suspicion.

Dan Ailian hurriedly said, "It really wasn't my father who caused him to fall into misfortune. At that time, Master Qin was forced to sell his yellow horse because he lost money, and that's when my father ran into him."

"My father didn't know at first that he was the hero Qin Qiong. After he brought the horse home with thirty taels of silver, Uncle Wang happened to be visiting and recognized the horse."

"Only then did my father realize that the man was Master Qin. He rushed after him and caught up with him at the Taoist temple of Master Wei Zheng. He then brought him back to the mansion and treated him well."

Luo Zhuluan said, "Ah! Your father has been so generous to my cousin, providing him with both relief and hospitality, but as for why he lost his money and needed help, he doesn't seem to care, does he?"

Dan Ailian panicked: "That time it really wasn't!"

Wu Qing embraced the two women on either side, seemingly lost in thought: "So, Zhu Luan, you are the cousin of the hero Qin Shubao, and Ai Lian's father was an acquaintance of Qin Shubao."

"Then, Zhu Luan, aren't you a generation above Ai Lian?"

Luo Zhuluan looked at Shan Ailian—"Call her aunt!"

Dan Ailian moved closer to her, giggling, and said, "Good sister!"

Wu Qing said, "Zhu Luan, won't your brother Luo Cheng find out that you've sneaked over here like this?"

"It's alright!" Luo Zhuluan said softly, "They're staying at a temple tonight. I'll be back before dawn. Husband, which way are you heading? If it's too far, I won't go back; I'll leave with you—"

"Then there's no need!" Wu Qing laughed. "If we really did that, your family would probably have to hunt us down from afar. I don't want to be enemies with your brother and be hunted down by him."

"Don't worry, we're actually heading to Jinan to celebrate Qin's mother's birthday and also to participate in the gathering of outlaws there. Once you return at dawn, we'll speed things up here so we can meet you as soon as possible."

"You can explain it to your brother later."

Luo Zhuluan said happily, "That's quite a coincidence. I was worried that you were going in another direction, that you were getting further and further away from me, and that I would eventually lose track of you. That's why I rushed here to find you overnight."

Wu Qing gently lifted her face, looking at her beautiful and charming features, and said, "Even if we really are going somewhere else, since we know where you are, we naturally have to meet you first."

"I originally planned to meet in Jinan, but then I thought you might come over tonight, so I came out to wait for you."

Luo Zhuluan looked at him happily as he held her cheeks.

Then she thought, if only her husband were here, he would naturally come looking for her no matter what. But if Xiaoqing were also here, then it would be hard to say.

She still remembered how Xiaoqing tricked her into not seeing her husband in her previous life, and then secretly went herself—although she did the same thing.

Dan Ailian said with a grin, "Oh dear, sister must be worried that I would secretly kidnap Brother Qing and that Brother Qing and sister would never see each other again, so she rushed over overnight."

Luo Zhuluan turned her head and took Shan Ailian's hand: "How could I think like that? You and I are best sisters who have cultivated together since childhood in our past lives."

Shan Ailian pressed her face against Luo Zhuluan's arm: "Yes, yes! We're best friends."

"By the way, my husband, is this bead yours?" Luo Zhuluan parted her lips slightly, and a bead carrying a glowing aura flew out of her mouth.

Wu Qing caught it.

Luo Zhuluan said, "I see that this bead has a little spiritual power. In our previous world, it might have been ordinary, but here it is extremely rare. Moreover, it also carries a slightly similar aura to that of my and Xiaoqing's previous lives."

Wu Qing said, "This is the Suihou Pearl, which is as famous as the He Shi Bi. Legend has it that more than a thousand years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Marquis of Sui went on a trip and saw an injured snake, so he took it back to treat it."

"After the snake healed, it left. One night, it suddenly appeared with this pearl that could glow in the night and presented it to Marquis Sui."

Therefore, this bead is also called the Spirit Serpent Bead or the Bright Moon Bead.

"Because it is also a spiritual artifact, it fell into the hands of the Maitreya Sect. Maitreya Demon Song Zixian probably used it to perform illusions. The female saint the night before last should be someone close to Song Zixian. Song Zixian attempted to assassinate the tyrannical emperor and died, and this Suihou Pearl fell into her hands."

Luo Zhuluan said, "No wonder!"

"The spiritual energy in this world is simply insufficient to cultivate an inner core. It may have originally been just an ordinary luminous pearl, which was used by the intelligent spirit snake to gather spiritual energy and refine it into an external spiritual weapon, which was then given to Marquis Sui."

Dan Ailian chuckled and said, "It's just that the snake couldn't refine its inner core and transform into a human, otherwise it might have married itself off to that person."

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