Chapter 64: The Strange Sophora Tree in the Backyard
In Liu Xu's opinion, Xu Bai is the kind of person who can't be persuaded by soft or hard tactics. No one can persuade him unless he wants to do it.
For example, Xu Bai wanted to kill Magistrate Zhang and Lin Fu last time, so he did it.
But now Wuhua said that there could be a third way, and he said it with a solemn oath.
So Liu Xu was very curious about what method Wuhua would use.
Wuhua stretched out a finger and said a word that couldn't be more vulgar: "Wealth!"
Wealth?
Even though Liu Xu was wearing a veil, she could feel the corners of her mouth twitching.
She never thought that Wuhua would give this answer.
One word.
——Vulgar!
Is this something that can be solved with money?
If it can be solved with money, it's not a problem.
"The wealth that I am talking about refers to a large category. As long as you can pay enough, someone will definitely be tempted." Wuhua took something out of his arms and said.
Liu Xu looked over.
This is a book, without a cover, and there is no writing on the surface.
There are deep creases on the pages, obviously it has been read many times.
"This is..." Liu Xu frowned slightly.
"The current abbot of the Vajra Temple copied Buddhist scriptures by hand when he was young. Although it is an ordinary Buddhist scripture, it is a handwritten copy." Wuhua explained: "I got this Buddhist scripture from the Sutra Pavilion as a reward from the Vajra Temple for a mission."
As he said, Wuhua stroked the scripture with his hand, with an expression of reluctant love.
But this expression was not worth mentioning in Liu Xu's eyes.
"I heard that the current abbot of the Vajra Temple is unknown in the Vajra Temple. Copying Buddhist scriptures is a hobby. When he was young, he had copied more than 8,000 copies. You can't fool me." Liu Xu said contemptuously.
Some things are worthless if they are too many.
Wuhua's expression froze.
"This is different! When the abbot was young, he only copied each Buddhist scripture once. Although he was unknown at that time, they are all unique copies now!" He argued.
Liu Xu laughed: "Go on, keep on making it up. I understand you, and some of the monks' precepts are useless to you."
Wu Hua was dejected and stopped arguing. He said weakly: "But I am penniless and have nothing but this. This scripture is really a treasure for those who love Buddhism."
He is a disciple of the Vajra Temple, but he really has no money.
The salary given by the Jiantian Division is a lot, but based on his understanding of Xu Bai, Xu Bai really won't take risks for money.
He has no choice, this is the only way.
"Maybe you can try it. Xu Bai's ideas are different from others. He seems to like Buddhism very much." Liu Xu walked back and forth and stopped after a while.
"I think so too. I'll go there tomorrow morning." Wu Hua was energetic again.
Giving things doesn't matter how expensive it is, but what matters is to cater to the person's preferences.
Liu Xu walked to the door: "Remember to tell me if you succeed."
After that, he left directly.
The room fell into silence again. Wu Hua held the Buddhist scriptures and thought about what to say tomorrow.
…
At night.
Xu Bai lay in bed, feeling quite bored.
There were still many days before the bookstore replaced the new books.
During this period, he was in a situation where there was no progress bar to grind.
To be honest, grinding the progress bar was boring, but once you get used to it, you will become more and more addicted to it.
Now that he suddenly had nothing to do, he felt bored instead.
"Well, I have to think of a way. If there is no book in Sheng County, I will look for it somewhere else." Xu Bai thought with his hands behind his head.
At present, there is only a bookstore in Sheng County, at least on the surface.
If this continues, he will have to go to Sheng County to see it, and come back to the bookstore once a month.
Thinking of this, Xu Bai felt that this plan was feasible.
"Find time to go out and try it. Anyway, there is nothing to do in the escort agency. After going out, let Liu Er make the decision."
After Xu Bai figured it out, he turned over and prepared to rest.
"By the way, I have been busy for a few days and forgot about the locust tree."
He turned over and sat up, thinking about the locust tree.
Just as he turned over, there was a sudden noise outside the door.
At this time, it was late at night, and the escorts had all gone home. How could there be anyone?
The noise was like the sound of rubbing against the ground without lifting your feet while walking.
Xu Bai turned over, picked up the ghost-head knife next to the bed, came to the window, and quietly opened the window a crack.
Outside the window, the small courtyard was unusually quiet, with nothing but moonlight.
The noise he heard just now could not be an illusion.
Xu Bai frowned slightly, quietly pulled out the ghost-head knife and held it in his hand.
"Sha... Sha..."
The friction sound rang again, he turned back, and at the same time pushed the window open with his backhand, aiming the long knife outside the window.
Outside the window, there was nothing.
But the rustling sound still came, and it was getting closer.
Xu Bai did not go out, but picked up the stool in the room with the ghost-head knife and threw it out the door.
The stool fell to the ground and rolled a long way, without any abnormality.
At this time, the rustling sound stopped.
In Xu Bai's sight, there was a hint of black below the window.
"Hair?"
With Xu Bai's current strength, he could see clearly that it was black hair, and it was moving up.
Black hair, forehead, eyes...
As it slowly moved up, a head appeared in the air.
The hair was disheveled, the eyes were round, and the neck was empty, bleeding.
The eyes were emotionless, filled with coldness and gloom.
"Zhang County Magistrate?" Xu Bai raised his eyebrows.
The appearance of this head was exactly Zhang County Magistrate, and it was the appearance of Zhang County Magistrate before his death.
"Become weird?" Xu Bai looked at Zhang County Magistrate's head and thought to himself.
There is a chance that people will become weird after death. This is the origin of the weirdness of the Great Chu State.
At this moment, seeing this hideous head floating in the air, Xu Bai subconsciously thought of weirdness.
The head just floated in the air, staring at Xu Bai with that extremely weird look, dancing up and down from time to time, but did not come in.
At this time, Xu Bai suddenly felt that there seemed to be something extra in his mind, but it was not very obvious.
He looked down at the ghost-head knife in his hand, and slowly figured out what was extra just now.
——It was a consciousness.
A consciousness independent of his own consciousness was confusing his mind, making him feel a kind of emotion, telling him that he killed County Magistrate Zhang, he felt guilty, and he should pay with his life.
Guilt?
Pay with his life?
Does it exist?
No.
This is a kind of ability to confuse people's hearts, but he has the ability to turn things upside down.
In recent days, in addition to communicating Buddhism with Wuhua, he would occasionally ask Wuhua about some strange monsters.
When ordinary people die, they will turn into strange things, that is ordinary strangeness.
When strange people die, there is also a chance of turning into strange things, and they may even carry their abilities before death.
If the county magistrate died, he should have the ability of a scholar, how could it be this kind of confusing ability?
"The ability to confuse?" Xu Bai looked over the head of the county magistrate and looked at the locust tree in the backyard: "Finally, you made a move."
The long knife passed, and the moonlight shone on the knife light, which was extremely cold.
The head floating in the air encountered the knife light and turned into bubbles in an instant.
Xu Bai used the Four Xun Body Skills, and the figure was like a ghost, and had already come to the backyard.
He rubbed the blade with his fingers and smiled: "Let me see what kind of person you are, daring to mess up my territory."