The regent's spoiled princess wakes up

Chapter 236 Corpse Fish

The young man in white frowned slightly, then pointed to the edge of the couch, and invited her to sit down, Zhao Shuang sat down nervously.

"Have you seen me?" Zhao Shuang hastily touched the fake beard on his chin, and squeezed out an awkward smile, "Really? I was in the Qiuyue Tower last time, and I was... the favorite son..."

"No, it's not in Qiuyue Tower." Shaohua leaned forward, and his already loose skirt slipped, revealing the beautiful lines of his neck, "It was in the northern border. ...is a wandering little beggar..."

Taking a closer look, he is actually only a teenager, but because he is a mixed race from the north, his bones are tall, and he deliberately combed his hair like a grown man.

Zhao Shuang was taken aback. She had stayed in the northern border for several months and traveled around a lot. She couldn't remember where she had seen anyone, let alone a beggar?No wonder there is no impression.

"Mr. Shaohua is from the north?" Seeing that he was young, she softened her tone and asked tentatively, "Then why did you come to Shangjing?"

"The war in the northern border is chaotic, and I can't eat enough." Shaohua stroked the hair on his forehead in annoyance, and said with a wry smile, "My father died when I was six years old, and his family drove my mother out. My mother and I have been growing up together. I lived in the state city. When I was ten years old, my mother died, and I started wandering alone. Last year, a war suddenly broke out, and life became more and more difficult..."

Zhao Shuang suddenly realized that the boy's mother was probably a concubine, so she was not qualified to inherit the property. After the master died, she took her son to live on the streets.

Thinking of the suffering he had suffered, Zhao Shuang looked at the young man in white with more pity in his eyes, and in addition to his deceptive looks, he even forgot that he was coming to him to settle Linghu Kong's debt.

"Bang bang!" Boss Xiao impatiently knocked on the door, "Are you ready?!"

"No! Why are you in a hurry? I have plenty of money!" Zhao Shuang pretended to yell at the door, and the door became quiet again. She asked Shaohua again, "The war in the northern border caused you to come to the Central Plains? What about that?" Why do you do this... this business of selling your body?"

"When I was about to die of starvation, it was Boss Xiao who saved me. I... have nothing to repay." Shaohua slightly hooked the corners of his lips, and suddenly leaned closer to her and whispered, "Hurry up!"

"Why are you leaving?" Zhao Shuang squeezed the folding fan tightly in his hand.

"I don't want to hurt you." Shaohua looked up at the night outside the window.

"Shaohua, do you still remember Linghu Kong?"

When Shaohua heard the words, he suddenly trembled, turned his head and stared at her blankly, and said, "You...how do you know Linghu Kong?"

The frivolous and smiling handsome face suddenly turned into panic and helplessness.

"He's my friend." Zhao Shuang looked down and stared into his eyes, "Linghu Kong has become a human being, a ghost and a ghost, and his life is hanging by a thread. He is the one who asked me to find you."

"Mr. Linghu... I'm sorry for him." Shaohua lowered his head sadly, and patted his head twice with his hands.

"What's going on?" Zhao Shuang tugged at his sleeve, "Tell me quickly, what did they... ask you to do?"

"I..." Shaohua covered her ears with her hands, and shrank in a corner, "In short, I have committed a serious crime, and I deserve to die."

"Shaohua!" Zhao Shuang pulled his hand covering his ear and reprimanded in a low voice, "If you don't want more people to become like Linghu Kong, you have to tell me why."

A gust of cold wind blew outside the window, and the candle flames dimmed immediately.

Shaohua hesitated for a while, then looked up at the moonlight outside the window and said, "I only know that they want pure masculinity, and say they want... to refine a kind of puppet. Boss Xiao will go out to find candidates, and then... and bring them back Breathe energy into me."

"You are just an ordinary person, how can you absorb the magic of essence?" Zhao Shuang asked in surprise.

Generally, those who absorb energy are monsters or evil spirits, and Zhao Shuang can see through it at a glance.

Shaohua stretched out his arm slowly, letting her look inside the arm.

Blue and black blood vessels and meridians covered the inside of that arm like a spider's legs.

"The insides of my hands and feet are full of lines like this," Shaohua sighed, "This is a corpse fish. They raised this kind of fish on my body. Every time after picking up a customer, Boss Xiao will use a long needle to suck the fish. my blood..."

"Corpse fish?" Zhao Shuang had heard of this kind of thing before.

Corpse fish are produced in the southern border, and rank first among the poisonous insects in the southern border with the soul-eating insects.I heard that this kind of fish is only the size of a fingernail, likes to eat the corpses of the dead, and is greedy and violent, but she didn't know that this kind of small fish could be raised on people.

"This fish grows in my flesh and blood. If it doesn't have the energy of a stranger, it will be in excruciating pain." Shaohua put down his sleeves and concealed the markings on his arms.

"Did Xiao Zongheng ever say, why do you need to collect energy? What's the use of refining that puppet?" After checking this, Zhao Shuang had already had the worst premonition in his heart.

The sorcery of making puppets was recorded in detail in a book in the Taoist temple of Yuanqing Mountain. Both she and Honghu had read it. This time, I am afraid that Honghu did it.

I just don't know what she wants to do with the puppet.

"I... don't know, it seems... It seems that I heard that the puppet is a man, so it needs the energy of a man to support it." As soon as Shaohua finished speaking, Zhao Shuang's pupils suddenly shrank, and she squeezed the folding fan in her hand tightly.

The man, the man in Weiyang Palace, isn't there only...

Recalling the weirdness of Zhao Hongyi in the past few days, she was suddenly horrified, felt dizzy for a moment, and almost fell down on the bed.

"You...are you alright?" Shaohua saw that she was sweating profusely, and quickly supported her.

"No...it's fine."

With a bang, the door was pushed open.

"Prince Wang, come out! It's time!" Xiao Zongheng pushed open the door, saw that the two were still chattering in the tent, shouted impatiently, and pushed Zhang Shi'er in again.

"Tomorrow is the fifteenth day, and that person is coming to pick up the goods again." Shaohua glanced at the door and whispered in her ear, "You are a woman, they don't want your spirit, you go!"

Zhao Shuang wiped the sweat from his forehead, stood up, and just walked a few steps towards the door, then suddenly pretended to be exhausted, leaned on the wall and shouted, "Boss Xiao, come quickly! Look at me!" Why did it suddenly hurt?"

"Oh, what's the headache? I think you just don't want to come out!" Xiao Zongheng came in helplessly, holding her sleeve with one hand, intending to drag her out.

This person is really troublesome, he can't move his feet when he sees Shaohua.

"It's really a headache. Don't you put some incense in this room?" Zhao Shuang deliberately used the hand holding the folding fan to support his forehead. When Xiao Zongheng approached, he turned his wrist and revealed a dagger to attack On his neck, the other hand grabbed his hand twice and twisted behind his back, "Daoist Xiao, we meet again."

Xiao Zongheng was stunned, before he could figure it out, a cold dagger was already on his neck, "You...you are?"

Zhao Shuang tore off the fake beard, "Daoist Xiao, I didn't expect you to come out of the prison, let alone you are still in the capital. Tell me! How is my brother?"

(End of this chapter)