Longevity starts with inheriting a friend's legacy

Chapter 7: The Mysterious Corpse

The two men finished the wine in their bowls, and the light screen in front of Fang Xu changed again.

Friend 15: Liang San from Huangzhou Prefecture, Qinghe County, Fenglin Town (%)
Friend 15: Xie Xiaoqi from Huangzhou Prefecture, Qinghe County, Fenglin Town (%)
Not bad!

Five friends!
But what does the percentage number behind it represent?
Staring at the final percentage figures of each friend on the screen, Fang Xu was somewhat puzzled.

"Fang family boy, how much of this fine wine do you have left?" Wu Ningxue savored it for a moment and asked with a gleam in her beautiful eyes.

Fang Xu came back to his senses after his thoughts were interrupted, and quickly said, "To be honest with you, Aunt Wu, the government has a ban on alcohol, so we dare not brew too much. Now we only have these two jars."

Hearing this, Zhang Mingliang quickly held the remaining jar of wine in front of him and said, "Aunt Wu, this is a gift from Fang Xu to my nephew."

Wu Ningxue opened her phoenix eyes and immediately said, "The Fang family kid only said that he would let you taste it. When did he agree to give it to you?"

"Well, you can take the one you've finished drinking, and I'll take the remaining one."

Zhang Mingliang held the two wine jars tightly, but feeling the faint murderous aura emanating from Wu Ningxue, he had no choice but to compromise.

After reluctantly giving the unopened jar of wine to Wu Ningxue, he quickly picked up the mud seal next to it and covered his own jar of wine, fearing that the aroma would escape.

Wu Ningxue was very happy when she got the wine.

"Fang family boy, you can't take Aunt Wu's wine for free. How about exchanging a jar of wine for a Qi and Blood Pill and come back to get it in ten days?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Xu hurriedly bowed and thanked him: "Thank you, Aunt Wu."

Zhang Mingliang seemed to feel a little embarrassed when he saw this, and he said, "Fang Xu, you should need blood food recently. I won't take your wine for nothing. I will have someone send you 50 kilograms of blood food later."

The price of fifty kilograms of blood food was equivalent to that of a Qi and Blood Pill. The two of them bartered for goods, and it was obvious that they did not regard Fang Xu as a friend.

Fang Xu didn't care about this. No matter what they thought, as long as the system recognized their friendship, it would be fine. He had no intention of being real friends with them.

With fifty kilograms of blood food, he doesn't have to spend money to buy it now.

After some polite exchanges, Zhang Mingliang left in a hurry. Fang Xu did not buy any Qi and Blood Pills, so he could only buy some medicinal powder for the time being.

After Fang Xu left, the old man Chu Li looked at Wu Ningxue and bowed, "Does the boss really regard that kid from the Fang family as a friend?"

"Friend?" Wu Ningxue smiled faintly and shook her head: "He is not qualified."

"Okay, Li Bo, it will be my father's eightieth birthday in a few days, so this jar of fine wine must be well preserved."

"Also, notify your family and ask them to get some Qi and Blood Pills as soon as possible."

……

After coming back from the street, Fang Xu was humming a little tune all the way.

During this trip, he spent fifty taels of silver to obtain the method of refining the internal organs, and used two jars of wine to exchange for five friends, fifty kilograms of blood food, and a Qi and Blood Pill. It was considered a fruitful harvest.

"Brother Fang."

As soon as he arrived at the door of his house, Fang Xu heard a familiar voice coming from behind him.

"Sister-in-law?"

The person who came was Wang Ergou's wife, Wang. Seeing this, Fang Xu hurriedly hid the cloth bag containing silver in his hand behind his back.

"Brother Fang, Si Ji has already sent Er Gou's body to the charity cemetery. I...I want to go and see if Brother Fang can..."

Wang had changed into a plain dress, which made her look even more delicate and fragile.

"Sister-in-law, do you want me to accompany you to the charity cemetery?" Fang Xu said.

Wang nodded with expectation in her eyes.

Fang Xu hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, sister-in-law, wait for me to put the things down."

Wang's family was his inheritance. Although he could not have any other ideas for the time being, the power of the system had already changed Wang's thinking, which could be utilized.

After all, behind the Wang Ergou incident there was another person named Wang Erhu who was a government soldier.

He is a warrior and Fang Xu's chosen friend candidate.

"Thank you for your help, Brother Fang." Wang bowed slightly and looked at him gratefully.

After putting the things in the house and hiding the remaining silver, Fang Xu locked the door and followed Wang to the town's charity cemetery. On the way, Wang followed behind him, her eyes wandering on Fang Xu's broad back several times.

"Brother Fang..."

"Huh?" Fang Xu stamped his feet. Wang behind him just lowered her head and didn't pay any attention, and bumped into Fang Xu.

She blushed and took two steps back, pinching the edge of her clothes with her green jade fingers and whispered, "Brother Fang, do you know that I don't have a deep relationship with Wang Ergou?"

Hearing this, Fang Xu was slightly stunned, and his mind couldn't help but recall a sentence that his good brother in his previous life often said to him.

When a married woman complains to you that she and her husband are not getting along, it means the opportunity has come.

Seeing Fang Xu remained silent, Wang spoke again, "If it weren't for my father's gambling habit, he would have sent me out to pay off my debts, and it would have been Wang Ergou who helped me pay off my debts.

Besides, his brother is a soldier in the palace. How can I...how can I commit myself to him?"

After Wang started talking, she seemed to be pouring out her grievances. She followed Fang Xu's footsteps and kept chattering:

"Brother Fang probably doesn't know that Wang Ergou...he can't do it."

Wang Ergou is not good enough?
Fang Xu felt a chill in his heart. Could this be the cliché plot of "still a virgin after three years of marriage"?

However, no matter whether Wang is a virgin or not, there is nothing he can do to her.

At least before you have the strength, it is better to stay away from this kind of trouble.

Seeing that what he said was so explicit, Fang Xu remained unmoved and just walked forward with his head down. Wang's eyes showed a hint of resentment, so she didn't say anything more.

The two of them walked one after the other and soon arrived at the charity cemetery outside the town.

The cemetery was a place where the bodies of those who died unjustly were temporarily placed. It was very unlucky. As evening approached, no one was willing to go near it.

After Fang Xu and Wang arrived, the person guarding the charity cemetery had gone off to take a break and was no one was there.

Wang Ergou's body was placed on the wooden board in the middle of the charity cemetery, with his face covered with white cloth, looking somewhat eerie and scary.

Wang stood outside the door and refused to come closer.

Fang Xu was a little puzzled when he saw this: "Sister-in-law, didn't you come to see Brother Ergou? Why don't you come in?"

Wang shook her head and said, "The person guarding the charity cemetery is not here."

After hearing this, Fang Xu thought about it and understood it instantly.

If the audience is not here, then there is no need to act.

Wang probably felt that if she didn't come to the charity cemetery to see Wang Ergou, she would have a hard time explaining herself when her brother, a palace soldier, came back.

"Since we're here, sister-in-law, you should burn some paper money for Brother Ergou," Fang Xu suggested.

Wang was slightly stunned, and seemed to think that burning paper money was a good idea, at least to prove that she had been there.

He immediately took some straw paper from the side and burned it in front of Wang Ergou's body.

Fang Xu, in gratitude for the 100 taels of silver that Wang Ergou contributed, bowed towards his body as a token of thanks.

After bowing, he looked around the layout of the charity cemetery with boredom.

In this world, human life is worthless. The fights between warriors and the poisonous insects and beasts in the wild can easily take the lives of ordinary people.

When those who died unjustly are discovered, they are often first sent to a charity cemetery to wait for their relatives to claim them.

If no one claims the body after a period of time, the person guarding the charity cemetery will take the body to a mass grave and bury it. As for the money and other belongings on the body, they will naturally be sold to others.

Fang Xu walked to another corpse covered with white cloth nearby, glanced at the exposed feet of the corpse, and was slightly stunned.

This is... dazzling gold embroidery!
The corpse in front of him was wearing a pair of black boots embroidered with dazzling gold thread!

When his grandfather was alive, he told him that the skill of dazzling gold thread embroidery came from the Yun family in Huangzhou Prefecture. Just like the dazzling gold thread embroidered boots worn by the corpse in front of him, a pair of them could cost as much as a hundred gold coins!
Converted into silver, it would be a full ten thousand taels!

But unfortunately, the pair of short boots embroidered with dazzling gold thread on the corpse were badly damaged and probably not worth much.

Looking at the pair of dazzling gold-embroidered boots, Fang Xu was about to turn around and leave, but he caught a glimpse of something hidden in the damaged part of the sole of one of the boots!

(End of this chapter)