The old man reminded him, "He’s from the Dragon King family."
The dark figure halted and without hesitation, backed out of the coffin shop, blending into the darkness.
Li Zhiyuan looked towards the old man: "Why did you have to say it."
"This is Ghost Street, under the feet of Emperor Fengdu, unless absolutely necessary, avoid conflicts with these things."
"Your Yin family has been developing and passing down traditions here for a long ti, haven’t you researched the special circumstances here?"
"We are surnad Yin, the sa as Emperor Fengdu, we... are inherently his descendants."
"Do you have a family tree?"
"Yes, dating back to the Eastern Han, our family was once the Emperor’s relatives."
Li Zhiyuan looked around the coffin shop: "Now, it’s hard to see the deanor of imperial relatives."
The old man seed unconcerned: "That’s quite normal, pick any family na from the hundred surnas, which ancestors haven’t been nobles?"
"Have you investigated it?" Li Zhiyuan continued to inquire about the previous topic.
"Yes." The old man nodded emphatically, "Our ancestor practiced Taoism, but he ascended because he consud an Immortal Pill."
"I rember it was recorded in ’Baopuzi’ that your ancestor also received a ’Dan Scroll.’"
"That’s false, it’s docunted in the family tree. If such a thing truly existed, one could make the pills themselves, then countless of our ancestors would have ascended into immortality.
In fact, upon research by many generations of ancestors, what our ancestor consud might not have been an Immortal Pill."
"Then what was it?"
"Corpse Pill."
"It seems your family did indeed put in great effort to research this in the past."
Without substantial evidence, who would claim their ancestor ate a Corpse Pill instead of an Immortal Pill, belittling their ancestor for no reason?
According to related Taoist texts, after Yin Changsheng attained immortality, he wandered the human world for a long ti, before finally ascending... could this ’ascending’ also imply disappearing?
Could it be possible that Yin Changsheng didn’t ascend upwards, but went downwards?
Considering also the inscription on the stone at the shop entrance:
"If a son does not walk at night, how can he know there are others walking at night upon the path?"
Yin Changsheng said, after becoming immortal, he then realized how many since his dynasty had successfully beco immortals, stating that many immortals prefer not to disturb the human world, only wishing to seclude themselves.
If Yin Changsheng consud the Corpse Pill, then those secluded immortal friends he ntioned, wouldn’t they be...
The old man spoke, "Our ancestors were very keen on researching this, even obsessed, but later, firstly due to the decline of the family, and secondly because continuous research didn’t yield anything useful, the descendants quieted down.
These things are all recorded in the family tree, during the day you can have ng ng take out the family tree for you, you can transcribe a copy... or directly borrow to examine it."
Li Zhiyuan moved to where the dark figure previously stood, facing the old man across the counter, and asked:
"Are you trying to make a deal with ?"
The secrets of the ancestors, he actually spoke them, and even willing to lend out the family tree.
Such things, where can they be heard or borrowed for free?
The old man waved his hand: "I’m just too lazy to find a son-in-law through ng ng to carry on the family na; although the family tree records many secrets, what use are they to and ng ng?
If you like, just take it, that’s what I call making the best use of things."
"Old man, I’ll give you one more chance, na your price."
"Take ng ng away, let her be with you."
"She’s not rchandise, she’s a person, can she just be taken away like that?"
The old man’s expression loosened, he didn’t refuse outright but started to talk about the price, which ant the other party was still willing to make the deal.
"ng ng is a kind-hearted child, I believe with your wisdom, you can take her away. Ah, I’m not saying you have ill intentions."
"You’re still alive, she won’t leave."
"I will die."
"What was just said, how did your lifespan co back?"
"It didn’t work out, the deal wasn’t closed, so it returned."
"But the person died."
"It wasn’t caused by it. It said, it was because the two boys in the house were playful, poured pesticide into the rice container, the one-eyed old woman didn’t dare to discard the rice, but washed and cooked it, she was old and dared not eat it, and didn’t want to give it to the grandchildren to eat, so she fed it to the two adults, who were poisoned and died that night.
The one-eyed old woman, fearing the responsibility would fall on her, tied up the two dead bodies together, dragged them into the pond, and staged it as drowning."
"Could she have that much strength alone?"
"She told her eldest son, her eldest son ca to help her, on the condition that the younger son’s house and land would go to the eldest son, and she could also move into the eldest son’s house to be taken care of."
"She is clear-headed, no wonder she tried to hand those two boys off to Yin ng during the day, thinking of ’being debt-free and carefree’ in her old age."
"ng ng is not foolish, she wouldn’t agree."
"Is that really what you think?"
"Otherwise?" the old man asked as if it was obvious, "I certainly wouldn’t harm those two boys, there’s a rightful claimant for every debt, and they are innocent."
"Hmm."
Li Zhiyuan didn’t believe it.
He might not understand ghost talk, true, but if it had just been a normal transaction failure, the dark figure wouldn’t have stood here for so long.
Most likely, because the big project didn’t work out, they wanted to negotiate doing the smaller project instead, to exchange for so compensation.
The smaller project probably referred to who was hinted at without saying.
It was just that circumstances had changed, the old man felt there was no need to proceed with the smaller project anymore, which angered the dark figure who had been busy the whole ti for nothing.
"I will die, and I will let ng ng leave here without worries, the world is good now, she should go out and see it, if after seeing the outside world she dislikes it, she can return here, at least she won’t have any regrets in her heart."
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