The General Loves to Collect Little Red Flowers

Xu Yao had always been curious about what kind of the dead he would see. Now that he had a chance, he was willing to try.

So one night, Le Yao took a tianyan talisman in his hand and sat next to Xu Yao. “You may feel a little dizzy at first, but it will get better after some time.” he said.

Xu Yao said, “Okay, let’s do it.”

Le Yao pasted the talisman on Xu Yao’s forehead.

Xu Yao first felt that his eyebrows were slightly quivering, and then, as Le Yao said before, he felt a little dizzy. But soon, he found that his senses seemed to be more sensitive than usual. Then, as soon as he opened his eyes, although the room was still the same, there seemed to be something different. The air seemed to be less transparent than he had seen before and there was a layer of gray blue light floating on it!

“I’ll call them.” At this time, Le Yao said, “We’ll know if you can see them later.”

“Good.” Xu Yao sat on the sofa, his expression did not show any tension, and he lit a cigarette in his hand.

“Here, the land, the most spiritual of the gods, through the heavens and the earth, out of the secluded into the underworld, with the spirit and prayer of my heart, please hear me out. Ji Fengyu, Song He, Wang Feixia, if you hear this sacrifice, come and get together quickly!”

“Hoo ~”

There was another dark wind on the ground. Within three seconds, there were three transparent gray blue figures in the place of Le Yao’s drawing. The three figures were all dressed in rags. They each held a mini playing card in their left hand and stared at the card intently. They sat on the ground as if they were tramps gathering at the bottom of the bridge to fight for a shelter.

“What?” Ji Fengyu didn’t look back at Le Yao. He carefully arranged the cards and put an A spade on the ground.

Recently the ghost brothers have been used to playing poker like this and they didn’t afraid of the cards being blown away by the wind!

“My husband wants to see you. This is Ji Fengyu, Brother Song He the eldest, and then Brother Wang Feixia.” said Le Yao, pointing to the three people on the ground who still playing poker.

"Emm......" At the same time, the three ghosts turned around and looked at Xu Yao awkwardly. Ji Fengyu, who had his back to Xu Yao, even twisted his neck 180 degrees.

“Nice to meet you.” Xu Yao said with a calm face, “I often hear Le Yao talk about you.”

“Nice to meet you too.” Ji Fengyu said with a long sigh, and then his body turned around. “I said, Le Yao, you really don’t take me as your brother is it? Can’t you invite us out when we have better appearance?” About a haircut or something!

“I’m so embarrassed.” Song He said, “Our brothers have been wandering around for hundreds of years, and no one came to visit after the great disaster of Huaxia star, so we have been living a miserable life.”

“It’s hard to predict. Since it’s a natural disaster, it’s beyond human control. Let’s sit down and talk about it.” Xu Yao helped Le Yao to take the small jar of rice to the tea table, so that Le Yao could insert incense into it, and then said, “What you just played with is......”

“Wait a moment, I’ll interrupt.” Le Yao was shocked to see Xu Yao, “How can you speak Chinese?” Song He and they all spoke in authentic Chinese language, but Xu Yao could not only understand but also spoke with them? Although not fluent enough, he was quite good to speak Chinese.

“Yes.” Xu Yao said, “There are still a large number of people on Tarot who talked with this language.”

“Oh! No wonder.” said Le Yao.

Ji Fengyu then picked up a small card and said, “This is called ‘Poker’, it’s a kind of entertainment card. Originally, each one of them should be half palm size. But, in order to save some paper, your wife made such a small one for us and forgot to write the size. You are married to a stingy person.”

“It’s already good to play with it! What else do you want?” Le Yao was embarrassed by him and said, “I’ll make a big one for you later.”

Xu Yao naturally guessed out why the “paper” was saved. He looked at Le Yao and sure enough he saw his face became red. So he said frankly, “This paper saving is due to...”

Le Yao hurriedly stopped him, “Don’t say it!”

Seeing his little wife’s round red and pitiful eyes, Xu Yao nodded, “Okay, if you don’t want it, I won’t say it. That’s right. I’ll ask Le Yao to draw another set later or let him tell me how to design it and I’ll find someone to make a big set of card for you. It’s a meeting gift from me. Besides, I’ve seen the house he burned for you before. I didn’t know what was going on, so it was him who made it all alone. I’ll help you to change the house later.”

Ji Fengyu was silent for a moment and said, “Thank you very much, Mr. Xu, but what’s your intention by doing this?”

Xu Yao looked at Le Yao, “Le Yao is in a special situation. Now, you are equal to his mother’s family and my in-law. Since it’s his family, it’s also my own family. You are my own person, so naturally I’ll do it.”

It’s pleasant to hear! I can’t find any fault!

Ji Fengyu was not very happy when heard that Xu Yao was going to burn house for them. He always felt that this guy gave people a sense of superiority. But now he found that there was a reason why he could be the great general at a young age.

Song He said, “Thank you very much, Mr. Xu.”

Wang Feixia smiled and said, “It’s really a man’s way. A dog rises to the sky.”

Le Yao said, “Okay, we’re all family now. By the way, have you done what you promised me before?”

Song He said, “We have already spread the news. In this period of time, there have been several old guys coming and looking for us, but they can’t give you anything. It’s not some things you can ask.”

Xu Yao asked, “What is it? What are you looking for?"

“Nothing!” said Le Yao.

Ji Fengyu said, “Your wife said that he was poor and owed a lot of debt, so we were asked to help him find the burial things that can be sold. He said that those which can be found the details are not good enough and said that he was afraid of involving you, let us find him something that can not be checked. Otherwise, he said that he could not afford even a stick of incense."

Xu Yao asked Le Yao with a smile, “Is this the case?”

Le Yao grinded his teeth, “Ji Fengyu, are you really my brother? Can you give me some face? Last time at the ward, you began to be unreliable! Did you forget that I was the one who burn the house for you? Hah! My husband has money, but can he burn it? Believe it or not, I won’t burn you incense for three days!”

Xu Yao quickly caught his angry little wife that want to explode, “Alright, alright, it’s a good thing that you don’t have to go to the bathroom secretly to talk with your friends. Shouldn’t you be happy, hm?”

Le Yao : “How do you know I went to the bathroom to talk to them?”

Ji Fengyu: “...” Brother, can you be more stupid?

Xu Yao said, “I guess. You come out of the bathroom several times with a white wine smell. Usually, you don’t drink wine, so you use it for the cinnabar solution, right? If you used the cinnabar in the bathroom not for draw talisman, what else could it be except for this?"

Le Yao: “...” Are you a dog? Why are you so smart ah?

I feel my IQ is crushed, hmph!

Xu Yao then said, “Don’t be angry. Go and make something to eat. Don’t you want to entertain our guests?”

Le Yao thought that this “mother’s family” made him a little embarrassed, but it was indeed true that Ji Fengyu was the closest one to him in the world. Although he knew Song He and Wang Feixia later, he still regarded them as family.

All right, I’ll do it!

Le Yao took out a few more sticks of incense and told Xu Yao to light them when the previous incense was gone. Then he went to the kitchen and was busy making food. Before that, he had no way to make a confession about what he did with another food in the evening. He was always worried, if he was found by Xu Yao, he could not explain why the taste of the food was gone. Now that he knew it, it didn’t matter anymore.

Because the white wine was drunk with Rong Gui, Xu Yao also took out a bottle of red wine. When Le Yao brought the dishes, he had a drink with Ji Fengyu and talked about what the underworld was like.

Ji Fengyu told Xu Yao that the underworld was the same as the Huaxia star a long time ago. There were endless mountains and rivers, villages, markets, banks, cattle, horses and sheep. But after the disaster, these things gradually disappeared, only countless homeless and wandering souls were remained.

“Originally, people should die out and be reborn from generation to generation, but after the disaster, almost no new life was born here.” Ji Fengyu said hopelessly and shrugged his shoulder, “No child to cast.”

“Even if you have a baby to cast, most of the dead will not be reborn.” Song He said, “There’s no way to reincarnate with too much grievance.”

“I can offer you a solution. Although there are basically no new human beings born here, there are many creatures in the ocean. If you don’t mind, you can become a fish in the next life.”

“We want to be human.” Ji Fengyu said.

“Sorry, there are no new humans here.” Le Yao also shrugged his shoulders.

“Not now doesn’t mean that there won’t be child in the future.” Ji Fengyu looked at Xu Yao, “Isn’t that right, Mr. Xu?”

Xu Yao kneaded his little wife’s head, which showed the default answer.

Le Yao: “...” I hope it’s not what I thought!

Ji Fengyu rarely “drunk” wine and “ate” meat, but also openly chatted with friends like this, so they didn’t leave until nearly two o’clock in the morning. At that time, Le Yao was already sleeping. Originally, he thought that he still had much energy to stay awake, so it was a miracle that he could reach midnight. After midnight, he was lying on the sofa half asleep and half awake. But later he was already on the bed and didn’t remember how to get there.

As for what Xu Yao talked to Ji Fengyu after he went to bed, he had no impression. Anyway, when he opened his eyes in the bright morning light, there was a hard thing that poked his lower back!

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