36|Pity for the Flowers through the Red Clouds

Although Hua Cheng’s words were full of contempt and extremely impolite, once he opened his mouth, the man didn’t dare to argue much even though he was mocked by the others. The little maid who led Xie Ren here said, “This gentleman, you are really lucky today.”

Without shifting her gaze, Xie Ren said, “How so?”

The little maid said, “Our City Lord seldom comes here to play, it is only in these few days that he suddenly became interested, is this still bad luck?”

Listening to her tone, it was obvious that she was extremely fond of this “City Lord” and held him in high esteem, as long as she could meet him, it would be a great fortune, Xie Ren couldn’t help but smile slightly.

The curtains are gauzy, with red shadows. The scenery was exquisite. In front of the red curtain, there were also a couple of colorful women standing in charge of the gambling tables. Xie Ren originally planned to just stand outside and take a look, but after hearing Hua Cheng’s voice, he started to try to squeeze in, but still didn’t make a sound first. He squeezed his way to the third floor, and finally saw the man who was placing bets on the tables.

That is a living person. Xie Ren was not surprised, as I said earlier, there are not only ghosts in the ghost market, there are also a lot of earthly cultivation of the Fangshi, sometimes, some dying people, or those who have the idea of death, will also mistakenly enter. This man is also wearing a mask, revealing two eyes burst full of blood, red as if to bleed, lips white, as if many days do not see the sun, although it is a living person, but more than the other ghosts present is also like a ghost.

He pressed his hands tightly against a black wooden gambling cup on the table, and after holding it for a while, as if he had gone out of his way, he said, “But …… then why can that person just now bet on his legs?”

A woman in front of the curtain laughed, “That man just now was a godly thief, he had a pair of legs that were so light that he traveled all over the world, and it was the basis of his peace of mind, that’s why those legs were worth making a bargaining chip. You are neither a craftsman nor a famous doctor, what does your one hand count for?”

The man clenched his teeth and said, “Then I …… I’ll bet my–daughter’s ten years of life!”

Upon hearing this, Xie Ren was stunned, thinking, “How in heaven could there really be a father who bets on his own child’s lifespan, is this even possible?”

Behind the curtain, Hua Cheng but let out a laugh and said, “Okay.”

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but in this “line”, Xie Ren heard a trace of coldness.

He also thought to himself, “Sanlang said that he has always been lucky, and all his draws have been top draws; if he were to bet with this man, wouldn’t he surely win away ten years of someone’s daughter’s life?”

Just when I thought so, I heard the woman beside the long table scolding in a delicate voice: “Even numbers are negative, and odd numbers are victorious. Once the cup is opened, there is no turning back. Please!”

It turned out that Hua Cheng would not go down to gamble at all. The man was shaking, his hands tightly grasped the betting cup, a violent shake, the lobby a little quieter, the dice in the betting cup collision sound seems more and more crisp. For a long time, his movements came to an abrupt end, and then, there was a dead silence.

After a long time, the man pried up the corner of the betting cup very, very slowly, peeked through the crack, and the eyes, bursting with blood, suddenly glazed over.

He violently lifted the wooden goblet and exulted, “Single! Single! Single! I won! I won! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I won!!!! I won ！！！！”

The crowd of ghosts around the long table did not want to see such a result, and all of them made a “ch” sound, tapped the table, and were very dissatisfied. A woman laughed and said, “Congratulations. Your business will soon improve.”

The man laughed for a while and called out again, “Wait! I still have to bet.”

The woman said, “Welcome. What do you want this time?”

The man sank his face and said, “I want, I want those rivals who are in the same line of work with me, all of them to die a violent death!”

Upon hearing this, there was a sound of tsk-tsk in the lobby. The woman covered her mouth and laughed, ”If it’s this one, it’s a bit more difficult than what you asked for just now. Don’t you consider asking for something else? For example, to take your business to the next level?”

Instead, the man said with red eyes, “No! That’s what I’m going to bet on. I’m going to bet on this.”

The woman said, “Then, if this is what is being asked for, ten years of your daughter’s life, this bargaining chip, may not be enough.”

The man said, “If it’s not enough, add more. I’ll bet my daughter’s twenty-year lifespan, plus …… plus her in-laws!”

The ghosts clamored and laughed, “This father is heartless! He’s selling his daughter!”

“Awesome, awesome!”

The girl said, “Even numbers are negative, and odd numbers are victorious. Once the cup is opened, there is no turning back. Please!”

The man started shivering and shaking the betting cup again. If he lost, his daughter would lose twenty years of her life and a good marriage, which was naturally not good; but if he won, would he let his peers all die a violent death? But Xie Ren felt that Hua Cheng should not let such a thing happen, but after a few hesitations, he still stood forward a little. He was still debating whether he should make a move and play a small trick, when a person pulled him back. He turned around to see that it was actually Shi Qingxuan.

Shi Qingxuan had already regained his male body and whispered, “Don’t be impulsive.”

Xie Ren also whispered, “Master Wind Master, why have you changed back again?”

Shi Qingxuan said: “Alas, it’s hard to say, that group of big ladies and little sisters, dragged me to run, said they want to introduce me to a good store, I managed to escape, afraid of being caught by them again, so I had to change back first. They dragged me to a place to apply a lot of things to my face, pulling and tugging and slapping and hitting, you quickly look at my face, is there anything wrong? Is there anything wrong with it?”

He brought his face in front of Xie Ren, who took a closer look and honestly said, “It seems to be smoother and fairer.”

Upon hearing this, Shi Qingxuan glowed with radiance and said, ”Really? That’s good, great, hahahaha. Where is the mirror? Where is there a mirror? Let me take a look.”

Xie Ren said, “We’ll see later. This ghost market can’t channel spirits, so we mustn’t get separated again. By the way, Master Wind Master, how did you know I was here?”

Shi Qingxuan said, “I didn’t know you were here at all, I came here because I made an appointment with Qianqiu to rendezvous here. I came here first when we got separated just now, who knew that when I came in to take a look, I happened to see you.”

Xie Ren said, “You made an appointment with Qianqiu? To rendezvous here?”

Shi Qingxuan said, ”Yes, Qianqiu is Lang Qianqiu, Your Highness Tai Hua, you should know this, right? He is the Martial God who guards the east, it’s better for us to make an appointment with him when we come here. The Ghost Gambling Place is one of the most lively and fishy places in the Ghost City, with iconic buildings, people coming and going, and many ghosts, so it’s not easy to arouse suspicion, that’s why I told him before to meet up here.”

Xie Ren nodded slightly. Turning back to the man, the man had not yet opened the cup, his eyes rolled white and he was chanting, no different at all from the other ghost types dancing around in the casino. He sighed, “This man ……”

Shi Qingxuan rubbed his face while saying, ”I know what you’re going to say, I agree. However, the Ghost Market is the territory of Flower City, and the rules of the Ghost Gambling Workshop are that if you love it and dare to gamble, you dare to play, and the Heavenly Realm can’t control it. Let’s wait and see what happens first, in case it really doesn’t work, we’ll think of another way.”

Xie Ren pondered for a moment, thinking that San Lang should not let such a thing happen, and it would be good to wait and see what happens, so he did not move again. The man on the table also seems to have finally summoned up enough courage to open the betting cup by a slit, the result will be revealed. Who knows, at this moment, suddenly a person snatched out, a palm cover down, the black wooden gambling cup, slapped a smash!

This palm, not only shattered the gambling cup, the man’s hand covering the cup was also shattered, and even the whole table, was also slapped out a crack.

The masked man covered one of his hands with crushed bones and rolled around on the ground screaming. All the ghosts also shouted, some in good humor, some in horror. And the man came out with his hand, shouting, “You, what an evil heart! You seek glory and riches, it is fine, but what you seek, is someone else’s violent|death? If you want to gamble, you have the ability to take your own life to gamble, take your daughter’s life and marriage to gamble? You don’t deserve to be a man, you don’t deserve to be a father!”

This young man sword eyebrow and starry eyes, heroic, although only wearing a simple soap clothes, not wearing fancy clothes, but does not hide its noble spirit. Not that Yongan country’s crown prince Lang Qianqiu and who?

Seeing him, Xie Ren and Shi Qingxuan covered their faces at the same time amidst the group of ghosts.

Xie Ren groaned | “…… Wind Master Lord, you …… didn’t tell him …… to be careful when he got here and keep a low profile? ……”

Shi Qingxuan also groaned | “…… I …… I said it, but …… he’s just such a person… …I can’t help it either……I should have known that I……we should have made an appointment with him to come down together……”

Xie Ren said, “I understand …… I understand ……”

At that moment, Hanagi behind the curtain laughed softly.

And Xie Ren’s heart followed suit.

This teenager had laughed a lot when he was with him, and by now, Xie Ren had almost been able to tell when he was being sincere, when he was mocking under false pretenses, and when, again, he was moving in for the kill.

I only heard him leisurely say, “Coming to my venue to cause trouble, you have a lot of guts.”

Lang Qianqiu turned that way, his eyes gleaming as he said, “Are you the owner of this gambling house?”

The ghosts on all sides snorted, “You ungrateful little child, do you know who you’re talking to? This is our city lord.”

Someone else sneered, “It’s not just this ghost gambling house. This entire ghost city is his!”

Upon hearing this, Lang Qianqiu had no reaction, but Shi Qingxuan was taken aback and said, “My mother, that back there, could it be that who? Blood Rain Scout???”

Xie Ren said, “Well …… it’s him.”

Shi Qingxuan said, “Are you sure?!”

Xie Ren said, “I’m sure.”

Shi Qingxuan said, “Dead dead dead. What’s going to happen to Qianqiu now?!”

Xie Ren said, “…… Let’s hope he won’t expose his identity on his own ……”

Lang Qianqiu looked around, but became increasingly angry, saying, “This hell of a place is full of pandemonium and demons, what kind of things are here and what kind of things are they doing? You guys opened this kind of place, when there is really no half human nature to speak of!”

The ghosts booed and said, “We are not human beings in the first place, what do we need humanity for, whoever wants that kind of thing will take it!”

“And what are you, coming here and telling us what to do!”

Flower City laughed, “This place of mine is originally the Carnival Hell. There is a way in the heavenly realm that you don’t go, and there is no door in hell that you barge in, so what can be done about it?”

Hearing the words “Heavenly Realm”, Xie Ren and Shi Qingxuan instantly understood.

Hanacheng had really figured out where Lang Qianqiu was fighting!

However, Lang Qianqiu didn’t read the meaning of these words at all, and made another palm strike on the long table. He stood at the end of the long table, this chop, everyone around the table ghosts have dodged, the long table rushed straight to the red shadow behind the curtain. But see behind the curtain silhouette sitting posture unchanged, slightly waved his hand, that long table again in the opposite direction rushed back, crashed into Lang Qianqiu.

Seeing the long table strike back, Lang Qianqiu first held it up with one hand, and then seemed to realize that he couldn’t top it with one hand and immediately switched to both hands. As he held it, shallow veins gradually surfaced on his forehead. The original lively lobby hiding hiding running, Xie Ren and Shi Qingxuan both can not decide whether to help, after all, now the two of them should still be considered not exposed, can be in the dark help. Really want to jump out to help, that’s one scratch to catch three.

Over there, Lang Qianqiu let out a gulp and finally pushed the long, heavy table back again. The shadow of Flower City behind the red curtain, however, was still on its side, its five fingers gently closing and then gently releasing. That long table suddenly cracked into countless pieces of broken wood shavings, flying towards Lang Qianqiu.

These wood shavings carried an extremely harsh blade wind, more terrifying than any hidden weapon, if Lang Qianqiu still hid his dharma and maintained his person, he would not be able to avoid it no matter what. Thus, in the next moment, a shallow layer of spiritual light was released from his body, Xie Ren and Shi Qingxuan immediately understood, and thought: no good, this is going to transform into a Dharma body!

However, this shallow layer of aura immediately faded, probably because Lang Qianqiu finally remembered that he couldn’t expose his identity on this trip, so he quickly withdrew the aura in the nick of time. However, Lang Qianqiu withdrew his hand, but Hua Cheng would not withdraw his hand. The red-clothed figure sat comfortably behind the red curtain, and his hand gesture changed, with his five fingers together, slightly lifting upwards.

With this lift, Lang Qianqiu’s entire body suddenly hovered in the air in a large shape, floating above the ceiling of the gambling house’s lobby!

After being trapped, Lang Qianqiu didn’t seem to understand how he suddenly floated up, and struggled twice with a confused look on his face. Xie Ren said with a headache, “He’s been locked out of his mana, now he can’t even think of transforming into his dharma body.”

Shi Qingxuan said, “The Ghost Market is Flower City’s territory, so if you want to lock it, you can.”

Although at the moment, Lang Qianqiu was considered to be constrained by others, but there was also a benefit, that is, his true identity was probably barely kept secret. Otherwise, if he had manifested his dharma body during the fight, and gave people the knowledge that the Eastern Martial God Taifa Zhenjun had come to the ghost city to cause trouble, it wouldn’t be so simple to get rid of the matter. After all, over the years, in addition to some special events, the heavenly realm and the ghost world is also considered to be well water.

The uninvited guest who had caused havoc in the gambling house was locked up, and all the ghosts who had originally fled returned, gathering under the lobby, pointing and laughing at Lang Qianqiu, who was locked in the air above him. Lang Qianqiu had probably never been in such a predicament before, his face turned slightly red, he didn’t say a word, and secretly exerted his strength, wanting to break free from the invisible binding technique. From time to time, some ghosts at the bottom jumped up and tried to slap his head, but fortunately Hua Cheng suspended him extremely high and couldn’t slap him, or else this humiliation would have been great. Hua Cheng laughed behind the red curtain, “I caught such a thing today, you guys take it and play with it. Whoever is lucky enough to bet on a big hand, take it back and cook it.”

At that, the lobby cheered and screamed, “Bet on the size! Bet on the size! The one with the biggest points, take him back and cook him!”

“哎呀呀，这个小哥，看起来很补的样子咧，嘻嘻嘻嘻……”

“Hahahahahahahahaha stupid, so you don’t know whose turf you’re messing with!”

Four masked men brought in a new long table, no one paid attention to the masked man on the ground holding his hands and wailing and rolling, the crowd of ghosts gathered at the long table again to start the next round of gambling. This time, the bet was on Lang Qianqiu, who was hanging in the air. Seeing that the betting over there was in full swing, Shi Qingxuan walked around at this end, so anxious that he dropped his hands, ”What should we do? Should we go up and bet him back? Or just start fighting?”

Xie Ren said, “Master Wind Master, how’s your hand?”

Shi Qingxuan said, “Of course it’s sometimes good and sometimes bad, this kind of hand luck, how can there be a definite conclusion?”

Xie Ren said, “There are. For example, me, I’ve never been good.”

Shi Qingxuan said, “So miserable?”

Xie Ren nodded his head sorrowfully and said, “I’ll roll the dice, up to two points.”

Shi Qingxuan frowned and immediately had an idea, tapping his leg and saying, “How about this, since you have a maximum of two points, then if you compare yourself to someone else, you’ll be competing to see who rolls the smallest number of points. Surely no one can be smaller than you anymore.”

Xie Ren thought about it and said, “It makes sense, I’ll try.”

So, he came over to the side of the long table and said, “Why don’t we change the rules and see who rolls the smallest number of points? Whoever is smallest wins, how about it?”

The table is chaotic, some say yes, some say no, Xie Ren then first grabbed two dice, first try to roll a hand.

He mumbled in his mind, “Small, small, small.” After the roll, the two men came over to take a look – two sixes!

Xie Ren: “……”

Shi Qingxuan: “……”

Xie Ren rubbed his brow and said, “It seems that a good or bad hand doesn’t change just because the rules change.”

Shi Qingxuan followed his example and rubbed his brow, saying, “Why don’t we just start fighting?”

At that moment, a woman approached the red curtain, leaned in slightly, seemed to listen to the person behind the curtain say something, nodded, then raised her head, and raised her voice, “Please be quiet, the City Lord has something to say.”

As soon as she said that the City Lord had something to say, the ghosts immediately stopped and were quiet to a fault. The woman said, “The City Lord said that the rules have changed.”

All the ghosts said, “The City Lord is the rule!”

“Whatever the City Lord says it is!”

“Change it to what?”

The woman said, “The city lord said that he is in a good mood today and wants to play a couple of games with everyone. Everyone can bet with him, and the one who wins the bet can carry away this thing above. Whether it’s steamed, boiled, or fried and stir-fried and pickled, it’s all at the winner’s disposal.”

Upon hearing that they had to bet with the City Lord, the ghosts were hesitant. It seemed that Flower City indeed never went down to play. There were a few bold ones that jumped at the chance, however, none of them dared to be the first to come up yet. Lang Qianqiu, who had been continuously struggling hard from above, angrily said, “What do you mean by this thing? I’m not a thing, so why are you guys betting on me?”

He said loudly “I’m not a thing”, many female ghosts heard, let out eating snickers, eyes nakedly staring at Lang Qianqiu, the tip of the fishy red tongue swept over the lips, as if even more want to eat him into the stomach. Xie Ren thought to himself, “Alas …… this child. You’d better say less.”

Sighing silently, he stepped forward and said in a warm voice, “In that case, then, please let me give it a try for the time being.”

At those words, the figure behind the red curtain also paused, and then, slowly got up.

The woman in front of the curtain laughed, “Then, let’s invite this gentleman to come forward.”

Inside the lobby, everyone ghosts and devils automatically separated the open space, making a way for this warrior. When Xie Ren walked forward, the woman held over a shiny black gambling cup with both hands and said, “After you.”

When she treated those gamblers earlier, she used “you”, and although her words were calm, her tone was not polite, but now she used “you” to him, and her tone was also very submissive. Xie Ren took the black wooden gambling cup from her hand, said thanks and coughed lightly.

He had barely touched such a thing, and took it and shook it in a haphazard burst, and had to pretend that he was good at it. As he shook it, he looked up and glanced at Lang Qianqiu, who was hanging above him. Lang Qianqiu also opened his eyes wide, blearily looking at him, however, finally did not shout out anything. Looking at his expression, Xie Ren inexplicably wanted to laugh a little in his heart, and held back. After shaking for a long time, he finally stopped.

Countless pairs of eyes were staring at the cup in his hand, and Xie Ren also felt that this small betting cup had become incredibly heavy, and didn’t know what the correct position to open it was. Just as he was about to reveal the result, the lady said again, “Wait.”

Xie Ren said, “What is it?”

The lady said, “The city lord said that the way you shook the cup, wasn’t quite right.”

Xie Ren thought to himself, “So there really is a correct posture? Can’t it be that my previous bad luck was all because of the wrong posture?”

He vainly said, “And what, may I ask, is the correct posture?”

The woman said, “The city lord said to ask you to come up here, and he would be willing to teach you.”

Upon hearing this, a hissing and huffing sound came from the ghosts in the gambling house.

Xie Ren heard a ghost mutter, “The city wants to teach him, this is really unprecedented, is this person going to die.”

“What does the Lord want? Who is this man? Why are you teaching him???”

“Isn’t that how you shake a cup? Is there any other correct posture?”

Xie Ren was also thinking about this when the lady had already invited her hand towards the red curtain and said to him, “Please.”

Thus, Xie Ren held the black wooden gambling cup and walked to the red curtain.

The veil was fluttering, and the red shadows were indistinct. The person behind the curtain, stood on the opposite side, between the two, only half an arm’s length away.

Holding his breath for a moment, a hand separated the heavy red mantle and poked out from behind the curtain, covering the back of Xie Ren’s hand and holding the betting cup.

It was a right hand, long and pale, with well-defined knuckles and a red thread tied around the third finger.

Against the dark and shiny wooden cup, the white color was even paler and the red color was even brighter. Slowly, Xie Ren raised her eyes.

Behind the red cloud-like veil, silently stood an eighteen|nine year old boy.

It’s Saburo.

Still the clothes red than maple, skin white as snow. Is still that handsome abnormal, can not be forced to look at the face of the young man, just outline more clear, faded the youth of the young man, more show calm and calm. Said this is a teenager, but can also say, this is a man.

The section of wild love and wildness between his brows was not extinguished but rather proud. Still bright as a star, his eyes were sunken, and he was gazing at Xie Ren with unblinking eyes.

Only, bright as a star, there was only one left eye.

A black eye patch that covered his right eye.