Chapter 4 Escort Agency (Part 1)

  Chi Xun was shocked, and saw that Xiao Si's left chest had a thin, long blood stain, after all, he was still affected by Sha Wujie's Blood Flame Claw.

  Xiao Si cried, his face gloomy: "Damn it, this year is really unlucky, I'm afraid I'll die soon. Chi Da Ge, brother has no other requests, only one thing to entrust you with before death - never build a tomb or grave for me, just find a deserted place and dig a hole to bury me. Remember, don't dig the hole too big, just enough to bury me is fine, and the better the mound on top is miserable, the more I can sleep soundly underneath."

  Chi Xun Xiao ignored his nonsense, took three steps forward in two strides, grabbed Xiao Si's hand and felt his pulse, and asked in a deep voice: "Brother Xiao Si, do you feel numbness at the wound, and a burning fire in your chest?"

  Xiao Si shook his head and said, "I'm freezing to death, how can I feel the fire burning? Chi Da Ge, when you celebrate the New Year, remember to send me some paper money. I heard that the little ghosts down there are bullying the living, and without money, it's hard to get along."

  Chi Zun Xiao was stunned, he exercised his inner vision technique and true energy wandered around Si Xiao's body, but did not find any signs of poisoning. After a moment of contemplation, he suddenly realized: "He has an unusual cold yin energy in his body, which can counteract the poison with poison, the Blood Flame Claw Poison is very powerful, but it didn't hurt him at all."

  He smiled and let go of his hand: "Don't worry, you're not poisoned, just a minor flesh wound, it's nothing."

  Xiao Si was calculating how to spend his last days before dying. Upon hearing this, he hesitated and asked: "Are you saying I won't die?"

  "Of course not," said Chi Sun Xiao with a smile: "The cold air in your body should be the nemesis of the Blood Flame Claw Poison."

  Xiao Si let out a sigh of relief, his whole body relaxing as he leaned back against the stone wall. "Looks like heaven is still smiling on me," he said with a chuckle. "No wonder they say luck is like your butt - you can't see it, but it's always there."

  Chi Xuan Xia was staring at the young man, an ordinary person would either cry and lament their fate or explode in anger and curse the heavens, but Xiao Si's performance was truly unexpected, listening to him cracking jokes and making light of life and death, so optimistic and carefree, it made Chi Xuan Xia feel a deep connection.

  Xiao Si took out a jade plate from his bosom and examined it carefully, exclaiming in surprise: "Strange, this plate isn't broken at all."

  Hong Junxian took the plate and looked at it for a while, then asked solemnly: "Fourth brother, where did you get this jade plate?"

  The little girl with a small mouth and downcast eyes replied without lifting her eyelids: "Grandpa gave it to me."

  Hongjun nodded and returned the emerald plate to Xiao Si, pondering for a moment before saying: "This seems to be a divine artifact of the immortal family, you must be careful to keep it safe and not easily reveal it. Otherwise, it will attract the prying eyes of others, and there may be a fatal disaster."

  Xiao Si was startled, and without waiting for Chi Zun Xiao to say another word, he hastily stuffed the jade plate into his clothes and hid it close to his body. He asked: "Can that be sold for a lot of money?"

  "If it's someone who knows their stuff, he'd be willing to trade for a mountain of gold and a sea of silver."

  Xiao Si exclaimed with joy: "Thank you, Brother Chi, for your guidance. In the future, if anyone takes a liking to this plate, I will do as you said and let them exchange it for mountains of gold and seas of silver."

  Chi Xun Xiao laughed and said: "Little Fourth Brother, I need to hurry up and force out the Blood Flame Claw poison. You should rest for a while too."

  Xiao Si frowned and said: "Will those two turtle eggs that we chased away take the opportunity to come back and cause trouble?"

  Hong Xun said: "Zhong Kui is anxious to rescue Yu Gu and will not return for the time being. Moreover, he probably thinks we have long since fled."

  Xiao Si cupped his hands and said: "Elder brother Chi is wise and farsighted, that's reassuring." He thought to himself: "I'll first make you comfortable, nothing would be better than that. If something happens, you won't be able to abandon me, will you?"

  A powerful enemy has left, now he is most worried that Red Prestige Knight will suddenly change his mind after crossing the river and demolishing the bridge. He thought for a moment and had an idea, picked up the Youquan knife, gritted his teeth, and lightly cut out a blood mouth on his palm, repeatedly urging: "Red brother, drink two mouthfuls of my blood, maybe you can resolve the poison."

  Chi Xun Xiao was taken aback, and with a flick of his finger, he sealed the wound that was bleeding profusely. "Good brother, there's no need for this," he said. "Although Sha Wuji's Blood Flame Claw is extremely toxic, with my Mysterious Gate technique, I can completely expel it from your body within three to five hours."

  "Alas, I've already made the cut for you, and yet you don't appreciate it. Wouldn't that make me suffer in vain?" He then spoke with great passion: "Brother Chi, although we've just met, we're already comrades who have shared life and death together. My blood is your blood, my life is your life, my mother is your mother, my wife... uh, she's your sister-in-law. Brother Chi, do you want my blood to flow in vain?"

  Chi Xun's temperament is calm and honest, who would have thought that Xiao Si's words actually hid a profound meaning. If he were to say it in reverse, he wouldn't do it even if you killed him.

  He grasped Xiaosan's scarred hand tightly and said sincerely: "Brother Xiaosi, it's rare to see you have such a strong sense of justice. If you don't despise me, let's become sworn brothers from now on. We may not be born in the same year, month or day, but we'll die together on the same day!"

  Xiao Si's heart was filled with joy, and he secretly thought: "The old man said that if you don't want to lose your child, you can't catch the wolf. This sentence is true. If Brother Chi doesn't want to die on the same day as me, he must try his best to cure my ghostly illness. Otherwise, I'll make him accompany me on the road to the Yellow Spring, and those Taoist priests from Kunlun Mountain will also be reluctant to part with him."

  They then clasped hands and swore an oath of brotherhood in the mountain cave, becoming adopted brothers of different surnames.

  One was a Kunlun Yao Tai Gong's master disciple, with a heroic reputation that spread far and wide; the other was an unknown, nameless rogue who cheated and deceived to get rich and feared death. Two people who were originally worlds apart became bound together by life and death, which is also a strange occurrence.

  After getting up from the ground, Xiao Si brushed off the dust and smiled: "Big brother, although it's said that nine out of ten people with festering wounds don't dare to turn back and look for trouble, we can't just wait stupidly. We must be prepared for any situation. You focus on treating your injuries and forcing out the poison inside the cave, I'll go outside and set up a strange gate array, so that others won't be able to approach the mountain cave."

  "Second Brother, I didn't know you were well-versed in the art of Qimen Dunjia!"

  He didn't dare to boast that his greatest hobby was studying how to crack the mechanism of ancient tombs, some life-saving things, such as Qimen Dunjia, were essential skills. He smiled and said: "This is like showing off my big knife in front of Guan Gong, don't laugh at me when you turn around, brother."

  Hong Jun nodded and reminded him: "Be more careful, if something unexpected happens, just call me loudly."

  He watched as Xiao Si walked out of the cave, then sat down cross-legged, first taking two Kunlun Yao Tai Palace healing holy medicines, and then concentrated on cultivating his internal energy to force out the poison.

  He sat down for more than four hours, and it wasn't until after noon that Chi Zhongxia finally came to.

  Xiao Si had been waiting for a long time, feeling extremely bored and listless. He took out the jade plate and looked at it back and forth, but after staring at it for an entire morning, his stomach was growling with hunger. However, the plate remained empty, just like his belly.

  Seeing Chi Sun Hsien opened his eyes, he hastily stuffed the plate into his arms and exclaimed: "Big brother, you're finally awake."

  Hong Zun Xiao smiled slightly, feeling that the poison had been completely eliminated and his strength had recovered to 60-70%. He looked at Xiao Si, who hadn't slept all night to protect him, and couldn't help but feel apologetic: "Second Brother, you didn't sleep last night, are you tired?"

  "No big deal," Xiao Si said without thinking, "I never sleep at night, the later it gets, the more energetic I become."

  As soon as the words came out, he suddenly realized that he had misspoken and hastily changed his tone: "It's all my grandfather's fault. He has been forcing me to take the imperial examination, hanging from the beam with a dagger piercing my heart, not allowing me to doze off or blink. After a long time, I got used to sleeping only for a short while every day."

  It just so happened that his stomach growled loudly at this moment, and Zhuo Zhen Xiao smiled and stood up, saying: "Alright, I'll go catch some wild game, we'll eat our fill and then head down the mountain to Jiangzhou."

  Xiao Si looked at Chi Zhong Xia and saw that he was already fine, so he changed the subject and asked: "Big brother, what are we going to Jiangzhou for?"

  Hong Qi Xian Dao said, "I have a few good friends in Jiangzhou who opened a security firm. I'd like you to stay there for a while. Once I've finished dealing with the sect's affairs, I'll take you to Jiangnan to find my third master uncle, Evil Moon True Person, and ask him to treat your illness."

  Xiao Si's heart skipped a beat, and he wondered: "Isn't this guy trying to play the Golden Cicada Shell trick on me?" He immediately put on a sorrowful face and said: "Big brother, it's a pity we brothers met so late. I'm reluctant to part with you. From now on, I'll follow you through thick and thin, and we'll fight side by side, sharing life and death!"

  Hong Zun Xiao smiled and said, "I have a matter to attend to for my sect, I won't be able to bring you with me. You don't need to worry about my safety, in more than two or three months, or less than thirty to fifty days, I will come to Jiangzhou to pick you up."

  Xiao Si had no choice but to nod. Thinking of all the effort he put in, even shedding blood, only to end up with nothing, he couldn't help but feel a wave of sadness wash over him and let out a loud wail.

  Hong Xiaolong patted Xiao Si's back and comforted him, "Brother, I know you have a strong sense of justice and can't bear to part with me. But as we are in the jianghu, we should take it upon ourselves to protect the common people. Don't cry, there will be opportunities for us to walk together again, upholding justice and ridding the world of evil. Our brotherhood won't be in vain!"

  Xiao Si cried even more sorrowfully, his voice choked with emotion as he spoke nonsense: "You and big brother are like old times, one day without seeing each other is like three autumns apart. You must come to Jiangzhou early, little brother will stand at the door of the escort agency every day, waiting for you to arrive..." But in his anxiety, he brought up a few songs he had secretly listened to when following the dead old man to the brothel to drink and have fun last time.

  Hong Xun listened to Xiao Siyi's sobbing and incoherent words, feeling both annoyed and amused. He nodded his head and said, "Alright, I promise you - within three months at most, Brother Fool will come to fetch you, and then we'll go to Jiangnan together!"

  "We are men of our word, one promise is enough. Three months it is, I'll definitely wait for you!" He added in his heart: "If you don't come, next life you'll be a small turtle shell."

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