Myriad Paths

Li Qi touched his body and found nine hundred and ninety-two coins.

It broke. The new boss only gave me the exercises and the willow branch, but no money!

It was okay for him to be alone. He could sleep outdoors, by a bridge, or at worst, on the street.

But there was a woman beside him... It happened that this woman was dressed in a rich outfit, with gauze scarf and silk. She was dressed in white and she looked very wealthy.

No, sir, this doesn't seem very safe. How dare you sleep on the street?

The most important thing is that there is no escort or anything. The only one accompanying him is Li Qi, a shabby tracker who can be easily seen as a poor man.

When I go out dressed like this, I feel like I am telling others: "Come and rob me! Come and steal me! Not only am I rich, but I can't resist at first sight!"

So Li Qi took two steps on the street to divert Miss Shen's attention, and then said to him: "Miss Shen, my name is Li Qi, you should already know."

"Well, Li Qi, my name is Shen Shuibi." Shen Shuibi's attention has been diverted, and she seems to have forgotten her previous anger.

This made Li Qi sigh with emotion.

This monster is really lacking in brains. No wonder the human race has this kind of brain. If it weren’t for the human race, the world would be haunted by ghosts.

Oh, no, I should say...this is called innocence, right?

I wish everyone in the world could be so innocent.

Li Qi took Shen Shuibi all the way to a river.

He squatted by the river, and Shen Shuibi stood behind him confused, as if he didn't know what to do.

At this time, Li Qi spoke: "Miss Shen, we will go on the road together later... ah no, we are going on a journey together. We must get to know each other. Apart from your name, I don't know anything about you. I know."

"However, understanding must be mutual. Let me introduce myself first."

Li Qi said and began to introduce himself.

His life is very thin to begin with. Apart from the fact that he is a heretic, it is not easy to talk about this. You can't tell people that you are a time traveler, right?

Although there is actually no difference between heretics, Mr. Zhu looks like there are quite a lot of them...

I wonder if there will be a chance to meet my fellow countrymen?

In addition, he briefly introduced himself as a tracker and told some stories about what he encountered while pulling a boat.

Things like the battle of wits and courage with Shan Dazhuang, the mountain spirits and water monsters encountered when pulling the boat, and so on.

Generally, when encountering those monsters, the big shots from the boat owners will be responsible for dealing with them, and the trackers will not be left to die.

After all, people who can run boats are not comparable to trackers.

There are also some legends and stories I heard while traveling near the dock, such as water bugs, water monkeys, and witches casting spells.

He told his own story, but it attracted Shen Shuibi's attention. She had never heard these things before, and she seemed to regard Li Qi as a storyteller.

"So, because of witches, when a child in our Dalu Kingdom gets seriously ill, most of the time he will not go to a doctor, but to a shaman to cure the disease." Li Qi said about some Baiyue areas. Strange things he had seen.

Now, it just happened to talk about the witches walking around the streets. In Li Qi's opinion, they replaced the barefoot doctors. They would use some herbal medicine or magical skills to treat diseases.

However, at this time, Shen Shuibi suddenly spoke.

"I know this. A Confucian and Taoist scholar once wrote about the deeds of Baiyue. He said, 'The customs of Baiyue are all about shamans. When people are sick, they often ask the shaman using the eight-character horoscope. When the shaman comes, he breaks a chicken egg and sees it as yellow and white. How to know the seriousness of the illness? At the most severe level, he would treat him with wine and food, and at the most severe level, he would paint a statue of a god in the hall, make a beautiful woman, blow a horn, dance with a gong, and sing a song with a flower pole and a chicken on it. , called the dance of breaking the fetus. The song is called the chicken song, and the song is called the song of warming flowers. If a male baby is sick, the witch will put a group of colorful garlands around it, and make the relatives point to one flower each to wish them. , it is called Nuan Hua. The witch cut his arm blood to apply the talisman.

"So, the gentleman also scolded Baiyue for being ignorant. There are often ten witches in the countryside, but it is difficult to find a doctor. The people must live in poverty. It should be noted that although witches can cure diseases, they cannot prevent them. Doctors can only cure diseases. In addition to disease, we can also explore the root cause of the disease and cure it. Curing one person can prevent hundreds of people from getting sick, but a witch can only cure one person, which is a drop in the bucket. "

After hearing these words, Li Qi turned to look at her with surprise on his face.

This woman... ah no, she is a succubus. Although she gives Li Qi the impression of being stupid, she is always able to speak clearly. The same thing happened with Willow Zhi earlier. She quoted scriptures casually, as if she had read many ancient books.

However, I have read a lot of books and accumulated a lot of knowledge...how come my brain still seems to be missing a muscle?

"That's true. What this gentleman said makes sense." Li Qishen believed that those wizards could cure diseases, but even if they were cured, they themselves didn't even know how to cure the disease.

Li Qi suffered this experience. He was pulling a boat and was parasitized by water poisonous insects. He became pot-bellied and round, full of squirming insects. He paid a wizard to cast spells and dance for him. After a while, the water poisonous insects died. , all pulled out.

But although the disease was cured, Li Qi didn't know how to prevent it in the future or how to prevent others from getting sick. Even the wizard himself didn't know, so he could only cure one by one.

Hearing Li Qi agree with her opinion, Shen Shuibi let out a proud hum.

It's really... carefree.

After chatting for about twenty minutes, she seemed to have completely forgotten the previous unpleasantness.

But this is exactly what Li Qi wanted to do, but even Li Qi himself didn't expect the effect to be so immediate.

I don’t know if I am too good at chatting, or if the target person is too easy to deceive.

He struck while the iron was hot and continued: "After talking about so many things about me, Miss Shen, you haven't said anything about yourself yet. How did you end up in Dalu Country?"

The topic has come to this point, and Shen Shuibi didn't feel anything was wrong: "Me? I don't have as many stories as you. I'm just your empress's rabbit. I've been with her since I was a child. She studies, I study, and she practices. , I also practice, my queen eats, and I also eat, and it’s been like this for about a hundred years, right? Then you know, my queen was being chased, and when she was halfway there, she was afraid that I would be killed in the aftermath, so she put me there. Big deer.”

"It's just that I was unlucky and was contaminated by one of the pursuers' magic. That thing will turn into my defensive energy, feed on my cultivation, and also show my location."

"The floating qi that does not follow the meridians is the defensive qi. However, the defensive qi nourishes the qi, yin and yang follow each other, and the outside and the inside are connected. It cannot be eradicated. I can only give up all my cultivation and destroy my body in order to get rid of this technique. Law."