The Priest Kept a Ghost in His Gourd and Let Him Out Every Night novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Truth
Shao's smile did not move.
"Priest Gu, you are standing next to a calamity that has just told an entire village it is the last of five."
"I'm standing next to my friend," Pingan said.
"He killed three hundred people."
"Then show me the wound on one of them."
Nobody in the street spoke.
Auntie Xu shifted her cleaver from one hand to the other and looked at the dock, and then at the Inspector.
"It's the middle of the night," she said. "Nobody binds anything in my street tonight."
"Madam, the thing in your river..."
"Will be there at dawn. So will you."
Shao looked along the street at the pale faces in every doorway.
Forty torches shook behind him, and he saw that his priests did not want to move.
His smile came back, narrower.
"Dawn, then," he said. "Keep your gourd close, Priest Gu. I need him alive until I have the rest of him."
Pingan did not remember climbing the inn stairs.
He remembered Zhuoran's hand, cold as river stone, and the way it did not let go of his sleeve.
In the loft, Zhuoran sat down on the floor with his back against the wall.
He put the Rain Needle across his knees and looked at it.
"It's simple," he said. "I would like to say it plainly, and I would like you not to interrupt."
"All right."
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