Near the end of the year, the market is very lively, and people who have money and no money can't help but buy some New Year's goods, buy some new clothes, and prepare for the New Year.
The goods on the market have also become much richer than before. All kinds of north-south licensed goods, freshly eaten, are placed on both sides of the street.
Yuan Xianger put a bag of crispy rice candy in the hands of the tall monster in front of her. The monster named Yu stretched out his dark hands and caught the fragrant cloth bag. Look at the contents of the bag.
Until Yuan Xianger walked a long way, the figure of Yu caught up from the pier of the stone bridge again, with broad shoulders and small head, with a strange appearance, black arms raised in front of Yuan Xianger, open palms, and lying quietly in the palms A camellia with drops of water.
It is not easy to find an open camellia at this time, Yuan Xianger took the camellia with a smile, pinned it to her temples, and bowed slightly to thank her friend. The big black man followed her example and bent slightly.
Yu was the first monster that Yuan Xianger met after he came to Queqiu Town. Nine years passed in a flash. He changed from an ordinary monster to his friend, and this small town also changed from a strange place to a friend. own home. A few goblins were mixed in the crowd, the townspeople who lived and worked in peace and contentment, the quiet and peaceful town, as if it was a paradise where she didn't need to worry about anything.
After waving goodbye to Yu, Yuan Xianger came to a jewelry store and took out the golden ball she found on the mountain. She thought that misogynists valued this ball very much. If she could fix it and return it to her next time they met, it might reduce some unnecessary misunderstandings.
The owner of the shop looked left and right with the half-burned golden ball, shook his head, "This is a craftsmanship, it's very difficult to do. We don't have this kind of craftsmanship in a small place like ours. Not to mention our shop, the whole Queqiu, I promise I won’t be able to find a craftsman who can repair this ball. Probably only sent to a prosperous place like the prefecture or Kyoto to repair it.”
Hearing the boss speak like this, Yuan Xianger had to take the ball back. Just as he was about to leave, a rich boy in brocade clothes came in from the door, accompanied by his female family. , winked and shy, but a stunner in the world.
When passing by, a pair of autumn water-like eyes turned towards Yuan Xiang'er, and the corners of the eyes curved slightly like a smile but not a smile.
"That man won't live for a few days." Wu Yuan, who was squatting on Yuan Xiang'er's shoulder, whispered.
Yuan Xiang'er looked back and saw that although the young man who had just entered looked smug, his face was actually blue, his eyes were black, and his body was covered with a gray gas, and he was already short-lived.
"Sure enough, that woman is a fairy? I don't think it's right."
"It's a fox, with three tails behind it. The fox family likes to sneak into the world to play and often pretend to be very similar."
Yuan Xianger stepped out of the door frame, and the woman who sold silk flowers outside the door was muttering to a customer,
"Have you seen it? The twelfth concubine of the Chu family who was recently asked for."
"It's a sin, he's the only one in his family, and I don't know how many daughters of a good family have been harmed."
"I heard that this time it's the daughter of a rural tenant. My mother fell ill last year and borrowed a lot of money from the master's family. If she can't pay it by the end of the year, she has to use her daughter to pay off the debt."
"It's a pity, it's a pity, the daughter of the farm family is also so handsome, and it's a pity that she fell into the devil's lair of the Chu family."
Yuan Xiang'er listened to the gossip, and was too lazy to meddle in her own business. When I left the jewelry store, I remembered that Nan He had changed into a human form, but his clothes were not good enough. He looked pitiful with his bare feet, so he turned to the clothing store to buy some men's ready-to-wear clothes, and then went to the fruit store and cake shop. I bought a lot of new cakes and went out in large and small bags.
Passing by the door of Yongji Hall at Dongjiekou, the main entrance there is inviting Taoist masters to come and practice things.
The onlookers were on three floors and three floors, and there was a lot of discussion.
"This iron rooster of Yongji Hall is now willing to make such a big dojo with bad money."
"You don't know that there have been a lot of unfortunate incidents in their family recently. They have gone bankrupt, sickened and caused official trouble. They come one after another. They all say that they have provoked unclean things. They have to pay a lot of money to specially invite Master Gao Gong to come. Town by town."
"Anything that is not clean, I think I have a guilty conscience. Since Doctor Han's immortal travel, the shop has fallen into the hands of these two brothers. This old signboard of Yongji Church is considered a blow to their hands."
In front of the ceremony, there is a lot of pomp, with incense tables in the hall, fluttering spirit flags, flowers and fruits, gold, paper and silver coins, everything is available. The mage who practiced the work was immortal, wearing a crown, wearing five-color sleeves, holding a peach wood sword, and was chanting words in front of the law hall. I saw him scolding, raising his hand and offering a piece of talisman paper, the yellow talisman floated in the air, and spontaneously ignited without wind, causing the onlookers to exclaim for a while.
"Oh, it's amazing, I didn't feel the fire spirit at all, how did he make the talisman paper burn." Wu Yuan squatted on Yuan Xiang'er's shoulder and looked excited.
Yuan Xiang'er smiled: "It's just a trick to deceive people. You don't need aura."
Just above the eaves of the Dharma Hall, the bloated beetle (du jealousy) demon is also sticking out his head to watch the fun, dripping saliva dripping on the mage's hat, but the solemn mage is not. Nothing.
I saw him holding a peach wood sword and shouted: "Hey, where is the monster going!"
An aggressive sword slashed on the desk, and a bloody red mark appeared on the yellow cloth strip laid on the desk in advance.
The onlookers were all startled, and even closed their eyes timidly. "Oh, hacked to death, hacked to death, you see blood."
The beetle demon on the roof shivered with fright at the sound of the drink, retracted his head and looked at his body from side to side, only to find that he was unharmed.
"Hahaha, how the hell did this happen, you humans are too funny." Wu Yuan rolled around with laughter.
Yuan Xianger had to squeeze his neck and turned to leave.
The dojo was still lively behind him, and the two bosses and wives of Yongji Hall were kneeling in front of the mage, and they bought the amulet at a high price with gratitude.
Compared with the liveliness of this place, in an inconspicuous corner of the street, a scrawny little beggar sat crookedly, wearing a single dress in the cold weather, with a gray face, shivering and huddled with a stray dog. Warm up together. The same scrawny puppy roared desperately at an empty corner.
In the crowd that came and went, no one saw a monster standing quietly in front of the little beggar. Wearing a crown with a robe, a sharp bowed beak on his face, and a pair of dead gray eyes, he silently stared at the little boy curled up on the ground. The dog kept shaking its tail with its tail tucked in, but it always stood in front of its owner. .
"It stinks, it stinks, what is that? It's just a stench. It smells too bad." Wu Yuan shouted while covering her nose.
"His name is Guijiu, he eats his soul for a living. He knows that this child is going to die, and he is here waiting to devour his soul when he leaves his soul."
When passing by, Yuan Xiang'er stopped, stretched out her finger and lightly tapped the little boy's eyebrows, a little bit of aura flashed by, the boy took a breath and woke up leisurely.
Yuan Xianger left behind a bag of newly baked sweet-scented osmanthus cakes and two pieces of silver. The kid is fine right now, he's just too hungry. But if left alone, he might starve to death on the streets tonight.
Guijiu turned around his long neck, his pale eyes stared at Yuan Xianger and let out a scream of dissatisfaction.
"He's still alive, there's nothing to do with you, you can leave now, or you will be banned for ten years." Yuan Xianger said in a low voice, making a decision with both hands, pinching a big light to suppress the devil.
The ghost dove hesitated for a moment, then spread out its rotten wings, and with a piercing scream pierced the sky, spread its wings and left.
"Aquan, what do you think this is? It's food, ah, and money! It's great, we don't have to starve to death this winter."
Yuan Xianger was walking on her way home in a relaxed mood, holding the large and small bags she had purchased. The joyful voice of a little beggar was heard behind her, accompanied by the barking of dogs.
There are many monsters in this world, some of them can live in the same world as friends, and some are full of malice towards human beings. It wasn't obvious in this small town, because there were almost no demons that could harm Yuan Xianger, but in the world outside Queqiu, she had never touched how the flowers bloomed and flourished.
At the door of the house, there was a group of people parked outside the gate of the yard. Xuanche BMW, with many followers, looks familiar. Yuan Xianger recognized it and found that it was Zhou Sheng who had been there once and lived by the Dongting Lake. His wife suddenly changed her temperament and declared that she was a man. Not only did she refuse to let him get close to her, but she also tossed the family into chaos.
In the yard at the moment, the man named Zhou Deyun was kneeling in front of Yunniang with disregard, crying bitterly, begging bitterly, "You can think of a way for me, I have invited all the great immortal masters, It's useless, look at what I've been beaten by my wife."
He raised his face, only to see that his originally handsome face seemed to have knocked over the dye shop. There were blue and purple colors, and a white gauze was wrapped in the middle of the bridge of the nose, which was very comical.
Yun Niang twisted the veil in embarrassment: "Although my husband has some supernatural powers, I don't know anything about this matter. How can you ask me to help you?"
"Zhou Deyun, why are you pestering my sister-in-law?" Yuan Xianger stepped forward and put down the things in her hand, looking at the man's appearance, she felt a little funny, "Why did your wife beat you like this? You have become a general who is stationed at the border, you can't have any unreasonable thoughts about others, can you?"
Zhou Deyun's face flushed, and he said in a murmur, "It's not what I thought, I just invited a wise man before next day. He said that my wife's hysteria is because the yin qi is too heavy, and the demons are on the upper body. As long as... as long as When you're pregnant, you'll be fine naturally."
"Ah, do you still want others to get pregnant and have children? Isn't this too immoral." Yuan Xiang'er simply felt unbelievable.
"There is only this lady in Xiaosheng's family. The husband and wife are in harmony with each other, so the sword is deeply in love, and he doesn't want to stop his wife and marry again. How is it immoral?" Zhou Deyun said that he didn't have much confidence, and he gritted his teeth when he spoke of his anger, "Who knows that the evil magic is so powerful, and he is not afraid of all the magic tools, but he is not willing to die, and he beat me to death. like this."
"I really have no choice but to ask Mrs. Yun here. My husband is not at home, so I asked the lady to look for it and give me an exorcism spell left by Mr. Zhang, maybe the amulet of Mr. Sneaky, wake up my wife, so that my Zhou family will not end. Woohoo."
The thought of this ancient man is really pedantic and ridiculous, but it is rare that he is deeply in love with his first wife.
Yuan Xianger sat down beside Yunniang, "Well, if you don't dislike it, I'll take a look for you, maybe by chance I can figure out a feasible way."
Zhou Deyun was overjoyed, "The girl is Mr. Nature's apprentice. How can you dare to say that you are a noble person who can't be invited. Xiaosheng thought of this early in his mind, only for fear of exhausting the girl and ashamed to speak."
He asked the mages and warlocks over and over again, and after a year of tossing, he could not find a solution. Yu Yao, who saved his life when he was a child, is in his heart, but now Yu Yao is nowhere to be seen, it is naturally good to invite his disciples, but considering that Yuan Xianger is young and inconvenient to speak, she took the initiative to mention it at this meeting, naturally it is Surprise.
But Yun Niang was a little worried, "From here to Dingzhou by the Dongting Lake, at least one or two hundred miles away."
No matter how advanced and powerful Xiang'er is, in her eyes, she is still a little girl who has never traveled far.
Zhou Deyun stood up and promised all kinds of promises, "When we arrive in Chenzhou, we will divert to Yuanshui, and we can get there in just one day and a night. There are ready-made carriages and horses along the way. I will never let Mr. If it can be done, we must send her back properly, and ask Mother Yun to be pitiful."
"Master, the road is not too far. I promise to come back in time to spend the New Year with you." Yuan Xianger shook Yunniang's hand, "I want to go to the place where Master once walked. By the way, take a look outside. this world."
Yun Niang had to sigh and nodded in agreement.