Shen Luo shook his head, put aside his random thoughts for the moment, stood up, went to the door and asked for a meal.
After a while, the third boy came in holding a tray with two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes on it.
Shen Luo was already hungry, so he ate heartily and quickly finished all the food.
Xiao Sanzi waited for Shen Luo to finish eating, cleaned up the dishes, and was about to leave when Shen Luo called him:
"Wait, little brother, are you a native of Songfan County? Are you familiar with the situation in the city?"
"I am from the nearby Xujiaji, but I often go to the city to do shopping and I am quite familiar with the situation here. Sir, do you have anything to tell me?" The third son asked respectfully.
"Then do you know where I can buy yellow talisman paper and cinnabar in the county?" Shen Luo asked.
"Yellow talisman paper and cinnabar? We have these two things in our store." Xiao Sanzi thought for a while and said.
"These two things are not used frequently. Do you really have them in the store?" Shen Luo asked with some disbelief.
"What a coincidence, my boss invited a wizard to the store last month to perform a ritual to pray for blessings and wealth. There are a lot of talisman papers and cinnabar left over, all piled up in the backyard. If you need them, I can ask the boss for some for you?" Xiao Sanzi said with a smile.
"Thank you for your help in this matter." Shen Luo said, taking out a small piece of silver and giving it to the other party as a reward.
"Thank you, sir. Apart from talisman paper and cinnabar, do you need anything else? I will get them for you." Xiao Sanzi was overjoyed. This small piece of silver weighed two or three taels, which was equivalent to his three or four months' salary.
"If you hadn't mentioned it, I almost forgot. Can you find me some fresh black dog blood and a set of writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone? Well, tung oil, get me some more tung oil." Shen Luo said after a moment of hesitation.
"There is a slaughterhouse in the town, and dog blood is easy to come by. Tung oil is sold in the nearby grocery store, and there is also ready-made stuff in the pen, ink, paper and inkstone shop. Please wait a moment, sir. I will get it for you." Xiao Sanzi said, and left in a flash.
Half an hour later, he ran back with another tray in his hand, on which were Shen Luo's things.
Shen Luo checked it and after confirming that it was correct, he waved away Xiao Sanzi and immediately began to try to draw the small thunder talisman with the "treasure hunting" power.
He picked up the brush and filled it with ink, but did not start drawing the talisman immediately. Instead, he looked thoughtful.
Although he had mastered the method of drawing the small thunder talisman, the small thunder talisman he used to find the jade pillow was drawn in a confused manner. It would be difficult to make another one now.
He tried his best to recall the circumstances when he had drawn the treasure-hunting thunder talisman, but many days had passed and many things had happened in the meantime. He racked his brains but could only recall about 30 to 40 percent of it.
Shen Luo recalled these 30% to 40% of his memories several times, and then he started to write and try.
Apart from the parts he remembered, he tried his best to imitate his previous painting methods in other aspects.
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After an unknown amount of time, a thick stack of "small thunder talismans" appeared on the table in front of Shen Luo.
"With so many, this should be enough. There should be one that will work." Shen Luo murmured.
He then began to soak the treasure-hunting talismans one by one in tung oil, and the talismans were soon soaked in the tung oil.
Shen Luo took out the talismans one by one, wiped the oil stains on the surface, carefully dried them with the flame of a lamp, and made them into oil paper talismans.