It's not easy for Lin Xin to refuse him, after all, the two of them lived and died together at the beginning, and had a fateful friendship.
In the next few days, he was not in a hurry to complete the task. Kong Yuhui had arranged for someone to deliver the letter, and the task of finding someone could also be solved quickly by the forces of the Peacock Sect.
He simply went to the headquarters of the Peacock Gate with Kong Yuhui, and met a few masters of the inner family, all of whom were also friends of Kong Yuhui, and everyone drank a little wine together to get acquainted.
Then he spends the rest of his time wandering around the streets and alleys of Peacock City. Since he came to this world, he hasn't really experienced the delicate customs here.
The streets are full of hawkers carrying burdens to buy camellia oleifera and selling cakes. There are also strings of roadside stalls, each shop is connected to another, and some alleys are so crowded that they can only walk side by side.
Children eat candied haws, sugar figurines, and deep-fried noodles. Girls carry pendants and necklaces at the stalls. Most men gather in the place of fireworks and drinks, and in some ornately decorated pavilions.
From time to time, you can see sedan chairs passing by, and occasionally a team of government carriages will beating gongs majestically to let passers-by avoid.
The city is still a bustling scene, and the atmosphere has not been diluted by funerals or the like.
Lin Xin has been obsessed with fried meat pies in an alley near the Lai Lai Inn for several days. I didn't get tired of eating it for five days in a row.
On the sixth day, he got up early in the morning, changed into the green gown he bought the day before, and tied it with a white jade belt. All four talisman swords were put in a big box, sealed and carried out the door. An ordinary long sword is worn on the waist.
It looks much more normal than before, at least others can only see the big box, and no one knows whether it contains a sword or a zither or something else.
With the box on his back, Lin Xin was not afraid of being conspicuous, so he left the inn and turned right.
It was still early, and the streets were deserted, except for a few men selling steamed buns pushing carts and yelling.
Occasionally, you can see school students and children in a hurry to go to class.
Lin Xin turned into a small alley, and in the middle of the narrow walls on both sides, an old lady with silver hair was deftly wrapping dough pancakes and quickly frying them piece by piece in the oil pan.
Several teenagers and girls in school were waiting in front of the car, eagerly waiting for the fried pancakes to be fried.
"I want three today, minced meat with leeks." Lin Xin leaned over and took a large copper coin and handed it over. One tael of silver can be exchanged for one hundred large copper coins and one thousand small copper coins. This deep-fried pancake has three small copper coins each, which is equivalent to the three big meat pies that Lin Xin ate before. A large patty about the size of a human face costs only three yuan, which is really cheap.
"Three minced meat with leeks, immediately." The old lady replied with a smile. A little boy beside her took the big copper coin and gave Lin Xin a small copper coin.
"Brother, are you here again?" The little boy had two small braids, similar to the little girl, white, tender and chubby. Maybe four or five years old.
"Yeah, here we go again." Lin Xin smiled and stretched out his hand to pinch the child's face. It felt good, and it was as cold as pudding.
"You have to buy the three biggest ones every day, can you finish them?" the child asked curiously. "I'm so good, every time I eat a big one, I can only eat a small half..."
"Of course I can finish eating, because my brother is better than you." Lin Xin stretched out two hands to grab both sides of the child's cheeks.
"Mud... cheating silver..." the child said loudly after being dragged into a slurred speech. Then he quickly broke free from Lin Xin's hand.
"Last time when I went to the mountains to play, I met a big tiger. I punched it three times and knocked me out. Later, my grandma praised me for being good! Can you beat a tiger?"
"Wow, you can stun a tiger at such a young age?" A few schoolboys nearby opened their eyes wide.
"Tigers are so powerful!"
"That's right, my father said that I was born with supernatural power!" the little fat boy said proudly.
"Natural power." Lin Xin continued to grab his face.
"Well... let go... Wo is a natural god..." The little fat boy struggled and couldn't break free for a long time.
"I call you innate divine power... divine power...!"
Lin Xin laughed loudly, and rubbed the guy's fat face more vigorously.
"I'm going to be angry!!" The little fat boy turned serious.
"I'm so angry that even a tiger is afraid to see me! I warn you.....Don't mess with me....!!"
Lin Xin couldn't help laughing even louder.
He stood in front of the frying stand to tease the little fat boy, the hot smoke from the frying pan drifted to his face, and he could smell a lot of oily smoke.
Frying and frying, the old lady's forehead was already covered with sweat.
Lin Xin looked at the weather, there was no sun, the sky was gloomy, not hot, and a bit cold.
He was a little puzzled, how could the old lady feel hot in such a cold weather? And sweating so much.
"Come on, it's ready, your cake." The old lady also fried the cake at this time, and wrapped it in rough paper with dripping oil and handed it to him.
"Okay, thank you."
Lin Xin took the pancake and suddenly felt something was wrong. The grandma's eyes and pupils seemed to be a little loose.
Just after receiving the pancake, she actually threw herself into the hot oil pan.
Lin Xin was startled, and hurriedly supported her.
"What’s wrong with you?"
He stretched out his hand and pressed the Renzhong acupoint on the old grandma's lips.
"I....I...." The pupils of the old man's eyes had dilated and lost focus.
Lin Xin quickly put down the pancake and helped her slowly put it on the ground, letting her lie flat.
"I..." The old man was obviously dying, his face was pale, without a trace of blood.
"Grandma....Grandma, what's wrong with you?" The little fat boy next to him was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he trembled when he spoke.
"Fatty... Grandma... I'm afraid it won't work..." The old man was so weak that he didn't even have the strength to speak, so he could only utter one word at a time.
"You...you have to..take care of...yourself....."
In the short ten seconds that the old lady was speaking, her cheeks that were still a little fleshy quickly thinned out at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the skin that was originally pale and wrinkled became as waterless as old bark.
Lin Xin felt that the hand he was holding her was like a deflated balloon, shrinking rapidly.
"Grandma...!" Fat Baby burst into tears, "Grandma, don't die... I don't want you to die...."
"Fat baby.. Be good... Grandma... I'm sorry..." The old grandma's eyes were also watery, "If only I can last a little longer... that's... fine. .. ..”
The old man cast his last eyes on Lin Xin, and smiled gratefully at him. Then he tilted his head and lost his breath.
The little chubby baby cried until tears and snot flowed together, lying on the old man's body, and the children beside him had already scattered and fled in fright.
People nearby also gathered around, wanting to help, but they turned pale with fright when they saw the old man's body.
"Another one! It's that one again!"
"It's that kind of disease again...!" "When did this end?"
"Go, go, don't get infected!"
There was a sound from the crowd, and most of the onlookers didn't dare to stay for a long time, and hurried away. There were only a few daring ones with their hands behind their backs to watch the excitement.
Lin Xin was upset, and gently put down the old man's hand, and he didn't even feel like eating the hot fried pancakes on the trolley.
He was about to stand up when he suddenly heard an extremely faint humming sound coming from the old man's body.
Looking down, he saw a golden bee coming out of the old man's left ear hole at some point.
This bee is very strange. Usually bees have six legs, but it only has two legs.
And it has three pairs of wings on its back, while ordinary bees only have a pair of transparent cicada wings.
"This is..." Lin Xin frowned. The first time he saw the bee, he felt something was wrong. There is a feeling of greed and lust.
The six-winged bee flew up quickly, and the strange thing was that no one saw it, and the people around turned a blind eye to it. And it actually jumped directly at the little fat baby who was close at hand.
Swish!
The long sword on Lin Xin's waist suddenly lit up with a silver light, and the Xiaogui Yuanjue on the second floor burst out of inner energy instantly, and turned into a silver light with the blade, and hit the bee fiercely.
The bee was cut into two sections and fell to the ground.
The little fat boy and the surrounding people were taken aback by his sudden sword strike. They only saw Lin Xin slash towards an empty space inexplicably.
When Lin Xin put away his sword to look for the bee's corpse, he found that the two bee corpses that had fallen on the ground had disappeared at some point.
"Huh?"
He searched the ground carefully, but there was no sign of the six-winged bee anywhere.
The little fat baby continued to cry on the old man's body.
After waiting for a while, people from the yamen came soon. Two guards wearing masks saw the corpse, and without saying a word, they just sighed and put the old man on the stretcher.
"Old rules, you can only carry it out of the city and burn it..."
The two directly carried it onto a bullock cart next to it, and headed out of the city.
Looking at the helpless little chubby baby whose eyes were swollen from crying, Lin Xin felt uncomfortable.
Take him and follow the car towards the outskirts of the city.
Along the way, he asked Fat Boy intermittently, and only then did he learn that he had been following grandma all along, that his father had only met once before disappearing, and that his mother was nowhere to be seen. None of the other relatives could be found. Only he and grandma depended on each other.
Ask him if there is any place or person he can go to.
The fat boy is only five years old, so he doesn't know too much about anything, and when he speaks, he is a little confused. Where do you remember any other relatives.
In desperation, Lin Xin couldn't do the thing of throwing him away alone. Fortunately, after burning the old grandmother's body, the crying little fat baby was approached by an old man who had been running a clothing store nearby, and said It's because he has been short of a son and wants to adopt him since he was old and childless.
Lin Xin felt that there might be something wrong with the six-winged bee he saw earlier. Then hand over the little fat baby to the other party. By the way, ask about the situation of the little fat baby.