I'm just an ordinary Taoist priest

248st charter home
A group of people entered a room, sent Xiaoer away, and closed the door tightly. Gu Yao sat at the table, unconsciously clasping his fingers on the table:

"Although Baojiaxian has heard of it before, it's the first time he's bumped into it, and it's so flamboyant that he doesn't hide it at all."

Gu Yao couldn't help being surprised when he thought of the Xiaoer's proud words before.

No matter what, Baojiaxian is also a monster. Whoever has it is hidden. Even if it is exposed, it must be killed. , passed away strangely, this is inexplicable.

"That's right, the poor nun met a Baojiaxian in Sichuan before, but that fairy family was very low-key, and the whole family also kept a low profile, and would never show up until they were dead. This family is so arrogant, could it be that this fairy family is a Cultivated to overwhelm the sky?"

Mute is also very incomprehensible.

"We can't come up with anything after thinking about it here. How about it, Jingyin, you take my token, Jing Yesili, and ask this Baojiaxian. I will take Die'er around the city, and inquire about the Cheng family by the way." " Gu Yao poured himself a cup of tea, and just about to drink it, saw Xiyan and Qianniang climbing up the table, passed the teacup in his hand, and poured himself another cup. .

Quietly nodded, got up and walked out.

Gu Yao was sipping tea while looking at Xiao Hu: "Would you like to explain, how did you hear the sound of that woman being slapped? I have had several adventures, and my five senses are very sensitive. Even so , It is only within a hundred feet that I feel a little bit."

"but you."

Xiao Hu stood by the wall, turned around and said, "I just heard it, I have a good ear."

Seeing her appearance, Gu Yao sneered and said, "Okay, let's wait here, wait for a while to mute Jing Yesi, tell me, if it's wrong, I'll let Die Er dismantle you and then buried in that dry well."

"Ah, are you so disgusting?" Xiao Hu turned pale with shock.

"So to be honest, why did you hide it from me? Does this matter have anything to do with your identity?"

"Not really." Xiao Hu hesitated for a moment, and said honestly, "It was Feng who told me."

wind?Gu Yao sat up straight: "What do you mean?"

Xiao Hu looked distressed: "I don't know how to explain it. Anyway, it's the smell in the wind. I knew it from the wind passing by."

"Did you hear a sound, or did you see a picture in your head?" Gu Yao was quite curious.

Although he may not know if he understands the question, it doesn't prevent him from asking someone in the future. Aren't the clerks in Jingyesi all knowledgeable and knowledgeable?Should know something.

"I can't tell. Anyway, I suddenly knew."

Gu Yao asked a few more times, and Xiao Hu always said with a bitter expression that she didn't know what was going on, and she knew it when the wind blew.

"Know everything?" Gu Yao asked.

Xiao Hu was stunned: "No, the smell of blood, and resentment, fear, anger. I understand, it should be the woman's resentment. What I smell is her evil thoughts, not the wind."

Looking at her suddenly enlightened appearance, Gu Yao also thought silently, if it is really resentment, then this guy's real identity may really have something to do with the female demon.

Isn't the final ending of the female demon just to be stiff with resentment?
Gu Yao glanced at her for a few times, making her feel uncomfortable, and opened her mouth to ask a few times, but in the end she still couldn't speak.

"Let's go, let's go to the city to see."

Gu Yao knocked on the table again, inadvertently saw Xiyan's dark eyes, and remembered that he had said several times that he would take them to the street to play, so he stopped and said loudly.

So happily Xiyan raised her tail high, and walked in the front swaying left and right, Gu Yao followed behind, and Die Er, who was expressionless, but her footsteps were also much lighter. Looking forward to playing too.

Hedian xiaoer asked where there were interesting places, and learned that there was a water street in Huhe City, which was the most bustling and lively place, so he went straight there excitedly.

"Your boss, there is only a book shop there? There are no wine shops, tea houses, etc.? The book shop doesn't make much money, does it?"

Before going out, Gu Yao turned around and asked again.

The waiter immediately turned cold: "Guest, your vision is low. There are too many businesses that make money. Our boss said that there are some wine shops and brothels in this city. At first glance, they are all things that make people lose their will." , but there is no book store, poetry club, etc., and now a book store is opened in Water Street, and poetry meetings are held every month, this is the pattern."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

From the looks of it, he was still a diehard fan of the Cheng family, and he didn't know how much he would be paid every month to let him speak for the Cheng family like this.

Gu Yao turned around and walked absent-mindedly. Since ancient times, businessmen valued profits. According to Xiao Er, this water street is the most bustling place, but the Cheng family, which has a large number of shops in other places, actually only set up a shop there. Bookstore, this is peculiar enough in itself.

"Surprisingly, there are businessmen who are light on money, but it's not sure. After all, it's a century-old family. Maybe they really want to make some contributions? But it's not enough to contribute to this level."

Before I knew it, I came to Water Street.

Once here, you can feel the excitement. This Huhe City is just a small town. When Gu Yao and the others entered the city, they saw very few pedestrians in other places, and the business of the inn was average. Only here, it was very lively. .

A small canal runs across the street, about ten feet wide, with green brick and white tile shops on both sides, selling all kinds of items, many people walk up and down the street, and some men and women walk across the canal To and fro, constantly making turns.

"Let's go and eat."

Gu Yao flicked his big hand, and bought a candied gourd and candied figurine for Die'er. Grabbing this one in one hand made Die'er not know how to keep her mouth small, as she always felt that no matter what direction she opened her mouth, her mouth would be sticky. print.

I also bought some meat slices and meat cubes for Xiyan and Qianniang. Considering the people coming and going, Gu Yao held it in his hand and kept feeding them. Only Xiaohu didn't want anything, but it was quite For the novelty, follow them, look around, open your eyes and gain insight.

"You really don't want anything?" After walking for a while, Gu Yao looked back at Xiao Hu who was staring at the gorgeous silk dress with wide eyes, "Don't look, that is a man's dress, not a woman's dress." If you put it out like this, you have to go into the store to choose, or pull the silk yourself to make it.”

The things on this street are really expensive, eight yuan for a bunch of candied haws, fifteen yuan for a sugar figurine, and twenty yuan for a piece of sliced ​​meat, about ten yuan.

As for the silk clothes, Gu Yao didn't ask, but it is estimated that it is not the price of copper coins, so it has to be bought with silver.

It's no wonder that although there are many people here, most of them are empty-handed, just to smell the smell to satisfy their noses.

Those who can afford things can be seen from the clothes of a rich family, or servants of a wealthy family.

At the end of the street, in the most deserted place, Gu Yao saw Cheng's book shop.

Glancing inside, it was empty, only a person covered with a book was lying on a chair and sleeping, and there were no guests.

Gu Yao sniffed his nose lightly. The smell of ink in this bookstore is very light. He still has some research on ink. Just by smelling the smell of ink, he can know that the ink is not high-grade.

"It's not very serious to run a book store."

Gu Yao murmured in his heart, looked at Dier, who was happily licking the candied haws, and said with a swollen stomach, "You guys wait outside, I'll go in and have a look."

After entering the bookstore, he coughed lightly, and the lying person actually snored, and seemed to be sleeping soundly.

Gu Yao was also helpless, so he simply stopped calling him, and turned his head around the room to see if he could find the trace of the Baojiaxian.

On the walls of the house, there are paintings and characters, which look very similar, but when Gu Yao took a closer look at the signatures, they were all written by Cheng, and no one was famous.

Sniffing it closely, the inks and pigments of these paintings, including the traces of seals, can be seen to be inferior.

"Have everyone in Huhecheng No. [-] fallen to this extent? They don't even have a first-class seal."

Gently picked up a painting, looked at the wall behind it, and sure enough, there was a pattern of birds hidden behind the painting.

Gu Yao looked away, let the painting hang down to block the pattern, walked to a bookcase at random, and reached out to pick up a copy of "Listen to the Sound of Frogs".

"What the hell, the donkey's lips don't match the horse's mouth, and the following does not follow the above. I asked Xiyan to make up random sentences better than the ones made here."

Gu Yao frowned, closed the book and looked at the signed author: Cheng Qinghe.

It's the Cheng family again
Am I getting it wrong?Is this bookstore purely showing her works to the Cheng family?
"These books are very expensive, please handle them with care." A voice came faintly.

Gu Yao turned his head and saw that the sleeping man woke up at some point and half sat up.

Judging by the appearance, he must be in his 30s. The dark circles under his eyes made Gu Yao put the book back, walked over and asked, "Do you have any books from us?"

"Everyone? What everyone? Which one?" The man spoke very rudely, and he didn't seem to be in business at all.

"Naturally, it is a classic and historical book, the kind with everyone's annotations."

The man showed a sneer: "Yes, but you can't afford it. Those books in the bookcase cost ten taels of silver. The one you mentioned costs at least 100 taels."

Gu Yao lowered his head and looked at his clothes, then at this person, and suddenly realized: "I see, you don't want to sell books at all, this is just a cover."

"Don't talk nonsense, you just can't afford it, go out, don't make trouble here, you won't be able to pay for any books you damage."

The man stood up and urged Gu Yao to go out.

He came out from behind the table, Gu Yao sized him up, looked at the jade pendant hanging on his waist, and smiled: "Are you really the Cheng family?"

This person's clothes are made of high-quality silk, but the color is a little faded. Looking at the elbows and sleeves, they have been worn a lot. It looks like old clothes that have been worn for a long time.
And his jade pendant is blue in color, more like emerald, and the engraved pattern on this jade pendant is very ugly, as if made by a poor craftsman, the lower corner of the jade pendant still has some traces of wear and tear.

Gu Yao had dealt with many rich men in Qingshui County. This jade pendant is equivalent to the watch in the previous life, and it is a symbol of status.

A young man from a rich family wears a counterfeit watch, which is still broken. What does it mean?
This person was immediately annoyed when he asked him this question: "Are you a foreigner looking for trouble?"

Gu Yao ignored him, and instead took another look at the building structure of the bookstore: "If you are really from the Cheng family, then the Cheng family is going bankrupt?"

Reaching out to slap the man's hand that was about to push him away, Gu Yao stared at him: "Your baojiaxian doesn't protect the Cheng family? The Cheng family is so destitute that they can't afford to open a wine shop in Shuijie, and even the book shop is going to pretend to be a bookstore." to the point where?"

"You you." The man stretched out a finger and pointed at Gu Yao, a little out of breath.

"Are you a servant of the Cheng family, or the young master of the Cheng family?" Gu Yao asked.

"Of course I am"

"Master, does the Cheng family have no servants? What happened?" Gu Yao cut the conversation, "Your Baojiaxian was killed?"

"you you."

Seeing that this person was speechless, Gu Yao understood, and he probably guessed right.

The Baojiaxian of this family is probably gone, and now, in the eyes of outsiders, it is still glamorous, but in essence it is empty.

"Don't you say it? It's okay not to say it, it has nothing to do with me anyway."

Gu Yao shook his head, turned around to leave, the man became agitated, and grabbed Gu Yao's arm: "Don't go, please go up and talk."

When he walked to the door and was about to close it, Gu Yao hurriedly yelled to stop, calling Die Er and the others in, and then went up to the second floor together.

The second floor, Gu Yao thought it would be the arrangement of the poetry club. After all, Xiao Er said that he would hold a poetry meeting every month, but he didn't expect that there was only one bed on the second floor. Apart from that, there was nothing else. The mice would cry when they came, and they didn't even have to chew on a piece of paper.

When he went up to the second floor, the man became a little condescending: "Do you dare to say that my family's Baojiaxian was killed? You must have discovered something? For example, there are other people's Baojiaxian?"

Really killed?

Gu Yao glanced at him: "Some discoveries."

"I don't know which Taoist temple you are from?"

"Jing Yesi."

The man knelt down at once: "Master, Lord, please save my immortal ancestor."

"Save the ancestors?"

"My immortal ancestor was bitten by a blood-colored monster and fell into a coma. Now he has shown his original shape, and his feathers have turned into blood. He is in danger."

Gu Yao understood, it was Xianzu.

"Then why didn't you report to the official, but came to me instead?"

"Xianzu said that that thing is very fierce. The officials of the Jingye Division in the city are not its opponents. If you want to save it, you have to go outside and ask an expert to save it. Be careful not to be discovered by that thing."

The man confessed honestly: "You also noticed that there is actually nothing in this book shop. It is because our Cheng family has already dissipated all their wealth and exchanged it for property to invite immortals. Moreover, during this period of time, there have been people secretly Do something about my family's business."

"Then you are not afraid that I was found by your opponent?"

The man smiled wryly: "Actually, there is no choice. Last night, the fairy ancestor passed on the dream, saying that it would not be able to support it. Many clansmen who went out to look for immortals were also poisoned. Let me find a chance in the next few days and take it with me." The rest of the belongings fled."

"If you come today, I'm just taking a gamble. At most, I'll take a step first." The man sighed, "The immortal ancestor has blessed the Cheng family for many years, and I will definitely live and die with the immortal ancestor. Maybe abandon it and run away."

Gu Yao helped him up from the ground: "Then you belong to the Cheng family?"

"Below is the second young master of the Cheng family, Cheng Lixin."

He patted his knees and dusted off the dust: "My eldest brother was arranged by his father to leave the city a few days ago, and now only my father and I are left in the Cheng family lineage. From outsiders, it looks like the scenery is still the same, but in fact it is already dying .”

(End of this chapter)