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Chapter 30: The Storyteller
When Li Chan and Nie Kongkong arrived at Huaiyuan Square, dozens of people surrounded the stone archway at the south entrance of Xishi.Nie Kongkong came to the back of the crowd and waved to Li Chan repeatedly.

Li Chan went over to see that the crowd was surrounded by a storyteller. The storyteller was black and thin, standing in front of the stone pier, holding a folding fan in one hand, and as he was shaking the fan, he said in a tone that was half-singing but half-singing. write a book.

"The gate of the earth opened up a storm, and once it entered the world of mortals, the years were worn out. Last time, Lu Zu in Qingque Palace lost a bet with the mysterious master in Taodu Mountain, so he fled into the world of mortals. After a hundred years, nothing happened. The news is over, this story should come to an end."

Everyone sighed.

Someone shouted, "Then what are you talking about today?"

The storyteller smiled, opened the folding fan, and sang: "At that time, the human ancestors were in trouble with demons, and the blue sparrows in Kunlun came with jade. The mysterious tortoise bears the mountains and the mountains bear jade, and the world is now peaceful. Listen carefully, everyone. In ancient times, the world was formed by Demons dominate. At that time, the human race was reduced to human sacrifices, and their fate was so miserable that those who heard it cried. Fortunately, there was a human ancestor, who was born out of nowhere, and this human ancestor was a metamorphosis of heaven and man!"

A young man sat on the root of a locust tree and yelled: "Storyteller, what is the metamorphosis of man and nature?"

The storyteller folded his fan and pointed at the sky and the earth, and said happily: "The green hills outside the mountains, the buildings outside the buildings, and the human world is just a buoy. There are three thousand worlds beyond the human world. Heaven and man? They come from the outer world."

A woman shouted: "I know, when Liu Po ​​invited the gods to go up, she also said that the gods came down to earth."

The storyteller clicked his tongue, took a few steps in circles, flapped his folding fan, and shook his head, "This Human Ancestor was born as a human animal raised by demons, but he knew it from birth. It's the people who are living in misery, the people are destitute, the ancestors of the people melted the gold from the world and cast a green lotus on the Fuyu Mountain, which shows the number of cycles in the sky and manifests all dharmas, so that the people will know the four seasons, day and night, hey!"

Having said this, the storyteller folded his fan and stopped talking.

Someone asked anxiously, "Why don't you talk about it?"

"Speak quickly."

"I'm excited to hear that!"

The storyteller smiled, flipped his hand, and held a pottery bowl.

"Chenghui, Chenghui."

The storyteller circled the crowd asking for money for the book, but Nie Kongkong hurriedly gave Li Chan a hand and ran away quietly.After walking a few steps away, I couldn't help but look back at the storyteller.

Li Chan smiled and said, "Since you want to listen, why don't you keep listening."

Nie Kongkong looked back reluctantly, "Uncle, were people really raised by demons in the past as human animals, just like people raise chickens and ducks?"

Li Chan shook her head: "What the storyteller says, just listen to it as a story."

……

The two of them stopped at the gate of a house in Huaiyuan Fang. The gate lived in a family named Zhao, a branch of the Zhao family in Kaiyang.

The Zhao family in Kaiyang is a prominent family, and the main family has a family temple.Ordinary people can at most obtain the eighth-grade spiritual response method when they go to the Temple of the City God, but the Zhao clan can obtain the fifth-grade spiritual response method in the family temple.

Li Chan heard what Nie Kongkong said, and knew that the family didn't want to let the master know that the scholar was bewitched by the fox demon and looked down on them.

A woman opened the door to welcome Li Chan in. Behind the door was a courtyard. The woman told Li Chan that Zhao Shusheng came back from the western suburbs of Xuandu the day before yesterday, and he was out of his mind. He kept talking about meeting a beautiful girl. .

"He was studying on Wushan Mountain a few days ago. The place is on the mountainside, and it's midnight. How can there be a girl from a good family?" The woman sighed and said, "I don't know if the psychic method in the Town God's Temple can cure him, but don't delay the exam. That's good."

Li Chan said: "Young Muai, you can't blame your son."

The woman sighed.

Li Chan said: "Although I am not a medical officer, I have written a lot of essays, and I have seen many people, and I can see some symptoms."

"Please." The woman took Li Chan to the door of the side room, but she just opened the door and didn't go in.Li Chan looked into the room, and saw a white-faced scholar studying.

Seeing a stranger brought by the woman at the door, the scholar just sneered.

The woman stretched her neck and called out: "Yanqing, eat something!"

"No need." The scholar shook his head indifferently.

The woman sighed: "Even if you don't believe that girl is a demon, why bother to go on a hunger strike to humiliate yourself."

The scholar turned his head away without saying a word, Li Chan winked at the woman, the woman hesitated for a moment, and retreated into the distance.Li Chan stepped into the room, sat across from the scholar, looked at the scholar with Dan eyes, and said with a smile: "That girl must be very beautiful, to make you so dreamy."

The scholar gave Li Chan a vigilant look, but he still said proudly, "Beautiful in both talent and appearance."

Li Chan praised: "Brother Taiwan is really a blessing."

The scholar glanced at Li Chan contemptuously, but he was very pleased in his heart.It's just that Li Chan asked again: "Have you heard that foxes are transformed by people?"

The scholar frowned and said, "What do you mean?"

Li Chan tapped the table with her knuckles, "The fox demon changes into different appearances because of the different fates of the people he associates with. Since the fox demon you saw has both talent and appearance, it means that you have a good destiny, and you also have both talent and appearance." , otherwise she wouldn't have changed into such an image."

The scholar said bitterly: "I don't care if she is a fox demon. In comparison, human beings are better than demons."

"Monsters eat people." Li Chan stared at the scholar.

The scholar was terrified by that look, only then did he realize that one eye of the man opposite him was dark blue, and the other eye was black tan. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see it.Suddenly there seemed to be a phantom flashing in the dark red eyes, the scholar's eyes were dazzled, and he saw some horrible scenes in a trance, there was a slim woman who suddenly opened her mouth and bit off the head, and there was a long-haired woman with a neck like a pot The neck flew out [-] meters...

The scholar yelled "Ah", stood up suddenly, took a few steps back, his face was pale, he pointed at Li Chan, his lips trembled, but he could only say a few words "you" intermittently.

Li Chan turned and left, the woman outside the house heard the movement, rushed to the door, looked into the door worriedly, saw that the scholar looked terrified, but he was in good health, so he was a little relieved.Turning her head, she asked Li Chan nervously, "How is it?"

"You should be awake for a while." Li Chan asked, "Where are the brushes, ink, paper and inkstone?"

"Ready, ready."

The woman took Li Chan to the study, took out the silk psychic paper and pen and ink, and withdrew.According to the rules, when writing essays, you must be sincere and sincere, and you should not be disturbed.Li Chan took the psychic note and wrote:
"Glory to the gods in the divine realm Hunyuan Shangde Tianzun, gold liquid refines form, Yuying is pregnant and beautiful, and pays homage to longevity. The phoenix prays to the gods... 700 years of sweatless branches and luxuriant branches, hundreds of millions of years of endless calamity and calamity Cun...... Sincerely fearful, Jishou paused. Goodbye again, I would like to be sparse."

Shuwen is an article that respects the gods and ancestors and communicates with gods and mortals.The key to writing a good prose is not literary talent, but only the word "respect".Li Chan has written essays for two years at the foot of Fuyu Mountain, and he is well versed in the routines. He is also a little famous among the scholars who write essays on behalf of him.

For a book that seeks the Eighth Grade Spiritual Response, a finishing fee of [-] yuan is charged, which is one tael.After drying the ink for a while, Li Chan handed the book to the woman and left with the money.

……

In the room, the scholar's face was pale, and when he recalled the coquettish and pretty face on Wushan Mountain, goose bumps appeared on his back.Suddenly there was a voice in his ears, and when he looked up, he saw a woman's face. He yelled "Ah", leaned back on the back of the chair, and shouted in panic, "Monster!"

The woman froze on the spot holding the booklet, and the child said plausibly in the morning, not to mention that Miss Xue is not a demon, even if she is, there is true love between monsters.

Why did he change his face in the blink of an eye?
(End of this chapter)