And said you're not a fairy

Chapter 214 is a talent
Shortly after leaving Hongxiu Tower, Chen Yuan visited this ghost market.

In this ghost market, you can see various forms of death everywhere, ghosts haunted by evil spirits, as well as monsters that have transformed into humans or not, but can talk and trade like humans!
If an ordinary mortal accidentally entered the ghost market, he would probably be so frightened that he would lose his mind and run away.

Even monsters that are natural enemies coexist peacefully here, which is not a strange thing.

Chen Yuan even saw a wolf demon that had successfully transformed into a sheep demon buying something in a shop that had not successfully transformed into a sheep demon.

After watching it for a while, Chen Yuan gradually became accustomed to it from the novelty at the beginning. Just when he was about to find Niu Bingjian and others who came with him, and was about to leave...

Chen Yuan discovered a strange thing in this ghost market!
He unexpectedly found an ordinary mortal in this ghost market full of monsters.

"Chen Yuan, look, there seems to be an ordinary person in front of you!"

Not only Chen Yuan discovered it, but Xue Niang also discovered it.

She pointed to a man walking on the street, who was full of yang energy, as bright as a candle in the dark night, and dressed as a scholar!

This scholar is not very old, he looks about 26 or [-] years old. He wears a scarf on his head and a coarse cloth shirt, and he looks a bit straightforward.

Chen Yuan thought about what happened to him, so he said in an uncertain tone: "Maybe it's the same as what happened to me, and he was brought in by ghosts?"

Chen Yuan didn't know the purpose of Niu Bingjian bringing him in, so Chen Yuan didn't lie!
"How can this scholar compare with us? He is not as capable as you, Chen Yuan. Several ghosts are already targeting him!"

Xue Niang said from the side.

Chen Yuan took a closer look and found that it was indeed like this. There were already several ghosts around the scholar, with fierce eyes staring at him.

Although most of the ghosts in this ghost market are ordinary old ghosts of old age, there are also fierce ghosts who died violently. These ghosts have grievances after death. Even if they are not evil ghosts, they still instinctively want to find revenge. He is a substitute, letting others die for him, so that he can be liberated and gain the opportunity to be reincarnated.

Chen Yuan thought for a moment and made a decision in his heart. He walked directly in front of the scholar and blocked his way.

"Taoist Priest, may I ask why you stopped me on the way down?"

The scholar was startled, but he found that the person blocking his way turned out to be the same Taoist priest who led a donkey with a sword box on his back. He had a handsome appearance and an outstanding temperament, and he couldn't help but relax.

Obviously, he knew that in this ghost city where he was at this time, apart from his identity as a normal person, everything else was the business of monsters and ghosts!

"Principal Qingming, meeting the young master here is considered fate. I wonder if the young master is willing to go with poor Tao?"

Chen Yuan asked the scholar.

The scholar and Chen Yuan were strangers to each other. When he heard Chen Yuan's invitation, he wanted to refuse it, but then he thought about it. In such a dangerous ghost market, surrounded by ghosts and evil spirits, if he could travel with a Taoist priest, Then his safety can be guaranteed!

"If this happens, it will cause trouble for the Taoist Priest!"

The scholar quickly agreed.

"It's not troublesome. In this ghost market full of monsters, I can meet an ordinary person who is very kind to me."

Chen Yuan laughed.

"My surname is He, my given name is Jiuzhang, and my courtesy name is Wenjing."

Then the scholar reported his name to Chen Yuan.

Since Chen Yuan had told him his name, out of politeness, he naturally needed to give his name.

"It turns out to be Master He Wenjing!"

Chen Yuan cupped his hands.

"I'm just a rotten scholar. I can't be called a young master. The Taoist priest can just call me He Sheng."

He Jiuzhang waved his hands quickly.

After exchanging a few words, the two of them walked together in the ghost market.

The ghosts around who were originally staring at He Jiuzhang looked annoyed when they saw Chen Yuan appearing next to He Jiuzhang and walking with He Jiuzhang!
Although Chen Yuan had only appeared in the ghost market for a short time, his reputation had spread throughout the ghost market because of the ghost he had just saved. All the demons and ghosts in the ghost market knew that a Taoist practitioner had come to the ghost market. As a terrifying Taoist priest.

Some ghosts know how to make choices and advance and retreat, but there are also some ghosts who only have eyes for the scholar He Jiuzhang. Seeing their good deeds being disturbed, they hate Chen Yuan in their hearts and dislike Chen Yuan, a Taoist priest, for meddling in other people's business. Behind He Jiuzhang.

After Chen Yuan and He Jiuzhang walked together for a while, they discovered that He Jiuzhang's shopping was not without purpose. Instead, he was wandering among various vendors in the ghost market, choosing to buy some ancient artifacts.

Seeing that He Jiuzhang was like a merchant, choosing and buying a lot of nefarious items in this ghost market, as if he had already had a target, Chen Yuan finally confirmed that He Jiuzhang did not enter here by mistake, but was led by others. Enter here.

"Mr. He, looking at how familiar you are with driving here, it shouldn't be your first time in this ghost market, right?"

After He Jiuzhang spent some dirty money to buy a 300-year-old hosta from an old ghost, Chen Yuan said in a tentative tone.

He called He Jiuzhang Mr. He.

"The Taoist Master is an outsider, so it's okay to tell him!"

He Jiuzhang did not hide anything and told his situation.

"I was just a poor scholar who even disliked his wife at home and returned to his parents' home with his children. He only knew how to study but had no livelihood. Not long ago, he made a friend with an old man named Huang."

"It was in an abandoned house next to my house. The whole family died of banditry when they went out earlier. It had been uninhabited for a long time. I don't know when there was an old man in yellow clothes living in the house. Among them, I was depressed because of my repeated failure in studying and my wife’s incomprehension. That night, I made some simple food and drinks and drank in the yard to relieve my sorrow.”

"I happened to see the old man named Huang through the wall, holding a palm leaf fan in his hand, sitting in the yard to enjoy the cool air, so I invited the old man named Huang to come over and drink with me, and the old man didn't refuse..."

"After a period of time, I saw that the old man was lonely. As long as I had some spare money, I would play with some food and wine and invite the old man named Huang to come to my house for a drink!"

"While drinking and talking, our relationship developed by leaps and bounds, and we became friends all year round. One night, after drinking, the old man took my arm and said to me: "Hesheng, I see that you have an honest personality and are kind to others. You obviously can't get rid of the pot, but you often invite me, a useless old man, to drink. With your character, you really shouldn't live such a poor life. Even your wife and children have run away. I just know a way to make a fortune. I wonder if you are willing. Not willing to do it? ""

While walking on the street, the scholar told what happened to him.

"His so-called way to make a fortune is to take you to this ghost market and let you sell negative things in the ghost market?"

Chen Yuan probably guessed what happened next, and asked the scholar He Jiuzhang.

"Yes, Mr. Huang took me to the ghost market and gave me more than a hundred yin coins as a start-up capital. I relied on selling some yin objects to the human world, gradually improved my life, and gave my wife and the child were brought back from their parents’ home.”

Scholar He Jiuzhang nodded.

"No, Mr. He, Mr. Huang gave you a hundred coins as a gift. If you haven't been able to make money, I'm afraid you will spend it all soon!"

Chen Yuan asked out his doubts.

"The Taoist Priest didn't know that the hundreds of Yin coins that Mr. Huang gave me were indeed not much, but after I sold the Yin objects I bought from the ghost market as antiques, I didn't spend all the money I got."

"Instead, I brought some things from the human world that were not available in the ghost market and were of low value, and sold them in the ghost market. Not to mention, I really discovered some business opportunities. The best-selling things in the ghost market are It’s incense candles, so every time I come, I bring a lot of incense candles to sell.”

"In the beginning, I had to sell them myself. Now as my reputation has spread, many vendors in the ghost market have cooperated with me. After I brought the incense candles to the ghost market, I resold them and they sold them, so I didn't have to worry about sales. !”

"In this way, I use the money from selling incense candles to buy yin objects, and then use the money from selling yin objects to buy incense candles, so that the money on my body can be maintained in a cycle."

He Jiuzhang explained the reason.

After hearing this, Chen Yuan felt moved in his heart.

The source of those incense candles he just bought from that old ghost shouldn't have flowed out from He Jiuzhang, right?
After meeting the incense candle retailer, he met the general distributor.

This He Jiuzhang is really a talent!

Chen Yuan sighed in his heart.

Who would have thought that a mere ordinary scholar would have such a strong talent for business.

He actually made the business between yin and yang so prosperous.

"I am a living person after all. I have appeared in this ghost market too many times and have been targeted by many ghosts. I am afraid this business will not last long!" "But with the wealth I have accumulated in the past few months, even this Even if the business can’t continue, it’s enough for me to live a stable and worry-free life.”

He Jiuzhang sighed.

"Taoist Priest, it is fate that I meet you. Why don't I invite you to sit down at Shilipu in this ghost market?"

He Jiuzhang suddenly proposed.

"Shilipu is a wine shop in a ghost market, right?"

Chen Yuan thought that when he was wandering around the ghost market just now, he seemed to have seen such a wine shop, and he said to He Jiuzhang.

"Yes, the monkey wine in Shilipu is the best wine in the ghost market."

He Jiuzhang nodded.

"That would be troublesome."

Chen Yuan did not refuse.

Soon He Jiuzhang took Chen Yuan to Shilipu. He Jiuzhang immediately put on a table of food and drinks, plus a pot of good wine, and started drinking with Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan finally understood why He Jiuzhang was favored by the old man named Huang.

Because He Jiuzhang is not stingy and treats others with sincerity, it is no wonder that he has such good fortune.

This ghost market is a disaster for ordinary people, but for He Jiuzhang, it is a blessing that comes after all hardships.

Shilipu is not big, just like a small wine shop deep in the alley of the county town in the world, which can only accommodate a dozen people.

Six square tables were placed inside, and the utensils used for drinking were large open bowls instead of wine cups. When Chen Yuan and He Jiuzhang were drinking, Xue Niang also sat beside Chen Yuan and opposite He Jiuzhang.

"What, you want to drink too?"

Chen Yuan asked Xue Niang.

Xue Niang looked at the fragrant monkey wine on the table and kept nodding. Even Xiao Huang beside the square leg of the table was wagging its tail happily at Chen Yuan, hoping that Chen Yuan could please Chen Yuan and let Chen Yuan not forget it. Got it.

"You are not of age and cannot drink alcohol."

Chen Yuan shook his head.

“Who says you can’t drink if you’re underage?”

Xue Niang said a little unconvinced.

"Well, in that case, I'll let you drink a bowl."

Chen Yuan said.

After saying that, he asked the store to bring two more bowls. While pouring one bowl for Xue Niang, he also poured a bowl for Xiao Huang who kept wagging his tail on the ground.

咴咴咴!

As soon as Chen Yuan finished doing this, the gray donkey tied by Chen Yuan at the door of the wine shop became unhappy and kept barking at the door.

"Even you want to drink?"

Chen Yuan turned around and looked at the gray donkey braying at the door.

Then Chen Yuan turned around, looked at the scholar He Jiuzhang sitting opposite him, and asked:

"Mr. He, this gray donkey like Pindao also wants to drink. Mr. He, do you mind?"

Chen Yuan asked He Jiuzhang.

"Of course I don't mind."

He Jiuzhang seemed to be drunk and his face was slightly red, he said to Chen Yuan.

"Shopkeeper, give this brother donkey a bottle of wine, and the account will be put on my head."

Then He Jiuzhang turned around and shouted to the wine shop owner at the counter.

"Good Le!"

The wine shop owner, an old monkey demon with a height of four feet and some white fur on his face, responded.

Then he turned around and took a wooden basin, placed it at the door of the wine shop, took out a newly opened pot of monkey wine, and poured it into the wooden basin for the gray donkey to drink.

The gray donkey, who was drinking for the first time, immediately grinned after taking a sip, revealing his two rows of big teeth. He looked no different from the way humans did when they drank for the first time.

But after drinking, Gray Donkey seemed to feel that the wine was very good, and couldn't help but continue drinking...

"Thank you Mr. He for your generosity, for inviting Pindao, Snow Lady, and Pindao's dog and donkey to drink tonight."

Chen Yuan turned around and thanked He Jiuzhang.

"What did the Taoist say? Although I, He Jiuzhang, am not a smart person, I can still tell. The Taoist is an expert who has traveled around the world. It is an honor for me to invite the Taoist to drink."

He Jiuzhang quickly said to Chen Yuan.

He has a good capacity for drinking. Although the two of them had drank two bottles of wine and their faces were red, He Jiuzhang was still not drunk.

"Taoist Priest, I didn't expect you to be here."

At this moment, Chen Yuan heard a familiar voice.

Chen Yuan turned around and happened to see Niu Bingjian and his caravan outside the wine shop. Niu Bingjian stood at the door of the wine shop and greeted Chen Yuan inside the shop.

"Taoist Priest, are these brothers all Taoist Priest's friends?"

He Jiuzhang saw the caravan manager at the door, who seemed to be familiar with Chen Yuan, so he immediately stood up and went out to greet him.

"I dare not call myself a good friend of the Taoist priest. I just traveled with the Taoist priest before and got to know him."

Niu Bingjian waved his hand quickly.

"In any case, since you are a friend of Taoist Priest, you are also a friend of me, He Jiuzhang. We are destined to meet each other. Let's just come in and have a drink!"

While talking, He Jiuzhang pulled Niu Bingjian into the wine shop.

Niu Bingjian couldn't resist, so he was pulled in.

Also pulled in were the guys from Niu Bingjian's caravan.

Not long after, the originally empty wine shop became overcrowded.

Chen Yuan looked at He Jiuzhang in surprise. Good guy, Master He Wenjing is really not afraid of ghosts at all.

Even ghosts couldn't resist his enthusiasm, and he dragged her into a wine shop to drink.

Chen Yuan observed that when He Jiuzhang pulled Niu Bingjian and other ghosts, the bodies of Niu Bingjian and other ghosts were as light as a breeze, and He Jiuzhang followed them in after pulling them in.

If this was an ordinary person, he would have already guessed the identity of Niu Bingjian's ghosts.

He Jiuzhang looked as usual, and I didn't know whether he really didn't know or was pretending not to know.

(End of this chapter)