I am doing meritorious deeds in Liaozhai

Chapter 257 The Grand Scene on East Street
The biggest difference between today's ghost market and the past is that there are many more demons among humans and ghosts.

The untransformed ones and the semi-transformed ones all paraded around the market with the characteristics of beasts.

Even some demons that have completely transformed have their animal ears or tails deliberately exposed so that others can know their identity as demons.

Demons often react differently to things than humans do, and they have become a scene in a ghost market.

The demon is imitating people, and people are looking at the demon, which is very harmonious.

Many mortals are no longer surprised by monsters. When monsters stare at them blankly or follow them and imitate them, they can go shopping without changing their expressions.

There are also people who walk with demons, drink and chat, and they are very harmonious.

This feeling is even more obvious after walking through West Street and North Street and entering East Street.

The shops on East Street are basically rented out, which is completely different from the empty appearance before.

Basically, they are all demons who have completely transformed, have been wandering around human towns for many years, found a profession that they are good at, and have a certain amount of savings.

These demons were all attracted by Zhao Dashan and others when they were recruiting students.

They came here purely for the ghost market where humans, monsters and ghosts can live in peace and where they can do business freely.

They used to live in remote villages and towns, carefully concealing their identities and suffering from fear, so the ghost market was naturally particularly attractive to them.

When passing by Yawen Liquor Shop, Song Yushan saw several people queuing up to get drinks outside the shop, carrying flasks of wine.

It seems that business is much better than before.

When I looked up, I suddenly found that the sign of the liquor store had changed.

"Fox Girl and Scholar?" Song Yushan read the name of the store in confusion: "Have you never heard that Yawen Wine Shop is subletting?"

She poked her head around and saw that she was really a fox girl and a scholar selling wine.

The scholar is none other than Wang Wen, one of the new masters of the monster student.

That woman with a pair of fox ears and a big fox tail behind her, who else could she be if she wasn't Hu Ya?

From the beginning of its semi-transformation, the fox can assume a fully human form, and will only reveal its beastly characteristics on certain days every month.

Today is not the right day either. Hu Ya obviously became like this on purpose.

With this change, the small wine shop, which is ordinary in terms of wine, has its own characteristics in terms of the proprietress who sells wine. No wonder the business has improved!
After looking at a few monster shops, there are quite a lot of people doing the same thing as the fox girl.

There is a fried bug snack stall run by a bear demon with a bear head and body, a medical clinic run by a snake demon with a twisting tail, and a weaving workshop run by a group of eight-legged spider demons.

When passing by a shop called "Mao Mao Grocery Store", Song Yushan's heart moved and she walked in.

Familiar goods, familiar shopkeeper.

He was really the young salesman who used a blind trick to give Xiaotanger to her.

Although he now looked like a boy with cat ears, Song Yushan still recognized him at a glance.

There are two shelves in the shop. On the one on the left are pottery bowls and pots of various shapes, with cat paw prints on them.

The one on the right... Song Yushan's mouth twitched.

When the shopkeeper Mao Yao saw her, his eyes lit up and he immediately greeted her: "Miss Song! Welcome! But you want to have a second child? All the children of the right age in the village are here. It's up to you to choose!"

Song Yushan: "..."

On the shelf on the right, there are more pottery bowls and pots of different shapes.

There is a small fish basin with four cat paws running around on the shelf; there is a small bowl with a cat's tail hooked on the shelf; there is a small plate with a pair of cat ears trembling.

They are all half-blinded kittens.

As soon as the young shopkeeper with cat ears finished speaking, all the cat pottery on the right shelf sprouted furry cat faces and kept meowing "meow meow" at her.

Black cats, three-flowered cats, tortoiseshell cats, orange cats...you name it.A clever one jumped down from the shelf and rushed to her feet.

The other kittens followed suit and rushed over.

Some nibbled on her shoes, some hooked her legs with the tip of their tails, and one even spread its claws and hugged her calves.

All revealed their true colors.

Song Yushan was suddenly surrounded by all kinds of kittens.

Song Yushan almost lost herself among the crowd of "meow meow meows" who made cute sounds.

He squatted down and picked them up one by one, and then calmed down a little: "No, I won't raise them anymore."

It had been a long time since Song Yushan had practiced with unenlightened animals.

It is indeed easier to become wise by following her practice, but the premise is that it already has the source method of becoming a demon.

Previously in Fushui County, I bought a nest of goslings and kept them with me at night for practice.

But until she left Fushui County, no one became wise.

Her existence only speeds up the time for a demon to become wise, but cannot make an animal without a demon affinity become wise.

If you adopt a kitten, you must be responsible for them, whether wise or not.

But she was too busy practicing to take care of him, so Uncle Jin cooked all the meals for her.

A demon that has become wise can understand human speech and is relatively easy to raise. If it continues to be unable to become wise, taking it back will increase Uncle Jin's burden.

He's busy enough as it is.

So Song Yushan refused. She couldn't bear to look at the disappointed expressions of the kittens and said to the young shopkeeper with cat ears:

"Instead of putting kittens in a store for adoption, it is better to open a teahouse where cats can be petted. This can not only earn them food, but also allow them to have more contact with humans and increase their chances of becoming wiser."

The cat demon knows cat language and can better direct the kittens to do business, so it must be very popular.

Unable to send the cat away, the cat shopkeeper, who was a little sad, was intrigued: "A teahouse where cats can be petted? Can you tell me more about it?"

Song Yushan told him a different version of the Mao Ka in his past life memory.

While he was thinking about the cat teahouse, Song Yushan immediately ran away.

Although the kitten was cute, she couldn't stand it anymore.

After coming out of the Maomao Grocery Store, Song Yushan went directly to the Treasure Pavilion and handed over all the elixirs and spells in the Qiankun Bag to the ghost steward in the Treasure Pavilion.

By the way, she took away the spiritual materials she needed from the Treasure Pavilion.

Finally, she went to the theater on Huxin Island to watch a new play produced by the Ghost Theater Troupe.

The film was adapted from the experience of her group in Taihang County.

It was already early morning when we came out of the cinema. After eating something at a food stall on South Street, it was almost dawn.

When the shops in the ghost market close, the ghost shopkeepers on West Street North Street and the demon shopkeepers on East Street South Street begin to close their stalls.

The ghost shopkeepers return to the underworld from the entrance to the underworld to spend the day. The demon shopkeepers either rest in the shop or gather with a few friends to get together.

The guests also left the ghost market one after another. Some went to Fumanzhai in Yuanlou Market to rest and stay, and some went home directly together.

Markets that close during the day and open at night are more convenient for people in many remote villages and towns.

It’s safer to travel during the day, buy things at night, and save on accommodation costs.

(End of this chapter)