Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 653 Sheep Vendor
Because of the chaos caused by demons and ghosts in this world, Taoism is flourishing, and Buddhism is also flourishing.

Because Taoist priests and eminent monks have the ability to exorcise ghosts and demons, they are naturally worthy of being respected and sought after by the common people.

When Li Xiuyuan came to the gate of Xiangguo Temple, he could feel the extraordinaryness of this temple.

It is not without reason that this place is sought after by the people.

Xiangguo Temple is not a place to deceive the world.

Several people could not wait to enter the Xiangguo Temple at this moment, but at this moment Li Xiuyuan heard a commotion from the crowd.

"Ah, something crawled under my feet."

"Which family raises a sheep, why doesn't it be closed properly, and it is allowed to run around?"

"Be careful, avoid it quickly."

It turned out that there was a sheep in the crowd who didn't know what happened, and it seemed that it was not tied properly. It has horns, and it is very dangerous if you accidentally get hurt.

thing.

"Mr. Li, what happened over there? Why is there so much commotion." Zhang Bangchang glanced over, but couldn't see anything because of the crowd.

Li Xiuyuan has good ears and eyes, and he understood some things roughly, and said, "It seems that a sheep ran out from somewhere that was not locked properly, and it seems to be running this way."

"Is there such an interesting thing? Does this sheep also want to come to Xiangguo Temple to listen to the master's lecture?" Zhang Bangchang said with a smile.

"Maybe this sheep did something evil in its previous life, but now it has been reincarnated as an animal, knowing that its sins are serious, so it wants to come to the Buddha to repent." Qian Jun also laughed.

But just after he finished speaking, he saw that the crowd in front quickly began to dodge. It seemed that the sheep was bumping into this side, and the frightened pedestrians yelled.

"No, it's really running this way. Could it be that this sheep is really going to break into Xiangguo Temple?" Zhu Yu exclaimed; "Let's avoid it quickly, so as not to get hurt."

At this moment, Li Xiuyuan saw the crowd behind quickly give way to a road, and a white goat with one horn was rushing towards here recklessly.

"Huh?" He glanced subconsciously.

But I saw that the goat's eyes did not have the madness of an animal. If an animal went crazy, it would be irritable and irrational, but the goat's eyes revealed panic and fear.

This is not the look that animals should have.

But now it seems that it is not the time to pay attention to this. When the goat saw Li Xiuyuan, it was still on a rampage, as if anxiously hoping that it would rush into Xiangguo Temple as quickly as possible.

"Brother Li, avoid it quickly, it is going to hit you." Zhu Yu said hastily.

Li Xiuyuan said, "It's okay, it's just a sheep, not a tiger, so why be afraid?"

As soon as the words fell, he took a step forward and stretched out his hand to grab the horns of the goat that had bumped into it. Then, with a force on his arm, it seemed to fall down suddenly with a force of a thousand catties.

"Bah~!"

The goat screamed and was knocked down to the ground in an instant. No matter how hard Ren Ping struggled, it couldn't stand up again.

If his martial arts can't subdue a sheep, then the martial arts of the past ten years can really be fed to dogs.

"Okay, good martial arts."

Seeing that Li Xiuyuan subdued the goat, some people in the crowd who liked to watch the excitement applauded Zeng Zan and praised his martial arts.

Li Xiuyuan frowned: "Which sheep is this, why did it come here? Is there a sheep seller nearby? Or did this sheep escape from the restaurant?"

He asked around.

But the people nearby shook their heads one after another, expressing that they didn't know where the sheep came from.

"Since no one has claimed it, why not just tie it aside and wait for the loser to find it by himself? Is it better than this young man who has been subduing the sheep?" Someone suggested.

Li Xiuyuan nodded, planning to tie the sheep aside first to save trouble.

But at this time, another voice hurriedly sounded from the crowd: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, this is my sheep, this is my sheep, I lost it, please return the sheep to me. "

Soon, a middle-aged man with a thin face and somewhat ugly appearance rushed here while holding a whip for driving sheep.

Like a sheep dealer.

After a while, the man squeezed out from the crowd and said out of breath: "I lost the sheep, I lost the sheep, thank you, young man, for helping me to restrain the sheep. If the head sheep ran away, I would lose a lot, so thank you very much."

After speaking, the sheep dealer couldn't wait to reach out to take the sheep from Li Xiuyuan's hands.

The sheep, which hadn't moved much before, immediately struggled violently when it saw the sheep dealer, and let out a miserable cry, as if a mouse saw a cat, and it was indescribably afraid.

Seeing this situation, Li Xiuyuan didn't let go, for fear that the sheep would suddenly violently attack people.

However, he saw the veins in the sheep dealer's hands popping out, and he didn't know how much strength he used to grab the sheep's legs and drag them back, with a look of anxiety on his face.

"This person is weird." Li Xiuyuan noticed this keenly, and he stretched out his hand to open the sheep dealer's hands.

"Papa~!"

The sheep dealer felt a sharp pain in his arm, as if he had been hit by an iron rod, he hurriedly took his hand back, and then said in shock: "My lord, what do you mean by this, is it possible that you don't want to return my sheep?"

"Pfft."

The people watching nearby couldn't help laughing.

This young man knows that his family is well off just by his clothes, how could he covet a sheep like you, a sheep dealer?

Zhang Bangchang, Qian Jun and others beside him found it even more funny.

Li Xiuyuan spent a lot of money to write off Zhu Yu's account a few days ago, how could you, a sheep dealer, have such a strange idea.

"Why is this friend in such a hurry to get the sheep? If you mess around like this, if the sheep ran away again, wouldn't you want me to compensate you?" Li Xiuyuan narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Besides, this sheep is unclaimed. You can’t say that what’s yours is yours, right? You have to come up with some evidence, right?
How should I explain it if someone else finds me later? "

"That's right, this sheep dealer, you said that this sheep is yours, do you have any evidence? You can't just talk empty words, just now I saw that you looked a little nervous, and you snatched the sheep as soon as you came. It seems that your behavior is a bit wrong. "

"Hearing this, I also feel that this person is a little too hasty. Maybe the sheep doesn't belong to him, and he came to claim it."

The people nearby also thought it was reasonable and nodded their heads.

The sheep dealer immediately jumped up and said angrily: "This is clearly my sheep. I came all the way from the south to the capital, and just passed by Xiangguo Temple and lost one, so I found it. Why is it not me?" Is it?"

"Your caution is correct, but this sheep seems to belong to him. You should return it to someone else."

After being called out like that, the others nodded, thinking that it was justified.

After all, something that is not your own, how can you be so confident.

Li Xiuyuan was not in a hurry, and continued to ask: "Oh, you said that your sheep came from the south. If so, I have a few questions to ask you. If you answer correctly, your things will be sold to me." Nature returns to its original owner.”

"It's my stuff. If you're afraid of asking, just ask." The sheep dealer said confidently.

Li Xiuyuan said: "How many sheep did you drive to the capital?"

"A total of thirteen heads, including this one fourteen, but the others have been sold, this is the last one left."

"Where is this sheep?"

"It was acquired by Southern Jinling."

Li Xiuyuan narrowed his eyes: "Which family is it? As far as I know, there are not many people who raise sheep in the south, but there is a merchant family surnamed Li who raises pigs, cattle and sheep, and there are quite a few of them."

The sheep dealer said: "I bought it from that family surnamed Li, and I'm going to the capital to sell it at a good price."

"How much do you pay for a head?"

"One tael of silver per head."

The sheep dealer said: "How is it? Do you have any questions? How come I don't know the price of the sheep I bought."

"Brother Li, why are you bothering with this sheep dealer over a sheep? Let's go to Xiangguo Temple as soon as possible. This sheep belongs to someone else, so let's return it to him." Zhu Yu said.

He was also very puzzled, why Li Xiuyuan felt sorry for a sheep and a sheep dealer.

Li Xiuyuan stood up and said coldly, "You are not a sheep dealer or seller of sheep at all. There are many lies. There are no goats in Jinling City at all, and the sheep of the Li family are not purchased for a tael of silver." , the lowest selling price is one or two or six dollars, and you don't start from
She came from the south to herd sheep. "

The sheep dealer was broken by such a little bit, and his face changed drastically, showing a state of anxiety, but then he argued: "Why do you care about where I bought my sheep? Should I pay it back?"

"Since you want to say this, then like this, a sheep in the capital is only three or five taels of silver, how about I buy your sheep for ten taels of silver?" Li Xiuyuan took out a silver ingot and said.

I thought the sheep dealer would agree, but I didn't expect him to refuse: "I won't sell my sheep, I won't sell you my sheep."

When he said this, the people nearby booed immediately.

"This man is very suspicious, and his words are full of flaws. He doesn't look like a sheep dealer, but a liar."

"That's right, even ten taels of silver refused to sell the sheep. There must be ghosts in my heart and a guilty conscience."

"Catch him and go to the government. There should be police from the six gates patrolling here. I'll call the people from the six gates to see if the sheep dealer is a liar."

Everyone talked a lot, the sheep dealer heard that he was looking for the arrester from the six gates, his face turned pale in fright, and he hurriedly changed his words: "Wait, wait, the sheep sold you, sold you, give me the silver!" The sheep will be yours."

"Didn't you say you wouldn't sell it before?" Li Xiuyuan said with a half-smile.

He had already seen that this person was weird, but it was hard to determine whether he was a liar or something.

"You are so nagging, do you want to buy it or not? If you don't buy it, return the sheep to me." The sheep dealer urged, looking very anxious.

Li Xiuyuan thought for a while, and didn't continue to confront him, so he gave him ten taels of silver. Since he said he wanted to buy it, he shouldn't count his words.

The sheep dealer didn't look back after taking the money, and he seemed eager to escape from here immediately, and soon disappeared into the crowd.

"There must be something wrong with this man leaving in such a hurry. Young master, you shouldn't have paid for his sheep. His sheep must have been stolen."

"We should let the arresters from the Six Doors quickly arrest him and go to the Yamen to confront him. Maybe he can catch a thief."

"It's so cheap for this thief. A sheep was sold for ten taels of silver."

When everyone saw the sheep dealer fleeing, they sighed again, feeling that Li Xiuyuan was at a disadvantage and should not let him go.

Li Xiuyuan, on the other hand, seemed to be pondering, and didn't care about the sheep dealer's departure.

If it's just stealing sheep to sell, it's just a trivial theft, but the sheep dealer like that just now is not a stolen sheep, because his previous attitude was very righteous and he didn't panic, but later he heard that he was going to the Yamen , gotta call the police from six doors so I panicked
Come.

Not a stolen sheep, but afraid of the government and the six doors.

Thinking about it this way, there is something wrong with this person.

suddenly.

Li Xiuyuan looked down, but saw the sheep standing beside him, surrounded by his legs, but it didn't look as panicked and arrogant as before, instead it looked very calm.

Especially the sheep's eyes showed gratitude.

(End of this chapter)