After the Fairy Disappeared

  Chapter 341 Gold Swallowing Beast

  White Grasshopper remained indifferent: "I really can't help, take this thing back."

  He didn't say "Go to another house and ask", He Lingchuan knew his attitude.

"What disease?"

  Old man Wang turned his head to look at He Lingchuan: "The high fever won't subside, and it's useless to ask for two medicines in the medical hall!"

  His eyes were full of hope: "This is the real work, please buy it!"

  He Lingchuan asked him: "What is written in your volume?"

   "My ancestors said that this is a profound supernatural power!" Old man Wang smiled wryly, "But I can't understand it, and no one in my family practices it, so it can only be sold."

   "Can I see it?"

   "Do you understand?" Old man Wang uncovered the animal skin paper a little bit, "Then you see."

   "Bring the child here, and I'll find someone to treat it for you." He Lingchuan glanced at it and said, "If it's cured well, give me this roll of parchment."

   "Huh?" Old man Wang was taken aback, "Here?"

   "That's right. I made an appointment here to meet with my friend. He has excellent medical skills, and treating children with high fever is just a matter of effort."

   "Oh—" Old Man Wang nodded again and again, smiling broadly, "Okay, I'll bring my grandson here!" After saying that, he rolled up the animal skin paper and walked out.

  The two people behind did not stop them.

  After the old man Wang walked out of Yunling Island, the sadness on his face disappeared, and he walked for more than ten feet before turning his head to see if anyone was following.

No.

  He yelled at Yunling Island.

  Then he walked down the street to the end, looking relaxed, and it didn't look like there were patients at home.

  He even bought two buns and ate them while shopping. Soon he left Wanglin Street and turned into another street.

  The passenger flow here is far less than that of Wanglin Street, and the shop signs are not so glamorous, but the street is very long and extends in all directions. Old man Wang threw away the greased paper and wiped the corners of his mouth and hands, patted his face to put on a good expression, and entered several shops one after another.

   When he came out again, his expression had become complacent.

   At this time, he went straight to the city gate, very fast.

   It's safe to go out.

   But just after passing through a shallow alley, a hand stretched out from the alley, grabbed him in abruptly, and held him in the shadows.

  Old man Wang was taken aback, and turned around to see the young man in Yunling Island, smiling brightly at himself.

   "You?" He yelled without thinking, "Steal the money—!"

  But just as he opened his mouth, He Lingchuan poked lightly on his throat.

  Old man Wang's remaining words were immediately poked back, and he held his neck "ah" for a long time, screaming no louder than a mouse.

  He Lingchuan took out five or six pieces of animal skin paper from his arms, unfolded them, and the contents of each volume were the same:

  Faded handwriting, ancient fairy language fonts, a thin piece of paper has not been filled.

"what is this?"

  Old man Wang's face is earthy.

  He Lingchuan took out the Gale Military Order and waved it in front of him: "The sufferer has already reported to the officials. There are prisons in the west and south of the city, which one do you choose?"

  The badge of the Gale Army is very eye-catching, and He Lingchuan is not afraid of him looking closely. Old man Wang's eyes were straightened, and he secretly said it was over.

  How could it be revealed so quickly this time? Panlong City really can’t come.

  The pain in his neck had subsided, and he knelt down with a plop:

   "My lord, please let me go, I will give you the original work!"

   "Can you have the original work?" He Lingchuan disdainfully said, "Forget it, let's go to the west of the city, and make an official nearby."

   "If you let me go, I will give it to you!" Old man Wang was anxious, "I really have it!"

   "Okay, I won't catch you." He Lingchuan stretched out his hand, "Let me have a look."

  Old man Wang took out a scroll from his boot.

   The smell is not very pleasant. He Lingchuan pinched his nose and unfolded it to take a look, then threw the scroll back on him and said angrily, "How is it different from a fake one! Are you entertaining me?"

   "Don't dare, it's true!" Old man Wang picked up the scroll and unfolded it. In fact, the old animal skin paper was already in tatters and was mounted on a scroll.

  He took out a copper plate and pointed to a pattern of animal heads drawn on the upper left corner of the paper: "You have read it."

  The painting style of this animal head is very sketchy, a bit like a big toad, with protruding eyes and a huge mouth, but it has fine and sharp teeth, and the spots on the head are like plum patterns. It opened its mouth wide, and its mouth was pitch black.

  Old man Wang pressed the copper plate into the mouth of the animal head pattern.

  A magical scene appeared:

  The copper plate suddenly disappeared.

  He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows, waited a few more breaths before saying: "And then? What changes?"

   "The cardboard has become bigger, haven't you noticed?"

  After he reminded, He Lingchuan realized that the edge of the paper had expanded a little bit, but it was only a little bit, and he couldn't find it if he kept staring at it.

"What do you want to clarify?"

   "This paper is alive, my lord!" Old man Wang eagerly wanted to prove it, "but it will only change to its original size and the words on it will appear when it eats money or valuable things."

   "Really?" He Lingchuan took out a few large silver ingots, and each ingot was around twenty or thirty taels.

   Can't tell that this old man in rags has more money than him!

   "You just tricked this?"

  Old man Wang didn't know how to answer, and in the next second he saw He Lingchuan throwing two large silver ingots into the animal head.

   "Oops, don't!"

   It was too late, the silver sank into the mouth of the beast, and it was gone.

  Old man Wang's eyes darkened, and his heart was cut like a knife.

   Then He Lingchuan saw that the animal skin paper expanded a little, only about... half an inch?

  The words on the paper have indeed increased by a few.

   "There is more, come again."

  Old man Wang said with a bitter face: "My lord, don't throw it away anymore, no matter how much you throw it, it won't be enough to feed it!"

   "Have you tried it? How much silver can you throw in at most?"

"I threw in two thousand taels of silver back and forth, and at most one time I threw in seven hundred taels, plus two big east pearls!" Old man Wang was full of sadness when he said that, "I still have some family background, if it weren't for this bottomless pit , and will not be reduced to what it is now!"

  He Lingchuan asked what happened.

  It turned out that old man Wang was a foreigner, he had been a private school teacher for many years, and he had a little surplus on hand. One day after the heavy rain, he went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, but he encountered a dead body before he had dug halfway through.

  The deceased did not know why he died suddenly in the wilderness. Old man Wang searched his body, only found a few ingots of broken silver and a piece of animal skin paper.

  He buried the man in peace, and took the animal skin paper down the mountain.

  Old man Wang is educated, and he recognizes the ancient fairy language written on the paper, but it is a pity that it is dilapidated and lacking, so it is impossible to see the whole picture. He sold it in the city, but no one wanted it.

  Later, he found a capable person to identify it, and the other party told him that it was the skin of the swallowing gold beast.

  Gold-swallowing beast was an extremely rare beast even in ancient times. The supernatural powers written in its leather are so precious.

  This kind of leather can pass through the test of time, and there is still a chance to be re-developed after two or three thousand years.

  However, the swallowing gold beast was greedy for all precious things during its lifetime, and after death, it puts its soul on the skin, and still retains its extremely greedy nature. Old man Wang wanted to read all the content on the paper, so he had to satisfy his appetite.

  Since then, the old man Wang has embarked on the road of no return to feed the gold swallowing beast...

  He can't explain why he lost his mind, but feeding this thing is really addictive. He is full of longing for the future of filling up the gold swallowing beast, thinking that he has a chance to obtain rare supernatural powers.

  By then, Shentongquanpian will definitely live up to his expectations, and the price will be sky-high, so that he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

  Of course the reality is very skinny, because this thing does not remain unchanged after eating gold and silver, but expands for a quarter of an hour and then retracts until it returns to its tattered state!

   That is to say, if you fail to fill it up all at once, it won't show you the full text of its supernatural powers.

   "A pit." He Lingchuan couldn't help asking him, "You know it's a bottomless pit, so why do you still fill it in?"

   "If I don't continue to fill in, wouldn't the gold and silver thrown in earlier be wasted?" Old man Wang squeezed out two bitter tears, "I only found a legend later, and the treasures in the world can't fill it!"

   "It's a pity that I knew it too late, and my family was already bankrupt by then!"

  In order to make ends meet, Old Man Wang simply copied the content on the animal skin paper, pretending to be a complete magical power to sell for money, using the same rhetoric he used on Yunling Island.

   There are quite a lot of customers who eat this set.

   It's just that after he cheated two or three times, he had to change places quickly to avoid being imprisoned.

  He Lingchuan said after listening, "You really deserve it."

  Old man Wang is also a kind of gambling desire. If a person blindly indulges his desire and does not know how to restrain his desire, he will probably not end well.

  He bowed to He Lingchuan again and again: "Please let me go!"

   "Don't worry, I won't arrest you." He Lingchuan grinned at him, stuffed several fake animal skin papers into his arms, and suddenly pushed him back to the middle of the street.

   Really let him go? Old man Wang was overjoyed.

   At this moment, two shouts came from not far away:

   "Hey, it seems to be him!"

  Old man Wang turned his head in surprise, and saw two guards rushing towards him. He had a ghost in his heart, so he ran away.

   "Don't run!"

  Old man Wang ran faster.

  He is small in stature, but he is fast, and he often plunges into the crowd. It took two guards a quarter of an hour to catch him:

   "Someone reported to the officials, suing you for counterfeiting and cheating!"

   Along the way, they also picked up several pieces of fake animal skin paper, all of which fell from the old man.

  The old man couldn't argue with his mouth.

  The real thing is gone, no one will believe what he said.

  …

  Watching old man Wang being detained, He Lingchuan walked back to Yunling Island.

  The fat shopkeeper asked him with a smile: "The old man is a liar, right?"

  He Lingchuan hummed, and asked him to have a quiet room for a while.

  The landlord's small request, the fat shopkeeper naturally has to meet it. So after a dozen or so breaths, He Lingchuan entered an identification room with tables and chairs, and there were some sundries piled up in the corner.

  He sat down and took out the original animal skin paper, spread it on the table, and lit the lamp for a closer look.

  Why go to such lengths for an old crook, for a piece of skin of a gold swallowing beast?

  Because this paper does record a supernatural power:

  Avatar Avatar, referred to as avatar.

   On the outline of the supernatural power on the visible part of the animal skin paper, it is written that after learning this spell, one can temporarily summon a clone that obeys one's orders.

   At first glance, this is very similar to the mirror image technique that He Lingchuan originally wanted to exchange at the Pengcheng Office, and even the Red General recommended him to exchange it in this way.

   There will be another update later

  (end of this chapter)