Chapter 27

“Senior brother, look.” Bulei tugged at the corner of Buer’s clothes, pointing to the streetside carrying straw tied with red candied haws on it.

They are packed together in bunches, hawthorn, crabapple, and even strawberry wrapped! My saliva almost flowed out without being tired.

Buer swallowed saliva without a trace, but still refused him righteously.

Bu Tier pouted unwillingly, rolled his eyes, and saw the abbot was watching a trick outside the crowd, so he patted Bu Er on the shoulder, motioning him to look over.

Looking around, he saw a down-and-out man wearing a torn scarf and a ragged robe begging for pears from the pear seller, and was scolded by the angry pear seller.

The down-and-out man said, “You have hundreds of pears in a cart, and I’m just begging for one from you. What’s there to get angry about?”

The onlookers also persuaded the pear seller to send him a scoundrel and let him go, but the pear seller insisted on refusing, and started arguing with the down-and-out man.

Where in the mountains have you ever seen such excitement in the world because of quarreling and arguing over a pear? Bu Er was watching vigorously, but didn’t notice that a pair of small hands had touched his cloth bag at this moment.

When he came back to his senses again, he saw Buti with a smile on his face, holding a string of candied haws, walking towards him from the opposite street with proud steps that his relatives did not recognize.

It was only then that Bu Er came to his senses, and quickly opened the cloth bag to check. As expected, two copper plates were missing.

“Not tired!” His face was full of disapproval, and his bulging cheeks were stained red.

Not tired but not caring, ignoring the elder brother’s glaring, eating candied haws with a full face of enjoyment, and when there were only two left on the sign after eating, he stretched out his hand in front of Fuji.

“Here”, Buer looked tired for a long while…

In the end, he took it with a “hum”, and then carefully stuck out his tongue to lick the sugar shell outside the candied haws with a face full of anticipation.

He sucked it, it was sweet and delicious! She rolled her tongue and was about to eat the candied haws into her mouth when she was suddenly hit by a strong force behind her.

He jumped forward with his whole body! He almost threw himself into the street and fell, but he was caught by the eyeless hand next to him.

The red candied gourd bones rolled on the ground and were stained with mud.

There was a look of pity in Buer’s eyes, and Bulei glared angrily at the person who bumped into his senior brother.

It was a very handsome young man, wearing a hundred hat embroidered in Suzhou, and a lake gauze robe with fish belly white, his face was full of guilt and apology.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry! Is little master okay? I’ll buy you two more bunches of candied haws!”

The man hurriedly bought two bunches of candied haws, and then went to the stall next door to buy two vegetable cakes for Buerbuti.

Seeing that he didn’t do it on purpose, and he apologized so sincerely, the two let him go.

Suddenly there was a bustling noise not far away, Bu Er Bu Tired, you drag me and I pull yours and run over to have a look.

“Why are you shrinking here, let’s go and watch the excitement!” A woman next to her also grabbed her best friend’s arm and ran over quickly.

In the middle of the crowd surrounded by layers, there was actually that down-and-out man who begged for pears just now.

At this time, everyone’s eyes were fixed on the pit in front of him.

I saw that a thin bud was breaking out of the ground, growing up gradually, and it only took a while to grow into a pear tree!

Very leafy. In a blink of an eye, the pear tree blossomed and bore fruit, big and fragrant, and densely hung on the branches.

“I’m not as stingy as some people. Everyone has a share of these sweet, delicious and juicy pears. Let’s eat together!” the desolate man said, picking pears from under the tree and giving them to the onlookers. The pears were picked.

Then the desolate man cut down the pear tree with a shovel, and it took a long time to cut it off. He carried the pear tree on his shoulders, branches and leaves, and walked away slowly.

At first, when the down-and-out man said that he wanted to do something, the pear seller also mixed in the crowd, stretched his neck to watch intently, and completely forgot about selling pears.

It was only after the downcast man left that he remembered to look at the pears in the car, but there were none left. Only then did he realize that what the down-and-out man distributed to everyone just now were all his own pears!

The pear seller slapped his thigh angrily, and hurriedly chased after him, but there was no one there, and everyone in the city couldn’t help laughing.

Everyone was talking about what kind of strange man that down-and-out man was, but he just threw a pear core into the soil, buried it in the soil, poured some hot water, and a pear tree grew.

Although the fruit is from the pear seller, everyone has seen how the pear tree grows!

What kind of magical trick is this?

Buerbuti was also stunned, until Lin Zhao patted them on the shoulder before recovering, talking to him about what he had just seen.

“I’ve seen it all.” It’s similar to the watermelon illusion in the movie “Legend of the Demon Cat”.

“Aren’t you hungry? Let’s eat Yangchun noodles at the restaurant.”

“Oh yeah!” Buerbuti all cheered. They are already hungry.

When you come to Yangzhou Fucheng, you have to eat the gourmet specialties here. Lin Zhao and the others can’t eat salted goose, soup dumplings, three ding buns, and thousand-layer oil cakes. But can’t you eat Yangchun noodles, Huangqiao biscuits, hot dry shreds, and brown sugar?

A group of people came to a quieter street restaurant and sat down, next to it was a residential building. They were waiting for the food to be served when they were suddenly attracted by the quarrel outside.

I saw a handsome young man quarreling with a woman who sold pearls and hairpin jewelry because of paying back the price.

“It’s him!” Fuji whispered.

“It’s the one who bumped into you!” Buti also shouted.

Wearing a Suzhou embroidered hundred cap and a fish belly white Hu gauze robe. Isn’t that the man?

Their quarrel alarmed many people. The young man flipped through the pearl and hairpin jewelry in the sun to reflect the dazzling light, and told the truth from time to time.

The mother-in-law snatched it and told him not to delay his own business if he didn’t buy it. If he had the time to bargain with him, he didn’t know how much he sold.

The handsome young man doesn’t follow him, he just keeps asking her to give him a head.

At this time, Lin Zhao saw a woman in the attic across the street looking through the window. Because of her very beautiful appearance, she stood out in the gray street scene.

Not long after, a maid came out from the opposite front building, said a few words to the lady who sold jewelry and pearl hairpins, and the woman pushed the handsome young man away, and followed the maid to the opposite gate.

After the excitement dissipated, the Yangchun noodles of Lin Zhao and the others also came up.

After eating, they stayed in the inn next to the noodle shop. The room where Xiaoer took Lin Zhao lived, just opened the window and you could see the gatehouse where the beautiful woman was just now.

Lin Zhao and his party came out this time because of a bet with Zhang Yanjiu.

Bet on who can find the magic weapon first in Yangzhou Fucheng within seven days.

When he was at the table, Lin Zhao took out a pen and ink, and wrote on a piece of yellow-brown letterhead: “Brother Zhang, I have arrived in Yangzhou City. I heard that you are still on the boat. I’m afraid I will be one step ahead!”

After writing down the name and surname, Lin Zhao folded the letter paper into a paper crane when the pen and ink dried.

The paper crane stood quietly on the mahogany round table, and after Lin Zhao blew a sigh of relief, the paper crane flapped its wings and flew up! Soon it flew out of the window and flew away into the black sky.

This is the technique of transforming spirits from paper cranes that Zhang Yanjiu taught him, and these days they all exchange letters in this way.

In addition to sharing his daily knowledge and occasionally teasing each other, Zhang Yanjiu also often told Lin Zhao everything he knew about Taoism and gods and monsters.

When Lin Zhao occasionally encounters strange things that are incomprehensible, Zhang Yanjiu will seriously reply to him even if it is a whimsical idea.

Lin Zhao then recognized Zhang Yanjiu as his righteous brother, who was actually half of his master and guide on the path of metaphysics, but with different identities, he was more suitable as a righteous brother.

I stayed in the inn for two days, and during the day, I took Buerbuti and Huitong to wander around, to relax and increase my knowledge, and at the same time to see where there is no weapon.

But nothing.

That night, Lin Zhao was sitting in front of the window reading a book of scriptures and mantras, when he suddenly saw the old lady who sold pearls and hairpin jewelry appear from the end of the street, and went all the way into the gatehouse of the beautiful woman.

Under the moonlight, one could see the expression on the woman’s face as she walked and looked around, a little more guilty.

She came to the door and knocked a few times, followed by a creak. The person inside opened the door. It was so dark that it was impossible to see who it was.

The mother-in-law blessed her body towards the half-open door, said something, and walked in.

Seeing this scene, Lin Zhao always felt something strange in his heart. But after the woman entered, the opposite gate was quiet, as if she had fallen asleep with the night, and he was not sure what was going on.

In the afternoon of the next day, I saw the old woman coming out of the gatehouse as usual, her face was as usual, and seeing her in the daytime seemed to be much more normal than in the night.

A few days later, Lin Zhao went to climb the mountain on the island in the lake during the day, and climbed dozens of floors of pagodas, and fell asleep as soon as he touched the bed when he came back.

Suddenly there was a scream in the silent night.

Lin Zhao was awakened, and heard the sound of two heavy objects falling to the ground from downstairs, so he got up and went to the window to check.

I saw two people crooked on the street, it was the old woman, and the handsome young man who bought the pearl hairpin with the old woman to pay back the price that day.

Lin Zhao looked doubtful and looked towards the opposite building.

At this time, the normally closed window was opened, and the beautiful woman looked at the two people on the ground in front of the window, her face was full of worry.

Lin Zhao turned his eyes, and saw a tall figure standing next to the beautiful woman, only half of it was exposed in front of the window, and his face could not be seen clearly.

The beautiful woman raised her head, noticed Lin Zhao’s gaze, her eyes were flustered, and she immediately closed the window with a “bang”.

Lin Zhao narrowed his eyes slightly, and his face became a little more solemn, so he hurried downstairs.

His clairvoyance has improved a lot compared to before. Even though he only glanced at it just now, the tall figure only showed half of his arm, but Lin Zhao saw the black ghostly aura soaring into the sky.

Zhang Yanjiu once said that it is not enough for ordinary wandering spirits to be angry.

He ran downstairs and saw that the two people on the ground were just passed out and still breathing, so he was relieved, and just when he got up, he heard the exclamation of a beautiful woman and a crackling sound from inside the building.

He slammed the door open and rushed in.