Chapter 91 Smell it happily
The waiter was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to stop him, Li Wuxiang had already walked from the crowd to the door of the store.
When the shopkeeper saw him, he looked at him according to his businessman's instinct, and then he handed him over and said, "Guest, we are closed today."
He sighed again: "I won't be in Deyang anymore. Guests should go and visit somewhere else."
Li Wuxiang looked at the birds in the cage. He didn't recognize many of them, but he could tell that some of them were falcons. Their eyes were wide and their feathers were blowing up, obviously they didn't like this chaotic scene.
One of them told him that he thought it was quite beautiful. It looked about the same size as a chicken. Its feathers were all gray and white, but its beak was black. There were a few feathers on the top of its head that were slightly red. It was restlessly moving its paws in the cage.
He pointed at that one: "Unfortunately, I've fallen in love with this one. It's a rare opportunity, so just make an offer, I won't bargain."
The shopkeeper frowned and looked at his clothes again - it was still the same one that the Chen family had given him when he was in Jinshui. It was made of cotton and linen and short clothes. After living in the open air for days, it already looked shabby. He didn't bring a sword, so he didn't look very wealthy. So he sighed: "This one... Well, guests, let's look at the others... Forget it, among the gray falcons here, if you like one, just pick one, and I'll give it to you. Anyway, On the road, I almost died of shock.”
Li Wuxiang shook his head: "I just like that."
The shopkeeper looked at him seriously at this time and thought for a while: "This Canglong costs twenty-two taels of silver, but if the customer pays, just two taels will be enough, and I will give you a cowhide eagle." 【Note 1】
Li Wuxiang nodded: "Unfortunately, there is not enough money for the time being, and there is no gold. Shopkeeper, you just said that if we hit the road, these birds will be frightened to death. How much are these birds worth in total?"
The shopkeeper looked at him again and then said hesitantly: "There are always much more than this. Alas, you..."
He suddenly smiled bitterly: "Oh, if you want to fight against the autumn wind. No matter who you are, as long as my shop is still in Deyang, 70% of the profit is still yours, as long as you can let me live with my daughter. It's just me. I advise you to go elsewhere. Have you seen anything on the ground? ”
He pointed to the ground, and Li Wuxiang saw some blood stains on the loess.
When he walked over, there were blood stains, feces, hairy feathers, etc. outside many shops, which were left during slaughtering. He originally thought that it was the same here. But the shop owner said: "Last night and today, several people came one after another, but the guy in my shop is not someone to be trifled with, and he is even less merciful at this time. You have to weigh it yourself and see. Worth it? ”
This man was not polite in his words, but his words were good. Li Wuxiang smiled and said, "Is the guy from your store here? Ask him to come out and talk to me."
The shopkeeper sighed, turned around and walked in.
The crowd at the entrance of the store suddenly became lively. Only then did Li Wuxiang realize that this group of people had gathered here not to watch birds, but to watch people. He turned his face and saw the young man who had brought him here - he was surprised and frightened at this moment, as if he did not expect that his guest turned out to be a wandering cultivator. It looked like he was planning to leave quickly, but after all, he was young and couldn't bear it, so he quietly shrank into the crowd and found an opening to watch the fun together.
Not long after, Li Wuxiang heard someone in the store scolding: "Old man, you brought this on again, didn't you? What kind of blind and unlucky man is seeking death and reincarnation!? Are you reluctant to leave? Okay! Wait until we get outside the city. I dug your ancestral grave and brought all your ancestors with me to see if you still want to leave——"
The footsteps thumped, and the sound quickly became louder. A short man with a yellow face jumped to the door with a thud, a pair of short thorns shining in his hands, and everyone around him couldn't help but take a step back in shock. : "Who?! Who is coming again -"
The words stopped suddenly. Sun Dihuang stood on the ground, still holding the thorn in his hands, but he couldn't move in this posture. He looked straight at Li Wuxiang, his throat couldn't help rolling, that yellow face All of a sudden it turned white.
Li Wuxiang stared at him for a while and then asked: "Did you hear the words I said to Feng Ji on the mountain road?"
"I..." Sun Dihuang's eyes glanced around, "I heard... No, I didn't..."
"What did I say?"
"Since you don't want to leave, then... don't leave..."
Li Wuxiang smiled: "It shows that you were present at that time. Then I am very curious about one thing, why don't you leave after you come back? Do you not like it?"
Sun Dihuang's face had turned from white to blue. He looked at the people gradually gathering on the street, his chest rose and fell, he took a sharp breath, glared, dropped a pair of short thorns on his hands with a clang, and knelt on his knees: " I can't bear to leave my wife and my father-in-law at home! This wife's family owns this shop, and people come to bully them all the time. If I were not here, they would suffer. Master, I am obsessed with it. I want to take the whole family with me so that they will not be alone- —”
Li Wuxiang turned to look at the store - the store owner had just come out at this time. He was stunned, leaned forward, and hurriedly held on to the door frame.
Li Wuxiang raised his face at him: "Is what he said true?"
The shopkeeper looked at the crowd and could hear Sun Dihuanglian talking about the two "sect masters". Seeing him like this again, the people around him gradually stopped making noise. He steadied himself a little more, swallowed his saliva, and his voice trembled when he spoke: "False, all fake, fake..."
After saying these few words, I choked up and fell to my knees all of a sudden with tears streaming down my face: "Sect master, let us make the decision! This villain is willing to give up all the property of this shop! This beast took my daughter by force and poisoned her to death. My son-in-law has been occupying my family’s property for many years. I just ask the sect leader to make the decision for me!”
Li Wuxiang nodded and sneered at Sun Dihuang: "It's also your choice of name. When you were smelling it on the mountain, you only said it once and I remembered it. As for me, I love to hold grudges the most. On the mountain When I asked you to leave for the first time, I said that I would ask you to smell it sooner or later. It would be better to choose a day, so let’s choose today.”
He turned around and looked at the opposite side, and a group of people hurriedly moved out of his sight - opposite this shop, there used to be a horse seller, but now no one is running it. There are only two empty stables left, and there are some dried excrement and straw on the ground. and so on.
He turned around and asked the shopkeeper: "Is it difficult for your family to rent this shed?"
The shopkeeper didn't know what he wanted to do. He raised his head and was stunned: "It doesn't take much effort..."
"Well, then rent it." Li Wuxiang looked at Sun Dihuang, "Go over and kneel down and choose a position that feels comfortable to you."
Sun Dihuang was stunned for a moment, as if he had thought of something. He immediately stood up, trotted to the stable, knelt down, and then fell to the ground. He took a few deep breaths, turned to Li Wuxiang and smiled flatteringly: "I understand, little man. I’ll give it a good sniff, little one, and show it to the sect master!”
Li Wuxiang sneered: "These stinky excrements are all dried, what's the point? Shopkeeper."
"Ah? Hey, the villain is here!"
"Scoop a spoonful of manure from your manure pit and ask him to smell it."
At this time, some people in the crowd couldn't help laughing and hid behind everyone. Some people cheered loudly and some urged the shopkeeper to hurry up. The shop owner finally came to his senses, gritted his teeth, and immediately ran back to the store. It didn't take long for him to rush back with a ladle of feces and pour a spoonful of stinking feces in front of Sun Dihuang.
The smell made everyone take a few steps back, but Sun Dihuang didn't dare to frown, and took a few more breaths: "Okay, I'll let you smell it, sect master!"
Li Wuxiang smiled: "Don't worry, I'll tell you to choose a comfortable position to kneel. Do you have a choice?"
"...chosen."
Li Wuxiang nodded and looked at the shopkeeper: "Two meals a day, food and drink, are all delivered to him. The things he is asked to smell are changed once a day. Everyone, is this bustling good to see?"
No one else responded, but the young man said loudly in the crowd: "It looks good!"
"As long as it looks good. Everyone who has nothing to do at ordinary times can help watch it when you have time. I will be stationed at Feiyun Temple. If anyone sees someone disappearing in this stable, come to me for one last time. I’ll give you some of your hard-earned money.” The crowd roared. Okay, Sun Dihuang also nodded repeatedly: "I won't leave, I won't leave, Sect Master, I will smell it whenever you tell me to smell it. Sect Master, you are so generous, you are really kind-hearted... Then, then I will come When..."
"When you want to die."
Sun Dihuang was stunned. The crowd was also stunned for a moment and fell silent for a while.
"Sect Master... don't... don't... bully others too much..."
Li Wuxiang laughed loudly: "I think you are so interesting. When you went down the mountain, you thought you might still have a chance, so you waited on the mountain road. After you came back, I guess you thought I would leave here as soon as possible. Maybe I didn’t return to the city so quickly, or I forgot about you, so I was reluctant to leave immediately. What are you thinking about now? Do you think I will punish you by kneeling down for a few days and the matter will be over?”
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He put away his smile and said, "Now you should know that there are only so many good lucks in a person's life. Since you missed it in one breath, then this life is over. Did you see what kind of sword I used? If you want to die, you can just get up and leave. But if I am busy and cannot catch you, then no matter where you go, someone will naturally come to you."
Sun Dihuang lowered his head and gritted his teeth, glanced at the pair of short thorns at the door of the store, and then glanced at the store owner.
Li Wuxiang looked at him: "The shopkeeper."
"At..."
"If you feel uneasy, I can find someone to build the walls on all sides after I leave, and you don't have to worry about him trying to harm you in the middle of the night. But I guess, he must be kneeling here in a decent manner, feeling that he can endure it, Maybe we can still find a chance to survive.”
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The shopkeeper immediately shouted to the waiter: "Go, go now, find someone to build the wall!"
Then he said to Li Wuxiang: "Wait a moment, wait a moment..."
He hurried back to the shop, and after a while he stumbled back again, holding a small wooden box in his hand: "Sect Master, Sect Master, this is the land deed of my shop, and..."
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"You can keep it yourself." Li Wuxiang smiled at him, "The one I want is...what is it called?"
"Canglong, Canglong. Sect Master, look..."
"I'm not interested in worldly affairs, I'm just not happy if someone offends me. Let your shop be open. Will Yingkun still send it?"
"...It's a gift, it's a gift, naturally!"
Li Wuxiang shouted to the crowd: "Man?"
The boy ran over immediately, behaved himself, and there was no joke on his face. While waiting for the people in the shop to pick up the eagle, the waiter thought about it again and again, and then whispered: "Guest, are you the Ranshan Sect Master?"
"Yeah."
"It's really peaceful in the city now, Sect Master, you have done a great thing."
At this time, the waiter in the shop sent the eagle over. The claws and beak were covered with covers, and a smaller cage was replaced with a layer of cotton. The boy helped him get the things, and the two of them walked back. The shopkeeper knelt down again behind him and thanked him profusely. The crowd of onlookers dispersed to make way for him. When he was a little further away, he was still talking quietly, but when he passed by, he fell silent.
After the two of them had walked some distance, the boy quickly said: "Sect Master, you are so majestic. From today on, everyone around Deyang will know your name! There are still people who stay in the city blindly, I'm afraid As soon as they heard what happened here, they all ran away!”
Li Wuxiang only smiled and said nothing. The man thought it was the leader's style, so he stopped talking.
After walking for a while, Li Wuxiang asked: "In Deyang City, do you know where there is a temple dedicated to Taiyi? The Taiyi inside is like a temple wearing golden armor."
The clerk's eyes lit up: "Are you talking about the Martial Arts Temple in the east of the city?"
"Martial Temple?"
"Wearing gold armor? That's Wu Taiyi Temple. People in the city go there when they want to ask for money. The incense is very prosperous! Do you want to go now? I will take you there!"
"So there is still a Confucian Temple?"
"Ah...yes, we ordinary people are divided into civil and military people. Hey, sect master, you are worshiping the Wentai Temple we call. We pray for health and safety."
Li Wuxiang nodded and smiled: "Let's go after a while."
It was still early today and it was not yet dusk, so he wanted to go to the temple to have a look. But now he has something to do and wants to return to Feiyun Temple immediately.
He had done an experiment just now, and now, he felt that the results of the experiment were slowly appearing.
He didn't insist on grabbing Sun Dihuang and humiliating him in public before. In fact, based on his past and present behavior, killing with one sword would make him feel more comfortable.
But one reason for doing this is to tell some people around Deyang who may be open-minded not to disturb his purity in the future, and the other reason is because he was knelt down by the townspeople after defeating the Zhao puppet in Jinshui.
At that time, when someone worshiped me, the power of my will immediately entered my body. But now, what happened just now has slowly spread, and he can experience that feeling again. It is not as strong as the Gold Water. It is more like a trickle, dripping into the body. Although it is not much, it is not comparable to sitting meditation.
He was only a little bit close to advancing to the realm of Qi refining, but now, that little bit is almost enough.
Cheng Peixin cordially invited herself to Feiyun Temple. Just being a swordsman or just the new leader of Ranshan Sect would not be like this. In this world, if you want to gain goodwill, most of the time you have to make people think that you might be able to gain something from this person.
He wasn't quite sure what Cheng Peixin wanted now, but a leader of the Ranshan Swordsman who broke through quickly after just one day of meeting would definitely make her think a little more about whatever she planned to do.
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Note 1: Ying (ying) is a protective gear worn on the arm to hold the falcon.
Two chapters combined into one. Thanks to a certain uncle who is running for three years for the reward!
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