Chapter 41 The Former Evil God
Returning to the county government office, Yaoyao came up with a plate and happily said: "Master, Her Royal Highness, you are back! I left half a plate of cherries for you!"
“There are cherries to eat!”
Xiao Baojing picked up a cherry and put it in his mouth in surprise.
Bite the cherry, and the sweet juice bursts out between your lips and teeth.
She praised: "It's so sweet! Where did you pick it?"
Yaoyao took Xiao Baojing's hand: "I'll take you there!"
Going out from the county government office gate is a lively market.
Yaoyao pointed to the corner: "That mother-in-law gave it to me."
Sitting on a pony in the corner was an old woman selling cherries.
Yao Yao said: "I didn't have any coins, and I wanted to eat, so I squatted next to me and watched the children eating. My mother-in-law called me over and grabbed a big handful of cherries for me! I ate half of it, specially for the princess. Your Highness kept half of it, the master just took it by the way.”
Xiao Baojing noticed that two middle-aged men opposite the old woman were also selling cherries.
Their cherries were small, green and unattractive, but they looked proud: "Who wants to eat sweet cherries these days? Everyone loves sour cherries! They have to be small, sour and tooth-piercing!" ”
"Yes, little girls nowadays love to eat sour cherries!"
As they talked, they looked up to the street and looked forward to it, as if they would soon make a lot of money.
Xiao Baojing: How come she doesn’t know that today’s little girls love to eat sour cherries?
These days, more and more people are sick!
Several vegetable sellers were talking next to them, and Xiao Baojing gradually pieced together the whole story.
It turned out that these two mature men were the old woman's biological sons.
Mr. Liu died early, and Granny Liu did not remarry. She raised her two sons by herself and married them wives by selling cherries.
But the two boys broke up as soon as they got their wives. They divided up the best two acres of cherry fields, leaving only a few small cherry trees that had not grown up for Granny Liu, and even drove her away. Live in thatched hut.
Grandma Liu went to the streets every day to sell sour cherries, but she couldn't sell them at all, until a little girl came to the market the day before yesterday.
She asked Granny Liu: "Grandma, are your cherries sweet?"
Granny Liu was embarrassed: "Girl, my cherries are not sweet, they are sour."
The two men opposite said excitedly: "Little girl, come to our house to buy, our cherries are sweet!"
The little girl smiled sweetly: "But what I want to buy are sour cherries. Mother-in-law, these are two taels of silver, used to buy your two baskets of cherries."
Yesterday, this generous little girl came again.
She asked: "Mother-in-law, are your cherries sweet?"
Granny Liu: "Girl, my cherries are sour."
"That's good." The little girl took out two taels of silver and bought the two baskets of cherries again. "Mother-in-law, I will come to buy your cherries every day for the next month."
The two men opposite looked at each other.
For thirty days in a month, two taels of silver per day equals sixty taels of silver!
After the little girl left, they confidently demanded the redistribution of the family property.
They exchanged two acres of cherry fields for the few small cherry trees that belonged to Grandma Liu.
Today they went to the street just to wait for that little girl from a rich family.
Just at this moment, a girl wearing a light pink skirt came up.
The girl is twelve or thirteen years old, with white snowy skin, red eyebrows and green eyebrows. She has a few cherry blossoms in her bun, and the fragrance fills her air as she walks.
She stood in front of Granny Liu's stall: "Grandma, are your cherries sweet?" The two men shouted over and over: "Little girl, our cherries are not sweet, our cherries are sour! They are small, sour and sour. Tooth, keep your favorite food! Come and buy it!”
The girl in pink sneered: "You are so strange, how can anyone in the world like to eat sour cherries? Mother-in-law, are your cherries sweet?"
Grandma Liu was stunned for a moment, then nodded quickly: "Sweet! My cherries are big and sweet!"
The girl in pink gave her another two taels of silver and picked out two baskets of cherries.
The two men stole the chicken and lost the rice, and immediately kicked over the cherry in front of them in frustration.
"That's what happened!" During dinner, Xiao Baojing told Shang Bingjiu about the incident vividly, "That little sister is so smart, she helped Granny Liu get back the family property easily!"
Shang Bingjiu gave her a Sixi meatball: "The human heart is inherently evil, and good and bad fortunes depend on each other."
Xiao Baojing held the bowl: "What do you mean?"
Early next morning.
Today I was supposed to leave for Ye Jing, but a murder suddenly occurred in Rongcheng.
It was said that the watchman passed by a ruined temple in the early morning and found Granny Liu bleeding to death from all her orifices. A little girl in pink knelt in front of the broken statue of the god and kowtowed with tears. There was also a plate of fresh food enshrined in front of the collapsed altar. Cherries and a pot of cherry wine.
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Suspecting that a monster was causing trouble, he rushed in with a peace gong.
The little girl was so frightened that she immediately turned into a little cherry tree.
It turns out she is a cherry tree spirit.
Now the cherry tree spirit has been detained in the county prison cell. The county magistrate has invited a demon subduing master and plans to behead her at dusk.
Yaoyao inquired about the news outside and rushed back: "It's my mother-in-law! The person who died is my mother-in-law!"
Xiao Baojing touched her head to comfort her and asked: "Could it be the Cherry Tree Spirit, the little girl we saw yesterday?"
"That's her!" Yaoyao said sadly, "But how could she kill her mother-in-law?"
The master came to deliver breakfast: "You don't know something. In this world, the heaven has collapsed and monsters are running rampant. Since they are monsters, how can they not hurt people? My county magistrate hates evil and has executed four monsters during his tenure. This time the tree spirit harmed people. , my county magistrate will definitely not let her go!”
"You're talking nonsense!" Yaoyao retorted, "I am also a monster, but I have never hurt anyone!"
The master looked in awe at Shang Bingjiu, who was sitting cross-legged inside.
He had heard that it was this young boy who rescued His Highness the Crown Prince from the Loquat Garden.
He smiled and said: "The girl is the monster next to the Great Demon-Subduing Master, how can she be compared with ordinary wild monsters?"
Yaoyao rolled her eyes and gave him a loud "hum".
After the master left, Xiao Qian came.
He said sternly: "Although the case of Granny Liu's murder was personally interrogated by the county magistrate, I think there are many doubts, and it is not a simple evil spirit that harmed people. I want to ask the magician Shang to go to the ruined temple in the suburbs with me to re-investigate the case. I don't know. Do Warlocks have time to spare? ”
In this world, demon subduing masters are respectfully called "warlocks".
Shang Bingjiu seemed very talkative: "Okay."
Xiao Baojing and Yaoyao also followed.
Before entering the ruined temple, Xiao Baojing glanced at the plaque that fell outside the temple door.
The plaque was smashed, but the word "Bliss" can be pieced together vaguely.
Is it the Kek Lok Temple again?
Including the two in Julu County and Loquat Garden, Xiao Baojing has seen three Paradise Temples.
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