Chapter 2 How could I be a demon
Not long after Xiaohan passed, heavy snow fell in Yanliang Town.
The streams outside the city have been frozen.
If the weather is suitable, Shen Lian will not stay in the pawn shop all day. Occasionally, he will go to the market in Yanliang Town to scan for antique calligraphy and paintings. Naturally, he does not want to suffer in the cold weather.
As soon as the stove was turned on, half a bowl of warm rice wine was consumed.
Wouldn't it be nice to be drowsy for half a day?
To Shen Lian's surprise, he seems to have had good fortune recently, and his daily income from selling money at the pawn shop has been increasing day by day.
Every day there are always a few antique calligraphy and paintings with experience. In just a few months, Chaofeng's career progress has quietly reached 95.3%.
The only unpleasant thing was the delay in seeing Shen Hansheng return home.
Heavy snow closed the mountains and the official roads were difficult to travel. Shen Hansheng inevitably chose to stay in Gaojia Town. It was estimated that it would be good to go to Yanliang Town a few years ago.
Also because of the sudden drop in temperature, the pawn shop business has become deserted.
At three o'clock in the morning, Shen Lian walked into the front hall of the pawn shop.
“Ha~”
He slept until noon after eating the meal he had just eaten, and continued to fall asleep as soon as he touched the armchair.
The man was not surprised, but Mr. Wang hesitated to speak.
Mr. Wang thought to himself: "Otherwise, if we let the shopkeeper arrange marriage for Shen Lian, how could he make such a fool of himself every day when he is still studying?"
He glanced at Myna, "It's better to be a bird working hard."
After a while, Shen Lian snored again and again.
Whenever there is a shortage of firewood for the stove, a waiter will diligently replenish it.
Dong-dong-dong.
There was a sudden knock on the door.
The silence of the pawn shop was broken when Ding Ding opened the ajar door.
A slovenly-dressed middle-aged man walked into the pawn shop and looked at everyone in the room eagerly, with some satisfaction in his eyes.
"I...I'm here to pawn."
He took out the scroll in his arms. The paper was worn and yellowed.
The moment the middle-aged man's fingers touched the scroll, he murmured to himself in panic: "My wife, don't be anxious, don't be anxious..."
Bago tilted his head and shouted: "Ah, who cares about calling me mother?" It’s called Ba Ye!”
The middle-aged man waved his hands away in disgust, and the stench spread all over his body.
Mr. Wang frowned slightly and winked at Dang Ding in front of the shop. One Ding Ding quietly came within half a meter of the middle-aged man and was waiting.
He had no intention of driving people away immediately.
Mr. Wang has been in the pawn shop for decades and has seen all kinds of customers, many of whom pretend to be crazy and act stupid, just wanting to exchange for more copper coins.
Since the middle-aged man does have antique calligraphy and painting, he plans to take a look at it before talking about it.
Besides, who knows if the beggars on the street were once wealthy businessmen?
The middle-aged man stroked the scroll gently, and his pale face turned a little rosy: "It's funny, my wife is too afraid of birth."
"If you come to the wrong place, you can take it with you Shipment left”
"No, no, no, I came right."
Wang Lao looked at the half-exposed scroll with his peripheral vision, and noticed that the scroll was quite old, maybe two or three hundred years old.
Unfortunately, the integrity is too poor. There are still traces of rats eating on the edges of the paper. Even if it is an authentic work by a celebrity, it cannot be sold for a few coins.
“Sir, pawn alive or dead?”
Live pawn means that although the goods are sold to a pawn shop, there is a written document between them and they can be redeemed within a certain period of time. Back.
If you die, there will be no redemption papers, but the price will be higher.
"Hudang, of course it's Hudang, I'll pick her up in a few days..."
The middle-aged man mumbled, carefully holding out the scroll, his bare skin covered with Although there is frostbite, the painting is not dirty at all.
Shen Lian stretched and woke up.
He saw that the middle-aged man was indeed a rough guy, and his appearance was inexplicably familiar. He turned to ask the guys beside him who were talking to each other.
"Fugui, do you recognize him?"
Fugui said gloatingly: "Going back to the young master's house, the one the master mentioned before is the Li Duan who lost everything."
"No wonder, Daqi Dalu suffered from hysteria. Let’s go.”
Li Duan was originally a grain merchant in Yanliang Town, but his family fortune was completely ruined in a few years.
Shen Hansheng once came to collect antique calligraphy and paintings from Li Mansion.
The last time Shen Lian heard about Li Duan was half a year ago. He didn't expect that the latter was still alive, and he didn't know where he lived in the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month.
“Let me take a look.”
Mr. Wang opened the scroll.
The painting shows a woman holding an oil umbrella. Her appearance cannot be clearly seen, but the proportions of her hands and feet are much higher than those of ordinary people, giving off an air of coldness.
“No seal, no payment, only painting skills, in the end...”
Before Wang Lao finished speaking, Li Duan in front of him screamed for no reason.
"My lady, please forgive me, I didn't mean to delay!!!"
Li Duan fell to his knees, banging his head on the floor tiles, his clothes stained red with blood, looking at him in horror. To the picture scroll.
Old Wang's heart felt chilly, and he felt that the woman in the painting was becoming more and more clear.
“Haha woo woo.”
Li Duan rushed to the counter with a quick stride.
When Ding saw this, he held Li Duan down with quick hands and eyes, "Come here to ask for trouble and run wild, and you don't even look at how much you weigh!" Shen Lian was afraid that Li Duan would die in the pawn shop, so he hurriedly Signaling Ding Ding to drive him out.
"Madam, please don't abandon me. I can't live without you."
Li Duan's face was bloody and bloody, and half of the bones of his nose were exposed. , caressing the scroll tremblingly, a sad smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Madam..."
He stared at the scroll, blood dripping from his forehead.
In Li Duan's eyes, the painting shows a woman holding up an oil umbrella, her faceless head drooping, a gaping hole in her abdomen, fangs and sharp teeth exposed, and a tongue transformed from her intestines and stomach.
Where is the ordinary scroll, clearly hiding a hungry man-eating ghost! ! !
Shen Lian and others only felt that Li Duan was either suffering from worsening hysteria or preparing to come to blackmail him for money. Little did they know that the picture scroll was a hot potato.
"Madam, as long as you want to see me."
Li Duan's facial features were ferocious, and his chest was heaving violently.
He knew that once the lady became interested, everyone in the pawn shop would be wiped out, and he recalled the bloody scenes in his mind.
"Madam, I will come to pick you up in a few days!"
Li Duan was held up and thrown out of the pawn shop.
He fell and fell, and the few remaining teeth fell out, but his eyes were still fixed on the room. Hehe, the old Chaofeng should not be able to hold on, and he would die suddenly on the spot.
The rest of us, two or three days at most.
"Anyone who has come into contact with a lady will, without exception..."
At this time.
Shen Lian grabbed the scroll to look at it, and used his discerning eye as a habit.
"Huh?!"
Before he finished speaking, Li Duan's expression became incredible. His wife's shrill screams were heard in his ears, and his eardrums suddenly burst.
At the moment when the eye of wisdom was used, Li Duan saw in horror that the woman in the painting was bathed in flames, and her beautiful skin was twisted a little bit.
[The identification of the lady's picture fails, the court experience +0.1%]
[The lady's picture fails the identification, the court experience +0.1%]
[Failed to identify the portrait of a lady, court experience +0.1%]
………
“What, there is also a saying that the identification failed? But it’s good to get it with experience.”
< br>From a perspective that is invisible to ordinary people, as the discerning eye is used over and over again, the woman in the painting dissolves like butter, and then turns into a faint smoke and dust and returns to Shen Lian's mouth and nose.
The starlings were hovering excitedly above their heads, making shrill and shrill calls.
"Impossible, is he a human or a ghost?!!"
Li Duan trembled all over, and then discovered that not only was Shen Lian extremely terrifying, but the myna birds he raised seemed to be also transformed by demons.
The shadow of the myna reflected on the wall was two or three meters long. Its outline looked like a ferocious beast lying on all fours, spewing out countless strange dead souls.
Even in the open beak, there are blood-red pupils staring at itself.
“Ahhhhh!!!”
Li Duan suffered a nervous breakdown and banged his head against the stone pier on the street crazily.
The two pawns were dumbfounded. Li Duan fell in a pool of blood and twitched several times. In the end, only a body was left that gradually became cold.
They hurriedly ran into the pawn shop, "Li Duan...he is dead!!"
Wang Lao was shocked and found that the scroll fell into Shen Lian's hands and was safe and sound, muttering Maybe it's because old people are dazzled.
The corner of Shen Lian's mouth twitched, and he waved his hand and said: "Crazy, this is the first time I see someone trying to kill myself. Why are you standing there in a daze? Report it to the government."
"Crazy, crazy, ah~"
Shen Lian was too lazy to pay attention to Bage and checked the career panel.
[The identification of ladies' pictures is successful, court experience +5.1%]
[Ladies' picture of Tang Dynasty, 483 years calendar]
[Chao's service reaches 100.7%, Wu's experience is +5.1%] Learning points +1】
[Whether to be promoted to the profession Nine-Ear Chaofeng]
With a thought in Shen Lian's mind, the 100.7% experience value became 0.07%.
[Chaofeng is promoted to Jiuer Chaofeng, martial arts points +10]
………
[Shen Lian]
[Martial Arts: None]
[Points: 20]
[Occupation: Nine-Ear Chaofeng (0.07%)]
[Association: Myna Bird]
< br>[Supernatural power: seeing the subtle eyes]
[See the subtle eyes: you can easily identify antique calligraphy and paintings that are less than a thousand years old. 】
“The experience of the second career promotion has increased tenfold!”
Shen Lian was speechless about the career panel.
"Also, what nonsense, nine ears worship? It sounds like the demons and ghosts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. What does the nine ears have to do with treasure appraisal."
"The magical power is also very useless. It increased from five hundred years to one thousand years.”
(End of this chapter)