Chapter 35:

Towards the end of the year, the market was very lively. People with money and no money would inevitably buy some new year goods, buy some new clothes, and prepare for the new year.
The merchandise on the market has become much more abundant than in the past, with a variety of North and South licensed products, fresh food, and the streets are full of tangles.
Yuan Xianger put a packet of crispy rice candy in the hands of the tall monster in front of him. The monster named Zhu stretched out his black hands and caught the fragrant cloth bag. He stood by the bridge head, slanted. Look at the contents of the bag.
Until Yuan Xianger walked a long way, the figure of Zhen came up from the pier of the stone bridge again, wide-shouldered and small head from the eye, with a peculiar appearance, black arms raised in front of Yuan Xianger, open palms, palms lying quietly in the palms A camellia with drops of water.
It's not easy to find the blooming camellia at this time. Yuan Xianger took the camellia with a smile, pinned it to the sideburn, and bowed slightly to thank her friend. The man followed her look and bent slightly.
Zhu is the first monster Yuan Xianger met after arriving in Queqiu Town. Nine years passed in a flash. He changed from an ordinary monster to his friend, and this small town became from a strange place. Own home. Several little fairies mixed in the crowd, the townspeople living and working in peace, the quiet and peaceful town, as if this place was a paradise where she didn't need to worry about anything.
After waving goodbye to Zhen, Yuan Xianger came to a jewelry store and took out the golden ball he found on the mountain. She thought that misogyny valued this ball very much. If it can be fixed and returned to her at the next meeting, it might reduce some unnecessary misunderstandings.
The owner of the shop took the burnt golden ball and looked left and right, and shook his head, "This is a tired silk craft, which is very difficult to do. This kind of craft is not available in a small place like ours. Let alone our shop, the whole Queqiu, I promise that I can’t find a craftsman who can repair this ball. Probably it will only be repaired in a prosperous place like the prefecture or Kyoto."
Hearing the boss talking like this, Yuan Xianger had to collect the ball. Just as he was about to leave, a wealthy boy in brocade and attire came in with his female family members from outside. The man was a well-known dude in town. The woman next to him had crests, slender jade belts, and a handsome figure. , Winking and shy, is a stunner in the world.
When he passed by, a pair of autumnal eyes turned towards Yuan Xiang'er, and the corners of his eyes curled slightly like a smile.
"That man won't live for a few days." Wu Yuan, who was squatting on Yuan Xianger's shoulder, said in a low voice.
Yuan Xiang'er glanced back, only to see that although the young man who had just entered looked triumphant, his complexion was blue, his eyes were dark, his whole body was covered with a gray air, and he was short-lived.
"Sure enough, is that woman a fairy? I don't think it's right when I look at it."
"It's a fox. There are three tails behind him. The foxes like to sneak into the world to play, and they often pretend to be very similar."
Yuan Xianger stepped out of the door frame, and the woman who shopped the door and sold silk flowers was muttering with a customer.
"Have you seen it? The twelfth concubine from the Chu family who was recently discussed."
"It's a sinner, only one of his family, and I don't know how many good people's daughters have been harmed."
"I heard that this time it was the daughter of a rural tenant household. Lao Ziniang fell ill last year and borrowed a few large sums of money from the master's family. If it doesn't pay at the end of the year, she has to pay her debts with her daughter.
"It's a pity, it's a pity, the peasant girl looks so watery and pitifully fell into the magic cave of the Chu family."
Yuan Xiang'er listened to the gossip, and was too lazy to be nosy. When I left the jewelry shop, I remembered that Nanhe had changed into a human shape, but his clothes were not good. With his bare feet and pitiful appearance, he turned to the clothing shop and bought a few men’s ready-to-wear garments, and then went to the fruit shop. I bought a lot of new pastries and walked out in large and small packages.
Passing by the gate of Yongjitang at Dongjiekou, the gate there was inviting a Taoist master to come and do things.
There was a lot of discussion among the onlookers.
"The iron rooster of Yongjitang is now willing to use bad money to build such a big dojo."
"You don’t know that their family has had a lot of bad luck recently, and they have lost money, got sick, and caused official trouble, one by one. They all said that they caused unclean things, and had to pay a lot of money to specially invite the master of high skill to come. Town and town."
"What's unclean, I think it's a guilty conscience. Since Dr. Han Xianyou, the shop fell into the hands of these two brothers. This old sign of Yongjitang is considered to be in their hands."
The ceremonial ceremonies in the front are not small, including incense cases in the hall, fluttering spirit flags, flowers and fruits, gold, paper, and silver. The master Xianfeng Dao bone doing things, wearing a crown, wearing a five-color sleeve, holding a peach wood sword, is mumbling words in front of the hall. He yelled, and raised his hand to offer a piece of talisman paper. The yellow talisman floated in the air and ignited spontaneously without wind, which caused the crowd to exclaim.
"Oh, it's so amazing. I didn't even feel the aura of the fire. How did he make the talisman burn." Wu Yuan squatted on Yuan Xiang'er's shoulder and looked enthusiastically.
Yuan Xianger smiled: "It's just a deceptive trick. It doesn't need aura."
On the eaves directly above the hall, the du jealous demon, who has become very bloated, is also stretching out his head to watch the excitement, dripping saliva on the mage’s hat, but the solemn mage Not aware of anything.
I saw him holding a mahogany sword and yelled: "Why, where are the demon going!"
A fierce sword slashed on the desk, and a red mark appeared on the yellow cloth strip laid out on the desk in advance.
All the onlookers were shocked and even closed their eyes timidly. "Oh, hacked to death, hacked to death, you see all blood."
The silverfish on the roof shivered at the sound of the shout, retracted his head and looked at his body, and found that he was unharmed.
"Hahaha, how did this happen, you humans are too fun." Wu Yuan rolled over with a smile.
Yuan Xianger had to pinch his neck and turned away.
The dojo is still lively behind him, the two owners of Yongjitang and their wives are kneeling in front of the mage, grateful for the high price to buy the amulet.
Compared with the liveliness of this place, in an unremarkable corner of the street, a skinny little beggar sat crookedly, wearing a single-coat in a cold day, with a gray face, shivering and huddling with a stray dog Get warm together. The same scrawny and messy puppy yelled at an empty corner.
No one of the people coming and going saw a monster standing quietly in front of the little beggar. He was crowned with a robe, with a sharp bow-shaped beak on his face, and a pair of dead gray eyes, staring silently at the little boy curled up on the ground. The dog was shaking with his tail, but he always stood in front of the owner. .
"It smells, it smells, what's that? It's really foul. It smells too unpleasant." Wu Yuan shouted, holding her nose.
"His name is Ghost Dove. He eats the soul for a living. He knows that this child is going to die. He is here waiting to swallow his soul when he leaves his soul."
When passing by, Yuan Xiang'er stopped, stretched out her finger and tapped lightly between the little boy's brows, a little aura flashed, and the boy took a breath and woke up leisurely.
Yuan Xianger left a pack of freshly baked sweet-scented osmanthus cake and two silver ingots. There is nothing wrong with this child, but he is too hungry. But if left alone, he might starve to death on the street tonight.
Gui Ji turned his long neck, staring at Yuan Xiang'er with pale eyes and screamed extremely dissatisfied.
"He is still alive, there is nothing to do with you, you go now, otherwise you will be imprisoned for ten years." Yuan Xiang'er spoke in a low voice, making a decision with both hands, and pinched a big Guangming Demon Decision.
Guiji hesitated for a moment, spread his rotten wings, cut through the sky with a sharp scream, spread his wings and left.
"Aquan, what do you think this is? It's for food, ah, and money! Great, we don't need to starve to death this winter."
Yuan Xiang'er walked home comfortably on the way home with the big bags he bought. Behind him came the joyous voice of the little beggar, mixed with cheering dogs.
There are many demons in this world. Some of them can live in the same world as friends, but some are full of malice towards humans. It's not obvious in this small town, because there are almost no monsters that can harm Yuan Xiang'er, but in the world outside Queqiu, how blooming and grotesque, she has never touched it.
At the door of the house, there was a group of people parked outside the gate of the yard. Xuanche BMW, with many followers, looks familiar. Yuan Xianger recognized it and found that it was Zhou Sheng who had been here once and lived by the Dongting Lake. His wife suddenly changed her temperament and declared that she was a man. Not only did she no longer allow him to be close, but she also tossed the family.
In the courtyard at this moment, the man named Zhou Deyun was kneeling in front of Yun Niang irrespective of his face, crying bitterly and begging, "You can think of a way for me. I have invited great immortals from all walks of life. It's not very useful, you can see how I have been beaten by my wife."
He lifted his face, and saw that his otherwise handsome face seemed to have knocked over the dye shop, all colors of blue and purple, and a piece of white gauze wrapped in the middle of the bridge of his nose, which was very comical.
Niang Yun twisted her veil in embarrassment: "Although my maid has some magical powers, I don't know anything about it. How do you ask me to help you?"
"Zhou Deyun, what are you doing to my wife?" Yuan Xiang'er stepped forward, put the things in her hands down, and looked a little funny looking at the man's appearance. "Why is your wife beating you like this? Since she has changed the inside. You have become a general garrisoned at the border, you can't still think about other people, right?"
Zhou Deyun blushed and said in a whisper, "It's not what I thought, but I hired a good man the next day. He said that my lady's hysteria is because the hysteria is too heavy and the evil demon upper body. As long as... As long as you are pregnant, you will be fine."
"Ah, do you still want others to conceive and have children? Isn't this too immoral." Yuan Xianger felt incredible.
"There is only this lady in Xiaosheng's family. The husband and wife have a harmonious relationship with the piano, so the love is deep, and I don't want to stop the wife and marry again, hoping that she will get better and return to the beginning. What's more, that...that is my lady, I, How am I immoral?" Zhou Deyun himself didn't have much confidence, and he gritted his teeth when he talked about anger. "Who knows that the evil magic is so powerful that it is not afraid of all spells, but it is not enough to resist, and he beats me. It became like this."
"I'm really helpless, so I have to ask Lady Yun to be here. My husband is not at home, so I asked the lady to look for him and give me a half-sheet of the exorcism charm left by Mr. Zhang. Maybe the man's talisman can have some effect and get rid of it. Sneaky, wake up my lady, so that my Zhou family will never end. Ooo."
The thinking of this ancient man is really pedantic and ridiculous, but it is rare that he is deeply attached to his wife.
Yuan Xiang'er sat down beside Yun Niang, "Well, if you don't dislike it, I'll take a look for you, maybe I can figure out a feasible way by chance."
Zhou Deyun was overjoyed, "The girl is a good disciple of Mr. Nature. How dare you to say no to the noble person who can't be invited. Xiaosheng thought about this early in his heart, for fear of tired girl, ashamed to speak."
He invited wizards and warlocks all over the place, and for a year, he couldn't solve it. I only accept Yu Yao, who saved his life in childhood, and now Yu Yao is missing. It is also good to be able to invite his disciples, but considering Yuan Xianger’s young age and inconvenience to speak, she will take the initiative to mention this. Surprised.
However, Yun Niang was a little worried, "From our place to Dingzhou by the Dongting Lake, it is less than one or two hundred miles."
No matter how advanced and powerful the techniques Xiang'er has practiced, in her eyes she is still a little girl who has never traveled far.
Zhou Deyun stood up and promised, "When we arrived at Chenzhou, we changed our route to Yuanshui, and we could get there in a day or night by water. There are ready-made carts and horses along the way. I will never let the little man suffer the slightest grievance, whether or not If she can succeed, she must be properly sent back, and Yun Niang will be kind to her."
"Master, the road is not too far, I promise to come back and spend the New Year with you." Yuan Xianger shook Yun Niang's hand, "I want to go to the place where Master once walked. By the way, take a look outside. this world."
Yun Niang had to sigh and nodded in agreement.