39. Chance encounters
Rob and Mingyue were still wandering around the market, calling Wumao to find out the news, and Wumao turned into a bald boy, swimming in the sea like a fish, and got into the bustling crowd.
"It's nice to have a helper." Mingyue looked at the hairless back and sighed, not to mention anything else, it was really unbearable to squeeze around in the smelly crowd, but fortunately, there is a demon to do it now.
Rob didn't dare to say anything about hairless anymore, seeing that Mingyue didn't like to be lively, he found a teahouse and rested first.
Unexpectedly, the teahouse was also very lively, with chatting and singing songs.
The teahouse guy stepped forward and asked earnestly, "Guest officer, do you want to come to the teapot hairy tip?" β
Mingyue stood up and said angrily, "What? Can you still eat that thing? Still hairy? β
When she shouted, the teahouse suddenly fell silent, and the person who sang the song burst out laughing, and the others laughed along.
Luo Bu hurriedly pulled Mingyue to sit down and ordered: "Just sliced incense, and then bring us some sugar soaked in dried plums." β
The guy couldn't help but laugh and stepped back to prepare.
Mingyue muttered dissatisfiedly, "No wonder the book says that you people are hairy and blood-drinking, and a noble-born demon like me has never eaten hair and bones since he was a child." β
"Yes, yes." Rob comforted Mingyue and said, "You are a higher species, we are all grass people, grass-like, once a year, cheap and ignorant." β
Mingyue smiled modestly, took Rob's hand and apologized, "I didn't mean that anymore, you are different from others." β
"What's the difference?" Rob deliberately teased Mingyue.
"It's different anywhere." Mingyue's eyes swept Rob from top to bottom like an infrared scan, and finally stopped three inches under her armpit.
A moment before Mingyue said something amazing, Rob wittily interrupted her, "Ah, that's right! β
Rob took out the small mirror from his arms, smiled and whispered, "Let me see what you, a noble-born demon, look like?" β
Mingyue smiled bitterly and sat still, Rob leaned over and leaned on her shoulder to look in the mirror together, in the mirror, the two sisters stood side by side, one was cute and cute, the other was big-eyed and cold-faced, and there was no disappearance.
"What...... Rob grumbled in disappointment, "nothing has changed." β
I didn't expect that taking a photo together would have no effect, maybe the mechanism was somewhere else, and I turned the demon mirror in my hand and looked at it over and over again, moving here, touching there, and I didn't see any change.
"Huh." Mingyue squeezed out a little smile, "Maybe it's been a long time since I haven't used it, it's broken, why don't you give it back to me, and I'll give it to you when I find a good one?" β
"Don't!" Rob simply refused, "It's troublesome without a mirror, and I don't know if I have washed my face." β
Mingyue had no choice but to give up, thinking that it would be good not to tell her how to look at the monster's past life.
It just so happened that the guy sent the brewed fragrant tea and a plate of sugar-soaked prunes, Rob put away the mirror, put the prunes in the teacup, poured the tea, shook the teacup, and pushed it to Mingyue, "You taste it, it's delicious." β
Mingyue took it and tasted it, and said in surprise: "Roar, sweet and sour with a little floral fragrance, it's really delicious~"
Raising his head, he drank it in one gulp, and drank it so quickly that the tea dripped down the corner of his mouth and onto his chest.
"Drink it slowly, what can you taste like drinking like this?" Rob smiled, and made himself a cup of tea in the same way, remembering that when the weather was hot in the past, he used to fry a pot of herbal tea like this, add ice cubes after cooling, and drink it to relieve the heat and remove the heat, there is nothing better.
Mingyue drank her tea in a few sips, put it on the table and picked up the tea cup in front of Rob and tasted it carefully, Rob laughed at her childishness, but finally used Mingyue's cup to make another cup for herself.
If you want to say that Cheng dΓΉ who loves one is Cheng dΓΉ who tolerates her, if you change someone, let alone change the cup to drink water, even if you touch it, I'm afraid it will be disgusting and I don't want to use it anymore.
Rob took a sip and felt that the taste was not so good, seeing that Mingyue looked serious about tasting tea, and it was difficult to say it directly, he took out a small mirror and continued to look around.
Here Rob is fiddling with a small mirror, and there is a little song to sing, getting up and thanking the audience, walking around to collect the bounty, and it just so happens that Rob is holding the mirror to find an angle to take a selfie - although he didn't shoot, self-appreciation is also good, and he happened to see a tanuki wearing clothes behind him, and Rob was so frightened that Rob dropped the mirror to the ground.
"What's wrong?" Mingyue asked with concern as she held the teacup.
"It's okay, hand slippery." Rob smiled reluctantly, and when he bent down to pick up the mirror, he shook the mirror for a moment, except for the tanuki who came over, the other people sitting and drinking tea were all human-looking, it seemed that there was something wrong with this singer.
Speaking of which, this is the first time Rob has encountered such a Sven monster, and it would be nothing if he started fighting directly, but this human-speaking demon is a bit of a monster that makes people wonder what to do, is it an orc? It was too late to discuss with Mingyue, and in the blink of an eye, the singer had already approached, it bowed down and bowed, and apologized first: "Forgive me, two guest officers, I was abrupt just now." β
Mingyue snorted, didn't bother to pay attention to her, and the singer looked straight at Luo Bu, Luo Bu paused for a moment, and hurriedly took out a few copper coins and threw them into the dustpan she served, and the singer smiled gently, thanked and left.
Rob silently looked at her back, seeing that she was beautiful, wearing a bright red dress, with a low neckline revealing a white neck, maybe young and young, and without a great mind, but the slender waist is very charming, the skirt below is also gauzy, and the two long legs loom during the walk, how do you look at it, how can you look at it as a big beauty, how did you become a big cat in the mirror?
Although there is no malice in the eyes, it is better to leave first, so as not to accidentally hurt the innocent in a public place for a while.
"Let's go......" Rob tugged at Mingyue's clothes, and Mingyue shook her head, "Didn't you let me taste tea?" I'm only halfway through and I'm leaving. β
"Go out and talk." Rob left the tea money and got up to leave, Mingyue had to follow her, shook her head and sighed: "What a fickle woman." β
Out of the teahouse, I found an alley with few people, Rob told Mingyue what happened just now, Mingyue laughed when she heard it, "It's just a tanuki, why are you scared like that?" β
"You ......" Rob stomped his feet angrily, "It's not you yet, you Tang monk meat, don't attract monsters too much~"
"Are you worried about me?" Mingyue patted her chest and said with a smile: "But I have already put a spell on myself to hide my breath, how can I make the same mistake stupidly a second time?" β
"That's fine." Only then did Rob relax and sigh: "When I entered the city, I checked so strictly, I thought that there would definitely be no monsters in the capital." β
"Hush." Mingyue said disdainfully: "Haven't you heard of 'dark under the lights'?" The more tightly you grasp the place, the more dirt and dirt are hidden, maybe there is a big monster in the palace! β
"How is it possible~" Rob smiled, he didn't expect to really make Mingyue's words a prophecy, this is a later story.
While the two were talking, they trotted over on all fours, still holding something in their mouths, and they didn't put it down until Mingyue's feet, and screamed twice.
In the morning, I didn't eat the panther as lunch, and I caused a lot of trouble, and this time I didn't dare to eat the food casually, so I brought it to Mingyue first, and asked if it could be used as food.
"Hmm." Mingyue nodded and said to Rob: "Wu Mao said that he saw it sneaking behind us, so he caught it." β
Rob lowered his head and looked closely, and found that it was the tanuki he had seen in the mirror just now, with his limbs stiff and his abdomen facing up, lying motionless on the ground, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
"Huh?" Mingyue suddenly shouted dissatisfiedly, "It's a male!" If you don't have a hair, take it and eat it, even if you can't eat it when you're full, at least you have to bite off his little **. β
There is no love with a hairless face, and the dignified king of beasts is enslaved, even if he is reduced to a "castration" machine.
Unexpectedly, the tanuki listened to Mingyue's words, and suddenly came to life, and as soon as he rolled on the ground, he became the appearance of singing just now, and even the clothes on his body became much neater, and he looked like a literati wearing.
"The son spares his life, the little one is just confused for a while, and he is obsessed with money, and he wants to send this sister to the yamen in exchange for a reward, and he begs the son to spare him, and he is a slave and a maid, and he does not dare to resign."
can be a slave and a maid, this is a bit interesting~ Rob snickered on the side, and after thinking about it, he realized that it was wrong, and asked, "You said you want to exchange me for money?" β
"Yes." The tanuki spirit knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Rob and begged for mercy, "Now the palace has released news to catch the snake demon and the tiger demon, so I was moved." β
"How do you know I'm a basilis?"
"Girl, forgive me, I'm a tanuki spirit, and I'm born to eat snakes, so I know when I meet a snake demon."
"......" Rob was speechless, natural enemies or something, it was terrible.
Mingyue saw that Rob was unhappy, and she became impatient, and shouted: "There is so much nonsense, eat it quickly if you don't have hair." β
"Don't ......," exclaimed the tanuki.
"Wait a minute." Rob also stopped, lowered his head and asked the tanuki, "Why do you want to catch the snake demon and the tiger demon in the palace?" β
Seeing that Rob wanted to listen, the tanuki spirit played its strengths, shook up his spirits, and played a rap on the spot, "It's a long story, a few days ago, at noon, the pedestrian mountain met a tiger, the tiger and the snake were fighting, and the dragon and tiger were fighting, and the dragon and tiger were fighting, and the dragon and tiger were fighting, and the dragon and tiger were fighting, and the dragon and tiger were fighting, and the emperor was not open, and the order was passed on at three o'clock in the afternoon......"
"I see...... Rob interrupted the tanuki and sighed, "I didn't expect it to be a misunderstanding, and I don't know how many youkai have been killed." β
"Whatever." Mingyue said indifferently: "The demon clan is the weak and the strong, and the poor ability is to be eaten, this is the heavenly principle of the demon clan." β
ββ¦β¦ All right. Rob compromised and said to the tanuki: "Since you are so good at singing, go and sing to others, it is simply misunderstood by others, snakes are snakes, no matter how they are, they will not become dragons, and the emperor does not need to worry at all." β
"Okay! When I went back, I made it into a little song and sang it every day, all the time, and even sang it in my sleep. "The tanuki wanted to take the opportunity to slip away, but was slapped on the ground by a hairless paw and couldn't move.
"How's that going to work?" Mingyue said angrily, "What if it goes to tell the government?" This kind of thing is the most cunning, but it is safe to eat it in your stomach. β
"Don't~" The tanuki spirit hugged her hairless paws and cried, "Uncle, I can sing small songs, dance, and tell jokes, people with heads and faces in the capital like me, don't eat me~ They will look for me when I die~"
"Let's just say it's cunning, it's going to deceive people now, and if you mix so well, you still need to go to the teahouse to sing?" Mingyue said disdainfully.
The hairless paws stepped on the tanuki spirit heavily, and the tanuki spirit screamed louder, "Really, really, we have an agreement with the government, and we must help the government to stay in the capital." β
Rob belly: This is too unresistant, if you are captured, you will become a traitor.
"Otherwise, you can do something for us, so that we can keep you alive." Rob said.
"Okay, okay, let me do whatever I want." Tanuki said hurriedly.
"Then you can help us cheat out some money." Rob said.
Rob always feels that it is not worth taking risks in person, and it is a pity to give up in vain, just have this opportunity, it is better to let this clever tanuki spirit cheat money, it doesn't matter how much money can be cheated, the important thing is to bring a sentence, by the way, you can also drag it into the water, it is really a lot of money.
Besides, there is no Mao who can't understand words, and he didn't inquire about where the Cui family's general number is, this tanuki knows everything, and even the surname of the shopkeeper is clear.
So Mingyue repeated the old trick, Rob picked one of her hair when he recalled Bilian's appearance, wrapped it in a charm and put it on the face of the tanuki spirit, after a while, the tanuki essence's face really became Bilian's appearance, if it is said that it is exactly the same, it is unlikely, after all, Rob's memory is also biased, but it looks very similar.
So the tanuki spirit and the hairless pretended to be the master and servant, and took the silver hairpin forged by Mingyue and went to the Cui family's business.
When they walked away, Mingyue frowned and said to Rob: "The tanuki spirit is too cunning, and I always feel that I can't worry about killing it." β
"I know." Rob laughed, "I know it must be lying, wouldn't it be better to sue it for a false news when the time comes, true or false, we will be safer." β
Mingyue smiled, since Rob was confident, she wouldn't say anything anymore, let her be happy.