20. Into the city
Seeing Mingyue's embarrassment, Rob couldn't help laughing, and his mood was much better, yes, no matter how strange he was, there was still someone in this world who really didn't mind.
Mingyue accepted the spell, stood in the circle and drew it again, and after finishing the painting, she sat next to Rob and looked at her in a daze.
Rob laughed dryly, and asked casually without words: "I see that you are quite relaxed when you cast spells, why did you look so tired before going down the mountain just now." β
Speaking of the spells she was good at, Mingyue was happy and talked endlessly: "This, let's start with the basic principles of spells, the basis of all spells is the manipulation of the five elements......"
Probably to say that the spell that blew up the pit just now was more consumable, Rob listened carefully, and felt like he was back in the Marxist-Leninist classroom at the university, and soon felt sleepy, yawned delicately, and fell asleep with his eyes open.
"Eh, how can there be fire on the mountain?" Someone saw a bonfire on the mountain and looked for it from a distance, but it was the workers who worked at the Peach Blossom Nunnery who came home from work.
Hearing the movement, Rob woke up completely as soon as he was excited, his upper body shrank and his hand stretched out to put on the clothes he had just held up with his tail, and after standing up, he picked up the clothes that fell on the ground and threw them back to Mingyue, fortunately, the clothes had been dried and there was nothing wrong with wearing them.
Mingyue's face is stinky, too, when she was talking about being interrupted on her head, it was like having to hold back halfway through, it was really as unhappy as she was.
"Huh." Rob carefully adjusted his height so that his tail would not be exposed, and after waiting for a while, the foreman led a team of workers outside the circle, and Rob replied to the foreman with a smile after saying hello: "I suddenly felt unwell, so we found a place to rest." β
Rob saw that the workers were in a hurry, and that it was still early, and asked strangely, "Why did you call it a day so early?" β
Aren't you in a hurry? Is it because you are lazy when the host is not there?
"Oh, I'm going to go back early, there's been a lot of goblins in the town lately, and they'll eat people." The monster foreman looked horrified at the mention of the monster foreman.
Rob smiled awkwardly.
The foreman offered to help carry Rob to the infirmary, but Rob politely refused, and they did not dare to stay long, leaving some dry food and leaving in a hurry.
Fortunately, the painting of the ground is a prison to block living creatures, but it does not prevent dry food and other non-breathing items from passing through, so those workers did not feel that there was anything wrong except that Mingyue, who practiced closed meditation, was unhappy.
After the workers left, Rob put the dry food on a clean branch and roasted it over the fire until it was golden brown, and the bite was fragrant and crispy, like eating a pot.
"Then, you can eat some too." Rob handed Mingyue a piece of roasted dry food, Mingyue took it and ate it, she was surprised, full of praise, surprised by the number one delicacy in the world, and said with emotion: "There are countless delicacies in the world, no wonder the demons are desperate to become humans." β
"It's good to be a demon." Rob laughed at himself, "I can dry my clothes, can you?" β
"Hahahaha~" Mingyue couldn't help laughing, but Rob didn't have a smile on his face, Mingyue's laughter became lower and lower, and finally he had to touch his nose and shut up, thought about it and comforted: "It's nothing if you don't have mana, follow me, I will protect you." β
"Hush." Rob turned his head to the side with disdain: I'm embarrassed to say, either someone plotted or someone stabbed me, if I hadn't sacrificed my life to help, let people sell and help people for money.
Mingyue was also a little weak-hearted, and after thinking about it, she said: "It's also good to have no mana, there is no demon pill without mana, so you don't have to worry about being attacked by the monsters who robbed the demon pill." β
Mingyue remembered that she had been attacked by a snake demon when she was a child, but fortunately she was not taken away from the demon pill, otherwise she would have died a long time ago.
Rob was shocked, "Demon Pill? β
"Yes, every cultivating monster has a demon pill, just like the human heart, which is the source of spell-casting energy."
"So youkai kill people to eat people's hearts, and kill demons to get demon pills?"
"yes." If you're hungry, you can just eat something, or suck some heaven and earth aura, and you can't risk your life to hunt humans and other demons.
Rob was speechless, reached out and touched his heart, because he was doubly frightened, the heart was beating, like jumping out of his chest, and then he looked at the shadows of the trees around him, and the black seemed to hide countless demons and monsters.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Mingyue squeezed to Rob's side and sat down, pressing Rob's head to his shoulders and carrying it, as if she wanted to carry Rob's entire future.
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Rob woke up at dawn the next day, although he felt that Mingyue was unreliable, but for some reason, he would feel at ease with her inexplicably, obviously depressed, but he didn't even have a nightmare all night, and slept beautifully.
The problem is that when I went to bed last night, it was obviously Rob leaning on Mingyue's shoulder, but when I woke up in the morning, I found that the posture of the two of them changed to Mingyue pillowing on Rob's stomach, and his hand was still holding the little white rabbit honestly, so angry that Rob grabbed Mingyue's hand and wanted to throw it aside, but when he saw Mingyue sleeping on Zhengxiang, he couldn't bear to wake her up, and finally put Mingyue's hand lightly on her own stomach.
Rob had nothing to do, and began to plan a whole day trip today, Jingyue only asked people to send a food box back to the nunnery, but she didn't say where she was, and who should the money be given to, it was really unreliable, and I didn't know how old Song Tou's injury was, maybe he was dying, so Jingyue was so panicked.
Speaking of which, Jingyue is too nervous, right? Maybe there are β‘β‘ in it, Jingyue, Mingyue, and Lao Songtou, is it an indecent love triangle between the three people?
Thinking of the disharmony, Rob laughed, the laughter shook his abdomen and woke Mingyue, Mingyue hugged Rob and turned over in dissatisfaction, and complained, "What are you laughing at?" Let me hug it. β
As soon as Mingyue said that Luo Bu remembered the enoki mushroom, he was not used to having this thing, so he forgot it for a while, and hurriedly pushed Mingyue aside, lifted the hem of his clothes and looked for it carefully, fortunately, the enoki mushroom finally retracted into the hole, otherwise he would not be able to walk today.
Mingyue was pushed to the hard ground, and she couldn't sleep too lazy, and when she saw Rob's nervous appearance, she comforted, "Don't be afraid, maybe it's too big." β
"What am I afraid of?" Rob threw away his tail, puffed up his chest and said proudly: "I am only afraid of one thing in this world - there is no money, as long as there is money, nothing else is a problem~"
"What's the use of money? And you can't eat it. Mingyue asked puzzled.
"Eh, you're really naΓ―ve, money can't be eaten, but money can be exchanged for delicious food, let's go pay for what we ate yesterday, and eat something good by the way."
"Do you know where to pay?"
"I don't know." Yesterday's big food box had long been crushed to pieces, and the wreckage fell into the river, and the bones were gone, but Rob was frightened at that time, and his tail had been tightly wrapped around the handle of the food box, so the handle was spared, and at this time Rob took it out and put it in his hand, pointing to a word engraved on the handle and saying, "But someone should know." β
Mingyue snorted indifferently, indicating that she knew, and she didn't bother with these things at all.
After washing, the two continued to march towards the city, Mingyue tried to ask Rob to continue carrying her, but Rob cruelly refused, "Others will be scared to death when they see a child like me carrying someone taller than themselves." β
Self-esteem made Mingyue refuse to ask again, but in her heart she thought about how she could have that good feeling again, and the two of them followed the crowd into the city in the entanglement.
In the end, the city is prosperous, there are many breakfast stalls on the side of the city gate, buns, wontons, everything is available, Robla picked a large number of wonton stalls and sat down.
"I want to eat that one over there." Mingyue pointed to the rice cake stall not far away, the rice cake was full of brightly colored nuts, and it looked very beautiful.
"No, didn't you see that no one was going to eat that? Let's eat this obediently - it's a busy day, don't cause trouble. β
"Okay." Mingyue waited obediently, waiting for her to put a steaming wonton in her mouth, and she became Grandma Liu who entered the Grand View Garden for the first time, and shouted: "Wow, it's so delicious, it's much better than human meat!" β
Mingyue said that he had no intention, but for a moment the bustling morning market suddenly quieted down, so quiet that he could hear the sound of boiling water bubbling in the pot.
Rob laughed dryly, "What nonsense? It's as if you've eaten human flesh. As he spoke, he poked Mingyue with his elbow, suggesting that she should not talk nonsense.
Rob actually questioned what he said, Mingyue was very angry, and said, "Of course I have eaten." β
A few diners dropped their money and got up to leave.
was so angry that Rob couldn't wait to plug Mingyue's mouth, Mingyue saw that Rob was so angry that she quickly apologized, "Ah, don't be angry, no matter how delicious this thing is, it doesn't taste as good as you (roasted dry food)." β
The rest of the people immediately exchanged expressions with each other knowing the truth, and looked at Rob with ambiguity and pity in his eyes.
Rob only wants the result, so he doesn't bother to explain, just bows his head and eats.
However, the stall owner who sold wontons said to Mingyue dissatisfiedly: "Little brother, you have a good wife, and you don't have to show affection everywhere, you scared away several of my guests just now, do you know?" β
Mingyue's eyes were about to be difficult, but fortunately Rob was clever, took out double the meal money and put it on the table, carrying Mingyue behind his back and pointing to his head with the stall owner, implying that Mingyue had something wrong with his brain, the boss saw the money before changing his smiling face, Rob took the opportunity to take out the handle of the food box and asked, "We have something to find this store, do you know how to go?" β
The boss was shocked when he only looked at the piece of wood with the words on it, and shook his hand again and again: "Hurry up, hurry up, I don't know anything." β
It's strange if I don't know, Rob rolled his eyes, rubbed his eyes and said with a crying voice: "Big brother, we are here to ask this store for an explanation, you see my brother, I have worked for them for five years, I haven't gotten a penny of money, not to mention, I was beaten to the head, my mother was angry to death, and now we don't have the money to buy a coffin, I, I'm so miserable!" β
Saying that, Rob covered his face and whimpered, but Mingyue was startled, hugged Rob's shoulders and said irritably: "What nonsense, don't cry, whoever makes you angry, I'll kill him!" "I couldn't stop looking at the diners around me, looking like I was going to fight for my life.
The boss was very sympathetic when he saw Mingyue: he was really sick.
Mingyue made such a fuss, and the people who ate wontons in front of the stall were gone, and the boss was idle, so he had to say: "This is Babaozhai's food box, his family is making trouble now, and several have died, I advise you to go home, don't provoke bad luck." β
Hearing this, Rob raised his head and asked in surprise, "Is there really a monster eating people?" β
Maybe it's a serial murder case? Although he was unfortunate enough to become a (half) demon, deep down Rob still refused to believe that there was such a thing as a demon.
The boss saw that Rob's little face was pink, his eyes were black and white, and he looked like he had cried, and he was really pretending to be crying just now, and he suddenly became angry and said angrily: "Hurry up, go quickly!" I'm unlucky, I won't take any of your money! β
"Let's go!" Mingyue also got angry, stood up and was about to lift the table, Rob hurriedly held down Mingyue, added some loose money and pushed it to the boss together, and said with a smile: "Why bother with money, let's go." β
"That's right." The owner of the wonton stall put away the money on the table and began to clean up the stall bed, the speed comparable to the hawker encountering the random inspection of the chengguan, and muttering, "It's bad luck today, and the goblin has something to do, so I have to hurry home and take a shower with grapefruit water." β
Robla stood aside with Mingyue, watching the wonton stall owner put away the stall bed and carry the burden like a tornado.
Luo Bu is full of bitterness, just talking about the demon to take a bath in grapefruit water, if you know that a demon has used his dishes and chopsticks, do you want to throw away all the dishes and chopsticks, and never sell wontons again?
"Kill it." Mingyue picked up a talisman in her hand, looked at the back of the burden-carrying man in the distance, and wondered whether she would suddenly blow up a pit in front of him and pit him, or if a gust of wind would fall tiles from the sky and kill him.
"Forget it, he didn't do anything wrong, so he killed someone if he didn't agree with him?"
Mingyue was silent for a moment, then frowned and said, "No, he made you angry, I feel bad if I don't kill him." β
As he spoke, he chased after the wonton stall owner.
"Eh, don't mess around." Rob hurriedly followed behind Mingyue and grabbed her, and while he was talking, the owner of the wonton stall who was walking in front suddenly went limp, fell on the body of a person next to him, and was dragged into the roadside shop by that person.
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