Chapter 780: Yin City
The Yin City does not accept female customers, this is a rule that has existed since the Sui Dynasty, the reason is that there are too many dirty things in the Yin Market, and the yang energy on the woman's body is weak, and it is easy to bring out things that should not be brought.
Zhang Donghai asked me to wait where I was, and he got into a corner where no one was, and when he came out, he changed to the same way again.
I also took off my wig and put on foundation, and it was weird to wear these things all the time.
When I was turning around the new sixth street just now, I looked at the feng shui layout of each street, and the six streets seemed to have no problem with each of them, but I found that almost in the middle of each road, there was a very wide overpass, and if you looked down from the sky, you should have the illusion that each road was truncated from it.
Such six broken circuits just constitute a six-line kun hexagram, each of which is a yin line.
The trend of the Qi field in the south of the city is to go south to the north, from the south to the north is getting stronger and stronger, showing a very stable upward trend, the Kun hexagram here changes along the Qi field into a hexagram, it must be the sixth day of the first month in the south, and the sixth in the north.
Among them, counting from south to north, the second street corresponds to the positive yin in the sixty-two position, which is the essence of the kun hexagram.
"The Legend of the Elephant" said, "The movement of 62 is straight to the square." There is no disadvantage if you don't get used to it, and the authentic light is also. That road occupies the momentum of the Great Kun in this area, and the Yin City must be hidden there!
I took the road to the East Sea, and began to go around the road, carefully watching the Qi field on the road.
The Yin Market was very cleverly hidden, and there was almost no demonic energy and yin energy emanating from it, and I couldn't find a clue after wandering around for a long time, so I could only change my strategy and conduct a carpet search of all the shops on this road.
When passing by a backpack wholesale store, Zhang Donghai pointed to a manhole cover on the side of the road: "Hey, shopkeeper, you said, the yin market won't be underground, right?" β
"No," I shook my head, "If the Yin City was really underground, New Sixth Street wouldn't be laid out like this." β
Later, we went around for a long time and finally got on the flyover.
Across the street is a large furniture market, which doesn't sell any good furniture, and most of the shops wholesale workbenches and simple sofas.
Since just now, I have always felt that this furniture city is a little awkward, but I can't say what is awkward, and there is no way to do it at this time, so I made a special trip to take a look.
I even took out a palladium compass to turn it sideways.
Not to mention, after two or three laps around the furniture city, I really noticed some problems.
The two largest stores in the furniture city, one is a wholesale sofa bed, and the other sells hardware, the two stores are adjacent, and there is only a wall in between, and the hardware store has installed a very large shelf on this wall, and the sofa store has piled up the goods that are not sold for the time being near this wall.
It's just such a shelf and a bunch of sofas, which make the walls so solid that you can't even see the wall skin.
I didn't think something was right, so I asked Zhang Donghai to draw the attention of the shopkeeper, and I took the palladium compass and went to the corner of the wall to take a closer look.
This seemingly straight wall is actually sloping, and the narrowest part of the wall is more than five meters thick, and the wide part of the wall can reach 12 meters thick.
With such a thick wall, I can't see the problem at all when I am far away, which means that in addition to the shelves and stacked sofas, the two stores have tried other tricks, but I can't see through the doorway.
I had just put the palladium compass away when I felt someone tap me on the shoulder. When I looked back, I realized that it was the owner of the sofa shop, and Zhang Donghai was standing behind him and spread his hands at me.
It seems that Zhang Donghai failed to completely divert his attention, and a series of actions I probed in the corner were still noticed by him.
I looked closely at the shopkeeper, who was tall and thin, with two thin beards on his lips, eyes as large as oxen, and a narrow nose and cheeks, and although he was leaning against a trench coat to cover his thighs, I could tell that the waistline was low, the torso was long, and the legs were short.
This is not the body shape that a normal person should have.
He yelled at me angrily, "What are you doing? β
Ming people don't say dark words, and I don't plan to waste time, so I asked him directly: "Behind this wall is the Yin Market, right?" β
Hearing me say this, a suspicion flashed on his face, and then he became vigilant: "Who introduced you here?" β
Because the Yin Market is originally a place that cannot see the light, the shops inside are afraid of accidents, and generally do not do business with people they don't know, but most of the people who enter the Yin Market to do business are some old customers who have a deep relationship with the people in the city, and occasionally new customers come, and there must be acquaintances to guide the way.
The shopkeeper looked at me, and there were no people around me who knew him, so he was naturally wary.
The owner of the hardware store may have heard the movement and came over to check on the situation.
The owners of the two stores may be brothers, and their faces are the same, but the hardware store owner is better, at least the proportion is no different from ordinary people.
I estimate that these two people are not brothers, but fathers and sons or grandchildren, although their ages seem to be about the same, but this transformation of kung fu is not a little bit worse, and there is no other way to practice this kung fu, you can only rely on time to accumulate slowly, so in terms of age, the owner of the hardware store is much older.
As soon as the boss came over, he hugged his fist at me: "Dare to ask your Excellency which sect of master disciple you are?" β
It's still an elderly person who works reliably, come up and inquire about the name of your sect first, see if the sect behind you can be provoked, I haven't heard of you personally, and then think about how to deal with you when I find out your details.
It's a regular process when I'm out of the field, and I usually do it.
People took the initiative to say hello, but I couldn't hold it, so I hugged my hand and returned the salute: "My name is δ»θ₯fei, it is the ...... of the winter character of the family."
Before I could finish speaking, the other party suddenly made a gesture at me: "It turns out that it was Mr. in person." β
I'm stunned, and Zhang Donghai is also confused, what's the situation?
What's even more strange is that the other party not only saluted Zuo, but also opened the secret door on the wall, took the initiative to lead the way, and led us into the Yin City.
The yin market here is actually a dark street sandwiched between two buildings, the width of the street is less than 20 meters, and the sides are full of narrow shops, the top of the street is covered with cement strips, and the sunlight does not let in, and a red lantern is hung in front of each shop, reflecting patches of blood on the road.
On the way, I kept thinking that the owner of the hardware store must have recognized the wrong person, so I didn't ask more, for fear that if I asked too much, he would find out that the person was the wrong person, and then drive us out.
He led us to a small room at the end of the city, and told us to go in first and rest for a while, and then the "master" would personally entertain us.
This is a tea room for guests, and the screens and coffee tables in the room are hundreds of years old, and it cannot be said that the value is about the same.
After the hardware store owner left, there were only two people left in the house, Zhang Donghai and me.
Zhang Donghai turned sideways, leaned over and asked me in a low voice: "Is the 'master' he mentioned just now your acquaintance?" β
I shook my head and whispered, "I've never been to this place, so I guess that guy recognized the wrong person." β
Zhang Donghai nodded: "Also, if you have been here, you don't have to spend so much effort to find it." Hey, you say, what if our identities are found out after a while? β
"Let's act when we see the opportunity, even if we are found out, it doesn't matter, we are not here to cause trouble, and with the backing of the family, they don't dare to do anything to us."
I just chatted with Zhang Donghai for a while, and two large gray rats came over with tea trays to serve tea, and Zhang Donghai may have seen a shapeless monster for the first time in his life, and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
It's no wonder that he hasn't seen the world, after all, there are few monsters these days, and there are even fewer who go out without transformation.
I casually found an excuse and chatted with the rats who served the tea, and by the way, I got a clichΓ© from their mouths.
I also heard these two rat spirits say, now in charge of this Yin City, is a red-tailed fox demon from other places, this goblin has practiced for more than a thousand years, and his Taoism is profound, but fortunately, he is kind-hearted, and he has never found trouble with the shops since he was in charge of the Yin City for a while.
I asked one of the rats, "Do you call it 'master' on weekdays?" β
"Most people call him Mr. Chi," said the rat spirit, "but there is a group of old guys from Chiyun Peak around him, and those people call him Master." β
Chiyun Peak, Mr. Chi, and the Red-tailed Fox Demon, when these words were connected into a string, I finally understood what was going on.
To say that Mr. Chi, who is in charge of the Yin Market, is really my old acquaintance.
Remember, when I followed the practical learning in the old courtyard of the Food Bureau, there was a fox demon in the old courtyard who repaid the kindness, it was originally a red-tailed old fox pressed under the Chiyun Peak, honest and simple, illiterate, once he was in a daze at the recruitment notice of the roast duck restaurant was seen by me, I came forward to chat with him, and he told me that his surname was Chi.
When Burning Dust went to trouble him, I also helped him resist for a while.
In the past, I was often told by practical people to make more good connections and make more good connections, but I didn't pay much attention to it, but now that I think about it, it really makes sense to be practical.
But I remember that when the old fox went to the compound of the grain bureau to repay his kindness, Shouyuan was about to run out, at that time, because it had been pressed under Chiyun Peak for too long, there was not much left in cultivation, but I didn't expect it to live to the present, and it was also in charge of the yin market of New Sixth Street.
After the two rat essences who served the tea left, I said to Zhang Donghai: "Don't worry, the owner of this yin market is indeed my friend." β
Zhang Donghai was holding a silver needle to test the tea for poison, and then he looked up and asked me, "Your friend?" β
I smiled and nodded.
After waiting for about fifteen minutes, Mr. Chi finally appeared, he still looked the same as before, but when I first met him, he was a little silly because of the instability of his three souls, but now there is a faint majesty on his body, and his eyes are a little more shrewd and steady.
That's what an old demon should look like.
(End of chapter)