Chapter 20: A beggar meets a beggar in front of the sugar man's stall

Lin'an City in the evening is lazy.

The burning clouds in the sky, the pedestrians coming and going, the creaking carts, the aroma of food when occasionally passing through a certain alley, mixed with the voices of adults scolding naughty children, make it difficult for you not to pay attention to the happiness of those mortals, not to embark on the path of immortals, not to seek immortality, but to have a stable life.

Su Qi looked at everything around him with a little envy.

After more than ten years of travel, he has almost forgotten the life of his previous life.

At that time, he was still a bitter dog learning mathematics, reading books and studying for a doctorate, along the way, to now, the deepest memory is those boring mathematical theorems and formulas, relatives in the previous life, friends, and girls who have been secretly in love for many years, but they are becoming more and more blurred, like the mirror on the Sansheng Stone, which is broken at the touch of a button.

"Why are you cultivating?"

Su Qi looked at Zhao Riyue.

She was staring at a small shop selling candy people on the side of the road, with more than a dozen freshly made sugar figures inserted on it, including dragons and phoenixes, fairy swords and pagodas.

"Huh?"

Hearing Su Qi's question, she reluctantly turned her head, "Because Master taught me to cultivate." ”

After thinking for a while, he said, "Senior sister also taught." ”

Su Qi rolled his eyes and threw over a piece of silver, "If you want to eat, you can buy it." ”

"I'm afraid I won't be able to eat dinner because of the sugar. ”

"Then I'll only eat half of it. ”

"That's right. Zhao Riyue ran over.

The stall owner is an old man, skilled, kneading, pinching and blowing, a sugar man gradually formed, seeing Zhao Riyue coming, he motioned to her to wait with his eyes, and after the long air was blown, the sugar man was shaped and inserted between the bamboo boards on the side, and then asked, "Which one do you want?"

"The sword!"

Zhao Riyue has long been optimistic.

"Okay. The old man was about to reach out and take it off, when a group of children, dressed in tatters, rushed to the stall around the corner.

"Wait, I didn't see any guests here!"

The old man scolded, handed the candy man to Zhao Riyue, and took out two not very formed ones from the bamboo tower on the side, handed them to the two eldest of the group of children, glanced at them, and asked, "What about the one who loves sugar the most?"

"He's sick. A leader-like boy broke the candy man into several pieces and handed it to his companion.

The old man asked again, "Is it serious?"

"I don't know. ”

"Then remember to give him a share. The old man admonished.

"It's a bit of a crowd today...... the boy looked back at his companion, "Forget it, I'll give him half of my own." ”

As he spoke, the boy stuffed a small piece of sugar into the small baggage behind his back, waved his hand, and ran away with the other half-grown children in a rage.

"What is this?" asked Su Qi curiously.

The old man watched them run across the street corner, then turned around and sighed and said: "A group of little beggars, it's not easy, I give them those blown candy people every day, the world is not easy, I can't do it, old man, I can only do this." ”

"Little beggar......

Su Qi was stunned for a moment, the expression on his face was extremely exciting, and he asked, "Where do these little beggars live?"

"There are all this, doorways, broken temples, and the bottom of bridges, where can you live, but ah, this Xicheng is the most, and those nobles and rich people don't live in Xicheng, so it's safe. ”

Su Qi nodded, and discharged nine ingots of silver on the stall, "Sugar money." ”

"How can this be done!" The old man was shocked, he had never seen so much silver.

"Tomorrow, you can give them more. ”

"This ...... This guest officer, you ......" The old man was a little at a loss.

"Money is useless to us, so it can be regarded as accumulating yin virtue. ”

"Thank you so much, good people will have good rewards, good people will have good rewards...... the old man said again and again.

Farewell to the old man, Su Qi and Zhao Riyue left the stall, Zhao Riyue licked the candy man for a while, turned the corner, she glanced at the back, and asked, "Uncle Xiao, what did you just find?"

Su Qi also looked back, the two people who followed them were still there, but the distance was a little far, Su Qi leaned closer and whispered, "I just discovered a misunderstanding of the Qi family." ”

"What?"

"They searched the city for twelve-year-olds, but they always went to the homes of the rich or the common people, and they forgot about another group!"

"Those little beggars?" Zhao Riyue suddenly realized.

"Yes, it is not easy for them to survive, and they also know that those soldiers and rich people are not easy to deal with, so they will naturally avoid them, and the people of the Qi family probably never remembered that there was such a group of children in the city. ”

"So what, there are so many children under the age of twelve in this Lin'an City, and how many beggars are there? Zhao Riyue broke off a small piece of candy and handed it to Su Qi.

Su Qi put it in his mouth, it was very sweet, he rattled a few bites, and said, "But after all, it is a possibility." ”

"The formation on that rune paper really can't be arranged?"

"No, it's too big to be able to do it in a month or two. Su Qi shook his head, "That Elder Zhu won't give us that much time. ”

Zhao Riyue had worry in his eyes, "All of them are the only ones who repair that ancient formation, and then say to the Qi family that this is the method of the formation on the rune paper, and they really won't see it?"

"The Qi family doesn't have a formation master, how can they understand the formation pattern? Besides, I divided the formation pattern of that ancient formation into dozens of parts, and they can see that there are ghosts. Su Qi pursed his lips.

"Alas...... Let's hope everything goes well. Zhao Riyue's face was full of sorrow.

"Before the formation is repaired, we have to try first, if we can find a big day golden pupil. ”

"It's strange to say, the Qi family got the news that there is a water system in the city. Zhao Riyue kicked the stones on the road, and half of the candy man in his hand was gone.

"I heard that the news came from Tianji Pavilion, and most of them can't be wrong. ”

Zhao Riyue raised her head, "That...... Can you replace that method with a water-based heteropupil? After all, I don't know if this big day golden pupil exists......

"It can't be replaced, that method is only useful when the yin and yang pupils exist at the same time, and there are too many people staring at the different pupils of the water system, let's look for the golden pupils of the big day first, and if you can't find it, just start the ancient formation and leave here." ”

"Hmm. ”

In the Changning Inn in the south of the city, the hall on the first floor was already full of people.

The boss ran around sweating, directing his men to serve tea and wine, for fear of making the monks unhappy if he was a little slower.

"Why haven't these two boys come back?"

"You won't hear the wind and run away, will you?"

"This ...... Wouldn't it?Qi Daoyou, did Elder Zhu use some means to prevent them from escaping?"

"Self-contained," Qi Rujun nodded, "Heavenly Demon Seed." ”

"Heavenly Demon Seed, that evil art, how could Elder Zhu of the Shanshui Sect use ......" The man opened his mouth in surprise, and suddenly stopped his mouth in the middle of speaking.

"What about evil arts, dealing with those two shameless people, and paying attention to these things!" Zhao Sheng said loudly on the side.

"That is, the magic is good or evil, it depends on the user! Any means to deal with those two scum are naturally just!" someone chimed in.

"That's right. ”

"Makes sense. ”

The people present nodded their heads and were talking, when they suddenly heard footsteps and voices outside.

"Fish at night?" said a teenager's voice.

"Well, eat fish!" a girl's voice said.

The monks present instantly became excited.