The windows on the second floor were wide open, and the night breeze filled the house.

There was no moon outside the window, but the sky was full of stars.

These small pieces of starlight converge on the ground, and once the eye adjusts to the light of the night, it can also see.

You can't see the slightest movement on the ground or in the distance, but you can see the outline of the city. The corners of the roof stretch into the distance until they are indistinguishable from the night, and there is a beauty of silence.

A soft voice came from behind him:

"What are you looking at?"

"I've heard that there are monsters in this city that harm people." Song You leaned on the window, and said without looking back, "Sanhua Niangniang went out for a walk last night, did you see the monster coming out at night?" ”

"I didn't see it."

A shadow sprung up beside him.

The three-flowered cat stood on the edge of the window, stretched out, and said, "But there are many people walking on the road, and they are snorting when they walk. ”

"It's on patrol."

"Patrol~"

"Praetorian Guard."

"Praetorian Guard~"

"It's the human army that guards the city."

"I haven't asked yet!"

"It doesn't matter."

"But Sanhua Niangniang walked on the roof last night, but I felt that there were monsters far away, but it was too far away, and Sanhua Niangniang didn't dare to run over to look."

"Stay away from them."

"Are you looking for a youkai?"

"Just take a look."

"See?"

"Of course not." Song You whispered, "Maybe it's too poor here, and the monsters don't want to come." ”

"It's too poor~"

"How about Sanhua Niangniang think I buy a long couch here, the couch is about this high. There's a coffee table in the middle, almost that high. Song You gestured twice by the window, and the tallest coffee table was probably only a little under the window, "This is convenient for us to watch the scenery by the window in the future, and Sanhua Niangniang doesn't have to jump to the window edge every time." ”

"Sanhua Niangniang won't fall."

"But the coffee table can lie down."

"Sanhua Niangniang saw someone sitting on that kind of rocking chair, it seemed to be fun."

"Sanhua Niangniang likes that......"

Song You turned his head and looked at the space upstairs in the dim light, feeling that he could put it down.

"Does that cost a lot of money?"

"You'll have to see it."

Sanhua Cat turned her head to look at him and got closer: "Are we out of money?" ”

"One more point."

"Is it only a little?"

"Pretty much."

"Isn't it okay if people don't have money?"

“……”

This question made Song You think about it.

It doesn't seem right to say that people can't do without money. In this year, there are indeed many people in remote places who do not need any money all year round, or even do not use money at all, and when they need salt, they carry things down the mountain to barter, and the rest of the time they are self-sufficient and live an extremely primitive life.

But if this is not true, it does not seem very appropriate.

The heroes in the book who are happy to enmity and revenge are sometimes stumped by a penny, and even most of the people in the rivers and lakes are running for money.

Except for a very small number of mountain hermits or orthodox ascetics, most of the others still need money, but there is only a difference in how much.

The reason why there is a Fulong Temple on Yin Yang Mountain, and later there are so many generations of people who are willful, and they have not demolished it, isn't it that the Taoist Temple can provide convenience for interacting with the world, and when you are lazy, you can also rely on it to collect some sesame oil money to live a life of eating and waiting for death?

Song You also needs money to walk in the world.

It's just that people in the rivers and lakes are often free and easy, and if they have money, they get drunk tonight, and they don't blame anyone for being hungry if they have no money. The Taoist is indifferent, if you have money, you will live a better life, and if you don't have money, you don't feel that it doesn't matter if you have a tight life.

After thinking for a while, he only said:

"Pretty much."

The kitten's brows suddenly wrinkled, obviously it was a cat face, but for a while he saw a little sadness:

"So what do we do?"

"Make money."

"How do you make money?"

"Find a way."

"When Sanhua Niangniang went out for a walk during the day today, she saw someone selling kittens on a road over there." Sanhua raised her chin and pointed in one direction.

"Huh?"

"You can sell the three flower girls."

“……”

Song You couldn't help but smile: "Sanhua Niangniang knows that this is impossible. ”

"Sell Sanhua Niangniang, when you get the money and go away, Sanhua Niangniang will sneak away and come to you."

"That's not right."

"Can you make money catching rats?"

"I don't know."

Song You stretched out his hand and touched her head: "We just have less money, it's not that we don't have money, not to mention that we won't starve to death without money, Sanhua Niangniang doesn't need to worry about this." ”

"Won't you starve?"

"No, it won't."

"Oh......"

"At no time can you make money by stealing and cheating. But Sanhua Niangniang is an upright cat, and I don't need to say such a simple truth. ”

"That's right."

"Sanhua Niangniang is really upright."

"The woman next door was tapping on the wall and eavesdropping on us."

"It doesn't matter."

She quietly went back again.

"It doesn't matter."

"She went to bed."

"Stop eavesdropping."

"The ...... it heard"

"Go to sleep."

Song You picked her up from the windowsill.

The room was quiet for a moment, and then the voice of the three-flowered cat sounded: "What are you doing?" Put me down......"

……

On the third day of coming to Changjing, Song You got up early.

This time, I met the woman and went out.

It was still a thick gray-black dress, which might be easy to carry a blade, and when she met Song You when she closed the door, she laughed dryly, as if she was a little embarrassed:

"Haha, did you sleep well last night?"

"Very good."

"I seem to have heard someone talking next door last night, I don't know if you were talking or the neighbor on the other side was talking, and both sides came close and listened, as if it was you talking on this side."

"It doesn't matter."

“……”

"Is the woman going out?"

"yes, yes, I'm out working."

"Walk slowly."

"Thank you."

The woman locked the door, turned around and left.

The morning was foggy, and the clothes on his body were gray and black, and he couldn't see clearly soon.

I didn't know what to do so early.

The words of this woman the day before yesterday were excellent, everyone has something to do, even if it is an old acquaintance, it should keep a certain distance, so Song You didn't want to know what she was going to do, so when she walked away, she withdrew her gaze, returned to the house, and cooked unhurriedly.

Boil a pot of gruel.

Go out to the butcher shop at the east end of the street to buy some meat dumplings, one or two, buy some vegetables, when chopped the porridge is just cooked to form, throw it in, it is a pot of minced meat and green vegetable porridge.

After eating, I asked my neighbors where they sold old wooden furniture, and the Taoist and the cat walked in that direction.

It seems to be on the wrong track......

But it's not a big problem, and it's not a detour to go anywhere if you have the leisure to go.

Suddenly, someone stopped him.

It was a middle-aged man with a long beard, dressed in a Taoist robe, holding a fortune-telling banner in his hand, which was both a flag and a crutch.

"Official, the poor road sees you looking left and right, your eyes are restless, you are full of bad luck, you may not be able to act well recently, if you come to Beijing to catch the exam, it is better to test your fate, and you are very good at pinching bones and measuring words! Knowing what the follow-up will be, you will have the bottom in your heart! ”

Song You turned his head to look at him.

The three-flowered cat also looked up at him.

The fortune-telling banner consists of a wooden staff and a flag, and there is only one word "solution" on the flag. This "solution" is similar to the word "wine" on the wine flag, which is the signboard of Dayan's fortune teller.

Song You looked at the clothes on his body again, and then he smiled and arched his hand: "Brother Dao is polite, in fact, he is also a cultivator, not a candidate who entered Beijing, but he didn't wear a Taoist robe when he came out today." ”

"Why did the official deceive the old man?"

"It's true in the next sentence, Brother Dao should look for business elsewhere."

"If you don't believe it......"

The fortune teller shook his head and left.

Along the way, I have met several fortune tellers like this.

Dayan is actually very popular now for fortune telling, interpreting dreams to doom, especially in the imperial court to believe in Taoism, when the court is famous for divination fortune telling, Changjing fortune tellers are countless.

In addition to this lowest-end "wandering hexagram", there are also "sitting hexagrams" that set up stalls and even sheds on the street, and also hang a banner to interpret the characters, so that everyone can see it from a distance and know what it does here. The best ones even have their own storefronts in the busy sections, and there are long queues at the door, and there are often scholars who come to ask for advice.

Yes, it's almost spring.

Before the exam, the people of Dayan like to find a fortune teller to tell a hexagram before the exam, travel far away or do something important, and now many candidates gather in Changjing, I am afraid that the fortune tellers of the surrounding counties and counties, and even the people who usually do other livelihoods will wear the clothes of the fortune teller at this time to earn this money from other candidates.

The government has the widest control over this kind of business, and if it can't distinguish the real from the fake, it won't dare to offend.

This gave Song You some inspiration.

Keep looking for places to sell old furniture.

I occasionally heard someone discussing on the side of the road.,It's the matter of the Japanese Ministry of Labor being eaten by a monster at home some time ago.,It can be said to shock the government and the opposition.。 Especially since the monster has not been caught for so long, the common people are panicked, and the vicious people and demons and monsters in the secret seem to be inspired and become more and more excited.

And it's almost spring.

The Taoist and the cat walked through the city and the alleys, walking slowly, as if they were particularly contemptuous of time compared to the hurried pedestrians around them.

Walking, watching, listening.

Listen to the story of this Changjing City and see what kind of life the people of this land live.

In the afternoon, I was able to buy a pleasant couch, a coffee table and cloth cushions, as well as a very old rocking chair, which cost a lot of money.

By the way, I also bought a few store flags.

When I returned home, I took out my pen and ink, wrote the word "Dao" on one sheet, stuck it diagonally on the door, and beckoned it out. The other two long flags, with specific items written on them, were hung on both sides of the gate.

exorcise evil spirits and subdue demons;

Get rid of rats.

Song You looked at it again and again, and was very satisfied.

So he bowed his head and said to Sanhua Niangniang: "If someone comes to the store to exorcise evil spirits and subdue demons, it is my job, if someone comes to ask for help to catch mice, it will have to trouble Sanhua Niangniang." ”

"Meow?"

"I don't know ......"

Song You smiled.

Whether it is to eliminate disasters and misfortunes with people, to exorcise evil spirits and demons, or to hunt rats and kill insects, they are all good deeds. As for how much money Sanhua Cat asked, he doesn't know now, he only looks at the customers. The rich and generous may give a little more, and the poor and the poor give less. If you earn more, you will eat better, and if you earn less, you will eat less.

But live in a different way, look at this world from a different perspective.

(End of chapter)