"Sir, do you want to rent a house?"

"Looking for an inn?"

"Where is the gentleman? Visiting friends or looking for someone? Can you find your way? Can someone lead the way? The streets and alleys in the villain's cloud capital city are clear! Show you the way, and tell you how to remember, the nearest five cents, the farthest and farthest will never exceed ten cents, the far is far, the nearest is near, never talk nonsense! ”

"I'm the same!!"

Like Yidu City, there are many people waiting for a living at the gate of Yundu City, all kinds of people have them, and when they see the Taoists, although they are not all around, they also come five or six.

It can be seen that business is difficult to do, and even Taoists do not let go.

Poor Taoists, how many people are willing to spend this money?

Song You smiled at them, his attitude was polite, and he didn't speak, which made several people retreat consciously.

Only a short, thin young man, with a bruised face, followed him closely and refused to give up.

"Mr. is not a local at first glance, he must not be familiar with the city, no matter where he goes, as long as he has five cents, not only take Mr. over, but also tell Mr. how to go next time, keep it once and remember!"

“……”

Song You was really helpless, looked back at the white and pure face of his own boy behind him, turned his head to this person and said: "I am just a poor Taoist in the next place, and I don't have a few dollars in my pocket, and I have to rely on this money to go to Nu County and then go to the south of Yunzhou. And we don't know where we should go now. Please go back now, don't miss another opportunity that you could have kept because of following us. ”

"Sir, do you have the ability to do the Dao?"

The short and thin young man looked at Song You, Sanhua Niangniang, and Zao Hongma, with a look of "my opportunity is here", and still refused to leave.

"Know some spells."

"Can you slay demons and eliminate demons?"

"The best at it."

"Even so, it's not easy for Mr. to ask for room and board?"

"Oh?"

Song You stopped, turned his head and looked at him with a smile.

The young man amused him.

"The villain can also support two tricks for Mr. without saying anything." The short, thin young man said to him, very confident, confident as if he were a liar.

"How so?"

"This ......"

"Those who are cultivators below, as long as the methods under their feet are practical and useful, they will not be cheated."

Only then did Song You continue to take steps.

"The villain believes sir!"

The young man didn't twist when he heard this, and followed him: "One trick is to stay in the Taoist temple in the city, there is a Taoist temple in the city, called the Golden Horse Temple, although the Taoist people in the temple are quite snobbish and don't like people to spend the night, but if Mr. is really capable, he will slap you, and it will be a good meal and drink at that time." From here to the Golden Horse Temple, two miles, twists and turns, Mr. is not easy to find. ”

"Understood."

Song You nodded and smiled: "What about the second move?" ”

"In the past few years, there have been demons and monsters in and outside the city, if Mr. is good at eliminating demons, the villain just knows that there is a place in the city, in recent days there have been monsters, quite scary, living in the vicinity of the big family offered a reward of ten taels of silver, to ask someone to get rid of it, but has not been able to get rid of it. This monster has only recently emerged, and not many people know about it. ”

"Understood."

Song You still nodded, but he was puzzled: "Since there are demons and monsters in the city, why did we go to the city gate and didn't see a relevant reward notice posted at the city gate?" ”

"Heh......"

The young man shook his head, shut up, and waited for a few passers-by in front of him to walk by, and there were a little fewer people, and then he spoke: "Originally, there was a reward, but it was also less, the officials in our city, one is more lazy and pedantic than the other, where are they willing to spend money for the people, even if they are demons and monsters, many of them only dare to attack the ordinary people, and dare not provoke the big families of the Zhu Sect." Even originally, it was necessary to wait until the demons and monsters frightened those officials and masters before there would be a notice. Now that there is a City God Temple in the city, the City God Lord is still effective, where are those officials willing to spend this money. ”

"I see."

It seems that the governor of Yundu is far more corrupt than Yidu.

"Since there is a city god, and the city god master is also considered a miracle, why are there still demons to do it?"

"Sir, take it for granted. The City God Temple was just repaired last year, and it was said that the City God Lord had just taken office at the end of last year, anyway, the government called us all to worship at that time, and there were many demons inside and outside the city. The young man said, "But with the city god, there is indeed a lot of peace in the city, and it is this monster, although it scares many people, but it does not easily hurt people's lives." ”

"That makes sense."

Song You also knows about this-

At the beginning of the construction of the city god system, at the beginning of the shortage of manpower, it should be the city god who first sealed the state city, Yunzhou is not as good as Yizhou, the city god of Yundu should be equipped with two military attachés, and the road is slightly inferior, plus it has not been full of incense just after taking office, and it is normal for the efficiency to be low.

"How? Has the sir thought it through? The young man's voice sounded again, "Do you want the villain to lead the way?" ”

"Pick the second one below."

"Second ......"

The young man instantly reacted to what he had chosen, opened his eyes slightly, and then said, "The little man will take the gentleman there." It's just that the villain can only guarantee that the news is true, and whether Mr. will meet that monster when he goes there today depends on Mr. Luck. ”

"If you can get rid of the monsters, please take us to the big house to receive the reward, and the money for the road is still five Wen."

When the young man heard this, he was overjoyed, and he did not feel angry that the Taoist had taken ten taels of silver but only gave him five wen, but was happy that he had only walked a small distance and received five more wen.

"Thank you, sir!"

"Tell me about the youkai."

"No problem!"

The young man followed the Taoist and spoke, and the first thing he said was: "That monster is said to be an old rat!" ”

The words landed, and the girl behind the Taoist looked frozen.

The young man didn't notice it and continued to talk as he walked.

"It is said that the old mouse was as big as a cat, and sometimes stood up and walked like a man, and wandered in the alleys of the Chicken and Duck Fang every dusk and morning, and if anyone passed by, he would stand up and ask passers-by if he was like a mouse or a human, or like a fairy...... Sir is a capable cultivator, so he must know what is going on, right? ”

"I'm begging for a seal."

"The villain also heard about it, and then I heard that after a monster attains the Tao, if he wants to turn into a human form, he will come to ask for a seal from someone, and if people say that it looks like a fairy, he can become a fairy." The young man looked at the Taoist as he spoke, as if he wanted to confirm the truth from the Taoist's mouth, "But he doesn't know the truth or the fake." ”

"Please continue."

The old mouse was also quite eccentric, at first some people were frightened, hurriedly answered, all said that it was like a fairy, the old mouse went away satisfied, but often after two days these people would have nightmares, dreaming that the old mouse reprimanded himself for lying and deceiving him, and then fell seriously ill. Later, some people said that it looked like a human, and the old mouse would sometimes get angry, argue with people, and sometimes snort away. The young man said, "If a person panics and says that it is like a mouse, he will be furious and will rush up and bite someone, but if he is bitten, he will inevitably have sores and pus, and medicine will not work." ”

"Interesting ......"

Song You thought about it for a while after listening, and then made a preliminary evaluation: "I think very high of myself, my Taoism is quite low, and I am stingy. ”

"Sir, he is really a master!"

"And now......

"Now no one in the vicinity dares to pass over there, lest they encounter it, and if they do, they have to pretend not to see it and keep their mouths shut." The young man's expression was also quite strange when he said, "It is said that if a person pretends to be a little more like, it will let people walk by, and if a person pretends not to be like it, or inadvertently glances at it, it will follow it reluctantly, and even get angry, and tear people's clothes." ”

"And that kind of thing?"

"The villain also heard about it."

"Sounds interesting, too."

"People who are far away will sound funny, but people who live nearby can be scared half to death. There is also a rich family living in the local area, quite a family property, and he is not lightly scared, the rich family paid for it himself, and invited the officials to come over, but the officials are lazier than the other, and they are useless at all, and they invited the Taoist priests of the Golden Horse Temple, but those Taoist priests are also incapable, but they can't help the monster, and the monster is not afraid of them. I invited several groups of people from the nearby rivers and lakes, but you haven't said it yet, the most useful ones are still these people from the rivers and lakes. At the beginning, the Jianghu people were not the opponents of the old mouse, they did not kill it, but they were bitten a few, and now they are still recuperating in the rich man's house to heal the sores, and then a powerful Jianghu man came, and the old mouse was afraid, and it turned into a burst of smoke and disappeared, and he came out again after two days, and took the local passers-by to vent his anger. ”

The young man spoke attentively, spitting all over the place, and at the same time constantly looking at the expression of the Taoist and the little girl behind the Taoist.

But seeing that the Taoist man's expression was still the same, not the same at all, and his tone was also very calm, and he talked to him, as if he was just talking about trivial matters of ordinary people.

And the girl had a serious face, following behind the Taoist, and every time he looked back, the girl was staring at herself with her head up, her face was white, and she seemed to be very interested in these things, and she couldn't find the slightest fear.

At the same time, the Taoist also looked at him.

This young man seemed to be in his early twenties, and he had been begging for a living outside all the year round, he had been tanned and red by the sun of Yundu, he was a head shorter than the Taoist, lean, his face was a little bruised, and he was wearing a white and yellowish gown, like the most primitive and rough linen cloth and like straw, and he felt quite cool, but it might not be soft enough.

Most of the people on the street next to them were like this, their skin was very dark, and some of them were wearing similar gowns, and they were also sweating in the heat in this early autumn season.

The roadside accent is complex, but fortunately, most of them are somewhat similar to the Yizhou accent.

"Why are you sure you'll be able to get this job from us?" Song You asked him.

"Sir, at first glance, is a foreigner." The short and thin young man said, "Mr. showed the degree at the door to enter the city, the villain saw it, it was an excerpt, there was an official who told the villain before, that kind of excerpt-like degree is specially for the true master of the Tao, the villain has always remembered." ”

"It's so exquisite."

"Mr. has won the prize."

"But what about the wound on the face?"

"Alas......"

The young man sighed, opened his mouth several times, and stopped talking, and finally said: "Nowadays, it is not easy to make a living at the city gate, everyone is competing with each other, the villain can speak, and many officials have chosen the villain to lead the way, which has aroused the jealousy of others and beaten the villain." ”

"But you still beg for a living at the city gate, so won't you be beaten again?"

"So what?" The young man shook his head, "They are also begging for food, let them beat up and get angry, and the villain also pretends not to know who beat it." ”

"That's ......"

The Taoist nodded, his expression calm.

The gate of the city is also a small river and lake.

In such a mixed place, perhaps the situation of forming gangs and factions is even more serious.

"There's a chicken and duck shop in front of you......"

The young man's expression visibly became apprehensive.

"Generally speaking, that old mouse is wandering around the alleys around here, and it's almost dusk now, and it's probably going to come out."

"If you're scared, just outside."

"This, this, no need, there are also pedestrians walking in it, if they meet, the villain will pretend not to see it, and pretend not to know Mr."

"Whatever you want."

The Taoist walked forward naturally.

The sound of horse bells echoed through the alley.

The alley is long and narrow, with only a slight curve, just enough to see the end. The inside is very clean, except for the Taoist line, only two pedestrians can be seen, both with their heads bowed and their steps in a hurry.

The walls of the courtyard on both sides are very high, and the sun is setting, and the oblique sunlight can only shine on the upper half of one wall at most, glowing golden red, and it can't enter the alley, but it seems that the alley is quite dim.

didn't go far, and the pedestrians around him left the Taoist and his party far away.

"Next to this is the mansion of the big family I said, and they are the ones who are offering the reward." The short and thin young man lowered his voice and said, "It's good to teach Mr. to know that the villain is not a liar. ”

"Hmmm......"

"If you can't find it, you can turn around a few more times, if you can't find it, you have to wait for tomorrow."

“……”

This time, the Taoist did not respond.

Almost as soon as the young man's muffled voice landed, there was a dark shadow on the wall in front of him, almost the size of a cat, standing next to a bush of grass, facing the crack in the wall, with his back to the pedestrian, and all he could see was a fluffy gray fluttering back and a tail clinging to the crack in the wall.

As soon as the group approached, it immediately turned its head, revealing the face of a mouse.

The young man was suddenly shocked, and sure enough, as he said before, he hurriedly did not squint, pretending not to see and did not know the Taoist.

I saw the big gray mouse leave from the wall, stood up like a person, looked at the young man in the fire grass robe, looked at the Taoist, and then looked at the girl next to the Taoist, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, but he still took two steps to the middle of the road with two feet, blocking the group.

Maybe it's because in the past few days, most passers-by have turned a blind eye to it, and after a few considerations, it chose the girl behind the Taoist and stared at it.

The Taoist stopped.

The horses and girls stopped.

Only the young man did not squint, pretending not to see the mouse, nervous in his heart, but his face was relaxed, and even scratched his head and walked straight past the alley.

At this time, I was terrified.

Sweat had soaked the fire weed coat.

I only heard a slightly shrill and penetrating voice behind me: "Little doll, do you look like a mouse or a human, or like a fairy?" ”

"Hiss......"

It's exactly the same as it was rumored.

The young man's scalp tingled.

Then came a soft girl's voice:

"I can't see clearly, you get closer."

(End of chapter)