There is a small stall selling candy people at the end of the alley of the east market of Daye City.

This stall is famous in Daye City.

Because of the old man who painted the sugar man in the stall, a candy man was sold for ten taels of silver, which caused him to paint the sugar man for more than a year, but he never sold even one.

And the most puzzling thing is that the old man has obviously never earned a penny, but there is always an endless amount of syrup in the iron bucket.

When people passed by the old man's stall, he always drew the candy man in front of the stall with great concentration.

The old man seems to only do the one thing that paints candy people

…

On the streets of the East Bazaar.

The eunuch waiter also cautiously followed behind a purple-robed man.

When passing by the candy man stall where Chengsheng was located, the purple-robed man glanced at Chengsheng without a glance.

He turned to the eunuch and said, "Is that old man, in the city, a candy man will sell for ten taels of silver?" ”

"Hmm." Hou Shu also said in a respectful tone: "The slave maid heard that this old man has been selling sugar people in the city for more than a year, but because they are expensive, he has never sold even one. ”

Interesting.

The purple-robed man showed an interested expression when he heard this, and looked at Cheng Huo from a distance for a long time.

Maybe he felt the purple-robed man's gaze.

was concentrating on drawing the life of the sugar man, when he suddenly raised his head and glanced at the purple-robed man.

"This man."

The moment their eyes met, the purple-robed man only felt a wave of madness, chaos, and all kinds of indescribable complex emotions unconsciously surging in his heart.

The purple-robed man staggered back behind him uncontrollably.

At this moment, there were countless complex emotions intertwined in his mind, and these complex emotions completely overwhelmed his consciousness.

But fortunately, the purple-robed man only glanced at Chengsheng, so he was affected by Chengsheng's gaze, and it was only for a moment.

After a few seconds, the purple-robed man who had come back to his senses regained his composure on his face, and at the same time his heart was uncertain.

Could it be that the old man who painted the sugar man is an immortal?

He's a practitioner?

Thinking like this, the purple-robed man looked at Chengsheng again.

At this time, when he was concentrating on painting the life of the sugar man, he suddenly felt that the survival was simply an old man.

That's all.

Even if the purple-robed man deliberately looked at Chengsheng's eyes, all he could see was a death intent that was so thick that it was full of turbidity and twilight.

So this old man is not a cultivator, but just an ordinary person who is about to die?

With a hint of curiosity, the purple-robed man took the initiative to lean towards the living stall.

Sugar Man stall.

Hearing the footsteps of the purple-robed man, he was still concentrating on drawing the candy man.

He said in a lazy tone, without raising his head: "All sugar people are ten taels of silver, don't touch them casually if you don't buy them." ”

Seeing Chengsheng's attitude, "you" didn't wait for the purple-robed man to speak, and the eunuch waiting for the secretary standing next to him immediately became angry and wanted to open his mouth to hold him accountable.

But as soon as the eunuch waited for the book to say the word 'you', he was stopped by the purple-robed man reaching out his hand.

The purple-robed man also gave the book a look, and then shook his head slightly, signaling him not to act rashly.

The latter understood the meaning and silently retreated behind the purple-robed man.

But seeing the purple-robed man, he rushed to life with interest and said: "Old man, most of the other candy sellers in this city only sell for one dollar, even if they put a little more syrup, it will only rise to two dollars, so why is your sugar man worth ten taels of silver a piece, is there any difference between the sugar man and others?" ”

At this moment, Cheng Huo is painting sugar monkeys with syrup on the stall.

He loves to draw sugar monkeys.

At his stall, almost half of the sugar people are sugar monkeys.

Hearing the purple-robed man's inquiry, Cheng Sheng raised his head and smiled meaningfully: "These sugar people, except for the old decay, no one in the entire Great Cause City can draw them. ”

The purple-robed man was stunned when he heard this: "So your sugar man is unique?" ”

"That's nature!" Survive the way.

The purple-robed man said, "What is unique?" I don't think you're a sugar man. ”

The stall of the candy man, which is worth ten taels of silver, can be said to be known to everyone in the entire Daye City.

In addition, the purple-robed man standing in front of the stall was dressed luxuriously, and he was always followed by an attendant.

So after a while, around the stall, countless passers-by were attracted to watch the excitement, and the place was surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside.

Seeing that the purple-robed man questioned Chengsheng, all passers-by also showed interested expressions, waiting for Chengsheng to follow.

For a while, nearly 100 people gathered in front of the survival booth, and they were surprisingly quiet.

"Huh,"

was watched by everyone, and he still concentrated on painting the sugar monkey in his hand.

The syrup that people use for painting is actually very easy to dry.

As a result, those who paint sugar paintings must use iron buckets to fill the syrup, and put it on the stall and heat it from time to time with a warm fire to ensure that the syrup does not solidify.

After the syrup is served, the candy blower must also make a quick effort to finish the sugar painting while it is hot.

Otherwise, the syrup that comes out of it solidifies, and the sugar painting is not finished, then the sugar painting is considered ruined

Therefore, the painting of the candy blower pays attention to the word 'fast'.

Let's look back on it.

After he scooped the syrup out of the iron bucket, he didn't panic at all.

When the syrup fell on the bamboo, he would carefully carve every stroke and meditate. It's like completing a masterpiece rather than a sugar painting to eat.

Call other candy blowers, and the time for painting will definitely not be enough.

Because the syrup will solidify.

What puzzled the onlookers was that he had been inked like this for his life, but the syrup in his hand would not solidify.

Seeing this scene, the purple-robed man knew in his heart:

I won't talk about whether this old man of sugar painting is an immortal cultivator or not, but at least, the syrup he used when painting sugar painting is definitely not ordinary!

After realizing that it was not easy to survive, the purple-robed man glanced at the eunuch waiting for the book who was following him.

The latter understood the meaning, and hurriedly took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve and placed them on the living stall.

This scene attracted the onlookers to marvel on the spot: "It's amazing! There are really people who are willing to spend ten taels of silver to buy candy people! ”

Some people also said with a hint of sourness: "This old man sells a candy man, and it is almost enough to cover my income in the past two or three years." ”

In the midst of the crowd.

The purple-robed man ignored the exclamations of the passers-by, and picked up a sugar monkey from the survival stall and held it in his hand.

He looked at the sugar monkey with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

I have to say that the workmanship of this sugar monkey is indeed exquisite, even to the point that the purple-robed man is reluctant to eat it.

Even the various masterpieces collected by the purple-robed man will be overshadowed in front of this sugar monkey.

Every stroke of this sugar monkey contains a trace of indescribable charm

Beside the purple-robed man.

The eunuch Hou Shu also saw that the master was staring at the sugar man and did not speak, as if he was enchanted, so he hurriedly asked, "Lord Guan, are you okay?" ”

"I'm fine." The purple-robed man looked back at the other party and said, "Shuyi, don't you think that the sugar man in my hand has an indescribable artistic conception?" ”

The eunuch Hou Shu also stared at the sugar man carefully for a long time, and then said: "My lord, please forgive me for my clumsiness, I really can't see a name." ”

"Looking at this sugar man, except that the workmanship is relatively more exquisite, it doesn't seem to be much different from the sugar man made by other people in the city."

Can't even see the fame?

Hou Shuyi's words made the purple-robed man stunned. At this moment, as if he had thought of something, he suddenly subconsciously looked at the other sugar people in the living stall.

At this glance, the purple-robed man saw some doorways:

Except for the sugar monkey in his hand with a hint of charm, the other sugar people in the living stall seem to be very 'ordinary'.

It's hard to do it.

The purple-robed man was thinking about it, and suddenly heard Chengsheng reminding with a smile from the side: "The sugar man I painted is only sold to people who are destined, and only those who are destined can see the difference between the sugar figures I painted." ”

"The adult has a relationship with the sugar monkey in his hand, so naturally he can see the difference of the sugar monkey at a glance, but the other sugar people in my stall do not belong to the adult, so the adult can't see any way."

It's amazing, it's amazing!

The purple-robed man glanced at the sugar monkey in his hand, and then looked at the life of the sugar monkey who was still concentrating on drawing.

At this moment, the purple-robed man, the more he looks at it, the more he feels that the life of the candy man is not simple. This kind of not simple, not only reflected in the candy man painted by Chengsheng.

Every move of Chengsheng, every action and every detail when he painted the candy man, seems to contain the avenue.

Thinking of this, the purple-robed man already had a plan in his heart: this sugar man must contain a big secret, and he can't eat it if he wants to eat it, and if he wants to figure out the mystery, he still has to bring it back to the palace to ponder it carefully.

Sugar painting stalls.

I don't see anyone alive and raise their heads.

He just lowered his head like that, concentrating on drawing the sugar man, and easily saw through what the purple-robed man was thinking.

Chenghuo's hands kept moving, and his mouth said meaningfully: "The sugar man painted by the old decay is for people to eat, if the guests buy the candy man and don't eat it, then it will lose its due value." ”

As he spoke, Cheng Huo suddenly raised his head and looked at the purple-robed man: "My lord, do you say that's the truth?" ”

"Indeed!" Hearing what Cheng Huo said, the purple-robed man put the sugar monkey in his hand into his mouth to taste, intending to find out.

Seeing the purple-robed man's move, the eunuch on the side also hurriedly said, "My lord, be careful of that sugar monkey."

Hou Shu is also worried that the sugar monkey has been poisoned.

But he was only halfway through his words when he saw the purple-robed man wave his hand to signal that he didn't need to say more.

In desperation, Hou Shu had no choice but to shut up, and witnessed the purple-robed man sending the sugar monkey into his mouth

"This sugar monkey."

The moment the sugar monkey entered, at first a sweetness surged into the purple-robed man's heart.

When the sweetness melts in the mouth, it is accompanied by various complex emotions such as madness, confusion, fear, pain, piety, and desire.

Each of these emotions seems to contain a kind of avenue.

The purple-robed man who ate the sugar monkey was as if he had experienced thousands of lives of others from a third perspective.

The subtleties made the purple-robed man unconsciously immersed in it.

He ate the sugar monkey with a look of enjoyment, as if he was tasting a delicacy that did not belong to the world, and the expression on his face was exaggerated to the extreme.

When the passers-by on the sidelines saw it, they couldn't help but have a doubt in their hearts: Is the sugar monkey in the hands of the purple-robed man really as delicious as he behaved?

If it weren't for the price of ten taels of silver, I would really want to try it

Of course, there were also passers-by who were skeptical - they felt that the purple-robed man with an extremely exaggerated expression was specially invited by Chengsheng.

However, those who doubted it were quickly dispelled by the next scene.

Under the watchful eyes of a group of passers-by, the purple-robed man who had eaten the sugar monkey inexplicably rose from the spot.

After floating to a height of one meter above the ground, the purple-robed man spread his hands and said as if muttering, "I realized!" ”

Seeing his master suspended in the air, the eunuch Hou Shu also panicked: "My lord, are you okay?" What did you realize? ”

The purple-robed man had a confused expression: "I don't know. I just feel that after I ate Candy Man, my body became lighter and my whole body was full of energy. ”

"I feel like I can do anything."

The moment the purple-robed man said this, the momentum of his whole person began to climb at a speed visible to the naked eye.

From mortal to the early stage of Qi training.

and then to the middle stage of Qi training

It was not until the final climb to the Great Perfection of the Qi Cultivation Period that it stopped.

——The purple-robed man actually relied on the various 'emotional powers' mixed with the sugar man when he painted the sugar man alive, and forcibly improved his strength from a mortal to the great consummation of the qi cultivation period.

Including the eunuch waiting for the book, all the onlookers felt the aura emanating from the purple-robed man, and they all involuntarily retreated behind them.

Of course.

These onlookers-by couldn't see the change in the purple-robed man's cultivation.

They only felt the momentum of the purple-robed man, and it became very different from before.

Under the gaze of everyone, the purple-robed man landed on the ground from the air.

The moment he landed, he decisively bowed to the old man who was still concentrating on painting the sugar monkey, and bowed: "Disciple, thank you for the grace of your predecessors. ”

"Huh,"

Sugar painting stalls.

Cheng Sheng calmly accepted the purple-robed man's salute, and chuckled: "You can enlighten, that's your own ability, don't thank me." ”

The purple-robed man bowed again, and then separated the crowd and left in a hurry, as if he was anxious to realize the harvest brought by this opportunity.

Among the onlookers, there was a wealthy businessman who witnessed the whole process of the purple-robed man buying candy, and because he couldn't help the impulse in his heart, he handed ten taels of silver to the living stall.

"Old-timer, here is a sugar monkey!" After the rich merchant rushed to Chenghuo and saluted, he couldn't wait to take a sugar monkey from his stall.

He imitated the purple-robed man eating the sugar monkey, and put the sugar monkey in his mouth and tasted it.

Less leaning.

The rich merchant showed a hint of impatience on his face, and the speed at which he ate the sugar monkey had become noticeably faster, and had changed from savoring it to chewing it in large gulps.

After a short time, the speed at which the rich merchant ate the sugar monkey had changed from chewing to swallowing dates.

After he ate the sugar monkey by two, he glared at Chengsheng.

After confirming that Chengsheng is really an ordinary person, and the sugar man in the stall is nothing special, he wondered: "Old man, you are clearly an ordinary sugar man, and you are not worth ten taels of silver at all!" The person in purple clothes just now, I'm afraid you specially found a childcare to help cheat money! ”

As the rich merchant spoke, he relied on his height and fatness, and grabbed at Chenghuo's chest.

(End of chapter)