Chapter 34: Aunt Cleaning
Someone asked, that is, why do mortals in this city run to this place where birds don't, it is naturally because they work in the spirit mine, and one year can be worth the wages of the first ten years outside, and the mortals here nod their heads in front of the cultivators, but when they return home, they are proper nouveau riche, buy a house in one year, buy land in two years, and accept a few concubines in three years, and live a life of hugging left and right!
Gu Shiyi was popularized once when she got off the boat, she was an outsider with no roots, so she was naturally more careful, so she didn't go to the main street, she went to find the small streets and alleys, and after walking for a long time, she finally found a small shop, and saw the three words "Spirit Beast Zhai" written on the plaque, Gu Shiyi stepped in.
This small shop is not big, there is only a wooden counter on the left hand side, there is an old man squinting and napping in it, there are some cages hanging on the beams of the shop, hanging down just above the people's heads, you can see several brightly colored unknown birds when you look up, see Gu Shiyi come in, a bird also spit a puff of black smoke at her, around the shop, there are cages along the corner of the wall, there are also some small beasts that sleep or walk back and forth, and there are some furs, claws, animal heads and the like on the wall.
Except for the things on the walls, it's like a pet shop.
When Gu Shiyi looked around, the old man didn't open his eyes for a moment, and asked,
"Mortal, what are you doing here?"
Gu Shiyi turned his head to look at him, saw that the other party's eyes had been closed, and thought about it,
"Old man, the villain picked up something and wanted to ask ......"
The old man still didn't open his eyes,
"Is it something you have on your chest?"
Gu Shiyi knew that this kind of cultivator was all with divine sense, like an X-ray, and he could see it without saying it himself, so he nodded and took out that finger, today she only brought her finger when she went out, not Li Yan'er, she was afraid of being seen by others.
The old man slowly opened his eyes, took the things in Gu Shiyi's hand and looked at it,
"This is the belly of the fish-beast...... Well...... Already an adult, the second of sixteen pairs of belly hands...... The ...... of the middle finger"
The old man glanced at Gu Shiyi,
"You can't get your hands on this kind of thing!"
Gu Shiyi said honestly,
"It was picked up by the villain after someone cut it off!"
The old man smiled,
"Humph! You're in luck...... But this thing is yin, it's okay for you to have a body like this, but if you meet a weak body, you will have a serious illness if you take it with you for three months......"
After a pause, he asked Gu Eleven,
"Do you sell or not?"
Gu Shiyi shook his head,
"The villain doesn't know what it is, he just wants to ask what it is for?"
The old man thought for a moment and said,
"I can tell you, but the rules of my store can't tell you in vain......"
As he spoke, he looked her up and down,
"Look at your appearance, I'm afraid there are no spirit stones or anything like that, right?"
Gu Shiyi smiled bitterly,
"Your old eyes are like torches, let alone spirit stones, I don't even have a few copper plates......"
She is really poor now, why not eat and drink on the boat?
The old man snorted when he heard this, thought for a while,
"That's it, I'm just lazy these days, you clean up my store, and the two of you can offset it!"
Gu Shiyi nodded again and again, and hurriedly followed the old man's instructions to clean the ground in the store, changed the water for the various small beasts in the cage, and changed the food for the birds above his head, and the old man was satisfied,
"Well done, I'll tell you!"
He put his finger in the palm of his left hand, and pointed it with his right hand, only to see that a black gas immediately came out of the finger.
"This is the yin qi, the fish beast was originally not on the ground, it was the original immortal war that broke the crack in the ground, so that the underground river connected to the ground, and all the colorful yin water under the ground was released, so you mortals can't drink the water of this colorful river......"
After a pause, he said,
"The fish beast lives in such a yin water, it is naturally an extremely yin thing, we cultivators are different from you mortals, this strange beast is very terrible to you, but for us it is just a small fish in the river, you can eat it and use it for alchemy, or raise a few to watch in the cave, of course...... The monks who practice the Zhi Yang Gong method don't like this kind of beast with too heavy yin qi, and those who practice the Zhi Yin Gong method are different, but your finger is only so small, if you sell it, it can only be worth a low-level spirit stone......"
Gu Shiyi nodded again and again after hearing this,
"Then what is the use of these fingers besides alchemy?"
The old man said,
"It's still edible...... But it's not for you to eat, it's some yin ghosts and the like that can be eaten, and after eating, it can strengthen the soul and gather the original spirit...... Not...... There is no doubt that the fingernails on them are indeed adults, and you take off the fingernails, put them on your fingernails, and when you meet an enemy, you will catch them......
The old man gestured with his finger, and a black line appeared in the middle of the air through the finger.
"If a mortal is caught like this, his whole body can festered and die!"
"That's amazing!"
Gu Shiyi was startled, and the old man snorted,
"The adult fish beast is a monk in the infancy stage, and it takes some effort to make a move, so it naturally has its extraordinary...... There are not many adult beasts in this river, if it can cultivate eighteen opponents, it will be able to transform into a human...... However, the fish beast is a strange beast underground, and now that it has run to the ground and seen the light of the sky, it is almost impossible to transform into a shape, so sixteen pairs of abdominal limbs are already the extreme! ”
After that, the old man returned his finger to Gu Shiyi,
"That's it, let's go!"
Gu Shiyi took his fingers, hurriedly saluted the old man respectfully, bowed his head and walked out of the shop, the old man squinted and watched her leave, hehe smiled,
"It seems to be a half-demon body, but the demon bloodline in the body has not yet awakened......"
This realm is full of aura, many demon clans as long as they concentrate with peace of mind, plus a little chance, they can transform into shapes, and after the demon clan transforms, they love to mix in the mortal world, and some also have children, so there are many half-demons in this world, but most of them do not live to adulthood, even if they are adults, they rarely awaken, Gu Shiyi is like this, the old man has also seen some, and he just smiled and left this matter behind, and continued to doze off in the store!
Gu Shiyi came out to take a look at the sky, found that the sun had set, hurriedly returned to the boat, and told Li Yan'er what the old man had inquired about.
"Eat?"
Li Yan'er looked at the soft, white thing, and subconsciously swallowed the saliva,
"Can you eat this thing?"
Gu Shiyi nodded,
"That's what the shopkeeper said......"
Speaking of this, he suddenly patted his head,
"Oops, I forgot to ask him how he ate it!"
After thinking about it,
"Why don't you ask again tomorrow?"
It's a big deal to do another day's work!
Li Yan'er nodded,
"Otherwise, you can take me with you tomorrow!"
Gu Shiyi thought back to the situation in the city today, and saw that there were more cultivators, but he didn't seem to disdain to deal with mortals like her, no one should have the idea of beating Yan'er's little yin spirit, right?
"Okay, we'll go back tomorrow!"
When Gu Shiyi went again the next day, the old man glanced at her chest in some surprise,
"You brought a Shade with you?"
Gu Shiyi stepped forward and saluted,
"You have to mention the use of that finger before, the villain happens to have a friend, the front was victimized, lost his life, and now he can only be attached to a clay figure, the villain wants to give her this finger to eat, but I don't know how to use it, so I can only ask you again with a thick skin!"
The old man thought for a moment and said,
"It's okay, it just so happens that there are a few small things in my backyard that haven't been fed today, you go and feed them!"
Gu Shiyi responded with joy,
"You can rest assured, you will definitely do a good job for you!"
The old man snorted and looked at her with a smile,
"Let's go and see later!"
So Gu Shiyi followed the old man, his backyard the size of two football fields, but when he saw the strange beast in the beast pen, he couldn't help but stay on the spot,
"You...... Do you call this a little thing? ”
She pointed to the three-headed bull in the pen and asked the old man, who glanced at her and said,
"It's just a young beast, not a little thing, is it?"
"This ...... It's the size of a house! ”
Gu Shiyi's mouth was open enough to swallow an egg, and when the old man saw that she had never seen the world, he couldn't help but smile, and pointed to the bull's head with his hand and said,
"Look...... None of these horns have grown! ”
After a pause, he said,
"This is a golden horn, three heads grow three horns before it is considered an adult, this golden horn is stored here by a friend of mine, you can feed it this ...... today"
Pointing to the yellow sand as high as a hill in the other corner,
"Eat...... Eating sand? ”
This thing is really so easy to raise, you can feed it with a little yellow sand?
Gu Shiyi still looked sluggish, and the old man snorted,
"You know, this is no ordinary yellow sand, this is the associated ore of the spirit veins...... Julingsha, it has to eat 100 catties a day, you use a shovel to feed it......"
And he pointed to the back of the bar,
"Collect the it pulled out again......"
Gu Shiyi's mouth simply didn't close, he still looked at the old man with a dull expression, and the old man said,
"It's a good thing, I can't tell you that you can eat it, you'll know later!"
"Oh......"
Gu Shiyi nodded expressionlessly, and followed the old man to see a sheep that looked like an ordinary goat.
"Baa ......"
The sheep yelled at Gu Shiyi, lowered his head and shaved on the ground, Gu Shiyi realized that the four hooves of the sheep were shining golden, as if they were made of gold, the old man said,
"This is the spirit beast raised by the steward in the spirit mine to find the spirit beast here, release it, and you can find the spirit vein by turning around the mountain, you have to serve it well......"
This kind of sheep is also easy to raise, eating grass soaked in spiritual spring water, and then Gu Shiyi saw a real little guy, a small one, very similar to the tarsiers she had seen on TV, but with a snow-white body and a long tail.
Women have always had no resistance to furry things, and Gu Shiyi was naturally no exception, taking the little monkey that the old man took out of the cage, and petting it lovingly,
"What kind of monkey is this?"
The old man snorted,
"Monkey ...... You must be the kind of roadblock robber in the mountains outside? This little thing is a flying macaque, because it is still a juvenile, so it has not grown wings, you be careful not to touch its chin, its chin has poisonous glands, you touch it, you can immediately turn black all over the body, poison hair and die! ”
Gu Shiyi was startled, and hurriedly took back the fingers that wanted to scratch the little guy's chin, and said with a sneer,
"The strange beasts here are really extraordinary, old sir!"
The old man snorted and said,
"This little guy hasn't eaten much for the past two days, and you're in charge of feeding it today...... Okay, for the sake of you being a mortal and physically weak, I won't embarrass you, so that's all, I'll serve these three little things today, and I'll tell you how to concoct the belly of this fish beast, and even let you borrow my kitchen here! ”
"Thank you, old man!"
Gu Shiyi was surprised and delighted, hugged the little monkey and bowed deeply......
The next job, Gu Shiyi did it from morning to dark, she first went to feed the golden horn beast with three heads, what kind of gathering spirit sand looked like ordinary yellow sand, Gu Shiyi took the shovel over, and when the shovel went down, he knew that it was powerful,
"I ...... Oh my mother! It's so heavy! ”
With a small shovel, Gu Shiyi had to exhaust his strength to feed, and then walked a few more steps, and fell into the stone trough in front of the beast pen, and she was also disappointed that she had followed the old Taoist priest since she was a child, and her strength was much larger than that of ordinary people.
Gu Shiyi turned over the beast pen to shovel shit for it, it only got out of the way two steps, and let Gu Shiyi shovel behind its buttocks, Gu Shiyi pinched his nose and shoveled its pile of mountain-like, smelly baba into the cart, pushed it aside, and cleaned the animal pen with clean water.
"Moo......"
The three heads shouted at Gu Shiyi in unison with great satisfaction, and when they spat out "fragrant", they smoked Gu Shiyi's heels......
After that, Gu Shiyi went to feed the sheep again, the sheep was a little short-tempered, and when he saw Gu Shiyi approaching, he bowed his head to her and showed the horns on his head, Gu Shiyi hurriedly handed it a handful of grass, and finally coaxed it well, before going into the animal pen to clean, during which he accidentally was hit by a heel, Gu Shiyi got up and wanted to give that thing a kick,
"Uh-huh!"
The old man in the hall outside suddenly let out a cough,
"I told you, this thing is fostered by me, if you kick it out, I won't trouble you, and you won't be able to get out of my small shop!"
Gu Shiyi was frightened, hurriedly lowered his head and bent down to smile at the sheep, and raised his thumb and said,
"You're a good old man! Fantastic! Croak! If you're not done yet, why don't you do it again? ”
"Huh!"
The sheep rolled his eyes at her and turned his face away from her!