Chapter 169: Starlight
"Zhao's Pharmacy has opened a big reward, and the first seven days of the purchase of herbs are 20% off, those who are interested should come quickly!"
"The first restaurant in Lingshan Town has officially opened, the special wine handed down by the immortals of Sanqing Palace, all the fathers and villagers, come and taste it if you have ideas!"
"Gu Ji Garment Shop, choose the best materials, give you the most beautiful dress, the first ten customers will have more discounts!"
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Gu Qinfang looked left and right at the movements around him, and saw that there were already more than a dozen shops in Lingshan Town, although it was much less than when they were in Haicheng, but a small town with thousands of people, so it was not bad.
A slightly immature child stopped Gu Qinfang and said timidly, "This aunt, may I ask...... Would you like to go to my house to see the hairpins?
Gu Qinfang's face was strange, she leaned down and touched the little girl's forehead, and said softly: "Don't call aunt, you have to call sister!" I didn't realize that I was more than a hundred years older than other little girls, and maybe I could be someone's grandmother or even a great-grandmother.
The little girl smiled and said, "Ah, hello sister." Would you be interested in visiting my house? My dad hasn't opened for a long time!"
Gu Qinfang thought, anyway, I don't know what to do now, so it doesn't matter if I just follow this little girl to take a look.
She followed the little girl and watched her leap forward. Occasionally, there would be people who knew the little girl on the street, and they touched the little girl's head and said, "Oh, the little girl of the old Wang family has come out to pick up customers again! What a sensible child!"
The little girl always grinned and said a few sweet words to the adults who stroked her head, and then turned around and continued to take Gu Qinfang to her own shop.
The whole street where the two of them walked was full of shops planned by Hao Zhicheng, although there are still many places that are vacant, but a small number of them have already begun to open, such as the shouting heard by Gu Qinfang, restaurants, pharmacies, ready-to-wear shops, etc., all of which are closely related to the lives of residents here.
I don't know if it's Gu Qinfang's illusion, the little girl led her to this store, although it is called Wang's jewelry, but there are many people, only a middle-aged man is smoking a cigarette pouch outside the door.
After the middle-aged man saw the little girl coming back, he extinguished the cigarette pouch in his hand, touched the back of the little girl's head, and said, "Xi Niang, you are back, where have you been running all morning!"
Xi Niang looked up at her father with a smile and said, "Dad, didn't I go to do business with our family!" Even the people in the town are not short of jewelry, and no one buys hairpin bracelets, I finally met this sister, she is willing to let me come to our house to have a look! Dad, let's quickly lead others to have a look!" As he spoke, he turned his head and beckoned Gu Qinfang to follow him into the store to have a look.
The middle-aged man smiled at Gu Qinfang embarrassedly: "This girl, my little lady is still young and doesn't know how to be polite, if you offend, please bear more!"
Gu Qinfang shook her head and said, "It's okay, I see that the little girl is lively and cute, so I'll follow her to take a look." She wandered around the street alone, although Lingshan Town was absolutely safe, but it was not good to run around like this. ”
"Yes, yes, you said. This child just loves to run around, and she doesn't listen to what she says. Hey, if it weren't for her mother's early death, I would have dragged her to grow up with her eldest brother, and I wouldn't have let her develop such an extroverted personality if she couldn't take care of her alone. The middle-aged man babbled about some things again, but Gu Qinfang was not impatient, but listened attentively, not knowing if he had listened to it.
After a while, the middle-aged man led Gu Qinfang into his small shop, although the shop was not big, but there were a lot of jewelry in a dazzling array of places. The material of these jewelry is not very good, but it can be seen that the craftsmanship of the person who made it is exquisite, and the patterns are all carefully thoughtful, so that Gu Qinfang, who hardly wears any jewelry, can't help but take a few looks.
Xi Niang sat on the small stool and saw Gu Qinfang follow her father in, so she said with a smile: "Dad, why did you let the family wait outside for so long! The tea I poured for this sister was going to be cold!"
Her father said: "Oh, my lady is really sensible, she knows how to pour tea for guests! Hurriedly asked Gu Qinfang to sit down on the chair next to him, and then personally brought the tea to Gu Qinfang.
Gu Qinfang didn't care about the quality of the tea, took a few sips, and then said to Xi Niang's father: "Shopkeeper, I think that hairpin is good, I don't know if you can bring it over to show me?" She pointed to a pair of lotus hairpins made of brass, Gu Qinfang felt that the lotus flowers on this hairpin were very similar to the lotus flowers in the pool she had planted in Danghai City, so she had an idea.
Holding the hairpin in his hand and looking at it with his eyes, it was very chic, Gu Qinfang nodded, and then put the hairpin on his head. The fine lady on the side hurriedly brought over a bronze mirror and put it in front of Gu Qinfang, looking at Gu Qinfang with an expectant face.
Gu Qinfang looked at herself in the mirror with satisfaction and said, "This is it." I don't know how much this hairpin is worth?"
The middle-aged man scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Girl, I don't know whether to collect gold and silver or spirit stones in our Lingshan Town. However, the value of this hairpin is not expensive, if you give me the spirit stone, I don't know how to find you. Look at it, or you'll get a little bit of silver. ”
Gu Qinfang has no silver in her arms, the lowest value in the Qiankun bag has to be a low-grade spirit stone, thought for a while, turned sideways, covered it with her sleeve, took out a low-grade spirit stone from the Qiankun bag, and said: "I don't have any gold or silver here, just use the spirit stone to settle the settlement." ”
The middle-aged man was a little flustered: "You, your spirit stone is too valuable." The spirit stones sent by Sanqing Palace and us, the villain has not used them, and they have all been given to the fine mother and her brother to take into the palace. Although there is no one in Lingshan Town who really spends this spirit stone, the immortal masters in the palace have all said that this spirit stone is a good thing. Girl, I don't dare to accept your spirit stone, so you might as well take it back. This hairpin is not worth much, you just wear it. Just give me a gift from my little girl!"
Although Xi Niang pouted a little at her father's words, she also knew that spirit stones were good things, and she would never dare to exchange such a large piece of spirit stones for a hairpin, which was a great loss to this sister.
"Sister, you ...... You better put it away, this hairpin was given to you by the fine lady at that time! Daddy also said that this hairpin is not worth much. And you're still the first customer of our store, so why can't you accept your spirit stone!"
Xi Niang's father also nodded on the side, but he was a little clumsy, and he didn't know what to say, so he could only follow his daughter's words and keep saying, "Yes, yes." ”
Gu Qinfang looked at the two of them suspiciously, and asked, "Then your store has been open for a few days, and there is no one, and there is no income at all, is it really worth it?"
Xi Niang's father sighed, and then smiled innocently, and said: "Girl, I don't know, although I don't have any income from this small shop for the time being, but speaking of which, my family doesn't have to live on this meager income." My son is practicing in Sanqing Palace, and the palace will naturally arrange daily expenses for my family, and eating and drinking are not worried. When I opened this shop, I was afraid that my craft would be buried, and I couldn't bear to lose my family craft. My son will definitely not learn my superficial craft, but the fine mother is still young, and she may have to marry someone else in the future, so I have to save some dowry for her. ”
At this time, Xi Niang said: "Dad, didn't I say it, I will also enter the Sanqing Palace in the future and become a free and easy immortal, so that I don't marry someone else! I will continue to support my father until I am old! Don't you want me anymore!" After speaking, he lowered his head and wiped away his tears.
Xi Niang's father was even more panicked at this time, and hurriedly said: "Oh, Xi Niang, how could my father not want you! Dad didn't think, in case you were not accepted by the Sanqing Palace, I would save some dowry for you, which could be regarded as a way out, wouldn't it?
After coaxing for a long time, the fine mother stopped crying and hugged her father and didn't let go.
"Let the girl laugh, since the death of the mother, the mother and her brother have always been brought up by me, her brother is fine, she is too clingy to me. As he spoke, he kept patting the back of the fine lady and soothing the fine girl.
Gu Qinfang sighed in her heart, she also missed her relatives, but a hundred years have passed, and those relatives of hers, needless to say, have already passed away for many years. And since the family fell into the middle of the road, he has never seen his relatives again, his parents died early, and the only remaining uncle has long since moved elsewhere, and there is no news.
She stared at Xi Niang's face and said, "Xi Niang, can you tell me why you want to enter the Sanqing Palace?"
Xi Niang tilted her head, thought for a while, and said softly: "I...... I just want to be able to protect my dad from being bullied. When I was back home, the people on the island always said that my dad was in the women's pile and that he was not manly at all. He also said that my father was weak and was always bullied by others, and he didn't dare to speak up. In fact, I know that my father is just to protect me and my brother, for fear that after something happens to him, no one will be able to take care of me and my brother, so I just swallow everything. I don't want my dad to continue like this, so I want to go to Sanqing Palace to be an immortal master, so that I can protect my dad!"
Gu Qinfang gently patted Xi Niang's brain and said, "Xi Niang is really a good child who is filial! But if you want to be an immortal master, you must train yourself from now on, and you usually have to eat more." I see that you are too thin now, and if you are not in good health, you will not be able to be an immortal master!"
Xi Niang nodded: "Sister, I know." I will definitely eat well and exercise hard in the future, and strive to enter the Sanqing Palace in the future and make peace with my brother! ”
Xi Niang's father's eyes were red, and he kept saying, "Hey, Xi Niang is a good child." ”
In the final analysis, Gu Qinfang still left the father and daughter with a low-grade spirit stone, took the hairpin, and placed it on his head. The already fresh and refined appearance is set off by the hairpin, which makes it even more fairy-like. After all, her temperament is different from ordinary people, although in the eyes of ordinary people, she is a gorgeous-looking twenty-eight beauty, but if Qin Guan is here, you can find that a mysterious aura is now emerging on her body, although it is still a little weak, but it is very peculiar.
Bidding farewell to the father and daughter, Gu Qinfang walked around Lingshan Town again, and looked at the lives of ordinary people in Lingshan Town, although it was completely different from the life of a monk, but it made her feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
"I think it's the same as I remember! I grew up in a town like this, and my father and mother were very kind to me, and they depended on me for everything. When I think about it, I miss them so much! Sighing in his heart, Gu Qinfang returned to his small courtyard.
Perhaps it was Gu Qinfang's interest, she would spend most of her time wandering around Lingshan Town every day, and everyone in the town knew that there was such a gorgeous girl living in Lingshan Town. Although they didn't know Gu Qinfang's origin, after all, the people in Lingshan Town were all people from all over the edge of the Beihai Sea, and except for the people they already knew, the rest were just strangers, so naturally no one suspected that Gu Qinfang was a monk of Sanqing Palace.
However, Gu Qinfang didn't want others to know his identity, so he began to try his best to learn the lifestyle of ordinary people. Eat on time every day, and spend some time digesting food and expelling magazines, so as not to pollute your own body. Although the body of the Jindan monk is already comparable to a high-grade magic weapon, the slightest filth can reduce the strength of the physical body.
The longer she lives in Lingshan Town, the more Gu Qinfang feels that Hongchen is a lot of trivialities, but also a lot of happiness. Unlike monks who need to worry about their future, as long as ordinary people can survive, it is already a great thing for most people in Beihai. She also slowly learned to look at the world from the perspective of an ordinary person, look at herself, and finally one day, when she was observing the stars in the sky, she inexplicably felt that the stars in the sky seemed to have an attraction, and she was slowly guiding herself to the stars.
She relaxed her mind, and by the pull of the stars, gradually, she found that the starlight hung down from the sky, entered her mind from her Baihui acupoint, and then followed her breath and reached her dantian.
There is naturally a golden pill in her dantian, on which there are faint patterns, and sometimes there is a red golden light. Couldn't help but meditate on her knees, and the small courtyard fell silent.