Since Li Si left Jinshan Temple, the strange old man returned to the Nine Yin Sect retreat, and never appeared on the rivers and lakes again. It was only recently that he came out of the mountains to visit the Golden Mountain Temple.

When he was on the way, he heard about the theft of the Holy Secret Treasure, and when he was puzzled, he rushed to Mingzhou City to take a look.

And this is also the reason why when he saw "Li Sisi", the puppet in his hand was shocked, because he knew that Li Si didn't have a sister at all, and he thought that Li Si had some strange habits during his absence. Fortunately, Li Si's performance later showed that he didn't have any major problems.

After the farce was over, he went back to Jinshan Temple again.

After sitting silently opposite the old monk in the Buddhist hall all day, he made a decision.

Anyway, he is past the age of wandering the rivers and lakes, and most of the people of his era have stopped walking in the mountains, maybe he should also find a place to stay, he thinks so.

So, a month after the farce ended, he returned to Mingzhou City. and brought all his net worth: two large boxes of dolls.

As a result, he was interrogated by the city guards for half an hour when he entered the city, and of course, the other main reason for this was his strange dress. Eventually, however, he entered the city, and when he could not speak, was thin, and did not carry any weapons, the city guards treated him like a puppet puppet master, and laughed that they would come to see him perform next time if they had the chance. There aren't many ways to entertain in this small town, and it's a good thing to have a master who plays a puppet show.

The strange old man is already very old, and everyone who knows him knows it. But because of his internal strength, he still looks very young, and it is not too much to say that he looks like a young man in his twenties.

The difference is that he doesn't have the vigor that a young man in his twenties should have, and the aura on his body is always very cold and sluggish, with his inhuman and ghostly dress, it is easy to be regarded as something unclean when he goes out in the middle of the night. It's a pity that he still likes to go out in the middle of the night, maybe it's a strange habit of his. Just like his name, he's usually a strange guy.

There was almost no selection, and the strange old man set up a shop next door to Qianjialou. It's not big, but the doll for him is enough.

This shop was originally a candy seller, so its own layout basically meets his requirements, no need to change it, just tidy it up, and then put the puppet in the original position of the sugar man.

On this day, the strange old man was still tidying up his storefront.

From a distance, I saw Li Si walking out of the Qianjialou and stopping in front of his shop.

To be honest, after seeing that the owner of this shop was really a strange old man, Li Si found that he was not a little unsurprisingly surprised.

As if all this was reasonable, he leaned weakly on the counter in front of the store, looked at the strange old man in the store, and asked with a sigh.

"Why are you here?"

The strange old man was stunned for a moment, then put down the extra doll in his hand, put on a smiling gesture with a doll held in his hand, and waved his hand.

He is very good at manipulating dolls, and at most, Li Si has seen him manipulate twenty puppets at the same time with the assistance of internal force to act alone. The old monk also seemed quite surprised by that method.

Looking at the strange old man's appearance, Li Si knew that he wanted to perfunctory, so he tapped his finger on the counter and said mercilessly.

"Don't pretend to be stupid and speak up. ”

The strange old man's eyes seemed to show some helplessness, he should have thought for a while, made an old man's gesture with the puppet in his hand, coughed twice, and then fell to the ground. Half a sound, he pointed to his eyes with the palm of the puppet, and then pointed at Li Si.

Such an action should have made many people unclear, but Li Si was only silent for a while, and then asked.

"You're saying you're old, so you want to settle down here and take care of me by the way?"

In the shop, the strange old man nodded silently. Although his face was expressionless, the figure in his hand remained smiling.

He can be said to be the one who has watched Li Si grow up, although Li Si has been extremely sensible since he was a child, but this does not prevent him from treating Li Si as a child.

He had been in retreat for a long time, so as far as he was concerned, his memory of Li Si was still in that temple, in the body of the child who liked to look at the distant mountains in a daze.

He is happy to sit under the eaves with him and drink tea, and he is also happy to manipulate the puppets to lie on their stomachs or sit on the eaves, between the wooden corridors, next to the old trees, and in front of the Buddhist hall, making the temple more popular and not so deserted.

His puppets will bring water to people, play with each other, hide in the corner and be lazy, will sit in the corridor to watch flowers, will lie on Li Si's shoulder and yawn, and will secretly pluck the beard of the old monk.

They are like real people, with all kinds of personalities and all kinds of things.

Even sometimes even Li Si feels that these puppets really have their own lives.

But at that time, he thought about it again, maybe this was just the character of his children in the imagination of the strange old man, he was just playing the life he longed for alone, and that's it.

The strange old man is really a very strange person, but sometimes, he is not so strange, but often no one can understand him.

At the counter, Li Si touched his nose and said with a little helplessness.

"I'm not a kid anymore. ”

Although compared to the strange old man, he is indeed not too old.

The puppet in the strange old man's hand smiled again, and compared his waist with the palm of his hand, as if to say that in his eyes, Li Si has always been such a big child.

At this time, the strange old man looked at another puppet by the counter.

Li Si also followed his gaze, only to see that the puppet suddenly stood up by itself, walked in front of Li Si from afar, put his little hand into his wide robe, took out a sugar cube, held it with both hands and handed it to Li Si.

The strange old man still remembers that Li Si likes to eat sweet things.

Looking at the puppet in front of him, Li Si was stunned for a moment, then raised his eyebrows, chuckled, reached out and took the sugar cube in the puppet's hand, threw it into his mouth and said.

"Thank you. ”

"Click. The puppet made a few funny gestures exaggeratedly, as if excited to meet Li Si again, and then walked back to his seat and sat down.

It wasn't until he saw that the puppet was silent that Li Si took a deep breath and looked at the strange old man again.

He first pursed his mouth, and finally smiled as if relieved, shook his head and said.

"But we haven't seen each other for a long time, and the shopkeeper asked you if you would like to go to our dinner in the evening, as if you were getting to know your new neighbor. ”

Without much hesitation, the strange old man nodded his head and began to pack his things.

Li Si shrugged his shoulders with a wry smile, and also walked into the store to help the strange old man carry his luggage.

Anyway, he felt that the street was going to become more and more lively.

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At the same time, to the east of Mingzhou City, on a large sea in the East, a longship sailed between the waves, dragging pieces of wake waves.

On the bow deck, a man with a disheveled head and a scimitar on his waist stood there, holding a wooden stick in his mouth, squinting at the sea level in the distance.

Suddenly, as if he had seen something, he opened his eyes wide and pointed to the distant horizon and shouted in a strange language to the crowd behind him.

"I saw it, I saw it!"

Suddenly, the people on the deck gathered one after another, and when they saw a piece of land in the distance, they immediately burst into cheers, and everyone was excited.

The man standing at the bow of the boat opened his arms and laughed in the sea breeze.

Yes, he was sure that he had found the legendary land of gold, and that he would be here to begin his legendary life.