Chapter 62: Layout
However, when he looked away, another white wall painted with evil pupilless eyes came into view! The huge eyes lying in the center of the wall, around it, surrounded by large and small pupilless eyes are different from the previous wall, they are all drawn in a horizontal posture, the white powder wall and the black charcoal form a strong contrast, for a moment, Xiao Rushi seems to see the ocean of blood that occupies the entire wall, those smaller pupilless eyes are a pale corpse with swelling and rotten, floating on the sea of blood and slowly flowing, and the huge pupilless eye in the middle is reflected on the surface of the sea, the moon of death!
He didn't know why he saw such a strange picture from a simple wall with only black and white contrast, in his past practice, eyesight was an extremely important part, as the future true immortal of the family, the Xiao family had never spared resources in him, Daoshu and teacher, therefore, he did not have to go near these walls to clearly see the pigments and brushwork used in these paintings, as long as he wanted to, he could clearly indicate whether any two pupilless eyes on the wall were depicted with the same charcoal, whether he painted one of them with three or four strokes, and likewise, he could see that these murals did not use any elixir- He had not used any of the precious materials he had seen, not even of the precious materials which he had heard, not even the precious materials that mortals used so often, not cinnabar, not gold and silver, no blood—neither human blood nor chicken blood, but it did have a great effect on his spirit!
"Meow!" the civet at his feet suddenly barked, and then he realized that the man who had just reprimanded the catcher was glaring at him, and the merchants who were eating and drinking in the house had also stopped their claws, and a pair of pupilless white eyes were staring at him in unison!
"Haha. "Even if there are really a few demons in the house, or a room full of demons and monsters, Xiao Rushi will calmly sacrifice charms and magic weapons, kill them one by one, or simply run away, but in front of them, they are clearly mortals - but, compared to the mortals outside, they are clearly a little less angry - Xiao Rushi has never encountered this kind of situation, and she was stunned for a while, not knowing how to deal with it.
The man came up, lifted the straw hat he was wearing on his head, and scolded, "Little begger, is this the place where you came?"
After speaking, he pushed and shoved Xiao Rushi out of the inn, and pushed a few more in a row, so that Xiao Rushi stumbled and almost fell under the root of the opposite wall, before he triumphantly returned to the inn with a victorious attitude of expelling the successful and even cocking his buttocks.
Xiao Rushi was stunned again, only to realize that she was too torn and was treated as a beggar by the other party, and she was more and more surprised when she was amused, the guy and the merchants in the store were obviously not masters, and who was the hand of those murals that were wrong at first glance?
He didn't want to take a very risk, but with the other party obviously having a problem and the guards were lax, he thought it was worth the risk.
Walking to the distance where he couldn't see the inn, he asked for the consent of the civet, wrote a matching talisman on the civet's forehead, and then when it was darker, he released the civet and let it climb over the wall and over the house, first go to the roof of the inn, and look in. After the civet cat obeyed the order, just like a real wild cat, first walked along the root of the wall to the back of the inn, and then when there was no one around, climbed the wall of the inn, jumped into the back kitchen, one everywhere, this back kitchen seems to be no different from the kitchen of other stores, the same pot and stove, the wall is blackened, a lot of firewood is piled up along the wall, a stone well in the courtyard, several young men who help the kitchen make up water and fill the pot, remove the dishes and wash the dishes, in the front hall and the back kitchen, a chef is steaming a few baskets of steamed buns on the stove.
If Hua Lin sees, I am afraid that he will praise the "cold food" advocated by this inn is really a good business, as long as a chef concentrates on making a large number of steamed buns in advance, steamed and cooled, as many guests as he wants, just serve a plate on it, not afraid of doing too much steaming, nor afraid of doing less freshly too late, the end is a good way to save people and firewood, not to mention that this inn provides customers with nothing more than coarse salt, well water, and even washing dishes can save a lot of water because there is no greasy!
But it was the civet cat who saw all this, and it didn't know what business was not, it only smelled something wrong.
It hid in the darkness, carefully passing through the dark corridor from the back kitchen to the front hall, and suddenly stopped when it had seen the dim light of the front hall, and flashed to the side, sure enough, the sound was a narrow staircase hanging on the wall, and I saw a guy carrying some plates and bowls down the stairs and sent them to the back kitchen, at this time, I am afraid that even Xiao Rushi here can smell the aroma of wine coming from the pile of plates and bowls.
There is also the aroma of meat that is still warm.
The stairs are still hanging on the wall and are not put away, the civet jumped silently, went up the stairs, looked at it, it was a restaurant common box, carved beams and painted buildings, vermilion lacquer pillars, green lacquer doors and windows, the four walls painted with gold and colorful painted some strange flowers and plants, star palace fairies, arranged extremely magnificent, but also extremely mundane, there was a round table inside, the chickens, ducks, fish, meat and plates on the table were messy, there were five people sitting at the table, all drunk, one of them, the civet cat was recognized!
It's the leader of the catchers who just went away not long ago!
But his current demeanor is completely different from that at the door of the inn, he is really talking and laughing, pointing out the country, and a few people here are like brothers, where is there still a little pustule lying at the door: "It's not that I told you, as long as this is the case, everyone in the blue sky and white sun sees the public kowtow to you, send filial piety, and dare not take people, in the future, why worry that the local people will not send filial piety to you, and find you to join the religion! Otherwise, you will sell these cold buns and cold water, what can you earn!"
A fat old man sitting next to him stroked his white beard and said with a smile: "If you can really collect some filial piety, it is naturally indispensable to the benefits of the master's five fingers, but the 'Jing family' was mentioned in the previous words, is it appropriate?"
The leader of the catchers smiled: "The Jing family also entered secretly, what's wrong, it's just that these officials who refuse to enter rely on some ancestral relics, and they want to take some Qiao-just take some Qiao, seeing me kneeling, they didn't dare to squeak, on the way back, they gave me a little filial piety first, and taught me to come to your store quickly to make peace, otherwise, how could I turn around so fast!"
Everyone laughed together, very proud.
It turned out that the previous situation was actually a bureau set up by them in collusion with each other.