Fengcheng Xicheng direction

"Wouldn't it be faster if we didn't enter the city directly from the north gate? Those rich families live in the west city... What were we doing?" Lin Manliu asked when he saw Ye Dangting taking him to take a long detour.

"It's the same time since then, not to mention whether we can meet the people from the caravan, and besides, it's been almost three months since we left. I don't know what to bring back home. Alas, a kid can't be taught. .." Ye Dangting looked at the confused young man behind him with a look of disgust.

Thinking about it, I left home in February and returned in May. I experienced a lot of things along the way. I always feel that I will be on my way back home soon. I don’t know how my parents are doing at home. Summer is coming soon. I don’t know what happened to my parents. Will it be very busy over there? Is my mother doing well at home? I wonder if the master who takes care of my parents is okay now...

The two rode horses to a post station outside Xicheng. There were quite a lot of vehicles coming and going here. The post station was full of people, mostly caravans preparing to travel far or travelers who had just arrived in Fengcheng. However, there were still free tables. Yes, Ye Dangting asked the shopkeeper for some tea, and the two of them sat down to rest.

"After entering the city, I'd better put away Shan Ye Xing and Chu Chuang Die. Most of the people in the west city are wealthy people, so these swords and utensils may not be seen." Lin Manliu said as he untied his package and put his two daggers away. When we got to the baggage, the spring window butterfly had grown so much that the whole baggage looked like a rolling pin.

"Quite cautious..." After Ye Dang filled his tea bowl, he directly pushed the teapot in front of the young man and motioned for him to pour the tea himself.

Lin Manliu looked at the actions of the old liar in yellow. He thought to himself, was this an affirmation of what he had just done? Or was he still dissatisfied with his previous inability to think of buying things for his home?

With such thoughts in mind, Lin Manliu and Ye Dangting took a short rest, and then walked together from the west gate of Fengcheng. The horses temporarily stayed in the inn. After entering the west gate, Lin Manliu saw that he had just traveled far away. The scenery seen.

When I followed the caravan through the streets of Xicheng for the first time before leaving for a long journey, I just felt that the Gaomen Restaurant here was a place that I would never be able to touch in my life. When I grow up, I may follow my father to farm for the government, or maybe He stayed at home and helped his mother take care of the pastry shop, which had no business.

Now that he has his feet on the ground and once again steps on the road in Xicheng, he no longer has these thoughts. On his long journey, he has seen wider roads than this, more pedestrians than now, and noisier markets than here. In the future, I will definitely be able to go further and see a broader world.

After walking through the streets for a long time, the two of them discovered that today was the day to go to the market, and listening to the shouting and talking on the street, the restaurant in front of them must be extremely lively.

Lin Manliu looked at the restaurant in front of him. Although it wasn't raining heavily at this time, he still needed to hold an umbrella to take shelter from the rain. In the crowded crowd in front, not many people held umbrellas to take shelter from the rain. Moreover, the location near the congestion was not too noisy. The noise was slightly quieter than the previous discussions on the road.

"Is this the custom in your hometown? When it rains, you don't even know how to take shelter with an umbrella. What's the point of gathering around a table?" Ye Dangting looked at the location of the restaurant and asked Lin Manliu.

"Listening to that sound, I finally understood... It's those Taoist priests who visit the Star Temple again and preach in the city. They always make some tricks to extort money from the villagers. There are more wealthy families here, and their facades are better than those in Dongcheng. It's obviously a bigger deal. It's really unlucky to see these people again on the first day after returning home." Lin Manliu grinned at first, and then said in a cursing tone.

"It makes sense that this Celestial Star Temple can stay in one place for a long time... It seems that we will have to make careful plans with Mr. Mo in the future," Ye Dangting said to himself.

Just when the two of them were about to pass through the restaurant, they vaguely heard some words from an unknown person on the stage. It seemed that after preaching, they were distributing something to the onlookers.

"... I would like to thank all the fellow villagers in advance for coming here to listen to my missionary visit to the Star Temple. Next, I will distribute the cooling charms made in the temple to everyone. I have been bothering you for a long time today, and it only costs twenty coins.

If you make incense inside the temple, you can buy cool talismans with all the fellow disciples." The voice on the stage reached the ears of the crowd.

As soon as these words came out, the situation exploded. The scene was a bit beyond Ye Dang's listening. Lin Manliu and the others were beyond their expectations. No one said how expensive the so-called cooling charms were. They all rushed forward to buy more.

, some people even shouted that they wanted to buy half of the talismans for home use, but the Taoist priests on the stage stopped them, saying that they had to buy a small amount each.

"All of you, my fellow countrymen, have been taught by me about the Starry Monastery, so you are all my believers in the Starry Starry Monastery. These talismans are extremely precious and I hope you all can be considerate of each other." The voice on the stage came from behind the table again.

It was heard that the speaker seemed to have just drank tea and was still moistening his throat.

After the words behind the case came out, what happened was not that the crowd began to purchase the cooling charm in an orderly manner. On the contrary, it was just the opposite. More people began to rush to buy. They didn’t want to leave much for those behind them, but at this time those people

The Taoist Priest of Star Viewing Temple did not stop him anymore, and even gave no more verbal persuasion.

Just let the people in the audience squeeze to the front of the stage, throw the money in their hands on the stage, and wait for the Taoist priest to hand them a yellow paper talisman. After getting the talisman, some people seemed to be holding a treasure in their hands and hurriedly exited.

Near the restaurant, someone was running away, but he took out the money he had on him to buy a few more...

The scene was chaotic for a while, but none of the Taoist priests on the stage took action to stop it. They just continued to collect money from the people in the audience to exchange for the cooling charm.

"Old liar, how much did you charge me when you sold me "The Art of Seeking Mountains, Asking Waters, and Raising Swords"...?" Seeing this scene, Lin Manliu suddenly remembered that outside Hangzhou, Ye Dangting

That is to say, he sold the Shanshui Sword Art to him.

"Ten cents..." Ye Dangting was a little surprised when he saw this scene, and said with difficulty when facing the boy's question.

"Anyone with a discerning eye will know that it is a piece of yellow paper that is deceptive. It is enough to buy two of your brochures. I still blamed you wrongly. You are not an old liar." Lin Manliu murmured with a sad face.

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"No... I think this practice of stargazing is quite profound, and I need to weigh it carefully before proceeding."

"No...Old liar, you have been in the world for so long. I think it's just expensive, and you think it's expensive too?" Lin Manliu asked doubtfully. After all, Ye Dangting always talked about what he had seen or heard in the past few years along the way.

It's an interesting thing.

"I don't know how many people have them in their hands. Besides, I don't think I've ever seen anyone retort with such proficiency. A casual sentence will cause everyone to scramble for it."

"What you said is indeed true. When I was in Dongcheng, I just thought they would extort money. What I saw today seems to be that they underestimated this star temple..."

"The people in the city have been poisoned by this star temple for a long time, and they ended up in this situation." Ye Dang couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

When the two of them were sighing in the background, the purple-robed Taoist who was sitting behind the table on the stage looked at them. After looking at the young man's face, the tea cup in his hand almost fell to the ground, and the purple-robed Taoist quickly stabilized himself.

With the tea bowl in hand, he sat upright and tried to avoid Ye Dangting and Lin Manliu's eyes.

"That Taoist priest deliberately avoids us, do you know him?" Ye Dangting naturally noticed something strange on the stage and asked casually, thinking of Lin Manliu.
Chapter completed!