Song Xin and Xia Ren arrived at the east side of the city. The streets here were lined with inns, restaurants, and shops, but at this time, they all looked deserted.
Song Xin's family had not eaten a grain of rice since they left home in the morning. Seeing that the sun was past noon, he asked Xia Ren to find a restaurant for dinner first.
Xia Ren came to Xudu to seek life when he was young. He worked as a waiter in the East District and was quite familiar with this area. So he found a restaurant that was not expensive and tasted delicious. The four of them went in and sat down for a meal. Wheat rice, tea and vegetarian dishes satisfy hunger. The shopkeeper saw the female customers and found a secluded table for them, where they could see the entire wine shop.
But he never came to ask the guests what dishes they wanted.
Song Xin asked: "Staff, I've been here for a long time, why didn't you say hello?"
The store owner replied with an apology: "The customer must have just arrived. Today is the Three Holy Sect's worship day. All shops must make offerings before they can open for business..." There was a little helplessness in his tone.
While he was talking, the people from the Three Saints Sect that he had seen before also arrived in the East District in large numbers. There were several believers on both sides of their team holding a cloth bag open. Passing by the door of each shop, although these shops and inns are deserted, they still have to give them money and rice.
Although the waiters and owners of these shops looked unhappy, they could only pretend to be attentive. Song Xin sighed slightly, it was not easy to open a small shop and do business in troubled times. Not only did he have to face exploitation by the government, he also had to deal with these people from the Three Saints Sect. After they left, the store owner ordered the chef to serve food to the guests.
"Here are the guests, the meal is ready." The waiter brought up several wooden plates with three wooden bowls on each.
"Thank you. Brother, where are these people from? Why do all the shops have to give them copper coins for tea? Do they have to make offerings before they can do business?" Song Xin asked the waiter softly.
The waiter smiled apologetically and leaned into Song Xin's ear, saying with an apologetic expression: "Guest, please don't raise your voice. These ancestors...sigh...are so cruel. The shop still needs to do business, so you'd better stop asking. If you talk too much, the store will be in trouble."
"Oh, it's okay, I'm just curious." Seeing that he didn't want to say anything, Song Xin didn't ask any more questions.
At this time, a strong man at another table heard the waiter say this, and slammed the table angrily and cursed: "Huh, what are you afraid of? These are just common people who believe in some religion in a daze. You think you are more powerful than the government, you are really pretending to be powerful!"
When the waiter heard this big man scolding the Three Saints Religion, he was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. He quickly went over to persuade him: "My guest, my guest, please don't talk nonsense. You must not talk nonsense."
"Hmph, you are afraid, but I am not." After he finished speaking, he threw a few coins and said, "I see these useless people and your submissive look. It's really off my appetite. I won't eat anymore. Let's go." He stood up. He and a shorter man next to him walked out of the small restaurant. They were tall and sturdy, with weapons in their hands. They looked like martial arts practitioners. They must be some kind of knights who traveled around the world.
The waiter saw them leaving and gently wiped the sweat on his forehead. He bowed to everyone and said with a smile: "Don't listen to that person's crazy talk. Eat in peace, eat in peace."
Seeing the big man and his friends walking out, someone at another table also stood up. But they didn't even give him food money, and the waiter didn't dare to ask for it. He just nodded and bowed and sent the man out the door.
"Hey, those two people are going to be miserable..." The waiter weighed the two copper coins in his hand and said with a wry smile. Song Xin and Xia Ren looked at each other, said nothing, and lowered their heads to eat.
In less than half an hour, the four of them had eaten, paid, walked out of the restaurant, and walked straight to the grain store. On the way, I was attracted by a shout.
"You bastards, how dare you commit murder on the street!"
Song Xin suddenly discovered that the big man who had scolded the Three Saints Sect and his friend were standing back to back with injuries all over their bodies. They were in a very embarrassed state and their clothes were torn. They were surrounded by more than a dozen members of the Three Saints Sect.
A man in white clothes held a folding fan, lit them, and sneered: "Humph, you are discussing our holy religion in private, do you still want to leave?"
"What's wrong with you? You bully the market. Look at the merchants on this street, who doesn't hate you." The big man wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and cursed angrily. He looked at the citizens who were watching. Everywhere he looked, everyone lowered their heads and did not dare to look at him. The man couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.
The members of the congregation narrowed their eyes, pointed at the two men and suddenly shouted: "Hmph, what is this? It turns out that they were transformed by monsters, and they dare to confuse people's hearts. Let me beat them to death. The Three Saints will remember Thanks to your contribution, your heavenly calamity will be reduced when you ascend in the future!!"
When the rest of the congregation heard this, they jumped on him, screaming.
Although the two men had some skills, they could not withstand these swarms. After knocking down several congregants, they were finally outnumbered and beaten to the ground by a group of people.
The streets were filled with dust, and only the screams and curses of the two men could be heard. The congregants seemed to be going crazy, punching, kicking, and even using their teeth, like a group of biting zombies.
Xiaoyu suddenly said: "Song Xin, does it look familiar to you?"
"Haha, you are talking about the zombies in the dead village." Song Xin sneered secretly.
"Well, this person is crazy, almost like a walking zombie..." Xiaoyu sighed at the end.
Song Xin saw that although these people had sound souls, they were just like those mindless zombies.
Seeing the two men being beaten almost to death, Ajiang and Liu Ling couldn't bear it and turned their heads away, not daring to look any further. Song Xin stared at the congregant who was directing, and thought to himself: "This person must be the leader." After saying that, he shook his sleeves, and a flat stone quietly fell into his hand, and then he flicked his finger.
"Bang!" A stone suddenly shot out and hit the crook of the leg of the little leader of the Three Saints Sect. The stone was so powerful and fast that it broke into pieces. The little leader was caught off guard and rushed forward. Fell, fell into pieces and chewed up shit.
"Ah!!! Who! It hurts me to death!!! Ah!!!"
The believers who were fighting heard the screams like slaughtering pigs. When they looked back, their leader was rolling on the ground holding one of his legs. Although Song Xin's stone just hit the crook of his leg, it was still powerful. It penetrated his joints, ruptured his hamstring tendons instantly, and shattered his patella.
"Sir!" When the church members saw that the little leader was injured, they hurriedly threw away the two men and ran over to ask.
"Uncle Xia, what exactly is a wise man?" Song Xin asked quietly.
"I heard that a small leader like them, who oversees more than a dozen people in black clothes, is called the Three Saints and Sages. The higher ones are probably called Masters of Dharma... I don't know what the higher ones are."
Song Xin sneered. The name "Sage" was really ironic. None of the things these people did had anything to do with "Sage".
The two men who provoked the Three Saints Sect were beaten to the point of dying and could not get up. Song Xin shook his head slightly. He just said a few words to them in the restaurant, and was beaten like this. And the person who followed them should be the spy of the Three Saints Sect.
"I didn't expect that the Three Saints Sect would be so domineering. They would also send spies to keep an eye on those who are dissatisfied with them." Song Xin whispered.
But even though his voice was low, he was still heard by someone in the crowd. He pretended to turn his head casually, glanced at Song Xin and Xia Ren, and narrowed his eyes.
"They are not from the Three Saints Sect. They are all scoundrels in the market. They usually make some money by informing the Three Saints Sect. Alas, since they joined the Three Saints Sect, ordinary people dare not mess with them." It happened to be at this time. Xia Ren said something.
Song Xin felt that although these people were domineering, they were all mortals. Although he is a practitioner, he cannot kill them casually due to the suppression of practitioners by heaven and earth. He didn't want to provoke these people from the Three Saints Sect. Firstly, he had just arrived in Xudu and was not familiar with the environment. Secondly, he could deal with them, but not his own family. If it happened to his family, he would be in trouble. Secretly helping those two men today was an act of kindness and justice.
Just let the government take care of this kind of thing. As the saying goes, render to God what is God’s and render to Caesar what is Caesar’s.
Song Xin bought wheat grains and some daily necessities, and asked Xia Ren to find a car to load them. When I was preparing to go back, I saw a shop selling cloth on the roadside and thought of making clothes for my family. There was a jewelry shop not far away, and Ajiang and Liu Ling walked over by themselves.
They asked Xia Ren to wait outside and went in to take a look. A Jiang and Liu Ling were stunned as soon as they entered. They didn't expect that there were several people from the Three Saints Sect here.
These people are all women, around 20 years old. They are all dressed in colorful clothes, surrounded by a woman in gorgeous and gaudy clothes. They are not like other sect members who wear rags. Their status in the sect should not be low. .
When Ajaan came in, these women were helping the gorgeously dressed woman choose jewelry. This woman was dark and thin, with small eyes. There was a domineering and arrogant look in her eyes. She didn't do it herself, she just shook the silk fan in one hand and let the woman beside her help her put on the jewelry. Liu Ling noticed that the woman's fan had a rustic word "fairy" embroidered on it. Even the gorgeous clothes could not stop the rustic charm exuding from her body.
After all, Liu Ling was a girl from a wealthy family and knew how to wear and match clothes and jewelry. Seeing the way these women were dressed still gave Liu Ling a chill. Ajaan calmed down, walked up to the shopkeeper and said, "Hello shopkeeper, I want to buy a pearl hairpin. I wonder if the shopkeeper can show me some styles?"
The shopkeeper first glanced nervously at the women from the Three Saints Cult, and whispered to Ajaan: "This girl, wait a moment." As he said that, he took out a small plate with a dozen hairpins in it.
Ajaan saw that these styles were pretty good, but he was a little confused. Liu Ling helped pick one and said, "Sister, I think this one suits you very well."
"Oh? Really?" Ajiang took it and took a look. Liu Ling did have good taste.
Liu Ling helped her put it on, which indeed made her look more delicate.
Ajiang nodded with satisfaction and said, "Shopkeeper, please help me wrap this up."
"Okay, guest, this one costs 150 yuan." The shopkeeper said the price and glanced at the woman from the Three Saints Sect out of the corner of his eye. At this time, they were all staring at Ajiang and Liu Ling, but their eyes were a little unkind.
Just as he was about to pay, one of the women's voices suddenly sounded: "Wait a minute, shopkeeper, bring us that pearl hairpin."
The shopkeeper looked at Ajiang and gave her a hint. A female believer from the Three Saints Sect came over, grabbed the pearl hairpin from the shopkeeper's hand, turned around and walked back to show it respectfully to the woman shaking the fan.
Liu Ling was about to argue, but was stopped by Ajiang, who shook her head gently.
"You are a vulgar fan, why are you buying a Zhu Chai? Hmph." A woman from the Three Saints Sect took the Zhu Chai and sneered coldly.
"You..." Liu Ling was about to get angry, but Ajiang said calmly: "Shopkeeper, let's choose something else."
At this time, the thin black woman waving the fan deliberately asked in a very angry tone: "This is a good pearl hairpin. As the shopkeeper, why didn't you take it out earlier? Do you look down on me?"
"You don't dare, I don't dare. The girl picked this one just now and didn't like it, so I showed it to this guest."
"Don't talk nonsense. You obviously didn't take it out. Do you think my status and appearance are not worthy of this pearl hairpin? Does she deserve this pearl hairpin more than me? I want this, isn't it just a hairpin?" A hundred coins, give it to him." The thin black woman said proudly.
Immediately, a woman came over and threw some money directly to the shopkeeper. Ajaan and Liu Ling couldn't help but be surprised. It was originally a pearl hairpin worth 150 yuan, but these people only gave it a few yuan and took it away. This was a clear robbery.
Liu Ling finally couldn't help it anymore, "You guys are so bullying, it's just robbery!"
A female cult member glared, "Bah, you bitch, this is the flower-picking maid of the Three Saints of my religion. So what if I take a red hairpin from you?"
Ajiang was worried that things would get serious, so he pulled Liu Ling and said, "Forget it, let's come back another day."
Before she finished speaking, the thin dark woman suddenly shouted: "Stop, who told you to leave?"
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