When I arrived at the farmer's market, I happened to encounter a huge crowd of people on the street. I finally found a parking space, parked my car and entered the market.
I rarely go to places like markets when I go to the city. I didn't know there was a large shopping mall here. Yu Xiaoxue took me like she took Grandma Liu into the Grand View Garden.
She seems to enjoy pulling my nose like this because she is usually the target of my bullying.
Yu Xiaoxue had no idea about clothes. She took me to the second floor of the shopping mall. The clothes I asked about were really good and cheap, costing about thirty or forty yuan a piece.
I was afraid that Han Shanshan and Zhao Qian would laugh at me if she bought it back, so I dragged her away.
On the first floor of the mall, I bought some cooked vegetables, then took Yu Xiaoxue to a sports brand store and bought two sets of sportswear, one pink and one blue.
Yu Xiaoxue looked at the bill of more than 500 yuan, her eyes froze for a while, and she couldn't speak completely. However, she was very satisfied with the new clothes, because the sportswear was practical, could run and jump, and suited her.
After fulfilling her wish, she took me to the antique street of the market. There were actually not many shops here, but on market day, there would be some people from the countryside who came to the market to sell some unusual things.
In the past, someone used to sell a bronze drum. I heard that someone later bought it for more than 10,000 yuan and auctioned it off, making hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Of course, even if this kind of thing really comes out, I can't afford it. The most I can afford is a few hundred yuan. Now after calculation, Yu Xiaoxue still has a thousand yuan, which is richer than me.
And I have to start worrying about her school fees. After all, her father is gone, and I am half of his brother. In addition to solving the problem of livelihood, I also have to be responsible for her education.
"Are you a senior in high school?" I asked Yu Xiaoxue.
"Brother Tian, I've already finished my second year of high school. Otherwise, I won't study. We have no money and can't go back to Xiaoyitun. I'll work in the county, serving dishes and washing dishes." Okay." Yu Xiaoxue was a little embarrassed. She had asked me about part-time work long ago, but I didn't agree.
"No, the walls of your home are all filled with certificates. You have good grades. It would be a waste not to study." I immediately rejected her idea. Her grades must be very good, but the family is too poor and can hardly afford to support her. Now that she is following me, I have to support her in school no matter how hard it is.
"My grades are not good, but I'm actually in the 40th place. The certificates are given by teachers for the sake of looking good at home. Otherwise, I won't read them." Yu Xiaoxue shook her head.
For a family so poor that they only have sweet potatoes and certificates, it is impossible to expect a sensible child to finish school. It is normal for Yu Xiaoxue to have such a mentality, so I said: "What is the difference between being over forty and being number one? Just read it." , Brother is rich. In the past few years, he has made tens of thousands, which is enough for you to go to college."
I said with a pretentious smile. After hearing this, Yu Xiaoxue stared at me, afraid that I would lie to her: "Brother Tian, you lied to me... you have no money at all."
"I have it, why don't you call your aunt?" I said, taking out my mobile phone and giving it to her. I found my mother's number and wanted to dial it. I knew she wouldn't dare to listen.
"Then you really did? You didn't lie to Xue?" Yu Xiaoxue looked at me aggrievedly.
"I'm not lying, why are you lying? If it's not enough for your aunt, you can pay it back later after you finish college. At that time, you would have earned several thousand a month. Now, washing dishes and serving dishes in the county cost over eight hundred." , when do you have to show off?" I advised her.
"Brother Tian...Actually, I lied to you. Those certificates are all real. I was second in grade last semester. Let me tell you, I was able to get first, but that day Xiaobei said that as long as I didn't To answer the last question, I asked her to give me fifty if she got first place. I thought about giving Dad two kilograms of rice wine and a plate of roast duck, but then I didn’t write that question..."
Yu Xiaoxue bitterly took out a roll of fifty yuan from the corner of her clothes and gave it to me: "In the end, Xiaobei gave me the money, but I thought about it for a long time but didn't dare to use it..."
"Then will you dare next time?" I immediately looked at her with a tiger face and confiscated the fifty yuan, but I couldn't help but feel sour in my heart: Oh, Uncle Yu Gen, why are you going back to Xiaoyitun this time? I haven’t brought any with me, so I owe you two kilograms of rice wine and a plate of roast duck for Xue. When I have the strength to go back, I will definitely bring it to you.
"I don't dare anymore." Yu Xiaoxue's eyes were red. Although she sometimes did careless things, such as digging other people's sweet potatoes, it was because she was ignorant and hungry when she was a child.
"That's good, listen to your Brother Tian. After reading the plan, if you can go to Tsinghua University and Peking University, we will go to Tsinghua University and Peking University. We don't need the money." I said loudly.
"Okay! Brother Tian is the best to me!" Yu Xiaoxue was happy. Seeing the young couple next to her almost touching each other, she also ran over and held my hand tightly.
I shook her off after a few attempts, so I ignored her. Anyway, few people in the county knew me and her, so they didn't care about her image.
But when I was thinking this, a familiar figure suddenly appeared at the far end of my sight!
"One egg!" I almost shouted! He broke free from Yu Xiaoxue's hand and chased after him as fast as he could!
Yu Xiaoxue was stunned. When she saw me chasing, she also chased after me.
As a result, the crowd was too dense. I was afraid that something would happen to Yu Xiaoxue, so I stopped and watched from a distance as Zhang Yidan disappeared at the edge of the market.
"Brother Dan? How could it be?" Yu Xiaoxue asked me in surprise. She didn't seem to see it.
"Maybe I saw it wrong, it's impossible, it's impossible." I explained to myself, and then looked at Yu Xiaoxue with a bitter smile. Zhang Yidan was obviously dead, killed by his own ghost baby, and now he appeared in broad daylight, How can this be? It's okay for a ghost to take advantage of him in the dark woods, but in this sea of people? Absolutely impossible.
The county has a population of 800,000, so it is normal for them to look similar. I sighed. Maybe the memories it evoked for Yu Xiaoxue reminded me of my friends here.
"Brother, you are going to the Antique Street, right there. Hey, do you see it?" Yu Xiaoxue pointed at the intersection where the man who looked like Zhang Yidan came out just now.
"Well, I saw it, let's go there." I said, and my already calm heart became troubled again. 'Zhang Yidan' went to the antique street?
I shook my head and turned into the antique street with Yu Xiaoxue. That small street was actually an alley, and there were even people selling chickens, ducks and geese.
I randomly found a shop with a friendly-looking owner, and I asked him if he had old yellow paper, fine cinnabar, and pens.
This kind of old county will never be short of such things, and the boss quickly came up with several kinds.
I bought these things not because Zhao Qian doesn’t have them, but because I can’t use things that others have used, which will affect the accuracy of spell casting.
I chose the oldest and most expensive aged cinnabar. A gram of this cinnabar costs dozens of yuan. I spent more than 400 yuan to buy some. The old yellow paper is not worth a dozen because of its storage life. It was cheap, and the special brush was only 600 yuan.
After thinking about it, it’s true that this is true. If you don’t have money, you can’t play with these gadgets. Playing with this means risking your life. Can things that are close to your life not be expensive?
So the first thing is to have money, the second thing is whether your Taoist skills are powerful, and then you have to consider Taoist friends, partners, and the Taoist training ground. The combination of these things will pass the test of time, and finally you can become a generation of Taoist masters.
"Boss, was there a young man in his twenties wearing factory clothes who passed by here just now, or buying something here?" On a whim, I asked the boss about Zhang Yidan's outfit that I just saw.
"Oh, you're talking about him, hey, I'm surprised. Why are you young people playing with these things recently? That person came to me just now and asked me to buy cinnabar and a pen like you did. The pen turned out to be I bought it, but when I took out the cinnabar, he said it was not suitable, so I ran to the street stall across the street to buy it. Haha, the boss made all the stuff across the street. Can it be used?" The boss didn't hide it, and pointed to the stall opposite. Setting up a street stall means it’s not good.
I immediately ran to the old woman at the street stall and asked her if she had done business with the young man. The old woman was stunned without saying a word. She looked at the direction where Zhang Yidan disappeared before, pointed at Zhusha, and stretched out a finger. .
I thought about it and realized that I really couldn't get anything out of her if I didn't buy anything from her, so I took out fifty yuan and said, "Here are five grams."
The old woman smiled and stretched out a finger, but her smile was very oozing. She showed a severely missing dental plaque, but this was normal, but most of her tongue was broken off! He was a mute, so Yu Xiaoxue and I took two steps back in fright!
The tongue must have been cut out!
"Boy, it's one hundred and one grams!" The boss opposite saw that I was scared and kindly reminded me.
I felt like I couldn't get anything out of the question. The cinnabar was already turning brownish purple and I didn't know how to use it, so I pulled Yu Xiaoxue away.
I took the only two or three hundred I had left. I felt that I still lacked a soul jar, so I was going to go to some antique stores.
The soul urn is an urn, specially designed to contain the ashes and bones of the deceased. However, no matter how beautifully carved the urns are now, they are all scraps. Even if they are made of gold and white jade, they are of no use to me. I have to find some pottery urns to replace them. Unfortunately, I visited a lot of antique shops, and the bosses told me that they were all handicrafts, from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. Cheap fakes cost hundreds.
I felt a chill in my heart, thinking that Xijun’s family was probably lost, so I carefully recalled the process of making my grandmother’s soul urn. Every time my grandmother made a trip to the soul urn, she would go out and find all the materials when she came back. .
These materials are not very special, just ordinary soil, but they never seem to let me play with them, saying that they are not good for me.
And she bakes them all by herself, but now I don’t have enough firing conditions.
Of course, grandma is a master. She can find clay to make a soul urn, then carve seal characters and bake it into a soul urn. The ghosts raised by this kind of soul urn are also very powerful. Can I do that?
"It's Yin soil!" Just when I was hesitating, this word popped into my mind, which made me completely give up staying in the antique street because I decided to make pottery by myself.
