???????I came to the farmer's market. I happened to encounter a crowd of people on the street. I finally found a parking space. I parked my car and entered the market.
I rarely went to places like markets when I went into 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 has 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. They cost about thirty or forty yuan a piece.
I was afraid that if she bought it back, I would be laughed at by Han Shanshan and Zhao Qian, so I pulled her away.
On the first floor of the mall? I bought some cooked vegetables. So I 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 were stunned for a while, and she couldn't even finish her words. But 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 when the market day comes, there will be some people from the countryside who come to the market to sell some unusual things.
In the past, people used to sell bronze drums. I heard that they later bought them for more than 10,000 yuan and auctioned them off, making hundreds of thousands of dollars.
certainly. Even if this kind of thing does appear, I can't afford it. The most I can afford is a few hundred yuan. Now do the math? Yu Xiaoxue still has a thousand yuan? She is richer than me.
And I have to start worrying about her school fees? After all, her father is gone, and I am considered 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? Why don't I stop studying? We have no money. Can't we go back to Xiaoyitun? Can I work in the county? Serving dishes to people? 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 decorated with certificates. You have good grades? It would be a waste not to study." I immediately rejected her idea? She must have good grades? But her family is too poor? She can hardly afford to support her. Now? Now that she is following me, I have to support her in school no matter how hard it is.
"My grades are not good? In fact, I am still ranked around 40th? The teachers forcefully hand out the certificates for the sake of looking good at home? Otherwise, I won't read it." Yu Xiaoxue shook her head.
A family that is so poor that they only have sweet potatoes and only certificates? It is impossible to expect a sensible child to finish school? Is it normal for Yu Xiaoxue to have such a mentality? I said: "What is the difference between being over forty and being number one? Just read it." ?Brother is rich? He has made tens of thousands in the past few years, enough for you to go to college."
I smiled pretentiously. After hearing this, Yu Xiaoxue stared at me. She was still afraid that I would lie to her: "Brother Tian, you lied to me...;...; you have no money at all."
"I have some. Why don't you call your aunt?" I said. I took out my cell phone and gave it to her. I found my mother's number and wanted to dial it. I knew she wouldn't dare to listen if I dialed it.
"Then you really didn't lie to Xue?" Yu Xiaoxue looked at me aggrievedly.
"You're not lying? Why are you lying to me? If it's not enough for your aunt to support you? You can pay it back slowly after you finish college? At that time, you would have earned several thousand a month? Now, washing dishes and carrying dishes in the county only costs over 800. ?When do you have to show off?" I advised her.
"Brother Tian...;...;Actually, I lied to you? Are those certificates true? I got second in grade last semester? Let me tell you? I could have gotten first? But that day Xiaobei said that I As long as she doesn’t answer the last question? If she gets first place, she’ll give me fifty? I was thinking of giving my dad two kilograms of rice wine and a plate of roast duck? Then I didn’t write that question...;...;"
Yu Xiaoxue bitterly took out a piece of fifty yuan rolled into a twist from the corner of her clothes and gave it to me: "But Xiaobei gave me the money? 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: Huh? Uncle Yu Gen? Why are you going back to Xiaoyitun this time? I didn’t bring it with me? I owe you two kilograms of rice wine and a plate of roast duck for Xue. If I have the strength to go back in the future, 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, that was because she was ignorant and hungry when she was a child.
"That's good. Listen to your Brother Tian. After finishing your studies, we plan to go to Tsinghua University and Peking University. We don't need that little money." I said in a loud voice.
"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.
I shook her off a few times and didn't shake her off, so I ignored her. Anyway, almost no one in the county knew me or her. I didn't care about this image.
But when I was thinking this? A familiar figure suddenly appeared at the farthest end of my sight!
"One egg!" I almost shouted! Breaking free from Yu Xiaoxue's hand? He chased after him as fast as he could!
Yu Xiaoxue was stunned. When she saw me chasing after me, 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. I watched Zhang Yidan’s figure disappear at the edge of the market from a distance.
"Brother Dan? How come?" Yu Xiaoxue asked me in surprise. She didn't seem to see it.
"Maybe I saw it wrong? Impossible? Impossible." I explained to myself. Then I looked at Yu Xiaoxue and smiled bitterly. Zhang Yidan was obviously dead? He was killed by his own ghost baby? Now he appears in broad daylight? How is this possible? A ghost taking advantage of him? Is it possible in the dark woods? In this sea of people? It's absolutely impossible.
The county has a population of 800,000. Is it normal to look similar? I sighed. Maybe the memories it evoked for Yu Xiaoxue reminded me of my friends here.
"Brother? Are you going to the antique street? It's right there? See?" Yu Xiaoxue pointed to the intersection where the man who looked like Zhang Yidan came out just now.
"Huh? You saw it? Let's go there." I said. My already calm heart became turbulent 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. There were even people selling chickens, ducks and geese.
I randomly found a shop with a friendly-looking owner. I asked him if he had old yellow paper, good cinnabar, and pens.
This kind of old county will never be short of such things? The boss quickly came up with several kinds.
I bought these things not because Zhao Qian didn't have them, but because I couldn't use things that others had used, which would affect the accuracy of spell casting.
I chose the oldest and most expensive aged cinnabar. This cinnabar costs tens of dollars per gram. I bought some and it cost more than 400. Because of the old yellow paper’s storage life? Not even a dozen. Cheap? Comes with a special brush? Six hundred yuan is just gone.
After thinking about it? Wealth law couple land? Is this true? It’s impossible to play with these gadgets if you don’t have money? Playing with this is 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. Then, you need to consider Taoist friends, partners, and a Taoist training place. How many of them will pass the test of time? In the end, you can become a generation of Taoist masters.
"Boss? Is there anyone wearing factory clothes just now? A young man in his twenties passing by? Or shopping here?" On a whim, I asked the boss about Zhang Yidan's clothes I just saw.
"Oh? Are you talking about him? Hey? I'm surprised? Why are you young people playing with these things recently? That person came to me just now? Like you, he asked me to buy cinnabar and a pen? It turned out that the pen was Did you buy it? When I took out the cinnabar, he said it was not suitable. I went to the street stall opposite and bought it. Haha? The boss made all the things opposite him. Can it be used?" The boss didn't hide it either. He pointed to the stall opposite. Setting up a street stall? That means it’s not good.
I immediately ran to find the old woman at the street stall and asked her if she had done business with the young man. The old woman was stunned and didn't say a word. She looked in the direction where Zhang Yidan disappeared before, pointed at Zhusha, and stretched out a finger. .
I thought about it. If I really don’t buy her stuff, I guess I can’t get anything out of her. So I took out fifty yuan and said, “Here are five grams.”
The old woman smiled? She stretched out a finger. But her smile was so penetrating. She exposed her severely missing dental plaque. But this was normal. But most of her tongue was broken off! Mute? Yu Xiaoxue and I were so frightened that we took two steps back!
The tongue must have been cut out!
"Young man? It's one hundred and one grams!" The boss opposite reminded me kindly when he saw that I was scared.
I felt like I couldn't get anything out of the question. The cinnabar turned brownish purple? I didn't know how to use it at all. So I pulled Yu Xiaoxue away.
I took the only two or three hundred I had left. I thought I still lacked a soul jar, so I planned to go to some antique stores.
A soul urn is an urn? It is specially designed to contain the ashes and bones of the dead? But 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 must find some pottery urns to replace them? What a pity. I went to a lot of antique shops. The boss told me that they were all handicrafts. What about the Han Dynasty? The Qing Dynasty? Cheap fakes cost hundreds. Take the evil spirit into your mouth.
I felt a chill in my heart. I thought Xijun’s home was probably missing. I carefully recalled the process of making my grandma’s soul urn. My grandma would go out every time before making the soul urn. After I came back, I found all the materials. .
These materials are not very special. They are just ordinary soil. But they seem to have never been intended for me to play with. 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. Can she find clay to make a soul urn? Then carve seal characters and bake it into a soul urn? The ghosts raised by such a soul urn are also very powerful. Can I do that?
"It's yin soil!" Just when I was hesitating, such a word popped into my mind. It made me completely give up staying in the antique street because I decided to make pottery by myself.
