Seeing the old man's strange behavior, Lu Ran also took out an iron flower from his arms, followed the old man's example, squinted one eye, and put it against the other eye to examine it carefully.
All he saw was a gray iron color, and there was some uncomfortable foreign body feeling in the right pupil.
"You can't see anything!" Lu Ran took off the iron flower and muttered, then looked at the old man. He still maintained that strange posture, his body was trembling slightly, and his face still had an indescribable expression of extreme intoxication.
"Hey, are you ready? Can you give it back to me?" Lu Ran felt that the old man's intoxicated look was more or less scary.
The old man woke up when he heard the sound. He reluctantly took the iron flower out of his eyes and returned it to Lu Ran very slowly.
His eyes never left Tiehua, and the intoxication in his eyes turned into reluctance at this moment.
Lu Ran muttered in his heart, do you like it so much? He turned the iron flower over and looked at it, wiped it on his clothes, and prepared to stuff it back into his arms.
"How about it, little Taoist friend, you have so many coins, how about selling me one? I am willing to use half of my life savings to buy it from you..." The old man was a little panicked, and after thinking about it, he changed his words: "No, I am willing to use my life savings to buy it from you..." of my savings to buy from you.”
"That's it? How much is your life savings?" Lu Ran took the iron flower in his hand and looked at it, as if he saw some incredible way to make money, and then immediately began to imagine that he would become the richest man in Jueying City. I bought a lot of boats and had people pulling them around the streets to row them on land...
"Let Lao Chan think about it, well... Lao Chan has been cultivating for half his life, but he is only in the realm of Red Immortal. Therefore, he doesn't have many extraordinary items, but there are always more than forty. However, Lao Chan has quite a family fortune, and he always has hundreds of boxes of gold, silver, and jewelry. There are also five properties in Jueying City, and by the way, there are three beautiful concubines at home..." The old man was quite serious and carefully reported his property.
"Is there a house above Wanhuan?" Lu Ran asked seriously.
"Ah? That's the environmental education industry. However, I have a Red Immortal Certificate. With this certificate, I can freely come and go below the twentieth floor." The old man picked up an iron plate with a red edge from somewhere in his arms, with a large inscription engraved on it. The word "red" is inscribed, and there are a few lines of small characters and patterns, "Fellow Taoist, if you don't mind it, you can also send it as a gift."
"Are you serious?" Lu Ran had never done such a good deal before and couldn't help but ask.
"Of course, if the little fellow Taoist feels it's not enough, I still have a thousand acres of virgin forest in Xuyu Country. As long as the little fellow Taoist doesn't dislike it..." The old man really wants this iron flower and wants it desperately.
"Xu Yuguo..." Lu Ran suddenly felt a little sad in his heart, and he thought of another old man, Yu Shengshui, who saved his life in the cabin, and then thought of his grandfather, who wanted to take advantage of his boredom. , teasing the old man, he decided to give up at this time. At that moment, he saw the boss sitting on the back of a strong man and squeezing back from the crowd. On the other side of the crowd, Beiquan also took the "thin paper" Looking at another statue that he found somewhere, he pushed his way back between two foreign women in cool clothes holding hands.
"Okay, I'll give you one, remember to keep it well."
Lu Ran didn't think any more and threw the iron flower in his hand in the direction of the old man. At the same time, the man stepped forward and caught the statue of Bei Quan holding the piece of paper in his arms.
"Who is this?" Beiquan glanced at the old man. Because he was still a paper man, his eyes were moving around in his eye sockets, which looked very funny.
After taking off the talisman, he quickly "swelled up" like an inflated rubber ball and muttered: "Brother Lu, don't be deceived..."
Lu Ran hugged him and interrupted what he was going to say next: "Why did you go so long? Also, how could you squeeze in a place like that? Where are Shinan and the others?"
Then, he waved his hand to the old man who was almost frozen in place after catching the iron flower and motioned him to leave quickly.
The old man stood there for a long time, then caught up with him, bowed his hands to Lu Ran and Bei Quan, and asked: "Old Huaihuang, I am very grateful to my little Taoist friend for the gift of this treasure. I haven't asked you your name yet, so what?" Where do you live? I will come to thank you someday!"
"No, no need, we are just destined to meet each other again." Faced with such a scene, Lu Ran really didn't know how to deal with it.
"Yes. Yes. My little fellow Taoist is so generous, and I deserve it." The old man bowed, and it seemed that he was unwilling to get up even if Lu Ran didn't leave the house.
Lu Ran could only touch his head and said with some shame: "I'm sorry, I didn't tell the truth just now. I...I am actually from Xiaya..."
"It doesn't matter Xia, I will definitely come to thank you!"
"I...I have no home." Lu Ran finally couldn't resist and had to tell the truth.
Naturally, the old man understood immediately, and no longer pressed him hard. He just took out a pill-like thing from his sleeve, offered it with both hands, and said: "In that case, let's take this as a return gift and give it to my fellow Taoist." .”
"No, no need." Lu Ran waved his hand, and Bei Quan next to him said, "It's not a valuable thing, just a Fire Bead, so he reluctantly accepted it."
The old man named Huaihuang finally accepted Lu Ran's iron flower with peace of mind. He felt it was inappropriate to put it left and right, so he opened his mouth and swallowed it into his own mouth.
Lu Ran was very surprised, but the old man happily thanked him again, turned around and disappeared into the crowd of second-hand market.
Until the group of people returned to Wanhuan Building, Beiquan was explaining to Lu Ran that he had met a liar. The three most indispensable people in the second-hand market are swindlers, profiteers, and liars. There are still the most liars, and then they are familiar with each other. He told some classic scams, until he returned to the room, and the Insightful Heavenly Lord saw at a glance that the two statues he bought today were both replicas of the real world...
Lu Ran felt it didn't matter. Firstly, the iron flower was indeed not a treasure. Secondly, he estimated that he would never come to Jueying City again in this life. There was no possibility for the liar to deceive him next. Besides, what if the old man Are everything you said true? Then didn’t he help an old man fulfill his regrets of many years?
Isn't this a beautiful thing?
As Beiquan and other cave spirit cave disciples finished their dinner on the 19th floor of Wanhuan Building, Lu Ran silently returned to the lower five floors dedicated to entertaining ordinary people outside the church. He slept in the guest room and was bored. Lu Ran remembered again The old man I met today.
He took out from his arms the bead that the old man had finally given to him.
Beiquan said that this was the fire-preventing bead that almost all Taoist priests would make. Holding it in your mouth would protect you from fire.
Indeed, a mediocre blue and white bead, whether in color, luster or texture, is far inferior to the magic weapon that is also a bead on my body.
Lu Ran looked at it and suddenly remembered something, so he imitated the way the old man looked at Tie Hua during the day, squinted one eye and placed the bead on the pupil of the other eye.
This time, Lu Ran seemed to see something different. It seemed to be blue sky and white clouds, but it seemed not. The blue and white colors were changing, and soon they completely dispersed. Then, Lu Ran saw a very familiar but indescribable figure. I saw the pattern somewhere.
A pattern that is both yes and no, something and nothing, you within me, me within me, a pattern that cannot be described or even reproduced.
Lu Ran looked at it and soon became sleepy again. He completely forgot about attending the Huantian Festival tomorrow and fell into a deep sleep.
