After confirming that the monster was killed by herself, Lei Ling dragged its body with one hand and disappeared above the valley.
Zhang Quanliang, who was witnessing everything below, still felt as if he was in a dream. Was that a fairy descending to earth just now to save him?
For a time, countless story plots flashed through Zhang Quanliang's mind.
Unfortunately, the reality did not match any of the scripted plots.
The fairy didn't take a fancy to him, didn't even look at him.
Maybe, it’s just a matter of convenience for people to save themselves~~~
Looking at himself who had been scared to death at some point, Zhang Quanliang shook his head, reluctantly got up, found Lao Niu who was frightened and ran far away, and planned to go back. He would not dare to enter the city even if he was beaten to death today.
To his surprise, the two people riding the donkey, one large and one small, were still outside the valley and did not escape.
You know, the group of people who were traveling with him all ran away.
"It's best to go to the city to sell firewood now. It would be a pity to go back like this."
Ye Ming said with a smile.
Zhang Quanliang saw that this man was still talking and laughing, and then thinking about what this man said before, he realized that he was an expert. But after experiencing the monster, even though he knew that what this man said might be true, Zhang Quanliang still I didn't have the courage to go into the city anymore, so I chose to leave in an ox cart.
Ye Ming didn't persuade him anymore, he just smiled and rode the donkey's roots towards the valley.
Not long after entering the valley, Maisui also smelled the stench, covering his nose with a look of discomfort on his face.
Ye Ming was really unaware, and he leisurely rode his donkey to the box that had fallen on the ground.
The box was sealed extremely tightly, and it did not break even if it was dropped on the ground.
Ye Ming picked up the box with a bamboo stick, put it on the donkey's back, and continued moving forward.
After leaving the valley, we rode on our donkey's roots and walked to the trail on the other side.
After walking for a while, the road was rugged and blocked by thorns and trees covered with snowflakes.
Ye Ming was not in a hurry. After waiting for a while, he saw a slim woman dragging the body of a big monster appear.
When Maisui saw Lei Ling and the monster Stone, she was subconsciously afraid and hid behind Ye Ming.
Ye Ming looked at the monster corpse and said to Lei Ling:
"Your fist has no power. It took so many punches to kill it. It's still too weak."
Lei Ling rolled her eyes at him, turned into a cat, and jumped on Donkey Gen's head.
Maisui's eyes widened when she saw the cat that Lei Ling had turned into.
"monster!"
Although she was a monster, Maisui couldn't be afraid of such a beautiful and warm Lei Ling. After thinking about it, she reached out and hugged Lei Ling into her arms.
"Meow~~"
Lei Ling let out a comfortable meow. Just after she finished meowing, she realized that she shouldn't and glared at Ye Ming.
Ye Ming didn't look at her at all, but circled around the monster:
"These should be the two stone corpse spirits, spirits that the heaven and the earth will not accept and the rivers will not care about."
I poked the monster's body with a bamboo stick and found that there was no demon elixir or yin elixir in the monster's body.
After blowing a breath of wind on the monster corpse, the monster's body quickly decomposed. After a while, even the bones were disintegrated, leaving only a white stone.
Ye Ming waved and the stone fell into his hand. He weighed the stone, put it away, took the box with him, and left here on the back of a donkey, returning to the official road.
Along the way, I saw a few beggars freezing to death on the roadside. It seemed that they all died from the snowstorm last night.
Maisui looked at the people who were freezing to death and starving to death, with fear in her eyes, and her arms around Lei Ling unconsciously tightened a little harder...
Walking all the way to the county town, as soon as we arrived at the city gate, we saw a lot of people guarding the empty carriage and looking into the distance.
A man who looked like a housekeeper saw that Ye Ming was coming from the direction of the official road and asked:
"Blind man, did you meet any firewood sellers on the way here?"
"Met."
"How long until they arrive?"
"I probably won't come today."
Hearing that the firewood seller would not be coming today, the man who looked like a housekeeper suddenly looked helpless, as did several other similar people.
Ye Ming asked: "Why are you in such a hurry to use firewood?"
"What else can happen? It snowed suddenly this year, much earlier than last year. Many families in the city didn't prepare enough firewood, so they just relied on the firewood seller.
The firewood sellers who came to the city today were more expensive than usual! "
The man explained, Ye Ming smiled, said nothing more, and just went into the city.
When he arrived in the city, he found an inn to stay in. Ye Ming put the box in the back kitchen of the inn and asked the best cook in the inn to help process the ingredients.
Originally, the people at the inn didn't want to pay much attention to Ye Ming, but after seeing his generous spending, they immediately became enthusiastic.
The cook helped open the box and found that there was a box of crabs inside, all submerged in water and still alive.
"This crab..."
The cook looked surprised.
"This crab is incredible. It is an excellent ingredient, and the box used to store the ingredients is also excellent..."
Ye Ming didn't react at all to the chef's surprise, but emphasized that he should prepare this table of crabs well, and not even one crab should be missing.
The shopkeeper wanted to buy some crabs, but Ye Ming refused.
The number of crabs is fixed, and there are no other crabs in the shopkeeper's shop to replace them, so you can't cheat even if you want.
Ye Ming waited until he went to the guest room on the second floor to rest, and the cook began to process these delicious crabs.
But from a perspective he couldn't see, a figure stood in the shadows of the kitchen.
The figure looked at the various dishes in the kitchen, twitching his nose and salivating.
Especially after seeing the crab in the box, the figure couldn't help but want to get closer.
But because someone was there, they didn't really get close. They just stared at the delicious food without blinking.
After the cook has processed all the crabs, he carries the waste basket and goes out to dump out the waste.
Seeing the cook leaving, a figure hidden in the darkness emerged.
This is a spirit with a camel's head, dressed in red, and barefoot.
After the monster came out, he reached out to pick up the crabs that had just been processed but not yet cooked.
It's just that the spirit didn't notice at all that there was a cat watching behind him.
Just when it was about to touch the crab on the desk, the cat behind him stretched out its claws and pinned the monster to the ground.
The spirit was frightened and wanted to escape.
But it didn't seem to have any powerful abilities. It couldn't break free from the cat's claws and was pinned down tightly.
After holding down the spirit, the cat's paw lifted up and caught it in his palm. He turned around and jumped up to the second floor of the inn, entering the room where Ye Ming stayed.
Seeing Lei Ling come back, Ye Ming "looked" at the spirit in her palm.
Lei Ling flicked her paw, and the monster fell to the ground. When he saw Ye Ming, he immediately knelt down, as if begging for mercy.
Maisui on the side couldn't see the monster, but he could feel something there and looked at it strangely.
Ye Ming stretched out his finger between Mai Sui's eyebrows, and Mai Sui could see the monster.
"This should be Tang Yongmingjing..."
Tang Yongming's spirit often wanders around the kitchen stove and eats secretly. Anyone who touches anything contaminated by this monster will definitely get sick.
This monster is a strange thing between heaven and earth, with extremely poor cultivation, but it is not under the jurisdiction of any gods and monsters, including Yinsha and the like. Even if someone happens to eat food that has been touched by this monster and gets sick, this monster cannot be punished for it.
However, Ye Ming does not have any status as a shady person or a landowner now. For such a monster who dares to hit his own food, he can naturally be rounded and flattened at will.
Tang Yongming couldn't speak, but he knew what he was facing now, and kept kowtowing to beg for mercy.
"Do you want to deal with it?"
Lei Ling asked.
Maisui also looked at this strange camel head and asked curiously:
"Can this be eaten?"
Tang Yongmingjing was so frightened by the words of the two women that she kept kowtowing to Ye Ming and begging for mercy.
Ye Ming looked at the monster, thought for a while and then smiled:
"If you want me to let you go, that's okay. However, you need to follow me for a while and help me do something. After the task is completed, I will let you go."
When Tang Yongmingjing heard this, he kowtowed heavily.
Ye Ming took out a horn incense burner and said:
"You will be living here in the near future. When I need you, I will call you out."
Upon hearing this, Tang Yongmingjing felt as if he had been granted amnesty, turned into a burst of green smoke, and got into the horn incense burner.
After a while, the inn delivered the prepared crabs.
After instructing Maisui to close the door, Ye Ming asked Lei Ling to transform into a human form, and the three of them gathered around the table and ate together.
The cook at this inn is quite skilled, and he cooked crabs well, which was a feast for the three of them.
"Sir, although these crabs taste good, they are not worth the 800-mile expedited transportation. What on earth is General Dong doing at the border?"
Lei Ling asked with some confusion.
Ye Ming smiled and said: "You still don't understand human beings. Human beings often behave strangely. They don't consider whether it's worthwhile or not, they just want to do it."
"I have met Uncle Dong~~"
Maisui suddenly said something.
Lei Ling glanced sideways: "When did you see him?"
"When he came to visit us, dad asked us all to go and meet him."
Maisui thought hard, but she really couldn't remember what "Uncle Dong" looked like. She only remembered that he was a big man with a beard.
Lei Ling looked at Ye Ming, but Ye Ming didn't say anything.
Seeing this, Lei Ling chose to continue eating crabs and no longer asked about the matter.
After Meimei had a meal of crabs, Ye Ming decided to restart his fortune-telling business and set up a stall in the town.
This time I asked Mai Sui to help call people over, but Mai Sui didn't like to talk and didn't cooperate at all. In the end, I had to use a rag to make a "divine fortune" flag and stand it up.
In the middle of winter, there wasn't much work for everyone, so when they saw a fortune teller, they came over to join in the fun.
Maisui saw many people gathered around, and her eyes were unconsciously focused on their wallets. Just when she was about to take action, she felt a slap on her butt.
Maisui looked back angrily and found out that it was Ye Ming who hit her, and immediately lost her temper.
Telling fortunes for these people is a piece of cake for Ye Ming now.
But the strange thing is that a scholar came to sit for the imperial examination, but the result was fruitless.
Since the first time he calculated the divination without any results, Ye Ming had done divination for many scholars along the way.
The results that can be obtained are, without exception, all fruitless.
This made Ye Ming have some guesses. Could it be that something terrible was about to happen, which would cause all the scholars' imperial examinations to be in vain.
This is not a good thing. Scholars are the backup force of officials. If something goes wrong with all the scholars.
The world may be in chaos. If the world is in chaos...
That's great!
Ye Ming has long been looking forward to the day when the world will be in chaos.
As a big devil, the world will be in chaos, and all kinds of monsters and monsters that will not be born in peacetime will appear. At that time, the world will become a paradise for monsters.
In fact, since entering Chenzhou, which has strong folk customs, the probability of encountering monsters and ghosts on the road is much higher than in other places.
Just like today, I met two spirits in one day.
After setting up a stall for a while, Ye Ming noticed that a person who came to tell fortunes had the scent of fine wine. He knew that this person was the tavern owner. After helping him with his fortune telling, he closed the stall and climbed to the tavern with the person. After a good drink, we left satisfied.
The shopkeeper also felt that Ye Ming was very accurate in fortune-telling and that he was a strange person and wanted to make friends with him. The next day, he invited Ye Ming to have a drink with him.
Ye Ming happily agreed and stayed in this small town for three days.
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