"Brother, you are finally out."
As soon as I got home, the kid ran over to greet me.
"Well, good job this time!"
Chu Chen touched the little guy's head and praised him greatly.
This time the three of them were in deep trouble. Thanks to the little kid, he promptly informed his master, Taoist Master Xu Ping, and avoided a lot of unnecessary troubles and conflicts.
"Senior brother, it's so early for the office today. Let's go out and have fun?"
The little kid looked at Chu Chen expectantly.
Following the old-fashioned and serious Taoist Xu Ping, he rarely had the opportunity to go out to play. He was either at home looking after the house or working with the Taoist on official business.
Playing around with his senior brother is what the kid looks forward to most every day.
Chu Chen smiled and said dotingly: "Okay, let's go, senior brother will take you out to play."
"Oh~ Senior brother is so powerful and domineering!"
The little ghost boy held a small oil-paper umbrella and kept circling Chu Chen, jumping up and down and cheering.
I said I was going out for fun, but in fact there were no interesting places to visit in the county.
It was nothing more than Chu Chen taking the kid to visit the evening market, and feeling the excitement of the evening market streets under the sunset.
Even so, the little kid had a lot of fun and never wanted to leave.
Chu Chen bought toys such as wooden horses and bamboo figures for the little ghost, and also bought yellow talisman paper and cinnabar, spending a total of a total of money.
Wooden horses and bamboo figures were made by old farmers in the countryside during their spare time, and were shipped to the county town for sale. They were very cheap, and they could be bought for just twenty cents.
The things were not expensive, but the little devil was so happy that he hugged the wooden horse and the bamboo man, and his eyes turned into crescents when he smiled.
This time when he went out, besides taking the kid out to play, Chu Chen's main purpose was to buy the materials needed to practice the spell [Blowing Hair into a Tiger].
Yellow talisman paper and cinnabar are easy to buy, but paper covering the dead at noon is a bit harder to buy.
Chu Chen ran to several longevity material shops before he found it.
The longevity material shop is called Wanshou Pu.
Although the shopkeeper of Shoucai Shop has no Taoist experience, he has been in this industry and has dealt with gods and ghosts a lot, and he has found a unique way to make money.
In addition to selling paper money, shrouds, coffins, etc. in the store, the shopkeeper of the longevity store usually collects a lot of strange and weird things, just waiting for customers with special needs like Chu Chen to come and kill them.
"Liang Guan? Shopkeeper, you are so fucking crazy about money!"
The shopkeeper of Wanshou Shop pretended to be displeased: "Hey, guest, why are you scolding me? We are doing business and never cheat others."
Chu Chen hugged his fists to express his apology and said politely: "Shopkeeper, you are so fucking crazy about money."
Chu Chen is a Taoist who is elegant, easy-going, well-educated, and never uses bad language at will.
But when he saw the shopkeeper smiling and gesturing, he still couldn't hold it back.
What a fucking trap.
Two thousand cents, that's two thousand pennies. A bowl of noodles on the street costs only a few pennies. It's just a piece of paper covering the dead. How dare you offer two cents!
Ordinary people would not dare to ask for something like a deceased person's covering paper because they think it is unlucky to give it away for free.
"Okay, you go about your business, we can't afford it."
After saying that, Chu Chen turned around and left without saying a word.
"Hey~ Guest, don't leave. The price is negotiable. You can tell me how much it is, and I'll give it to you if it suits you."
The shopkeeper of Wanshou Pu quickly grabbed Chu Chen, with a kind smile on his face, but not as arrogant as before.
Chu Chen turned back and glanced at the shopkeeper, but without speaking, he made a one-two gesture.
The shopkeeper's face fell, and he looked embarrassed, and said: "Guest, you are bargaining too hard, two hundred coins... this is going to be a loss... Hey, hey, forget it, two hundred cash is just two One hundred wen, why is it difficult to do business these days? Two hundred wen, I’ll give it to you.”
Chu Chen was unmoved, shook his head and said: "Shopkeeper, you misunderstood, I will pay you twenty coins."
The shopkeeper's face dropped. How could he bargain like this? Two thousand coins were reduced to twenty coins.
"No, no, no, you have no sincerity, you won't sell it if you don't want it."
The shopkeeper of Wanshoupu shook his head like a rattle and flatly refused.
Twenty pennies is still a bit of a profit, but he is a businessman with integrity and doesn't bother to make these few pennies.
Chu Chen smiled and said, "Okay, I'll add a little more. The fixed price is thirty cents. Boss, I just don't want to waste time. Otherwise, even ten cents would be too expensive for me."
"Deal! Thirty coins are for you!"
The shop owner of Wanshou Shop looked so distressed that he couldn't bear to give up his love, which made people laugh.
Sometimes, if you act too much, it becomes true.
The shopkeeper is this kind of person, and his distress comes from the bottom of his heart.
If you don't kill anyone, it's a loss. How can you not be sad?
After paying the money quickly, Chu Chen was about to leave, but the shopkeeper pulled him mysteriously.
"Guest, do you need anything else? I have a lot of weird things, such as geranium blood clothes, women's obscene clothes, fetal clothes and bags..."
"No need, no need."
Chu Chen waved his hands again and again, then turned around and left.
However, he remembered something and said: "The fetal clothing bag, is it for a baby girl or a baby boy?"
The shopkeeper touched his head and recalled: "It should be the baby girl's clothes and bag. Why, the customer needs it. This thing cannot be cheap, and I won't lie to you. Two hundred coins, no bargaining!"
"Okay, bring them to me. By the way, give me a pair of women's pants..."
Amid the laughter of "hehe" from Wanshou Shop, Chu Chen left the Shouchai Shop with a calm expression.
Good guy! It’s so embarrassing to buy something like this.
After leaving the longevity shop, Chu Chen hurriedly took the little ghost back home, fearing that he would bump into an acquaintance on the road.
"Brother, why did you buy these?"
The kid was quite puzzled.
It's not surprising that the dead person's covering paper is used in some spells, but why buy women's pants for the cook and maid sister at home?
"Ahem~"
Chu Chen was quite embarrassed and touched the little devil's head:
"Senior brother, you need it for practicing spells. Don't talk nonsense everywhere, and don't tell the master, otherwise I won't take you out to play in the future, and I won't buy you toys."
"Oh! Senior brother, I know, don't tell anyone!"
The little kid nodded solemnly, quite seriously, as if being able to keep his senior brother's secret was a very happy and sacred thing.
Chu Chen nodded slightly, feeling relieved now.
Fortunately, the little devil is not a big mouth, otherwise, he could easily die socially accidentally.
Impulse is the devil!
Baby girls' clothes bags and women's pants are the materials needed to practice the magic [undressing and undressing]. Originally, he had never seriously thought about practicing this magic.
However, who made things happen by chance?
I bought the training materials for [Blowing Hair to Become a Tiger], and I happened to meet them all.
The cost of the materials was not much, so he bought it without thinking because he had many skills and wanted to learn as many spells as he could.
Not long after Chu Chen came back, Taoist priest Xu Ping also returned from "dismissal".
The Taoist priest came back very early today.
Ever since, the master and apprentice happened to have dinner together when they were free.
The cook cooked a table of food for the master and apprentice, served it to the table, and then went to eat with the concierge, servants, and maids.
The cook, the concierge, the servant, and the maid, they are a family. They were attracted by the ghosts and gods, and came to work in the mansion to make money.
In the same house, the two families reunited and chatted, which was quite harmonious.
Taoist Xu Ping chatted with Chu Chen about things in the Department of Ghosts and Gods, and then asked:
"How's your calligraphy practice going? Is there anything you don't understand?"
