market.
Bustling and crowded. Yuan Xiangru looked around, while Su Qing watched from a distance.
"Not bad." Su Qing took a look and walked into a tea shop on the street.
The tea shop is not very big, there is only the proprietress and a teenage tea girl.
"Sir, please take a seat." The tea girl greeted the guests timidly and led Su Qing to take a seat. "What kind of tea would you like, sir?"
"Everything is fine." Su Qing sat down.
The tea lady was stunned for a moment, then walked to the counter and asked: "Auntie, the customer said he wanted 'all good', what kind of tea is it?"
The proprietress who was settling the accounts raised her head and said angrily: "Everything is good, just give him any kind. He sounds like a new tea drinker and doesn't know how to pretend to save face."
The tea girl said oh and turned around to pick tea leaves. He looked back at Su Qing's appearance, picked a cup of tea, brewed it and served it to the table.
Su Qing picked it up, opened the lid and flipped it twice, took a sip, and smiled at the nervous tea lady. "Very good, thank you."
The tea girl's face suddenly turned red, and she turned around in a panic and left.
Su Qing sipped tea and looked outside.
Yuan Xiangru walked to the door of the shop, looked left and right as usual, and his eyes stopped on Su Qing.
"This person..." Yuan Xiangru felt like he had seen him before, but he couldn't remember anything.
After hesitating for a while, he walked into the store. "Excuse me, sir, have we met?"
"If you think you've seen it before, then you have." Su Qing replied, and then asked the tea girl: "How much money?"
Yuan Xiangru thought.
The tea lady comes. "Four articles."
Before he finished speaking, the proprietress also came over and interrupted the tea girl. "Four taels!"
Su Qing glanced at the landlady.
The tea lady was anxious. "Auntie, it's not that expensive. It's four Wen."
"You've been fussy all day long, what do you know?" the proprietress scolded the tea girl and smashed a big tea can on the table. "A bowl of tea is four cents, and this can is four taels. And it's unopened. I didn't intend to sell it. If you opened it, of course it will be counted."
"There's no such rule in the store..." The tea girl argued in a low voice with a blushing face. "And this pot of tea has long been..."
The landlady was furious and raised her hand to slap him, but was stopped by Yuan Xiangru.
"That's enough." Yuan Xiangru was very angry. "You shrew, you clearly saw me talking to this gentleman and thought he was a guest from out of town, so you were greedy and deliberately made things difficult for me."
"Hey, Mr. Yuan, don't talk to me." The landlady looked at Su Qing with a sinister look.
"What you have offended is Qi Gongdian. Whoever is familiar with you will be unlucky. If this guest knows you, he will have to... If it were me, I would pay the money and leave as soon as possible. If an official is surprised, it will not be four taels of tea." It’s about money.”
Su Qing took out four taels of silver and put it on the table, then picked up the tea can.
"That's right." The proprietress quickly put away the money, and a smile instantly bloomed on her face. "I know that our guest is not short of money, so you can come here often when you have time. From now on, don't talk to people who don't know the details, or you will get into trouble..."
"And you." The proprietress turned to the tea girl angrily. "Aren't you pitiful? I don't have a tea server here? You're clumsy, but your elbows are still turned out. Get out of here and don't let me see you again."
The tea girl cried after being scolded, lowered her head and walked out.
Su Qing stepped outside and handed the tea can to the tea girl. "The tea you chose is very good, and I will give you tea in return. Seeing that you are rich, you can try to make a living on your own."
The tea girl subconsciously took the tea can, feeling quite at a loss.
Su Qing walked away, with Yuan Xiangru watching from behind. As if he suddenly remembered something, he slapped his head fiercely.
"Oops, I remembered it!" Yuan Xiangru picked up the tea that Su Qing drank and drank it in one gulp, then chased after him with a quick stride.
"It's a bit of a bargain." The proprietress rolled her eyes, then saw the tea pot in the tea girl's hand, and laughed sarcastically. "It's great to be able to open a tea stall. The can of tea in your hand can be used as capital."
The tea girl bit her lip, got angry, and picked up a handful of tea leaves from the jar. "Just open it, this can of tea... eh?"
When she saw what she was holding in her hand, the tea girl was immediately stunned.
I'm afraid these tea leaves cannot be brewed.
Because it's gold.
Then she reached out and took out a handful to take a closer look. The tea girl's arm went limp and she almost dropped the jar.
There are no tea leaves in the jar, they are all gold leaves that look like tea leaves!
The onlookers saw it clearly, and their eyes widened in surprise.
"So much gold, just from that noble person."
"What a noble person, an immortal?"
"Yes, it's obviously tea leaves, but why did they turn into gold leaves..."
The landlady's eyes turned red and she shouted loudly. "Yes, yes, I remembered it. That was the gold I saved. I took it by mistake just now... um..."
Just after shouting a few words, the landlady suddenly felt a sharp pain in her tongue and spit it out involuntarily. Everyone exclaimed and looked at her in horror.
A big sore appeared on the boss's tongue, and she even opened her mouth.
"Woooo..."
The landlady whined in pain, but she still stared at the jar in the tea girl's hand. He rushed over like crazy, trying to grab it.
Just as she stretched out her hand, before she could touch the tea girl, the landlady stopped.
Under everyone's horrified gaze, sores also developed on both hands. It was densely packed like a toad's skin, and even had thick water flowing out of it.
"Retribution, this is retribution."
"Let me just say that the one just now was an immortal. Is it okay to steal the things given by the immortal?"
"Get away quickly..."
The crowd dispersed in a hurry, for fear of contaminating something.
"Woooooooo..."
The landlady also realized it, and she knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, her eyes full of pleading.
Su Qing is no longer here.
Only the tea lady hugged the jar tightly, knelt down facing the direction Su Qing left, and kowtowed devoutly.
There were two seemingly ordinary passers-by, exchanging glances with each other.
"Hurry and report to the Governor, there is a suspected fairy in the market!"
…
"Sir, please stay, sir, please stay..."
Yuan Xiangru kept chasing Su Qing, anxious and puzzled.
The man was obviously walking, and his pace was very slow. But he jogged so closely that he could barely keep up.
I don't know how long the chase lasted, but Su Qing stopped. Yuan Xiangru rushed forward panting, panting heavily.
"You, please slow down...my old bones are about to fall apart."
"Remember?" Su Qing asked.
"I, I've seen you." Yuan Xiangru managed to catch his breath. "Last night, in my dream, in my dream..."
Su Qing asked again. "What else?"
Yuan Xiangru shook his head. "I saw it in my dream. It's something very important. But I can't remember what it was specifically."
Su Qing said: "Do you have any impression of this place?"
Yuan Xiangru looked around and was slightly stunned.
This is a house with a white lantern hanging in front of the door. It looks like someone has just passed away.
He was sure that he had never been here before, but he felt that he had seen it before.
Seeing that the door was ajar, he pushed it open and walked in. When we arrived at the courtyard, we felt even more familiar. In particular, an old sickle stung some of his memories.
"Here, here..." Yuan Xiangru rubbed his head vigorously, suddenly stunned for a moment, and his eyes gradually calmed down. "I remembered it, I remembered it all. I tried the case here last night..."
"Now that I remember it, that's good." Su Qing said, "When your life is over, we will meet again."
"Wait a minute." Yuan Xiangru said hurriedly: "You said you wanted to help me, what should I do? I encounter an innocent soul seeking revenge at night, but I still have no choice."
"A cup of tea, life in two worlds. Half a cup of fragrant tea, the flow of yin and yang." Su Qing said: "You have made your own way, there is no need to ask me anymore. If you still have doubts, just ask Qi Gong."
"That old castrate?"
Yuan Xiangru was even more puzzled, but Su Qing was nowhere to be seen. Instead, there were several stunned police officers.
"Hey? How did you, an old man, get in! Do you know this is the scene of a murder... Quick, quick, quick, get out of here..."
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The master and his servants sell tea, and outsiders come in to drink. The master deceives the students in a foreign land, and the servants speak for themselves and are sent by the master. Customers buy tea and exchange it for gold as a gift to their servants. The Lord wants to seize it, sores will appear on his hands and mouth. Only then do we know that the guest is an immortal, and what he has given cannot be deceived.
"Jiuzhou Miscellaneous Notes"
