Xu Shouguang returned to his home, which was surrounded by drafts. He took out a short candle from under the broken mattress on the floor and placed the candle on the table. After carefully lighting it, he took out the jade ring found in the Earth Temple from his arms and looked at it carefully in front of the candlelight. I can see that the jade used for this jade ring finger is deep green, even and transparent in color; the gold edge inlaid on the jade body has rolled up cloud patterns, which is lifelike. In the past, I often heard some guests talking about jade in the teahouse, and Xu Shouguang knew something about it. This was the legendary jade inlaid with gold.
"My dear, gold inlaid with jade! Just like the emperor's jade seal..." Xu Shouguang looked at the jade ring attentively, and immediately turned his face to smile: "It must be worth a lot of money! I'll go to the pawn shop to give it to him tomorrow. If you exchange it for money, you can eat roast chicken every day, wear new clothes, live in a big house, and take Xiaocui as your wife..."
The more Xu Shouguang thought about it, the happier he became. He put the jade ring on his thumb, kissed the jade ring, and then carefully wiped the jade ring clean with his sleeve, and looked at the jade ring again with joy. . Suddenly, Xu Shouguang seemed to see a ball of white flowing slowly in the jade body through the candlelight.
Xu Shouguang rubbed his eyes, looked closer, and saw that there was indeed a white mist-like thing in the jade body. This white mass sometimes shrank, sometimes bulged, sometimes became square, and sometimes became round.
"What the hell is this? It seems alive..." Xu Shouguang stared at the white mass and said to himself: "There are rice worms in the rice and bookworms in the books. Could it be that there is a jade worm living in this jade? ".
"You are the worm! Your whole family is a worm!" A childish voice came from nowhere. Xu Shouguang was so frightened that he couldn't sit still and fell to the ground.
"Who! Come out! I saw you!" Xu Shouguang quickly got up, looked around, and shouted into the air.
"Stop talking nonsense. I, the Great God Bai Ze, am the weapon spirit of this treasure wheel that subdues demons and suppresses evil. How can you, a mere mortal, see me!"
After Xu Shouguang listened, he didn't know what the treasure wheel of subduing demons and suppressing evil was that the young voice said. After scanning around, his visual focus fell on the jade ring on his left thumb, and he murmured in his heart: "Is this the magic wheel?" What about the treasure wheel of subduing demons and suppressing evil?"
"What are you looking at! Yes, it's me!" A childish voice sounded in Xu Shouguang's ears again.
"Oh my god! Monster!" Xu Shouguang ripped off the jade ring and threw it on the table. He jumped up from the bench and took several steps back until his heels hit the wall. He carefully observed the jade ring lying quietly on the table. The flickering candlelight shone on the jade ring finger, but in Xu Shouguang's eyes, it seemed as if an evil ghost could jump out of it at any time and abduct it.
After a while, he found that the sound did not appear again and that the jade ring had no other strange reactions. Xu Shouguang cautiously and slowly approached, pulled out a piece of rag and quickly wrapped the jade ring in it. , and then with one lunge, he stuffed the rag bag under the ragged mattress.
After doing all this, Xu Shouguang finally breathed a sigh of relief. He sat back on the bench in front of the table, looked at the bulging ball on the broken mattress on the ground, gritted his teeth and said, "What do you care about the Seven Spirits and Eight Spirits?" Bai Na, I’ll sell you to a pawn shop tomorrow.”
The next day, in Xingyuan Pawn Shop in Jiazhou City, Xu Shouguang threw the rag bag on the counter and said to the pawn shop clerk: "Pawn this for me."
The waiter raised his eyes and glanced at Xu Shouguang. Seeing that the boy in front of him was wearing shabby clothes, he ignored him and just tore open the dirty rag with his fingertips with some disgust. When the exquisite gold-inlaid jade finger ring was revealed, the clerk was stunned, but he quickly suppressed his emotions and said in a somewhat disgusting tone: "This is a piece of junk, and I can only give you two at most." Ten cents." After saying that, he glanced at Xu Shouguang secretly.
Xu Shouguang didn't know the tricks of this pawnshop clerk, so he followed the pawnbroker's words: "Since it is so lowly, then I shouldn't do it." After that, he pretended to reach out to take back the jade ring finger.
When the waiter saw Xu Shouguang's posture, he immediately became scared. He quickly covered the jade ring on the counter with both hands and said with a smile: "Guests, please don't get excited. I'm just afraid of receiving fake goods. I deliberately tested it. Please forgive me!" "
After hearing this, Xu Shouguang withdrew his hand and asked deliberately with a bit of sullenness: "Then how much do you think my treasure is worth?"
The clerk looked at Xu Shouguang and then at the jade ring on the counter. He hesitated for a long time but did not dare to give a price. This made Xu Shouguang anxious. He said to the clerk: "I think your eyesight is still poor after all." Why don't you go ask your shopkeeper to come over and let him come up with a price?"
The waiter thought about it and got up and went to invite the shopkeeper. But after lifting the curtain in the room, he turned around again, faced Xu Shouguang with a smile and said: "Guest, I'm going to invite the shopkeeper. He will be here in a moment. Please excuse me." You wait here first, don’t leave!”
Xu Shouguang smiled and said: "Haha, don't worry, I won't leave. Go and ask the shopkeeper to come."
Seeing that Xu Shouguang responded, the waiter felt relieved and went into the back room.
After a while, the waiter pulled out a short, fat, middle-aged man from the back room, pointed at the jade ring on the table and said, "This is the shopkeeper's."
The shopkeeper looked along the direction of the waiter's hand and saw a jade ring with a dark green body and gold rim lying on the counter. The shopkeeper hurriedly shook off the waiter's hand, strode to the counter, carefully picked up the jade ring finger, and looked at it carefully. After a while, the shopkeeper reluctantly put down the jade ring, bowed to Xu Shouguang and said, "The waiter was ignorant before, so please don't blame me. I've seen this jade ring. It's a good item." "Okay, let me pay you five taels of silver. What do you think, guest?" As he said this, the shopkeeper opened his five fingers boldly.
"My dear, five taels of silver, five thousand wen, how many good things can you buy with that!" Xu Shouguang felt happy, and then Xu Shouguang showed a very dissatisfied expression and repeated in a questioning tone To: "What? Five taels?"
When the shopkeeper saw Xu Shouguang's expression, he felt a little guilty and said tremblingly: "Five...five...fifty taels."
"Oh my god, fifty taels! It actually doubled ten times. It seems that this old guy is very dishonest." Xu Shouguang thought to himself, and then shouted in an almost angry tone: "Only fifty taels?"
When the shopkeeper heard Xu Shouguang's tone, he was afraid that he had made a mistake and made Xu Shouguang angry, so he hurriedly said with a smile: "Fifty taels is the most that other stores can offer, but the guest came to our Xingyuan today. Pawn shop, I make the decision, two hundred taels!"
"Hey, being angry can actually give me an extra one hundred and fifty taels! From now on, I should be angry every day..." Xu Shouguang felt happy in his heart. He simply calmed down and wrapped the jade ring with a rag again. Get up, turn around and leave.
At this time, the shopkeeper was so anxious that he rushed to the door and blocked Xu Shouguang's way. Seeing the attitude of the shopkeeper, Xu Shouguang hugged the rag bag to his side and said to the shopkeeper over his shoulder: "What's going on? Are you kidding me?"
After hearing this, the shopkeeper felt that it was neither a given nor a refusal, so he gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, and said, "Five hundred taels! Five hundred taels! No more..."
"That's pretty much it..." Xu Shouguang saw that he was almost done, and then he turned back to the counter.
At this time, the waiter seemed to have thought of something. He walked to the shopkeeper's side in a few steps, covered his mouth with his hand and whispered a few words in the shopkeeper's ear. After hearing this, the shopkeeper also showed a look of surprise, but he quickly put the smile back on his face, came to Xu Shouguang, bowed and said: "Guest, five hundred taels is not a small amount, I am just short of it." The guy is going to raise some semicolons, please sit down in the inner hall and rest for a while." After that, he made a gesture of invitation.
Xu Shouguang didn't know what the waiter had just said to the shopkeeper, but he was afraid that if he missed it and the price would be affected, he had to pretend to be sophisticated and follow the shopkeeper to the inner hall in a swaggering manner.
Entering the inner hall, the shopkeeper enthusiastically brewed a large pot of Mengding tea for Xu Shouguang, and placed a large plate of preserved fruits in front of Xu Shouguang. Xu Shouguang had never eaten these before, so he picked one from the left and stuffed it into his mouth. , that sweet taste is so pleasant.
After a while, the waiter came back, followed by three men in dark long-sleeved robes. The first man entered and sat directly opposite Xu Shouguang. Xu Shouguang was wondering how unruly the money giver was, when the man spoke.
"Where did you get this jade ring?"
"It's passed down in the family."
After hearing this, the man sneered slightly, and then asked: "Do you know what this jade ring is?"
"Of course, this is called a treasure wheel that subdues demons or suppresses evil."
Seeing that Xu Shouguang was able to answer, the man winked at Xu Shouguang, who immediately understood and pushed away the pawnshop owner and the clerk, then slowly and silently leaned towards Xu Shouguang's back.
"Since you know about this treasure, you must have seen it."
"What is it? I've never seen it before. It's nothing. This baby is clean."
The man smiled and said with some sinisterness in his words: "Boy, now that you know the secret of this treasure, I can't let you go out and talk nonsense. Don't bear any grudge against us when you go there... "
Before he finished speaking, Xu Shouguang felt a sound of wind behind his head. "Oops, these old men are going to do something evil!" Xu Shouguang screamed in his heart. He didn't have time to turn around, and immediately used the Immortal Steps technique, tilted his head, and saw an iron ruler whizzing. A sound grazed Xu Shouguang's hair and hit the tea bowl in front of Xu Shouguang. In an instant, the tea bowl shattered inch by inch, and the pieces scattered everywhere.
When Xu Shouguang saw this, he couldn't help being shocked. If he hadn't dodged in time, what would have been splashed all over the floor was not the crumbs of the tea bowl, but his own brains. Seeing the killer on the opposite side, Xu Shouguang did not dare to hesitate. He kicked off his feet and fell backwards along with the bench. The moment he landed, Xu Shouguang exerted force on his waist and followed the momentum of his previous fall and rolled backwards. The three people were surrounded.
"Who are you? If you want to take my treasure, just take it. Why do you need to kill me!" Xu Shouguang stood up and shouted to the three people opposite him.
After hearing this, the leading man said with a ferocious smile: "Boy, the common man is not guilty, but he is guilty of having a jade. The only blame is that you know something you shouldn't know!" After that, the man took out a simple knife from behind. , together with the two people on the left and right, slowly approached Xu Shouguang.
Seeing that the opponent was coming to kill him, Xu Shouguang no longer hesitated. He looked at the man holding the iron ruler closest to him and used the "golden cup in the air to the moon" move, punching the man with the iron ruler. The blow to the chest came suddenly, causing the iron ruler man to lose his balance and fall backwards.
When the man holding a stick on the other side saw it, he hurriedly raised the stick and struck it down on Xu Shouguang's back. Xu Shouguang glanced at him from the corner of his eye and leaned forward, but immediately took a step to support his falling body. When he fell back, he slid the cloth in front of the stick man, reached out and grabbed the stick man's collar, pulled it in front of him, and then gave the stick man an iron rock on his shoulder, knocking the stick man to the ground.
Pu DaoNan saw Xu Shouguang knocking down two of his men one after another, so he picked up Pu DaoNan and rushed over. Seeing this, Xu Shouguang stretched out his left hand and pinched out orchid fingers, and shouted: "Hidden weapon!"
Hearing the sound, Pu DaoNan hurriedly raised his knife to protect his face. After waiting for a while, there was no movement. When he saw that Xu Shouguang had taken the opportunity to run to the door, Pu DaoNan was furious. He raised his Pu Dao and jumped towards Xu Shouguang again. At this time, Xu Shouguang stretched out his left hand and pinched out orchid-like fingers. Pu DaoNan saw this and shouted angrily: "Here you go again!" He ignored it and continued to charge forward with the knife raised. But he didn't expect Xu Shouguang to actually pop out a hidden weapon from the fingertips of his left hand, and it hit Pu Daonan Yintang as fast as a meteor. Pu Daonan was so hit that stars appeared in his eyes, and he immediately sat down on the ground, and the hidden weapon also rolled down. In Park Daonan's hand. Pu Daonan picked it up and took a look.
"preserved fruit!"
When he raised his eyes again, he saw no sign of Xu Shouguang at the door. He looked at his two men before they got up from the ground. Pu DaoNan shouted angrily: "Trash! Hurry up and chase!" The stick man and the iron ruler man both looked at each other helplessly and followed Pu DaoNan out the door.
Xu Shouguang escaped from the inner hall and met the pawnshop clerk head-on. Seeing Xu Shouguang escaping alone, the clerk knew that the man in front of him was really capable, so he immediately got under the counter and got out of the way. When Xu Shouguang saw it, he was not polite and ran over quickly. But as soon as I ran over, I felt dissatisfied after thinking about it, so I turned around and kicked the shivering guy's buttocks under the counter. I heard an "ouch" from under the counter, followed by another "boom". I think this guy's butt hurt from patronizing, and his head hit the counter. Xu Shouguang didn't bother to laugh. He was worried that the three people in the inner hall were chasing him, so he hurried out the door again.
After running a long way and seeing no one chasing him, Xu Shouguang stopped and took a rest. After resting, Xu Shouguang recalled what had just happened and thought to himself: "This group of people came up to kill people. They are really vicious. Why don't they report it to the official and arrest the boss and the clerk of Xingyuan Pawn Shop... "
Thinking of this, Xu Shouguang walked towards the government office, but after only walking a few steps, Xu Shouguang felt that something was wrong, so he simply stopped and squatted on the roadside to analyze.
"Those three evil stars not only want to take away my treasure, but also want to take my life. I have no enmity with them. They want to take my life because I know a secret. What secret do I know? How could I know anything? It’s a secret! Hey! I’ve been wronged! If I go to them to explain my story clearly, they won’t believe it. So... forget it, let’s find a place where no one is around tonight and ask that guy clearly. , I have to be a sensible man even if I die. By the way, those three evil stars, one is holding a simple knife, one is holding an iron ruler, and the other is holding a stick. These weapons are well-equipped for the yamen... Maybe they are errands in the government. Yes, then if I go to the Yamen to file a complaint, wouldn’t it be a sheep entering the tiger’s mouth?”
Xu Shouguang was secretly glad that he had thought more carefully and did not send himself to the Yamen rashly.
"Since they are from the government, if the three evil stars cannot find me, they will definitely accuse me of something when they return, and then they will issue arrest documents and search for me all over the city... Hi, What evil have I done... No, I have to find a place to hide quickly. Where should I go? Xiaocui's house..." Thinking of this, Xu Shouguang couldn't help but blush.
"Bah, bah, bah, what are you thinking! Xiaocui's mother is so greedy for money. If she saw the silver reward in the Haidu document, she wouldn't be the first to sell me!" Xu Shouguang slapped himself.
"Then where should we go to escape?"
Suddenly, Xu Shouguang thought of what the sloppy Taoist said just last night, "The Taoist asked me to go to the east... There is Lingyun Temple to the east. I'll go there first and have a look."
