chun jie di xiao long
Chapter 647 Wonderful
Familiar?
Indeed familiar.
The instant this talisman paper fluttered out,
everyone present
actually recognized it.
Isn't this exactly the talisman paper the old Taoist repeatedly referred to as "This is my last ancestral talisman paper!"
Zhou Ze took the talisman from Lawyer An.
Indeed,
it was exactly the same.
The old Taoist always kept a large stack of these talisman papers in the little monkey's backpack, a thick pile.
Even the others in the bookstore could occasionally mooch some from the old Taoist to use.
This talisman paper didn't have strong offensive power, but it often produced some peculiar effects.
Especially after being warmed up, its effect was at its best.
Is this what the Lord of Mount Tai left for me?
Zhou Ze wasn't angry anymore; he couldn't even get angry. This was clearly something commonplace in his own bookstore, yet the Lord of Mount Tai had treated it like a treasure, placing it here as a reward for the person who received his inheritance and was promoted to constable in the future.
Lord,
don't you feel ashamed?
If he hadn't met the old Taoist, Zhou Ze might have really treated this talisman paper as a treasure and enshrined it,
only to be terribly tricked when he took it out to use in a critical moment.
"Heh heh."
Lawyer An chuckled dryly.
To ease the awkward atmosphere,
he clapped his hands
and said,
"Well, let's have breakfast."
No matter what, disappointment was disappointment, but they still had to eat.
Everyone went downstairs to have breakfast in the hotel restaurant.
Lawyer An sat down and ordered a bowl of noodles, adding a spoonful of chili oil. He ate heartily, but his eyes clearly held worries.
It wasn't the first time,
it really wasn't the first time.
Damn it,
first the dream he had before,
then the little monkey, who had clearly received the blessing of the Mountain Moving Ape, being so close to the old Taoist,
and now even the talisman paper had come out!
Lawyer An chewed on the noodles with large mouthfuls.
He suddenly had the feeling that he might have bet on the wrong horse?
The chosen one didn't seem to be the boss; although the ghost hunter certificate was in Zhou Ze's hands, it was just a certificate.
As the saying goes, a good bird chooses a tree to perch on, right?
But Lawyer An thought about it.
Even if the old Taoist really had a deep relationship with the Lord of Mount Tai,
was he supposed to change his tastes and, in order to curry favor, accompany him to low-end foot massage parlors or streetwalkers every day to comfort the ladies?
That would be too unfair to himself.
Furthermore,
the last Lord of Mount Tai was a guy who had been tricked by the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva,
a king of a fallen nation.
Compared to Ying Gou, the difference was still too great.
Hmm,
it was still more promising to follow a salted fish.
Life was also more enjoyable,
at least he didn't have to force himself.
Xu Qinglang was eating fried dough sticks with soybean milk, eating very slowly and deliberately, but he was also thinking.
Although everyone tacitly avoided bringing the matter to the table,
everyone had their own thoughts.
The old Taoist
was very likely inseparable from the Lord of Mount Tai.
No wonder,
he was so good at attracting trouble,
but he managed to live to be over seventy years old,
while everyone else was unlucky just being around him.
Xu Qinglang took another bite of the fried dough stick
and took another sip of soybean milk.
Forget it,
he didn't want to think about it anymore.
Ying'er sat next to Zhou Ze, peeling eggs for him. She didn't eat them herself but liked to serve Zhou Ze's meals.
Zhou Ze didn't speak, and neither did she.
Zhou Ze had the easiest and most carefree breakfast. He didn't get any public money, which was a bit of a pity, but it wasn't enough to make him bang his head on the ground. Life had to go on, right?
Zhou Ze was open-minded.
As for the old Taoist's affairs, he didn't really care. Counting them, there wasn't a single normal person in his bookstore anyway. He, the boss, was somewhat used to it.
Because there weren't enough plane tickets for today's flight, and if they were going back, everyone would go back together, they simply bought tickets for tomorrow afternoon.
Everyone discussed taking this opportunity to go out and have a look around,
to make up for the fatigue and twists caused by Mu Chengen's matter. After all, after all the fuss, they really needed some leisure and relaxation.
Lawyer An drove to the bar. His body had recovered, and it was time to draw his bow and fire arrows. He couldn't bear to wait even a moment.
Plus, during this time, everyone else could sleep, but he hadn't been able to sleep at all, and the accumulated negative emotions and pressure also needed to be released.
In the past,
he really relied on this method to relieve the depression and pressure brought on by his inability to sleep.
Xu Qinglang, on the other hand, was wandering around the ancient city alone, planning to walk around and see the sights. He had arrived the night before, and he had only wandered around for a while at night before encountering the Skeleton Knight's affair, and he hadn't enjoyed himself at all.
Zhou Ze thought about it. They had all gone out, and he had no reason to keep Ying'er cooped up in the room with him.
He also wanted to take his maid out to play. After all, since Ying'er had followed him, she had either been working in the bookstore or running around with him in the northeast and west. He had rarely taken her out to play purely for fun. After making a choice, Zhou Ze took Ying'er by taxi to the local Lijiang Eternal Love Scenic Area.
"Eternal Love" was an ancient-style amusement park with stage performances as its main attraction. The most famous ones were the Hangzhou Songcheng Eternal Love, the Sanya Eternal Love, the Jiuzhai Eternal Love, and the Lijiang Eternal Love here.
As soon as you entered Lijiang, you could see its overwhelming advertising.
Zhang Yimou had also directed the "Impression Lijiang" program in Lijiang,
but that was on the mountain, and Zhou Ze was too lazy to bother going up the mountain again, so he didn't choose to go there.
He took a taxi to the entrance of the Eternal Love Scenic Area.
The large sign at the entrance archway read:
"Give me a day and I'll give you a thousand years."
It did show a kind of domineering confidence.
However, in fact, whether it was the Lijiang, Hangzhou, or Sanya Eternal Love, they all seemed to have changed their skin, but in reality, the routines were still the same. This was similar to many novels in Zhou Ze's bookstore.
Ying'er went to buy two VIP tickets. The performance was still more than two hours away, so they could take this time to stroll around the ancient city.
Even though he was a bachelor in both lives,
even if he hadn't eaten pork, he'd seen pigs run, right?
In the shops in the ancient city, Zhou Ze picked out some accessories and ethnic costumes for Ying'er, watched her change into them, and then gave his comments.
At some man-made famous scenic spots, Zhou Ze also took photos of Ying'er and asked nearby tourists to take a few group photos for them.
Ying'er was very happy.
She really stuck to Zhou Ze like a high school girl.
In a daze,
Zhou Ze also had a sense of guilt for abducting a minor.
That wasn't right.
Many high school students were actually adults.
Mmm.
A lot of people were gathered in front,
and a variety show team was wearing ancient-style clothes and performing "A Sea of Knives and a Mountain of Flames."
Ying'er pulled Zhou Ze to watch beside her.
Actually,
Zhou Ze really wanted to say,
you're not afraid of fire,
and you're not afraid of these knives,
what's so good about it?
These performers emphasized skills and methods. To put it bluntly, they also relied on technical work to make a living, which was different from you, who was invulnerable to swords and fire.
But fortunately, Boss Zhou still knew how to restrain himself from saying these atmosphere-destroying words.
"Guests from all over the world gather here because of fate. Welcome everyone to visit us. Next, we will bring you a very dangerous and exciting program:
Climbing the Mountain of Knives!
Next,
I will randomly invite a friend from below to help us test and confirm
whether these knives
are real knives!
Whether they have been sharpened!"
The host was a tall, thin man wearing a wizard's outfit.
His eyes swept across the crowd,
and he immediately spotted the most beautiful girl.
He took the initiative to point at her and said,
"This beautiful lady, would you please come up for a moment? Let's give her a round of applause to encourage her!"
Ying'er was a little surprised and glanced at the boss beside her.
Zhou Ze smiled and nodded, saying,
"Go ahead, I'll take a picture of you."
Ying'er went on stage.
The host handed her a strip of cloth,
"Come, please choose a knife at random to test it out and show the audience that our knives are real knives,
and that climbing the mountain of knives
is a real skill!"
Ying'er was stunned for a moment.
She misunderstood.
That was right.
From her perspective,
what was there to be afraid of in this "mountain of knives" composed of knives that were about ten meters high?
Moreover,
the boss asked her to go up
to take a picture of her!
Go up,
go up,
go up,
damn it!
A misunderstanding
arose just like that.
Ying'er took the strip of cloth,
and then directly reached out and grabbed the blade,
stepping on the bottom,
and started climbing straight up.
"…………" The host.
"…………" The performers.
"Wow!"
"Wow, so amazing!"
"She's so brave!"
The audience below began to exclaim,
and some busybodies began to jeer:
"Did you see that? It's fake!"
"She's already climbed up, it's fake!"
"Hahahaha, fake, fake!"
"It's been exposed, hahaha!!"
"Oh my god, this is really a light-speed face slap!"
The host knew that the knives were real, at least the bottom rows were real. The ones on top, although they had deliberately flattened blunt angles, were also sharp.
Although this girl was wearing shoes and wasn't barefoot,
he had watched the girl grab the blade with her hands and climb up!
You know,
even their own actors only stepped on the blades when they climbed up, but their hands grabbed the wooden stakes to climb.
The host was stunned at first,
but by the time he reacted, Ying'er had already climbed up.
He stomped his feet anxiously but didn't dare to climb up and grab her down. He was just the host, not a acrobat.
Ying'er climbed to the top in one breath,
and the audience below immediately burst into cheers and applause.
Even if it wasn't a mountain of knives,
it was still amazing for a girl to climb so high!
Zhou Ze didn't understand what Ying'er meant at first.
Wasn't she supposed to take the strip of cloth to test whether the blade was sharp?
How did she end up climbing up?
However,
when Zhou Ze saw Ying'er sitting on top of the mountain of knives,
swinging her feet and gesturing to him to take a picture,
Zhou Ze still understood and raised his phone,
"Click!"
A photo
was frozen in time just like that.
In the photo,
Ying'er was sitting on the mountain of knives,
sweet and lovely.
Behind her
was the blue sky of Lijiang.
Everything in the photo
was so wonderful.