Ch 2: You Are Doomed
“Thank you, Martial Uncle.”
Liu Dongyue carefully put the Vajra Talisman close to his body, then solemnly bowed to Li Hanzhou, turned around and left.
“Second Senior Brother, add oil!” Yun Qianzhu also waved and shouted.
Until Liu Dongyue had gone far, Li Hanzhou asked, “Did Song Yu say when he would be back?”
“Senior Brother went down the mountain to exorcise demons, but he didn’t say when he would be back.” Shi Ming said.
“Heh.” Li Hanzhou sneered: “Exorcise demons?”
Every time something happened to the Sect, Song Yu, the Sect’s Senior Disciple Brother, went down the mountain to exorcise demons, and then after the Sect’s crisis was over, he would return.
This time, hearing that creditors were coming to demand payment, this Sect’s Senior Disciple Brother went down the mountain to exorcise demons again.
“Forget it.” Looking at the few remaining grains on the mountain, and two disciples who were hungry, Li Hanzhou found a wooden stick and a piece of cloth in the Longevity Temple, made a Ping Jin Fan, and prepared to go out to make a living.
He had been here for several days, and Li Hanzhou hadn’t even eaten meat.
On Earth, although life was hard, he could at least eat meat every meal. After coming here, every meal was just leaves, almost turning Li Hanzhou’s face green.
“Martial Uncle, where are you going?”
Shi Ming and Yun Qianzhu saw Li Hanzhou was about to go out and quickly asked.
Their Master had been gone for more than a year. Could it be that Li Hanzhou was also going to leave them?
Although Li Hanzhou was usually unreliable and not kind to them, with Li Hanzhou in the Sect, the two little fellows were always at ease.
Now they were very afraid that Li Hanzhou would abandon them too.
Looking at their gazes, Li Hanzhou understood what they were thinking, so he smiled: “I’m going out to earn some money to buy you meat to eat. Stay in the Sect well, and I’ll be back tonight.”
“Earn money to buy meat?” The two little fellows looked at each other. Was this something Martial Uncle would do? They were afraid he would go down the mountain to gamble again.
Hoping for Li Hanzhou to buy them meat was no better than hoping for meat to fall from the sky.
An hour later.
White Cloud City.
This was the closest city to the Longevity Temple.
This was the first time Li Hanzhou had left the Longevity Temple.
The things in the city were also interesting. Li Hanzhou found everything very fresh along the way. He touched the few copper coins in his pocket. Before going out, Yun Qianzhu gave him all the money she had saved, leaving it for his lunch.
Despite Li Hanzhou’s appearance, Yun Qianzhu still couldn’t bear to see him go hungry.
This really moved Li Hanzhou.
On a bustling street in White Cloud City, Li Hanzhou found a secluded corner and set up a small stall, then set up the Ping Jin Fan beside it.
But after waiting for an hour, no guests came.
Li Hanzhou wasn’t worried about this situation. He was very experienced. At this time, he had to take the initiative.
His spiritual power circulated, and a trace of green aura flashed in Li Hanzhou’s eyes.
This was Li Hanzhou’s cultivated ‘Qi Gazing Technique’. On Earth, because he didn’t have spiritual power, he couldn’t use it, but in this world, Li Hanzhou cultivated spiritual energy, and found that he could actually use the Qi Gazing Technique.
At this moment, in Li Hanzhou’s eyes, the people passing by all had different colored auras above their heads.
Representing their fortune.
Li Hanzhou observed the passersby. The fortune above the heads of these people was mostly good. Li Hanzhou prepared to find a clear target to make his first breakthrough.
Until noon, Li Hanzhou bought two buns from the next stall, and while eating the vegetarian buns, he sighed, people are not easy to fool in two lifetimes. He had only calculated two fortunes in the whole morning.
Fortune-telling is based on tips. One finished and said thank you and left, while another aunt only gave ten cash and touched Li Hanzhou’s hand for a long time, her saliva almost dripping.
Just as Li Hanzhou was thinking about whether to close his stall.
A carriage was slowly approaching on the street.
The carriage was very beautiful, seeming to belong to some powerful person.
However, shockingly, dark clouds were above the carriage, and blood red filled the clouds.
“Good heavens.” Li Hanzhou was startled.
So fierce?
“Whoa!”
The coachman suddenly saw someone appear in front of him, blocking his carriage, so he quickly pulled the reins, and shouted, “Are you looking for death?”
“What’s the matter?”
At this time, the carriage curtain rolled down, and a young person’s head poked out from the carriage.
“This benefactor, you have a disaster of blood light recently.” Li Hanzhou walked up and said to the young man.
“You’re full of shit!” The coachman cursed, but the young man’s eyes lit up, he jumped down from the carriage, and excitedly grabbed Li Hanzhou’s hand, saying, “You can see that?”
“Uh…” Li Hanzhou was stunned. Why did this young man react so strongly?
“Senior, to be honest, monsters have been making trouble in my house recently. I didn’t expect you, Senior, to see it at a glance. Please save me.” The young man looked at Li Hanzhou seriously.
Li Hanzhou was a little dumbfounded. He had already prepared a set of deceptive words, but before he could say anything, this young man actually begged him to save him.
Was he too trusting?
“Young Master, this person looks like a liar!” The coachman was speechless.
“Ah?” The young man looked at Li Hanzhou in surprise: “Are you a liar?”
Li Hanzhou quickly shook his head: “This poor Daoist is certainly not.”
“See, he said he’s not.” The young man said to the coachman.
Li Hanzhou: “…”
Coachman: “…”
“Ahem.” Li Hanzhou felt that he had finally met a fool, and it would be a waste not to deceive him.
But he knew Qi Gazing, but he didn’t know how to exorcise demons. Although many cultivation methods were left in the Longevity Temple, Li Hanzhou had looked at them these two days, and any cultivation method said it would take thirty to fifty years to achieve minor accomplishment. Li Hanzhou was too lazy to practice.
The original owner’s cultivation level was also very poor, otherwise he wouldn’t be afraid of those creditors.
If it were other matters, seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune, Li Hanzhou could still think of ways, but he really couldn’t exorcise demons.
But it was such a rare opportunity for a big fool, Li Hanzhou couldn’t easily let him go.
“Don’t worry, with this poor Daoist here.” Li Hanzhou picked up his pen, dipped it in cinnabar, and directly drew a talisman on the yellow paper.
“This is an evil-dispelling talisman written with our Sect’s secret technique. If you put it on your bedside, you will be safe.” Li Hanzhou handed the talisman to the young man.
“Great.” The young man put it away as a treasure.
Li Hanzhou sighed softly, he could only wish him good luck.
“How much?” the young man asked.
Li Hanzhou waved his hand and held up a finger.
This young man looked like a rich person, was it too much to charge him five taels of silver?
“Only five hundred taels? So cheap, here you go!” The young man directly took out five banknotes and gave them to Li Hanzhou.
Li Hanzhou was stunned!
Five hundred taels?
Was money so easy to earn!
“Thank you, Senior. When I go back and eliminate that monster, I will come to thank you again.” The young man chuckled: “If my father knows, he will definitely praise me.”
While Li Hanzhou was stunned, the young man had already left in the carriage.
“I made a fortune…” Looking at the five hundred taels of banknotes, Li Hanzhou swallowed hard.
However, at this moment, the young man selling sweet potatoes next to Li Hanzhou sneered: “Dude, you’re finished.”
“What do you mean?” Li Hanzhou couldn’t help but ask.
“Do you know who he is?” The young man selling sweet potatoes laughed: “He is Ye Yun, the son of the White Cloud City Lord. It’s fine to deceive him, but he has an older sister named Ye Ziying, who is a disciple of the Upper Clarity Sect, has a hot temper, and hates evil. If Ye Ziying knows that you deceived her younger brother, she will probably break at least thirty of your ribs.”
“Ah this…” Li Hanzhou broke out in a cold sweat.
There were creditors who wanted to break his hands, and now there was another Ye Ziying who would break thirty of his ribs?
Could he still live?
But looking at the five hundred taels of banknotes, Li Hanzhou still decided to take a risk. At worst, he wouldn’t come tomorrow. Anyway, the five hundred taels were enough for the Longevity Temple to spend for a long time.
So Li Hanzhou quickly closed his stall and left.
He bought a lot of meat in White Cloud City, as well as rice, and before leaving the city, he also took two candied hawthorns for Shi Ming and Yun Qianzhu.
Just as Li Hanzhou made his escape, Ye Yun returned to the City Lord’s Mansion.
“Young Master!”
The guards of the City Lord’s Mansion all shouted respectfully.
But Ye Yun didn’t have time to pay attention to them at the moment, but excitedly jogged all the way.
“Father, I bought a good thing.” As soon as he ran into the Great Hall, Ye Yun saw his father, Ye Qingbei, sitting and talking to a young girl.
“You’re so old, yet you’re still so impetuous.” Ye Qingbei said reproachfully, then said, “Didn’t you see your sister is back? Hurry up and greet her.”
“Sister.” Ye Yun had to walk over and cautiously called out.
His sister had been a genius since childhood, and had entered the Upper Clarity Sect early, always the pride of Ye Qingbei. Ye Yun had heard most often since childhood, “Look at you, then look at your sister, why are you…” sigh.
“Where did you go again?” Ye Ziying frowned: “Such a big thing happened at home, and you still ran around. You’re so old, you don’t know how to share your father’s worries.”
“I didn’t!” Ye Yun felt very wronged: “I went out to find a way to solve the family’s problems. Father said that he has been having nightmares and severe headaches every day recently, so I went out to find a way, and I’ve already found a way.”
“No need.” Ye Qingbei waved his hand impatiently: “What can you do? Your sister is a disciple of the Upper Clarity Sect, with strong cultivation, even if there is a monster, your sister will solve it.”
“I really found a way.” Ye Yun stubbornly took out the evil-dispelling talisman given to him by Li Hanzhou.
“I met a Master Expert, he said that as long as I use this talisman, I can eliminate the monster.”
Looking at the ordinary talisman paper in Ye Yun’s hand, Ye Qingbei sighed and shook his head helplessly.
“Daoist talisman?” Ye Ziying reached out her hand, and the talisman flew out of Ye Yun’s hand and directly fell into Ye Ziying’s hand.
Looking at the talisman in her hand, Ye Ziying sneered: “Since eight hundred years ago, the Heaven and Earth Change, the Spiritual Sea was sealed, and Heaven and Earth could no longer absorb spiritual energy, the Daoist Sect has long since declined, and their talismans are useless. The Daoist Sect has lost most of its disciples. You were deceived again, how much did you buy this thing for?”
“Ah? I… five… five hundred taels.” Ye Yun stammered.
“Heh.” Ye Ziying narrowed her eyes: “Good, very good.”
“After I solve the monster at home, I will go find that liar to settle the score. He dared to deceive us at the White Cloud City Lord’s Mansion. I will break thirty of his ribs!”
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