After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 338 Gold Swallowing Beast

White Grasshopper remained indifferent: "I really can't help, you can take this thing back."

He didn't say "Go to another house and ask", He Lingchuan knew his attitude.

"What disease?"

The old man Wang turned his head to look at He Lingchuan: "The high fever won't go away, and the two medicines in the medical hall are useless!"

His eyes were full of hope: "This is the real work, please buy it!"

He Lingchuan asked him: "What is written in your volume?"

"My ancestors said that this is a profound supernatural power!" Old man Wang smiled wryly, "But I can't understand it, and no one in my family practices it, so I can only sell it."

"Can I see it?"

"Do you understand?" Old man Wang peeled back the animal skin paper a little, just a little, "Then you see."

"Bring the child here, and I'll find someone to treat it for you." He Lingchuan glanced at it and said, "If it's cured well, give me this roll of parchment."

"Huh?" Old man Wang was taken aback, "Here?"

"That's right. I made an appointment to meet here with my friend. He has excellent medical skills. He can treat children with high fever with little effort."

"Oh——" Old Man Wang nodded repeatedly, smiling broadly, "Okay, I'll bring my grandson here!" After saying that, he rolled up the animal skin paper and walked out.

The two people behind did not stop them.

After the old man Wang walked out of Yunling Island, the sadness on his face disappeared, and he walked for more than ten feet before turning his head to see if anyone was following.

No.

He yelled at Yunling Island.

Then he walked along the street to the end, looking relaxed, and it didn't look like there were patients at home.

He even bought two buns and ate them while shopping. Soon he left Wanglin Street and turned into another street.

The traffic here is far less than that of Wanglin Street, and the shop signs are not so glamorous, but the street is very long and extends in all directions.Old man Wang threw away the greased paper and wiped the corners of his mouth and hands, patted his face to put on a good expression, and entered several shops one after another.

When he came out again, his expression had become complacent.

At this time, he went straight to the city gate, very fast.

It's safe to go out.

But just after passing a shallow alley, a hand stretched out from the alley, grabbed him in abruptly, and held him in the shadows.

Old man Wang was taken aback, and turned around to see the young man in Yunling Island, smiling brightly at himself.

"You?" He yelled without hesitation, "Stealing money——!"

But just as he opened his mouth, He Lingchuan poked lightly on his throat.

The rest of Old Man Wang's words were immediately poked back, and he held his neck and "ah" for a long time, screaming no louder than a mouse.

He Lingchuan took out five or six pieces of animal skin paper from his arms and unfolded them. The contents of each volume were the same:
Faded handwriting, ancient fairy language fonts, a thin sheet of paper that has not been filled.

"what is this?"

Old man Wang's face was earthy.

Only then did He Lingchuan take out the Dafeng Military Order and waved it in front of him: "The bitter master has already reported to the officials. There are prisons in the west and south of the city, which one do you choose?"

The badge of the Gale Army is very eye-catching, and He Lingchuan is not afraid of him taking a closer look.Old man Wang's eyes were straightened, and he secretly said it was over.

Why did he reveal his secrets so quickly this time? Panlong City really couldn't come.

The pain in his neck had subsided, and he knelt down with a plop:

"My lord, please let me go, I will give you the original work!"

"Can you have the real one?" He Lingchuan disdainfully said, "Forget it, let's go to the west of the city, the closest one to be an official."

"You let me go, I will definitely give it!" Old man Wang was anxious, "I really have it!"

"Okay, I won't catch you." He Lingchuan stretched out his hand, "Let me have a look."

Only then did Old Man Wang take out a scroll from his boot.

It didn't smell very good. He Lingchuan pinched his nose and unfolded it for a look, then threw the scroll back on him and said angrily, "How is it different from fake ones! Are you entertaining me?"

"Don't dare, it's true!" Old man Wang picked up the scroll and unfolded it.In fact, the old animal skin paper was already in tatters and was mounted on a scroll.

He took out a copper plate and pointed to a pattern of animal heads drawn on the upper left corner of the paper: "Look at it."

The painting style of this animal head is very sketchy, a bit like a big toad, with protruding eyes and a huge mouth, but it has fine and sharp teeth, and the spots on the head are like plum patterns.It opened its mouth wide, and its mouth was pitch black.

Old man Wang pressed the copper plate into the mouth of the animal head pattern.

A magical scene appeared:

The copper plate suddenly disappeared.

He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows and waited a few more breaths before saying, "And then? What's changed?"

"The cardboard has become bigger, haven't you noticed?"

After he reminded, He Lingchuan realized that the edge of the paper had expanded a little bit, but it was only a little bit, and he couldn't find it if he kept staring at it.

"What do you want to clarify?"

"This paper is alive, my lord!" Old man Wang eagerly wanted to prove it, "but it will only change to its original size and the words on it will appear when it eats money or valuable things."

"Really?" He Lingchuan took out several large silver ingots, and each ingot was around 30 to [-] taels.

Can't tell that this old man in rags has more money than him!
"Is this what you just lied to?"

Old man Wang didn't know how to answer, and in the next second he saw He Lingchuan throwing two big silver ingots into the beast head.

"Oh, don't!"

It was too late, the silver sank into the beast's mouth, and disappeared in a flash.

Old man Wang's eyes darkened, and his heart was cut like a knife.

Then He Lingchuan saw that the animal skin paper expanded a little, only... about half an inch?
The words on the paper have indeed increased by a few.

"There's more, come again."

Old man Wang said with a bitter face: "My lord, don't throw it away anymore, no matter how much you throw it, it won't be enough to feed it!"

"Have you tried it? How much silver can you throw in at most?"

"I threw in 2000 taels of silver back and forth, and at most I threw in 700 taels directly, plus two big east beads!" Old man Wang was full of sadness when he said that, "I still have some family background. It will not be reduced to what it is now!"

He Lingchuan asked what happened.

It turned out that the old man Wang was a foreigner. He had been a private school teacher for many years and had a little surplus on hand.One day after the heavy rain, he went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, but he encountered a dead body before he had dug halfway through.

The deceased did not know why he died suddenly in the wilderness. Old man Wang searched his body, only found a few ingots of broken silver and a piece of animal skin paper.

He buried the man in peace, and took the animal skin paper down the mountain.

Old man Wang is educated, and he can recognize the ancient fairy language written on the paper, but it is a pity that it is dilapidated and missing, so it is impossible to see the whole picture.He sold it in the city, but no one wanted it.

Later, he found a capable person to identify it, and the other party told him that it was the skin of a gold swallowing beast.

The gold-swallowing beast was an extremely rare beast even in ancient times. The supernatural powers written in its leather are so precious that it is self-evident.

This kind of leather can pass the test of time, and there is still a chance to re-exhibit after two or three thousand years.

However, the gold-eating beast was greedy for all precious things during its lifetime, and after death it puts its soul on the skin, and still retains its extremely greedy nature.Old man Wang wanted to read all the content on the paper, so he had to satisfy his appetite.

Since then, the old man Wang has embarked on the road of no return to feed the gold swallowing beast...

He can't explain why he lost his mind, but feeding this thing is really addictive. He is full of longing for the future of filling up the gold swallowing beast, thinking that he has a chance to obtain rare supernatural powers.

At that time, Shentongquanpian will definitely live up to his expectations, and the price will be sky-high, so that he will not have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

Of course, the reality is very skinny, because this thing does not remain unchanged after eating gold and silver, but expands for a quarter of an hour and then retracts until it returns to its tattered state!

In other words, if you can't fill it up all at once, it won't show you the full story of its supernatural powers.

"A pit." He Lingchuan couldn't help asking him, "You know it's a bottomless pit, so why do you still fill it?"

"If I don't continue to fill in, wouldn't the gold and silver thrown in earlier be wasted?" Old man Wang squeezed out two bitter tears, "I only found a legend later, and the treasures in the world can't fill it!"

"It's a pity that I knew it too late, and my family was already bankrupt by then!"

In order to make ends meet, Old Man Wang simply copied the content on the animal skin paper, pretending to be a complete magical power to sell for money, using the same rhetoric he used on Yunling Island.

There are quite a lot of customers eating this set.

It's just that after he cheated two or three times, he had to change places quickly to avoid being imprisoned.

After hearing this, He Lingchuan said, "You really deserve it."

Old man Wang is also a kind of gambling desire. If a person blindly indulges and does not know how to restrain his desire, he will probably not end well.

He bowed to He Lingchuan again and again: "Please let me go!"

"Don't worry, I won't arrest you." He Lingchuan grinned at him, stuffed several fake animal skin papers into his arms, and suddenly stretched out his hand and pushed him back to the middle of the street.

Really let him go?Old man Wang was overjoyed.

At this moment, two shouts came from not far away:

"Hey, it seems to be him!"

Old man Wang turned his head in surprise, and saw two patrolmen rushing towards him.He had a ghost in his heart, so he ran away.

"Don't run!"

Old man Wang ran even faster.

He is small in stature, but fast, and he often plunged into the crowd. It took two guards a quarter of an hour to catch him:

"Someone reported to the officials, suing you for counterfeiting and cheating!"

They also picked up several fake animal skin papers along the way, all of which fell from the old man.

The old man couldn't argue with a hundred words.

The real thing is gone, and no one will believe what he said.

……

He Lingchuan walked back to Yunling Island after watching Old Man Wang be taken away.

The fat shopkeeper smiled and asked him: "The old man is a liar, right?"

He Lingchuan hummed, and asked him to stay in a quiet room for a while.

The landlord's small request, the fat shopkeeper naturally has to meet.So after a dozen or so breaths, He Lingchuan entered an identification room with tables and chairs, and there were some sundries piled up in the corner.

He sat down and took out the original animal skin paper, spread it on the table, and lit the lamp for a closer look.

Why go to such lengths for an old liar, for a piece of paper from a gold-swallowing beast?

Because this paper does record a supernatural power:
Avatar transformation technique, referred to as avatar technique.

On the outline of the supernatural power on the visible part of the animal skin paper, it is written that after learning this spell, one can temporarily summon a clone that obeys one's orders.

At first glance, this is very similar to the mirror image technique that He Lingchuan originally wanted to exchange at the Pengcheng Office, and even the Red General recommended him to exchange it in this way.

　There will be another update later
　
(End of this chapter)