Mortal Mirror

Si Ning couldn't help but laugh when she heard the name Li Ergou, saying, "You... is that your nickname or your real name?"

Li Ergou didn't care at all and said, "Of course, it's my real name. I told you it's easy to remember, you won't forget it after hearing it once."

Si Ning laughed for a while, feeling like it wasn't very polite, and then forced herself to suppress her laughter, saying, "You're such an interesting person. It's the first time I've seen someone as amusing as you. You're not angry that I laughed at you?"

Li Ergou didn't take it seriously, saying, "What's there to be angry about? I'm just saying, a name is just a way to call someone, what difference does it make what you're called?"

"Pfft," the woman in red was taking a sip of tea when she suddenly heard the three words Li Ergou and couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of tea.

She felt disgusted in her heart, never expecting someone to have such a terrible name. He had just insulted her for not having much meat on her bones and having a big butt. Now that she thought about it, this person was just a country bumpkin. It would be an insult to herself to get angry with him.

The dwarf was also listening to the conversation with interest, looking like he was enjoying it. It seemed that everyone had a gossipy heart.

Li Ergou naturally didn't pay attention to the woman in red. He looked at the Nineteenth Young Master and said, "Where did you come from?"

The Nineteenth Young Master said, "We travel around the world, I don't know how many places we've been to."

"Traveling around the world!" Li Ergou exclaimed. He had never even left Tiangou Town. He couldn't imagine how big the world was.

For a moment, he couldn't help but feel admiration, saying, "I didn't expect you to be able to do such amazing things at such a young age. I admire you, I really admire you."

"Hahaha, Brother Ergou, you're too serious. Daxia is too big, I've only traveled less than a small part of it."

Li Ergou quickly said, "Just call me Ergou, no need to be so polite."

Afterward, while chatting, Ergou found out that this Nineteenth Young Master was only sixteen years old. The few of them were about the same age, and they quickly found common topics to talk about. For a time, they chatted happily.

While everyone was chatting happily, the sound of a erhu suddenly rang out downstairs. Soon, they saw a yellow-haired girl who was no taller than a bench appear downstairs, followed by a blind old man slowly walking up.

The old man played the erhu beautifully, like flowing water on a high mountain, melodious and moving, as if plucking at your heartstrings, making your heart rise and fall with the music, intoxicated and forgetting the way home.

As soon as the song ended, the Nineteenth Young Master immediately clapped his hands and applauded, saying, "A wonderful song from someone beyond the immortals, sir is very talented, a reward."

Upon hearing this, Si Ning immediately took out a silver ingot from her bosom without hesitation, which looked to be about ten taels.

Li Ergou was immediately dumbfounded, thinking that these two were really rich people. No wonder they could travel around the world at such a young age. You should know that a pig could only be sold for five or six taels of silver, but this Nineteenth Young Master rewarded so much just for listening to a song, which was really generous.

However, he didn't know why, but he felt a pang in his heart for some reason. He thought about how he was sold to the landlord's house for only one tael of silver to be a beast of burden for many years. People really couldn't be compared to each other. Perhaps some people's entire lives of struggle were not even worth someone else's meal.

It seemed that this world was really unfair. He didn't know if there was a sage who could make everyone in the world equal.

While he was thinking wildly, the blind man said calmly, "Thank you for the reward, young master. Judging from your accent, you must be a foreigner."

The Nineteenth Young Master couldn't help but praise, "Sir has good hearing."

The blind man chuckled and said, "I've been blind all my life, and only these ears are sharp. Since the young master is so generous, I can't let down the young master's kindness. I can tell the young master a storytelling performance, which is the legend of my Tiangou Town, so that the young master can have some fun and not waste your silver."

The Nineteenth Young Master was immediately happy when he heard this, saying, "Wonderful."

Li Ergou was also curious, wondering what legends Tiangou Town had.

Even Stone, the big white elephant, and the woman in red became curious and prepared to listen attentively.

The other guests upstairs also became excited, and some even exclaimed, "Come and listen, Blind Wu is going to tell a story."

This Blind Wu seemed to be very famous. Upon hearing this, a group of people poured into the stairwell. Everyone held melon seeds in their hands and prepared to listen. Some people squeezed into the stairwell and simply sat there and refused to leave.

For a time, the entire second floor was overcrowded. Fortunately, everyone was very disciplined and honestly found a place to listen.

This blind man didn't seem to be an ordinary person either. He carried the erhu on his back and casually took out a folding fan from his waist.

At this moment, the folding fan was thrown into the air by him, and then he caught it steadily. The fan twirled a fan flower in his hand, and then he heard a swish, and a folding fan unfolded.

It could be seen that the fan was old, with plum blossoms, orchids, bamboo, and chrysanthemums painted on one side, seeming real and illusory, and four large characters written on the other side... Peerless in the World.

It could be seen that the fan was not simple. When everyone looked at the characters again, they immediately felt that this blind man was not an ordinary person.

"Miss, interesting," the dwarf suddenly said to the woman in red.

The woman in red sneered and said, "Yes, some people are hidden quite deeply, but even if they were glorious in the past, it's still the past. When people get old, they become useless."

Others couldn't understand this strange conversation, but judging from the meaning of their words, it seemed that these two should know some information about the old man.

At this moment, the blind man had already begun to speak slowly, "I think everyone is very puzzled, why is our town's name so strange, called Tiangou Town? Why isn't it called Tianmao or Tianrat? When I was a child, I was also curious, so I asked my great-grandfather. He was the oldest man in our Tiangou Town. That year, he was two hundred and seventy-eight years old."

As soon as this was said, everyone exclaimed, all shouting longevity. Some people also remembered the old man who often sat under the big locust tree in front of the town. Someone once asked him the secret of longevity.

He told everyone that as long as you are in a good mood, it's good to look at beautiful women more often.

At that time, everyone laughed at this person, but they didn't expect that this was precisely the secret of his longevity.

The blind man paused for a moment, then continued, "Great-grandfather told me that in the past, we were very poor here, and people often starved to death. One day, a woman in yellow came to the town. This person was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see everyone's suffering, so she taught everyone some skills to make a living.

Weaving, farming, breeding, and various life skills, which made the town more and more prosperous. Under her leadership, people also began to become rich.

Who would have thought that just when everyone's life was getting better and better, one evening, everyone saw the heavenly dog eating the moon, and the whole earth was in darkness.

In the darkness, many people who could fly and escape came. They called themselves immortals, and each of them was extremely powerful. As soon as they entered the town, they found the woman in yellow, and then they fought. Before long, the woman was captured.

No one knew where the woman went, but a message spread in the town, saying that the woman was a demon, a great demon, named Nine-Eyed Heavenly Dog, and that she had eaten the moon.

Afterward, a strange ancient well appeared in the town, which was the Longevity Well. It was rumored that the woman was beaten back to her original form and suppressed in the Longevity Well. However, she was a great demon, and everyone was afraid in their hearts, and they dared not mention this matter again.

People's hearts are unpredictable. These people quickly forgot who had made their lives better. Over time, there was no more talk about the woman in yellow in the town. It was as if she had never appeared.

Everyone only knew that a peerless demon had once appeared in this town. Although the ancient well had always existed, the story behind it was regrettable."

Hearing this, Li Ergou and the others were extremely surprised. They didn't expect that this was how Tiangou Town came to be, and that there really was a demon in the Longevity Well.

Someone couldn't help but ask, "Old blind man, is this true? Isn't it said that the chains can't be pulled, and that they have no end?"