Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

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Chong'er: Appeared in Chapter 8, the fat man who was shot down by Zhaoran with the falling magic bow in the well of Tianmang, the fat man who was round and round and could bounce twice when he fell from the bottom of the well, his footsteps were called Fat Er's brother.

Yang Wan: The master in Zuyin's mouth, he once told Zhaoran that Yang Wan has some relationship with Rongjiazhuang, so he persuaded Zhaoran to take refuge in Luozi Peak.

Zhang Xiaobai: In Chapter [-], the person who came here to sell news in response to the bone whistle, obviously the bone whistle in his hand was given by Mrs. Li, who is the faceless woman in Wudeng Alley.

Mrs. He: The deceased Mr. He's wife, Daoist Yang Wan, watched from the beginning to the end, and shook his head slightly: "It's not in the list. This stranger is probably a bereaved family."

"The legacy?"

"Naturally, there are those who can get into the banquet of the King of Zhou, and some who can't. If they can get into the table, they are called Yirenhou. Protoss. And those who can’t get into the banquet, in the years to come, hid in Tibet and wandered, so they call themselves the survivors.” Yang Wan slowly closed the scroll, “In the future, some Ronghou villages will be destroyed. Some of the descendants of Yiren Hou wandered into the rivers and lakes, which was troublesome, and they also began to call themselves the bereaved. The dog slave raised by Jin Yiwei Baihu heard that Zhigeng was the bereaved. Since he is a descendant of the bereaved, there is no need to worry about him. His ability is probably not strong. "

Jiu Ru nodded: "The Taoist priest once calculated that the opportunity to unlock the seal of my blood was in Rong'an Town, but I went there every year, and it hasn't changed at all until now."

"Fortunately, if the rain moistens all things, it will come in drops without leaving a trace. You need to wait patiently."

Yang Wan got up, Jiuru said again: "I don't know the Taoist priest, but the Tianpyg family has no other skills except flying heads and petrifying flesh and blood."

"Other abilities?"

"For example, changing the strength of the blood, sometimes old and weak, sometimes young and strong."

Yang Wan shook his head, and said calmly: "The Tianpyg family is a big murderer, why bother to pretend to be old and weak, if there is half of the current blood left, no one in the world dares to provoke them, it's a pity they were the first to learn They were made of human skin, and they were the first to mix with the human race, and I am afraid that they are the most human-like among all the descendants of Yirenhou."

"What is the master's plan?"

Yang Wan said: "I seem to have glimpsed the secret in the past few days. If the Buddha allows, I would like to use the town magic clock to go to Yegu City someday."

Jiu Ru nodded and said, "I'll calculate the travel expenses for the Taoist priest."

"Buddha, you are welcome."

"Yes." Jiuru turned his head and asked a Buddhist disciple, "How much money do we have in the tower?"

"Back to Buddha, I still have a hundred wen."

"Take sixty texts and give it to the Taoist priest."

Yang Wan waved his hands and said, "How embarrassing."

"It should be." Jiu Ru slightly bowed.

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Yangwan took sixty cash out of the pagoda, and saw a little fat man sitting on a tree eating meat strips, and sighed: "Chong Er, you just ate dinner, and you ate it again. This is a heavy burden for the teacher."

Chong Er spat out the meat strip in his mouth with a "bah", Yang Wan repeatedly expressed regret and pointed at him: "If you bite, then bite, and if you bite, then eat!"

"Master, Buddha doesn't give you much money, so don't take your anger out on me. Zuyin buys rouge pollen all day long, why don't you talk about him?"

"We won't come if the Buddha doesn't give us money. It's our duty."

Chonger said: "I clearly heard you tell my uncle that if it weren't for the National Master Pagoda to take care of our Luozi Peak, you would not run errands with the little money given by the Buddha every time. You still say you are flattering the Buddha, you might as well directly Go to curry favor with the national teacher!"

Yang Wan frantically covered his mouth: "This is not out of the range of the Imperial Master Tower yet."

Chong'er was smothered by the master's cover, and quickly waved his hand to stop talking nonsense. Then Yang Wan let go of his hand and asked, "Where's the foot sound?"

"This dog eater, I don't know where he went. He hid without a trace. He probably heard some gossip again. He was afraid that someone would steal his credit, so he sneaked away." Chong Er took out another piece of meat from his pocket and slammed it hard. took a bite.

This time Yang Wan had no choice but to pretend he didn't see it, and Chong Er said again: "He seems to have met that kid from Rongjiazhuang, the one you originally planned to take him as an apprentice, but he turned out to be stupid."

Yang Wan was taken aback: "Zhao Ran?"

"Probably."

Yang Wan pondered for a while and said: "Most likely Zuyin is still staring at Princess Jiashan's mansion, you go look for him over there, if you see Zhaoran, advise him to go to Luozi Peak."

"You still want to hire people? Master, don't forget that your official title is just a small banner of Jinyiwei, and you can only support seven people. We already have eight people in Luozifeng Company including the handyman."

"If you eat less, it's enough for me to feed another disciple. Hurry up." Yang Wan glared at him.

Chong'er ate up the meat stick in his hand with a few mouthfuls of indignation, and disappeared after a few jumps. He was so chubby that he was as light as a swallow.

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The footsteps still said: "If you are really not afraid, then I will come to look for you the day I go to the princess mansion for night visits."

Zhaoran wondered what to be afraid of. Others might be afraid when they saw the cemetery, but to him Zhaoran just went back to his mother's house, so he smiled lightly: "A man, are you still afraid of little ghosts? It's not for anything else, just for you Now that I'm tired, I'll go with you too."

"Brother is loyal enough!" Zuyin slapped Zhaoran on the shoulder fiercely, his action was heroic, but Zhaoran was a little speechless as his makeup fell down.

After the sound of footsteps left, Zhaoran drove the carriage again and headed towards Jiang's mansion. Before he had gone halfway, the wind suddenly blew up. Just as Zhaoran yelled badly in his heart, the back of his neck was slapped by the eagle's claws. Hooked it, and pulled it directly into the air.

In my heart...

"It's not too late this time." Someone above the head said coldly.

Zhao Ran sighed, he would be home later, he was afraid that Ying Ning would become malicious and throw him from mid-air, so he raised his hands and firmly grasped the eagle claws that hooked his clothes on his back.

He held the eagle claw and looked from top to bottom, above the forest, the clouds were in the shadow of the pines, the setting sun was dangerous, the mountains were majestic, and the blue sea and pines were all in the bottom of his eyes at a glance.With the wings of the big eagle fluttering, they fly over the top of the forest and mountains. Looking thousands of miles away, they can only see the dangers like a chessboard, and the peaks like falling pieces.

Zhaoran couldn't help but yelled at his feet, but there was no echo in the air, so it was over after the yelling, so Zhaoran dragged his voice "ah" all the way, Yingning finally got impatient: "Scream, you want to kill the national teacher The people from the tower recruited?"

Zhaoran let out a "tsk tsk", thinking that this little Buddha, Jiuru, really meddled a lot.

Naturally, Ying Ning would not take him into the city on an eagle ride, so he left him at the same place last time, and it was obvious...it was farther away from the city than the place where he parked just now.

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"Master." Ah Ning yelled, and she sat in the carriage and yelled happily: "Are you okay?"

Zhao Ran glanced at Ying Ning sideways, and understood in his heart that they must have made an agreement. Ying Ning would run here after robbing someone. Fleeing here is also convenient for rescue.

But it was clear that there was nothing dangerous...

Zhao Ran turned his eyes and said with a smile: "It was a bit dangerous just now, thanks to Ying Ning who arrived in time, I was able to save the day."

Ying Ning raised her chin, Feng stared at Zhao Ran, but she didn't appreciate it.

Aning glanced at Ying Ning, and said meaningfully: "That would be the best."

Ying Ning didn't say a word, turned around and let the eagle go.

Zhao Ran got on the carriageway: "It's a good time to come here, let's go to Patriarch Long, do I want to ask him for help?"

"Young Master, why do you want the help of Patriarch Long?"

Zhao Ran said: "Patriarch Dragon is good at detecting the blood of aliens, right?"

Aning nodded: "Yes, that's why Patriarch Long can gather so many of our clansmen."

With a clear smile: "I need him to help me find someone, a strange person who is very smart but can kill people."

Aning looked shocked and said: "Is there a stranger who can kill people?"

"Don't aliens kill people?"

Aning murmured: "The mission of the gods is to take care of mortals. How can gods kill people?"

Zhao Ran sighed inwardly, how could this girl not be stupid to follow Patriarch Long, he waved his hand feebly: "Anyway, just take me to see him."

Aning said: "But Patriarch Long left a few days ago."

"he left?"

"Didn't the patriarch tell you that day that he was going to Yegu City?"

Zhao Ran thought about it for a while, then covered his cheeks, Aning hurriedly said: "What's wrong with you, young master?"

"toothache."

"Then bear with it, we'll go back soon." Aning said and drove back in the carriage.

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It was already late when Zhaoran returned to Jiang's Mansion, when Onion saw him, he threw himself on his back in aggrieved manner, Zhaoran patted his head, and said to Aning: "Give me the gold that my aunt and grandmother gave me. Take the box out."

"Okay." Ah Ning opened the cage, took out two money boxes, one large and one small, and said clearly: "As long as grandma's is enough."

Aning then put the small one back, brought the big one over, pulled out the bone whistle, and blew a few times hard.

He just sat down to eat the food brought by Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang. Before he finished eating, he suddenly saw a figure hanging from the window lattice outside. It was so obvious that he almost spit out the rice in his mouth. Go, only to hear a slow voice outside asking: "Are you looking for me?"

Zhang Xiaobai is here.

He thought that the last time Zhang Xiaobai showed up like that was a last resort, but now it seems that this is his queen's posture. He opened the window, and it turned out that Zhang Xiaobai was hanging upside down under the eaves.

Onion, who was lying behind Zhaoran, tilted his head and looked at Zhang Xiaobai outside the window. His eyes lit up. He was a stranger and could be eaten. Onion couldn't help laughing happily, showing his two fangs involuntarily. .

Zhang Xiaobai...

"Can you put the one behind you down?" Zhang Xiaobai said.

Zhaoran turned his head to look at the onion behind him, he patted his head and said, "You mean onion?"

Onion head... Zhang Xiaobai thought to be casual, and said again: "Put it down."

Seeing Zhang Xiaobai's insistence, Zhao Ran had no choice but to go back and throw the onion back on the bed, then turned around and said, "I want to find out the whereabouts of the stranger."

"The whereabouts of all aliens are not cheap."

Zhao Ran casually opened the money box, and there were neatly placed small gold ingots inside. He said proudly, "How about it, is it enough?"

"enough."

Ah Ning came over to make him a pot of tea, and said plainly: "I first want to inquire about the whereabouts of the people in Rongjiazhuang. Where did they escape?"

"There is only half-way news, where is the end point is empty news, do you want to release empty news?"

"There's still only halfway news..." Zhao Ran thought that the people of Rongjiazhuang had escaped far enough, he waved his hand and said, "That's halfway news."

"One piece of news. The last time there was any news about them was near Nine-Tail Peak." After finishing speaking, half of the gold ingots were missing from Zhao Ran's box.

Zhao Ran sat down and took a sip of tea leisurely: "I want to inquire about a person. This person is a woman who used to be a female official in the palace. She is familiar with Buddhist scriptures. She can speak eloquently. Her name is Lianfang. She is very likely to be... an alien with extraordinary abilities in sound transmission."

Zhang Xiaobai opened his mouth and said: "Only one, her current whereabouts are..." He suddenly closed his eyes when he said this, and opened them after a long time, "This news has become a secret message."

"Secret breath?" Zhao Ran couldn't help shouting, "But you just said it was just a solitary breath!"

"It was just now, and now this news has been upgraded to a secret message."

Zhao Ran was so angry that the tea in his hand was about to be spilled: "I said Zhang Xiaobai, didn't you sit on the ground and raise the price?"

Zhang Xiaobai was not annoyed, and said slowly: "Xiaobai sells news, no one deceives anyone, a golden signboard, if customers don't believe it, they don't have to buy it, business is not based on benevolence and righteousness."

"But you just said that you are a solitary breath!"

"It was a talent just now, it was a solitary interest just now, but it's not anymore, someone bought it out."

Zhao Ran had no choice but to say: "How to buy the secret information?"

"The secret is that someone pays the money on a daily basis until the money can't be paid. Once someone asks, the unit price will be doubled. At that time, its selling price will be calculated according to the final daily price."

"Ask once and double?"

Zhang Xiaobai folded his hands in his sleeves and said, "It's a lot of pressure to guard people's secrets."

"That's right." Zhao Ran rolled his eyes, so if he casually asked ten times the last time, it would have doubled. Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiaobai seemed to have read his mind and said, "If a person asks a hundred times, he will only double. .”

Zhao Ran had no choice but to say: "Then you estimate, how much will it sell for?"

"A pearl and a dendrobium."

Zhao Ran took a sip of tea, Zhang Xiaobai said: "That's why I usually tell the guests that important news should be asked first."

"Thank you so much, then should I pay for your industry experience?" Zhao Ran said sarcastically.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiaobai said clearly: "No need, the customer is a repeat customer, and there are some discounts."

Clearly thick-skinned, it was the first time he encountered someone thicker-skinned than him, and couldn't help but have a toothache: "Is there any gathering place for aliens, you don't need to talk about the protoss."

"One breath, see Fengshanzhuang."

"Isn't Jianfeng Villa entertaining officials from other provinces?"

"People go through the front door, and strangers go through the back door. After the ugly hour, enter through the back door." After Zhang Xiaobai finished speaking, half of the gold ingots were missing from the money box.

Zhao Ran glanced at the remaining gold ingot, gritted his teeth and said: "Ask another question, who can find out the whereabouts of other people, besides you, the leader of the dragon clan, and the dog slave."

"See Fu Heng, the owner of Fengshan Villa." After Zhang Xiaobai finished speaking, he disappeared with a "whoosh", and he didn't even reach out to get the gold on the table.

Zhao Ran couldn't help laughing and said: "It seems that he has a sense of propriety, he knows that this guest can't be offended."

As soon as his words fell, he heard Onion, who crawled back to his side at some point, let out a howl of "wow", and said in obvious surprise: "I didn't expect you to like this profiteer so much, that's all, when will your father and I If you have money, I will summon Zhang Xiaobai twice a day, once to tell anecdotes, and once to be your horse."

Zhang Xiaobai, who had already run far away, felt his feet go limp for no reason, and almost fell off the roof.

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Aning made another cup of tea for Zhao Ran and said, "Actually, the young master wronged Zhang Xiaobai just now. Zhang Xiaobai didn't set the price on the ground, but someone else bought the news ahead of the young master."

"There is someone else, but he is clearly here with me."

Aning pursed her lips and smiled, "Master, you don't think Zhang Xiaobai is alone?"

"It's not just one person...could there be a few more?"

"It's not a few but no more than ten. The Zhang family is also called the ten sons. They have ten brothers in each generation. Bone whistle. So Zhang Xiaobai is actually ten people, each with nine fingers." Aning pointed to the bone whistle in Zhaoran's hand and said, "There are only ten bone whistles in the world, and the young master saw them blowing whistles in different places. Zhang Xiaobai may not be the same person."

"This bone whistle is so rare..."

Aning said: "The holders of this bone whistle have always been rich and powerful people in the world, and they are not ordinary princes and generals. Because of Zhang's ancestral precepts, ordinary people can rent bone whistle, but bone whistle can only be used for those who have money." People with the blood of the God Race hold it, and if it accidentally falls into the hands of mortals, Mrs. Zhang will try her best to take back the bone whistle."

She sighed: "It's just that it doesn't seem to be the case now. The blood of the gods has declined, and Zhang's ancestral precepts must have changed long ago."

Zhaoran turned over the bone whistle in his hand, looked at the little finger in his hand, and couldn't help hissing with a toothache: "It's still too expensive."

Aning said in surprise: "That's the case. Where is the meeting place for strangers? You can just ask me, young master. Why do you need to buy news from Zhang Xiaobai?"

Zhaoran let out an "ahhh" and fell straight on the bed. Aning was startled: "Master, are you alright?"

"It's okay, young master, I'm cold..." Zhao Ran hummed on the bed.

"Then I'll get you a copper stove for the young master?"

Zhao Ran said weakly: "No need, just take the money box from the cabinet and let me hold it for a while."

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Madam He closed the door after seeing off the endless stream of guests, and then said through the door: "I want to read scriptures in the Buddhist hall for a while, no one is allowed to disturb me."

She entered the room, opened the Buddhist altar, lit the red candles, then knelt on the futon and chanted sutras in a low voice. After an unknown amount of time, the red candles in front of the altar seemed to move without wind, and a voice sounded from the altar: "Mr. .”

That voice was sweet and indifferent, as if it was high above, coming from outside the Jiuxiaoyun.