Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

Aning said: "Among the aliens, there are many people who can be big or small, but the one who can help other people's bones besides oneself is Duntian."

"It's the stranger who wants to break up." Zhao Ran remembered.

Aning nodded and said: "It is said that Duntian once made people as tall as nine feet, and also made people as small as one foot. The methods are ever-changing, so others call him Wantong Master, and he is also a famous doctor among strangers."

"This is not a small thing." Zhao Ran took out the information that Fei Qingchen wrote to him, "Mengye County, Baoding Prefecture, isn't it not far from Bailu Academy."

Zhao Ran raised his head and asked, "Do you know how Patriarch Long subdued him back then?"

Aning said: "Patriarch Long seldom mentioned other people's past, but once I heard him tell Tong Yin, don't ask about Duntian's childhood. I think he had a bad life when he was a child, and he doesn't want people to mention it." Seeing Zhaoran, she said thoughtfully, "Young Master, if you want to see Duntian, you need Fei Qingchen to accompany you. Duntian is extremely difficult to speak. Fei Qingchen is a descendant of the Mei family. After seeing him, I can always think of the person I like the most in my heart, so even if Duntian sees him, it will be easier to talk to him."

"That's good." Zhao Ran heard the news, and quickly sent Ying Ning to find Fei Qingchen, and then said to Aning: "Go and bring me the skin of the onion!"

Although Aning didn't know what Zhaoran wanted the onion skin for, he quickly brought a bundle: "What does the young master want the onion skin for?"

"Master, I'm going to do something very important in my life." Zhao Ran ordered, "Go and steam some ham and elbow for me, I want to take it away."

It was not until late in the evening that Ying Ning came back with Fei Qingchen.

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"Have you figured out how to deal with Duntian?" Fei Qingchen asked.

Of course, Zhao Ran couldn't say that he was busy with other things, so he said vaguely: "Not yet, I have to see him to figure out how to deal with it."

Fei Qingchen nodded and said: "Duntian is extremely difficult to deal with, and he should know more about it."

"Are we going out of town?" Zhao Ran asked.

Fei Qingchen understood what he meant, and said: "Yes, Duntian is also stationed here these days because the head of the Dragon clan passed away."

"Where does he usually live?"

"Nine Tails Peak." Fei Qingchen said.

When they left the city, Ying Ning rode away on the eagle alone. They rode through the dense forest. The white mist ahead was bleak. Red lanterns were hung on the wooden pillars along the road, and the word "Lu" was written on it. A crow stayed there, and when it saw someone coming, it croaked twice, and said, "Whoever comes, get off the horse!"

Fei Qingchen's face was a little ugly but he said: "Let's get off the horse!"

"This crow can talk!" Zhao Ran exclaimed.

"This is the method of Duntian. This crow was transformed by him. Even if you see this kind of talking crow, you must dismount and walk in front of the gate of Duntian. It won't work either." Aning whispered, "Master, so we can see how difficult it is for Duntian to speak.

Zhao Ran said: "I think this person is very interesting. If others want to put a bird in front of the door, they will probably choose a magpie. He chose a crow."

"However..." He reined in his horse, "This is where the patriarch of the dragon belongs, but it's not his turn to be the master."

As he spoke, he rode on the horse. Of course, Aning had no choice but to chase after him, and Fei Qingchen, who had dismounted, had to get back on the horse.

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"Master, Duntian's wrists are ever-changing, let's get off the horse." Ah Ning advised while riding.

"Don't worry, nothing will happen." Zhaoran thought to himself, at worst, go back to 20 years ago to deal with him.

"Get off the horse!" There were a few giants with broad backs standing in front of the mansion, and they seemed to be a bit taller than the ones raised by Wantong. It was obvious that they had to look up when they were riding on horses.

"Is it one of your people?" Zhao Ran asked.

Aning shook his head and said: "It's not ours, it should be from the sky."

Fei Qingchen said: "I am Fei Qingchen, please help me tell your master that there is a guest who wants to see him."

Only someone said: "My master doesn't see people who are not polite."

As soon as his words fell, a giant lifted Zhaoran from his horse, Aning's face turned pale, and Fei Qingchen also said anxiously: "Butler Du, please be merciful."

The skinny young man said: "For Mr. Fei's sake, I won't make it difficult for you this time. Get lost."

The giant made a gesture and was about to throw Zhaoran out. Zhaoran's hand had already touched the token, and suddenly someone ran out from inside and said, "Master let them in."

Steward Du hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand, and the giant put Zhaoran back on the horse.

Zhao Ran rode his horse and walked in, but Steward Du stepped forward to stop him and said, "Get off the horse."

"Just now I came to see Duntian and didn't dismount, but now Duntian wants me, why should I dismount?" Zhao Ran leaned forward a little and looked at Du Guan's family, "Will you let us in or not?"

The person behind said a few words in Steward Du's ear, but Steward Du's complexion was a bit ugly, but he moved away, obviously he had to ride in the door, and Fei Qingchen couldn't help opening his mouth behind him.

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Zhao Ran rode his horse all the way into the hall, and saw a man holding a cigarette pouch lying on the throne of the hall. The red mole, he looked at Zhao Ran, then slowly exhaled the smoke ring from his mouth, and said lazily: "You are still so arrogant when you come to beg for help."

"How do you know I'm here to beg you?" Zhao Ran was taken aback.

"Didn't you come to beg me to shrink you down to the size of a ten-year-old boy?" Duntian sat up and said something that surprised Zhaoran even more.

Zhao Ran was really speechless, Fei Qingchen walked in quickly, made a bow and said: "Brother Lu, this is the Rong Xian I mentioned to you, Brother Rong."

Duntian said: "I know."

Fei Qingchen said: "There was a little misunderstanding just now, please don't mind."

"What if I want to mind?" Duntian said slowly.

Fei Qingchen pondered for a moment, then Duntian said again: "Don't change your appearance, it's better to talk like this."

As he spoke, he sprayed a puff of smoke on Fei Qingchen's face.

Fei Qingchen couldn't help coughing a few times, and said clearly: "Brother Fei, you go out first, I have something to talk to Brother Lu alone."

"Master!" Aning said anxiously.

"Brother Rong." Fei Qingchen also quickly called out.

Duntian indifferently smoked, and said clearly: "Let's all go out, if brother Lu has malicious intentions, he won't leave no one around him!"

Fei Qingchen got up, and Ah Ning could only lower his voice and say, "Master, you have to be very careful."

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When they were all gone, Dun Tian said: "There is one sentence you said wrong, if I have malicious intentions, I don't need to leave anyone by my side."

Zhao Ran pulled a chair and sat down: "You know the purpose of my coming."

"Twenty years ago, someone once asked me. He said that one day a man would come up to me on a horse and ask me to promise to shrink his bones. He asked me to agree to this man's request." Dun Tian looked at Zhao Ran , the red mole between the eyebrows raised slightly, "Otherwise, you have nine lives and you are not enough to die since you came here just now."

"Apart from this, he didn't say anything else." Zhao Ran asked.

"He only asked me for this matter, but he didn't ask me to chat with you!" Duntian lazily brought a wine jar from the side, "Drink it if you want to shrink your bones, do you want to drink it?"

Zhaoran glanced at him, patted the seal, and a sour smell came to his nose, Zhaoran couldn't help turning his head away, but he remembered the scene of Shen Fangji talking and laughing with Jiuru, and squeezed his nose cruelly Gulu Gulu drank it all.

After finishing drinking, he panted and said, "Is it okay?"

Duntian picked up the pipe again and said: "Of course not, you have to lie down for a while, your bones will be soft, and then they can help you shrink."

Zhaoran began to feel as if ants had been drilled into his bones, so sore to the extreme, but his limbs were limp and paralyzed on the chair, unable to move, but after a while he was drenched in sweat.

"Okay, okay." Zhao Ran kept asking.

Duntian stood up, and Zhaoran realized that Duntian looked like he had no bones and was stumbling around, but he was actually tall. He held Zhaoran under his arm, and then directly threw him into a wooden cabinet. Looking at the smaller and smaller cabinets, he shouted, "Hey, what is this?"

"Help you shrink." Duntian said lazily on the cabinet, and then he didn't show up again, only to see that the cabinet was getting smaller and smaller, and it was obvious that he only heard the rattling of bones, and he was sore It was painful and itchy, and he felt that Duntian must have made him suffer on purpose.

While yelling "Ouch", he thought that when he saw this kid wearing crotch pants, he must suffer more.

When Zhaoran crawled out of the closet, he found that he was only as tall as Duntian's knees. He couldn't help being overjoyed. He held his oversized leather and said, "Thank you."

Duntian looked at Zhaoran from top to bottom, with a gloomy gaze, he said: "You can take a rest in the next room."

"You're too thoughtful!" Zhao Ran was overjoyed, going out like this is really suspicious, and it's really great to be able to solve it here.

"You're welcome." Duntian looked at him and said.

Zhaoran dragged his body into the next room, and Duntian lay back on the couch again, saying: "Come here, wash your hands."

Steward Du hurried in with a basin of water, washed his hands for Duntian and said, "Master, that kid is so rampant, why are you being so polite to him?"

Duntian raised his eyelids, hooked his hands, Du Butler quickly attached his ears, and Duntian raised his hand to press his whole face into the basin and said, "Because he is my father!"

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As soon as Zhaoran returned to the room, he took off the skin that was too big on his body, looked at his small hand bones, and thought that this Duntian had a weird temper, and his workmanship was quite good, but the bones were too compressed. Not like ten years old, but five or six years old.

But the advantage is that it is very suitable for Zhaoran to change the skin of the onion, and he ate up the elbow he carried with him, then picked up the token, took a deep breath, and returned to the time of Shen Fangji again .

As soon as Zhao Ran landed, he immediately split the token in his hand into two, threw it on the ground, first picked up his own half token, and then took out a bamboo tube to put the half token in, but he quickly He found that no matter how the token was stored, as long as his hand touched it, the silence in the room would have a great attraction for him.

In the end, Zhaoran reluctantly hid the bamboo tube containing half of the token in the corner of Shen Fangji's yard, and then came out sneakily, and then Zhaoran was stunned when he found that after shrinking, he couldn't climb over the wall and get out .

Zhaoran had to find a kitchen to hide for the night, and then sneaked to the front yard at dawn, and it was already crowded with people.

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"Today is the last day."

"I heard there is only one place left."

A lot of people were whispering, but Mingran was sweating profusely before he squeezed inside, he stood on tiptoe, hooked the registration desk, looked at Jiuru who was writing with his head down, couldn't help being elated, and said, "I, I want to register. "

Jiuru raised his eyelids, only seeing a pair of eyes protruding from the desk.

People outside the door commented: "Who is this, where did the child come from, this, where did this refugee come from?"

"Yeah, there's still straw on this head!"

"Child, the academy is not a nursing home, you have come to the wrong place."

Zhao Ran hurriedly said, "I'm here to sign up for study!"

The people outside the door roared with laughter: "Child, you are not as tall as a desk, you should go back and take care of your body first."

Zhao Ran was furious, Jiu Ru smiled and raised a pen and said, "What's your name? How old are you?"

"My name is A Xian, and I'm already nine years old." Zhao Ran yelled while grabbing the book case, the first step now is not to let Shen Fang Ji snatch his name away.

"Ah Xian, what's your surname?" A middle-aged man who looked like a secretary next to him asked.

"I don't have a surname, I have my husband's surname!" Zhao Ran looked at Jiuru eagerly.

The snickering sounded outside again: "This kid is really good, you don't even know if this student is, but I'm going to take my husband's surname."

Jiuru smiled and said, "Let's do it for now."

Seeing that he lowered his head and put his name on the paper, Zhao Ran couldn't help grinning.

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The clerk took out a piece of paper and said: "Candidates, please answer the following question. Looking at the seventh floor of the towering tower from a distance, the red light will multiply. There are 380 lights in total. How many lights are on the tip?" (Note: This question is for this question) From the Ming Dynasty. Wu Jing)

Dozens of boys knelt on the ground and began to answer questions at the same time. Finally, the secretary announced that five boys had passed the test.

In the crowd, they found that the boy who looked like a little skull was among them, and they couldn't help chirping in amazement.

The clerk glanced at the five boys and said: "Now answer these questions, what water has no fish, what mountain has no stone, what daughter has no father, what daughter has no husband, what tree has no branches, what city has no city? The answers must be connected to form a sentence." .”

Zhaoran looked at the question and thought, there are so many answers. He glanced at Jiuru, wondering what kind of answer Jiuru wanted.

A boy has already stepped forward to answer: "There are answers in the sutras of persuasion and cultivation. There are no fish in the south water, no rocks in the mountains, no father for a man, no husband for a mistress, no branches for a Tuo tree, and no city for a Buddha city. Together they are six. The word Mantra Namo Amitabha means compassion."

Zhao Ran couldn't help feeling a little anxious, wondering what Buddhist scriptures this young boy was reading.

After a while, the other children also answered. Although they were not as good as the No.1 child, they all answered neatly.

The secretary looked at Zhao Ran and said, "Does this kid want to answer?"

Seeing Jiu Ru's eyes cast on him, Zhao Ran immediately regained his spirits, stepped forward and said loudly: "There are no fish in ice water, no rocks in broken mountains, no branches in barren trees, no fathers in ruined sons, no husbands in nuns, and no cities in abandoned cities." (Note: Pozi, ancient sound name)

The secretary couldn't help frowning: "You can answer..."

Clearly said: "Sir, do you think the little boy's answer is too decadent? But in this world, it is precisely because of ice water, broken mountains and barren trees, that there are dilapidated sons and nuns who abandon the city. People who study in my generation do not do it for cultivation, but for cleansing." Clearing up the vicissitudes of life in this world, I am going against the sky, so I have to read these six words upside down: Abandon the construction and break the wasteland and break the ice!" He finished speaking righteously, thinking, come on, let's applaud.

The people outside the door looked at each other for a while, and then burst into laughter: "This kid has a pretty good memory!"

"Yeah, say exactly the same answer to the students admitted by the first little sage."

"No wonder he also calls himself A Xian."

"Ah Xian said it impassionedly, but this kid wants to make people laugh! So cute!"

Zhao Ran was dumbfounded, how could Shen Fangji say his answer, he couldn't help jumping anxiously: "I haven't heard anyone else's answer."

"I haven't heard other people's answers, how can you say exactly the same as others?"

"that is!"

"Children, don't be funny, go home and get some milk!"

After speaking, everyone laughed again.