Strange Tale

After their tossing, Qilin also woke up.Not knowing what happened, Liu Chengfeng pushed open the door and poked his head in, "What's wrong? Are you okay?"

Long Jiu was in so much pain that he couldn't speak.Si Ren reluctantly stood still, waved his hands again and again, "No...it's nothing, it's nothing."

"Oh." Liu Chengfeng looked at everyone in the room one by one, and saw that everyone was awake, so he said, "Come out for dinner if you have nothing to do. I've already made everything."

Looking at the food on the table, Si Ban felt it was incredible, "There are some rare meat and vegetables here, and you made them?"

"Yes." Liu Chengfeng was not without complacency, "Seeing that you guys can't finish chatting in the room for a while, and I have nothing to do, so I just made some breakfast."

"Casual? This is not casual, frying, frying, frying! Actually, you are not a Taoist priest, you are a cook?!"

"No no, Pindao is a monk."

"Why do monks cook diced chicken and fried meat?!"

"Before I became a monk, I was a lay disciple. I practiced at home except for the three disgusts, and I could drink and eat meat."

Everyone sat down at the table and began to eat.

Qilin and Huaner continued the daily farce.Si Ren has long been used to being too lazy to take care of it.Liu Chengfeng didn't understand the situation and kept trying to persuade him.Long Jiu never cared about those things.So Qilin, Huan'er, and Liu Chengfeng were busily busy together, while Si Ren and Long Jiu sat silently facing each other at one end of the table, eating lightly and calmly.

Huan'er watched Qilin take the last piece of fried steamed bun from the plate, and tried to grab it, "I'm not full yet!"

Qilin dodged Huan'er's hand and bit off half of the steamed bun, "I'm not full either."

Liu Chengfeng stood up, "I'll do some more."

Qilin pulled him back to the chair, "Don't bother with her, she's already full. Even if I eat shit, she'll grab it."

Huan'er picked up a piece of egg skin and threw it on Qilin's head, "Who wants to snatch that from you? If you want to eat it, you can eat as much as you want!"

Qilin grabbed the egg skin on his side and wanted to throw it back, but Liu Chengfeng hurriedly stopped him.

……

Seeing Long Jiu frowned suddenly while drinking the soup, Si Ren poked his head over and asked in concern, "Is your tongue okay?"

"It's okay, I burned it. Where's your head? Does it still hurt?" Long Jiu raised his hand and touched Si Ren's head, "It's swollen."

Si Ren smiled, "Your chin is too sharp."

"Also, it's all your fault. Where did you get so much strength? If you change this, someone else's tongue might have been broken."

……

After breakfast was finished, Si Ren picked up the bowls and chopsticks to clean up, but Liu Chengfeng snatched them over, "I'll come, senior brother."

Si Ren shivered, "Don't call me Senior Brother, you should call me Xiao Ren."

"How about that?"

"Didn't Master tell you to listen to me? I said yes, and that's it."

"OK then."

Liu Chengfeng carried a stack of plates into the kitchen.

Long Jiu suppressed a smile, "Is your junior brother really easy to use?"

After tidying up for Huan'er, Si Ren and Long Jiu are going to take her out together.

Qilin ran to Si Ren's legs, "I'm going too."

"It's fine." Si Ren casually grabbed the braids on the back of Qilin's head, "You haven't made clothes for a long time, so let's make a set by the way."

Qilin pouted, "I don't want to make clothes, that's what girls like."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"I……"

"I know! I know!" Huan'er jumped on the ground anxiously.

Si Ren held her down, "Say it."

"Xiaolin is going to see Brother Shuangqi!"

Qilin was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't want to admit that Huan'er was right, "Don't make wild guesses."

After speaking, he showed his original shape and got into Si Ren's backpack directly.

When Huan'er saw that Qilin had entered, he immediately opened the lid of the backpack and wanted to get in.

Si Ren bent down and hugged Huan'er, "Little ancestor, don't worry about it, you can't get in. Come on, can't I hug you?"

Finally going out, Si Ban hugged Huan'er and walked side by side with Long Jiu on the road. Liu Chengfeng, who was cleaning, stood at the door with a broom and waved goodbye to them.From the perspective of others, the relationship between several people reveals some kind of inexplicable weirdness.

First go to Qianjinfang to look at the clothes that I wanted to get but failed last time.Ji Shuangqi happened to be helping in the store, he was very happy to see Si Ren coming, and then Qilin also crawled out, he was even happier, and immediately ran into the back room to get refreshments.

When Boss Ji heard that Si Ren was coming, he hurried out to thank his son's savior.Although Si Ren repeatedly said that it was someone else who saved Ji Shuangqi, the father and son insisted on Xie Si Ren, and said that Huan'er's clothes don't cost money, and they made them for nothing.Si Ren said no, but they refused to accept the money.

In the stalemate, Long Jiu, who had been standing behind without saying a word, suddenly spoke.

"If someone is kind enough, you can just take it. A set of children's clothes doesn't cost much. Besides, if it wasn't for you, Tu Shanli wouldn't show his heart."

Boss Ji looked at Long Jiu and looked at it carefully for a while, "Ah! Isn't this... General Long? You see, I am old and dim-sighted. It's not this dress. I didn't recognize it just now, I'm really sorry, what a neglect."

"Oh, is that right? It's okay." Long Jiu smiled, but felt a little depressed in his heart: If I had known that there were so many people present, I shouldn't have gone.If this continues, more and more people in Yancheng will recognize me in the future, which is very troublesome.

After chatting for a while, they took Shang Huan'er's clothes and said goodbye to Ji Shuangqi, and the four of them went to the foreign clothes shop at the end of the street.Seeing that there was no one around, Qilin turned into a weasel and returned to Si Ren's backpack.

Boss Ji, who was standing at the door of the store watching them, was taken aback. He quickly took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, "Si...how did Mr. Si's brother...become...what is that? A mouse?!"

Ji Shuangqi snatched his father's glasses, "Father, I told you a long time ago that the glasses should be changed. Come in, he's gone far away."

When they arrived at the foreign clothing store, Si Ren and Huan Er leaned on the glass window and looked in: the dress was still there.

Long Jiu's face suddenly appeared in the window, he knocked on the glass and gestured for them to come in quickly.

Si Ren led Huan'er to open the door and walked into the store. Long Jiu raised his head and clung to Si Ren's ear, "Do you know that the person lying on the window looks stupid from the inside?"

Si Ren touched his face, "Is there any?"

There was a sound at the back door, and a blonde girl dressed in middle-earth came out, "Good morning, gentlemen, how can I help you?"

"I want that dress, how much?"

"Could that dress be cheaper?"

Si Ren and Long Jiu pointed to the skirt in the window and asked at the same time.

Long Jiuyi turned his head, "Didn't you agree that I would buy it for Huan'er?"

Si Ren curled his lips, "Then we can also negotiate the price, isn't your money money?"

"Why do you care so much?!"

"I'm doing it for you. It's just a skirt, no matter how you look at it, it's not worth that much money, right?"

"How much is this! It's much more expensive than this."

……

"Uh... two gentlemen." The Western girl couldn't help interrupting them, "That one is just a sample, and it needs to be tailor-made."

Long Jiu took out the money bag and put it on the table, "Okay, let's do it."

Si Ren quickly snatched the purse, "I'll make it cheaper."

"Hey!" Long Jiu stared at Si Ren.

Si Ren ignored him and turned to look at the Western girl.

The girl looked a little embarrassed, "That price is really not high."

Long Jiu stretched out his hand to pull the ring, "Needless to say, the original price will be fine. Come here and ask my sister to measure you."

Si Ren took Huan'er's other hand, "Don't move, Huan'er is obedient."

"You let go."

"Don't let go, Huan'er has to listen to me."

"Are you going to let it go?"

"Don't let it go."

……

Huan'er struggled to break free from the hands of the two people, "Stop arguing! I know what to do."

After finishing speaking, she waved to the Western girl, "Sister, come here."

The girl didn't know what she was going to do, but she still walked to her side.

"Sister, I can juggle."

"Ah?" Si Ren, Long Jiu, and Miss all spoke in unison.

"Really. How about this, sister, I'll do a trick for you. If you think it looks good, you can pay me a little less for my skirt, okay?"

"This..." The Western girl looked at Si Ren and Long Jiu: If these two people keep fighting here, it will affect the business.Besides, this little girl is really cute... Oh, forget it, let's just give her a favor.It is not easy for two big men to bring their children to buy clothes.

"Okay, you change." The girl squatted in front of Huan'er.

Huan'er stretched out her two little hands seriously, "Look, there's nothing there."

The girl nodded with a smile.

"Change!" Huan'er yelled and suddenly reached into Si Ren's backpack.

In the end, before Si Ren and Long Jiu could react, Huan'er had already grabbed Qilin's tail and lifted him out of the bag with his head down.

Si Ren, Long Jiu, and the girl were all dumbfounded.

Immediately afterwards, Huan'er put the Qilin on the girl's lap.

The girl's already big eyes widened even further.

Qilin was very angry and forgot that he was still a weasel in a hurry, jumped on the ground and shouted at Huaner: "What are you doing?! Are you crazy?! Damn girl!"

"Ah—"

The Western girl screamed, stood up, turned and fled.

Qilin raised his two front paws on the spot, then turned around and looked at his own tail, "Did I... just say something?"

The other three nodded together.

The unicorn turned into a human form, "I fell asleep after being too comfortable in the bag, what happened? Who is that foreign woman?"

Si Ren said that he had something to say to Huan Er, and asked Long Jiu and Qi Lin to wait outside first.

Watching them go out and close the door, Si Ren hugged Huan'er who was still staring at the skirt, "Huan'er, listen to me: Brother, after paying the rent and buying a bicycle, there is not much left over. Now, Daoist Liu is here again, and I have to buy a bed, so the money is not enough. But, I didn’t really want to ask that sister to give you a cheap price just now. I just don’t want Brother Ninth to give You said that on purpose when you bought the skirt. You are obedient, and Master Lu will give me the bonus for going to Xucheng to save people in two days, and then I will bring you to buy the skirt right away, okay?"

Huan'er was still not reconciled, "Why can't brother Jiu buy me a skirt?"

"Well...that's an adult's business, you don't understand even if you tell me."

"But that sister was scared away by me, she won't talk to me anymore, right?"

"How is it possible. Tell her when the time comes, it's yours... How to say, um, Westerners call it magic. You said you can magic, so the weasel spoke."

Huan'er finally smiled, "Alright then! I'll listen to Xiao Ren."

"Then you have to promise me one thing. You are not allowed to ask for things when you go to other places later. Tell me what you like secretly. If you can buy it today, you can buy it. If you can't buy it, you can buy it together when I bring you to make a skirt. "

"Yes. I promise you." Huan'er nodded seriously.

Si Ren stretched out his little finger, "What you say is what you say."

Huan'er hooked her tender, crystal-clear fingers, "What you say is what you say."

Long Jiu put his face on the glass window and looked at the two people hooking up in the room, "That bastard, he obviously did it on purpose!"

Qilin stood behind and called him, "I said, General, don't you know if someone is lying on the window, it will look silly if you look from the inside?"

The four of them walked together for a while, and Qilin and Huan'er unknowingly ran to the front first.

Long Jiu approached Si Ren, "Is it so hard to spend my money?"

Si Ren smiled, "Did you see it?"

"Why on earth? It's not because of our relationship, is it? You think it's embarrassing to use my money?"

"That's only a small part of the reason. Didn't you say last time that your income mainly depends on the local taxation of the city you occupy. It's all ordinary people's money, and you shouldn't squander it at will."

Long Jiu turned to look at him, "Are you condemning me?"

Si Ren looked at the bouncing backs of Qilin and Huan'er in front of him, "I didn't condemn you, but no matter how I think about it, I feel that using your money is a disguised search for people's fat."

"Then what do you want me to do? I'm not the only one here. At least there are Dudu Grandma and Yechang, and at most there is an army. Food, grass, weapons, basic necessities, housing and transportation all cost money."

"Of course that's the only way to go now. But I have an idea."

"what idea?"

"When everything you want to do in the future is done, or you can't do it. Can you leave and ask alone, disband the army, and come with me."

"Shall I go with you?" Long Jiu stopped.

"Yeah." Si Ren also stopped and turned around, "You don't have to do anything, I will support you."

Long Jiu burst out laughing, "You earn that little money? Can't you support yourself? Besides, you know that I can live without food."

"Even if you can live without eating, as long as there is food, I will give it to you first."

Long Jiu knows, in fact, from a certain point of view: Si Ren probably hopes that his work will never be "done", because no one knows what will happen after he really finds Yi's reincarnation and avenged his revenge, something that cannot be determined Too much.In contrast, the immediate situation is more reassuring.This is also the reason why Long Jiu himself sometimes feels physically and mentally exhausted and wants to give up.So what Si Ren is talking about is simply a beautiful vision that no one knows whether it can be realized.However, even though the time and occasion were completely wrong, Long Jiu was still a little moved when Si Ren said such words.

Thinking about it, Long Jiu raised his foot and continued to walk forward at the same time, he replied to Si Ren: "Hmph! Whoever uses you to support him should take care of your own sons and daughters and the virtuous junior brother first."

The author has something to say: Three disgusts: Three kinds of animals that are not allowed to be eaten by Taoism.Geese, dogs, mullet.