The daily life of the retired devil

On the side of the road, the pear seller and the Taoist chatted, which attracted the attention of countless people, and also made a corner of the road congested.

The shopkeeper of the nearby shop went out to have a look, and saw that the two were arguing so badly over a pear that they even blocked the road in front of their own house, so he wanted to spend money to buy peace, but when he heard that the pear cost ten When Wen Qian was alone, he stopped silently, pretending that nothing happened.

Ten cents!

A bowl of Yangchun noodles costs only two renminbi, and one pear is worth five bowls of noodles, or five meals.

The shopkeeper himself is not willing to eat it, so how can he be willing to spend money to buy one for the Taoist?

What's more, he also heard some clues from these two people. He knew that it wasn't that the pear seller was mean, and he was not willing to give away a pear and would swear at others, but that this Taoist was not greedy after getting a pear, and wanted to get another one.

As the pear seller said, how can things in the world be repeated over and over again?This Taoist's way of doing things is a bit boring for the shopkeeper who is called a small business.

On the second floor of the teahouse, Xie Feiyan looked at this tumultuous scene, thinking deeply.

In the teahouse, the story of "Planting Pears" by the storyteller is gradually reaching its climax.

"... There was a waiter in a shop. Seeing the two arguing and making a lot of noise, he gave out a coin and bought a pear for the Taoist priest. The Taoist thanked him, and then said to the people around him, 'I also have good pears, but I don't like them. Like other people who are stingy, now I take out the pear and invite everyone to taste it.'”

"...someone asked, 'Why ask for someone else's pears when you have them yourself?'"

"...the Taoist laughed, 'It's just because I still need this pear as a seed!'"

I don't know whether it's a coincidence or deliberate, but the "Planting Pears" that the storyteller in the teahouse is talking about is the story that Xie Feiyan heard after a certain reincarnation, and it is one of the many stories in "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio".

What is even more puzzling is that, except for some subtleties, the general direction of the entanglement between the pear seller and the Taoist outside the teahouse is infinitely close to the story of "Planting Pears", just like the story in the teahouse. The storyteller was not telling the story he had prepared long ago, but just narrating the two people outside the teahouse!

Xie Feiyan frowned slowly, and a subtle sense of weirdness emerged spontaneously.

Outside the teahouse, as the story of the storyteller reached its climax, the dispute between the pear seller and the Taoist also began to escalate.

The Taoist saw that he couldn't please himself with such entanglement, while there were many onlookers pointing and pointing, but few spoke for him, let alone helped him out.The Taoist was angry, and his tone became more and more tough.

"I begged for your pears not because I was greedy, but because you had a great opportunity and wanted to give you pears as a gift. I didn't expect you to be so stubborn that even two pears I can't bear to part with pears—how can a stingy and immoral person like you be worthy of Qingyun Ladder and Tongtianji?"

Although this Taoist's clothes are not obvious, his demeanor is impressive and convincing, so when he said these words, the people around him were taken aback for a while, as if he had really missed a great opportunity. Even if they are not the pear sellers themselves, their hearts have already begun to ache for the pear sellers.

But they felt sorry for them, but the pear seller sneered, and just pretended to be a Taoist talking nonsense: "Don't come to ask for my pears, I don't care about your chance, just go away!"

The Taoist didn't see the pear seller's sincerity, fear and regret, and he became more ashamed and annoyed. He snorted coldly and said, "Don't think that your pears are really special. If you want to talk about pears, I have pears too. , but I am not as stingy as some people, I would like to take out the pears for everyone present to taste!"

As he said that, the Taoist ate the pear in his hand whole, and then buried the pear core under the soil, covered it with soil, and took out a water bottle from his sleeve to water it.

The people around were taken aback by the Taoist's method of taking things out of thin air, and what surprised them even more was that with the watering of the Taoist, the place where the pear core was buried grew sprouts at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into The big tree blooms and bears fruit quickly in the blink of an eye!

"Wow……"

"God..."

"is this real?!"

"Amazing!"

The Taoist was very pleased. Seeing the pears growing quickly, he stroked his beard and smiled, picked the pears from the tree, and generously distributed them to the onlookers.

Surprised and amazed, everyone stepped forward to take the miraculous pear, and put it into their mouths tentatively.In the teahouse, Xie Feiyan scanned the pears, the Taoist and the pear seller twice, and smiled.

"This is interesting."

He jumped off the chair, ignored the teahouse storyteller's cadence and pretended to be mysterious, and went straight to the lively scene outside the teahouse, and also got a pear from the Taoist.

"Oh? The young master also wants it? Hey! Try it and see if my old pear tastes good or not?!"

Xie Feiyan took the pear politely, looked at the pear over and over again, but refused to put it in his mouth.

The Taoist was surprised and urged: "Young master, why don't you try it? Eat it quickly!"

Xie Feiyan smiled and said, "No need, you don't need to eat this kind of pear."

The pear seller took a second look at Xie Feiyan.

The Taoist on the side was confused: "Why?"

The Taoist couldn't figure it out: since this young man took the initiative to beg for pears, he must like pears, but now why does he say "it doesn't matter if you don't eat it"?

While the two were talking, the people around had already eaten the first pear, but the strange thing was that they didn't feel any sweet taste, but rather astringent, even bitter.

Some people have a kind personality and feel that they have eaten a pear for nothing, so it is hard to say anything.

But there are also some people who are outspoken.

"Master Taoist, your tricks are amazing, but your pears really don't taste good!"

"Yeah, yeah, it looks yellow and big, but it tastes bitter and astringent. Feelings are just glossy."

"Although we got pears for nothing, we shouldn't say this, but Daoist, your pears are really unpalatable!"

In the sound of complaints, the Taoist looked a little panicked: "Bitter? How could it be bitter? It's clear..."

As he said that, the Taoist suddenly came back to his senses, and he himself picked a pear from the tree, and bit into his mouth.

"Wow!"

The mortals around are okay, most of them are used to suffering, even if they occasionally eat a bitter pear, it's okay.

But this Taoist is used to being pampered, he has never even eaten simple food, how can he eat such a bitter pear now?

That's why he took a bite, and as soon as the bitter pear juice entered his mouth, he spit it out with a loud wow.

The Taoist's face was blue and white, looking at the pear in his hand, his expression changed: "How could this be? How could this be?!!"

Slowly, as if he finally understood, the Taoist turned his head little by little, and his eyes fell on the pear seller beside him.

At this moment, the air is silent.

Xie Feiyan was already standing aside with the wonderful pear in his hand, leaving room for the two of them to play. At this moment, the people around also sensed that the atmosphere was not right, and they also calmed down, watching with subtle expressions.

The Taoist stared at the pear seller, his voice dry: "It's...it's you...?!"

The Taoist’s lips trembled, maybe he wanted to ask how the pear seller did it, maybe he wanted to ask why the pear seller pretended to be a mortal to sell pears, or maybe he wanted to ask who the pear seller was and what his origins were .

The pear seller smiled at this, but instead of answering, read a story.

"In the beginning, when the Taoist priests practiced the method, the villagers were among the crowd, leading their attention, but they forgot their work. After the Taoist priest left, he began to look in the car, but the pears were empty. Fang Wushi's expression of scattered pears was all his own..."

The Taoist's face changed again and again, and sweat gradually began to break out on his forehead.

The pear seller asked: "Are you going to do the trick just now, like the Taoist in the story, who turned into a pear tree with a blind eye, and then picked my pears by carrying them, so that I can use my pears to punish me, a stingy man?" Fool, by the way, take the opportunity to show your holiness in front of others, to show the power of your wonderful law?!"

The Taoist was sweating profusely.

The pear seller's face turned serious, and he sternly reprimanded: "As a spirit, you don't presume to wish to become a god, but you should never hesitate to make up stories and perform them yourself in order to obtain wish power, defrauding innocent people of their property and money." Faith of mortals! Have you ever thought that if I was really just an ordinary pear seller standing here, would I deserve to be taken away by you?! And how can the power of mortals be deceived? Come?!"

The Taoist didn't expect that his identity and even his purpose would be revealed in one go, his face paled, and without thinking, he turned into a yellow shadow, intending to escape.

But the pear seller reacted quickly, and he just grabbed it with his hand.

There was no magic in the pear seller's movements, as if it was just an ordinary hand reaching out. The next moment, everyone's eyes blurred, and when they fixed their eyes again, they saw a struggling weasel on the pear seller's hand.

The pear seller snorted, "How can you be so presumptuous in a place of human nature? Just come with me!"

Saying that, the pear seller walked away in a flick of his sleeves, and in the blink of an eye, the pear seller, the weasel, and the cart of pears all disappeared, leaving only a wooden stick sticking obliquely in the original "pear tree" , The feet are full of small and wrinkled pears.

"Hey! Immortal?!"

"Have we seen a fairy?!"

"This pear...why does it seem to be from a wild pear tree outside the city?"

"No wonder, I just said why it's so unpalatable, it turned out to be that pear tree!"

"The Immortal Elder is really powerful. We didn't see how he moved. He actually deceived Jingguai's eyes and brought so many bitter pears from outside the city."

"That's right, if the Immortal Elder doesn't say it, how can we know that the weasel can also become a living person?!"

"That ghost is also a heart thief. If the fairy head didn't expose it, I think we would have been deceived by him."

"Our mouthful of pears, although bitter, are the pears transported by the immortal head with the immortal method. It's worth it, it's worth it!"

"..."

Amidst the excited discussions, Xie Feiyan showed an amusing smile, and looked down at the wrinkled pear in his hand.

"interesting."

The spells on the weasel just now, whether it was the transformation method or the concealment method, were all ordinary in Xie Feiyan's opinion.

But the spell performed by the pear seller is worth mentioning.

On the surface, the pear seller also used the blinding and transporting methods, but in fact, he first silently deciphered the opponent's spell, and then took over the dominance of the spell without the owner of the spell being aware of it. , This made the weasel's transportation method point to the bitter pear tree outside the city.

Use cleverness to break power!

Although this kind of spell and its use do not have the power to shake mountains and seas, it has another kind of exquisite feeling of lifting weights lightly. Taoism is not the same.

"It is interesting."

Immortals, monks, spirits, monsters, wishing to become gods, and a place of humanity.

All of this is wider than the world in Ning Xuancheng's memory, and it also hides more secrets, which aroused Xie Feiyan's strong interest.

He glanced at the place where the weasel disappeared. How could a weasel have such advanced thinking without pursuing it? "Planting Pears" in "Liao Zhai" is so similar.

He just looked at the blue sky and smiled slightly.

"This world...is really interesting."

Xie Feiyan was not in a hurry to find out the truth of everything, but was enjoying this moment. After holding the bitter pear in his hand, he leisurely climbed over the wall and returned to his palace.

In the palace, the maids and guards serving him were all in a hurry. If Xie Feiyan hadn't left a note when he slipped away, they might have gone crazy!

Xie Feiyan, with a rare evil taste, caught the appearance of these people getting angry one by one, and then appeared in front of others, and comforted these people one by one.

"Little prince, why didn't you take any of your servants with you, just ran out like this? If something happened to you outside, we would go underground and have no face to explain to Concubine Shu!"

Xie Feiyan smiled and said, "Okay, I was wrong." But I dare to do it next time.

That night, Xie Feiyan went to bed after washing up.

But when the sound of clappers sounded in the middle of the night, Xie Feiyan suddenly felt something, woke up from the dream and looked out the window.

There, under the bright moonlight, Xie Feiyan saw a figure sitting on the window sill, unceremoniously gnawing on the bitter pear he brought back during the day, while looking at him with a smile.

"I didn't expect that a child with a clean heart and full of spirituality like you can be born in a place of human nature and in the royal family."

This man is not afraid of hardship, he gnaws a bitter pear with gusto.

"Little prince, it's a pity that you and I are not destined to become masters and apprentices. But—"

"Do you want to learn juggling with the old Taoist?"

The author has something to say: The article quotes two sentences from the original text of "Planting Pears" in "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio"

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