i lied to the whole world

The next day, Husheng Xingluo went to Ye Wang's side to pick up the task, and began to investigate the so-called customer who ate Bawang's meal.

During this period, those who were able to open a shop in Heianjing basically had nobles or wealthy businessmen as their backers, and only they could directly order Yinyangliao.What they lost was not the money for the few bowls of food, but to eliminate the possibility of monsters haunting them.

Otherwise, the fact that there are monsters wandering around in their territory will make those nobles unable to eat.

At this time, Hu Sheng, who had some clues about the prisoner, was not in a hurry to collect clues, but wandered around in the market at will.

It's as if he didn't know that since he was wearing the onmyoji's hunting clothes, he has followed the sneaky figure behind him.

Another onmyoji?

The monster between the size of a teenager and a child has a head of conspicuous black and golden long hair, which is not scattered over the shoulders like ordinary people, but suspended at the back of the head as if there is some support, forming a unique hairstyle, tied at the end of the hair When he got up, his eyes were golden-brown, his face had already begun to show the spooky and handsome face after growing up, and there were tattoos like demon patterns under the corners of his eyes.

The young monster gnawed on an apple, leaned against the eaves, and lowered his head curiously to look at the foxes passing through the crowd. Among the people in either Chinese or civilian clothes, the young onmyoji in white hunting clothes was particularly conspicuous.

It's the third batch, and this group of people is really tireless.

Hua Piao thought boredly.

As a wandering monster begging for a living, he heard that there are many interesting things in Heianjing, so he rushed to see the world, and spent the past few days wandering in the market with his unique ability, living a very happy life.

The only troublesome thing is that there are many big monsters and onmyojis in Heianjing, and he was spotted occasionally a few times, and then the onmyojis came. Unfortunately, these people are too stupid to catch his traces.

Hua Piao finished nibbling the juicy apple in his hand, clapped his hands, and suddenly had an evil idea.

Anyway, being idle is idle, why not play with this onmyoji, follow him when he is trying to find it, and then suddenly pat him on the shoulder to scare him when the little onmyoji is trying to give up. Emoticons must be fun.

Well, I decided that today's entertainment is this!

Hua Piao chuckled, and quietly followed Hu Sheng Xing Luo.

He watched the little onmyoji wander around, but he didn't seem to have any intention of investigating carefully, so he just walked around, walking around as if he was here to play, and he didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

Hua Piao felt strange, didn't the onmyoji come to look for him, why did he feel that this man was visiting the market.

He decided to observe for a while, and then watched Husheng Xingluo go to the food stall.

Under Hua Piao's gaze, Hu Shengxing Luo ordered a bunch of things, then left, holding the food in his arms and continuing to eat and stroll, leisurely like he was here to exorcise demons.

After walking around the market with Husheng Xingluo for half an hour, Hua Piao became more and more suspicious of Yaosheng. What's wrong with this guy?It doesn't look like it's here to exterminate demons.Are there such lazy people in Onmyoji?

Or is it that he was underestimated?

Hua Piao rolled his eyes, no, it might be a trap, he deliberately pretended to be wandering around, but in fact the purpose was to lure him out, human beings are cunning.

In that case...

Hua Piao has a new prank idea, he is very confident in his illusion, and this onmyoji looks very small, people around him have no reaction to his appearance, it should be an unknown onmyoji.However, there were people walking around, not like recognizing him, but avoiding something bad.

Hua Piao giggled, and began to tease the innocent little onmyoji. First, he hid in the crowd, covered up the demonic aura with illusion, and walked in front of Husheng Xingluo as if nothing had happened, pretending to be a human child.

After passing by once, Husheng Xingluo didn't respond.

I ran past him without responding.

Deliberately touching this onmyoji, the little onmyoji came back to his senses, said sorry softly, then stepped aside and continued walking.

He was completely ignored, so the onmyoji didn't notice him at all!

This is too delicious!

Hua Piao felt that she was so stupid for being cautious and probing all the time. This is clearly a rookie onmyoji just getting started, and she didn't respond when the targets were sent to her eyes!

As we all know, when a monster intends to make a joke, but finds that human beings are so inexperienced that they can't even realize that it's a joke, there will be an indescribable aggrieved feeling and a sense of powerlessness when the fist hits the cotton.

As a monster who likes to play tricks, the childish competitiveness in Hua Piao's heart has been completely burned.

……

Xingluo Husheng was very happy to visit the market. After all, there are not many opportunities to visit the ancient market, and Heian capital is now in a prosperous period, with all kinds of novelty gadgets, completely ignoring the goal of actively gathering.

What monsters to catch, is it important to go shopping?

"Hey, Onmyoji over there!"

A clear voice stopped him suddenly, Husheng Xingluo looked up, it was a boy dressed in fancy clothes, he seemed to be a child of some wealthy businessman or noble family.

"It's you, you are here to find the monster, are you really looking for it seriously?" The child looked suspicious.

"Of course." Hu Shengxing Luo nodded.

The corner of the noble boy's mouth twitched: "Who are you kidding! Put away the toon cakes in your hands first! You are obviously playing!"

Hushengxing Luo Yi said solemnly: "Because I'm hungry, can't I?"

"...No, I will monitor you until you find it!" The noble boy pointed at Hu Sheng, "Don't try to be lazy, or I will go back and tell my father."

Hu Shengxing laughed out loud.

"why are you laughing?"

"No, it's okay...so you are one of the noble children who entrusted me with the task of eliminating demons?"

"Well, anyway, if you don't hurry up and think of a way, our side will feel troubled, because there are rumors of monsters, and everyone dare not come over for dinner," the noble child pulled Husheng Xingluo, "Now hurry up and I'll go investigate together."

This noble kid is Hua Piao, of course he doesn't have any hobbies of his own, he simply doesn't like this onmyoji's lazy appearance, and plans to find something for him to do.

Husheng Xingluo was pulled forward, and under the guidance of Hua Piao, he visited the shops where he had encountered "non-existent customers" one by one.

"The rumor? Ah, I remembered. It's true."

"A customer came in suddenly, but the owner forgot to collect the money. When I went to see it again, I found that there was no one on the seat, only the empty bowl left."

Some shops actively told Hu Sheng about this monster.

"It's not just a shop. Sometimes there is an extra person in the family, but no one in the family notices it. Just like usual, the family eats dinner together, only to find that there is an extra set of tableware."

"Eat and drink tea at home, as if you are the owner of this house, and even stay for one night, and leave on your own the next day, only then did the people in the house find out that you lived with an unknown stranger yesterday one day."

There are also passers-by talking about it.

"The more I talk about it, the more terrifying it becomes. Is it really a monster?"

"Can it still be a human being?"

"But this monster doesn't eat people, and it doesn't hurt people."

"That's true."

By the time Hualao pulled Husheng Xingluo from the street to the end of the alley one by one, the sky had already turned orange-red, and it was dusk.

"Aren't you tired?" Husheng Xingluo looked at the sky and asked suddenly.

Hua Piao was stunned for a moment, and quickly replied: "Um, it's okay, I'm already very satisfied to hear so many things about monsters."

"Oh? You like monsters very much?"

"Well, because it's interesting."

"But didn't that monster cause damage to your family's property?"

Hua Piao choked for a moment, and said firmly under Hu Shengxing Luo's searching gaze, "It's fine if we can catch him anyway, and he didn't do any other bad things."

Husheng Xingluo was noncommittal, Hua Piao was also a little hungry at this time, and it was not early in the sky, and he was almost satisfied after dragging this onmyoji around for a day, pointing to the stall in front of him with few people: "Let's go Let's eat there, I have long wanted to try what the common people eat."

In fact, he had been to this restaurant before, and the taste was very good, which was also suitable as the ending of today's prank. After eating, he suddenly disappeared, scaring the onmyoji, and then he was able to pay the bill.

Hua Piao was already looking forward to this ending in her heart, and walked ahead with great interest, completely oblivious to the smiling expression on Hu Sheng Xing Luo's face behind her back.

"Welcome." The boss asked with a Kyushu accent, wearing a coarse cloth, "Guests can see what they want to eat."

It is said that you can choose, but the dishes are only tofu, fish and some wild vegetables, but the taste is surprisingly good, which is different from the local taste of Heiankyo, with an exotic style.

Before the food was served, Husheng Xingluo touched the beans at the bottom of the bowl, thoughtfully, and asked casually while eating: "Boss, has anything strange happened recently, such as the sudden appearance of non-existent guests? of."

"Haha, the guests are really good at joking, how could such a thing happen." The boss denied it.

"Hey, but..." Hua Piao was stunned for a moment, and just about to say something, she suddenly closed her mouth.

He tilted his head, and looked at Hu Shengxing Luo with a smile that was not a smile.

That expression seemed to say, finally slipped the tongue.

Hua Piao realized something, and bit the bullet: "That's probably because I remembered it wrong."

"No, you remember correctly. The non-existent guests did come here, but the boss didn't tell anyone about it. Of course, the joint entrustment of Yinyang Liao has nothing to do with the boss."

Hu Sheng Xing Luo spoke slowly and clearly.

Hua Piao looked puzzled: "Then how did you know?"

"Because of the beans at the bottom of the bowl." Fox Sheng Xingluo said, "Beans are used to exorcise evil spirits. If it wasn't for something, no store would deliberately put beans under the bowl, and the boss is from Kyushu, and there is no such thing in his hometown. This tradition can only be learned from people around me recently.”

Hua Piao touched the bottom of the bowl, and there really was.

Totally didn't notice.

Throwing beans to drive away ghosts is a popular custom in Heian-kyo recently, but generally speaking, not every store does this. Generally, they only throw beans to drive away evil spirits on specific festivals. Do.

"Then why did the boss lie before?" Hua Piao followed Hu Shengxing Luo's words.

However, Husheng Xingluo did not look at the boss, but instead looked at Hua Piao and said, "You are the customer who does not exist."

As soon as this remark came out, both the boss and Hua Piao were stunned. Hua Piao was stunned for a moment, and retorted: "Of course I am not. I made a mistake when I said it before."

"No, it's probably not a mistake, because the only ones who know that there have been non-existent customers in the store are me who just discovered the beans, the boss, and... the customer himself."

"Couldn't it be that the boss leaked something to his surroundings?"

"No, as long as the boss wants to keep the store open." Hu Sheng said lightly, "Do you still remember that people avoided me wherever I went before? It wasn't because they were afraid of my status as an onmyoji, but because they were afraid of me as an onmyoji. fear."

As we all know, those who wear this clothes are all onmyoji, and most of the monsters are there where the onmyoji is. For those who avoid monsters, walking around the onmyoji is enough.

What they really fear is not the onmyoji, but the monster.

For the nobles, it is of course not worth a lot of money to get some overlord meals eaten by monsters, but the real body of the non-existent customers is monsters, and once the news spread that monsters came to eat in the shop, no one dared to come.

Having said that, paper can't contain the fire, so the nobles wanted to send an onmyoji to solve the incident before it spread completely.

And the boss is a new foreigner, and he doesn't seem to be well-dressed. Even if he really meets a monster customer, he will keep silent, and he doesn't have the capital to hire an onmyoji.

There is nothing to do but put a bean under the bowl is better than nothing.

"And you are not a child of a nobleman, I'm sorry, it's too obvious, I can't pretend to be deceived." Husheng Xingluo propped his chin, "Before you said that you came here for the first time to try common people's cuisine, but to everyone All the seasonings are very familiar, and you are so healthy, you don’t feel tired after running all day.”

Most of the nobles in this era are vegetarians and have a lot of taboos. They advocate not eating enough, so most of them are weak and sick, and their bodies are not healthy. It is impossible to run for so long.

"Of course there are still some flaws before, do you want me to tell you one by one?"

Hua Piao: "Since you have already doubted my identity, why do you still want to act with me?"

Husheng Xingluo pondered: "Of course it's because you are very qualified as a tour guide, and the shops you go to are very cost-effective, and it's really interesting to watch you play so seriously to find monsters."

The corners of Hua Piao's eyes twitched: "Then why are you exposing me now?"

"Of course it's because..." Husheng Xingluo made a long voice, and suddenly turned around and grabbed the air behind him. The phantom of the noble boy sitting next to him suddenly disappeared, replaced by the monster boy whose arm he grabbed, " It is the prerogative of the better illusionists to expose poor illusions."