My Taoist companion is a little fox

In the next few days, both Zhou Ke and Qian Li worked part-time in Jiuyue's shop.Every day, Jiuyue puts on various kinds of makeup on Qianli, while Zhou Ke doesn't move, so that he can maintain that sharp and slightly youthful air.These two people stood guard at the door, one was a beautiful woman who had been carefully carved to double her beauty, and the other was a naturally rough and handsome guy with a handsome buff, the visual effect was even more shocking.When you come here to buy things, you can not only harvest the rouge that suits you, but also feast your eyes.

Thanks to these two handsome guys, Kaleidoscope's business turnover doubled in a few days, and the inventory in September was quickly wiped out. Within three days, the store was sold out.

"The purchases are all outside the city of Shangdu, and those merchants come every half a month." Jiuyue flipped the abacus quickly, smiling blindly, "In a few days, it will be the Zhuyan Festival, and now it's the hot time. Hurry up and buy some goods to put away. Xiao Qian is weak, stay and look at the store, and Xiao Zhou will go with me as a coolie to carry the goods."

In the evening, Zhou Ke and Jiu Yue went out, sneaked away and sat at the front desk, caressing a piano displayed in the shop leisurely.Before leaving, Jiuyue turned her head again, looked at Lu Li who was immersed in the light and shadow, and couldn't help sighing softly: "Why does he look like this? I'm a girl, and I feel ashamed when I see it."

Zhou Ke also glanced at the people inside, got into the carriage with Jiuyue, and asked after walking out for a while: "Sister Jiuyue, you were actually enthusiastic because you thought he looked good and looked like a god in the temple of Shangdu. Why don't you ask us to do short-term labor?"

Jiuyue didn't hide it, and nodded with her hands openly: "That's right, I was really stunned for a long time when I saw Xiao Qianli for the first time. I'm a vulgar person, I'm a dirt, and I move away when I see a good-looking person." Don't move. Xiao Qianli is such a great beauty, looking at him makes me feel that the world is bright."

"He is indeed good-looking." Zhou Ke raised the corners of his lips.

She waved her hands and smiled: "But you are not bad-looking. My business is to have a good appearance. A big beauty like Xiao Qianli is the easiest to make people feel protective and loving. You are different when you are young. Girls still like someone as handsome and imposing as you."

Zhou Ke groaned, hugged his hand and leaned back exaggeratedly: "Yo yo! Sis, don't praise me like that, I will float away."

Jiuyue laughed loudly: "You are more interesting than Xiao Qianli, and you are much more active. Didn't you say that you are a cultivator? My sister really doesn't see some outsiders from you."

"The Tao is here." Zhou Ke pointed to his heart, and then pointed to the carriage, "I am here."

The corner of Jiuyue's mouth twitched: "Pretentious."

Zhou Ke also smiled: "Sister Jiuyue, I'm bored on the road, tell me about the temples in Shangdu. It looks like a demigod. Is it some great deity?"

"No. There are many temples in Shangdu. They are not statues of gods and Buddhas, but statues of a couple." Jiuyue chatted lively, "Have you heard of the origin of Shangdu? The founder of Shangdu is a wealthy businessman. I don’t know how many places he traveled around, and finally he chose this place. The merchants spent all their wealth and built such a city on the ground. At first, this place was not called Shangdu, but Tongcheng.”

"Tongcheng?"

"Yes, according to the legend, it's because his lover always wears a red dress, and this city is a piece of paradise he built for his lover." Jiuyue clapped her hands lightly, her tone of envy, "If the legend is true, it must be What kind of affection."

Zhou Ke rested his chin and listened quietly, and replied sourly: "En."

"The lord of the city had accumulated countless good deeds throughout his life, and was deeply loved by the people in the city. He lived a long life and died without any illness. But what people later talked about was his affection for his lover in red. How far did this affection go? The lord taught himself to carve , I personally carved a pair of statues with my lover, implying that the universe will last forever and will never change in this life.”

Jiuyue clicked his tongue for a while: "Later he drove the crane to the west. Although he was not there, the deeds have been passed down. To commemorate them, the descendants of the city built many temples in the capital, and reproduced them according to the statues that remained. Re-engraved. Because of their unchanging affection, those temples are also called Hongdou Temple."

"Red bean, why is it called red bean?" Zhou Ke murmured.

"It has something to do with that statue. You will understand when you see it in the future." Jiuyue said with a smile: "Later, everyone felt that only these temples were not enough to commemorate, so they created the Zhuyan Festival again. The season is at the end of autumn , when the maple leaves are red all over the ground, before the winter comes, everyone seizes the reddest moment of the year, indulges in pleasure and enjoyment, and spends it with those who please and love."

Zhou Ke hugged his knees, and pretended to smile lightly and delicately: "The lover who has been in love for hundreds of years, this has too much stamina."

"That's called Qi Kuo in this life, they're simply a couple of gods and gods." Jiuyue said as she got out of the car, angrily, "When will I meet a lover?!"

Zhou Ke was provoked into laughter, and the haze and unwillingness that weighed on his heart followed the sway of the carriage, all the way to the gate of the city, crushed into a moan.

Jiu Yue yelled at him to get off the car together, and went to pick up the goods from the merchants who used to come and go outside the city gate.After walking a few steps, when he was about to squeeze in front of the crowd, a female voice suddenly sounded from behind: "Nine."

Jiuyue turned around abruptly, and then the whole person froze without moving.Hearing this call, Zhou Ke felt a little tricky, so he turned his head and took a sneak peek, and saw a tall and heroic woman with a scar on her face.

It's a pity, if there is no disfigured scar, this woman's skin should also be the one that Boss Jiuyue likes.

The woman looked at Jiu Yueqing and said coldly: "Long time no see."

Jiu Yue's first move was to wipe her nose: "It's okay, I don't feel that time has passed, everything is as usual. How is Eighth Sister?"

"..." The woman was silent for a while, "Okay."

Zhou Ke, who was quietly gossiping, raised his eyebrows, always feeling that the woman pressed a "no" before answering.

"I'm here with my buddy to pick up the goods." Jiuyue suddenly stood on tiptoe and hooked Zhou Ke's neck, and said a little bit like showing off: "This is my newly recruited short-term worker. There's a better-looking one in the shop for the one in front. We're still busy, so we won't be chatting with you, Eighth Sister."

The woman paused for a while before nodding: "You are busy."

She glanced lightly at Zhou Ke, and the tool-man Taoist inexplicably felt that this gaze was a bit scary, carefully avoided the boss's salty hands, nodded and stretched forward: "Sister, please."

With the same hands and feet, Jiuyue walked forward arrogantly, and accidentally stepped on Zhou Ke's foot.

The woman seemed to have watched her off for a long time.

When the business was negotiated and the goods were handed over, Zhou Ke carried the things back into the carriage, his gossip spirit was burning vigorously, looked around, and asked Jiuyue in a whisper, "Sister Jiuyue, what's going on with you? Is that girl in debt or something?"

"Nonsense, it's okay." Jiuyue clasped her hands and looked away, "That girl's name is August, and she came out of the left-behind courtyard in Shangdu with me! That's because she helped me when I was young." For the sake of it, my mother only called her sister."

"Hey, listen to my sister's tone, is this love or some kind of enmity?"

Jiuyue snorted at the boss: "Hammer love, what debt do I owe her? I, she owes me a person! She poached my former long-time worker, such a handsome young man, who worked for me for a year and a half, The old lady thought that the rest of her life would be settled, but she poached the boy away in a few words!"

Zhou Ke suppressed a smile: "Ah, this..."

My sister, I can sort of understand why you are still worrying about being single for a long time.

Jiuyue angrily helped to move the goods up, and the two of them got on the carriage and prepared to go back after moving all the things.On the way, Jiuyue was not as happy as she was before she came, poking the car seat with a stinky face, her mouth was crooked.

Zhou Ke took no chances, leaned aside and looked at the scenery of Shangdu outside the car window.A whole long street with maple leaves like fire is indeed a rare beauty in the world.

Tongcheng.

red beans.

His heart began to tug slowly, and at this moment, his eyes suddenly caught sight of a gray figure holding a maple leaf and stuffing it into his mouth in the corner of the street, and he sat up straight anxiously: "Old Xu?!"

Jiuyue was also taken aback: "What's wrong?"

"I saw Mr. Xu eating fallen leaves on the street." Zhou Ke spoke quickly, "Sister Jiuyue, why don't you go back first, and I'll send Mr. Xu home?"

"Go."

Zhou Ke jumped off the slow-moving carriage, and quickly ran to the old man crouching in the shadows eating maple leaves.He knelt down in front of Old Xu and grabbed his hand to stop the old man's stupid behavior: "Old man, don't treat yourself harshly."

Elder Xu raised his head and saw him, and seemed to recognize who he was, so he squinted his eyes and smiled: "A friend of the statue."

Zhou Ke didn't expose him, took out a handkerchief to wipe the dirt off the old man's face, and said, "Yes, he is a friend of the statue. Mr. Xu, it's not safe for you to be alone on the street. I'll take you home."

Old Xu shook his head: "Hey, I won't come back."

"Then where do you want to go? You can't just hang around in this street all the time." Zhou Ke sighed softly, "Anyway... as long as it's convenient to stay where Xiaobao isn't around, isn't it?"

Mr. Xu stood up on his knees, and clapped his hands crazily: "I remembered, I'm going to worship the god statue!"

"Okay." Zhou Ke also stood up and supported the old man who was not standing still, "I want to see it too, please take me with you."

"Why do you want to see the statue? Is the statue by your side if you don't go?"

"He's with me now, but I don't know anything about his past."

An old man and a young man chatted about strange things incessantly, and went to the nearest red bean temple.

Zhou Ke was prepared in his heart. He stepped over the threshold and entered the temple. When he looked up, he saw the statue inside and stopped in his footsteps.

A pair of statues accompany and join hands, the right one is gentle and ordinary, the left one looks like a romantic, a pair of passionate fox eyes full of affection, the most distinctive thing is that there is a bunch of red beans hanging on the ankle.

Zhou Ke became a little dazed, and his memory flew back to the first time he met the fox demon.At that time, the fox demon was sitting on the pear tree in white clothes, his white feet were dangling in the air, when he looked up, he saw his feet, the jade-like ankles were wrapped with a string of red strings.

It seems to be the same position as on this statue, the only difference is that there is no red bean.

If you think about it, hundreds of years have passed, and the red beans may have been wiped out by wind and frost, leaving only an empty red string.But the light and fluffy rope seemed to fasten the pace of the walking fox demon.

Zhou Ke was in a trance, waiting to walk out of the temple.He helped the foolish old man on the road, and suddenly found that everyone around him was holding a bunch of red beans, and went home to hang them on the door and window.That red is so dazzling, countless lovesickness wishes.

He was stunned by the blush of the bustling streets, and after a while he took out a bunch of red beans he got in Liji Town from his arms, and fell into boundless confusion.