Modern Little Town God

When the two walked on the street, they no longer just looked at the flowers on horseback, but every time they passed by a shop or stall, they would carefully look at the stalls, or walk into the shop to have a look.

The ghost market is different from the market of the living people. Many shops and stalls are covered with a layer of white and gray fog. In the fog, occasionally a ghost with a pale or blue face will jump out. A pair of ghost eyes with white eyes looked at the visitor, and said in a fluttering manner: "Hundred years... ghost shop... welcome... visit..."

Zong Suizhong: "..."

Ruan Jiao glanced at his expression secretly—hey, he doesn't seem too scared?

Well, I have never been afraid.

Walking in front of a store, Ruan Jiao said, "Hey, that thing looks familiar. It should be a good one. Let's go in and have a look."

Zong Suizhong gave a "hmm" and stepped in with him.

After entering the ghost shop, a skinny old ghost appeared in front of the two of them. The misty white mist had already dissipated. A trace of fear flashed across the old ghost's eyes, and he said tremblingly, "Welcome guests... come to the shop."

Ruan Jiao smiled and said, "Old man, there are a lot of good things in the store, let's see for ourselves?"

The old ghost seemed to be pardoned: "Of course, of course, the guests are welcome."

After finishing speaking, he immediately went behind the tall, quaint wooden counter.

Ruan Jiao looked at Zong Suizhong amusedly.

Zong Suizhong didn't care - he had been looked at by the same eyes many times today.

Ruan Jiao shrugged, and led Zong Suizhong to the thing he had glimpsed before.

It was a basket of copper coins.

Zong Suizhong looked down and said, "Ancient coins."

Ruan Jiao nodded and said: "Let's..." He said with a bit of a toothache, "... people in the Taoist sect will have some useful magic weapons in their hands. Among them, copper coins are relatively common, but copper coins that can be used to make weapons are the most important ones. Not much, and ordinary money is not enough, it has to be ten thousand people’s money in ancient times.”

While talking, Ruan Jiao simply pulled Zong Sui down, squatted with him in front of the basket, and talked to him while picking.

"Common copper coins include five emperors' money, ten thousand people's money and money sword, all of which have the function of protecting the body from evil. What is five emperors' money? Five emperors' money is divided into big five emperors and small five emperors. The former is the most prosperous in our country in ancient times. The ancient coins commonly used in the dynasties, the latter are the ancient coins issued by the most prosperous five dynasties emperors in the previous dynasties. In comparison, the five emperors' coins are more powerful, but some dynasties are so long that it is difficult to find genuine ones. Anyone who can have a magic weapon made of the money of the Great Five Emperors must be a treasure at the bottom of the box."

"Besides, ten thousand people's money is not enough to be touched by 1 living people as it is generally said now, or if the living people run into ghosts and throw two coins in the past, wouldn't it be enough? There is no matter about Xuanmen masters. This is not only It has to be ten thousand dollars in the literal sense, and it has to follow an ancient principle of yin and yang, and follow a kind of 'meaning'. Generally speaking, men are yang and women are yin, and living people are yang and ghosts are yin, so The ten-thousand-dollar coin must be a real coin produced in ancient times. Since its birth, it must only be touched by 1 men with yang energy. Of course, the conditions were relaxed later, and women with yang life are also allowed. If they are touched by ordinary women After that, more than 1 men have touched it in a row, and those who have never passed through a woman's hand are considered okay. But the most orthodox one is the previous one..." Speaking of this, Ruan Jiao smiled and said, "Originally Copper coins belong to yang. If they have been touched by 1 women and have not passed through the hands of men, they can also be a magic weapon, but this kind of magic weapon is between Yin and Yang, and is often used to adjust the balance of Yin and Yang. If it is touched by 1 Tens of thousands of ghosts have touched it... that is a ghost weapon."

Zong Suizhong listened very carefully.

Ruan Jiao continued: "To put it bluntly, the money sword is a sword made of one hundred and eight copper coins. Some Taoists are very picky. The money used to make copper coin swords is at least the kind with more men touching money... in case In terms of human money, in the very early days, there were celestial masters who could spend such a large amount of money, but now there are fewer. Anyway, the more yang energy on the copper coins, the greater the power of the money sword." Speaking of this, he complained again, "It was easy for me to say at that time. As long as the emperor's general gave an order to take a basket of newly minted copper coins and give them to the soldiers in the barracks one by one, they could have as much money as they wanted."

Seeing that Ruan Jiao didn't continue, Zong Sui asked, "What money are we looking for now?"

Ruan Jiao shook his head: "Look for five emperors' money. Big five emperors and small five emperors are fine. You can find as much as you can. I heard from Zile that people in your family are prone to bumping into ghosts, which is not safe. If you can wear a A string of five emperors' money is somewhat useful." He sighed, "I want to find ten thousand people's money, and it will be better to use this thing as an amulet, but this is a ghost shop. If you stay here for a long time, you will become ten thousand ghost money..."

Zong Suizhong expressed his understanding, and he also had the same thought in his heart.

I used to think that my family members were thinking too much, but now that I found out it was not the case, of course I have to prepare for them.

"Is there anything else for protection?"

Ruan Jiao thought for a while and said: "Zile is very concerned about this aspect. I made a suggestion to him before, asking him to put the small statue next to him to soak up his divinity when offering incense to the City God. I went to see it last time. But, it’s almost finished, and he should send them over one by one soon.”

Zong Suizhong said: "That's fine." He quickly picked out the basket with his fingers, and asked, "Is there really a city god?"

Ruan Jiao smiled secretly, with a serious expression: "Of course."

He originally wanted to say "whether you want to pay respects to the senior too", but he shut up as soon as he changed his mind.There is such a big black hole with strong suction, if he encourages his seniors to worship the city god, what if the black hole is not happy?He hasn't figured out what a black hole is yet, so it's better not to try it on the edge of the black hole's endurance.

Unexpectedly, Ruan Jiao gave up the idea of ​​"molesting" Zong Suizhong, but Zong Suizhong said, "I'm going to worship too..."

The corner of Ruan Jiao's mouth twitched, and he quickly waved his hand: "Farewell." When he mentioned this, he suddenly felt a little terrified, "I think you, senior, are not suitable for worshiping gods because you hang on to that black hole."

Zong Suizhong was taken aback, he looked at Ruan Jiao thoughtfully.

Ruan Jiao's heart tightened, with a smile on his face: "I'm the spokesperson of the City God in the Yang Dynasty. Of course, I care about his safety. Senior, you are such a big bug, you must be cautious in your actions."

After Zong Sui pondered deeply, he nodded: "That's fine."

In fact, when he proposed that he would also worship the City God, before he finished speaking, he already had a very strange and unspeakable feeling in his heart.In this case, he should do what Xuedi Ruan said, not to act rashly.

However, Xuedi Ruan's performance just now always made him feel a little weird...

Before Zong Suizhong could think about it, Ruan Jiao continued to yell.

"Senior, look, I found one!"

Zong Suizhong took advantage of the situation to look over, and he found a big five emperors coin, with a faint smile on his face.

"good."

Ruan Jiao proudly said, "I found it. Senior, you didn't even find the Little Five Emperors, did you? Why don't we compare and see who finds the Five Emperors with more money?"

Zong Suizhong looked at Ruan Jiao's bright eyes, and agreed without hesitation.

"it is good."

The two buried their heads in picking. First, Zong Suizhong found the Little Five Emperors, then Ruan Jiao also found the Little Five Emperors, and then Zong Suizhong found two or three pieces in succession. Ruan Jiao found another one, and then Ruan Jiao found another one. , Zong Suizhong did not...

After a fight between dragons and tigers, the two of them rummaged through the entire basket of copper coins. Ruan Jiao grabbed a handful of Big Five Emperors with a smile, and the smile on his face became even more proud.

"I've got all the Great Five Emperors together, Senior Zong, how are you doing?"

Zong Suizhong spread out his palm, and there were more than a dozen copper coins in it. He said calmly, "Three strings of small five emperors, two big five emperors, four or five scattered small five emperors."

Ruan Jiao calculated in his mind, raised his eyebrows, and continued, "I also found seven or eight small five emperors."

It's just a pity that there are many repetitions found, and a series of small five emperors can't be assembled-but it doesn't matter, if a series of big five emperors can top ten small series of five emperors, he still wins!

Sure enough, Zong Suizhong said, "You won."

Ruan Jiao... Ruan Jiao is in a good mood.

Then the two got a few red strings from the shelf next to them. Ruan Jiao flipped his fingers and put together the copper coins they found together to make four strings of small five emperor coins and one string of big five emperor coins.

Zong Suizhong saw with his own eyes that the moment these copper coins were strung together with red strings, they gave people a very round, harmonious and unified feeling, and they also had a peculiar charm-perhaps, this is what the finished five emperors' coins have. strength?

Ruan Jiao was very happy, put the Five Emperors Qian Chaozong Suizhong in his hand, and said: "It's done, these are all prepared for the senior's family, and the senior has to pay for it himself."

Zong Suizhong nodded first and said, "It should." Then he turned his head and asked him, "Don't you want it?"

Ruan Jiao shook his head and said, "I don't need this." He pointed to himself and said, "I devote myself to worshiping the City God, and I can ask the gods to come down at any time. I still give these few strings of money to..."

While Ruan Jiao was talking to Zong Suizhong, another person came in outside the shop, and that person suddenly took a few steps forward, stretched out his hand and grabbed Zong Suizhong.

When Ruan Jiao saw him, he was about to stop him immediately.

But Zong Suizhong made the first move, and with a flip of his wrist, he had already grabbed the opponent's wrist.

Ruan Jiao was quite annoyed, but when he turned around, he saw a greedy Taoist priest... he was even more annoyed.

Zong Suizhong grabbed the Taoist priest, and at first he screamed a few times in pain, but he was not afraid at all, seeing that he couldn't get rid of Zong Suizhong, he immediately threatened: "Boy, Daoist, I don't know if you are with me!" Which family came here, but if you are acquainted, give these strings of five emperors' money to Daoist, otherwise, Daoist wants you to look good!"

Ruan Jiao almost laughed angrily. They have worked so hard to find the five emperors' money for a long time. This wild Taoist priest who doesn't know where, wants to take it away?teasing him.

Zong Sui spoke again: "No."

The Taoist priest's face was gloomy, and he said in a gloomy tone: "Really not?"

Zong Suizhong said without expression: "No."

The Taoist shook it hard again.

Zong Suizhong let go of his hand.

Ruan Jiao was ready for the Taoist attack.

But the Taoist didn't attack, he just took a deep look at Zong Suizhong, as if he wanted to remember him... and then left.

Ruan Jiao frowned and reminded: "Senior, be careful when you return from the ghost market. Although I think he is a low-class guy, and you have a black hole around you, senior, there is nothing wrong with being careful."

Zong Sui said seriously, "I know."