Left side door: I can reverse the price

Chapter 9: Youcheng Bookstore
In the north of Kunshan County, where merchants gather.

There are row upon row of restaurants and rouge powder shops.

With the opening of the city gate, it seemed to wake up the sleeping county town.

All the shops opened their doors one after another, and the busy day began.

Jiang Xiaobai walked on the street in the north of the city, and soon came to a shop at the end of the street.

The shop is only a few meters square, the shop door is closed tightly, and the aroma of wine can be faintly smelled from inside.

Jiang Family Winery.

The place where I originally lived since I was a child.

But Jiang Xiaobai didn't push the door to enter.

He's not going back to his old job.

It is not easy to explain the sudden return after leaving for more than three months, and it will be troublesome if it attracts the yamen to investigate.

After Jiang Xiaobai stopped for a while, he walked into the nearby shop.

Youcheng Bookstore.

The size of the bookstore is not small, but the layout is very simple.

Entering the door is a checkout counter, and further inside, there are five rows of wooden bookshelves, on which are various books in different categories.

There is a low wooden desk with piles of books in the middle, which can be used for short reading by customers who choose books.

In the memory of the original body, he used to run here a lot to read some novels.

Jiang Xiaobai came here to learn about this world through books, and to try his luck to find other practitioners' essays.

He is still smeared against the various cultivation forces.

However, Jiang Xiaobai's gaze was attracted by the figure behind the checkout counter.

Behind the checkout counter, there is a wooden lounge chair.

Lying on it was an old man in a green robe, with a thin, dark complexion and cloudy eyes.

Jiang Xiaobai knew that the old man's name was Zhou Ji, and it was said that he was a scholar who left his hometown when he was young.

About five years ago, Luo Ye returned to her roots and returned to Kunshan County to open this bookstore.

But he didn't expect Zhou Ji to be a practitioner, and he was always by his side.

At this time, under the eyes of Jiang Xiaobai Xiantianling, Zhou Ji's appearance changed drastically.

He was skinny and covered with fleshy palsies.

Huge head, haggard face, sparse hair, very incongruous with the torso.

The smell of decay and stench entered the nostrils.

Xu Shi noticed Jiang Xiaobai's gaze, Zhou Ji raised his head to look at him, he was very strange, and didn't notice anything unusual.

"Choose what books you need, just come and pay the bill."

"it is good!"

Jiang Xiaobai suppressed the curiosity in his heart, walked to the bookshelf, and began to choose.

Browsing through the whole thing, I didn't find any books related to practice.

For a shop opened by a practitioner, he is unlikely to have the opportunity to pick up leaks.

However, there are many books about monsters and goblins on the bookshelf, which Jiang Xiaobai read with gusto.

These legends may have been seen by chance, or heard through hearsay.

The original body was regarded as nonsense, but now it seems that it may not be fake.

Soon, the sun was rising.

The number of customers coming in from the bookstore gradually increased.

Jiang Xiaobai chose two at random, then paid and left.

There is no gain, but a lot of gain.

Perhaps, he found a good entry point.

It is rare to meet practitioners with friendship in the past.

The key is that Zhou Ji has not entered the Qi training state, and Jiang Xiaobai's strength stabilizes him.

……

a few days later.

The sun sets in the west, and the sunset glows in the sky.

Jiang Xiaobai brought some food from the restaurant, and walked leisurely to Youcheng Bookstore.

At this time Zhou Ji was about to close the door, when he saw Jiang Xiaobai walking straight towards him, he was obviously taken aback.

He recognized this young man who had been coming to the bookstore to buy strange books in recent days.

My heart immediately lifted.

After all, he knows his own affairs.

Zhou Ji's right hand was hidden behind, ready to strike at any time.

"My guest, it's getting late and the bookstore is about to close. I want to buy books and come back tomorrow."

Jiang Xiaobai slowly approached Zhou Ji, his face gradually changed.

When he came to the old man, he had already changed into a similar image to his original body.

It's just that his face is pale, his limbs are stiff, and his yin is quite heavy.

The exposed yin and cold air mechanism is controlled to the point where he has just stepped into the practice.

"Uncle Zhou, it's me!"

Zhou Ji looked at Jiang Xiaobai in front of him, his cloudy eyes were full of surprise.

"No wonder, no wonder, you never came back!"

"You still came in."

"Ugh!"

Zhou Ji shook his head, his tone full of regret.

He left room on his side and let Jiang Xiaobai into the bookstore, but he didn't take back his hidden right hand.

Jiang Xiaobai walked into the bookstore, lit an oil lamp, and the dim light spread throughout the shop.

He cleaned up the low wooden desk, arranged the food, and took out two porcelain bowls.

"Uncle Zhou, please!"

Zhou Ji watched Jiang Xiaobai's movements, and sat across from him unsteadily.

Zhou Ji laughed at himself, "Uncle Zhou, heh!"

"I'm not ten years older than you."

"Cultivation is not as good as you think!"

"Then you still take advantage of the original body."

Jiang Xiaobai complained in his heart, took off the Jiuxian gourd from his waist, and poured a bowl for each of them.

Immediately the aroma of wine overflowed.

"Friend Zhou, have a taste."

The two clink glasses.

Zhou Ji took a sip first, and then drank it all in one gulp.

His eyes lit up: "Good wine!"

The old man's spirit had been tormenting and burning, and at this moment the pain had slightly weakened.

He looked at the wine gourd in Jiang Xiaobai's hand with burning eyes.

Converge quickly again.

Even if the two had some friendship before, if Jiang Xiaobai dared to show it so carelessly, he must have something to rely on.

Jiang Xiaobai filled the two again, and spoke on his own.

"Friend Zhou, embarking on the road of cultivation, I also made a mistake."

"I was just going out to buy some raw materials for wine making, but for some reason, I followed a Taoist to the deep mountains."

"The Taoist forced me to practice some kind of kung fu in the dark and secret cave, and my body gradually transformed into a walking corpse that was once described in ghost novels."

"Seeing the brothers in name go crazy and bloodthirsty one by one, I am terrified."

"I found a chance for the Taoist to go out, so I escaped."

Jiang Xiaobai did not choose to tell the truth about his experience, which was too frightening.

Zhou Ji listened quietly to Jiang Xiaobai's words, and looked up at him.

"Actually, I have discovered your talent for cultivation a long time ago."

"But for people like you and me who have a yellow rank of spiritual contract, stepping into practice is not necessarily a good thing."

"No matter how much you practice, you are still at the bottom. You may step into the abyss if you take a wrong step."

"I'm the best example. My lifespan has been greatly damaged, and I've turned into a person who is neither human nor ghost. I live in the world and suffer every day."

Jiang Xiaobai sighed.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, it's hard for me to return to an ordinary life after seeing the landscape of cultivation."

Zhou Ji drank the wine again and shook his head.

"You are exactly the same as I was a few years ago."

"However, I am already dying, and there is nothing that can help you."

His eyes became sharp and wary, thinking that Jiang Xiaobai was greedy for his cultivation skills and magical weapons.

Jiang Xiaobai didn't seem to notice, and filled the wine bowl again.

"You Daoist Zhou misunderstood, I just escaped from birth, and now I am panicked."

"I found fellow Daoist Zhou, and I hope you can show me the way and impart the basic experience of cultivation, especially the cultivation information in Kunshan County."

"I'm not going to walk into danger whole."

"I know these things are not easy to collect from Zhou Daoyou, and I would like to exchange this jar of spirit wine."

"really?"

Hearing Jiang Xiaobai's trading conditions, Zhou Ji was already moved.

"really!"

"it is good!"

(End of this chapter)