Wu Sheng starts from strengthening

Chapter 31 Fat Taoist

"Oh, that's my overthinking."

After Lin Yi finished speaking, she walked forward without looking back.

"Miss Yi'er, wait for me."

Pan Ye quickly followed her, and suddenly, a stall selling talismans on the street attracted his attention.

"What?! This tattered talisman that looks like a ghost painting talisman is so expensive? You are robbing you."

"The little girl doesn't have eyes!"

A skinny aunt was cursing and turning her head to scold the stall owner behind her as she walked, almost bumping into Lin Yi who was walking dull-headed.

The stall owner was a fat man in his early twenties, wearing a blue broad avenue robe and a mahogany sword on his waist. He was sitting on the floor with a sad face.

In Pan Ye's impression, most Taoist priests live in poverty and have a well-proportioned figure, but the man in front of him is like a mountain of meat sitting in front of him, and his weight may be as high as two hundred catties.

The stall owner's figure and the expensive price of the talisman attracted his attention.

He walked in and took a look, and saw a total of eight talisman seals with different functions scattered scattered on the simple floor stall made of burlap.

These talismans include town house talismans, amulets, pure heart talismans, etc., which are the most frequently requested talismans by ordinary people.

Seeing Pan Ye approaching, the fat Taoist greeted him, "Little brother, what do you want to buy?"

"Let me consider."

Pan Ye knelt down and picked up a Town House Talisman and glanced at it.

"This is?!" To his surprise, this talisman actually contained a very weak aura.

The aura is so weak that it can only be sensed when you hold the rosary in your hand.

He made a little estimate, about ten cards can have [-]% of the energy of one bead.

Although it is extremely subtle, at least it proves that these talismans can really have some effect. This fat man is a Taoist priest with real skills.

"Brother, you have good eyesight. As long as you place this town house talisman in your home, I guarantee that you will be able to keep all demons and evil spirits out, and keep your house safe!"

"How much is a piece?"

"One tael of silver, no counter-offering."

He finally knew why no one came here anymore, other people's stalls cost a few cents a piece, and he sold them for a tael.

Pan Ye touched his bosom, only a few coins and silver coins came out, which was all his current possessions.

"Uh..." He scratched his head, turned to Lin Yi for help, "Miss Yi'er, do you have any money with you? Lend me some."

"Ms. Ben never takes money with her when she goes out. Xiao Lian always brings it."

Lin Yi was furious, and turned her face aside, obviously still sullen.

"I'll finish writing the novel later, will I show you the first one?"

"Hmph, who cares."

"I let Tang Yuan live with you for a day?"

Lin Yi moved her eyes, but said nothing.

"Two days!"

"You said yes."

"I'm sorry Tangyuan, thank you for sacrificing your color." Pan Ye silently mourned for Tangyuan in his heart.

"Then I'll go back with you to get the money?"

"alright."

"What a pure little girl." After coaxing Lin Yi, Pan Ye said to the fat Taoist priest, "Master Daoist, can you wait for a while, and I'll come to pay the bill after I go back to get the money, or if you don't mind, can you come with me?"

"Left and right are fine. These ordinary people have no eyesight. It's their loss. I'll go with you."

The fat Taoist priest folded the talisman paper, wrapped it in linen, and stuffed it into a small package.

Pan Ye followed Lin Yi back to the inner mansion to withdraw money, and abducted him back home to pick up the dazed glutinous rice balls.

When he came out, the fat Taoist priest was squatting bored beside the horse hitch in front of the gate of the Lin residence, staring blankly.

Pan Ye went up and patted him on the shoulder, handed him eight taels of silver, and said:
"I want all the talismans on the booth just now."

The latter happily took it and stuffed him with eight talismans.

"Take a look, isn't it those eight?"

As he was talking, his stomach suddenly groaned.

The fat Taoist rubbed his belly, the fat man wrinkled his facial features, and said, "I haven't eaten all day and night, I'm hungry."

Pan Ye looked at the sun in the sky, the sun was hanging high above his head, and it was noon.

He thought this Taoist priest was quite interesting, and he was a well-known teacher, so he wanted to make friends, and it happened that it was lunch time, so he said, "If the Taoist priest doesn't mind having a meal together?"

"I don't dislike it, I don't dislike it." The fat Taoist said cheerfully, rubbing his hands.

The Lin family could not let outsiders in casually, so Pan Ye took him to a restaurant with relatively high cost performance in the outer city to sit down.

While waiting for the food to be served, the two chatted.

"Dare to ask, what's your name?"

"Don't dare to be the Taoist leader, just call me Zu Wei."

"Brother Zu's accent doesn't look like a local. Are you coming to Rongzhou to find relatives?"

"I'm from Qianzhou, the master said I lack experience..."

After some conversations, Pan Ye probably learned that the fat Taoist priest named Zuwei was a disciple of a certain Taoist temple in Qianzhou Mountain. Because of his small achievements in cultivation, he was allowed by his master to go down the mountain to experience the world of mortals. But this guy eats too much, and likes to taste delicious food from all over the world. Within a few days, his pockets are empty, and he lives on the streets selling talismans for a living.

However, the price of talismans is too high, and almost no one buys them.

Not long after, the dishes came, and Zu Wei stared at the sumptuous table, Gulu swallowed, and looked hopefully at Pan Ye.

"Eat."

Even though he was so hungry, he still picked up the bowl and chopsticks and stuffed food into his mouth with Pan Ye's consent.

"Horrrrrrrrrr~"

The eating scene was really gobbled up, and Pan Ye was caught before he took a few mouthfuls.

"..."

He finally understood how this brother spent all his money.

Pan Ye waved his hands to greet Xiao Er: "Order again."

Half an hour later, Zu Wei leaned back on the chair and burped contentedly.

This meal cost Pan Ye half a tael of silver, just enough to use up all the money he borrowed.

At the entrance of the restaurant, Zu Wei smiled embarrassedly and said, "Thank you little brother for your hospitality. I have been hungry for a long time, and my appetite is a bit bigger."

After speaking, he took out a talisman from his pocket, stuffed it to Pan Ye, and said, "Here."

Pan Ye took a look and saw that it was another Town House Talisman.

"I'm out of money."

"Send it to you, you friend, I'll give it to you."

"Hi~ Thank you Brother Pan for your hospitality."

He wiped his mouth and saluted Pan Ye.

……

After saying goodbye to Zu Wei after lunch, Pan Ye returned to the courtyard.

After practicing marksmanship and light work for a while, he returned to the room and drank a few sips of water, picked up a brush and continued to write novels.

The ink smeared on the paper, and it was another day immersed in the novel world. Pan Ye wrote until late at night, and once again forgot to eat.

He came to the kitchen, took out the dregs of boiling blood decoction used in yesterday's practice, poured clean water, and set fire to decoct the medicine.

While decocting the medicine, he saw that there was only one bead on the rosary emitting light, and murmured: "The energy is about to bottom out again, and we must find a new energy source as soon as possible."

Now I can only spend a penny in half, and a package of enhanced boiling blood soup has to be reheated many times until the effect of the medicine disappears completely.

(End of this chapter)