I didn't intend to become a fairy

Chapter 76
Take a slice of ham, tear it into small pieces, and put it in your mouth.

Don't rush to chew, just let it stay in your mouth, feel the salty aroma it releases with your mouth, wait until it is a little soft, then start chewing, and feel the texture of the meat fiber again.

Dry and fragrant, never tired of eating.

By the way, he slowed down, tore another piece, bent down with his hands down, and the three-flowered cat stood upright, and took the meat from his hand.

The goblins and ghosts coming and going were all looking at them, but they were no longer embarrassed and stopped watching.

Gradually wandered to the fire in the middle.

The market town is gathered around the fire.

This fire is unusual and has its own strangeness, but it is not a real fire that burns the sky and the earth and burns the soul. It just guides the ghosts and ghosts in the mountains to come, and disperses other evil things.

Song You saw a few ghosts and ghosts in official uniforms by the fire, even ghosts were not afraid of the fire.

As soon as the bear and the cow saw Song You, he bowed his hands from a distance.

Song You also returned a gift.

It is quite strange that there is this market town here. Since people have broken into it before, it is impossible to say that there are legends about it at the foot of the mountain. Perhaps the owner of Fulong Temple has also visited before.

Xiong Cha should have told Niu Cha.

He didn't get close to them anymore, otherwise they would feel uncomfortable, and he wouldn't feel comfortable either, so he just changed direction and continued to stroll.

Song You bought a lot of wild fruits from a monkey stall owner, a good half-dry fodder from a horse stall owner, and a small fish from an unknown mountain spirit. The harvest is the mushrooms from a fox stall, matsutake and chicken fructus are available everywhere, and the price is the same as the fodder sold by the horse stall owner.I also bought some wonderful and interesting things that are rarely seen outside, and spent a lot of money.

It is quite rewarding.

However, the biggest gain is obviously not the things you buy and the cheap picks, but the journey itself.

There are countless goblins and ghosts in this place. I am afraid that the goblins and ghosts from the hundreds of miles of mountains have come here. The landscape elves raised by the earth and the ghosts who died on this road did not disperse. They have existed in all dynasties. Thousands of spirits other than humans live in harmony here, and even have their own order, which not only broadens his horizons, but also adjusts his cognition.

If ordinary mortals with literary talents strayed into this place and left safely, maybe they would also leave behind an adventure article handed down from generation to generation, right?
As he walked, there was a little ghost watching him.

Song You turned his head and saw a well-behaved boy with a round face, about eight or nine years old, walking in the same direction as him, always turning his head to look at him, his eyes were very spiritual.

Song You nodded and smiled at him.

The kid grinned at him too.

After walking a few more steps, the kid got a little closer to him, and asked curiously:

"Are you a fairy?"

"Just a mortal."

"What audacity!"

"what……"

"I didn't hear clearly just now, how did you come in?"

"It's also destined." Song You answered casually, with a soft voice, "After dinner, I sat watching the stars and saw the fire below the mountain, so I followed in."

"coincidence."

"It's a coincidence."

"Just now Guanshi Xiong wanted to take you out, why didn't you go out?"

"It's rare to meet, I want to go shopping more."

"There are so many ghosts here, are you not afraid at all?"

"What's so scary about ghosts?"

Song You also maintained courtesy to this little ghost: "There is a poem in the world, how can you know who you are today, not the ghost of the past."

Generally speaking, after a person dies and turns into a ghost, even a child will not continue to grow up unless there are other chances.So although the ghost in front of him looks like a child, it is impossible to say that he has existed in this world longer than Song You or even Song You's master, so he cannot be treated as a child.However, although their experience and knowledge will continue to increase, because they do not have a physical body, the growth of their mentality will also be affected, so it is not easy to treat them as adults or old people.

"Anzhi today's body is not the ghost of the past."

The little ghost muttered something, and found it interesting, so he smiled and asked, "Is there really reincarnation in this world?"

"Just a poem."

"Is there any?"

"I have not seen."

"I'll just say it!"

The little ghost hit his left hand with his right hand. It seemed to be heavy, but the sound was soft.

Song You smiled and asked:

"How many times have you stepped down here?"

"It's been so many times, I can't count it." The little ghost smiled, "It's just that this place is quite boring. It's full of things used by mountain goblins, not many used by ghosts."

"Has anyone come in before?"

"Occasionally, more often in the past two years."

"I don't know who built this place? Or did everyone form it spontaneously?"

"It was spontaneous, but it was also protected by the mountain god." The little ghost paused, "I heard that it happened many years ago, and some mountain goblins who were close to each other exchanged things, but the scale was not as big as it is now, and it is not It is fixed in this place. It seems that hundreds of years ago, a mountain god came out here, and the mountain god told everyone to come here, and everyone came.”

"Mountain God?"

Song You thought about it.

There is a high probability that it is not a mountain god granted by the imperial court or the Heavenly Palace. Those kind of mountain gods are usually not so friendly to ghosts. Relatively speaking, it is more likely that this mountain has cultivated elves on its own, and is revered as a mountain god by the ghosts and ghosts in the mountain.Moreover, this mountain god can draw such an area in the middle of the mountain, relying on the mortal world and staying away from the mortal world. Waiting for arrangement.

"Yes."

The little ghost thought for a while: "But I heard that the mountain god has a bad temper. Someone came in before, and the mountain god was very upset. He fought with that person, was beaten badly, and then he didn't come out. Now we came here spontaneously. It is best to recommend some goblins and ghosts with deeper knowledge to take charge of the affairs, so as not to cause trouble."

"I see." Song You nodded and said, "That man is really rude."

"you do not say!"

"Together is fate, I invite you to have a stick of incense."

"How is that possible?"

"I just want to talk to my step for a moment."

"Respect is worse than obedience!"

Song You happened to see a shed selling incense. The owner was a mouse. This was one of the few places in the market town that sold things related to ghosts, so many wild ghosts gathered.

Walking into the shed, there are tables and stools inside, but they are all short. The height of the table is only more than one foot, and the height of the stool is less than one foot.

One person and one ghost salute each other and sit facing each other.

The three-flowered cat also jumped on a stool.

"What does the guest officer want?"

"Three incense sticks of grass."

Song You saw that everyone else was lighting three sticks of grass incense.

"Do you want to light it?"

"want."

"okay!"

Suddenly a living person came in, whether it was the wild ghost who was popular here, or the mountain goblin who came with the wild ghost, they kept looking at Song You, and their voices became softer.Sanhuamao turned its head and stared at the stall owner without blinking, which made the stall owner a little scared.

"That's impolite."

Song You manually turned the cat's head back, and then ignored the gazes of other ghosts, only talking to this little ghost.

The little ghost is a good talker, talking while eating.

He has good morals and can eat incense ashes, while ordinary wild ghosts can only eat the smoke from incense.

However, this kind of incense does not have the blessing of vows, and its help to Taoism is extremely limited, and it cannot help these wild ghosts to walk on the way of God. The main function is to satiate the stomach.Usually when the market is not open, most of them who can't get incense are living on the mountain morning dew and evening twilight, living a very poor life.

I heard the little ghosts complain that there are ghosts and ghosts in this town. Everyone treats ghosts the worst and looks down on ghosts the most. Ghosts have the lowest status here and the few things they can buy.

And copper coins are used here.

Copper coins are very unfriendly to ghosts, and the most unfriendly thing is that they are difficult to handle.

Copper coins are very heavy, and the more widely they are circulated, the heavier they become. The heaviest one is like a thousand catties, and ghosts who are not good enough can't pick it up.

Therefore, most of the ghosts who came to the market town either went to exchange for the copper coins that no one had touched for many years, or they had to make an appointment with other mountain goblins to come with them and ask these friends to help them get the money.There are also some smart ghosts who simply made friends with some spiritual animals and asked them to help carry money.

Song You only found it very interesting.

I also heard the little ghost laughing and saying that many people at the foot of the mountain vilify goblins and ghosts very seriously. They always feel that they are scary, ugly and irrational, or that female ghosts can't control themselves when they see poor scholars. They often regard these things as Seeing the jokes, I often laugh out loud.

Sometimes the little ghost would ask him about things down the mountain, which dynasty, which city, which village still exists, Song You would answer what he knew, and if he didn't know, he could only apologize.

More than half of the chat, more than half of the fragrance.

The kid sighed:

"There are few people in this world who dare to talk to ghosts like Taoist Priest, and I haven't talked to anyone for a long time."

After a pause, he said again:
"It's just that Manager Xiong wanted to take the Taoist priest out, and the Taoist priest should really go out with him."

For the fourth time, Song You turned back the Sanhuamao's head looking at the stall owner, and asked again:

"how to say?"

"Firstly, the Taoist leader should not stay here for a long time. If you stay for a long time, you may not be able to get out. Second, there are many ways to go out here. The Taoist leader may not be able to walk back to his original place. It is very likely that he will not find out until dawn. I went to the deep mountains, and at this time the road in front of me and behind me was gone. Three times I left this fire, in fact, there are many vicious evil things, but we have to pass carefully, and many mortals who have no intention of breaking in will walk away. If you don't come here, you will be eaten, and the Taoist priest didn't meet you on the way here, it's really lucky, if you meet him when you go back, it will be difficult."

"Evil thing? What is it?"

"It's hard to say. There are many kinds. Most of them are naturally born evils, or ghosts full of resentment. As for the savage spirits and mountain monsters that have eaten people, they are rare."

"Is that so..."

Song You's curiosity arose again: "Then how can I meet them?"

"Take the main road more often. It's best to go back the same way. Don't walk randomly. If you encounter ghosts and ghosts in the same direction, try to walk with them. It's a journey if you can walk with them..." The little ghost suddenly felt that something was wrong, but carefully After thinking about it, I didn't figure out what was wrong.

"Thank you."

"Since you treated me well, I'll give you something as a gift in return."

The little ghost had already eaten the last bite of incense ashes, got up and patted his buttocks, and said to him: "There is a lantern seller over there, I will take you to buy a lantern, and then go to the fire in the middle to ask for some kindling, this lantern will become more beautiful than usual. The lantern is still on, it can burn until dawn, and it can also scare the evil things on the road. Hehe, you shouldn't say that, it's unlucky, it should be said that you won't meet. But although you can't meet, you can leave this market town , the mountain road is dark, it should be illuminated by a lantern."

"What's so funny about that?"

"Don't refuse."

"Thank you."

Song You snapped Sanhuamao's head back for the fifth time, patted her again, then walked out with the kid with a smile.

Although this little devil looks small, he has a lot of temperament in his speech, unlike ordinary people, I invited him to be popular before, and when he came down, he should have already thought of returning the gift.

So Song You only declined once.

So he really went to buy a lantern, and the kid took out the money from his body to settle the bill, which was more expensive than three sticks of grass incense.

(End of this chapter)