I have a weird dynasty

Chapter 271: The Strange Peddler (June Monthly Ticket 6 plus additional chapters)

"That is?"

Yaozhen squinted her eyes and looked for a long time, thinking for a long time before she remembered who it was.

"The peddler I told you about last time."

The Ghost Peddler has this ability that makes it difficult for people to remember him. Even if an ordinary person sees him eight times a day, each time it will be the same as the first time they saw him.

Yaozhen's current strength is at the fourth level. She has the Jiuge token given by her master, so when she sees the ghost peddler, she has to carefully identify him for a while before she can remember him.

"The ghost peddler of Jiuge?"

There was no need for Sang Que to pretend not to know such an obvious thing.

"Well, the way to drive the five ghosts originated from Jiuge, and the ghost peddler is the best among them. Whenever someone successfully summons the five ghosts, he will appear and do business with people."

Sang Que nodded slightly. She suddenly felt that the power that Empress Wu had attached to her to prevent her identity from being exposed was no longer effective.

Jiuge's people began to approach her gradually.

Is it because her strength has increased and she has the ability to protect herself, or is it because Queen Wu’s power is getting weaker and weaker?
After a while, the ghost peddler came in front of the two of them, put down his burden, bowed and smiled at Yao Zhen.

"Nice to see you again. How is your recovery going?"

Yao Zhen said, "The last time I went back, Doctor Ling happened to be a guest at my master's place, and he cured me."

Yaozhen has always been frank. She said these words without any hesitation to Sangque. She also wanted to let the ghost peddler know that Sangque can be trusted.

After all, Sangque had taken in refugees and cracked down on bandits during this period, which made Yaozhen look at her with admiration.

The ghost peddler looked at Sang Que. Although he had never seen Sang Que before, he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity and intimacy with her.

The strength of the ghost peddler is obviously higher than that of Sangque and Yaozhen, but as a peddler, he always addresses everyone respectfully as "you".

"Miss, would you like to see my inventory? If there is anything you need, we can barter. If there is anything I want, I can come to pick it up."

The ghost peddler took out a yellowed hardcover booklet and handed it to Sang Que.

Sang Que took the booklet and opened it absentmindedly. Before, she was still thinking about how to contact Jiuge’s people, but when she actually saw them, she began to hesitate whether to reveal her identity.

In fact, she had been thinking about a question during this time.

Is she going to inherit everything left by Queen Witch and revive the Witch Temple, or simply abandon everything in the past and establish a completely new force?

This was the question she began to think about when she was preparing to sculpt the statue.

By rebuilding the Witch Temple, she can get direct assistance from Jiuge and win over those who still believe in the Witch Goddess, which may make early development easier.

But this would make her more vulnerable to being targeted by the Evil Suppression Division, and perhaps before she could become powerful, the Evil Suppression Division would destroy her at all costs.

If you abandon the Witch Temple and rebuild a new force from scratch, it may be difficult in the early stages, but it will be relatively safe, and you can stay calm and lay a solid foundation.

By the time the Evil Suppression Division reacted, she had become a big tree and could no longer be uprooted.

Sangque himself is more inclined to the latter.

After figuring it out, Sang Que focused his attention on the booklet, which contained a lot of things.

In addition to all kinds of Yin objects, there are also various evil spirits and even evil ghosts for sale, but the items needed are strange and varied, such as the placenta of twins, hands with broken palm lines, horoscopes of people with extremely evil horoscopes, and so on.

There are also some books, such as "The Secret Art of Paper Dolls" and "The Secret Art of Puppetry", and even the "Qi Men Dun Jia", "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" and "The Missing One" that Sang Que is familiar with.

Sang Que flipped through a few pages and saw something that he needed right now.

A mole.

The name is a mole, which is an item made by the ghost peddler himself. He calls this item a "secret weapon". This word originally refers to a coffin, but now refers to a special item made by a special craftsman using a special method. The puppet made by the puppeteer of the ghost troupe is a kind of flesh and blood secret weapon, between life and death, between humans and ghosts.

The production process of this kind of thing is complicated and requires the right time, place and people. The ghost peddler could not tell Sangque the specific details, and Sangque had no way of knowing them.

Yaozhen said that there are secret weapon craftsmen in the Zhenxie Division, and the incense mask of the Zhenxie Division is actually also a kind of secret weapon.

"A mole is a disguise?" Sang Que asked.

The peddler said, "People disguise themselves because they want others to ignore their appearance. A mole does the opposite, focusing people's attention on the mole. After that, people who see you will only remember that you have a mole on your face, and your other features will be vague and indescribable."

Haruma added, "His blind eye is a bit like this thing. I still don't know what he really looks like. Every time I can only judge that he is a ghost peddler by his blind eye, his burden, and the five little ghosts he carries with him."

Sang Que understood the meaning. The ghost peddler's blind eye that turned completely white was a disguise. When he didn't want to disguise himself anymore, he would take off the blind eye, change his clothes, stop carrying the shoulder pole, and walk into the crowd. No one would recognize him as the ghost peddler.

The ghost peddler's identity is tied to his blindness.

"Were the ghost peddlers in the past also blind?" Sang Que asked.

The ghost peddler chuckled, acquiescing that the blind eye was his incense burner. Besides being a symbol of identity, it also had other functions.

A mole certainly does not have the ability of an incense burner to absorb the power of incense and be passed down. When it was made, it had a use-by date. It had been traded before, and now it only has three and a half years left.

"Why doesn't it say what I need to redeem it?"

"I haven't decided what I want yet. That's fine. This is our first transaction, so we can sell on credit. You can use the things first. When I decide what I want, I'll send the little ghost to notify you. If you can't afford it, you can return the things without paying anything extra."

Sang Que raised his eyebrows. This is a pay-later transaction model that is quite advanced.

However, the peddler dared to do this, so he must have the confidence and was not afraid of being cheated.

"Okay, how do we get in touch?"

The ghost peddler asked Sangque, "You drive the five ghosts. What do you use as a token?"

Sang Que took out the string of copper coins, the ghost peddler took it with both hands, picked up the rattle and shook it, and the five children wearing big head masks who had been running around in the wilderness came over, gathered together and sniffed hard at the string of copper coins. Sang Que vaguely saw wisps of gray air being inhaled into their noses.

The ghost peddler handed the copper coin back and took out three yellow paper figurines with runes painted on them and gave them all to Sang Que.

"Please keep this booklet and the paper figurine. My little ghosts have memorized the smell of your five ghosts. As long as it is nighttime, they can find you through your five ghost tokens. Don't worry, they are very well behaved. They only deliver messages and things and will not hurt anyone."

"If you want to trade with me, find a deserted place after nightfall and burn a paper man to summon my little ghost. Tell my little ghost a time that is convenient for you and I will come to your door."

After saying that, the ghost peddler glanced at Yaozhen and took out a small mahogany box from his shoulder pole. After opening it, there was a piece of human skin the size of a fingernail, dotted with a small vermilion mole.

"You can stick this thing anywhere on your face and take it off at any time. It won't do any harm to you. But it will become ineffective after a period of time. You need to pay attention to this."

Sang Que took the things and the ghost peddler asked another question.

"Have I met you before?"

Sang Que said bluntly, "I don't know."

The ghost peddler nodded. His purpose of coming here was accomplished. He picked up his load of goods and said goodbye to the two men. He only took three steps forward, and the whole person, along with the five little ghosts who followed him, disappeared into the night.

Sang Que took the booklet given by the ghost peddler and thought that they would meet many times in the future.

She was still thinking about where to catch so many evil spirits that were transformed from dead people if she wanted to artificially create ghost walkers. As a result, the ghost peddler appeared, and she had a lot of things in her book that could be exchanged.

It is those strange and weird things that we need people below to pay more attention to and collect.

Just treat the ghost peddler as a tool for now. It won’t be too late to reveal your identity when the time is right.

See you tomorrow~