Tyrant, he wants to spoil me

Chapter 288
Su Jiu clearly remembered that for so many years, her memory always stayed at the moment when the flames blazed.

She always thought that it was because she passed out that she forgot what happened later.

but……

Really?
She rubbed her eyes, and decided to find an opportunity to ask the girl named Sifengyuan Shayi whether the dream she created was true or not.

"Sister is awake?"

The braid was suddenly grabbed by someone.

When Su Jiu looked up, he saw Xiao Tingchen's face that needed a beating.

She was angry, "Little brother will never do anything other than bully me!"

"Bullying you is the most important thing in the world, so you shouldn't miss it." The young man said cheerfully, "Su Xiaojiu, you don't even know if you will be able to participate in the Xiangdao Competition in half a month, so you accepted the challenge from Sifengyuan. What is it called, you are bold with high art skills?"

"I will definitely play!"

Su Jiu clenched his little fists, and from the corner of his eye, he saw Mr. Jiang standing outside the shop with malt candy in his hands, betting and playing with a few children.

She hesitated for a while, "You are right...Hua Lao has never liked me. He would rather accept Xu Zizhu, Jiang Yanqi, Jin Shixing, and Shuo Yun as his apprentices than me. If it is Mr. Jiang, he dotes on me so much, he will definitely let me play in the competition."

In all fairness, Su Jiu really didn't learn any real skills from Hua Lao in the past six months.

The tricks in my stomach, besides being figured out by myself, are Mr. Jiang's guidance.

The old gentleman is more than seventy years old, and his appearance is not good.

Always smiling, he likes to coax the children in the old yard to play hide-and-seek with him with malt candy, and also likes to drag her to pour out the bitter water, saying that the boss does not give him a monthly salary increase, so he is living a miserable life.

But as soon as he turned his head, he secretly bought and sold the things in the incense shop, in the name of earning some tea money.

The little girl thought, and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth, "Little brother, who the hell do you think Mr. Jiang is? He has been guarding this store for many years, right?"

Xiao Tingchen held the pair of walnuts, his peach blossom eyes narrowed with a smile, "It's just an old man. Oh, there is more bad water than ordinary old men. Do you think there is tea in that purple sand pot? It's actually wine! Tsk, I sit half a day every day. Fenghe peeping at the beauties passing by outside, is really old and unscrupulous."

The old man who was biting the malt candy turned his head and stared, "I seem to hear someone speak ill of me?"

Su Jiu quickly waved his hand, "No, no, brother is praising you, praising you!"

The old gentleman glanced at Xiao Tingchen and hummed softly.

If the little brat could praise him,

Sows can climb trees!

……

Half a month passed in a flash.

Tomorrow is the Fragrance Dao Competition, Su Jiu was very nervous when he stepped into the Daoxiang Hall of Huafu.

I don't know if I can be selected...

Mr. Fusheng and the others are all here, watching Xu Zizhu refining incense.

It is probably her newly developed Hexiang, and the movements are still a bit unfamiliar.

Su Jiu also came over, subconsciously following her movements and murmured, "...three cents for amber, five cents for jasmine, five cents for frankincense...I think the frankincense is put too much, I'm afraid it will overwhelm the host."

She just has her own taste.

The unintentional words were overheard by Hua Lao behind him.

The old man gave her a complicated look, and crossed out a name on the paper calmly.

When Hua Lao stepped out of Daoxiang Hall, Hua Rourou jumped over like a magpie, "Grandfather, do you have a plan for which five people will compete? Xiaojiu will definitely be selected, right? Grandfather, you don't know, the past six months She can work!"

Hua Lao was annoyed, "Did she ask you to inquire?"

"Xiao Jiu is not that kind of person! Grandpa, you know that she and I are good sisters—bah, good brothers!"

Seeing his gorgeous appearance, Hua Lao got angry, kicked him, and cursed: "Don't hang around in front of me, it's an eyesore!"

After he left, Hua Rourou stuck out her tongue, and happily ran into Daoxiangtang with a food box, "Hi everyone, I'm here to bring you some refreshments! Sister Jiang, what kind of incense did you smoke today? It's really good smell it!"

As soon as he came, the hall became lively.

Everyone went to the side hall to have refreshments, Su Jiu walked a little slower, and saw Xu Zizhu packing up the incense burner, incense medicine, etc., but putting two different flavors of incense pills into the same porcelain jar.

"Miss Xu," she reminded, "Though the two kinds of fragrant pills are the same in color and size, they have opposite tastes and cannot be put together."

This is common sense in Xiangdao.

However, Xu Zizhu seemed to have been peeked into some secret, and looked at Su Jiu as if facing an enemy, extremely cold!

Su Jiu was startled and didn't understand what happened to her.

After a long while, Xu Zizhu put the porcelain cover on with a blank face, "I like this, can you control it?"

"It doesn't matter..."

Su Jiu whispered, very afraid that the girl would be angry, so he ran into the side hall in a hurry.

In the empty hall, the girl in white was holding the porcelain jar tightly, with a complicated expression on her face.

After the refreshments, Hua Lao came.

The old man had a serious face and stroked his white beard. "Tomorrow is the Xiangdao Competition. I am announcing the list of contestants. After listening, you can go back and take a good rest and prepare for the competition."

His majestic eyes glanced at these young people, and he announced lightly:
"First place, Jiang Yanqi. In the past six months, your level has improved by leaps and bounds. Although you are ranked 76th on the Tianxiang list, I think your actual ranking can be moved up by ten places. Go ahead and give the Dongying people a good start. Look at it a little bit."

The frail girl coughed weakly a few times, and said yes.

"Second place, Jin Shixing."

The alien boy who was desperately stuffing snacks into his mouth raised his head in surprise.

"You have never been a person who follows the rules. You may be able to win by surprise, but you may also be defeated. This second round of victory or defeat, the old man is already mentally prepared."

Prepare yourself mentally...

Jin Shixing was speechless.

Old man Hua is really embarrassing, his level is obviously not bad, right?
"The third round is the key to morale, and it may also be the key to the outcome. Shuo Yun, your strength is unfathomable. I think you can win this round."

The masked boy cupped his hands at Hua Lao.

From the corner of the eye, he secretly glanced at Su Jiu.

There are still two places left, Su Xiaojiu, she...

Hua Lao's eyes fell on Xiao Tingchen, "Fourth match, Fusheng, you come."

For Lord Fusheng, he has nothing to say.

The existence of No. [-] in the Tianxiang list is much higher than his level, and it is impossible for him to lose.

"As for the fifth scene..."

He glanced at Su Jiu, then at Xu Zizhu.

Su Jiu lowered his head, his heart had already sunk to the bottom.

She didn't know who was higher or lower between her and Xu Zizhu, but because the selector was Hua Lao and Xu Zizhu was his apprentice, she was destined to not be able to participate in the competition.

Looking back on the hard work and expectations of the past six months, the little girl felt extremely ironic.

(End of this chapter)