second to none

Chapter 12

Bunches of flat food like small white clouds are soaked in the snow-white beef bone soup, sprinkled with a layer of green onion on top, and the aroma is attractive.

The boss still had an angry look on his face, and he didn't take a good look at Yuan Zhong. He put the flat food on the table heavily, and turned to Tan Yin and said kindly, "You know a fairy? A good girl like Miss Ji, don't be led by such a bastard fairy." broken!"

Yuan Zhong pretended to be deaf and dumb, he was so greedy, he grabbed a bowl and put it in front of himself, and asked in a low voice while scooping up the flat food: "The boss here seems to know you very well?"

Just now I came to the Bianshi restaurant with her, and many snack owners greeted Tan Yin with smiles along the way, why didn't he know that this strange woman was so popular.

Tan Yin shook her head: "I'm not very familiar with it, but I made some 'forged mirrors' and sold them, and they seem to like it."

A false mirror... Yuan Zhong suddenly felt bitter in his mouth, and couldn't swallow the delicious flat food.It turns out...it turns out that she made the little lens!He should have guessed a long time ago that such a hateful and vicious tool must come from the hands of a hateful strange woman.

"Sooner or later, you will be beaten in a sack..." Yuan Zhong muttered angrily, seeing through his deception at a glance, this is too vicious, and the Youhu clan's face has been lost to him today.

"They are all small businesses," Tan Yin saw him devouring a bowl of flat food, and then looked at the flat food of the Bird of Paradise with bright eyes. She quickly pushed the untouched bowl in her hand, "Every time Sancha How can the five be deceived and use fake money to make money to support the family?"

"Just be kind to you."

Yuan Zhong swallowed the flat food in one gulp, got up and left without hesitation, Tan Yin hurriedly followed behind him, within two steps, he stopped suddenly, turned around and stared at her fiercely: "Why are you following me?"

She stopped talking again, a look of embarrassment appeared on her beautiful face, her dark eyes rolled around, but she couldn't make any good excuses, Yuan Zhong felt disgusted and helpless with her appearance.

Idiot, idiot, he can't even make a good excuse. Others don't understand the situation. Seeing them like this, they think he has done something heartless.

"Your real name is Ji Tanyin? Are you a craftsman?" He remembered that Mei Shanjun had searched the heavenly scriptures for ten days but couldn't find any results.

"Yes." Tan Yin nodded readily.

"Your body, did you take someone else's?"

Yuan Zhong turned around and continued walking, although the tone of his words was calm, but the content made her slightly surprised: "...how do you know?"

Yuan Zhong laughed sarcasticly: "Because I'm not an idiot. Are you afraid of being punished by God if you borrow someone else's body?"

Tan Yin shook her head silently.

Well, no matter who she is, whether it's an enemy or something messy, it's no wonder that such a stupid and innocent woman can make things happen.

"You have to follow me, I can eat very much." Yuan Zhong put his hands behind his back, posing as the young master of the fox clan, "Beautiful clothes, beautiful food and beauty are indispensable, if you can't support me, I will run away .”

Tan Yin hastened to open her purse. She has been selling "fake mirrors" these days, and they are quite popular, earning a lot of money. Although she doesn't know how much the "beauty in rich clothes and jade food" in his mouth costs, However, as a family of craftsmen, the Ji family has never been short of money. As long as they have one pair of hands, they will never starve to death.

"I have 50 taels." She truthfully reported her family background.

Yuan Zhong snatched it over, weighed it, stuffed it into his arms, and laughed mockingly: "This amount of money is not enough to support my mount."

"This... I can continue to make things to sell, and they are very easy to sell." She is still quite confident in her craftsmanship.

Yuan Zhong laughed angrily at her serious look: "Then let's go." He quickened his pace, as if the wind was blowing under his feet.

Tan Yin trotted all the way to follow behind him, surprised and delighted, she couldn't believe that he was so obedient and refused to run away, she carefully tugged on his sleeve, and asked cautiously: "Then...then I can follow you? "

Yuan Zhong "huh" said: "Aren't you following now?"

"Can you keep following?"

"That depends on your performance."

The girl behind her suddenly fell silent and didn't speak for a long time. Yuan Zhong looked back, her face was full of gratitude, and there were even tears in her eyes.On the contrary, he was taken aback by this expression. He had seen all kinds of beauties with various expressions, such as mild anger, annoyance, and teasing, but he had never seen a beauty be so grateful to him.

"Thank you." Tan Yin thanked very sincerely.

Yuan Zhong suddenly felt a little embarrassed, his face became hot, and he said in a low voice: "Okay, don't talk about this, go to the inn."

He's rich now, and he's going to kill that snobby inn boy with it.

Obviously, rumors about Yuan Zhong cheating the owner of Bian restaurant with fake money spread in this area. Looking at Tan Yin worriedly, he asked, "Miss Ji, is this fake mirror not broken?"

Yuan Zhong's face turned green, wishing he could strangle this troublesome girl to death.

"Don't do such harmful things in the future!" When he went upstairs to the guest room, he snatched Tan Yin's Qiankun bag without reason, "I keep the bag, tell me what materials you want."

In fact, he wanted to see what was in the Qiankun bag, and when he asked Ji Tanyin, she wouldn't say anything, she would only show that stupid expression, which made her hateful, and couldn't find out her identity. He simply grabbed the Qiankun bag to satisfy his curiosity.

On the surface, the Qiankun bag looks like an extremely ordinary and dilapidated gold-painted cowhide bag, which is usually used by ordinary people to store some broken silver and sundries.Open the tendon rope at the mouth, but the inside is very different, shadowy, as if there is another small thousand world hidden inside.It is hard to imagine that such uncanny technology was made by mortals.

Yuan Zhong took things out of it one by one, first there were a few small mechanical birds with big holes in their chests, presumably he smashed them that night, and she hadn't had time to repair them.Then there were a few parcels, containing a change of clothes and various sundries, as well as a few packs of bandages and medicine bottles, all bits and pieces, all of which were for daily use, and there was nothing special about them.The rest were all kinds of materials, and he even took out a piece of golden nanmu.

Finally, he took out a small colorful windmill and a half-worn silk sac from the inside.

Yuan Zhong picked up the windmill and blew it gently. It babbled and spun. It was similar to the ones sold by the hawkers outside, but smaller. The handle and the colored silk were not made of bamboo, but very soft silver, perhaps After being rubbed by people for a long time, the silver thread has a black color, which should be very old.

He blew the windmill for a while, but couldn't figure out why, so he simply picked up the silk sac and looked again.

The silk sac is half old, but it has been washed very clean, the tentacles are soft, and the color is like the light blue of the day when the sky is just dawn, and it is empty inside, with nothing in it.

He still couldn't figure out why, Ji Tanyin didn't put anything that would reveal her identity in the Qiankun bag, she was not such a prudent person.

His curiosity about Ji Tanyin had swelled to the point where he couldn't control it, and he wished he could lock her up and torture her for questioning.But she held his sleeve like that just now, and said thank you gratefully with tears in her eyes. He was full of schemes and tricks like hitting a copper wall and an iron wall. No matter how thick-skinned he was, he couldn't use vicious methods.

The door of the guest room was knocked lightly twice, and Tan Yin's light voice sounded outside the door: "Your Highness, may I come in?"

"Come in." He quickly put the things back into the Qiankun bag and sat up straight.

"I need three pieces of ebony, two pieces of poplar, one piece of bronze, plus forty rivets..."

Tan Yin was familiar with the materials in the Qiankun bag, and she spoke in one breath without taking a breath.Yuan Zhong frantically rummaged through the Qiankun bag, he didn't know what ebony and poplar looked like, so after searching for a long time, he simply returned the Qiankun bag to her: "Take it back."

Tan Yin quickly took out the materials and threw them all over the floor. She didn't seem to intend to leave, so she picked out the things she needed on the spot.

This is the first time for Yuanzhong to see a craftsman making things with his own eyes. At first, he saw her sawing a piece of wood and carving and chiseling with a knife. The little wooden man came, with a nose and eyes, and a ridiculous hat on his head, so lifelike, he couldn't help but be fascinated by it.

She also used poplar wood to make the viscera for the villain. How small is the viscera of a wooden figurine the size of a palm?Yuan Zhong only felt that her hands were unbelievable, they didn't even tremble, they were steady and fast, a small heart gradually took shape in her palm.

As the sky gradually darkened, Yuan Zhong lit a candle, and saw Tan Yin put on a very suitable little white robe for the little wooden figure that had been made. The style was very old—is she making a puppet for fun?
No one answered his question. Tan Yin took the teapot from the table, and gently lifted the hat on the little wooden man's head—the hat turned out to be a cover, and there was a small hole not much bigger than the tip of a needle hidden on the top of the head.She took another smaller funnel, inserted the mouth at the bottom of the funnel into the small hole, and poured a small half pot of tea into it.

The little wooden man started to move suddenly, at first it was just moving his arms and legs, the movements were very clumsy and ridiculous, then suddenly his hands were raised up, and he began to dance in a very ancient way.

Yuan Zhong stared dumbfounded at the facial features on the wooden man's face, his eyes blinked, his lips moved, and then it suddenly opened its mouth, and a shrill singing voice that sounded ridiculous came out of its mouth.

"Simple and simple, Fang Jiangwan dances. The square of the sun is in the front and upper place."

The wooden man sang and danced, and the white robe on his body fluttered back and forth, which seemed quite chic.

"A great man, Matata, dances in the public court. Powerful as a tiger, holding a bridle like a group. Holding the scorpion in the left hand, and holding the Zhai in the right. He is as handsome as a ochre, and he is publicly spoken of as a master."

This poem was originally a poem praising the majestic and heroic posture of the dancer, but it made this tiny wooden figure dance very funny.

It suddenly held its heart and made a gesture of longing and admiration: "There are hazelnuts in the mountains, and lings in the scorpion. Who is thinking? The beauty of the West. Come to that beauty, come to the people from the West."

The singing sounded softly and gradually became inaudible. The little wooden man turned around and bowed his palms respectfully to the big monk, and then did not move any more.

Yuan Zhong felt that his jaw was about to drop, he picked up the little wooden figure, took off his clothes and hat, looked over and over, but couldn't see how it could sing and dance.

"You..." He stared at Tan Yin, but couldn't say anything. He didn't really understand what a supernatural skill is until now.

Tan Yin looked up at him, the candlelight reflected in her eyes, shining brightly.

"Do you like it?" She asked sincerely and looking forward to it.

He should like it, right?When she made a singing and dancing wooden figurine for Taihe for the first time, Taihe's eyeballs almost fell off, and the big monk's expression is exactly the same as Taihe's now.

But she waited for a long time, Yuan Zhong didn't speak, he just looked at her blankly, as if he knew her for the first time.

"Do you like it?" Tan Yin was a little worried. The little wooden man could make Taihe laugh, but why didn't the fox respond?
Yuan Zhong still didn't speak, he just stared at her, kept staring, her snow-white face and black eyes, her black jewel-like eyes were full of pure expectation, he couldn't help but think of those eyes on the high platform eye.

It seemed that tens of thousands of butterflies flew into his ears, and he lowered his head in a bit of embarrassment. At this moment, in this situation, he had absolutely no way of saying that he didn't like it against his conscience.

"...Well." He affirmed in a subtle way, pinching the little wooden figure reluctantly, moving his thumb back and forth to turn its hat back and forth, as if flustered and absent-minded.

"Then I will give it to you." Tan Yin showed a happy smile for the first time, "Thank you, you are a good person."

(End of this chapter)