White Bone Monkey King

Fucheng, Jiangzhou Prefecture.

As the Wu Zang Taoist Temple has become famous in the local area, even the Mingdian store opposite the Taoist temple has seen an increase in the number of customers. People nearby will come here first when they want to pay homage to their ancestors, visit their graves, buy incense, candles and ingots, or order coffins for funerals.

This is the word-of-mouth effect.

Today is still the same as before, with the lead-mercury Holy Child avatar tending the shop, while Jin An stayed in the Taoist temple to concentrate on his cultivation.

Just when Jin'an's avatar had just sent away several customers who came to buy incense and candles, the sound of iron knocking came from the street. A man carried a bench sharpening stone on his shoulder, with black kitchen knives inserted into the pocket of his body. Several kitchen knives were struck back and forth in his hand. , the knife seller who made a clear and sonorous sound came shouting all the way.

Someone called him to sharpen a kitchen knife, so he put down his bench to sharpen the knife for others.

The knife seller was quick with his hands and had superb craftsmanship. He sharpened the kitchen knife in a short while, then continued shouting and tapping the kitchen knife while holding the bench on his shoulder. This is also a way to attract business, so that people can clearly see that his kitchen knives are of high quality and have excellent forging skills and will not be easily broken.

When the knife seller passed by the door of Ming shop, strangely enough, he suddenly stopped and looked up at the shop, then at the plaque hanging on the door frame, and then looked into the shop with an expression on his face. Puzzled and puzzled.

Jin An, who was just sending the guests out, saw this scene, clasped his fists and bowed, and asked, "Is something wrong?"

"What a strange thing." The knife seller said to himself at first.

Then he asked Jin An: "This was originally a Yongle coffin shop?"

"Exactly."

"Why did Yongle Coffin Shop change its tactics? What about the original boss Liu here?"

Liu Tao was the previous owner of the coffin shop. When the other party mentioned Liu Tao, Jin An became interested and looked up and down at the knife seller in front of him: "He transferred the shop to me. As for where he went after leaving the coffin shop, I don't know. Clear."

The knife seller jumped to his feet and yelled: "This grandson borrowed my knife and refused to return it, and also transferred the coffin shop to you?"

oh? Jin An became more interested.

"Are you a credit person?" Jin An looked at the other person up and down again.

The folk legend of the knife dealer is very mysterious. The knife dealer never sells knives but only lends them on credit. There are different opinions on this.

Some people say that knife lenders lend knives to poor people on credit and earn interest in the following years. For example, if you agree on a time, when the trees on the mountain are all green, the credit card holder will come to collect the money;

Some people say that the person who borrows the knife is the descendant of Guiguzi's disciples. He can do divination and fortune-telling, predict the future, know when prices will skyrocket, and make a profit due to poor information. For example, when there are over 10,000 sheep and over 1,000 cattle in the county, and the price of rice and noodles has increased several times, you can collect money and earn the price difference between before and after;

Some people also say that the people who sell knives on credit are not selling knives, but are seeking to take advantage of rich people and pass on the bloody disaster. It's a bit like picking up red envelopes at the intersection or jade jewelry that raises imps, bringing about bloody disasters. And when you meet someone who borrows knives on credit, you are doing business for a lifetime, and once you sell it, you never think about taking it back.

It mainly depends on what kind of person you are, whether you are a poor person, a doubtful person, or a person who takes advantage. These three statements capture the psychological characteristics of the three types of people at the bottom.

When Jin An asked him if he was a knife seller, the knife seller nodded with an unlucky look on his face.

Next, the knife creditor asked Jin An if he had seen a kitchen knife when he took over the coffin shop. He roughly described the kitchen knife.

What he got was Jin An shaking his head.

The person who borrowed the knife was so angry that he jumped up and cursed again, scolding Liu Tao for even daring to pay the person who borrowed the knife. He really thought his life was too long.

I don’t know if his words were angry or threatening.

The person who borrowed the knife refused to give up and asked Jin An about Liu Tao's whereabouts. Jin An still shook his head. He only knew that Liu Tao sold the coffin shop and left the city directly and returned to his hometown. As for where Liu Tao's hometown is, he really didn't know.

Jin An asked curiously: "You guys who sell swords on credit don't usually encounter people like this who run away halfway?"

The person who borrowed the knife said with a black face: "Yes, there are, but it is rare. Who would give up their family business and leave their hometown easily, just to waste money on a kitchen knife."

When Jin An heard this, he thought it made sense.

He also asked what he would do if the person who borrowed the knife ran away after encountering a defaulter? The people who borrowed the knife were helpless and said what else they could do. They could only admit that they were unlucky. Fortunately, their business was to sell low and sell at high interest rates. They made profits for the next three to five years. They could afford to encounter defaults occasionally. loss.

It was a rare encounter with a folk who borrowed knives on credit, so Jin An asked about various legends about those who borrowed knives on credit. For example, among the three legends circulated among the people, which one is the real person who borrowed knives on credit?

The person who borrowed the knife in front of him did not answer Jin An's question, but chatted absentmindedly for a few words and then left.

Jin An stared at the back of the person who borrowed the knife for a while, showing a thoughtful expression, and then returned to the Ming shop to receive new customers.

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The night fell silent, and the lights of thousands of houses were extinguished.

An inn in Fucheng.

Jin An Hun'er walked through the wall and stone, floating in the air, looking at the knife owner lying on the bed, sleeping soundly, with thoughtful eyes. Could it be that he was really paranoid?

His soul followed the knife dealer for a day. During that day, the knife dealer was normal, walking around the streets doing business, and at nightfall he found the cheapest inn to stay. And the people who do business with the credit card holders during the day are also ordinary people.

However, Jin An did not take things lightly that might involve Burao Mountain. He did not hesitate for long and planned to go into a dream to see what kind of person this knife loaner was.

Just when Jin'an was about to fall asleep, suddenly, the man who was lying on the bed suddenly opened his eyes, but at this time, his eyes were different from those during the day, with a sarcastic sneer after the conspiracy succeeded.

The man with the credit knife rolled over and sat up, pushed open the window on the second floor, and climbed onto the roof as light as a swallow. Taking advantage of the thick darkness of the night, he leapt across the rooftops and quickly approached the direction of the Five Zang Taoist Temple.

Kick!

After landing on the soles of his feet, the man who borrowed the knife turned back and glanced coldly at the Wu Zang Taoist Temple with its door closed, and then walked into the Ming shop in a swagger.

In the dark shop, Jin An was lying on the counter, seemingly asleep. Only dim lamp oil was burning in the dark shop. Several mosquitoes that were flying around the lamp oil seemed to be keenly aware of the dangerous atmosphere when they saw the person who borrowed the knife enter the Ming shop, and flew out of the Ming shop one after another.

These nature spirits are far more sensitive than humans, especially when it comes to danger.

The cold sneer in the knife owner's eyes became even stronger when he saw Jin An's body, which had not returned to its original position and had lost the ability to resist, like fish on the chopping board.

Next, he found a shovel from the underworld shop, cut through the stone tiles on the ground, and dug a hole.

The man who borrowed the knife was very strong. The shovel flew up and down in his hand, and soon he dug a big hole, with several circles of soil piled up on the ground.

After digging all the way, he finally dug out the vertical black coffin buried under the Mingdian. The black coffin was filled with ink lines and had yellow talismans to isolate the corpse.

After digging for about two feet, the person with a credit knife finally dug to the bottom. Under the black coffin was a bench covered with dirt and dust, and on the bench was a sea bowl. This sea bowl was used to collect water. The corpse water dripping from the coffin.

However, the corpse water was not dark and stinky, but bright red and bloody, as if it had just been bled from the human body.

The person who borrowed the knife glanced at the half-bowl of corpse water, frowned, seemed suspicious, and then prepared to open the coffin, intending to get the refined corpse in the black coffin...

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Ps: I have a pounding headache at night, feel dizzy, and feel short-tempered. Guys, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry. I hereby offer you three bows. Only by bowing to death can you clarify your ambitions. .

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