Since Li Si left Jinshan Temple, the strange old man returned to the Jiuyin Sect to retreat and never showed up in the world again. Until recently, he walked out of the mountains and visited Jinshan Temple.

On the way, he heard about the stolen secret treasures. He was puzzled and rushed to Mingzhou City to see it.

This is also the reason why the doll in his hand was shocked when he met "Li Sisi", because he knew that Li Si had no sister at all, and he thought Li Si had some strange habits during his absence. Fortunately, Li Si later showed that he had no major problems.

After the farce, he returned to Jinshan Temple.

Sitting silently with the old monk in the Buddhist temple for a whole day, he made a decision.

Anyway, he is over the age of exploring the world, and most people in the same era no longer walk. Perhaps he should find a place to stay. That's how he thought.

So, a month after the farce, he returned to Mingzhou City and brought all his wealth: two large boxes of dolls.

This made him questioned by the city guards for half an hour when he entered the city. Of course, another main reason was his strange dress. But in the end he still entered the city. Without being able to speak, thin, and without weapons, the city guards regarded him as a master who was fiddling with puppet show, and laughed at him saying that if he had the chance next time, he would go to see his performance. There were not many ways to entertain in this small town, and it was a good thing to have a master who performed puppet show.

It is strange that the old man is very old, and everyone who knows him knows it. However, because of his internal skills, he still looks very young. It is not an exaggeration to say that he looks like a young man in his twenties.

The difference is that he does not have the vitality that a young man in his twenties should have. His aura is always cold and sluggish. With his uninhibited dress, he will easily be regarded as something unclean when he goes out in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, he likes to go out in the middle of the night. Perhaps this is also a strange habit of him. Just like his name, he is usually a strange person.

There was almost no choice, and the old man set up a shop next to Qianjialou. It was not big, but the doll used to put him was enough.

This shop was originally a candy seller, so its layout basically meets his requirements and does not need to be changed. It just needs to be sorted out and then put the doll in the original candy place.

That day, it was strange that the old man was still sorting out his store.

I saw Li Si walking out of Qianjialou from afar and stopping in front of his shop.

To be honest, when he saw that the owner of this shop was really a strange old man, Li Si found that he was not at all superfluously surprised.

As if all this was reasonable, he lay weakly on the counter in front of the store, looked at the strange old man in the store, and asked with a sigh.

"Why are you here?"

The strange old man was stunned for a moment, then put down the extra doll in his hand, put on a smiling expression with a doll holding it in his hand, and waved his hand.

He is very good at manipulating dolls. At most, Li Si saw him, with the help of internal force, controlling twenty dolls to act alone. The old monk seemed quite surprised by that method.

Looking at the strange old man's appearance, Li Si knew that he wanted to pass by perfunctorily, so he tapped the counter with his fingers and said mercilessly.

"Don't pretend to be stupid and just say something."

The strange old man seemed to have some helpless expression in his eyes. He probably thought for a while, and used the doll in his hand to make an old man's posture, coughed twice, and then landed on the ground. After a while, he pointed to his eyes with the doll's palm and then to Li Si.

Such an action would have made many people confused, but Li Si was silent for a while and then asked.

"You mean you're old, so you want to stay here and take care of me?"

In the shop, the strange old man nodded silently. Although he had no expression on his face, the doll in his hand always kept smiling.

He can be said to be a person who watched Li Si grow up. Although Li Si has been particularly sensible since he was a child, this does not prevent him from treating Li Si as a child.

He was in seclusion for a long time, so as for him, his memory of Li Si was still stuck in that temple, and the child who liked to look at the distant mountains and stared blankly.

He was happy to sit under the eaves and drink tea with him, and he was happy to manipulate the dolls to lie or sit on the eaves, among wooden corridors, beside old trees, and in front of the Buddhist temple, making the temple look more popular and less deserted.

His dolls will bring water to people, fight with each other, hide in the corner and be lazy, sit in the corridor and watch flowers, lie on Li Si's shoulder and yawn, and secretly pull out the old monk's beard.

They are like real people, with all kinds of personalities and doing all kinds of things.

Sometimes even Li Si would feel that these dolls really have their own lives.

But at that time he thought again that this might be just a strange thing about the character of his children as the old man imagined. He was just playing the life he yearned for alone, and that's all.

The strange old man is really a very strange person, but sometimes he is not that strange, but often no one can understand him.

By the counter, Li Si touched his nose and said with a little helplessness.

"I'm no longer a kid."

Although compared to the strange old man, he is indeed not old.

The strange old man's doll smiled again and compared his waist with his palm. It seemed to be saying that in his eyes, Li Si was always such a big child.

At this time, the strange old man looked at another doll next to the counter.

Li Si also followed his gaze and saw that the doll suddenly stood up by himself, walked to Li Si staggeringly, reached into his wide robe, put his little hands into his wide robe, took out a piece of candy, held it with both hands and handed it to Li Si.

Strangely, the old man still remembers that Li Si likes to eat sweet foods.

Looking at the doll in front of him, Li Si was stunned for a moment, then raised his eyebrows, chuckled, reached out to take the candy cube in the doll's hand, threw it into his mouth and said.

"Thanks."

"KaKaKa." The doll made a few funny poses exaggeratedly, as if excited to meet Li Si again, and then walked back to his seat with his hands and feet and sat down.

It was not until he saw that the doll was gone that Li Si took a deep breath and looked at the strange old man again.

He first pursed his mouth, and finally smiled with relief, shook his head and said.

"But we have never seen each other before. The shopkeeper asked me to ask you if you want to go to our place for dinner in the evening, just treat it as meeting your new neighbor."

There was almost no hesitation, and the strange old man nodded his head immediately and began to pack up his own things.

Li Si smiled bitterly and shrugged his shoulders, walked into the shop, and helped the strange old man carry his luggage.

How did he say that, he felt that this street was going to become more and more lively.

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At the same time, to the east of Mingzhou City, on a large sea in the East Ocean, a long boat sailed between the waves, dragging the tail waves.

On the deck of the bow, a man with a disheveled hair and a scimitar hanging on the waist stood there, holding a wooden sign in his mouth, squinting his eyes at the sea level in the distance.

Suddenly, he seemed to see something, opened his eyes wide, pointed to the distant sky and shouted in a strange language to the crowd behind him.

"I saw it, I saw it!"

Suddenly, people on the deck gathered over. When they saw a piece of land in the distance, a burst of cheers suddenly erupted, and everyone was very excited.

The man standing at the bow of the boat even opened his arms, greeted the sea breeze, and burst into laughter.
Chapter completed!