Chapter 52 The Cat Bodhisattva(1/2)
Xu Shujing laughed: "It seems that this cat has identified the Taoist priest and refuses to leave."
Relieved to take off the ragged cloth strips left on his upper body, and took out an old monk's robe from his back box and put it on: "This cat is really weird. There are also cats in Shaolin Temple, but those cats like to listen to Buddha, but they didn't expect there are cats who like to look for gold and silver everywhere."
"Those who are close to red are red, and those who are close to ink are black."
Xu Shujing sorted out the silver squid on his waist and joked: "The cat in the temple will naturally worship Buddha, and the cat in the tomb may be good at finding a tomb."
“It makes sense.”
Shu Ran grinned and looked at the kitten lying on the box: "It seems that this is not a cat with a good omen, but a cat with a ferocious energy."
Wu Qi looked at Xuanmao: "Whether you are a lucky cat or a Faqiu cat, if you want to work with me, you need to let go of the past. Faqiu is not what I want to touch the gold."
He took out a horseshoe gold from the wooden box, which was also secretly brought out by Xuan Mao.
"Mr. Xu, this gold is buried with Huiling, please keep it properly."
Xu Shujing took the gold nugget and looked solemn: "The Taoist priest is so noble, Xu admires it."
"Although I am poor, I can still fill my stomach."
Wu Qi laughed: "A gentleman loves money and takes it well. If he digs gold for money, what is the difference between it and the person who refined corpse puppets?"
Shuran clasped his hands together and said in a deep voice: "All conditioned laws are like dreams and bubbles. The fellow Taoist heart is clear and clear, and he already has the style of a Taoist priest."
"Xu is so happy to be able to meet you two. Today I have three drinks with you!
Xu Shujing was also a person with a temperament, so she immediately made a big fuss.
Wu Qi: "... Although I am a Taoist priest from Huoju, I don't drink alcohol."
Relieve: "…Drinking alcohol is one of the five precepts."
Uncle Xu stayed in awkwardly.
He quickly woke up, smiled, bowed and said, "Where you come, talk nonsense, don't blame me."
Xuanmao screamed, tentatively climbed onto Wu Qi's shoulder and rubbed his forehead against his neck.
"Follow me."
Wu Qi took its neck flesh and placed the Xuan Cat on the incense burner table: "You must remember that you should not do evil, and you should not be greedy for the wealth of the master. Do you understand?"
Xuanmao shook her tail and looked at Wu Qi with an innocent look on her face.
It seemed to be saying, I don’t understand what you are talking about, I am just a cat.
Relieve to leave first.
He also had to go back to deal with the wounds left by the corpse puppets. He had to buy the medicinal materials that could curb corpse poison at the pharmacy. He had no money and needed to go to Shu County to beg for alms first. Time was very tight.
After resting for a while, Wu Qi also said goodbye to Xu Shujing.
Xu Shujing couldn't leave. He was a military officer of Jianyouwei. It was a major event to show the corpse puppets of Zhaolie's tomb. He would stay at the scene before it was investigated clearly.
...
When Wu Qi returned to Fuyun Temple, it was already dark.
He took out the only steamed bun left in the wooden box, tore off half of it and threw it to Xuanmao.
The cat is not picky about food, and slowly swallows the steamed buns with small mouthfuls.
Wu Qi chewed the cold and hard steamed buns, took out the purse, and poured all the remaining copper plates on the bamboo table.
He lost one by one, with a total of twenty bronze coins.
The cheapest steamed bun shop in Shu County is two steamed buns and five copper coins, which is exactly enough for 8 steamed buns.
Most people eat two meals a day, one meal is considered a steamed bun, and they can be kept for four days if they eat half full.
Wu Qi was a little scratching his head again.
Once a day, the wealthy partner is legal.
If the horse hoof gold is left behind, maybe there is no need to be so tight now.
However, in this way, it is difficult to accept the method of slowly accumulating money when you get a fortune. Many demon cultivators start from small things and slowly walk on the wrong path, with the bottom line getting lower and lower, and they go further and further.
Wu Qi just wanted to stand and make money.
Similarly, you have to stand and not kneel for this practice.
He missed his senior brother Chen Gao a little.
Compared to myself who earns quickly and spends faster, my senior brother is much more thrifty and slack in the family.
Chen Gao had an innate sensitivity to making money opportunities, and could smell all kinds of movements. Without him, he would not get the ten taels of reward from the county magistrate Zhang Yi.
On the other hand, the imperial government usually does not have much silver to reward, even if it is a yamen like Jianyouwei, it is very difficult to give two taels of silver.
Wu Qi ate the steamed buns cleanly and looked at the Xuanmao on the table.
You probably don't understand these things.
You are just a cat, how many bad thoughts can you have?
Wu Qi took out the few remaining bamboo paper and spread it on the table. He dipped his pen into cinnabar and began to concentrate on painting the Tao Jun talisman.
The soul of the corpse puppet was seized and turned into a dogwood corpse monster. This is naturally a great thing, but it also caused a small problem.
The drawn Taoist talisman was completely scrapped.
To draw the Taoist talisman, you need to point troops to become gods and gather ghosts to become generals.
When you point the soldiers, you point the Taoist soldiers.
Chongyang is now a dogwood corpse monster, and is no longer a dogwood spirit. You need to visualize and re-select the troops according to the Impermanence Picture.
After staying up for a long time, Wu Qi only created a successful Taoist talisman.
After finishing the painting, he felt as if he had not slept for three days, and his hands and feet could not be lifted, and his eyelids were so heavy...
When he woke up again, Wu Qi found that it was noon on the second day.
There was a mysterious cat squatting on the table, and there were twelve copper coins beside the cat.
Wu Qi was furious and pointed his index finger at Xuan Mao's nose and cursed: "I said, a gentleman loves money and gets it well. You go out to rob the tomb again! Is this what a serious cat can do?"
Xuanmao just scratched her neck with her claws, as if she was deaf.
"We must be strong when we are humans and cats."
"We won't take it if it's not our stuff!"
"Do you understand?"
The Xuanmao just turned over her belly and meowed, asking Wu Qi to play with it.
“…”
Wu Qi had a headache.
Wild cats are difficult to tame, so it is a problem to correct them.
Digging graves and gold is not only a disaster, but also if you accidentally touch a corpse puppet, it will be another storm. Of course, the chance is very small.
Wu Qi suddenly thought: "Those mice... you bribed the mice with food so that they could take you into Huiling."
He was in a bit complicated.
Previously, scholar Zhang Biyun wanted to go out and fight around and get more gold, silver and treasures.
Now Wu Qi just wants it to catch mice like a normal cat and wander around.
Instead of having sex with mice, bribery, underground transactions, backdoors, and black money...
This reminded Wu Qi of the three cats he and Zhang Cu'er saw in the bamboo forest.
Are cats in Shu so evil, and they are so wise and gangster?
Another former gangster, the Teng Yao, appeared in his mind. The one who once mingled with the Eight Ghosts and the old generation of the ancient demons in Chengdu, has a traditional place.
Wu Qi felt that, let alone, it was really possible.
He immediately decided to go out with Xuanmao tonight, see which grave it dug up, and send the string of copper coins back.
Wu Qi picked up a copper coin on the table and observed it carefully in the sun.
No. The copper coins are round on the outside and square on the inside, and the four words "Kaiyuan Tongbao" are engraved on it. They are coins minted by this dynasty, not underworld objects.
Could it be that Xuanmao really entered the house and stole money?
...
At night on that day, Xuanmao slipped out of the hut on time, and Wu Qi immediately followed behind him.
Xuanmao was not afraid, but instead turned around and signaled that Brother Wu Qi to come together and not to lose.
It first penetrated into the weeds and suddenly stopped at a stream.
Suddenly, Xuanmao's eyes became sharper, and her lazy appearance during the day disappeared without a trace, as if a hunter had stepped into the hunting ground.
It walked carefully in the water, its claws suddenly digging, its head pierced into the water, and got up again, and had bitten a copper coin in its mouth.
To be continued...