It was hard for Lin Xin to refuse him. After all, the two of them had lived and died together and had a life-long friendship.
In the next few days, he was not in a hurry to complete the task. The task of delivering the letter was left to Kong Yuhui to arrange someone to handle it. The task of finding someone could also be solved quickly by relying on the power of the Peacock Sect.
He simply went to the Peacock Gate headquarters with Kong Yuhui and met several insider experts, all of whom were friends of Kong Yuhui. They all had a little drink together and got to know each other better.
Then he spent the rest of the time wandering around the streets and alleys of Peacock City. Since coming to this world, he has never truly experienced the delicate customs and customs here.
The streets are full of vendors carrying burdens to buy oil tea and sell cakes. There are also a series of roadside stalls. Each shop is one after another. In some alleys, there are so many people that they can only walk shoulder to shoulder.
The children were eating candied haws, sugar figures, and fried dough pancakes, the girls were carrying pendants and necklaces at the stalls, and most of the men gathered in places where fireworks and drinks were served, and in some ornately decorated pavilions.
From time to time, you can see sedans passing by, and occasionally a procession of government carriages will sound their gongs to let passers-by get out of the way.
The city is still a bustling scene, and the atmosphere has not been diluted by funerals or anything like that.
Lin Xin was obsessed with the fried meat cakes in an alley near the hotel for several days. He ate them for five days and never got tired of them.
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He got up early in the morning on the sixth day, changed into the green gown he bought the day before, and tied up with a white jade belt. All four talisman swords were put in a large box, sealed and carried out the door. Wear them again around his waist.
Take an ordinary long sword.
It looks much more normal than before. At least others can only see the big box, and no one knows whether it contains a sword or a piano or something else.
Carrying the box on his back, Lin Xin was not afraid of attracting attention, so he left the inn and turned right.
It was still early and the streets were deserted. There were only a few men selling steamed buns and buns pushing carts and shouting.
Occasionally, you can see school students and children rushing to class.
Lin Xin turned into a small alley, and between the narrow walls on both sides, an old lady with silver hair was wrapping the dough cakes quickly with her hands and feet, and quickly put them into the oil pan one by one for frying.
There were several school-going boys and girls waiting in front of the car, eagerly waiting for the fried pancakes to be fried.
"I want three today. I want minced meat with leeks." Lin Xin went over, took out a large copper coin and handed it over. One tael of silver can be exchanged for a hundred large copper coins, a thousand small copper coins, and these fried cakes are three
A small copper coin is equivalent to the three-yuan meat pie that Lin Xin used to eat. A large meat pie that is about the same size as a human face only costs three yuan, which is indeed high quality and cheap.
"Three minced meat with leeks, right away." The old lady replied with a smile. A little boy beside her took the big copper coin and gave it to Lin Xin with a small one.
"Brother, are you here again?" The little boy had two small braids. He was similar to a little girl. He was white, tender and chubby. He was probably only four or five years old.
"Yeah, here we go again." Lin Xin smiled and reached out to pinch the child's face. It felt good, as cold as pudding.
"You have to buy three of the largest sizes every day, can you finish them?" the child asked curiously. "I am so powerful, every time I eat a big one, I can only eat a small half..."
"Of course you can finish eating, because my brother is better than you." Lin Xin stretched out his hands to grab both sides of the child's face.
"Mu...cheating for money..." the child said loudly and slurred after being grabbed. Then he quickly broke away from Lin Xin's hand.
"Last time I went to play in the mountains, I met a big tiger. I knocked him unconscious with three punches. Later, my grandma praised me for being good! Can you beat the tiger?"
"Wow, you are so young, you can actually knock out a tiger?" There were a few kids in school nearby who opened their eyes wide.
"Tiger is so powerful!"
"Yes, my dad said I was born with supernatural powers!" the little fat boy said proudly.
"Innate divine power." Lin Xin continued to reach out and grab his face.
"Uh... let go... I'm a born god..." The little fat boy struggled and couldn't break free for a long time.
"I call you innate divine power...divine power...!"
Lin Xin laughed loudly and rubbed this guy's fat face even harder.
"I'm going to be angry!!" The little fat boy's face turned serious.
"When I got angry, even the tiger was scared when he saw me! I'm warning you...don't mess with me...!!"
Lin Xin couldn't help laughing even louder.
He was waiting in front of the frying stall to tease the little fat boy. The hot smoke from the frying pan floated to his face, and he could smell a strong smell of oil.
After frying and frying, I gave it to the children waiting next to me first. The old lady's forehead was already covered with sweat.
Lin Xin looked at the weather, there was no sun, the sky was overcast, not hot, but a bit cold.
He was a little confused, how could the old lady feel hot in such a cool weather? And she was sweating so much.
"Here, it's ready, it's your cake." The old lady also fried the cake at this time, dripped the oil, wrapped it in coarse paper and handed it to him.
"Okay, thank you."
Lin Xin took the pie and suddenly felt something was wrong. The old woman's eyes seemed to be a little blurry.
As soon as she took the oil cake, she threw herself into the hot oil pan.
Lin Xin was startled and quickly helped her.
"What’s wrong with you?"
He stretched out his hand and pressed hard on the old woman's lip.
"I...I..." The pupils of the old man's eyes had dilated and lost focus.
Lin Xin quickly put down the pancake and helped her slowly put it on the ground, letting her lie down flat.
"I..." The old man was obviously dying, his face was pale and there was no color at all.
"Grandma...Grandma, what's wrong with you?" The little fat boy next to him was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he was trembling a little as he spoke.
"Pangpang...grandma...I'm afraid I can't survive..." The old man was so weak that he had no strength to speak and could only squeeze out one word at a time.
"You...have to...take care of...yourself...from now on..."
In just ten seconds while the old lady was talking, her cheeks that were still a little fleshy suddenly lost weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her skin that was originally pale and full of wrinkles became like the bark of an old tree without any moisture at all.
Lin Xin felt like the hand he held hers was like a deflated balloon, shrinking rapidly.
"Grandma...!" Fatty suddenly started crying, "Grandma, you don't want to die... I don't want you to die..."
"Fat boy...be good...grandma...I'm sorry for you..." The old lady's eyes also filled with water, "If only I could hold on a little longer...that would be...good."
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The old man cast his last glance at Lin Xin and gave him a grateful smile. Then he tilted his head and lost his breath.
The little fat baby cried so much that his eyes and nose ran with tears, and he lay on top of the old man. Several children nearby had already fled away in fear.
Some people nearby also gathered around and wanted to help, but when they saw the old man's body, they turned pale with fear.
"Another one! That one again!"
"It's that disease again...!" "When did this end..."
"Go quickly, don't get infected!"
There was a sound in the crowd, and most of the onlookers immediately did not dare to stay for a long time and left in a hurry. Only a few bold ones watched the excitement with their hands behind their backs.
Lin Xin felt uncomfortable and gently put down the old man's hand. At this time, he no longer wanted to eat the fried pancakes that were still hot on the car.
He was about to stand up when he suddenly heard an extremely subtle buzzing sound coming from the old man's body.
Looking down, I saw a golden bee emerging from the old man's left ear hole.
This bee is very strange. Usually bees have six legs, but this bee only has two legs.
Moreover, it has three pairs of wings on its back, while ordinary bees only have one pair of transparent cicada wings.
"This is..." Lin Xin frowned. The first time he saw the bee, he felt that something was wrong. The insect raised its head at the same time and looked at him. Its eyes were like a living person.
There is a feeling of greed and lust.
Buzz....
The six-winged bee flew up quickly. The strange thing was that no one saw it. People around it turned a blind eye to it. But it actually pounced directly towards the little fat baby who was very close at hand.
Whoosh!
The long sword at Lin Xin's waist suddenly lit up with silver light, and the Xiao Guiyuan Jue on the second level instantly exploded with inner energy, turning the blade into a silver light and striking the bee fiercely.
The bee was cut into two sections and fell to the ground.
The little fat boy and several people around him were startled by his sudden sword attack. They only saw Lin Xin suddenly and inexplicably slashing towards an empty space with his sword.
When Lin Xin sheathed his sword and went to look for the bee's body, he found that the two segments of the bee's body that had fallen on the ground had disappeared at some point.
"Huh?"
He carefully searched around the ground and saw no sign of the six-winged bee anywhere.
The little fat baby continued to lie on the old man's body and cry.
After waiting for a while, people from the government office soon arrived. When two officers wearing masks saw the corpse, they just sighed without saying anything and put the old man on the stretcher.
"The old rule is, you can only carry it out of the city and burn it..."
The two of them directly carried it onto an ox cart nearby and headed out of the city.
Lin Xin felt uncomfortable looking at the helpless little fat boy crying until his eyes were swollen.
Take him and follow the car towards the outskirts of the city.
Along the way, he asked Fatty intermittently, and then he learned that he had been following his grandma. His father, whom he only met once, disappeared, and his mother was not even a shadow. None of his other relatives could be found. Only he and
Grandma depends on each other for life.
Ask him if there is any place or person he can seek refuge with.
The fat baby is only five years old and doesn't know much at all, and his words are a bit confusing. He can't remember any other relatives.
In desperation, Lin Xin couldn't abandon him alone. Fortunately, after burning the old woman's body, the crying little fat baby was found by an old man who had been opening a clothing store nearby and said:
It was because he had been lacking a son and wanted to adopt him when he was old and childless.
Lin Xin felt that there might be something wrong with the six-winged bee he saw earlier, so he handed the little fat baby to the other party. By the way, he asked about the little fat baby.