Lin Yuniang stood in a simple shed built with a few bamboo poles. The oilcloth above her head blocked the wind and rain. The dripping raindrops dripped from the edge of the shed and shattered on the bluestone street.
Nightfall on rainy days always comes earlier, but the sky has already darkened at the first moment of the twilight hour. There are only a few pedestrians on Ruyi Street under the dim rain curtain, and even if they occasionally pass by, they don't stop in front of this stall.
The charcoal fire in the furnace was burning red, boiling the large pot above which the soup was boiling. In the milky white and rich mutton soup, you could see the last bit of pale yellow marrow being boiled out of the pale mutton bones.
In this lonely business day on a rainy day, Lin Yuniang is still concentrating on taking care of her pot of mutton soup.
This is how business is, you have to keep yourself busy even if you don't have a single customer, otherwise when passing customers see a boring store, even if they originally wanted to sit here, they may suddenly change their minds and go somewhere else to eat.
Maybe people in the world subconsciously think that a stall that is affordable and delicious can make the store owner stop what he is doing.
According to experience, although there are few diners on rainy days, as long as you can keep yourself busy, there will always be a few scattered customers.
Lin Yuniang's eyes were always looking for the possible guests on the rainy day. This one's clothes were a bit shabby, and he didn't look like someone who was willing to drink a bowl of mutton soup for more than ten copper coins;
; The other one is dressed too richly and is not someone who can come to her stall...
I don't know when a layer of mist appeared in the hazy rain curtain with hurried pedestrians. Two unhurried figures walked through the street. The person in the lead was holding a green bamboo umbrella, and the person one step behind was wearing a green bamboo umbrella.
Wearing a bamboo hat and a coir raincoat.
As if attracted by the scent of the mutton soup, the person in the lead turned and walked into the small shed that was pattered by raindrops. The two of them sat down at the only small table.
"You two guests, please sit down quickly. On this cold and rainy day, drinking a bowl of hot mutton soup can dispel the cold and relieve fatigue."
Lin Yuniang's food stall has all kinds of customers, but what matters most is that you are greeted as soon as you walk in. She immediately greeted them.
"I won't drink the soup anymore, Yu Niang, I'm here to take you away."
This somewhat familiar yet unfamiliar voice made Lin Yuniang pause, and she raised her head in confusion.
The man who spoke was seen lifting the bamboo hat with his hand, and underneath was a familiar young face.
"Brother Ying, are you still alive?"
"Of course I'm still alive. The Sheng family should give you a settling-in allowance every month. Why do you still do such hard work?"
"It was there at the beginning, but after two years they said you were dead and sent your ashes back. The originally agreed settlement allowance was naturally gone, and Huan'er was still young..."
"I understand, where is Huan'er? The Sheng family has lied to us. Our family is leaving now. We don't need to take Xinruo with us. We just need to take the family heirloom chart."
When Wu Ying heard this, he knew that his prediction was indeed correct. The Sheng family had no intention of letting him out. How could a person who was already dead in the outside world leave the workshop alive?
Then he turned to look at Du Kang, and after receiving a nod of approval, he took his wife and rushed towards his home in the alley behind him.
Du Kang sat alone in the shed. The thin ghost mist blocked the conversation, but it could not block the sight of others. He felt a different kind of gaze.
Not far away, there was an old man setting up a stall in the same simple awning.
Noticing Du Kang's gaze, the old man responded with a kind smile on his wrinkled face, and continued to play with the dried fish in front of him.
Du Kang got up, picked up a large bowl at the stall, filled half the bowl of haggis into the basket containing haggis, and skillfully scooped a spoonful of thick soup into the soup pot, filled the bowl of haggis, and smoked it on the table.
Got a pair of chopsticks.
Du Kang held an umbrella and walked towards the old man with a smile on his face.
"Old man, you are still out doing business at such an old age. Let's drink a bowl of soup to ward off the cold."
"Hey, old man, I can see some kind-hearted people today. I have been neighbors with this haggis stall for many years, and this is the first time someone has invited me to have a drink. You are really a good person."
After hearing this, the old man directly took the big bowl with a slightly hot rim, opened his mouth with most of his teeth missing, and said auspicious words, but his few remaining black and yellow teeth looked shaky, which made Du Kang unbearable.
Look directly.
When I picked up the chopsticks, I didn't think it was too hot, so I just put the soup and meat into my mouth, as if I was afraid that Du Kang would regret it.
"Eat slowly. I'm treating you today. If it's not enough, I'll add more."
"That's enough, that's enough. When you get older, your stomach is not good and you can't eat much. If you eat too much, you're afraid that you won't be able to pull it out and will suffocate yourself to death. You are here to see Widow Lin next door, right? I saw your friend going home with her.
, could it be that Widow Lin couldn’t survive anymore and started an Anchang business? How much does it cost you?”
The old man finished the haggis in the bowl in two or two mouthfuls, took a sip of hot soup from the side of the bowl with a satisfied look, and then casually chatted about some topics that interested men no matter how old they were.
"Old people are old-hearted. If Widow Lin starts this business, you will also take care of other people's business. It will be completely different from the current situation where you don't even buy a bowl of mutton soup."
Du Kang smiled brightly and handed the old man another piece of hot cake.
"Of course, eating a bowl of mutton soup will not fill you up, and you will be hungry again after a long time. But being able to sleep for such a beautiful woman is a beautiful thing that will never be forgotten in her life."
The old man took the cake, tore it into small pieces, soaked it in the soup and continued.
"Don't look at Widow Lin who wakes up early every day and works hard at night. She seems inconspicuous, but she is not dressed up. Once you see her eighteen-year-old daughter, you will know that a woman who can give birth to such a beautiful embryo must look very good.
It will be bad."
Only then did Du Kang put away the umbrella he had been holding, and approached the old man with a thoughtful look on his face.
"Such a woman's price shouldn't be cheap. I wonder how long this old man has been setting up a stall here to buy dried fish before he can get enough money for one trip."
The old man immediately became excited and seemed to feel that he could look down on his financial resources, but he could not look down on his lust.
"The old man has lived a lifetime and has seen through many things, but he can't see through anything about women. If I can sleep with him once, half of the coffin I spent is worth it."
"I'm getting better and better, so how much do you have to pay for monitoring Widow Lin's family every month? How long does it take to get enough money to sleep together?"
A bright dagger was pressed against the old man's chest.
Because of the angle, no one passing by on the street could see the dagger. Occasionally, if they glanced over here, they could only see two people chatting on a rainy day.
The dagger instantly solidified the heated atmosphere of the conversation. The old man's hand holding the bowl was unsteady, and half the bowl of mutton soup was almost knocked out by him. Du Kang could only take the bowl from his hand and asked.
"Old man, let me ask you, how much money can I give you?"
"Brother...brother must be joking with me. I'm just an old man buying dried fish. I don't understand what you mean by supervision or not."
The dagger was passed gently, and the sharp point pierced the clothes and skin. A stream of blood immediately seeped out from the clothes, and the old man's heart-rending screams immediately sounded.
"Stop shouting, others can't hear you, but if you dare to move, my knife will pierce your heart."
The old man opened his eyes, and sure enough, the sparse pedestrians in the rain were still walking in a hurry, unaware of the movement just now, and his heart suddenly became cold. The only thing that could have caused the strange scene in front of him was magic. This man was probably a monk.
"I said, I said, it's Fengtie Pavilion on Qian Street. When I was doing business, they asked me to pay more attention to Widow Lin's family and see if there was anything unusual about her family. They gave me fifty coppers every month, and they also said that if they wanted to be serious
If you find something valuable, you can get another reward."
Fifty copper coins a month is six hundred coins a year. Wu Ying has been away for sixteen years, which is nine thousand six coins, a total of nine taels of silver.
The cost of sixteen years of surveillance was less than one month's settlement expenses for Wuying. I don't know how much money the Sheng family saved through this. It was really a good deal.
Compared with the value created by Wuying's forging the magic weapon, whether it is the cost of settling in the outside world, surveillance costs, or his personal expenses in the workshop, they are all insignificant.
Du Kang suddenly realized that he had underestimated the exploitation methods of the other world. Compared with the cruel systems in the early days of the industrial revolution in his previous life, the Sheng family's industry was not far behind.
"The Sheng family is good at exploitation, but the efficiency in dealing with accidents is as expected. The bigger the organization, the harder it is to respond flexibly. It has been three hours since the workshop was stolen, and they haven't noticed Wuying's disappearance yet.
There was no one sent to control his family. There was only a perverted old man who had not been alive for many years to monitor him part-time. Is this the manifestation of the power of a force whose business turnover of the Light God Soldier is as high as more than 400 million taels of silver every year? It’s ridiculous to think about it.
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With this thought silently passing through his mind, Du Kang's eyes flashed with brassy mirror light. The old man tilted his head and fell asleep on the chair, embarking on his journey of life and fragrance in his dream.
Life is painful. If you don't even have the right to dream, I'm afraid most people won't be able to persist in living.
He was just an old man who wanted to sleep with more women and earn dozens of more pennies every month. There was really no need for Du Kang to kill an old man who only saw his fake face.
What's more important is that if the old man just couldn't wake up, others would just think he had some emergency. But if he died here now, Fengtie Pavilion on Front Street would soon be alarmed.
At this time, Wu Ying also walked out of Porcelain Alley, holding a package in his hand, followed by his wife and a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old.
The little girl's face was just pretty, not as stunning as the old man selling dried fish said. Wu Ying's wife was just pretty, but not as pretty as the woman named Jian Zhi in the workshop.
But it makes Wu Ying miss her so much.
Du Kang felt that in addition to the love with his wife and the affection for his daughter, these two women more represented Wuying's yearning for freedom from the outside world.
At this time, everyone's emotions were stable, and it seemed that Wuying had completely convinced his wife and daughter to abandon their family and career.
"Sir, our family is small and our business is small. There is nothing to deal with. We have brought the chart with us and everything from now on will be up to you."
"Well, come with me."
Du Kang walked out of the food stall with a big umbrella and took the lead to walk into the rain. Wuying's family of three followed him step by step, and their figures gradually disappeared on the street.
The mist quickly dissipated, leaving only an old man sleeping soundly with his head down at the entrance of China Alley, and a pot of steaming mutton soup in the stall...
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Du Kang sat alone at the table, repeatedly reviewing everything that happened in just one day from yesterday to today.
It wasn't until I confirmed that every time I faced a choice, even if the choice at that time was not the one that maximized interests, that I had made any big mistakes, that I relaxed and took a sip of the tea in front of the table.
It was already late at night, and Wuying's family had already been arranged to move into this courtyard.
The room was not enough at first, so Du Kang asked the yellow-faced boy to open several new rooms underground in the courtyard for them to live in. Unexpectedly, the snakes unexpectedly liked the warm environment underground very much and proposed that they all move in.
The yellow-faced boy could only open a few more rooms for Matouzi Snake deep underground, and they all moved in happily at once.
Several wing rooms on the ground floor were vacant, and Wu Ying's family chose one and moved in. They and their four turtle children had a separate room, and they could move out of Du Kang's room to talk about painting, without disturbing Du Kang's concentration on practice.
After sorting out many chores, Du Kang took out one of this harvest from his stomach pouch.
Pieces of gold steel reflecting the golden luster.
The Blade Burying Technique is the first spell that Du Kang has learned in this world, but it is still at the B level due to material issues. There are several other spells that have come from behind as the main spell, and Du Kang has rarely used it in battles.
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But Du Kang is extremely looking forward to the Blade Burying Technique, which can transform into the body of Yajuan, and the Winging Technique, which has the power of Qingluan.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Dragon and Phoenix are also the top bloodlines of the monster clan in the world. Although there have been stories circulating about other monsters feeding on dragons and phoenixes, that is because of the differences between the dragon and phoenix clans.
The overall strength is strong, and other demon clans habitually step on these two clans to make themselves famous.
Every clan has strong and weak people. If Du Kang killed a few old, weak, sick and disabled dragon and phoenix clans because of other monsters, he would think that they were weak and had limited potential, and they were deceived by legends and stories.
Compared to the dragons and phoenixes who were born as great demons, the chances of other demons becoming talented are pitifully low, which shows how powerful their bloodlines are.
Du Kang, who possesses a powerful body, is destined to embark on a path of learning from the strengths of all monsters, and he must obtain the power of dragon and phoenix.
Pick up a piece of gold steel, and advanced information will pop up automatically.
【Name】: Du Kang
[Life span]: 39 years and 342 days/255 years and 334 days
If you already hold a sufficient volume of gold steel, you can spend 212 days in your lifespan to advance. Do you want to advance to the buried blade method?
Select [Yes]
Du Kang raised his left hand uncontrollably, and the illusory copper furnace of heaven and earth appeared in his hand.
Bang!
In the past, when the copper furnace of heaven and earth was used, Du Kang would directly release the copper furnace and cover the items in it.
But this time, the furnace lid that had been closed automatically flew up, and the pieces of gold steel placed in the room automatically flew into it. The green and red flames rose and completely enveloped the large number of gold steel.
Du Kang's free right hand began to form seals. Every time the hand seal changed, a talisman condensed in his hand. After being driven into the copper furnace, it immediately ignited a burst of blue-red flames.
The copper furnace of heaven and earth rotated in the air, the fire in the furnace burned fiercely, and the talismans that supported the combustion were driven into it. The gold steel, which is famous for its strength, melted slowly like snow in the sun.