"This is Castlevania." Zhao Xiaqiu stood at the entrance of the long street and said calmly.
Su Baiyi and Nangong Xi'er were so shocked that their jaws dropped: "Is this Castlevania?"
In the Castlevania they imagined, there should be ferocious-looking bullies or sinister killers walking everywhere, but what they saw was a bustling and noisy world: the long streets were crowded with people, and the streets were full of people.
It was a pharmacy and wine shop, with foot vendors shouting and hawking, and flower girls walking briskly. Occasionally, drunken drunkards who wanted to default on their bills were mercilessly thrown onto the street by the strong men of the wine shop. The scenes were very similar.
Jiang Lincheng, the most prosperous city in the south of the Yangtze River, was visited by Su Baiyi when he was a child.
"You two can have a good time shopping, I won't disturb you," Zhao Xiaqiu said.
"I haven't been shopping for a long time. Seeing this scene, I don't know why, I feel particularly comfortable. It's just that my senior sister and I have been running around all the way, and we have already..." Su Baiyi said with a smile.
"The city lord gave it to me." Zhao Xiaqiu took out a bag of silver from his arms, threw it to Su Baiyi, then turned and left.
Su Baiyi weighed the money bag in her hand and raised her eyebrows at Nangong Xi'er: "Senior sister, I'll treat you to something delicious."
Nangong Xi'er reached out and knocked Su Baiyi on the head: "How did my father teach a disciple like you?"
Su Baiyi stuck out his tongue and said with a smile: "Senior sister, you have never met the master. If you had seen it, you would know that only such a master can teach a disciple like me."
Nangong Xi'er frowned slightly: "But my mother said that my father is a gentle and elegant scholar..."
"Then I can do that too." Su Baiyi whispered softly and straightened his back, "Senior sister, do you think I look like an elegant scholar now?"
"Ignore you, I want to eat oranges." Nangong Xi'er walked to the nearest stall, reached out and picked up an orange, put it to her nose and smelled it.
"Girl, you can't tell whether the oranges are good or bad by smelling them." The old man selling oranges grinned, showing his rotten teeth.
Su Baiyi walked to Nangong Xi'er: "Can you have a taste first?"
"Of course." The old man threw an orange and then reached out to catch it. The orange had already peeled off its outer skin, leaving only the pulp.
"Where's the peel?" Su Baiyi asked confused. As soon as he finished speaking, a complete orange peel fell on Su Baiyi's head.
Nangong Xi'er smiled and took it off Su Baiyi's head: "Senior is so good at martial arts."
The old man handed over the orange: "I just know how to peel oranges."
Su Baiyi took the orange, gave half of it to Nangong Xi'er, and threw the rest into her mouth. As soon as she put it in her mouth, she couldn't help but praise: "This orange is so sweet, I want a pound of it."
"Okay." The old man threw a few oranges into the scale pan, then gently moved the weight with his hand, and finally put the oranges into the paper bag, "One pound of oranges, five copper plates."
"Here." Su Baiyi took out five copper coins from the side of the money bag and handed them to the old man, then took the oranges, turned around and planned to leave.
But Nangong Xi'er looked at the old man curiously, and after a while asked tentatively: "Old man, how many coppers is one tael of soul worth?"
The old man held out two fingers: "Three."
"Old man, are you really Xu Luoyang, the Bodhisattva of Killing Life?" Nangong Xi'er asked in shock.
"I am the Fruit Bodhisattva in Castlevania." The old man still smiled and showed his rotten teeth, which looked very vulgar. "Girl, you have recognized the wrong person."
"Sorry." Nangong Xi'er lowered her head slightly, and then left with Su Baiyi.
"What's wrong?" Su Baiyi asked.
"That person just now was the Bodhisattva of Killing Xu Luoyang, a famous killer in the world back then." Nangong Xi'er sighed with emotion, "I didn't expect that he would be selling oranges in the Castlevania."
"Since he kills living beings, why is he called a Bodhisattva?" Su Baiyi was puzzled.
"Because he only accepts business from poor people. As long as he has three copper coins, he will kill someone for you, but the condition is that the other party must be a very evil person. So he is both a murderer and a Bodhisattva." Nangong Xi'er explained.
"He is also a wonderful person." Su Baiyi nodded.
At this time, a little girl holding flowers came towards them, smiling at the two of them.
"Senior sister, according to the usual plot in novels, this girl will definitely mistakenly think that we are lovers, and then she will say that I have such a beautiful girl beside me, why don't I buy a flower for her?" Su Baiyi whispered.
road.
Nangong Xi'er's face turned slightly red: "What kind of novels are you reading?"
The little girl finally walked up to Su Baiyi. Su Baiyi cleared his throat and smiled at the girl.
Then the little girl walked straight past Su Baiyi.
"I'm selling flowers, I'm selling flowers, the flowers I just picked this morning~"
Su Baiyi was suddenly petrified: "How could this happen?"
Nangong Xi'er laughed so hard at the side: "Hahahahaha, you fool, you think life is just like a fairy tale..."
"Brother, don't cry." The little girl retreated to Su Baiyi's side, "Although this beautiful sister will not fall in love with you at first glance, I still want to give you a flower..."
"Then let's have one." Su Baiyi covered his face with one hand and took out a copper plate with the other. But after taking the flower from the little girl's hand, he suddenly realized something, "Wait! You just heard me say
What did you say?"
The little girl smiled: "You are not far away, so you can naturally hear it."
"It's thirty steps away, and the street is so noisy, but you can still hear me?" Su Baiyi asked confused.
"Three hundred meters away, I can hear it." The little girl jumped away and ran away.
"This... this..." Su Baiyi glanced at the little girl's back and then at Nangong Xi'er, his face full of confusion.
Nangong Xi'er took the flower from Su Baiyi's hand, put it to her nose and sniffed: "If you guessed correctly, that little girl's surname is Tang, and she is the younger sister of Yan Xiaotang. She can identify the position by listening to the wind, and kill people with blind eyes.
, Thirty meters away is really nothing."
Su Baiyi sighed: "This is not a pedestrian street, this is clearly a soul-destroying street..."
"Want to have a drink." Nangong Xi'er turned around and saw a wine shop with four words written on it.
Huangquan Restaurant.
Su Baiyi shook his head and said, "Senior sister, why did you choose this one?"
"Because of him." Nangong Xi'er pointed at the man in white standing at the door.
The man is wearing white clothes, with a jade hanging on his waist, with long hair flying, and a graceful demeanor. He is looking at the lantern in the wine shop in a daze.
"Senior sister, you are indeed an ordinary woman. When you drink, you have to look at the appearance of the drinker." Su Baiyi said with emotion.
Nangong Xi'er shook her head: "No, I guess this is not a drinker, but the owner of this wine shop."
"Boss?" Su Baiyi was stunned, "Senior sister, can you see this?"
The man in white turned around, looked at the two of them, and said with a smile: "My Excellency, Huang Chunsheng, is the owner of this Huangquan Wine Shop. I heard that you two are honored guests of my Castlevania, and I would like to come in and have a drink with you."
"He's really the boss." Su Baiyi said in surprise, but then he thought about the name Huang Chunsheng, turned around and wanted to run away, but was pulled back by Nangong Xi'er.
"Senior sister, Huang Chunsheng, the human cook! You mentioned the one who makes human meat buns!" Su Baiyi said anxiously.
"He's the one we're looking for!" Nangong Xi'er held Su Baiyi's collar and walked inside.