Chapter 255: Strange Things Happened While Watching

When Zhan Song heard this, he was immediately delighted. He only had a few taels of silver on him, and it was everyone who pooled their money to allow him to come out and find a solution.

Now that it's resolved, he can have an explanation when he returns.

He took out a penny of silver and handed it to Mo Bao: "Thank you, Master Su."

Su Nuobai stretched and saw Feng Zhi and Mo Bao coming back. There were not many people on the street, so he simply packed up his stall and prepared to go back.

"Not setting up the stall anymore?" Feng Zhi watched her start to pack up her things.

"No more setting up. It's boring to sit here for half a day with so few people around. It will be the same if we come again tomorrow." Su Nuobai said as he walked forward with his hands behind his back.

Mo Bao and Xiao Jiang talked about what happened with Zhan Song just now, and they were discussing it with great interest.

I don’t know if someone leaked the information about her stall, but the next day all the vendors who were on break nearby came.

Grandpa Jia looked at her cheerfully: "If I had known you were setting up a stall yesterday, I would have come too. It's quite boring to stay at home. It's better than coming here to listen to your stories."

"How did you know I was here to set up a stall?" Su Nuobai looked at him and asked.

"Someone from our village came to the city yesterday to buy something. He saw it and told me about it. I thought since I have nothing better to do at home, I might as well set up a stall and sell some talismans."

"Let me tell you, this talisman is very popular. I'm almost out of stock." Uncle Jia said, looking at Feng Zhi: "Please draw some for me when you have time."

Feng Zhi took out a stack of drawings from his bag and handed it to him: "I drew a lot of them when I was free during the Chinese New Year, but I haven't folded them into a triangle yet."

"I know this. You taught me last time. But you have to tell me what is what, so I won't get it wrong." Uncle Jia laughed when he saw it.

"I divided them for you with a rope. The blue one is the wind-clearing talisman, and the green one is the mosquito repellent..." Feng Zhi said as he handed it to him.

Uncle Jia was delighted when he heard this: "This is a good idea. When I get home, I'll ask my wife to make me a few bags and embroider them with different colors of thread so I can tell them apart."

Su Nuobai smiled and shook her head, but Feng Zhi was careful in his work, so there was no need to worry about anything going wrong.

"Master Su, I encountered something strange." An old man walked over to her with an anxious look on his face and sat down opposite her.

Su Nuobai looked at the old man's face. He was lonely and helpless, and his fate was very difficult.

"Old man, you encountered something strange last night while you were on the night watch!"

Uncle Rong nodded quickly. "Yes, yes, it was last night. I'm usually on night watch, but last night I saw the lights on at the Rongfa Pawn Shop in the North City."

"I thought a thief had entered, so I went closer to check, and then I heard a child crying."

"The owner of Rongfa Pawnshop has a child who is already in his teens. Where did the child come from?" a passerby asked curiously.

"I was wondering too! So I plucked up the courage to look inside through the gap, and that look almost scared me to death." Uncle Rong was scared just thinking about it.

Su Nuobai was quite curious: "What did you see?"

"It was quite normal at first. I saw the shopkeeper come out from the side, go to a cabinet and open a box."

"Then I saw him take out a small silver lock tied with a red rope. It looked quite delicate."

"He took out the silver lock, and the child's crying stopped. I wondered if my hearing had become less effective because of my age."

"During this interruption, when I looked over, I saw the shopkeeper's feet floating in the air, and he hung the silver lock on the beam."

"It was late at night, and a grown man's feet were dangling in the air. I was so scared that I covered my mouth tightly to prevent myself from screaming."

"Even now when I think about it, I still break out in a cold sweat. Master Su, is this shopkeeper no longer human?"

When Rong Bo said this, he felt the hairs on his body stand up.

"That's impossible! I saw the pawn shop owner open the door early this morning, it was quite normal!"

"Yes, yes, I saw that too. He even smiled and said hello to me. I didn't see anything wrong with that."

The people watching around thought this was unlikely.

Su Nuobai went over what Rong Bo had just said in her mind, which reminded her of a way to borrow someone else's life.

But this method is different from the way Liu Man from Liu Bodong's family borrowed his life before.

In fact, Uncle Rong was also afraid that his eyesight was blurry, so he secretly checked when he was finishing work this morning, and the shopkeeper was indeed alive and well.

"Master Su, am I seeing things?"

"You're not mistaken." Su Nuobai said.

"Ah! So, did something really happen to the shopkeeper?" A group of people immediately started discussing, and even the yamen runners at the side came forward.

If something really happens, they can investigate and arrest people.

Su Nuobai: "Nothing happened, I just lost seven days of life."

"What?" Uncle Jia was shocked when he heard it.

Su Nuobai: "This is a method of borrowing a sick child's life. This person has a sick child at home, and in order to keep the child alive, he used the method of borrowing the child's life."

"Isn't this the same as Liu Man?" Many people have heard about what happened to Liu Bodong's family.

Su Nuobai shook his head: "There is still a difference. Liu Man's life was taken away, so he can be said to be a scapegoat. But the pawnshop owner encountered a real life borrowed."

"As long as this silver lock is bought once, it will absorb seven days of the buyer's lifespan to extend the child's lifespan."

"If this is redeemed and then mortgaged, the shopkeeper will die even faster." Brother Zhou felt his scalp tingling.

"That won't happen, but this method only works once for one person." Su Nuobai said, looking at the yamen runners: "Please go find this shopkeeper and remove the silver lock from the beam."

"Master Su, if we take it down, our lives won't be sucked away, will they?" The bailiff was still a little scared.

"You didn't spend any money to buy it, so nothing will happen." Su Nuobai reassured the two.

The two of them then hurried to find the shopkeeper and Yinsuo.

"Master Su, are you planning to break the spell on this silver lock?" Uncle Jia asked curiously.

Su Nuobai nodded: "Whether it's seven days or an hour, borrowing a life is not advisable. The child's life span is where, if you extend his life, you are either helping him or harming him."

"After death, he will need to go to the underworld to repay these stolen lifespans. Isn't this a sin?"

After waiting for more than half an hour, the bailiff finally brought the person.

The shopkeeper was confused when he saw the yamen runners. After listening to them, he thought they were talking nonsense. He opened the box containing the silver lock and found that the things inside were missing.

When he looked up, he saw that the silver lock was hanging on the beam just as the yamen runner said. He fell to the ground in fear.

Even the yamen runners who went up to take the silver lock did it, so he didn't dare touch it again.