Chapter 73
The down-and-out bearded man was confused at first, wondering what he was saying. His eyes widened, not knowing whether he was frightened or surprised.
The man wanted to stand up excitedly, but maybe because he had maintained the same posture for too long, he couldn't stand up after struggling twice. He looked a little crazy and scary.
Liu Jiayu couldn't help but take two steps back, and the man's outstretched hand couldn't reach him.
"Oh my god, is this a real kid? Don't scare me." The person who spoke was the young man next to him. Their stalls were close to each other, and he was teased by the child so much that he kept watching the child when he left and went to the stall next to him.
"I never lie. The young lady was wearing green pants with blue squares on the knees." Liu Jiayu's life was not very good before, and he had never seen patched clothes. He didn't know that they were patches, so he could only describe it like this.
The image of that figure kept circling in the middle-aged man's mind. The child's description was exactly the same as the figure in his memory.
"She... where is she?" The man was still not fully conscious, and his brain only processed half of Liu Jiayu's words.
"She's right next to you, can't you hear what she says?" Liu Jiayu pointed at the curb where the man was sitting.
The young man who had been eavesdropping on their conversation shuddered and moved to the other side. Regardless of whether it was true or false, the words coming from the child's mouth were terrifying.
Liu Ze leaned on Yan Shiliu's shoulder and whispered in his ear, "What does Master feed these little guys? It's like feeding piglets, stuffing everything into their mouths. I can't see those things unless I enter a state of meditation. The little guys' innate six senses have been strengthened, which can be considered as opening their third eye."
As the saying goes, children are spiritual and can see things that adults cannot see. As they grow up, they can no longer see the things they could see when they were young. As a result, they now eat strange things every day, but this innate spirituality has been preserved.
After really understanding what the child said, the man's expression was painful, and he seemed to be mentally prepared. He looked at the empty space around him and said, "Child, what did she say? Tell your uncle, okay?"
"Uncle's well is too cold, so let you take her home." The girl spoke with a strong accent, and Liu Jiayu took a long time to understand what she was saying.
The name is different in every place. In a man’s hometown, people in the same village, regardless of blood relationship, will call him uncle, while the name of old uncle is only used by the older children of his generation.
As soon as the child said this, the middle-aged man with a beard already had a rough idea of the situation. He was not confident, but he felt that he had to believe it. The child didn't know him, and he could tell at a glance that he was a city kid, so there was no need for him to lie to him.
He trembled as he picked up the sign in front of him. He stood up and walked a little unsteadily. He took two steps, turned around and wanted to say something to the child. His beard trembled twice: "Thank you for your guidance, little sir."
Liu Jiayu watched the uncle stagger and disappear into the darkness, turned around and held the hands of Yan Shiliu and Liu Ze. The adults were so careless that they accidentally lost the children. He wanted to hold his father and dad back.
Is this true? Thinking about the middle-aged man's reaction, it was incredible. There seemed to be something about that man's reaction. The young man next to him was a little dazed as he watched the two adults and the child leave.
Remembering the bottle the child had given him, he rubbed it back and forth in his hands. The texture was definitely not plastic, nor did it look like ceramic. He observed it for a long time with a flashlight. Could it really be topaz? He had thought it contained jelly beans, but now the young man was a little unsure. Could it be a real Na Yuan Dan? But what was this Na Yuan Dan? What was its function? No one had explained it to him.
Later in the ghost market, the three of them walked around until the late night. They didn't know where the chickens started crowing, and the number of people in the ghost market began to decrease, just like when they came, quietly.
Liu Jiayu yawned one after another, trying hard not to fall asleep. She sat in Yan Shiliu's arms with her head nodding.
"Go to sleep, you'll be home when you wake up." Liu Ze didn't know what the little guy was holding on to, as he couldn't even open his eyes.
"I bought a gift for Shitou, but I haven't bought one for Yaya yet. Yaya will be unhappy." Liu Jiayu's voice became small, and her tired look was heartbreaking.
The little thing is quite persistent about this. He won't sleep until I buy enough gifts.
Liu Ze took a quick look around and saw a stall not far away that was about to close. He pulled a man, one big and one small, over to the stall.
When the old man who set up the stall saw that there were customers coming, he didn't rush to close the stall and waited for them to choose.
Liu Ze bent down and picked up a doll from the stall, looking at it in his hands. It was quite delicate, a nesting doll made of brass, quite heavy in the hand, and the patterns on it were hand-carved and quite delicate.
"Jia Yu, take a look at this. It's very cute. Yaya will definitely like it." Liu Ze said as he unscrewed the nesting doll to reveal the dolls inside. The first layer of dolls was the size of an ostrich egg, and each one inside was smaller than the last. There were exactly 13 dolls in the end, and when they were placed in a row, it was quite spectacular.
When he looked up at the child in Yan Shiliu's arms, Liu Jiayu was snoring on Yan Shiliu's shoulder. Even though the little guy was asleep, she still wanted to help him fulfill his little wish.
"Boss, how much is this?" Liu Ze was very confident in his vision and believed that Yaya would definitely like this thing.
This is a brass ornament with black and yellow stripes. Even if it is carved into the shape of a nesting doll, it cannot cover up its gray appearance. I really don’t know where Yanagisawa got the confidence from that the pink and tender Yaya would like this gray and slightly scary nesting doll.
"1200."
"Not bad." Liu Ze shook the brass toy in his hand, took out some banknotes and handed them to the boss.
They flew home in the thick clouds before dawn. The two of them had energy protecting them and the clouds could not get close to them. Liu Jiayu was wrapped tightly and slept soundly all the way.
It was already dawn when they got home, and it was Wen Zhezhi who helped them open the door.
"Where is the butler?" Liu Ze asked curiously, the butler referring to Wen Ci Qiu.
"Butler Wen received a letter, said something to his master, and then left with the soldiers."
Liu Ze curled his lips. He didn't understand what his master was thinking. He neither tried to dissuade him nor offered to help. Although he had some bad intentions, he wanted to see Butler Wen fail, and he hadn't made it clear before.
Liu Ze hesitated at the door for a while: "Shh." He spat at himself, pulled Yan Shiliu, who was holding the child, and went to chase Butler Wen.
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