Zhao Xi couldn't see Lin Che's expression, but she could understand the look in his eyes from behind the silver-white mask.
I understand instantly.
She quickly waved her hand: "It's really not this time. It's just that the Beast Garden often washes the cubs' clothes and can't stand dirty clothes. Then don't change your clothes. There's a tea stall over there. You can sit there and rest. I'll go find some mortal clothes so I can question him."
There was a cosmetics shop right next door, and the owner and waiter were both women.
Zhao Xi wanted to exchange the large Ganoderma lucidum in her ring for a set of coarse cloth clothes, and came to the entrance of the craftsman's shop.
The scarred thug counted his silver coins, fiddling with a blade of grass, without even looking up.
"Cough..." Zhao Xi tried to attract his attention.
The thug glanced at her, then remained seated on the sauce vat without moving.
That's really strange.
Zhao Xi had no choice but to walk over and ask, "Do you have any nice feathers?"
The thug sized her up and down, then waved her away, saying, "Go away, you think you can buy kingfisher feather jewelry? Get out of here and don't disturb my peace."
Zhao Xi looked down at the coarse cloth clothes she was wearing.
That was a miscalculation.
Even immortals were eager to acquire kingfisher feather jewelry, let alone ordinary people.
I heard that even the imperial concubines are looking for this jewelry; it's priceless and commoners can't afford it at all.
She wasn't dressed as a maid; she was a servant woman who cleaned and dusted the backyard, and her wrists and knees were patched.
Zhao Xi didn't give up. After leaving the craftsman's shop, she went to work at the money exchange.
A moment later, a short man named Master Zhao, with a mustache, swaggered to the entrance of the craftsman's shop, led by his servant.
Master Zhao stroked his beard, glanced sideways at the hoodlum, and asked gruffly, "I heard you have kingfisher feathers?"
The thug looked her up and down again: "I have money. Do you have any?"
Master Zhao took out a gold ingot and weighed it in his hand.
The ring contained a lot of high-quality honey, and coincidentally, the money lender had a sweet tooth, so he gave her the clothes and gold ingots.
The thug took the gold ingot, bit it to confirm it was real gold, then gave her all the kingfisher feathers he had in his arms, and turned to leave.
"Hey, don't go! These feathers aren't enough. Do you have any more?" Zhao Xi said in a gruff voice, "We can do this long-term!"
The thug grinned wickedly: "Do you think I'm stupid? Aren't you that maid from earlier? Did you think you could get away with changing your clothes and putting on a mustache? Fool! Trying to trace the origins of the kingfisher feathers and steal my business? No way!"
(艹皿艹)
Zhao Xi thought, "Lin Che! Grab him!"
There must be a big fish behind this hoodlum.
Zhao Xi thought that Lin Che disagreed with pretending to be a mortal and planned to finish the battle quickly.
Unexpectedly, he didn't just wait idly in the teahouse.
Turning his head, he had changed into a dark blue scholar's robe and was wearing a mask.
He was tall and slender, with a brisk walk. Usually, he had a long, flowing black hair, but now he tied it back with a silk ribbon, giving him the air of a scholar.
But upon closer inspection, a sharp glint flashed in the eyes beneath the mask, and the man as a whole possessed a refined air, clearly not a poor scholar.
Unfortunately, that hoodlum was blind to talent and only judged people by their clothes, calling him a weak scholar and making a few provocative remarks as he ran away.
"Come and chase me! If you've got the guts, come and chase me! If you catch me, I'll..."
Lin Che raised his foot and delivered a flying kick.
"Thump—"
The vendor was kicked hard from behind, flying a long distance before crashing to the ground, completely stunned.
Lin Che withdrew his foot, gently dusted off the wrinkles in his hem, walked to his side, stood with his hands behind his back, and said teasingly, "So what if I catch you?"
Vendor: "...Great hero, spare my life..."
This was resolved without even using any magic; it was all done with force. As a result, the onlookers thought it was just a regular fight and called the constables to stop the vendor from being beaten.
Lin Che grabbed the vendor, led him to the end of the alley, and reached out his hand to Zhao Xi.
"Huh? What are you doing?" Zhao Xi reached out and poked his palm with her finger.
The scene before my eyes suddenly shifted.
The next second, they appeared in a mountain forest filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.
Several streams and rivers flow through the mountains, and the vegetation is lush and verdant. Birdsong echoes through the forest, clear and melodious.
This is Meimei's hometown – Wuhe Mountain.
Lin Che stood with his hands behind his back, his clothes changed from scholar's robes back to his wide-sleeved white robe, with a talisman for shrinking the earth between the fingertips of his right hand.
When the wind blew, the used talismans turned into powder and scattered.
He lightly brushed the dust off his wide sleeves, and all the dust he had stirred up in the mortal town disappeared, restoring him to his spotless immortal appearance.
The thug was terrified and knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly and begging them to let him go.
Zhao Xi stared intently at Lin Che's retreating figure, a wild smile spreading across her face.
Lin Che is so handsome!
...
The thug confessed everything he knew clearly.
For some reason, the kingfishers in this forest seem to have become sentient, always tearing apart the nets he weaves and escaping completely.
He waited in vain several times.
Just then, his former bandit buddy gave him a sticky, large net.
Once the net is hung on a tree by the stream, not only kingfishers, but even eagles, hares, and silly spores will run into it and get stuck, unable to break free no matter what they do.
Since acquiring this treasure, he has never lacked food or clothing, and has even bought the entire mountain.
He resumed his gambling habit, catching birds to sell their feathers whenever he was short of money, and gambling whenever he had money, repeating the cycle endlessly.
He took them to see the big net.
Several little birds have already been attached to the internet, chirping and twittering.
Even without Lin Che saying it, Zhao Xi could tell just by touching the web that it was silk spun by a spider demon beast.
She had once seen a spider monster on the main mountain of the Beast Garden. It was ridiculously large, and just one look at its face could give her nightmares for three days.
However, she had the protective mark left by the Little Earth Fairy, so the spider demon avoided her and did not attack her.
Then Zhao Xi, feeling emboldened, saw a calf stuck in a spider web and stole its food.
(Spider monster: *crying*)
Zhao Xi wondered, "Could it be that the creature that ate the little bird was a spider demon?"
Lin Che asked the thug, "Where's the body?"
The thug looked bewildered, scratched his head, and said, "Looks like they let it go? This little bird meat isn't worth much, and it tastes fishy and not good."
Zhao Xi took out the kingfisher feathers she had just bought from him: "You're lying! You clearly killed the birds, these feathers are covered in blood!"
There's no need to kill the bird to get its feathers.
If it's just about taking feathers, the feathers will grow back after they're released, so the quantity won't decrease.
Birds are easily stressed to death or injure themselves while struggling during this process, but most kingfishers should not have bloodstains on their feathers.
Even if you take these blood-stained items back to make jewelry, they will still need to be cleaned, and they may even fade.
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