Chapter 48 Chapter 48

Although it is only two days until New Year's Eve, in fact, apart from the university town, there are relatively lively places in the whole city of Taipei.

Anyway, there is nothing else to do in school, so Xibai and Gu Chi discussed and immediately decided to drive to the largest market in the north city.

After seeing the map next to the market gate, Xibai finally had some idea of ​​the place.

"Wow, no wonder there are so many people!" Xibai pulled Gu Chi's sleeve and sighed at the dense crowd.

In this market, there are as many stalls as three long streets.

As soon as you enter the archway of the market street, you will see some very old objects, such as cloth tigers, wood carvings, and rattles; further ahead are dry goods, nuts, melon seeds, snacks and other bulk New Year goods; turning around another street is a whole street of flower pots, as well as orchids, rich bamboo and other potted plants that are very popular with parents.

The curtain hangings that Xibai and his friends want to buy are on the last street.

"It's just right to stop by." Xibai looked around and reached out to poke a nesting doll on the red cloth wooden table next to him.

The stall owner immediately came up with a smile, "Do you want to buy a nesting doll? We carve and color it by hand at home."

Xibai thought about it, his eyes turned, and a plan came to his mind. He took the nesting doll and put it next to his head and turned around.

"Does it look good?" he asked Gu Chi.

Gu Chi nodded, "Yeah, it looks good."

There was no excitement in his tone.

Xi Bai put the things back with a smile, and thanked the stall owner: "I'll take a look first, and come buy if I need it."

Passing by a small windmill stall, Xi Bai asked the stall owner and bought a paper windmill, puffed up his cheeks and blew it loudly.

He glanced at Gu Chi, reached out to pull his arm, his eyes bright, "Do you want to play with it?"

Gu Chi just looked at him and smiled.

"Just play with it."

It was a very quiet heart again.

There were many people in the market, from the old to the young. Xi Bai walked and looked all the way, ran to this stall, picked up this one, took a look, turned around and slipped away to that one.

He tried to act "cute" in order to stimulate Gu Chi a little more and see if he could hear something different from him.

But it didn't go as he wished. No matter how "cute" Xibai acted, even until his toes dug into the ground, Gu Chi's reaction - at least his reaction in his heart - was still very calm.

Don't say that you can't help but get something for nothing. After carefully shopping in the market, Xibai did buy a lot of good things.

He bought a handmade wolf-hair brush for Zhuang Suan and a piece of cinnabar of very good quality for Zhuang Shu - the two brothers of the Zhuang family helped him a lot, and Xibai must return the favor.

He also bought a very good raw magnet at a stone stall. He would ask Zhuang Suan if he could use it on his compass. Last time, Xi Bai broke Zhuang Suan's compass. Although the other party didn't care, he still felt sorry.

Continuing forward, Xi Bai was about to go over to take a look when he passed a bamboo weaving stall, but his attention was attracted by another stall not far away. It

was very lively in front of the stall, with many people gathered around. People in the back row stretched their necks to look inside.

Seeing Xi Bai's intention to join in the fun, Gu Chi took the initiative to speak.

"Let's go and have a look?"

Xi Bai nodded repeatedly and dived into the bustling crowd. Gu Chi followed closely behind him half a body length.

The faint scent of shampoo from Xi Bai's hair wafted through his nose. Gu Chi glanced around and raised his eyebrows slightly.

He sensed some different scents in the crowd.

But they probably had no bad intentions. It was just that there were a lot of people during the New Year holiday, so they came out to join in the fun.

Gu Chi thought so and didn't care.

"Hey, there!" Xi Bai saw someone in the crowd turn around and leave, so he immediately pulled Gu Chi in and took the front row.

The two of them came closer and looked down at the things sold at the stall, then looked at each other.

Wood carvings, stone carvings, jade carvings - but they were either very good quality jade or very ordinary jade. They were not worth collecting, but they were still good for decoration.

The stall owner was a thin old man in his fifties, with squinty eyes and wrinkles on his face. He was sitting on a mat, talking to a noble lady holding a child.

Although he was obviously hawking, his tone was very well controlled, and he was holding his long whiskers with one hand.

"I am an orthodox disciple of the spirit medium, and my hall is at the entrance." In his other hand, he held something that looked like a water pipe, raised his arm under his wide robe and pointed to the side.

Although his expression was righteous and confident, which boosted his momentum, Xibai looked at his movements and felt that he was just pointing in a direction.

Xibai glanced at Gu Chi.

Gu Chi also looked at him:?

Xibai shook his head and continued to look at the old man.

The old man who claimed to be a shaman withdrew his arm and continued to talk to the noble lady. He held the hookah in his hand and tapped the various carvings on the wooden table in front of him.

"Don't look at these little things as insignificant. They have all been blessed by the gods."

The noble lady's eyes lit up when she heard this. She must have stayed here for a long time. The children beside her were impatiently grabbing their mother's sleeves and pulling them, looking around.

"Don't move, listen to the master!" The noble lady scolded the child with a flat mouth, turned around and looked at the old man again, "Then master, what are the effects of these...magic objects of yours?"

Xi Bai heard a chuckle next to his ear, turned his head, and saw Gu Chi raised the corner of his mouth.

But this smile was not the warm smile that boys usually had, but a cold smile of slight disdain that Xibai had never seen on Gu Chi's face.

The spirit seemed to have heard it, and glanced at Xibai.

"Look at my five kinds of carvings, which correspond to the five colors of Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu and Hui respectively. I also found the corresponding spirits for the consecration, and the effects are naturally different. They can bring good luck and avoid evil, protect children, seek wealth, and seek children... Whatever you want, the spirits can satisfy you."

He cleared his throat and raised his voice: "Only ignorant people would think these things are insignificant."

The so-called Hu Huang Bai Liu Hui are the five great immortals in the horse-riding, corresponding to foxes, weasels, hedgehogs, snakes and mice. On weekdays, the horse-riding immortals will worship these animals that have become immortals in their own halls, and when they go out, they will perform rituals to invite the corresponding immortals to possess their bodies and perform rituals.

Different immortals have different abilities, and even the same kind of immortals, such as fox immortals, have their own strengths in different aspects.

The horse-riding immortal lineage has been passed down for thousands of years, and is currently more active in the north of China, especially in the three northeastern provinces. Almost everyone knows the existence of these immortals.

"That's right, I think the master is also an immortal." The noble lady didn't hear Gu Chi's sneer, and thought that the master was knocking her, so she quickly agreed with full sincerity.

"Well, Master." The lady took out her cell phone and said, "How much does it cost to buy a divine object that has been consecrated? I want to buy one for my child to bless him to grow up healthy and, oh, yes, to study well!"

He said, took a small wooden sculpture from the table and put it in front of the lady.

"Please ask a fox fairy to go home and bless the child to be healthy and smart..."

The lady nodded repeatedly and asked for the price. The old man who claimed to be a horse spirit rolled his eyes and said, "It is fate that I meet you two, so I will only charge you the cost price."

"Cost price..." The lady blinked. Is there a cost price or no cost price in metaphysics?

The fake spirit saw the other party's suspicion and quickly changed the subject, "It's not expensive, just 20,000, and I guarantee that your child will grow up to

be a dragon among humans. These wood carvings of mine are all hand-carved after the spirits possessed me, and they are imbued with a lot of fairy spirit..." Gu Chi just thought it was funny - let the fox fairy bless humans and grow up to be dragons and phoenixes.

Xi Bai was curious after hearing this. He glanced at the fox wood carvings, coiled snake jade bi and the like on the table... They looked very similar to the handicrafts sold at the intersection just now, and were obviously pressed out by the factory mold.

However, as soon as his hand touched the small wood carving that looked like a little hedgehog and a weasel with thorns, and he couldn't tell whether it was a white fairy or a yellow line, he heard a loud shout from the side.

"Hey, that kid, what are you doing!"

The fake spirit had already noticed Xibai. Gu Chi's ridicule had already annoyed him, but he was so focused on the noble lady, trying to persuade her to spend a lot of money to buy his things that he had no time to pay attention to this.

Seeing the noble lady take out her mobile phone and prepare to scan and pay, and Xibai "daringly" touching his "blessed sacred object", the spirit finally found an opportunity to attack.

He scolded Xibai, saying things like "ignorant", "daring", "how dare you touch his blessed sacred object with your dirty hands", and whatever came to his mind.

But he didn't notice that Gu Chi, who was standing behind Xibai, had already turned black in an instant.

Gu Chi took the small wooden sculpture from Xi Bai's hand and protected the person behind him. He raised his eyebrows and looked at the horse spirit, "You just said, what are these?"

The horse spirit turned his head and wanted to continue to speak, but the moment he saw Gu Chi's expression, the words on his lips were choked.

What kind of eyes does this kid have... The horse spirit had a little sweat on the back of his neck.

Gu Chi's eyes were as cold as ice. Obviously, it was sunny these two days, and the sun was shining, but the horse spirit felt a chill on his back.

He calmed down and looked at Gu Chi. He thought, no matter how fierce his eyes were, he just looked like a young boy with hair that hadn't grown out yet. How could he be afraid of Gu Chi and Xi Bai?

"This is the consecration and carving of the five great immortals. What? Do you have any opinion?" The horse-riding immortal said with a glare.

The noble lady beside them saw that they were about to quarrel and quickly persuaded them, "Hey, young man, don't be impulsive. This master is very powerful. Master, you are also generous. They are just children and don't know much. Don't worry about it..." When the

horse-riding immortal heard that the noble lady not only had no doubts but also stood firmly on his side, he immediately became a little more arrogant.

"Did you hear me, kid? You'd better hurry up and apologize to me and the immortal in my body! Otherwise..."

He looked sinister, widened his cloudy eyes, and threatened: "Otherwise, the immortal will come to settle accounts with you at night, and you can't bear it!"

Xi Bai looked at Gu Chi nervously, but the latter waved his hand, indicating that he didn't have to worry.

Seeing that Gu Chi still had a blank expression on his face, and even looked at him with a bit of mockery in his eyes, the horse-riding immortal pointed angrily, "You kid, do you know who you are holding in your hand! That's Bai Xian. Bai Xian will sneak into your room at night, and the spikes on his body will pierce your internal organs..."

"You said this is Bai Xian?" Gu Chi couldn't listen any longer, and directly interrupted the horse-riding immortal's vivid threats.

He tossed the wooden sculpture in his hand, and said with a sneer, "Do you have the guts to speak louder? Say it again?"

The people around had already noticed this, and were watching the situation from a distance or close.

To everyone's surprise, after Gu Chi's threatening words that sounded like a quarrel between children, the originally righteous and confident Chu Ma Xian actually kept silent.

Could it be that, as the young man implied, this Chu Ma Xian... is not real?

Many people around saw it, and the noble lady naturally also noticed something shrewdly.

She closed the payment interface that popped up, and said nothing, just quietly looking at the Chu Ma Xian in front of her.

The horse-riding immortal was already feeling guilty. Seeing that everyone was suspicious of him and that even the orders he had received were about to be lost, he immediately puffed up his beard and put on airs.

But before he could say anything to Gu Chi, he saw Gu Chi raising his hand.

With a clench of his five fingers, he directly crushed the wooden sculpture of "Bai Xian".

The sound seemed to be choked in his throat, as if Gu Chi was not pinching the wooden sculpture, but the neck of the horse-riding immortal.

Everyone looked at Gu Chi in shock, and then heard him sneer again.

"You call this Bai Xian? Aren't you afraid that, as you said, when it's late at night and no one is around, Bai Xian will come to settle the score with you?"

His tone was even a little calm, but he said it lightly, coupled with a look that seemed to see through everything.

When the horse-riding immortal met Gu Chi's eyes, sweat immediately broke out on his back.

"You, I..."

He couldn't even form a sentence, and now everyone knew that he was lying.

But some people were curious, if it wasn't Bai Xian, then what was it?

Of course, including Xi Bai, so he asked directly: "Isn't this Bai Xian?"

Gu Chi shook his head and said: "This is Li [lì]."

The Classic of Mountains and Seas records that on a mountain called Lema, there is a creature covered with fiery red hair, and looks like a hedgehog.

This in itself is nothing, but the last sentence in the record says "where it is seen, there will be a great epidemic in the country" - meaning that wherever it appears, there will be an epidemic.

This hedgehog-like 犭漓 is undoubtedly a ferocious beast, and it is a ferocious beast that will bring plague.

The noble lady wanted to ask for the healthy growth of her child, but the horse fairy didn't know where to find the manufacturer, and used mass-produced goods to pretend to be a blessed mascot to cheat, and even couldn't tell the difference between a white fairy and a 犭哩.

The noble lady exploded when she heard it, put her cell phone in her bag, and reached out to grab the horse fairy's face.

"You old fool, it's fine if you cheated me out of money, but you actually dared to harm my child!"

She had long nails on her hands, and every time she scratched, several blood marks were left.

No one around tried to stop the fight, and some even bought so-called mascots from the spirit master, and walked back after shopping at the market. When they heard the noise and looked over, they realized that they were the victims of deception.

A large group of people shared the same hatred for the enemy, and a few righteous people joined in the fun.

Soon the spirit master's stall was also smashed, and when the police arrived after hearing the noise, the spirit master had swollen into a pig's head.

Xi Bai looked at the back of the spirit master who was handcuffed by the police for fraud, and then looked at Gu Chi beside him.

The latter noticed his gaze and turned to look at him, "What?"

"No." Xi Bai shook his head, and then praised him seriously, "You are really amazing."

The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is divided into the "Classic of Mountains" and the "Classic of Seas". The "Classic of Mountains" is divided into five large volumes, namely the southeast, northwest, and central volumes, with 4 small volumes each in the southeast, northwest, and 12 small volumes

in the central mountain classic. The "Classic of Seas" is divided into three large volumes, namely the inner, outer, and great wilderness volumes, each with 4 small volumes in the southeast, northwest, and central mountains classics. Xi Bai has also read these books, and it was simply painful to read them. Because there are many ancient characters in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that cannot be translated, the terms used are also obscure and difficult to understand, and the various details are complicated and chaotic. The old professors of their professional courses may not remember all of them. Even if they are tested in the final exam, they will test the more common knowledge points that everyone knows.

Today, Gu Chi was able to identify the various auspicious animal lanterns on the ancient culture street, which already shocked Xi Bai.

Now he can even clearly identify the "犭凶" in the corners, which made him even more stunned. Xi Bai even thought:

"Are you from the School of Literature or am I from the School of Literature?" He couldn't help but say.

Gu Chi paused and turned his eyes away somewhat unnaturally.

"That's right, I read more books on weekdays."

He raised his hand to cover his lips, cough, and almost let it slip again.

Xi Bai didn't think much about it, just thought that Gu Chi was embarrassed by his exaggeration.

He tugged at Gu Chi's sleeve with a smile, "Let's go, there are still many people shopping ahead, and we haven't bought what we want yet."

Gu Chi nodded, and then asked Xibai to wait.

Xibai didn't understand what was going on, but he still stood there obediently, his eyes following Gu Chi's back all the way forward.

Anyway, this guy is tall and handsome, and he stands out among the crowd, as if he is shining. But what Xibai couldn't understand was that Gu Chi seemed to have just strolled into the crowd, then turned around and came back, telling him that it was time to go.

It was as if he had done nothing.

The two walked forward for a while, and Xibai still turned back curiously.

"What's the matter?" Gu Chi stopped and looked at him.

"No." Xi Bai didn't notice anything unusual in the crowd. He shook his head and looked away, feeling a little puzzled.

So what was Gu Chi doing just now?

In the crowd, a thin man wearing a white duckbill cap pinched the edge of his hat and pushed it down a little lower.

He opened his palm and saw a yellow paper talisman in his palm.

——This was a talisman that a man with a very scary aura suddenly walked up to him and stuffed into his hand.

The man looked at the talisman for a while, and saw that the words written in cinnabar on it seemed to sense his sight, and they twisted and changed quietly.

The red cinnabar gathered together and gradually turned into the shape of an arrow, jumping and pointing in a direction.

The man turned around, and as the direction he was standing changed, the originally twisted arrow also became straight.

The tip of the arrow was pointing in the direction of the spirit who had just left!

The man put away the talisman and pressed his hat.

An ear was revealed under a tuft of soft white hair on the edge of the hat.

The pointed triangle was not a human ear.

It was... a hedgehog's ear!

Xi Bai quickly put what had just happened behind him and pulled Gu Chi to various flower stalls, curiously looking at the various plants of strange colors or fresh styles cultivated by the store.

Gu Chi responded with a smile, and occasionally when he looked back at the way he had come, a hint of cold light would flash in his eyes that was not noticed by others.

He didn't want to care at first, but because he saw Xi Bai was curious, he accompanied him to take a look.

After all, worldly affairs have nothing to do with him. There are countless creatures in the world, and humans have their own social culture. As a ghost king, he has always been involved in the affairs of the underworld and has no interest in the vast majority of humans in the world.

But it was different when that fake horse-riding fairy scolded Xi Bai.

Thinking of this, Gu Chi raised a mocking arc at the corner of his mouth.

Although Bai Xian has a good temper compared to "Hu Huang Liu Hui", if we spread it out, none of the five great fairies has a good temper.

That horse-riding fairy dared to say that an unlucky dog ​​was Bai Xian in front of Bai Xian.

It seems that he will not have a good time this year.

"Gu Chi!"

Xi Bai found a pot of miniature kumquats, which looked very suitable for being placed in the dormitory, and immediately shouted for help.

As soon as he raised his head, the sneer on Gu Chi's lips turned into a warm and gentle big dog smile.

"I'm coming."

Gu Chi responded softly and walked towards the store.