Weird Invasion 3: Meet Xiaoxi
"Handsome guy, do you want an talisman to ward off evil spirits? It's been blessed and is very effective."
"Beautiful lady, would you like a peace amulet? Keeping one on your body can bring you peace and good fortune. It's very useful."
"Mother-in-law, would you please take a look at this house-protecting talisman? It wards off evil spirits, keeps unclean things from entering the house, and keeps the family safe."
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Tianfu Square is brightly lit.
Teenagers in washed-out clothes carried small bamboo baskets and sold their wares to passersby.
Some people waved their hands in disgust, while others walked away without even looking.
Few people would stop and look at the yellow paper talismans in their hands.
"Is this thing of yours real or fake?"
"How could it be fake, Grandma?" a young man, noticing someone's interest, said with a smile, "This is an exorcism talisman that our dean collaborated with Taoist Master Qingyuan. You've heard of Taoist Master Qingyuan, right?"
The mother-in-law's eyes lit up. "I've heard that Taoist Qingyuan solved several strange incidents. It's been publicized on TV. Who is your dean? And does he know Taoist Qingyuan?"
"We are from the Sunshine Rescue Home." The boy said, and showed her the sign on his chest.
"Oh my." When she heard it was a shelter, my mother-in-law believed it a little more.
The sign has the red official seal of Sunshine Rescue Home, it cannot be fake.
The state has extremely strict management over red official seals. Anyone who forges or impersonates one could face several years in jail.
Since the frequent occurrence of strange events three years ago, many families around the world have been suddenly broken.
A shelter was established to take in teenagers aged thirteen to eighteen.
These children are older, and if they go to welfare homes, they will take up the places of younger children who cannot take care of themselves. However, they do not reach the age limit for social recruitment, so they have to work and study part-time in the welfare home.
The orphanage receives national aid funding to provide these children with food, clothing, shelter, and learning conditions. When they turn 18, they will be given a diploma, just like a high school diploma.
However, as more and more relief homes were established, the distribution of aid funds became tight, and some relief homes had to find ways to increase their income on their own.
One way is to let children in orphanages work part-time while studying.
The mother-in-law looked at the child for a long time and felt that the child was not very old and looked so well-behaved, and had lost his parents. She felt very distressed and said, "Then give me a house-protecting talisman."
"Thank you, Grandma. Here's a hundred yuan note."
The grandmother-in-law pulled back her hand as she reached for the money: "It's so expensive!"
The young man narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Grandma, Taoist Qingyuan's talismans are usually not available even if you have money. Our rescue center is a national public welfare organization. We have cooperated with the Abnormal Management Bureau to obtain this batch of talismans. As you know, Taoist Qingyuan is very busy. After this batch of talismans is sold, we don't know if there will be more in the future."
The boy spoke in a clear and pleasant voice, and he was smiling. He looked well-behaved and harmless, and no one would think that he was lying.
Although the mother-in-law was reluctant to spend the money, she took it out immediately after being persuaded by him with a few words.
Sold another one~
Gu Xi smiled as he counted the remaining yellow paper talismans. He had already sold nine today.
Each person has a quota of twenty tickets per day, and they will all be sold out in about two hours.
"Gu Xi." A hoarse voice of a boy in voice change came from behind, and Gu Xi's fingers trembled.
"That's great! Your business is the best again."
Gu Xi turned around and looked at the boy.
The boy is fifteen years old. He had good nutrition when he was a child, so he is quite tall and his face looks much more mature. If he were not in the voice change period, no one would think he is still a minor.
Liang Gaoyuan was also looking at Gu Xi. His height was very oppressive, and he looked fierce. Forget about completing his daily quota. If he got close to someone, they would frown and quickly avoid him, wishing they were eight hundred meters away from him.
But Gu Xi was different. He was not short, but thin, with a very deceptive baby face and big, round eyes. Even if he just stood there without saying a word, girls would come up to him and ask him a few questions.
They all came after class and took their places at Tianfu Square at six o'clock. Only an hour had passed, and he hadn't sold a single talisman, but Gu Xi had already sold several in succession!
Gu Xi pursed his lips and said, "I'll save the chicken drumstick for you tomorrow."
Liang Gaoyuan shouted in a hoarse voice, "And then you're going to use your pitiful face to complain to the dean, saying that I stole your chicken leg?"
"I don't……"
Liang Gaoyuan didn't give him a chance to speak. He threw the talisman in his hand into his bamboo basket and said sarcastically, "Since you are so good at selling, I will give you my share as well."
Gu Xi's eyebrows drooped, and he opened his mouth: "Forty tickets, they won't be able to sell all..."
Liang Gaoyuan hummed, "There aren't enough people at Gate D, so I'll give you Gate C. They're close anyway, so you can run around more."
Seeing that he seemed to want to say something, Liang Gaoyuan immediately said: "If you don't agree, I will tell your little secret to the dean."
Gu Xi didn't say anything else.
Liang Gaoyuan thought he had Gu Xi under control, laughed triumphantly, fanned himself with his palms, and went into the building to find a place to play.
Gu Xi looked at the small bamboo basket, and soon smiled again, his eyes searching among the passers-by.
He has been doing this kind of work for a long time, so he can naturally tell what kind of people want to buy talismans.
Many people actually don’t like being sold to, unless what is being sold is something they are interested in. As long as he shouts, people who are interested will look at him.
All Gu Xi has to do is catch those gazes.
Soon, he met a man's gaze.
The man was very handsome and had a great temperament. He didn't look like someone who would shop at a regular shopping mall like this. He had more star quality than the big stars on the mall's electronic screens.
He walked slowly, dazzling as if he was walking on a red carpet.
All eyes around were cast over there, and Gu Xi naturally couldn't look away either.
It wasn't until the man stood in front of him that he suddenly came back to his senses and smiled brightly: "Brother, would you like to buy some talismans? I have some talismans for warding off evil spirits and protecting the house. They're both blessed and very useful."
"How much is it?" The man's voice was gentle and warm.
Gu Xi said, "They're all 100 yuan each. This talisman was written by Taoist Qingyuan himself. It's very useful and a great, affordable option for warding off evil spirits..."
The two girls who had originally ignored this kind of sales pitch, because they took a few more glances at the handsome guy, laughed out loud when they heard these words: "Don't be fooled, handsome guy, Taoist Qingyuan is the boss of the Abnormal Management Bureau. He is busy dealing with strange incidents everywhere and has no time to draw talismans."
"Haha, you're lying without even thinking. Even if the big boss had the time to draw the talisman, it wouldn't be our turn for a small place. It would have been auctioned off by the powerful and wealthy long ago."
Gu Xi's ears gradually turned red, and his tone became lower: "We... our rescue center has cooperation with the Abnormal Management Bureau..."
His brows were furrowed, his shoulders slumped, and he looked pitiful, but he still insisted that his talisman was real.
The two girls who were laughing suddenly stopped smiling and began to feel that they had gone a bit too far.
He is still a child, and this is the mission of the shelter. The child doesn't know whether the shelter's supplies are real or fake.
The two girls bought one each out of pity. Gu Xi took the money and looked at the man standing in front of him: "Brother, do you want more?"
"Yes." Xie Yunsui said, "I want all of your talismans."
Gu Xi's eyes widened. "I still have 29 talismans, and they cost 2,900 yuan in total. Do you really want them all?"
Xie Yunsui smiled and took out the money directly: "Yes."
It was rare to meet such a generous person, and Gu Xi couldn't hide his smile.
Xie Yunsui came across a gold shop on the road and exchanged some money as he happened to have some cash on hand.
Gu Xiqing counted the cash, then neatly gathered the talismans in the small bamboo basket and gave them to him: "Brother, these talismans have a time limit. If you don't need them, you can give them to your friends."
Xie Yunsui glanced at the yellow papers. There were people in this world who could draw useful talismans that could deal with some of the weaker and more basic monsters and dead souls.
But these talismans do not have any energy at all and are completely useless. Even the paper is too hard to use when wiping your hands.
Either this Taoist priest Qingyuan is not worthy of his title, or the relief institute is using fakes to fill the void.
Xie Yunsui asked him, "You said you were from a relief institution?"
"Well, I'm from the Sunshine Rescue Home, my name is Gu Xi." Gu Xi smiled sweetly, revealing her little canine tooth on the right side.
Looks more tender.
Xie Yunsui's fingers trembled slightly. If he was a minor, he might not be able to get home quickly.
A shelter sounds like a welfare home. Can the children here be adopted?
What if I adopt Xiaoxi and he treats me as his father?
Xie Yunsui hesitated for a moment, smiled at Gu Xi, and left first, planning to go to the Sunshine Rescue Home tomorrow to find out more about the situation.
Gu Xi sold all the talismans he had, but the shelter wouldn't send a special car to pick them up until 9:30 in the evening.
He thought about it and went to Gate A, where Yang Lei was enthusiastically introducing the talisman in her hand to a middle-aged man.
The man came very close, and although he was asking questions about Fu, his eyes would occasionally glance at Yang Lei's chest.
Gu Xi stepped forward and stood between the two of them. He smiled and said to the middle-aged man, "Uncle, my sister didn't explain it clearly. If you have anything else to know, I'll tell you~"
The middle-aged man stared at Gu Xi unhappily: "What kind of rubbish is so expensive? The talismans sold online are only a dozen yuan. It's a rip-off."
"A talisman worth a dozen yuan guarantees your safety. Do you believe it?" Gu Xi still smiled: "Our talisman is from Taoist Qingyuan..."
"Forget it, forget it. I don't know what Qingyuan is. It's too expensive." The man walked away with disgust.
Yang Lei puffed her cheeks and said, "Gu Xiaoxi, you're chasing my guests away again!"
Gu Xi turned his head: "He is taking advantage of you."
Yang Lei put her hands on her hips and said, "I was keeping a distance. He didn't touch me. As long as I can spend money, I'll let him take a look."
Gu Xi picked up her small bamboo basket and said, "How many do you have left? I'll help you share two."
"Have you sold out?"
"Yeah." Gu Xi paused, and said casually, "I've also sold all the twenty Liang Gaoyuan tickets."
Yang Lei was instantly furious: "Liang Gaoyuan bullied you again? He couldn't sell all the chicken, so he gave it to you to sell? Last time he stole your chicken leg, and the time before that he stole your bed. He just thinks you're soft-hearted and easy to bully! No, I must tell the dean!"
Gu Xi smiled and said, "Forget it. He had a good life in his original family. He suddenly lost his parents and relatives, and squeezed into the orphanage with us. He will always feel a little uncomfortable. I am a little older, so I will let him go."
"You're just too easy to talk to!" Yang Lei said angrily, "You're only sixteen, just a few months older than him. There's no need to let him. Who among us hasn't lost their parents? You even came from an orphanage. You have to think about yourself!"
Gu Xi counted her talismans and took away half of them: "Just focus on shouting. I'm going to Exit D. Don't let others take advantage of you anymore."
"I know, I know!"
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