"You said mint leaves...can they be lit?" Yuan Yuanyuan asked Liu An sitting opposite her.

She suddenly thought of this at noon today, but having lived in the north for many years, she had never seen such a thing as mint leaves.

Now there were only her and Liu An in the room. This thought suddenly occurred to her, so she asked him.

Liu An held a pile of clothes in his hand, looked at Yuan Yuanyuan and said, "Sure, you can light it after the mint dries up."

"Then can I smoke?" Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly became excited, sat up and asked Liu An.

"Cum?" Liu An's expression suddenly became subtle.

"When that thing is lit...it will emit black smoke," he finally said in a complicated tone.

"Oh..." Yuan Yuanyuan sat down a little disappointed, thinking that it seemed like she couldn't smoke anymore.

In Yuan Yuanyuan's life, mint usually appears along with hard candy, chewing gum and wet tissues...I don't know why this thing makes her look so cool.

So just now she subconsciously wondered if mint could emit a minty smell when lit up...

Liu An looked at the boss who sat down again and wondered what he thought mint was... Isn't it just a plant?

As he walked, he felt like yawning, but quickly held it back.

As for working, although this was his first time working, he performed better than some people who had worked for several years.

Working two jobs at the same time, even though the boss is easy to talk to, is also a back door. If you show the slightest sign of tiredness, you will most likely be abandoned.

When he was in the Taoist temple, if he yawned accidentally, the senior who was leading the group would immediately stop what he was doing and ask him to leave immediately.

Although Liu An is no longer a Taoist priest in that temple, some of his habits are still ingrained in his bones.

Just when he tried to hold back his cough, he suddenly remembered some things from the past. He lowered his head and looked at his military coat and big cotton shoes.

...After a while, he shook his head and continued to pack his clothes.

Although the money here is small, there is one advantage -

This is one of the few "haunted houses" nearby, and not many monsters come here. For him at the moment, he really can't find a place to live that is more suitable for him than this one.

He sorted the clothes one by one. Although the boss didn't take care of the clothes, he still insisted on tidying them up from time to time. In fact, he had already seen from tidying up the clothes these days that the boss was not as harmless as he seemed, because many of the materials on these clothes were very shocking.

It was like a thick black gown. At first he didn't notice anything wrong with it, until one day he accidentally touched the buttons and his hand shrank because of the cold temperature.

He spent a long time analyzing it before he realized that the buttons that looked shiny and round were actually the bones of some monster...

The buttons were white with hints of yellow and felt icy cold to the touch. He only touched them once and felt half of his palm go numb from the cold.

Although this thing looks extremely destructive, Liu An can imagine without even looking at it how important it is to some ice-related monsters.

However, such an amazing thing is now placed in a small clothing store that no one comes to patronize.

After that, Liu An observed other clothes from time to time. Some of the clothes that looked very ordinary had some very scary things on them. The more he looked, the less he could see the strength of this boss. So he no longer simply thought that this boss was just a clothes seller like he did when he first met him.

Being a street scavenger is actually a very magical job. In this position, you can see many things that you cannot see during the day.

However, the monsters doing this job are all very poor, and there are all kinds of monsters among them. On the first day Liu An arrived here, he found that all the monsters except him looked ferocious. One of them was even more outrageous, with four or five scars on his face.

Although he was wearing a military coat, Liu An, with his fair and clean face, looked like a pretty boy standing inside.

They came here for various reasons, and they are all monsters living on the back side of this city.

When Liu An came out of the alley with the body bag on his back on the first day, he saw a little monster child being led by her father towards him. As soon as he looked over there, the child next to him suddenly burst into tears, crying breathlessly.

Her father also saw Liu An. He squatted down, picked up his child, and covered his child's eyes in an instant.

Liu An stood at the intersection and suddenly didn't dare to go out.

After the father and daughter had walked a long way away, he slowly pulled out the bag, carried it on his military coat, and walked forward step by step, with his waist slightly bent.

He walked across one street, then another, always walking on the small path. In fact, when he walked on the street, he was wearing the same thing distributed to the scavengers that could cover his body. Humans could not see him or the thing he was carrying. Only monsters could see him.

However, he still chose to walk along the path, trying his best to avoid humans and monsters, and finally carried the body bag back to the place.

He was the last one to come back that day, and he came back very late. So when he carried the body bag over, the recording monster looked up with a look so cold that it seemed as if he could skin him alive.

Liu An looked at the monster and slowly clenched his hands in his pockets, because he was a little afraid that the monster would really do this.

However, it seemed that he was luckier today. The monster just looked at him coldly for a long time, and then slowly put a big cross on his name.

Liu An looked at the fork and took a deep breath.

So the next day...he learned to walk on the street carrying the body bag and ignoring the looks around him.

The monsters around him avoided him as if he were a plague. He lowered his head and quickly passed through them.

The main road is the best and easiest place to walk on. There are not many twists and turns, and the road is very flat.

After three days of doing this, Liu An felt that he was no longer afraid of anyone's opinions and that he had transcended to the point of ascending...

Sometimes, when he was wearing a military coat and carrying a body bag, and was avoided by those people, he would suddenly recall that he once wore a neat white Taoist robe, stood on the cliff with his head held high, watching the sunset, and he always had a strange feeling in his heart.

Yuan Yuanyuan wanted to take a look at anything related to cigarettes these days. She was like a possessed person. Sister Li Zi looked at her and asked her with a smile what was wrong with her recently.

Yuan Yuanyuan didn't say anything either. She tried many things, such as kerosene lamps that could emit smoke, incense burners, incense, and even humidifiers... but none of them satisfied her.

Cigarettes are actually the most ideal object, but unfortunately Yuan Yuanyuan insists on not smoking. So she wanted to try to replace the tobacco with something else to simulate the effect of cigarettes, which is why she asked Liu Anmint if she could light it this afternoon.

This thing is really the best. Even if we don't consider its size and whether it's easy to carry, just from the perspective of disguise... if you see someone fighting with a humidifier or an incense burner, everyone will focus on those two things.

That is to say, cigarettes. This thing is small in size and very easy to disguise. No one will pay attention to it when you take it out, so there is no possibility that people will find out that you are making cigarettes on purpose.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the incense burner in the tavern. There was a period of time before when she had been adding incense to the burner. Those incenses were of various kinds, but Yuan Yuanyuan had never asked about their specific types.

In fact, the incense used in the tavern are all top-grade incense, and each one has a different name. Unfortunately, Yuan Yuanyuan is not able to understand these profound things, so even though she has worked for so long, she still can't distinguish their names.

Yuan Yuanyuan has been fascinated by incense... no, smoke lately. She squatted in front of the incense burner and asked Sister Li Zi behind her, "Sister, what is the name of the incense we are burning recently?"

Sister Lizi turned around and took a look, then said to Yuan Yuanyuan, "This is blue smoke. I just got it recently in the winter. It's good for your health after you inhale it."

"…are there any benefits?" Yuan Yuanyuan raised her eyebrows.

"Yes, haven't you noticed that your demonic power has increased a lot while you've been in the store recently?" Sister Lizi said, "It's because of this incense. This incense is very hard to find, and some places don't allow it. We dare to use it because our store is well-known."

"Oh, so that's it..." Yuan Yuanyuan lowered her head and continued to look at the stove.

"No, you've been making incense for such a long time... and you still haven't figured out what kind of incense it is?" Sister Li came over with a shocked look on her face.

"No, I just order whatever you tell me to order. I grab a handful each time and then leave." Yuan Yuanyuan said.

"...Then you are also a god. Many monsters want to take on the job of lighting incense but can't get it. When you first came, I let you light incense for Sister Xue's sake."

"It's just a little bit of fragrance... I would rather hide in the kitchen and wash cups." Yuan Yuanyuan said.

"Silly girl, come here." Sister Li Zi looked at Yuan Yuanyuan with disgust and hooked her index finger at her.

Yuan Yuanyuan walked over, and Sister Lizi grabbed her ear and whispered in her ear, "Blue smoke is actually demon pearl powder."

Her ears were itchy from the wind, but Yuan Yuanyuan didn't care. She widened her eyes, turned to look at Sister Li Zi, and said, "Fuck, what a rich guy..."

"Don't talk, just squint." Sister Li Zi pinched Yuan Yuanyuan.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the smoke coming out of the stove over there. To be honest, she really didn't expect that this thing had such a great origin. Although she wouldn't be able to use the magic bead, a magic bead the size of a soybean could allow a small monster to live for a month under the protection of the big monster.

They have to burn through almost a box of incense in this bar every day...Oh my God.

A box of incense, a box of incense, a box of incense...

Yuan Yuanyuan was hit hard by the rich man. She was in a daze all day. When she returned home, she even lost interest in dinner...

Of course, the only thing she had at home was instant noodles.

Yuan Yuanyuan turned over in bed, thinking about going back there to take a look. In fact, Liu An left meals for her every day and put them outside. The weather wouldn't be bad. She had a stove and a pot there, so she could heat them up a little.

Liu An is an all-round assistant. He goes to the market alone during the day to buy the freshest vegetables and spends very little money. He also makes sure the house is clean before leaving at night. Yuan Yuanyuan feels embarrassed to pay him that little salary.

She silently recited the magic spell in her heart, and suddenly disappeared into the air, leaving only a faint trace of red smoke...

And in another place, a middle-aged man and an old man looked at each other.

"I'm really sorry to call you here today." The older man said softly.

He looked very peaceful, with a sense of peace that only old people have.

Opposite him was a middle-aged man who looked very dignified.

"If you are here because of the recent wanted warrant, I don't think you need to worry too much. We have made sufficient preparations, and any Taoist priests who appear recently will be targeted by us." The middle-aged man said with a smile, and his laughter sounded very hearty.

"But I still feel sorry that I have to trouble you to take care of these things. But this is really not the place for our Li family to take action." said the old man.

"It's okay. I have some good feelings towards Yuan." The middle-aged man said with a smile. His expression was inexplicably fascinated. "He is a very powerful monster. It is not easy to see another monster like him now. Maybe it is a good thing for us in the monster world."

The two had a pleasant conversation and drank wine together. After about an hour, the middle-aged man got up and left the place.

There were leftover soup and cold meat on the table. The old man, who had always spoken very gently, looked at the leftover wine on the table, gently picked up the glass, and poured himself another glass.

This time, he drank very slowly, as if he was savoring the taste of the wine.

After a glass of wine, only one person knows the sweetness, bitterness and spiciness of it.

He put down his glass, looked at the sunset outside, and sighed softly. In the sunset, his waist seemed to be more hunched and his beard seemed to be more gray.

He was suddenly alone in a quiet room, talking to himself.

"Yuan, Yuan, why didn't you die more cleanly back then?"