Folklore: The baby starts the game, and the mother takes off her painted skin

Chapter 66 A Gift for My Mother [Read More]

"Ghost market?"

Liu Bai had naturally heard of this term, but he didn't know what the ghost market here was all about.

Speaking of the ghost market, Hu Wei was also a little excited. He leaned close to Liu Bai's ear and whispered, "This ghost market is actually the same as what we experienced on Wupeng Mountain last night, except that the scale was smaller last night."

"The ghost market in this Blood Food City is very large. It's in the southwest corner of the city and covers several streets."

"The ghost market is open at night. You have to pay to enter and wear the same ghost mask after entering so that no one can recognize each other."

"You can buy anything there. There's really everything. I heard that someone sold a snake girl last year..."

When Hu Wei said this, he remembered Liu Bai's age and stopped talking.

Xiaocao listened curiously and could only hum behind Liu Bai.

In the end, Master Ma said nonchalantly: "It's just that the snake girl has no teeth and her tongue can be forked."

Hu Wei still didn't quite understand, Liu Bai pretended not to understand, and Xiao Cao didn't understand even more.

Master Ma lost interest in talking and drove the carriage around and around until he finally arrived at the door of a restaurant in a remote alley.

Before he got off the carriage, he laughed and cursed, "Old Ge, your Grandpa Ma is here."

An old man with gray hair and greasy clothes walked out, pointed at Mr. Ma's nose and cursed: "You bastard, did you take the cigarettes under my counter when you left last time?!"

"Damn it, I've been looking for it for three days and I can't find it."

Hu Wei explained to Liu Bai, "This old Getou is the one we came from our town with. He and Master Ma are childhood friends. Every time we enter the city, we come here to rest."

In fact, the three of them had lunch here.

Mr. Ma didn't give any money. He ate all the food and left amid the scolding of old Ge.

But it was just a curse. After all, if it weren’t for Mr. Ma back then...how would this restaurant have come into being?

The carriage went around in circles in the city, and Liu Bai finally saw a few exquisitely shaped buildings. He guessed that the people living inside were either rich or noble.

At the entrances of many alleys, we also saw heavily made-up women, who would twist their bodies vigorously when they saw Master Ma's carriage passing by.

They are very experienced in this business, so they can naturally recognize at a glance that Master Ma's carriage is a paper horse.

The Yin people are very rich. Just giving them a Yin bead is enough for them to eat and drink for a long time.

Mr. Ma sat upright, with extraordinary concentration, and never glanced twice.

On the contrary, Hu Wei secretly opened the car window and took a few looks.

Liu Bai also heard the sound of him swallowing.

Soon, the carriage finally stopped in front of a shop with a plaque that read "Zou Shan Hao". The name was very straightforward, but the shop was very large and luxurious.

Liu Bai guessed that behind this shop was either the City Lord's Mansion or one of the Four Great Families.

Master Ma and Hu Wei each carried a box and got off the carriage. Liu Bai followed them up the stairs and entered the shop.

As soon as he came in, he felt the room get cold, and there was even a faint smell of blood in the air.

There were quite a few people guarding the shop, wearing uniforms, and they were all ghost walkers, but they were probably hired managers. When they saw Master Ma come in, they just looked up and then continued to do their calculations.

The one in the middle shouted, and a little boy came out from behind the door curtain and led Master Ma and Hu Wei to the back room.

Liu Bai knew what to do and didn't follow them, but stayed in the hall to wait. There were shelves on all four walls of the hall, and bottles and jars on the southeast and north sides, some of which were even sealed with yellow labels.

The shelves on the northwest sides are filled with a bunch of old items, some of which don't even have the dirt wiped off them.

There were a lot of furs hanging on the beams higher up.

Huang Daxian and Fox Daxian had the most, and the rest also had some wolf fur and dog fur, and some even had moving eyeballs, which made Liu Bai want to start a fire.

The steward who was nearby saw Liu Bai's appearance and asked with a smile: "Little boy, which town are you from?"

Liu Bai glanced at him and said, "We are from Mudong Town."

"From Mudong." The manager looked at Liu Bai a few more times and said, "Little boy, do you want to live in the city in the future?"

Ok?
Are you trying to recruit me again?
Liu Bai had also thought about this on the way, but he never thought it would be so direct?

"I don't have a home in the city. My home is in Mudong Town." He pointed at the furs on his head and asked, "Are these hung here to sell? What's the use of them?"

He was pointing at the fur of a fox fairy.

But unexpectedly, the next moment, the fur screamed as if it was about to pounce on me.

"Evil beast!" the manager shouted.

Liu Bai lit the fire immediately without saying a word.

In an instant, three life fires rose from his shoulders and head, and the hot breath spread throughout the hall.

The fox fairy's fur also shrank back, and it looked like it was shivering.

The entire hall immediately fell silent, and even the stewards turned their eyes to Liu Bai.

"Oh my goodness."

"Three fires? This person must have been possessed by the underworld since the womb."

"..."

The manager who was speaking earlier couldn't help but ask, "Little boy, how old are you this year?"

Seeing that he was safe, Liu Bai calmed down, then cleared his throat and gestured, "This year, I am ninety, eighty again."

The grass behind him kept laughing "kukuku".

The managers also burst into laughter.

Only Master Ma rushed out, with a look of panic and worry on his face, "Boy, are you okay?! What happened to the fire?"

"..."

By the time the three men came out of the "mountain goods" business, Master Ma and Hu Wei were left with only two empty boxes.

Mr. Ma was humming a tune as he walked, and he guessed that the mountain products were sold at a good price.

The ghost market would be held tonight, so Master Ma took them to find an inn nearby and asked for two guest rooms. Hu Wei would sleep alone in one room while he would stay with Liu Bai.

This made Hu Wei very uncomfortable, and he asked Master Ma several times whether he was his disciple.

After finishing all these, Mr. Ma took them out again and strolled around the neighborhood.

Liu Bai had money on him, and especially after asking about the prices of some things, he knew how many good things he could buy with his two silver ingots.

But he still didn't use the silver ingot given by Madam Liu.

What my mother gave me was given by my mother, so when buying gifts for my mother, I naturally have to use my own money.

So he first asked Mr. Ma to find a pawnshop and exchange a white bead for silver.

Then I bought a small purse to hold my money.

As for the things he bought... he only bought himself some books, some books about the customs, geography and history of the world as well as previous dynasties.

The things bought for Madam Liu were also not many.

He picked and chose for a long time, and finally picked only four items.

One was a hollow silver wire bracelet that I picked out in a silver shop, which cost me nearly two taels of silver.

One is a storage box bought in a rouge and powder shop. It is carved with various flowers and trees on the outside and painted. The inside has a nine-square grid structure, which can hold a lot of makeup, powder, rouge and other things.

A plain lotus-patterned, lightly-skimmed skirt that I picked out at a ready-made clothing store cost me four coins of silver. When I took it away, the shop owner even helped me put it away in a box.

There are also two jade pendants, one large and one small. They originally looked like they were one piece, but now they are broken.

Two small hands, one big and one small, were carved at the fracture.

As long as the two jade pendants are put together, the two hands can be held together.

The name is also well chosen, called "Mother and Child Together Pendant", which is also the reason why Liu Bai bought it.

By the time he finished buying all these, it was almost dark.

The three of them ate some food nearby, then returned to the inn to put their things down. Then Master Ma drove the car straight to the location of the ghost market.

The ghost market is open tonight, and all mortals must clear the streets.

When he met soldiers patrolling the streets, Master Ma simply lit a fire from a distance, and those people did not come over to question him.

The journey was extremely smooth and we arrived at the southwest corner of Blood Food City.

　Thanks to Tangsong for the 500-point reward, thanks to Yiyue10 for the 300-point reward, thanks to LWB for the 100-point reward

　　
　
(End of this chapter)