My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 710 Jiangnan City

"You stood outside the gate of Jiangnan City and looked around carefully. You found a dusty shrine in the abandoned land temple next to it. Do you want to go over and light it up?"

"Go over and clear the weeds outside the land temple, wipe off the dust on the shrine and light it up."

"You have lit up the shrine of Jiangnan City."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the lit shrine in the game and suddenly a doubt arose in his heart. Judging from the description in the text, this shrine should have never been lit before. Could he be the first game player to come to Jiangnan City?
This is obviously impossible.

But if other players had come here before him, they should have lit up the shrine long ago. He couldn't possibly run the map again every time he died, right?

Or are there a large number of shrines hidden near Jiangnan City, waiting for game players to unlock and light them up?
Or is it that the shrine has never been lit up for every player?

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a while, but when he didn't get an answer, he stopped thinking about it. It wasn't a particularly important matter anyway. He just suddenly thought of it.

"What are you going to choose now?"

"Do you want to explore Jiangnan City?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without thinking too much.

"You walked into Jiangnan City. Jiangnan City is also a big city in the secular world. It is prosperous and wealthy. It is one of the three most abundant cities in the secular world. After Tai Sui God occupied Jiangnan City, he maintained the original management status and did not make drastic reforms. Therefore, Jiangnan is still the same as it was back then."

"Where are you going next?"

"Would you like to wander around Jiangnan City first, or wake up the sleeping little Tai Sui and hand him over to the Tai Sui God to complete the commission given by the Tai Sui God before his death?"

This was a task that Jiang Xinghuo had triggered earlier. Sending little Tai Sui back to Jiangnan City safely and letting him inherit the position of Tai Sui Tianguan would be considered as fulfilling the other party's last commission before his death.

Jiang Xinghuo opened the magic bag, rummaged around in it for a while, and finally found a Tai Sui Order.

"Taisui Token (rare item), a symbol of the identity of the Taisui Celestial Official. As long as you activate the Taisui Token with your magic power, other Taisui Celestial Officials will sense the location of the Taisui Token and rush to the location of the token in the shortest possible time."

"Do you want to activate the Tai Sui Order in your hand immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation.

"You activated the Tai Sui Order in your hand with your magic power, and you can clearly feel several powerful power fluctuations approaching your position quickly from a distance."

"After a while, several Tai Sui Tianguan appeared at the city gate. They immediately surrounded you with weapons in hand and asked you where the Tai Sui Order in your hand came from."

"How do you plan to answer these questions from the Tai Sui Tianguan?"

"Will you choose to tell the Tai Sui Tianguan the truth about your experience and commission, or lie to them and say that you found it on the street and see what new developments will happen later?"

Jiang Xinghuo saw that this would cause trouble for himself. If he chose the latter, there would be a high probability that they would turn against each other and he might even die as soon as he arrived here.

"You briefly recounted what happened outside the Black Mother Temple, and took the sleeping little Tai Sui out of the magic bag, removing the Huangliang curse planted on him. With your explanation and the little Tai Sui's proof, the hostility of these Tai Sui heavenly officials dissipated."

"These Tai Sui Heavenly Officials invite you to Tai Sui Mansion for a chat. It is a token of gratitude for your righteous act of traveling thousands of miles to Jiangnan to bring back little Tai Sui. Do you want to follow these Tai Sui Heavenly Officials to Tai Sui Mansion?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it for a moment and decided that this was a good opportunity to trigger a new plot and he couldn't miss it, so he chose yes and controlled the character to come to Tai Sui Mansion.

"You have arrived at Tai Sui Mansion."

"This is where the Tai Sui Tianguan usually handle their official duties. They once again expressed their gratitude to you and apologized for their impoliteness just now."

"You also learned from the stories of these Tai Sui Tianguan that a major event occurred in Jiangnan City a few days ago. The reason why they were so rude to outsiders was because the palace where Tai Sui God was in seclusion was suddenly attacked late at night a few days ago."

"Although this surprise attack did not cause any harm to Tai Sui God, it killed and injured many innocent citizens. Moreover, the attacker's cultivation was very strong, second only to Tai Sui God, and even higher than these Tai Sui Heavenly Officials. He was hit hard by Tai Sui God head-on, but still managed to fight his way out of the encirclement with his injured body. It is suspected that it was done by a clone of a Taoist master."

"So, although Jiangnan City is still prosperous and peaceful on the surface, there are undercurrents in secret. Since you were able to send little Tai Sui back to Jiangnan from Guandong, thousands of miles away, it means that you are a trustworthy person. Therefore, these Tai Sui officials did not hide anything from you, and they couldn't hide it even if they wanted to. Many people witnessed this incident that night."

"They took the initiative to tell you this, on the one hand to explain their impolite behavior, and on the other hand to ask you, has anything major happened in the secular world recently?"

"Although the Jiangnan area is prosperous and wealthy, due to the order of the God of Tai Sui, these Tai Sui Heavenly Officials are not allowed to leave the Jiangnan area without the permission of the God of Tai Sui. As a result, they can only learn about what is happening outside of Jiangnan from other people."

Jiang Xinghuo thought that this rule was a bit strange. Since these Tai Sui Tianguan were believers of Tai Sui God, their strength must be beyond doubt. Then why did Tai Sui God restrict them from leaving the Jiangnan area?

In addition, who exactly the Tai Sui God mentioned by these Tai Sui Tianguan is is still worthy of discussion.

Because the real Tai Sui God is lying in the small prison, the current Tai Sui God must be a fake, but no one knows which force this fake belongs to.

"You briefly recounted what happened recently in the secular world, focusing on how the Heavenly Disaster Taoist instigated the Taiping Army and the Wulin Alliance. Since the Heavenly Disaster Taoist has a bad reputation in the secular world, after these Tai Sui Heavenly Officials learned of this, they also suspected that the target of the sneak attack on the Tai Sui God was the Heavenly Disaster Taoist."

"But without any evidence, even if they are sure that it was done by the Taoist of Heavenly Disaster, they can't say anything and can only accept the loss."

"At this time, a Tai Sui official came in from outside, holding a wisteria wooden box in his hand. He said that this was a gift from Tai Sui God to you, thanking you for sending little Tai Sui back from Kanto."

"You have obtained the Tai Sui Box."

"Taisui Box (Excellent Item), a wisteria wood box made from part of the body of the thousand-year-old Taisui. It can ensure that the things placed inside will not be damaged over time."

"Do you want to open the Tai Sui box immediately and see what's inside?" Jiang Xinghuo took a look at the text and didn't rush to open the box. He just threw it into the magic bag.

Afterwards, he controlled the character to wander around Tai Sui Mansion for a while, and seeing that no subsequent plot was triggered, he planned to leave and go to other places.

Unexpectedly, just as he controlled the character to leave Tai Sui Mansion, new game text popped up on the interface.

"You met a little girl selling rouge outside Tai Sui's house. She was wearing a tattered skirt and holding a basket of rouge. She tremblingly said nice things hoping you would buy a few boxes of rouge."

"Would you be so kind as to buy a few boxes of rouge that you don't need?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and didn't know whether the follow-up would trigger a new plot. So he decided to buy two boxes of rouge to give it a try.

As a result, the subsequent text surprised him deeply.

"When you were about to take out your incense to buy a few boxes of rouge, you found that the girl selling rouge looked very familiar, as if you had seen her somewhere before. Then you remembered that this girl was the inspector's daughter you rescued in Daliang City. How could she have fallen into such a state?"

After the game text said this, Jiang Xinghuo immediately remembered.

When he went to Daliang City to explore, he accepted a mission from the chief inspector of the police station. But when he was about to hand in the mission, he happened to meet the chief inspector's family, who were killed by the believers under the command of Pure World Tathagata.

He rescued the only survivor, the little girl, the daughter of the chief inspector of the police station.

But he remembered that the little girl said she was going to Jiangnan City to live with her aunt. Why did she become so miserable now?

Was it abused by its aunt?
"When you recognized the little girl, she also recognized you. She fell to her knees and begged you for help, begging you to save her aunt's life. She was willing to repay your kindness by working like a slave."

"At the same time, several vicious coffin bearers came out of the alleys on both sides, holding wooden poles as thick as their arms. They came over and picked up the little girl from the ground, then walked into the alley, waving the wooden poles at you, threatening you not to meddle in other people's business, otherwise you would suffer."

"What are you going to choose now?"

"Do you choose to give in and ignore this matter, pretending that you didn't see what they did, or do you go over and kill these coffin bearers and save the little girl from the tiger's mouth?"

Jiang Xinghuo naturally would not give in. He controlled his character to walk over and easily dealt with the coffin bearers.

"You have obtained, Incense +500."

"You saved the little girl from the pallbearers and brought her to a safe place, and now you are asking what happened?"

"You learned the whole story from the little girl's fragmentary description. After his father died, he came to Jiangnan to live with his aunt."

"Its aunt is called Lady Blood, and she runs the largest rouge shop in Jiangnan. She treats it like her own child and loves it very much."

"But its uncle was somewhat dissatisfied with this. His uncle was originally a poor Yin tailor who helped Blood Lady by chance. In addition, he was good at sweet talk and soon won Blood Lady's heart and successfully married her."

"In the beginning, Yin Tailor was able to hide his thoughts and treated Blood Lady wholeheartedly. Because Yin Tailor had too many contacts with the dead in his early years, his Yang energy was damaged, so he was unable to have children after marriage. Fortunately, he had a nephew, so he took him to his side and raised him as his own son. Since he and Blood Lady had no children, this family business would definitely belong to his nephew in the end."

"But since the little girl came, the situation has changed. After all, Lady Xue is the little girl's aunt, so her blood relationship is naturally closer than that of her nephew. In the future, the property will definitely be handed over to her niece, not to her nephew. Even if it is given, it will only be a very small part."

"So, Tailor Yin and his nephew had evil intentions and tried to murder Lady Xue secretly, making her extremely ill and paralyzed in bed. Tailor Yin took over the management of the rouge shop in the name of her husband and drove the girl out of the shop, leaving her to sell rouge on the street all day long. They would wait for the right opportunity to wipe out the root of the problem and seize all the property to put an end to the trouble forever."

"In addition, the little tailor also hired coffin bearers to follow the little girl secretly and not allow her to ask for help from anyone. Today, she happened to meet you, and that's why the incident just happened."

Jiang Xinghuo finally understood after reading it. It turned out that they were plotting to take someone else's property. That Yin tailor uncle and nephew really had a good plan.

"What are you going to do now?"

"Will you choose to help this little girl take back her property, rescue the Blood Lady, and destroy the conspiracy of the Yin Tailor uncle and nephew? Or will you choose to stay out of it and not get involved in this muddy water? Anyway, the Blood Lady has nothing to do with you, so there is no need to get involved in the feud between them?"

Of the two options, Jiang Xinghuo chose the first one without hesitation.

The reason is very simple. This plot obviously has a sequel. After rescuing the Blood Lady, the other party will definitely chain together new tasks to thank him. He has no reason to give up these tasks.

Besides, there is no use in keeping people like Yin the tailor and his nephew, and getting rid of them can bring in some money.

"You accepted the little girl's request for help and promised to help it rescue the blood lady."

"Under the guidance of the little girl, you came to the Blood Rouge Lane in the south of the city. This is the rouge industry run by Lady Xue herself. The entire lane covers all the processes of rouge from raw materials to sales. It can be said that it makes a fortune every day and the supply cannot meet the demand. Lady Xue's rouge is the best in the entire Jiangnan area."

"You have arrived at Blood Rouge Lane."

"You found a shrine at the entrance of Blood Rouge Lane, hidden under the roots of a large banyan tree at the intersection. Do you want to go over and light it up?"

"You have lit up the shrine of Blood Rouge Lane."

"You entered Blood Rouge Lane and found the Yin tailor who was acting arrogantly. Without the restraint of Blood Lady, he began to show his true colors, with a face of a smug villain, making the other workers dare not speak out."

"When Tailor Yin saw you coming with that little girl, his expression suddenly changed. A group of thugs holding sticks rushed over and surrounded you and the little girl, seemingly planning to teach you a lesson..."

(End of this chapter)