Day and night tour

Chapter 77: The Queen's Believer

Yuan Buyu closed his eyes and waited for the dream to come true.

Zhou Xuan recalled the portrait of his ancestor Bifang again, and after making sure that there was no mistake in every detail of his appearance, he began to imagine the dream in his mind, with fans and wood hitting each other.

A sound of wood was heard.
Yuan Buyu felt a pressure falling from the sky. When it enveloped his body, it made his hair stand on end, like a sign of divine thunder.

"It's the breath of God!" After Yuan Buyu opened his eyes and looked forward, he saw the ancestor Bifang standing a few meters in front of him with his hands behind his back.

It's just that the flame mark between Bifang's eyebrows is still, without any turbulent vitality. And although he has the appearance of a fairy, it is only superficial. He doesn't have the spirit, so how can he be a fairy at all?

This god, at first glance, is full of flaws.

"Da da da!"

Once the flaw was found, cracks began to appear in the dream, and then it turned into fragments and slowly melted into the air.

"It really is true that every inch of fragrance has its own tricks."

After an entire afternoon, Yuan Buyu had gradually accepted that Zhou Xuan was a "monster", so even though his guess was now confirmed, he did not show too much joy because he had enough psychological buffer.

"Xuan boy, you are a freak, but as your master, I have to remind you that means are means, and incense is incense!

Take the method you used with the sixth stick of incense for example. The gods entered my dreams. The gods had a form but not bones or marrow. I could see through it at a glance. It was all because your incense was not at a high enough level. "

"The means is change, and the incense is the foundation?"

"He does have some understanding."

Yuan Buyu praised: "However, if you can master the changes in methods thoroughly, it can make up for the level of incense to a certain extent. Now, the first stick of incense does not give you a deep understanding. When you light the second stick of incense, you will be able to understand it. As the old saying goes, the key to a storyteller's ghostwriting lies in timing!"

Zhou Xuan listened carefully and kept it all in mind.

"Okay, Master goes to play for a while first, you just take care of your own thing." Yuan Buyu said seriously.

"Old Yuan, you're leaving right now? Without playing two games of chess?"

Zhou Xuan greeted Yuan Buyu.

"No, I'm going to go have a drink with my buddies."

……

Yuan Buyu walked out of the house and headed for the boiler room, saying enviously as he walked: "My disciple is so awesome, I'm really jealous of him. He has a lot of tricks. If I had this ability, I would beat up the day-wandering god and the night-wandering god so hard that they would be covered in peach blossoms. He wouldn't even know what a storyteller is!"

"Didn't you say something too harsh just now? I hope it won't hurt Xuanzi? Well, this is what it's like to worship gods in the underworld. If you rely too much on means, you will always be exhausted from accumulating incense and fire. Fire is internal, and means are external skills. You have to cultivate both internal and external skills."

"I'm suddenly looking forward to Xuanzi burning up the eight-inch incense. The storyteller's eight-level skills, even if they are only in form, if I can see it with my own eyes, I can gain something... Eight-inch incense! Eight inches! Xuanzi, you have to work hard. Is it easy to be a master? Waiting for something without any effort is getting anxious."

Thinking of this, Yuan Buyu couldn't hold back his laughter and laughed out loud with a bright expression.

"Master Yuan, what are you so happy about?"

Yu Zhengyuan came to find Zhou Xuan and ran into Yuan Buyu face to face, so he greeted him.

Yuan Buyu immediately put away his smile, and turned serious. He coughed, made a gesture, and said, "Nothing, nothing. I just thought of something happy..."

"You don't look a little bit happy! You look very happy." Yu Zhengyuan and Yuan Buyu were very close. He put his arm around her shoulder and said, "You haven't been to my house lately. How about we have a couple of drinks tonight? Let's have some fun together, both of us?"

"I've made an appointment with Old Ma to drink and bet on cigarettes... I'll come to your house another day." Yuan Buyu walked away humming a cheerful tune. His steps were a little unsteady when he thought that he would soon be able to witness with his own eyes the Eight Incense Sticks Technique that had not been seen in the world for three hundred years.

"Then you must remember, I asked Xiaoli to cook some pig's trotters for you to nourish your body." After Yu Zhengyuan said hello, he watched Yuan Buyu leave before walking towards Zhou Xuan's room.

……

Zhou Xuan spread out the notebook, held the pen in his hand, and pondered over the new book Liangzi.

"What kind of books does Lady Lotus like to listen to?" Zhou Xuan's mind was working so fast that he felt like the roots of his hair were burning, but he still had no idea.

If we follow the preferences of the elderly in the previous life, what they loved to watch the most would probably be all kinds of fantastic TV series.

Let’s not talk about whether this thing can scratch the itch of Lady Lotus. Even if it can, he has not accumulated any experience. He has only watched a few episodes of those great dramas. “Xuan Zi, are you busy?”

Yu Zhengyuan smiled and knocked on the open door.

"Big Brother, do you have something to talk to me about?" Zhou Xuan stood up and poured water for Yu Zhengyuan.

"Don't fall, don't fall, I'll do it myself... Oh, you're the troupe's treasure now. The eldest brother wants to give the troupe owner some advice and make a poster for you and put it at the gate so that everyone passing by can take a look - this is our young troupe owner! Handsome, talented, and promising..."

Yu Zhengyuan had a lot of words to praise people, and his hands were not slow, praising people by putting tea leaves and pouring water in one go.

"Big Brother, we are all family. If you have something to say, just say it directly. Don't flatter me all the time."

Zhou Xuan understood his senior brother too well. Whenever he said something nice, there must be something wrong.

"It's nothing serious. Look, the day that Lady Lotus made an appointment with has already passed, and you even performed a storytelling show in the evening. I'm afraid you don't have enough energy to keep up.

The eldest brother thinks that you should take care of your health and not get too tired. These two days, think carefully about writing Liangzi and try to make a great speech at Lady Lotus’ birthday party.”

Judging from the person's face and listening to the words, Zhou Xuan heard the hidden meaning in Yu Zhengyuan's words.

"Big Brother, you can't stop talking about Lady Lotus. Is she important to our Zhou Clan's business?"

Yu Zhengyuan is a workaholic. All he thinks about day and night is the Zhou family's business. Suddenly mentioning Lady Lotus must be related to the business.

"Xuan Zi is smart. Lady Lotus has many followers in the four surrounding prefectures. Many clan leaders and helmsmen of wealthy families are her followers. If you make Lady Lotus satisfied and happy, then when her followers want to hire a ghost opera troupe, won't they choose us first?
You know, rich families never look at the price when choosing a play. They just order the most expensive play. They want to get a few of their business every month, enough to pay the Zhou family's salary for several months."

Zhou Xuan didn't care much about the Zhou family's business, and didn't understand some of the tricks. He asked, "That's not right, Senior Brother. Our Zhou family's underworld drama is the signature of Pingshui Mansion. Do we need to advertise it?"

"The environment has changed. The wealthy people in Pingshui Prefecture change too quickly. Many bosses now are not locals. For example, those from Mingjiang Prefecture, Guangyuan Prefecture, and Jingchuan Prefecture do not have a strong custom of singing ghost operas at their funerals, but many people in these three prefectures believe in the Lotus Goddess, and they are very pious..."

"understood."

Zhou Xuan understood that Yu Zhengyuan was planning to expand his customer base to include these wealthy people from other places, but he had no means to do so. He just happened to use this book to get in touch with Lady Lotus.

I'm just talking about a book, which also carries the banner of Zhou's business.

"Big Brother, I will try my best to make Lady Lotus happy." Zhou Xuan just agreed when a bell rang outside the door.

Zhou Lingyi walked into the house carrying a cowbell.

"Boss." Yu Zhengyuan stood up and greeted him.

"Big Brother, let me have a good rest."

"Oh." Yu Zhengyuan responded and retreated first.

"Sister." Zhou Xuan greeted Zhou Lingyi and said, "It's so late, why haven't you slept yet?"

"Something went wrong in the Zhou family class, so I came out to look for it. I just happened to see the senior brother looking for you to chat, so I came in."

Zhou Lingyi placed the cowbell on the table, patted the dust off Zhou Xuan's shoulders, and said, "You've been working hard these days. The Zhou family has never been so lively in the past two years... Look at you, you're obviously staying at home, but you look like a dusty traveler."

"Everyone is happy, so it's only natural for me to give a few more lectures... Well, actually it's also to accumulate incense. My incense has already burned more than six inches."

Zhou Xuan told the truth.

"It's important to collect incense and to make everyone happy, but your own health is the most important. As for Lady Lotus's affairs, if they can be accomplished, then so be it. If they can't be accomplished, then so be it. Don't feel pressured."

Zhou Xuan felt a sudden warm feeling in his heart. It turned out that his sister was the only one who cared about whether he was tired or not.

"Go to bed early. You can't endure this..." After giving the instructions, Zhou Lingyi went out carrying the cowbell.

"Sister, you said something strange happened in the Zhou family class, what do you mean?"

"There's a troublemaker who's good at hiding his scent. I've searched the inner and outer courtyards for several rounds and even let all the dogs out, but I still couldn't find him." Zhou Lingyi said.

"Sister, I remember now. When I was taking a shower this afternoon, I felt something was wrong in the boiler room."

(End of this chapter)