fairy family

Chapter 24: Opportunities for Exam Assistance

After Fang Mulian's reminder, Yu Que did not stay in the haunted shop for too long and left the place in shame.

When I walked out onto the street, it was not yet dark, but the air was quite cold.

Yu Que looked at the empty streets, and his heart felt empty for a moment.

He thought that before taking the imperial examination, he could work and learn under Zheng Laohei steadily, until he became an alchemist. Then he could leave your shop in a grand manner and be admitted to the county school in one fell swoop.

As a result, his journey of learning skills has come to an end halfway. Even though Yu Que had prepared himself mentally in the shop so as not to get too angry, when he really left this place, he felt a little confused.

Yu Que walked aimlessly, and subconsciously followed the track where the ghost carriage was. He passed several stations on the way and some trains passed by, but he did not get on any of them to go home.

Going back now would only disturb his uncle and his family, and Yu Que really didn't want to go back, but was too embarrassed to say it for the time being.

"Forget it, forget it. Then I'll just wait until midnight and go to the ghost center. I'll just buy the book that Fang Mulian mentioned."

He was determined in his heart and immediately identified the direction of the wind tonight. After determining the approximate direction, he walked slowly in the direction of the fog.

More than two hours later.

Yu Que's figure appeared in the thick ghost fog, and the various hawking sounds in the ghost market appeared in his ears:
"The tiger whip and bones from the Nanshan tiger that was just hunted this morning are all very fresh and have a bit of ghostly aura."

"Red-crowned crane! A good red-crowned crane can bring down an elephant with one bite."

"Hey! Big brother, is what you're selling called Crane's Beak Red?"

The ghost town was bustling with activity, and there was no feeling of midnight at all.

Yu Que could even smell the enticing aroma of wine and fried dough sticks, and it seemed that there were people selling food in the ghost concentration.

However, when he followed the smell, he found that what was frying in the oil pan on the pancake stall was not pancakes or fried dough sticks, but groups of little baby ghosts.

The stall owner looked ferocious, and when he saw Yu Que, he shouted:

"How many do you want? If the guardian god eats them, he will become extremely ferocious and strong like a dragon or a tiger!"

Yu Que took a look at the price on the other party’s sign and the pitch-black oil pan, and left immediately.

Not only was he unable to afford such ghostly food for the time being, but also the other party's frying skills were too rough. The fried ghosts still retained a lot of evil spirits. Once eaten, the consumer's family god would be at risk of becoming possessed.

Not only are there fried ghosts in the pancake stalls, but the places selling alcohol also sell a variety of alcoholic beverages such as zombie saliva and old ghost phlegm.

Among them, the Five Poison Wine made from five kinds of poisonous insects is the most normal.

Yu Que walked around and did not find a book called "One Hundred Demons Night Parade Record" on the stalls, but he saw other similar ghost books.

But after a few glances, he found that the other books were either full of errors or he couldn't tell whether they were true or false. He thought it would be better for him to be honest and buy a copy of "One Hundred Demons Night Parade Record".

"After all, this book was bought by a serious alchemist, so I can't go wrong by buying it." He thought to himself.

Finally, Yu Que saw the book "One Hundred Demons Night Parade" in an old shop. He just flipped through a few pages and read it, and his eyes lit up.

"This gentleman has a good eye. This is a new book compiled by Master Liu Baigui himself. It has only been on the market for less than ten years."

The shopkeeper saw that Yu Que seemed to have come here specifically to look for this book, and he quickly introduced it enthusiastically: "It contains a total of 131 common ghosts, including brief methods of dealing with ghosts. This book has usually only been circulated among alchemists. Our shop is one of the few places in the county that has it." Yu Que nodded calmly: "My elders wrote to me and asked me to buy it and read it. It is indeed more detailed than ordinary books, but it is not as mysterious as you say."

He looked at the shopkeeper with a half-smile.

The two men immediately started discussing the price, and finally settled on 30,000 incense and paper money, but the shop owner refused to give up.

Such a price really made Yuque shocked.

You have to know that his uncle only earns three thousand a month in Yexiangsi, and three thousand is enough to support a family of five and let them live a restrained but well-fed life.

Thirty thousand is equivalent to nearly a year's expenses for a family of five. Just for one book, it costs so much. It is really not something that ordinary people can afford.

Even though he had recently spent a lot of time turning trash into treasure and enlightening many ghosts in Zheng Lao's black ghost shop, but taking out 30,000 paper money would still almost empty his family's savings, and he didn't even know how to buy the next batch of tonic medicine.

Especially after leaving the ghost shop, he temporarily lost the way to continue to make extra money, so he had to spend frugally.

Yu Que pretended to be angry and complained that it was too expensive.

He walked out of the shop and ran to other bookstores to compare prices, but in the end he went to the money shop to withdraw money and gritted his teeth to buy the book for 30,000 yuan per copy.

Before paying the bill, he asked the shop owner to give him some odd and wonderful stories to help him pass the time, but the owner was unwilling to give them any. It seemed that he had really bargained to a certain extent.

Fortunately, after he bought the books and strolled around, he took a rest in Heping Lane, which was full of red lanterns as usual. Yu Que flipped through the book and pondered it for a moment. He was immediately surprised and felt that the book was indeed worth buying.

"Okay, okay! So that's how it is."

His eyes sparkled as he stroked the book cover that was as delicate as human skin and looked intently at the wooden box containing the Fushou Ghost.

According to the book, the general ghost of fortune and longevity is a fire-consuming ghost similar to the book ghost. It is an object that is refined and discarded after use.

Among them, the longevity ghost within thirty years is called "lucky ghost", which can increase the blessing of the user.

But in fact, there is no such thing as good fortune or luck in the world. A lucky ghost can only make the user's five senses sharp, so that they can always feel blessed and stay in the best condition, which makes it easier for immortals to fight with people, make elixirs and draw talismans, and refine ghosts and gods, as if they were blessed with good fortune.

Only those over thirty years old are called "Fu Shou Ghost". Refining this ghost can not only bring blessings to one's heart, but also can be used to prolong one's life. As long as the Fu Shou Ghost does not die, the immortal's life will not end.

As for those that are over a hundred years old, they are called "longevity ghosts". This creature is even more mysterious. It is not an ordinary longevity ghost. It seems that it can really increase lifespan.

However, the book did not explain how this thing specifically increased one's lifespan, and it was too far away from Yu Que to be something he could hope for.

Not only the Longevity Ghost, even the real Fortune and Longevity Ghost was quite far away from him, so he couldn't do anything even if he had the little black gourd.

Because in order to cultivate the ghost of blessing and longevity, one must use living people to feed it, must harm nature and morality, and sell blessing and longevity cream. Otherwise, if one only relies on pure yin energy and ghost energy, at most the ferocity of the ghost will increase, but the medicinal properties will hardly last long.

A lucky ghost will never become a lucky and long-lived ghost, or even a long-lived ghost, as it grows older.

Fortunately, Yu Que is currently targeting only the lucky ghosts within thirty years.

His heart was pounding, and he thought excitedly:
"If there were a lucky ghost, I would be able to take the exam to become a refiner right away!"

(End of this chapter)