I have to get lucky right away.

Chapter 31: Be prepared for danger in times of peace
Early in the morning, Jiugu performed morning prayers in front of the ancestral tablet, and offered incense to the villagers for the day. Then she lazily sat down in her seat and took a boiled egg from the kettle for breakfast.

Click...

The empty head hit the table, and a circle of cracks spread out. Jiu Gu was about to reach out her hand, but suddenly an impulse came to her. She immediately made a seal with one hand, muttering something, but her eyes were slightly unfocused.

Without any warning, she suddenly sat down, her eyes looking at the crack in the egg again, and she couldn't help but frown.

"Strange, how can there be a karmic debt without any reason?"

As a cultivator of the Mystical Realm, Jiugu naturally wouldn't dismiss a sudden impulse as a coincidence, and the crack in the egg held some truth. While divination wasn't her forte, a fortuneteller had to know at least a little.

At this moment, through my intuition and interpretation, the crack on the egg clearly means...

"Good morning, Aunt Jiu!"

Jiu Gu looked at Feng Xue, whom she had just met yesterday, and her face looked a little grim. The person she had interacted with most these days was this young man, and seeing his tired face...

"I told you to be more restrained! It's clearly a news business. You brought this upon yourself, so how can you let me take the blame? Ma Shangfeng, the most you can do is to ask the brothel owner... Could it be that the profiteer is trying to rip me off? That doesn't make sense!"

Jiugu was mumbling frantically in her head, but she couldn't say it out loud. She just said in a caring tone, "You look like you haven't slept all night, right? Wait a minute, I'll get you some magical tea. You're so young, you should know how to be restrained, otherwise even a cultivator..."

"What are you thinking? I rushed back from Hong Kong overnight." Feng Xue knew that Jiugu had strayed from her thoughts and interrupted her mumbling. Jiugu felt a little suspicious when she heard this, but she didn't say it out loud. She just followed up with the question and asked:

"Then why did you rush back to me so late at night? Let me make it clear first, I won't help you train ghosts!"

Feng Xue was too lazy to correct Jiugu's deviation and simply said:

"I want to buy two Hutianzhu pockets. How much is it?"

"Oh? I thought you were going to do it yourself!" When Jiu Gu heard this, she immediately became excited. In fact, selling the spell like Hu Tian Zhu was in itself a hint that she had related business here. After all, this kind of spell was not something that could be learned casually with just a secret book.

Feng Xue just shook his head and said:

"Of course I can learn, but I can't buy furniture before I finish my carpentry training. Do you have any? If not, I'll go ask that foreign monk."

"No, no, no! What does that foreign devil know about Mount Sumeru, mustard seeds, or the world in a pot?" When Jiu Gu heard Feng Xue talking about foreign monks, she immediately became anxious and said:

"I have two types of business here at Hutian Pocket. One is to sell you a pair of Yin and Yang coins, two coins each. However, the mana inside is only enough for three months. You can find a way to replenish it later, or you can come to me and pay for it. 100 coins will renew it for a month. The other type is to leave the Yin coin with me and you can keep the Yang coin. I will replenish the Yin coin's mana and willpower every month, and you just use it. Each coin costs one coin, but there's a monthly storage fee of 300 coins. The Yin coin is ten feet square, enough to fit into a small room."

Because Feng Xue had bought the Hutian Curse before, he immediately understood its meaning and took out ten banknotes and said:
"I want the second one, plus three years of storage fees."

"Great!" Jiugu's eyes lit up when she saw the ten one-yuan notes. She stretched out her hand and the black ghost she had seen before immediately took the goods. However, she had not forgotten her previous impulse and immediately asked:
"Brother, you've been on this contract for three years. Have you run into any trouble?"

"It's no big deal. You know I'm here for a trip. I've stayed in Ping'an County for a few days. It's time to go somewhere else." Feng Xue didn't know what Jiugu was thinking, but he didn't intend to tell her about the Butou Gang. He just said it casually.

Seeing that Feng Xue would not speak, Jiu Gu had no other choice. However, if the karmic debt was not settled, it would only become more and more troublesome. After thinking about it, she simply took a piece of yellow paper, took a handful of incense ash from the incense burner in front of the ancestral tablet, wrapped it into a triangle, and handed it to Feng Xue, saying:
"You are a big customer. This amulet is a gift from me to you. I wish you a safe journey." Feng Xue looked at the amulet, hesitated for a moment, and took it. He put it and the Hu Tian bag into his pocket, and then said goodbye again.

"The account is settled now." Seeing Feng Xue leave the hall, Jiu Gu suddenly felt relieved and refreshed. However, this made her feel even more strange.
"After all these years of doing business, this is the first time I've encountered a transaction that was consensual but ended up in debt. No, I have to find out about that unscrupulous businessman. I can't let this loss go to waste!"

……

Without mentioning Jiugu's entanglement, Feng Xue had already returned to the house where he had paid a deposit for several months but had only lived for a few days. He stuffed all the rice, flour, grain and oil in the house into a palm-sized Hutian bag.

Although the opening of the bag is only as big as a fist, once you put the things you want to put in on it, it will become narrow as if it were distorted by a funhouse mirror.

It’s just that the Hutian bag can only hold dead objects (or things without intelligence), otherwise it would be very useful to use it against enemies.

"But based on the principle of the Hutian Bag, as long as the willpower is screened to a certain extent, it seems that it is not impossible to create a magical weapon like the Purple Gold Gourd that can hold a person."

Feng Xue had only been practicing for a short time, and was not very sure whether the Xuan cultivators in this world had mastered similar techniques. He simply stuffed all his belongings into the Hu Tian bag and left Ping'an County with ease.

……

The white mountain bike was moving forward on the rugged dirt road, but Feng Xue was reviewing the "crash" in his mind.

At first glance, the biggest reason for the problem this time was his clothing. After arriving in Ping'an County, he received a lot of preferential treatment because of his windbreaker, so he subconsciously thought that all places should be like this, so he did not change into local clothes, which also led to him being easily targeted in Hong Kong.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find many details, such as he entered the antique shop directly in front of the rickshaw driver, which means that no matter whether he was wearing good clothes or bad clothes, he must have money or valuable items on him.

From this perspective, his real problem was that he casually revealed his destination to the rickshaw driver when he was unfamiliar with the place?
Of course, this does not mean that rickshaw pullers cannot be called, but those rickshaw pullers waiting near brothels should not be called. As low-income people, there is a difference between stopping on the roadside waiting for customers and running around to pick up customers, not to mention stopping at a place like a brothel. Even a time traveler like Feng Xue, as long as he is willing to think, it is not difficult to associate it with the modern "professional beggars" and "Beggar Gangs" who monopolize begging places.

"So, I'm still too lax!"

　Regarding character personalities, those who have read my previous books should know that I don’t like to directly write dry descriptions like “the protagonist is an xx person.” Even if I write one, it will be in line with the context rather than outputting the character setting. I will not say that the protagonist has a certain personality when he first appears and the same personality at the end. My protagonists are always changing and growing, so if you want to know what he is like, you have to start from his experiences.

　　For example, in the previous film "Wen Meng", everyone should have watched the protagonist grow from a person who "trembles at the sight of dead people" to a hardcore ruthless person who "will die if he is indecisive", but no one should think that his personality change is abrupt, right?

　　I believe that a character's personality changes with his experiences, and the reason why the protagonist of this book can kill decisively is not because he is born a killer, but because of the dozen days that I skipped.

　　This protagonist has only sixty days to live after traveling through time, and every day is a countdown. And unlike the protagonist of a ghost story, although the protagonist of a ghost story also lives by counting down, he has a clear way to replenish himself and a promotion route, and the plug-ins are also okay, so there is no need to panic, just follow the steps.

　　This book travels through a low-magic world that apparently has no supernatural powers. Although the protagonist has been trying to find a way to prolong his life, he either needs to make an ultimate leap and directly risk his life by colliding with a truck, or he needs to gamble on his luck of one in 220,000. After persisting for more than ten days, his character will naturally become more decisive, resolute, and unscrupulous, and he may even seem a little crazy.

　　As for why I didn’t write in detail, it’s because I’m bored and there’s nothing to write about, so it’s better to leave it blank and let everyone imagine it for themselves.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)