NOVEL NEXT Chapter 61 Visiting the Ghost Market at Night
After leaving Gu Baoxuan, Mao Xi and Mu Zhiyuan wandered around the ghost market.
Most of the vendors here set up street stalls to sell goods. They light up lamps in front of the stalls, and their figures are in a trance and hazy. From a distance, it looks like a place haunted by ghosts and gods, making people uneasy.
Antiques, calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver jewelry, firewood, rice, oil and salt, and daily necessities are sold here, but the products are so mixed that it is difficult to tell the real ones from the fake ones.
The most traded items are medicinal materials and clothing. Nalan Jue once said that the items sold here are lower than the market price and most of them are imitations. He should be referring to clothing and department stores.
But when leaving Gu Baoxuan, shopkeeper Hong said that the medicinal materials here are good and you can find some good and cheap ones.
The two were wandering in front of the stall when a leather jacket vendor came forward to sell his cowhide jacket to Mu Zhiyuan.
"Brother, this cowhide jacket suits you well. You can feel the quality. It only costs two taels of silver!" After the brother finished speaking, he rubbed his coat in front of the two of them to show its quality.
Mu Zhiyuan stopped, stepped forward and touched it. He felt that it felt good, so the younger brother took the opportunity to put the clothes on him.
This set of operations worked smoothly. Before Mao Xi traveled through time, she often suffered losses when buying bargains online. She carefully grabbed the clothes and examined them in front of her eyes. She couldn't really tell the color of the clothes in the night, so she could only rely on the sound. .
Realizing that the quality of the leather jacket was not right, she quickly threw the coat back into the boss's arms and said with a smile: "Brother, I'm sorry, we didn't bring enough money today, so I won't buy it today!" After that, she pulled Muzhi. Yuan walked away quickly.
Mu Zhiyuan looked puzzled and asked: "Ah Shu, that coat is so cheap. I think it's quite warm when you wear it. Why do you say you don't have enough money?"
"Brother Mu, have you forgotten that most of the things sold in this 'ghost market' are imitations, and the material doesn't look like cowhide to me, I'm afraid it's not kraft paper, and you can't return anything you buy in the ghost market. If the material is fake, It would be a big loss."
After leaving the clothes stall, the two of them wandered to a used bookstall.
There are a lot of people looking for books here, and everyone is squatting around looking for books. Mao Xi was no exception. She dug into the crowd to look for recipes, and the book was turned around in a mess, which was quite like the scene of buying things in a dollar store before time travel.
She found two cooking-related books at the bookstall, namely "Four Seasons Medicinal Diet" and "Southern Xinjiang Herbal Medicines and Recipes".
Mao Xi took out his purse and was about to pay when a thief took advantage of the crowd and snatched the purse. Mu Zhiyuan rushed forward and caught the thief. He was a man in his twenties.
Mao Xi checked her purse and found that the money was not lost.
Mu Zhiyuan escorted the thief and found two more women's purses on his body.
"My hero, have mercy!" The thief begged for mercy loudly, his shoulder almost dislocated by Mu Zhiyuan.
"Tell me, where was this purse stolen from?"
The thief pointed to the crowd in the pile of books.
Two women in the crowd were exclaiming that they had lost their wallets. Mu Zhiyuan stepped forward, checked the number, and returned the wallets to the lost ones.
The thief took advantage of Mu Zhiyuan's inattention, turned around and ran back to the crowd in the ghost market, disappearing.
"The security in this ghost city is not good. There are all kinds of monsters, ghosts and snakes. Ah Shu, let's go home as soon as possible."
The two of them were about to walk back when they saw a medicinal vendor selling medicinal materials in front of them.
Mao Xi lingered while shopping. She checked the quality of the medicinal materials and found that the medicinal materials here were much cheaper than those sold in the pharmacy, and they were not expensive in large quantities.
There are also many doctors setting up stalls to treat people next to the medicinal materials stall, and some poor people are waiting in line.
"Brother Mu, I think there are people who treat poor people here. I think these medicinal materials are of good quality. Please wait for me and I will buy some to take home. I can also study some medicinal diets when I get home."
Mao Xi was negotiating with the drug dealers on the side, and Mu Zhiyuan came to the doctor to see their diagnosis. These people were not expensive in asking for money and were serious in their diagnosis. Unexpectedly, there were good doctors in the ghost market.
Mao Xi bought a small amount of wolfberry, angelica and Sichuan clams, and was about to leave with Mu Zhiyuan. She saw the beggar Old Li Tou setting up a stall in a remote corner to tell fortunes.
Old Li Tou had come to Lihua Town to beg for food, and Mao Xi gave him some food. Old Li's first two predictions were somewhat accurate.
"Old Li Tou, why are you setting up a stall here and making fortune-telling decisions?"
"She's the little girl selling pickled cabbage cakes! How about you, do you want me to tell you a fortune today? I'll give you a discounted price of only 3 cents at a time." Old Li Tou fiddled with the bamboo wood, copper coins and turtles used for fortune telling on the table. shell.
Mao Xi smiled awkwardly, saying that it was nothing, so let's not make fortunes. She pulled Mu Zhiyuan and was about to leave.
"Wait a minute, I see that this little brother's seal has turned dark, and he may be in trouble for death in the near future!"
Mao Xi stopped, pulled Mu Zhiyuan back to Old Li Tou's Gua stall, and quickly asked: "Old Li Tou, please don't try to trick me. How could Brother Mu be in danger of being killed?"
"10 Wen! If you want a way to crack it, I have it!" Old Li sat down and raised the price.
Mao Xi took out 13 coins from his purse and gave it to Old Li Tou, and asked hurriedly: "Old Li Tou, I have given you the copper coins for fortune telling and cracking. How do you want to crack it?"
Lao Li fiddled with his head on the table for a while and muttered something. After a while, he grabbed Mu Zhiyuan's hand and looked at it again and again.
After completing a set of operations, he said to the two of them: "This little brother is a little weak. Girl, you have to feed him more fish and oysters recently! You will definitely solve this fatal disaster!"
"Is it that simple?" Mao Xi wondered, "Don't you need to set up some formations or put up some spells at home?"
"No, no! Everything has its own destiny!"
As the Yin hour approaches, the ghost market roosters crowed and dispersed, and all the stall owners closed their stalls one after another.
Mu Zhiyuan then took Mao Xi out of the ghost market and returned to Lihua Town, and threw away the two packets of salt given by Chen before leaving.
Mao Xi returned to Liuxiang Snacks first, and her mother-in-law Chen was already preparing to eat in the store.
She took some fish bream from the barrel and gave them to Mu Zhiyuan, asking him to take them home to eat.
"Mai Xi, do you really believe that old Li Tou's nonsense? How could I be weak..."
"You're right to listen to him! Anyway, eating fish won't make you lose a few pounds or two."
Mao Xi made another pot of red wine and accompanied Mu Zhiyuan back to Jiafu.
Butler Wang opened the door to welcome him, and Mao Xi gave him red wine and told him about today's fortune telling.
"Haha! Don't worry, Miss Ah Miao. With this old slave here, I won't let anyone hurt my prince in the slightest!"
"Butler Wang, don't forget to feed your prince more fish."
Butler Wang put the fish bream brought back by Mu Zhiyuan in the kitchen. When he came to pick it up in the evening, he found that one of the original eight fish bream was missing.
"Meow~" A cat meowed from the wall. Butler Wang looked over and found out that it was a raccoon cat lying on the wall of the palace.
"Could it be that this cat has one in its mouth?" Butler Wang didn't believe the fortune-telling and drove the cat away with his hand.