Smell It Thoroughly

Chapter 91 Enjoy the smell

The waiter was stunned, and just as he was about to stop him, Li Wuxiang had already walked from the crowd to the door of the store.

When the shop owner saw him, he followed his businessman's instinct and looked at him, then he handed him over and said, "Guest, we are closed today."

He sighed again: "I won't be in Deyang anymore. Guests should go and visit somewhere else."

Li Wuxiang looked at the birds in the cage. He didn't recognize many of them, but he could tell that some of them were falcons. Their eyes were wide and their feathers were blowing up, obviously they didn't like this chaotic scene.

One of them said he thought it was quite beautiful. It looked about the same size as a chicken. Its feathers were all gray and white, but its beak was black. There were a few feathers on the top of its head that were slightly red. It was restlessly moving its paws in the cage.

He pointed at that one: "Unfortunately, I've fallen in love with this one. It's a rare opportunity, so just give me a price. I won't bargain."

The shopkeeper frowned and looked at his clothes again - it was still the one the Chen family had given him when he was in Jinshui. It was cotton and linen and short-sleeved. It looked shabby after living in the open for days. He didn't bring a sword, so he didn't look very wealthy. So he sighed: "This one... Well, guests, let's look at the others... Forget it, among the gray falcons here, if you like one, just pick one, and I'll give it to you. Anyway, When we get on the road, we will almost die from the shock.”

Li Wuxiang shook his head: "I just like that."

The shopkeeper looked at him seriously at this time and thought for a while: "This Canglong costs twenty-two taels of silver, but if the customer pays, just two taels will be enough, and I will give you a cowhide eagle." 【Note 1】

Li Wuxiang nodded: "It's a pity that there is not enough money for the time being, and there is no gold. Shopkeeper, you just said that if you hit the road, these birds will be frightened to death. How much are these birds worth in total?"

The shopkeeper looked at him again and then said hesitantly: "There are always much more than this. Alas, you..."

He suddenly smiled bitterly: "Oh, if you want to beat the autumn wind. No matter who you are, as long as my shop is still in Deyang, 70% of the profit is still yours, as long as you can let me live with my daughter. It's just me I advise you to go elsewhere. Have you seen anything on the ground?"

He pointed to the ground, and Li Wuxiang saw some blood stains on the loess.

When he walked over, there were blood stains, feces, hairy feathers, etc. outside many shops, which were left during slaughtering. He originally thought that it was the same here. But the shop owner said: "Last night and today, several people came one after another, but the guy in my shop is not someone to be trifled with, and he is even less merciful at this time. You have to weigh it yourself and see. Is it worth it?”

This man was not polite in his words, but his words were good. Li Wuxiang smiled and said, "Is the guy from your store here? Ask him to come out and talk to me."

The shopkeeper sighed, turned around and walked in.

The crowd at the entrance of the store suddenly became lively. Only then did Li Wuxiang realize that this group of people had gathered here not to watch birds, but to watch people. He turned his face and saw the young man who had brought him here - he was surprised and frightened at this moment, as if he did not expect that his guest turned out to be a wandering cultivator. It looked like he was planning to leave quickly, but after all, he was young and couldn't bear it, so he quietly shrank into the crowd and found an opening to watch the fun together.

Not long after, Li Wuxiang heard someone in the store scolding: "Old man, you brought this on again, didn't you? What kind of blind and unlucky man is seeking death and reincarnation!? Are you reluctant to leave? Okay! Wait until we get outside the city. I dug your ancestral grave and brought all your ancestors with me to see if you still want to leave—"

The sound of footsteps thumped, and the sound quickly became louder. A short man with a yellow face jumped to the door with a pop, a pair of short thorns shining in his hands, and everyone around him couldn't help but take a step back in shock. : "Who?! Who's coming to find me again——"

The words stopped suddenly. Sun Dihuang stood on the ground, still holding the short thorn in his hands, but he couldn't move in this posture. He looked directly at Li Wuxiang, his throat couldn't help rolling, that yellow face All of a sudden it turned white.

Li Wuxiang stared at him for a while and then asked: "Did you hear the words I said to Feng Ji when we were on the mountain road?"

"I..." Sun Dihuang's eyes glanced around, "I heard... No, I didn't..."

"What did I say?"

"Since you don't want to leave, just... don't leave..."

Li Wuxiang smiled: "It shows that you were present at that time. Then I am very curious about one thing, why didn't you leave after you came back? Did you not like it?"

Sun Dihuang's face had turned from white to blue. He looked at the people gradually gathering on the street, his chest rose and fell, he took a sharp breath, glared, dropped a pair of short thorns on his hands with a clang, and knelt on his knees: " I can't bear to leave my wife and my father-in-law at home! Sect Master, my wife’s family has opened this shop, and people come to bully them all the time. If I were not here, they would suffer. Sect Master, I am obsessed with it. I want to take the whole family with me so as not to call them out. Alone—"

Li Wuxiang turned to look at the store - the store owner had just come out at this time. He was stunned, leaned forward, and hurriedly held on to the door frame.

Li Wuxiang raised his face towards him: "Is what he said true?"

The shopkeeper looked at the crowd and could hear Sun Dihuanglian talking about the two "sect masters". Seeing him like this again, the people around him gradually stopped making noise. He steadied himself a little more, swallowed his saliva, and his voice trembled when he spoke: "False, all fake, fake..."

After saying these few words, I choked up and fell to my knees all of a sudden, with tears streaming down my face: "Sect master, let us make the decision! I am willing to give up all the property of this shop! This beast took my daughter and poisoned her to death. My son-in-law has been occupying my family's property for many years, and I only ask the sect master to make the decision for me!"

Li Wuxiang nodded and sneered at Sun Dihuang: "You also chose the name well. When you were smelling it on the mountain, you only said it once and I remembered it. As for me, I love to hold grudges the most. On the mountain When I asked you to leave for the first time, I told you to smell it sooner or later. It would be better to choose a day, so let’s choose today.”

He turned around and looked at the opposite side, and a group of people hurriedly moved out of his sight - the opposite side of this shop used to be a horse seller, but now no one is running it. There are only two empty stables left, and there are some dried excrement and straw on the ground. and so on.

He turned around and asked the shop owner: "Does it cost your family a lot of money to rent this shed?"

The shopkeeper didn't know what he wanted to do. He raised his head and was stunned: "It doesn't take much effort..."

"Well, rent it then." Li Wuxiang looked at Sun Dihuang, "Go over and kneel down and choose a position you feel comfortable with."

Sun Dihuang was stunned for a moment, as if he had thought of something. He immediately got up, trotted to the stable, knelt down, and then fell to the ground. He took a few deep breaths, turned to Li Wuxiang and smiled flatteringly: "I understand, little man. I’ll give it a good sniff, little one, and show it to the sect master!”

Li Wuxiang sneered: "These stinky excrements are all dry, what's the point? Shopkeeper."

"Huh? Hey, the villain is here!"

"Pick a spoonful of manure from your manure pit and tell him to smell it."

At this time, some people in the crowd couldn't help laughing and hid behind everyone. Some people cheered loudly and some urged the shopkeeper to hurry up. The shop owner finally came to his senses, gritted his teeth, and immediately ran back to the store. It didn't take long for him to rush back with a ladle of feces and pour a spoonful of stinking feces in front of Sun Dihuang.

The smell made everyone take a few steps back, but Sun Dihuang didn't dare to frown and took a few more puffs: "Okay, I'll let you smell it, sect leader!"

Li Wuxiang smiled: "Don't be impatient. I'll tell you to choose a comfortable position to kneel. Do you have your choice?"

"...chosen."

Li Wuxiang nodded and looked at the shopkeeper again: "Two meals a day, food and drink, are all delivered to him. The things he is asked to smell are changed once a day. Everyone, is this bustling good to see?"

No one else responded, but the young man shouted loudly in the crowd: "It looks good!"

"As long as it looks good. Everyone who has nothing to do at ordinary times can help watch it when you have time. I will be stationed at Feiyun Temple. If anyone sees someone disappearing in this stable, come to me for one last time. I’ll give you some hard-earned money.”

Everyone cheered loudly, and Sun Dihuang also nodded repeatedly: "I won't leave, I won't leave, Sect Master, I will smell it whenever you tell me to, Sect Master, you are so generous, you are really kind-hearted... Then, then When will I..."

"When you want to die."

Sun Dihuang was stunned. The crowd was also stunned for a moment and fell silent for a while.

"Sect Master... don't... don't... bully others too much..."

Li Wuxiang laughed loudly: "I think you are so interesting. When you went down the mountain, you thought you might still have a chance, so you waited on the mountain road. After you came back, I guess you thought I would leave here as soon as possible. Maybe I didn’t return to the city so quickly, or I forgot about you, so I was reluctant to leave immediately. What are you thinking about now? Do you think I will punish you by kneeling down for a few days and the matter will be over? "

He put away his smile and said, "Now you should know that there are only so many good lucks in a person's life. Since you missed it in one breath, then this life is over. Did you see what kind of sword I used? If you want to die, you can just get up and leave. But if I am busy and cannot catch you, then no matter where you go, someone will naturally come to you. "

Sun Dihuang lowered his head and gritted his teeth, glanced at the pair of short thorns at the door of the store, and then glanced at the store owner.

Li Wuxiang looked at him: "The shopkeeper."

"exist……"

"If you feel uneasy, I'll find someone to build the walls on all sides after I leave. You don't have to worry about him harming you in the middle of the night. But I guess, he must be kneeling here in a decent manner, feeling that he can endure it. Maybe there’s still a chance to survive.”

The shopkeeper immediately shouted to the waiter: "Go, go now, find someone to build the wall!"

Then he said to Li Wuxiang: "Wait a moment, wait a moment..."

He hurried back to the shop, and after a while he stumbled back again, holding a small wooden box in his hand: "Sect Master, Sect Master, this is the land deed of my shop, and..."

"You can keep it yourself." Li Wuxiang smiled at him, "The one I want is...what is it called?"

"Canglong, Canglong. Sect Master, look..."

"I'm not interested in worldly affairs. I'm just not happy if someone offends me. Your shop should be open. Will Yingkun still send you?"

"...It's a gift, it's a gift, naturally!"

Li Wuxiang shouted to the crowd: "Dude?"

The boy ran over immediately, behaved himself, and there was no joke on his face. While waiting for the people in the shop to pick up the eagle, the waiter thought for a while and then whispered: "Guest, are you the Ranshan Sect Master?"

"Um."

"It's really peaceful in the city now, Sect Master, you have done a great thing."

At this time, the shop assistant brought the eagle over. Its claws and beak were covered with hoods, and it was placed in a smaller cage covered with cotton cloth. The shop assistant helped him take the things, and the two walked back. The shop owner knelt down again behind him and thanked him profusely. The crowd of onlookers dispersed and made way for him. They were still talking in a low voice when they were a little further away, but when he passed by, they all fell silent.

When the two walked a little further, the shop assistant hurriedly said, "Master, you are really awesome. From today on, I'm afraid everyone in Deyang knows your name! There are still those who are blind and stay in the city. I'm afraid they will all run away when they hear what's happening here!"

Li Wuxiang just smiled slightly and didn't say anything. The shop assistant thought he was acting like a master, so he stopped talking.

After walking a little further, Li Wuxiang asked, "Do you know where there is a temple dedicated to Taiyi in Deyang City? The Taiyi in the temple looks like the one wearing golden armor."

The guy's eyes lit up: "You mean the Wu Temple in the east of the city?"

"Wu Temple?"

"Wearing golden armor? That's Wu Taiyi Temple. People in the city go there when they pray for wealth. The incense is very prosperous! Do you want to go now? I'll take you there!"

"So there is also a Wen Temple?"

"Ah... yes, we ordinary people are divided into civil and military. Hehe, the sect leader you worship is what we call Wen Taiyi Temple. We pray for health and peace."

Li Wuxiang nodded and smiled: "Go again in a few days."

It was still early today, not yet dusk, and he wanted to go to that temple to take a look. But now he has something to do and wants to go back to Feiyun Temple immediately.

He just did an experiment, and now he feels that the results of the experiment are slowly emerging.

He didn't have to hold Sun Dihuang and humiliate him in public before. In fact, with his past and present life, killing with a sword would make him feel more comfortable.

But he did this to warn some blind people near Deyang not to disturb his peace in the future. Another reason was that he was worshipped by the townspeople after defeating Zhao Kui in Jinshui.

When he was worshipped, his willpower immediately entered his body. Now, what happened just now should have spread slowly, and he experienced that feeling again. It was not as strong as in Jinshui, but more like a trickle, dripping into the body. Although it was not much, it was not comparable to meditation.

He was only a little bit away from entering the realm of Qi Refining, and now, that little bit was almost enough.

Cheng Peixin invited him to Feiyun Temple with great kindness. It shouldn't be like this if he was just a swordsman or the new leader of Ranshan. In this world, if people want to gain goodwill, most of the time they have to make people feel that they may earn something from this person.

He is not sure what Cheng Peixin wants now, but a Ranshan Sword Master who quickly broke through after meeting for one day will definitely make her think a little more about whatever she plans to do.

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Note 1: Ying (ying) 鲲, a protective gear worn on the arm to stop the falcon.

Two chapters merged into one. Thanks to a certain uncle who is almost 30 for the reward!