A quarter of an hour later, the two of them sat down in the elegant room of Piaoxiang Building.
Shi Xiaohan couldn’t wait to grab the recipe from the store’s second-hand store. While flipping through it, he rattled off a long list of dish names:
“Here comes a plate of beggar’s chicken, one serving. Bird's nest in clear soup, a bowl of spicy and sour mullet eggs, and sweet and sour carp..."
The waiter's hand speed could no longer keep up with her speaking speed, and he couldn't help shouting: "Sir, sir. , can you speak a little slower? I can't write anymore!"
Gu Xu sat opposite her with his eyes closed, silently thinking about the improvement plan of the "Ghost Killing Talisman".
He didn't care at all what dishes Shi Xiaohan ordered or how many dishes he ordered.
It’s not him who paid for it anyway.
Anyway, Shi Xiaohan can always eat every plate of food and never waste food.
After another quarter of an hour, the waiter brought the food one after another and placed a full table.
"It's time to eat, it's time to eat!" Shi Xiaohan cheered, immediately filled himself a large bowl of rice, and began to devour it, making "chhhhhhhhhhhhhh" sounds from time to time.
Under her background, Gu Xu was as elegant as a lady.
He took his time and wiped his hands clean with a napkin, then drank the soup, then picked up the vegetables, and finally ate the staple food, chewing slowly and tasting it quietly.
For him, the most important things in life are undoubtedly eating and practicing.
Food needs to be enjoyed with heart.
Tasting food carefully and slowly can help maintain health.
Like Shi Xiaohan, it is simply a waste of natural resources.
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The wine and food are full, but the cups and plates are empty.
Shi Xiaohan stretched out, waved, and asked the store owner to come and pay the bill.
"Sir, the total is five taels of silver!" The shop owner had an attentive smile on his face and handed the bill to Shi Xiaohan with both hands.
Shi Xiaohan took the bill and without even looking at it, he put the banknote into the boss's hand and said, "Take it."
The boss smiled even more enthusiastically.
He likes customers who pay readily and never haggle.
Gu Xu, who was next to him, silently calculated in his mind - five taels of silver, equivalent to two and a half months of his salary. Please try to come to such high-consumption places as rarely as possible in the future.
Of course, except for free prostitution.
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After the meal, the two returned the same way.
At this time, the lights on the street were dim and the crowds were gradually thinning.
"Gu Xu, what are your plans tonight?"
"Go back to the Exorcism Department to take on another mission and earn more merit."
" You are really... full of achievements." Shi Xiaohan pouted, obviously not satisfied with his answer.
"Because I want to be like the Heroine of Time, kill more ghosts and benefit more people," Gu Xu chuckled, "try to be a great person who does justice for heaven like the Heroine of Time." Xia."
He obviously knew what Shi Xiaohan liked to hear the most.
As expected, Shi Xiaohan quickly turned from anger to joy, stood up on tiptoes and patted his shoulder: "Okay Dry! I support you! Don’t let our exorcist department lose its prestige! "
Gu Xu nodded in agreement, thinking that this girl is really easy to coax.
He is about to be promoted recently.
The competitor named Ma Qin is coming. Xiang Heng - He is of a higher level than him, has more seniority than him, and has a registered residence in a big city. He is definitely a difficult guy to deal with.
He must seize the time and do more tasks to improve himself in the eyes of the examiner. A little impression.
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In this Da Qi dynasty where involution is serious and career competition is becoming increasingly fierce, Gu Xu is obviously not the only one who is anxious about the future. A person.
At this moment, on the other side of Yishui County, a young man with a sallow face wearing a blue cotton gown came to a fortune-telling stall
"Master, can you help me test my official luck? "As he spoke, he took out a lot of copper coins from his pocket and placed them on the fortune teller's desk.
The fortune teller called himself "Zhang Banxian".
He was raising his head Erlang was sitting next to the table with his legs in rags and a shabby beard. He was holding a tattered cattail leaf fan in his hand. He looked like a beggar and did not have the temperament of a "half-immortal" at all.
On the wall behind him, two apricot-yellow banners were hung.
The banners were embroidered with a couplet -
The first couplet: four pillars and eight characters, which calculate the misfortunes and blessings in the world;
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Second couplet: The five elements and eight trigrams determine the good and bad omens of the world.
"How do you want to test this?" Look at fortune-telling, test characters, draw fortune-telling, or make hexagrams based on six lines? ”
“Do you know all this? ”
“Of course. "
"Then... let's take a word test! Please help me, master, to see if I have any chance of promotion recently. "
After that, the young man in blue shirt picked up the writing brush on the table and wrote the word "horse" on the paper.
Fortune teller "Zhang Banxian" stared at the "horse" "" word, silent for a long time.
"Does it mean immediate success?" "The young man in blue shirt urged, with a mixture of expectation and anxiety in his tone.
"No," Zhang Banxian shook his head repeatedly, "The horse moves like the sun, but it's night now and there is no sun, so it won't work. "
The young man in blue shirt looked stiff.
However, he was still a little unwilling, and wrote the word "Qin" on the paper.
"Then Please help me test the word 'qin' again! " He said.
At the same time, he secretly thought: Qin, Qin appointed. If nothing unexpected happens this time, he should be able to test the result of "Qin selected by the superiors, and the official career will be prosperous."
But the half-immortal Zhang was still shaking his head.
"The radical of the word 'Qin' is '金', which is a sign of great fortune and good fortune; but it's a pity that there is 'OW' next to "金". Character, unintentionally became "owing money", which can be said to have interrupted the financial path, difficulty in developing ambitions, and no hope for promotion. ”
This young man in blue shirt is Gu Xu’s competitor, Ma Qin, a second-level monk from Qingzhou Prefecture.
He has been so anxious that he can’t sleep lately.
The reason is very simple.
On the one hand, he is now almost thirty-five years old, but he still has accomplished nothing - he has no real estate, no wife, no black hat, and he is still a low-ranking official.
The so-called "losers in life" refer to people like him.
When acquaintances see him, they can't help but say: "Ma Qin, Ma Qin, you are all." You are almost 40 years old, how can you still be so miserable? ”
On the other hand, his competitors are really terrifying.
Ma Qin originally thought that he would go from Qingzhou Prefecture, which is full of talents, to a remote place like Yishui County. In a small town, he could avoid fierce competition, easily obtain the official position he wanted, and become a master.
But he never expected that a terrifying freak would appear in Yishui County.
According to the gossip that Ma Qin got from his boss, the freak named Gu Xu had been practicing for less than a year and was already preparing to break through to the second realm——
Is this the speed that normal humans should have?
Oh, the waves in the Yi River push the waves in front, and the waves in front die on the beach.
The life after death is terrible!
As an ordinary clerk with nothing but ten years of work experience, Ma Qin was so sad that he wanted to cry.
He reached out and touched the top of his head, only to feel that the hair was getting thinner.
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Gu Xu returned to the exorcism department alone.
He first browsed the bulletin board and chose a task that was not too difficult.
The reward is forty meritorious deeds, which is equivalent to killing four demons.
The mission description is very simple: "Yishui County School is haunted, and I hope the Exorcism Department will send someone to solve it as soon as possible. ”
The county school is a school for students to study.
In the Daqi Dynasty, after all, only a few people had the qualifications to practice, and the imperial examination was still the promotion for most ordinary people.
According to Daqi's imperial examination system, candidates who passed the child examination were allowed to study in county schools in order to prepare for the higher-level provincial examination, which is called "entering school". p>Eight years ago, when Yishui County was attacked by ghosts, the county school was also destroyed, causing many casualties among teachers and students.
A year after the disaster subsided, the county school was rebuilt.
As the students returned to the lecture hall, the scars of the past seemed to have been smoothed away.
Until tonight, the teacher of Yishui County, Zhou Siqi, left the key in the drawer. I was forced to go back to the county school late at night to get the key. Unexpectedly, I heard the sound of reading loud and clear in the school that was supposed to be empty. p>
Zhou Jiaoyu was so frightened that his face turned pale and his scalp was numb, and he quickly ran out of the county school., and asked the soldier guarding the gate to inform the Exorcism Department about the matter.
So now, this task has been handed over to Gu Xu.
"I came back just in time!" Gu Xu complained secretly.
At the same time, he took out three copper coins again and used the six-line hexagram method to predict the misfortune of this mission.
The result is "Qian on the top and Qian on the bottom", which is the hexagram of "Qian is the sky", which indicates good luck and good luck in everything.
So Gu Xu showed a happy smile on his face.
He took the remaining "ghost-killing talisman" and set out boldly.
"Come back early!" Chen Jisheng, who was working at the desk, raised his head and told him, "Run away if you can't fight, don't be brave."
"Don't worry," Gu Xu Smiling slightly, "I'm talented."
After that, he stepped out of the exorcism department's office and walked into the dark night.