Third watch

When Wang Xiaoming saw it, it was a black lacquered stick, about as long as his arm.

"Hollow?" Wang Xiaoming shook it, and found that it was folded in half, with a slot on the front.

"Put the canopy ruler in." Zhong Yi said, "Forget it, you always use the canopy ruler as a brick."

The canopy ruler is too short, not much bigger than a gavel. It is usually not used as a weapon, but to ward off evil spirits at the altar. When opening the altar, hold the canopy ruler, which means respectfully invite the marshal of the canopy to come to the altar to exorcise evil spirits.

But Wang Xiaoming doesn't have a priesthood now, so he probably won't be able to please the gods by waving the canopy ruler. Wang Dazhuang's canopy ruler is genuine, and because he is Wang Dazhuang's grandson, Wang Xiaoming can barely let the canopy ruler play its role It has its own effect of suppressing evil—that is, when it is used as a brick, it can really hurt ghosts.

It's a pity that the bricks are disposable, and ordinary weapons—whether it's a folding stool or a mace, will only go straight through the ghost's body and cannot cause physical damage.

So Zhong Yi made a folding stick, and made it into a two-piece set with the canopy ruler. If you don't open it, it is a short stick for self-defense. If you open it, it can be used as an eyebrow stick or a walking stick.

Point is, this thing looks handsome.

Wang Xiaoming pretended to be cute while being elated: "Why is this so embarrassing?"

"If you don't want it, just pay me back." Zhong Yi said.

Wang Xiaoming shifted immediately: "What did Lin Fei tell you?"

"What said what?"

"Don't pretend to be stupid." Wang Xiaoming put on a serious face: "You said it in the restaurant, you know the person behind this ghost marriage."

Zhong Yi: "Hmm."

"Who is it?" Wang Xiaoming said, "What is Zhu Youshu? Is it the same as what I found on Baidu Encyclopedia? Is it now as self-contained as Lu Banmen? Is it amazing?"

"It's nothing serious." Zhong Yi said, "Didn't we break his game?"

"So you really know each other?"

Zhong Yi said, "It has nothing to do with you."

"Why doesn't it matter? I'm the boss." Wang Xiaoming said, "Quickly confess, or you won't be paid in the future."

Zhong Yi: "...Do you think He Lina gave you a lot of money? This amount of remuneration is not enough to buy a corner of your grandfather's canopy."

Wang Xiaoming: "...Huh? Is the canopy ruler very expensive?"

Zhong Yi: "It's not a question of whether it's expensive or not. This kind of magic weapon is priceless as long as it's genuine. The canopy ruler in your hand can be exchanged for this small building in your house."

Wang Xiaoming: "=口=! You are talking nonsense! Then my grandpa is not a rich man! But he doesn't even let me buy it! He only gives you chicken and duck!"

Zhong Yi sneered, pointed to several items on Wang Dazhuang's table, and evaluated them one by one.

Wang Xiaoming's worldview was shattered.

He always believed that although their grandparents never had to worry about eating and drinking, they were not a wealthy family. In order to teach him to be thrifty when he was a child, Wang Dazhuang often lied to him by making up lies that his parents would not be able to afford meat at night when he bought chocolate. .

But Zhong Yi took a rough inventory of the few small instruments that Wang Dazhuang usually put on display, and it turned out that he barely became a rich third generation.

That old man is really cunning.Wang Xiaoming thought angrily.

Then he remembered that the whereabouts of this cunning old man was unknown, and he didn't know how much money he had with him when he went out to eat, and he felt a little depressed.

Zhong Yi saw his expression and knew that he was thinking of grandpa again, so he changed the subject: "You and Lu Xiaolu should be careful recently."

Wang Xiaoming: "Gah?"

Zhong Yiyu said earnestly: "I'm seriously advising you, although the person who helped Lin Fei is heretic, he always pays every penny, and I slapped him in the face this time, if he knew it was me, he would definitely want to take revenge. "

Wang Xiaoming cheered up: "Really?"

"Why are you so excited?" Zhong Yi said, "Of course it's true. If it's a face-to-face fight, I can beat him back to his hometown. But I'm afraid that he will plot against him."

Wang Xiaoming was a little excited: what is this!This is the prelude to conspiracy, espionage and intrigue!

He had long felt that these professionals who dealt with ghosts and gods seemed ignorant, and he didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to come into contact with such exciting things so soon!

Maybe there will be gorgeous fighting skills. Although the fighting methods of these professionals will not be as sharp as swords and swords in the underworld, but the fighting skills will be sharper. Maybe there will be earth shaking, lightning and thunder, and fluffy and charged summoned beasts... No ,God formula.

It sounds very sharp, assassination or something.

"Tell me." Wang Xiaoming's eyes sparkled: "What's the man's name? What are his specialties? What insidious and cunning assassination methods will he use? Is he strong in hand-to-hand combat? How should we guard against it? Do you carry weapons with you?"

Zhong Yi looked at him in surprise: "Don't pick up things on the ground and eat them outside."

Wang Xiaoming: "...excuse me?"

"Don't eat indiscriminately." Zhong Yi repeated again: "Don't eat what strangers give you."

Wang Xiaoming said: "What does this mean! Isn't the other party a very powerful and insidious character?"

"It's hard to say, but it's quite insidious." Zhong Yi said, "I just want to teach you to beware."

"You're called a teacher? Don't pick up things and eat them—do you take me for Mr. Bai?" Wang Xiaoming said, "Would you like to see my ID card? I'm a grown man!"

Zhong Yi absently touched his head: "I know."

"Master Bai would never eat something given by a stranger." Zhong Yiyan added: "I decided that Ye Xun might be poisoned."

"Poisoning?" This sounded more high-end.

"The Ye family belongs to Zhu You's family." Zhong Yi said: "The things they learn are very complicated...Ye Xun is relatively comprehensive, but he is best at medicine."

"Ye Xun?"

"Lin Fei told me the name." Zhong Yi said, "That man is nervous and narrow-minded. We have always disliked each other."

"Did you look down on the other party?"

Zhong Yi snorted.

This explanation is normal, because Wang Xiaoming thinks that Zhong Yi looks down on anyone by nature, always acting like you are all scum in my eyes.

"How did you meet him?" Wang Xiaoming asked.

Zhong Yi gave him a strange look: "I saw him a few times when I was young."

"It's still a bamboo horse." Wang Xiaoming said oh.

"Who is with him?" Zhong Yi warned Wang Xiaoming: "Don't provoke the Ye family, they always like to stir up muddy water."

"But this also has an advantage." Zhong Yi said: "The Ye family has many branches, and the news has always been the most well-informed. If there is no accident, the news of the reopening of the Guangming Stationery Store will soon spread."

"You mentioned it before," Wang Xiaoming recalled: "He can hypnotize..."

"This is also a kind of Zhu Youshu. They are good at giving hints and using psychological guidance to achieve their goals." Zhong Yi paused, as if trying to cover up the disdain in his tone.

But obviously he failed: "It's just some harmless witchcraft."

"Looking back, Zhu You evolved from the ancient witch doctor—don't put on that expression, it just sounds fantasy. When it was not systematic at the earliest, even singing and dancing around the fire was considered a cure." Zhong Yi said.

"What about now? What has it developed into?"

"You don't need to know." Zhong Yi raised his chin: "You just need to know to stay away from unknown people."

"Isn't it too general for you to say that?" Wang Xiaoming stared: "There are unknown people everywhere on the street. Do you want me to avoid crowds?"

Zhong Yi said: "Did you throw what I said just now into the trash can! Didn't I tell you not to pick things up randomly, and don't talk to strangers!"

"Can't you answer people who ask for directions? It's very impersonal!"

"I can't take care of it!"

"How embarrassing!"

"Just pretend to be dumb." Zhong Yi said, "I'll repeat it again—don't pay attention to the stranger's strike-up, you can't have physical contact with strangers, and you can't accept food from strangers, understand?"

Wang Xiaoming: "Okay."

"You'd better be serious." Zhong Yi squinted his eyes: "Zhu Youshu is a harmless heresy, that's just for me. If you want to deal with you, you don't need Ye Xun to do it yourself, and their servants can give it to you." Poisoned."

Wang Xiaoming: "Can you stop discriminating against people like this? Am I so stupid and unsuspecting in your eyes? Only people with brains will accept food from unknown sources!"

As soon as the words fell, Lu Xiaolu rushed in excitedly: "Master! And Xiao Ming!"

"Xiao Lu," Wang Xiaoming said, "you come to judge—"

Zhong Yi: "Don't call me Master!"

"Listen to me first!" Lu Xiaolu happily jumped over: "Look!"

Lu Xiaolu held up a bag.

Wang Xiaoming stretched his head over to look: "What is this? An apple? Have you gone to buy an apple?"

"No!" Lu Xiaolu said triumphantly, "This is a gift!"

"Promotion?"

"No, a passerby gave it to me!" Lu Xiaolu said.

Zhong Yi: "..."

Wang Xiaoming: "..."

"Please wait a moment." Wang Xiaoming said, "Student Lu Xiaolu, what do you mean by passers-by? Don't you know him?"

Lu Xiaolu scratched his head: "A man I didn't know asked me for directions just now, and he said thank me when he finished, so he gave it to me!"

Zhong Yi: "..."

Wang Xiaoming: "..."

"Why are you looking at me like this?" Lu Xiaolu said in confusion, "And the expressions are so consistent. What are you looking at?"

"I'm looking to see if there is a hole in your head." Zhong Yi said.

Lu Xiaolu: "Huh?"

Zhong Yi: "Hmm."

"Can you have some common sense?" Wang Xiaoming didn't look at Zhong Yi's expression, and angrily beat up Lu Xiaolu: "Don't talk to strangers, hasn't the teacher taught you? Ah? Ah? Ah? Take other people's things!"

Lu Xiaolu: "Oh! What are you doing! That person was just asking me for directions! Of course he thanked me because I'm handsome, and these are some apples and not pork buns made of human flesh. What's your name?"

Zhong Yi held a piece of paper and took out an apple, and held it out in front of Master Bai.

Master Bai arrogantly slapped his calf with his tail and ran away.

"There's something wrong with this apple." Zhong Yi threw the apple back into the bag.

Lu Xiaolu: "Huh?"

"Is that person really Ye Xun? Is there poison in it?" Wang Xiaoming leaned over: "It looks like Snow White."

"It doesn't have to be poisoned, but it won't be an ordinary apple." Zhong Yi said: "Zhu You is closer to witchcraft, maybe something that has been cursed."

"What are you talking about?" Lu Xiaolu frowned.

Wang Xiaoming told him not to pick things up randomly.

"How could it be so mysterious?" Lu Xiaolu said, "He just thanked me."

"Lord Bai can recognize spells with malicious intentions." Zhong Yi said, "Take these and burn them behind, you can't keep them."

Wang Xiaoming said: "Besides, no normal person would eat something of unknown origin. Isn't this conspiracy method too low-level?"

"Of course he doesn't expect us to really know how to eat." Zhong Yi said: "He gave Lu Xiaolu the food, but just told us that he knows everything we need to know."

Lu Xiaolu almost lived in the Guangming Stationery Store now, Ye Xun didn't look for Zhong Yi, nor Wang Xiaoming, but Lu Xiaolu who basically didn't show his face in the ghost marriage incident, which can explain the problem.

Lu Xiaolu: "Huh?"

"Now is the information age - don't look at me like this, even this kind of occupational information is very developed. I am afraid that within three days, everyone who should know about the Lin family will know about it." Zhong Yi said slowly: " Your grandfather's reputation is greater than you imagined, and the news will continue to spread, and now there is another Ye family."

"And the first person Ye Xun found was Lu Xiaolu." Zhong Yi looked at Wang Xiaoming: "You know what this means."

Although Lu Xiaolu has been very enthusiastic, but Wang Xiaoming always does not want Lu Xiaolu to be too involved in the matter of Wang Dazhuang and the stationery store.

First of all, Lu Xiaolu is an ordinary person—although Wang Xiaoming himself is similar to a Squib, his innate physical quality is different.He has worn the evil spirit pendant on his body almost all his life. He has heavenly eyes and is naturally sensitive to evil spirits.

Secondly, Wang Xiaoming always has a bully grandpa with big hands. Although Wang Dazhuang's whereabouts are unknown now, if something really happens, as his grandson, Wang Xiaoming still has more things to rely on than Lu Xiaolu.

So no matter how Lu Xiaolu jumped up and down, Wang Xiaoming insisted that he was just an opener.

Lu Xiaolu: "Huh?"

Wang Xiaoming: "You really pissed me off!"

As soon as Lu Xiaolu saw Wang Xiaoming's face, he became vigilant: "What do you want to do again? What kind of charades are you playing?"

Wang Xiaoming threw the glasses made by Zhong Yi to Lu Xiaolu, and bared his teeth at him: "There is no charade, the boss gave you a promotion, intern."

Lu Xiaolu caught the glasses inexplicably: "What?"

"In the future, you will not just be the gatekeeper." Zhong Yi said lightly: "Welcome aboard, he should give you a raise."