Chapter 84: Tofu Shop on Front Street

Seeing Lu Yang perform a set of shape-mimicry boxing and turn into Seeing Man Gu's appearance, Lan Ting silently took out a yellow talisman paper.

Better to draw a transformation talisman herself.

Truly worthy of being an Immortal Sect famous for its wild imagination and spells. Using boxing to disguise as a transformation spell—what kind of profound insight into spells must one have to achieve such a thing?

Presumably, Fellow Daoist Lu Yang's insight into spells has reached the realm of seeing spells as non-spells, seeing arts as non-arts, pointing directly to the origin.

Among the same level, Lan Ting believed no one could compare to Lu Yang in spell attainment.

Lu Yang then remembered that Lan Ting taking the tiger skin was also to make talismans. It seemed she had quite an attainment in the field of runes.

Lan Ting pointed to her eyes: "This young lady's eyes are somewhat miraculous. I am very sensitive to patterns and can see through the core of runes and the eyes of formations. I am naturally skilled at making talismans and drawing formations."

"However, this young lady's energy is limited, so I put my main energy into making talismans. I only know a little about formations."

Lan Ting spoke modestly; in reality, this was a very remarkable talent. This talent was destined to go far in the field of runes and formations, making many rune and formation masters envious.

Soon, Lan Ting drew a transformation talisman and stuck it on her body. Her whole person changed from stunning beauty to ordinary, which was very magical.

Thus, the barbecue shop welcomed a new shop assistant.

Two days after Lan Ting joined the barbecue shop, the barbecue shop was as busy as ever. With the addition of a new shop assistant, the work of the three was much easier.

Lu Yang noticed that Seeing Man Gu was a bit unhappy, so while helping customers serve dishes, he asked with his spiritual sense: "What happened? You don't seem very happy."

Seeing Man Gu nodded: "I don't know if Brother Lu noticed, but the number of customers in our barbecue shop has decreased in the past few days. I calculated the income of these few days, and it is indeed so."

Lu Yang was stunned; he really hadn't noticed this: "Because of Lan Ting?"

With a female shop assistant joining, business should be better.

"No, it had already decreased before Lan Ting came. I haven't figured out the reason either. I don't know where the problem is." Seeing Man Gu had been thinking about this problem.

Lu Yang didn't care; he wished the barbecue shop's business would be less: "Then you keep thinking about it, I'm going to deliver food."

A month ago, under Meng Jingzhou's suggestion, the barbecue shop added a delivery business. During the day, they put a box at the door. Whoever wanted to order delivery would write the skewers they wanted, the delivery time, and the address on paper, and the three would take turns delivering at night.

Today it was Lu Yang's turn.

Lu Yang hadn't been out at night in the past few days. Walking out this time, he found that compared to the past, there were fewer pedestrians on the street.

Perhaps this was the reason for the decline in the barbecue shop's customer flow, Lu Yang thought.

"Let me see where to deliver this time... Tofu shop on Front Street?"

Wen Xiangyu had heard early on that a very popular barbecue shop had opened nearby. She wanted to taste whether it was as delicious as the legends said. However, since her husband passed away and she inherited her husband's tofu shop, she rarely went out at night.

It wasn't that she was bragging, but she was fair-skinned and beautiful, and she didn't know how many people coveted her. Going out alone was a very dangerous thing.

Later, she heard that the barbecue shop had a delivery service, so she wrote down what she wanted to eat on paper and threw it into the box outside the barbecue shop.

She had been very sleepy in the past few days, and today it was even more serious. Before the skewers were delivered, she couldn't resist the sleepiness and lay down on the bed early.

The barbecue shop's shop assistant should be able to wake her up.

Lu Zhi was a thief who had recently given constables a headache. He often sneaked into other people's homes at night, stealing money while people were fast asleep, and then quickly withdrew, rarely leaving clues. When constables asked the surrounding neighbors, the answer they got was that they were sleeping too soundly at the time and didn't notice the movement outside.

This time, he set his target on the tofu shop on Front Street. The tofu shop owner was a famous pretty widow, and the tofu she made was famous far and near. The money she had made in the past few years made the surrounding shopkeepers jealous.

Lu Zhi was agile, like a monkey, silently climbing to the roof, twisting his body, and opening the second-floor window.

"Should be asleep."

Lu Zhi was very confident. He accidentally obtained a yellow paper talisman that made people sleep. Sticking it outside the house, people within fifty meters would be affected and sleep to death. This move was foolproof.

Lu Zhi tiptoed, holding his breath, and saw the beauty lying on the bed, revealing a smile of success.

Then he turned to search the cupboard for valuable things. According to his experience, women liked to put things here.

"None?" Lu Zhi frowned and turned to look at the tofu shop owner's position.

Since it wasn't here, it should be under the bed.

He carefully squatted down and reached under the bed, his heart stopping.

There was actually a human face under the bed!

"Ghost!"

Zheng Shouhe was a flower-picking thief who had recently given constables a headache. He often hid under the bed of a single woman early, and while the woman was fast asleep, he would crawl out from under the bed and defile the woman.

However, sometimes he would encounter a situation where the woman was having an affair, and he could only honestly hide under the bed and wait.

This time, he set his target on the tofu shop on Front Street. The tofu shop owner was a famous pretty widow, and he didn't know how many people's souls she had hooked away.

Zheng Shouhe, as usual, hid under the bed early, waiting for night to come to have a night of pleasure with the tofu shop owner.

"So sleepy." Zheng Shouhe had never been as sleepy as he was today. He used to get more energetic the longer he waited. Today, he didn't know what was going on, but the sleepiness kept surging up.

His upper and lower eyelids fought, and he tried to open his eyes several times, but couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep.

A scream woke him up, as if someone was shouting about a ghost.

Zheng Shouhe opened his eyes sharply and saw Lu Zhi lying under the bed looking at him in horror. He struck sharply, covered Lu Zhi's mouth, crawled out from under the bed, and took a dagger from behind his waist with his other hand, pressing it against Lu Zhi's neck.

Zheng Shouhe also saw Wen Xiangyu curled up on the bed, shivering.

Obviously, Wen Xiangyu was also woken up by Lu Zhi's scream.

"You get up too! What kind of unlucky day is today!"

Zheng Shouhe cursed, found a rope, tied Lu Zhi up, thinking that after enjoying Wen Xiangyu, he would kill them both.

At this time, there was a knock on the door downstairs.

"Is anyone there? I'm here to deliver food."

Zheng Shouhe clicked his tongue. Today's luck was really bad. He tied Lu Zhi up and let Wen Xiangyu go downstairs with him.

Zheng Shouhe threatened Wen Xiangyu with a dagger and whispered: "You tell the person outside to leave!"

Everyone in Yanjiang County knew that the pretty widow of the tofu shop lived alone. If she let the person outside leave, the other party would surely be suspicious if they heard a man's voice.

"You just put the things at the door, I'll go out and get them in a while," Wen Xiangyu shouted in a soft voice.

"No, you haven't paid yet," the person at the door responded.

Zheng Shouhe revealed a fierce look. Since you are looking for death, you can't blame others!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 85 =====