Text Chapter 13 Running errands

Sending off his friends, Ding Yi packed up the dolls on the table. Back in his room, Ding Li walked in. "You like that doll, I'll give it to you. Ding Yi said generously.

"You can keep it to yourself, I'm just coming over and talking to you. Ding Li said.

"Are you tired of part-time work?"

"I was very tired, you know, I was like a busy little bee all morning, I never stopped, my arms were so tired that I couldn't lift them, and I sweated at least a big bowl. Ding Yi shook his arm,

"However, later, after I made a suggestion to Steward Xu, I was appointed as the supervisor, and in the future, as long as I managed production, and I also learned puppet art with Master Duoduo, do you know Master Duoduo? He has four spirit-level puppets, just like a real person......" Ding Yi shared his experience and happiness with his brother.

"Do you still want to go to school?" Ding Li asked cautiously,

"Of course," Ding Yi didn't pay attention to his brother's expression, "Although I can learn a lot from Master Duoduo in the puppet shop, I still want to read more books." There is still more than half a year to go to the transcendent festival, and I will make good use of this time, and I also have to study the books left by my brother. ”

"Xiao Yi, in fact, the most talented person in our family and the one who should study the most is you, not me. Ding Li said,

"Big brother, I'm naughty, naughty, I have a few ghost ideas, where I can compare to you, besides, you are the most important pillar of my parents and parents, you don't know, you go to school outside, my mother nagged me and my second sister every day, 'Xiaoyi, if you want to be one-tenth stronger than your brother, I don't have to worry about it.'" ''Xiaoyun, you stupid girl, you can't learn it after teaching it a few times, if your brother is here, you can watch it once.'' Ding Yi said in his mother's tone.

"How can it be so exaggerated," Ding Li laughed.

"Really, I don't lie to you, it's more exaggerated than that. Ding Yi said with a smile. Then he learned his mother's tone, "Xiaoyi, don't take care of reading and playing every day, your brother will be back soon, you have time to go to Nanshan to dig some spring bamboo shoots, your brother loves to eat ......"

The softest piece of Ding Li's heart was touched.

"Xiaoyi, over the years, everyone has worked hard for me, I will not disappoint everyone, I must be admitted to the university, I will not let you down. ”

"Brother, I understand what you mean, you don't have pressure, really, in fact, before I went to work, I still had some ideas, now I can start making money, and I earn more than my father, I can make a little contribution to the family, and after working, I understand how great my parents' selfless dedication to us is. You can rest assured to go to school, I have me at home. Ding Yi patted his chest and reassured.

The twelve demon god cards are placed on the desk one by one, rubbing the back of the card, and the picture inside each card will be activated, although the principle of the demon god card is simple, but it can be very troublesome to make.

It's different from what everyone else focuses on.

Like Yuan Zhen and Liu Hang, they may care about the character building and stunts of the cards, while Ding Yi cares about the formation patterns, nodes, and crystal points behind each card. How is it made.

There are some formation diagrams in the trap box sent by Duoduo, but in fact, this is a little careful thinking of that dwarf. It didn't mean to teach him. Ding Yi is a smart and clever person, how could he not understand this meaning. If you can be a student bully on campus, you must also dominate the workplace. Ding Yi is also a personality who does not admit defeat.

Although the work during the day was very tiring, and he walked a lot after work, and the key was that he didn't sleep all night yesterday, Ding Yi still overcame these difficulties with great perseverance. tirelessly studied these formations and memorized those lines.

There is no formation course in the curriculum of the national primary school, and the curriculum of the national primary school has a common language, arithmetic, general knowledge, history, as well as art courses and art cultivation courses.

However, there are middle school books left by Ding Li, and Ding Yi has already completed the middle school course by self-study.

The curriculum of the middle school includes Chinese Studies, Arithmetic, Preliminary Interpretation of Formations, General History of the Empire, Geography, Astronomy, Ancient Tibetan, and Law. Of course, if you can enter the Xiuzhen School, then the curriculum of the middle school will be different. Like what alchemy, alchemy, spiritual victory method, principle of cultivation, general history of magic, history of imperial cultivation and so on are very different.

The formation method is broad and profound, and the first solution of the formation in middle school only explains the most basic knowledge of the formation. For example, the construction principle of the three-talent array is actually the stability principle of a simple triangle. The use and type of hedron, the conflict and transformation between different substances. It's the most basic thing.

In fact, a lot of auxiliary materials and their functions are not mentioned in the initial solution of the formation. This is just a tutorial for beginners.

The dozens of array diagrams that Duoduo gave to Ding Yi are red, red, green, and green, and the colorful ones will also make people scratch their heads. In fact, different colors represent different energy cycles, and those nodes represent different hedron positions.

It takes a lot of effort to understand each diagram, its composition and function. The point is that there is a lot of knowledge that Ding Yi has never been exposed to. It's even more difficult to understand. The family is not a rich family. There are no books on the subject, let alone a dedicated teacher to guide you.

The array that Duoduo put into the box is definitely not untargeted, it must have some meaning. It must have something to do with the puppet in the box. So after analyzing many parts in the box, and even dismantling a puppet, Ding Yi finally understood the principle and function of the two pictures. Observe carefully and memorize these two formations. Don't wash up and sleep until you remember it completely.

This may be the sweetest sleep Ding Yi has ever had in his life, the nerves of the past two days have jumped tightly, great joy and sorrow, great sorrow and joy, as well as physical overload, almost as soon as his head is touched on the pillow, he enters a dark sweet sleep.

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it's like your arm being cut with a knife and an axe, and it's like your whole body is fried and cooked in boiling hot oil. When Ding Yi woke up from his sleep alive, the sky had not yet dawned.

The tearing pain was so real. So much so that Ding Yi almost screamed. When Ding Yi, who was in a shadow, saw the things on the thin quilt, he almost screamed again.

It was a cat, a cat with beautiful tiger striped fur.

"Tiger skin!" Ding Yi covered his mouth in horror, trying not to make a sound.

In the dark night, the cat's eyes glowed yellow, staring at Ding Yi quietly. It seems to see Ding Yi's heart. In school before, this one touched it, that little thing that secretly kicked it. After seeing his transformation last night, Ding Yike no longer treats him as an ordinary family pet.

The pain in the wrist indicates that the uninvited guest was responsible. How does it know its home, and it knows that it lives in that room. Ding Yi thought about it fearfully, and trembled all over.

The cat was laughing, yes, it was clearly laughing. That kind of anthropomorphic smile does not make people feel its cuteness, but makes people feel a little palpitation.

"Hey," Tiger Fur raised his paws and said hello, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, scorching Ding Yilei's inside and out. This cat can actually talk!

Ding Yi was so surprised that his jaw dropped, which was also incredible. In fact, most of the cultivators' methods are such incredible. However, Ding Yi recovered quickly from the shock.

"How did you get in?" Ding Yi had a lot of questions, but he only asked what he wanted to know the most.

"How you got in, that's how I got in. Tiger Skin said perfunctorily, but apparently it was pleased with the effect.

This old cat ran into the house in the middle of the night, and it must be no good. Isn't there a saying, 'When a night owl enters the house, nothing happens'?

Ding Yi tightened the quilt, "I have already gone to the pharmacy to hand over the silver dollar to the guy named Zhou Chong as requested." It's noon. Ding Yi hurriedly said that he was not sure about the purpose of the owl looking for him this night, it would not be to kill people and eat him. This cat has performed a great transformation in front of him.

"You're doing a good job," Tiger Skin was visibly satisfied.

"This morning, you go to the North Gate Zuo Ancestral Hall, there is a Hong Ji braised roast near the left temple, you go to buy a bowl of Jingdong braised stew, and tell Hong Ji to add more peppers, put more coriander, you want him to pack it quickly, you have to take it away." Tiger Skin raised his left paw, and a silver dollar clattered and landed on the table. There was a clear sound of 'ding', and Ding Yi was startled.

"Don't worry, your family can't hear it. Tiger Skin laughed. He turned around and jumped to the ground, hooked open the door and walked out like a human. "Good job!" Tiger Skin grinned, ready to leave.

"Wait a minute, can you give me some money for the journey?" Ding Yi said pitifully. The tiger skin who had already reached the door couldn't help but stumble.

The hanging heart was relaxed, and the annoying emotions were flooded. It seems that Lao Zhang has eaten him, no wonder his father said that cultivators are some objects that cannot be provoked. This trouble comes one after another, and I don't know when it will end. I don't know if the big battle last night was done by Lao Zhang, thinking of the tragic death of Qi Guoyuan in front of Furong Tower, Ding Yi couldn't help but be a little frightened.

There was a small bite mark on his arm, which should have been bitten by the old cat. It's good not to be eaten by it. As long as it is not used as a tool that will be destroyed, it will be a pawn of others. Ding Yi thought bigly.

I got up and picked up the silver dollar on the table, carefully put it in my hand and looked at it, and I still didn't see a clue after looking at it for a long time. He carefully put the silver dollar and the brass plates that had been thrown on the bed into his pocket, covered them with his hands, and lay down again.

It was still dark outside, and I didn't know what time it was. Recalling the story that happened in the past two days, it was really twists and turns, and the story of grandpa gave Ding Yi a wake-up call. The deceit and intrigue in the world are really frightening, and you have to think about it more.

Cultivating the true dream, it seems that it is about to wake up from the dream.

I don't know if I was frightened by the tiger skin, or what, I wanted to sleep again but couldn't sleep. Simply got up, opened Duoduo's box again, and took out the array diagram to study.

It's not that Tiger Skin can speak human language, it's Lao Zhang who controls it. All this is Lao Zhang's troublemaker. Like a flash of lightning flashing through his mind, Ding Yi suddenly understood. Lao Zhang should be a beast controller, so that everything has an explanation.

The harmless tiger skin of humans and animals, usually at school, this child hugs, that child touches, and even children play pranks and trick it, if it is really so psychic, it would have risen up and resisted a long time ago. Although the world is crazy and there are many unexplained events, it should still be impossible for cats to talk to people. The main reason was that I was too scared at the time and didn't think it through.

What is the origin of this Lao Zhang, the deceit and intrigue between cultivators seem to be better than mortals.

There was a big explosion in the direction of Dajue Temple last night, although I didn't hear anyone talking about it during the day. But Ding Yi's intuition thought that it must have something to do with this old Zhang. Zhou Chong of Yining Hall, the boss of Hong Ji Halo Yao, seems to be in the same group as Lao Zhang. Why don't you go by yourself, you always let yourself run errands. I don't want to be exposed. What is the conspiracy of Lao Zhang to hide in school?

He was forced to hand over the handle to him.

Ding Yi thought about it in annoyance, took out the silver dollar again, and looked at it for a long time and still didn't see anything abnormal.

Early in the morning, Ding Yi went out of the house almost half an hour early under the pretext of going to the workshop in advance. On the way, he called a hitchhiker, paid fifteen copper coins, and went to the north gate.

The reason why hitchhikers are called hitchhikers is because of the hitchhiking horses. This beautiful creature with a docile temperament, strong gravity, and fast running speed is the main vehicle of many urban traffic. Unlike ordinary horse lengths, the leg hair of a downwind horse is very long, and it is more than ten centimeters. And this hitchhiker is not only taller than the average horse, but also more psychic. Another difference is that this guy eats meat.

In the early morning, there were already many people on the street, but there were not many cars and horses on the carriageway, and gradually there were more sidewalks on the road. Because this is the best part of the city. The largest commercial settlement in the city.

After getting out of the carriage, it was easy to find the Hung Kee lo yaki. There were many diners in the early morning, and a tall and thin middle-aged uncle was busy. The four tables in the store are full of people.

There are two kinds of braised pork in Hong Ji, one is the large intestine of the pig beast, the lungs and the belly are boiled in Jingdong with bean skin, pig blood and coriander, and the other is the Sumen roast made by boiling the small intestine of the pig and the beast, pork belly, pig head meat and pig lung. These two kinds of stew are served with Jiyun City's local specialty dough cake. It is really the most prestigious snack in Jiyun City.

I can smell the aroma of braised pork from afar.

Ding Yi rarely eats this kind of thing. First, the family conditions are limited, and the family generally does it themselves. Second, Ding Yi was a little resistant to eating animal offal and going into the water. But this business is really good, several diners don't have seats, so they squat in front of the store to eat.

Looking up at the black version on the wall, Jingdong cooks a large bowl of 12 Wen, and a small bowl of 6 Wen. Sumatyaki is a large bowl of ten wen and a small bowl of five wen. At the current price of a piece of bread and a penny, things are still a bit expensive.

Anyway, he came to spend money to do things, Ding Yi paid the money first according to Lao Zhang's instructions, and then packed three bowls each. Looking back at the boss of Hong Ji who was still running the business, the thin and tall middle-aged man, no matter how he looked at it, he still couldn't see the appearance of a cultivator.

Less than half past seven, Ding Yi arrived at Xu Ji at work. Duoduo had just gotten up, and the little dwarf was about to go to the morning market at the front door to have breakfast, and Ding Yi walked in with a few large boxes of stew.

Xu Rongfa was washing, and the child worker who was guarding the door had just removed the door panel. It's strange for everyone to see Ding Yi coming to work so early.

"Steward, Master Duoduo hurry up, who else is there, Brother Xiao Ye, I just bought it, it's still hot Jingdong cooking, Sumen cooking ......" Ding Yi beckoned.

Duoduo is definitely a glutton. Such a small body, seven rice crackers, and three bowls of braised boiled food entered Duoduo's stomach in the blink of an eye. "What is this made of, and why is it so delicious?", asked Duoduo curiously. Ding Yi was surprised.

"Master Duoduo, haven't you ever eaten braised roast?" Ding Yi asked curiously.

"Is this thing called marinated burning?" asked Duoduo rhetorically. While shouting that it is a pity, living in this city, I didn't know that there was such delicious food in this city.

Xu Rongfa didn't know where to take out a toothpick, while picking his teeth, while bending his fingers while talking about eating: "Jiyun City stewed four families, the donkey in Xicheng called the sky, simmering duck soup over a slow fire, donkey meat is delicious; Nanmen rice sausage, sheep's head meat, and lamb soup soaked in steamed buns; in the north city, it is the double braised boiled in Hongji, Jingdong boiled and Sumen burned, accompanied by a mille-feuille snow cake; the old community in the city stewed, chicken, duck, pigeon, quail, secret medicine stew. The raw materials used by these four families are different, and the main characteristics are donkeys, sheep, pigs and poultry. The other houses in the city are far worse than these ones. These four people have their own secret recipes, each has its own refining process, don't look at this small piece of braised meat, there are dozens or hundreds of ingredients, heat, and technology that can only be really mastered for decades. ”

This steward turned out to be an expert among foodies.