togophonebook Chapter 752: Fox Book Rubbings
Chapter 752: Fox Book Rubbings
Chapter 752: Fox Book Rubbings
After coming out of the City God Temple, they took a walk around Xia Pi. Finally, Gong Mengbi invited Shao Huzheng and Miao Huhui to go to Mingyue Ice House to eat ice cream.
The ice house was very grand and had many customers, including merchants and scholars, and the private rooms also had young men and women from wealthy families.
Gong Mengbi led the people in and the waiter came to greet them.
"You three guests are unfamiliar with each other. Is this your first time here?"
"Do you still remember which one you came back?"
"This is my unique skill. Guests who have served me will never forget it. Our restaurant has crispy mountain, iced cheese, sweet bowls, hay ice drinks, iced rice wine, iced cold yuanzi, and iced sour plum soup. Here is the menu. What would you three like to eat?"
Xiao Er was not very old, with a sweet and sharp mouth. When he smiled, he showed a row of snow-white teeth. His round and cute face reminded Gong Mengbi of Xiao Yier.
"Then let's have three bowls of rose ice cream."
"okay."
Miao Huhui's heart began to beat fast as soon as he glanced at the menu. He frantically groped in his sleeves, trying to take out the change he had saved.
Gong Mengbi held his hand and said, "It's my treat."
Shao Huzheng looked around and said, "There are several ice cream parlors in Pengcheng, all of which opened in recent years. The one with the best business is Mingyue Ice Cream Parlor, which also has a branch in Xiapi."
Miao Huhui was still not used to being treated by his superior, so he said, "We cultivators are not afraid of cold or heat, and we rarely come to the ice room to enjoy ourselves. Today, we are all blessed by Gong Huzheng."
Gong Mengbi said: "I didn't really ask you to come here to eat ice cream, just listen carefully."
The ice cream has been served, with cool smoke coming out of the bowl. The rose jam is mixed with milk smoothie that looks like fine snow. The fragrance of flowers and milk comes up together, making people feel sweet from the heart.
But after listening to Gong Mengbi's words, Miaohuhui's attention was no longer on Bingru.
Gong Mengbi held up the white porcelain bowl and said, "In the private room upstairs."
Miao Huhui was concentrating so much that the laughter and chatter of the diners around him gradually faded away, while the sounds from the private room upstairs became clearer.
Soon, he heard a very familiar name from several private rooms.
"Zhang Chengzu, please stop telling lies. It's either a fairy or a fox. Why didn't we see any fairies or foxes?"
"I really didn't lie!"
"Okay, okay, you didn't lie, we just heard it wrong, okay?"
"Hey, I also snatched a rare book from the fox. If my mother hadn't taken it to Jingta Temple, I would have shown it to you."
"Look, it's the same again. Last time they said they met a fairy and got a magical treasure, this time they said they bumped into a fox and got a magical book. We didn't see the treasure, and we didn't see the magical book either."
"Hey, don't listen to his nonsense, Sister Wan'er, the iced fruit wine here is unique, try one."
Several young men and women made fun of him, and Zhang Chengzu's face turned red.
One of the older ones taught him a lesson: "Chengzu, you are already an adult. Don't be obsessed with these superstitious things all day long. If you don't want to study, you should learn how to manage a family. Why are you still so irrelevant?"
Zhang Chengzu got angry, slammed the table and said, "I'll let you guys see for yourself!"
He pulled out a stack of papers from his bosom, waved them and said, "Look, this is the rubbing of my strange book, see if I am kidding you!"
He placed the rubbing on the table. Young men and women gathered around to look at it. They saw foxes leaping and birds flying, as well as unrecognizable scribbles of words on it.
The reason why it is called text rather than scribbles is because there are so many things copied on it. Although it is incomprehensible, it is indeed some kind of writing.
"Did you really run into a fox?"
"Keep your voice down!" Zhang Chengzu lowered his voice, and said with a bit of pride, "I told you I wasn't lying. That fox spirit came to ask for the book, but my parents thought that the book was ominous, so they didn't allow me to keep it and forced me to send it to Jingta Temple."
"Who am I? I will deliver it if you ask me to? This is the text that my servant and I copied overnight, but we were short on time, so we only copied the beginning."
"There are so many in just one beginning? Could it be some kind of heavenly book or treasure scroll?"
"I don't know. I can't understand it." Zhang Chengzu shook his head and said, "By the way, Master Shangyi is in Jingta Temple now. I sent the strange book to Jingta Temple. Master Shangyi should have read it. I don't know if he can recognize it."
"Why don't you go to Jingta Temple and ask Master Shangyi!"
"Go, go, don't eat anymore. Come back and eat later. I'll treat you."
A group of people started to make a commotion, and they were even more anxious than Zhang Chengzu.
Zhang Chengzu stuffed a piece of ice cream into his mouth and said, "Why are you in such a hurry? Master Shangyi won't run away again!"
Several young men hurried downstairs, and their followers immediately left their seats and followed them.
Miao Huhui looked unhappy and didn't even have time to eat the ice cream.
"How can we let the delicious food go to waste?" Gong Mengbi pushed the ice cream in front of him and said, "There is no rush."
Miao Huhui sighed, and put the milk smoothie mixed with rose jam into his mouth with a snow-white porcelain spoon. The sweetness spread from the tip of his tongue, and the coolness dissipated the summer heat and slightly soothed his anxious heart.
Gong Mengbi leaned back in his chair, turned his head to glance at the door of the ice room, watched the young men and women leave, narrowed his eyes slightly, and then put on a nonchalant smile.
Miao Huhui quickly finished the ice cream, his forehead aching from the cold, and said, "Gong Huzheng, let's go get the Fox Book back. At the very least, we have to get the rubbings back and not spread them around."
"If only it could be solved that easily."
"He took it away, can't we just take it back?"
"You are a ninth-rank immortal official."
"Yes."
"Do you know what the fate of a ninth-rank immortal official is?"
"Ninth-grade destiny?"
Gong Mengbi laughed: "Although we are all born as wild foxes, we are able to become immortal officials because we were selected by the Queen Mother of Mount Tai and entered the immortal register. We are practicing the immortal way and have long changed our fate and destiny. We are in a different world."
"No matter how good the fate of the Zhang family's kid is, first, he doesn't have the fate of a dynasty, second, he doesn't have the inner civil and military fate, and third, he doesn't have the fate of practicing. No matter how good his fate and luck are, he is just a pile of loose sand and can't compare to you."
Miao Huhui was stunned: "So it's not me who has the problem?"
"I'm afraid someone is behind this." Gong Mengbi stood up and said, "I just don't know who it's aimed at. Maybe it's aimed at you, maybe it's aimed at me, maybe it's aimed at the child of the Zhang family."
"Follow up and have a look."
Shao Huzheng and Miao Huhui followed Gong Mengbi's footsteps and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The waiter turned around and found that the person was gone. Just as he was about to look for him, he found a piece of loose change left on the table. He then breathed a sigh of relief.
Several young people went to Jingta Temple in a horse-drawn carriage. When they arrived at Jingta Temple, Gong Mengbi and the other two had also arrived.
Gong Mengbi looked at it from a distance and could not help but exclaimed: "The Buddha's shadow is deep and heavy."
Seeing these young people entering the Jingta Temple, Gong Mengbi said, "Let's go in too."
Shao Huzheng hesitated and said, "I just had a fight with the monks in the temple. Is it inappropriate for me to go like this?"
"Just follow me."