3 Shop for Wish Realization
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Mr. Qingming, I have...waited for you for a long time.
The woman's voice was so remote that it seemed to span a very long time before reaching his ears.
"Who are you...?" Jia Qingming walked around the screen suspiciously, looking at her.
There have been too many strange things recently.
A gentlewoman, like a fairy walking out of the painting, is wearing a well-fitting Hanfu, with loose long sleeves and long hem, and her waist is close to the body with lines that draw man's imagination.
The woman nodded lightly at Qingming. Her long, jet-black hair tied up with a hairpin. Her attire and gestures were like the furnishings in this room, with an ancient style. This ancient Stealing Heaven Pavilion also seemed to have passed through ancient times, but as the woman in front of him, it was a living existence.
"My name is Bai Ling, I am the master of Stealing Heaven Pavilion." Her eyebrows are delicate and gentle, like the soft lake water in spring.
"You just said... you are waiting for me?"
"That's right. Mr. Qingming is the person of fate I waited for, and the person destined to kill me."
"Kill you?"
"Never mind. You are just my guest for now."
"Guest?" Jia Qingming was confused, thinking that this woman was really mysterious and never finished her words.
Bai Ling pointed to the antique wooden chair next to him and motioned for him to sit down. Qingming sat up cautiously, for fear of ruining the priceless furnishings in the house. The instrument that Bai Ling played just now was not far away, and the vibrations produced by playing the guqin all year round had caused cracks like ice cracks on the paint.
"I am the owner of the Stealth Pavilion, and the Stealth Pavilion is a shop that fulfills your wishes. Any wish... as long as you can afford it. Mr. Qingming’s wish was just heard by me. It has been fulfilled for Mr. Qingming, That’s why Mr. Qingming came here."
"Wish... Wait, I don't seem to have promised anything..."
Jia Qingming is not a person who often makes wishes. The most important reason is that the wishes he made have never been realized. It is as small as a good relationship with classmates, or as large as a dream fortune, which has never been realized once. Things have gone in the opposite direction.
So he hasn't made a wish long ago, and he hasn't paid attention to when a meteor will pass by, which will bring about messy things like "cosmic energy" that can reverse the fortune.
At this moment, Jia Qingming suddenly remembered the strong sound beating deep in his heart when he was chased by the ghost on the street in the heavy rain.
——Who can...save me...
"Yes, the wish...hidden deep in my heart, it cannot be said or understood, but it must be... a strong wish that must be realized." Bai Ling said, cutting off a piece of sandalwood with a delicate knife. Put it in the incense burner.
The chattering flint sound, white smoke lines rising, filled the room.
"With that wish, I will naturally find it here."
When she said these words, Qingming seemed to see pictures he was running himself, with of deep despair not being able to find anyone to help him...
It was extremely deep loneliness when he was full of desires.
She went to the seat on the other side and sat down with gentle steps. Only the hem of the long dress dragged on the ground rubbed the ground, making a small sound.
Then she stretched out a hand to Jia Qingming, spreading her white palms, and there seemed to be no palm prints on her hands—no, to be precise, although there were palm prints when he concentrated on observing, he couldn't see it.
"What?"
"Price." Her lips spit out these two words gently.
"What's the price?"
"The price of fulfilling your wishes. Exchange your most precious possession for the deepest desire of obsession. This is the rule." Her words seemed to touch distant memories, but Qingming started to feel a headache, these familiar words He couldn't remember when and where he heard it.
"I just took action to rescue Mr. Qingming's wish has been fulfilled. So now it takes... a price."
"What if... I can't afford it?" Jia Qingming felt that he was experiencing a Compulsory transaction, but he didn't have much money.
"This is the rule. If you want to get anything, you must pay the price. Otherwise..."
"Otherwise what?"
"Otherwise, the price will be levied forcibly-as small as bad luck and everything goes wrong; as large as physical damage, death, or even... lost your soul."
"L...lost my soul?" Jia Qingming almost bit his tongue. "What do you want my soul for?"
"I am not the one to collect the soul of Mr. Qingming. In this world, only you can end the curse of my immortality, so I won't let you die." Bai Ling looked at him, her generous sleeves covered her mouth, and chuckled. The smile on her face seemed to be staring at the prey cat under her claws, and Qingming couldn't help but feel chills.
"The soul is collected by the ruthless heaven. Although the Stealing Pavilion operated by me can help people satisfy any wish, but I am only stealing from heaven and cannot go against it."
"Stealing heaven?"
"Yes. I become a heaven stealer occasionally. Heaven is the law of everything in the world. In current terms, it is equivalent to a system, and I am a special case of it."
"Like a system bug?"
Bai Ling nodded, "I am more like a hacker who uses BUG. The most precious possession and the deepest desire for obsession can be exchanged for equal value to achieve a balance in the rules. The so-called stealing from heaven... I use Heaven’s rules and holes to help clients solve their problems and satisfied their wishes. Of course, this client can be a human or a monster."
"Then... how should I pay... the price you just saved me?" Qingming's palms were sweating since Bai Ling looked like a greedy predator.
"Things that can be used as a price, you are carrying him now. The most precious thing for you."
The smell of incense in the air seems to have a soothing effect.
"The most precious thing?" Qingming touched her trouser pocket and flipped through her schoolbag. There were only wet books in it, her wallet, mobile phone, and a few crumpled banknotes.
"Yes, the most precious thing. When you are in a desperate situation and feel nervous, you will seek that item to give yourself comfort. If you don't have it, your mind and soul will seem to be missing. Only such things can It's worth...the price." Bai Ling reminded, wide sleeves covering the corners of his mouth like a businessman's smile. The light and dark lines on the sleeves are interlaced, forming a strange pattern.
"You mean..." Qingming's hand held the jade bracelet on his wrist, as if afraid that someone would snatch it.
This bracelet is no longer useful. It's just that he still regards it as something like a talisman.
The white and tender woman's palms were spread out in front of him. Although she often played the piano, her fingertips did not produce calluses, as soft as newly-born skin.
Qingming hesitated for a while, took the jade bracelet from his wrist, and put it on Bai Ling's hand.
"Deal." Bai Ling stroked the jade bracelet, closed his eyes and said.
"Eh! What, what?" Jia Qingming noticed that two figures suddenly appeared in the room.
One of them was a girl in white, a very delicate and beautiful girl with a sunny and lively smile on her face; the other was also a girl in black with a cold expression. The two stood by, like two majestic guardians.
The cold-faced woman in black has a pair of strangely shaped pupils, immersed in amber eyes. She tilted her head to Qingming and said, "Ah. You are a real human."
Jia Qingming suddenly remembered that the black cat he had just seen outside the door of the Stout Pavilion. It was a pair of unique pupils of cats.
Then this smiling woman in white should be the big white dog rolling in the puddle, Qingming noticed that there was still some mud on her body.
"Hello, human, just call me Xiaobai." The white-clothed girl tilted her head and waved at him.
"Can you see them?" Bai Ling let out a soft smile, "Since you can see them, it means that it belongs to you again. The eyes that communicate this shore and the other shore-the sky eye."
Yes, it is back.
Those eyes can see demons and ghosts.
Jingming was silent.
Bai Ling stood up, playing with the jade bracelet he had just received. "Ah, now there is a problem. Although this bracelet is extraordinary, it has now been broken, and most of the spiritual power has disappeared. Although it is the most precious thing for you, it is broken now. If you use this as a price... it's not enough. If you don't want to be charged by Heaven to make up for it, you need to make dinner for us to cover the price."
"Cooking?" Qingming was so surprised that his chin almost fell to the ground. "Aren't you talking about using precious things as a price?"
"Well-prepared food is of course also very precious." Bai Ling put the jade bracelet into the sleeve of his robe, and laughed again, covering his mouth, half covering his face with his pipa. However, it exudes an air of greed and cunning.
"And on such a rainy day, Sichuan hot pot is the best!"
The corner of Qingming's eyes twitched and looked at Bai Ling, a woman who seemed to have come out of an ancient painting.
"The meat slices need to be cut by hand!" Xiaobai actively pushed the umbrella into Qingming's arms.
"Wine is a perfect match, don't forget." Xiao Hei warned solemnly.
"It is authentic enough to use sesame oil, oyster sauce, and shallots and garlic as a dipping sauce! Then, let's decide! Even if it is our reception for Qingming." Bai Ling clapped her palms together, smiling obediently, smiling like a smile A sinister and cunning child.
"Oh!" Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai passed unanimously.
"Hey, how can you make a banquet for yourself?" Jia Qingming went out to the supermarket with a look of decency.
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Bai Ling opened the window and looked out the rainy window. A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating the courtyard.
"This kind of weather will not end for a long time, and there should be something big going on in Shenting County."
She stroked the jade bracelet, as soft as a small animal in the palm of her hand.
"It seems that Mr.Qingming recently has encountered something..."
The thunder followed by the lightning chased, and the rumbling sound rolled and cracked.
"...something incredible."
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