Chapter 27 (1/2)
In port Toulon, the grimace shopkeeper is the best medicine man Joe knows.
If it wasn't for the terrifying face, he would have been qualified to be one of several masters in port TURUN.
In potions, and some quirky abilities, Joe absolutely believed in the grimace manager's judgment.
He said the enchanting potion, that must be the enchanting potion.
He said that the extraordinary secret arts, it must be extraordinary secret arts.
”What are they doing with these girls?” Joe leaned against the counter, a little uneasy, and tapped his finger on a dirty glass jar in front of him.
In the light yellow liquor, a black-and-white ring stripe is all over the body. It is two feet long. The venomous snake with the thickness of its little finger suddenly twitches. It can be seen that it opens its mouth and sprays a ray of yellow venom on its fangs. The color of the liquor becomes darker.
Joe was so scared that he shivered all over and quickly pulled his hand back. Subconsciously, he was away from the counter.
”Alive?” Joe almost didn't yell.
”It's really rare. Of course, all the medicinal liquor I made by secret method are made from living things.” The face shopkeeper took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood on his face: ”well, this jar of three snake wine will be dead in half a year.”
Joe's face twitched and remained silent for a long time.
So, the business of your drugstore has been half dead?
”What are they doing with so many girls?” The grimace shopkeeper pulled out a stool from the counter, sat on the stool, clubbed his elbows on the counter, held his chin in his palm, and frowned and pondered.
”There is no doubt that in the two days after the mid autumn night, the whole port of Tulun is in chaos. As long as those who have some means want to take the opportunity to do something against the law and discipline, it is the easiest opportunity to fish in troubled waters.”
The face shopkeeper took out a large blue and white porcelain bowl from the drawer of the counter. A strong flavor came to my nose. In the big bowl, ten golden headed green body centipedes with the thickness of small fingers were steeped in brine.
”I didn't expect you would come today. You did less.” The face shopkeeper pushed the big porcelain bowl forward gently.
With a dry cough, Joe pulled a stool from one side and sat opposite the grimace shopkeeper.
”I'm afraid of living, but this kind of food is good, you know, I've always liked it. It's delicious, really. ” Qiao Gan smiles, trying to resolve his embarrassment that he was scared by the raw materials for brewing wine.
Two people also do not need tableware, direct start, grab the big centipede which is soaked in the bowl, skilfully peels off the shell, reveals the white tender meat inside, and swallows happily.
A centipede entered his abdomen, and a warm air was slowly released. Joe felt warm all over, and a thin layer of sweat was exuded from his forehead.
”Eh?” Laplaci's sharp and thin voice sounded in Joe's mind: ”you've eaten the secret food technique of drug Gu more than once? No wonder your body was hurt badly, and it's too much the day after tomorrow. ”
”You're so fat and scarlet. You've done too much.”
Joe didn't pay attention to laplaci, and now he doesn't have time to.
”Night snack” made by grimace shopkeeper is extremely terrible, but extremely delicious, and has a strong tonic effect on the body.
Six years ago, just met the grimace shopkeeper, Joe was cheated into eating his first secret ”snack”. Then he wanted to quit and could not. He became a loyal fan of the ”dark food” of the grimace shopkeeper.
”Uncle, you go on. I come to you just to ask for your help.” Joe Malik's hand slipped up a large centipede, put out his tongue, licked the delicious juice on the shell.
”Take these girls away.” The face shopkeeper squinted and said, ”it won't be ordinary human trafficking. The cost is too high, the price is too high. The secret medicine and secret arts that can make me careless are used to abduct a few girls from ordinary families? ”
”Jack, Jerry and Bourne have a lot of money.” Joe added, ”what if it's kidnapping?”
”Well, if you take Jack and them, why do you have to deal with some little girls?” The face shopkeeper swallowed three large centipedes in succession: ”so, it's not ordinary kidnapping, it's not ordinary kidnapping. So, what's the use of these little girls? ”
There was a flash of light in Joe's mind, and he quickly told of the two strange shadows he met on the night of mid autumn.
The white fog, the flurry of the flute, the fierce and evil mice and moths.
”Have you killed the evil spirit?” The face shopkeeper widened his eyes, his face twitched violently, and looked at Joe with great consternation: ”no, you didn't kill him completely. He destroyed his extraordinary tools and escaped with the help of the power of the spirit of corrosion.”
”You destroyed his body, but not his soul.”
In the eyes of the grimace shopkeeper, there was a chill that made Joe feel uncomfortable. He took a fist sized copper bell out of the drawer of the counter and gave it a hard shake.
In the ”Ding Ding” sound, there was a sound from the second floor of the drugstore. After a while, the sound of stairs sounded. Two teenagers, who looked only thirteen or four years old, with crooked melons and rotten dates, rubbed their eyes and staggered out of a small door in the corner of the medicine cabinet.”Teacher.” The two teenagers respectfully saluted the grimace shopkeeper.