Images related to the Painted Skin appeared in the middle-aged Taoist priest's mind.
Li Yi told the story of how Wang Sheng's wife, Chen, found a Taoist priest to kill the ghost after Wang Sheng was killed by the ghost.
In the middle-aged Taoist priest's mind, the same scene as the story began to appear: "After entering the courtyard, the Daoist priest stood in the middle of the courtyard with a wooden sword in his hand and shouted,"Evil creature! Give me my horsetail whisk!" The old woman in the room was so frightened that she panicked. Her face was pale as she rushed out of the door, wanting to escape. The Taoist priest chased after her and slashed at her with his sword. The old woman fell to the ground, and her human skin fell off with a whoosh. She turned into an evil ghost, lying there and howling like a pig…”
The middle-aged Taoist priest was lost in Li Yi's story.
While Li Yi was telling the story, many passersby on the streets were attracted by his story and began to gather around the fortune-telling stall, listening attentively.
Ten!
Thirty!
Fifty!
……
In less than fifteen minutes, Li Yi had easily gathered more than a hundred listeners.
Strictly speaking, Painted Skin was a ghost story.
Therefore, every time Li Yi talked about the terrifying part, it would cause the surrounding audience to exclaim in horror.
Many times, everyone was scared out of their wits by Li Yi's story. They wanted to turn around and leave, but they couldn't stand the attraction of the story.
"Painted Skin" was, after all, a short story. It didn't take long for Li Yi to finish explaining "Painted Skin".
After he finished talking about "Painted Skin", Li Yi pondered deeply and began to talk about "Nie Xiaoqian".
Of course, the Nie Xiaoqian he was talking about wasn't the original Liao Zhai Zhi Yi, but the plot that was later adapted into a classic movie.
Compared to the horror elements of " Painted Skin,"" Nie Xiaoqian " was also very scary, but it had an additional love element, which made it even more popular among the audience.
From time to time, the audience would exclaim in horror, mixed with praise about the love between Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen.
As time passed, the number of audiences around Li Yi's fortune-telling stall continued to increase rapidly. By the time Li Yi finished talking about " Painted Skin ", there were already close to three hundred audiences gathered around him. Half of the Vermilion Bird Avenue was blocked.
At this moment, not far away, on the Vermilion Bird Avenue in front of the Black Tortoise Gate, two armored generals rode over. One of them was strong and powerful, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, while the other had a black face and a strong body. Behind each of them were ten bodyguards.
These two generals were famous generals of the Great Tang. They were Cheng Yaojin, the Left Commander General and the Governor of Yuan Province, and Yuchi Jingde, the Right Marquis General and the Governor of the same province.
Yuchi Jingde's official position was a foreign official, and he needed to return to the capital to report on his work every once in a while.
This time, he was summoned back by Li Shimin.
Because Yuchi Jingde and Cheng Yaojin were good friends, every time Yuchi Jingde returned to the capital, Cheng Yaojin would go to the palace with Yuchi Jingde to meet Li Shimin.
This time, it was the same.
"Eh? What's going on in front? Why are there so many people?”
When they passed the intersection, Yuchi Jingde and Cheng Yaojin were blocked by the crowd in front of them. Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde stopped their horses at the same time.
"Send someone over to take a look!"
Cheng Yaojin said.
Then, he turned around and pointed the horsewhip at a bodyguard with a Mo knife hanging at his waist."Wang Wu, go and see what's blocking the road ahead!”
"Yes, General."
Then, the bodyguard with the Mo knife at his waist went up to inquire. Not long after, the bodyguard returned.
"Reporting to the two generals, the reason why the road ahead is so congested is that there is a little master telling a story in front, so there are so many people surrounding it.”
The Mo Saber bodyguard returned and reported.
"Storytelling?"
Yuchi Jingde and Cheng Yaojin looked surprised and then looked at each other.
They had never seen a storyteller who could cause such a huge sensation on the streets.
"Brother Zhijie, you didn't tell His Majesty before that I'm back. When will I enter the palace?”
Yuchi Jingde turned around and asked Cheng Yaojin.
Zhi Jie was the name that Cheng Yaojin had changed later. Now, in the imperial court, people who were familiar with Cheng Yaojin called him Zhi Jie.
"Not really."
Cheng Yaojin shook his head.
Yuchi Jingde entering the palace wasn't a big deal. Although Li Shimin knew that Yuchi Jingde would be back soon, he still had to see if he had time to meet him.
"It's still early, so there's no hurry to enter the palace. Since there's such a lively event ahead, I think we should get off the horse and listen!”
Yuchi Jingde was a person who liked to join in the fun, so he suggested.
"I'm afraid that's not good, right?"
Cheng Yaojin said awkwardly.
Although this was a trivial matter, if the current Emperor knew that Yuchi Jingde had gone to the streets to listen to storytellers on his way into the Palace, it would probably make the Emperor furious.
"It's okay, Brother Zhijie. His Majesty doesn't know when I arrived.”
said Yuchi Jingde.
As he spoke, he got off his horse and walked towards the crowd.
"Sigh! Brother Zhijie…"
Seeing Yuchi Jingde's swift movements, Cheng Yaojin could only dismount and follow him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
The two of them walked towards the crowd and squeezed into it.
Because the two of them were wearing general armor and were strong, it was obvious that they were high-ranking generals.
Even those who were pushed awake by the two of them, even if they were angry, did not dare to say anything and could only obediently make way.
Very quickly, Yuchi Jingde and Cheng Yaojin squeezed to the front and were only a few feet away from Li Yi.
Although they had already learned from their personal guards that the storyteller was a monk, they were still shocked.
However, they were still surprised that the storyteller was such a young and handsome young monk.
Then, the two of them started listening to Li Yi's story.
The two of them were shocked when they heard that.
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