Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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With a stiff facial expression, a trace of rational doubt emerged from the mind that was celebrating the New Year happily: “Brother Bai, are you sure you know what being the guardian means?”
Bai Ju was stunned. He was about to say that he knew. Then he reflected on his Chinese proficiency and shook his head hesitantly.
Xiao Yao stopped talking.
Old Dog Bai touched his phone with a guilty conscience.
Xiao Yao couldn’t help but laugh and reached out to press it. Bai Ju shook his head and said: “There is no need to check… You are right, guardians can indeed be regarded as family members.”
Bai Ju was still a little hesitant. He always felt that there was a trick hidden in Xiao Yao’s smile.
Considering that his little guardian had never really tricked him, Bai Ju hesitated for a moment, then took his hand out of his pocket and reluctantly nodded: “Well…”
Then he turned his wrist over very smoothly and held Xiao Yao’s hand tight.
Xiao Yao: “…”
Xiao Yao twitched his hand but did not pull away, after all he had to acquiesce to his relationship with Old Dog Bai. The big dog held the little guardian’s hand, and they walked forward together.
Bai Ju pulled Xiao Yao and reached into Xiao Yao’s hat. The candies sprinkled from the float could be put into the pocket and eaten slowly, and the flowers could also be eaten directly. The flowers with their stamens removed were fresh and tender, with a fragrant fragrance, and there was abundant nectar in them.
It may also be related to the origin of Turtle Island. The flowers growing here had thin spiritual power, which made it quite a good snack for Old Dog Bai; Xiao Yao ate two or three flowers to satisfy his appetite, then he kept the remaining flowers in his hat and hung them on the white old dog’s chest, letting him eat while walking. He picked out the candies and put them away for him. Then he peeled one off and held it in his mouth.
Now that he had received the gold coins, Bai Ju stopped pushing forward with all his strength. Instead, he leisurely held hands with Xiao Yao and walked slowly, letting the other tourists slowly pass by and squeeze them to the back of the line, the two of them were lucky. The float they encountered was a larger one, with twenty-eight vehicles alone, not to mention the special actors who were performing while walking between the vehicles, overall, the programs in the back row were quite diverse and exciting.
“Well, Yao Yao, look at that.” Bai Ju looked slowly at each car, then his eyes stopped on the third float from the back and he poked Xiao Yao.
Xiao Yao didn’t pay much attention at first, but after hearing Bai Ju’s reminder, he turned around to look.
After all, although the floats were exciting, except for the traditional Turtle Island repertoire on the front row of vehicles, similar things in the back could always be found in modern variety shows. Xiao Yao was not very interested; but at this moment Bai Ju pointed out a float with a big drum in the center of the car, and on the drum was a white-robed Taoist performing a sword dance.
“It looks like an adaptation of the Tai Chi sword.” Xiao Yao carefully identified it, and then his expression became a little surprised, “This aura… he is a Taoist cultivator? “Although he couldn’t tell which sect he belonged to, the sword strikes were inexplicably spiritual. Simply put, it meant that the talent for cultivation was extremely high.
“It’s not a Taoist cultivator.” Bai Ju shook his head, picked up a flower and threw it into his mouth. While following the team, he picked up a lot of flowers as snacks, “He has no thread of faith on his body, so he shouldn’t be a serious believer. Maybe he is a wild person and has just started to practice Taoism, but his body is empty.”
Xiao Yao listened to Bai Ju’s analysis and felt a little strange: “When you first start practicing Taoism, breathing in spiritual energy becomes instinctive. There shouldn’t be no spiritual energy in your body.”
Bai Ju smiled, raised his hand and rubbed Xiao Yao’s head: “He has a familiar smell.”
Xiao Yao was stunned, wondering what the old dog had found: “What does he smell like?”
Bai Ju looked at the young man doing the sword dance and said after careful consideration: “Hmm… the smell of inferior talisman paper and off-brand cinnabar, mixed with a little ink smell; it’s the smell of those talisman papers on Sun Daiyang’s body.”
Xiao Yao was a little surprised, and quickly put a restraint around him and Bai Ju, and asked in a low voice: “Are you sure? Could it be that Sun Daiyang asked this person to buy the talisman paper?”
Bai Ju touched his nose and lowered his voice: “It’s just possible… This person’s breath is clear, and his merits are not heavy, but at least he is not someone who can be in charge of others. It’s just buying and selling talismans. Maybe it’s just a way for people to make a living. Maybe he doesn’t even know that his talismans fell into Sun Daiyang’s hands.”
Xiao Yao did not agree with this statement very much: “But Sun Daiyang obviously knew that his talisman came from Turtle Island; and today’s warlocks value cause and effect more than before, and would not just sell their talismans to people who don’t know what they are talking about, otherwise if something happens, they will have to take the blame.”
In addition, under normal circumstances, tourist tickets to Turtle Island need to be booked three months or more in advance; Sun Daiyang could buy tickets for next week, which was obviously a rush. If he had not had a clear goal, he would not be rushing over in a hurry: “…”
Bai Ju blinked and followed the sword-wielding Taoist in white for a few meters: “What if it was sold casually on the Internet… Just those few talisman papers. It won’t cause any big trouble until the end of the day.”
Xiao Yao choked, but he thought it made sense.
Bai Ju thought about the timeline of the whole incident carefully and felt a little strange: “This person did not land on the island in the same group as us. I never smelled his scent on the plane. The last group of people who landed on the island was a week ago. In other words, if this person had direct contact with Sun Daiyang, then he would have just sold the talisman paper and slipped back to the island without having time to inquire about Sun Daiyang’s situation.”
If this Taoist planned several incidents one after another and tricked Sun Daiyang in the end, then his merits and aura were incompatible with a person behind the scenes; if we say this Taoist was completely innocent, it was hard to explain why he got in touch with Sun Daiyang to buy and sell talismans. It was also unclear whether he left the island during the whole incident.
Xiao Yao thought about it and frowned: ” … No, you have a misunderstanding.”
Pulling Old Dog Bai, Xiao Yao saw that the Taoist had already gone a short distance with the convoy, so he took a few steps to catch up. Then he explained to Old Dog Bai: “Most people come to the island in batches every week, but there are three types of people who do not. One type is a specially invited actor who has booked the time to land on the island in advance, and whose arrival is thus staggered with the tourists, and will come to the island by plane or boat alone; the second type is a freight purchaser who enters and exits the East Peninsula Pier and has very little free time to land on the island; the third type is people or monsters who have proof of residence on Turtle Island.”
Xiao Yao listed it for a while and then said: “This person at least meets the first category and may also fit the third category. In this case, no matter whether he comes out of the island, it can explain why he can appear on Turtle Island so quickly…. At the same time, it also increases the possibility that he could have connected with Sun Daiyang to sell talisman paper.”
Old Dog Bai was confused. Xiao Yao went around and explained a lot of inside information to him. He only understood the last sentence, so he nodded vaguely: “Oh… Then I will leave a mark on him. If we have a chance these days, let’s get in touch with it.”
Xiao Yao was still thinking about the incident very seriously, but after hearing this, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud: “That’s right… We are here for a trip, so we don’t need to worry about him right now.”
Anyway, according to their judgment, this person could not be the one who really did bad things; in this case, no matter what his purpose or what he did, it would not make things worse, and there was no need for them to act in a hurry and reach out to this person. On the contrary, they should pretend that nothing happened and wait for Sun Daiyang to land on the island a week later and go straight to the bait.
Bai Ju lowered his head slightly, looked at Xiao Yao’s profile, raised the corners of his mouth, and responded in a low voice: “Yeah.” Traveling…
Old Dog Bai didn’t say anything more, just moved his fingertips, all the way as the parade swayed, however the fluorescent lights became more active, floating among the actors in the parade. Within a few seconds, five or six dots of fluorescent light touched the Taoist in white, and disappeared under his skin, lurking.
After following the parade for more than 20 minutes, the two of them finished watching all the programs they were interested in. They also got two gold coins in their hands, so they did not continue to follow the parade; instead, they found the service booth at the starting point of the float parade. At the service booth, they hung up the extra gold coin.
For some unspeakable reason, the night programs on Turtle Island did not take up too much night time, so the bonfire party was actually scheduled from 7 to 9 pm the next day; this also added to the float parade time, left enough trading time for the golden coins.
During the entire parade, the total number of gold coins thrown out ranged from fifty to sixty. Under normal circumstances, no one would receive the gold coins repeatedly. Even if they did, the people who received the gold coins would often prefer to keep the gold coins. This was despite the fact that according to regulations, the gold coins could be hung at the parade service booth for resale or even auction, few people would actually sell the gold coins.
Old Dog Bai followed Xiao Yao out of the service kiosk a little depressed. He still couldn’t figure out why the transaction price of gold coins ranged from a low price of 500 to a high price of hundreds of thousands.
Xiao Yao looked at the old dog’s devastated expression of “It’s hard to make extra money, but you may not be able to earn much in the end.” He raised his hand and patted the dog’s head with a smile: “The service kiosk didn’t lie to you, this is true.”
Although the bonfire party on Turtle Island was famous, the content of the event was not very special and the program was not rich. The main content was only bonfire dance and special barbecue. It was not very attractive to people who travelled frequently. Being famous was nothing more than the gimmick of the Turtle Island gold coins themselves and the parade.
Preserving the mystery of the bonfire party would cause tourists who had not received the gold coins to have no expectations for it, even if they wanted to buy gold coins. Or maybe they would just use the gold coins as souvenirs.
Those who were really willing to pay high prices for gold coins either had obsessive-compulsive disorder about the completeness of their travels, or they knew the real benefits that this bonfire party could bring to people.
Just like the flowers scattered all over the float parade, the barbecue ingredients used as ingredients for special events on Turtle Island also contained richer spiritual power than flowers. Although it would not make people achieve enlightenment or anything, these spiritual powers were completely enough to change a person’s health condition. Delaying aging and improving complexion were secondary. More importantly, it could give people with terminal illnesses some breathing room, increasing the possibility of cure, and also allowing people who are dying to survive for another ten days and a half to get a chance to be rescued.
“…Everyone who comes to Turtle Island is not short of money, but here, there is a big difference between knowing the inside story and not knowing the inside story.” Xiao Yao explained the entire inside story to Old Dog Bai, and finally concluded, “Actually, for those who really understand, buying a gold coin like this for hundreds of thousands is a huge profit. You must know that if they ask a warlock like me to achieve the same effect, they will spend more money and might even have to add one or two more zeroes.”
Old Dog Bai: “…”
Old Dog Bai calculated how much money his little guardian could earn, and his eyes were filled with desolation: “Yao Yao, I am so poor.”
Xiao Yao: “…”
Xiao Yao turned around, pressed down Old Dog Bai’s head and kissed his forehead, then rubbed his head, satisfied: “Good boy, the guardian will take care of you.”
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That night, after Bai Ju waited for Xiao Yao to fall asleep, he sat by the bed and stared at his little guardian’s sleeping face for a long time, then hesitantly took out his cell phone.
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