Chapter 1 A Change of Events

Old Zhao, not caring that his butt was bruised, pointed at me and stammered, "He, he, he, he can also make paper figures, and he's no worse than me!"

Before I could react, several men in black suits surrounded me. The leader grabbed Old Zhao and scolded, "We're the sending-dog crew. What good is it if he can make paper figures?"

"He, he, he's very skillful, he can do anything. The little animals he makes look just like they're alive. It's not that I, Zhao, don't know what's good for me, it's just that my hand is burned and I can't do it. Otherwise, I would definitely go and send off Young Master Fen myself."

It turned out that Boss Wang had created a white traffic control situation for nothing. The beloved dog, Fenfen, still smashed its head against a telephone pole. Wang Yongnian was heartbroken at the loss of his beloved dog and prepared a grand funeral. The bodyguards had failed to protect the dog, so they planned to send a hundred exquisite paper mother dogs with gold trim and painted colors to express their condolences, forcing Old Zhao to use all his best materials.

Old Zhao didn't want to bear this loss, nor did he want to suffer this humiliation, so he deliberately spilled tea and burned his hand. Seeing that those people still wouldn't leave, he gritted his teeth and shifted the trouble to me.

What was that saying? Better a dead friend than a poor Daoist. I was the teammate used to plug the hole.

I glanced at Old Zhao with annoyance, pulled him up from the ground, and told him to go sit in my shop first. Then, I crossed my arms and stood in the doorway.

"Kid, you can also make paper figures?" The leading man in black, with a cigarette in his mouth and a tilted head, acted as if the entire universe couldn't contain him.

"Yes," I replied with an impassive expression.

"Alright, then you come with us. Bring the best paper and decorations from your shop." The man in black was too lazy to make any more trouble. Anyway, Old Zhao couldn't make paper figures, so it was better to take me away than to argue with him.

I very readily replied with two words: "No way."

"Unappreciative!" The man in black immediately flew into a rage, throwing a punch at my face.

I was about to raise my hand to block, but before the fist could hit my face, the man flew out and landed five meters away, falling even more miserably than Old Zhao. He must have broken a couple of long bones in his arms and legs.

Then, the other men in black also flew out one after another, all slamming into the guy who was about to hit me.

Then, a tall and straight young man appeared in front of me, looking at the men in black as if they were trash.

The man in black on top pointed at the young man and cursed, "Kid, who the hell are you? Do you know who you're offending?"

The young man said coldly, "I know. Go back and tell your master that there's someone named Ding Kan who doesn't like him. If he sees his people, he'll beat them. Tell him to behave himself."

The men in black exchanged glances. Although they didn't know where this Ding Kan came from, they decided that discretion was the better part of valor and scrambled away as fast as the wind.

Seeing that those people were gone, Old Zhao also dusted off his butt and went back to tidy up his shop that had suffered a disaster.

I cupped my fist in front of my chest towards Ding Kan.

"Thank you."

"You're too polite, Shopkeeper Wan. You wouldn't have been any slower than me in dealing with them."

Indeed, they were just a bunch of lackeys. It would have been easy for me to deal with them, but I still had to live here in the future, and I didn't want to implicate my neighbors, so I couldn't just beat them like dogs. The scene definitely wouldn't have been as pretty as what Ding Kan did.

"Are you looking for me for something?" I stopped being polite and cut straight to the point.

"I heard that Shopkeeper Wan's family has a Medicine-Pounding Immortal enshrined here, so I came specifically to take a look."

"Please come inside."

Since he asked about the Medicine-Pounding Immortal, he must have come to see a doctor. I let Ding Kan into the shop.

The Medicine-Pounding Immortal is the rabbit. Although fox spirits, weasels, hedgehogs, and snakes can also borrow bodies to prescribe some herbal remedies, the truly life-threatening injuries and illnesses still require the little rabbit to come.

Before Chang'e flew to the moon, the rabbit was already pounding medicine in the moon. No one knows how many thousands or tens of thousands of years of cultivation that is. Its medical skills are naturally unmatched by those fox spirits and snake monsters in the mountains.

I sized Ding Kan up and down, and then I took out the abacus and started calculating again: "The Medicine-Pounding Immortal says he needs two ruby beads, the kind that glow at night. You have them on you. If you want to save your life, you have to part with them."

I actually had a good impression of this young man, but the adorable little rabbit wouldn't give free medical treatment, so I could only shamelessly ask for money.

Without any hesitation, Ding Kan immediately took out two red gemstone beads from his body and placed them on the table. "These are just material possessions. The immortal is welcome to accept them."

This kid was quite sensible, knowing that even if the beads were priceless, they couldn't compare to his own life.

Ding Kan's physical condition was terrible. He must have been besieged by zombies. His body was covered in marks from being pierced by fingernails and teeth. Five finger holes in his chest went straight through, and his heart was almost grabbed out. Although his skin had already scabbed over, fingernails and teeth were still stuck inside his body. I didn't know how he had survived until now.

Carrying such a body of injuries and still throwing the men in black around so smoothly, how formidable would this kid's combat power be at full strength? It was simply unimaginable.

Without saying anything more, I led Ding Kan to the second floor, closed the curtains, and lit an oil lamp. Ding Kan's shadow appeared on the white wall, and then I started chanting:

"Little white rabbit, white and white again, two little ears stand up..."

Soon, two swaying ears appeared in the corner of the white wall, followed by two more. A group of little rabbit shadows became active on the wall, but they were only shadows. There wasn't a single rabbit in the room.

The rabbit shadows jumped onto Ding Kan's shadow, tapping here and tapping there, cutting here and cutting there, digging here and pushing there. Many openings appeared on Ding Kan's body, and some foreign objects that didn't belong to his body slowly emerged from the openings.

In less than five minutes, Ding Kan had been cut into a sieve, and blood was flowing everywhere. It was comparable to a scene of slow slicing. Ding Kan's face was as white as paper.

But the rabbits acted as if they had no idea that humans had pain nerves, hopping around and having fun. Digging out the fingernails stuck in the bone crevices was like digging a hole in the dirt, and they had no idea how to be gentle.

I looked at the shadows on the wall with annoyance: I told you a long time ago that anesthesia should be introduced for surgical operations, but you just wouldn't listen. Now, if you dig this young man to death, I'll smash those two beads and not give them to you!

Just as I mentioned smashing, before I could smash them, a big rabbit suddenly rushed down from diagonally above and slammed directly onto the wound on Ding Kan's chest, knocking Ding Kan over.

I quickly went over to help Ding Kan up and said to the rabbit in annoyance, "Hey, hey, take it easy! This person was alive when I brought him here. If you kill him, you'll have to compensate me."

The rabbits picked up whatever they could from the ground and threw it at me. I could only awkwardly hide in the corner. Fortunately, they seemed to have listened to my suggestion, and their movements weren't as wild. After all the tossing and turning, Ding Kan was still alive.

I helped Ding Kan to lie down in my room, tidied up a bit, put the beads in the safe, and turned to go downstairs.

Someone was already waiting for me downstairs: Chi Meiya.