The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#647 - Sugar Man Granny

Actually, after chatting with Wang Wan in Wujiang City, Lu Jing knew that the hope of helping Amu recover his body was very slim. Read М

After all, according to the previous murder manual, he and Amu had known each other for some time, which meant that Amu had been a little wooden figure for at least two years.

The possibility of Amu's body being completely preserved until now is very small. Of course, no matter what, Lu Jing would not give up the possibility of restoring Amu.

After all, there are strange objects in this world. If he really can't find Amu's original body, it seems good to make him a lotus body like Nezha.

However, this kind of thing is a matter of chance. Anyway, among the strange objects Lu Jing knows so far, there is nothing that has this effect.

So now he can only settle for the next best thing and solve the problem that Amu can't speak first.

So Lu Jing asked Sun, the Fire Elemental, "How to do it?"

"I don't know how to do it, but I know who might be able to do it."

"Mr. Ji?" Lu Jing raised his eyebrows.

"When I level up again, if I can find him, I think he will help me," Lu Jing said.

Although Sun, the Fire Elemental, didn't know what leveling up meant, he probably understood what Lu Jing was saying, and immediately shook his head like a rattle.

"Don't say I can't find him, even if I can find him, I won't take you to find him."

"Then what about other people?" Lu Jing didn't prepare to fight the final boss, so he didn't dwell on this question and asked again.

"Well, there is another person who knows strange objects only second to Mr. Ji. We all call her Granny Candy."

"Granny Candy?"

"Yes, because she is very good at blowing sugar figures. The sugar figures she blows are lifelike. Besides blowing sugar figures, she also has a unique skill, which is to repair the problems on our strange objects."

"Problems? What problems do you have?"

"After we become strange objects, we will lack a soul. Correspondingly, we will also have various problems that ordinary people rarely have. For example, some people can only retain seven days of memory, and some people can't control one arm or leg… As for me, my temper becomes very irritable.

"When I first became a strange object, I would explode at the slightest provocation. Any small thing could make me furious. Because I couldn't control my temper, I once set fire to a tavern because a jar of wine was mixed with water, and I also burned down two nearby shops.

"I regretted it afterwards, but I couldn't control myself at the time. And just two days later, I burned down the house of a corrupt official, and this time I also burned his newly acquired concubine to death.

"I realized that I couldn't go on like this anymore, so I went to Granny Candy and asked her to teach me how to control my temper. And now, I almost never fall into a rage without realizing it."

"How did she cure your bad temper?" Lu Jing asked.

"I don't know exactly how Granny Candy did it. I just remember lying in a candy house. Everything in that house was made of candy. The windows were candy, the door was candy, the table was candy, and the bed I was lying on was also candy. And there were two sugar figures standing by the bed.

"I quickly fell into a dream, and when I woke up, I found that my temper had miraculously improved."

"Are there any sequelae?"

"No, it's been seven years now, and I haven't noticed any problems. There are many strange objects repaired by Granny Candy, and I haven't heard of anyone having any sequelae."

Lu Jing was relieved a little when he heard this, and then continued, "How can I find this Granny Candy?"

"There are twelve candy shops in the capital. Just find one and tell the shop assistant that you want to buy a sugar figure that won't melt. Then Granny Candy will know that someone is looking for her, and then she will contact you."

"But I'm from the Sitianjian. Will she be unwilling to see me after she knows?"

"No, I heard her say in person that as long as the price is right, even if Guo Shouhuai asks her to deal with Mr. Ji, she won't refuse."

"Does she like money? That's easy to handle," Lu Jing said.

Although he has been running outside recently and has slightly delayed the great ginseng planting business, even so, the second batch of ginseng on the back mountain of the academy will soon be harvested, and tens of thousands of taels of silver will be credited to his account by then.

He thought it should be enough to pay for Amu's consultation fee.

But Sun, the Fire Elemental, shook his head when he heard this, "The price I'm talking about is not silver. Granny Candy doesn't value this kind of thing very much."

"Then what does she want?"

"It depends on her mood," Sun, the Fire Elemental, said, "She wants all kinds of things. If she's in a good mood, she might only want a strand of your hair, a drop of tears, or even a dead branch picked up by the roadside. But if she's in a bad mood, she might want a section of your finger, an eyeball… And that's not the worst.

"I've seen an unlucky guy who was asked by Granny Candy for the first flower blooming in the suburbs of the capital in early spring, which almost drove that guy crazy."

"Then what did she want from you?"

Sun, the Fire Elemental's face became embarrassed again when he heard this, and he stammered, "This… it's nothing, it's just, it's just a small matter."

"What small matter?"

Sun, the Fire Elemental, obviously didn't want to recall this past event, but he couldn't stand the fact that he now had to ask Lu Jing for help and planned to retire in Lu Jing's territory. In the end, he still reluctantly said, "I… under her strong request, I had to marry a sugar figure she kneaded."

"What… you married a sugar figure? How did you marry her?"

This was probably the most bizarre thing Lu Jing had heard since winter.

"It's just a normal marriage. Betrothal, auspiciousness, and personal welcome… everything was done."

"Then did you consummate the marriage?" Lu Jing opened his eyes wide.

"Why are you all most concerned about this matter?!" Sun, the Fire Elemental, looked helpless.

"Of course, we had to consummate the marriage after we kowtowed to each other… but the bride was a sugar figure. Although she looked quite pretty, what could I do to her? Could I lick her with my mouth? So I just lay there for a night, and the next day Granny Candy said it was okay."

"Can the sugar figure bride move?"

"Of course not, otherwise it would be too terrifying," Sun, the Fire Elemental, was taken aback, but then paused and added, "Now that you mention it, I also remember that lying next to it that night seemed a little creepy, probably because the sugar figure Granny blew was too lifelike."