Chapter Seventy-Three: The Case of the Hundred Republic of China
"Little mute, I still want to find a few more!"
"Can you fit it?"
Mu Ling shook her head, "It's a pity that I didn't bring a bag today, it's a pity." ”
"If you like it, I'll take you to buy it when I go back?"
Mu Ling looked at Bai Ye happily, "Is it still for sale here when you come back?"
"It's true that it's only one night, but it's not necessarily a thing! those peddlers can't sell out all their stock overnight, can they?"
After hearing this, Mu Ling felt that what the little mute said seemed to be quite reasonable, he was also a big king in the end, and things were naturally easy to get, besides, a gentleman's words were difficult for horses to chase.
If he likes something, as long as he squeaks, someone will send it, whether it is childhood or youth, the minions below will offer it with both hands. Besides, it was a breeze for him to turn into a lantern.
"What are you doing there, little mute? Mu Ling looked sideways, but she still couldn't see what was going on in the crowd.
"Let's go over and have a look!"
Mu Ling took Bai Ye's hand and walked forward.
Bai Ye's eyes fell on the hands of the two of them, only to see that Mu Ling was about to let go, and Bai Ye grabbed it.
"What's wrong?" Mu Ling looked at Bai Ye suspiciously.
"It's okay, there are too many people here, I'm afraid you'll get lost. ”
Mu Ling looked at the little mute with a cute face, "I won't leave, it's you who lost it, don't get lost under my nose." ”
Mu Ling clenched it backwards.
Then get into the front row, "Let's go." ”
Looking back, I saw an old man sitting there, with a few paper-like things on the table.
"What are you doing here?"
"That's a Kong Ming lantern!" Bai Ye was very helpless about Mu Ling's memory, just now the two of them bought a Kong Ming lantern.
"Oh, I see, then what are they doing around an old man? Seeing that old man dressed in red, it must be the old man of the moon here!"
"He's not an old man, he's just a stall that provides pens and paper. ”
"Isn't it a small stall to have two cashiers?"
"These are small businesses, and they don't need so much. ”
Bai Ye pulled Mu Ling out of the crowd, for fear that she would be plotted against by others.
"Little mute, don't we put this Kong Ming lantern?"
"I have my own way. ”
Bai Ye dragged Mu Ling to a place where there were few people, but Mu Ling didn't know that he already had red paper and black pen in his hand.
As soon as the pen and paper appeared, Mu Ling was extremely amazed, when did the pen and paper appear in the hands of the little mute.
Bright eyes stared at Bai Ye with big eyes, "Little mute, when did you have a pen and this paper..."
"Guess!"
"Hey, I don't want to know, if I don't tell, I won't tell, it's enough to have a pen and paper!" Mu Ling snatched the pen and paper from the little mute's hand, and then looked around. Except for people and people!
"What are you looking for?"
Mu Ling looked straight at the little mute, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Turn your back around." ”
"What?"
Mu Ling said impatiently, "Ah, turn around!" Mu Ling pushed Bai Ye.
"Good, good!"
Looking at the solid back, Mu Ling took out a piece of red paper and printed it, reminding: "Don't move! Wait a minute, the handwriting is crooked." ”
"Good. ”
Mu Ling wrote lightly on the top of the word, without arguing with the world.
"That's it!
Mu Ling picked up the note and held it in his hand, Bai Ye glanced down and asked, "What did you write?"
"Guess?"
Bai Ye seemed to have heard this sentence somewhere for a while, and after thinking about what he had just said, this woman began to learn from him.
"Hurry up! ”
Mu Ling turned around and turned her back to Bai Ye, "Write quickly!
Brushing aside his hair, as smooth as silk, Bai Ye wandered in place for a while, not knowing what to write, until Mu Ling called: "Okay?"
At this time, Bai Ye wrote a few words.
"Alright. ”
Turning around, Mu Ling wanted to glance at it intentionally or unintentionally, but Bai Ye could see all these small movements.
"Let's go and put it away! ”
A moment of light seems to be righteous, but who knows that often the brightest places are filled with evil and rotten evil spirits.
Bai Ye found a less crowded place and stopped, and Mu Ling looked at Bai Ye stupidly.
"Look at it, how the hell is this thing used!"
Bai Ye guided hard, and when he looked up, he saw Mu Ling looking up at the starry sky with envy.
Mu Ling had never seen such a wonderful thing, and the entire sky lit up in Zou Ran, and one after another Kong Ming lanterns slowly rose into the air.
In an instant, under the fireworks, people are full of hope.
Everything seems to be pinned on this small Kong Ming lantern, which is something that makes people awe and envy.
"Ahem!"
Bai Ye deliberately reminded him, but the other party didn't seem to hear it at all.
"Hey!"
"Huh? I'm here. Little mute, why do you think the sky is so beautiful? When you think about it, the sky is full of paper, and if all the notes fall from the Kong Ming lantern, how spectacular it would be!"
"Do you want to see it?" Bai Ye asked suspiciously. If Mu Ling really wants to see it, it's easy.
But what is unexpected is that Mu Ling shook her head and said lightly: "These things carry everyone's dreams, if you nip your last hope in the bud, I'm afraid life will be even more difficult in the future." The black cloud of smoke in my heart will never disperse. ”
Bai Ye, who was already ready to cast the spell, gently lowered his hand again, picked up the Kong Ming lantern and placed his hope on it.
"Give me your note, too, and I'll put it for you. ”
Mu Ling was a little withdrawn, unwilling to give it to Bai Ye.
"Aren't you still afraid that I won't make it? I won't peek. ”
In this way, Mu Ling is much more relaxed. Bai Ye is naturally not the kind of person who likes to peek, after Mu Ling handed over the small note, he gently placed it next to his note. Then he twisted a few times casually.
"Okay, now that it's done, the next step is to stretch it out and light up the wax cores inside. ”
"Well, okay. ”
Mu Ling carefully watched the movements of Bai Ye's hands, he first stretched the four corners apart, and then let Mu Ling hold both sides.
The two of them moved their hands up and down together, and they moved together very cooperatively.
Finally, because of the force of the wind, the entire Kong Ming lantern was propped up.
Mu Ling looked at Bai Ye and said, "I didn't expect the Kong Ming Lantern in the sky to look so big!"
"These small traders stack the Kong Ming lanterns like this because it is convenient, after all, the Kong Ming lanterns are so big and take up space. ”
"Little mute, you are really knowledgeable, you can think of everything, unlike me, I don't feel like I understand anything. ”
"Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, it doesn't matter if you don't understand these, I can tell you. ”
"It's better to be a little mute!" Mu Ling climbed onto the little mute's shoulder and smirked at him, feeling happy in her heart.
Since she was a child, she has been pampered like a princess, and although she knows a lot of things, she doesn't like to read those words, and if she wants to speak, she loves to listen to them. I know a little about things in the world, and now I really haven't come in vain. In the world, she has learned a lot of truths, but unfortunately, these good things don't seem to exist.
"You hold that and don't let go, I told you to let go and let go again, understand?"
Mu Ling half understood, and finally nodded.
Bai Ye lit it gently, then waited for it to burn for a while, and then let Mu Ling let go of the corner.
"Don't let go of that hand!"
Bai Ye saw that this was almost over, and continued: "Let go of the other hand. ”
Mu Ling did it in turn, and finally Bai Ye held the Kong Ming lantern and threw it upwards to let it fly up little by little.
Mu Ling also watched Kong Ming's lantern fly farther and farther, so he hurriedly put his hands together in front of his chest, closed his eyes, and muttered in his heart.
The moment she opened it, Bai Ye smiled back and said, "Let's go." ”
The festival lasted for a long time, for about a few hours. Around the same time, people gradually evacuated. Eventually, on the shore of a small bridge lake, the two enjoyed the scenery around the lakeside.
"Being at a lantern festival feels like the best fun I've ever had!" Mu Ling thought to herself, feeling a little disappointed, because she had never participated in such a gorgeous lantern festival.
Those people were talking and laughing, although their faces revealed busyness and helplessness, but they had been erased by their smiles, and Mu Ling couldn't notice it at all, but showed people a sense of peace.
Mu Ling used to be very envious, although sometimes lantern tours were also popular in the Nine Heavens. No, it's a small thing in comparison, the lantern parade is the light of the parade, and people are used as carriers to sing and dance. It's even a bit like a procession of the Nine Heavens.
And the lantern festival here is completely different from the lantern tour that we know.
The lanterns here will have all kinds of knick-knacks, as well as some strange things, not only Kong Ming lanterns, but also some painted lanterns, and the streets and alleys are full of lanterns.
The whole street is shining with light, which makes people envious. Mu Ling really wanted to stay in the world, but she didn't have much time. Before that, the agreed deadline had already been exceeded, and I didn't know if I would be able to stay for another year. A year is a day in heaven. Thinking that it's just a day, there shouldn't be any major problems.
But a year later, how should she choose? Mu Ling felt dizzy when she thought about these questions.
Seeing Mu Ling thinking, it seemed that she had already wandered and didn't know where to go.
Bai Ye looked at the handmade sugar paintings in front of him, so he quietly left.
"The boss came to one. ”
"Okay, guest officer, what shape do you want?"
Bai Ye thought for a moment, and then said, "It's in the shape of a snake." ”
The snake is like a dragon, there is a legend of a dragon in the world, but no one has actually seen a dragon, and the one that resembles a dragon is a snake. Maybe this dragon snake is a family. ”
"Boss, dragons and snakes are not the same. Bai Ye received it indifferently.
The boss was embarrassed, and then said with a smile: "It's just a meaning, don't take it to heart." ”
"The boss asks you about something. ”
"The guest officer looks like a foreigner, how could he come to our desolate place. ”
"It's not a desolate place, after all, it was more desolate many years ago, and I'm afraid it feels much better in comparison. ”
The boss sighed, "That's true, but compared to other places, we are really desolate and lonely here. ”
"There are my relatives in the country of Muchen, and when I go back today, I will visit my relatives. Now it just happened to be in time for the Lantern Festival. ”
"Oh, I see, think about it, where else would anyone want to live here for a long time. Childe's relatives live in the southern part of Muchen Country!"
"Exactly. Bai Ye responded politely.
"It's really rare to see someone like Childe, after all, those people in the south are more ruthless, enjoying life leisurely all day long, not like us civilians, not so much civilians as poor. ”
"It's a day!" sighed the boss.
"Oh, by the way, Childe, what are you trying to ask?"
"About the White Republic of China. ”
After Bai Ye said this, the boss's whole face changed, "This matter is a bit heavy to say. The people of the White Republic of China are really terrifying! Ordinary people like us are the first time we have seen the rumored people of the White Republic of China. ”
"What's so scary?"
"This matter has not happened to us, I heard other people say that this person from the White Republic of China is also a person who has been here for a month, and everyone has seen white hair and extremely white skin for the first time, so it is inevitable that there are some doubts. It seems that a kind person asked them what they were doing here, but they didn't expect it, and they didn't know what they said, the man from the White Republic of China waved his fist directly, and the picture was unimaginable, and the person died on the spot. But fortunately, he was arrested by the people from the south. I heard that it was three men and one woman, the man's strength was huge, the woman seemed to be as beautiful as a flower, and a man was arrested, and the other people of the White Republic did not know where to go. ”
Bai Ye listened carefully to what the boss said. The people of the White Republic seem to be weak, and they can only unilaterally refer to their appearance. The women in the White Republic are very gentle, and the men are quite handsome, but. But he has the strength of a brute force.
"Well, and then what?"
The boss said meaningfully, "After the people of the White Republic disappeared, I heard that it calmed down." ”
Bai Ye carefully analyzed, the people of the White Republic of China would not abandon their companions, so it seems that the other party must have some kind of plan, the people of the White Republic of China are smart. They're going to come back.
At this time, Bai Ye asked the boss again, "How long has this Bai Minguo disappeared so far?"
"Almost a month, more than half a month?"
Bai Ye thanked him, and then the sugar painting was done between the conversations.
"Guest officer, your sugar painting. ”
Bai Ye took it and looked in the direction of Mu Ling, but it was empty.
The sugar painting fell to the ground, and Bai Ye paced hurriedly looking for it.
yelled: "Mu Ling!"
No one answered in the air.
After Bai Ye left, Mu Ling looked up and saw a woman who was acting strangely.
The woman was well-dressed, wearing a hat and a black veil. The pace was a little flustered, so Mu Ling followed.
The woman walked a few steps and stopped to look behind her, and such a conspicuous person as Mu Ling had already been discovered by the other party. The woman tried her best to get rid of Mu Ling, but what kind of person Mu Ling was, she chased after her. There was nothing she feared.
The woman walked all the way and glanced behind from time to time, she categorically didn't want to cause trouble,
Mu Ling was more and more puzzled, this person had already taken her around a few repeating places. At this time, Mu Ling thought in her heart that there was really something wrong with this person, otherwise it wouldn't be like this.
Immediately after that, Mu Ling didn't know where she was, surrounded by alleys.
From time to time, a few homeless people in tattered clothes appeared, lying in the corner, some eating leftovers. Some shh
Under the moonlight, there were more and more wanderers in the alley, at first Mu Ling thought that one or two were normal, but in the end, she followed the woman in front of her and encountered more wanderers.
Mu Ling began to panic a little, because she didn't know where the woman in front of her was going, and around a corner, the wanderers she encountered were almost covered in the ground, and Mu Ling almost stepped on a person.
Then the strange woman disappeared.
Mu Ling wanted to turn around and leave, but suddenly someone grabbed her trouser legs, and a cold voice sounded, "Give me something to eat." ”
Mu Ling was startled, and then someone pulled her.
She didn't have anything to eat at all, so Mu Ling pushed the people away and ran back in the same direction.
Someone in the alleyway shouted, "Damn." "It's creepy to listen to in the silence.
"Damn. Another man shouted.
Originally, the people here believed that anyone who was well-dressed was more likely to live in the southern part of the Muchen Country. Xiang Muling is so white and pure, it must not be simple to see that his background is not simple.
Mu Ling looked around, and then a dark shadow stopped her.
Mu Ling trembled with fright and wanted to use a spell.
Then, in the darkness of the night, the face of the man slowly revealed in the moonlight, the image of a woman. Although I can't see it clearly, I can roughly distinguish it.
"Please, save my child, he hasn't eaten or drunk for days. Mu Ling couldn't see the woman's face clearly, but it could be seen from her words that she was in a hurry.
Mu Ling took a step back in fright, and looked away in shock, there was a petite child lying on the ground, and he shouted, "Mother." ”