Chapter IV
Bai Yushu helped us out of the carriage very gentlemanly, and said with an unfathomable smile, "To go to Huani City, we still need one more thing." ”
"What is it, Brother Bai. "Ling Xiao, this guy hasn't made any eye contact with me since he saw Bai Yushu, this guy who is heavy on color and light on friends!
"Suyu Order". Bai Yushu pointed to a house in front of him.
I looked over and realized that this place was very special. Half of them are quaint houses, and the other half are modern high-rise buildings. This combination of ancient and modern has an indescribable weirdness. The house that Bai Yushu pointed to was located on this central axis. I can't even tell that it belongs to the style over there, but I can only say that it looks like a tall tower or a tall building, and it is surrounded by a black-purple metallic luster.
Bai Yushu suddenly became awe-struck, and he whispered to us, don't talk nonsense when you go in for a while, but if you are asked anything, you must answer something like that. Say that the people in it have a lot of power, don't provoke.
Ling Xiao nodded like a chicken, I am also very curious, in such a strange city, what does the so-called powerful person look like, does he really have three heads and six arms. Bai Yushu took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
"Knock!" There was a sound like a giant hammer striking a bell, which made Ling Xiao and I tremble. Bai Yushu knocked like this 5 times before he heard the voice of a lazy woman inside, "We're closed, it's not dark yet, really, someone came so early." Then we saw a thin crack in the dark door, and one eye looked at us through the crack. "Bai Ze" After the woman saw Bai Yushu's face clearly, she opened the door with her hand, and said as she walked inside, "Why, I just asked for a stay here in the morning, and I came again in the evening?" I saw what it looked like a bar, and the woman stopped at the bar, poured a glass of wine, picked up the goblet between her long, white fingers, looked at us for a moment, and said, "Would you like a drink?"
To be honest, I really wanted to have a drink to relieve my tired body and mind, but I shook my head vigilantly, I didn't want to touch anything here. I'm really afraid that if I drink it, I'll turn into a turtle or something.
But what I didn't expect was that Ling Xiao actually refused, this is not her style, has she become smarter? I glanced back at her, and found that she was looking at the woman vigilantly, with a kind of red gaze when a rival in love met her. I can't help but laugh in my heart, love makes you stupid, love makes you cunning.
Bai Yushu also smiled dryly and waved his hand, "Sister, we still have business." He pointed at us with his chin as he spoke. The woman shrugged indifferently, "OK." Then he turned around and shouted, "Lao Kang." No one answered, she twisted the water snake's waist, lifted her breath, and shouted in a louder voice, "Old Kang!" I heard an old and hoarse response coming from far above us, followed by the sound of feet stepping on the stairs, step after step, from far to near, and finally poking its head out in the shadows behind the woman.
Truth be told, this face would have scared me to death if I had seen it myself at night. It was a very old face, with white eyebrows and eyes that were just a thin slit between the criss-crossed wrinkles. He was hunched and carrying a small lamp in his hand, and he was very short. "Uh-huh," he said, opening his dry mouth and uttering something we didn't understand. The woman frowned slightly, and waved her hand impatiently, "Go and see if the young master is awake, if you are in a good mood, just talk about business and come to the door." When she said business, her eyebrows twitched, and she glanced at us, it was so flattering!
The old man looked at us too, nodded, and retreated into the door. Then we heard footsteps coming very close above us, fading away.
For a long time, there was no response.
Ling Xiao couldn't help it, she began to wander around the house, touching this, touching that. Suddenly, she walked up to a huge fish tank, which was lit with dark green lights, and several fish of unknown species, colorful. Ling Xiao leaned his face over to take a closer look, and those fish seemed to have seen Ling Xiao outside the fish tank, and they all gathered around. Looking at it, I saw that Ling Xiao didn't move, stunned. I also looked over and noticed that there was something different between this fish and ordinary fish, that it had horns on its head that were five to nine centimeters long. This made me suddenly think that there seems to be such a fish recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas, as if it means that every hundred years of life of this fish, the horns on its head will grow an inch or something.
While I was still thinking about what the fish was called, I heard three sounds over my head that seemed to be metal strikes, crisp, from far and near.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the young master, please. The woman straightened her loose hair and made a gesture of please.
We followed her into the door, which was very dark, with only a few candlesticks scattered along the way, faintly glowing a pale green.
I am a little myopic and night blind, in such a corridor, there is no difference between being half-blind and half-blind, I can only hold Ling Xiao's hand tightly and walk next to her. And Ling Xiao, this thing, even pulled the corners of Bai Yushu's clothes, and pretended to be very scared from time to time. I've long been accustomed to Ling Xiao's heavy color and light friends. I still remember that when we just graduated, we agreed to look for jobs together, and when Ling Xiao swore that she would be inseparable from me, she was desperately pulling me to apply for a job because she fell in love with the director of a company. As a result, we both managed to get jobs, but for a long time after that, she was in and out of the supervisor. Leave me alone... But it didn't take long for Ling Xiao to take me to change jobs, and I heard that the supervisor seemed to have a family, which made Ling Xiao lose for a long time.
After walking about five floors, I usually lack exercise, and I am out of breath when I walk to the third floor. Somehow, an advertisement for a new lid in my head suddenly appeared.
The front gradually lit up, and a few rays of light came through the curtain of the door. The warm, milky white light, as if hope, beckons us. When I got closer, I saw two characters written on the curtain in ancient script, the first one was a bit like a Su character, and the second one was a bit like a mouse.
The woman stretched out her slender fingers, lifted the curtain, and motioned for us to enter, but she remained outside the door, standing with her hands down.
When we walked through the door, we saw a large wooden bed in front of us, carved with a nine-headed beast. Each head is in the shape of a baby, and you can see that the heads of five boys are in the shape of fire, and the heads of four girls are in the shape of spraying water, and on the bed lies a girl of sixteen or seventeen, who is nestled in a soft fur quilt, and looks particularly petite.
The old man nodded at us and went out quietly behind us. As I passed by, I casually caught a glimpse of what seemed to be a tail that had slid out of his long and was gone.
"Young master", Bai Yushu bowed to her and said respectfully.
"Hmm", the girl responded and waved her hand, "Bai Ze, I've been here in the morning, and I'm here again at this moment, if I really want to live in Xiaoyao City, why bother running at both ends of Huani and Xiaoyao every day." At my request, I did everything. ”
Bai Yushu's face darkened, "Thanks to the young master, but I didn't come this time for me." ”
"Oh?" the girl slowly opened her eyes. Seeing me and Ling Xiao, my eyes suddenly lit up. She rolled over and sat up, reaching for a coat and putting it on.
The girl was dressed in a short red dress, showing her slender legs, a long transparent coat made of gauze on the outside, with bare feet, a big lazy waist, and waist-length hair shining with lilac luster.
"Welcome to Suyokaku. Past life, present life, future, everything you want to know, I know. The girl yawned lazily, stood up, walked to the right side and sat down behind the desk, and pointed to the opposite mat with her finger, "Please take a seat." ”
When we were seated, the girl took out a bundle of long jade sticks from the desk and spread them flat on top of the desk. She casually pulled one out of it, held it to her mouth, pulled up her long hair, and fixed it with a jade stick.
"You guys, who will come first?"
Bai Yushu sat up straight, and said respectfully, "Young Master, we are here today for Su Yu Ling, these two have just set foot in Tong Town today, and they have not yet made Su Yu. ”
"Hey," the girl waved her hand, "since you're here, why don't you count it as the future?"
I'm really curious, for more than 20 years, my seemingly ordinary and ordinary life, although it seems to be smooth sailing, but it can't help but be full of ups and downs, especially... Zuo Liang...
The girl seemed to read my thoughts, and tapped her finger at the jade sticks on the table, "Let go of your heart and choose one." ”
I reached out and took one, and an extremely cold chill immediately spread from my fingers to my body. The girl took the skewer and looked at it, patting my hand, "Don't be afraid, relax." Then she lowered her head and smiled a whimsily, and when I looked up again, I saw that her eyeballs were dilating little by little, until they filled the whole socket, and then suddenly split into countless pupils, large and small, as many as the starry sky. The color of each pupil is different, and if you look closely at which pupil you enter, you will feel deep and bottomless. Suddenly, I noticed a small red pupil, red and dazzling, but it attracted me very much, and I looked into it as if I was fascinated.
"Sister Wang, look at how cute this child is, you are such a kind person, you can adopt it. "What is this? It's like watching a movie, and some stitched shots fly in front of me. I saw my mother excitedly coming out of the gate of the orphanage with a baby in her arms.
"Momo! There's a shadow there!Mom, go take a look, don't open your eyes!" I saw my mom hugging me tightly and locking me in the closet.
I lay on Zuo Liang's shoulder, gradually falling asleep, Zuo Liang spat at me, gently put me on the bed, and went out.
Zuo Liang had blood hanging from the corners of his mouth, and he came out of the night, his eyes were red. He wiped the corners of his mouth with his slender fingers, revealing a row of slender fangs.
I was dressed in ancient clothes and fell into a narrow and narrow corridor. There was a man standing beside him, wearing sackcloth pants and not having a face in sight.
The man was running with me in his arms, and there seemed to be something coming after him, and I could hear his heart beating strongly. In a quiet voice, he said, "Don't be afraid. ”
A nine-headed monster suddenly pounced on me with its mouth wide open, and I screamed and came to my senses.
The girl smiled softly and held out her hand. I couldn't dodge it, and immediately felt her hand slowly slide from my cheek to between my eyebrows. She closed her eyes, as if sucking into my memory. Suddenly, her hand twitched back quickly, as if something was hindering it. She sat back down and smiled softly, "Interesting." ”
Then, she said to the door, "Here." The old man walked in with two bronze wine bottles. The wine bottle was blue all around, one carved with eight imps entangled with each other, each with a hideous and terrifying expression, and the other carved with a beautiful face with slender eyes, but the eyes were densely packed with pupils.
"If you want to get my Su Yu Order, you must first drink my wine, please. The girl motioned for the old man to hand me the cup, and I hesitated, thinking that both cups were very scary, but if I had to choose one of the two, I would still choose the one with the beautiful face, so I made up my mind, and reached out to take it, and took a sip. The old man took the cup back and stood aside.
The girl smiled meaningfully and looked at Ling Xiao, "Finally, it's your turn." ”
Ling Xiao was stunned for a moment, and asked inexplicably, "Huh?" and then I lost consciousness with heavy eyelids.