First time in the North City
It was a cold night, it was dark early, and there was a biting cold wind blowing all over the sky. Outside the city gate, two slender figures were walking briskly, and the taller one walked forward on his own, completely ignoring whether the thinner figure next to him could keep up with him with a large bamboo basket nearly one person tall.
"Walk slowly, wait for me~" It was the nine tails who carried the bamboo basket, and today he changed into a black dress, and his hair was tied with a strip of cloth casually, and he was just out of the city not long ago, and he was scattered by the wind. The bamboo basket behind was prepared for him by the monk of the year before the nine-tails went down the mountain, and the monks of the Xuan Temple would carry it on their backs when they went down the mountain, which was regarded as a magic weapon in the door. This bamboo basket seems to be ordinary, but it has many practical uses, such as large capacity, can be loaded and is very durable, and the disadvantage is that it is too heavy.
"Throw it away. Although he looked at him with an impatient expression, his steps slowed down.
"Don't throw it away, it's the rule in the temple. Nine-tails walked a few steps quickly to follow, he only put a few dry steamed buns, two water bags and the long sword of Qinglou in this basket, but it was like carrying a weight of hundreds of catties, but before going down the mountain, the monk gave him three precepts, the first is not to discard the basket.
"Oh," Lishu replied casually, the wind was indeed a little strong, and it was a little difficult to step forward, and suddenly turned his head and asked, "Can you fly?"
"Hmm, Edgeworth, yes," said Nine-Tails.
"Here, fly," Li Xuan reached out and took out the long sword in the back basket and gave it to the Nine-Tails, and sat down in it himself, surprised that the back basket looked nothing, but he didn't feel crowded at all when he sat in it alone. Propping up his upper body, his hands on the shoulders of the Nine-Tails, his chin on the top of the Nine-Tails' head, urging, "Don't go yet~"
"Huh!?" Somehow stretched out his hands from behind his back, and the Nine-Tails turned around sharply, only to find that it was Li Xuan who was sitting in his back basket, "When did you sit in?"
The weight of the back basket didn't increase when he sat down, which was a bit interesting.
"Let's go. The wind made him very impatient.
Nine-Tails stood up, steadied himself in the wind, and headed east.
"This wind is so powerful," the Nine-Tails Imperial Sword technique is not exquisite, but it is theoretically okay to travel a hundred miles, but with his strength, it is extremely difficult to advance in the face of this wind.
"Why don't you leave?"
"The wind is blowing from the east, going around the north. The Nine-Tails stared, and Edgeworth turned to the Northland and galloped away.
All the way north, there was no hindrance.
"Where are you going? don't you mean going back to the Demon Realm?" asked Lihuan.
"Enter the realm from the North. Nine-Tails looked intently at the road ahead and replied.
"yes, yes. Li Xuan nodded, retracted into the bamboo basket, and asked, "Do you know where the North Ming is?"
"I don't know," Nine-Tails replied solemnly.
"...", "Where are you going?"
"Go to the North Underworld. Nine-Tails said as a matter of course.
"So go straight north?" he raised his eyebrows.
"Hmm," Nine-Tails replied.
"That's good," Lishu chuckled.
Nine-tails aimlessly looked for the entrance to the demon world by moonlight, the north was cold, and the night was even colder, and the nine-tails felt a little stiff in their hands and feet, and they couldn't help but secretly move faster.
One of the tricky things about traveling at night is that it's hard to know exactly how far you've come. I don't know how long I flew, and finally saw the fire from afar, thinking that I finally found a place with people, Nine-Tails was overjoyed, and he was frozen enough to choke on him all the way, so he quickly went into the city to find a hotel to rest, take a hot bath, and sleep, but he was really tired!
Following the light, this is a brightly lit and prosperous mountain town in the middle of a vast forest!
"Alien North City?" Nine-Tails stood in front of the city gate, looked up and read a few big characters on the door, turned back and asked Lihuan, "Do you know where this Alien Northern City is?"
Lixu didn't respond, Nine-Tails turned his head to look, he couldn't be angry, the original Liquan nested in the back basket, holding a long strip of crimson warm jade in his arms, and slept comfortably. Raised the bamboo basket and poured the sleeping Liquan into the snow, and a few frozen steamed buns smashed on his head, so startled that he jumped a few feet away from the fire as soon as he opened his eyes.
"Well!" Li Xuan was furious, and he had a posture of pounceing on him and biting him to death.
"Where did it come from?" Li Xuan looked angry and furious, and only the nine tails turned a blind eye, squatted down to pick up the warm jade, and asked.
"You're crazy, didn't you give it to me. Li Xuan often felt that the existence of the Nine-Tails had lowered the overall IQ level of the fox clan, "You threw it into the bamboo basket." β
"I don't," Nine-Tails wondered, "What am I doing for you with this kind of thing, I must have held it myself!"
Li Xuan only felt that Nine-Tails' head was frozen stupid, and he didn't bother to talk to him about these useless things, so he raised his eyes and asked, "Where is this?"
"Alien North City, do you know this?" the Nine-Tails naturally changed the subject.
"Alien North City... I've heard of it," Li Xuan climbed on the shoulders of the Nine Tails and sat down, squinted and cautiously looked around, his nose moved slightly, and said, "It's a great place, go in first, it's cold, give me the warm jade for a while." β
A man and a cat entered the city, and the Nine-Tails stepped on the snow, and Lishan stepped on his shoulder.
Although the streets are brightly lit and crowded with pedestrians, there are signs of quietness, and the vendors only work quietly with their heads bowed, occasionally looking up and whispering a few words to customers.
Nine-Tails didn't bother to pay too much attention to it, and walked by quickly, he just wanted to find an inn to stay in now, a hot bath.
Walking from the street to the end of the street, I finally found an inn called Yibei Inn, and I pushed open the door and entered.
"Whew~ It's still warm in the house~" Nine-Tails patted his frozen face and sighed.
"Does the guest officer stay in the hotel?" greeted the woman with a beautiful face.
"Stay, give me two rooms, and get some hot water to bring in!" Nine-Tails' eyes lit up and he replied again and again.
"Forgive the little girl's offense, I wonder why you want two rooms, guest officer?" the woman said strangely.
"Uhh
My cat has more personality, and it dislikes me as an owner?
Or, I love my cat like my life and don't want it to be wronged?
"If you want two, you can have two, what so much nonsense!Hurry up!" He squatted on the shoulders of the Nine-Tails, and this was naturally regarded as the Nine-Tails.
"Yes, yes, don't worry, this is ready for you~" The woman's face turned red when she was reprimanded by the cold man's voice, and she quickly paid for it, and called the little servant to lead them upstairs.
"This guest officer has such a big temper~" The woman muttered quietly, shook her head, and ignored it again.
"This shop doesn't look big, but the room is really good," Nine-Tails turned around the room twice, and a few maids prepared the hot water, and Nine-Tails was very satisfied, and took off his clothes on the latch and soaked in the hot water, humming comfortably a few times.
"Can you take a good bath, hum something!" The cool voice came from the next room, how could this kid's ear power be so good?
Nine-tails ignored him, took a beautiful bath, hummed a small tune, and took the fragrant powder to rub the messy green silk that was blown by the wind to make it refreshing and clean.
After putting on his clothes, he sat in front of the dressing mirror, took the comb grate and combed his hair by himself, in the past, he helped him comb his hair and tie it neatly and neatly in the Xuan Temple, and then after going down the mountain, because he couldn't tie his own hair, the nine tails have always been a vice emanation.
With half-dried hair scattered, Nine-Tails got dressed and went to the next room to Lishan, knocked on the door and no one answered, the door was closed from the inside, the candles in the room were still on, and Nine-Tails shouted Li's name again, still quiet, thinking that he should have fallen asleep, so he went back to the room with his hands behind his back.
Seeing that the night market in this different north city is very lively, Jiuwei has eliminated a lot of fatigue after taking a bath, and he wanted to go shopping with him, but since he is asleep, let's go and see it for myself.
He was still wearing the same thin black shirt, and it was warm in the south, and he had never prepared winter clothes, so as soon as he left the door of the inn, he was blown back into the hall by a gust of cold wind.
"Is the guest officer going out?" The woman in the hall was still on duty at night, and she didn't dare to talk when she saw the Nine-Tails Trail going out, and she was reprimanded by Lihuan and made her feel palpitations, but the Nine-Tails turned around and went back to the hall, and finally couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, this city has a stroke and is very cold," Nine-Tails rubbed his hands angrily, "May I ask the girl, is there a shop selling clothes around here?"
"Yes, when you go out to the west, there is one on that street, and the guest officer looks at Miansheng, but it is the first time you enter the city?" The woman saw that the nine tails were polite, and quickly opened the conversation.
"Yes, I lost my way in the woods, so I had to find the lights and go into the city for a while, rest for the night, and leave at dawn. Nine-Tails replied.
"I'll leave tomorrow, isn't the son here for the Five Weeks Gate?" the woman was very surprised when she heard this.
"Five Weeks Gate?" Nine-Tails asked rhetorically, "I really don't know." β
"Five weeks of the gate in the city behind the different north ridge, said to be the door, is really a cave, only once in a few years to open, there is no law to follow, the door of the door open of the omen image only five hours, five weeks of the door will select the entrants, will show the signs on the cave mountain wall. At sunset today, the city lord announced the omen on the mountain wall, only the three words yin and yang, "the woman was interested, "Yesterday I saw you holding a cat to stay in the hotel, and you came specifically for this~ In fact, the guest officer can try his luck, the city lord said that the door cave will be opened in the fifth week, and most of the people who wander around the night market are looking for some good goods, and they may be able to find the guidance of the predecessors who have come out of the Wuzhou Cave Mansion." β
"It's interesting, the guidance of the seniors can still be found in the night market?" said Nine-Tails with a smile.
"The guest officer might as well go shopping, maybe he can really get the guidance to enter the door hole~" The woman smiled slyly, "The five-week door hole is a big opportunity, and it may not be possible to meet it once in tens of thousands of years, and the city chronicles record that the time of the last two openings is only thousands of years apart, which is really strange." β
"Oh, what can you do after entering that doorway?" Nine-Tails seemed a little interested.
"No one knows what it can be," the woman shrugged, "and the people who can enter the door are those who have taken chance, and no one has ever seen them come out, and what will happen, gone, or they will leave from it, or they will ascend?" However, I heard that the Queen of Taze Heaven went out of these five weeks of the gate, and then flew to become an immortal. β
"Who did you listen to??" "Tasawa has something to do with this place?
"Mr. Storyteller of East Street," the woman replied.
"..."The nine-tails are clear, the storyteller's clichΓ© can't be taken seriously, "The guidance of the seniors who came out of the five-week door hole that the girl just said ?..."
"It's different. When the door is opened, everyone can enter the five-week doorway, but most of them will be spit out of the door very quickly, and these people are called seniors, although their guidance should not sound very useful..."The woman laughed.
"I see, I shouldn't have that chance, or don't go to make up the numbers, Nine-Tails thank you for telling the girl, and dare to ask the girl's name?" Nine-Tails thanked him.
"Zitang," the woman replied, "isn't Childe going to see it, the timing is so coincidental, wouldn't it be a pity to miss it?"
"Still no, thank you for the kindness of Miss Zitang. Nine-Tails arched his hand, then tightened the thin black shirt on his body, and pushed the door out.
"Nine-tailed Childe and stay," Zitang stopped him, took a piece of warm jade from the sachet on his waist and handed it to Nine-Tails, "Childe take this warm jade out of the house, it's cold outside." β
"Thank you, girl. The nine-tails didn't twist their hands and took it, holding it in their hands, a warm palm spread all over the body. This warm cyan jade is the size of a goose egg, and the fingers are not round to the touch, but a little rough.
"This is a warm jade from Yibeiling, not an excellent quality, so if you don't dislike it, you can accept it. Zitang smiled lightly and sat back at the counter.
Nine-tails took Nuan Yu into his arms, followed the path pointed by Zitang to West Street, and soon found the ready-to-wear store. Nine-Tails fumbled at the counter, forcing himself not to care about the intricately crafted fox fur coats on the shelves.
I chose two good thick robes and planned to pay for them and leave, but after thinking about it fiercely, I still returned the selected clothes, bought the fox furs on the shelves, and grinded with the boss for a long time, and used the little money left in my hand to get two winter clothes.
Changed into thick clothes, suddenly felt a lot warmer, nine-tails around the long night market on this street with interest, although there is no silver in the pocket, but still all the way to the east and west, it is very fresh, the store that sells candy saw that he was handsome, and sent some candy to him.
Nine-Tails picked up a string of local snack sugar dolls, tilted his head and was about to open his mouth to bite, when he suddenly heard a chuckle behind him, and then the road ahead was blocked by a person, who spoke:
"In Xia Chi Xiaoming, can I ask the girl's name?"
Nine-tails looked at him with a sugar doll in his mouth, swallowed it with difficulty, and said for a long time,
"You, call me?"