Chapter 16 On This Thunderstormy Night
In the spacious and slightly cozy kitchen, in addition to a wide variety of ingredients and a large food stock, in addition to a full range of cooking utensils, there is also a dining table by the window.
At this time, the sun was setting, and only a trace of the afterglow of the sun remained on the distant horizon, so the sky looked dark and gloomy.
But Ying Ziyu and Lan Sixi on the table did not light the lamp, and had dinner together in the last light before nightfall.
"I'm going to go to the Mercenary Guild tomorrow!" Ying Ziyu put down his chopsticks after he was full, and said to Lan Sixi, who was still eating endlessly.
"What are you doing there?" Lan Sixi was wrapping food in his mouth, and when he heard this, he bit his chopsticks and said suspiciously, "Aren't you going to Dongcheng Divine Spirit Academy?"
"I don't think the Dongcheng Divine Spirit Academy is suitable for me, so I want to go to the Mercenary Guild to register as a mercenary. The first is to receive the bounty and get the bounty, the second is to use it to train oneself, and the third is to ......"
Ying Ziyu was just about to say: Sanlai wants to take the opportunity to search for the whereabouts of the spirit!
But as soon as a word came out, he immediately changed his words, and asked Lan Sixi instead: "Do you know where the Mercenary Guild is?"
Indeed, the secret in Lan Sixi's next room made Ying Ziyu start to be wary of the tavern proprietress in his heart.
"This is Xicheng District, and the Mercenary Guild is in Dongcheng!" Lan Sixi muttered, "If you are in such a hurry as today, I am afraid that it will take you a day and a night to get there!"
"Is there any quicker way to get there?" Ying Ziyu asked, "like a carriage or something!"
"Don't be so troublesome, you can see a square at the end of this commercial street, there is a teleportation array in the center of the square, through which you can realize any two points of instant teleportation in the east, west, north and south areas of Crescent City and the center of the city, but it is a bit expensive, it costs one gold coin at a time!"
Lan Sixi said, put the last piece of dried fish on the dinner plate into his mouth, and felt very satisfied, pointing to the plate with only the fat sauce left corresponding to the fish and said: "Although you don't know how to cook vegetables, it still tastes good to cook dried fish according to the secret recipe I gave you Sister Xi!"
Ying Ziyu glanced at Lan Sixi, whose eyebrows were fluttering in front of him, and then turned his head out the window to look at the brightly lit night scene of the city, ignoring him.
At this time, this commercial street located in a more prosperous area of the city was crowded with people from all directions, and it was soon very lively.
Lan Sixi cleaned up all the empty dishes on the table and threw them into the sink, and then served the two dishes of cucumber and peanuts with a pot of wine and two wine glasses on the table.
"Drink three or two glasses of wine after dinner, and be happy like a fairy at night!"
Lan Sixi said nervously, poured a full cup into the wine glass, handed it to Ying Ziyu and said, "Let's drink together!"
Ying Ziyu first looked at the wine handed over by Lan Sixi, and then looked at the well-behaved expression on her charming face, and immediately felt that this woman must be deliberate.
"Don't drink it!"
Ying Ziyu said coldly, and couldn't help but recall the feeling that life was worse than death when the wine was strong in the afternoon.
This further convinced his determination not to drink in the future.
"I don't drink alcohol or cook, what will I do to charm women in the future, just with that face?
Lan Sixi shook his head with unfathomable emotion as he brought the wine glass to his lips.
Lan Sixi drank wine and ate food alone and did not speak again, and there was silence between the two.
"How long have you been living in this Crescent City?" Ying Ziyu, who felt uncomfortable, took the lead in breaking the status quo.
"It's been a long time!"
Lan Sixi said as he bit his chopsticks and made an effort to remember, and then continued, "I don't know how long it will be!"
"What about your family?" Ying Ziyu curious.
Lan Sixi chewed the crispy and fragrant peanuts in his mouth, shook his head and did not speak.
"You don't have a family?" Ying Ziyu was surprised, "Have you always been alone?"
Lan Sixi glanced at Ying Ziyu when he heard that there was some charm, and said angrily: "Didn't you also come to this city alone? If it weren't for the kindness of the old lady to take you in, you unlucky child might not have slept on which street!"
"That's not impossible!" Ying Ziyu nodded.
Then he said, "Then what are you doing at night?"
"What, this silver moonlight has provoked you, and made you want to do something with me, a beautiful woman?" Lan Sixi bewitched and flirted with Ying Ziyu.
"You guy has only said a few words and is not serious!" Ying Ziyu shook his head with a wry smile, "I just want to say, it's so lively outside, you haven't gone out for a walk in this tavern?"
"Huh!" Lan Sixi showed a disdainful expression when he heard this, "What is there to go." More than half of these people outside seem to me to be full of worries and complaints, and then they are full of "desire" when they are illuminated by the wine green light!
Ying Ziyu looked at Lan Sixi's thoughtful appearance when he spoke, and suddenly said with amusement: "Do you see through the world like this?"
"That's!" Lan Sixi was proud, "Don't look at who Lan Sixi is for me?"
Ying Ziyu said in surprise when he heard this: "It turns out that your name is Lan Sixi?"
"Huh?" Lan Sixi was stunned for a moment, and then said in surprise, "Your little brother didn't know until now that your sister Sixi was famous?"
"Didn't you ask my name?" Ying Ziyu shrugged, and then declared his name, and forcibly installed it with literary and far-reaching colors, "My name is Ying Ziyu, 'Zi Fei Yu, the son and fish of the joy of Anzhi fish'." ”
Lan Sixi naturally noticed his careful thoughts, and immediately laughed wildly: "Ho ho! So your name is 'You're a fish', right? Hahaha! I like to eat fish!"
Ying Ziyu felt that this woman was too strong, so she didn't speak.
"I'm going to sleep!" Lan Sixi said, shaking the empty wine jug in response to Ziyu.
At this time, the two cucumbers were also eaten, and half of the peanuts were missing.
"You shoot cucumber vinegar more, pepper less. Don't put sugar next time, I don't like it. Put more cilantro, I like it!"
After Lan Sixi finished speaking to Ying Ziyu, he stood up directly, and walked out of the kitchen with staggering steps.
After Ying Ziyu saw Lan Sixi walk out of the kitchen, he suddenly found that it was clear that neither of them had gone to light the lights, but the second floor of the tavern was bright as usual.
Ying Ziyu found the light source and walked over to take a look, only to see that there was no wick in the lamp on the wall, but a groove on which a cat's eye sized glowing bead was placed.
"Directly replace the lights with bright moon beads? Then I'm afraid there won't be ten on the second floor of this tavern!"
Ying Ziyu was sighing at Lan Sixi's rich woman's net worth, but out of the corner of her eye, she found someone standing at the door of the kitchen.
Ying Ziyu turned to look, only to see that at this time, Lan Sixi's body was limp and hugging the doorpost, looking at him stupidly, with an intoxicating blush on his cheeks.
"Are you going to sleep in the kitchen?"
The actual meaning of Ying Ziyu's words is: Didn't you say that you were going to sleep?
"I'm just here to tell you, don't come out of the room and hang around at night, or I'll think you're deliberately going to meet me who often runs to the toilet in the middle of the night without clothes!
"Oh!" Ying Ziyu nodded, "I should have closed the door all night to protect my eyes from harm!"
"Huh!" Lan Sixi laughed, and said lightly when he turned to leave: "Wash the dishes!"
In the end, Ying Ziyu was quietly brushing the three or five dishes in the kitchen alone, and couldn't help but wonder what Lan Sixi had in that room. A woman like her, who has a cheerful personality and a big grin, should not have any secrets that cannot be known by others.
"Could it be ......" Ying Ziyu's hand brushing the dishes paused, his eyes widened, "Could it be that the real Lan Sixi died hundreds of years ago, and the woman in front of her was actually a female ghost she turned into after her death, and what was in that room was actually a coffin, and there was a fragrant female corpse lying in it! And I am now in a ghost!
Ying Ziyu was startled by his conjecture, and instantly felt cold behind him.
Ying Ziyu hurriedly finished brushing the dishes, ran out of the kitchen directly, rushed into his room and locked the door directly.
Then there were two knocks on the wall next door, followed by Lan Sixi's voice: "Even if you want to sleep on the bed where my body fragrance and hair are left, you don't have to be so anxious, right?"
Ying Ziyu gritted his teeth when he heard this, and stood in front of the wall and punched and kicked the air.
But he couldn't hold back and didn't dare to speak.
Ying Ziyu took a deep breath and sat down in front of the only table in this room, which was Lan Sixi's dresser.
"Don't sleep tonight, draw talismans!"
Ying Ziyu said, pushing aside the various rouge boxes, powder boxes, wooden combs, and jewelry boxes that were messily placed on the dresser, and took out a pen and paper to prepare to draw the talisman.
But when Ying Ziyu was about to write, he found that there was a very fatal thing!
"Oops! No ink!"
"Lan ......"
Ying Ziyu was about to blurt out, and the call stopped abruptly.
Ying Ziyu sat stiffly in front of the dresser, staring motionlessly at the scene of the entire room presented in the huge dressing mirror in front of him.
He always felt that something would suddenly appear in the next moment.
Then, as he was about to turn his gaze beyond the edge of the mirror, a red figure suddenly appeared in the mirror near the door.
Ying Ziyu was not prepared for this at all, and even if he did, he was probably scared enough.
Without saying a word, Ying Ziyu dodged to the wooden shelf where the longbow was placed, stretched out his right hand and grabbed it, and at the same time pulled out an iron arrow from the arrow box with his left hand, and opened the bow and released the arrow as fast as lightning!
With a loud bang, the arrows flashed with cold iron arrows jumped out like a python attack, hitting the target directly.
A flash of light suddenly appeared outside the window, and then Ying Ziyu only heard a thunderous boom, and the downpour was coming.
At this time, the red figure in the room was firmly nailed to the wall by an iron arrow.
Or maybe it was already on the wall, and then Ying Ziyu was afraid that it would be lonely when he found it, so he kindly shot a black iron arrow and stayed with it on the wall as a companion.
Ying Ziyu stiffened as he approached the red shadow, and pulled the iron arrow that pierced it back and forth from the wall.
With a heavy and complicated heart, Ying Ziyu took off the "red figure", and carefully came to the bed to sit down as if he were holding his lover who had been wounded by an arrow, and placed it across his knees.
It was already raining outside, and occasionally a bolt of lightning swept across the sky, bringing rolling thunder.
Tonight, Crescent City will be thunderstormed until dawn.
And on this night of thunderstorms, Ying Ziyu looked down at the red cheongsam in front of him wearing a hole the size of two fingers in front of him and fell into deep thought......
To be continued