Chapter III. Night meeting
Liuxianju is famous in Chang'an for its tea skills and fruit cakes, and the interior of the store is elegant and clean, and it is the residence of many literati and scholars in the city. At present, the night party of a thousand lights, all households in Chang'an City have been dispatched, and the business in the building is hotter than usual.
When we entered the door, Sijiu had a few words with the tea house in Liuxian Ju, and we were led to the private seat by the window on the second floor.
When I got out of the car, I put on the veil that Zhizhi had prepared for me, for fear of being recognized by others. I laughed at her for being unfounded, and I felt that if I had changed into men's clothes, I wouldn't have to do anything more.
Thanks to the blessing of Sijiu, we got this hard-to-find window seat. Although I later learned that Sijiu was in the name of His Royal Highness Elder Brother, I still sincerely felt that he had done a serious job.
The tea house brought a few plates of delicate refreshments and melon seeds, and it was very difficult for me to wear a veil to sip the melon seeds, and just as I was extremely melancholy watching the joy of Sijiu Zhizhi and the two eating, the dispute that suddenly arose downstairs caught my attention.
Through the window, at the main entrance of Liuxian Residence, two men and a woman from a good family were entangled, although they couldn't hear what they were saying, but according to this situation, it was mostly a drama of flirting and acting bravely.
I poked into the probe and saw a man dressed in a golden fox fur in the shape of a graceful man, holding a woman from a good family with one hand and a famous and stupid boy with the other, attracting many onlookers.
The woman of the Naliang family kept writhing in his hands, as if she were breaking free. It seems that it is a bit inappropriate to say that it is a woman of a good family, that woman should be an exotic, looking from a distance, long and quite amorous, with brown waist-length curly hair spread out, wearing an off-the-shoulder short jacket and cable elastic ink pants in the cold weather, the creamy skin is exposed in the cold weather, a pair of collarbones are clearly visible, and it is understandable to be teased.
I naturally recognize the man in the fox fur, and Pei Shaoyi, the son of the Xiaoyao Hou Mansion, is also.
Xiaoyao Hou really lives up to the name of this imperial gift, there are a total of thirteen sons under his knees, and this Pei Shaoyi is the youngest one he has a son and gives birth to. This person is a chic and dignified life, a pair of peach blossom eyes have caused a lot of mandarin duck debts, and he is famous for his romance in Chang'an City, and he is the best among the gentlemen. In his early years, he had a love for Princess Lanshao, and now it has become a topic of conversation after tea and dinner in the palace.
Sijiu was eating a strange snack that he had never seen in the palace, and he hesitated: "Zhizhi, am I dazzled, the person I am holding in the hands of the thirteen young people should not be a star slave, right?" ”
I lifted the veil of obstruction and looked, and sure enough, it turned out that the two of them had collided in one place, which frightened my heart and I hurriedly ran downstairs. It's not that I'm worried that the star slave will be bullied, I'm just afraid that if I anger the star slave for a while, poor Thirteen Young will be torn alive by him.
When I rushed down, Pei Shisan was dragging the star slave to death, smiling lightly at the girl in the other hand, and the people around him looked lively, knowing that he was rampant and domineering on weekdays, and he didn't dare to say anything.
"Hurry up and stop!" My flat sound caused everyone to immediately sharpen their ears and look at me in disbelief.
Xingnu found me in the crowd, and his originally unconscious eyes burst with joy, and he began to break free from Pei Shisan and run towards me.
The star slave is infinitely powerful, Pei Shisan is his opponent, and his slender body keeps twisting and twisting with his breakaway, looking quite funny. The people around couldn't help but burst into bursts of laughter, and the exotic woman on the side didn't know if she was ashamed, so she quickly covered her face with one hand.
Seeing that this situation will only attract more people, it will be troublesome to alarm the officers and soldiers patrolling nearby to maintain order. There was no way, I stepped forward a few steps forward and put it on Pei Shisan's shoulder, and then said, "Hey! He was pushed away with a palm.
"Grandma's, where did you come from?"
I was about to scold him for not knowing what to do, but I saw the star slave turn his head and stare at Pei Shisan viciously, with an expression of wanting to eat him alive, and a beast-like whimper came out of his throat.
Pei Shisan, the unlucky guy, saw that he seemed to anger the stupid and stupid star slave who was dragging in his hand, and he was about to be in trouble, so he swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva in fright, but he still didn't let go.
I reluctantly stepped forward again, approached Pei Shisan in the surprised eyes of everyone, and reached out to stroke Xingnu's head, making him settle down a little. Then the onlookers watched me approach Thirteen, and Thirteen's handsome face suddenly flushed with an eerie flush; I said something to Thirteen again, and Thirteen's face turned black again, staring at a pair of peach blossom eyes; After the last moment, I handed Thirteen a thing, and Thirteen's face immediately turned white, and he shook his fan to hide his face.
The people who watched around were impressed, and their faces changed like turning a book, and the thirteen young people of the Pei family were really strange!
The onlookers talked about me, and I was a little embarrassed to stand in the center of the crowd with Xingnu. Just as I was about to leave, I glanced back at the exotic woman who had just been molested, she was still standing in place at a loss, and when I got closer, I realized that she was tall and straight, a full head taller than me.
I was a little amused and said, "The evil boy has run away, why don't you leave quickly?" ”
Seeing that she looked confused, I replied: "I wonder if the girl understood what I said, or was she frightened?" Glancing at the tame star slave beside me, "If my star slave also hurts the girl, I hope the girl will not be surprised." This was a little thought, and it was taken as an apology, and the girl was frightened. ”
I took out the night pearl and put it in her hand, and the light of the pearl shining on her beautiful face was beautiful.
Everyone was stunned, I knew that if I continued like this, I was afraid that my identity would be exposed, so I took the star slave and prepared to slip away, but the girl grabbed me, and looked at me with a pair of blue eyes smiling, like a high sky.
She spread out my palm, and her long, jointed fingers roamed over my palm, slightly cool to the touch, and she wrote carefully stroke by stroke.
Country, color, sky, fragrance.
I looked up and looked at her with a puzzled expression.
Through the veil, she couldn't see my expression clearly, and when she saw that I was silent, she looked up at me and smiled brightly, and her face was innocent in the dim light.
When I came back to my senses, she was gone, and the people around her were scattered.
I pulled Xingnu to find Zhizhi Sijiu, and there seemed to be the temperature of the fingertips of the exotic woman in my palm, thinking about her blue eyes, but I racked my brains to know what kind of dumb riddle the four words she wrote down.
Zhizhi was so frightened that she was in a cold sweat, and she was just about to start chattering, I immediately covered my ears, and not long before I let go of my hand, the star slave ran away without a trace.
I wondered what the star slave was doing today, so I had no choice but to look around.
"It's strange, I saw him running in this direction just now!" Sijiu fell to the side of the steps and spread his hands, and Zhizhi gasped and stared at him with a complaining face.
I steadied my breath and saw that this alley was full of lanterns, and the stalls on both sides were selling all kinds of novelty things.
A nearby stall caught my attention, where an uncle shouted at the strange cypress masks on the shelves: hideous blue-faced fangs, terrifying black-and-white impermanence, white-faced and red-mouthed dolls......
Sijiu asked me puzzled: "These masks look so infiltrating, how can anyone dare to buy them?" ”
Zhizhi stabbed him a few times angrily, but the old man didn't care when he heard it, and beckoned us over with a smile, looking like a fortune ...... Old boy.
We listened to him boast while we were carrying the mask, and he picked out a mask with a fanged yaksha on it and handed it to me.
"The longer the ugly mask, the more peace it will keep. No, just now a boy in black clothes bought a yaksha in the hands of a girl, although the boy looks fierce, he can be called a generous shot! You see, without saying a word, I gave Lao Er a night pearl the size of a dragon's eye! As he spoke, he took out the bead as if it were ostentatious, with uniform color and warm luster, which was a first-class product only in the palace.
Sijiu Zhizhi and I looked at each other, exchanged their eyes, and affirmed in our hearts that the two hundred and five in black clothes who didn't know how to bargain in the old man's mouth were probably the star slaves who ran away.
I picked out two more masks, and was about to let Sijiu settle the bill, when I saw a black figure not far away, flashing by, hiding in the alley on the other side, and the moment the four eyes met, I could see clearly the fanged yaksha on his face.
I was a spirit, dropped the mask in my hand and chased after the alley over there, leaving Zhizhi and Sijiu behind me to keep shouting.
When I stopped at the entrance of the alley, there was no one in the alley, and the countless candles on the wall swayed slightly with the breeze, and the blue road was dappled with light and shadow. Looking up is a round of amber crescent, hanging lonely from the canopy.
"Star slave?" I tried to call, but no one answered in the empty alley, and the candlelight fluttered lightly. This is a dead end, it is impossible for the star slave to run far, could it be that I am dazzled?
Just as I was about to take two more steps, a strong gust of wind suddenly whistled out of nowhere, and it came very strangely.
The candles around me were all extinguished in an instant, and it was dark in front of my eyes, and I was overwhelmed when a black shadow fell from the sky, as if something heavy had landed, and with a muffled sound, it smashed at my feet.
I was so frightened that I took two steps back, and in the darkness I could see through the dim moonlight what was falling on the ground, and I rubbed my eyes in disbelief, and rubbed them again, and cried out in my heart.
The one who smashed on the ground was the fierce star slave in black clothes and a mask.
I took a closer look, and in the darkness, he was lying motionless on the ground, presumably fainting. I could smell the faint smell of blood in the air, whether it was the wounds brought by Xingnu himself or the blood of others, which made my eyelids jump.
After calming my mind, I approached him in a few steps, squatted on his side, stretched out my hand and groped around on him, but I didn't find any injuries, but my body was extremely cold, like a dead man.
Frightened by my own thoughts, I stroked the mask he was wearing with one hand and tried to find out if he was still breathing, but I didn't expect that my hand was not on his cheek, but he grabbed it with one hand.
The palm that grabbed my hand was slightly thicker, the rough texture rubbed against my skin, and the hot temperature wrapped around my palm, so strong that I couldn't break free.
It turned out to be a false alarm.
I put my other hand on his mask again, frowned, and said, "Xingnu, you are joking with me again!" Seeing that he still didn't let go, I was angry and pretended to be angry: "If you don't let go, I won't give you food tomorrow!" ”
With that, I heard him chuckle from behind his mask, and I felt the vibrations in his chest as I leaned against him.
I felt inexplicably strange, and the movements in my hands were sluggish. Suddenly there was a call from behind Sijiu: "Gong...... Miss! ”
As soon as I turned around, my eyelids suddenly jumped twice, and Sijiu Zhizhi and the three of Xingnu walked towards me quickly, "Gong...... Ah, Miss, we found the star slave, you ...... In a dark place...... Do? ”
Following Sijiu's words, I looked at the star slave hiding behind Zhizhi with a look of disbelief, with a Yaksha mask on his head, cowering and not knowing what he was afraid of.
Turning his head, he looked at the black-clothed masked man lying beside him, one hand was still tightly clenched by him, and fine sweat was born.
I gently lifted the hideous mask he was wearing with one hand, the dim moonlight shining on his handsome face, and his half-closed eyes were as black as midnight.
He looked at me, the corners of his mouth lifted slightly, let go of the palm that was clenching me, and reached out to lift the veil from my head.
My heart skipped a few beats, like I was falling into the abyss. The smile in the corner of his eyes deepened, and he opened his mouth slightly, and his voice was hoarse and low: "Miss, it's rude to be below." ”