Chapter 3: Fragrant Beauty
Three days later, Ah Tao arrived in Yin'an.
Yin'an is really as the ghost said, prosperous and rich, just looking at this busy scene, Ah Tao has been dazzled.
The pavilions and pavilions of different styles in various places in the city are lined up one after another, solemn and elegant; the willows are weeping and the flowers are red, the leaves are green and the birds are singing, and they are full of spring. The goods in the shops on both sides of the street are dazzling, which Ah Tao has never seen before, and it is difficult to conjure even with illusion.
The human beings on the street are all neatly dressed and energetic, and the cries of the hawkers, the chuckles of the ladies and the chatter of the sons are all lively and vibrant.
No wonder so many goblins would rather pay the price of being driven by human enslavement or even killed than come here.
Ah Tao thought of the dead air in the ghost field township of Fog City, barren and lonely, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
She was just about to turn around and walk into a narrow alley, but suddenly sensed two faint ghosts slowly coming from the crowd.
They had a clear aura that was out of place with their surroundings, and they always maintained a half-bowed and humble appearance, moving cautiously in small steps, for fear of touching anyone around them, and if they really accidentally touched it, they would immediately say forgiveness.
Someone deliberately bumped into it and teased it for a moment or two, and the two ghosts' bodies immediately trembled with fright, and they confessed again and again, causing a burst of wanton ridicule from the other party.
When the other humans who were out of the way saw this, they looked at them with no sympathy but disdain.
This is the human world where "people respect ghosts and inferiority".
The weaker the ghostly aura and the lower the mana, the more fearful they are of humans.
These two ghosts, the ghost aura is thin, and there are no ghost lines on their foreheads, and they are obviously wild ghosts with no protection and low mana.
Ah Tao was hesitating whether to step forward to relieve them, when suddenly the flow of people behind her surged, and they squeezed towards her in an instant, and Ah Dao's body was instantly rushed to a place a few steps away from the two wild ghosts uncontrollably.
The street was in a commotion, and Ah Tao mixed in with the crowd, and finally turned around, and found that the flow of people had been automatically separated on both sides of the street, leaving a wide road in the middle.
In a few moments, several swarthy horses with horseshoes emitted a clear and powerful hoof sound, coming from far and near.
Several people on horseback have solemn expressions, sharp eyes, red, blue, and yellow robes, and a golden full moon dark ribbon around their waists, and each holding a magic weapon with different types of magic weapons.
The popularity of these people is exposed, showing a floating and killing image, which is obviously different from the popularity of ordinary humans.
A sharp light flashed in Ah Dao's eyes, and her gaze stopped on the magic weapons carried by these people, and there was still the aura of the dead ghosts that had not dissipated on them.
If she guessed correctly, these people should be the ghosts in the ghost world, who are afraid to stay away from the ghosts in the ghost world, and specialize in killing ghosts.
Human beings are not born with their own mana than ghosts, and humans need to introduce the fear attached to their own popularity into a special ghost-deterring magic weapon in order to transform the ghost-intimidating mana.
Ah Dao's throat tightened, and he couldn't help but take a few steps back, silently hiding himself in the crowd.
At the end of the queue of ghost masters, followed by several luxurious sedan chairs of different styles and materials, at first glance they are not owned by ordinary people, and each sedan chair is accompanied by several maids and guards, and there are several ghost attendants next to the sedan chair.
Ah Tao noticed that one of the indigo canopy warm sedan chairs was more luxurious and exquisite than the others.
The sedan chair came from far and near, leaving a soft fragrance wherever it passed, causing the surrounding crowd to stir and whisper.
Ah Dao's gaze suddenly froze on the curtain in front of the sedan chair, tied to a flower and bird pattern gilt silver incense ball that swayed back and forth from side to side.
It reminded Ah Tao of the cloisonné enamel silver incense ball on the noble carriage he met on a snowy night......
I don't know if that noble man is also here?
Ah Tao closed his eyes, held his breath and concentrated, and his five senses gradually became one, and he sensed it all around.
The surrounding popularity was mixed with ghost energy, and the ghost energy was mixed with human popularity, and Ah Tao recognized them one by one, but in the end, he didn't feel the slightest strong popularity from that nobleman.
"These powerful people of the family participate in the seedling selection meeting held by the ghost house every year, and they are really happy to do it. ”
"Those nobles are already idle on weekdays, and this selection of ghost seedlings and collecting ghost servants can be regarded as a good way for them to pass the time. ”
Oni sprouts are the name of ghosts that are selected by humans and accepted as ghost attendants.
"It's a pity that we and other civilians who have no officials and no lords can only be fascinated by this kind of banquet, and we can't feast our eyes. ”
The conversation between the two fell into Ah Tao's ears on the side, and her five senses instantly returned to their original places, and she opened her eyes suddenly.
Today, there are nobles who take over ghost servants!
Ah Tao was secretly happy in his heart, he was really sleepy, and someone sent a pillow.
Her clear fawn eyes purred around a few times, and they were instantly counted.
Ah Tao looked around, and his sharp eyes reached a apricot tree full of white flowers at the corner of the roadside, and an apricot blossom shavings were falling from the top of the crown with the wind.
Seeing that the apricot blossom crumbs were about to fall on the top of a warm sedan chair that was marching under the tree, Ah Tao quickly recited the word "apricot" in his mouth, and a blood-red "apricot" word quickly appeared in the palm of his right hand.
The next moment when the red light entered it, the apricot blossom crumbs fell steadily on the top of the warm sedan car and went around the corner with the sedan car.
As soon as the canopy chariot leaves the main street one by one, the fish runs into a bluestone cobblestone path, and after passing through two wide alleys, the prospect suddenly opens up.
Not far ahead, there is a majestic ninety-nine-eighty-one pavilion, towering into the clouds, glazed tiles are stacked on top of each other, and the eaves point to the nine heavens, just like the ancient beast that guards one side and keeps the peace.
The entire pavilion was enveloped by a powerful and strong force of fear, so that the goblins did not dare to approach for even half a minute.
The three gilded characters "Ghost Temple" are inscribed on the plaque above the closed vermilion gate, solemn and solemn.
This is the cornerstone of Ding'an used by Yin'an to maintain the order of "people respect ghosts and inferiority", which makes all ghosts talk about the color change and fear of ghosts.
When the little servant guarding in front of the door saw the sedan chariots driving, he immediately stepped forward to bow to the nobles, and then opened the gate to welcome the ghost deterrence masters who were in the lead.
The canopy sedan chair that followed stopped in front of the gate in turn, lined up, and the nobles in the sedan chair walked out of the sedan chair one by one with the support of the maidservant.
The breeze came slowly, and the sedan curtain was raised, as if there was a veil roll.
The nobles are dressed in fine clothes, thin shirts, gorgeous hair, and dark fragrance floating.
The beautiful clothes of the delicate women are fragrant and beautiful, and the waist is like willows, and the men are handsome and graceful, chic and dignified.
In front of the sedan chair with the gilded silver incense ball with the flower and bird pattern, a slender hand like a white onion slowly stretched out from the red curtain with the blue begonia shading, and the maidservants leaned forward to support them.
The girl who came out of the sedan chair at the end of the car, with a slightly open blue plum pattern neckline, a white jade wide-sleeved shirt on the top, a red long skirt on the bottom, and a phoenix on her feet.
A goose egg face is slightly powdered, the skin is like coagulation, the head of the mantis is moth-eyebrowed, and the lips are white. There is a golden luan hairpin inlaid on the bun, and the golden luan trembles and trembles when he walks, which is lifelike. The whole person is like coming out of a painting, and it is a beautiful and stunning beauty with a lifetime of fragrance.
As soon as she appeared, the other nobles present instantly lost their color.
Everyone's eyes involuntarily looked at the girl, the nobles showed jealousy, and the nobles looked obsessed.
The raw fragrance beauty looked at everyone, the corners of her mouth hooked up an elegant faint smile, with a bit of natural pride in her expression, obviously enjoying the gaze of these people.
And at the moment when she just walked down, on the roof of the soft sedan chair beside her, the apricot blossom crumbs that had originally stopped on it were emitting a faint red light, and they fell steadily with the wind between the fragrant beauty's buns.
No one noticed this subtle scene.
At this time, a servant walked out of the Zhu Gate, walked quickly to the nobles, and arched his hand: "Your nobles, please come with me." Then respectfully leaned sideways, made a gesture of please, and the noble sons and ladies walked towards the Zhu Gate.
Walking all the way in the ghost courtyard, there is silence everywhere, the columns between each floor stand on the top, the surrounding dense forest is towering, mighty and solemn, and there is a solemn and murderous atmosphere.
After bypassing a training ground for ghost-deterring masters, the nobles entered a lush courtyard and walked through a winding corridor to the main hall where guests were entertained.
A table has already been arranged in the hall, and several small servants have rushed in, leading all the nobles to the corresponding seats.
The closer the seat is to the front row, the more noble the status.
After all the nobles sat down, several small servants carried up the white gauze screen with hibiscus embroidery pattern, surrounded the nobles sitting in the back rows, and separated them from the noblemen.
In the banquet of the nobles of Yin'an Gate, although men and women can sit at the same table, after all, they are unmarried ladies in the boudoir, and when facing foreign men, they still need to be careful about a few courtesies.
At this time, there were several beautiful maids in plain skirts and buns, carrying all kinds of food and wine, and kneeling in front of each table to serve.
Two rows of musicians dressed in crimson robes sat on the floor on one side of the corner and began to play.
And at this moment, Ah Dao, which is attached to the apricot blossom crumbs and hidden in the bun of the fragrant beauty, is depressed.
I don't know how many spices this beauty smoked before going out, and the smell of spices emitted from her bun was so rich that she sneezed several times in the middle of it, and almost showed her original form due to the unstable ghostly aura.
Ah Tao was holding his breath when he suddenly felt a gust of wind coming near, mixed with a faint smell of fat powder.
Ah Dao's self-born fragrant beauty's bun looked upward, and he saw a magnified white and handsome young man's face, with a smile like a spring breeze, through the white gauze screen, poking his head over, looking down at the fragrant beauty.
The gust of wind came from the folding fan that shook in the young man's hand.
"When Yuan Zhi went out this morning, he heard the birds on the branches, and he didn't want to know that something good was coming, but today he met the first beauty of Yin'an. One of Luo Yuan closed the folding fan and made a flat salute to the fragrant beauty, and the movements were smooth, so it was not romantic.
The fragrant beauty Han Tang Li stood up and said angrily: "As long as your mouth is poor, I will let the eldest prince of Luo treat you well another day." The coping smile on his face has finally been replaced by a little sincere intimacy.
Luo Yuanzhi laughed and said jokingly: "Unfortunately, my eldest brother has been absent from Yin'an for a while, and you are afraid that you will not be able to sue for this situation." ”
Han Tangli was not angry, but at this time, his mind changed, and he paused, and then he spoke again: "Son, he ...... How are you doing recently?" said in a shy tone with a little nervous anticipation.
When Luo Yuanzhi heard this, his eyes flashed.
Seeing that Han Tangli's pretty face had unconsciously dyed a little red halo after asking, and a faint water color appeared in his eyes, he pretended to be aggrieved and sighed: "Miss Han, there is such a graceful and graceful young man standing in front of you at this moment, how can you bear to ask about other men?"
Just between the two of them, not far away, in the first row under Hantang Pear, the blue-clothed young man who was sitting in front of him Yan Wenque, after hearing this frivolous remark, his brows frowned imperceptibly, and a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes.
Han Tang Pear scolded Luo Yuanzhi for his flamboyant tongue and was not ashamed, Luo Yuanzhi was smiling complacently, his eyes suddenly fixed on Han Tang Li's bun, and his smile couldn't help but retract.
Seeing this, Han Tang Liji looked at him with some puzzlement: "What's wrong?"
She was about to reach out to touch her bun, but was stopped by Luo Yuanzhi's voice: "Don't move." ”
After Luo Yuanzhi finished speaking, he stretched out a hand and approached the apricot crumbs that stopped on the Hantang pear bun, and with a slight hook of his little finger, he picked off the apricot crumbs.
Luo Yuanzhi looked at the whiteness of the little finger, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, it is a beautiful woman, and even the falling flowers have been attracted." After saying that, he flicked his fingers.
The next moment, Ah Dao, together with the apricot blossom crumbs, crossed a high arc in mid-air, and was bounced out like a ball of boogers.
It was accompanied by an almost negligible faint sound of panic from Adao......