Fourth, the place of leprosy
On this day, the Southern Demon Lord Firebird took his subordinates, wearing the robes of the Shura Army, with the armor of the battle, and wrapped themselves tightly, they became ordinary soldiers, and took Li Qi to the famous Qiaoke Street in the world, which belongs to the Kingdom of the Firmament, because it is close to the place where the northern monsters live, so you can often see the people of various countries here, and even the demons and monsters are often there, so this has always been a place of right and wrong, but it is rare to be so prosperous (Chapter 4 of the legend of the other world). Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the face of salivating humans, this group of demons actually wants to control their hungry stomachs, and pretend to be ridiculous humans, in order to take Li Qi in and out of the Rubik's Cube Domain, take care of her and protect her (Chapter 4 of the Legend of the World).
"But who called her the daughter of the Night Emperor?" Firebird thought helplessly, remember that day, the night deigned to come to his face, the appearance of this big man who had never been in contact with himself made the firebird flattered for a while, since the appearance of Li Qi, the firebird found that the Night Emperor has become different, not only his death zone mysteriously disappeared, he can even get close to the Night Emperor, all the time, the Firebird thought that the night could not speak, and now not only talk to himself, but even sent himself to take care of his daughter's work, although it is to watch the child, But the Firebird is still very happy, as the personal companion of the Emperor of the Day, it would naturally be better to be able to get closer to the night now.
"Wow, there are so many people like me, they are so much better looking than you!" On the street, Li Qi shouted strangely, the first time he came to the world, everything was so strange, the left side was selling sugar gourds, the stalls on the right were wafting with a variety of fragrances, and the bewitching woman in the back was still soliciting guests, everything in the world was extremely attractive to Li Qi who had just stepped into the world.
"Li Qi, keep a low profile!" King Loulan was also a person who mixed with the world before he became a demon, so he knew almost everything in the world, Li Qi's high-profile call would definitely attract attention, he and several other demons were changed, if he couldn't help but eat people, things would be bad.
"What is low-key!" Li Qi turned his head and glanced at King Loulan, and he still hated him for controlling himself too much.
"Be quiet! You are an orphan pretending to be in the war, and you were picked up by us soldiers and sent to the lonely garden of Qiaoke Bridge, where are the dead parents as happy as you! King Fenglian beside him spoke.
The story goes back a few months ago, when the curious Li Qi kept asking about his life experience, which made the bored night finally realize the path that this child should take. When Daylight died, the child could not stay by his side forever.
Kill the useless her? Ye is not a person who crosses the river and demolishes the bridge like this, then, where he came from, he will go there, at least for now, let her study there, after all, day still hates this so-called daughter to death.
However, in the world, girls are very few places to study, originally in the vast dynasty, men and women are equal, men and women are equal to officials and study, but the later Shura Emperor discriminates against women, thinking that women do not have the ability to read and be officials, so now all the Zhen, private schools, township schools, etc. only recruit men, and only female Taoist priests have women's enlightenment colleges in the Taoist temple. And the household registration of the Shura Dynasty is very strict, and the best way for a person with a suspicious background like Li Qi is to go to the Lonely Garden to mix the identity of an orphan, so that he can be accepted by a kind female Taoist.
"Huh-" Li Qibai glanced at King Fenglian, and in a blink of an eye, he turned into a crying expression, and pouted and complained, "Who came up with the broken idea!" ”
"The idea of the dead father and mother was come up with by this king!" King Fenglian rightly exclaimed, "However, it was the Night Emperor who came up with the idea of wanting you to study. ”
Firebird nodded and added, "First of all, you have also reached the age of learning, and if you don't learn and have no skills, you are obviously disliked by the Emperor of the Day and Night, not to mention that the Emperor of the Day also hates you, and I can't wait to kill you while the Emperor of the Night is not paying attention, so where the Emperor of the Day and Night is beyond his reach, you should hide a little." ”
Speaking of day, Li Qi stuck out his tongue, day rarely talked to himself, even the few words were crying with a face, in her impression, day would drive her out of the water cave almost every day, at this time Li Qi always wanted to wait until night to come out of the door to pick him up, and in the long days of the day, these demons are usually used as objects to take her in.
And for the fight between day and night, almost all the demons put on an invisible look, and everyone rumored that Li Qi was the illegitimate daughter of the night, and it would make the day so angry when he was found back by the night. And every time he comes to the door to catch Li Qi during the day, the firebird doesn't know what to do, on the one hand, he is his master, and on the other hand, he is the founder of this Rubik's Cube domain, and he is the two most unbearable people in the world.
"Hello, this is what we picked up from the battlefield, her parents are dead, and she has no relatives, so we can't help it, so we sent her to you." At the gate of the Lonely Garden, the steward greeted several soldiers warmly, after all, it was the famous Shura Army in the sky, but when it came to taking it in, the steward looked embarrassed.
"Now, now that there are wars going on and there are too many homeless children, we can't take them anymore." The steward glanced at a group of small children in the room and said.
Haha, these demons are waiting for the steward to say this, and now in this lonely garden, six or seven-year-old and a half-year-old sensible children like Li Qi can't be left behind, and many of them are sent to ordinary people or can only find another place.
"This, since we can't live in the lonely garden, we soldiers have a way to adopt this child, but it's a pity that we fight all year round, even if we put it in the people's house, we hope that she will be taken care of." King Fenglian said with an almost smile.
"This, it should be, I will inform the viewer and arrange for this child to go to the Women's Mongolian Academy to study." The steward said enthusiastically.
"Where's King Loulan?" When leaving, the team protecting Li Qi was missing a demon from King Loulan.
"Oh, there are too many people in charge of the lonely garden, so he will solve a few of them and make up some positions." Firebird said calmly.
Li Qi nodded, they are demons, how can there be a reason not to eat people.
"That's right, the Night Emperor also said that every time we pick you up, we will take turns to have benefits, otherwise wouldn't it be a trip to the world for nothing?" King Fenglian said expectantly, because tomorrow it will be his turn to feast.
So with the arrival of Li Qi, the number of people on Qiaoke Street decreased imperceptibly at a very slow trend.
In that lazy afternoon of spring, the sun on Xiawu Mountain was so bright, behind the small nun temple, the academy located at the foot of the hill came from the sound of reading, looking from the window, in the bright and clean hut, more than a dozen little girls in white seemed to understand the "Female Commandment":
"Being idle and chaste, keeping the festival neat, acting shamefully, and having a law for movement are women's virtues. Choose words to speak, not to speak evilly, to speak from time to time, not to be tired of others, it is a woman's words. The dust is filthy, the clothes are fresh, and when bathing, the body is not dirty, and it is called a woman's appearance. Concentrate on spinning, don't laugh or laugh, clean wine and food, and serve guests, which is called women's work. ”
"Aren't they all like old ghosts?" Under the small window, Li Qi, who looked half younger than others, held his head and thought.
Now, I have been in the Women's Mengxue Academy for 7 years, and the classmates here were younger than Li Qi at that time, and there was no shortage of older sisters than her, but after 7 years, they have all become young women who are waiting to be married with Xuan, Pogua, and Erba, but Li Qi, who has an average lifespan with the clan, has not even grown up a year old.
"You have to be like the female Taoist priest here, okay?" Li Qi looked out the window and thought stupidly, but saw curling smoke rising on the top of the mountain in the distance, and the bored Li Qi remembered the warning of the Taoist aunt:
"Don't go up to the top of the mountain, there are demons and monsters on the top of the mountain, and if you go up, you will be possessed by the plague god, and you can't come down."
"What kind of demons and monsters...... Li Qi thought disdainfully, "aren't you afraid?" It's boring to death here. ”
The sky gradually darkened, and the women of the academy returned home in a hurry, leaving Li Qi to run up the mountain alone. This is an inaccessible place, surrounded by a burning smell, in the distance in the humble house, there is a howl like a demon, in this night when the sun is like blood, it is even more terrifying, but such a scene Li Qi is not strange, because she has seen killing, seen demons killing each other, seen them eat their own kind, and seen the ground covered with white bones......
In the small open space next to the big house, the stench of burning was unusually pungent, and the faint smoke on the charred dirt had not yet dissipated.
"It turns out that it's not cooking smoke here, it's someone burning something." Li Qi shook the blackened stones under his feet, and his heart was boring.
"What are you doing here?!" Suddenly, a hoarse and old voice came out from behind Li Qi, and someone was talking behind him, which really startled Li Qi, only to see an ugly old lady standing behind him.
"How did you come here, and no one told you you couldn't come here?" The old woman said viciously.
"Yes, but why can't you come?" Li Qi was puzzled.
"Any idea where this is? This is the leprosy bureau! Have you ever heard that leprosy kills people, it is contagious, and the people at the bottom of the mountain are afraid that these lepers will be infected, so they have to burn them alive, and we are monks, so we can't see such things, so we have to gather them all in this house and lock them up, and deliver food in the morning and evening......"
"And then? Can it be cured? Li Qi asked.
"No way, leprosy is a terminal disease. Even if you don't burn you alive, you're waiting to die here, little girl, go back quickly, don't touch around here, it's contagious. The old woman said kindly.
"Is that it? Much more boring than our ghost stories. Li Qi thought in his heart, but seeing this boring old lady staring at her whereabouts with a straight face, the boring Li Qi could only stick out his tongue and leave, "I'm a demon child, so I'm not afraid of here." Li Qiman thought nonchalantly.
It was late when I returned to Yinshui Cave, and I saw from afar that Ye was already waiting at the entrance of the cave.
"Where's it going?" Night said coldly.
"Oh......" Li Qi replied irrationally, I don't know why, maybe he was crazy, Li Qi always felt very tired now, and even his hands felt numb.
"Why do you keep touching your hands?" At night, he looked at Li Qi, whose hands were a little red.
"It's a little itchy......" Li Qi scratched his hand and touched his neck again, but saw that there were pustules in his nails, and his slightly itchy body became even more itchy after discovering something strange.
"Where have you been?" Night was not good and said nervously.
"No." Li Qi cried in panic, from childhood to adulthood, she was basically healthy.
"Say!" The night almost roared.
"It seems to be - back mountain, back mountain's leprosy bureau!"