Chapter 53: The Two Trees Inn and the Painting
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It's not Yinghua, but it has Yinghua's face... It took Jiu Li a long time to digest this sentence, she stopped abruptly and opened her frightened eyes: "Then, what about Yinghua?" β
In the end, it is a little divine beast that has never encountered any wind and waves, Ye Shu smiled secretly, and continued to pull her tightly: "Let's go, it's not that bad." β
Because of the royal family's marriage, Zhou Raoguo celebrated all over the country these days, and the crowds on the streets of the national capital were shoulder to shoulder. Jiu Li followed Ye Shu through the crowd for a while, his eyes looked around, and suddenly saw a familiar back flash not far from the crowd. Jiu Li vaguely saw that it was a man in black clothes, and when the man turned his head sideways, half of the silver mask looked particularly mysterious and noble against the black clothes, but in the blink of an eye, the man disappeared into the crowd. Although it is only half of the mask, I am afraid that there will be no second one in this world with that very distinctive pattern.
Demon Lord Sai Yuan?
The blood in Jiu Li's whole body froze, and she stared at the place where the man disappeared and slowed down.
Ye Shuxu felt Jiu Li's pause, turned his head and asked, "What's wrong?" β
Jiu Li looked around and never saw the black back again, she looked at the calm streets and the jubilant crowd, and shook her head.
Jiuli followed Ye Shu into a small alley, and there were relatively few people in the alley. On both sides of the alley are two rows of small shops, interspersed with a number of small restaurants and inns. Ye Shu walked all the way to the depths of the alley, and finally stopped in front of an inn. This is a very ordinary small inn, the outside is antique, at first glance it is no different from other inns, the only peculiar thing is that there are two crooked neck trees growing at the door of the inn, and the two crooked neck trees seem to have eyes to avoid the inn gate and grow staggered, hiding the outer wall of the inn behind the dense canopy.
Through the branches, Jiuli vaguely saw that the small plaque in the middle of the door was written "two trees" in official script, which was very in line with the image of the two crooked neck trees.
Jiuli and Ye Shu entered the Two Trees Inn, there were not many people in the inn, Ye Shu only nodded to the innkeeper as if he had been here many times, and then walked straight through the lobby and towards the inn. It wasn't until I reached the back door of the inn that Ye Shu stopped.
Ye Shu pushed open the back door in the deepest part of the inn and pulled Jiuli inside.
It's like a gateway to another world, and there's a different scene inside the door.
It turned out that there was a small courtyard behind the inconspicuous inn, and the space of the courtyard was even larger than the outside, and the layout was as antique as the outside. The breeze blows, and the petals in the peach grove fall.
From the overlapping peach blossom rain, Jiu Li saw a fiery red figure rushing towards her quickly and vigorously...
"Whew~" The fiery red figure rushed straight into Jiu Li's arms, sticking out his tongue and licking her face desperately.
Before attending Yinghua's wedding banquet, she locked Xiaohong, who was in the way, in the inn, but she didn't expect to see it here.
Jiu Li was licked by it and saliva was all over her face, but she thought that it had become so crazy because she had been isolated by herself before, and the outstretched slap hand turned into a stroking hand in the air, but she didn't expect that her comforting hand hadn't touched Xiaohong, and Xiaohong whined and threw herself into the arms of Ye Shu next to her.
Xiaohong instantly restrained her madness in Ye Shu's arms, climbed to Ye Shu's shoulder like a proud Persian cat, sat down and squinted her eyes to admire Jiu Li's embarrassment.
Jiu Li understood, this is a very retaliatory cat-like unknown creature, Jiu Li looked at Xiaohong's small appearance, and waved it over. Xiaohong was so shocked that she got into Ye Shu's arms and looked at Jiuli through Ye Shu's arm.
Jiuli was angry, and said to the night: "You get out of the way, today I want to teach this forgetful thing a good lesson." β
Xiaohong clutched Yeshu's sleeve tightly. Ye Shu touched Xiaohong's hair and said with a smile: "Okay, let's go in quickly." β
At this moment, Xuechen walked out from behind the peach forest, and she walked in a hurry, straight to Jiuli and them. Now is indeed not the time to fight with Xiaohong, Jiuli withdrew his hand.
"What's wrong?" Ye Shu saw Xuechen's hurried expression and asked.
"Shenjun, I found a strange painting."
Jiu Li was surprised, glanced at Ye Shu, and Ye Shu said, "Let's go." At that moment, the three of them walked together behind the peach forest.
There was a row of houses hidden behind the peach forest, Xuechen led them to one of the rooms, pushed open the door, and Jiuli saw Changqin and the others waiting in the house.
Jiuli walked in and asked hurriedly, "Where is Yinghua?" β
Ah Luan pulled Jiuli to sit on the chair, poured her a glass of water, and said, "Don't worry, Childe is thinking of a way." β
"The initial feeling is that Yinghua has been changed by someone, which means that a person with strong spiritual power has exchanged Yinghua's soul with another person's soul, and then achieved the purpose of dominating Yinghua by manipulating that soul," Changqin walked over with his hands behind his back, and he frowned and said, "But the strange thing is that the current Yinghua, the body seems to be... and there is no soul of the living. β
Jiu Li felt that this reason was too unbelievable, and blurted out: "That's the soul of the dead?!" β
Xuechen glared at her: "The dead are not called ghosts, but ghosts." β
Ghosts...
"Could it be that Yinghua is really possessed by a ghost?" Jiu Li remembered that he had just pulled the fake Yinghua and asked the toilet, and he felt infiltrated.
"I can't rule out this possibility," Changqin said, "Yinghua is indeed a ghost vessel that can easily attract ghosts, as the monk said. However, if there is really a ghost possessed, it is impossible for me and Ye Shu not to feel it, no matter how powerful the ghost is, it is still a dark species, and there is nothing to hide in front of the gods. β
"So what is that fake Yinghua?"
Changqin shook his head, "It's not certain yet, tomorrow I will go to see Yinghua again with Ah Luan, and at that time, I may have to borrow the Jiuli pot of the Night Shu Shenjun, maybe I can make the inside... Things take on their original form. β
Ye Shu nodded, stretched out his right hand, and the Jiuli pot slowly appeared in his hand, and Ye Shu handed the Jiuli pot to Changqin.
Seeing Jiuli pot, Jiuli suddenly remembered something. Mu Ke. The reason why Yinghua married Zhou Raoguo was because of Mu Ke and Yu Qi's conspiracy to seize the heir, and the current situation is urgent, is Mu Ke really related to this matter?
"Perhaps," Jiu Li pondered, "there is an important matter that we have overlooked. β
Jiuli paused and said: "Before you came to Zhou Rao, I met Mu Ke, the second treasurer of Qingqiu Mountain, and I happened to know that the reason why Yan Qi and Ying Hua married was because of the internal dispute between Zhou Rao and Zhou Rao, and Mu Ke was the one who helped the Qi faction. β
Everyone looked at each other, and Changqin said: "The Qingqiu Nine-Tailed Fox is good at illusion and concealment, so it is very likely that it is the one who manipulates Yinghua." β
"But," although he vaguely thought so in his heart, Jiu Li still wanted to fight, "Mu Ke and Yinghua are friends, so they shouldn't do anything to hurt Yinghua." β
"My girl," Changqin's smile was a little helpless, his eyes fell on the brilliant peach forest outside the window, "You have probably forgotten that in the illusion world, I once said to Su Qing that the people of the Protoss have always been cold-blooded, and the Protoss has no true feelings at all, and feelings are just a tool for the Protoss to use others." β
The people of the Protoss have always been cold-blooded.
Yes, how else can you so calmly witness a visual feast of mortals cutting their heads and digging their hearts. Jiuli looked at Ye Shu, and happened to see that his swarthy eyes were also watching her, and Jiuli lowered his head.
"Alright," Changqin turned her head, "Yinghua's business has been put aside for now, now there is something more important... It's very weird, as if the blood curse is about to be revealed. β
Changqin gestured to Ah Luan as he spoke, and Ah Luan nodded, took out a scroll from his sleeve, and spread it out in front of everyone.
"When Ah Luan and Xuechen went to the inn to pick up Xiaohongβthat's the nameβthey saw Xiaohong holding this scroll in her mouth."
Jiu Li's eyes fell on the scroll on the table, and when all the scrolls were opened, Jiu Li gasped in shock at the scene in the painting.