Chapter 22: The Xia Father and Daughter

It soon got dark, and the pedestrians and vendors in the market were gone one after another, Su Jue led the little doll and walked on the street, and suddenly felt that his hands were heavy, and it was the little girl who pulled him.

"Big brother, the cicadas are tired, and they really can't walk. ”

Su Jue smiled, squatted down and picked up the little girl, and the other party was also very cooperative and didn't recognize life at all, lying on Su Jue's shoulder and immediately fell asleep. Looking at this person's sweet sleeping face, Su Jue couldn't help but poke her pink little face. Forget it, anyway, I didn't find any clue about going to sea, so it was better to find a place to rest first.

"Guest officer, welcome!" Su Jue found an inkstone building near the bazaar, and as soon as he entered the door, the boss greeted him warmly, "Little brother, are you going to stay in the hotel?"

"Well, but there's still room available?"

"There are many of them. The shopkeeper smiled crookedly, but his eyes were staring at the person on his shoulder, "Little brother, you are so young, this little doll can't be your daughter, right?"

"This ...... It's my sister. ”

"She's your sister?"

"How?"

Feeling Su Jue's vigilance, the shopkeeper immediately smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just that I think you are young and handsome, and my sister is so cute, so I envy it." ”

"I still have important things to do, so I'll prepare a room right away. ”

"Good, good. ”

After watching Su Jue enter the room for a while, the shopkeeper beckoned Xiao Er to come over and say something to him. The shopkeeper nodded, put down the rag on his shoulder and went out and disappeared.

These days, they are sleeping in the open air, so Su Jue felt tired as soon as he entered the room. He laid the little girl on the bed, and he fell asleep on the edge of the bed. His head was so heavy, and his body was completely weak, but he was still a little conscious, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw a vast sea.

"Today, can you let me listen to "Canghai"?"

Is this woman's voice again? Su Jue has heard this voice more than a hundred times in his dreams, but the strange thing is that every time he is in his dreams, he will be deeply impressed by this voice, and once he wakes up, he can't remember this voice for half a minute. The sound of the piano sounded on the beach, and the person who played the piano was dressed in white with wide sleeves, and he looked like a young man, but Su Jue couldn't see this person's face clearly every time he stepped forward.

In the vastness of the world, only the sound of the piano can be heard.

"It's a nice song, but unfortunately, I've never seen the real sea, and I don't know if I'll see it in the future. ”

"Where the hell are you, you haven't seen the sea for so many years?"

The woman's voice paused, and then said with self-deprecation: "The patriarch said that I was in the nightmare pool, but here is sometimes cold and sometimes very hot, and what I see is always chaotic, and even if there is, it is just some nightmare spirits that have lost their minds and only have desires, I don't want to say that I have seen those mountains and rivers, strange flowers and beasts you said before, I really haven't even heard of them, and I don't know what to use to imagine them." ”

"Nightmare Pool, are you in the Nightmare Pool of the Witchland?"

"You know this place?"

The man seemed to sigh, "The Nightmare Pool you are in is a reflection of the Delirium Sea in the Nether, and it is said that it is also a part of the Delusion Sea. ”

"Really?"

"Well, maybe that's why I can hear you. ”

Is the nightmare pool that this man is talking about, but the one that the great sect is guarding? Could it be that the two people in this dream have something to do with the southern Xinjiang and the Yesha tribe? But he is not a member of the Yesha tribe, so why do he always have such dreams? Could Lingxi also have such dreams?

"Is it a reflection?, since it's part of the Delirium Sea, can I see you when I get out of the Nightmare Pool?"

The man was silent for a long time, and it was not until the end of this song that the man replied: "Now, it is enough for me to be able to hear Chitaki's voice and talk to Chitaki every day." ”

Su Jue was shocked, the man called the woman Qianlong just now!

At this time, Su Jue suddenly felt a chill in his neck, and he woke up immediately, this time, as usual, Su Jue had no memory of what he had seen and heard in his dream before, and even forgot the word 'Qianlong' mentioned by the man.

"What's going on?" Su Jue looked around him, his hands and feet were tightly tied, and this place was not an inn room, by the way, that little girl!

"Finally awake?"

There was a circle of people around Su Jue, including the shopkeeper of the inn and the shopkeeper who took him upstairs, all of whom looked ill-intentioned.

"Where's my sister?"

"Your sister?" the shopkeeper smiled, "That little cicada is obviously Xia Shusheng's daughter, when did you become your sister?

"I'm not a human trafficker. ”

"The evidence is conclusive, I have been caught, and I dare to deny it!"

"Just ask that little girl. ”

There was a burst of laughter in the crowd, and the shopkeeper pointed to the corner, it turned out that the girl was on the spot, but her figure was stopped by others, and her hand was held by a young man, it seemed that it should be the Xia Shusheng that the shopkeeper said.

"Xia Cicada is a fool by nature, she doesn't understand anything, but ahhhhh

There was another burst of laughter in the crowd.

"If you want to be a fool, you have to be clever and good at selling price, what's the use of being such a fool?"

"It's pitiful to think that people who are almost ten years old still can't speak a few words. ”

......

In the midst of everyone's discussions, Xia Shusheng's face became more and more ugly, and in the end, he could only protect the little girl tightly in his arms.

"This kid was born with no choice for himself, so why do you laugh at others like that?"

"You little thief, you have a lot of control, can you say whatever the uncle likes to say?"

"I arrested you with the shopkeeper, if you don't want to be dragged by us to see the official, I'll show you the way, and give the Xia family two hundred taels of silver. ”

Oh, it turned out to be for silver, Su Jue looked at the fierce and vicious guys with thick arms and tall arms in this inn, and then looked at the father and daughter of the Xia family who were shrunk into a ball on the side, Su Jue instantly understood. Thinking that the father and daughter of the Xia family must have been coerced by these people to commit perjury, and after they paid the silver, the money would definitely go into the pockets of these people in the inn.

"This is how you behave to outsiders?"

"I don't care where you're from, look at the good things you're wearing, don't tell me you don't even have two hundred taels of silver!"

Su Jue snorted coldly, and the hemp rope on his body was disconnected when he boarded.

"Shopkeeper!"

"You, you, how did you do it?"

Xia Shusheng in the corner was also startled, he obviously didn't take his eyes off Su Jue. Seeing Su Jue's movements, several big men next to him were so frightened that they didn't dare to move.

"Why, don't you ask for money?

"You ......" The shopkeeper glared at Su Jue and shouted with a defeated face: "Demon magic, you know demon magic!"

It's just a little trick that has been regarded as a witchcraft? Su Jue shook his head and walked out of the gate as he could.

At this time, the bright moon is in the sky, and it is really a little desolate for him to walk alone on the empty street, just that, it seems that he is going to sleep in the wild again tonight.

"This son, please stay. ”

Su Jue turned around, only to see the scholar and the little girl who were in the inn just now, the young man was carrying a white paper lantern in his hand, and the warm halo made his face extremely soft.

"What?"

"I wonder where Childe is going?"

"You're still going to settle accounts with me?"

"No, no, no, Childe misunderstood, I know you weren't what you said to them, but I, I ......"

"I know you have your own problems, and you don't have to apologize. ”

"It's so late now, where else can Childe go?"

Su Jue only looked at this person seriously now, his facial features were also elegant, "I really don't know where to go." ”

"It's better for Childe to be wronged in the cold house for one night. ”

"You're not afraid of me?"

"I believe in Childe. ”

It was just when she hesitated, the little girl ran over and pulled Su Jue and shouted 'big brother', Su Jue's heart softened, and she agreed.

The three of them occasionally talked together, and Su Jue knew that this person's name was Xia Shushu, who taught in the official school in the city, because Xia Xuanxi was born with a dementia and could only follow his father all the time, so he often made some jokes on weekdays, and Xia Xuanshu was a person with a sullen temperament and liked to chew words, so everyone was used to calling him 'Xia Shusheng', in fact, it was to mock his sour energy.

"You live in the mountains?"

"Yes, I like quiet places, and cicada breath is not suitable for living in the city. ”

Su Jue looked at the child who was carried on Xia Xuanshu's back, why did he fall asleep so quickly?

"How old is Cicada Breath?"

"I'll be nine years old next month, and I thought I'd at least teach Cicada to write her own name this year, but that's a pity. ”

Su Jue snorted and said, "Maybe there's nothing wrong with her being like this." ”

Xia Shushu's steps stopped, "Nothing bad?"

"At least, the little cicada is simple-hearted and doesn't understand so many troubles. ”

"yes. Xia Xuanshu sighed, and at this time they arrived at the bamboo house where Xia Xuanshu lived, and the man rushed to the courtyard after settling Xia Cicada and said, "The house is simple, and I hope that the son will not dislike it." ”

"You're welcome. ”

"Listening to Su Gongzi's accent, it seems that he came from the south, and for some reason he arrived at Jiyan City on the edge of the East China Sea. ”

"I'm going to sea. ”

"Childe is going to sea?"

"But after inquiring today, none of the boatmen were willing to take me. ”

"This, Su Gongzi doesn't know something. Xia Xuanshu handed the brewed tea to Su Jue, "It has been rumored since ancient times that there are many immortal mountains such as Zuzhou, Yingtai, and Penglai on the coast of the East China Sea in Jiyan City, which are not only paved with gold, silver and jade, but also have elixirs that make people immortal and even resurrect the dead, so every year, people from other countries will come to Jiyan City to ask immortals for medicine. ”

"Has anyone found it?"

Xia Xuanshu shook his head, "Never, most of those who went to sea disappeared after boarding the ship, and they never came back along with the ships that went to sea." ”

"They're all dead?"

"I don't know, perhaps, it's really found that the immortal mountain immortal doesn't want to come back. ”

Xia Xuanshu smiled reluctantly, in fact, he and Su Jue knew what the result was.