In order to avoid direct head-on contact with the Ink Fox, Chongli only tracked it down with a spell that connected him to the blood of his mother dragon. When he learned that the ink fox was in the south, Murong Ziying immediately lowered his head and pondered.

Kirin Horn, it is in the south.

What does it want to do with this? It's the same to save people? Or is there another purpose? If there is any other purpose, there is only one answer that can be explained - to get what they need before them - to lead them forward.

Liu Mengli watched him quietly from the side, while Chongli squatted aside, muttering as he cleaned up the bloodstained stones: "Why don't we go to the place where it will go and wait for it in that place." I think you've been looking for it for a long time, you know where it should go next time, you know? He got up and clapped his hands and said: "This demon is also strange, pull out my mother's dragon scales, and leave my mother's life......"

"It should be ......" Liu Mengli opened her mouth and spat out three words, but she felt that it was too cruel for a child who was only fifteen years old. She brushed her hair and stopped talking, but Murong Ziying also thought the same: Leaving the dragon alive was just for her to tell them the truth about who hurt her.

"Li'er, we've been walking for so long, and we're still in the wilderness...... Why don't we go to town? ”

“……”

“……”

Liu Mengli and Murong Ziying looked at each other for a moment, and they both smiled faintly.

*

Not long ahead, it is Pingwei Town.

In the evening, the sky glows with brilliant roses. And the trace of gray hook clouds mixed in between it, just like splashing ink on the paper, is even more cold. The town is near the sea, and the moist water vapor and the light salty smell are coming in waves. Liu Mengli took a deep breath, but Chongli stuck out her tongue to lick her chapped lips.

When the dragon encounters water, it will recover its true body, but it cannot be away from the water for too long. He wanted some water to drink, but he was afraid that he would recover his dragon body at this time. In the hesitation, the pace did not slow down.

"Li'er, I'm ......" Chongli pursed his lips again, his expression a little uncomfortable. Can we go to the beach? ”

By the light of day, Liu Mengli turned her head slightly to see that the skin of Chongli was opening and closing slightly like fish gills, and she was about to speak, when a crisp bell sounded slowly behind her. When they turned around, they saw a cute girl pushing a cart full of pink lotus towards them. The road was a bit narrow, and there were many stalls on both sides, so for a while the girl and the car were blocked in the middle of the road by the three of them at the same time.

"Let me go." The girl waved at them. The bell tied to the wrist with a five-colored rope rang crisply again.

Thinking that the way she was leaving now might scare her, Murong Ziying stepped forward to block him, but unconsciously happened to stand beside Liu Mengli.

Seeing that the road was half empty, the girl began to push the cart forward again.

When the cart was pushed in front of them, they saw that inside the float was a silk blue glass lamp in the style of a sling. In the center of the half-clear glass, there is a little water; There is a candle light in the center; The candlelight reflected on the petals of the flower is faintly sparkling, so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off it.

The girl stopped suddenly, turned to them and smiled sweetly: "My brother and sister are so good-looking, and the baby in the future will definitely look even better." ”

"......" Liu Mengli's expression froze slightly, and her white skin turned red. Murong Ziying's cheeks were even more red. Chongli, who was blocked by the two of them, heard this, and immediately a fire rose in his heart, and he couldn't bear to shout: "What do you know! They're not husband and wife! ”

"Hey, it's not a husband and wife, it's ......" The girl blinked her big eyes, looked up at the sky again, and kept scratching her chin with her hand and murmuring: "Whatever, anyway, my father said that men all want to marry daughters-in-law, and the more beautiful the better." Is the good-looking brother unwilling to marry the good-looking sister? ”

When she said the last sentence, the girl approached Murong Ziying. He obviously didn't expect a girl to "speak wildly" to him, and when he was surprised, he couldn't bear to whisper: "Of course not." ”

"That's not it!" The girl put her hand on the float and said, "You must come to the street to play when the time comes." This year's headliner is it. I hope you get it~"

The bell sounded all the way and drifted away.

Thinking of the girl's honest words, Murong Ziying glanced at the banner hanging in the distance, and said in a low voice: "There should be people living on the beach, why don't you go to the inn to rest." So he went first. Liu Mengli lowered her eyes and followed lightly. Only to leave again, standing in place and secretly clenching his fists, his heart gushing out of indescribable loss.

In the guest room, Liu Mengli slowly rolled up her water sleeves thoughtfully. The red candlelight was faint, and the slightly drunken color covered the ink lines on the arms, spreading a sense of sadness.

The girl's words rang in her ears.

"My brother and sister are so good-looking, and the baby will definitely look better in the future." "Isn't the good-looking brother unwilling to marry the good-looking sister?" - "Of course not. ”

"Of course not." Liu Mengli lost her mind and muttered these four words, only to feel that they were light in her mouth, but heavy in her heart.

Looking out the window is the street of the town. At this time, it is almost dark, and the night market is gradually full of people, and it is very lively. Liu Mengli turned over her sleeves and didn't pay too much attention to it, got up and walked to the window, half pushed the window leaves and looked out.

Along the way, the lanterns are continuous, rendering the sky like day.

Liu Mengli's eyes suddenly lit up, and this scene had not been seen for a long time. The present scene seemed to coincide with the past in the depths of her memory, and the corners of her lips were raised shallowly, full of joy.

In the other room, it's a different story.

Because Liu Mengli was inconvenient, the "heavy responsibility" of taking care of Chongli fell on Murong Ziying. The two of them, who had not had a good impression of each other since they first met in Beihu, had a strong smell of gunpowder between them at this moment. Murong Ziying didn't want to stay in the same room with him, so he left the room without saying a word while he was away from the bath. And Chongli didn't know anything about it, just thinking about what the girl outside had just said. Holding a water spoon in his hand, he scooped water on his body little by little, layers of silver light rippled from his body, and the form of the human dragon kept changing, but the only thing that remained unchanged was the sorrow in his eyes.

At some point, there was a strange sound outside the screen, which seemed to be footsteps, mixed with unsteady breathing.

What does he want to do? Chongli was shocked. Are you trying to do something to me?

As the sound gradually approached, Chongli couldn't help but clench the handle of the spoon, ready to go. When the footsteps stopped behind the screen in front of him, Chongli violently pushed the screen open, and instantly pressed the man, raising the long spoon to smash it on the person.

The people on the ground were stunned for a second, and then cried "wow".

At this time, Chongli saw the person who came: Isn't it the girl who just said the words that made him depressed for a long time downstairs?

"Shut up!" Chongli stretched out his hand to cover her mouth, and the tail of his eyes was high and disdainful: "Okay, you, my mother said that you human ghosts are not gone, it seems that this is really the case!" ”

"You humans?" The girl whispered these four words under his palm, and her face turned white all of a sudden. Chongli realized that she had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly covered her mouth even harder. But she didn't continue to scream or be scared as he expected, just staring at him with big round eyes without blinking. They were silent for a few seconds, and he was afraid of hurting her, so he relented: "If you don't make trouble, I'll let go." ”

The girl nodded under him.

As soon as she removed her hand, she whispered, "Hey, silver-haired little old man, you ...... Isn't it a monster that eats children? ”

Leaving the rare words, he silently turned around and put his coat on his body, slowly straightened the inner binding, and tied his hair with a silver headband...... After a qiē was done, he turned to face the girl and said, "Yes, I'm here to eat you." "He was unusually calm. Obviously, in front of people younger than him, coquettishness doesn't play any role. I don't know that the girl is calmer than him. She smiled and shook the bell on her wrist and said, "Which monster has to put on clothes first and then eat people?" Besides, you can't eat me~ Look, there are glass beads in this bell, it ......"

"The glass beads don't seem to have the effect of warding off demons, right?" Chongli squinted at her, teasing. Hearing this, the girl was not as lively as before, she shook the bell again, and stopped talking. After doing this several times, she lowered her head and squatted down to pick up the basin of water that she was holding in her hand that had been accidentally knocked over by pushing down the screen due to heavy separation. Holding it and about to leave the room, she held the door with one hand and said, "This store was opened by my father, my name is Liuli." Also, it's been a long time since Sister Liu, who you like, and Brother Murong went out to enjoy the lanterns. ”

"What!" Chongli looked flustered.

Seeing his reaction, Liuli closed the door very happily. And when the doors were completely closed, they grimaced at him through the crack in the door.