Chapter 37: The Devil Talks
The fog grew thicker and thicker, gradually reaching the point where he could only see a few steps ahead, and Zhou Hong was now led by a white-haired old man to a manor at the end of Songpa Town. The manor is very large, the courtyard is deep, and from the outside, the scale is enough to be equivalent to a football field in the future, but when Zhou Hongxian used his magic to dispel the illusion, he found that there were only a few lonely low tombs, and it can be seen that the owner here should have spent a lot of thought in order to create such a mansion scene.
The old man looked at the high courtyard wall and said, "Lady, I can only take you here, I don't dare to take another step!" β
Zhou Hongxian nodded: "It's hard work, uncle!" β
After the old man left, Zhou Hongxian looked back at the low tombs, she put away her mana, and her eyes returned to a mansion scene, she couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then stepped forward and knocked on the knocker on the Zhu door.
"Squeak", no one opened the Zhu door, Zhou Hongxian waited for a while, but there was no movement in the door, she had to grit her teeth and go directly inside.
"Who are you looking for?" Suddenly, a voice sounded inside the door, and a servant walked out.
Zhou Hong's heart trembled, and the whole person was so frightened that she wanted to jump up, because she saw that the servant's face was as white as lime, but there was a strange vermilion on his cheeks, and it was actually an unscrupulous paper figure, and her voice trembled a little: "I-I'm looking for your master." β
"My master is feasting Yu Erlang, who is the lady, what is the matter with my master?"
Zhou Hongxian heard the word "Yu Erlang" and thought secretly, she had learned from the old man's mouth that this was the name of the rat demon, she thought to herself that since the old ghost of Songpo can be called a brother and sister of the rat demon, then-she turned her mind and said: "I am a fox demon who has traveled in all directions, passing through Husu County in the past few days, because I occasionally heard the name of the old ghost of Songpo, so I came to visit!" β
"Lady, please come in!"
"Don't you even have to report to your master?"
"No need, what the lady said to me just now, the master and Yu Erlang have heard it, and they have invited the lady to the table!"
Zhou Hongxian's heart was calm, but he still followed the servant into the door, but as soon as he walked into the house, he found that the vision in front of him seemed to be switching slides, and the gloomy scene outside the house suddenly disappeared, and what switched up was a brilliant light.
"The lady came from afar, my master is really welcome!" The servant who led the way in front spoke again, but the tone was no longer cold and without any emotion, listening to the tone and frustration, it was no different from ordinary people, and he turned his head to Zhou Hongxian and smiled slightly as he spoke, and his face changed from a piece of paper to a grinning real face.
There are several heavy and several falls in the house, pavilions and pavilions are readily available, and on an attic, the music is bursting, singing and dancing, so it's not easy!
Zhou Hongxian followed the servant in front of him directly to the attic, and in a group of graceful women, she saw two men who described dissoluteness. One of the men was in his early twenties, with a handsome face and smooth hair, at first glance, he was a rare beautiful man, but he had three long and thick beards on each cheek, and he looked really nondescript, but such obvious characteristics also made Zhou Hongxian instantly guess that he was the rat demon Yu Erlang.
But the other man was a littleβhow to say, strange, or incongruous, for his shoulders were broad, and his fingers holding the glass were thick, and he should be a powerful adult man in terms of figure, but his head was too small, and his face was delicate, and he looked like a beautiful boy of sixteen or seventeen years old.
Zhou Hongxian stepped into the threshold with a hint of anxiety, and the two men put down their wine glasses, pushed away the woman in their arms, and stood up together.
"Oh, the fox lady came all the way to the cold house, it really made me lose my welcome!" The beautiful young man smiled at Zhou Hongxian, his face was very soft, in line with the image of a beautiful man in the mouth of later generations, but the voice from his mouth was hoarse and muddy, and he sounded like a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, which couldn't help but make Zhou Hongxian a little stunned.
"Your Excellency is the old ghost of Songpa?"
"The fox lady is really good eyesight, she can recognize it at a glance!" Seeing the doubts in Zhou Hongxian's eyes, the beautiful young man couldn't help but smile again: "Isn't the fox lady puzzled by the appearance below?" β
Zhou Hongxian nodded honestly.
"Haha, let the fox lady laugh! My head was cut off by Husu County before I was born, and some of the people who buried me later had personal anger against me, so they fed my head to wild dogs, deliberately leaving my body incomplete, and I had no choice but to find the head of a living person! After that, the old ghost of Songpa touched his cheek proudly, and said with a somewhat narcissistic expression: "But now it seems that it's not bad, isn't it?" β
Zhou Hongxian secretly felt cold in his heart, and after secretly scolding a "head changer", he said with a smile on his face: "I have heard the name of the old ghost of Songpo for a long time, and when I saw it today, the means are really extraordinary!" β
"Where, where, the fox lady has a good reputation!"
"This Lang Jun is also a talent, I don't know who it is?" Zhou Hongxian looked at the man with a few beards and said.
The man saw Zhou Hongxian looking at him, his eyes were busy looking at him, although he looked good, but his eyes were cunning, and even some thief eyebrows, at this time he actually shook his brows at Zhou Hongxian: "Xiaosheng Yu Erlang, it is a vole that has cultivated the Tao, and you are Taoist friends with your lady!" β
Zhou Hongxian pretended to suddenly realize: "It turned out to be Brother Rat-oh no, Brother Yu, hello, hello!" β
"The lady is really pitiful!" Yu Erlang laughed twice, and a pair of eyes wandered restlessly on Zhou Hongxian's body.
Zhou Hongxian was quite uncomfortable, but he could only endure it, at this time the old ghost of Songpa said: "The fox lady is coming from afar, please come to the table quickly, and let my brothers do their best to be the landlord!" β
After Zhou Hongxian pretended to be polite, he thought about how to find Cui Yu and take her away, and walked towards the seat. And behind her, the old ghost of Songpo and Yu Erlang exchanged heads.
"Big brother, you can't rob this fox lady with your little brother!"
"Don't worry, second brother! Although her appearance is first-class, she is a demon, I am a ghost, after all, it is not a kind, you are the same kind, if you like it, just use your means! β
"Hehe, big brother, with your words, the little brother is relieved! I won't tell you, I have already seen that this fox lady's Taoism is very shallow, and when the time comes, it will be soft and hard, and it will not be my opinion? β
"What, you want the overlord to bow hard?"
"Big brother, you are too underestimated little brother! How can I cultivate this good human body, and the rhetoric of human beings is also learned, and how many serious fox demons are? Big brother, believe it or not, I can take her down with this three-inch incorruptible tongue! Yu Erlang said with a lewd smile on his handsome face.
Zhou Hongxian didn't know about the conversation between the two, but she could see something wrong from Yu Erlang's eyes just now, but she couldn't care about it for the time being. After sitting down, the old ghost of Songpa and Yu Erlang began to toast her, she looked at the wine glass in her hand, some bad thoughts flashed in her heart, after thinking, she decided to be careful. She looked down at the position on her chest, there was a Qiankun bag given to her by the white fox under her clothes, she silently said "receive" in her heart, and saw that the wine in the wine glass disappeared, she covered her face with her sleeves to make a painful drink, and then she licked her lips with her tongue, and after putting down her sleeves, she touched her lips with her fingers to wipe it, and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hospitality, it's really good wine!" β
Her series of actions are not only refreshing, but also quite a bit of amorous taste, Songpa old ghost and Yu Erlang were stunned, and then laughed: "The lady is really bold!" β
After a few glasses of wine, Zhou Hongxian's face was still as usual, but seeing that there was no difference in the eyes of the old ghost of Songpo and Yu Erlang, she knew that there was no problem in the wine, but she didn't feel that it was a loss, after all, it was necessary to go deep into the tiger's den, and be careful in everything.
Since there is wine, it is indispensable to talk about, although Zhou Hongxian is very disgusted that Yu Erlang is always courteous in front of him, and there is always a sentence in the three sentences to praise himself like praising a woman, so that he has a heart, but in general, he and them are a ghost and two demons, and there is still a little common topic.
For example, when it comes to cultivation, the three of them really have their own ways.
The old ghost of Songpo because he had a way to practice before he was alive, and after his death, he used his own witchcraft cultivation method to constantly absorb the gloomy atmosphere of the Songpo Forest and gradually became a climate; Yu Erlang is very strange, he relies on his handling skills, to put it bluntly, he steals, the more things he steals, the more refined his Taoism becomes, and when he explained this to Zhou Hongxian, his eyebrows fluttered, and he didn't know how glorious he was doing.
When it comes to Zhou Hongxian herself, she naturally can't hide it completely, except for skipping her own Taoist cultivation with the white fox in Taibai Mountain, she basically mentions things about the moon worship practice.
It's just that unexpectedly, as soon as she said the moon worship practice, she was laughed at by Yu Erlang: "Lady, your moon worship practice is something that every monster will do, but that kind of practice is too stable, and the improvement of the Tao is also slow, if every demon wants to practice fast, he must take some side doors!" β
Zhou Hongxian was stunned when he heard this, and he seemed to have heard of it, and couldn't help but say, "What do you mean?" What do you mean by sideways? β
Yu Erlang had been praising Zhou Hongxian in various ways just now, but seeing that Zhou Hongxian was a little unmoved, he began to use reverse thinking and attract Zhou Hongxian's attention through ridicule, so he smiled: "Lady, you know how little you know!" β
Zhou Hongxian's face flushed, but she had a real personality and did not deny it, so she said: "Eh, but I really don't know much, and I ask Brother Yu for advice!" β
As soon as Yu Erlang heard Zhou Hongxian speak like this, he immediately became interested, and he laughed and said: "It's easy to understand!" β
Zhou Hongxian hated him in his heart, but he still stared at him with wide eyes, Yu Erlang seemed to enjoy this "affectionate" gaze, and said with a smile: "Lady, you and I are both demons, and my Taoism is a little higher than yours, so I really should mention you!" The so-called side door left way, it refers to another way, such as my handling technique, it is a side door left way, my eldest brother gathers yin qi with witchcraft, and it is also the side door left way, as for your fox demon's side door left way, there is one and the most common! β
Zhou Hongxian became interested when he heard it: "Then what is the left side of our fox demon?" β
Yu Erlang's eyes swirled around Zhou Hongxian's body, and he smiled: "The male fox picks yin to supplement yang, and the female fox picks yang to supplement yin!" β
The smile on Zhou Hongxian's face gradually disappeared.