Chapter 162: Loneliness
Lu Cassia was silent, and Rong Shen'an wanted to say something more, but he was pressed by Su Yi.
"It's okay, I'll accompany the divine doctor."
"But ......"
"The divine doctor is also for my body, he didn't know that this lovesick ash was so powerful at the time, and I also underestimated this poison, so don't be aggressive."
As soon as he said this, Lu Cassia almost cried with a sour nose, and Su Yi was simply too moved by him. It would be nice if all his patients were as reasonable as Su Yi.
Dugu Bai, who had been standing aside, saw that Su Yi himself had decided, and he didn't know what to say, but he shook his head helplessly. "In that case, then I have no choice but to accompany you."
"You are a little child, you should take it at home, and I will accompany the two of them." Rong Shen'an said. A child like Dugu Bai, who is not much taller than a sword, is just a burden.
But Dugu Bai just smiled, "Second son, it's better for us to compare, whoever wins will escort them to northern Jiangsu." ”
"I don't compete with children, I don't win honorably, and when my brother asks, I have to eat a meal of confinement." Rong Shen'an didn't want to compete with such a kid who reached his waist at all. If you win, you will be disgraceful, but you will also have a reputation for bullying children.
"Isn't it that the second son is afraid of me and doesn't dare to compare with me?" Dugu Bai asked, a little provocative in his tone.
Rong Shen'an couldn't stand the agitation method the most, and he took the bait all of a sudden. "How could it be. Wait a while, if you lose, don't say that I will bully the small. It's too narrow here, let's go to the yard. ”
Su Yi seemed to be very interested in this excitement, and immediately became interested, put on a robe, and walked out of the stone room, the poison on his body had just been suppressed, and now his face was pale, and he looked even more pale in the dark robe.
Dugu Bai held his piano and stood in the courtyard, Rong Jinping had already taken the sword. "You're young, I'll let you go, sir, what do you say."
"That's good." Dugu Bai was not polite, and when he saw the white marble railing of the flower bed in the courtyard, he jumped up. "Let's go through ten moves, and after ten moves, whoever lands first will lose."
"Okay, that's it." Rong Shen'an said and jumped on it as well.
Su Yi just stood under the porch and watched, with a smile on his face. "I hope I don't lose too badly later."
"Who?" Lu Cassia didn't understand who was going to be beaten badly. But Su Yi just smiled and didn't say anything.
Shark Zhu has never even seen a shark, Bai Yiyan sat at the table, rubbing the kettle on the table, Jiang Ya gave her this task is still a bit difficult, no less than asking her to find something that does not exist, Bai Yiyan has figured out what made her travel to this era, if she finds Shark Pearl, wouldn't she be able to go back. It's just that her heart is a little lighter now, and she just wants to kill Mu Jiangyuan to take revenge.
"Your Excellency is so sure, is she trying to assassinate you?" Bai Yiyan stared at him, and Chengyi's face was also a little uneasy. Although this mermaid had ill intentions towards him, he did not take a knife, and he did not stab him. This merman didn't open his mouth to confess, which is really a bit difficult. If Bai Yiyan was bent on protecting this shark, he really had no way to forcibly convict this shark slave.
"This mermaid obviously has this meaning, otherwise why has he been lingering at the door of my room."
"Adults are weak-hearted, so they suspect that the merman wants to assassinate you? Or do you feel that you have no way to control it, so the shark slaves hate you to the core, and you want to get rid of it quickly? ”
This sentence is also the heart disease of most shark slaves, for the shark people are often tortured, broken tail to remove the spiritual power of the shark people, and special people take care of them, that is, they are afraid that one day the sharks will rebel. Not good for yourself.
"The fact that the adults are sneaking in front of your room is nothing more than the suspicions of the adults. Now Mo is my man, but I sent Mo to deliver a message to the adults. But Mo has never been able to speak, and he can't even pass on the word well, so he should be punished, but the punishment should be me, and there is no need for adults to do it. Bai Yiyan said, his eyes were dark, and the city couldn't help but feel a little weaker.
"But who knows what treacherous thoughts this shark slave has in his heart. I don't think Miss can control this shark slave at all. He didn't say the rest. He still has a lot of taboos about King Beimo. Who knows if this Bai Yiyan is Jiang Ya's favorite concubine, if she offends her, as long as she blows a few words of pillow wind with King Beimo, he will have no good fruit.
"Although it was sent by the young lady, it is inevitable that this shark slave has something in mind. It can not be spared. ”
Bai Yiyan ignored him and walked in front of Mo. Mo lowered her head, Bai Yiyan squatted down, she still didn't say a word.
"If you do what I say, I will save you."
Mo still kept her head down, not giving a look. Bai Yiyan didn't know if she understood or not. However, she had already made an excuse for Mo, as long as Momo followed her words, she could save her life.
"This shark slave can't be spared, if the young lady likes it, the lower official will send a few well-behaved shark slaves, and it will be more agreeable than this slave."
"I don't need to worry about it if I use it to my heart's content." Bai Yiyan said and stood up. "You interrogate in every way, can she plead guilty?"
"This ...... The mermaid didn't say a word. ”
"Since she didn't say a word, how could the evidence be conclusive, you can ask her if I sent her to find her to the adult."
"This shark slave never spoke, for fear he was a mute. Miss asked her to say it herself, if she confessed, then the lower official naturally did not dare to touch the young lady's person, but now she acquiesced to the assassination of the lower official, and the lower official categorically could not spare her life. ”
Whether she wants to live or not, it's in Mo's own hands, if she wants to live, as long as she follows Bai Yiyan's words. However, if she doesn't want to live, then Bai Yiyan can't save her.
She didn't need to say anything about the rest, Bai Yiyan breathed a sigh of relief. Chengyi's face, which was full of horizontal meat, was visibly swollen to the color of pork liver.
"The adults also heard it, so I took the people away." Bai Yiyan said, glancing at the foam that was pressed to the ground. Eyes swept over, and the guards who pressed Mo hurriedly let go of their hands, and Mo stood up, although he was a little shaky, but he could still walk.
"Miss......" Chengyi was obviously a little reluctant, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that this Mo definitely wanted to assassinate him at that time, but there was no evidence. I could only watch Bai Yiyan take people away.
Bai Yiyan just turned his head, his eyes narrowed, and the fierce look in his eyes made Chengyi inevitably take a step back.
They used Mo very heavily, perhaps because Mo was a merman, and he should not be a person, so Mo was strong enough to follow Bai Yiyan back, and as soon as he arrived at the courtyard, he fell down.
Mo's body was thin and thin, like a leaf, the scales on her wrists and ankles were gone, they should have been pulled down one by one, each piece was connected to flesh, the blood had dried up, it must have been very painful.
Mo didn't say anything, she knew all this, and Bai Yiyan knew that the thought in her heart had not been let go. It's just that if she doesn't let it go, not only will it not do her any good, but it will get into trouble. Even if she has hatred in her heart, she can't let her mess around.
"It doesn't matter if I'm dead. If you can kill him, you can. Mo said, pausing again. I'm going to die anyway, so I'm blinding them and not letting them take anything from me. ”
"Even if you kill him, these mermaids in the city will fall into the hands of other rich merchants."
The status of the merman is the lowest, even if it is an inferior maid, she can order the merman. When a merman walks down the street, he will only think that he is a fugitive slave. Even if this one city is killed, there are many people who will enslave the mermaids. It will be even more cruel to the merman. It's also what Bai Yiyan doesn't want to see.
Mo obviously knew what Bai Yiyan meant, and his eyes dimmed, this hatred of the clan was not something that could be easily put down. But I also knew I couldn't do it anymore.
“......”
"I can help you." Bai Yiyan said.
"Why are you helping me?" Mo said, looking at the top of the bed.
"I ......" she asked, and Bai Yiyan didn't know how to answer. Why do you want to help her? Sympathy, or whatever. In their eyes, Bai Yiyan is also an abominable human being, hypocritical, cruel, and untrustworthy. Bai Yiyan had no reason to help them at all.
"I don't believe in humans." Mo said. "Nor does it need human sympathy."
"But you also have emotions, joys and sorrows, no different from human beings. You are human beings, but a little different. Bai Yiyan said.
This is the only answer she can think of, mermaids are not beasts, they also have joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and their own feelings, so they can't be treated like this.
After listening to what she said, Mo just didn't look away, his eyes were blank. Although he looked extremely sad, he didn't shed a single tear. A quiet opening. "Once, when I was in Beihai, I met a person, he was not a shark catcher, but a traveler who traveled in all directions, and when he saw me, although he was surprised, he had no other greed."
When he said this, Xi obviously hated it at all. The merman who values love and righteousness was betrayed and captured as a slave, such a double blow, although Mo resisted, but obviously changed his personality after being stimulated. Since then, he has hated humans even more, and even sharks dare not trust them easily.
Bai Yiyan didn't know that such a thing had happened to her, and the betrayal of her lover was a very heavy blow to both humans and aliens. Bai Yiyan can understand Mo, and she can also understand Mo's hatred of humans. Xi supported her face, although she was often beaten and scolded, she was obviously a little relaxed in front of Bai Yiyan.
"It would be nice if I could go back to Beihai, I really want to go back."
"Don't worry, I'll let you out."
But Shio just shook his head. "There is no way for the broken tail merman to return to Beihai. We don't have spiritual power now, just like humans, we can't go to the North Sea. I can't go back to my former home. ”
Can't go to the North Sea. Saying such things also makes people feel distressed. Bai Yiyan didn't know, maybe it was just sympathy and pity.
"We can't go back to Beihai, where is there a place to go back, even if Miss can rescue us, we don't have a second place to go. We walk down the street and we will be spotted immediately. ”
"Isn't there a way to restore the fishtail? If you recover, you'll be able to go back to the North Sea. ”
It's just that the tail has been broken, and there is no spiritual power, how can it be recovered.
She just shook her head. "Until now, there is no way to return to the original state and return to the North Sea. There is no way. ”
Actually, "Is there really no way?" Bai Yiyan didn't want to get such an answer, but Xi just shook his head.
"There is no other way, maybe Mo knows, but we don't have spiritual power, even if we know, it shouldn't be able to recover."
The more this is the case, the deeper the hatred for human beings.
Bai Yiyan guessed well, they did have some plans, but they didn't want to tell Bai Yiyan about such plans.
After agreeing to go to the summer festival, the city sent the dress in the afternoon. A dark red robe embellished with pearls. In the northern country, the formal dress must be red. This garment would be expensive anywhere else, but here pearls are just a bargain. The meaning of snubbing is clear at a glance.
Bai Yiyan didn't care, just smiled. "Your Excellency has a heart, please thank your Excellency on my behalf."
"Yes." The attendant who delivered the clothes originally thought that Bai Yiyan would be angry, but Bai Yiyan was unusually calm and couldn't help but sigh out. Bai Yiyan came from other places, and in other places, such pearls with good color should also be rare, and when I thought of this, I put down a lot in my heart.
When he went back to resume his life, Chengyi was eating the grapes held by the shark slave, and when he heard that Bai Yiyan didn't have a superfluous word, he couldn't help laughing.
"Isn't that woman just relying on the people next to Jiang Li, and I really think I'm afraid of her, phew. It's just a woman, and I have a way to fix her secretly. ”
"Your Excellency is wise." The attendant hurriedly slapped him on the back. "No matter how smart she is, no matter how big she is, it's just a child's trick."
This compliment was very useful, and he narrowed his already narrow eyes.
"How's the preparation for the summer festival?"
"Back to my lord, everything is ready."
The sacrifice is nothing more than a ritual, a boring eulogy, and Bai Yiyan holds his face with his hands. The lowest mermaids have always been forbidden to enter the festival, but today is different.
Most of the parents of each family and people of some status attend the festival, and this is indeed the best opportunity. For the merman.
Halfway through the festival, many crows flew around the statue, and they fell on the branches in black, without a single chirp, just looking at the people below.
The messenger of the god of grains was the crow, and the fact that so many crows came to the festival meant that the god of grain heard their prayers, and a smile was evident on the face of the city.
"Yes, yes, it must be the gods who heard the prayer and blessed our country with prosperity."
The crow is in the girder, but it is an ominous bird. She is here today, and she should be counted according to the rules of the beam. These crows, presumably, smelled death and therefore came.
After the ceremony is completed, the dried meat is served, and the meat is delicate and cut into translucent thin slices, which does not look like beef, let alone beef. Bai Yiyan didn't eat it, and the faces of the people who ate it changed significantly, and it seemed that it was the first time to eat such meat.
"My lord, what kind of meat is this?" Someone asked.
Chengyi tasted it, and obviously tasted wrong, so he called someone to call the cook.
But the guy who called the cook didn't come back. It was a woman who came back, without scales on her body, but her light-colored pupils could make people see that this was a merman. She carried a cloth bag in her hand, and threw it casually, the cloth bag spread out, and a round human head rolled out, the blood had been drained, and his face was white and frightened. The ravens that had fallen on the tree rushed down and landed on the altar.
Most of the people present were startled and stood up, and some of them already knew what kind of meat they had just eaten, and their faces were like earth, and they began to vomit.
Chengyi's body was already paralyzed, and when he saw the cold light shining in the merman's hand, he hurriedly retreated.
"Someone, someone."
No one answered. Bai Yiyan sat on the table and sipped the wine in the glass, which tasted good. Looking at the plate of meat in front of you, gently push the plate to the ground. Although the scene was so chaotic that the sound of the plates shattering could not be heard.
Mermaids poured in through the doorway, perhaps born warriors rather than delicate playthings, and the guards of the city looked to them like melons and vegetables. Although they had no weapons in their hands, their hands were like the best blades, and the iron armor on the guards' bodies was like paper, which could not stop their hands. Blood splattered on the tables around him, and frightened faces.
Their glassy eyes were red with blood, and their ears had turned fin-shaped. Bai Yiyan just sat quietly. Sipping the wine from the glass.
These nobles should never have thought that the sharks, who were originally regarded as cheaper than dogs, would dare to kill the master, and they don't know why, they seem to have recovered their spiritual power overnight. At this time, the position quietly changed, and they were no longer butchers with butcher knives, but fish and meat on the board. Sharks are natural killers, and they can stick their hands into their chests and crush their hearts without changing their faces. Their hands were red with blood, sticky blood dripping from the tips of their fingers.
The merman doesn't have much spiritual power on his body after breaking his tail, but if he finds the Phantom Night Flower, he can temporarily recover his spiritual power.
Although the effect of the Phantom Night Flower is unknown, people never let the merman come into contact with it, nor will it let the merman come into contact with any kind of medicinal herbs. There weren't many phantom night flowers left in the pharmacy, and Bai Yiyan bought them all back.
The boss didn't know why Bai Yiyan bought so many phantom night flowers, Bai Yiyan only said that it was to decorate the summer festival and didn't make him suspicious anymore.
Although there are only a dozen sharks who use the Phantom Night Flower to recover their spiritual power, they can successfully defeat the guards and rescue the others.
Mo bowed to Bai Yiyan, and then led people to the north city gate. Bai Yiyan stood at the foot of the altar. The fire in the heavens had spread below, and the charcoal-burned wood could not support the crumbling altar.
There were no houses around the altar, and after the collapse of the altar, some of the flames were extinguished.
The fire burned for a day before it burned out, and the bones inside had long since been reduced to ashes. Everyone knew that the mermaids rebelled and fled, killed a lot of people, burned the altar, and for a time the whole city was hung with white practice. Those who were in the summer festival had long been burned to ashes, and their families were not even allowed to collect their bodies, and others were killed by the mermaids and collected by their families.
Bai Yiyan did not return to the city, but returned to the post house she came to before. There were no sharks in this inn, but rich merchants with sharks lived here, and their sharks also rebelled and killed people. The innkeeper buried them early in the morning. When Bai Yiyan came, the innkeeper just glanced up at Bai Yiyan, as if he was a dead fish, and gave Bai Yiyan the key to the door.
Someone came to visit Bai Yiyan, and the general guarding the city didn't know how to be blind in one eye, covered it with a black cloth, and the other eye was as sharp as an eagle, staring at Bai Yiyan.
"Miss Wei must have been sent by the Regent."
When he asked this, Bai Yiyan naturally told the truth. "That's true."
"Did the regent send the young lady just for the merman?" The general asked.
If yes, if not, no, Bai Yiyan didn't know how to answer his question.
"Not bad."
"We have been fishing for sharks for many years, and we have also made offerings to the regent. Why did the regent let the young lady release those mermaids? As he finished speaking, he pulled out a large sheet from his sleeve. Miss prepared a large number of Phantom Night Flowers before the summer festival, can you explain to the last general the purpose of this Phantom Night Flower? ”
"I thought the phantom night flowers smelled good, so I bought a lot of them to decorate the summer festival, but they all burned in one fire." As she spoke, there was a lot of regret on her face. "It's a pity that there are no Phantom Night Flowers for sale, and I miss that fragrance very much.
The guard looked at her suspiciously, and put the list back in his arms, "Whether Miss Wei admits it or not, all the mermaids who defected were killed on the shore of the North Sea." ”
"What did you say?" Bai Yiyan was taken aback.
Seeing Bai Yiyan's flustered expression, the guard general was obviously much more proud.
"Miss, don't worry, the one hundred and thirty-three shark slaves who have defected in the city have all been killed, and the corpses will be transported back to the city soon."
How could it be. Didn't they all recover their spiritual power and escape, how could they still be like what the guard said, they must be lying to her. It's just that the guard has no reason to lie to her at all.
"Originally, the group of shark slaves had broken tails and had no spiritual power, I don't know why, but suddenly a few of them increased their strength, which was indeed a bit difficult to do, but those few had already been shot into hedgehogs and burned on the spot on the North Sea, and the rest were shipped back. It's just that this group of mermen is very ghostly, and their eyes are all blinded. The beads that can't be deducted are coming. ”
The carriage carrying the corpses of the mermaids had already entered through the city gates, pulling the carts full of corpses as if they were pulling luggage. There were many relatives on both sides of the road who had been killed by the mermaids, and their faces were full of hatred, and if someone hadn't stopped them, they would have rushed up and tore the corpses apart.
The small fishing village was desolate and dilapidated, uninhabited. Bai Yiyan walked in, and the people inside should be as the guard said, going out to sea to catch sharks, walking to the beach, and gradually saw traces of fighting. The guard did not bury the merman's body, as he said. More than a dozen corpses were stuck with arrows stuck across the beach. The waves crashed on the sand, and when the waves receded, the crows landed on the corpses.
When Bai Yiyan came over, the crow flew away. Among these corpses, Bai Yiyan found Mo.
She was half-on her knees, the blood on her hands had been washed away by the waves, and a layer of fine scales appeared on her hands, the same color as her ear fins, rose-gold scales, and a feathered arrow in the center of her eyebrow. There was an obvious wound in his eye, and his strength was insufficient, so he wanted to destroy his eye before he died, but he was still gouged out.
Looking at this appearance, Bai Yiyan couldn't help but feel sad in her heart, squatted down, and pulled out the feather arrow on her head, her blood had already coagulated, and no blood would gush out. Pull out the feather arrow from her body and gently brush it across her forehead, pushing her corpse into the sea.
The waves seemed to know that it was their own children who had returned, and swept her body into the depths of the North Sea.
Bai Yiyan turned around and wanted to leave, when he suddenly saw a bead rolled up by the waves, exuding a soft light. It was exactly the same as the one she had seen before, and she bent down to pick it up, and the bead rolled in her hand. Bai Yiyan was deeply impressed by that bead, unlike this one, that one was a little more dazzling than this bead.
Bai Yiyan didn't know if this bead could be regarded as a shark bead. The golden-scaled and silver-haired shark has profound spiritual power to condense the shark beads. Mo is also a golden scale, and Xi also said that Mo's spiritual power is profound, no.
It's just that Bai Yiyan took this shark bead, and he really felt uncomfortable.
Pushing all the corpses of the mermen into the sea, the crow that was about to eat the flesh of the dead body tilted its head to watch Bai Yiyan's movements. The waves came up, and they fluttered and flew away. It fell on the branches of the dead trees in the south, as if black leaves had grown.
Bai Yiyan kicked the shark pearl in his hand in his arms, although it was not as dazzling as before, but it was indeed a good shark pearl, and when he finished doing this, he returned to the city, and it was almost dusk. The setting sun was like blood, and the crows fell on the ruins, and from time to time they cried a few times, which was very noisy.
A funeral has just been held in the city, and the sunset will hang Bai Lian and paint a layer of fiery red, so many years, it is the first time that a merman has come out of Beihai.
Bai Yiyan found the merman in the ruins of the altar, he was sitting on a piece of scorched wood, dressed in a black gold thread, and his silver hair was scattered and draped over his back. A pair of ear fins are carved like red gold. His hands were folded, and there was no blood on his hands. It wasn't with those hands that he killed. Bai Yiyan stood a foot away, he raised his head, and his eyes were as red as gold.
"There's one still alive." He sneered, Bai Yiyan instinctively dodged, he didn't know when he had arrived in front of him, and his hand hit Bai Yiyan's scabbard.