Chapter 2: Under the Mask
This piece of black jade, from beginning to end, gives people a strange feeling.
Song Nian glanced at it a few times, and suddenly took out another piece of ink jade from his arms.
It was the reward of her mission, from the previous oracle.
These two pieces of ink jade are put together, and the patterns in them are almost identical, but the position of the stars on the top of the head, and the fish, birds, insects, and other objects swimming in the body, the positions of the swimming, but they are different.
Song Nian closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and then said: "According to what the divine envoy said before he died, this is different from the divine envoy, and the black jade token he carries with him is also different, indicating that his personal identity and status are different. Judging from this person's black jade, he should be the oracle of the Archbishop of the North, and he is not all the way with us. ”
"In that case, more is better than less, so I'll get rid of him?" Chu He also didn't want Song Nian to be exposed at this time.
"No...... See you! And you have to see it well. Song Nian said lightly.
"Why is that?" Chu He was puzzled.
Song Nian smiled: "Since we want to pretend to be the envoy of the Hu people, we have to pretend to be some." The previous oracle was born in the southeast, belonged to the southern archbishop, was sent to the northwest, and was unfamiliar with the place, even if he used some tricks to scare some Hu people, he still had a shallow foundation, so when he saw the local oracle, he naturally had to be very friendly. So ......"
Song Nian paused and said seriously: "So not only do you want to meet, but you also have to take the initiative to visit." Give these two pieces of ink jade to the Hu man waiting at the door, and ask him to tell the divine envoy that I will visit after burning incense and bathing. ”
Seeing that Song Nian had made up his mind, Chu He had no choice but to do so.
A moment later, Song Nian took Chu He and a few loyal Hu people to visit the camp on the other side of the lake.
The other party's divine envoy came out early to greet him.
Seeing Song Nian, he was taken aback and exclaimed: "I have long heard that there are many beautiful women in Jiangnan, but I didn't expect your envoy to be so beautiful." ”
Song Nian said lightly: "Divine envoys are generally served by men, but I am an exception to my teacher." ”
"That's true, but there are actually not a few goddesses in the church, and the last time I went to the main altar, I happened to meet the Western archbishop teaching the Dharma at the main altar...... Who would have thought that the honorable Archbishop of the West would also be a daughter......"
This divine envoy accompanied Song Nian to walk inward, and when he walked outside the tent, he stopped and signaled Song Nian to go first.
"Please!"
Song Nian said to a few Hu people: "You wait here." ”
Then, he was going to take Chu He into this tent, and the divine envoy was puzzled: "You and I have met the divine envoy, this person ......."
Song Nian smiled: "As a woman, even if I know some techniques, I will inevitably encounter troubles that cause trouble." This is my personal guard, and it can be regarded as saving me several times, so I take it with me, just in case. ”
The oracle laughed, "As it should be." ”
Then, he invited Song Nian and Chu He into the camp.
Wine and food had already been prepared in the tent, and the divine envoy invited Song Nian to sit down, and Chu He consciously stood aside, watching the two divine envoys, one true and one false, sitting opposite each other.
"Dare to ask, what do you call it?"
"The family teacher's surname is Zhu, and the single name is a Zhong character. I joined the family teacher, and also changed my surname to Zhu, and the family teacher chose a word for me. ”
Zhu ...... Leave? Vermilion Bird Fetish, Nanming Away from Fire? Sure enough, it was the name of the fairy. ”
The envoy complimented him, and then took off his mask, and under the mask was the appearance of a northerner with a simple and simple face.
In other words, it is the appearance of the people of Dayong.
"My surname is Gao, my family lives in the Xishan area, and the people in my hometown call me Gao Laoxi, and later I joined the Divine Church, and the bishop disliked my ugly name, so he helped me change the word "stream" for a stream. But if you want me to say, it is better to change it to interest interest, which is auspicious. You can call me Gaoxi and Gaolaoxi. Gao Lao Xi laughed.
As soon as this man spoke, Song Nian guessed where he came from.
Jiuyuan Mansion is vast, and further east, but there are two huge mountain ranges, one is Kuo Mountain, the other is Taihang Mountain, between the two mountains, is the Yangping Mansion where Gao Laoxi is located, because Kuo Mountain is in the west of Yangping, so it is also called West Mountain by the locals.
The land in Yangping Province is barren, so most of the locals make a living in business, so they attach more importance to the word "interest".
"In fact, the word creek is also very auspicious, do business, this interest should be like a stream, endless." Song Nian said with a smile.
"Haha, what the Vermilion Bird Divine Envoy said is extremely true." Gao Laoxi said with a laugh.
"Zhu Li." Song Nian corrected lightly.
"Zhu Li, right Zhu Li!" Gao Laoxi hurriedly said, and then raised his chopsticks: "Come, Zhu Shen's envoy to taste?" It's all made by the cooks I got from the south, and the diet of the Hu people in this foreign region is too coarse. ”
Song Nian shook his head slightly.
Gao Laoxi said with annoyance: "What, is it possible that the Zhu Divine Envoy is unwilling to take off his mask to meet people?" In the cult of God, although you have to wear a mask for the sake of mystery, you and I are both divine envoys, so there is no need for this. ”
Song Nian lifted the mask slightly, revealing patches of white spots on his chin.
The chopsticks in Gao Laoxi's hand fell on the table with a click.
"High Divine Envoy, don't be nervous, I'm just a scar that has healed." Song Nian put on his mask and said lightly.
"I see, I see......" Gao Laoxi wiped the sweat on his forehead: "It's really ......"
"It's really terrifying for this white death, isn't it?" Song Nian smiled.
"Yes, yes, yes......" Gao Laoxi said with a wry smile: "So this time the sect sent this task, but no one was willing to accept it, and in the end, it was only from the southern archbishop that he was assigned." ”
"This mission is truly terrifying...... Therefore, the tutor was also worried about what would happen after the death, so he asked me to set off from the south early, but I didn't expect it...... When I arrived at the grassland, I only had time to see my master one last time. Song Nian's tone was low.
"What...... Could it be that Ling Shi died in ......" Gao Laoxi became more and more frightened.
Song Nian said lightly: "That's right, the family master is in the Hu tribe on the edge of the desert, scattering the red god of death and the black god of death...... Wait, it was fine before, but when he spread the White Death, something went wrong, so after meeting me, he passed away......"
"Then these ...... on your face" Gao Laoxi didn't even dare to take the chopsticks.
Song Nian stretched out his hand and touched the hideous mask: "I am in a small village in the south, for some reason, the whole village was suddenly dyed with white death, and I was the only one who survived...... My face was ruined, and I used to be masked, but now I ...... I think this mask is much more beautiful than my face. ”
"This ...... Where is this passing by......" Gao Laoxi muttered, but he didn't dare to say anything more. In his opinion, this village was probably specially released by Zhu Zhong White Death, that is, smallpox.
"But I don't eat these things, not because of anything else...... It's ......" Song Nian stretched out his hand to tie down the silver hairpin and inserted it into the wine jug in front of him.
In the blink of an eye, the tip of the silver hairpin turned black.