Chapter 51: Ghost City
Xiao Yige really hates me, and he hates me to the depths of his soul. From his fierce gaze I saw murderousness, struggle, and something inexplicable.
The afterglow that came in through the window shone on him, as if gilding him, and his angular face was very gloomy against the light.
He and his little brother look absolutely identical, not only in face, but also in fat, thin, tall and short. If it weren't for the fact that they had a completely different temperament, I would have admitted my mistake.
The blood on the corners of his lips was not wiped clean when Xiao Yige approached me, and he looked very sick with thick blood.
"You, are you trying to strangle me? If you are so disgusted with me, why do you take me over? I tugged at his hand, but I didn't move, but my anger was very strong.
He moved his hand to the back of my head and grabbed me by the hair to force me to look up at him. So close, I could see the bloodshot under his eyes, one by one, as if it was about to burst at any moment.
Suddenly, Xiao Yige's eyes sank, and he lowered his head and kissed me on the lips without warning.
But at this moment, I don't know where a powerful force shook out of my body, and it shook him back several steps at once.
He bumped into the edge of his desk before he stopped, gasping violently, his face pale and gloomy, as if he had been hit violently, and he couldn't look at it at all.
I didn't know where this power came from, because I didn't have any discomfort or any other reaction, and the power of that moment was not sent out by me.
"Lo! Small! Seven, Luo Xiaoqi, you damn woman! ”
Xiao Yige rushed over and grabbed my shoulders again and roared hoarsely, staring at me with gloomy eyes, and the blood quickly spread under his eyes.
Soon his eyes were red, blood-red, glowing with a bloodthirsty light.
I was frightened by his terrifying appearance, and my feet trembled like sifting chaff, "Xiao, Xiao Yige, I, I want to pee!" ”
He stared at me for a long time before his eyes returned to normal, and suddenly let go of me, and coldly squeezed out a word between his teeth: "Get out!" ”
"Then I'm really out of here!"
I was relieved, turned around and ran out of the study, but saw Xiao Li in the courtyard. Wearing a long white dress, she stood quietly under the pear tree full of flowers, and her beauty was incomparable.
When I saw her, I couldn't help but think of the female ghost in the river of blood, and I still don't know if it was a dream or something.
"You ......"
"You ......"
The two of us opened their mouths and stopped at the same time, and I laughed and said, "Xiao Li, you say it first!" ”
"I'm here to apologize to you, it's true that I'm wrong at noon, it's me who was too reckless. Do you mind, I'll go out with you, right? It's also a lot of fun around here. ”
"Oh, okay!"
In this situation, I would rather go with Xiao Li than stay very close to Xiao Yige. He's a devil, the kind who eats people and doesn't spit out bones.
After leaving Yiyuan, Xiao Li took me to a very lively small street behind the house. There are stalls, teahouses, restaurants and small shops, which are similar to the downtown area.
"This street leads directly to Lianhua Road, and then it is Xihuai City. Since the ancestors ordered the children and grandchildren of the Xiao family not to engage in politics, my grandfather's generation started a business in Xihuai City, and now my father, mother and clansmen are there. ”
She was afraid that I wouldn't understand, so she added, "Our Xiao family's business is very wide, there are antiques, jewelry, and jade, but the main thing is jade. ”
"Oh!"
I always thought that there were only two people left in the Xiao family, Xiao Yige and Xiao Li, but I didn't expect that my parents were still alive, and there were even many clansmen.
In this way, compared with the Du family and the Shen family, the Xiao family's incense inheritance is relatively prosperous.
However, their inheritance has not been lost, while catering to this era, while retaining the style of Xuanmen, looking at the present, it is a very alternative existence.
I asked again, "Then why don't you and Xiao Yige move over?" ”
"People who practice the Tao are not suitable for the city and attract attention." Xiao Li glanced at me meaningfully, and said, "Besides, for so many years, the four major families of Xuanmen have never stopped fighting openly and secretly, and they can't involve the whole clan. ”
“…… Why do the four families fight? ”
"Because of a woman!" Xiao Li's eyes lit up when he said this, but he quickly regained his composure, "This woman is very capable of stirring up our four major families. ”
“……”
I didn't ask her who this woman was, because I told me that I was probably the woman she was talking about, and I was sloppy with a sloppy look.
"Xiao Qi, why don't you ask me who this person is? Or do you already know it? Xiao Li didn't let me go, looking at me aggressively, his face was not so polite.
"I don't know who you're talking about, and I don't want to know."
I glanced at Xiao Li, smiled and said, "Xiao Li, don't you think it's stupid for the four major families to fight openly and secretly for a long time for a woman?" What era is this, everyone is a smart person, why don't you let go of your heart and turn your war into a jade silk? ”
Xiao Li was stunned, looked at me like a monster a few times, and suddenly smiled: "You are right, it is indeed stupid to stir up the world for a woman who bewitches and confuses everyone." ”
"You have this awareness, why don't you stop it?"
"Block? Hehe, if this woman died, no one could stop it. ”
She sighed and walked forward, but her mouth was lukewarm and added, "If she pities 'him', how good it would be if she died, and everything that 'he' carried can be put down." ”
This "she" refers to me, right? And what about "him"? Who is it?
Little brother? Or someone else?
It was really tense for me to chat with Xiao Li, so I didn't speak, but my heart was very uncomfortable. These words were clearly deliberately spoken to me, and her disgust with me was palpable.
But I can't figure it out, how can I be involved in the grievances of the four major families, and besides, they can't let go of the grievances and must fight to the death, does this have anything to do with me?
It's better to concentrate on shopping and see the scenery.
It's just that this street is so long, Xiao Li and I walked for a long time and didn't finish it. But as I walked, the aura changed, and suddenly there was a gust of wind blowing in all directions, very light, but very cold.
I looked around and realized that this was not a small street in the sun, it was a ghost market!
When I say ghost market, I don't mean the black market in the yang world where you buy and sell shady things, but the real market under the jurisdiction of the ghost world, called the ghost market.
The administrators of the ghost market are generally ghost cultivators or warlocks who can pass through yin and yang, and their mana must also be strong, such as ghost cultivators like grandma or warlocks like Chen Shen.
The things sold in this market are very strange, there are human corpses that have just died, low-level lonely souls and wild ghosts used for cultivation, weapons made by ghost cultivators, and life life trading, etc., which are simply dazzling.
The people who do business in the ghost market are either ghosts or warlocks, and there are also a few demons and monsters.
However, there is an unwritten rule that both buyers and sellers are not allowed to show their true faces, and they must wear the masks provided by the administrator before entering the market.
I can't imagine that the ghost market here is connected to the small street in the sun, which is really incredible. But when I came, I was still ready to go shopping, so I took my mask at the management office and went in.
Ghost markets are generally only open on the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year or special days, so they are more lively than the small streets in the sun, and the cries of selling are endless.
I think Xiao Li is very familiar with the ghost market, and I guess I don't miss it. But she shouldn't have practiced, because she didn't have the aura that monks had in her.
Or maybe she hid too deeply and lied to me. But the monk who can deceive me in the past must be at the level of a ghost venerable, right?
"Xiao Qi, I'll go to the front first, I'll come to you later!"
Not long after entering the ghost city, Xiao Li left under the pretext of an excuse. I didn't follow her mysterious appearance, and I guess there was something inhumane about her.
I took a closer look along the stall and shop, and before I knew it, I had walked in front of a small shop called "Soul Urn".
This store is full of large and small jars, but this jar is engraved with soul suppression talismans, and it looks very powerful.
But the most eye-catching thing about the shop is a billboard on the right side, on which the words "change life" are very weird.