"Boss, how much does it cost?" I asked.

"One small copper plate, three big ones." The boss replied that the work on hand did not stop, and a goldfish lantern began to take shape.

I took out a copper and handed it to him: "Help me tie a snail." The boss looked at me deeply, thought for a while, and started to move, and after a while, a white snail lantern was tied, and the seller did not forget to tie a lotus root pink tassel for me underneath, which was very beautiful.

"This boss's craftsmanship is ingenious." I said to the snail next to me, and he glanced at the lantern and looked at me with some "admiration": "You have a unique taste." "Unique? That's a must! I smirked.

"Let's go, let's go!" Tian Luo began to urge again, although the girl was still very nostalgic for the busy traffic here, and he had to be pulled away from the lively crowd. After turning around, Tian Luo finally stopped in front of a big mansion with me on the plaque at the door of the house, which read the words "Mengfu".

"What is this place?" I'm a little curious.

"A place that will make you safe." Tian Luo thought for a moment, "Tonight we will stay in the neighborhood first, and tomorrow we will find a way to enter the house." After saying that, he walked to an inn not far away, observed it, and led me in.

After tossing for so long, I finally have a place to rest, but why does this snail in front of me only open one room? The person in charge of the harm looked at me well, I'm obviously a girl from a good family, okay? However, I had to agree with his approach, in the name of keeping me safe......

"Hey, am I insecure?" I've been talking about time and safety since just now, and now that I can finally take a break, I can always make it clear, right?

"If I'm not mistaken, your father and mother are destined to have no children, and they should have used the most extreme method to get Huang Xian to give them a son." Tian Luo drank a sip of water, with a look of "let's start from the beginning": "This method is called 'three pilgrimages', how do they know I haven't found out yet, but people who use this method should drip blood in front of the tomb of Huang Xian as an alliance, in the ninth month, eighteen months and twenty-seven months after the birth of the son, they worship Huang Xian three times to pay tribute, the first time they enter the five grains, send anger, the second time they enter the wealth silk, send nobles, and the third time they ......" He paused, and then said: "The third time, to pay tribute, you need to bring the blood of the alliance, the more careful the age, the cleaner the better, Let Huang Xian drink her blood to end it, in this ceremony, the most important thing is that the people pay tribute this time, after the three pilgrimages, Huang Xian's grade will be refined to another level. I guess, your family's tribute, look up, people can only pick you. ”

I felt that my brain was a little numb, my heart was a little painful, and I felt the urge to kill someone in my hands. My father and mother sold me in order to have a son? I looked at Tian Luo with innocent eyes, I am an honest person, it is easy to trust others, don't lie to me if you cough......

Seeming to see through my thoughts, Tian Luo sighed helplessly: "I've been investigating this matter for half a year, and the first time I came to your house and saw your brother, I felt that something was wrong, this child, with a deep fate, weak anger, if it is really fateful, it is also a debt collector, if not, even if you are tributed, it will be difficult to live past the age of eighteen." It's not interesting if I lie to you, does it? I don't have a motive. ”

You're not motivated? I looked at him suspiciously, but when I pondered his words, I suddenly found a serious problem: "Then isn't my father and mother deceived?" I hurriedly asked, "Is this something you should worry about?" He looked at me with an expression: "You still have to think about how to avoid Huang Xian!" Your brother is almost twenty-seven months old, and within a month, he will come to you, and your father and mother may have seen that you didn't say goodbye, and they fled from Luohe Town with their family for fear of Huang Xian's questioning. Tian Luo seemed to think of something: "But your father and mother should still have you in their hearts, and the tribute must be a boy and a girl, and your father and mother are anxious to let you get married, probably to avoid this disaster." But it's still easier to think, if it's really not a virgin, I'm afraid that Huang Xian will go on a killing spree. Hearing this, I couldn't help but feel a little comforted in my heart, this is okay, if we are separated, Huang Xian will only find me alone.

"What are you doing?" The snail interrupted my thoughts.

"It's nothing, thinking that my father and mother should be safe now." I'll be honest with you.

"Ugly girl, ugly sister, think about yourself, you may not be able to save your life in a month!" Tian Luo was quite depressed.

"Am I not you?" I asked, stunned.

"I can't beat him." Tian Luo replied very sincerely, "That's a thousand-year-old monster from Huangpiling, and I'm not his opponent at all." ”

"What then?" I finally have a vice impatience, and I really have no hope if I can't handle the snails! Thinking of being pinched by a giant rat all the time, biting off its neck and sucking blood like drinking water, goosebumps fell down like peeling skin.

"That's why we have to find a way to get in!" He got up and opened the window, and I leaned over to take a look, and I could see a corner of the Meng Mansion here, no wonder he chose this inn, even if the silver taels were a few percent more expensive than elsewhere.

"The second master of this Meng Mansion, named Meng Lingyun, is the head of the first Xuanling faction in the world, good at driving away demons and avoiding evil, we hide in his mansion, here are his relatives, even if the thousand-year-old weasel dares to come, he has to weigh it before he can get in." Tian Luo told me his plan, and I suddenly felt that the person in front of me was shining with inspiration and extremely smart, and I couldn't help but hold his arm with both hands: "It's all up to Lord Tian Luo's arrangement!" It's just ......"

"What's wrong?" He wondered.

"Eat first?" I smiled.

He took out a package from his arms as if he had prepared it in advance, opened it and saw that it was my favorite osmanthus mung bean cake, and hurriedly took a piece and tasted it. "Where did you buy it, it's so delicious?" I asked as I stuffed the mung bean cake into my mouth.

"I went to buy the lantern when you first went to buy it, didn't I not eat well in the past two days? Buy something you like. Seeing that I was eating happily and smiling like a child, I grinned at him and began to eat.

"By the way, you said that this Second Master Meng, since he is a master of exorcism, why don't we hire him with a lot of money and let him help us get rid of that monster, why do you have to sneak into the mansion so troublesomely?" I thought about it and asked him.

Tian Luo seemed to ponder for a long time before answering me: "My identity is inconvenient for him to see, and you are not very suitable to negotiate with him head-on, there is a formation to ward off evil spirits in his house, you only hide in it to live in peace, and the Yellow Demon does not dare to claim it without permission." ”

I really wanted to ask why I couldn't meet Meng Lingyun head-on, but looking at Tian Luo's thoughts drifting away, I couldn't help but swallow my words back. If he wants to tell me, he will naturally say, if he doesn't want to tell me, I may not be able to ask for the rest of my life.

Thinking about it, I fiddled with the snail lantern on the table a few times, hung it on the window, the lotus pink tassels swayed gently in the wind, and the snail's eyes fell on the lantern, and I flicked it lightly with my hand.

"I said, why didn't you tell me this earlier?" I looked out the window at the brightly lit Meng Mansion and asked.

"I told you earlier, I'm afraid you don't want to come," he didn't even think to answer, "It's better to trick you into coming here first." ”

You know me, I glanced at Tian Luo with appreciation, these days have not been in vain with me.