Chapter Forty-Eight: Dreams
Huche City.
In a corner of the living room, the pendulum of a vintage standing table clock swings regularly, one after another. Zhu Luan crooked on the sofa, staring idly, and saw that in his heart, he could silently make a clicking sound with the rhythm of the pendulum, and the hour hand pointed to ten o'clock in the evening.
Zhu Luan got up and went to the window to take a look, although it was still noisy, the rain was much lighter than at the beginning.
The candle dragon still hasn't returned. The little tengu was so sleepy that he fell straight down, rubbed at Zhu Luan's feet, raised his head and called "durian" twice.
Zhu Luan yawned and answered: "I'm more sleepy than you, you can still make up for sleep during the day, I haven't closed my eyes for a day and a night." ”
The little tengu turned around again, and Zhu Luan nodded and said, "Okay, don't wait." Go back to the house and sleep. ”
Zhu Luan rubbed his eyes a few times, and was about to bend down to pick up the little tengu, but the little tengu cocked his tail and trotted around the kitchen. Probably because he has been in the stage of "growing his body", the little tengu has a very good appetite and always likes to stuff something into his stomach before going to bed. Zhu Luan knew the habits of the little tengu, and he was too lazy to wait for it, so he staggered up to the second floor first.
The light in the study on the second floor was still on, and when Zhu Luan passed by, a low voice came out, it should be Zhu Yingwu and Bai Xiaoming were discussing something.
Zhu Luan naturally didn't mean to eavesdrop on the conversation between the two, but he just happened to go overboard, and the moment he passed by the door of the study, there was another thunderous explosion outside the house, Zhu Luan was stunned for a moment, and remembered the dream in the evening.
That dream was too real. Bai Xiaoming, who was pale, and Zhu Yingwu, who was saved by blood, lingered in the heavy and desperate atmosphere between the two...... That kind of depression that is so real that it makes it difficult to breathe, even as a bystander, makes Zhu Luan feel a kind of pain that he can empathize with.
Zhu Yingwu's grandfather was close friends with Ying Long, and when his grandfather died, he entrusted the young Zhu Yingwu to Ying Long. And back then, Emperor Fenghuang was entangled in everything, and he also had no time to take care of Zhu Luan, so he simply left Zhu Luan in Yinshan. The two are of the same age, so they naturally played together. Even later, one of the two wandered in the human world, and the other was confined in Yinshan, and they have never broken contact over the years.
Growing up together since childhood, the relationship is naturally close, it can be said that in the entire mountain and sea world, Zhu Yingwu is the friend that Zhu Luan trusts and values the most, he never wants to see that one day Zhu Yingwu will experience that kind of pain, and Zhu Yingwu is not allowed to do this kind of self-destructive thing.
Zhu Luan furrowed his eyebrows, thought about something, and slowly walked back to his room.
Today's dinner was prepared in a hurry, and there was still a lot of cooked food left, and Zhu Yingwu left two slices of ham on the kitchen counter. Satisfied, the little tengu finished his meal, trotted all the way back to the guest room with his tail cocked, and then jumped to the head of the bed and stretched out.
The well-fed little tengu was about to lie down to make up for sleep, when he was suddenly grabbed by Zhu Luan and held him up.
The little tengu kicked his hind legs twice, and said unpleasantly: "Dumegranate." "What are you going to toss again, and let people not sleep! I'm still growing up, how good is my body?
"I know, I'm sleepy too, but there's something I need to discuss with you."
The little tengu's ears moved, and his eyes motioned for Zhu Luan to continue. Zhu Luan put him on the bed, rubbed his head heavily, and sat cross-legged opposite the little tengu.
After Zhu Yingwu left Yinshan, Zhu Luan was lonely and bored for hundreds of years, until Ying Long picked up the little tengu, and Zhu Luan found a suitable playmate. The two of them have been messing around together in Yinshan for hundreds of years, the eldest is still childlike, and the younger one is young and frivolous, and they get together all day long to make trouble. In the eyes of others, it's just a pair of demon kings of the mixed world. However, one is the only son of the Phoenix Emperor whose father is missing, and the other is the only remaining tengu in the world whose parents are dead.
If Zhu Yingwu is a playmate who grew up together since childhood, representing a carefree childhood, then the little tengu is more like two small animals who have also lost their shelter from the wind and rain to Zhu Luan, getting together to support each other and cheer each other up, somewhat sympathetic. Zhu Yingwu may not understand many things, but Xiao Tiangu naturally understands.
Luan Niao groaned for a while, put away the playful look on his face, and said seriously: "Liuliu, do you remember that one time, Uncle Ying Long went down the mountain to do errands, and you were idle and bored, and secretly went to the back mountain to dig out the bird's nest to play?" ”
The little tengu slapped the tail of the thin quilt and suddenly stopped, stumbled back under his buttocks, rolled himself up, and it took a long time for the "grenade" to respond.
That incident back then was really "tragic".
During that time, Ying Long happened to go far away, and he was not in Yinshan for a long time. The only person who can stop him is not there, and the naughty and lawless little tengu will naturally not let go of this good opportunity to play crazy. However, there are only a few things that can be played in Yinshan, and the little tengu has been naughty for a while, and there is no freshness. At one point, I fell into a situation of extreme boredom.
It's just so coincidental, just at that time, Shengyu, who lives in the back mountain, gave birth to a litter of eggs. Shengyu is also a kind of divine beast, belonging to birds, with little courage and no special skills. Fishing has been a livelihood for generations.
Because of their timidity, they have never been out of Yin Mountain. I didn't even leave the back mountain. Mythical beasts have always been difficult to reproduce, and it is not big to say that it is not big to win the egg, but it is not small. Soon spread all over Yin Mountain, and Dang Kang also went to visit it on purpose.
Hearing the news, the little tengu, who happened to be idle to the point of mold, instantly came to his senses. Ever since he heard that Zhu Luan was hatched from an egg, he had been eager to hatch eggs. At this time, a great opportunity is in front of us, and naturally we can't let it go. Decide to steal an egg and hatch it yourself.
This kind of interesting thing must not be forgotten to share with good brothers. The little tengu jumped up excitedly and was about to go to Zhu Luan to dig the bird's nest together.
As a result, when the little tengu found Zhu Luan, Zhu Luan was sleeping in the nest, and he couldn't wake up even though the little tengu was beaten and kicked by his paws. The little tengu didn't want to miss the opportunity to win the egg, so he had no choice but to go first.
However, just when the little tengu's paws reached into the Shengyu nest and were about to succeed, Ying Long, who was supposed to be far away from Yin Mountain, suddenly appeared, grabbed the back of the little tengu's neck and lifted him up.
What happened after that was nothing to look back on.
In the past, although Xiao Tengu and Zhu Luan were also crazy and crazy, they were not too out of the circle. In addition, Ying Long is also a casual and wanton master, even if a bitter master comes to the door, it is just a lesson to teach them a lesson, and it will be enough to lock them up for a few days.
But this time it's different, naughty enough to catch someone else's cub. If there are three longs and two shorts, it will really make a big deal. In addition, he personally caught the "crime scene", Ying Long deliberately taught him a lesson, and directly summoned all the residents of Yinshan, and held down the little tengu and beat his ass in full view.
The lawless demon king of the mixed world was publicly spanked, and many Yinshan residents brought their families to watch. The whole process was extremely tragic, and it was a great shame for the little tengu in his life.
And the spanking is not over, and he has been locked up for half a year, if it weren't for Dangkang's intercession, it is estimated that he would have been locked up for another whole year.
The little tengu looked depressed, "durian" twice, humming I remember, that experience was too painful.
Luan Niao coughed dryly, and suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Actually, I dreamed of it...... I dreamed of you being held down and beaten by Uncle Yinglong. After waking up, I was still a little confused, and when I reacted and wanted to chase you out, you were already carried back by Uncle Ying Long with your tail between your legs. ”
The little tengu was stunned for a moment, then jumped up, jumped on Zhu Luan's stomach angrily, and screamed "durian dural" while stepping on him, strongly accusing Zhu Luan of being unrighteous.
"Hey, no, you wait!" Zhu Luan rolled around on the bed to avoid him: "I didn't mean to!" Besides, didn't I secretly send you half a year to eat! ”
The little tengu stopped, tilted his head to look at Zhu Luan for a while, sighed, and called "durable" twice.
Zhu Luan hurriedly agreed: "No problem, I will definitely remind you next time you have this kind of dream." But...... Suddenly saying this today, the main thing is, I had another strange dream. ”
Leaving his tragic past behind, the little tengu said strangely, "Grenades? ”
"It's not you, it's the parrot." Zhu Luan slowly recounted the dream in the evening while reminiscing, and after finishing speaking, he added with a little hesitation: "It's strange that I used to occasionally have this kind of dream that seemed like a prophecy, but it would soon come true. But this time, I always felt that the two people who appeared in the dream were not like the two people I saw now.