Chapter 4: The Scarlet Moon

In a small classical and old building, a young man dressed in green clothes idly played with the wick in front of the table that emitted a soybean-sized light.

The flame on the wick in his hand was like a mischievous child, sometimes close and sometimes distant, and his eyes glanced at the top of the darker attic, as if some important treasure was hidden on it.

"Young Master." The door was pushed open, and a figure suddenly rushed in from outside.

"What?" Only then did the young man get up and patted the ancient tunics on his body that seemed to have traveled some age.

"Heavenly." The man hurriedly took the teacup in the young man's hand, took a sip of tea and said, "There are two moons, or, it's a full moon." ”

"Bimoon?" The boy walked to the window and opened the curtains, only looking at it for a second, as if he had long been surprised by this spectacle.

"Young Master, don't you think it's strange?" The man was even more curious about the boy's bland reaction.

"The world is so big that there are no surprises. What's so weird? The boy said nonchalantly, "Strange ......"

"Huh? What is strange about the young master? "Didn't you just say it wasn't strange?

"Strange why this is the time, the time is not right."

"Young Master, have you seen Shuangyue before?"

The man also felt strange, and thought: This young master is so young, he has never seen such a wonder, how can the young master not see it again?

"I've seen it once." The boy pondered for a moment and then said, "Applejack, what time is it today?" ”

"The beginning, the ninth day." After saying this, Applejack's face changed.

Suddenly, the sound of many insects chirping in the garden outside the window, swept by the autumn wind, and was even more harsh when one heard it. The two red moons in the sky are still hanging, round, like the fifteenth moon, the blood-red moonlight renders the inky black sky bright red, and the weird red is more like the sunset after sunset. But what is even more surprising is that there seems to be an inky shadow flickering on one side of the two full moons.

"What about yesterday?" The boy asked again.

"The eighth day of the first month?" Applejack was stunned, but he felt like something was wrong, and he said two words, "The ninth day." ”

"Also, it's also the ninth day of the first month?"

The insects outside the window screamed even more happily, as if they had been waiting for this vision of heaven and earth for a long time, and at this moment, a bell suddenly sounded in the dim attic, and the young man's face changed suddenly, and he glanced at Applejack beside him and said, "Guard the courtyard gate, no matter what happens, don't come in." ”

Applejack also turned around and walked out of the courtyard door after listening to the order, but as soon as he pushed the door open, he turned around again, "But, young master, there are a lot of bugs outside the courtyard." ”

The young man rubbed his head and smiled helplessly, and took out something similar to a sachet from his pocket, "Here, I forgot, you and I are different after all." ”

"Young Master, what is this?"

"Take this, gather everyone and stand together, those bugs will not dare to hurt you."

"Young Master Xie." Applejack knows the use, doesn't say much, and runs out happily.

Looking at the hall that was deserted again, he took a deep breath and looked slowly at the attic, where the bell was still ringing unhurriedly, and it was ringing more violently.

The light in the attic was much darker than downstairs, and in the dim light shadow, it was faintly visible that there seemed to be a girl lying on the bed.

The girl was dressed in red, lying on the bed with her eyes closed, and seemed to be sleeping quite peacefully.

However, it is worth noting that she has a red rope wrapped around her hand, a small bell tied to the red rope alone, and the edge of the bed is also wrapped like spider silk with circles of red thread, and the girl is trapped in it like a larva in a cicada chrysalis.

Without exception, there are small bells on these red lines, and the bells seem to be pulled by some magical force, and they are shaking as if they want to break free from the shackles of the red line.

"Scarlet Twin Moons, the Ninth Month, the Ninth Month." The young man couldn't stop pinching his fingers while chattering, like a half-immortal who was proficient in arithmetic numerology. At the end, he sighed, "Ah Yan, are you coming back?" ”

And at this moment, the girl on the bed also opened her eyes suddenly, her eyes were red and she looked at the person in front of her angrily, "Dead Aya, why are you tying me up?" ”

Aya smiled embarrassedly, "You just fell into the evil spirit, this old house, you have a poor physique since you were a child......"

"." The girl untied the bell, sat on the bed and looked at him sullenly, "Say, what did you give me to drink before going to bed just now, and what did you do to my body?" ”

"Huh." Aya wiped her head helplessly, trying her best to find a reason. "Yanyan, you think too much. When you first arrived, you didn't know what was going on......"

"Nonsense, evil spirit, Lao Tzu is to ward off evil spirits. Which evil people dare to enter Lao Tzu's body? ”

"Yes." Aya nodded silently on the side, "Pixiu!" ”

"You haven't told me what you're doing with my body?" Yan Yan looked at him unhappily, holding the bell in his hand and dangling in front of his eyes.

"Look." Aya pointed to the bell on the edge of the bed that was still shaking, and looked at her in confusion, "Didn't you hear anything?" ”

"Hey, why is this bell still moving?" Only then did she notice the strangeness of her body, and took out a cotton sieve from her ear and flicked it on Aya's face, "It was blocked just now." ”

Aya turned around, couldn't bear to look at her, moved a chair and sat in front of the window to look at the two full moons outside.

However, the people behind couldn't sit still.

"Ayer, I was wrong. Tell me what's going on? ”

"Are you talking?"

"Don't leave me alone, okay? I really don't dare next time. ”

He pointed to the moon outside, acting like he didn't care about himself in front of her. "You've lived so long, have you ever seen this?"

"Forget." Yan Yan shook his head, and he also tilted his head on the bed to look at the moonlight outside. "How?"

"Everything she likes, it's all out." He looked at her with a hint of meaning in his eyes.

Yan Yan was stunned for a long time, and then reached out to touch the bell on the bed, but her hand was quiet just by touching the bell. "It, it's afraid of me?"

"Didn't you just shout that you were warding off evil spirits? Forgot about it so quickly? ”

"Aya, tell me, is the master coming back?" Her eyes roamed around the room, as if her master could hide in any corner of the room.

Aya didn't speak, but her eyes stayed on her.

Yan Yan seemed to be frightened by his gaze, and also looked at her body twice, but she didn't find anything abnormal, and after a few seconds she asked, "What do you think I'm doing?" ”

"As far as I know, your body belongs to your master." Aya is full of black lines.

"Oh." Yan Yan nodded, and silently pulled the button on the front of his clothes to untie it.

"Ahem." Aya had already stood up from her seat, watching her movements be both embarrassed and helpless. "What do you want to do?" He took a deep breath and finally asked.

"Check, check, check."

"Your master is 100% a woman." Aya walked to the door and didn't expect a warning.

"But I'm a mother, huh?"

"Then you continue to toss around, right? I'll go talk to the old man. He couldn't bear to listen any longer, and he paid no more attention to what was being said behind him, and he took a cigarette out of his pocket and hurried down the attic.

"Okay."

"Hey, Aya, where is the old man? Take me to see it? ”