Chapter 8: Clothes
"Huh?" I realized that I was lying on the white cobblestone path, no wonder I was sore, I quickly got up, the melon slice fell on my shoulder, swallowed a peanut or some nut hard, and shouted: "People have saved you!" Someone saved you! ”
"Huh?" I just reacted to the little life that was almost lost: "What about the youkai?" What's going on? ”
The boy ignored me and turned away.
"Huh?" I chased after him: "Well, thank you just now!"
He waved his hand without looking back, and I stopped and shouted, "Who are you?"
The young man said in an impatient tone: "Didn't you see it at the temple fair during the day!"
Just walked away, the silver-gray figure glittering in the dark night.
"Your friend?" Melon slice said.
"No! I don't know him, he just said the temple fair, right? Well, ah! He is that Li Qitang! I suddenly clapped my hands vigorously, and the frightened melon slices flapped their wings.
"Where's the youkai? Melon slices?"
Melon slice shouted: "Run!" Run! ”
I asked again, "How could that boy have the ability to save me?"
Gua Pian looked sideways at me: "Aren't you his acquaintance?" Can't you see that he has fairy bones? ”
"Fairy bones?" Could it be that the prodigy is not only talented and can definitely become a big official, or is he a successful cultivator and is expected to become an immortal?
But he's amazing! There are so many people in the temple fair, even my little girl, I can't forget it, it's also his skill, right?
"Let's go! I'll give you the rest of the maltose! Who knows what Longjing is busy with! ”
"Let's go! Let's go! The melon slice happily fell on my shoulder: "Give me the roasted white potatoes too!"
"No problem, let Longjing drink the wind!"
My father and grandfather thought I came back late, and was about to blame me for being playful, when I suddenly saw the melon slices on my shoulder, and asked strangely where did it come from? I replied that the guests were happy to eat and rewarded me with their hands.
The mother said worriedly: "Can our family raise this kind of rich family's plaything?" Grandpa said: "A bird, how many things can be eaten, the dregs of peanuts and melon seeds are enough for it to eat, and I will use wicker to make a bird cage for it when I turn around, you two are busy in the shop, and it is good to have it to accompany the plum vegetables." While touching the head of the melon slice, the melon slice suddenly shouted: "Longevity!" Longevity! My husband lived to be one hundred and six! ”
"Oops!" Our family laughed. Grandpa said, "Good bird, good bird, so good at talking." If I don't stay, I won't agree. ”
I can't imagine that Gua Pian is so sophisticated, I really underestimate it, and I will ask Gua Pian to accompany me in the future, Longjing will not save him when he sees death, he deserves to be in the Dragon God Temple, and I will not visit him in the future, so that he will die of boredom.
After eating the roasted white potatoes, I put the melon slices on the bedside table, and the melon slices were about to fall asleep with their heads nestled in their wings, so I hurriedly patted it: "Don't sleep first, tell me how Li Qitang saved me!" At the time, I thought I was going to die. ”
Melon Pian raised his head, and his black bean-like eyes flashed darkly: "I'm really going to die!" I'll just say that you have a big life, that monster is evil, it must be a newly cultivated monster that Lord Gluttony and we have been sealed over the years, it can swallow people alive, and there is not a single hair left. Moreover, it is a spirit-eating monster, and the more it devours people's various grievances, the more powerful it becomes. This Smoke and Rain Pavilion is full of people's suspicion, jealousy, and hatred, just like a big banquet, the nearby monsters will come to feast, and Lord Gluttony is the patron saint of this side, as soon as he wakes up, together with our account book monsters who fell outside, plus the new monsters who are moving in the wind, strange things are about to start to be staged. ”
"In those years, I haven't heard of or encountered any strange things?" I'm busy talking.
"That's because we were sealed, and the area around the Dragon God Temple was also sealed, and the monsters couldn't get in or out, but they were safe, but outside this circle, it was the capital, and it was suppressed by the Son of Heaven, so as soon as we woke up, like the bell of the meal, we called the monsters over."
"How did Li Qitang save me?" I don't even remember the original purpose of asking.
"The boy? He had a silver bow and arrow, and the bow and arrow had a demon-breaking aura attached to it, and I was taken aback! It was supposed to be an enshrined treasure, but I don't know how he got it. Although the monster was evil, the way was shallow, and the young man didn't know whether he wanted it or not, so he didn't shoot, so he was so frightened that the monster immediately disappeared and didn't dare to come out. And you were already three souls and seven spirits at that time, if he hadn't used the castanets to call you back, I'm afraid you would still be queuing up at the Nai He Bridge. ”
"Repentant castanets? No wonder I only heard the sound of the allegro in a daze, which woke me up. ”
"That's also a treasure, maybe that young man's family has been cultivators for generations, otherwise this kind of thing that is rare for ordinary people to see, how could it be on him."
What kind of person is this Li Qitang?
With this question, I fell asleep.
The next day, when I was helping my father, my grandfather called me and put a very delicate fox scarf around my neck, I was so happy that I couldn't help but look in the mirror and look at it, and my grandfather smiled: "Look at you!" ”
Dad cut the steaming pea yellow into diamond-shaped pieces, put hawthorn sauce on it, arranged it into various tricks, put it on a plate and put it in a food box and handed it to me: "Miss Ruixia of Yanyu Pavilion was scared of a serious illness last time, and it happened to be just recently, Tuo Qiu'er came to eat pea yellow, you can send it." "I hurriedly picked up the food box and went to the Smoke and Rain Pavilion.
Entering the door, everyone was whispering something, I found the new house that Miss Ruixia is now changing, handed over the pea yellow to Qiu'er, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "What are you talking about, talking to each other, it's not mysterious." ”
Qiu'er pulled me closer and said secretly: "Don't tell anyone about this, I'll just tell you, in the past few days, so many of our sisters have lost their clothes more or less." said that it was stolen by someone else, but there was no evidence, the house was not messed up anywhere, and there were people in the house all day long, and the sisters who did it suspected that they had put the wrong cage, saying that they had put it wrong, why did everyone have a few less? My sister's clothes are all precious clothes handed down, with gold and silver threads, which cost a lot of money, but I don't know how to find them. Everyone suspects that there is a thief, but in a place like ours, it is really inconvenient to call an official to come, and we are discussing how to find out. ”
Clothes?
If I'm not mistaken, the youkai who escaped at night was clamoring for clothes.
I walked to the Dragon God Shrine while thinking, and I was angry with Longjing in my heart, and I didn't save him when I saw death, and I was almost killed by him, but he saved me several times~ The merits and demerits are offset, deducting his kindness once, I nodded and agreed with my decision, pushed open the door and walked in.
The dragon well was not there, and the house was in shambles.
Although the Dragon God Temple is said to be cleaned by a special person, the Dragon Well generally never lets others see him, and also let me order it to go down, in addition to sacrifice and cleaning, the prayer of the gods can only be outside the Dragon God Temple, and the main hall is not very inaccessible, this scene, it will not be any danger for him to encounter, right? No, it's impossible, no matter how Long Jing says it, he's a god, so why don't you go out to visit friends again? I didn't hear the melon slices mention it.
I sat down on the futon under the rosewood table, only to find that Longjing was sleeping soundly under the table, and the corners of his mouth were still shiny with the maltose that had dried.
"Hey!" I shook him.
"Huh?" Long Jing rubbed his eyes: "It's a plum cabbage?" This time, I took something delicious and gave me a taste. ”
"Is there anything delicious, let me ask you, that monster almost ate me yesterday, where are you?"
"What? Which youkai? Long Jing sat up: "Didn't I ask the melon slices to send you back?" ”
"Didn't the spiritual power of the melon slice be sealed in your account book?" I didn't have the heart to say it.
"Oops" Long Jing patted his head: "Look, last night when the two of you went out, I drank the wine of the Western Regions hidden during the day, this Western Regions is really different from the Central Plains, you see, when the juice was drunk, who knew that the ground was so sleepy, and I have been sleeping until now, hehehe~"
"Hey you're big!" I gritted my teeth and said, "I almost died!" Thanks to Gongzi Li. ”
"Which Li Gongzi?" Long Jing tilted his head: "Could it be that you said Li Houde's son Li Qitang?"
"Huh? How do you know?" I was surprised.
"I'm a god too, is God knowing? Their Li family used to often give me a very rich offering, hump bear's paw mullet roe, it is a heart, is the descendants of the blessing I asked for for their family, one of their ancestors has become an immortal, I remember living in Penglai Mountain now, a white goatee, looking for someone to play chess all day long. Long Jing scratched his hair and blew on his fingertips.
"Their family has cultivated for generations, and their mana is very strong, right?"
"Well, sort of! That old man is also a good man, he has a good relationship, the Tiangang Star Immortal gave him a magic bow, and Uncle Cao Guo also gave him a castanetal, which should be kept in their house as a family heirloom. Mortals have artifacts, but they don't benefit the world, and heaven doesn't tolerate it. So if you are saved by him, you will be saved, and you don't need to be grateful. ”
"Then why did you ask for an offering when you saved me?" I asked dryly.
"You are an ordinary mortal, to be able to get in touch with a god like me, it is already a blessing for you to cultivate in your previous life, and the offerings should be offered by yourself, and I have to ask you for it, obviously you are wrong, and blame me for reminding you kindly, it is really unreasonable." Longjing looked like he was taken for granted, and he was really defeated by such a nonsense god.
"And what about the youkai who steal clothes now?"
"I know, this time I will give me donkey hoof cake and rose glutinous rice dumplings, which will be hot." Long Jing has wanted to eat this for a long time, and he almost salivated on the spot.
"Okay, okay, it's for you, it's like an employment relationship. Have you never been aware of being a god?"
"I also want black sesame sweet soup."
"Let's go!"
At this time, the melon slices flew over and asked, "Where are you going?" Where to? ”
I replied that I was looking for the clothes monster, and Gua Pian said, "I saw it, that monster is in the clothes warehouse."
"What kind of monster is that? Why do you keep looking for clothes?" I couldn't help but ask.