Chapter 165 Failed Talks
Coming to the door of the room arranged for Qiao Cang Jinyi and them, Song Chengjie and the others stopped. Knocked on the door and waited for a while, Song Chengjie looked at Venerable Huyan beside him, pushed the door and walked in, and immediately felt a strong spiritual power rushing towards him, and subconsciously stepped forward to further block in front of Venerable Huyan.
Pushing the door in, the two of them were not greeted by more than 20 people as they imagined, only one person in the huge front hall was kneeling on the floor, with tea utensils and three cups of tea in front of him, it seemed that he had been waiting for a long time. It's just that in addition to these things, there is also a simple short knife more than a foot long, although it is not unsheathed, but it has faintly revealed some coldness, I believe this is not just a decoration.
"The short knife that the Qiao Cang family has passed down from generation to generation for the sinners in the family to use for self-cutting, even if it was originally just an ordinary knife made by ordinary craftsmen, but hundreds of years of blood staining have also made it a little evil. ”
Looking at Qiao Cang Jinyi, who was looking down and explaining to himself, Song Chengjie looked around and walked straight over and sat cross-legged in front of him, raised his hands and folded his hands and bowed slightly, reached out and picked up the one close to him among the three teas, took a sip silently, and immediately raised his eyebrows: "You are Qiao Cang Jinyi, right?" I heard Venerable Huyan talk about you, I thought that using knives and guns was your strength, but I didn't expect that the tea was also good. But you can drink it, you don't seem to be in a good mood. And the self-cut knives are here, do you want me to stop asking questions before I even speak? ”
"It's worthy of Song Shouqi, this little plan of mine has been seen through by you. As he spoke, he pushed another cup of tea outside, and Qiao Cangjin looked at Venerable Huyan, motioned for him to sit down, and said, "I don't want to leak about the Yin-Yang Juku, whether I know it or I don't know." So though I expected you to come. I still want to do something else to relieve my boredom, so I'll sell it a little. ”
Sitting down and the tea cup, a spiritual energy went down the fingertips and silently swiped into the bowl, Huyan Venerable saw that it was not abnormal, so he took it up and took a sip, and the unique aroma of the tea at the entrance with green and astringent went straight to the heart, and he took a few sips unconsciously. The worries in my heart have quietly dissolved a lot.
Looking at the coarse sand tea cup in his hand, Venerable Huyan said with some nostalgia: "I met Ling Zun a few years ago, and he made me this kind of tea at that time. I have to say that the spiritual tea of Yinyang Juku is really a treasure in the world, and I didn't expect to be lucky enough to drink it today. ”
"Whether it's planting, picking, making and brewing, all the steps are guided by spells, and Lingcha naturally has something unique compared to ordinary tea outside. Smiling slightly, Qiao Cang Jinyi was quite funny about the fact that his brewing skills were appreciated. The previous unpleasantness was also swept away.
Gently putting down the teacup, Song Chengjie pursed his lips and stopped greeting, and asked bluntly: "What about your brother and those warriors, won't they be in the back room?"
Regarding the room layout of this last holy place, Song Chengjie naturally knows everything about it. Because this room was temporarily prepared for them, it was originally just a single room, and although the outer hall was large enough, if the inner room was crammed into twenty people at the same time, it would really not even be able to find a place to put their feet.
Unexpected. Qiao Cangjin nodded: "The two younger brothers and my former subordinates are inside, if you want to see them." I'll call it in a minute. ”
"Wait a minute?" repeated a sentence with some puzzlement, although Song Chengjie knew that they were more or less out of shape when they came, it was not enough for twenty people to rest together, "Could it be related to the unusually rich spiritual power in the room?"
The muscles on his face tensed a little unexpectedly, and Qiao Cangjin hesitated for a while and nodded: "My two younger brothers are casting spells inside in order to forcibly improve their strength, and these escaping spiritual powers are related to that spell." Of course. That's what bothered me before. ”
"Forcibly improve your strength? You're worried about those twenty people. Venerable Huyan raised his hand and took a sip as he spoke, he also knew something about stimulating his potential and improving his strength as an onmyoji, but the price in exchange for strength was often quite huge, not to mention that the spell background of the Yin-Yang Juku was not rich, and even the Five Elements Mechanism rarely did this.
Song Chengjie turned his head to look at the door of the room not far away that was faintly emitting spiritual power. The hand holding the teacup couldn't help but use its strength. Now that they have arrived in Hongchuan, they should have completed the escort task, and they should have had a good rest if they encountered an accident on the way, but now they are forced to forcibly increase their strength, I am afraid that most of them are to deal with Venerable Huyan after this. It seems that Qiao Cang Jinyi seems to be a little dissatisfied with this, and it seems that the high-level internal affairs of Qiao Cang's family are not as harmonious as imagined.
Turning his gaze back to Qiao Cang Jinyi's side, Song Chengjie asked tentatively, "I don't know what they are doing for their long journey?"
"It's not helpful to say more. Waving his hand slightly, Qiao Cang Jinyi also picked up the teacup and took a drink, and said bluntly, "My purpose here is to drag the two of you to chat, talk, if you really want to go to see what is going on, do it." ”
was smashed by these words and had nothing to say, but Song Chengjie really didn't have anything to do, he couldn't really fight with the people of Yinyang Juku here because of such a trivial matter. And the spiritual power in this room is unusually rich, to say that this is all the spells of those people in the inner room escaped, even if Song Chengjie is a layman, he can see that this is absolutely impossible, who knows if the other party has a backhand in this spiritual power.
Gently putting down the teacup, Song Chengjie chuckled and said: "What are these words, I am not here today to represent the shield of justice, nor on behalf of me personally, but on behalf of Hongchuan, to say that the purpose of my coming is definitely not to find out anything, I just want to discuss the matters of the exorcist conference in the future, after all, this matter was initiated by you." ”
"This will have to wait until the mother arrives......
"Presumptuous!" Seeing Qiao Cangjin's attitude of not caring about himself, Song Chengjie, who was busy with this exorcist conference, finally became really angry, and when he spoke, he already stood up and raised his hand to summon the Holy Wind Thorn and pointed at Qiao Cangjin condescendingly, "Although I have never seen you once, I have also learned a thing or two from Venerable Huyan in terms of tone of speech and style of acting, a few of the previous words are your own, and a few words are explained by Qiao Cangxi in advance." Do you think I can't hear it? Those feminine words, I have a deep impression of him Qiao Cangxi. ”
If it is said that it is to drag himself to let Qiao Cang Jinyi order tea here and wait, Song Chengjie still endures the past, after all, he suddenly came here today to find out their news, and it is understandable for the other party to perfunctory himself in order to deal with it. But no matter what, I finally made it clear that I was going to say something serious. This guy still has this attitude!
The Hongchuan branch can be said to have mobilized all its strength for an invitation, and now even if it is to deceive himself and tell himself about his plans for the conference, Song Chengjie is also more comfortable, but seeing him like this, Song Chengjie feels that he is simply being played by others.
"I, Hongchuan, am very busy with this thing that you have come up with, but you came here and told me that you would not know the specific arrangements until she Qiao Cang Sakura came? Why didn't you send an invitation saying that you were going to Tokyo to hold this meeting, and after doing it for a long time, it turned out that the emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuch was in a hurry, but you didn't think about it at all. Fool me, don't you?"
The first rider was angry. Maybe it was because I heard the loud voice here, the door of the inner room finally opened, Qiao Cangxi slowly walked out and looked at this side, raised his hand and bowed to Song Chengjie, "It's not that we didn't think about it, but the mother didn't tell us the specific arrangements and the preliminary reservation of the content of the conference, and we were just responsible for passing the word." I thought that my mother would be able to discuss with the first rider when she came this time, but who knows......"
More intense spiritual power also leaked out as the door opened and closed. Song Chengjie immediately frowned, and Qing Qiao Cangxi, who didn't listen, said something later. I just had a vague feeling that it would be very disadvantageous to myself if I continued to stalemate in this kind of place, so I snorted in a pretended anger and said, "Forget it! Anyway, you don't have any plans, so it's just a waste of time for us to stay here." Let's go, Venerable Huyan. ”
Got up and hugged the two of them slightly. Venerable Huyan said softly, "We won't bother anymore, the two of you will stay." ”
"In that case, those two go slowly, and we won't send it. Qiao Cangxi said lightly, and the smile on his face disappeared instantly when the two walked out of the room. His hands instantly sealed and whispered the incantation, "Ahsen, Ahsen, Ahsen......"
The incantation came out, and the spiritual power completely dissipated in all directions, and wisps of purple aura were condensed in the void, which was slowly sucked in by the short knife like a wisp of smoke, and the rope on the scabbard that seemed to be used for decoration wrapped itself around the hilt, locking the short knife that had originally exposed a half-finger-wide cold blade back into the scabbard with a click.
"Why didn't you set a spell in the tea, there is a spell laid down by the mother on this tea cup, even if Venerable Huyan may be aware of it, Song Chengjie, who is a layman, will definitely be tricked. As he spoke, Qiao Cangxi leaned over and took out two pieces of rune paper to cover the short knife, and carefully clamped it up as if he was pinching something terrible, and with the other hand, he immediately took out a pitch-black rune paper from his sleeve and put the short knife into it, and the two ordinary rune papers used to pinch the short knife were thrown away by him and turned into ashes in an instant, "But if they lose this opportunity, they won't have the idea of coming to visit next time, in the end, they missed an opportunity." ”
"When are you also this kind of unscrupulous person for the sake of the end?" Drinking the tea in the cup, Qiao Cangjin tilted his head and glanced at Qiao Cangxi, "I have no objection to threatening them with force, but this kind of thought of stabbing them in the back is simply damaging to the reputation of my Qiao Cang family, and it is simply a shame." ”
With a light snort, Qiao Cangxi raised his hand and threw out a piece of talisman paper and pasted it on the door, and suddenly an enchantment was set up at the entrance: "Well, anyway, it was just thought of on a whim, and if it fails, it will fail." ”
"Qiao Cangxi. Putting down the teacup with a solemn face, Qiao Cangjin's spiritual power slowly surged, and several pieces of rune paper slipped from his sleeve and slowly rotated around him, "For the future of Yin Yang Juku, I can lose my subordinates, I can lose those who accompanied me in birth and death, but I will not become your tool, at least I will not cooperate with you to do this kind of thing." ”
"Oh, oh, oh, my brother's sense of justice is bursting. Looking coldly at Qiao Cang Jinyi, who was still sitting not far away, Qiao Cangxi smiled, "From the time when we assisted my mother to plot against him, we will never be able to return to the light, originally this is a war of resource plunder, if you become a pawn with problems, I don't mind turning you into an outcast, we can't go back to this point, brother." ”
Hearing this, Qiao Cang paused slightly, and said, "If you plan to do it, I don't mind letting my mother lose Jin Yi snorted coldly, and the rune paper around him drilled back into the cuffs again. The spiritual power around his body gradually converged, he packed up the tea set and slowly got up, and took it to a subordinate in charge of staff on the side. And I'd love to know...... What exactly are your ambitions?"
Outside the door, Song Chengjie walked in the last holy place in a huff, and while checking the spell facilities where he passed, he complained: "Although I don't really plan to discuss the matter of the exorcist conference with them, I don't want to hear such a perfunctory reply, what do you mean to wait for Qiao Cang Sakura to come before you can talk, a group of people who have brought disaster to the country and the people really think of themselves as something." ”
"Forget it...... Hasn't a goal been achieved now, at least we know that the other party has follow-up preparations, and it seems that my life is not worth exchanging for three executive officers in their eyes. ”
Hearing this, Song Chengjie's footsteps gradually stopped, turned to look at Venerable Huyan and said, "I know, I know, I'm not so angry, it's just a little awkward." Also, don't say such things, your life can't afford to happen. Other than that...... Sigh, what do you think about what just happened?"
Before entering the house, because he considered that the sigh of the wind could not be spiritualized, in order to keep Qiao Cangjin and them alert for the time being, Song Chengjie did not let the sigh of the wind go in together, but I believe that the door could not stop her exploration.
"There are strange spiritual powers involved in quite complex techniques, and there is a lot of lifeless air in the room. Feng Zhi sighed and looked at Song Chengjie, who had calmed down, and carefully recalled the conversation process in just a few minutes, "Especially at the moment when the door of the inner room opened, the dead air was extremely solemn, like a closed ......"
"A pile of corpses. Then the wind sighed, Song Chengjie sighed, turned his head to look in the direction he came, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense, "Nothing that has anything to do with death is not a good stubble, I have to go and tell Jiang Chengjie, the people who are in charge of following these guys must be extremely careful." (To be continued.) )