Chapter 44: Juxian Pavilion

In the afternoon, Nawu, Ziyuan, and Ah Qiu returned to their respective guest rooms under the arrangement of the servants.

Not long after returning to the room, Ziyuan changed into casual and loose clothes, boiled water and wanted to make a pot of snow mountain ganling tea to clear his mind and calm his heart. Ziyuan picked up the letter, opened the door and leaned out to look out of the corridor, but there was no one in sight.

Closing the door, Ziyuan read: "Dinner invitation." Please come to the designated hall at 8 o'clock tonight to attend the dinner hosted by the Pavilion Master. Note: The location of the hall is indicated at the back of the letter. ”

"Why don't you just let the servant take us there? we have to draw a map for us to explore, and it's not unclear how complicated the layout of the attic is. It seems that the owner of this family also likes to play tricks on people. ”

Thinking of this, Ziyuan didn't delve any further, threw down the letter, and happily went about his own little life, sipping tea, reading books, sitting in a rocking chair and enjoying the scenery downstairs through the wide window, and then fell asleep in a daze, and in a blink of an eye it was already night.

When Ziyuan woke up, he was lying on the wide and soft bed, his hair and clothes were slightly messy, and there was saliva on his mouth. At this time, the sun had set, the night was dark, and the cry of the night in the distance had gradually come to an end, and the evening breeze blew the curtains and slipped into the room, Ziyuan suddenly felt a little cool, and immediately sobered up and added some clothes.

At this time, Ziyuan remembered the dinner party, looked at the clock on the wall, and found that it was already 7:50 in the evening, so he shouted, "Not good!" In a panic, he changed his clothes, found the map on the letter, and hurried towards the hall.

But as soon as he went out, Ziyuan was dazed by the strange settings in the attic. The more panicked I became, the more I couldn't figure out the direction.

Ziyuan first passed through a corridor that seemed to be kilometers long. In the corridor is a guest room on one side, and a paper window on the other, and rows of green bamboos outside the window are projected on the paper window under the reflection of the lanterns outside the house, like a picture scroll of blue ink.

Then there was a flight of descending stairs. The staircase twists and turns, wrapping around the walls of a huge cylindrical building, and from the bottom, you can only see the staircase disappearing into the deep darkness, and the whining of the cold wind echoes and hovers through the building.

Then, Zi Yuan opened another secret passage and entered a small square tunnel. If you want to get through here, you can only crawl forward. After a long crawl, Ziyuan finally saw the light of the exit. After coming out, Ziyuan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then yelled, "What the hell is this place?" and then angrily crumpled the map in his hand.

Coming out of the secret passage, Zi Yuan found that he had come to an indoor aquarium again, and the water tank was not on the surrounding walls, but had become a pool on the ground. The water is level with the ground, revealing only a round mouth two people wide for people to see. Zi Yuan came to a round mouth, close to the surface of the water, looked in, and saw that in the clear and bottomless pool, a fat head and fat tail shaped like a cylinder suddenly appeared, the body was huge, hundreds of meters long, and a giant monster covered in a carapace swam by, so frightened that Zi Yuan quickly raised his head and left the water.

Ziyuan came to the next pool again, and looked at the water surface in fear again, but this time he saw an unknown creature with a fishtail body, round eyes on his face, and a fish gills and a fish nose, with a round mouth stretched, sucking out the pool water like a fish, and the most special thing was that it also had long green hair. At this moment, the unknown creature was facing upwards on its back, staring at Ziyuan like Zi Yuan was staring at it. Ziyuan was taken aback again, and hurriedly got up and left here.

After calming down, Zi Yuan opened the map and continued to walk forward. Soon I came to a collection room, a 500-meter-long exhibition hall where all kinds of treasures were neatly arranged. From the necklace of the rare white jade night pearl pendant to the dazzling and exquisite seven-star diamond, from the priceless immortal sojourn Lingshan diagram to the statue of the beautiful woman drunk lying in the lotus pavilion from the ancient court, from the elixir thousand-year-old snow mountain night Qiongzhi to the black bamboo nine-tailed blood internal reference produced in the deep sea, all the treasures that the world has heard of can be found here, and there are many more treasures that Ziyuan has never heard of.

After being infatuated, Ziyuan came to a rising staircase, which went straight and sloping upward, with no end in sight. It is like standing at the bottom and looking at the stone steps of Mount Tai, but there are wooden walls on both sides of the stairs, and there are lanterns hanging on the wall at intervals. Looking at the stairs, Ziyuan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, then clenched his fists and walked up. However, for a long time, I saw the lanterns passing by one by one, but there was no end in sight. Even Ziyuan couldn't help but pant tiredly and sweating profusely.

"What the hell, what the hell, what the hell?" Zi Yuan shouted three times in a row, his steps getting faster and faster, almost running forward.

"Speaking of which, why am I here? Why do I have to go to that dinner? Like before, be a happy monkey king in the forest, and tease with the mother monkeys in the neighborhood, and live a carefree and free life?"

At this moment, Zi Yuan even began to doubt life, but then Zi Yuan gave himself two slaps, "No, no, how can you give up your ideals and beliefs because of this little thing." Ziyuan, you're going to be the man of One Piece!"

"One Piece, what's that, why is this my ideal?"

"Ah, my mind is a little confused. Calm down, calm down. ”

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After a long crawl, Zi Yuan finally saw the exit, and after rushing out, Zi Yuan felt as if he had walked out of hell, and at this moment, he couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart, "Ah! The outside world is so wonderful!"

And as Ziyuan said, he stood at the top of the attic, the light clouds above his head, the bright moon was in the sky, and in an instant, a sparrow passed through the moon, a cry, echoing in the sky, like the moonlight reflected on the wall by the stream, crisp and ethereal. At the foot, surrounded by green mountains in all directions, the Yinshui River insists on flowing eastward, and the fishing fires on both sides of the bank are lit, like a long starlight. Between the sleeves, the breeze is slow, the white shirt dances, the long hair flutters, the hair is brushed, and the pen is waved, which is a ballad that reverberates in the intestines.

"It's so good, it's good", Ziyuan laughed "haha", thinking of himself as a poet and immortal, standing on the top of the building and smirking alone.

Before he could get a little complacent, he remembered that he had to go to a banquet. Then put away his smirk and looked downstairs, only to find that he was standing on the rooftop, and below him was a circle after a circle, a bottomless floor, looking at the floor that gradually shrank into a little with the depth, Ziyuan was startled. Then go down the normal staircase......

Passing between the hour and minute hands of a giant bell tower, passing through a corridor full of strange statues, riding a roller coaster through a children's horror house, and driving a wooden ox to sing a nursery rhyme,...... After that, in the end, Ziyuan walked through a king's red carpet and came to a gate. When you open the door, you will be greeted by a lively banquet.

"Finally, it's finally here!" Ziyuan walked towards the living room with tears in his eyes, like a triumphant general, feeling the cheers and enthusiasm from everyone.

"Hey, stupid, where have you been all this time?" said Nameno.

Zi Yuan, who was still immersed in the joy of victory, was suddenly interrupted by Mingwu's words, and at this moment he was in tears in his heart, and sighed, "Silly Mingwu, do you know how much tribulation I have gone through to come here, can't you let me immerse myself for a while?"

Thinking of this, Zi Yuan poured out the qi he had received along the way, bared his teeth and roared at Ming Wutong, "Do you know that I walked through a thousand-meter corridor, a 10,000-meter step, and crawled ten miles in the secret passage,...... , tsk, tsk, ,......tsk, Tortured to the point of doubting life, stumbling all the way, trying my best, relying on my unique wisdom and courage, firmness and perseverance, before the last breath was exhausted, at the moment of a thousand moments, when the mountains and rivers were crumbling, did you come here?"

Because Ziyuan spoke too fast, Na Wu not only understood the beginning and the end, but also understood the general idea.

At this time, Na Wu said, "Why don't you ask a servant to lead the way?"

"What?"

"We were all brought here and arrived very quickly. ”

"But isn't there a map on it? Aren't we going to come by ourselves?"

"That's to prevent someone from getting lost. ”

"Hah!?" Hearing this, Ziyuan suddenly raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, tore the map in his hand to pieces, knelt on the ground, refused to get up for a long time, and read in his mouth, "I'm a stupid pig, I'm a stupid pig, I'm a dead stupid pig......"

"In particular, the last sentence 'I am a dead stupid pig' is loud in the sky, grief-stricken, with deep affection, touching the heavens and the earth, making those who hear it cry, and those who see it are sad, it can be described as 'the tears of the old woman in the grass house in the deep mountains, and the sorrow of the strong man rises up with her sleeves'! ”

"Can you use this way of talking? People are really sad now, hey!"

"Okay, okay, I was wrong, don't cry, the banquet has begun, go and sit in your seat. ”

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