Chapter 72: A Promise on Paper
There were so many things that happened last night that even Bailizhi couldn't stand the sleepiness caused by exhaustion, so after marrying Long Xin, the two went back to their rooms and slept well.
If it weren't for Long Xin shaking Bailizhi to wake him up, let alone waking up at noon, even if the sun sets, it is estimated that Bailizhi is still dreaming of spring and autumn.
The so-called soul binding, in fact, is not too cumbersome. It's just that each of them has a spell drawn on the blood of the other.
With the help of more than a dozen sisters of the Xuan family, it took nearly an afternoon for the soul binding to be completed
The hut used for soul binding was opaque, and when they left the room, the twilight outside the room suddenly pierced their eyes.
Bai Lizhi sat tiredly on the guardrail outside the house, looked at the sunset and said in a deep voice, "Sancheng, ......"
"It's okay Bai...... You're going to be fine, brother. ”
Long Xin beside him wanted to cheer Bailizhi up, and it was not difficult to see from his sudden change of words that he was not suitable for calling Bailizhi his brother.
Glancing at Long Xin, Bailizhi almost laughed out loud, he was holding his fingers in his mouth, constantly sucking on the newly cut wound.
Originally, it was this finger that was bitten by the knot yesterday, but I didn't expect that it had just scabbed, and it had to be broken again, in order to draw a symbol to connect the soul on the opponent's eyebrows.
Long Xin's eyebrows were drawn with incantations like question marks.
And Bailizhi is more interesting, it is an exclamation point.
Holding back a smile, Bai Lizhi said in a deep voice, "Actually, you didn't have to take this risk with me. ”
"Brother, you say such things again"
Long Xin shrugged his shoulders, obviously not hiding that Bai Lizhi was so unfamiliar with his sworn brother.
"Didn't the sisters who helped bind their souls in the secluded room say before? The higher the purity of the demonic power, the safer the person who enters the forbidden land, and the key to purity like mine is not easy to find, so everyone who is a brother should help. ”
Saying that, Long Xin picked at the question mark on his eyebrows, and the blood stains painted by Baili Zhi on his forehead had dried up, and they fell off from his eyebrows with a light wipe.
Even if the blood stains fell off, there was still a clear mark on the center of Long Xin's eyebrows.
It is said that as long as it is time, the imprint will not disappear.
There was still some time before the forbidden place opened, and the two bored brothers looked straight at the sunset outside the courtyard, and neither of them said much.
In fact, Baili Zhi wanted to go to see how Xuanguang was doing, but he was told that Miss Xuanguang had to make other preparations, and no one could see him except the Xuan family.
Hearing the news, although I was a little unhappy, I had to give up.
The two of them looked at the sunset in a daze for a long time, and suddenly a shadow appeared not far away.
The playful little girl put her silver hair on the top of her head into two balls, and she was wearing a floral short skirt and a girl with demonic protection, and she didn't seem to feel cold when she exposed her legs in this big winter.
She looked a little hesitant, but curiosity brought her to both.
Who did they recognize, Bailizhi and Long Xin both looked at each other in confusion.
At this time, it is a little strange that she would come to find both.
"That...... I have something to ask you."
Xuanbai, who has always followed Shang Huayin's side, now doesn't know if it's the sunset or the reason for his shyness, and his cheeks are a little red.
She squirmed for a long time before continuing
"How do you get close to other people?"
Xuan Bai's words were amazing, which made the two brothers petrified on the spot, and different figures flashed in their minds, and they were suddenly embarrassed.
Seeing that the two deliberately avoided it, the girl pouted dissatisfiedly
"I was going to kiss Shang Hua just now, but he actually beat me! Obviously, Xuanguang said that as long as it is someone you like, you can kiss it. ”
Xuan Bai lifted his forehead and left the sea, and the red and swollen small bags were faintly visible under the sea.
"Why are you asking the two of us?"
"Because you and Xuanguang want to kiss, and he and Han Xiaolu want to kiss. ”
Baili Zhi threw out a question, and Xuan Bai answered immediately.
It's not surprising that they will look for the two of them, after all, it is because of them that he is so concerned about kissing.
Hearing this, the expressions of the two brothers changed.
Long Xin let out a long breath, stared at the eldest brother beside him, and said in a mocking tone
"Sister Xuanguang is completely my sister-in-law now?"
"It's just an accident! And you didn't kiss it, did you?"
Bai Lizhi said, and asked rhetorically
"You are, I haven't known Xiao Hanlu for long, and it has developed to the point of kissing!"
When Bai Lizhi said this, the panicked Long Xin immediately explained, "I didn't kiss it!"
"Tongues are all entangled, isn't it a kiss?"
Baili Zhiwan didn't expect that when he didn't know, the honest Long Xin would do such a bold thing.
The elder brother complained invisibly, which provoked Long Xin to be speechless for a while.
At this moment, Xuanbai's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed at Long Xin
"How do you feel?"
"Dear, kissed, the tongue is very flexible, the limbs are crispy and numb, the mouth is sweet, okay, the topic is over here!"
Being asked endlessly by Xuan Bai, Long Xin seemed a little impatient, but Xuan Bai, who was not good at observing words and feelings, didn't realize Long Xin's strange appearance, so he continued to ask
"Then do you like Hanlu?"
"I ...... I ......" Long Xin's face turned red for a moment, and he muttered in a mosquito-like voice for a long time, "It's just ...... if you don't hate it."
"Huh?"
Suddenly, another girl's voice came from her side, and she turned her head to look, and Xiao Hanlu appeared nearby with a basket of pastries.
Looking at the change in her expression, it can be seen that she heard what Long Xin said.
The girl froze in place for a long time, and suddenly threw the basket in her hand vigorously, smashing it into Long Xin's head, and then turned around and ran.
"Xiao Hanlu, don't run yet, help me explain to them about our deep kiss!"
"Shut up! You said you would keep it a secret! You liar!"
Long Xin remembered the agreement between the two, and immediately got up and chased after him, but Xiao Hanlu ran fast, and after a while, the young girls who were chasing each other disappeared around the corner of the courtyard.
Looking at the direction in which the two disappeared, Bailizhi couldn't hold back his smile at all, and suddenly fell to the ground and laughed wildly.
Xuanbai, on the other hand, shrugged his nose suspiciously and asked Bai Lizhi
"Do they like each other?"
"At least it's not annoying. ”
As he spoke, Bailizhi picked up the square basket and opened the lid, and the exquisite pastries placed in it instantly made Bailizhi's mouth hungry.
This pastry Bailizhi and Senior Brother Lu Xia had eaten several times on the way to Zhongzhou.
The ripe glutinous rice is beaten into glutinous rice, the fruit is cut into squares and wrapped in the glutinous rice cake as a filling, and then the abrasive is used to form a regular octagonal shape, which means that it is flat and stable.
Throw one of the glutinous rice cakes into your mouth, and you will instantly taste that the filling is apples.
Together, the two seem to be praying: peace and security.
"I saw that Xiao Hanlu has been busy in the kitchen since the morning, so she was doing this?"
Xuanbai was not polite, sat down on the edge of the basket, reached out and picked up two, and stuffed them into his mouth.
The blessing pastries prepared by Xiao Hanlu for Long Xin were almost all divided between Bailizhi and Xuanbai.
Fortunately, Xiao Hanlu did enough, otherwise Long Xin's share would have been swallowed by the two of them.
Xuanbai licked his fingers, although he seemed unsatisfied, he still didn't move to leave the piece for Long Xin.
As the last rays of the sunset dissipated, Xuan Bai sighed and said to himself
"I obviously like Shang Huayin very much, and Shang Huayin also said that he likes me, why don't you want to kiss me?"
"I think I'm shy. ”
Bai Lizhi said, "Seeing the cute girl take the initiative to kiss herself, even if he is a wood, I guess my heart will beat faster." ”
Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something, Baili Zhi stared at Xuan Bai tightly, which made Xuan Bai startled, and hurriedly exclaimed
"I won't kiss you, no one will kiss me except Shang Hua. ”
"Who wants to kiss you, I suddenly remembered that your surname is Xuan?
Xuanbai nodded vigilantly, and a smile suddenly appeared on Bailizhi's face, beckoning Xuanbai to approach, and whispering a few words to him.
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The preparations that Xuanguang was making were naturally the preparations for the sealing ceremony.
With only Sancheng certainty, Xuan Chongjing naturally refuses to completely bet on Bailizhi, and the preparation of the traditional ceremony on Xuanguang's side must also be carried out.
The Xuanfu has a five-story tower.
Before the ceremony, the sacrificial twins of each generation had to burn incense, bathe and change their clothes, and then come to the top of the building to meditate until the ceremony began, during which time no one was allowed in the tower except the Xuan family.
In the room on the top floor, there are tablets of the deceased Sacrifice Twins, and there are ninety-nine red candles lit in the room, each with its own place, apparently forming a formation.
The formation has the ability to stabilize the mind, in order to calm the mind of the woman who is the core of the ceremony, so as to prevent the heart from being reversed due to the chaos during the ceremony.
Xuanguang sat in the center of the formation, she was draped in a luxurious blue and white robe, the robe was finely embroidered, and the content expressed was the legend of the Hanging Sea Holy Whale.
A story that makes the hanging sea holy whale bear a thousand-year curse.
As far as she knew, this robe had been worn by her grandmother, grandmother, and mother, and this time it was finally her turn to wear it, and her feelings couldn't help but be a little complicated.
The carefully dressed Xuanguang looks at the nose, the nose looks at the heart, and the heart looks at the mouth, trying to calm the mind.
But no matter what she did, her heart was still flustered, and she kept thinking about what Baili Zhi was doing, and it lasted for a long time, so she simply began to pray to the ancestral tablet to bless Baili Zhi safely.
Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the room, and if you listened closely, you could hear the panicked exclamations of the clansmen.
"You can't go up!"
"Lord Xuanbai, if you go up further, you will be Ning Xinju, Miss Xuanguang is recuperating!"
It stands to reason that if someone dares to make trouble at this time, the guards outside the tower and the attendants inside the tower can be cut first and then played, but the status of the people who come is really much higher than them.
The troublemaker is the head of the Xuan family in the last generation. At the same time, he is also the acting of the patriarch of the previous generation: Xuanbai
She heard the clansmen who guarded the door say that even if she is a direct member of the Xuan family, she will not go upstairs casually without the permission of the head of the family.
Xuanbai didn't ink on this, and went straight upstairs with a roll of rice paper.
Not to mention the status, the strength of Xuanbai Baina's first acquaintance level alone is not something that these servants can stop.
If someone can stop Xuan Bai at this moment, then only the head of the family, Xuan Chongjing.
But even if it is known that someone has broken into the building, it will take a while for the head of the family to arrive.
But in just a moment, Xuanbai had already broken through four floors in a row and came to the door of the room where Xuanguang was.
At the moment when Xuanbai was about to rush into the door, the person who took care of Xuanguang in front of the door immediately used his body to stop Xuanbai who tried to break in.
The moment he saw the woman in front of the door, Xuanbai recognized who she was, and said a little impatiently
"Xuanyou! Let me in! It will be too late in a while!"
The person in front of the door is Xuan You, now she has adjusted her state, even if she is seriously injured by Shang Haobei, she must pretend to be fine.
If Xuanguang was disturbed by worrying about her and caused the ritual to deviate, then she would not forgive herself in this life.
Xuan Xuan, who was guarding in front of the door, was silent, and his strict posture was not ready to make way for Xuanbai, so he was so anxious that Xuanbai stomped his feet.
At this moment, Xuan Bai suddenly felt the breath of Xuan Chongjing coming from downstairs.
In desperation, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and stuff the rice paper into Xuan You's arms, whispered a few words in her ear, and then turned her head and rushed downstairs.
The two whispers are very short,
The first sentence is: I'll go and hold the old man,
The second sentence is: There are words written by Baili Zhi to Xuanguang on the paper.
"Sister, what's going on outside?"
Xuanguang, who was originally sitting in the heart guarding formation, couldn't resist his curiosity at this moment and stuck to the door.
The door can only be opened from the outside, and it stands to reason that it is absolutely not allowed to open the door except for necessary things such as food delivery.
But Xuanyou, who knew the complicated relationship between Xuanguang and Bailizhi, violated this rule at this moment.
She carefully pushed the door open a crack, quickly handed the rice paper that Xuanbai had stuffed into the door, and then immediately closed the door.
The moment the door was closed, Xuan Chongjing also carried Xuan Bai upstairs.
Xuanbai, who was carried in the air, was full of complaints and muttered, "The mouth of the cannibal is short, the man's hands are short, I would have known that I wouldn't eat those few pieces of glutinous rice cakes."
Glancing at the closed door, Xuan Chongjing asked Xuan Yu in a deep voice
"Lord Xuanbai didn't break in."
Xuan You shook his head vigorously in reply, and when he saw this, Xuan Chongjing breathed a sigh of relief, reminding, "No matter what happens, you can't let people step into the room for half a step......!
Xuan Chongjing actually didn't know, although the people didn't set foot on it, but the things had already been delivered.
Xuanguang carefully spread out the rice paper, relying on the candlelight to barely see the crooked and twisted words on the paper
[Fuck fate!]
Not only that, Xuanguang also noticed that the corner of the rice paper was folded,
Smoothing out the creases, the corners of Xuanyou's eyes suddenly became a little moist
Two words, not very well written, but very serious.
【 Wait for me 】
Wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, Xuanguang tore the two words from the corners of the paper, carefully folded them into squares, and hid them in his arms as a talisman.