Chapter Forty-Seven: Secret Visits in Disguise
Mother Yun glanced coldly at the poor father and daughter in front of her, "Selling yourself to bury your mother, you two really can't get by?"
Gou Chen hurriedly cried at her: "You are a living bodhisattva, you are a living bodhisattva, you can take in my daughter......! We really have no money, no food, and we are desperate, and we can only suffer if we let her follow me. ”
Xingyuan also chimed in, "Ask the shopkeeper's mother to be kind, so that she can exchange some money for her father, and don't let him live on the streets......"
"What a poor father and daughter, hehe......" Yun's mother's sharp eyes stared at Xingyuan, "Your mother has no money to bury, your father has no food to eat, but you have the money to buy rouge powder to dress yourself......"
Hearing this, the two star officials were stunned.
Hoshigaki pursed his lips and glanced at the old man beside him.
Gou Chenyi's mandarin duck eyes turned, and he slapped angrily towards Xingyuan!
Xingyuan seemed to know about it, and as soon as he raised his hand, he stopped the old man's thin wrist.
"You mother-in-law, you are really a scoundrel, you want to steal the man yourself and let Lao Tzu and I cooperate with you to pretend to be a father and daughter to come here to cheat money!"
"Isn't it also to pay off gambling debts when I show my face and call you dad?" Xingyuan crossed his waist with one hand and acted like a shrew, "Besides, what's wrong with the old lady stealing the man, your old cow can't plough my fat land, and you still don't let people get into it?"
The old and the young, a man and a woman, quarreled endlessly at the gate of Ziyun Tower, and in a short time, they attracted many people from Shimen City who watched the excitement. However, their sudden quarrel also made Mother Yun stunned, "You guys...... Could it be a couple of two?"
"Phew! It's better to be a bachelor for the rest of your life to please such a water-based poplar woman!"
"Shopkeeper mother, from now on I will take this old thing, please accept me, I promise that he will not dare to go to the government to sue you for forcing good prostitutes to defraud those money......"
When Mother Yun heard this, she sneered, "Okay, thanks to me asking a few more words, you want to play 'Immortal Jump' with me?!"
"Mother Yun, what's the noise?"
Sure enough, the noise at the entrance of Ziyun Tower in broad daylight disturbed a noble person inside.
"Back to the owner," Mother Yun respectfully gave a blessing gift, "a couple of old husband and young wife liars came, and the little woman saw through the trick, so they made noise at the door. ”
"Oh, liar?" walked out of the Ziyun Building, a white-clothed scholar with a folding fan in his hand, but with a strange black wood and gold pattern mask on his face!
"Mask Freak...... Ling Yan?!" Xingyuan's heart sank—wasn't he beaten back to his original form by himself in Yilong Town, near the sea, how could he come back to life so quickly?!
But seeing that the corners of Ling Yan's mouth hooked slightly, he walked down the stairs, "I'll take a look, where are the scoundrels who dare to find trouble in our Ziyun Tower?"
Seeing this, Gou Chen hurriedly pulled up Xingyuan, who was dressed as a man and a woman beside him, "You mother-in-law, you will only embarrass me here, why don't you go home with me soon!"
The old man shouted while handing the method of sound transmission to Xingyuan's ear, "Ling Yan's resurrection is very strange, it seems that plan C is going to be implemented, while he hasn't found out about us, go first, so as not to startle the snake......"
"I'm afraid we won't be able to get out so easily. Xingyuan turned his head to look at Gou Chenyi, "Besides, it's all come to this...... If you don't enter the nest of thieves, it's really hard to be willing. ”
Putting away the method of sound transmission, this tricky shrew raised the silk handkerchief in her hand, hid her face and made a cry, "I'm really a hard-working woman, don't I have to starve and be a widow when I go back with you as an old gambler at this time!?"
"You two liars shut up your mother!"
Mother Yun behind her screamed, and the two star officials consciously quieted down at the same time - this old bustard woman was originally a master who was not easy to mess with, but now that the owner has arrived, she has become more and more imposing.
"Come to the door and cause trouble, it's not so easy to let you go now!" After Mother Yun sneered, she turned her face and smiled at her owner, "These two scoundrels are splashing, whether they are escorted to the government or we will be imprisoned and punished by ourselves, it is all up to the owner, I will go and gather the guys to come over and ...... now."
"Don't be busy yet. Ling Yan smiled slightly, "Our Ziyun Building just opened the door to do business, and we couldn't afford to deal with such a deception, not to mention that their clumsy deception didn't succeed......
The masked freak deliberately accentuated the word "clumsy".
Ling Yan said, step by step to the woman with heavy makeup, he leaned close to the ear of the Southern Dipper Xingjun, and whispered: "Farewell to the sea, it is very fortunate to meet again." This is my new work, and if you want to, you don't have to go through the bother. ”
Xingyuan didn't say a word, only raised a pair of purple eyes and looked directly at the eyes behind Ling Yan's strange mask.
Ling Yan suddenly grabbed Xingyuan's arm, and smiled without smiling, "It's just that today, I really can't see a woman like a flower and jade marrying an old gambler." Although Ziyun Tower is not a place to do good deeds, it is not impossible to take in one or two miscellaneous maids......
Hearing him say this, Gou Chenyi next to him couldn't help frowning.
At this time, the old man who described the withered old man had to use his rogue skills, sat on the ground and kicked his legs, "I don't live anymore! My mother-in-law let the people in the kiln rob me, and I didn't get a penny!"
Gou Chenyi's funny appearance caused the onlookers to burst into laughter, but only Xingyuan knew that behind the Northern Heaven Star Official's tricks, he was full of worries about himself.
Ling Yan looked at the old scoundrel who was sitting on the ground crying, so he took the guy next to him and took out a certain amount of silver, "Here is five taels of silver, enough for you to ask for another wife, don't play around here, otherwise you will ......"
The masked freak narrowed his already narrow eyes into a slit, "Take you to the sacrifice array!"
When the old man heard this, he glanced at it coldly, "How dare you?"
"We can't get it. ”
Ling Yan said, waved his hand lightly, and three or five strong men stepped forward, wiped their shoulders and backs, and grabbed the thin old man who Gou Chen Yi had transformed.
The onlookers pointed and pointed, and then dispersed one after another.
Xingyuan and Gou Chenyi were brought to different places in Ziyun Tower by the bustard's mother and thugs one after the other.
"It's rare that the proprietor can take a fancy to you as a swaggering mother-in-law," the bustard's mother dragged Hoshigaki disguised as a woman to the backyard and threw him on the ground, "Since you can't stand the suffering and starvation of that old gambler with you, let's stay here and do a cleaning chorre first." If you can really do your duty, I will promote you to the front to pick up customers. ”
Xingyuan pursed his lips and smiled, "Mom, don't worry, I will do a good job......"
Mother Yun tilted her head and looked at the woman in front of her carefully, "Have I seen you anywhere before?"
"How could Mom say that?"
"When you laugh, it makes me feel a little familiar. ”
Xingyuan raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "How big is this Shimen City, Mother Yun has read countless people, so naturally everyone has three points of familiarity." ”
"You can talk. Mother Yun hugged her arms and said coldly.
Hoshigaki smiled, "What errand should I do, but ask my mother to tell me." ”
Mother Yun flicked her handkerchief, "Sweep the toilet!"
"The thatched toilet is ......" Xingyuan took the dirty broom handed by the old bustard's mother in his hand and froze in place.
Mother Yun sneered and turned around and went to the backyard.
The girls who pick up guests in Ziyun Lou are usually in the attic of the front yard, and the bustard's mother, who is the shopkeeper, as well as the maids and handymen, all live in the backyard.
Different from the front yard with red lanterns and silk that is used as a façade, the residence of Yun's mother in the backyard is a simple and elegant courtyard, and there is no trace of wind and dust at all. The decoration in the main hall of the courtyard is also very elegant, not to mention the orderly arrangement of mahogany tables and chairs and those valuable jade porcelain tea sets, only the ink landscape picture framed in the middle of the hall will line the whole room very beautifully.
Every time Yun's mother enters the house, she always tilts her head and takes a closer look—even if she is a woman who doesn't know where the doorway is to appreciate calligraphy and painting.
"Just looking at the landscape in this painting, it seems like a real thing, no wonder the owner will treat it as a treasure and only put it in my room. Mother Yun proudly pulled her handkerchief, and suddenly frowned again, "Hey, why do I think that the water in this painting today is rippling, and the mountains in the distance are also cloudy......"
She said to herself, turning her head to look at the sun high outside the door, "It's so nice, maybe it's so dark that it makes my eyes ...... dark."
The old bustard's mother didn't care, and went upstairs to calculate her accounts for the previous day, but she didn't see this vivid ink painting at this time, which had been gelatinized into a dark place.
"That Lord wants your heart to unlock the curse of the North Star. ”
Ling Yan held a demon mirror in his hand and sat on the stone chair opposite Gou Chen, arrogant.
Gou Chenyi had faded the illusion of the wizened old man, his shoulder blades pierced through the bones by the strange inscription of the seal, and firmly locked to the wall of a cavern - in addition to the arrogant and rude shouts of the masked demons, the rumbling roar of the waves.
The star official of the northern sky stiffened his neck, barely supporting his head, and the corners of his elegant lips curved out of a just right arc, "My heart, not everyone is qualified to grab it." ”
When Ling Yan heard this, he couldn't wait to put his mouth out of his evil face, "Don't think that if that adult lifts you up, you really feel how valuable you are." I don't know who you are, but to that adult, you're just a sacrifice after all. ”
"Hahahaha......" Gou Chenyi couldn't help laughing, and even ignored the sharp pain from his trembling shoulders pulling on the dark iron through the bone lock, "You think I'm a sacrifice, but what about your adult, I'm afraid it's not even a scrap product......"
Ling Yan held the demon mirror tightly with one hand, and with the other hand, he threw out the white mangfan on his waist, and the fan was like a sharp blade, stabbing into Gou Chenyi's heart fiercely.
"Poof!" Gou Chen spurted out a large mouthful of black blood, and a wisp of black miasma faintly revealed from the wound......
Seeing this, Ling Yan hurriedly got up and showed the demon mirror in his hand to collect it, but when the black miasma touched the mirror, a blazing golden light suddenly burst out and shook the demon mirror in his hand down!
The black miasma floated back into the cracks of Gou Chenyi's wound.
The left eye of the Northern Heaven Star Officer turned bloodthirsty scarlet again, he gritted his teeth, beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his forehead, and a purple-black poisonous rash appeared all over his body, as if he had endured great pain.
Ling Yan steadied his arm that was numb from the shock, and bent down to pick up the Phantom Wheel Mirror that the Lord had given him, which was used to help him travel between different spaces, and to collect Gou Chenyi's heart that could unlock the curse.
"I didn't expect you bastard to seal yourself?!"