Volume 2: Catching the Cicada Chapter 23: The Elegant Man Under the Moon Eavesdropping Books
The triumphant return of the army set off a bright red wave on the flat ground on the southeast street, which was solemn and vivid.
The soldiers in bright red armor all rode the "Swift Fire Dragon" spitting flames, this kind of blue-black monster with four hooves stepping on thunder and resembling a horse and a cow was originally one of the hole cards of the "Fire Dragon Clan", but now they proudly held their heads high, excitedly spitting fire, carrying their new masters through the market.
However, the fire dragon people who had worshiped them for generations were locked in cages, numb escorted in the ranks, and were pointed at and judged by the more excited citizens.
The real army has long since returned to the "Southern Battalion" and the "Northern Battalion" thirty miles outside the city.
Sitting on a completely black, unusually tall and handsome "Swift Fire Dragon", the already majestic Nafeng Haogu is even more heroic. The square face has a neat short beard, there is a flash of electricity between the opening and closing of the eyes, and the strong muscles contain explosive power even under the armor.
Surrounded by the "Red Shirts", the emperor showed the emperor's people and the army's slaughter to the citizens of the imperial city.
There are more than a dozen strange people with different shapes and armor around Nafeng Haogu, one of them is a white-clothed man with a long face and a broad forehead, and suddenly sensed something, and turned his head to look in the direction of the left front, only to see countless citizens waving excitedly, one of them was a beautiful little girl jumping and a dumb guy beside her was swept by a glance.
Frowning and not finding anything special, Wei Zhihang hurried a few steps and whispered a few words, and the team began to stealthily speed up, escorting Nafeng Haogu to the Eastern Palace. However, there were several secret spies scattered in the crowd and began to screen inch by inch.
Ni Xi, who was excited, pulled Liu Ying all the way behind the "Red Shirts", and was stopped by the imperial city guards with a smile until outside the East Imperial Palace.
The little girl who had nowhere to vent her excitement didn't want to go home, rolled her eyes, turned around and rushed back to Nanshi Street, pulled Liu Ying to the largest "River Wind Courtyard" restaurant, ordered a pot of mulberry leaf water and two kinds of snacks, and began to listen to the surrounding people talking loudly about the various versions of "Emperor Nafeng drove the expedition in person, and the enemy of the fire dragon clan offered treasure to survive".
It wasn't until the sunset that the "River Wind Courtyard" began to serve dinner, and the hungry grunt spent all the pocket money, that Ni Xi reluctantly left in the funny eyes of the guys, and even forgot all about the daily routine of pulling "Li Fei" to go shopping and watching strange snacks.
At night, the moonlight is sultry and the stars are shining, but looking through the half-hidden "canopy", everything is hazy.
Tall and muscular, with a face like a full moon, Nafeng Haogu took off his fiery armor and looked up in contemplation in a moon-white robe. In front of him, the towering tower of Babel is as straight as a sword, reflecting an ivory-like milky halo in the night, and in front of him is an arched gate more than 2 meters high at the bottom of the tower, the gate is tightly closed, and the door depicts an angel figure with wings on his back and lightning in his hand, breaking through the clouds from the sky and killing the world.
In the clouds behind him, there was a faint indifferent gaze of the gods staring at the Nafeng Valley, but when they looked closely, they were blank and empty, as if there was great power and great fear in the middle, which made people feel awe.
At the same time, Liu Ying was dressed in a black night robe, lying on the roof tiles, with his hands on pillows, and humming a little song leisurely with Erlang's legs crossed. On the left earlobe hangs a silver stud, which glows faintly in the moonlight, as if absorbing the energy of the moonlight.
After a long time, Liu Ying smiled slightly, beckoned to take down this interesting magic object, leaned over and shook it, and floated silently in the direction of the Eastern Palace.
Willow Shadow scurried through the night, jumping on the roof, jumping off the back alley, swaggering down the street, and climbing on the side of the high wall in defiance of gravity.
Three months was enough time for Liu Ying to familiarize himself with the imperial city as if he were his own back garden, and he even had the mind to exude boring thoughts while hurrying.
The universe is really wonderful and strange, in this distant world, there are still planets suitable for human survival, there are still the sunshine that makes all things grow and the moon that surrounds and guards, even the stars are so bright and charming, and what is even more strange is that human beings are still the darlings and masters of nature.
Is this a coincidence of the vastness of the universe? Or is it an inevitability of chance? Or is there really a "god" who exists and creates a copy?
Willow Shadow shook her head, tiptoe into an alley, flashing past a group of armed patrolling soldiers. The people's livelihood in the imperial city still continues the pattern of leaping from generation to generation, and the vast majority of ordinary people work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and there is not much difference during the day.
The civilian areas of Xicheng are basically dark, with occasional oil lamps and torches, dim and low;
The commercial streets in the south are uneven, with small and medium-sized stores completely closed and dark, and high-end commercial buildings brightly lit. Night pearls, searchscopes, wireless lighting, magic light balls and other strange tricks are endless, to see who is more capable, to see who has a stronger background;
In the aristocratic districts to the north, every household has a strange lighting object given by the gods or a royal reward, and it is one thing whether it is suitable or not, whether it is gorgeous and extravagant or novel, it is a matter that must be ranked according to seniority;
On the other hand, the palace in the eastern part of the city is about seven feet high, and the walls of the palace are lit like pillars, and the light source of the unknown power source shines in all directions, defending against outsiders. Except for the "Tower of Babel" that is inserted into the sky in the distance, the inside of the palace, which is surrounded by high walls and cannot see anything, is pitch black, silent, as if shrouded in a black curtain, and I don't know why.
Liu Ying squatted on a big tree a hundred meters away from the palace courtyard wall, looking at the palace compound that looked indistinguishable from the outside, but actually settled in the palace compound where the protection power was a hundred times greater after entering the real dragon, looking at the night falling quietly and peacefully, but it was a bloody mouth with a big mouth opening and fangs, smiling slightly, and turning away, this is not his goal today.
After a few moves, Liu Ying came to the backyard of a large mansion with a single courtyard, stopped or walked, or avoided the rockery or buried in the water, avoided the guard patrol and avoided the hidden pile, followed the route explored a few days ago, came to the eaves of a room, retracted sideways between the beams and began to sleep.
During this period, the guards who patrolled several times were unaware, and they did not notice at all that there was a dark shadow on the overhead that was close at hand, and at this time there was actually a person lying in it and sleeping.
The third watch is approaching, Liu Ying wakes up from a fake sleep, his hand is light and probes, the inner strength between his fingers is dark, and a pill is shattered into powder, and the silent and tasteless powder is wrapped in internal force and sent into the room to diffuse.
After the dark count of 30 counts, Liu Ying turned over and got down, came to the door and stretched out his right hand to shake the internal force, picked up the door bolt and rolled into the inside and turned around to close the door.
Liu Yingyou, who entered the room, looked around, the room was spacious and bright, several rows of huge bookcases were the main furniture, a man in Tsing Yi was lying on the desk and sleeping soundly, there were two night pearl lampshades on the table, and the light source was bright and stable.
Liu Ying ignored him first, hurried to the secret compartment of the bookcase behind the desk, opened the dark wall and saw a guard holding a laser knife sitting inside, his eyelids struggling as if he were waking up from a dream. Liu Ying gently reached out and added another touch of medicine to his nose, watching him relax his eyelids and breathe more slowly into a deep sleep before exhaling a breath of turbidity.
Turning around, Liu Ying returned to the desk and helped the man back of the reclining chair, the middle-aged man had a square face and a wide chest, his eyebrows were thick and not angry, and his big ears were particularly prominent. Smiling softly, Willow Shadow ran her fingers over her ears, and began to flip through the collection of papers on the table under the glowing studs and the pearl of the night.
In the haze of light and shadow, Liu Ying's face was dark and unclear, and his eyes reflected countless words and graphics, marking codes. However, after dozens of breaths, Liu Ying restored everything to its original state, got up lightly and closed the door, and before closing the door, with a flick of his fingers, a handful of powder floated up.
Jumping up and flying with one hand, the figure that turned over the beam and the servant who was on time for supper turned over like the pages of a book, and when the knocks on the door, the greetings, the responses, and the usual routine were stacked together, Liu Ying had already left the mansion a hundred meters away.
"Li Fei, Li Fei, open the door! Open the door!" Early in the morning, there was the sound of Miss Ni Xi knocking on the door and shouting at the door of Hehetang's pharmacy. Half-loud, squeaky, the crack in the door was half-open, revealing a big head with fluffy hair, round eyes, and drug crumbs hanging on his eyebrows: "Scream! Scream! Scream! Scream! Scream! I am dispensing medicine!"
Seeing that "Li Fei" was angry, Ni Xi took two steps back with a weak heart, and said timidly: "I, I, you, don't be annoyed, can't people invite you to eat green sprout tofu flowers?" Liu Ying looked at the sky strangely, disturbed his head and said: "Didn't you go to eat bean curd cakes after lunch in the past? Why is it so early today?"
At this time, the big shopkeeper came from the backyard with a yawn, and sneered: "It's not that I only remember listening to the story yesterday, and when I came back for dinner, I remembered that I didn't eat the green sprout tofu flower, and I was so hungry that I couldn't eat dinner well, and I didn't stop sleeping all night, so I didn't pull you here early in the morning." ”
As he spoke, the big shopkeeper stretched out his head to the pharmacy, Liu Ying hurriedly stepped back and opened the door, revealing a row of packaged "Moon Muscle Cream" on the table, as well as more than a dozen bottles and cans of different colors, a yellowed book that had turned to the last few pages, and several large piles of various herbs, tree roots, and stones on the ground.
The big shopkeeper nodded, and said with a smile: "Xiaofei, you are indeed capable, these "moon creams" made are in short supply, no matter how much they are, they are not enough to sell, and you have to stay up late often to catch up with work, which is really hard for you." ”
Patting Liu Ying on the shoulder, the big shopkeeper was really satisfied with his incomparably wise decision three months ago, but he didn't say a word about the notes of the first-class pharmacist he had spent a lot of money on, "Go ahead, go to the street with Xiao Nizi, don't get tired." ”
The boss's touching words Liu Ying didn't buy it at all, straightened his neck, squinted at the shopkeeper and sneered: "What's the matter? Give me the salary of a pharmacist but ask me to do the work of a follower? Your own daughter accompanies me by herself, I ~ don't ~ have ~ empty ~!"
The last few words almost roared out at the back of the shopkeeper who had fled.
The attitude is arrogant, the words are affirmative, and then the truth is cruel. In the end, Liu Ying still succumbed to the chick's chattering saliva attack, changed her clothes, put her pockets on her pocket, and became an unpaid attendant.
Accompanied the chick to the market to eat two large bowls of sweet and tender tofu flowers, on the stomach of 5 glutinous and fragrant "stalls", biting the sweet reed candy skewers in the southwest corner of the old stage to watch a morning play, and along the food stall of Xizhi Street all the way around the circle to the north square, the two of them in the distance overlooking the high wall of the palace after a serious discussion of the authenticity of the legend heard yesterday, and finally came to the gate of the "Fuyuan General" mansion.