Chapter 14: Night
The bright moon is bright, like a silver plate hanging in the night, like a hole in the night, aside from the bright lights on the ground, this moon alone is probably enough to illuminate the whole world full of silver.
One old and one young, two beggars, no, now the little one is no longer called Zhang San, so he is no longer a beggar. They also sat against the corner, looking at the moon.
"Today is the fifteenth day, and the moon is like a big pie. The old man's mouth was full of oil, and he couldn't forget the meat buns he had eaten for a long time.
"It seems that your Xunzhou is really good. The young man Zhang Tiansheng handed over another bun and said casually.
"What?" the old man was puzzled.
"In our Liuzhou, beggars don't dare to see the moon as a flatbread, at most as a plate, if they want to eat the flatbread, they have to go to great luck, always thinking about the flatbread, afraid of starvation. The boy didn't look away, still staring at the moon.
He had never calmed down to look at the moon - that was something that only the rich or the scholars could do, and as a beggar, he could only run around for food and drink. But now it is different from the past, and now with a lot of gold and silver in hand, it seems that it is okay to look at the moon, and it is indeed a different taste.
"Yes, in fact, in our Xunzhou, flatbread is also a good thing!" said the old beggar.
"Hmm. β
"Every month on the full night, something happens, but I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. The old beggar changed the subject, and suddenly sat up again, and slapped his chest incessantly.
The boy turned his eyes and saw faintly by the moonlightβit turned out to be a large drop of hot oil dripping on the old man's body.
"Is it hot?" Zhang Tiansheng turned his eyes again and looked at the moon.
"It's a little hot. The old man leaned back again, and the posture of one old and one young remained the same again.
"You know, just that drop of oil, if I put it in front of me, I can lick it all away. Zhang Tiansheng said with a chuckle.
"What?"
"You don't look like a beggar. Zhang Tiansheng said.
"Hehe, the old man has been begging for decades, of course I don't look like a beggar, I am!" the old beggar was stunned for a moment, then smiled lightly and said.
"No, you don't know what hunger is. Zhang Tiansheng said, "I have been hungry for fifteen years, I know what hunger is, all kinds of things, but there is always no indifference like you." β
The old beggar waved his hand, as if too lazy to explain.
"During the day, I handed you a chicken leg, and you ate it very deliciously, and you took a big mouthful, but we who are beggars, and suddenly we have such a good thing, how can we be willing to eat it in a few bites? β
Also, there are always all kinds of small movements when you eat, such as trying to make your hands touch the food as little as possible, so you keep pinching the food with two or three fingers. β
"That's not okay?" asked the old man, unable to hold back.
"Okay, but if it were me, I would hate to have my whole body smeared with chicken thighs oil, and I wish I could smell the aroma of chicken thighs every day when I get up. Zhang Tiansheng's face was expressionless, looking back on the past, he was really unhappy.
The old man took a deep breath, shook his head helplessly, and said, "But I didn't expect to be a beggar and have such a big knowledge!"
"It's not learning, it's just being forced to be helpless. Zhang Tiansheng said.
"Why are you sitting here with me and watching the moon?" asked the old beggar.
"I have nowhere to rely on, so I will borrow your treasure land. β
The old man smiled dumbly, and after a while, he said, "Another bun." β
Zhang Tiansheng handed one out casually.
And for a long time.
"Why don't you ask me what I'm doing?" asked the old man, who was anxious to wait, pushing Zhang Tiansheng's shoulder.
"What does it have to do with me?" Zhang Tiansheng asked rhetorically.
The old man was speechless.
It was late at night, and there were only sporadic lights left.
The moon was still bright, but it had unconsciously crawled a long distance, and it was still on the side of the sky, but now it was overhead, and Zhang Tiansheng had to lie down to see it.
"It's time. The old man looked at the moon and said.
"Hmm. Zhang Tiansheng nodded.
"Between fifteen and sixteen, there will always be something going on, but I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. The old man mentioned again that something was going to happen, as if to remind him of something.
"Bad things. The boy lying on the ground said.
"Why?"
"Because I haven't experienced much good things. β
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Before the bright moon, there was a shadow flickering, not a human figure, it should be a frightened bird in the forest, but it was startled for some reason, with a "poof" sound.
"Gah!" a hoarse cry resounded through the night sky, it was a crow.
And then, because of the traction of this sound, it led to the chirping of thousands of crows, and in the dead of night, the crows cried and flew all over the world, which was really not a good sign.
Zhang Tiansheng couldn't sleep, and he felt a little panicked in his heart, and he didn't know where the crows came from, covering the sky, like a messenger of the night, to completely block this moonlight from the world.
There are more than a dozen people coming from nowhere, the moonlight is blocked behind the darkness, and the lights of thousands of homes are almost extinguished, it is really not clear to see the situation there, but Zhang San's heart is becoming more and more panicked, and he always feels that something big is about to happen, this gang thinks, and he doesn't know where the motivation comes from, so he gets up and pulls up the old man next to him and runs deeper into the darkness, the old man didn't react for a while, but he still followed him honestly.
The old man was left in the corner, and a large basket for potatoes was put on it, like a doll being played with at random.
Zhang Tiansheng also shrank in the corner of the wall by himself and put a basket on himself.
"What's the matter?" asked the old man, who didn't seem to notice the strangeness of the scene.
"Don't make a sound!" Zhang Tiansheng reminded, his eyes fixed on the crows in the sky, and the occasional group of people in the moonlight.
The old man really stopped talking, and was quiet like a child who had made a mistake.
Suddenly, a few white rainbows broke through the sky, tearing open the night, and the environment where they shone brightened up.
Bai Hong landed on the ground, in front of the few people who were slowly moving forward.
"Red Moon. In the white rainbow, a woman's voice was clear and calm, and she said.
"Come, all of you on the Pure Mountain?" someone responded.
"Yes. β
"I don't know what you are doing in your way?" The voice was gentle and soft, but it could not hear the man or woman, as if a man and a woman were talking together.
"What's the matter? You Red Moon secretly set up a blood array, should there be an explanation?" The white rainbow dissipated, and the sky was full of black crows, and for a while, I could only hear human voices, but I couldn't see anyone.
"Blood array?
"Evidence, this is evidence!" was followed by a crisp sound, like the sound of a porcelain vase smashing on the ground.
In an instant, there was a violent wind out of thin air, whimpering and whistling, like a terrifying hurricane from the Youling Tomb in the 39th Heavens, and in just an instant, there seemed to be ice ballast in the air.
In another moment, a red light burst up, instantly reaching the sky, shining so that the crows in the sky turned black and red, and a trace of blood could be faintly heard.
In another instant, the red light spread, turning into a red line, spreading outward, constantly expanding, and there was no end in sight, and a hidden wail came out.
Zhang Tiansheng was nauseated for a while, there was a red line passing in front of him, he smelled the bloody breath rushing to his nose, and also heard a faint wail, he had seen the Demon Venerable, although he felt that the Demon Venerable's demonic qi also had a similar sound of ten thousand ghosts wailing to make him tremble, but it was not so disgusting - this red line seemed to be something condensed by the blood of many living beings!
The red light became more and more intense, and the crows on the canopy also became restless, and it was really difficult for them to resist the temptation of blood.
The group of people in black robes who could barely be seen under the red light didn't seem to be too nervous, and their tone was still the same, and they said, "Hmm, the array of liquids, such purity, presumably Rao is pure view can't take out a second bottle?"
"One bottle, that's enough!" a woman drew her sword and pointed forward, bursting with murderous aura.
Zhang Tiansheng really saw it, it was actually those women who had just seen it in the daytime! The plain white dress was a little bright in this red dark light, but the faces of this group of beauties were not very real, and they were a little regretful.
"Heh, what can it do?" the black-robed man seemed to be chuckling, gritting his teeth, and his hatred soared to the sky, "The great array has been completed, as long as I walk to the eye of the array, the millions of people gathered around this world will turn into blood foam in an instant, this is what you owe to the pure view, let them pay it back for you!"
"Where we are today, how can we let you pass?!" the women shouted in unison, drawing their swords.
"Hahahaha!" the black-robed man laughed as he looked up to the sky, "I guess you're still stalling for time in anticipation of reinforcements, but ...... I'm afraid this expectation is going to be disappointed!"