Chapter Forty-Three: A Visitor in the Middle of the Night Disturbs a Pool of Good Dreams
Night was falling, and it was an ordinary rainy night.
Nightmare slept soundly on a bed a foot wide of herself. His room is very small, although externally he is the only high-ranking disciple in the mouth of the master Huang Daoshi, but inside, he is equivalent to a subordinate in the hall, cooking, chopping wood, carrying water, and sweeping the floor are all his jobs.
Even though he is wearing coarse linen clothes and all kinds of heavy work, under his bewitching and delicate appearance, he always makes people feel that he has a noble temperament.
This beautiful face can only be revealed at night when he sleeps, because at other times, the zodiac does not allow anyone to steal his own limelight, and he orders the nightmare to apply some colorful rouge gouache to his face every day before it can come out.
At this time, he was having a sweet dream, and the smile on his face grew stronger in his sleep. Just when he was about to foam at the mouth and kneel down to beg for mercy in his dream, there was a sudden "click" sound outside the houseโthis sound seemed to be someone pushing his door.
The nightmare suddenly woke up, sat up, rubbed his sleepy eyes, looked towards the door, and listened carefully to the movement outside the door for a while, but found nothing unusual, so he fell down again, and continued his unfinished dream.
"Oops!"
"It's such a terrible earthquake, but fortunately there is a cushion on the ground......" Just as he was rejoicing, Nightmare suddenly startled, "Huh, when did I put a cushion next to my bed?"
Then the ground shook violently up and down, and then shook from side to side.
"Hey, get up!"
A girl's dissatisfied voice sounded under him, and then a group of demons on his body were pushed indiscriminately.
When he was suspicious, he subconsciously groped, and the nightmare fully understood that he had fallen on a girl.
"Ah...... Girl???? With a vigilant look on his face, he watched the girl get up from the ground, and when the girl turned her face, he couldn't help but be stunned, and said secretly in his heart:
It's beautiful...... Yikes!
Unexpectedly, the girl was stunned the moment she saw his face, and soon pounced on him with surprise and joy, and kept screaming, "Nightmare, nightmare, I finally found you, yesterday at Dr. Gu's house, I thought I was wrong." โ
Nightmare's head couldn't turn around, "Uh...... Girl, you ...... Did you recognize the wrong person?"
He kindly reminded him that he had recalled it in his mind for a long time, and he was sure that such a beautiful girl would not be forgotten if he had seen it.
I saw that the girl looked up at him suspiciously, and asked puzzledly, "Don't you remember me?"
Nightmare scratched the back of his head, and said with some flattery: "Girl, although my son is relatively good-looking, but your way of accosting you is already very old-fashioned, and it is still in the big night, if this is seen by others, it doesn't matter if I am a big man, but your reputation is not good, girl!"
The girl watched in disbelief as Nightmare said so many words in one breath, her tone was still the same flamboyant tongue on the side, and she couldn't move and fight with Qing at every turn, she grabbed the corner of Nightmare's clothes, and still asked without giving up:
"Nightmare, don't you really know me? I'm Ziyou! Back in the South China Sea, you said you would protect me. โ
"Uh......" Nightmare pushed the clipper and grabbed his sleeve, "Girl, if you have something to say, don't you move your hands and feet!"
Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Ziyou immediately took out a pale yellow shell from his waist and said, "Nightmare, do you remember this shell?
Nightmare Fox took it suspiciously, put it to his ear, and listened, "Hey, there's a kid singing!"
"I'm not mistaken, you're a nightmare, a nightmare, tell me, where did Qing Cang take you after he took you in front of you?
As he spoke, Ziyou anxiously grabbed Nightmare's hand, lifted his sleeves, and made a gesture to check.
Nightmare was startled, hurriedly retracted his hand, and said secretly: Are all the little girls so familiar now?
Some stammered, "Son...... Ziyou, right? It's not a lady's job to eat Ben Gongzi's tofu openly like this, you ...... You'd better go back quickly! Ben Gongzi will not hold you responsible for trespassing in your private room, let's go, let's go! Ben Gongzi really doesn't know you. โ
The girl didn't appreciate it, she looked around the room, and then asked, "What about Qingfeng? Where is he who was taken away with you?"
"What's so clear? You can't go or not! My son still has to sleep? Tomorrow there is still a lot of work waiting for my son to clean up, and if you don't leave, your son will be able to call someone!"
The nightmare was woken up in the middle of the night, and when I saw that I couldn't get rid of this plague woman, even if she was beautiful, she couldn't be so unreasonable! There is nothing more important than a good night's sleep.
At this moment, suddenly the angry voice of the master Huang Daoist sounded outside the door, "Nightmare, what are you doing? I don't sleep in the middle of the night, and if I don't finish my work tomorrow, I won't be allowed to eat." โ
was caught by the master Huang Daoshi, and the nightmare suddenly cried out in his heart, but he did not forget to subconsciously pull Ziyou behind him to hide, and replied respectfully:
"Master, I got up and went to the toilet, and I fell asleep!"
This made the Huang Daoist outside the door believe it, only to see the black shadow on the window turn around, and the footsteps "dada......da" walked away.
"Master, you call him Master?" Zi Youyou asked in disbelief as he walked over to Nightmare.
"Oh! what are you doing?" Nightmare became even more impatient, "Ben Gongzi has been worshipping his master as an apprentice since he can remember, of course he is called master, can you go or not! If you don't leave, wait until you are caught, Ben Gongzi doesn't care about you!"
Ziyou saw that the nightmare was impatient, and then looked at him deeply, and thought: It seems that things are not so simple, now that she knows that he lives here, it will be easy to find in the future, she has to go to the demon world first to tell him about the nightmare here, after all, he is the master of the nightmare for thousands of years. Thinking so, he said again:
"Okay, I'll go! But Nightmare, you can remember it again, we really know each other. If you think of something, come to the inn to find me. โ
Ziyou turned around with some reluctance. After she left, the nightmare fell back to bed, and wanted to continue with the previous refreshing dream, but his eyelids just couldn't close, and the appearance of the girl just now in his mind and the strange words she said were like bees "buzzing" in his mind, and he couldn't sleep anymore.
Counting the crowing of the rooster with his eyes open, and finally waiting for the window to turn white, the nightmare got up from the bed with a, washed up haphazardly, and went out to work lazily.
When I came to the kitchen, I first set up a pot of porridge, burned firewood, and then went down the hill to pick up two buckets of water, and then swept the floor. He can do every day's work with his eyes closed, but today, he always subconsciously feels that something is quietly changing.
Last night's scene lingered in my mind again, maybe what the girl said was not necessarily a lie, Friend Inn! It seems that I have to meet her again.