Chapter Thirty-Seven: Meeting Mei Niang in the Intercession Meeting
Five days later, early in the morning, the fog that permeated the town of Lok Ma was even more foggy than before, and in the vast expanse, the market was full of people as usual. The Fengyue Tower, which is stationed at the end of the street, is lit up with lights, and the hustle and bustle is boiling, and the dancers in red are standing barefoot on both sides, drinking with fine hands. Among them, there is a longyin in a gorgeous costume, and the red lips are lightly opened, which makes the visitors linger.
This day is the intercession meeting in Hua Rongyue's mouth, and it is also the only chance to see the red wind and dust.
That day, Hua Rongyue had a showdown with us, he said that this place is indeed not called Luoma Town, and the scenery of the small bridges and flowing water, fish and rice houses we see are all illusions, and all of this is brought by the woman called Hong Fengchen.
Hong Fengchen is beautiful and mysterious, and his methods are so powerful that he is probably not under Shen Su's appearance. Three years ago, Fengyue Tower rose from the ground, in addition to using Ma Shi's paintings to cast this illusion, it is also necessary to confuse people's hearts and ensure the popularity of Fengyue Tower, the source of illusion, so as not to weaken the spiritual power of illusion. No one knows what her purpose is in doing this, and what is even more peculiar is that the sunset turned into a horse overnight, and no one even noticed it.
The intercession conference is one of the means of Hongfengchen.
This peerless girl in the mouth of the crowd has a special habit, that is, she loves to listen to other people's affairs.
Anyone who tells her story of himself and his sweetheart at the convention and satisfies her can make a request to her.
The intercession conference lasted for two sessions, the first winner asked to see her true face, and the red lady smiled, as he wished, and the second winner was the Hua couple who fled here by mistake, and the two of them only wanted to be able to get a refuge in this fantasy world. Hong Meiniang laughed and said, since she guessed that this was an illusion, she should know that there is no safer place than an illusion. Entering her Fengyue Building, she can ensure that the Hua couple have no worries for a lifetime, but she also has a condition, the building needs popularity to maintain illusions, and the two of them can't eat rice, so they have to contribute to this. So the purple girl of Mingya Pavilion and the dumb sommelier came from this.
Hua Rongyue finally said to us, Hong Fengchen once said that this place survives in a fantasy world and is isolated from the world, and Fengyue Tower is the safest place in the world. But now that a few of us still have Shen Sumian here, it is a precursor to the failure of the illusion. He is not a saint, and instead of keeping secrets, we should tell us everything he knows. Break the illusion, one for the people, for us, but also for the two of them, escape and find the next place to escape from the world and live in peace.
At this moment, under the Fengyue Building, Hu Xiaoer and I stayed side by side for a long, long time, and Longyin, who was so long that he didn't bother to look at us again.
Hu Xiaoer said to me: "Will I go in first, or will you go in first?"
I was speechless for a while, and the people who entered Fengyue Tower today made it clear that they wanted to send stories to Hongfengchen.
Last night, when everyone discussed tactics, they were divided into three factions, and the black catcher was the main attacker, and he said that since it had been determined that Hong Fengchen would appear at the intercession conference, then he would go directly in and take out the divine arrest warrant to start interrogation. This method of directly tearing the skin of the face and showing no mercy is also the most difficult to catch the way of the colorful and charming girl.
The senior brother and the tenth aunt advocated participating in the intercession meeting. Since you don't know what medicine is sold in the gourd of the red wind and dust, don't startle the snake first, anyway, the rules are set there, and the victor can use this to probe the tone of the painting.
The senior brother is also gearing up, he has been wandering the rivers and lakes for so many years, and there are a basket of stories about the wind and snow, and any one thing must make Hong Fengchen cry bitterly.
I asked Shigu what she wanted to say and the story of her sweetheart, and Shigu blushed and looked silent, only glancing at someone who was boasting about Haikou. I understand, is there a more poignant affair in the world than a woman chasing a man?
As for me and Hu Xiaoer......
The senior brother immediately jumped out and said: "Xiaoqi is still young, how can there be any sweetheart who is not sweethearted, let her stay at the door of Fengyue Tower to meet us." Hu Xiaoer then said that he didn't have a sweetheart or a story to tell, so he waited outside the building with me. So Hu Xiaoer and I became the two biggest idlers in this operation.
This morning, the gongs and drums sounded downstairs in Fengyue, and the black catcher, senior brother and ten aunts entered Fengyue Tower one after another, and after waiting for a few hours, Meng Yunsheng was able to tell the story of one hundred and six red leaf heroes dozens of times, but he still didn't see them come out. The huge archway is still bustling, and the people who can see it and the people who can see it come out just can't find the three familiar figures. Hu Xiaoer and I realized that maybe we had already fallen into each other's trap, and even the corners of the eyebrows raised by Miss Longyin were a little weird.
Hu Xiaoer said: "Or I'll go in first......"
"I'll go in first," I took a deep breath and made up my mind, "Hu Xiaoer, if the few of us don't come out before dark, you can go back the way you came and get out of here quickly." ”
After speaking, I stopped looking at his face, asked the smiling Longyin to take the sign, and stepped into the Fengyue Tower alone.
Today's furnishings in Fengyue Building are slightly different from the past, or layers of red curtains hang on the top of the beams and fall, but the huge "flower plate" stacked up is placed in the center of the pool, and only a few lotus leaves are connected to the drop-off area. Looking at the past from afar, it looks like a tightly pasted red lantern, and the candlelight in it is flickering, and you can vaguely see the figure of a beautiful woman inside. Except for one scene in the water, the rest of the place was a little darker, and the lantern that had been hanging on the wall was removed, and only a few small candles were lit in the corner. Fortunately, a maid with a lantern led me and arranged for me to sit down in the drop-off area.
I saw that the people who were waiting also had signs in their hands, old and young, fat and thin, but there were no girls of my age. At first, they were surprised to see me coming, and then they lowered their heads and began to discuss.
All this is like a serious competition meeting, and there is nothing abnormal about the people inside, but when I think of the senior brother, the tenth aunt and the black catcher are still missing, I don't dare to take it lightly. There was always a vague smell of ink in the drowsy hall, just like the smell of the black inkstone emitted by naughtily knocking over the black inkstone on Master's desk when I was a child.
There was a melodious female voice in the middle of the pool, and I sat down in the drop-off area with a long sword, watching the maid with the lantern lead the guests with the corresponding number on the card to step on the blue lotus in the water, and walk to the red lantern covered with light veil, and wait for another one after a while. The number of people beside me was gradually decreasing, smelling the increasingly rich fragrance of ink, I leaned on the long sword and yawned, my upper eyelids seemed to be covered with a thousand pounds of heavy objects and always wanted to fall, I was thinking about what story I would say if I saw the red wind and dust in a while......
"Girl, girl, wake up. ”
When I opened my eyes, the maid with the lamp in front of me smiled at me and said, "Girl, it's the thirty-sixth, and the landlord is waiting for the girl's story." ”
I suddenly came to my senses, and the long sword in my arms let out a "woo" sound.
Walking past the blue lotus leaves with the maid carrying the lantern, there were already people waiting outside the red lantern, and there was a voice from inside, "Come in", and the maid lifted the corner of the curtain and let me in.
There was a hole in the red lantern, and I looked around as I soothed the whining silver sword.
The candlelight here is a little brighter than in the hall, and there are several paintings hanging high on the walls, all of which exude the scent of ink, as if they had just been completed.
I walked over and looked at those paintings carefully, there was a scene of a young lady in the deep boudoir picking flowers and playing butterflies, there was a scene of two children catching cicadas under the moon on a summer night, and there was also a scene of a young man in red walking alone with a sword in the green water and green mountains......
Everywhere there were all the new paintings, except for one that was blank, and my eyes were fixed on the empty wall, when I heard a chuckle in the corner. It turned out that the piece was a place where the candlelight was missing, but if you looked closely, you could see that there was a desk there. The back of a woman in red gradually appeared in the dim light, and the man said lazily:
"The girl looks at my painting so carefully, why don't you comment on it?"