Volume 2: Double Affair II: Fengdu
The guards in front of the city gate stopped Zheng Que and the three of them, Zheng Que took out the prepared document from his arms and handed it to the guard, the latter looked at it, shook his head, returned the document to Zheng Que, looked at the two people on the flat car, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and waved behind him to make way for him, Zheng Que saluted several people who watched the city gate, and then led the ox cart into the city.
Lu Jiu looked around, the scattered houses around him sat randomly and irregularly, each house had a different appearance, strange and strange, but their eaves were surprisingly consistent, the eaves on top were upturned towards the sky, higher than the highest hook Lu Jiu had ever seen, plus the carved beast heads on them, making these houses look like they were roaring towards the sky.
And what Lu Jiu is even more concerned about is that they are all smeared with red and green paint, although each wipe looks different, but they are all dyed from red and green, with the humid air in the basin and the large and small curved roads on the ground, and there is a strange line of different colors on each road, which makes this place seem so here... Supernatural.
"Look there. ”
The old man nodded on Lu Jiu's shoulder, smiled and pointed to the mountains in the distance, the mountains and forests above were not very dense but very high, and in these forests, all kinds of buildings were extremely eye-catching, in addition to the two characteristics that they had the same as the surrounding buildings, there was also a characteristic of their own - tall.
Lu Jiu didn't know how to describe it, her lack of knowledge really made her only have this impression, and among these tall buildings, there was also a complex construction, a spacious building surrounded by these tall buildings like stars and moons, highlighting its extraordinary or should it be said - weird.
"Lu Mo, Fengdu is located in Luofeng Mountain, Qingzhou, the geographical location is low, it is crossed by the Wumi River, the air is so humid, and the people here believe in witches, so their buildings look strange in our eyes. Zheng Que explained with dead fish eyes open, looking at the roads around him that were large and small because of the chaotic construction of houses, and walked along a road with a dark purple line on it.
"Jiu Jiu ~ Jiu Jiu ~. Mo Lai kept shaking his body in Lu Jiu's divine sea, shouting happily, Lu Jiu didn't pay attention to it at all, but looked at Zheng Que's back and asked what "Wu" was.
"Well, a profession that specializes in prayer and divination, and is called a sorcerer, and the sorcerer thinks that he is a messenger of heaven and is revered by some small sects, but they do have some real talents, and the astronomy and arithmetic of the sorcerer are admired even by the gentleman. Zheng Que replied as he walked, staring intently ahead, and finally whispered to himself as if complaining, and no one heard.
Lu Jiu nodded as if he didn't understand, and didn't ask anymore, the old man yawned, "Little Lu Jiu, the situation here can only be known if you have experienced it yourself, but this time we are just passing by, staying for a few days, you probably won't have much experience, this is not a bad thing for you, you first hurry up and practice the words, and put it away when you put it away, anyway, it's not a big deal." ”
Lu Jiu was silent, sitting on the flat car, there was almost no one on the road in Fengdu, even if Zheng Que led the ox cart, he didn't have to worry about running into passers-by, Lu Jiu smiled and was silent, Fengdu should be the place that can most break her spirit for Lu Jiu, right? This old man seems to have ulterior motives.
After a while, Zheng Que followed the dark purple line to an inn, and before he arrived at the inn, Lu Jiu heard a noisy sound coming from it, only to see that the road that had no pedestrians suddenly became crowded with people, and the alley was empty.
Lu Jiu looked around, his face expressionless, this should also be some kind of formation, right?
"The smell of a living person, a fragrant little girl, practicing qi realm, such a little monk dares to come to Fengdu?"
Lu Jiu's neck suddenly blew a cool breeze, and this sound appeared in Lu Jiu's ears, Lu Jiu turned around expressionlessly, only to see a faceless female ghost with hair hanging down to the ground and a big mouth full of saliva sticking to Lu Jiu's face, and she exhaled a gust of wind from time to time, making herself look so creepy.
Lu Jiu drooped his face, turned back again, and looked ahead, the female ghost's faceless facial features trembled slightly, as if she was angry because she was ignored, and her long mouth bit Lu Jiu's head.
"Don't make a fuss, Mei, the guests are scared away by you. ”
"Scare away, look at her, like someone who will be scared away by me?" Mei closed her mouth, her face showing delicate features, and stood on the flat car, puffing out her face.
"Huh. The voice came from above the heads of several people, and a pale-faced woman flew down from the sky and gave Lu Jiu a blessing, "This girl is really embarrassed, Mei She is the most lively among us, plus Fengdu itself is scarce in human beings, it is reasonable for her to be curious, I hope the girl will not be surprised." ”
Lu Jiu nodded, Mei lay directly on Lu Jiu's body, poked Lu Jiu's face with her fingers, and said in a muffled voice, "Why aren't you afraid of me? I'm a ghost? Shouldn't humans be afraid of ghosts?"
"Haha! Xiaomei, although Xiao Lu Jiu is here for the first time, how can people be scared of such a cute little ghost?" the old man leaned against the swaying room and laughed.
These words made Mei puff out her cheeks angrily, raised an arm, rolled up her sleeves, pointed to the little muscles that she had blushed and just got out, panting, looking at the old man triumphantly, the old man laughed, took out the ring ruler, and gently knocked on Mei's biceps, the latter immediately cried and mourned, covered his arm, floated to Zheng Que, pouted and looked at the old man with a bad smile.
Lu Jiu looked at Mei, and in her left eye, there was a plum blossom in her heart that bloomed in spring, which made people involuntarily calm down, but Lu Jiu felt very bad now, and her right hand was faintly painful, Lu Jiu knew that there were people related to him who had done something, Lu Jiu endured it, and controlled her right hand not to show that appearance, at least in the place where Zheng Que saw it, it couldn't become like that.
The pale-faced woman came to Zheng Que, lifted Mei up, saluted Zheng Que, and then looked at the old man, with admiration in her eyebrows, and said softly, "Mr. Ji, the master just told me that he has been waiting for a long time, and please go and get together." ”
The old man yawned and waved his hand impatiently, "I'm just passing by, I need to use Fengdu's teleportation array without making so much trouble." ”
The pale-faced woman suddenly straightened up the body that had been hunched just now, stared at the old man, and smiled slightly, "Are you in such a hurry to go to Bai Yujing? There is already a pool of muddy water there, and there is nothing wrong with catching up with me, right?"
Zheng Que suddenly looked up at the woman, and there was no change in the dead fish's eyes, but there was obvious annoyance in his tone, "Ghost Emperor, Tubo." ”
The woman suddenly looked at Zheng Que, her eyes became red, her face no longer became so friendly, she stretched out her hand and grabbed Zheng Que's face little by little, the latter's face was in cold sweat, although her body was trembling, but there was no way to move, Lu Jiu jumped out of the car with her right arm covered, and stood in front of Zheng Que, the two sword qi were hidden under the surface of the body, ready to shoot at any time.
Mo Lai raised his eyebrows, is this instinct Lu Jiu?
"Okay, I changed my name, I made a set, and I shot at my students in front of me, do you really want to create another hell?" The old man didn't know when he stood behind the two people, his tall body was like a mountain, the old man held Lu Jiu and Zheng Que in his arms, and his face, which had always been unserious, looked at the woman with a straight face at the moment, and said coldly, "Even if you really rebuild the hell, if your hell dares to make a move on my students, then I will demolish your hell." ”
Looking at the old man's eyes, the pale woman snorted coldly, and then the red light in her eyes disappeared, and then, the woman came back to her senses, and then looked at the old man, her expression was obviously unnatural, and the old man knocked on the woman's head with a smile, pointed to the inn in front of her, and said with a smile, "Shopkeeper, let's go, we have all rushed to the moon, but we have to take a good rest." ”
The brilliance in the woman's eyes increased again, and she gave a blessing to the old man, and then waved her sleeves lightly, and the crowd split a way, letting a few people go together, and then Lu Jiu knew that whether it was this woman, Mei or these "people", they were all dead things, and these dead things in front of them were obviously lower than Mei and them, because some ghost things had been smoked by the sun but they couldn't hide in the shadows.
The group entered the inn, the noise they had just heard became noisy, Lu Jiu involuntarily covered his ears, looked at the inn, from the outside, the interior of the inn, which was only about two floors in size, was a hole, entered the door, looked to the opposite side, only to find that there was actually a mile of the radius here, and in the middle of the inn, a big stage was playing, and most of the noise came from there.
"Girl Xijing?" the woman walked beside Lu Jiu and asked softly.
Lu Jiu nodded, and the woman took out two green gourds that were only the size of fingernails from her sleeves and handed them to Lu Jiu, Mei smiled and raised her finger to her ears, Lu Jiu looked at the old man, the latter did not speak, Lu Jiu took the green gourd and stuffed it in her ears, only to hear the noise of the outside world, but instead the sound of flowing water on the mountain.
Lu Jiu's eyes widened, his ears moved, his face showed joy, he felt very wonderful, Mei raised her eyebrows, and she scared her with a calm face, now you have a reaction to this kind of little thing, are you missing a tendon!
The woman knocked on Mei's head, and then clapped her hands, the ground under Lu Jiu's feet floated, carrying three people and a cow to the second floor, Lu Jiu's eyes were full of light, grinning happily, Mei floated beside the woman, and secretly concluded in her heart that this girl must be missing a tendon.
When Lu Jiu looked down, his eyes swept in the direction of the stage, where there was a seat like the building that was surrounded by stars, and on that seat, a girl who looked about the same age as herself held the woman's arm, leaned on the woman's body, and watched the play with her, while beside them, a man sat on a chair, not watching the play, just watching them.
Lu Jiu was a little curious, Mei Piao went to Lu Jiu's side and explained, "That's the third-ranked witch in Fengdu, Lord Zhou Zhongxiao and his wife and daughter, and the master of Tubo will treat him with three points of courtesy." ”
Lu Jiu nodded his head as if he understood, and then looked at the rest of the place, but Lu Jiu didn't know that when Lu Jiu's gaze moved, the girl with the woman's arm looked at Lu Jiu.
"What's wrong? Are you uncomfortable? Tomorrow is your coming-of-age ceremony, and when the time comes, Lord Tubo will give you your name, and if you feel uncomfortable now, you must tell me early. The woman touched the girl's head with a worried expression.
The girl shook her head and smiled slightly, "Mother, I'm fine, I just saw an 'old man'." ”
"Do you want your mother to invite him over?" asked the woman.
The girl took the woman's hand and said coquettishly, "Oh, mother, it's my own business, now watch the play, watch the play." ”
The woman looked doting, touched the girl's face, and replied well.
The girl continued to look at the stage, and a black mist flashed in her eyes.