Chapter XXIV: The Test of Soda
In his free time at night, Mao Gongwang began to take the initiative to find soda to drink, and brought a few side dishes each time. Liu Xiaohua and Zhao Xiaohua were also there, and the four of them began to become friends.
Zhao Xiaohua is still a little girl, she always likes to stick out her tongue after drinking, she said with a smile: "It's really happy." ”
Mao Gongwang said: "Little girl, drink less, if you become a female drunkard, there will be no man to ask for it." ”
Zhao Xiaohua said: "I heard Sister Lanyue say that men don't have good things, and I won't marry for the rest of my life." ”
Mao Gongwang also asked Soda: "You have good kung fu, why are you willing to come here to be a servant." ”
Soda said, "I'm in love with a girl here." ”
Mao Gongwang looked at the soda and said ill-willedly: "Is it called Xiaohua?" ”
Zhao Xiaohua blushed, Liu Xiaohua spoke very little, and always picked up the wine glass and did it. At this time, her foot kicked the rabbit's leg hard under the table.
In the secret room, only Liu Xiaohua and Soda can come and go freely.
Liu Xiaohua's secret weapon is vicious and spicy, and the rainstorm pear flower needle. If you can't dodge soda, you will become a big hedgehog.
The chamber is narrow, and the knife rotates in a circle in Soda's hand, like a barrier. Liu Xiaohua fired three times, and the soda dodged. Liu Xiaohua said: "You succeeded. This knife technique is good, but it looks a little tired. ”
Soda said: "This hand-spinning knife technique is what I thought of when I saw Wu Wenjie's hand-spinning sword. Let's go, let's go drink. ”
Soda turned around and wanted to leave. Liu Xiaohua was behind him, and he actually attacked again.
Soda heard the sound of darts, jumped up and flipped in the air, and stood behind Liu Xiaohua. Quickly clicked on her acupoint.
He said to Sister Xiaohua: "Sneak attack from behind?"
Liu Xiaohua said: "The rivers and lakes are sinister, no matter who you are, you must be careful of them. ”
Soda solved Liu Xiaohua's acupoint and said, "Thank you sister for reminding me, let's go, let's go drink." ”
The two of them were drunk until Zhao Xiaohua arrived, she stuck out her tongue and said, "It's late, Sister Lanyue is very busy entertaining guests today." She simply sat down and poured herself a full glass, not knowing whether she was thirsty or greedy. The three of them drank late again.
Zhao Xiaohua cleaned up the house and brought a pot of tea and a few plates of snacks. Zhao Xiaohua said: "Eat, since I became Brother Soda's girl, I am finally full." "Zhao Xiaohua likes to eat, but she can't always eat fat.
Liu Xiaohua also has a good appetite, so the three of them eat slowly. Soda asked, "Why didn't the hairy rabbit come?"
Zhao Xiaohua is a big ghost, so he laughed eatingly: "He must have gone to Aunt Liu's." ”
Zhao Xiaohua's words reminded Soda of Hua Rong again.
Fighting with Diao Chuchu again, Soda was cautious, and as soon as he entered the pavilion, he was greeted by dense silver needles. Soda condensed its vitality on the white jade knife, and with a wave of the knife, the silver needle and the room full of Diao Chuchu turned into waste paper.
Soda looked at it again, and it was really Diao Chuchu who was actually sitting on the roof beam, shaking his two little white legs. There was another hidden weapon shot out from a high place, and this time the soda dodged again, and hid directly on the roof beam, and pointed three acupoints to Diao Chuchu.
Diao Chuchu had no choice but to beg for mercy: "Okay, this time I admit defeat, unlock my acupoint, you can go." ”
Soda smiled and said, "After twelve hours, the acupuncture path will relieve itself and take his leave." Soda dropped Diao Chuchu and went downstairs.
Diao Chuchu scolded in the back: "Soda, you bastard, bastard, bullying me like this as a weak woman." ”
In the tenth-floor pavilion, there is a cook cooking, and his shredded meat can be used to make noodles. Fish-flavored shredded pork noodles are his specialty dishes.
When he saw the soda coming, he said politely: "Quick, brother sit down first and eat a bowl of noodles, I will ask for a tael of silver for this bowl of noodles." Xu Biao's hands were covered with calluses, and the bowl of hot noodles was steaming, and he didn't feel hot at all.
Soda was too embarrassed to refuse him, so he reached out to pick it up.
Who knew that Xu Biao couldn't wait, and actually splashed the noodles on the face of the soda, eager to feed it to the soda's mouth.
Soda dodged the noodle soup, but couldn't avoid Xu Biao's kitchen knife.
The white jade knife and the kitchen knife collided with sparks, and the smiling tiger Xu Biao began to smile and said politely: "There are kitchen knives made of wood over there, and horizontal knives made of wood, let's replace them with wooden ones, so as not to get hurt, after all, it is a martial arts, and it is not good to be injured." ”
Xu Biao would take a step back, he threw the wooden horizontal knife to Soda, and took the wooden kitchen knife himself. He smiled and said, "The competition begins." ”
Soda and he fought from day to night, from night to early morning. The two of them were really tired. Xu Biao said: "Let's do it first, drink saliva, eat two bowls of shredded meat noodles, sleep for a while, and then how about talking?"
Soda is also dry-mouthed: "Okay, it's up to you." ”
"You can't eat without good wine. The wine costs twenty taels of silver. The smiling tiger smiled and handed a jar of soda wine, twenty taels of silver can make a thrifty family of five in the countryside live for a year.
The two of them ate and drank and began to fall asleep. Soda said to the smiling tiger, "I'm asleep, don't attack me." ”
Xu Biao smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I'm tired, I'll sleep first." ”
Later, Soda really fell asleep, and when he woke up again, he found that in his room, the whole person was tied into zongzi. Needless to say, it was the fierce Liu Xiaohua who resisted him from the upper floor.
Soda sighed and shouted in remorse, "The smiling tiger is really a smiling tiger." ”
Liu Xiaohua was drinking with Zhao Xiaohua. Liu Xiaohua woke up when she heard Soda, and said with a smile: "He deliberately fought with you, so tired that you lost your vigilance." ”
Soda begged Liu Xiaohua: "Sister Xiaohua, let me loosen the rope." ”
Liu Xiaohua said: "Don't want to tie up more?"
Soda smiled wryly: "My hands and feet are numb and unconscious." ”
Loosening the rope, Soda's paralyzed legs and feet just wanted to stand up, but fell again, Soda simply lay on the ground and said to Zhao Xiaohua: "Sister Xiaohua, come to the altar wine." ”
Zhao Xiaohua handed him the jar of wine, and said with a smile: "Brother Soda, who are you in love with? ”
Soda was silent, and drank half a jar of wine in one go. He stumbled out of the house.
Zhao Xiaohua stuck out her tongue and continued to eat and drink.
Soda met Xu Biao in the thatched house and said, "You are a smiling tiger, you are really a big liar." ”
Xu Biao smiled slightly and said, "The owner of Su Su said, if anyone can stop you, he will be rewarded with ten taels of gold." My family is all supported by me alone, so naturally I can earn more money. ”
When the soda returned, Zhao Xiaohua had left. Liu Xiaohua said to Soda: "After hundreds of moves with him, do you know the smiling tiger's knife moves?"
Soda nodded and said, "I don't know which school his knife technique is, I have read a few sword cheats in the secret room, and I have no impression." ”
Liu Xiaohua said: "Then you have to think of your own tricks to crack it." ”
In the days that followed, Soda began to read through the knife books in the secret room. Play with the white jade knife every day. The style of the white jade knife and the horizontal knife are undoubted, and the white gloss of the whole body is lovely.
Soda muttered to himself, "If you collect the rest of the relics, I don't know how many teenagers it will take?"
When Liu Xiaohua came to the secret room, she always knocked on the stone wall first. Soda heard the sound and asked, "What's the matter?"
"The lord of Su Su Mansion called you. ”
Su Su was wearing a dress as thin as a cicada's wings. Wearing a red cloth pocket. The exposed skin is like the most tender tofu, white and smooth.
When Su Su saw Soda, he actually took Soda's hand and said delicately: "Little brother, look at what delicious food I have prepared for you this time." ”
There are braised fish, thinly sliced beef in sauce, crab roe and fresh mushrooms, bird's nest in sugar water, and crispy ginger preserved eggs. There are also sticky maltose, dates, and fresh lychees. Then put a big jar of good wine. It's all soda love.
Soda said, "Thank you, sister." ”
Su Su said: "Today I am well healed, come to celebrate with our sister and brother." ”
The two of you drank one by one, Su Su was interested, and said: "I was originally a little goblin, and when I met Su Zhen, he recognized me as my godsister." Call me Su Su. Then we fell in love. I'll give you a dancing knife, you are optimistic, this is Su Zhen's demeanor back then. ”
Su Su dances with a knife, with a graceful posture, but there is only one trick in his knife skills. This trick is simple and effective, with elegance in the murderous atmosphere, coupled with Su Su's enchantment, Soda is drunk.
Su Su pointed to Soda's nose and said with a smile: "Look stupid, idiot." ”
Soda blushed and said, "My sister's knife skills are really powerful." ”
That night, the sister and brother drank late, both of them were drunk, and Soda slept in Su Su's boudoir. Liu Xiaohua was waiting outside the door. It wasn't until later that she entered the boudoir and saw Su Su lying on the bed squinting, and Soda was drunk and falling asleep on the floor. She picked up the soda and tried to go downstairs.
Su Su actually woke up, she said to Liu Xiaohua: "Sister Hua, put the soda on the bed, you go and rest." Su Su looked at the sleeping soda next to her, and suddenly she didn't feel sleepy, she remembered the past, it was also a night, she and Su Zhen got drunk, and the two of them lay on the same bed, woke up, and became brothers and sisters.
At noon the next day, Soda woke up and found himself lying on Su Su's bed. Taken aback, he sat up in a panic, but saw that the table was full of wine and food, Su Su smiled at him: "Why, I woke up my little brother and came to eat with my sister." ”
Soda was also down, and they ate and drank together.
Fighting with the smiling tiger again, and when it was close to the Mid-Autumn Festival, Soda injured Xu Biao's wrist with just one move, Xu Biao threw the wooden kitchen knife to the ground and said: "It's only been three months, your knife skills have improved a lot, and I lost." ”
"Then I'll take my leave. Soda walked downstairs, and Xu Biao shouted from behind: "Be careful, that gentleman Wen is very cunning." ”
Liu Xiaohua was already waiting downstairs, the entrance was a stone door, a mechanism was opened, Soda walked in, and the stone door was closed again. I came across another stone gate. Liu Xiaohua flipped the switch again outside, the second stone door opened, Soda walked in, and the stone door closed again. Inside the double stone door was a small man as thin as wood, and in the entire dark stone room, the eyes of the little man were as bright as two stars in the night sky.
"In Xia Wen gentleman, I don't know what to call Brother Tai?" The little man's hands and feet were chained, like a prisoner.
"My name is Soda. I'm here to break through. ”
Wen Junzi used the chain chain as a weapon, and the soda knife slammed into the chain several times, cutting a few sparks in the darkness, and then a stream of blood splattered out.
Soda shouted: "Jun Wen, Jun Wen, are you okay?" ”
Wen Junzi was lying on the ground, with a wound about two feet long on his back, and blood flowed.
Soda called again: "Jun Wen?" Jun Wen remained motionless.
"I called Diao Chuchu and healed him. Soda clapped his hands, Liu Xiaohua heard the code, so he opened the stone door for him outside, Soda came out, Liu Xiaohua asked, "Why is it so fast?"
Soda said, "Mr. Wen seems to be injured." ”
Liu Xiaohua said: "You hurt him so quickly?"
While the two were talking, at the moment when the stone gate was only an inch from the ground, a black shadow flew out of it.
Liu Xiaohua said: "It's not good, he escaped." ”
Soda saw the fresh blood spilled on the ground and said suspiciously, "The stone gate is closed." ”
Liu Xiaohua opened the stone door again, and in the stone room, only the broken chain remained. Wen Junzi's people are gone.
Soda said: "He was injured and couldn't escape. ”
The break-in outside the building turned into a hunt for fugitives. Liu Xiaohua said: "Junzi Wen is a demon who does a lot of evil, and Su Su has trapped him here for twenty years. If you let him go today, you will do no evil. ”
Who knew that Su Su heard about this, and just said lightly: "According to his temperament, he has already fled, let him go." ”
Liu Xiaohua said again: "That gentleman Wen let go of the remaining seven demons, only Hu Changsheng on the first floor did not leave. ”
Su Su instructed: "Let Soda go to Hu Changsheng tomorrow." ”
There are nine types of demons, which are divided into nine clans. The totem is white and yellow gray, referring to foxes, snakes, hedgehogs, weasels, mice, as well as scorpions, toads, centipedes, and spiders.
This woman with a fox's tail is a fox demon family, mostly with the surname Hu, the totem is a fox, and men are rare.
Liu is a snake demon, and the Liu family is no different from ordinary people, that is, the tongue is no different from the snake letter.
The hedgehog family, surnamed Bai, except for the hands, feet, face and neck and ordinary people, have body hair like needles. Nudity is like wearing needle armor.
The Diao family of the demon clan uses the weasel as a totem, and there is also a tail on the buttocks.
The gray rat is the totem of the Wen family of the demon clan, the clansman has a thin body, bright eyes, and a star at night. buckteeth, like to eat.
Scorpions, with scorpion tails, make good use of poison, and are mostly Miao people. Wu surname. Tattoos on the chest and arms. It is tattooed with the pattern of a blue scorpion.
Toad, surnamed Xue, is different from mortals in that his feet are like frogs' paws, with excellent water nature, he likes to live in fishing boats, drifts in rivers and lakes all year round, and fishes for a living.
Centipedes, Miao people, most of them have dragon surnames, and they are good at raising Gu.
Totem spiders, regardless of men and women, are blue-haired, hair like silk blades, rare in the Central Plains, Persian and Mongolian tribes are mostly distributed, and the surnames are mixed.
On the first floor, there is also an old monster with a middle-aged appearance. Hu Changsheng. The spirit bead in his body has been cultivated for five hundred years, and when Soda enters his pavilion, it is like traveling through a thousand years.
The bronze tripod in the room was boiling venison. Sandalwood burns on the copper incense burner. He shook the bronze cup in his hand, looked at the bright and blood-colored grape wine, and said to Soda, "Are you here to break through?"
Soda said, "I heard that you have 500 years of cultivation. All these bronzes in this room were used by you 500 years ago?"
Hu Changsheng smiled: "The lifespan of a demon is indeed longer, but it is only two hundred years. The spirit bead of the demon can be inherited, and the spirit bead in my body is just passed on from my grandfather to my father, and my father passed it on to me. That's why I have five hundred years of cultivation here. ”
Soda said: "When I was a child, I heard the legend of a thousand-year-old demon. ”
Hu Changsheng smiled: "As far as I know, there has not been a demon with a thousand-year-old cultivation, that's just a legend." I hid in this pavilion and didn't dare to go out, because of my five hundred years of cultivation. ”
Soda asked, "I've heard that demons are going to be tribulated." ”
Hu Changsheng said: "Whether it is a human or a demon, life and death have a fate. This cultivation is to go against the sky, then the sky will give calamity to the demon who goes against the sky, and this calamity is the heavenly thunder. I am most afraid of rain all year round, and if I am struck by lightning and the spirit bead in my body is broken, I will definitely die. ”
Soda said, "No wonder it's not well ventilated. The doors and windows are extremely small. ”
Hu Changsheng said: "And there is a secret room in this house, if there is wind and rain, I will hide in the secret room." ”
Soda said: "Life is worrying, but it is a little unsatisfactory. ”
Hu Changsheng said: "You are a physical relic, and you have practiced the Guiyuan Decision, so let's do it, I will give you a hundred years of cultivation." ”
Soda said, "How do you know that I am a physical relic?"
Hu Changsheng smiled: "My ears are very smart, and I can hear the voices within a radius of ten miles clearly." Learn about your return to the Yuan decision today. ”
Hu Changsheng actually took the initiative to hold Soda's hand, Soda felt that a majestic vitality was inhaled into his body, I don't know how long it took, Hu Changsheng let go of his hand and said, "How is my cultivation in the past hundred years?"
Soda is now full of power, and every step he takes, he steps on the ground with deep footprints.
Hu Changsheng said with a smile: "It's a pity that this cultivation is not yours, you have used up these vitality, and you still have to absorb other people's." This is the disadvantage of physical relics. You're good to go. ”
Soda asked, "Am I considered successful?"
Hu Changsheng said, "Why don't I invite you to a glass of wine?"
Soda laughed: "No, then I'll go." ”
Su beat the door and went to the courtyard of the building, Su Su was waiting for him in the pavilion in the courtyard, and Su saw that there were many people, all of whom were Su Shulou's sisters.
Su Su took Soda's hand and said to the sisters: "This is Soda, from now on, he is the young master of the twelfth floor, and the master of the building in the future." ”
"I've seen the young master. The sisters saluted Soda, who smiled slightly.
Su Su introduced the three Oiran of Su Su Lou to Soda: "The affairs of Su Su Lou are generally handled by Oiran, Diao Chuchu, you naturally know each other." This is the Blue Moon. This is Miss Feng. ”
Later, everyone began to celebrate, Soda drank a lot of wine, and in the atmosphere of laughter and scolding, Soda only remembered Su Su saying to him: "I will arrange for you to go to Ruyi Building and let you be the landlord there." ”
When the feast was dispersed, and the people were tired and tired of their spirits, they went back to their rooms to rest. Su Su chatted with Liu Xiaohua alone.
Liu Xiaohua asked, "Do you still love him?"
Su Su nodded.
Liu Xiaohua asked again: "Do you love soda? or do you love him? He is different from soda." ”
Su Su said: "I am just paying him back what I owe him, I am afraid that my life will not be long." ”
The two men began to fall silent. Su Su's eyes were already at ease, Liu Xiaohua suppressed her sad emotions, and the wind at night made her heart cold.
Before leaving, Soda took a hot shower and changed into a red robe embroidered with a golden phoenix. Liu Xiaohua and Zhao Xiaohua accompanied him to Ruyi Building.
Soda said goodbye to Su Su. Su Su didn't see him off, she just stood in front of the attic window and watched Soda's carriage go away. The warm sunlight poured down and warmed her heart.
Hu Changsheng is also gone, and he is no longer afraid of the thunderstorm. He wants to be at ease, gain and lose, and give up.