Chapter 24, Kyoto Famous Building
Just when Xu Ke was anxious and helpless, he didn't want to, the big snake suddenly opened its mouth, and finally spewed out a raging fire. With the power of the flames, the serpent quickly retreated and returned to the cave.
Xu Ke breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but he didn't expect that when his side was exhausted, the big snake snake was injured, and after fighting for a long time, it could no longer support it. Seeing that the big snake fled back to the cave, the sky was already dark at this time, and Xu Ke and Zhu Wuneng did not dare to break into the cave to chase and kill the monster again.
Xu Ke turned around and saw that Daotian Ji's face was pale, her eyes were closed, and she had already fainted in Yi Helong's arms. He hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with the rice field girl? How could she faint?"
Yi Helong broke her lips open, fed her a pill, and replied: "Inada Ji has been poisoned by snakes, I'll give her an antidote pill first." Friend Xu, it's getting dark, let's go quickly!"
After that, Yi Helong put the unconscious Rice Field Ji on Xu Ke's back. He led the way, and all the people followed him to the sea. After this great battle, Yi Helong saw the power of the Yaqi Snake with his own eyes, and he couldn't help but be more afraid of it in his heart. At this time, seeing that night was approaching, he knew that staying on the island would definitely be more detrimental to his side, so he wanted to evacuate in a hurry.
At this moment, Xu Ke was worried about the safety of Daotian Ji, and saw that the second brother was tired and out of breath, so he had to leave the island with him. As for Na Zhu Wucan, all he was thinking about at this time was how to fill his stomach, and the matter of fighting monsters had already been thrown out of the clouds.
In this way, the three of them took Inada Ji and left Yagi Island in a hurry, crossed the sea and returned to land. Among these three people, one is afraid, one is worried, and the other is hungry, where could they have thought that the great snake of Yaqi fought until the night, bleeding a lot from the wound, and the venom in the body was about to be exhausted.
Since then, the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and this battle of people and snakes is actually evenly matched. When the spirit of the two fights is exhausted, it is the courage that is left in the end. It's a pity that Yi Helong, because of his timidity, was in a hurry to leave the island, so he missed a favorable opportunity to kill the troll......
After the four of them returned to the land, they hurried for a while at night, came to the town of Tama, and stayed in yesterday's inn. Zhu Wuneng clamored for a big meal, and Yi Helong asked the store to put a table of wine and food. Zhu Wuneng's eyes lit up immediately when he saw the food, as long as he could stuff the food in his mouth, he would not let it go. Everyone saw that the food that ran the hall was served like flowing water, and Zhu Wuneng was also packed into his stomach like flowing water. In less than a moment, the food on the table returned to the sea like a hundred rivers, and all of them were included in Zhu Wucan's big belly. It's just that the innkeeper suffered, seeing that Zhu Wucan's gluttony was so gluttonous, he was stunned, and he hesitated in his heart, and he had the intention to ask the guests for silver taels but didn't dare, and he didn't want to serve the food anymore, but when he saw Zhu Wucan't take a selfie and shout at the table, he could only continue to serve the food.
Xu Ke saw that although Daotian Ji had awakened, his consciousness was still a little blurred, and it was obvious that the snake venom had not been completely removed. He was anxious, and he had no intention of eating. Yi Helong saw Xu Ke's solemn face, knowing that he was worried about the snake venom in Daotian Ji's body, so he smiled and said: "Friend Xu, you don't have to worry, after dinner, I will immediately take Daotian Ji back to Yihe Valley." I have all the medicine in the valley, and I will definitely cure her of the snake venom of Inada Hime!"
"So there will be the Lord of the Lauihe Valley!" Xu Ke thanked Yi Helong.
"But, next, how to deal with the Yaqi Orochi, have you figured out a way?" asked Yi Helong.
Xu Ke pondered for a while, shook his head and sighed: "That basilisk has eight heads, it can spew out water, fire, poisonous smoke, and the snake head can be cut off and regenerate instantly, it is really difficult to entangle! With the strength of a few of us, I'm afraid it is still invincible!"
Yi Helong smiled and said: "Friend Xu, I have a plan, but I don't know if Friend Xu is willing to use it?"
Xu Ke asked: "What is the good plan of the valley master, but please say, if you can get rid of this giant monster, Xu will not give up even if he goes up the sword mountain and goes down to the sea of fire!"
Yi He Long took a sip of wine, waved his hand and said with a smile: "Friend Xu, I don't need you to be so troublesome! I, Yi He Valley, have already found out in advance, that Baqi Snake usually likes to drink the most, and he can't stop drinking those famous wines in the world. If we find the best eight jars of wine in the world, and a beautiful woman to lure us together, when the great serpent is drunk with the wine, and bewitched by the woman, we can take the opportunity to slay it!"
Xu Ke saw that none of the strategies made by the lord of Yihe Valley were above board, and they were all inappropriate calculations. He looked at Yi Helong's head and face again, until this time he was still covered with a black cloth, and refused to show his true face, this person acted so secretively, he knew that he was definitely not a person with a good heart. He didn't like it in his heart, so he snorted coldly and said, "It's enough to get drunk with fine wine, why bother to use women to seduce you again?"
Yi Helong looked at Inada Ji, who was still a little vague in consciousness, and thought that Xu Ke was a woman who was reluctant to give up on herself, so she smiled again: "Friend Xu, don't worry! Next time, we don't need Inada Ji, just go to find a beautiful prostitute from Kyoto." ”
Xu Ke bowed his head and drank, and said disapprerovingly: "Lord Yihe Valley doesn't have to bother, you just need to find the eight jars of wine, and leave the rest to Xu to take care of!"
Yi Helong laughed embarrassedly a few times, and said: "Friend Xu, the wine that can get drunk with that big snake is naturally not an ordinary vulgar product, such wine is only available in the palace!"
"Imperial Palace, do you mean where your Emperor Sang is? I don't know your emperor, how can I get that ......fine wine?" Xu Ke couldn't help but wonder
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"This ...... Don't bother Xu friends, Yihe will arrange it. Friend Xu only needs to go to Kyoto to find him!" Yi He took a pen and paper from the shopkeeper, wrote down the name of the place, and handed it to Xu Ke.
Yi Helong told Xu Ke about his plan to kill the basilisk this time. After saying that, he went out of the shop, and in the middle of the night, he got a small one-way carriage. He carefully put the sleepy rice field Ji into the car, drove himself, and after saying goodbye to Xu Ke, he whipped his whip, and the carriage ran fast, with the bright moonlight, he went farther and farther, and in a blink of an eye, it was gone......
Seeing that Yi Helong took away the rice field, Xu Ke finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Before leaving, he had solemnly instructed Yi Helong to take care of Rice Field Ji from now on. Yi Helong also patted his chest and assured Xu Ke that in addition to helping her detoxify, as long as Daotian Ji is willing, he can live in Yihe Valley with his female relatives in the future, and Yi Helong will definitely protect her.
After sending Yi Helong away, Xu Ke saw that his second brother had finally eaten and drunk, so he didn't talk much at the moment, and the two went back to the room to rest.
After a dreamless night, after getting up the next day, Xu Ke and Zhu Wuneng had finished freshening up, had breakfast, and wanted to set off again and go straight to Kyoto City, the capital of Sang Kingdom. Before leaving the store, Xu Ke couldn't bear it, so he asked Zhu Wuneng to take out a gold leaf from his bag and give it to the shopkeeper. When the shopkeeper saw that this piece of gold was more than three taels in his hands, he was overjoyed. When he heard that they were going to Kyoto, he diligently hired one of the largest carriages in town.
It is 600 miles from Tama to Kuwakuni Kyoto, and at the speed of a horse-drawn carriage, it will take at least six days, and you will have to travel day and night. Xu Ke and Zhu Wuneng sat in the carriage, constantly urging the coachman to hurry up, until the two healthy horses were so tired that they were foaming at the mouth and gasping. The coachman felt sorry for the horses, so he had to stop and rest for a while. Xu Ke had no choice but to get out of the car and walk with Zhu Wuneng, the two asked for a clear direction, abandoned the carriage and headed northwest.
Xu Ke was instructed by the old man of Shuiyue in the Shuiyue Building, and he had a good understanding of the key to the "Taiyi Self-cultivation Technique", and inadvertently, his own skills have been greatly improved. At this time, his childlike heart suddenly rose, and he said to Zhu Wuneng: "Second brother, you and I compare each other, see who runs the fastest, how?" Before Zhu Wuneng could answer, Xu Ke secretly lucked his true qi, spread his legs, and suddenly accelerated, and people were like arrows off the string, and they had already walked against the wind.
Zhu Wuneng was full of food and drink at this time, and he also had strength in his body, he carried the nail rake, and he was not far behind, and after a while, he followed closely behind Xu Ke. The two of them ran faster and faster, and the vehicles and horses around them were left behind from time to time, and if a passer-by met them, they had not yet seen whether it was a person or a thing, and they had already run far ahead......
The two ran for more than two hours, and then arrived at an unknown market town. Xu Ke was worried about Zhu Incompetent's stomach, so he found a small restaurant, let the second brother have a full meal first, rest for a while, and hurry again.
Xu Ke ran the true yuan, only to feel that the true qi was circulating in his body, endlessly, and his feet were like the wind, running from the afternoon to the sunset, and he was not tired at all. Later, Zhu Wuneng was already tired and sweating, and gradually couldn't catch up, but Xu Ke stopped, took Zhu Inability's hand, and moved forward again......
In this 600-mile journey, Xu Ke and Zhu Wuneng ran for a day with only their legs, and they had already reached their destination. When the sun was about to set, Xu Ke raised his eyes and saw that a towering city gate was already standing majestically in front of him, and Kyoto, the largest city in Mulberry Country, had arrived.
Xu Ke led Zhu Wuneng into the city, only to see that in this Kyoto city, the streets, alleys, roads, house layouts, and shop furnishings are almost all the same in Chang'an City, but the momentum is not grand enough, and the scale is slightly inferior. Xu Ke walked through the city, quite a feeling of returning to Chang'an, even the clothes of the pedestrians around him, the words on the shop signs are slightly the same as Chang'an.
After walking a few steps, Xu Ke heard the sound of "cooing" in Zhu Wuineng's stomach. He smiled, and took his second brother into a restaurant with magnificent furnishings inside and out, only to see the words "Lotte Ju" written on the sign of this restaurant.
Since Zhu Wuneng had the third princess by his side, the gold and silver on his body were inexhaustible. At this time, he still had a big bag of gold leaves hidden on his body, so after the two of them went to the restaurant, they ordered the store to just deliver good wine and food.
According to the strategy originally agreed between Yi He and Xu Ke, after they arrived in Kyoto, they rushed to the place written by Yi He Long to find the first onmyoji of Kuwa Country, He Mao, who was famous in Kyoto City at that time. This person is also the onmyoji who fought the basilisk with them in the ghost cave of Yagi Island on the night of the full moon.
According to Yi Helong, between him and He Mao, there is a secret technique of transmitting sound for thousands of miles. He had already told He Mao in detail about the battle against the Great Snake on Yagi Island yesterday. He asked He Mao for help, asked the lord of the country, and took the eight jars of fine wine treasured in the palace and handed them to Xu Ke. After that, He Mao and Xu Ke and his party had to go to the island again and kill the basilisk with them.
It turned out that since the Yaqi Snake appeared on the coast of Kuangguo, the seaside fishing villages have been harassed, and the fishermen have been miserable. After hearing this, the emperor was also restless, and after consulting with several courtiers, he issued an order led by General Yagyu, together with He Mao and Yi Helong, to kill the basilisk by all means.
In the country of Sang, Yanagi is known as the "first swordsman", and he is almost invincible in swordsmanship. He Mao has long been known as the "First Onmyoji", a spell and unpredictable. As the lord of Yihe Valley, Yihe has lived in the deep valley for generations, practicing mysterious ninjutsu, and his "Yihe Eight Swords" is famous all over the country, rarely encountering opponents, and is respected as the "first ninja" of Sang Country. These three people are almost the highest exorcism strength in the Sang country, Nasan
The lord of the country originally thought that with these three people out of the horse, even if the Yaqi Snake had great magical powers, it was bound to be captured and killed by them.
Unexpectedly, the battle in the cave on the fifteenth day of the first month also allowed the three of them to see the true strength of the big snake. That night, if it weren't for Xu Ke and Zhu Wu's help, Liu Sheng would have been seriously injured, except for He Mao, who could cast a spell to escape, the other two were not only invincible, but even their lives were in danger.
Yes, hearing that Xu Ke was also here to kill monsters, Yi Helong was immediately ecstatic, and he rescued Daotian Ji naturally to please Xu Ke. Just because he knew in his heart that if the Baqi snake was not removed, not only would it be difficult for the people in the country to live in peace, but if the king blamed him, he would not be able to escape responsibility.
The battle between humans and snakes on the seventeenth day of the first month also made Yi Helong see the fierceness of Xu Ke's swordsmanship, and he felt that even if he practiced hard for a lifetime, he would not be able to surpass the young man in front of him. In addition to sighing in his heart, he pinned all his hopes for killing the big snake on Xu Ke. Before Xu Ke and Zhu Wuneng arrived in Kyoto, he had already sent a message thousands of miles to inform He Mao and ask him to help Xu and Zhu with all his might......
At this moment, in the "Lotte Ju" restaurant, almost all the diners have looked at Xu Ke's table. Just because Zhu Wucan's eating is too ostentatious, this Lotte House has a long reputation in Kyoto City, and the wine and food in the store are naturally extraordinary. Zhu Wu couldn't see and hear it, it was inevitable that his appetite would be great, he let go of his stomach, and just sent those things of "meat balls", "fish fillets", "sand pot chicken" and "steamed pink goose" into his mouth.
Xu Ke didn't have much demand for the dishes, he took out a gold leaf and told the store to find the best wine to serve. When the shopkeeper saw the gold, his eyes lit up, and in a short time he brought him several jugs of the most prestigious wine in the region. However, Xu Ke only drank a few sips, and felt that the taste of the wine was very bland, far inferior to the famous wine in Chang'an City, the forty-year-old "Fenyang drunk".
Zhu Wuneng just ate the vegetables, Xu Ke lowered his head to taste the wine, and when he was bored, there was a young man with a long body beside him. I saw that he was wearing a dark colored robe, and his appearance was extremely handsome. He sat down next to Xu Ke, smiled, and bowed his hand to Xu Ke: "This brother, it's boring to drink alone, why don't you have a few drinks with the younger brother?"
Xu Ke saw that the young man was so handsome, and he was not as good as him, and he suddenly felt good in his heart. He also heard the young man's authentic official words, and immediately felt that he had met a hometown and knew his old acquaintance, and hurriedly bowed to the young man in a long shirt and said: "There is a brother to accompany me, I can't ask for it, brother Ren, please!"
Xu Ke called the running hall and ordered him to send the young man a wine utensil and two pots of good wine. He had a drink with the young man, and then asked, "In Xia Xu Ke, who came from Qianguo, dare to ask this benevolent brother with a high surname?
The young man in the long shirt said with a smile: "Brother Xu, in the lower surname of the mountain, the north of the name, it turned out that he was also a native of Qianguo, and he lived in the south of Shu for generations. Later, he wandered thousands of miles to Sang Country to do business, and liked the cleanliness of the seaside here, so he settled in Sang Country from then on. I don't want to, it's really a blessing that the foolish brother can still see the ancients of his family and country here today!"
Xu Ke pointed at Zhu Wuneng again and introduced the young man: "Brother Shan, this is my second brother, named Zhu Wuneng. My second brother has always had a good appetite, and today he seems to be quite satisfied with the food here......"
The young man who called himself "North of the Mountain" also bowed his hand to Zhu Wuneng slightly, and the two of them saluted. At this time, Zhu was incompetent, but he only ate and drank by himself, and ignored the beautiful young man in front of him.
Xu Ke originally felt bored drinking alone, but at this time, he saw that the north of the mountain was handsome and extraordinary, and his conversation was even more elegant and calm. He was overjoyed, and drank with him. The north of the mountain did not refuse Xu Ke's toast, and the two only drank for less than half an hour, and drank a jar of famous wine in the store.
"Shopkeeper, two more jars of good wine, I want to have a good drink with Brother Shan!" Xu Ke called the running hall again and ordered. I don't want to, but the running hall has a sad face, obviously the good wine has been drunk by them, if you want to go out and buy it again, it is already dark at this time, I am afraid that there is no way to buy it.
The north of the mountain grabbed Xu Ke's hand and said with a smile: "The small shop has no taste for vulgar wine." Brother Xu, I'll take you to a good place in Kyoto City! There are not only the best wines in Kyoto, but also the best beauties in Kyoto!"
"Good!" Xu Ke was slightly drunk in his heart at this time, he heard the phrase "the best wine in Kyoto", and the wine was booming, and he had long forgotten what the next sentence was. At that moment, he stood up, called the running hall to pay off the wine bill, and then took Zhu Wuneng with him and went out with the north of the mountain......
"Big brother, I haven't eaten yet?" Zhu Wuneng muttered as he looked at the unfinished food on the table.
"It's okay, when you get there, big brother drinks, you continue to eat!" Xu Ke said a word and strode out.
At this time, the night is already dark, and the streets and alleys of Kyoto City are lit with lanterns. In the haze of lights, the bustling night scene of the largest city in Mulberry is even more visible. Xu Ke and Zhu Wuneng walked through the city along the north of the mountain, looking left and right from time to time, only to feel that under the night, they also felt that there was some exotic interest here.
After walking for about a moment, Xu Ke saw a brightly lit "restaurant" standing in front of him. In front of the door of the building, there is a huge gold-lettered plaque, on which the words "flower cloud" are written. Xu Ke was quite curious, so he asked, "Brother Shan, what is the name of this restaurant, and why are the lights so bright at night?"
Shanzhibei laughed and said: "Brother Xu, this is the most famous 'Huayun Building' in the whole of Kyoto, the wonderful thing in the building, you will know it after you go in!"