Chapter Twenty-Three: Encounters and Acquaintances
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The sunset is empty, quiet and deserted, and at a glance, you can't see half a figure, like a dead city.
"Squeak. ā
The door on the second floor of the Four Seas Inn opened gently, Qingyang withdrew, stretched out his hand to cover the door, turned around and walked downstairs, still holding half a steamed bun in his hand, nibbling as he walked.
Sihai Inn has upper, middle and lower third-class rooms, a total of dozens of rooms, but there are only two guests, Qingyang from the Tianzi Ding room to the Tianzi A room, the corridor is clean and quiet, the door of the household is closed, and I don't know which pair of boys live in which one.
This shopkeeper is really a miser, there are so many spare rooms, but let me live in a firewood room......
Qingyang was sneering in his heart, chewing steamed buns and about to go downstairs, when the door of Tianzi No. A suddenly opened, poked out a head from it, and beckoned: "Hey, hey......"
"Call me?" Qingyang turned his head on the stairs, swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth, and pointed to his nose.
"Of course, there is no one else here, it's not called you, is it called a ghost?"
This is a beautiful little girl, about seven or eight years old, her hair is coiled into two small buns, two strands of fine hair hang down, slowly brushing her cheeks, a pair of eyes are as clear as water, at the moment she is purring and turning, and she is smart and clever at first glance.
"My name is Beth. The little girl smiled, and the dimples on her cheeks sank deeply.
Qingyang hugged his fists and said, "My name is Qingyang." ā
"Where are you from?"
Bai Si squeezed out of the crack in the door, and walked to the staircase with his hands and feet crossed, his eyes blinking, blinking, extremely immature and lovely, making people feel less vigilant.
Qingyang replied, "From where you came." ā
"Uh......" Bai Si was stunned, his eyelashes didn't blink again, and after a while, he asked again: "What are you doing in Xia Cheng?"
"I don't know. ā
Qingyang thought for a while and shook his head very seriously. He really didn't know where he was from, he didn't know what he was doing here, everything had to be told by his sister.
A few months ago, as soon as he opened his eyes, he was on the ox cart, forgetting all the past, but there were two women, one older and one young, and when he asked who he and they were, the little girl told him: 'My name is Qinghou, your name is Qingyang, you are my brother, I am the eldest lady's maid, you are the eldest lady's coachman.' Now, don't ask what you shouldn't ask!'
So much for.
At this time, Bai Si puffed out a pair of eyes, looking very angry, this appearance was somewhat similar to Qinghou.
Qingyang waited for a while, and when he saw that she didn't speak, he asked, "Where did you come from?"
"From where it came. Bai Si pouted, then stared at him and waited for him to ask again.
"Very well, farewell. Who knows, Qingyang shrugged his shoulders and walked away.
Bai Si's eyes rolled around, holding his breath in his heart, he couldn't go up or down, and said loudly: "Don't you ask me what I'm doing here?"
Qingyang replied without replying: "You will definitely tell me: I don't know." ā
"Huh, how do you know?"
Bai Si was stunned for a moment, talking to himself, then shook his head, and finally refused to admit defeat, put his hands to his mouth, and shouted at Qingyang's back: "Hey, are you afraid of monsters?"
"Yokai only eat children. Qingyang laughed.
"Wow, wow, wow......"
Bai Sixiao's face turned red, he was so angry that his little feet jumped straight, and he raised his fist to teach Qingyang a lesson, but Qingyang was already far away, so he had to hold back the breath in his chest, dragged his fist, kicked the door open, and shouted: "Bai Xiang, someone bullied me, you don't care!"
"Poof......
By the half-moon window, under the dresser, on the brocade mat, there was a boy in brocade sitting cross-legged, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, holding a fan in his left hand and a pipe of hookah in his right hand. At this moment, while fanning the wind and spitting out clouds and fog, when he saw Bai Si coming in, he slowly raised his head, puffed out a puff of smoke, and said: "Didn't you go out to find out about the enemy......?
"Shut up!"
Bai Si couldn't see his old-fashioned appearance, so he hurried over, grabbed the cigarette pipe and threw it on the ground, and said angrily: "Who wants to tell you this, if it weren't for your greed, how would we come to this place where there are monsters? I don't care about others, I want to go back to Xiangxi!" After speaking, he turned around angrily and wanted to leave.
"Alas......"
Bai Xiang sighed, and was afraid that she would leave in a serious anger, so he hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Sooner or later, we will return to Xiangxi, but now the eldest prince has been refined into a yin corpse, but he is hanging around alone." It was the eldest prince who brought us out at the beginning, and now, we should also bring him back. ā
Bai Si's eyes blinked, she and Bai Xiang went straight to Xiangxi since they left Qingyang Town, who knows, but on the way they met Bai Chengfeng who was holding his head and scurrying, Bai Xiang had a peach blossom beauty fan, when even if he wanted to collect Bai Chengfeng, but after a vicious battle, he let Bai Chengfeng escape, so the two of them chased after him bravely and pursued until this Miao Domain Summer City.
Thinking of Bai Chengfeng's tragic situation, Bai Si's heart softened: "Yes, the eldest prince's head has fallen off, and he is still floating outside all day long, which is really pitiful." However, now there are monsters in the city......"
Bai Xiang pondered for a while, and said: "We are here to track down the eldest prince, who cares if he is a monster or not?" We just need to find the eldest prince, receive him into the peach blossom beauty fan, and then return to Xiangxi immediately." Even if you really run into a monster, don't be afraid, I'll fly it with a fan!"
"Speaking of which, it's still you who are greedy. Bai Si pursed his lips and said, "Although the eldest prince is not a blood corpse, he can fly to the sky, but he is also stronger than the bronze corpse in your fan, how can it be so easy to collect?"
Bai Xiang walked to the window, shook his fan, and said with a smile: "The person who refines the eldest prince must be dead, if he is left to fend for himself, he will be scattered under the dry sun in less than half a year." The ownerless refining corpse is afraid of yang and yin and has no spiritual intelligence, and at night, we will go to find a yin place and set up a yin gathering array, not afraid that he will not come!"
Bai Si's mouth pouted, and he shouted: "It's been put on the table more than a dozen times, and it's a little bit worse every time, if you continue to chase and escape like this, when will you be able to return to Xiangxi?"
"Alas......" Bai Xiang sighed, pulled his head, glanced at Bai Si secretly, and said softly: "We can't be discouraged, as the old saying goes: where there is a will, everything can be done." ā
There are two flowers, one on each branch.
Qingyang entered the miscellaneous courtyard, and went to the stable to add some night food to Daqingniu, that is, he dragged a dog skin from the ox cart to the firewood room.
The firewood room is very large, full of all kinds of miscellaneous goods and firewood, and there is a small window in each of the east and west directions, and the miscellaneous goods and firewood are piled straight under the window.
The pretty young man occupied the west window, with his back to the wall, half-lying on the pyre, watching the sun set outside the window, wiping the strange black knife. When Qingyang came in, he glanced at Qingyang, then lowered his head, and wiped the blade of the knife over and over again with a strip of cloth, his movements were gentle, but his hands were extremely heavy.
Qingyang jumped on the firewood, spread the dog skin at random, thought about it, picked up a piece of gravel from the window, and began to wipe the knife, from top to bottom, slashing the back and pulling the blade.
"Quack, quack......" The piercing sound of knife sharpening resounded in the room.
The young man frowned, opened his mouth again, and finally forcibly endured it, put the black knife down his head, pillowed the blade, crossed his legs, and closed his eyes.
Qingyang smiled, threw the stone out of the window, blew off the gravel powder on the blade, and tried the edge with his thumb, the cold light reflected the human face, and it was extremely sharp.
This thick-backed broadknife came from a road bandit who cut down trees and blocked the mountain road, shouting for money or death for a long time, but was smashed in the head by a gourd in Qingyang, and since then, the knife has changed owners.
Along the way, the rivers and lakes are sinister, and there are indeed many people who rob money or sex, and this knife has also drunk countless blood, but who will run to rob money with thousands of dollars? So the harvest is actually very small. Besides, the eldest lady's body is too weak, and it costs a lot of money to replenish her body, and they have no other income, so they gradually can't make ends meet. Now, it's really embarrassing to even have to take the eldest lady's baby to live in the hotel!
Tonight, it's bound to see blood!
When you make money, you must redeem the baby.
Sell another pot of good wine.
Thinking about it, Qingyang's smile grew, he lifted the wine gourd and poured it into his throat very lightly, but he let out a sigh of satisfaction, pillowed the thick-backed knife, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
Listen to the wind and the moon rises.
The crescent moon shook the window and sparse the shadows, reflecting half of Qingyang's face, which looked particularly soft. Suddenly, Qingyang opened his eyes, slowly stood up, looked at the west window, and saw that the young man was lying back to side facing the window, his body was bent like a bow, and he listened to it, and the sound of breathing was long and brocade, and he was already asleep.
The gray figure flashed very fast under the moonlit night, and a few sudden Qingyang came to the courtyard wall, grabbed the rope that was hung on the wall not long ago, and was about to climb up with strength, when suddenly two small heads appeared on the wall, and his heart jumped, and he quickly flashed behind the column head, and took a look through the cover of the stone pillar.
The full moon flows, and the four fields are silent.
Two small figures appeared on the five-zhang high wall, which were the pair of boys and girls seen during the day, but the boy was shaking a fan in one hand and holding a star compass in the other, carefully discerning the direction, and showing his body, like a white crane flirting with the wilderness, flying down lightly, and the girl named Bai Si followed closely.
After a while, the second child had already walked away, Qingyang turned out from behind the pillar, looked at the direction in which the two of them disappeared, frowned, and thought: "Sure enough, the rivers and lakes are sinister, and even the two naughty boys are extremely good!"
"Chirp, tweet. ā
At this moment, there were two yellow warblers in the distance, Qingyang pressed the sigh and consternation, grabbed the wall rope and shook it vigorously, borrowed together, rose two feet, and twice borrowed the strength to go to the wall, threw the rope into the courtyard, slipped down the wall along the rope, and the cat ran up the stairs, and stayed in front of the Tianzi C room, and did not knock on the door, sobbing his mouth, and screaming softly: "Chirp, tweet." ā
"Tweet what, come in. ā
The door was open a crack, Qingyang stared at it, there were two huge eyes inside, bright and flickering, who was it not his sister Qinghou? Smiled silently, got into the room, closed the door with his backhand, and said softly: "Just now, I saw ......"
"Are the thieves coming?" There was no light in the room, only a round of dim moonlight by the window, Qinghou was wearing a black suit, and his face was covered with a black scarf, and he picked it up very neatly. The whole person is a small black shadow, no wonder the eyes are so flashing.
Qingyang said: "I didn't come." ā
"Then what do you see?" Qinghou climbed his hands behind his head, pulled the black scarf tie hard, and quickly turned around, without waiting for Qingyang to speak, and asked, "What do you think of us?"
Qingyang smiled slightly: "It's good, a bit like a robber." ā
"Phew, the dog can't spit out ivory in its mouth!" The big eyes glared, bullied Qingyang, knocked him hard, looked back at the inner room, and said in a low voice: "The eldest lady is already asleep, don't run around later, protect the eldest lady." No matter how many thieves come, I'll clean it up. ā
"Got it. ā
Qingyang touched his forehead and grinned.
"Boom, Boom......"
At this time, there was a faint sound of breaking wind outside the window, Qingyang and Qinghou looked at each other, and flashed to the window at the same time, and the ghostly probe took a look, only to see a few things flying on the high courtyard wall, which were like human claws, tied with a long rope, just try to throw, then listen to a crisp sound, have knocked on the wall, and then, the sound of Suo Suo sounded.
"Coming?" Qingyang looked at the iron claw, full of interest.
"It's finally here!" Qinghou's eyes lit up.
"Protect the eldest lady, strike first!"
Before the words fell, Qinghou had already jumped on the window, his toes slammed into him, and his small body shot up and rushed straight towards the high wall.