Chapter 10: Formation I
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The rooster crows three times, the eastern sky slowly reveals a few traces of fish belly white, and after a while, a round of rising sun rises, and the golden glow renders the clouds and mist shrouded in the sky over Jiangzhou City brilliantly.
Geng Nanyi stayed awake all night, meditated and rested for a while, then came to the outside of Diao Xiaosi's house, knocked on the door and said, "Little fourth brother-"
But even shouted a few times, but Diao Xiaosi didn't agree.
Geng Nanyi was stunned, his ears and eyes were keen, and he clearly heard Diao Xiaosi's breathing behind the desk, and it didn't look like he was asleep, why didn't he make a sound for so long? Could it be that there was a master hiding in the room who hijacked him-
Geng Nanyi's eyes burst out, and his left palm pressed against the door panel, and the crisp iron door bolt broke in response.
Geng Nanyi slammed open the door, and his body did not advance but retreated and jumped a few feet, in case the enemy in ambush inside sealed the door with a hidden weapon.
But after waiting for a while, there was still no movement in the room.
Geng Nanyi frowned, raised his hand and grabbed a flower stand in the courtyard, and shouted, "Little fourth brother, I'm here!"
The "Karala" flower stand smashed into the corner of the wall, and Geng Nanyi stood still in the middle of the room and looked in the direction of the desk, and couldn't help but be stunned.
I saw Diao Xiaosi looking up at himself in astonishment, wearing only a pair of shorts and a fork, sitting on the back of the chair, holding a sheep's pen in his hand.
There were ink stains all over his body, a brush inserted behind his ears, on the waistband of his trousers, and in his mouth, and seven or eight flowering sheep's and wolf's brushes were thrown all over the ground.
Graffitied drawing papers were discarded on the table and on the floor, and some were simply pasted on the windows by Diao Xiaosi, and the situation in the room was as if a tornado had just been encountered.
Geng Nanyi was surprised and amused, and asked, "Little Fourth Brother, what are you painting...... Huh?"
His gaze inadvertently swept over a piece of paper that had fallen at his feet. The paper was densely painted, full of small black dots and many strange lines. Some black dots and lines are marked with a few numbers, or even rows of carefully calculated formulas and some terms that are not commonly used in Qimen Dunjia.
The smile on Geng Nanyi's face gradually disappeared, replaced by an increasingly obvious sense of surprise.
He just wanted to bend down and pick up the piece of painting paper to take a closer look, but Diao Xiaosi had already pounced on the wind and snatched the painting paper into his hand, so he had time to pull out the paintbrush from his mouth and said with a smile: "It's all things that I draw casually, and it's not much to look at." Old man Geng, are you looking for me?"
Geng Nanyi shook his head and said, "Little Fourth Brother, why are you too modest? The old man has also studied the art of Qimen Dunjia for a few years, but when he saw the changes and deductions you drew on the paper, he was so embarrassed that he was ashamed. Yesterday, you set up a large array in the forest and trapped the bandits in Huge Village, and only then did you save Wan'er's life. In such a short period of time, he was able to use the terrain and mountains to arrange the formation, which was really the only young wizard that the old man had seen in his life. ”
Diao Xiaosi said with a wide heart when he heard this: "It's my own fucking thief, how can Old Man Geng know the secret of the star array in the jade plate? ”
But listening to the head of the Jiangzhou Branch of the Weizhen Bashu Huitong Dart Bureau boasting about himself, he was a little proud and said: "Old man Geng, do you really think I'm okay?"
Geng Nanyi nodded without hesitation and said: "It's not just okay, at least in terms of Qimen Dunjia's attainments, junior fourth brother, your talent is extremely high, presumably Lingshi is also a hidden master." ”
Diao Xiaosi said in his heart: "That dead old man is a poor one, and he still likes to visit the Qinglou, and he can't have a relationship with any hermit master." ”
He thought about it, took out the drawing paper hidden behind him, and said, "I was also inspired by yesterday's events, but there are still many places that I haven't been able to understand. Old man Geng, since you have been immersed in the art of Qimen Dunjia for many years, you can help me. ”
Geng Nanyi took the drawing paper and looked at it for a while, but he was unconsciously fascinated.
The more he looked at it, the more profound he felt, and he deduced it seven or eight times in his heart one after another, but none of them had the same result. Thinking that Diao Xiaosi encountered the same problem, he couldn't help but secretly scream ashamed.
But after all, Jiang is old and spicy, Geng Nanyi still saw several fallacies in the painting, and pointed out them one by one and explained them to Diao Xiaosi in detail.
Diao Xiaosi listened to it with relish, and took another piece of drawing paper from the desk and asked Geng Nanyi to refer to it.
So the old and the young gathered at the table and participated in the discussion one picture after another.
Geng Nanyi was more and more surprised, the twenty-eight Pleiades star arrays drawn on this picture were still unheard of, and Diao Xiaosi's flashes of inspiration from time to time shocked him.
He found that Diao Xiaosi had not been taught by the orthodox Qimen Dunjia, and he knew nothing about many basic things. However, the broad-mindedness of his thinking and the incisiveness of his knowledge are not much better than those Qimen Dunjia masters who are famous all over the world.
Others know it, but they don't know why. But Diao Xiaosi turned upside down, often knowing why but not knowing it. But the more this is the case, the less he will be imprisoned by the empirical preconceptions of his predecessors, and his whimsical ideas will be endless, and even he will feel that he has benefited a lot.
Until the third pole of the sun, the two of them only saw through four pieces of drawing paper. Geng Nanyi said: "I almost forgot to say, little fourth brother, Wan'er has nothing to do." She wants to ask you to come over and thank you in person. ”
Diao Xiaosi sighed in his heart and said: "This little lady is afraid that she hates me to the bone, and Lao Tzu is mostly a weasel to give a New Year's greeting to a chicken, and he is uneasy and kind." ”
But Geng Nanyi came to invite him in person, and he couldn't shirk it, so he had to say perfunctorily: "It's good that Wan'er didn't have anything to do, I should have visited her a long time ago." ”
Geng Nanyi smiled and said, "Little Fourth Brother, your Twenty-Eight Continents Star Array is really mysterious, and the old man can't fully understand it. However, my study has a lot of Qimen Dunjia collections that have been collected over the years, and if you are interested, you can come and get them at any time, maybe it can come in handy. ”
Diao Xiaosi said happily: "Old man Geng, then I'm welcome." ”
He fetched water to wipe the ink on his face, put on his clothes and washed, closed the door and went to the small building where Wan'er lived with Geng Nanyi.
Geng Nanyi said: "Little Fourth Brother, there are several volumes of Wenxi's Codex in my study, which have a detailed explanation of all kinds of introductory knowledge of Qimen Dunjia, I suggest you can take a look." It is necessary to know that no matter how unfathomable the formation change is, it is still the same. In the final analysis, it is all constructed by interweaving rune recipes. For example, the Dao talismans we commonly use are actually small magic circles, but they are just blessed on talisman paper or other things with certain rules. ”
Diao Xiaosi nodded again and again, the old man didn't say anything like that, but he didn't speak in a simple way like Geng Nanyi, and it was often a cloud shroud without a stubble, making him directionless.
If he couldn't help but ask more, the dead old man would turn his face and say, "Get out of here!"
So Diao Xiaosi could only slip into a large coffin placed in the house, close the lid of the coffin and lie down like a dead man until the dead old man was released from confinement.
At this time, Geng Nanyi suddenly stopped, stretched out his hand and pointed to a Zhu building covered by green bamboos and said, "Little fourth brother, Wan'er lives in this 'Listening to the Rain Building'. I still have something to do, so I won't go in with you. ”
Diao Xiaosi was stunned, and then thought: "It was Old Man Geng who invited me to come and see this girl, what am I afraid of her doing?"
When I came to the second floor, I had a little maid guarding outside the house to open the door for Diao Xiaositong.
Diao Xiaosi walked into the room, when science was not flourishing, and he didn't pay much attention to male and female defense. At the same time, the Geng family has been walking for generations, and they don't care about those outdated rules. Therefore, the bamboo curtain in the house is rolled high, and there is no taboo to avoid suspicion.
Wan'er is half-leaning on the bed at the moment, covered with a thin quilt, her face is lazy and delicate, and there is a middle-aged beauty sitting next to her, who should be her mother.
Seeing Diao Xiaosi enter the house, Wan'er's mother got up and greeted her: "Little Fourth Uncle, thank you for saving Wan'er's life." ”
Wan'er raised her thin eyebrows and snorted, "If it weren't for his clumsiness, I wouldn't have been hurt at all." ”
Wan'er's mother scolded lightly: "Wan'er, don't talk nonsense, haven't you thanked your fourth uncle?"
Diao Xiaosi looked at Wan'er's eyes breathing fire, and said angrily: "Little Niangpi is ungrateful, does she want to eat people?"
He waved his hand and said, "No thanks, it's because I don't have the ability to protect Miss Wan'er, so she was plotted by the thief's silver bullet." ”
Wan'er heard the word "silver bullet", and couldn't help but widen her apricot eyes, and said with shame: "Mother, I have a few words that I want to say to the fourth uncle alone." ”
Wan'er Niang was stunned and looked at Diao Xiaosi, Diao Xiaosi shrank back and said, "This ...... It's not okay, you and I are alone, it's so inconvenient to be alone!"
Wan'er said coldly: "Stand still, I'll ...... I haven't thanked Xie Lu and Fourth Uncle Xie for me yesterday to collect medicine and detoxify the grace. ”
Diao Xiaosi coughed dryly, turned his head helplessly and said to Wan'er's mother: "Niece and daughter-in-law, or I'll talk to her for a few words, you just wait outside the door, don't go far." ”
Wan'er's mother smiled and nodded, and she had a little more affection for Diao Xiaosi in her heart, and said: "Although this little fourth uncle is young, he seems to be cynical, but he has a good character. But where could I guess that Diao Xiaosi was afraid that Wan'er would rather die than have a strong temper when Wan'er was in a hurry, so he specially asked her to stay as a free bodyguard.
When Wan'er's mother covered the door of the house, Wan'er's face became even colder, and she glared at Diao Xiaosi and said in a low voice: "Within three days, you must leave the dart game, roll as far as you can! Don't wait for me to heal from my injuries, and come to kill you with a sword!"
Diao Xiaosi was secretly shocked and said: "Could it be that the clothes are not properly dressed and the horse's feet are exposed, and this girl has seen the flaws?"
Thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help but look down at Wan'er's waist.
Wan'er's face was full of shame, if it weren't for the powerless mother in her hands and guarding the door, she would have beaten Diao Xiaosi to pieces with a cold feather sleeve arrow.
What's even more odious is that this kid has no shame, and with a blink of his eyes, he actually smiled toothily and said: "I thought you wanted to thank you, but who would have thought that you wanted to take revenge." Anyway, Lao Tzu has nothing to say, so I'll go back and wash my neck and wait for you to cut it. ”
As he spoke, he walked to the door, suddenly turned around and went straight to the bed, smiled and deliberately lowered his voice and said, "I forgot to tell you that I spent half a night recording all the exciting stories that happened between us, and I also added a few beautiful paintings. In case one day I have three long and two short, you must remember, take those words, paintings, or something to Lao Tzu's grave and burn them all, and you have done your filial piety. ”
After saying this, he ignored Wan'er's face and turned around with a smile, stretched out his hand to open the door and walked a few steps, and did not forget to say to Wan'er's mother: "Niece and daughter-in-law, I drew something last night, so that Ai seems to be very interested, and I will go back and ask you to enjoy the tasting with Shaohua Xian's nephew." ”
Wan'er didn't know if Diao Xiaosi's words were true or false, and she was ashamed and afraid that she would let him go in bed.