flagship summer song

Chapter 16

Xu Xiaoxian looked at the room calmly, neither angry nor did he intend to blame Chen Yao, he just said: "Master Chen, don't go in here, just watch the ending quietly."

"What..." Before Chen Yao finished asking, he saw a fire burning in the bamboo house, and only heard the voice of Zhi Nu in the room, every word and every word was full of resentment and curse.

Xu Xiaoxian: "Don't worry, Girl Zhi will be fine. As for that man, he is a beast in clothes anyway, so death is not a pity."

"Isn't he Zhi Nu's fiancé?"

Xu Xiaoxian smiled and said, "Mr. Chen, I reminded you that good intentions will be taken advantage of."

"Garden girl lied to me? Is the gardenia lantern promise also fake?"

"How do I know? You'll know when she comes out and ask her."

Hearing the beeping beeping beeping in the fire and the man's miserable screams, Chen Yao couldn't bear it, but Xu Xiaoxian blocked the way and refused to let him save people.

He was a little annoyed: "When will it be the first time to repay each other? If the man is dead, won't he turn to Zhi Nu for revenge?"

Xu Xiaoxian smiled indifferently, and said: "Zhi Nu will not give him such a chance, he will disappear completely."

"You get out of the way."

"No."

"Is Banxian going to fight with me?"

"Don't dare, if the young master insists on going to die, then Xiaoxian has no choice but to follow his own way." Xu Xiaoxian took out two talisman papers from his sleeve, waved them lightly in the air, and the tips of the talisman papers ignited. fire.

"Xu Xuan!"

"Mr. Chen, if you don't listen to what I warn you, this is the consequence you caused yourself. I take your money and I am only responsible for your safety. I have nothing to do with other people's lives. Besides, it is his own fault. This kind of end is also what he deserves, the cause and effect are numerous, there is nothing to say."

With a bang, the bamboo house collapsed under the engulfment of the flames, and a wisp of smoke fell in front of Chen Yao, taking the shape of a human, and opened his arms to block Chen Yao behind him.

Zhi Nu: "Half Immortal, I killed the man. I will go back with you to receive the punishment. It doesn't matter how many hells you go to. Don't hurt Mr. Chen."

Xu Xiaoxian glanced at her, and threw the talisman papers in his hand into the fire, the flames of the two talisman papers actually fed on the fire, bit by bit, until they ate up all the fire inside and outside the bamboo house, before it goes out.

"Don't dare to hurt your Mr. Chen, but I hope he can have a longer memory and stop causing trouble for me."

Chen Yao clenched his fists, suddenly sneered, and said, "I'm not talented, I'll only cause trouble for the half-immortal, and bother the half-immortal, so I won't bother the half-immortal in the future."

"Where are you going?"

"Since I have a different path from you, why bother to ask."

"Okay, it's a different road. If Xiaoxian sees Your Excellency on the northbound road, don't blame Xiaoxian for being unforgiving."

The owner of Taozhuang came a bit late, and the two were arguing excitedly. Seeing him rushing over, they each turned their backs and ignored each other. Zhi Nu was caught in the middle and looked at the two of them, not knowing what to do for a while.

Master Taozhuang: "Those who didn't know thought you two were jealous of a girl."

Hearing this, both of them glared at Master Tao Zhuang.

Xu Xiaoxian glanced at Chen Yao, sighed, walked to the side of Taozhuang Master, and told him softly: "You go with him, if he gets angry and goes back to Chen's house, that's naturally the best, I'm afraid that he will go back to Chen's residence halfway. I can't think about it and head north again, I can rest assured that you are by his side, let him go."

"What about you? You are not as good as him for that little weight. You go to die by yourself. Do you want him to regret it for the rest of his life?"

"I know my fate myself, and I don't dare to take me away casually. Don't worry, my title of half-immortal is not for nothing."

Just as he was talking, a gust of wind blew in, startling the three of them and one ghost. They couldn't help but looked around, but there was no movement.

Xu Xiaoxian turned around and shouted: "Mr. Chen, if you want to leave, hurry up. When it gets dark, Xiaoxian is afraid that you won't dare to leave."

Chen Yao rolled his eyes at him, and with the wind blowing under his feet, he quickly burrowed into the bamboo forest and disappeared in an instant.

Xu Xiaoxian picked up the umbrella, put it away, handed it to the owner of Taozhuang, and said: "Thank you, owner, please take this umbrella with you."

The owner of Taozhuang took a look at him, only cursed that he was sick, but ran towards the bamboo forest lightly.

Zhinu stared blankly at the direction of the bamboo forest, without moving.

Xu Xiaoxian: "Follow if you want to go, be careful not to get sunburned."

"Half Immortal, I'm sorry."

"Okay, anyway, the gate of ghosts can't be closed now. After sending you back, you have to run out again. If you want to stay in the human world, just stay there. It's just that the gate of ghosts is so loud that human demon catchers will probably have it." Great action, the talisman paper I gave you can block the noses of those dogs, so be careful to avoid it yourself."

"Banxian, I won't go, I will follow you."

"I have to pay, what do you give me?"

Zhinu pointed to the gardenia lamp on the ground, Xu Xiaoxian couldn't laugh or cry, and said, "Is this your lamp? I haven't even said that you are occupying the magpie's nest."

Zhi Nu didn't care so much, she turned into a wisp of smoke and got into the lamp, Xu Xiaoxian sighed, bent down and tapped the shell of the Gardenia lamp with her fingers, and asked, "Girl Zhi, please shrink the lantern a little bit, so Big, too eye-catching."

"Mr. Chen, why didn't you say to shrink the lantern!" Zhinv said, casting a spell to shrink the lantern until it became the size of a red bean, Xu Xiaoxian stopped, reached out to pick up the small gardenia lantern, I folded a root of grass and strung it up, and tied it to a lock of hair, which is faintly visible, but it is also unique.

Xu Xiaoxian lightly jumped onto the top of the bamboo, looked at the rolling dark clouds in the north, frowned, Zhinu whispered in his ear: "Banxian, do you know the method of praying for relief?"

"Is it the formation that Zhuge Wuhou prayed to God to increase his life?"

"Well, I heard from the old ghosts that on the night of Ghost Festival, someone set up seven-star lanterns in the west of the city, summoned a ghost from hell, and killed all the guards of the ghost gate. It can't be closed anymore, and the ghost messenger sent by the king of Hades was also eaten by that ghost."

Xu Xiaoxian looked back at the direction of the Chengxi River, he was also in the Chengxi River on the ghost festival night, but he didn't see any seven-star lanterns, and if someone was setting up an formation at the Chengxi River at that time, he should have sensed it, but he didn't that night found something unusual.

Xu Xiaoxian lowered his head and calculated, but couldn't figure out the result.

He asked: "Is the seven-star lamp the seven lamps arranged in the star shape of the Big Dipper? I remember that the method of prayer requires seven seven and forty-nine lamps to burn around the main lamp for seven days and seven nights to succeed. The lamp is out, how can the lamp in the river west of Cheng burn for so long?"

"That's different. Ghost Festival is the time of the year when the yin is at its peak, and river lanterns are also things that call forth spirits. As long as the desire of the person who puts up the lanterns is strong enough, when the seven lanterns are in harmony with the Big Dipper in the sky, the summoning will be successful. It's just a little weird to me."

"Why did the ghosts summoned by Chengxi River's formation break through Beize's ghost gate, but the Chengxi ghost gate was normal?"

"Well, I can't figure it out either. Those two water ghosts couldn't explain clearly, saying that two of the seven lamps were misplaced, causing the phases of the stars to shift to the north."

Xu Xiaoxian scratched his head, only to feel that the more he thought about it, the more confused he became, so he decided to rush to Beize to see the situation first.

Xu Xiaoxian walked around the village for a long time, and finally found a black donkey huddled in a stable. In fact, there were horses in the village, but he suffered from dizziness when he got on a horse since he was a child, so he never learned how to ride a horse.

Zhinu looked at the donkey that couldn't run fast, and asked, "Banxian, your feet are faster than it, right?"

"Before I reach Kitazawa, I need to save some energy."

Zhinu paused for a while before asking: "Banxian, why did you go to the Lord of the Underworld? If you hadn't gone to the Palace of the Lord of the Underworld, you wouldn't be in the same body now."

Xu Xiaoxian leaned on the back of the black donkey, looked at the small village gradually going away, and asked, "Did Mr. Chen ask you?"

"Well, I think he really cares about you, and you shouldn't drive him away."

"He is a doctor with a benevolent heart, and he will take care of anyone who is pitiful. Didn't you just take advantage of him to make up such a boring story to lie to him?"

"I didn't lie to him, the gardenia lamp is really my token of love..." Zhinu lost her confidence after speaking, and she stopped talking. She didn't die of a disease, but the dead man in the bamboo forest. First defiled her, then strangled her to death, hung her on a tree and pretended to hang herself.

Everyone said she died uncleanly.

No one regretted her death, and no one redressed her suffering.

She did not want to die with peace in her eyes, but that man lived a carefree life. If no one in the world could make the decision for her, then she would do it herself.

Xu Xiaoxian: "Where's the person who gave you the gardenia lamp? You avenged yourself, why don't you go see him?"

"He has already married someone else, and now the children are all soy sauce, what should I do with him?"

"Aren't you unwilling?"

"Maybe in the past, but it's been so long now, do you want him to keep me from marrying a wife and having children for the rest of my life?"

"You can think about it."

"He hasn't tied a gardenia lamp for anyone anymore, he should still remember me... that's enough..."

"Next time I'll tie a gardenia lamp for you."

Zhinu let out a snort, smiled softly, and a tear fell quietly from the corner of her eye, but Xu Xiaoxian couldn't see it, so she just thought she disliked her poor craftsmanship, so she said: "He can use bamboo to make lanterns, I'll get you one." Made of paper, you can still take it back home, and I promise that even Hades will be courteous to you when he sees you."

"I don't want your ghost lamp."

……

It is said that Chen Yao stopped not far away, turned around and saw the owner of Taozhuang who was chasing after him, and when he saw the oil-paper umbrella, he knew that Xu Xiaoxian had ordered it, and he felt very uncomfortable.

Chen Yao: "Why does the owner of Taozhuang come here to deliver the umbrella in person?"

"I don't want to come either. Banxian ordered me to follow you."

"How can the half-immortal He De be able to command the owner?"

"Don't be yin and yang here. If you want to be capable, don't let the half-immortal run away with a word or two." Taozhuang Master stuffed the umbrella into Chen Yao's arms, stretched his waist, looked at the northern sky, and said, "I am want to go north."

"Then the owner can go on his own, and I have accepted the umbrella. Please return the owner."

The owner of Taozhuang looked Chen Yao up and down, and said, "You guys are really interesting. You obviously quarreled so sincerely that you lost sight of each other, but you are worried about each other's safety?"

Chen Yao's face was slightly hot, but he refused to admit it. He turned and walked south, and the owner of Taozhuang followed him to the south. He wandered around without direction, and the owner of Taozhuang also followed. Wherever he went, Master Taozhuang followed him neither far nor near, and he couldn't get rid of him no matter what.

Chen Yao: "Why does Taozhuang Master want to go to the north?"

"Where is my house, otherwise Banxian please don't move me."

"Aren't you worried about him?"

"He said he knew his own fate, and it was useless to worry."

"The owner and Banxian have known each other for a long time, right?"

Master Taozhuang saw that he was telling his own words, so he didn't hide it, and said as he walked: "If you count from the first meeting, it will be ten years ago. At that time, he was still a little devil. I picked him up by the river, covered in blood. It was blood, and I thought he had been bitten by something."

Chen Yao frowned. Ten years ago was the year when Xu Xiaoxian was injured on his back, so it was the Master Taozhuang who saved him.

"No, I didn't save him. The kid didn't die. He kept yelling 'Sir, Mr.'. I took him to Mr.'s house, and Mr. was the one who saved him."

"If you hadn't taken him back, he would have died. He was seriously injured."

"No, when I saw him, he could still stand up. Even if I left him alone, he could walk home by himself. Have you seen his wound? That looked terrible, but he was It's really not as weak as I thought."

"I heard from my husband that he lay on the bed for a long time before he could get off the ground."

The husband said that every time the medicine was applied to the wound, it was torture, and the wound was all festered. In the first half month, Xu Xiaoxian fainted from the pain every time he applied the medicine, and then he gritted his teeth and endured it. The wound was healed, and the pain was no longer excruciating after applying the medicine.

"About four or five years after that time, he came to my Peach Blossom Manor when he was a little older, and we only got to know each other slowly at that time, this guy didn't learn well when he grew up, he only loves to tell people's fortunes Nonsense about marriage, when he was kicked out of the house by the husband, he ran to my place to eat and drink, so that I had to send him home every time, and help him intercede with the husband. At first, the husband thought that I picked him up , give me some face, and in the end, my husband doesn't want to see me anymore."

Chen Yao couldn't help smiling when he remembered the scene he saw at Banxian's house.

Seeing him smiling, Master Tao knew that he was no longer angry, so he also smiled and said: "Actually, you are a good person. Among the four sons of Nanyuan, you are the only one who always fights against the half-immortal."

"The owner is cursing me around the corner?"

The owner of Taozhuang laughed loudly, patted Chen Yao on the shoulder vigorously, and said: "Where is it? It's just that you are less likely to be confused by the half-immortal than the other three sons. I remember that the half-immortal said that you two met for the first time. Did you just give him a slap in the face?"

"...In the end he was right."

"But you still don't listen to him as always. Most people obey what the half-immortal says. You have never believed him."

Chen Yao lowered his head, bit his lips, and said, "I can't tell which words he said are true and which are false."

"But you do consider him a friend."

"I can't say. I think I have seen Banxian a long time ago. The first time I saw him, I felt familiar, but I just couldn't remember it."

"Nanyuan's land is just that big. You are about the same age as him, and you don't live far away. You might have bumped into him when you were running around on the street when you were young."

"Maybe."

The two walked while chatting, Chen Yao didn't pay much attention to the road, but let the owner of Taozhuang take the opportunity to turn to the guest, and at some point he changed the route and walked a long way to the north.

Chen Yao realized that the route was wrong, and glanced at the owner of Taozhuang, who pretended not to know anything, raised his hand to block his eyes, looked at the sun that was about to set, and asked, "Oh, it's getting dark , shall we find an inn to rest?"

"No, since the route is already wrong, why not rush to Beize in one go, and don't miss the owner's enthusiasm for returning home."

Chen Yao bought two horses in the village, and the two rode on the horses and drove straight to the city gate of Beize.