【Shuangxuan】Break the cauldron

Chapter 6 Reunion on Different Paths

After all, it was the fire season in July, and not long after He Xuan left, the sky became bright.

Shi Qingxuan got something out of the clothes left by the bed—that little vernacular true fairy was washed away by He Xuan in front of the ghost city gate, leaving only a ghostly soul, and after a day of raising it, he managed to recover, and saved a few. Silhouette of the spirit orb.At the beginning, it didn't matter if it got the news and went to Styx, or it went to the human world with the two of them. It was originally here to seek revenge from He Xuan.At this moment, he felt the smell of the enemy's blood was strong in the air. He searched for the smell and drifted away, but bumped into the blood formation He Xuan had drawn beside the bed, and was beaten back severely.

It didn't know why, and was in a daze when it heard the faint sound of a bamboo pole tapping on the door and window in the aisle outside the door, approaching from far away.

The man's breath was inexplicably familiar, and Xiao Baihua cheered up all of a sudden, staring eagerly at the paper window that was ajar in front of him.

The man walking down the corridor was dressed in a long gown, casually playing with a borrowed soul flag in his hand, and the pole of the flag occasionally scraped across the door and window.Following the guidance of the prayer flag, he came to Shi Qingxuan's gate, and looked into the room through the gap in the paper window. When he found out who was lying on the bed, he couldn't help being stunned, but he didn't see He Xuan when he looked around the room. .

He saw the shapeless vernacular in the room sitting on the ground watching him from a distance, and only then did he see the formation beside the bed in the dark.He just picked the banner along the way, it doesn't matter if he wants to get the soul or not, so with five fingers, he turned the soul borrowing banner into dust and put it in his sleeve first.

Now that there is a blood formation, he thought that the two of them might not have parted ways yet, and it would be best if He Xuan would come back.

He jumped off the Styx River together to follow He Xuan.Unexpectedly, after surfacing from the human river, he would meet Pei Ming and Shi Wudu who rushed over in a hurry.When he sees clearly that Master Pei and He Xuan are enemies, not friends, but encounters Tonglushankai again, all ghosts are restless.When he woke up from the restlessness, He Xuan had already lost track.

He was thinking about where He Xuan went, and if he followed Shi Qingxuan, he might find him again, but Shi Qingxuan in the room moved and opened a pair of sleepy eyes.He hastily took a step back to hide from the window, and then turned around to hide in the morning light.

After Shi Qingxuan woke up, he felt as if the bones on his body were falling apart, and there were dull pains in the unspeakable parts of his body, but this was nothing compared to the pain of breaking his hands and feet.He sat up from the bed, and couldn't help smiling wryly when he saw the blood on the ground.Although he didn't know about borrowing the soul pile, he could also see that this move was intended to protect him.Just like this, although many times it is not his own will, but his debt to He Xuan has accumulated day by day, and the mountains are high and the sea is deep, so that he hardly dares to think about whether there will be any part of yesterday's incident other than turmoil. mutual affection.

The little vernacular fairy was dazed by the formation. Seeing Shi Qingxuan woke up, he suffocated his strength. He wanted to read his mind to find some food. He stared at him for a while and said, "Xuangui is going to die in agitation. !Brother is going to be out of his wits!"

Shi Qingxuan immediately woke up from his melancholy when he heard this. His ears are soft, and it is always easy to suffer from this kind of monster.

The little vernacular fairy took his surprise, and sure enough, his whole body no longer looked so indistinct, and even had the appearance of a white coat.After eating this sweetness, it continued to stare at Shi Qingxuan.

Shi Qingxuan had some palpitations, and recalled the way Xie Lian taught him to deal with the vernacular fairy. As long as there is no fear in his heart or his mind is not shaken by it, the vernacular fairy will have nothing to do with you.But his worries were difficult to eradicate, so he had to do the opposite in his heart and do some superficial work, saying back and forth silently, "I'm afraid they are well-clothed and well-fed, and they live too well."

Xiaobaihua's superficial skills can only read some superficial skills, so he said: "They will be well-clothed and well-fed, and their lives will be safe!"

Hearing these nondescript words for vernacular immortals, Shi Qingxuan laughed dumbfounded, thinking that he, who had been an immortal for hundreds of years in the heavenly court, should have made some progress, so he was still afraid of this little rotten mouth monster with rudimentary skills. Extremely embarrassing.

He Xuan had already left without saying goodbye, and he was helpless if he wanted to find him again.But he had to do something, it was better than sitting here counting the threads of trouble, so he tightened the longevity lock on his chest, determined to find his brother.

I don't know whether Shi Wudu is too far away from him, or Pei Ming who took away Shi Wudu's golden lock has not returned from the heaven.Shi Qingxuan cut his fingers and went all the way from the downstream towns to the ghost market along the river, but the longevity lock on his body didn't respond.

He saw that all the ghosts on the road were safe and sound, presumably the restlessness of the ghosts had passed.But Shi Qingxuan remembered that the mood of those two people seemed to be hanging on both ends of the scale, and when he was relieved of He Xuan, his worry about his brother was even higher.

When he was an official in the Heavenly Court in the old days, he once heard the 33 priests who were burned by the temple in Huacheng mention that in order to destroy the ashes of the ghost king, he had to go to the underworld to borrow three karmic fires to burn the bone vessels formed from the ashes into ashes. .There seemed to be some other ways, but they were all too weird and biased, and he couldn't remember clearly now.

Will He Xuan go to find fire to destroy his brother's bones?Thinking of this, Shi Qingxuan became more and more anxious.

The festive atmosphere in the ghost market market has become more and more intense, like the Lantern Festival in the world.The pig butcher in the butcher's shop by the street danced his big knife and chatted with the diners in front of him: "Wait for those wandering spirits from below to come up, I'll let them all pass through my pot! Fry in a frying pan, the outside is charred inside." Nen, if I eat them all again, I will be 200 years old!"

The diner said: "Stop blowing it up... This year, the copper stove was turned on inexplicably during the ghost month. Everyone has not recovered, and their bodies are terribly weak. You still want to eat those things, so hurry up and hide, don't eat them." Let those wandering souls who seek revenge on you eat it!"

The pig butcher said disdainfully: "My old pig was upright and upright. Only people owed me, and I rarely owed others! In the past few hundred years since the ghost moon opened the door, few people below have come to me! If you are afraid, why not Ask me to arrange a number, and I will help you cook those enemies and make a soul banquet, the price is negotiable!"

After people die, most of them turn into ghosts due to resentment, and those who are ambitious become ghosts again.Once the gate of ghosts is opened, most of them are looking for people to seek revenge, some are looking for people, some are looking for ghosts, everything is available.Those who kill people can get rid of their resentment, and those who eat ghosts can also increase their morality.

A few little ghosts at the corner saw Shi Qingxuan walking in the market, and whispered to each other: "Look at the one with the fan on his waist, does it look like the person you are looking for?"

A man wearing a red mask muttered: "Young Master is looking for a living person, and this person smells like a human and a ghost!"

The leader who found Shi Qingxuan sniffed and sniffed: "It's true, it smells like a human outside, but a ghost inside! Could it be that it's covered in human skin? The young master said that he is a living person, so he can't be mistaken."

The other one who was caught by them asked, "Young master from the restaurant, what is his background?"

The red mask said: "I don't know, who has the guts to ask! The red is the king on land, and the black is the king in the water. Seeing that he is full of water magic, is it possible that he is the king of black water? After all, he doesn't look like a king at all. ghost!"

The kid in the lead felt his scalp tingle when he thought of the one in the restaurant, and thought: Yes, he is not a ghost, he is a ghost!He dominated a restaurant, cleaned up the ghosts in the building up and down, and then drove them all out with a water whip to find someone.Can't beat it!Only wait carefully.I don't know when Huacheng Lord will come back, otherwise this life would be too miserable.

It looked at the young man on the road, except that he smelled a little strange, other conditions should be met.I wanted to take care of him, and take him back to make a job, and then gave an order, and a few little ghosts surrounded Shi Qingxuan and intercepted him.The one in the restaurant had confessed that when he found someone, he had to treat him with courtesy, so he imitated those yin and yang scholars on the mortal stage, and said to Shi Qingxuan: "My son welcomes you."

On Shi Qingxuan Road, he had already guessed who the "Young Master" was, but when he opened the door of the Nuan Pavilion in the restaurant, his eyes still couldn't help but feel hot when he really saw that person.

When the man in the room saw him, the gloom between his brows suddenly melted away, but he immediately put on a stern look: "Qingxuan, you are really capable now, and you are so contemptuous of your own life! Why don't you go with Pei Ming? !"

Shi Qingxuan choked up and said: "Brother..." When he was wandering in the imperial city in a daze, his midnight dream was full of the scene of Shi Wudu's sudden death, and the few times he met after becoming Jue was only a glimpse, and now he is finally able to see him intact It's enough to see it once.Shi Wudu is still white-robed and crowned, but it is much simpler than when he was an official in the heavenly court. It is closer to him when he practiced Taoism in the world before his ascension, and when the two brothers depended on each other, Shi Qingxuan saw mixed feelings.

Seeing him standing at the door with red eyes, Shi Wudu couldn't bear it, and said: "Sit down and eat something."

The little ghost outside the door looked at the situation in the house, and knew that he must have found the right person, so he hurriedly searched the kitchen to get some food for people to add to the warm pavilion.

Shi Wudu carefully looked at Shi Qingxuan who sat down in front of him, and couldn't help but said: "How did you make yourself look like this!"

Shi Qingxuan felt guilty for no reason, and replied: "It's nothing, it's almost ready..." Xie Lian asked him about his siblings in the imperial city. I can't say it.

Shi Wudu was really furious: "It's the black water sinking..."

Shi Qingxuan quickly said: "No, it's me..."

Shi Wudu interrupted him sharply: "Forget it, eat." Shi Qingxuan hurriedly buried his head in eating, but he thought that Shi Wudu's "forget it" was not to be pursued for the time being, but what Shi Wudu thought was nothing, anyway, I also To tear that black water mysterious ghost into ten thousand pieces!

Shi Qingxuan also didn't eat enough for several days, and even forgot his hunger when taking care of He Xuan, and now he can finally sit down and have a good meal.There was silence in the warm pavilion for a while, and the passing time was like wax dripping from a red candle, which melted, but stagnated in the air as it slowly fell.The anger in Shi Wudu's belly subsided a little, and he looked at Shi Qingxuan in front of him several times before he wanted to speak, but he gave up again.

He turned his eyes away, took a thin stream from the warm open teapot on the table, and poured it into the cup in front of Shi Qingxuan: "Drink water."

Shi Qingxuan took a sip from his cup and said, "Brother, I'll do it myself."

After hearing this, Shi Wudu finally said: "...Qingxuan, I have become a ghost."

Shi Qingxuan raised his head subconsciously, and said: "It's good now, I don't think it makes any difference whether it's a god or a ghost..."

Shi Wudu supported his chin with one hand and looked straight into Shi Qingxuan's eyes.Whether it's a god or a ghost, he has nothing to fear, but...

"I can no longer appoint you as a general."

After hearing this, Shi Qingxuan felt sour in his heart.He hastily buried his head in his meal, he dared not look into Shi Wudu's eyes, fearing that he would burst into tears if he looked at him one more time, and said like a car: "It's okay, brother, it's really okay..." There are very few opportunities like this since he was a child, and he is supposed to comfort his almost omnipotent brother.

It is true that Shi Wudu seldom has such a moment of showing weakness that reveals his shortcomings. He himself is obviously at a loss for such a scene, and he looked away a little uneasy, and said: "But I am in a day, and no one dares to bully you."

The little ghost outside the door sent a new wave of hot food in a timely manner, and the trace of confusion in Shi Wudu's eyes was fleeting.

The ghosts in the ghost market are busy every day trying their best to please Huacheng, imitating the jade plates made in the world, and the delicacies are no less crude than the royal family.There are hot dishes on the red lacquered plate of the rotating wooden body, and a layer of transparent glass on the painted donut, through which you can see the north and south pastries of different shapes inside, and two leather buckles are fastened on the edge of the donut cover.When he was a child, Qingxuan, the buckle master, never knew how to solve it. Whenever he wanted to eat cakes and screamed anxiously, he would attract his omnipotent elder brother to help him solve it.

Now he already knew how to unlock the buckle, and he undid it in two or three strokes, but he just put his hand on the lid of the box and was dazed for a while, remembering the old things in his childhood.

Seeing Shi Wudu, he just thought he couldn't untie the buckle, spread his slender five fingers, raised his chin and said: "Bring it."

Shi Qingxuan saw the five fingers with sharp joints spread in front of his eyes, and wanted to blurt out that I had already opened it, but in his mind, Shi Wudu's words about Dianjiang and the pair of eyes looking straight at him couldn't get rid of it. The ground swallowed the words back, secretly restored the untied hasp, and handed the dowry to Shi Wudu.

Just at this moment, the little ghost's flustered notification voice sounded outside the door: "My lord, someone wants to see you...!"

Immediately afterwards, another man's voice sounded: "I even said that there is no need to report." As soon as the voice fell, the carved wooden door in front of him was immediately pulled open by him.The man draped the dark robe embroidered with gold silk cloud patterns casually on his body, held a long sword at his waist, touched his nose and said to Shi Wudu: "I knew you wouldn't stay well in Taiyuan. Cangshan." As soon as he came down from the Heavenly Court, he poured some blood and wanted to find his teacher Qingxuan, who knew that he followed the lock to the restaurant and asked, only to know that all the sufferers, big and small, had already gathered together.

Shi Wudu said indifferently: "General Pei, blame me. I will give you a long life lock and let you bring it back to Qingxuan, but tell me, where did you go to play?" If it wasn't for Pei Ming to take Jin Lock, why should he drive this group of monsters to help him find someone.

"Don't don't, don't ask the teacher to blame me, I don't have a lot of fun." Pei Ming took out something from his sleeve, and threw it to Shi Wudu with a wave of his hand, "I got this thing back for you."

Shi Wudu took the thing and opened his palm to see that it was a ring of ashes with missing horns.