Cui Wang waved away the hidden array.
The noon sun passed through the shades of greenery, illuminating the alleyway transparently. In daylight, the alleyway is not narrow, but rather secluded.
Zheng Wan narrowed her eyes and looked at the sky:
"It turned out to be almost noon."
She spread her hand towards Cui Wang, her ten fingers were as slender as green onions, and the palm was white and tender. Cui Wang was taken aback, and raised his hand to put it on, but Zheng Wan dodged it.
She reminded in a soft voice:
"Sound Transmission Jade Talisman."
Cui Wang withdrew his hand and did not move.
He resisted in silence, but Zheng Wan was not annoyed, and just stood there pretty and stretched out one hand for a long time.
Occasionally, there was the sound of peddlers hawking from street to street at the entrance of the alleyway, mixed with the sound of insect carts speeding past, Cui Wang's gaze slipped past the corner of her smiling mouth, and then fell into her eyes.
Memory is a mirror, which constantly compares the past and reflects reality.
Amidst the sound of a crash, Cui Wang finally understood what those eyes without guard, jealousy and desire looked like.
It was a sparkling mirror lake, but the lake was facing him, and there was no longer any sparkle.
Cui Wang tensed his jaw, and after a long time, he took out the jade talisman from the storage bag and handed it over:
"In exchange for the pony the man gave you."
Zheng Wan still looked at him with a smile:
"Why should Daojun play childish temper?"
"exchange."
Zheng Wan refused to give it, and finally Cui Wang backed down.
He gave the jade talisman to Zheng Wan, and the two walked out of the alleyway side by side.
The lights on the side of the road had already been turned off, and the place was bare, but the crowd was still bustling. As soon as the two of them appeared, there was a burst of whispering, and there was a vague look.
Just a few words came:
"That man has such a handsome face!"
"No, no, I think that woman is even more beautiful, burning like a flower, full of peaches and plums, wonderful."
"Don't look at it, people will be annoyed."
Seeing a girl accidentally knocked against a pillar because of her greed for Cui Wang, Zheng Wan couldn't help but burst out laughing:
"Mr. Dao is so charming."
Cui Wang released the coercion expressionlessly, until the whole street was emptied by him, then said:
"True Monarch is not bad either."
While talking, a yuan talisman suddenly floated in front of Zheng Wan. She reached out to catch it, and when it came from the shopkeeper, her face became happy:
"I'm sorry Daojun, I still have some things to do, so I won't participate in the banquet tonight."
After the grand ceremony of the Venerable, in order to have fun with all the sessions, the Guixumen Flowing Water Banquet will be held for three days and three nights. Today is the second day.
"You want to go to Yuzhen Building? Shopkeeper Bai?"
Cui Wang was not surprised either, "Let's go together."
"Does Lord Dao also know?"
Zheng Wan was taken aback for a moment, but when she thought of the identity of this person, Hei Tieling Da Siqing, she felt that she should know, "Don't bother the Taoist Lord."
She refused, but since Cui Wang made up his mind to ask her to agree to him, he naturally refused to back down. Seeing that Zheng Wan couldn't resist him, so she let it go, and transmitted the sound to Shu Jin, who didn't know what Shu Jin was busy with, so he hurriedly took it , Said that I will see you at the evening banquet, and cut off before she even had time to hear her words.
Zheng Wan had to go to Yuzhen Tower with Cui Wang.
In front of Yuzhen Building, the acting shopkeeper kept looking out on tiptoe. Looking from a distance, he saw a pair of Bi men walking up. The man was wearing a black cloak, only his hat was taken off, revealing the hem of a pure white robe while walking.
The woman was dressed in a sky-feather streamer dress, and she could see the butterfly shadow fluttering in the distance, and said involuntarily:
Another primordial stone with endless flowers.
Righteously, I felt sour, but felt that the woman's figure was very familiar, I was taken aback, and hurried out to greet him after I realized:
"Really Zheng, why did you arrive so late..."
When he got closer, he was overjoyed and cupped his hands again and again:
"I haven't congratulated the real person on his promotion yet, ah, no, look at my mouth, it's the real king."
Zheng Wan smiled and called out:
"On behalf of the shopkeeper."
Only then did the acting shopkeeper pay attention to the black cloak next to Zheng Wan. When he saw it, he was taken aback again. He hurriedly lowered his eyes, and was annoyed to find that there were six small swords with hidden golden patterns on the hem of the man's robe.
The small sword of the six realms of Guixumen means that it is a Taoist monarch.
Thinking of this indescribable handsome face, and the anecdote that was once published in the Canglan newspaper, it is not difficult to guess who this person is.
Thinking in his heart whether the two had reconciled, the acting shopkeeper nodded and bowed again:
"I don't know that Daoist Li Wei is here, but if he is a little negligent, I still hope that Daoist Lord Haihan."
Cui Wang gave a faint "huh".
Zheng Wan smiled and said:
"On behalf of the shopkeeper, Daojun and I are here to see shopkeeper Bai, is the shopkeeper here?"
Speaking of shopkeeper in Yuzhen Building, it refers to shopkeeper Bai.
"Yes, yes, the shopkeeper is here..."
Before the acting shopkeeper finished talking, he saw the two people coming and going like the wind, and disappeared before his eyes. Turning around and looking back, there are still figures everywhere, so that the last two words "meeting guests" are broken in the middle.
He shook his head:
"Young man, you just have a quick temper..."
Before Zheng Wan got close to the small courtyard where shopkeeper Bai often stayed, Cui Wang stopped her:
"Someone."
There is an unwritten custom in Xuancang Realm, when entering someone else's territory, the soul consciousness must be put away, otherwise, it will be regarded as a provocation to the other party.
Zheng Wan naturally received her soul consciousness when she entered the Yuzhen Building, she was surprised when she heard this:
"Is there anyone in there?"
Cui Wang nodded. The two were about to exit the yard, but they heard a violent quarrel coming from the house. Shopkeeper Bai's hoarse and vague voice fluctuated up and down, but the other party only occasionally responded with one or two sentences—
Wan's expression was strange, if she heard correctly, the voice sounded like... her master
"Daoist Zixiu."
Cui Wang came to a conclusion.
The two looked at each other and turned around at the same time. Listening to the content of the argument, it seemed like they were having a quarrel with an old lover. Just thinking about the white skin and white hair of the shopkeeper, and the beautiful appearance of the master, they really don't match.
It's a pity that it's too late to quit now.
Zheng Wan only felt a gust of wind pass by, and Cui Wang dragged herself to the side of the pillar. He set up a concealment array casually, and then concealed the two figures, and the door opened with a creak.
The master came out with a serious face, his usual smiling face was covered with anger, and there was no usual laughter and cursing, which made Zheng Wan feel strange: she had never seen such a master.
Shopkeeper Bai hurriedly stepped out of the threshold leaning on his crutches, and the crutches fell to the ground with a sound of "duk-duk-duk".
She still has the posture of an old woman, but it can be seen that she has been slightly modified today, she is covered with a dark purple patterned beige, the white hair at the temples is neatly squeezed, and she has a cane:
"Zixiu, stop!"
Taoist Zixiu paused in his footsteps, and when he took another step, his robe flew faster.
Zheng Wan subconsciously hid inside, but found that her whole body was almost covered by Cui Wang, and the two of them were cramped together in a tight corner. Apart from the red-painted corridor pillars, there was a piece of eaves nearby.
She was blocked by Cui Wang between the pillars and the eaves. The shadow of the eaves and Cui Wang's figure shrouded her completely. The flower garden, there is no other way to go.
Cui Wang looked at her without blinking.
Zheng Wan signaled him to move away with her eyes, but Cui Wang didn't move at all.
During the stalemate, shopkeeper Bai in the yard said again:
"Zixiu, after all these years, you're still blaming me."
"Strange?" Daoist Zixiu stopped in his tracks, and he turned around, "Bai Yu, you have been hiding from me all your life. Now that you have been hiding, why don't you hide more thoroughly? I never knew that you were hiding in this jade At the foot of Qingmen, in Fengwu City."
Shopkeeper Bai's sneer:
"I fear you."
"Afraid of me?" Zixiu smiled suddenly, and his voice softened, "Why are you afraid of me? Bai Yu, you know, I will never hurt you."
"You won't hurt me," Shopkeeper Bai said, "But you hurt Senior Brother Zhan! You hurt Hongyan!"
"In order to get close to me, you used all kinds of means to deceive me and play tricks on me. You first approached Senior Brother Zhan and then Hong Yan. You let them all die. How can I not be afraid of you?"
On Zixiu's face was a disheartened look that Zheng Wan had never seen before, he seemed too lazy to argue with her:
"Since the conclusion has been drawn, why should it appear?"
He didn't want to stay any longer, he turned around and wanted to step out of the yard, but he heard Shopkeeper Bai say:
"Daughter! Zixiu, we have a daughter!"
Taoist Zixiu turned around and said:
"What did you say?"
Zheng Wan was horrified, that corpse turned out to be the daughter of Shopkeeper Bai and Master
The two people's painting styles are really different, she can't think of them together, after all, standing together is like the difference between a grandma and a grandson.
Looking up again, Cui Wang was still looking at her quietly.
He seemed to be indifferent to everything that happened outside, only her was in Youqi's pupils.
But Zheng Wan's heart is like still water.
In the past, she would be a little bit proud, a little self-confident, and even a little secretly happy, but now, she has nothing. He said "reluctantly", planning all her delusions about love.
"daughter?"
Taoist Zixiu stepped directly in front of Shopkeeper Bai, "Where is the daughter?"
"She's dead."
Shopkeeper Bai said with no expression on his face, but tears were streaming down his face, "She's dead, Zixiu."
"Dead?" After a day of ups and downs, Zixiu's face was as white as paper, "She died?"
"After I go, no one will burn incense for her, Zixiu, I asked you to come, but I just want you to burn incense for her on New Year's Day—"
"you shut up."
Zixiu pointed at her, and the finger exposed under the wide sleeve seemed to be stained with blood, "Bai Yu, hello, you're doing great!"
After saying that, he disappeared in place.
Shopkeeper Bai stood stupidly for a long time before saying to the back of the colonnade:
"Since the guests are here, let's come out."
Zheng Wan, who was called Po Xingzang, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Although it was unintentional, it was not good after all.
In the past, she would still anger Cui Wang, but now she feels that she can't blame him either.
It is not uncommon for the master to see through the hidden array hastily set up with some other concealment methods.
She came out of hiding:
"The shopkeeper."
Shopkeeper Bai wiped the corners of his eyes, and turned his back to the room without looking at the male cultivator who came out behind Zheng Wan, tapping his crutches on the ground.
She said:
"come in."
Zheng Wan stepped into the threshold and looked at the old woman again, feeling a little strange.
Shopkeeper Bai's calm:
"I made you laugh."
"sit."
She got up and made a cup of tea for each of them.
Zheng Wan is on the left, Cui Wang is on the right, and the two sit together on a mahogany Eight Immortals chair in front of the screen.
Shopkeeper Bai looked at her, then at the Leng Jun man on the right, and asked:
"Who is this… "
The breath on the man's body is like the sea, unfathomable.
"Mr. Li Wei."
Zheng Wan introduced that Shopkeeper Bai nodded indifferently. Now that she is at the end of her lifespan, she has already looked at these things, and said, "Dao Jun is really neglecting you when you come here."
"No problem."
Cui Wang said.
After the two parties greeted each other, Zheng Wan explained his intentions and handed over the storage bag containing the corpse.
Shopkeeper Bai sat blankly for a while, with a look of crying and laughter on his face, which finally turned into a choked sob:
"Thank you Majesty."
The veins popped out of her hand holding the storage bag, and the dry skin drooped on a thin wrist, with spots of old people on it:
"I have no regrets in this life."
Shopkeeper Bai took back the storage bag, seeing that Zheng Wan looked at him with curiosity in his eyes, and said:
"When Zhenjun came in, I knew you were a disciple of Zixiu, so I specially asked you to go in and meet him. You are quite similar to the former Zixiu..."
Shopkeeper Bai took the initiative to talk about Master, saying that he didn't care too much, so Zheng Wan followed suit.
"Zixiu, he..."
Shopkeeper Bai fell into memories, "He was afraid that I would dislike his identity as a member of the Yuqing sect, so he used an alias to befriend my senior brother. My childhood sweetheart and my senior brother have long been decided by the master and made a marriage contract..."
Shopkeeper Bai didn't hide much, and after a while, Zheng Wan knew the outline of the story.
In short, it is a story about a viper pretending to be a rabbit in order to get close to another lamb, and taking the opportunity to poison the lark and the bull that had befriended the lamb one by one. It sounds a bit sad.
But according to Zheng Wan's understanding of Master, although he is a little out of tune, he is indeed an open-minded and informal person.
"Did the lamb misunderstand?"
"It doesn't matter if you misunderstood or not," Shopkeeper Bai said, "A relationship based on deceit and lies is like this lantern fruit that has been eaten by moths. It looks bright on the outside, but the inside is rotten."
"Not for long."
She said slowly.
Zheng Wan glanced at Cui Wang, unexpectedly he was also looking at her, she moved her eyes away, but Cui Wang said:
"not necessarily."
"It was the shopkeeper who gave up first."
He said slowly.
"If Daoist Lord is me, what should I do?"
Shopkeeper Bai couldn't think of another possibility.
"The shopkeeper said he wanted to let go, but gave birth to the daughter of Zixiu. He said he wanted to leave, but hid in Fengwu City, which is closest to him."
Cui Wang is like waking up from a big dream.
After a long time, he said:
"Since you can't struggle, why not follow your heart, take what you want, and take what you want."
Shopkeeper Bai looked at him, suddenly laughed, then cried:
"I've been stubborn with myself all my life, but I don't expect a child in his twenties to see through it."
The thin, white-haired old woman nestled on the wide seat, like a piece of dead wood.
Cui Wang and Zheng Wan withdrew.