The independent small castle to the east turned out to be the residence of the eldest prince.
At the top of the small fort there is a standing stone pillar, and a gray-white stone circle hangs on the stone pillar.
When Yan Mo saw the stone circle, he felt something in his heart. He didn't need Wu Guo to bother to remind him, he knew that it was what he must get later.
La Moling held back for a while, seeing Yuan Zhan looking up at the roof, and then followed along.
Yuan Zhan: "Is that the circle?"
Yan Mo: "Yes."
Neither of them expected that this thing would be so easy to find, but because it was too easy, it was hung on the roof of the man, or the roof of the eldest prince. How could they take it down without being pursued
Yuan Zhan pointed at the stone circle, "That, I want it."
"You... know what that is?" La Moling said, his voice was hoarse and a little jerky, as if he didn't speak often.
"I don't know, but I, Mo Wu, want it." Yuan Zhan had already figured out the trick to talk to the eldest prince, that is, it is more effective to speak directly. If you go around in circles with him, he can pull you farther.
Lamo laughed hoarsely, and said slowly: "Then let's make a deal, if I give you this half-bone vessel, you must take me with you when you leave Sound City in the future."
Half bone implement, sure enough! When Yan Mo saw the shape, size and color of the stone circle, he remembered one of the four bone tools that he had kept in his pocket for a long time and got from the Dingyue tribe, the disc with no function.
What did Wu Guo say at that time? Said it was a door
Yuan Zhan didn't ask La Mo Ling why he left Yincheng with them, but asked curiously: "If I didn't ask for this stone circle, what price do you plan to pay?"
"Yuanjingcoin, it is said that you like Yuanjingcoin." La Moling also said bluntly.
"Then how can you be sure that we will be able to leave Sound City? Can we take you away with us?"
La Moling raised his head to look up at the rain screen with a deep expression, and his speech became fluent, "Do you know why I was cursed by a witch and couldn't speak for ten years?"
Yuan Zhan slapped suddenly when he heard the words.
La Moling looked down at him, could this person have guessed it? Or what did the witch say to them
Yuan Zhan said very annoyedly: "It's broken, I forgot the Yuanjing coin that I asked your king to heal just now!"
Yan Mo also said "Ah", "It's bad, I forgot to use the secret technique on that princess." He was too tired and hurt at that time, so he forgot... Yuan Zhan even forgot to remind him!
Lamo listened to the rainwater from his hair flowing onto his face, and all the depths were completely destroyed.
Since then, someone has left a deep impression on a certain prince that he loves Yuanjing coins deeply. This impression has not faded in his life, but has a tendency to deepen day by day.
At the same time, the City Lord's Hall.
The eldest princess Ramona handed the small and medium medicine jar to Lanyin.
Lan Yin opened it and sniffed it, then scratched the skin on the back of his hand with his nails, picked up a little ointment and applied it on the back of his hand to feel it for a while, after a while, when the wound healed up, he said: "The medicine is good medicine, there is no hidden harm , but this ointment has been activated, you need to use it as soon as possible, since the leader of Jiuyuan told you to use it sooner or later, it may not have much effect the next day."
"How could this be?" The King of Yincheng frowned, and he still hoped that the medicine would be kept for future study by the alchemy priest of the temple.
Lan Yin replied: "Perhaps the secret technique performed by Mo Wu just now is the key to arouse the medicinal property and make the medicinal effect so good."
Ramona was puzzled: "But the secret technique used by the silent witch was not aimed at me before, so will it be effective if I use it?"
"When he turned around, he made a circle movement. At that time, his finger pointed in the direction of you and me in the hall. I think the person he pointed at was granted permission. This is why my wound healed so quickly, and Your scar is much milder than that of the slave girl, so there is no need to use secret techniques on you." Lan Yin even thought that Mo Wu was a sensible person, because if he asked the eldest princess to stand in front of him Well, if he uses the secret technique on her, I am afraid that even if the eldest princess is willing, other people will not agree.
But he was surprised that the original war leader who liked Yuanjing coins didn't ask him for the treatment price, or was it not suitable for the occasion? Or did he want to wait for the scar on the eldest princess's face to completely disappear before asking for payment
Ramona looked at the amount of ointment left in the medicine jar, which was less than two fingernails, and couldn't help worrying, "Is this enough?"
"It should be enough, but you're done with it."
Queen Yincheng's lazy and pleasant voice sounded: "They are very smart."
Lan Yin shook his head, "This ointment needs to be stimulated by their great witch's secret technique, and it may even need his permission, so it is useless to refine it too much."
"Didn't he sell trauma medicine in the city? I heard that medicine is also very effective?" Ramona interjected.
Lan Yin pondered, "It's very likely that Jiuyuan's ability to refine medicine is not ordinary. The longest among those cat people escaped only by using the medicine made by their prescription. Several alchemy priests worked together to refine it, and although the refined medicine has a little effect on soul power recovery and improvement, the effect is not particularly significant."
"You suspect that the medicine was also blessed by that silent witch with a secret technique."
"Yes, and I also suspect that they have something to do with the escape of the cat people. I asked Zhimu carefully, and although there was no strange phenomenon at that time, and the two of them were not close to the old cat people, it was indeed the leader of Jiuyuan who personally pointed out that The old catman tried the medicine, and finally asked Zhimu to take all the medicines for the old catman, so that Zhimu didn't leave a single pill that he had refined."
Queen Yincheng tapped her finger on the armrest, "Later, let's see if some of the wound medicine sold by the leader of Jiuyuan can be taken back. High Priest, please ask the alchemy priests to have a look."
"Okay." Lan Yin had already planned to do so, and had already started to do so, "There is one other thing..."
Lan Yin didn't continue talking.
The king of Yincheng understood, and said to the three children: "You go down first, if you have something to do, come to me and your mother alone later."
"Yes." The three of Ramona had no choice but to retreat first.
When he walked out of the hall, the young prince who was not angry before suddenly said angrily: "Look! Even if La Moling is dumb, even if he has done so many wrong things, even if the priests don't like him, but the parents and the queen are all devoted to him. Him! When he can speak one day, everyone, stop arguing, I think he can become the Lord of Sound City with just that mouth!"
"La Moxuan!" Another young prince shouted softly to stop his brother's nonsense.
Ramona sighed, they have a pair of good parents, but the five siblings, except for the youngest Lamor, are all on guard against the other siblings. And they will become like this, but it is inseparable from the three priests of the temple.
On the other side, the eldest prince La Moling asked Yuan Zhan to go up and take down the ring by himself, but Yuan Zhan was not polite.
The soldiers guarding the city and patrolling saw Yuan Zhan climbed to the roof of the eldest prince's residence, and wanted to take care of it, but the eldest prince was standing there, looking up at the man who climbed to the roof with interest, out of a sense of alienation. The eldest prince should not be too close to the indescribable care, none of us is close to the little castle of the eldest prince.
As soon as the original warrior touched the ring, Wu Guo conveyed an excitement to Yan Mo.
"What is this?" Yuan Zhan asked Yan Mo.
Yan Mo replied: "It should be a part of the disc among the four bone vessels. I don't know what it's useful for yet. It's a pity that I can't take out my pocket, otherwise..."
Yuan Zhan vaguely remembered the matter of the four bone vessels. The ring was bigger and heavier, and he had no place to put it, so he carried it directly on his shoulders.
"What is this?" The eldest prince was very excited and asked the same question as Yuan Zhan.
"Didn't you say this is a half-bone device?"
"I only know that it is a bone vessel, or an incomplete bone vessel. I ran to the temple to play when I was a child, and I saw it at the high priest and insisted on it. Later I checked, and this bone vessel seemed to be placed in the temple. For a long, long time, no one knew who it was and when it was taken into the temple. The priests of all generations saw that it was an ancient bone vessel and thought about it, but they only found that it was an incomplete bone vessel. I didn't see anything else. Otherwise, you think a child, even if he is the eldest prince, can ask for a precious ancient bone vessel as an ornament?" La Moling had a mocking smile on his face.
Yuan Zhan replied: "You don't know the details, and I don't know what it is, I don't even know it's a half-bone tool. If you want to know, you have to wait for my Mo Wu to recover."
"When will he recover?"
"Do you have Yuanjing coins? Bring more, preferably level nine."
Lamo Ling, "... So you agreed to the deal I proposed?"
"Tell me first, if we take you away together, will Yincheng use this to start a war with our Jiuyuan?"
La Moling suddenly laughed silently, shaking his body back and forth, "How could it be? They want me to leave early, but they don't want me to leave! For this reason, each of them is wishing for my early death!" The last few days This word, La Moling's voice was full of hatred and endless resentment.
The stone castle door opened, and a thin old man walked out.
La Moling got emotional and walked into the stone castle first, Yuan Zhan followed Yan Mo with a bone ring on his back.
The attendants who were hiding from the rain under the eaves in the distance saw that His Royal Highness was finally willing to enter the place with a roof, and hurried over together, but the thin old man who opened the door slammed the door again in front of them.
Those attendants were angry, but it was probably not the first time they were treated like this. They stayed at the door for a while and made enough gestures before returning the same way.
There are lamp trees planted everywhere in the Castle of Yincheng, and the interior is not dark, but the castle of the eldest prince is gloomy, and there are very few servants and slaves inside.
The thin old man commanded a few slaves to quickly strip off La Moling's wet clothes, wipe him, put on new dry and warm clothes, and quickly light a few braziers to remove the moisture.
La Moling seemed to be used to this kind of service, he didn't care at all, and let the slave change his clothes.
The old man looked at Yuan Zhan again, as if hesitating whether to change the leather skirt for him.
Yuan Zhan shook his hand, saying that he didn't need it.
Afterwards, the skinny old man delivered fresh melons and fruits himself, knelt on the ground and kissed La Moling's toes, and exited silently.
La Moling collapsed on the stone couch, as if he had lost all his bones.
"Sit down, it's safe here." Lamo Ling waved his hand, weakly.
Yuan Zhan put the rattan basket on the couch, sat down on the other side of the stone couch, casually grabbed the red wild berries on the table and stuffed them into his mouth.
Yan Mo felt his mouth watering, the wild berries looked like raspberries, they bear fruit around April, the fruits are sour and sweet, and the roots and leaves can be used as medicine. The roots can treat enteritis, dysentery, rheumatic joint pain and bruises, etc. The leaves can be mashed and used fresh to reduce swelling and detoxify.
La Moling sat against the wall, staring blankly at the dark sky outside the open balcony, and said sullenly after a long while: "I don't talk, it's good for everyone."
Yuan Zhan spat out three words like a gift: "Why?"
La Moling finally waited for these three words, but he was still paralyzed there, looking hopeless, "Because of my bloodline ability."
"What's wrong with your bloodline ability?" Yuan Zhan was very patient because he could only drool at the raspberries.
"I can't use my voice as a weapon, but the words I say, especially the bad ones, can become reality."
Whoa! Yan Mo is in a better mood, isn't this the real version of Crow's Mouth
Yuan Zhan was stunned, what kind of ability is this? prophecy
La Moling didn't look at him and seemed to understand what he was thinking. He shook his head and said, "It's not a prophecy. People from Wucheng came to see me and said that I am not a prophecy-type ability, but another very special bloodline ability."
"How special? What kind of ability?" Yuan Zhan was a little interested.
The eldest prince turned his head, stared at Yuan Zhan and said seriously: "You will choke on the raspberries."
"Cough! Puff! Cough cough cough!" Yuan Zhan just thought how it was possible, but he was not too surprised. The chewed raspberry residue accidentally slipped into his throat, and it just happened to block his trachea , Although he coughed it out immediately, it still made him uncomfortable for a long time.
The eldest prince said blankly, "Look, it's done."
"Isn't this a prophecy?"
"No. Prophecy refers to things that may happen in the future. After intervention, they may change. But my ability is that the bad things I say are very likely to become reality, just like a curse."
Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo thought at the same time: Isn't this called a weapon? This is the biggest weapon, okay
Yan Mo now really wants to know the reason why the curse witch cursed this crow's mouth boy. With such a good ability, the curse witch should accept him as his disciple.
Yuan Zhan asked this question instead of him.
The eldest prince sighed deeply, "The curse witch didn't come to Yincheng casually, my parents invited him here, because the priests of Wucheng told them that maybe only the curse witch can solve my problem."
"Problem? They should be very happy that you have such ability." Yuan Zhan was puzzled.
The eldest prince smiled wretchedly, "I was a child at that time, and I was a spoiled child. I would curse anyone who made me unhappy, and it basically worked. From my parents to my younger siblings, from temple priests to nobles in the city, from soldiers to slaves, including civilians and guests, whoever made me feel bad or didn’t like me, I would use my abilities wantonly. At that time, the High Priest They all wanted to kill me, and it was my father who said he would poison me until I was sensible enough to control my abilities, but he was worried about the medicine made by the alchemist in the temple, so he asked for a curse."
"Then the witch cursed you to make you dumb? And in order to reassure your family and the temple, you didn't say that you were cursed for ten years, but that you were cursed to lose your voice forever?"
"Half." La Moling didn't dare to lie when he knew that Mo Wu was a disciple of the Curse Witch, otherwise he would leave Sound City with them in the future, and the Curse Witch would torture him before he was caught.
"The witch cursed me not because my parents begged me to lose my voice, but because I knew he was going to harm me and I cursed him first. Of course, my curse is useless to him. In fact, my curse only needs to be someone with a strong soul. It’s no use being on guard beforehand.”
"So your soul power has also been suppressed?"
"Yes. But the witch cursed me for losing my voice not only because I cursed him, he said that I am not suitable for mastering such a powerful power, not only because I am young and ignorant, but also because my soul and body cannot support this power , if I continue to use it recklessly in the future, then I'm afraid I won't live for a few years."
"Do your parents know about this?"
"I don't know if they know, maybe they don't know, witches don't like to explain things to people, and I hated my parents for asking someone to seal my useful ability, so I refused to pay attention to them for several years."
Yuan Zhan fell into deep thought, and there were still some things he couldn't figure out.
Lamo Ling murmured: "The witch said that my ability is not a curse, but a part of the power of language. He said that there are good-spoken people in the world. Some people in this family can communicate with all things in the world, and some You can use the power of words, because the ability of this family is too against the sky, and it was almost wiped out in the war a long time ago. He said that the blood of the city lord of Yincheng is probably a branch of the blood of the good words, but the blood has spread So far it has been weak, Yincheng has only awakened Yin's ability, and I am the only one who unfortunately awakened the oldest and purest blood of the Shanyan clan!"
When Yan Mo heard these few words exchanged between the Shanyan clan and all things in the world, he was already so shocked that the wind was in a mess. He never thought that Yincheng had an ancient blood relationship with him!
"Unlucky? Why do you say that?" Yuan Zhan was very concerned about these two words.
La Moling sat up, looked at Yuan Zhan, and said with endless pride as if probing, "Because Ninetowns has always had an ancient prophecy handed down, and the prophecy said: Those who inherit the blood of the Shanyan clan will kill the gods and become immortals." Devil, set off the flames of war among the various tribes in the world again!"