The time in the restaurant was frozen, and everyone's expressions were fixed on their faces, those who spoke, laughed, applauded, and opened their mouths to eat vegetables with chopsticks... Even the flowing air solidified around everyone.
In this terrifying dead silence, Yuchixiao's trembling voice was finally heard:
"Xu... Sect Master Xu..."
Xu Shuangce lifted the curtain and walked out of the private room, and glanced back at them. There was no emotion in those dead, dark eyes, but as long as anyone who touched his line of sight, there was a kind of fear in their bones.
"The ear doesn't need to be cut on the right path," he said flatly.
No one dared to speak.
I saw Xu Shuangce's gaze turned to Gong Wei, and then glanced at the plate of drunken chickens on the table, without saying a word. Then he turned around and went downstairs, his robe sleeves raised without wind, and the whole person disappeared between the wooden steps out of thin air.
The fixed time suddenly began to flow, and the silence only lasted for the blink of an eye. The next moment, Tan Xiao continued to laugh, applauded, and the wine in the air suddenly began to gurgling, and it fell firmly into the celadon cup, not even a drop spilled out.
"Where did you say it just now?" The old storyteller was stunned, and then smiled relievedly: "-Yes. I just mentioned that the ghost prince was marrying a beautiful girl who had just ascended, and the monster beast greeted her with blows and blows, Huaqiao. From the blue sky straight down to the Yellow Spring…”
The audience below applauded and laughed, and no one noticed anything wrong in this lively and natural scene. The romantic affairs between the famous people of the immortal gate just now, like water droplets evaporating under the sun, disappeared silently from everyone's consciousness, leaving no trace.
Only in this elegant room was quiet, and it took a long time for Yu Chixiao to squeeze out a few words:
"I'm still alive..."
Gong Wei put down his chopsticks sadly, and said that fortunately I only ordered a plate of drunken chicken. If I couldn't resist eating the beautiful peony on the window sill of the private room, my body would be cold now. Just when I was thinking so, I heard Meng Yunfei tremble:
"Shall we go back to the inn later?"
"… "
The three fell into silence at the same time, and none of them wanted to go back to face Sect Master Xu's cold face.
Yu Chixiao looked regretful: "If only you hadn't interrupted Lord Le Sheng's Dongting song."
"?" Meng Yunfei asked, "Why didn't you say that it would be fine if you hadn't interrupted the overbearing swordsman Er Yue Tao?"
"How could I have thought that a big guy like Sect Master Xu would come out to listen to storytelling in disguise?"
"So why can't we just let him listen to the overbearing sword sect Er Yue Tao?"
"..." Gong Wei finally interrupted them unbearably: "Two young heroes, don't you think the contents of these storytelling books are not normal?"
The two looked at each other, and then turned to Gong Wei together. Meng Yunfei suddenly realized: "Xiang Xiao Gongzi, you have never seen it at a young age. Don't take it too seriously when you hear this, it's all fiction!"
Yuchixiao said: "Yes, it is mainly because the people are more interested in the past love history of Sect Master Xu, and it is inevitable that there are some far-fetched speculations. After returning to Cangyang Mountain, don't ask people everywhere. Do you understand that life is important?"
Why should I ask people! I am the Lord!
Gong Wei took a deep breath and asked with difficulty: "Then that Fahua Immortal... is really with your sword sect... and that Lord Lesheng..."
Yuchixiao almost didn't jump up: "No!"
Meng Yunfei put one hand on his forehead and said, "My master is not a good-looking girl at all, and I don't know much about Fahua Xianzun. It's just that those people who make money by writing small stories are far-fetched. There are a lot of legends, and the fairy died too early. After he left, the folk began to spread jokes about a thousand-year-old peach blossom becoming an essence. At first, it was barely normal, but later it became more exaggerated and absurd, and finally evolved into various love stories. In fact, serious Speaking of it, it's just because the dead can't jump out and care about them."
Gong Wei suddenly heard a terrifying word that could not be ignored: "... 'All Roads' Love History... "
Meng Yunfei said: "Oh, it's not too bad, Cangyang Mountain Xu Sect Master, Wu Yuanzun Ying Alliance Master, Sword, Doctor, Ju Sect, four Xuanmen Xiansheng, Six Great Aristocratic Families Revered Master, Eight Sect Masters, Ghosts A few famous ghost repairers in Yuan... That's all. In fact, there are not many dramas between President Gong and Sect Master Xu. After all, it is well known that Sect Master Cangyang mourns his deceased wife. People prefer to listen to Sect Master Xu. There are various scripts with the two leaders of the alliance, because most of the endings are happy and happy, and many troupes have lined up."
"… "
"… "
The air was subtly quiet for a moment, and Yuchixiao said implicitly, "Yunfei, you really understand this."
Meng Yunfei was unusually unnatural: "No, haha."
Yuchixiao said: "That... Yunfei, I heard a rumor before that Lord Le Sheng was very fond of collecting opera texts, and every time he listened to people commenting on books, he rubbed his palms and laughed, feeling joyful..."
Meng Yunfei immediately said, "Shut up! At least my master didn't spend money to find someone to write about Nian Nujiao!"
Gong Wei: "..."
Gong Wei took a deep breath again, got up and said politely, "I'm sorry for the two young heroes, I'll be back in a moment." Then he lifted the curtain and walked out of the private room without looking back.
The two of them turned their heads in unison and watched him go out. Yuchixiao asked in a low voice, "The impact on him seems to be a bit big. You can see that they are all on the same foot..."
Meng Yunfei: "After all, he is a disciple of the Cangyang Sect—I said that we shouldn't interrupt the overbearing sword sect Er Yuetao at the beginning!"
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Gong Wei recited the Qingxin Mantra silently in his heart, went down to the end of the stairs, beckoned to call the running hall and whispered, "Tell the two upstairs later that I will go back to the inn first." Then he turned around and went straight out of the door of the restaurant. Looking left and right on the busy street, I saw a bookstore on the corner, so I walked over.
Although the bookstore was small, it was filled with various books and dramas. He turned around with his hands behind his back, and summoned the shopkeeper to ask, "Do you have the words of those famous people from immortal families?"
The shopkeeper said with a clear face: "Yes, yes, may I ask which grandmaster do you admire more, young master?"
Gong Weixin said that you all express your admiration in this way. He rubbed the throbbing eyebrows with his knuckles and said, "Actually, I... I don't know much about it. Do you have anything to recommend?"
"Oh, son, you've come to the right place!" The shopkeeper sighed, "The new book we have here is very comprehensive, including all the ancient and modern works of Fahua Xianzun. Have you heard of "The Yellow Springs Can't Love"? Shu Cang It took less than half a month for Sect Master Yang to go to the Underworld to bring peace to the underworld! The drama "Dongting Song" just published by Kaiyuan Miscellaneous News last month was originally available, but the price was too high, because Lord Yanchuntai Lesheng had already sent an order. The world is not allowed to publish and copy, and I am afraid it will become an absolute copy in the future! In addition, we also have "Daishan Supplements", "Remembering the Peach Demon", "The Secret History of Yingmeng Master"..."
Very good Liu Xuzhi! When you listen to other people's words, you are in a happy mood, but it is your turn to issue an order to ban copying!
Gong Wei forcibly interrupted the shopkeeper who recommended him the secret history of the alliance leader, and finally asked the question he was most concerned about during his trip: "Don't you have any normal words? There are so many female disciples in the medical sect, and there are eight sects. All the immortals of Zhongqionghua Xiaozhu…”
The shopkeeper was shocked: "That's not normal, little son, it's all a girl's house!"
Gong Wei: "?"
"Although everyone has a demand for Fengyue's words, how can they ruin the reputation of the girl's boudoir!"
"… "
Gong Wei fell into silence under the accusing gaze of the opposite.
The shopkeeper said displeasedly, "Young Master, do you really want it? If you're not interested in "The Secret History of the Alliance Master", "The Yellow Spring Can't Love" is actually not bad. It can be appreciated, and maybe it can be given to the descendants as a family heirloom! Don't you think about it? Are you sure you don't think about it? Otherwise, I will give you a 10% discount on the price of "The Secret History of the League Master"..."
Gong Wei threw away his armor and armor in the shopkeeper's barrage of attacks, and it was really difficult to face the more than 20 secret love histories that his own brothers and sisters straddled the yin and yang worlds, all monsters and ghosts, and finally retreated together with Xu Shuangce. The book "Huangquan Can't Love" was stuffed into his sleeve, and he left with his forehead behind him. It wasn't until he walked out of the store and stood on the street that he opened the seemingly unremarkable thread-bound book. He glanced at it and saw that Xu Shuangce was coughing up blood while he carved a tombstone for him—the six characters "The Tomb of His Beloved Wife Gong Wei"— In that paragraph, I closed the book with a snap, thinking to myself: My eyes are going blind.
In his previous life, Xu Shuangce had spent so much effort to abolish his "demon and inhuman" right eye, but now he did it with ease!
He wanted to lose the book, and he looked around at people coming and going. He was embarrassed to throw it on the road, so he had to keep putting it in his sleeve and hired an ox cart to walk slowly to the inn. Shaking and boring all the way, I couldn't help but take it out to look at it. After reading a few lines, I felt irritated. Even more irritating, and then "Clap!" repeated again and again, thinking that this book is too much!
This man Xu Shuangce reacted so badly when he tried to kiss him in Xuanji Hall back then, and even stabbed me with a reluctant sword. How could he hold my dying hand and touch his own face!
The ox cart swayed back to the inn, and it was already night time. Gong Wei rolled up the book that was a dog's eye from thousands of miles away and stuffed it into his arms. He jumped out of the car and pushed open the closed door of the inn with a creak, only to hear a resentful cry from Yuchi Xiao. : "—where have you been!"
Gong Wei was taken aback: "What are you doing, two young heroes?"
I saw that the lobby of the inn had been emptied, and only a black candle was lit on the long table in the middle, and the green light was flickering faintly. Yuchixiao and Meng Yunfei sat opposite each other at the long table, their faces turned blue by the candlelight.
In the huge space around it, there are pieces of high and low, large and small objects hanging by red lines, whether the shape is round or square, and they are all covered with a thick blood-red cloth, and no half-silk light can be seen.
Gong Wei's mind turned and guessed what it was: "Mercury mirror?"
"Don't touch it!" Meng Yunfei hurriedly stopped him and said, "Sect Master Xu asked King Linjiang to collect all the mercury mirrors in the city and hang them here. Each mirror is painted with a confinement talisman. As long as the ghost repairs use the mirror technique to make trouble , will be immediately imprisoned in the corresponding mirror space."
There are at least hundreds of mirrors covered with blood-red cloth around them, and there is no wind and slight movement in the dark green halo of the candle, each of which is facing the three of them from different directions. The surroundings were dead silent, the night outside was as dark as ink, and everyone from the inn from the shopkeeper to the hall was driven away, so quiet that a needle could be heard falling to the ground.
This scene is a match for the underworld.
Gong Wei shuddered in the thick yin: "There will naturally be strange noises when the ghosts come, why don't the two young heroes go upstairs and wait in the room?"
Yuchixiao said firmly: "It's cool here."
"..." Gong Wei said sincerely, "Young Master, take it easy and cool down." He raised his feet and was about to go upstairs.
Meng Yunfei covered his mouth and whispered, "Sect Master Xu is upstairs..."
Gong Wei's foot was hanging abruptly above the steps, and after a while, he calmly retracted it, straightened the cuffs of his clothes, and agreed, "It's really cool downstairs!" Sitting down, he shrugged his shoulders and couldn't hold his breath.
The three of them sat around the table and looked at each other, time passed bit by bit in the night. Hundreds of blood cloths made a slight rustling sound when shaking, as if countless invisible figures were constantly shuttled in the mirror.
There was no change until the middle of the night, and the cold air emanating from the candle became more and more intense, and it seemed that even the ground under my feet would freeze. Gong Wei finally couldn't take it anymore, and respectfully returned Meng Yunfei's cloak and Yuchixiao's robe, rubbed his hands and said, "The two young heroes cool down slowly, I'll go upstairs and wrap a quilt down. First!"
Meng Yunfei hesitated: "Sect Master Xu..."
Gong Wei resolutely said: "Sect Master Xu has a large number, and he will never care about something inhuman like me!"
Yuchixiao immediately praised him vigorously: "Very good, you have the courage! In case Xu Zongzhu kills you later, please remember to call us both!"
Gong Wei couldn't help but feel a touch of emotion: "Young Hero, you..."
Yuchixiao smiled slightly: "At least we can go up and hand over a knife to Sect Master Xu."
Gong Wei walked away, and went upstairs with an indifferent expression. The inn was empty except for a few of them. On the wooden stairs, he could only hear his own footsteps. When he reached the second floor, he suddenly heard a faint movement in the Tianzi room at the end of the corridor. It was a gentle and steady male voice:
"The other day, you told me that there was a mistake in the book of life and death, so I went to Huangquan to check it myself, but the Guiyuan Mansion was completely silent, and the copper door was closed..."
Gong Wei stopped abruptly and heard who the voice was.
The leader of the Immortal Alliance, Ying Kai!
Brother! Brothers and sisters who save the suffering!
Ying Kai was the most likely person in this world to get him out of Xu Shuangce's hands, besides Yu Chi Rui, Gong Wei almost rushed in and hugged his thighs on the spot. .
Xu Shuangce cast the Mahayana seal to seal the capital of Linjiang, Ying Kai would not break in easily, otherwise he would refute Cangyang Sect's face in front of the world, and 80% of it was a sound transmission.
Sure enough, the next moment he heard Ying Kai ask worriedly: "Shuangce, do you really need me to rush to Linjiang Capital immediately? I know you have no problem, but this time the situation is absurd, even beyond your understanding. …”
Xu Shuangce said lightly, "No need."
Gong Wei felt like there were a hundred foxes scratching their claws in his heart. The scratching made him restless. However, he knew that with Xu Shuangce's realm, he must have known that he was outside the door by now. Even if he got two steps closer, he would definitely kill him.
He rushed upstairs and came to the same position on the third floor. He squatted in the corner of the wall and scratched it in the dark. Sure enough, there was a black hole in the corner that led directly to the small hole downstairs - the drain pipe. He searched around again to find a long broom, and pulled out the broom stick three times and five times. It turned into a hollow bamboo pipe, and carefully inserted it down the drain pipe. He drew an eavesdropping tactic in blood, and stretched out from the exit of the drain pipe on the second floor. He sneakily reached in front of Xu Shuangce's closed door. He changed his angle and squeezed into the crack of the door, and stopped.
As a result, Ying Kai's voice in the room came through the hollow bamboo pipe, which was much clearer:
"Sixteen years ago, when Gong Wei ascended to Sendai, there was no Prefect Pei Bai by his side. After he left, the sword disappeared. I searched for it myself for many years without success. Now this sword may fall into the hands of anyone and be repaired by ghosts. It’s not surprising to steal it…”
This bamboo pole trick is that when he was in the Penal and Punishment Hospital in his previous life, there were a few naughty little disciples in Yizong who eavesdropped on the teacher's footsteps. Lian Zan is clever, and is not ashamed to ask what he learned from those children. Turning around, he and Yu Chi Rui used this method to eavesdrop on Ying Kai's snoring. After listening, they also learned from each other vividly. Both of them were almost shot down by Ying Kai with a bamboo pole.
Unexpectedly, Sect Master Xu, "Evil and Inhuman" also has the wisdom of Evil and Inhuman.
Gong Wei squatted on the ground and stretched his ears, only listening to the bamboo pipe, not knowing what Xu Shuangce said, Ying Kai suddenly stopped talking, and after a long time he slowly said: "Although you are so suspicious, I must One thing to remind you."
When Ying Kai rarely expressed his displeasure so clearly, Gong Wei became curious and only listened to him in a deep voice:
"Sixteen years ago, Gui Yuan told you that Gong Wei had already lost his mind, and he would never come back. Therefore, even if Prefect Bai appeared in Linjiang Capital, you could not suspect that the ghost cultivator who murdered everywhere was the Fahua Immortal Venerable. Resurrection."
"Such unfounded remarks are no different from slander, do you understand, Shuangce?"