When Hong Jun walked through the promenade, the moonlight from the West Lake shone into the Fuyun Villa, and the night wind blew, making this summer night very cool.
He glanced inadvertently and found that Qiu Yongsi was sitting cross-legged in the room, slowly and carefully pouring the glowing powder into a glass bottle.
Hong Jun was curious for a moment, so he stepped on his clogs, walked in lightly, and knelt down in front of the case. Qiu Yongsi looked up at him, smiled and said, "Help me hold this bottle."
Hong Jun reached out to pick it up, Qiu Yongsi signaled not to use his hands, Hong Jun spread out with five-color divine light, fixed the glass bottle, and carefully supported the powder in Qiu Yongsi's hand.
"what is this?"
"Ye Ming's ashes." Qiu Yongsi whispered, "Send it back to the tower tomorrow."
After Qiu Yongsi returned home, he became more relaxed and casual. He was shirtless, showing his muscular upper body. Hong Jun usually sees in the Exorcism Division, everyone is a man, never avoid suspicion, even if he and Li Jinglong, Lu Xu and Mo Zhigen are in love, but everyone is aggressive, often with thin the short underpants, and walked around swaggeringly.
But Qiu Yongsi was only seen naked. When the weather was hot, Hong Jun wanted to take off his naked body as soon as he returned to the Exorcist. Artai and Ashinaqiong are foreigners, and they are even more unscrupulous. But even at the hottest time, Qiu Yongsi was still wearing a single shirt and white trousers. Li Jinglong's explanation for this is that the scholar's family is very polite, but whenever there are outsiders, he is used to dressing neatly. When he came to Fuyun Villa, Hong Juncai saw Qiu Yongsi shirtless for the first time.
Qiu Yongsi was very tall, a little stronger than Li Jinglong, and he didn't look like a scholar at all. Hong Jun accidentally caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye, and suddenly let out a "huh".
Qiu Yongsi smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't tell them."
On Qiu Yongsi's shoulders, there are light markings, which are... dragon scales!
Put all the ashes into the bottle, Qiu Yongsi sealed it, took out another stack of yellow paper, and took a small plate. Knowing that he wanted to draw amulets, Hong Jun took the cinnabar and mixed it for him.
"Have you seen his father?"
In the tea room, Li Jinglong had a premonition that the old man Qiu Qiu might reveal a secret from back then.
"I've seen it before?" Qiu Qiu suddenly looked tired, and said with a smile, "Is his parents still alive?"
"It's gone." Li Jinglong replied.
"Oh—" Qiu Qiu sighed and nodded, "Well, well, it must be... It's been a few years, that child, do you know the identity of your parents?"
Li Jinglong suddenly remembered that whenever he talked about Hongjun's life experience, his father Kong Xuan was mentioned, but his mother was rarely mentioned. He only heard from Concubine Yang that Hongjun's mother's uncle's family was Hongnong Jia's , the mother's name is Jia Yuze. Many years ago, due to a plague in Hongnong, the population was sparse.
"His father is Peacock Daming King." Li Jinglong pondered for a moment, and then replied, "His mother...is a mortal?"
"How can mortals breed demon seeds?" Qiu Qiu said meaningfully.
This sentence shocked Li Jinglong suddenly, as if he felt that the conversation Qiu Qiu had with him tonight contained incredible information.
"Can't mortals breed demon seeds?" Li Jinglong asked, "Please enlighten me."
"Monsters have demon poison." Qiu Qiu said, "If you have fun with mortals, you will die within a year or so. How many descendants of mortals and demons have you seen?"
Li Jinglong instantly thought of the peony demon and the scholar, and said, "But...you can get rid of the demon poison with medicine, right?"
Qiu Qiu asked: "How to solve it? Are you teaching me?"
Li Jinglong assigned Hong Jun and explained to Qiu Qiu the whole process of using the poison of the dead ghost king to restrain the poison of the flower demon. Qiu Qiu suddenly realized, stroked his beard and said: "Really smart, really smart, this kid is like his father, he is a doctor."
"Wait..." Li Jinglong was already a little confused, which further confirmed what Qiu Qiu said. He pondered for a moment, and said, "When Kong Xuan was still alive, when he met the ghost king who died in battle... Hong Jun had already been born. It stands to reason that he didn't use their corpse poison, that is to say..."
Kong Xuan never did anything to ward off poison for Jia Yuze, but Jia Yuze survived and gave birth to Hongjun? Li Jinglong didn't know how many difficulties there were in the process of conceiving the demon species and giving birth smoothly, but Jia Yuze was really a mortal as they said? !
"Have you seen Yao Ji?" Qiuqiu said again, "She is really beautiful. Now that I think about it, that beauty is the only one in the world. It's a pity that the child doesn't look like her."
Li Jinglong became even more confused, and said, "Wait... Yao Ji is... Hong Jun's mother? But his mother's name is not Yao Ji, but Jia Yuze!"
"Jia Yuze." Qiu Qiu nodded and said, "Where did she go after reincarnation?"
Li Jinglong: "..."
Li Jinglong raised his eyes, looked at Qiu Qiu, and said, "Do you know his mother?"
"Yes." Qiu Qiu said, "One hundred and thirty-five years ago, when she gave birth to Yongsi, I was by her side."
These words were like a shocking thunder, blooming in Li Jinglong's ears. Qiu Qiu's words had far exceeded his cognition, and for a moment he felt that this gray-bearded old man was playing a joke on him!
"You..." Li Jinglong frowned deeply, "How old are you?"
"According to the years in your world, I'm over one hundred and eighty years old." Qiuqiu replied, "But when Ye Ming was still there, the time in the tower was different from the time in the mortal world. It's a year in the mortal world, old! Old!"
Qiu Yongsi separated the yellow paper, and Hong Jun lay in front of the desk to watch him draw symbols. Qiu Yongsi dipped a pen in his left hand in cinnabar, and held a book in his right hand, all of which were distorted ancient characters. Hong Jun laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" Qiu Yongsi said seriously.
"You still want to flip through the book?" Hong Jun said, "I didn't do my homework well."
Qiu Yongsi replied: "I'm too lazy to memorize it. I didn't like drawing symbols when I was a child."
"Who taught how to draw symbols?" Hong Jun asked.
Qiu Yongsi replied, "Grandpa."
Hong Jun's heart moved, thinking that he had never seen Qiu Yongsi's parents for a long time, and had never heard him mention them before. There may be many stories in this. Hong Jun was a little curious, and finally thought about it, putting himself in the shoes of others, and finally didn't ask, so as not to make him sad.
"Dead." Qiu Yongsi replied with a smile as if he had guessed what Hong Jun was thinking.
Hong Jun nodded and said, "My condolences will change."
Qiu Yongsi started to draw symbols, one stroke, one stroke, one circle, twist... and said: "Do you still want to ask, how did parents die?"
Hong Jun said: "Don't think about it."
"I haven't even seen their faces." Qiu Yongsi said, "Grandpa only said that my parents were killed by others."
"Who is it?" Hong Jun asked curiously.
Qiu Yongsi shook his head and replied: "The Chou family is already dead and killed."
Hong Jun thought to himself, where did the scales on your body come from
"You guessed it." Qiu Yongsi seemed to have glimpsed into Hongjun's heart again, and said with a smile, "My father is a dragon."
Hongjun: "!!!"
After Qiu Yongsi finished drawing a piece, he put it aside, looked up at Hongjun, turned sideways again, and said, "Want to touch it?"
"Is it possible?" Hong Jun was very curious.
Qiu Yongsi said with a smile: "Don't let Chang Shi bump into it, or I will get beaten."
"Forget it." Hong Jun held his forehead with one hand, Qiu Yongsi didn't say anything, Hong Jun hadn't thought about it yet, Kui Ye and the two were alone, if Li Jinglong came over and saw himself touching Qiu Yongsi, he probably wouldn't be able to wash it off even if he jumped into the Yellow River up.
"Look?" Qiu Yongsi said again, "I have them here too."
Qiu Yongsi turned his back, the traces of dragon scales were very shallow, but under the moonlight, there was a faint reflection, and the silvery white was clearly visible, extending from the back to the waist, blocked by the trousers.
Hong Jun said: "Your father is a dragon!"
It would be very surprising to change someone else, but Hongjun's father is a peacock, and his adoptive father is a phoenix. Seeing that Qiu Yongsi has the blood of a dragon, it is only to the extent of "Hello, you are half a monster". Think about it this way, counting the wolf and the white deer, the Exorcist Department will soon fall, don’t wait for Artai and Ashinaqiong to be demons, and Li Jinglong is the one who is serious in the end, that’s God’s will. .
"I lied to you." Qiu Yongsi smiled, "My father is not a dragon. Would he be killed if he was a dragon?"
Hong Jun thought so too.
"My mother had a difficult labor when she gave birth to me." Qiu Yongsi said, "Grandpa took her into the Zhenlong Pagoda and begged a dragon to help her give birth to me smoothly, and the dragon gave her a breath of dragon breath to give birth to me." Come on, there are marks on your body."
"Oh—" Hong Jun nodded and commented, "But with dragon scales on his body, he is so handsome!"
Qiu Yongsi drew four talismans and handed them to Hong Jun, who spread them out. Qiu Yongsi said, "I just like to chat with you. Our Hong Jun is well-informed and doesn't make a fuss."
"Well-informed" is not on Hongjun's head, and it is true that he never makes a fuss. Hong Jun's attention has never been on other people's background, origin, or family background. He looked at the drying talismans in his hand and asked, "What are these talismans used for?"
Qiu Yongsi replied: "Set up the formation, and when you enter the tower, put it together with this bottle."
"What effect?" Hong Jun asked.
"The cycle of heaven and earth, the gate of all wonders." Qiu Yongsi lowered his head and drew a talisman, and said casually, "Let the time in the tower slow down, very slow, very slow. How slow? You can hardly feel the passage of time in the tower , but in the human world, the sea has already changed..."
Li Jinglong: "One hundred and thirty-five years?"
Qiu Qiu: "One hundred and thirty-five years."
Li Jinglong stared at Qiu Qiu as if in a dream for a while, wondering if he should find a doctor for him. He said: "Tell me, Qiu Yongsi's mother and Hongjun's mother are the same person? They are two brothers?! Qiu Yongsi is 135 years old, and Hongjun is just seventeen this year???"
"Exactly." Qiuqiu said, "To be precise, their mothers are all Yao Ji's reincarnations in a certain life."
"Who is Yao Ji?" Li Jinglong asked in disbelief.
When Qiu Qiu mentioned this name, a smile appeared on his old face, the wrinkles were crowded together, as innocent as a child, and he replied: "A very beautiful girl."
Li Jinglong said: "Wait... I really can't accept... old... senior, you swear you didn't lie to me?"
"Huh!" Qiuqiu was angry, and said, "What are you doing lying to you, a junior?! Are you having fun?"
Li Jinglong almost got mad and roared in his heart, you were just making fun of me!
The two looked at each other for a moment, Qiu Qiu seemed to be caught in a long memory, and said: "One hundred and thirty-five years ago, the day Yongsi was born was the day his father was hanged... the name of his mother's life, It is called 'Li Shunying'. Yongsi was born in the pagoda. 'Han is so wide, you can't think about it. Jiangzhi is forever, you can't think about it.' After Shunying gave birth to him, he named him "Yongsi" ’, let him follow my surname Qiu, and after leaving Zhenlong Pagoda, he disappeared.”
"I made a promise with her." Qiuqiu said, "No matter how long it takes, where you are, or in your lifetime, you will come to West Lake to see me again and see her and Ah Cheng's child."
In the tea room, Li Jinglong had been speechless for a long time.
"Ah... Ah Chuan." Li Jinglong said, "Is it Yong Si's father? Is it the Ah Chuan I know?"
"Exactly." Qiu Qiu poured tea from the bowl on the table, stirred it up, and handed another bowl to Li Jinglong. When Li Jinglong took it, his hands couldn't help shaking.
More than a hundred years ago, the so-called "Ah Chuan" had another name that was well known-Yang Guang!
"She died at some point." Qiu Qiu said in a daze, "When she appeared in front of me again, she had been reincarnated and started from scratch. She forgot everything, but she still remembered the agreement with me. She forgot She also has a child, and in Zhenlong Pagoda, she has a new home and a new lover."
Qiu Qiu was overwhelmed for a while, but seemed to regard Li Jinglong as nothing, and said: "I have another child. He and Yongsi met. Today, I feel that all this is really fate. And this fate has fallen into the prison again." If it hadn't been for stealing Ye Ming's ashes out of Zhenlong Pagoda, these two children might never have known each other."
"How old is your grandfather?" Hong Jun asked.
"How old do you think he looks?" Qiu Yongsi replied.
Hong Jun guessed eighty, ninety, and one hundred. Qiu Yongsi smiled and shook his head, and finally said: "I don't know. Sometimes he is in the tower, sometimes he is outside the tower. The age is messed up, and I can't figure it out." According to the time in the world, it has been more than a hundred years since the year he said he was born?"
"Xie Prison escaped two hundred years ago." Hong Jun asked curiously, "After Ye Ming's ashes were taken away, wouldn't the time in the tower return to normal?"
"Ye Ming's dragon soul is still there." Qiu Yongsi said, "It's just that its soul power has become weaker and weaker. Two hundred years ago, after Xie Prison killed it, its soul is still struggling to support the time in the tower. Seal. At first, one day in the tower was equivalent to one year in the human world, then it was two days, and then it was three days. Year after year, the time in the tower is getting faster and faster... "
"What will be the result?" Hong Jun asked.
"Once Ye Ming's dragon soul dissipates completely, the time inside and outside the Dragon Town Tower will eventually be the same." Qiu Yongsi said, "The seal will be completely invalid, and it can no longer be repaired."
"Will the dragons come out?" Hong Jun asked again.
Qiu Yongsi replied: "The dragon who voluntarily lives in it will not, but the Jiaohui locked in the lower level will cause chaos in the world, and it will be more troublesome than the demons."
"How many?" Hong Jun asked with a frown.
"Thousands?" Qiu Yongsi finished drawing the last talisman, spread out all nine talismans, smiled at Hongjun, and said, "Tens of thousands? I haven't counted."
Hong Jun thought that would be enough, one prison could make Chang'an like this, and thousands of them could demolish Taihang Mountain.
"However, the prison is different." Qiu Yongsi said, "When it escaped, it carried the ashes of Ye Ming. This ashes has the power to reverse cause and effect and time. Without it, it is just an ordinary evil dragon."