Pick up the Dragon

The door of the room was kicked open, the window was opened with a "huh" by the gust of wind, and the suffocating sweet floral fragrance was blown away in the blink of an eye.Without saying a word, Li Yi grabbed the uninvited guest by the back of the collar, ignorant of the slightest sympathy, and threw him to the base of the wall. With a flick of his fingers, the flash of white light turned into a rope and tied her tightly.

The woman with an unfamiliar face let out a cry of pain and curled up half dead.Qian Yue was also awakened by the noise, his pupils constricted when he rushed over to see it, he didn't know what to think of, turned around and ran away.

Li Yi ignored her, snapped his fingers to light up the oil lamp, and leaned low to support the kneeling man's shoulder: "Peng Yu!"

The rain had already lightened, and the raindrops rustled on the window lattice, and were occasionally brought into the room by the breeze, leaving a piece of wet and cold on the window sill.Peng Yu knelt on the ground panting, his eyes half-closed, the cold sweat dyed his eyelashes extremely black, and trickled down his temples all the way to his chin.

"It's... so fucking irritating... stimulating," he said in a hoarse voice, "I almost let a woman... rape me."

Li Yi frowned suddenly, and said in a deep voice, "Shut up."

Peng Yu only felt the opponent's palm covering his forehead, and the cold touch made him tremble.The soft white light slowly suppressed the nameless hotness in his heart. He took a breath and came to his senses. When he looked down, he saw that he was covered in disheveled and disheveled clothes, and a certain part of himself was standing upright, showing off his power with teeth and claws. .

Peng Yu: "..."

After a while, he finally suppressed his contorted face, stood up with a stiff expression, held his wet clothes tightly, and staggered towards the door: "You...don't follow."

Li Yi's expression was complicated, and he stood still.

Peng Yu hastily dismissed himself, and then washed his face with cold water, only to feel that he was ashamed this time.He returned to the room in a huff, drank a gulp of cold tea, and sat on the head of the bed.

Who is it that has no eyesight to plot against him?

And what's wrong with plotting, actually plotting against him for a whole night of spring night!It is really intolerable!

He glanced coolly at the tear-stained woman, wondering what spell the Dragon King had cast on her, she couldn't even scream.Although the girl looks pretty good by visual inspection, he, Peng Yu, has no habit of robbing women from good families... and he doesn't accept robbing women from good families either!

He let out a dull breath, and propped his head on his arms: "I just remembered it completely. I have indeed seen that kind of flower. The seeds of that flower have black and white stripes, and they look like melon seeds."

Li Yi looked at him with some surprise: "Oh?"

Peng Yu rubbed his temples slowly, and slowly closed his eyes: "It happened many years ago. I remember that the caravan found this kind of flower in the south. The local people crushed the flower core and added some other Herbs are used to make an aphrodisiac that can improve the mood. Because of its good effect and the small number of flowers, this medicine was once very expensive."

He breathed a sigh of relief: "You know, the Peng family's business is not limited to a certain type. After I took over the family, it has developed into all walks of life. As long as it is to make money, it is more or less involved. At that time, the business The team brought back a pot of seeds, and I sent someone to try to plant them. I found that this kind of flower is difficult to survive in the north, and it has high requirements on temperature and humidity. After trying for about a year or two, only a small piece was planted. Might be able to meet buyers' needs."

Li Yi recalled the large flower fields in Anping, and it didn't look like "it's hard to survive", so he patiently waited for him to continue.

Peng Yu didn't seem to be fully recovered yet, he was a little out of breath, and he rested for a while before continuing: "That's not the most important thing, and later we discovered that this flower—they gave it a It has a nice name, 'Zi Yun'—although it can aphrodisiac, it also has a very strong hallucinogenic effect, which sometimes makes people uncomfortable, and... if you eat too much, you will become addicted."

"Addictive?"

"Yes, I heard that because of taking too much of this medicine, 'the peony flower died'." He raised his head and glanced at the other party, "Although our Peng family...may mix black and white, but we can't do it for money. Killing people for no reason. In addition, the rewards at that time could not keep up with the investment, so this matter was stranded. Unexpectedly..."

I didn't expect to see this kind of flower again in Anping many years later, and it seems that this flower has undergone some kind of improvement and can be planted in a large area in the north.

Fortunately, it happened to him.

Peng Yu felt as uncomfortable as swallowing a mouthful of sour swill.

The two looked at each other in silence, the pattering rain in their ears was suddenly broken by the movement upstairs and begging for mercy, Qianyue came back with moisture dripping all the way, and picked up the shopkeeper's shopkeeper like a chicken. The waiter from Hedian entered the room, threw it on the ground with two "boom" and "boom", and wiped his face with rainwater: "Master, these two things wanted to run away, but I caught them back."

Peng Yu waved to her feebly, asking her to close the door.

The two culprits were tied up, and it took a long time to get up and kneel down. When they saw Peng Yu, they showed a ghost-like expression at the same time-didn't they jump over this young master? How could he still be tricked?

I don't know what kind of evil Master Peng has committed recently. Bad luck can't stop him. He happened to change rooms with Li Wei, and the other party wanted to plot against Li Yi. The absurd "Spring Night" hit him right on the head.

Peng Yu rolled his eyes silently, a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat, he couldn't spit it out or swallow it—God wants to break your childish body, can you stop it?

Qian Yue just went out to look for the culprit, and when he arrived at the corner of the stairs, he saw the sneaky shop boy running away in a hurry. Perhaps he was startled by the sound of Li Yi kicking the door. Xiangxi rushed into the rain curtain.

The two of them ran away as if guilty of guilt, and instantly showed their fox tails, and Qian Yue grabbed them back without any effort.

After hearing this, Peng Yu thought back to the waiter in the shop who enthusiastically guided them to Songzi Temple during the day, and suddenly felt that there was a deliberate hypocrisy in this person.He leaned back on the bed wearily, folded his arms around his chest and closed his eyes, he didn't even bother to open his mouth to ask the teacher his fault.

Li Yi sat at the table and stepped on the shopkeeper's shoulder: "Tell me, what is your purpose? You can't explain it clearly and chop it off to feed the dog!"

The shopkeeper immediately bowed down under the Dragon King's despotic power, almost peed his pants in fear, twisted his fat body with difficulty and rubbed half a circle on the ground, facing Li Wei and knocked his head loudly: "We were wrong, we were wrong! Your lord does not remember the faults of villains, please forgive us this time!"

Li Yi narrowed his eyes: "Can't you understand human language? I asked you to explain, but I didn't ask you to beg for mercy! I don't think your stuff is useless, so why not..."

"I said it, I said it!" The shopkeeper broke out in a cold sweat, his body fat and trembling, "We...we also use money to do things."

Li Yi: "What kind of money and what will you do?"

The shopkeeper's "Gudong" swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and lowered his head, not daring to look at his expression: "They... they asked us to hand over ten children of more than [-] days in Anping every month to sacrifice... to the river god, Said that if we fail to pay, we will replace it with our own children, and if we pay in full, we can get a very generous salary every month."

Li Yi glanced at him and raised an eyebrow: "They? Sacrificial to the river god?"

The shopkeeper: "We don't know who 'they' are, about a year... less than two years ago, they suddenly found us, and the people we connected with were different every month, wearing a black cloak, no one I have seen the face. Our Anping has long had a tradition of offering sacrifices to the god of the river, that is, the god of the Wei River. In the past, pig heads and bull heads were used as sacrifices once a year. Those people told us that the dragon king in the river was dissatisfied with We use these things to deal with, and we need to use children who are more than [-] days old to sacrifice, otherwise we will be "uneasy and peaceful", no rain for us, no food to eat, and starvation to death."

"The Dragon King in the river?" Li Yi couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. He tapped his knee lightly with his fingers, "And then? Did you do it?"

The shopkeeper: "Those people are very powerful, and I don't know what kind of magic they have used. They can kill a crop in an instant. We dare not disobey, so we have to follow suit. And they have very strict conditions for children, as long as they don't cry, don't Silly children who can laugh but can't speak. At first we searched locally, and if we could find some that met the requirements, we used the money they gave to buy from our parents.

"Because there are too many newborn children in Anping in the past two years. Almost every family has two or three children. The parents can't support them and they are stupid. So they usually hand over the children to us happily. We just like this After two months of work, they found that there were not enough such children, so they gave us a kind of flower seed, let us plant it, and use the flower core to make aphrodisiac incense for couples who do not want to have children. "

As he spoke, he secretly turned his head to look at Peng Yu, then lowered his head again.

"Later, we started to attack people from other places. We used the Songzi Temple to attract guests to Anping. We cooperated with several inns in the city to get the list of those seeking children and give them medicine. If it is a husband and wife, it is natural. Best, if not, we'll buy some men and women from nearby villages and towns and induce them..."

The woman curled up in the corner trembled violently, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.

"We also know that this is immoral, but we can't help it! And anyway, those people have been to Songzi Temple, even if they didn't do it voluntarily, but they have slept in this bed, and the raw rice has been cooked, so... Just make do with it. After so long, no one bothered us."

Li Yi took a breath from his nose and said flatly, "No wonder it's 'sincerity is also effective'."

He jumped down from the table: "What about the children you killed? Just threw them into the river?"

The shopkeeper nodded tremblingly: "Yes... But, no one has found their bodies, it may be the Dragon King..."

Li Yi's face darkened suddenly, and he raised his foot and kicked him on the chest: "Presumptuous!"

The huge body of the shopkeeper caused him to kick him so hard that he fell backwards. He screamed and burst into tears, and he couldn't get up again for a long time.Li Yi put his toes on his head and looked down at him condescendingly: "Who told you that the Dragon King eats children, huh? Throughout the ages, everything depends on the Dragon King's head. It is only natural that you will be free from disasters and famines. Crying and complaining everywhere, does the Dragon King owe you something! You greedy mortals..."

His voice suddenly got stuck in the middle, as if he finally realized what he said, he closed his eyes fiercely, and said in a low voice: "Stupid!"

After saying that, he left in a huff, and ran into Jiu Yuan who had just returned in the corridor. The latter glanced at the pale face of his Dragon King, and mourned for three seconds for the unknown shopkeeper who made him angry, and then turned around decisively to chase after him. .

After hearing the Dragon King swearing at people, Peng Yu felt secretly relieved for no reason, completely forgetting that he was also among the "mortals".He rolled his eyelids at the shopkeeper coolly, and said concisely: "Yes!"