In The Name Of Fang

The bar after nightfall is slightly different from the daytime.The elegant guqin performance in the middle of the courtyard has been removed and replaced by a small stage with colorful lights.The excitement of the entire courtyard is concentrated here, with bands performing on stage and playing the most fashionable pop music.

Men and women, dressed in bright and bright clothes, exchanged cups, laughed and chatted loudly.

Xia Yuzhou pulled Si Jun to sit on the high chair in front of the bar, and took a look at the drink list: "Wow, what are these?"

As expected of Li Bai Laoyue, the wines on this list are all related to poets: Zuixian Wine, Xiaoshou Wine, Huajian Wine... Even the most common wines are followed by a parenthesis, indicating that they can be used with night light Served in cups.

The bartender who was cutting ice cubes with a knife looked up, looked at the two of them, and handed over another list.

The appearance of this wine list is exactly the same as the one just now, but the content is very different: the hot blood of the Shu Road, the blue blood and the blue sky, the bright moon and blood light...

Xia Yuzhou: "...This wine list is so strange, it doesn't look simple."

Si Jun didn't speak, and pointed to the explanation at the end of the wine list with his fingertips.

[The name is for reference only, the above are all vegetarian]

This is only for the vampires, and blood has been added to the drinks.However, it is all animal blood, so vegetarians can eat it with confidence.Behind each price, there is a small number with a different font, which is the blood alliance points that must be paid in addition to cash to buy this glass of wine.

"Tsk, it's interesting, I want to try it." Xia Yuzhou ordered a glass of Zuixianjiu, a glass of Sichuan blood, and a plate of salted peanuts.

Si Jun asked for a glass of "Twilight Blood" without alcohol, and what was served was a glass of apple juice with blood added.

"Why is apple juice called Mu Chengxue?" Xia Yuzhou asked the bartender who was pounding lemons vigorously.

The bartender smiled and looked up: "Because apple juice is originally snow-white, it will turn golden red after a long time, just like twilight. This is like blue silk in the morning and blood in the evening."

"So cultured," Xia Yuzhou pouted, "Then how do you know we need this wine list?"

He thought that apart from the tiger teeth, there was no difference in appearance from humans. How could this little brother recognize them as blood clan at a glance.

The bartender blinked innocently, and handed over the prepared drunken wine: "Because you came with our young master."

Xia Yuzhou looked at the silver Shiqin cuff on the bartender's cuff, covered his face with one hand, took the wine glass and drank half of it.The Immortal Drunken Wine for humans is very light, basically like honey lemonade, sweet and not irritating at all.

"Pfft..." Si Jun couldn't help laughing, and when Xia Yuzhou glared over, he quickly took a sip of apple juice to cover his mouth.

"What are you laughing at?" Xia Yuzhou poked at him, "If it's not someone you know well, how can you tell?"

This place is usually a high-end homestay, where humans come to play. Occasionally, blood races come, and most of them are Si family members.It's just that the full moon dance is going to be held recently, and people from other families will also come to play, so it's hard to judge.

Si Jun raised his chin: "Look for yourself."

Xia Yuzhou turned his head and looked over. Among the men and women who were drinking and drinking, there were indeed many blood races mixed in.Miraculously, he could tell at a glance who was a vampire and who was a human.In the past, when I was in school, I only came into contact with blood races limited to my own family members. I had no idea. Recently, I watched a lot of Western races, only to realize that blood races are actually quite different from humans.

He couldn't tell what was different, but he could tell.It's like seeing too many small leopards, and then come back to look at the house cat, you can tell them apart at a glance.

In the bar at this moment, there are at least ten blood races.Some were drinking alone in the corner, some were chatting with humans with a smile, and some were walking onto the stage with a simple harp. .The Si family is vegetarian, but they can eat meat after reporting in the territory. These humans are customers and sometimes food.

"The moon is shining brightly tonight, please allow me to sing a poem for everyone." The young man with the harp was wearing the Si family crest, but Xia Yuzhou had never seen it before.

The qin on the family emblem is actually an ancient harp.The qin held by the people on the stage is very close to the appearance of a poetic qin. When they are played gently, the low and distant voice seems to come from the ancient wasteland, full of desolate romance.

Everyone fell silent, listening to this almost lost song.The words are in foreign languages. Fortunately, Xia Yuzhou has a good score in foreign languages, so I can hear the general meaning:

I come from a faraway country

long road covered with snow

The rolling yellow sand almost buried me

But when I went through all the troubles and saw you

All that suffering is not worth mentioning, haha, not worth mentioning

You are the unreachable star in the sky

You are the demon that sings softly on the sea

Oh no, none of these psalms are good enough for you

I play day and night and my fingertips bleed

I can't catch even a piece of robe

you, you

You are the moonlight on the silver poetry strings

……

The ancient tone brings people back to the silk road thousands of years ago, yellow sand, snow-capped mountains, and Gobi Desert.The stubborn bard went through hardships and came to the rich east, where he met the beauty that only appeared in dreams.

This kind of ballad is incompatible with the stage shining with colorful lights, but it just makes people fascinated and fascinated by listening to it.

Xia Yuzhou pondered for a while: "This last sentence sounds familiar, is it the one engraved under the statue?"

【You are the moonlight on the silver poetry strings】

This sentence is so special that Xia Yuzhou still remembers it fresh.

Si Jun nodded: "This is a poem that our family has sung for generations, and every Si family member knows it."

"Oh." Xia Yuzhou suddenly put away his full of admiration, co-authored "School Song".In his eyes, the young man on the stage, who looked like a master of classical art, was instantly reduced to a kid wearing a school uniform and singing the school song on stage, and lost interest.

At the end of the song, everyone stood up and applauded, the young man stepped off the stage with a smile, and immediately a beautiful girl stepped forward to strike up a conversation.

The band started playing again, and the atmosphere returned to heat.The young man rejected the girl's offer to buy him a drink, and walked straight over here: "Oh, forgive me, I didn't see the young talent from our family come back."

A polite and elegant gesture can hardly conceal the unkindness in words.

Xia Yuzhou raised his eyebrows, then turned to ask Si Jun: "Is this your junior? Why are you so rude?"

The young man blushed immediately and froze in place.

Before Sijun could speak, a man in a green T-shirt came over and laughed before he could speak: "Hahaha, Sijun, why is your partner so powerful hahahahaha..."

Xia Yuzhou turned his head and looked over, feeling his eyes were dazzled.Most of the vampires are very white when they don't bask in the sun, but this person is especially white, not only white but also shiny white, with highlights.He sounds like a 30-year-old man, but his skin is as good as a baby's.

When Si Jun saw the person coming, he took off his gloves and greeted him: "Second Uncle Bai."

"Hey, don't call me uncle, call me old," Second Uncle Bai said with a smile, "You are already a lord, and your status is different, so you can call me by my first name."

"Bai Shu." Si Jun changed his words obediently.

"Hey." Bai Shu responded with a smile.

Xia Yuzhou: "...It sounds like there is no difference."

Si Jun turned to introduce him, this is the younger brother of the Patriarch of the Bai Family of the Qingyang Clan, named Bai Shu, who is five years older than Si Jun, but a generation taller.Although young but quite capable, he is in charge of the Bai family's family business.

And the young man who was so angry that he almost fainted was the youngest son of Si Jun's third uncle's family, and Si Jun called him the seventh cousin.

"Cousin, I can't tell." Xia Yuzhou looked him up and down, the man had a baby face, and he looked really young.

Seventh Cousin covered his chest and panted heavily: "Second Uncle Bai, please talk, I'm sorry." After finishing speaking, he turned around and left.

"Hahahaha," Bai Shu laughed again, "The Si family is most afraid of people saying that he is impolite, and he hates people saying that he is small. It's awesome for you to step on two thunders with such a sentence!"

Bai Shu swearing with a pretty face, especially not satisfied, stepped on the edge of the stool with one foot bent, revealing the coquettish big pants on his legs.Knocking on the bar, the guy who made the wine said, "How about spicy skewers? Crayfish is also fine!"

"No, sir," the bartender replied very calmly, "You can choose drunkard peanuts or boiled edamame."

"Let's have edamame." Bai Shu ordered a plate of edamame to drink with Shu Dao hot blood wine. Seeing that Xia Yuzhou also ordered this wine, he warmly toasted him.

"Why is that cousin so weird?" Xia Yuzhou couldn't help asking.

Si Jun took a sip of the apple juice and didn't care much: "He's always been like this."

"Hey, what else could be the reason? It's because your young master Si is too good to make life difficult for your cousins. Just like me, I knew how to do business since I was a child, which caused my brothers and younger brothers to be bullied by the old man every day. Pad, hahahaha! "Bai Shu bounced into his mouth and successfully dismissed a beautiful girl who wanted to come and chat.

Bai Shu is really a talkative person, after sitting here for a while, he just listened to what he had to say.

"Hey, there is something wrong with the hot pot business at home. My brother can't leave. He asked me to come to the full moon dance for him. It's so troublesome. I also have a business to take care of. Tell me to come and see those old orange-skinned faces and lose ten years of life." .”

"Xiao Xia, do you want to do a beauty treatment? Our family's secret recipe, a mask to rejuvenate!"

"If you want to recharge the card with me, I will give you a [-]% discount. But only our Qingyang clan has a store in the territory."

"..."

The corners of Xia Yuzhou's mouth twitched when he heard this, but he also learned about the Bai family's business, which turned out to be a beauty salon.The venom in the blood teeth of the Bai family has the function of making people beautiful. For thousands of years, it has been relying on this to attract men and women who love beauty to actively donate blood.But now that the Bai family has become a vegetarian, this ability is focused on making money.

"Is it similar to the principle of snake venom mask?" Xia Yuzhou seriously discussed.

"It's a bit similar, but the effect is much better than that." Bai Shu scratched his hairy calf, "It's like a one-time injection of hyaluronic acid, water light injection, and anti-wrinkle injection. It's like a new life."

"It's so good, it must be expensive."

"That's right, this is a top-level service, and it's not something vvip doesn't usually do."

"Rare things are more expensive, I understand. Hey, my daughter is a star, do you need her to introduce you to customers?"

"Need, hey, you don't know, celebrities in the entertainment industry are not willing to introduce each other, for fear that others will know the secret of their own beauty. If your daughter introduces high-level clients to me, I will give you a commission... Oh, no, you will How come you have such a big girl? You and Si Jun can go to kindergarten just fine?"

"I think so, I didn't know him back then..."

Si Jun listened to the two people who ate peanuts and edamame in a trendy bar, from promoting each other's beauty treatment and dental treatment, to jointly introducing customers, to bragging about each other's stinky feet, unable to get a word in, just drinking in silence Apple juice.

"Ah—" A scream broke the lively atmosphere, and everyone looked in the direction of the scream.

It was a blind corner of the bar lights, and a lady fell to the ground, terrified.In the darkness, Xia Yuzhou vaguely saw a human body hanging upside down.

Late at night, bars, dark alleys, hanging human bodies upside down, proper murder scenes... if there is no shiny and reflective diamond lip stud.

The person hanging upside down swung twice, jumped down, and walked to the intersection of light and shadow, revealing a pale and handsome face: "I've already put on lip studs, why did someone bump into me?"

Xia Yuzhou ran over in two or three steps, reached out to help the lady who fell to the ground, but was stopped by Si Jun, and the waiter at the bar had already helped her up first.Helplessly, he glanced at a certain vinegar pot, then turned his head to look at Gu Ji who was pouting.

"Yo, little Jiji, what are you doing?" Bai Shu came over chewing edamame to watch the excitement.

"Dinner," Gu Ji said unhappy, "don't call me that."

"Oh, don't be so ignorant..."

Before he finished speaking, Gu Ji suddenly rolled his eyes and glared at him, gritted his teeth fiercely, Bai Shu's teasing words stopped abruptly, and said embarrassingly: "Oh, I think I have to give Si Nian a mask, let's talk later !"

Patting Xia Yuzhou on the shoulder, he disappeared in a flash.

Xia Yuzhou blinked, looked at Gu Ji, who was obviously very upset, and remembered that the canned herring he recommended had caused him to come here earlier, so he laughed dryly: "Then what, we two will buy you a drink."

When Si Jun heard him say "we two", he relaxed his frown and looked at Gu Ji.Gu Ji did not refuse, and followed them to the booth.

The Gu family eats meat, but vegetarians are okay once in a while, so I ordered a glass of blood wine and drank it slowly.

"You said, since you are a hunter, don't hang yourself upside down. This is very likely to scare the prey." Xia Yuzhou probably had his father working for a long time, and everyone looked kind, and couldn't help persuading him earnestly.

"Canned herring." Gu Ji looked at him resentfully.

Xia Yuzhou understood the meaning of this sentence in an instant. Because of the canned herring, he had to come early and had to do this extremely difficult hunt to fill his stomach.

"Actually, the probability of success like this is not low." Si Jun reminded Xia Yuzhou not to be fooled by the Gu family who are good at deceiving people's hearts.The Gu family is notoriously ferocious, and it is because of their first-class hunting skills that they have persisted in eating meat until now.

Xia Yuzhou woke up, that's right, isn't the girl I met at the front desk just now a successful example?The handsome man hanging upside down in the dark was stunned and then stunned. The hormones were released in this highly fluctuating mood, and he was bitten after being dizzy.

"Ah, I was joking with you, but you actually believed it," Xia Yuzhou laughed, "Didn't you check it before eating?"

"I checked." Gu Ji drank the wine in his hand and stared straight at Xia Yuzhou, "but I want to know." He really wanted to know what the blood of Dongfang species tasted like. From the impulse in my bones, I really want to try it.

Xia Yuzhou: "Sijun tasted it and said it was the same as plain boiled water."

Si Jun: "...I didn't say that." What he said was clear spring water on a high mountain, how could he be so uneducated!

Gu Ji was a little overwhelmed because of drinking too much, he lowered his eyes and stabilized for a while, then raised his eyes, his deep and dark eyes suddenly became pitiful: "Mr. Make a weapon for you, or if you need points..."

"Stop," Si Jun raised his hand to stop him, "Nothing will work, don't even think about it."

Gu Ji ignored him, still looking at Xia Yuzhou.

Xia Yuzhou: "..."

Si Jun: "No."

Gu Ji: "Canned herring."

Xia Yuzhou whispered to Si Jun: "Actually, it doesn't matter if you just have a taste." It's so pitiful that the child is so greedy.

Si Jun disapproved: "The Gu family is different from the others. They have secret techniques passed down from ancient times, and there are unknown dangers."

"I heard," Gu Ji said faintly, "Our family's secret arts are all art of refining, and the blood puppet art you are worried about only exists in novels."

"Oh, it's okay." This Xia Yuzhou knew it, it was recorded in the ancestor's handbook.The ancestors used to have a wild idea and wanted to use blood to control others, but they failed. Once the blood is separated from the body, it is impossible to be controlled by the owner. There is no magic in this world.Even if the blood is poisonous, and he didn't drink Gu Ji's blood, it's not his responsibility if Gu Ji gets diarrhea from drinking it.

In the end, out of the guilt of canned herring, Xia Yuzhou extended a finger to Gu Ji, and Si Jun grabbed him back.

Si Jun sighed, asked the waiter for a very small glass wine cup, and poured some water into it.Then, he stretched out his bloody teeth and poked Xia Yuzhou's finger, dripped the blood into the cup, and pushed it to Gu Ji.

Gu Ji immediately took it over, leaned to the tip of his nose and sniffed lightly: "That's right, that's the smell, it's so tempting."

"Ah?" Xia Yuzhou sucked on his finger, but he didn't taste anything. How could this Young Master Gu seem like he was addicted to smoking.

"Gut!"

Xia Yuzhou's ears moved slightly, and he clearly heard the sound of Gu Ji swallowing blood beads, and then heard the crunching sound of bone dislocation.

"Uh——" Gu Ji suddenly let out a very strange growl, and slowly exposed a pair of sharp fangs.

Si Jun got up in an instant, bent his elbows to strangle Gu Ji's neck, grabbed him and jumped out of the booth in an instant, and sprinted into the path behind the bar.

Xia Yuzhou was startled and quickly followed.

A waiter tried to stop him: "Guest, you haven't paid the bill yet!"

The bartender raised his hand to signal the waiter to let him go.

Xia Yuzhou quickly ran up the path, and it seemed that the ground lamp was out of order. It was pitch black and no one came, but Gu Ji's stiff legs were vaguely seen, being dragged into the dense forest.This scene looks more like a murder than before.

Si Jun put the man on the grass, took out his mobile phone and prepared to call Alger to help, Gu Ji, who had twitched a few times, suddenly calmed down, and sat up with a jerk.

"Are you okay? I swear I didn't eat garlic or rat poison today!" Xia Yuzhou raised two fingers and swore to the sky that he never ate anything harmful to vampires and bats.

Gu Ji sat in a daze for a moment, then slowly stood up, walked in front of Xia Yuzhou, knelt down on the ground with a "plop" and said, "Master!"

"Damn it!" Xia Yuzhou jumped up in fright, "Isn't it going to kill you, is it so delicious? I've only heard that it's so delicious that it's called dad, but it's the first time I've seen one that's so delicious that it's called master!"

Si Jun hung up the phone call just connected, and walked over to protect Xia Yuzhou behind him: "Gu Ji, are you awake now?"

"Sober, I have never been more sober than I am now." Gu Ji knelt on one knee and looked up at Xia Yuzhou. "The ancestors of our family did not come to the east on their own initiative, but were trafficked. It is a An immortal rescued him and gave him the surname Gu. Our family has served the immortal clan for generations, and we lost contact a hundred years ago."

Xia Yuzhou slowly squatted down and talked with Gu Jiping, pointing to his nose: "You mean, our family?"

"That's right, this is a memory passed down in my blood, and it will be restored the moment I drink your blood." Gu Ji looked at him firmly, "Our family's art of refining weapons was taught by the ancestors of the Xia family. , don’t you think my crafting technique is very oriental?”

Xia Yuzhou suddenly realized: "That's right, the West calls this alchemy, and only those in China who practice immortality call it alchemy."

"I will immediately notify the clansmen. After the dance, my father will definitely come to see you. The whole Wuling clan will listen to your orders." Gu Ji bowed his head and saluted, his eyes full of fanaticism.

Xia Yuzhou: "..."

It happened so suddenly that I couldn't react.

Until I returned to the main house with Si Jun, Xia Yuzhou was still confused: "This is a modern society, why are you still interested in recognizing the master? If I ask them to recognize the master, it will not be very good."

Si Jun was also shocked. The Wuling clan has always been the most mysterious existence among the five major clans, and it never occurred to him that they were the servants of the Dongfang species.

"This is the inheritance of the ancestors. You don't have to bear the burden. Maybe there will be some benefits for them that we don't know about recognizing you as the master. Don't refuse it yet, and wait for the patriarch of the Wuling clan to come."

Xia Yuzhou nodded, then scratched his head again: "Our family has such a powerful servant, how did it get so miserable."

Si Jun pressed his fist to his lips and chuckled: "Then you have to ask your great-grandparents."

"Brother!" A crying girl's voice came from upstairs, Xie Yinyin with red eyes ran down quickly, and rushed into Sijun's arms like a small cannonball, "Brother, I'm sorry, I don't even know woo woo woo..."

Si Jun was shaken by the bump, and looked up at his uncle who was still standing on the stairs.

Uncle Si nodded, and looked at Xia Yuzhou gently: "If Yuzhou is willing, you can stay in the main house tonight. It's safer here than outside." After that, without waiting for Xia Yuzhou to agree, he turned and went upstairs. Don't disturb the relative recognition activities of the brothers and sisters.

So much so that Xia Yuzhou didn't say any polite words, smacked his lips, and looked at the crying daughter and the expressionless boyfriend.Chong Sijun winked and motioned for him to coax him.

Si Jun slowly raised his hand, clenched his gloved hand into a gentleman's fist, and gently hugged the weeping girl: "This is the rule of the blood clan. You must not know it before. It's all over, and we can behave normally in the future." family."

"Yeah!" Xie Yinyin nodded vigorously, and continued to cry while clutching her brother.

Si Jun thought for a while, and added: "However, you can't call me brother."

"Why!" The little girl looked up in shock, her eyes full of sadness, "Can't I be called brother even if I'm already a blood clan?"

Si Jun frowned: "I'm already engaged to your father, you have to call me father."

Xie Yinyin: "..."

Xie Yinyin let go of Si Jun with a sullen face, and gave him a thumbs up.What a tragic childhood, what missing brothers and sisters, what touching atmosphere, all frankly disappeared in this instant.

"Pfft!" Xia Yuzhou couldn't help laughing, "I'm sorry, shouldn't I laugh, hahahaha..."

"Father! It's all because of your good deeds, yet you still laugh!" Xie Yinyin wanted to cry, but also wanted to laugh. Under the conflict, she spit out a snot bubble.

"Hahahahaha!" Xia Yuzhou laughed even louder now.

Si Jun took out a handkerchief and handed it to his sister and daughter.

Xie Yinyin took it over in despair, and blew her nose hard.Ever since she recognized her father, romance, legends and gore have all left her.In the ups and downs of life, only speechlessness is left.

What's more speechless, the two cruel fathers just threw her to their uncles, and went to visit Sijun's childhood room sweetly.

Yinyin: "I'm really forgetting about sex!"

Zhou Shu: "That's right, I forget my brother when I see sex!"

Yinyin: "For love, I don't even want my sister!"

Zhou Shu: "That's right! Scumbag!"

Yinyin: "You are not allowed to say that about my brother and dad!"

Zhou Shu: "..."

Si Jun's room when he was a child was very similar to the room in Yanjing Mansion, and the decoration style was similar.However, there are a lot of things from the past, and Xia Yuzhou has to pick up and touch every item, and he can't put it down.

"Wow, this is a photo of you when you were a child!" Xia Yuzhou found a photo album, and excitedly hugged it to the bed to read.

Si Jun blushed immediately: "There's nothing to see."

Xia Yuzhou didn't listen to him at this time, and pulled him to watch it with great interest.

"Wow, you were so beautiful when you were young, just like the little prince!"

"Wow, this little suit is really energetic!"

"Wow, you've been playing the piano since you were so young! Speaking of which, why haven't you played it recently!"

"Wow……"

After turning off the lights, Si Jun took the photo album away from the sleeping Xia Yuzhou, and gently covered him with a quilt.Xia Yuzhou snorted, rolled into his arms, and muttered: "You were so cute when you were young, if only I could give birth to a son who is exactly like you."

"Say stupid things again." Si Jun chuckled and kissed his forehead.

Xia Yuzhou grinned and buried his face in his arms: "The Wuling family recognizes me as their master. Is my territory bigger than yours? Should you marry me?"

Si Jun hugged him tightly: "It's okay."

"Then give me a baby, I want a little bat just like you."

"...Go to sleep, there is everything in the dream."