dragon pen

After buying the books, Zhang Ziyao went to book a carriage and a coachman, finished all the things to be done, and returned to the camp just before sunset - from a long distance away, he saw Su Lian waiting in front of the tent, reading from time to time Looking at the direction of the sunset, it seemed like he was counting the time when Zhang Ziyao returned.

Seeing this, Zhang Ziyao suddenly felt like a young girl whose parents could not stop worrying about her. He was quite helpless, but he couldn't help but hold the book in his arms and quicken his pace, and called out "Niu Niu" Go to Su Lian——

At this time, Su Lian seemed to have heard his footsteps long ago, and turned around. When Zhang Ziyao came to him, his first words were: "If you don't come back after another cup of tea, I will ask you to come back." I'm looking for you."

"The sun hasn't set yet, I'm on time." Zhang Ziyao said in disbelief.

"I didn't say you weren't on time, it's just that the air in the city is the most unstable at the turn of day and night, so you need to raise it more—what is that in your arms?"

"Book," Zhang Ziyao brought the wrapped Buddhist scriptures to Su Lian as if offering a treasure, "I was going to buy some books to pass the time on the way back, but someone recommended this—"

Zhang Ziyao tore off the leather of the outer hood, and showed the title of the book to Su Lian.

"Recommended by someone?" Su Lian didn't touch the book, "Who?"

"A little Shani."

"That's a stranger. Do you remember what you promised me before you went out?"

"That's a monk, how could such a stranger harm someone?" Zhang Ziyao retorted as he followed Su Lian into the tent, "What's more, I met her in a place like a bookstore, right between two bookshelves , she came out of the bookshelf as I was passing by, and handed me this scripture—note, it’s scriptures, not sleazy novels—the bookstore is full of girls, and if you insist Find the one who is least like a villain among them, and there is no doubt that it is her."

As if to prove that he did not lie, Zhang Ziyao restored the situation at that time in detail, even explaining clearly how he entered the bookstore and what he saw.

"The bookstore is full of young girls?" Su Lian was taken aback when she heard this, "Is this kind of thing normal?"

"unusual."

"It's unusual that you still go in?"

"I just found out when I walked in," Zhang Ziyao rolled his eyes, "And I came out without getting caught, Niu Niu, you are too nervous..."

Hearing this, Su Lian looked at Zhang Ziyao in silence for a while, and finally said "throw away the book" and returned to the scroll... Zhang Ziyao stood in front of the painting and waited for a while, only to see that there was a kerchief on his head Didi Didi ran to a place where he could not see behind the rocks and hid without looking back. Zhang Ziyao tentatively called "Niu Niu" twice but he didn't respond...

Probably some kind of temper tantrum.

Zhang Ziyao was silent for 3 minutes before the painting, self-reflected and apologized three times in a low voice. Seeing that the little beast in the painting still did not respond, he scratched his head and walked away...

He's no good at coaxing kids.

It would be easier to let him tame the dragon—the dragon, if you get angry, you can coax it with bean paste buns—if one doesn’t work, then two...

"..."

After thinking about it, Zhang Ziyao suddenly put down his hand with a "huh", and then realized that a certain dragon doesn't need him to coax him anymore. Holding the hem of the man's clothes to tell him not to leave——

"I must have been stunned at the time..." Zhang Ziyao murmured to himself, "That dragon is crazy too, he dared to leave even if I begged him so, well, then never, never come back!"

Zhang Ziyao snorted, shook his head to ignore the disappointment in his heart, said cruel words to himself, kicked off his shoes and climbed onto the bed. In order to prevent himself from continuing to think wildly, he simply turned over the scriptures he bought during the day—but the scriptures The content of the book is already jerky, and ordinary people read it with only a half-knowledge at best. Zhang Ziyao turned a few pages and soon fell asleep like a chicken pecking at rice...

After a while, he fell asleep with his head propped up.

At this time, the lights in the tent flickered, and the sound of An Ran's sleep sounded when the boy fell into a deep sleep.

After a moment.

Suddenly, the pages of the book placed by the young man's elbow automatically turned a few pages without wind and made a slight "squeaky" sound, and the candle in the distance "popped" as if someone had blown it out. When the tent was plunged into darkness, However, the book in front of the boy faintly lit up with a golden shimmer that was not dazzling!

The light was speckled like fireflies, and the light flickered, and then the words on the book were distorted, and the strokes of those words wriggled like earthworms, and gradually turned into a ball of ink dots. Finally, the book A person the size of a thumb crawled out carefully!

When the little person with the size of a thumb climbed out of the book, he looked back cautiously at the sleeping boy behind him. She looked about thirteen or fourteen years old, with delicate features, shaved head, and wearing a monk's little monk The kind of robes they would wear—

It was the little Shani who was talking to Zhang Ziyao in the bookstore during the day!

At this moment, she gradually grew bigger after climbing out of the book, and finally returned to the size when Zhang Ziyao saw her in the daytime. Watching Zhang Ziyao sleep unblinkingly on the edge of the bed——

Until the sleeping boy suddenly opened his eyes.

The two pairs of eyes stared at each other in the darkness without warning——

"ah!"

The little Shani who was lying on the bedside was actually the one who was taken aback. She fell backwards and finally sat on the ground, staring at Zhang Ziyao with wide eyes, with a complaining look on her face, as if she was complaining How could he be scary all of a sudden!

Zhang Ziyao: "...?"

Zhang Ziyao opened his eyes and looked at the sudden extra person on the bedside with a dazed face—he was sleeping soundly, but he always felt that someone was watching him from the bedside during his sleep—he suddenly woke up in a daze He opened his eyes without warning—and then found that the little Shani he met during the day was lying on the bedside, looking at him seriously...

... Could it be a dream again?

Zhang Ziyao raised his hand and stroked his chin, a little puzzled, but when he fixed his eyes on the faint golden halo emanating from the little Shani who was looking at him with a face full of vigilance at the moment, he somewhat calmed down——

How can ordinary people have light on their bodies? It really is a dream!

"Who are you?"

Anyway, it was a dream, and everything in front of him became interesting. Zhang Ziyao boldly tried to talk to her——

"Why do you want to come to my dream? Niu Niu said that dreams are the expression of day-to-day thinking, so I really feel guilty for talking to you during the day?... You go away, I am not guilty .”

After Zhang Ziyao finished talking on his own, the expression on the face of the person in front of him seemed to be getting more and more confused. She stretched out both hands and grabbed the edge of the bed and stood up, patting the dust on her buttocks: "Answer each question, I Her name is 'Shan', she is a concubine Wenche - you bought me from the bookstore today, and I followed you back, you are not dreaming now."

"Wenche Yaofei?" Zhang Ziyao ignored her so-called "I'm not dreaming", and asked himself, "Why have I never heard of this creature?"

"People think that the text itself is full of soul, that is, the so-called 'word spirit'-the books on the bookshelf are full of dust, and no one has read them for a long time, and they are gradually eaten by insects and ants. Hide the genie, so we genie-"

Zhang Ziyao was surprised: "You said you are a monster?!"

That little Shani was stunned for a moment, and then she chuckled as if she had just realized something: "You don't really think that all the people standing in the middle of the bookshelves during the day are people?"

Zhang Ziyao was shocked: "Those are also monsters?!"

"That's right, how can there be a group of women chatting and laughing in the pile of books in broad daylight? This is unusual..." Little Shani said slowly, "We are monsters born from books, Inheriting the joys, sorrows, sorrows, and temperaments described in the book, for example, if it is a musical score, then the concubine Wenche Yaofei born is a genius in music theory; if it is a military score, then she is naturally a rare female general—”

Zhang Ziyao thought of the woman in armor today, leaning against the bookshelf with a spear beside her. Her brows and eyes were serious and heroic. At that time, she seemed to be reading a military manual...

There is such a thing!

Zhang Ziyao's eyes widened slightly, and he got up from the bed: "Then you are harmful?"

If the "book" describes great goodness, we are friendly; if the book describes darkness and evil, then the concubine Wenche that is born may kill people—"

"I've never heard that anyone in Wusai City was murdered because of books—"

That little Shani covered his lips and smiled, as if he thought the reaction of the boy in front of him was very funny: "Because we just came here the day before yesterday."

"what?"

"The day before yesterday, Master Inugami opened up the passage to Wusai City, and we came in - just like those ordinary people in Yunqi Kingdom, we have longed for this city for a long time, but because there was a town in front of us In the city, we dare not approach, and now the town seems to have left temporarily, so Lord Inugami opened the way for us, and everyone came."

"Town thing?"

"I don't know what it is. Little monsters like us have the guts to ask these things? I heard that it is an object of a big man, probably a mirror—there are rumors that say so."

"What? Don't tell me it's the Yin-Yang Nirvana Mirror—"

"It seems to be called that name."

"..."

Houtu's mirror actually has the effect of exorcising evil spirits—is it a demon mirror?

Zhang Ziyao was speechless. By the way, Niu Niu also said that two days ago, with the arrival of those big dogs, there were other things flooding into the city of Wusai. It's right to be wrong--

The premise is that the monster is not lying.

This is interesting.

"What are you doing in the city of no sorrow?"

"After staying in one place for a long time, I always want to go to another place to breathe fresh air, not to mention that there is no Madam Yuzuma looking at us—"

"'Yuzhen'? Who is that?"

Mentioning the person named "Yuzhen", that little Shani shut his mouth suddenly as if he mentioned some taboo——Zhang Ziyao was puzzled, but he knew that he probably couldn't get a result no matter what. Come, simply give up.

At this time, the two people in the conversation were slightly silent.

Little Shani lay on the side of the bed and stared at Zhang Ziyao with eyes full of joy and nostalgia——

nostalgia.

This bitch is a bit weird.

At this moment, Zhang Ziyao finally remembered that when the little Shani had met him during the day, she said that they were destined to buy her back home, she said that they were destined—wasn't she talking nonsense?Aren't monks all very honest?

In addition, he just dreamed that he was reading the same scripture the day before... Thinking of this, Zhang Ziyao asked: "What do you mean when you said in the bookstore that this scripture is destined for me?"

The joy on little Shani's face became clearer, as if she had been expecting the boy in front of her to ask this question for a long time: "'Goodness' is a monster of words, so anyone who has read these words repeatedly people, I can remember them even if they've voted for—"

Little Shani couldn't finish his sentence.

Because at this moment, the sound of crisp bells and metal chains colliding suddenly came from outside the tent. This sound changed the expression of Xiao Shani, who was lying on the bedside and was talking to Zhang Ziyao with her head up. The corners of the eyes were stained red, adding a little bit of coquettishness, the smile on the face was restrained, and the back was tense and turned around——

A cool breeze blows.

The curtain of the tent seems to be gently lifted by the wind, and not far away, the sound of someone whispering is sandwiched between the sound of iron chains and the sound of copper bells...

"——I don't understand, how did that person see that we are very idle, we are obviously busy and wish to run on all fours to work, but in the end, we are regarded as idlers and say in that disgusting manner : Anyway, idle is idle, you go and look at him."

"'——…"

"——What's so interesting! Huh? Just tell me, Lao Fan, you grabbed the judge's ear and made an exception to find out that the child's lifespan is not over yet. What's so interesting?! Can you still die if something happens? , suffered the most, who didn’t suffer when they were young? How did they grow up without suffering? You are so cautious, why do I ask you why, a mere child, let a big man like the two of us be the nanny ..."

"——"

"—Old Fan, say something, don't put on a straight face like it makes you unhappy, just say it! Say it loudly!"

"--Row."

"--what?"

"—I said, can you shut up?"

"--what?!"

"—I'm sick of it."

"'——I... I'll fuck you! You think I'm annoying, so just demolish it! I've been facing your dead coffin face for hundreds of years, and I'm already fucking tired of it! Tired of hundreds of years ago!"

Accompanied by the roar of one of them, Zhang Ziyao and Xiao Shani watched as the two of them strutted into the tent. They stood still in the tent, and it was not difficult to see their faces in the moonlight outside——

Among them, the speaker was dressed in a white robe and a tall hat, and wrote "You are coming too". He was pale, slender and tall, with red shadows like women's rouge around his eyes, and the corners of his eyes were raised high. Although he had a handsome face , but it makes people feel extremely mean; the other is dressed in a black robe, with a hat on his head with the words "I'm catching you", compared to the one in the white robe, he is tall and strong, with thick eyebrows like swords, and skin He looks healthy and dark, with a bell hanging on his sleeve, and when the man in white chatters, he looks silent...

It turned out to be black and white ghosts!

Now that the two of them entered the tent and stood firm, Bai Wuchang looked straight into the room, looked at the little Shani who was lying by Zhang Ziyao's window, frowned slightly, and yelled viciously: "Where the evildoer dares to act wild here! Hurry up and catch the uncle!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a light shone on the wall behind him——

Hei Wuchang could not help but push the white-clothed man behind him, and pointed the wooden hand sign in the direction of the picture scroll, full of murderous aura!

Immediately afterwards, a boy in white robes jumped out of the picture scroll, but he didn't hold a weapon in his hand, but his hands were folded in his sleeves, and he calmly confronted the person in black with his golden eye. Watching - it only took a moment for the latter to put down the weapon in his hand, and said in surprise, "Master Su Lian?"

Oh, Zhang Ziyao raised his eyebrows and looked at the distance, and then at the little Shani who had crawled into bed and hid behind him, thinking that it would be a bit lively tonight.

"Black and white impermanence, what are you doing here?" Su Lian frowned slightly, showing the appearance of a little adult.

"The newly appointed Feishou? Where is it?" Bai Wuchang poked his head out from behind the black clothes, looked around and fixed his eyes on Su Lian, "Wow, so short!"

"..."

Su Lian's expression became more and more indifferent.

Hei Wuchang stretched out his hand to cover Bai Wuchang's mouth and pushed him aside, bowed slightly to Su Lian, then turned and walked towards Zhang Ziyao and the others in the back room, saying as he walked, "Recently, some foreign things have entered the city of Wusai. When the adult heard about this, he asked the two of us brothers to come and watch... In the morning, I smelled a bookstore with a sinister atmosphere that choked my nose, so I paid special attention to it, and as expected, I caught one--"

That Hei Wuchang stopped in front of Zhang Ziyao's bed, then turned his head and said impatiently to the person behind him: "What are you waiting for? Come here and lock it and take it away—"

"Wait!" The little Shani protested cautiously, hiding behind Zhang Ziyao, "I'm not a bad monster, just a monster of words, why are you two master ghosts, why are you here to arrest me?"

"Does it need to be said?" Bai Wuchang leaned forward and pointed to Xiao Shani's hand on Zhang Ziyao's shoulder. The site must abide by other people's rules-now you can keep silent, but every word you say next will become evidence in court, come, go!"

As he spoke, the iron chain in his hand was about to be swung out——

Little Shani seemed to be taken aback, and with a "sigh" sound, he wanted to hide behind Zhang Ziyao again!However, Bai Wuchang seemed to be familiar with the situation at hand, he easily grabbed her wrist and dragged her out, and the chain on his hand was hung up with a snap——

Little Shani seemed to be taken aback by his appearance, his eyes turned red immediately, he opened his mouth with dense fangs and grinned at Bai Wuchang!

"What a monster, you still say you are harmless!"

Bai Wuchang didn't seem to be afraid, he locked the lock even tighter with a sneer, and pulled the little Shani by the neck as soon as he retracted his hand, and the little Shani was dragged out of the edge of the bed like a kite with a broken string, In desperation, he shouted: "Shi Kong, save me!"

Under such circumstances, everyone didn't know who she was calling, so they called out the name of a close person in a panic, but in the silence of the crowd, only Zhang Ziyao, who had been used as the background board, opened his mouth and said, "Wait! Lord Ghost Messenger Show mercy!"

As soon as Zhang Ziyao opened his mouth, something unexpected happened to him——

At this time, everyone in the room looked at him in shock except for Xiao Shani!

"?"

Zhang Ziyao was baffled, thinking that he had done something wrong again, got up from the bed and jumped to the ground, inexplicably asked his only acquaintance at the scene—Su Lian—asked: "What's the matter? What's the matter?"

Su Lian rarely looked at Zhang Ziyao with hesitation: "Why do you..."

"—how can you see us?"

Bai Wuchang finished speaking for him with a strange expression on his face.

Zhang Ziyao blankly looked at the people around him, paused for a moment, and then realized what the problem was - it turned out that the whole room didn't intend to treat him as a background board, but because they all thought that he couldn't see black and white!

"But I just saw it..." Zhang Ziyao's tongue was tied, and he suddenly became nervous, "Is it okay? Is it bad? Am I inappropriate to see them?"

Ahhh, I heard that only dying or dead people can see ghosts——

No, can't you? !

Zhang Ziyao raised his finger to point at the tip of his nose, and asked with great difficulty, "Am I going to die?"

Bai Wuchang still looked at Zhang Ziyao with that strange expression, moved his lips, as if he was hesitant to speak... But at this time, Hei Wuchang glanced at him, walked forward steadily, and said indifferently: "I can't die, just now I just checked your Yangshou, at least you still—”

Before he finished speaking, Bai Wuchang covered his mouth: "Old Fan, don't reveal the secret!"

They all violated the regulations and went to check on this person Yangshou, so what are you afraid of leaking the secret?At this moment, Hei Wuchang's mouth was covered and he couldn't say anything, but he looked at Bai Wuchang helplessly, the latter put down the chain, and casually stuffed the little Shani into Hei Wuchang's place, and then he showed a foolish expression , put one foot on the edge of the bed, put on a rogue-standard pose, and approached Zhang Ziyao who was standing by the bed——

He used one finger to lift the boy's jaw, making him look at him unavoidably.

He stared into the boy's eyes.

The tip of his nose almost touches his.

From a close distance, Zhang Ziyao could see the other person's fox-like eyes looking deeply into his own. After a long time, Bai Wuchang suddenly said, "I see."

Zhang Ziyao: "?"

Bai Wuchang: "Did you touch anything you shouldn't touch in the past few days?"

Zhang Ziyao looked at Su Lian with a guilty conscience, and Su Lian said lightly, "I've touched it."

Bai Wuchang chuckled lightly: "Have you got a fever?"

Zhang Ziyao continued to stare at Su Lian, who answered for him: "Almost burnt to death."

At least for now, Zhang Ziyao, who insisted that he was tired, showed an embarrassed expression: "It will be fine the next day, really."

"That's right, this kid probably touched something that shouldn't be touched, and was possessed by something dirty—"

"Ah," shouted Little Shani, whose shoulders were clasped by Heiwuchang, "it's Lord Inugami! That day, a young man picked up the contract between Lord Oborama and Lord Inugami, and Lord Inugami was offended. Possessed on that boy! Why, that person is you!"

"A dog can also be called an adult," Bai Wuchang said with a look of "you're kidding me" contempt, he straightened his waist and elbowed Hei Wuchang, "Old Fan, would you be willing to call Xiaotian dog an adult?"

"Shut up."

Hei Wuchang avoided him.

Bai Wuchang was bored, touched the tip of his nose and rolled up his sleeves and stood upright: "That's the thing, you were invaded by demons that day, you should have suffered a lot, but in the end, you were forcibly pulled out by some big man halfway... "

When Bai Wuchang mentioned the "big man", he suddenly looked back at Hei Wuchang as if he understood something, and the latter looked back at him expressionlessly——

"In the end, that person's technique was probably a bit rude," Bai Wuchang hesitated, "Leaving some unclean air in your body, a combination of circumstances made you open your yin and yang eyes—"

"No wonder you can see the demon concubine Wenche in the study!" Little Shani was stunned, "So that's how it is?"

"Why, besides you, is there really more than one of the same evildoers?" Bai Wuchang turned his head and looked at Xiao Shani with a sneer, who immediately covered his mouth with his hands in horror.

At this time, Zhang Ziyao frowned, always feeling as if he vaguely wanted to understand something——

For example, that night, in the dream, the feeling of being hugged by someone seemed to be somewhat real.

"Master Ghost Messenger," Zhang Ziyao lowered his eyes, and suddenly said in a calm tone, "May I ask you, is that great person the same person as the one who asked you to look at me?"

Black Impermanence: "..."

Bai Wuchang: "Hey, did you hear us talking outside the tent?"

Heiwuchang: "Your voice is so loud, even the deaf can hear it."

Bai Wuchang: "..."

Zhang Ziyao paused: "Who is that man?"

Bai Wuchang tightly shut his mouth.

……

A quarter of an hour later, Black and White Wuchang stood outside the tent, and saw the figure of the candle inside shake, and then was blown out.

A cold wind blows.

Wrapped in yellow sand.

Looking at the empty chain in his hand, Bai Wuchang's expression turned ugly: "I've been a ghost for hundreds of years, and it's the first time I didn't get someone to return his mother and was kicked out alive!! It's unreasonable!!! That kid is so weird, listen! After hearing Master Zhu Jiuyin's name, his complexion changed as soon as he said it. Isn't he doing it for his own good? Have you cared about it? You even hired us to be his babysitters—hey! How angry! Why don’t you know what’s good or bad!”

A series of nagging complaints, in exchange for Hei Wuchang's "hmm".

A calm "um".

"What are you um! To be fair! Are you angry!"

"I can't get angry."

"What?"

"I suffer from the same situation every day."

"What the hell?"

"People who don't know what is good or bad."

"what?"

"I have one on my body."

"..."

"..."

"Who are you talking about? Who are you talking about—I can't pass? You think I'm annoying, so if you don't want to pass it, just demolish it! I've been facing your dead coffin face for hundreds of years, and I'm already fucking tired of it! I got tired of it a hundred years ago!"

"Quiet."

"..."