dragon pen

"What is there to worry about the things that have passed? If there is really something hard to let go in the previous life, why bother to drink that bowl of Mengpo soup'—tsk tsk tsk, listen, what a speech!"

The child sitting on the edge of the window kicked his legs, rolled his eyes, and repeated in a mean tone what the boy had said, with a matching mean smile on his face——

"Hey, little idiot, you probably don't know yet. In fact, as long as you stand in front of the Naihe Bridge, you will be tricked by that old lady Meng into drinking that bowl of green footwashing water..."

"is it?"

With his back to the child on the window edge, the black-haired boy held up the red Inugami mask that was placed on a clean white short coat and gestured on his face——

"But I heard that as long as you can endure the long 300 years of not being reincarnated, and you are willing to risk your merits in this life to write off the consequences of reincarnation with uncertain results in the next life, you don't need to drink Mengpo soup."

"Isn't this condition harsh enough?"

"If there is any regret in the previous life that must be fulfilled or someone who must meet again, it is not a harsh condition-how do I look?"

The boy turned around, and the red mask on his face seemed to startle the person sitting by the edge of the window—he leaned back, and then slightly narrowed his red pupils: "You Just promised that fake monk to grab that vixen's footbath?"

"Otherwise? What happened last night, I don't want to try again..."

Zhang Ziyao heard that his voice was a bit dull under the mask. He put on the mask and came to the bronze mirror. After blinking, he found that the delicate Inugami mask on the face in the mirror perfectly matched his face shape...

He turned his face to look at the side, and could only see his pointed jaw and the corners of his slightly curved lips through the gap.

"You know that place is full of monsters, right?"

"I know."

"You know that some of those monsters still like human flesh?"

"I know."

"You know that if they find out that there is a human among them, you will be gnawed to the bone, and even your soul will be torn apart?"

"I know."

"Then you're still going?!"

Zhu Jiuyin raised his eyebrows high, and jumped down from the window sill. He looked at Zhang Ziyao as if he was looking at a mentally retarded child—the child walked up to the young man, and then a light came on, and the child who had only reached the young man's waist instantly turned into a tall man. The shadow he cast completely enveloped the boy in front of him. He stretched out his hand and took off the Inugami mask on the boy's face, and taught him, "You are what other people say. You are so stupid. Rare in the world - don't you know how to bargain?!"

"How do you pay it back?"

Zhang Ziyao reached out to snatch the mask back——

Zhu Jiuyin directly raised his hand and raised the mask to a height that Zhang Ziyao couldn't reach. When the latter raised his face and wanted to jump up to grab it, he took advantage of the situation and pinched his jaw: "For example, you can promise him to impersonate Replace the dog and make up for the vacancy in the invitation letter, but refuse to snatch the inexplicable footbath in person, but let other monsters who bonded with him do it."

"..."

Zhang Ziyao was taken aback by Zhu Jiuyin's words.

Zhu Jiuyin pinched the young man's chin which was tense due to daze and regret, and shook it, sneered and said: "Didn't you think so?"

Zhang Ziyao regretted and forgot to slap his paw at this moment: "...Why didn't you say it just now? Just sat there as a display?"

Zhu Jiuyin put on a mocking expression of "you seem to be making me laugh"——

"Before I have time to open my mouth, someone's 'deal' has already blurted out, as if I took advantage of something for fear of people regretting it--Do you know how many monsters will gather in the palace in front of Yuzao at the Hyakki Night Festival? You And how are you going to snatch the footbath from under the noses of so many monsters, and then retreat completely?"

"..."

"Do you admit that you are stupid?"

"..." Zhang Ziyao finally remembered to pat away the big hands that were rubbing his chin, "Don't push too hard, there is still a month before the ceremony, and I will always find a way."

"That is." Zhu Jiuyin withdrew her hand, "You still have a long month to please me, maybe I will escort you for you if you are soft-hearted..."

"Then there's no need, Mr. Zhu Jiuyin is too busy to go to Tianxiahai," Zhang Ziyao snorted, "Seriously, why haven't you left yet?"

After he finished speaking, taking advantage of Zhu Jiuyin's distraction, he jumped up and snatched back the delicate Inugami mask——

Zhu Jiuyin looked coldly at Zhang Ziyao holding the exquisite mask and seemed to like it, paused and said firmly: "You don't care where I go, I am free now, and I can go wherever I want... just, just The place I want to be now just happens to be you."

Zhang Ziyao raised his head and glanced at him with distrust.

"Why, don't you believe it?" Zhu Jiuyin said lazily with her sleeves rolled up, "For example, I also want to see what happened to the Night Festival of Hundred Ghosts."

"Although the identity of being an old monster is a good one, but didn't you say that the list of monsters who will participate was reported a few months ago, and you don't have an invitation letter."

"A joke, an invitation letter?" Zhu Jiuyin sneered, "When did I ever need something that low-level monsters want? This face of this gentleman is an invitation letter for the whole world."

"..."

After staring at the handsome but majestic face for a while, this time, Zhang Ziyao sneered: He was quite looking forward to the appearance of this guy in front of him trying to break in but being beaten out with a broom.

...Well, to correct me, I am looking forward to it.

At this moment, Su Lian happened to push the door open and walked in. Zhang Ziyao grabbed him and told him Zhu Jiuyin's "face brushing theory" as a joke vividly. However, to his surprise, after listening to his joke, Su Lian Not only did Lian not smile, but he turned his head to look at Zhu Jiuyin and said, "I'm also planning to do that."

"..." Zhang Ziyao had a headache, "Can you stop messing around?"

"I'm also a monster." Su Lian pointed to his nose and said, "Why don't you let me go?"

"No invitation letter!"

"What do you want that thing for?" Su Lian looked strange, "Isn't that invitation letter something that exists because it needs to be used by ordinary little monsters that can be seen everywhere?"

"And there is only one Master Zhu Jiuyin." Sitting on the couch shaking his legs, Zhu Jiuyin lazily said to Zhang Ziyao, "Even this stupid cow knows current affairs better than you."

Zhang Ziyao gestured the dog god mask on his face: "You won't convict me if you don't kneel and talk to the two adults, little monster?"

Su Lian: "No."

Zhu Jiuyin: "He is mocking us, why are you answering so seriously?"

Su Lian turned her head and looked at Zhang Ziyao innocently and reproachfully, Zhang Ziyao rolled her eyes.

"This is the real attitude," Zhu Jiu said coolly, "This stupid human being is about to ride on us."

Zhang Ziyao: "You smell like fish, even if you beg me, you won't even ride."

Zhu Jiuyin: "Look, he is still waving a small leather whip and shouting 'frame'."

Zhang Ziyao and Su Lian: "..."

……

Although Zhang Ziyao said that he would always think of a way in a month, but once the unstoppable time is destined to be wasted, it will slip away faster than anything else in the world.

October [-]th of the lunar calendar, Chen time.

The entire Yun Qi Kingdom Palace was still immersed in the tranquility of the early morning.

In the small courtyard, the black-haired boy and the man in white hunting clothes sat upright with each other, and there was a small wine table between them.

——There were not many things that happened in this month, except that the weather gradually changed from late autumn to a little cold in early winter, Zhang Ziyao only heard about Lou Hen leaving Wusai City and returning to the capital—— No one was surprised, after all, he was Prince Rui, the most valued son of the Holy Majesty, how could the Holy Majesty be willing to leave him in this remote place and ignore him?

"What's more, our family's head has become clearer recently, and he has begun to seriously think about whether it is better to just give up on the place that has been unable to attack for a long time... After all, the world is so big, and it is not only the place where Tiancang can be robbed by him. .”

Sitting upright on the corridor, the man in a white safari poured the warm wine into the glass without haste, with a smile in his eyes—killing, burning, and looting became a habitual thing in his mouth, And he doesn't seem to care what other people think of it...

Zhang Ziyao took the small wine glass, took a sip, and found that the wine was not much different from white water except that it was slightly sweet. The warm wine slid over the tip of his tongue, and when he swallowed it, he felt warm all over. Yes, the cold in the morning has been dispelled a lot... The young man raised his eyelids and looked over the wine glass to look at the man sitting opposite him: "I haven't seen the Emperor Yunqi in this month."

"He doesn't usually come here."

"Oh?"

"As I said a long time ago, he is more advocating the power of real guns and swords, and the way of yin and yang. In his opinion, they are all heretics, so even the little monks who play with these heretics are also disgusted." The smile on his face only seemed to show that he didn't feel any regrets about this incident at all, "There is no way to do this."

"Thinking about Yunqi's family history, it's understandable—"

Zhang Ziyao spoke vaguely, and moved the empty wine glass to the warm jug, staring greedily at it—but before he could start pouring it again, he was stopped: "Tonight is On the day of the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade Festival, Brother Ziyao, it’s better not to be greedy for drinking and make mistakes...not to mention letting you get drunk at the little monk early in the morning, and the two in your family don’t know how to curse the little monk coldly. "

"..."

Zhang Ziyao was brought up with a headache—whether it was the "Hundred Ghosts' Night Festival" or "the two in the family" were included.

"Does the jacket fit well?" Luzhen asked again.

Zhang Ziyao nodded hesitantly: "It fits well, but I don't quite understand, why do I have to make a special trip to change a suit of clothes, and put on that Inugami mask..."

"Of course it's because the clothes you usually wear are tainted with too much human breath, which will make people suspicious..." The wine vessel in Yu Zhen's hand collided with a nice crisp sound, and under Zhang Ziyao's envious gaze, he raised his head and drank a glass He said with a smile, "As for the mask, it's probably because of the secret of the gods, or some ancient sacrificial customs—"

"The secret of God?"

"The monsters wear masks. They don't let others see their own faces, because they think it's a very mysterious and private thing—or I guess, some of them grow too close to humans, in order to distinguish them Put on the monster mask."

"what?"

"If the little monk didn't say it, you would think Master Changbi is an ordinary maid...and you once said that you saw Concubine Wenche in the bookstore," Luzhen explained with a smile, "at least in terms of appearance Say, aren't they all no different from ordinary humans?"

Zhang Ziyao was stunned.

After chatting with Yuma for a while, he failed to ask what will happen tonight. Although he had directly made a decision, Yuma admitted that he had not participated in it, so he didn't know what happened, but it was interesting to hear ...

As soon as the hour of Chen (*[-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am) passed, a woman in twelve singles appeared outside the door. Lu Zhen muttered, "Time flies so fast", put down the wine vessel, and told Zhang Ziyao to take a bath and change clothes. To remove the human pyrotechnic smell from the body——

"Even if it is removed on the surface, there is still no way to remove the smell in the body, because I am originally a person."

Oboro smiled from a distance and said: "The filth in the body has already been cleaned with something that smells like Lord Inugami. Don't let others take off the mask until tonight's ugly time (*[-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am) If you look into your eyes, there won't be much problem."

"Have you cleaned your body?" Zhang Ziyao, who had already walked to the courtyard gate, paused, as if he had suddenly grasped the key point in Yu Zhen's words, and said, "When did it happen? Why don't I know?"

"In the glass of wine you drank, there is a spell cast by the monk."

"..."

"That thing is not harmful to the body, Brother Ziyao can rest assured."

"...Even if this is the case, you should at least remind me—ah, forget it, don't talk to those two of my family!"

When going out in the morning, Zhu Jiuyin heard that he was coming to Tong Yuzhen for a drink, and said "be careful not to be cursed in the wine" with a different nose and face - now it seems that the dragon is really a crow's mouth... …

Zhang Ziyao touched his stomach with complicated emotions, but he didn't find any discomfort, so he was a little relieved.

Under the leadership of the maid, he went to a place where he could take a bath. It was a very large natural hot spring bath. Zhang Ziyao jumped in and washed himself inside and out, and was dragged to repair his hair, body hair, nails and other possible dirt. At Nurgle's place, Zhang Ziyao finally completed a series of cleaning tasks when it was approaching You Hour (*[-]:[-] p.m. to [-]:[-] p.m.)——

Both physically and mentally.

"—Don't let me read Buddhist scriptures again next time, that stuff makes me more and more restless."

Zhang Ziyao complained to Yuzhen who was waiting alone outside the main hall. At this time, Zhu Jiuyin and Su Lian were not far behind Yuzhen. They whispered and looked at Yuzhen from time to time, not knowing what they were talking about.

Zhang Ziyao really envied these two monsters, at least they didn't have to take a bath.

"In order to avoid being discovered that a human being has mixed in, the necessary homework is still required." Oboroma smiled to appease the irritable emotions brought about by the boy's tossing all day.

"Even if it's like this, I don't need to wash it so clean... My legs are all shaved! Can I still be considered a complete man without leg hair!" Zhang Ziyao looked ashamed, and then suddenly paused, "Eh, yes Why are you here alone? Don’t you usually walk around with some servants like maids?”

"One person?" Luzhen asked Zhang Ziyao as he handed the exquisite Inugami mask in his hand.

"Yes."

Zhang Ziyao answered casually and at the same time reached out to take the mask, and then put the mask on with a tired face——

He was dumbfounded the moment he put it on.

Through the eyes on the exquisite mask, he realized that Mizuma didn't come alone at all. Behind him, there were obviously a lot of people standing——

In addition to the beautiful maid who led him the way before; there is also a carriage with a long nose and a red face and a grinning grin; on the top of the carriage sits a cold and beautiful woman dressed in white; a little monk with one eye stands at her feet; Or a white-haired old woman carrying a small decorative box; or a half-naked beauty with a pale complexion but red lips like blood, and a translucent veil on the upper body, and a big spider with weird patterns on the lower body; There are also those that look like frogs; those with sharp-billed monkey cheeks look like turtles...

Each of them has their name written in red paint in extremely scrawled handwriting on different parts of their bodies——

Changbi Ji, Obscure Che, Bai Xueji, One-Eyed Little Monk, White-faced Woman, Bride, Raining Monk, Kappa...

Four huge red wolfhounds came to Zhang Ziyao from Luzhen with their tails up, and surrounded him—when the boy unconsciously raised his hands stiffly, they surrounded him with their long wet noses Sniffing, sniffing, swinging the big tail between the legs...

Zhang Ziyao stammered nervously: "This, this, this, this..."

"It's not dark yet, and they can't be seen under the sun, so usually even people with yin and yang eyes can't see it, but now everyone can't wait to see you," said the four One of the wolfhounds turned its head and barked at him, so the smile on the man's lips became clearer, "It seems that everyone is very satisfied now."

Zhang Ziyao didn't care if these monsters were satisfied or not—

Being stared at so fiercely all of a sudden, goosebumps all over Zhang Ziyao's body.

At this time, Changbi stepped forward, the clogs on her feet made a "da da" sound, and she was holding a red thing that looked like an invitation card, and she came to Zhang Ziyao, and she silently handed the invitation card to Zhang Ziyao ——

Zhang Ziyao knew that this was the legendary "Invitation to the Front Palace of Yuzao" and reached out to pick it up. However, just as his fingertips touched the red origami paper, red characters like tadpoles flew out of it!

"Ah!"

Zhang Ziyao was startled and quickly let go of his hand and backed away, but it was too late, the red tadpole Piao Piao came to his side, circled around him, and landed on his white wrist ——

"This is?!" Zhang Ziyao looked down at the scarlet name "Inugami Saburo" that appeared on his body, with a look of horror.

"Invitation card." Long Zhen smiled, "The name is really a special thing, it represents the host itself, and is the only unchangeable existence except death, only death can the 'name' be liberated—"

So Zhang Ziyao became Inugami Saburo.

...Oh, this name is really stupid.

Since I was surrounded by four big dogs at the moment, there might be "Inugami Taro", "Inugami Jiro", "Inugami Shiro" and "Inugami Goro" inside. Several dogs flocked to the group of grotesque monsters——

Zhang Ziyao, who was wearing the dog god mask, walked stiffly, all he knew was that he was almost sweating in such cold weather...

"...!"

All of a sudden, as if he remembered something, Zhang Ziyao looked back as if hoping for some savior——

Behind his gaze, Zhu Jiuyin and Su Lian, who were standing or sitting not far away, seemed to feel his gaze, and finally stopped whispering and started to move—in the process of walking towards Zhang Ziyao, Su Lian turned into a small white unicorn with the head of a bull and golden eyes, and ran towards Zhang Ziyao with short legs. Yin also changed from a child to a handsome man with a lazy and noble face. He folded his sleeves and slightly arched his back, walking here listlessly...

Maybe it's because of the long legs, even if he walks lazily like this, his speed is no slower than that of a beast running desperately with its legs on——

Finally, Feishou caught up with Zhang Ziyao, squeezed away the four red wolfhounds surrounding him with his body, and "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" bit Zhang Ziyao's clothes; Smells like your dog brothers, think about it, how does he look the same as you—is his brain only as big as an eyeball?" The man was chanting, while lying across the boy's head like a hill behind...

Zhang Ziyao quietly lifted his mask and looked at the big wolfhounds who were about to be squeezed away by you and Su Lian, and breathed a sigh of relief.

It's a pity that the good times don't last long--

At this moment, Zhang Ziyao finally walked into the group of monsters behind Yuzhen, and all of a sudden, the monsters who were just standing there watching eagerly rushed up!

Zhang Ziyao's face was tense: "Ah, don't squeeze!"

All the monsters seemed to want to go to Zhang Ziyao's side. The beautiful woman with pale skin and white clothes floating in the air seemed to reach out out of curiosity and touched Zhang Ziyao. Zhang Ziyao immediately felt as if his shoulders were about to freeze Usually, he sneezed in the freezing cold——

"Ah!"

The monsters that had been tightly surrounding the young man suddenly exploded a circle around him and avoided them one after another.

"Sneeze, sneeze."

"Have a cold? Have a cold!"

"What a fragile human being."

"Human beings are so fragile."

"It's better to be a monster..."

"Don't monsters catch a cold? I also feel uncomfortable in winter! Hey, speaking of which, I want to see what he looks like under the mask."

"Nonsense, of course it looks like a human being!"

……

"Master Bai Xueji, just take a look and don't touch it."

Oboroma smiled and looked at Zhang Ziyao, who was surrounded by monsters, who seemed to be paying attention to rare objects, and felt uncomfortable. The man bowed slightly to the boy——

"Then, I will wait here for brother Ziyao's smooth return."

Zhang Ziyao's eyelids twitched as he spoke the truth. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that behind the man, the sun had gradually sunk into the horizon, and the clouds in the sky had turned into a fiery red patch——

When the sun and the moon alternate, the time of encountering magic is approaching.