The strange story of Huai'an Inn

Passing through the familiar bamboo forest, I saw the elegant Taoist temple with blue tiles and white walls in the distance.This time, there was no one in the temple. There were two young female crowns sweeping the fallen leaves outside the door, picking up the earthworms and slugs that came out of the middle of the road due to humidity and moving them to the grass and fallen leaves on both sides, so as not to be stepped on by pilgrims. die.

The shopkeeper walked up with Chong Liu, and bowed neatly to the two female crowns, "You two celestial aunts, I wish Helan good manners, may I ask if celestial aunt Jiuluan is in the audience?"

One of the two female crowns said, "My aunt is here, but she never sees the pilgrims. What's the matter with the benefactor?"

"I would like to ask Xiangu to tell you that I am her old acquaintance, and she knows my name." Zhu Helan said, bowing deeply again, smiling slightly, and her white jade-like face seemed to glow.

The other female crown who didn't speak much even lowered her head and blushed, said something to her sister in a low voice, and then ran in the door to pass it on.

Chong Liu sighed secretly, the shopkeeper's kung fu of randomly placing peach blossoms was simply at its peak.

After a while, the dark green observation door that was closed just now slowly opened.Behind the door stood a female crown, the paddy field robe fluttering in the wind, and the long silk ribbon of the blue scarf replaced her tied long hair, dancing lightly behind her.

Chong Liu has always thought that the poems describing beauties in books throughout the ages are somewhat exaggerated.But when he saw her, he realized that they were all realistic sketches...

She is taller than ordinary women, but not thin, like a squat and proud lotus.Her skin was ruddy and transparent, as if the light could penetrate it and radiate radiance inside.Her beautiful peach eyes, tall and slightly raised nose, plump and red lips... Her beauty is not the most standard, nor is she weak and pitiful, but she can directly hit people's hearts and imprint her name on people. In my impression, those standard beauties with almond eyes and cherry lips pale in comparison.

Chong Liu couldn't help but let out a "Wow..." and opened his mouth wide, unable to speak.There is only one description in my mind: overwhelming the country and the city.

Seeing his reaction, Nuguan pursed her lips and smiled, her eyes fell on the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper smiled with satisfaction, as if he was very pleased, he bowed slowly and said, "Xiangu Jiuluan, you look much better."

Fairy Jiuluan? !

Chong Liu recalled Tai Xi's master who covered his face with a black veil two nights ago, with strange tentacles protruding from under the veil...

It's only been two days, but there's such a big change? !

Is this the original appearance of Fairy Jiuluan?

With such a beautiful face, the proud daughter of heaven was forced to live most of her life with a festered and deformed face... How did she survive this gap alone?

Jiuluan held the floating dust he had seen last time in his hand, and walked down a few stone steps.Not only the heavy six, even the few female crowns passing by looked dumbfounded.

I want to come to Jiuluan Fairy who has been behind closed doors all these years, and even if she comes out, she covers her face. These disciples have never seen her original appearance.

She came to the shopkeeper, bowed her hands, and gave a deep salute, "Thank you, shopkeeper, for your success!" The shopkeeper hurriedly made movements to help her up, but his hands were carefully hanging in the air, and he didn't really touch her.Chong Liu secretly admired the shopkeeper's thoughtfulness, "I'm just a businessman, and I'm outraged by the fairy girl." He paused, and said in a low voice, "Today, the national teacher listened to Daoist Qi Yao, why don't you go?"

"The dojo is too noisy, I don't like it. I want to wait until the end of the puja. Anyway, I have been waiting for so many years, and it doesn't matter if I wait a little longer." She said, but her eyes were lowered, as if she was a little uncertain It's like retreating.

The shopkeeper Shi Shiran said, "You have spent so many twists and turns and sacrificed so much, but now you give up because of a little worry about gains and losses?" Jiuluan didn't speak.

The shopkeeper sighed softly, "Actually, I am willing to do this business with you that is likely to cause me disaster. It is not because I am moved by your infatuation. You are a phoenix soaring in the sky. I can't bear to see you You can't stretch your life in seclusion. Now you finally get back what you lost, and you can take control of your life again. Meeting him is just an explanation and closure for the past self, asking clearly what has been troubled for many years That's all."

Jiuluan seemed to have realized something after listening to the shopkeeper's words.She nodded, and the light in her eyes gradually became firmer, "Thank you, shopkeeper Zhu, for your reminder. If that's the case, I'll go now."

Listen, Chong Liu, is the shopkeeper trying to persuade Fairy Jiuluan to interrupt the meeting between Guo Shi and Liu Sheng?

He walked behind the shopkeeper, Fairy Jiuluan, Taixi and other disciples who followed Jiuluan, and began to think about the whole matter.Originally, when Liu Sheng went up the mountain, there was no need for the shopkeeper to follow.According to him, he is a businessman, so he shouldn't care so much about whether Fairy Jiuluan has seen the national teacher.And that Song Mingzi, obviously his senior brother gave the sermon for the first time today, but why did he run to the inn?

Could it be that...the shopkeeper wants to use Fairy Jiuluan to...delay time?

What exactly is Song Mingzi doing in the inn?

The shopkeeper said that Song Mingzi had a business relationship with him... and Xu Hanke came this time to make it clear that he wanted to trouble him...

The shopkeeper wouldn't want to take the opportunity to kill Xu Hanke, would he?

But if this is the case, he just needs to ignore Xu Hanke and let him be eaten by those bugs. What the hell is he doing?

Chong Liu rubbed his chin, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the shopkeeper seemed a little... sinister...

So what is your role in all of this?Why does the shopkeeper always take him with him?

Is it really just because he is "curious" because he is afraid that he will stab me?

Or are you afraid that something bad will happen to him staying in the inn?

Itchy fingertips.Chong Liu raised his right hand and saw that the bulge under the nail of the index finger seemed... longer?

Not only that, but similar granulation-like bumps began to appear under the nails of the ring finger and little finger.

Chongliu didn't know why, so he thumped.

What is this...

"Liu'er." The shopkeeper suddenly called him from the front.He had no choice but to step up and follow.

Along the way, Fairy Jiuluan was walking in front, and the crowd, which was so crowded that even a needle could not be inserted, automatically branched out into a wide road.This transcendent beauty from the inside out is indeed very deterrent, no matter how unruly and uneducated people dare not make mistakes arbitrarily.

They followed Fairy Jiuluan and drove straight in. After inquiring about the whereabouts of the national teacher from an alchemist, the group of people did not enter the Sanqing Hall, and went straight to the Jingsi hall behind which was not open to pilgrims.

When Fairy Jiuluan pushed open the door, the two people who were sitting and talking facing each other in the room turned their heads, but it was Guoshi and Liu Sheng.

The national teacher was stunned on the spot, as if his whole body had been immobilized.

After Liu Sheng saw the shopkeeper and Chong Liu, he was also stunned.Probably they didn't expect them to appear here, and they followed this mysterious and beautiful female crown with a special status at first sight.

"Jiuluan..." the national teacher murmured.

He probably never imagined that one day Jiuluan would still stand in front of him with that magnificent posture back then.

Just the wedding dress...

"Brother Mengku." Jiuluan whispered the name softly, as if a little unfamiliar, but also as if he missed it.

The two faced each other, and time seemed to freeze, and neither of them could find anything to say for a while.

Liu Sheng looked between the two people with anxious eyes.Just as he was about to speak, Fairy Jiuluan suddenly smiled, like spring flowers blooming at the end of winter.She looked at Mengku, bowed gracefully, and when she stood up again, the infatuation in her eyes had settled into calmness.She reached into her sleeve and took out an elegant flying luan hairpin made of sycamore wood. "Brother Mengku, this thing was made by you with your own hands from Kunshan sycamore wood. All these years... I have never left my body. Now, I will return it to you."

Master Mengku looked at the thing in her hand, guilt, dodge and grief lingered in his eyes.His voice was no longer steady, "Jiuluan... how did you..." "How did you get back my face?" Jiuluan sneered, "Brother Mengku, don't you ask me how I have been doing all these years?" Have you been?"

When there was no response from Mengku, Jiuluan slowly said: "Before, when I still had this face, I also thought that my appearance was just a skin, and it would rot sooner or later. I have the beauty that women all over the world dream of. , but never took it seriously, because I thought that those people I cared about, such as you, saw my temperament, my ability, and those things that could last longer in me. I thought that you and the world Most men are different.

I knew what was going to happen when I let the moth ancestor parasitize, but I agreed anyway.Because compared with the safety of the world, my sacrifice of a little beauty is nothing.I was too young and naive at that time, thinking that I would be thanked by everyone for saving the common people in the world by doing this, and would be forever remembered in the history books like all heroines.

Blessing the common people, and being famous through the ages, has always been my ambition that I have never shown.

But I was wrong.

When the so-called number one beauty in the world is no longer beautiful or young, people don't care what I gave in return, they can only see my appearance and only care about my appearance.Those lay Buddhists who used to come to support me from thousands of miles to see my practice gradually disappeared, as if the Taoism I taught could no longer make them "enlighten" as before, and my ashram could no longer make them feel "clean" Out of the dust'.

Even in the Qingming Sect, everyone is spreading the word about how ugly and terrible I have become, and there are even rumors that my temperament is getting worse and worse because of my ugly appearance.They framed me for abusing my disciples, saying that I was jealous of young and beautiful disciples and deliberately scolded them for making them do menial work, spreading groundless rumors in full force.Some people also said that my 'disease' is contagious, and if any female disciple gets too close to me, sooner or later she will become as ugly as me.

How 'reasonable' they say.Those who listened to the rumors said that no matter how great I did, it was my own choice, and I would have to bear the consequences. They said that no matter what great achievements I had, the emperor should reward me, and now I am being treated harshly. The female disciple obviously stated that I was of bad character, selfish and despicable, turned into an ugly 'old woman', and should be expelled from Qingming Sect.

What surprised me the most was that many female benefactors talked about me behind their backs, saying that a woman should be a husband and a child, but she just wanted to pretend to be a hero. Now she is old and ugly, and it is too late to regret it.

No matter how my disciples spoke up for me, they all said that they were threatened by me, or that they were the same.No one dared to worship me as a teacher anymore, and even my disciples were implicated and isolated by other disciples.Even my master, who used to be proud of me, also gently told me not to show my face again.

I finally understood that everything I had before was because I was young and had a good-looking face.What I thought was just icing on the cake turned out to be all my value in the eyes of others.

Those who gossip about my reputation may not be evil, or even realize how much their words have hurt me.They just said it casually and ruined everything for me like that.And I don't even know who to turn to to settle the bill.

Now beside me, there is only Taixi left.Although people no longer talk about me, they have already forgotten me. I stay behind closed doors, rotting in the dark every day, enduring the torment of the moth ancestor, as if I buried myself in a grave and waited to slowly die .I thought that was all my life.

But all of these are not as deep as the wound you gave me, Brother Mengku. "