Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms

At five or six o'clock, the sky was already dark.

The small light was turned on in the living room, and Yan Lanyu sat on the sofa, staring at the cardboard box in front of her, with only one feeling in her heart.

- What should come will always come.

From the very beginning, he didn't believe that he could leave the Tantric sect smoothly.

Where is Tantric Gate?The darkest world of Yin and Yang in Japan, the palace with the most highly concentrated power.For hundreds of years, only a very small number of people could escape there, but those who left alive could not escape the fate of setting foot on the underworld soon.

Fortunately, no matter what is coming at the moment, no one else will be involved.

Yan Lanyu took a deep breath, cut the scotch tape with a knife, and opened the carton.The orange-yellow light reflected a palm-sized round box in the cardboard box, and the lid was engraved with blue patina, mixed and indistinct patterns.

Yan Lanyu picked up the round box, her expression moved slightly.

——It turned out to be a bronze mirror.

·

In a noodle restaurant downstairs in the community, the dilapidated shop was blown by the north wind, and the hot pot was turned on in the kitchen, and white mist mixed with the aroma of chopped green onions came blowing towards our face.

"Your beef noodles—"

The boy in black took the bowl, turned back to his seat, broke apart the wooden chopsticks and started eating.

"Hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss..."

The boy's cuff moved slightly, and a thumb-sized snake-like horned head poked out, moved to the noodle bowl and began to drink soup.

The boy didn't mind, but this creature that looked like a snake and a dragon just took a few sips, its whole body slipped out of the cuff, and began to climb along the boy's arm and onto his shoulder.Its pitch-black scales shone with a slight luster, and it was not conspicuous on the boy's black clothes. It quickly climbed up on his shoulder and entangled itself, looking around.

The young man scolded in a low voice.

Xiaolong buried his head, then plunged into his neckline, slipped and disappeared.

The owner of the noodle shop who happened to pass by with a bowl didn't notice this scene, but he heard the boy's scolding, which was completely out of Chinese accent, so he couldn't help but look back.

I saw that the boy was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and he only wore a black T-shirt, a black jacket, and a pair of fingerless leather gloves, the edges of which had been worn very obviously.His complexion is slightly dark, but his facial features are very distinct and handsome, especially the brow bone and the bridge of the nose are very deep and three-dimensional; these facial features do not look like Han people at first glance, but have a feeling of ethnic minorities in the southwest.

There were only a few customers in the store, and the boss was listlessly wiping the stove with a rag, while eyeing the boy in black boredly.

outsider?North Drift?

I don't go home after Chinese New Year, I don't know what kind of job I get in Beijing, life is hard these days.

At this moment, the young man seemed to notice the gaze on him, and raised his head to glance at the boss.In an instant, it seemed as if a cold wind was brushing against his neck, and the boss shivered suddenly.

——Good... so bright eyes!

It's like the falcon's staring eyes flickering at the moment when it locks on its prey, making people feel an indescribable timidity in their hearts just by looking at it.

"Curiosity killed the cat..." the young man murmured in Miao language, finished the last sip of noodle soup, and put down the bowl.

At this time, his eyes passed the store door, and suddenly he saw a person coming from the gate of the community across the road.Wearing a shirt in the winter, it looked extra thin in the wind, walked across the intersection to a private car on the side of the road, and said something to the driver in the car.

The boy narrowed his eyes slightly.

——That person is Yan Lanyu.

The young man threw Zhang Fifty on the greasy table, got up suddenly and strode out of the store, straight across the road.

At this moment, a sudden change happened ahead, Yan Lanyu suddenly grabbed the driver of the private car by the collar, punched him and started beating him!

The driver suddenly struggled and screamed.

Originally, there were no people on the street at night in the winter. When the driver yelled, the sound was heard far away. Even the gatekeeper at the gate of the community and the few customers in the noodle restaurant all poked their heads out to look.Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Yan Lanyu threw the driver out of the car neatly, fell on the road, and then bent over to get into the car.

"Snatch the car! Snatch the car!" The driver seemed to have seen a ghost, and yelled as he crawled backwards: "Help! Snatch the car!"

Someone started to run towards this side in the distance, but their movements were not as fast as the boy in black—he rushed across the intersection quickly, rushed forward, grabbed Yan Lanyu's arm, and threw him into the car with his backhand. Drag down.

Yan Lanyu raised her head: "Who are you?"

The voice was extremely hoarse and unpleasant, and the boy in black was startled for a moment, and then he saw Yan Lanyu's eyes were double pupils!

——Only people who have been possessed by a ghost will show double pupils!

"Who are you?" The young man said coldly, and cut the back of Yan Lanyu's neck with his backhand!

Yan Lanyu's movements were very fast, she got out of the car as if "sliding" out of the boy's arms, and slashed at the boy's back with her backhand.It was too late, and then it was too late, a creature that looked like a snake and a dragon suddenly sprang out from the neckline of the boy, opened its mouth and let out a ferocious and silent roar at Yan Lanyu, the sound waves swayed in the air with terrifying power, directly overthrowing Yan Lanyu to the ground!

The young man suddenly yelled, and several passers-by who wanted to find out not far away hesitated and stopped in their tracks.

"My car..." The driver struggled to get up, but then the boy bent down and pressed his thin and strong fingers to a certain position behind his ear.

With such a simple click, the driver suddenly fell down without making a sound.

"It turned out to be you." Yan Lanyu staggered up, staring at the creature on the young man's shoulders, her pupils reflected a strange light: "I didn't expect to bump into the legendary old dragon here... Are you the legendary 'scavenger' Long Jiu?"

The boy in black didn't answer, and while staring closely at Yan Lanyu, he dragged the driver to the side of the road.

Yan Lanyu laughed contemptuously: "I heard that the scavengers only show up when something big happens. Why do you appear here?"

"...I was sent to protect the person you leaned over." Long Jiu finally spoke, and it was obvious that he didn't speak Chinese very well, and his pronunciation was a bit stiff and difficult: "You are a ghost made by others, your Who is the master?"

"Oh, I can't tell you that." "Yan Lanyu" smiled treacherously, and then pulled out two short daggers from both sides of her thigh with her backhand!

——Long Jiu narrowed his eyes for an instant, and saw that the blade was as thin as a cicada's wing, and the blade was flashing with poisonous blue light.

"My task is just to take him away, but I didn't say that Yan Lanyu must be complete. It is okay to have missing arms or legs if necessary."

The ghost gestured the blade towards Yan Lanyu's wrist, and said maliciously in Long Jiu's eyes that sank instantly: "So when we fight later, you should be careful, otherwise this little beauty will die in your hands." Maybe..."

·

At the same time, Jiangxi.

Yu Jingzhong had just finished the meeting and was walking down the hotel steps while greeting people, when his cell phone rang suddenly.

The two people around him smiled apologetically and backed away. Yu Jingzhong made an apologetic gesture, and then looked at the caller ID of his mobile phone, and his eyebrows frowned.

"Hello, Long Jiu?"

"An accident happened to Yan Lanyu."

Yu Jingzhong's complexion changed immediately: "What's going on, where are you?"

"...Yan Lanyu's house."

In the dim living room, the black-clothed boy gasped slightly, sitting on the floor covered in blood, with the cardboard box that hadn't even been torn off from the courier slip in his hand, and a torn bronze mirror on the coffee table.

"The Japanese esoteric sect sent Yan Lanyu an ancient bronze mirror, and a very powerful ghost was sealed inside. As long as Yan Lanyu opened the mirror, the ghost would come out and attack him."

Long Jiu swallowed bloody saliva and said, "Just now I saw Yan Lanyu snatching a car downstairs. I tried to stop him but couldn't. Now the ghost should be trying to find a way to go to Japan with his body."

If it is too complicated, Long Jiu can't express it in Chinese, but can only speak it in Lao Miao language. Fortunately, Yu Jingzhong can understand: "Why can't I stop it?!"

"Because the ghost is the top undead messenger in Japanese Yin-Yang Dao, it is extremely difficult to deal with. What's more, it uses the method of hurting Yan Lanyu to hurt me. If it is provoked, Yan Lanyu's life will be lost." Long Jiu briefly explained what happened downstairs just now. Repeated it again, and said: "It can only use human transportation to get Yan Lanyu out of the country, and it should go to the airport now."

On the steps of the hotel, the wind was blowing, and Yu Fu's face was extremely ugly.

"I see," he said in a deep voice after a while, "let's deal with it now."

Yu Jingzhong hung up the phone, then turned to the address book and called up Zhou Hui.

·

10 minutes ago, Beijing Airport.

The waiting hall was as bright as day, and Chu He was wearing sunglasses, flipping through magazines on his seat with his legs crossed.

Holding the coffee, Zhou Hui walked through the rows of seats, lowered his head and kissed Chu He on the cheek, completely ignoring the strange eyes of the people around him, and asked, "When will you read this fashion magazine?"

With a calm demeanor, Chu He turned over the cover of the magazine, only to find a yellowed copy of "Holding the Corpse" wrapped inside.

"..." Zhou Hui asked in disbelief: "Why do you read your diary all day long, and you don't get tired of reading it for thousands of years?!"

Chu He took a sip of coffee with Zhou Hui's hand, and said seriously: "Everyone has their own hobbies and persistence, for example, I don't know why you still refuse to buy two cups of coffee, but must share with me saliva..."

"Don't be like this, my dear, I've shared all the xx ones, what's the point of drool? What time is it?"

"The boarding will start in another 10 minutes." Chuhe said euphemistically, "Actually, I think it's not good to go on a trip without going back to the unit to report directly after returning from hell..."

"Oh, it doesn't matter, just what can happen these few days, and besides, there are Garuda and the little beauty." Zhou Hui sat down beside him nonchalantly, and said carelessly: "The little beauty is so reliable. I made a wish on my birthday and still think about us. Why isn’t such a sensible child my daughter? You said that if I beat him to death with the upper of his shoe now, can he be reincarnated as the third daughter of our family..."

Chuhe was helpless, "Wake up, Yu Jingzhong will beat you to death with a shoe upper first, okay?"

Zhou Hui shook his head regretfully, grabbed his bag and started to take out his boarding pass, digging out all kinds of messy things that Phoenix had brought from Zhoushan.

All kinds of messy things include but are not limited to - Maha's graffiti when he was a child, the teeth that Garuda replaced, Zhou Hui specially bought from the human world to avoid washing dishes, and the little phoenix just broke. When shelling, the fluff that fell out everywhere...

Zhou Hui managed to find the boarding pass, and found a soft bag by the way. When he opened it, he saw a few blue eggs inside: "What are these?"

"The hell snake eggs that Garuda likes to eat most can be brought to the human world to raise them artificially, so that he will have endless snakes to eat for his descendants."

"..." Zhou Hui said sourly, "Oh, you are such a good mother."

Chuhe turned the page of Baoshizi, and said softly: "Honey, we will never reach a consensus on education... Speaking of which, I have never understood why you can't get along well with Garuda. To be honest, sometimes I feel like you're trying to make things difficult for him, and I don't think there's any point in certain things..."

Zhou Hui immediately retorted with a guilty conscience: "I didn't!"

"Yes." Chu He said, "Last night you sent an email to Garou Luo behind my back, asking him to undergo plastic surgery so that he would look less like you who are 'handsome and suave', otherwise you would have to Charge him royalties. I've seen it all."

Zhou Hui: "..."

Zhou Hui hummed a song, turned on his phone and started playing candy smash, pretending he didn't hear anything.

Chu He didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue, and continued to sit on the sidelines and read his never-ending book "Holding the Corpse", which no one but himself knew what it was like.

The face of the fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy has a beauty that transcends gender, and he wears sunglasses, revealing a small half of his face that is almost indistinguishable from male to female.The waiting room was brightly lit, reflecting his clear and transparent complexion, and his lips were extremely light pink, as good-looking as a girl star in disguise.

One of his shoulders was next to Zhou Hui, his intimacy was undisguised, like a pair of lovers with a big age difference, almost every passer-by would look at them with curiosity and surprise.

Logically speaking, this scene is very intimate, harmonious and beautiful, but Zhou Boss, who has always been restless, only stayed quiet for less than 5 minutes, and started chatting again:

"By the way, what exactly did you write in your diary?"

"Nothing."

"It's nothing. Why do you look at it for so long? Do you miss your old lover in it?"

"No."

"No, how can I watch it for so long, really?"

"Haven't you seen it all?"

Zhou Hui put down the phone, dissatisfied: "It's useless at all! My brother-in-law said that hugging a corpse is a different form in everyone's eyes. In my eyes, it only has a dozen pages, okay! And there are only a few outdated ways of heaven written on it." Gossip and recipes copied from the human world, people who don’t know will think you are a virtuous and virtuous wife!”

"There is indeed a recipe." Chu He said peacefully, "When we first came to live in seclusion in the human world, one day you wanted to eat Buddha Jumping Over the Wall, and we went to the imperial dining room to copy the secret recipe and came back. Have you forgotten?"

As he spoke, he flipped forward the body-holding book, and pointed to a certain page for Zhou Hui to read.I saw a whole page of recipes written neatly in lower letters on the yellow and crisp paper, how much chicken, how much ham, how many winter bamboo shoots, how much shark fin...

"..." Zhou Hui stretched his neck: "What else? Show me what was written earlier!"

Chu He turned a page forward: "On a certain day in a certain year, a certain month, Maha wet the bed. To hide his embarrassment, he secretly washed the sheets in the middle of the night. Zhou Hui found out and laughed at him mercilessly..."

"Further forward, further forward!"

"On a certain day in a certain year, Garuda lost two teeth and hid them under the pillow. Zhou Hui found and touched them. Garuda cried for three consecutive days..."

"Why did I bully the children? You must have misremembered!" Zhou Hui snatched Baoshizi and took out his Montblanc gold pen from his pocket: "Well, let me correct it for you. These are not true. All the remarks should be crossed out, and then check to see if there is any content that slanders my noble character..."

Chuhe had three hundred black lines, and got up to grab the diary, but Zhou Hui jumped up and avoided it.While hiding from him, he flipped through the diary, muttering non-stop: "Why use Maha's tail to mop the floor, use Garuda's feathers to make shuttlecocks, be lazy and don't cook and only feed boiled eggs to the two children... There is no such thing as All of these must be crossed out..."

"Zhou Hui!"

"Ah, there really is an old lover!" Zhou Hui seemed to have discovered a new world: "On a certain day in a certain year, compared to Sakyamuni, Zhou Hui really is more—"

"Give it back to me!" Chu He rushed forward and snatched it, but Zhou Huifeng ran away.

Boss Zhou ran like a wild horse with a prolapsed anus, passed through the waiting hall in a few seconds, and sprinted into the bathroom.Chuhe's body hasn't grown yet, so it's impossible to keep up with the tornado-like wild pace, so he had to give up after two steps.

He was very sure that he had never written in his diary "what's up with Sakyamuni Zhou Hui", that sentence was probably played by Zhou Hui on the spot - but he made up such a sentence in order to grab the diary. It's really hard work...

Chu He turned around a little depressed, and was about to go back to his seat when suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure not far away.

"Ok?"

Chu He squinted his eyes and saw that the man was wearing a shirt, and he didn't feel cold even in winter, and he was looking up at the boarding gate sign.

"...Yan Lanyu?"

Why did Brother Yan appear here so well, and alone, without even wearing a coat?

Chuhe was a little puzzled, subconsciously glanced at the bathroom where Zhou Hui ran into, then turned to walk quickly towards Yan Lanyu.