Red Dust Inn

One, didn't she die three years ago?

Night, silent.

A white figure walked through the criss-cross streets, and finally stopped in front of an inn.She looked at the two strings of red lanterns hanging in front of the inn. The fire in the lanterns flickered on and off, as if they would go out if they were not careful.She knew that the fire would never go out.

The door was pushed open with a creak, waking up the dozing people behind the counter.

"Boss, is there any room available?" The voice was soft and pleasant.

Liu Shisan raised his head, narrowed his eyes and looked at the woman in white in front of him, and after a while, asked, "Are you rich?"

The woman froze for a moment, showing embarrassment, and slowly placed her right hand on her left wrist, which was a bracelet.After a long time, she took off the bracelet and handed it to Liu Shisan, "Can you see this?"

Liu Shisan looked at the bracelet, it was green and translucent, with a trace of blood red in the middle, glowing under the candlelight, it looked like a high-quality jade.He nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, how long will the girl stay?"

The woman asked, "I don't know..."

"It's okay." Liu Shisan came out from behind the counter, dressed in a moon-white robe, with a slender and upright figure, with black hair casually draped behind his head, coupled with his face like a bright moon and breeze, his temperament was as good as this gray little girl's. The inn was out of place.The woman stared in a daze, but heard him say, "You can stay as long as you want." After speaking, she took the bracelet from the woman's hand and carefully looked at it by the candlelight.

After looking at it for a while, he muttered, "This candle is too weak." After speaking, he called to the back room, "Mu Yao, hang a bead out."

After a while, Mu Yao took out a round night pearl, blew out the candlelight, and hung the night pearl on the roof.When he turned around and passed the woman, he glanced at her and said, "Girl, please come with me." Liu Shisan admired the jade bracelet to himself, and Mu Yao led the woman to the leftmost room on the second floor, "You Just live here, remember not to go out around midnight."

The woman smiled gratefully, "Thank you, Miss Mu Yao."

Mu Yao glanced at her and said expressionlessly, "Go to bed earlier."

The first floor of the small inn is the hall, with a few tables and stools randomly placed for eating, drinking and chatting.There are several guest rooms on the second floor. Because the boss is too lazy and the guys don't care about things, the layout of the rooms is exactly the same. After a long time without occupants, they are covered with a layer of dust and no one cleans them.The entrance of the inn is the counter, and there are pots of orchids that bloom just right on the counter.Next to the counter was a reclining chair, covered with two layers of felt, which looked very warm, but now that it was late spring, the felt was no longer usable.

When Mu Yao went downstairs, Liu Shisan was lying on the couch.Mu Yao pushed him, and said with disgust, "Aren't you hot?" Liu Shisan didn't seem to hear her, and kept admiring the jade, "It's really good jade, it's so good... Hey, Mu Yao, you Speaking of such a fine jade, I am afraid that only the Northern Jiang Kingdom can have it."

Mu cast a sideways glance at him, and went into her room.Looking at Mu Yao's back, Liu Shisan pursed her lips, put the jade bracelet in her arms, closed her eyes, and fell asleep contentedly.

The next day, Mu Yao woke up early, tidied up the lobby on the first floor, bought breakfast at the bun shop opposite the inn and put it on the table, took the pot of orchids and sat at the door to trim them.The orchid didn't need pruning at all, so Mu Yao just took a pair of scissors and picked up a piece of bamboo leaf on the ground and cut it randomly.

After a while, the sun crossed the opposite room and shone into the small inn, a beam of light happened to shine on Liu Shisan's face.Liu Shisan stretched out his hand to cover his eyes, turned over, muttered something, got up slowly, walked to the table, and ate a deep-fried dough stick.After eating two mouthfuls, he said to Mu Yao, "Move the recliner to the balcony for me." Mu Yao put down the orchid, got up and moved the recliner made of pagoda tree to the balcony.Just as she was about to go out and bring the orchid in her arms, she heard a woman's voice from upstairs, "It's a beautiful day today, the sun is so bright. Miss Mu Yao, can you open the screen so that I can come downstairs."

A trace of impatience flashed across Mu Yao's face, and he said, "What kind of people are you picking up? It's really troublesome." While talking, he opened the screen painted with landscape paintings to block the window, and then lowered the curtain. The room was instantly darkened.

The woman was a little embarrassed, Liu Shisan waved her hand and said, "Mu Yao is like this, don't take it to heart, are you hungry, eat something?"

The woman went to sit down opposite Liu Shisan, waved her hand, "I'm not hungry."

"Oh." Liu Shisan lowered his head, pulled the deep-fried dough stick, dipped in soy milk, and ate it deliciously.

No one spoke, the room was very quiet, and the faint light from the Ye Mingzhu shone down, making the woman's face extremely pale.After a long time, the woman opened her mouth and said, "Excuse me, who is the current sage?"

Liu Shisan raised his head, half of the fried dough stick was still stuffed in his mouth.He finished the fritters slowly, wiped his hands gracefully, and then wiped his mouth before saying, "The Holy One is the Holy One, how can anyone say that."

After hearing the answer, the woman lowered her eyes, then raised her head unwillingly, "What I want to ask is, is the name of the current Holy Majesty Xue Tingjin or Xue Tingxuan."

"Oh, my little aunt." Liu Shisan's complexion changed, and he looked around, only to be relieved to find no one else, "These names are taboo, you can't say it."

"You haven't answered me yet." The woman insisted.

Liu Shisan raised his eyelids and glanced at her, "I'm just a commoner, how do I know this? If you want to inquire about things, you have to go to the big inn and restaurant outside, or the Hualiu Alley in the west of the city. Those are from Qianzhou City. The place where the news spreads the fastest. As far as which family lost a dog a few years ago, how the uncle Tieguai died in the north of the city a few days ago, when the prince of Xiliang Kingdom will come to propose marriage, and when the little You can find out which tavern in Qianzhou City has the best wine."

"It's inconvenient for me to go out." The woman wondered.

Liu Shisan looked at her, her face was bloodless, pale and nearly transparent, as if she hadn't been exposed to the sun for a long time, her whole person looked lifeless.

Liu Shisan got up and took out a big red umbrella from behind the counter, "I'll lend you this one, remember to return it when you're done with it, this is the only one in the world."

The woman took the umbrella and looked at Liu Shisan suspiciously.Liu Shisan frowned and said, "Still going?"

The woman opened the umbrella, and the umbrella was painted with bright red peonies, lifelike, "Is it really possible?"

Liu Shisan was about to speak, when a man's voice came from outside the door, "Miss Mu Yao is free tonight, I would like to treat her to dinner." Mu Yao's neutral voice sounded, "No time, my son available."

Liu Shisan said, "You don't believe me, why do you want to live here?"

The woman didn't speak any more and walked towards the door.As soon as he walked to the door, the door was pushed open, "Thirteen, what are you doing with the door closed in broad daylight? Not doing business... huh?" Xue Yuyun looked at the woman holding the umbrella, her heart skipped a beat, her eyes widened in disbelief Looking at her, the woman also looked at Xue Yuyun, her eyes met, the woman hurriedly lowered her head, and hurriedly left with an umbrella.

"Huixi?" Xue Yuyun murmured, "Isn't Huixi..." He walked up to Liu Shisan in two steps, "Why is Huixi here? She isn't, isn't she... died three years ago?"

Liu Shisan shrugged, expressing his ignorance.Xue Yuyun looked at the inn and said, "I said, why is your place so cloudy today?"

Liu Shisan said, "I also feel gloomy, oh, you go and open the screen and curtains, what do I say."

Xue Yuyun frowned and said, "No."

"Really not going?"

"Don't go."

"Mu Yao, see off the guests." Liu Shisan lay on the recliner, basking in the sun with his eyes closed.

Xue Tingyun hurriedly stopped Mu Yao, "I'll go, can I go?" Xue Tingyun slammed the two screens with a black face, and they closed with a bang.Liu Shisan changed his posture and said lazily, "If it's broken, you have to buy it. If you buy it, you have to carry it back, and if you carry it back, you have to paint it."

"You still have the nerve to say, you said that this small dilapidated inn of yours is opened in such a dilapidated alley, and there are not many customers throughout the year, and I have to take care of all the food, drink, and mess. Even if you don't treat me like an uncle, you can't Treat me like a waiter in the shop, anyway, I am also... Forget it, I must have owed you in my previous life, Liu Shisan."

"Isn't this what you want? Anyway, you have plenty of money, and I have no money." Liu Shisan said confidently.

"Yes, you are the uncle." Xue Yuyun opened the last curtain, walked in front of Liu Shisan, and kicked him, "I'm tired, let me lie down for a while."

Liu Shisan pointed to another reclining chair beside him, "That's yours, don't think about my chair."

Xue Yuyun moved aside angrily, and said dissatisfiedly, "Don't you want me to live longer? You give me this chair, and I will be with you for the rest of my life, how about it?"

Huaitong wood, half locust tree and half paulownia tree, only grows on the halfway of the main peak of Huaitong mountain range - Ghost Peak, which is extremely rare.Not to mention the extremely harsh conditions for the birth and growth of Sophora japonica, but the ghost peak is extremely steep and not everyone dares to go there.Xue Tingyun has always been curious about how Liu Shisan obtained the pagoda tree and made it into a chair.Legend has it that if you keep paulownia wood by your side for a long time, it can cure all diseases, prolong life, and even slow down the aging of people, etc. Even the royal family rarely have such a luxury. "That's a beautiful idea, who wants you to accompany me? Don't think about my chair."

"Hmph." Xue Yuyun lay down, letting the sun shine on his body.

After a while, Liu Shisan asked, "What is the name of the current emperor? Xue Tingjin or Xue Tingxuan?"

Xue Tingyun fell into a drowsy sleep, and replied casually, "Xue Tinghan."

"That's it."

"By the way." Xue Yuyun seemed to think of something, and sat up awkwardly, "Why is Huixi here? What's going on?"

"I don't know, she came last night."

Xue Yuyun leaned over, blinked and asked, "Is she a human or a ghost?"

Liu Shisan said, "It looks like it should be a ghost."

"Don't fool me, you can't tell if it's a human or a ghost." Xue Yuyun said thoughtfully, "Damn it. Three years ago, I saw Huixi die under the sword of elder brother with my own eyes. It's been so long. Why haven't those servants locked her up yet? Thirteen, what do you think she wants to do when she comes back this time?" Added a sentence at the end, "I'm serious, you answer seriously."

Liu Shisan rolled his eyes, "When did I stop being serious? A ghost like this, at first sight, has lost his wish and is unwilling to go to reincarnation." He also regained his energy, looking at Xue Yuyun with bright eyes, "Did I have a story to listen to? It looks very exciting."

Xue Yuyun waved his hand, "I don't know what's going on between them."