Hum...
The white peacock chirped, turned his head and sprayed a scent of fragrance on Yin Xiu, glaring at Yin Xiu fiercely.
"How many times are you going to stare at me like this?" Yin Xiu said helplessly.
"You weren't the one who caused it?"
The white peacock said angrily: "When you bully our sisters, you are like a master. You use all kinds of methods and tricks. You are really fierce."
When Yin Xiu heard what she said, she just felt weird and couldn't help but defended: "I'm not that rough, and it was you two at that time..."
"What on earth are you talking about?"
The white peacock gouged him again.
"I mean, there are less than a hundred people here in total, and we don't have anyone in hand. You are a master of synesthesia. At most, you can only use one stick of incense. None of these people can survive.
And you are still crowded here, are you just trying to take advantage of me? ”
"Who do you think I am?"
Yin Xiu pushed Bai Peacock's shoulder slightly with his hand, but the narrow sedan really couldn't distance the two people. Instead, Bai Peacock put his hands on the wooden board in front, lowered his waist, and posed in a more ambiguous posture. posture.
Helpless, Yin Xiu could only pull her back again.
White Peacock was not polite and sat back upright again, causing Yin Xiuzhi to frown.
"Are you wronged?" Bai Peacock asked.
"No grievance..."
Yin Xiu held her waist and moved her slightly to the side, but Bai Peacock sat back angrily.
"If I had known it was so crowded, I shouldn't have come in."
"Then you come in again?" White Peacock became more and more angry.
"Do you all have this attitude towards your savior?"
Yin Xiu sighed, "It seems that you are also a top expert. You must have a way to escape by yourself with your intelligence, right?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, I'll leave the same way I came here, so you'll probably be satisfied." Yin Xiu replied.
"Well, you dare!?"
The white peacock was frightened and angry. He swung his waist and turned several times, making the entire sedan sway.
Yin Xiu quickly held her waist to prevent her from moving.
"Hey, do you really want those people outside to find out and tie you up?"
"My name is not Hello, my name is White Peacock."
She crossed her arms and said, "Now that you're here and you're leaving like this, if word gets out, will I still be a human being?"
Yin Xiu let go of his hand, "Hey, you're not famous, I'm not ruining your innocence."
The white peacock pulled his hand back, "I told you, my name is the white peacock."
Seeing that Yin Xiu was still confused, she finally explained: "My mother-in-law said that if a girl does not have a good man to save her in a critical moment, it will be a failure!"
"..."
Yin Xiu rubbed his brow, "So that's it. In fact, you may have some misunderstanding."
"What's the misunderstanding?" Bai Peacock asked him.
"I mean, I'm not a hero saving a beauty. I sneaked in at first just to see what this married snake god was, that's all."
"That's all?"
The white peacock only felt that he had been humiliated, "In other words, you are planning to watch me marry that snake god, and you are not planning to help me at all, and you are going to make me fall into a pit of fire?"
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"You don't have to be so desperate."
Yin Xiu patted her and said, "The so-called good people do their best to send Buddha to the West. Since I saw it, I will definitely help you."
"So, you're saying you'll be responsible, right?"
"Responsible..."
Yin Xiu only thought that White Peacock spoke strangely, probably because he was used to speaking Miao dialect, so he was not very good at Mandarin, otherwise he would not have an obvious southwestern accent.
So he could only follow the white peacock's wishes and said: "Yes, be responsible."
Seeing that she didn't believe it, Yin Xiu reached into his pocket and handed her a short knife.
"Here, I'll give you a knife to defend yourself, so even if I save you, you should be able to protect yourself, right?"
"I don't care. If you don't save me, I will stab you to death with this knife."
Bai Peacock took the knife, took off another hair tie, lifted up a corner of her skirt, and tied it to her thigh.
Yin Xiu felt that everything in front of him was white. As soon as he concentrated, he inevitably lost control again, so that the white peacock's face turned red again.
The two fell into this awkward silence again, until someone in the team shouted in dialect, and then the surroundings became dark.
As the sedan was put down, Yin Xiu heard the crackling sound of the torch and the pungent smell of the kerosene on the torch being ignited.
"What are they talking about?" Yin Xiu asked.
The white peacock pursed his lips and said: "How do I know? This is a dialect, not a Miao dialect."
"Then what do you think it is?" Yin Xiu asked her again.
When he asked this question, Bai Peacock actually started to think seriously.
"Maybe it means [arrive at the place]? Or does it mean [light the torch]?"
"That doesn't mean I didn't say anything..."
Yin Xiu plans to find out by herself.
So he quietly opened the curtain, only to catch a glimpse of a strange scene.
I saw that both the bearers and other people in the queue stopped what they were doing and turned their backs, as if they were preparing something.
They should be in a dark, damp cave at this time, illuminated by torches, reflecting the moss on the rock walls.
After Yin Xiu's eyes got used to the darkness here, those people finally turned around, with white masks on their faces.
It is said to be a mask, but in fact it should be said to be a piece of blank paper. Except for the places where the eyes were dug out, there are no other decorations on the mask, not even a single line.
It looks simple, but the eyes are indeed carefully crafted, which is really contradictory.
Those people all turned their attention to the sedan, so Yin Xiu could only quietly lower the curtain and hide in the sedan, hiding her breath.
Despite his previous commotion, White Peacock is not a fool.
She also knew that she should try not to be discovered by anyone at this time, so she just sat quietly and did not compete with Yin Xiu.
After a while, Yin Xiu heard a uniform sound coming from outside. Someone shouted in dialect, and then everyone probably knelt down in unison and began to kowtow and pray.
After repeating this three times, Yin Xiu heard the sound of sparse footsteps, probably that everyone was leaving.
However, it seemed that not everyone wanted to leave. There were still two people staying beside the sedan.
Yin Xiu took advantage of the lack of people and secretly released a blood butterfly from her sleeve, finally gaining a view of the surroundings through the butterfly's sight.
The two people staying here are an old man and an old lady. Both of them are a little short and fat and look very old.
Yin Xiu originally wanted to ask Bai Peacock if he knew about them.
However, without the cover of the beating drums, the two of them could not even breathe loudly at this time, let alone whisper to each other at this time. So they just remained silent, suppressing their breathing.
However, there was movement outside the sedan.
The old man lit a handful of sandalwood, probably dozens of them, and held them together. It looked like a blazing fire and smoke.
He took the handful of sandalwood and bowed respectfully in all directions, then went to each direction and inserted three sticks in each direction, and bowed three times again.
The old woman did not go away. She held a scripture and a string of rosary beads in her hands and chattered in Chinese beside the sedan.
"Girl, this is your blessing. How can this King Lingquan be married to an ordinary woman?
The king is getting married. I have only seen the old lady three times in my life. Including you, this is the fourth time.
I saw you once when I was a child, and then I did it twice before, plus you this time, it is three times. Old lady, I can be considered a complete meritorious deed, Amitabha. ”
Her voice was broken, as if speaking had consumed a lot of energy on her part, or she was particularly excited.
It seems that for the old woman, hosting this kind of sacrifice really made her accumulate merit.
Yin Xiu didn't speak, she already had an idea in her mind.
He slid his hand onto White Peacock's thigh.
The white peacock immediately cast a pitiful look and shook his head to indicate that he should at least not be here.
However, Yin Xiu's hand suddenly pinched.
Well...
The white peacock covered his mouth and still made a sound, even shaking the sedan chair.
The old woman heard the sound outside and paused.
The old man on the other end asked: "What's wrong?"
"Maybe he woke up."
The old woman didn't take it seriously, "The spell won't last long, and the bride will inevitably wake up, so it doesn't matter."
As she spoke, the old woman opened a corner of the curtain and took a look inside.
The face, which was full of wrinkles and looked like old tree bark covered in frost, came closer.
The white peacock leaned forward, blocking Yin Xiu behind her. In addition, the light in the sedan chair was not good, and the old woman's eyes were dim, so she only saw the white peacock.
"Look, girl, you're so hot, your face is red.
Don't worry, just wait until you go to King Lingquan's place. It's a paradise in the cave and it's very cool. ”
The old woman felt a little distressed and took out her handkerchief to help the white peacock wipe away his sweat.
The white peacock turned his head and avoided the old woman's hand.
"Bah, you really can imagine that you want me to marry a monster, old witch."
When the old woman heard this, she was not angry, she just took the handkerchief back coldly.
"You are still young and don't understand. When you become the bride of King Lingquan, you will know what kind of blessing it is."
"Such a good blessing, do you want it? You were begged by that monster. It's not your fault to warm the bed, but I can still ask you to fetch water and wash your feet." White Peacock said disdainfully.
"What a sharp mouth, girl, let me advise you, doing more ostomy work is of no use to your spiritual practice."
While the old woman was talking, the old man came over.
He was not expressionless like the old woman, but had a fierce look on his face, as if everyone owed him a lot of money.
"Why are you wasting so much time talking to her? What's wrong with letting her curse a few words when someone is about to die?
Let alone marrying the king, none of these girls cried and screamed when they got on the sedan chair, there was no difference. ”
Saying this, he suddenly asked: "By the way, why don't you cry?"
The white peacock sneered, "Why should I cry? In my opinion, you are the ones who are going to cry soon."
"Oh?"
The old man somehow got a little angry at the white peacock, so he said to the old woman: "Teach her a lesson, otherwise she won't understand anything."
"I think so."
The old woman stretched out her hand to catch the white peacock.
The white peacock just smiled and suddenly said: "I have another question."
"What's the problem?" The old woman didn't stop, she just came to catch the white peacock.
Just then, she heard a roar.
"You old whore, how many lives of innocent girls have you killed!?"
The sedan turned into pieces, and countless sawdust shot towards the two people.
The old woman bore the brunt of the attack and felt that her face was densely covered with dust, as if her face had been crushed by sand.
But what comes next is the terrible thing.
Yin Xiu grabbed the two people with one hand and held them up high, like holding two chickens.
"What, I'll tell you it's you who want to cry."
Bai Peacock stood up, straightened her skirt, and said with a smile: "Now you know I'm not lying."
The old woman's face was so panicked that she no longer cared about the white peacock's sarcasm and just begged Yin Xiu for mercy.
"Sir, this is a ceremony to be sacrificed to King Lingquan. In order to protect the peace in all directions and the peace of the whole country, if you do this, you will offend him."
"Is that a beast worthy of it?"
Yin Xiu glanced at her and said, "Isn't it just a snake demon? And it has blessed Hejing with peace? Do you think it is the city god or the land?"
The old woman was speechless and could only keep her mouth shut.
The old man on the other side seemed to have become mute, just keeping a cold face and saying nothing.
He knew very well that he could not resist a person who could lift two people weighing more than 100 kilograms high with one hand, as if they were holding two chickens.
Seeing that the two of them were silent, Yin Xiu smiled slightly and said, "Next, I will ask questions and you will answer them truthfully. That's it. So who is King Lingquan?"
"Who are you?"
Before the old woman finished speaking, her neck had been deformed and twisted into a twist.
Her originally ugly face quickly turned pale, and after she exhaled a breath of filthy breath, Yin Xiu threw it to the ground, as if she had left behind a piece of trash.
"You're taking advantage of this old witch." White Peacock said through gritted teeth.
"I've already told you that I'm the one asking the question, but she still wants to answer the question with a question. Isn't this looking for death?"
Yin Xiu's eyes flickered and she asked the old man again: "I believe you are probably not such a stupid person."
The old man didn't reply, he just laughed loudly, trembling unconsciously.
[It seems that this is also a tough-talking master. 】
When Yin Xiuzheng was about to end him, the old man suddenly said in a hoarse voice: "You want to know what kind of existence King Lingquan is, why don't you ask him yourself? Because he has already come to us."
As soon as she finished speaking, the sound of flowing water came from behind Yin Xiu.
Then behind them, in the pool of stagnant water, a vortex began to turn, stirring more water and making a loud sound.
Under the stagnant water, two golden lanterns lit up. (End of chapter)