Chapter 433 Forbidden Love
Leaving Jiange, Gu Xu and Xue Nu quickly arrived in Longzhou.
The landform here is crisscrossed with crisscrossing ravines, and it was an important transportation route for the Daqi Dynasty that ran through the capital and the northwest frontier.
At Xue Nu's request, the two tasted the local flower cakes, water chestnut cakes and cold dishes in Longzhou - Xue Nu once again shared Gu Xu's senses with the "Jinghong Pen" and experienced the long-lost The world's delicious food.
Perhaps it was because there was a "fierce god" by his side that the court would not attack them easily without sufficient preparation.
These days sometimes give Gu Xu an illusion.
It seemed as if he was not on the run at all, but traveling around the wilderness with the snow girl.
People who meet them will always regard them as lovers or husband and wife.
For example, when they passed a temple on the outskirts of Longzhou, a few young monks stood in front of them and asked them if they wanted a fortune-teller.
Gu Xu wanted to refuse.
His own divination skills are among the best in the world, and he can predict fortune through the astrolabe, which is much more reliable than the fortune-telling in this ruined temple.
Naihe Xuenu is very curious about this.
She tugged on Gu Xu's sleeves, lowered her head, pursed her lips, and stood at the door of the ruined temple, refusing to go any further.
It's like a child pestering his parents to buy toys.
Gu Xu did not expect that a female ghost with the strength of a saint would one day act coquettishly in front of him. Although her expression was still cold and her temperament was still calm when she was acting coquettishly, it was not as good as the one she had just met. In those few days, there has been a lot more human atmosphere.
He nodded, agreed to her request, took out a few coins and handed them to the young monk.
The young monks smiled and held the lotus tubes.
The snow girl stretched out her fair and slender hand, hesitated for a long time, and carefully grabbed one.
The content of the signature is:
“Because of the lotus, I got the lotus root, and there are apricots and plum blossoms.”
Snow Girl has been reading poetry and books since she was a child, and she knows that this is a couplet with a homophonic pronunciation of "Why do I get a match? Fortunately, I don't need a matchmaker."
The young monks congratulated her repeatedly, saying that she had won the lottery, and wished her a happy marriage with her husband and a son soon.
Hearing what they said, Xue Nu glanced at Gu Xu quietly, and then quickly looked away. I wanted to peek at his expression, but I was afraid to look at him.
Gu Xu also grabbed a tag and it said "It means the phoenix is flying and singing in harmony".
It means like a pair of soaring phoenixes in the sky, harmoniously playing the piano and playing the harp, growing old together.
It is also a lucky sign.
Gu Xu glanced at the young monks with a half-smile, and said, "Are all the fortune-telling fortunes in your lotus tubes filled with good luck?"
The young monks also said I want to pretend to be confused and say that it is the donors who are lucky and they don’t know anything.
Gu Xu ignored them and gently patted Xue Nu on the shoulder, signaling her to leave the temple.
“It’s just a trick to cheat money,” he explained. “Most of the people who come to this ruined temple to pray are young women from Longzhou City who want to seek good omens for their marriages.
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"These monks don't know the art of divination, but they know how to do what they want. You see, all of their pockets are full of copper coins."
The snow girl said "hmm" and said nothing.
When Gu Xu's voice sounded, she felt that a colorful bubble in her heart was popped with a "bang", feeling empty and uncomfortable.
At this moment she was obviously very close to Gu Xu.
But for some reason, in her perception, it seemed like there was a world apart.
.........
At the end of the road, four people stood in the shadows, watching Gu Xu and Xue Nu go further and further away. One is a storyteller holding a cattail leaf fan.
One is an old man with a white beard wearing a dark blue robe.
One is a hunchbacked old man with a ravaged face.
One is a gloomy middle-aged man with a wooden frame on his shoulders and a mouse jumping on it.
“I have already written the story,” Mr. Storyteller said first. “You have all listened to it. What do you think?”
“I just asked you to think of a way to make it happen. They cooperated with me to complete the ceremony," the white-bearded old man said lightly, "I didn't expect you to spend so much time trying to bring their love together."
"We practice the way of cause and effect," the storyteller said. , "If the story we write is widely circulated, then the power of our spells will be even more powerful.
"In this world, there will be something more popular than the forbidden love between humans and female ghosts. Story? ”
"Yes," the hunchbacked old man interjected, ""The Wild History of the Embroidered Couch", "The Romantic History of Taizu of the Great Chu", "Meat Futon" and "The Monk of Lamp Grass"——"
"——Shut up," the white-bearded old man said Interrupted him, "Now is not the time to discuss these filthy things."
"For us to be promoted to the Ghost King, we need to sacrifice one hundred thousand souls," the storyteller continued, "But in this big world In Qixijiang, we can't find the second Nine Infant Snake Monster sealed underground. Under such circumstances, the best way to cause a large-scale killing is to make the Snow Girl lose control.
"She controls the Ice and Snow Avenue, and her killing efficiency is much higher than ours.
“It’s just that, with the help of the blood of that boy Gu Xu, she has suppressed her killing instinct at this stage and is safely in the human town.
"If you want her to release her instincts, the best way is to let something happen to Gu Xu - and something happens to the Da Qi court."
"You are so sure that Xue Nu will do it for Gu Xu Going on a killing spree?" The gloomy middle-aged man who had been silent suddenly said, "Last time we held a ceremony, she was riding an ice crane there to save people."
"Actually, she is already a little bit. She fell in love with him," the storyteller chuckled. "Otherwise, I wouldn't have pestered him to go to the temple to ask for a marriage fortune. There would be no need for us to use causal magic to force a match.
"But she feels very inferior now. , feeling that as a ghost, he is not worthy of him.
“Oh, to be honest, I’m a little envious of that guy Gu Xu now. Look at the threads of cause and effect on his body—the female king of Dayan, the female disciple of Jiange, the female of the Exorcist Department Officials......so many beautiful women are very affectionate towards him
"How about after promotion, we can turn this guy into a clone. When it comes to dealing with women, a good-looking skin is still very useful."
"But Gu Xu doesn't seem to be tempted by her. ." said the gloomy middle-aged man.
"To be precise, he doesn't have the guts," the hunchbacked old man commented, "After all, how can any prey take the initiative to get close to its natural enemy?
"And the one named Shi Xiaohan The girl already occupied too important a place in his heart. For her sake, he was not even willing to be the husband of the Yan Kingdom. "
"Gu Xu's thoughts are not important," said the white-bearded old man. "As long as the snow girl is willing to stand up for him, that is enough. ”
"You're right." The gloomy middle-aged man nodded.
"Besides, even if the snow girl refuses to take action, I still have the backup plan to force her to do it." The white-bearded old man cleared his throat and took out a simple wooden hairpin from his sleeve.
“What is this?” asked the gloomy middle-aged man.
“You only play with mice all day long, and you have forgotten such an important thing.” The white-bearded old man glanced at the gloomy middle-aged man with disdain, “This is what happened after Lu Shiyao committed suicide by jumping off a cliff. , we took it from her corpse. When we used the 'Zhao Ming Forbidden Technique' to turn her into a ghost, we also made this thing into a tool to control her.
"Just use it. Once the hairpin is broken, the remaining humanity in her will completely disappear and she will become an irrational ghost who only kills indiscriminately. ”
"Then why don't we just use this thing?" The gloomy middle-aged man frowned, "Why do we still spend so much effort to write stories and scripts?"
"To this day, the Snow Girl is still created by us. "The most perfect work," the white-bearded old man said slowly, "Her remaining humanity is the unique essence of this work. If possible, I don't want to destroy her easily.
"Besides, as long as it is. If we write this story well and make it come true smoothly, then our attainments on the Path of Cause and Effect will be further improved.
“Remember, before the promotion ceremony is completed, we can be the director and the audience, but we will never be the actors on stage.”
(End of this chapter)