stjorthotic Chapter 17
Chapter 17
The fire spread away in an instant, and only then did Chai Shuxin realize that the sky above Fengdu was actually full of lights, connected with each other by golden locks.
"The tail feathers that Suzaku lost when it first transformed into a full form are estimated to burn for three days and three nights." Mu Gesheng seemed very satisfied, "It's a rare occasion, let's go, let's find a place to drink."
With 72 Jinwu lanterns, the city was full of radiance and lights, and the entire Fengdu city exploded in an instant, with exclamations one after another.
Song Wentong shook Wu Nian away with a knife, and said in shock: "Jinwu can't help the night?! Fourth brother, what is he doing?"
Wu Nie squinted his eyes and looked at the mid-air, "Jinwu Dengye, our family may not have seen each other for a long time." As he said that, he cast a wink at Song Wentong, "Our family is in a good mood today, little baby, let's just say goodbye .”
"Wait a minute!" Song Wentong raised his voice to chase after him, but the other party had disappeared.
Mu Gesheng bought a few jars of wine, grabbed the firewood and jumped up to a tall building, and lay on the eaves to watch the lamp.Mu Gesheng patted the Kaifeng mud and took a big gulp, "You seem to have something to ask me in three or nine days. I see that you have been holding back all the way. There is no outsider at the moment, so let's talk."
Chai Shuxin held the wine jar and took a sip, "You did it on purpose."
Mu Gesheng spit out immediately, choking earth-shatteringly, "Isn't it, can you see that too?"
Chai Shuxin glanced at him indifferently, expressionless.
"Okay, okay, Sanjiutian, you are really... worthy of being Lingshuzi." Mu Gesheng shook his head helplessly, "Tell me, what do you see?"
"We didn't enter Chengxi Pass by mistake, but you did it on purpose." Chai Shuxin said, "Why?"
Mu Gesheng took a big gulp of wine, sighed and said, "For the third child."
Song Wentong knocked on the door, "The Wu family, are you there?!"
This is a large mansion in Fengdu, a big family, covering an area of two streets.The vermilion door opened with a creak, and a boy in green clothes walked out. He saluted Song Wentong and said, "I have seen Mozi, may I ask why Mozi came?"
"Where's the third child? Let him out!"
"Back to Mozi, the Patriarch is not here."
"Not here?" Song Wentong frowned, "Where did you go?"
"Back to Mozi, there is a happy event in Fengdu City today, and the head of the family went to congratulate him as Wuchangzi, but he has already left." The boy bowed and asked, "There is thin tea in the mansion, Mozi, can you come in and wait?"
"Is there a joy in Fengdu City?" Song Wentong didn't enter the door, but asked, "Whose joy?"
"Returning to Mozi, she is the married daughter of the king of Hades."
"The king of Hades marries a daughter, congratulations from all the ghosts." Mu Gesheng looked at the lights in the distance, "The third child is impermanent, and the king of Hades is one of the most frequent contacts. As the Patriarch of the Yao family, he should understand this truth."
"I know." Chai Shuxin nodded, "So?"
"Yan Wang once visited Wuzhai and asked for a congratulatory gift." Mu Gesheng said: "I want to ask my third son to invite Mozi to make a set of phoenix crowns himself."
Chai Shuxin showed doubts, "Why is this so difficult?"
"The difficulty is that the King of Hades wants a set of phoenix crowns. If he wants other precious and beautiful objects, it is not impossible for the second child to do it himself." Mu Gesheng sighed: "But the second child has only made one set of phoenix crowns in this life. It was a dowry for his mother."
"This matter is not a secret in Zhuziqi's family. You should have heard of the relationship between Mozi and Hua Kui in the previous generation. Back then, Mozi wore a wedding dress to Naihe Bridge, and he wore the phoenix crown of the second child. Since then, the second child has vowed not to make any dowry in this life."
Chai Shuxin thought for a moment, and said: "Since this is the case, if you explain the cause and effect clearly, the King of Hades should not be an ignorant person."
"Three or nine days, you are not familiar with Lao San, and you don't know the difficulties of the Yin-Yang family in Fengdu." Mu Gesheng smiled wryly and shook his head, "Since the birth of the Seven Schools of Zhuzi, the Yin-Yang family has specialized in dealing with ghosts, and has fought against the Underworld for thousands of years. To put it nicely, the two sides are cooperating with each other, but to put it bluntly, they are doing their own thing."
"The seven schools of thought often intervene in the affairs of the underworld to achieve their goals, and they often cause trouble for the underworld. Although it is said that the fortune teller is the destiny of heaven, and all living beings are respected under the destiny, but to put it bluntly, the fortune teller is also a mortal, and the underworld does not say it on the surface. , I may not buy it in my heart."
Chai Shuxin understood quickly, "So Hades is deliberately making things difficult?"
"That's right, it's impossible for the second child to fight the phoenix crown. The third child didn't tell him at all. If he knows about it, he can tear down the Palace of the King of Hades. In recent years, the world has been in chaos. There will only be more and more troubles, and he can relieve his anger by making a big fuss, but there will only be more troubles in the future."
"So in order to properly resolve this matter, you need to have a better congratulatory gift, even better than the phoenix crown made by Mozi." Chai Shuxin took over the words: "And you chose Jinwu and can't help the night."
"Yes." Mu Gesheng took a sip of wine and laughed: "Feng has not lit a Jinwu lamp for almost 300 years. The Zhu family is a descendant of a god, and it is not something that the mere King of Hades can invite. The sky full of lights today is better than The world is full of red makeup."
Suzaku holds the lamp, Jinwu can't help it, Huangquan spring comes, and the king of Hades gets married.
"I understand what you mean." Chai Shuxin looked at the noise in the distance, and said, "But what does this have to do with entering Chengxi Pass?"
"If you want to ignite the Jinwu lamp, you must use the things on Suzaku as a guide. I can't bleed the fifth child or pull out the bones. He is approaching the stage of transformation, and the miscellaneous hair is the best fuel." Mu Gesheng said: " But you also said that transformation requires spiritual power to nourish, and the spiritual power needed by Suzaku to transform into form is even more important, and the West Pass of the city is the best place where ghosts are rampant."
"Tai Sui Wu Nian is with you?"
"What do you mean by a gang? It's not about forming a clique for personal gain." Mu Gesheng waved his hand, and didn't hide any more, "Uncle Wu Nian is the third ancestor, she will definitely not just ignore this matter, I ask her to open it near Guan Shanyue." Yin-Yang Ladder, take Lao Wu to Fengdu, use Uncle Wu Nian and Lao Er to break open the barrier on the west gate of the city with the licking red knife, and you will know the rest."
A moment of silence.
The two were relatively silent, their eyes full of lights.
In the distance, there is the sound of silk and bamboo, and the wedding procession walks through the long street, beside the fiery trees and silver flowers, adding beauty to the scene.
"You are simply messing around." Chai Shuxin finally said, his voice was cold, "Entering the land of Abi is no small matter, if anything happens—"
"There are no chances." Mu Gesheng interrupted him: "I've calculated that this trip is safe and secure, otherwise I would never have pulled you in..."
"That is to say, if this trip is dangerous, you have to go alone?"
"The third brother is my brother." Mu Gesheng didn't look at his face, he drank his wine and said: "Back then, my second child and I had a big quarrel in Fengdu, and we were too frivolous. According to the law, we had to enter the Department of Yin Law to suffer the folding stick method. It was the third child who was up and down. Turning around, and with the help of Uncle Wu Nian to speak, we escaped unharmed."
"Don't try to lie to me." Chai Shuxin directly exposed him, "The first time I saw you back then, you were carried back from Fengdu bloodied, you didn't escape a catastrophe, your life was hanging by a thread. "
"It was the third child who carried me back. At the beginning, Master punished me and asked me to go to the Department of Yin Law to plead guilty. Originally, I was unlikely to survive." Mu Gesheng sighed: "It was he who dealt with each other up and down, and repeated it again and again. Go to the pharmacist to ask you, I just saved my life."
"That year we had a lot of trouble in Fengdu. The master got angry and ordered me to get the punishment and climb back from the Yin-Yang ladder by myself. Back then, the second child was also punished, so he couldn't control me. The third child was not taller than me at that time. He insisted on carrying me back." Mu Gesheng smiled as if remembering something: "In order not to let me fall asleep, that idiot cried and sang all the way, and he was dumb for a whole month after he came back."
"So you did this?"
Mu Gesheng raised his glass to Chai Shuxin and smiled, "We are brothers."
Chai Shuxin stood up abruptly, stared at him in silence for a moment, then turned and left.
Mu Gesheng patted open another jar of wine, drank and said, "He doesn't seem to be happy to be my brother."
"This is the first time our family has seen Lingshuzi lose his composure." Wu Nian jumped onto the eaves of the building, "I'm afraid you were mad at me."
"I can't hide it from him." Mu Gesheng shrugged, "He just used the third finger to scold Huai, obviously he saw it."
"You may not be much smarter than this generation of Lingshu, and you may not be much smarter than him, and what you did in this game is too shabby." Wu Nian opened a jar of wine by himself, and said, "When you came to me back then, when you mentioned Bai Yu, you choked. I knew what kind of medicine you were selling in your gourd, and you gave it to him so blatantly that a fool would not be able to see it."
Mu Gesheng spent a lot of trouble this time, not only because of Jinwu, but also to find the medicinal material Baiyucho, which can cure all kinds of diseases, and naturally it can also cure Chai Lonicera's disease.
At the beginning, he guessed that Chai Shuxin was holding back a certain dignitary in Beiping, but later he found out from the dock that it was because the other party held a medicinal material that could relieve Chai Lonicera's disease, and he made a lot of threats with this.Mu Gesheng rummaged through the study of the master of Ginkgo House, and finally found the medicine Bai Yucho, and made another hexagram, and figured out that the chance was at Wu Nian's place.
"Where is there, I can't hide it from the uncle." Mu Gesheng laughed, "Although the situation is simple, it kills three birds with one stone. It not only helped the third child solve the problem, but also found the medicine, and let the fifth child pass the level of transformation." It doesn't matter whether he is happy or not, as long as he can help Sister Chai to cure her illness."
"Our family didn't expect you to help Miss Chai's family. Her illness has been dragging on for many years and she can't be cured. Bai Yucho is not an ordinary medicinal material. The pharmacists have searched for it for many years but have not found it."
"Isn't it that I didn't find the right person? I figured it out, and I knew you had an idea here—who would have known that a Suzaku cub could also give birth to a white jade? You're the only one who is well-informed. "
"Don't turn the corner and say that our family is old." Wu Nian raised his eyebrows and said, "When you came to our family, our family wanted to ask, you are so muddy that you can't support the wall, you are lazy all day long Why are you so busy helping others this time? Did he give you money?"
Mu Gesheng scratched his head, "That's not true."
"What is that for? You have only known him for a few months, and he is not willing to be your brother."
"Hey, Sanjiutian's temper, with a knife mouth and a bean curd heart." Mu Gesheng held the wine jar and fell into deep thought, "As for why... I can't say it, maybe because he is good-looking?"
"Our family believes in you."
"That may be because of Sister Chai's good craftsmanship." Mu Gesheng thought for a while, and said: "The Yao family has always raised their hands, but Sister Chai doesn't wear armor and doesn't protect her hands, because of her serious illness, she can't practice medicine. But I I heard from Master that Miss Chai was extremely talented and had excellent medical skills back then."
"With hands like that, you shouldn't just make soup."
"You two, master and apprentice, don't do anything else every day, and you will chat nonsense. For thousands of years, there is no old sesame seed or rotten millet from the seven schools of thought that you don't know." Yi Lian, "Let's go, say hello to Tian Suanzi for our family, and let him live as long as possible."
"Master, go slowly." Mu Gesheng stood up and saw him off, "Gai'er will find you playing mahjong tomorrow."
"Don't come, I don't want to play cards with the poor."