How many times rose flowers

After all, the boundary of Yingzhou City is close to the south of the Yangtze River. After this snowfall, the weather has begun to warm up, and most of the snow and ice on the side of the post road have melted away.Jixue was sitting in the Xinglan Pavilion, looking at the pile of papers and sighing, she put her hands on her shoulders.

"Sister Immortal, let's go back to Jiuyou City to survive the winter together." When Huaci said this, there was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, which made Jixue's heart soften.

"Okay, let's go now?" Jixue felt that she was a little dizzy and couldn't stand someone's request.

"Yeah. Let's go on horseback and we'll be there soon." Huaci replied.

So Jixue asked the elders in the sect to take care of sect affairs for the time being, and Tong Hua Ci rode a horse to Jiuyou City in southern Xinjiang.Yingzhou City is still quite a distance from the southern border, the two of them traveled halfway, and it was already getting late, so they found an inn to rest and sent a message to Luo Yifeng and Gan Tang with Huoqiangwei.

The inn was ordinary, no different from the ones I lived in before, but when Jixue walked in, there was a faint feeling of not being good.When Huaci was talking with the shopkeeper, a thin layer of sweat oozed from her palms.

Hua Ci seemed to sense her uneasiness, and moved a little closer.After getting closer, the tangy rose fragrance came, and Jixue immediately felt relieved.Ji Xue unconsciously grabbed her hand.

"Shopkeeper, there are two beds in one room here, right?" Hua Ci took the key from the shopkeeper and said.

"Yes, the two ladies are sisters, so it's okay to share a room." After the shopkeeper finished speaking, Hua Ci returned the key to her and paid for a room.

Jixue pulled her up the stairs, and when they got to the room, Huaci looked meaningfully at Jixue's hand that was holding on to her, and said with a smile, "How long will Sister Immortal hold Ah Jiu?"

Jixue let go of her hand embarrassingly, and apologized.Hua Ci shook her head, "Sister will never have to say sorry to Ah Jiu."

Jixue was taken aback by this answer, she said: "This inn is weird."

Huaci caressed the back of her hand lightly, like a soothing gesture, and joked, "Sister Immortal, are you scared?"

Just as Jixue was about to deny it, Her Royal Highness Ninth Princess threw her whole body on her again, and said, "Ah Jiu is so scared."

There was no sign of fear in the eyes of His Royal Highness the Ninth Princess, but coupled with her pitiful tone, three points really became seven points.Jixue wanted to say, "Ah Jiu, don't be afraid, I will protect you", but after thinking about it, why are these words somehow like the quotations of Zhang Su in Chaoling Town?So Jixue swallowed her words obediently.Just as Huaci was about to continue pretending to be pitiful, there was a knock on the door.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—"

Jixue glanced at her, Her Royal Highness Ninth Princess seemed to have bones again, and she stood upright again, finally not burying her height.Gan Tang's voice came from outside the door: "Ji Xue?"

Jixue went to open the door, and sure enough there was such a familiar knock on the door, who else but God Gantang was there.As soon as the door was opened, Gan Tang and Luo Yifeng stood outside.Why does this scene seem familiar?

Gan Tang's face changed for a long time, and he managed to say "I'm sorry".Jixue and Huaci looked at the two in surprise.

"He received a letter from Huo Qiangwei, insisting on apologizing to you personally." Luo Yifeng added in his unchanging tone.

The four of them entered the room while talking, Gan Tang poured himself a cup of tea, and refused to speak any more, feeling embarrassed and ashamed.Hua Ci asked, "Seventh Brother, how did you find Gan Tang?"

As soon as these words came out, the three of them looked at her in unison.Jixue lip-synced with her: Didn't you say don't worry?You don't know either?

Hua Ci mouthed back: I really don't know, so I just don't want to worry you.

Luo Yifeng looked at the lip-synch between the two, coughed lightly, and said, "I went to Jingzhou City and sang... a play."

Jixue asked in a low voice: "Ah Jiu, Commander Luo can sing?"

Huaci once again cast her eyes on Luo Yifeng, with an expression of disbelief: "Brother Seven, can you sing?"

"He will." Gan Tang finally stripped himself from the embarrassment, looked at Luo Yifeng whose face couldn't be darker, and said.After finishing speaking, he added another sentence: "And he sang very well."

The atmosphere suddenly became weird.Until there was an abnormal scream and the sound of fighting and collision from the next door, Jixue gestured with her eyes, and the four of them walked towards the next door.

No candles were lit next door, and the room was dark.The wooden window was half open, and the cold winter wind blew in, and the papers on the desk were scattered all over the place.Huaci made a gesture, and candlelight was lit in the room, and only then did a few people see clearly that each of the scattered papers was printed with bloody palm prints.

A woman was lying on the bed behind the veil, with her hands on her chest, her expression seemed to be asleep, her complexion was too pale to be alive.Why is this a bit like the case of the female ghost in Zhang's mansion?When several people approached, the woman suddenly opened her eyes and laughed.

"Giggle-"

The laughter was so weird that it was creepy to hear.

After a while, the woman didn't seem to see them, and sat in front of the desk, facing the drafty window.She closed the window, put out the candle beside the desk, and began to dress in front of the bronze mirror.

Apply lead powder, draw black eyebrows, apply rouge, and red lips.

After dressing up, she sang to the bronze mirror: "Who loves to be romantic and high-style, let's pity the world when dressing frugally⑴."

After singing several times in a row, she laughed "giggling" again.

Listening to her babbling tune, Gan Tang mouthed to Luo Yifeng: Yi Feng sings better.Luo Yifeng responded with a blank stare.

The woman seemed to have noticed the existence of several people, turned around and looked at them, and said, "Are you guests staying at the hotel? Can you stay with me?"

The voice was shrill and eerie, giving goosebumps for no reason.Several people said in unison: "Not good."

"Why?" the woman asked with a stiff smile on her face.As she spoke, she took a gold hairpin from her head and broke it off, and there was a blade hidden in the hairpin.

Several people ignored her movements and tied her to the table leg in the room. The woman struggled violently a few times before giving up.

Huaci took out a glazed bottle and pinched a formula in his hand, woman, oh no, the female ghost was received in the bottle.It can be regarded as letting Jixue and Gantang appreciate ghost hunting.

"After so long, there is still no movement downstairs." Jixue said suddenly.

"Yeah, there is such a big commotion upstairs, why is the shopkeeper and others not responding?" Hua Ci smiled and glanced outside the door, where the "treasurer" and a group of servants outside the door were staring at a pair of ghostly eyes look at her.

Luo Yifeng took a hasty glance, there were about twenty people, no, twenty puppets.He and Gan Tang looked at each other, pulled out the Lige Knife, and stroked the blade lightly with his fingers.Ji Xue and Gan Tang also clenched their sabers tightly.

Hua Ci watched them fight the puppets, and took a sip of tea unhurriedly.After drinking a cup of strong tea, more than twenty puppets have been dealt with.

Jixue turned to look at her, "Ah Jiu, where did you get the tea?"

"I just brewed it, do you want to drink it?" Huaci said solemnly.Sometimes Jixue really doesn't understand how His Royal Highness Ninth Princess can drink tea calmly in the face of a great enemy.

"No." Jixue shook her head.

Twenty or so puppets left one alive, and the puppets have regained consciousness, and Gan Tang is currently extorting a confession through torture.It has to be said that Shangshen Gantang's ability to torture and extract confessions is still very high. As soon as His Royal Highness Ninth Princess had the third cup of strong tea, the other party did all the tricks.

"The woman just now is called Lianyue."

Lianyue Lianyue is taken from Nalan Xingde's "Butterfly Love Flower" two words "hard work is the most pity for the sky and the moon".Lianyue has been in the inn for as long as she can remember, singing for the guests who come and go.

She has a good voice, and she always wins the favor of guests every time she makes her debut.The business of the inn also flourished because of her, and her reputation spread all over the world, and people gave her the nickname "Yue'e Fairy".

Lianyue's fame is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more guests are listening to the show.Lian Yue was proud of her talent, and one day on the stage, after a play was over, she suddenly sang: "Whoever loves flair and high style, let's share pity for the times and frugal dressing."

After that, the number of guests who came to listen to the opera gradually decreased.Lian Yue seems to understand that what the guests need is only a pleasing actor, not a thoughtful opera singer.

Immortal Yue'e was dragged back to the world, just like the moon hanging high in the sky was stained with dust.

In order to maintain the brilliance of the inn, the shopkeeper sold her to a rich businessman as a concubine, and got a lot of money.Later, Lian Yue returned to the inn by herself and became crazy.

Finally one day, she was lying in the inn room and couldn't breathe.As a result, the business in the inn plummeted, and it became the depression it is today.

Everyone in the inn said that Lian Yue died after taking a lot of cinnabar.As for the reason, the only reason is that he was abandoned by a wealthy businessman.

Afterwards, in the middle of the night, Lian Yue's singing voice could always be heard from that room in the inn: "Who loves flair and high style, let's have pity on time and frugality to dress up."

The sound was often accompanied by an eerie laugh.In order to avoid accidents, the shopkeeper of the inn left the room vacant.

Needless to say what happened later, Lianyue turned into a ghost and came back to take revenge. On the evening of this day, he killed the shopkeeper and everyone, turning them into his puppets.

The narrative ends here.With a light hook of Huaci's finger, the puppet seemed to have become a marionette. It cut off its own neck and its head fell off.

The moment her head fell to the ground, Jixue felt her hands covering her eyes.Huaci's voice came from beside my ear: "Don't look, it will dirty my sister's eyes."

Jixue smiled helplessly.After all, she is not the 16-year-old girl under Elder Xiang Yao's sect. What kind of tragic scene has she not seen when she charged into battle?But she still let Huaci cover her eyes without doing anything.

Huaci added a seal to the glass bottle that was holding Lianyue, and contentedly took Jixue to the inn room to sleep.Jixue hadn't used force for a long time, but when she moved occasionally, she felt refreshed, and fell asleep soon after lying on the bed.

In the daytime of the next day, the four of them simply cleaned up and rode their horses to Jiuyou City again.After a short journey, I saw a city in the distance, which was Jiuyou City.It is no different from the city of the human race. Although it is not as prosperous as Kyoto, it does not have the customs and customs of southern Xinjiang.

This is the north gate of Jiuyou City. Huaci and his party followed the group of ghosts into the gate in a low-key way. The soldiers guarding the city saw the rose jade pendant on Jixue's waist and immediately became respectful.

The rose flower jade pendant Jixue has always been on her body, just because it is inconvenient to wear while practicing martial arts.Before entering the city, Huaci asked her to wear the jade pendant, and she hung the jade pendant around her waist.

Could it be that this jade pendant has some origin?Ji Xue remembered that the rose jade pendant in Cangzhou City seemed to have played such a role before, and couldn't help but wonder.She asked in a low voice: "Ah Jiu, is there anything special about this jade pendant?"

"No. It's just that I used to take it with me when I went in and out, and they looked familiar." Huaci wrote lightly.

Jixue looked suspiciously at the rose jade pendant, then at Luo Yifeng and Gan Tang, their expressions were not different.

The four of them walked to Jiuyou City, where most of the people from the ghost clan went to the market, and occasionally there were businessmen and tourists from the human race.Several people walked to a market, and a drop of blood fell from Hua Ci's fingertips, turning into a blood rose, and fell on the magic circle in front of the market.

The scene in front of me is no longer the appearance of the market, but a secret passage leading to the ground.Next to the secret path stands a stone tablet, engraved with the ghost clan's characters on the stone tablet, I don't know what it means.

The four of them descended along the winding secret road, and the blood rose floating in the air led them along. After turning a few turns, the eyes suddenly became clear.The empty streets and the lively market are exactly the same as the outside.The only difference is the bright moon hanging in the sky and the stars in the night sky.

This is the real Jiuyou City.The real Jiuyou City is different from the outside world, even in the daytime, the moon is still high.As the saying goes: Once you enter the Nine Netherworld, you will not be able to distinguish the sun and the moon.

Strolling in the market, the people of the ghost clan in the market greeted them one after another, and some even chatted with Huaci, which was quite different from the scene of the human race.

Huaci took the candied haws from an old man, thanked him, and sent the candied haws to Jixue's mouth.Jixue smiled and bit off a candied haws. The taste of candied haws was sweet and sour, just right.

Before I knew it, I had reached the end of the market.At the end of the market is the seemingly endless Wangchuan River, on which a palace looms.The palace floats on the Wangchuan River like a small boat, surrounded by will-o'-the-wisps.

At first glance, this picture is very strange.But at some point, Xue Qiangwei had already flown towards the palace, and pieces of pumice appeared on the Wangchuan River, leading to the palace.

Jixue was speechless about the fact that some people used their own blood as a door key.A few people walked along the pumice stone to the front of the palace, and a few little ghosts immediately greeted them: "See my lord, Commander Luo."

The two waved their hands, as if they were already used to it.A few little ghosts asked with great insight: "My lord, are they your guests?"

Huaci does not speak, it is the default.The little ghost was very good at observing words and expressions, so he hurriedly said with a smile: "Do you want me to arrange a place for the two of you?"

Jixue and Gantang hesitated to speak, Luo Yifeng said first: "Let the two of you live in the palace." Hua Ci nodded in agreement, "Go and clean up Ruxu Pavilion."

The little ghost just responded, turned around and heard Hua Ci's words, and confirmed again: "Such Xu Pavilion? It is for..." Such Xu Pavilion was the palace built by the leader of the former ghost tribe for His Royal Highness Ninth Princess's mother, Mrs. Wen. Since Mrs. Wen passed away , No one else has been allowed to live in.

"Sister Immortal." Huaci looked at Jixue, and the little ghost understood.

Jixue was looking at the last candied haws on the bamboo stick, and was about to bite, when Hua Ci grabbed her hand, dragged the candied haws to her, and swallowed the candied haws in one gulp.After eating, he licked the corner of his lips and said, "The candied haws are as sweet as the fairy sister."

Jixue looked at the empty bamboo stick in her hand, looked at the flamboyant Ninth Princess, and said with feigned anger, "How old is Your Ninth Princess?"

"Not much, not much, only three years old." Huaci said with a smile.

Jixue was really angry and funny, she turned away from looking at a certain naive Princess Nine, and pretended to leave.His Royal Highness Ninth Princess was not annoyed, and cooperated, "Where is Sister Immortal going?"

"Go to a place where there is no His Royal Highness Ninth Princess."

"Then take Ah Jiu with you, okay?"

"Aren't you His Royal Highness Ninth Princess?"

"Ajiu is the fairy sister's Ahjiu, not His Royal Highness the Ninth Princess."

Well, that makes sense.Jixue resolutely gave up the verbal war, and lived peacefully with His Royal Highness Ninth Princess again.

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⑴From Qin Taoyu's "Poor Girl"