Qi Yao Inn

Since Li Yize's return, Boss Peng has switched from the "sluggish" mode to the "vigorous" mode. Coupled with the re-completion of the deed, his waist and legs are no longer sore. He feels very good about himself and rewarded his family A meal for Long was not enough, he even wanted to throw a big banquet to mess with him for seven days and seven nights, but Li Yize's paw pressed his thoughts back to his stomach.

The end of the year is approaching quietly amidst the heating and sweaters in winter, and the beginning of the new year is already moving at a leisurely pace. Although it is another two-thousandth of an ordinary New Year, it can be found in the ancient city of Xianzhou , In the Qiyao Inn, there is an extraordinary atmosphere added for no reason.

Boss Peng started to buy New Year's goods early, of course, he didn't buy it himself, but ordered others. 360 Tianjie, which is open all year round for five days, also gave the poor fairyland civil servants a holiday after he made a phone call, and Immortal Dou Daxian was able to lead his disciples to spend a New Year's meal in the inn.

It is a pity that Jiuyuan is not there, and this guy followed Qianyue home three days in advance to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Without the two of them in the store, there will be two less "main players" who can be called in. One day, on a whim, Peng Yu personally took the dragon out to buy couplets, but felt that none of the couplets on the market could catch his eye, so he simply bought a pair. Take it back and write it yourself.

It was already late when the two of them came back from the outside. There was a door across the inn. It was cold outside the inn, but it was warm like spring inside the inn.Peng Yu has dragon energy to keep out the cold, so he doesn't care about the temperature difference, but when he opened the door, the cold wind slipped in, causing a group of monsters and people to glare.

It's a pity that Boss Peng has always been so thick-skinned that he can stop thousands of troops. He directly ignored the dissatisfied eyes of everyone, and deliberately dawdled to close the door. He opened his mouth and said, "Qianyue... oh no, Qianyue went home, Xu Bing, clean up the inn in a while, there will be guests tomorrow night."

Xu Bing looked up suspiciously: "Tomorrow night? Isn't tomorrow night the New Year's Eve? Why do guests come to the inn if they don't go home for the New Year?"

Peng Yu changed the slippers under his feet, put the things he was carrying on the coffee table, and smiled mysteriously at him: "People celebrate the 'year', what do you celebrate in that 'year'?"

Xu Bing was puzzled: "What year is it?"

But Peng Yu stopped explaining, and turned his attention to the little mermaid Xu Jiao who was knitting a sweater on the sofa—this girl was probably squeezed into a habit by human beings in the past, but now that she is free, she still has nothing to do, so she has to knit something. Things, when not running errands with Xu Bing, I just fiddled with the wool, and with the soft sound of the knitting needles touching, a scarf took shape.

A ball of yarn accidentally dropped on the ground has been caught by two cats to play with. Peng Yu sat down next to her and gently pinched the knitted scarf: "Who did you knit this for? It's a good job!" .”

When Xu Jiao was praised by him, her cheeks turned slightly red, and she lowered her head in embarrassment: "Give it to Brother Xu Bing."

"Isn't it for me?" Peng Yu intentionally showed a surprised expression, leaned back and raised his legs, "You are not good enough, you are obviously the one who rescued you, and you bit me, now And Yin'er, you didn't thank me for knitting a scarf for that kid Xu Bing?"

Standing behind him, Li Yize turned his gaze to his wrist - there was no mark, it was so good that he didn't even scratch the surface.

So he concluded that this person was talking nonsense with his eyes open again, so he averted his eyes and ran to the side to look at the window grilles he bought.

When Xu Jiao asked Peng to say this, his face turned even redder, and he choked out a sentence: "Then... I will knit one for you too."

Peng Yu got a satisfactory response, smiled lightly, and pinched her cheek: "I'm kidding you, and I don't wear that thing, you'd better weave it for Brother Xu Bing."

Li Yize spread out the window grilles in a row, picked and picked from the inside, saying that this one is not good, that one is not good, and in the end only the "dragon" and "fish" were left, and everything related to the Yu clan was eliminated, and he directed two A little dragon flew back and forth to paste it, but the two little guys were not very good at it, they stuck it crookedly, and neither of them was right in the middle.

The good-looking window grilles were ruined like this, Peng Yu felt pain in his eyes, but the stickers were all pasted up, and he couldn't take them off again, so he had to turn a blind eye and pretend that he was blind.

The monsters in the inn came out to help one after another, decorating the inn inside and out to welcome the New Year. After everything was arranged, there was only an empty couplet bought by Peng Yu.

Li Yize posted the blessing on the door, and seeing him staring at the red paper with a sad face, not knowing how to write, he couldn't help but sarcastically said: "If you can't write, don't be brave, just buy a ready-made one and come back."

"That's so insincere." Peng Yu was still deadpan, dipping the brush in the ink over and over again, "This couplet has to be written by yourself to feel it, and it is in line with our concept of inheriting culture, understand?"

Li Yize gave a very disdainful "tss": "Still inheriting the culture, is there anything worth inheriting with that little ink in your stomach?"

Peng Yu: "..."

Li Yize continued to make up the knife: "I'm not saying that ideological awareness is secondary. The most important thing is that people must have self-knowledge and not be too drifting."

Peng Yu was stabbed in the heart by him, and immediately vomited a mouthful of old blood, which was redder than the red paper of the couplet.He slapped a certain dragon with great grief and indignation, and said angrily, "You can write as you please."

"I can't." Li Yize, as a dragon with "self-knowledge", does not want to fight with some mortals, "you should hire someone else."

Peng Yu gritted his teeth, thinking that the dragon was really itchy somewhere, and wandered around the desk with a pen for a long time, not knowing what to write, so he simply dipped it in the ink, and the red paper on the right dropped a flamboyant "Deed" "Demon Inn", on the left side write "A group of demons dancing wildly", and add a horizontal comment "There is a demon spirit".

Li Yize's eyelids twitched, and suddenly he couldn't bear to look at it, and pulled the corner of his mouth: "I think you might as well write 'There are evil monsters inside, and idlers are not allowed to enter'."

Peng Yu: "..."

The two posted a couplet that they couldn't bear to look at just before New Year's Eve. Since Xianzhou did not have a "no smoking" rule, before nightfall, the fireworks and firecrackers had already ignited the atmosphere, taking advantage of the winter chill. .

Amidst the sound of firecrackers, the door of the inn was knocked suddenly, and a voice hurriedly came in from the crack of the door: "Peng Yu! Peng Yu! Open the door quickly, saving the life of a monster is better than building a seven-level pagoda!"

Peng Yu was sitting on the sofa eating melon seeds, and without raising his eyelids when he heard the movement, he said slowly, "Xu Bing, welcome."

Before Xu Bing answered, Li Yize moved first. He swept towards the door like a gust of wind, and in the blink of an eye, he had transformed into the original form of a white dragon. The boy's voice became rough, and he roared, "Can we greet you in a different way next time!"

Xu Bing looked up, and saw two giant beasts wrestling together outside the door. In addition to the white dragon transformed by Li Yize, there was also a strange beast with sharp horns on its forehead and eyes like copper bells. The lion, with its beard and hair stretched out as it moved, flicked its tail, and hit the steps in front of the inn with a "slap".

Peng Yu continued to eat melon seeds without changing his face, and at the same time picked up his mobile phone, sprinkled red envelopes to various "employee groups", and said to the strange customer: "If you break it, you will have to pay for it."

Hearing the words, the other party was stunned for a moment, and the raised paws fell lightly, and was entangled by the white dragon in an instant, unable to move, he said in a low voice: "Do you want to do this, because of you every time?" I lost to Chang Ze."

"You'll lose if he doesn't speak." Li Yize let go of the dragon body and pulled it off him, turned into an arm length, flapped his wings and flew towards Peng Yu, landed on his shoulder accurately, and snatched away the gift he handed over. Melon seeds.

"Strange," the strange beast at the door stared at his back, "Why haven't you seen you for a year, and you actually have two more wings? The bottleneck period you have been stuck for hundreds of years has finally passed, and you have ascended to Yinglong?"

Li Yize gave a nonchalant "hmm", and the other party said, "Then why are you still here? Didn't you mean that after ascension, you will disappear and jump out of the Three Realms?"

"...Where are you talking so much nonsense?" Li Yize's body flashed white, and he turned back into a human form and sat down next to Peng Yu. "If you want to come in, come in quickly, if you don't come in, get out quickly."

Hearing this, Xu Bing looked at him gratefully—the door of the inn was thrown wide open by two, and the cold wind was poured in with the deafening sound of firecrackers as if he didn't want money. He was shivering from the cold, and even smelled the sulfur smell floating in .

"Okay." The huge strange beast finally stopped making noise, lowered its head and crawled into the inn—I don't know how it grew, but it fit perfectly with the two-meter-high door, almost touching it. Grabbing the door frame, he closed the door with his hind paws, shaking his fur.

It was only now that Peng Yu was willing to look him straight in the eye: "You're getting fat again, Nian."

The strange beast called "Nian" shone brightly and turned into a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. He scratched his head in embarrassment: "I can't help it. People start to cook all kinds of delicious food as soon as the New Year comes. I can't help it." I just want to rub a few bites while I’m staying, and it’s like this when I’m eating.”

Everyone looked at him with strange eyes, as if to say, "You have been stealing food all day and you haven't been beaten to death."

Xu Bing rubbed his arms, his hands and feet finally warmed up, and asked curiously, "Are you really Nian Beast? Didn't everyone say that Nian Beast is afraid of red and the sound of firecrackers...how dare you come in?"

Nian didn't care about it at all, just sat down on the sofa, and took two pieces of candy: "I'm really scared, but if you get used to being scared, you won't be afraid anymore—look at me, I'm still wearing red clothes, If you give me a firecracker, I dare to set it off."

"That's a good relationship," Peng Yu immediately picked up his words, "I will leave the task of setting off firecrackers this year to you. I have added a few new monsters to my inn. They have never seen the world before. You can take them to experience it." As for the New Year of mankind, my ears are not very good, so I won’t get involved in hearing-damaging things like setting off firecrackers.”

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So that night, a once-in-a-thousand-year spectacle such as "Nian Beast setting off firecrackers" was staged outside the inn.

A group of little monsters who "have never seen the world" chased after Nian and screamed, playing with the sky monkey and firework sticks, Nian was chased by them, and unexpectedly gave birth to a kind of monster that was once chased and driven by humans. In such a panic, the majestic millennium monster turned pale with fright, and almost ran away.

It's New Year's Eve, human beings are celebrating the new year, demons are also celebrating the human year, and the "year" is celebrating itself.The whole Xianzhou was immersed in the joy, the fireworks and the neon lights complemented each other, like a layer of water covering the city, it was impossible to tell which was real and which was the reflection, and it was also impossible to distinguish where was the world and where was it. Everywhere is the demon world.

After Peng Yu gave out the red envelopes to Xu Bing and the others, he stood at the door and looked out. There were no cars on Chaomu Street on the evening of the New Year's Eve, but there were quite a few people who came out to set off firecrackers in groups of threes and twos on the side of the road.A few little demons chased Nian and ran around, and the light of the fireworks sticks also drew afterimages, and soon the laughter was drowned in the sound of firecrackers, and it continued to echo along the long street.

Li Yize appeared next to him at some point, with a round yellow dumpling on his head. He slightly bent his eyes at Peng Yu, and said softly, "In the next 2000 years, I will take care of you."

The New Year's bell rang at the end of his voice, which seemed to add a little aftertaste to him. Peng Yu smiled back, and the cell phone he was holding suddenly vibrated, and Jiu Yuan sent a message: "Happy New Year, I have a question I want to ask you, my father-in-law and mother-in-law must give me a red envelope, should I accept it or not?"

Peng Yu raised his eyebrows and didn't look back. He just raised his head again and looked far away. The fireworks blooming in the night sky fluctuated in the eyes of both of them at the same time, reflecting a certain self-evident and closely related melody.

The old year is gone, and the new year is coming. It is a new year, and everything is renewed.