The day of fortune-telling for the dragon

In the darkness before dawn, Hua Jue and Xuan Long sneaked out hand in hand, following the white figure in front.

The phoenix crawled out staggeringly, and began to slowly shed its prototype as it walked, getting higher and higher. Hua Jue was mentally prepared, watching its tail feathers retracted, shoulder bones slanted, like a butterfly breaking out of a cocoon Struggling out of Phoenix's body, it turned into a shadow that could barely be called a "human".

Xuanlong lip-synced to Hua Jue: "It's still a little phoenix, and it can't transform itself."

Hua Jue also lip-synced to him: "Phoenix comes out of the cave, uh, how many years does it take to leave the nest?"

Xuanlong thought for a while: "I don't know, but it's about the same as a dragon, about 300 years ago."

"Then you two are the same age, Xiaolong and Xiaofeng, just right." Hua Jue said.He pondered for a while, since the dragon and the phoenix are said to be a pair, they must have grown up at about the same time, but he also got a kick from Xuanlong before he could express his thoughts.The man glanced at him silently, and Hua Jue immediately shut up knowingly.

"...I'm just talking." Hua Jue whispered.Xuanlong glanced at him again.

A few feet away, the wobbly figure stopped, right in front of the Jiangling Music Square.Behind this band is Hua Jue's small fortune-telling shop, a place for singing and singing every night, but just after the night ends and before dawn begins, even the people here have quieted down, and there is no sound.Only a few hangover drunkards stumbled out of it, covered in makeup.

Hua Jue thought that the phoenix came here to rush up and catch someone to eat or something, but he saw that the phoenix didn't move.The human form it turned into was a thin man, standing in the shadow of the alley intersection, tilting his head and looking at the gate of the music workshop.Birds often twist their necks and jump up and down when squatting on the branches, but when they are humans, they tilt their heads from time to time, which makes them feel a little panicked.

Hua Jue leaned towards Xuanlong unconsciously, and looked in the direction Phoenix was looking at, but only saw an empty facade with a few red lanterns hung around the New Year's Eve.

"What is he doing?" Hua Jue asked.

"I don't know." Xuan Long said, suddenly pulled Hua Jue over, and covered his eyes with his hands.Hua Jue didn't dodge, and almost lost her balance and fell on him: "What's wrong?"

Xuanlong said: "I feel that he will come back in a while, and he will probably scare you." After speaking, he looked at the phoenix, and then thought: "If you are so scared, should you also cover your mouth? When you feel danger, you won’t be afraid to shout out, so as not to alarm irrelevant people.”

Hua Jue: "..." He took off Xuanlong's hand, and when he was about to reason with him, he suddenly saw that Phoenix turned around and looked back at them.

The cold gaze passed over, like flying a few swords shining with cold light.In the blink of an eye, Hua Jue was very sure that it was them who was looking at them, and there was even a bit of coldness in those eyes - the same as when they met it that day, it was the eyes of the prey.He took a step back, but saw that Xuanlong reacted faster, and almost at the same time stepped forward to block him, the wind was loud and passed by people's ears quickly, when Hua Jue saw the scene in front of him, but It was found that the phoenix had disappeared.

Xuanlong withdrew his hand, holding a snow-white feather in his hand, and even smaller feathers fell to the ground.

"Ran?"

Just as Hua Jue wanted to ask Xuanlong if he had lost track, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, and something had stuck to his back.The cold and gloomy breath seemed familiar, Hua Jue's scalp tingled, she pulled the corner of Xuanlong's clothes and wanted to run forward, but felt a cold hand touched his neck, and the freak behind him was like embracing his beloved Lying on his shoulder like a lover, he tilted his head and let out a cool breath.

"Give it back to me."

"What? What do you give back?" Hua Jue was so frightened that her mind was a little unclear, and she chatted with Fenghuang behind her indiscriminately, trying to delay for a while.Then he hurriedly took out a few large sheets of charms from his sleeve, and patted them behind him without thinking.With three crisp sounds, he seemed to have slapped the opponent three times. More than 20 spells flew away with a clatter.

After waiting for a long time, Hua Jue heard that there was no movement behind her, but when she raised her eyes, she found that Xuanlong had also disappeared.The surroundings were as quiet as a cemetery. After struggling with his thoughts for a long time, he finally decided to look back.

He turned around slowly, and saw... the black dragon knocked to the ground by a few spells.

Xuanlong was directly photographed back to the original form by those spells, shrunk several sizes and rolled up on the ground, resting his big head on a broken brick, looking at him indifferently.

Hua Jue was taken aback: "Why are you? Where's the phoenix?"

He quickly squatted down and tore off the spell wrapped around Xuanlong's body.Xuanlong hit him on the head with his tail, then crawled into his arms, beckoning him to stretch out his hand.While Hua Jue was still hesitating, the black dragon hit his head with his tail again, and he did so resignedly.Hua Jue watched as the little black dragon opened its mouth and shook its head like a bag, and then, a lump fell into Hua Jue's hands.

"What is this? Are you performing dragon spit beads for me?" Hua Jue took a closer look, and exclaimed in surprise: "Ah..."

In his palm is a little phoenix.It jumped and hooked his fingertips with its claws, its wet eyes were full of mist.It was too small and too soft, so soft that Huajue thought it was a small ball of dough.It just fell out of the dragon's mouth, obviously still a little unconscious, and could only stumble around in Hua Jue's hands.

Hua Jue was a little at a loss: "It's it..."

Soon, the chubby little phoenix stopped moving, squatted down in his palm, and looked up at him.

"Hua Jue." A clear voice came from it.

Hua Jue was taken aback: "It can still talk!" Xuanlong curled up on him, rubbed him, and comforted him patiently: "I can also talk, don't be afraid, it has been blocked by me for a part of its cultivation, At present, this is the only way to go, he can't change into a human form, and he can't return to the state of a big | bird."

Hua Jue didn't expect things to turn out like this. The monster that almost scared him out of his wits suddenly turned into a harmless bird that fell out of the dragon's mouth. The contrast was too great.

He murmured, "It's really fat."

The little fat bird in the palm of his hand looked at him, then at the black dragon with a big head on his shoulder, suddenly, it flapped its wings, and chirped quickly and clearly: "Which son of a bitch dragon put Lao Tzu in this place?" In the mouth! I got your saliva!"

Hua Jue: "..."

Xuan Long lazily said: "Then I should chew it by the way."

Like a thief, Hua Jue clutched the bird in her palm and slipped back to her courtyard with the black dragon hanging on her shoulder.Along the way, this little bird was very energetic, changed from its previous lifeless appearance, and scolded all the eighteen generations of Xuanlong's ancestors, without repeating any tricks, and without any dirty words.

Xuanlong was very indifferent: "You mean my parents? I don't have a mother. I have a father, Dragon God, who ignores me after I was born. You can scold me as you like."

The little fat bird was still chirping, Hua Jue cautiously... stretched out two fingers, and gently grabbed its neck.

Phoenix: "..."

Xuanlong climbed down from Huajue's body, turned into a human again, went to find a bamboo clasp in the cupboard, and locked the bird up.Phoenix quickly fell silent.

Xuan Long moved a stool and sat in front of the table, looked into the gap of the bamboo weaving: "I was wrong, if it is so noisy, it seems to be a parrot."

Hua Jue said "Huh?", moved a chair and sat down, and the two of them studied the little fat bird together, and the phoenix inside flapped its wings frantically in anger.After a while, Hua Jue saw that it had no strength, and it didn't make a sound and stopped thumping. After all, her heart softened, and she asked it softly, "Who are you? You can understand me, and you know my name." , are you here to look for me?"

The little fat bird looked at him for a while, then nodded.

"Hmm... don't be afraid, what are you looking for me for?" Hua Jue asked.He didn't even realize that he had been deceived by the bird's appearance, and his voice became extraordinarily gentle.

Xuanlong cast a sideways glance at him, then dragged the stool to wash the dishes, listening attentively while washing.The Phoenix was silent for a while: "I have something with you, and now I want to get it back."

Hua Jue's heart skipped a beat, she knew it immediately, and touched the dark golden relic in her sleeve.Little Phoenix continued: "I am Phoenix, not a parrot."

It tilted its head again: "I was reincarnated in the first world before I was alive, so I was in Jiangling. This is my hometown. The six realms know that you changed the fate of a dragon, and I came to ask you for fortune-telling."