Painter

Chapter 34: Chapter 34

At the time of You, it was raining continuously, and the sky in Ping'an Square was dark.

The lanterns of restaurants and restaurants dangled under the eaves, and the lights were suppressed by the rain, barely shining a light.

There were few guests on the Jingshui Tower, and the singers who were drinking and sitting were still performing at the banquet, but in this kind of weather, no matter how cheerful the sound of the pipa seemed, it seemed hoarse.Dr. Jiu wiped the oil stains on the table with a towel, and couldn't help secretly looking at the girl by the window on the second floor.

The girl had a cold and charming face, narrow and long eyebrows, lazy and sharp.She was wearing men's clothes, but she made her body more exquisite. Unfortunately, she was carrying a knife.Everyone knows that a lone woman is as famous as a monk, and they are characters that cannot be provoked.So when the girl sat by the window, all the later guests sat away from her, and there was a circle of vacant tables near that seat.

Dr. Jiu didn't dare to look at it too much. Women, especially beautiful women, would not be able to gain a firm foothold in the arena unless they were ruthless. That's why there is the saying of femme fatale.This cold beauty carried a horizontal knife and a barrier knife, both of which were murderers.

But after looking away, Dr. Jiu still couldn't help thinking, she always looks out of the window, who is she waiting for?

Tu Shanxi withdrew her gaze from the window, clasped a tea bowl with one hand and shook it gently, watching a vortex rolled out on the surface of the water.The tea leaves in the cup are rolling, and none of them can break free.After a while, she put down her teacup again and looked out the window. A figure wearing a rain hat and coir raincoat stood out in the night rain and walked into Jingshui Building.

The man in the coir raincoat strode up to the second floor, waved away Dr. Jiu, went straight to sit opposite Tu Shansi.His coir raincoat was still dripping with water, and under the rain hat was a falcon-like face, and the deep nasolabial folds showed that this man was about forty years old.

"It's really seductive." He looked directly at Tu Shanxi's face, unabashedly admiring her appearance, but his eyes were calm, even showing some disgust.

Tu Shanxi didn't care about the man's attitude, but said coldly: "Where's the stuff?"

The man stretched out his hand from under the coir raincoat, and put a silk map on the table, "The layout of the Xunning Palace, its defenses, and various secret passages are all on this map."

After finishing this, he got up and left without looking at Tu Shansi again.

Tu Shanxi picked up the silk map, watched the man disappear at the top of the stairs, and then turned his gaze out of the window. After a while, the figure in coir raincoat left Jingshui Building and disappeared into the rainy night.

She took out a white jade bottle the size of a thumb from her bosom, covered it with the palm of her hand, pulled out the red cloth cork, and a white fox the size of an index finger came out. She said softly, "Follow him."

The bottle fox chirped and jumped out of the window, landed on the lantern, jumped again, and landed on the flagpole not far away.

A pair of dark eyes stared at the leaving figure in the coir raincoat.

Suddenly, the coir raincoat moved, and a cold light shot out.

A small sword no more than five inches long pierced through the hem of the clothes woven from zong leaves, cutting through the raindrops.

Where the sword edge touched, the raindrops suddenly condensed into ice.

This sword pierced hundreds of raindrops, pierced the wine flag silently, pierced the bottle fox's small head, pierced through its tail without a trace of blood, and pierced to the window again.

This sword was so fast that when it pierced three feet from the coir raincoat on the street to Tu Shanxi's eyes, the rain outside Jingshui Tower only dropped a few inches.

But the sword pierced Tu Shanxi's eyes, but turned suddenly, and shot back at the same swift speed, passing through the rain again, and returning to the coir raincoat.

It's all in the blink of an eye.

The coir raincoat put down his clothes and continued on his way.

The petite bottle fox fell from the top of the wine flag to the ground.

A passerby holding an umbrella passed by and suddenly heard crackling noises on the surface of the umbrella. Confused, he stretched out his hand from the edge of the umbrella, just in time to catch the ice particles falling from the edge of the umbrella, and couldn't help standing in the street for a while.The spring rain in Xuandu, why is there hailstones?

A civet cat looking for food sprang out from the street, picked up the bottle fox carcass, and quickly hid in the shadows.

Ice particles melt quickly in the rain.

All traces were erased, and in an instant, many things happened, and it seemed like nothing happened.

The restaurant suddenly fell silent, and a sudden chill enveloped everyone's hearts. The talking and laughing drinkers stopped talking, and the catkins dancing on the pipa also stopped.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, surprised by the sudden silence.

But soon the dead silence was broken again, the singer played the pipa with a smile, and the noisy sound of the pipa once again set off a lively scene.

Tu Shan lowered his eyebrows, finally let go of his right hand holding the handle of the horizontal knife, put the silk map into his arms, got up and left the restaurant.

……

Xunning Palace is the old imperial city, where the [-] emperors of Dayong Kingdom used to govern. This place is protected by the Dragon Qi of the country, and demons dare not invade it.

Tu Shanxi, who is a demon clan, knows that it is not the so-called Sheji dragon spirit that protects the palace, but a large formation.Legend has it that this large formation suppresses a dragon vein, but the monster clan has not found out what is inside it for many years.For more than twenty years, demons have been sent to test continuously, but there has never been any result.

The so-called breaking the formation is just a test of life, and Tu Shanxi has long been prepared for this.She walked north along the road in the east of Ping'an Square, passed the outer wall of the imperial city, avoided the watchmen all the way, and finally saw the palace wall of Xunning Palace.

Now the Xunning Palace is just a place for ancestor worship, no one lives in the palace, although there are night watchmen on the wall, it is not strictly guarded.Tu Shansi waited quietly in the middle of the night, found a time to change the whistle, sneaked into the palace city, and when he climbed down the city wall silently, he suddenly felt a palpitation.

Pieces of palaces prostrate in the night rain, with ferocious eaves beasts and raised eaves teeth.Cold water poured down from between the glazed tiles, and was spit out by chi kisses under the stone railing.

Tu Shanxi clenched the handle of the knife tightly and was drenched all over.

I don't know when it rained heavily, and there was even thunder rolling across the sky.

Snapped!
Thunderbolt flashed!

With the flash of lightning, Tu Shanxi looked back and saw that the walls of the palace were covered with murals.

Strange beasts and fierce birds, with magnificent scales and horns!
A coldness flashed in her long and narrow eyes, and she took half a step back.

A green scale rolled between the murals, coming alive!

(End of this chapter)