Lingxian Zhenjun

Chapter 65

The rain pattered on the window lattice.

Chen Yuan broke open the fire pocket and snapped her fingers in front of the blowing sparks. A bean-sized flame ignited out of thin air between her index finger and thumb, and then flicked lightly. The bean flame floated in the air and landed on the wick. Gradually warm yellow.

After combining the three spells in the ruined temple, he found that he has become more proficient in controlling spells and mana. He has a little subtle perception of ordinary plants, trees, and clouds in the sky, just like the original The familiar world is different.

For example, a mirror reflected his face, but now there is an extra side, as if he could see the back of his head.

Thinking about it, he went outside to fetch well water, served his master to wash and go to bed, and listened to the splashing rain outside, he was also a little tired, so he put the wooden altar on the window lattice, turned around and lay down with his master.

"It's weird!"

The crazy old man suddenly sat up, blew his beard and stared at the end of the bed, then lay down with one foot on his apprentice's lap, grinding his teeth, and murmured vaguely in his sleep: "Apprentice... I want to eat for the teacher. Roast goose... ask the fat Taoist priest to catch one..."

"Disciple knows that there is something weird here. Come on, master, be good. When the rain stops, I will ask the fat Taoist to catch one for the master to satisfy his greed."

In fact, the old man took a bath all the time, but he didn't change his tattered clothes. He thought there would be a stench, but Chen Yuan didn't feel that the clothes smelled bad all the way.

I probably think it should be something like the treasured clothes made by the master before, but it is still so miraculous after being torn like this. It can be seen that when the clothes are in good condition, they are definitely more powerful than the magic bell of the woman before.

As for the matter here, it's just a little demon.

After comforting Master to sleep, Chen Yuan yawned, turned over, heard the sound of rain hitting the window lattice, and fell asleep in a daze.

……

The rain curtain was hanging from the eaves and gradually over the door. In three rooms not far apart, seven or eight shirtless men crowded together, snoring one after another.

The other adjacent room was relatively quiet, the middle-aged scholar was leaning on the oil lamp, turning the pages of the book in a gentle manner.

The light flickered suddenly, the scholar raised his face and looked outside, there was the sound of flapping wings in the sound of rain, the scholar immediately blew out the light, and turned over on the bed.

At this time, in the adjacent room, seven or eight men huddled together didn't notice it. Some of them didn't know if they felt cold, rubbed their arms, and woke up in a daze.

"It's time to invigorate the kidney qi... I was woken up in the middle of the night by urinating."

He murmured vaguely, the man who woke up yawned, forgot the advice of the villagers, opened the door and went straight out, the cold water vapor splashed on his face and body, he immediately shivered, and braved the rain to walk to the docked car. Behind the vehicle, he opened his pants and poured water into the field.

In the dark night, there was still a bright yellow light on. The man turned his head and glanced at it, and muttered: "I don't know how to save money if I still light the lamp in the middle of the night... two lamps."

ah ah ah ~
The donkeys covered by the tarpaulin suddenly brayed a few times and moved restlessly.

"What's it called? If you disturb people's sleep, you can't beat them a few times!"

Stopping the sound of running water, the man held something and shook up and down a few times, trembling, put on his pants cursingly, turned back to the house, just took two steps, and subconsciously saw who's house was still lit.

The bright yellow lights were long gone, and there were a few coughs.

cough cough...

"Who's where?"

The sound of the rain was loud and he couldn't hear it very clearly. The man ran to the eaves with his hair in his hands, moved his head over there, and whispered with his head: "But the owner of the tea shop today?"

cough cough...

There were two more coughs, and then a hoarse voice came from the bamboo forest: "It's me."

The man moved again, and stood with one foot outside the eaves, looking over there, and there seemed to be a black shadow huddled there in the darkness.

"You're not at your own house, why did you come here?"

"I had a quarrel with the old lady at home and was kicked out. Everyone in the village fell asleep again. I was embarrassed to disturb them, so I hid in the bamboo forest to avoid the rain. I didn't know that the wind was strong and the rain blew in. It wet all the clothes, and it might be stained. I have a cold and coughed a few times and frightened you, I'm really sorry."

The black shadow was talking, as if his feet were numb, he squatted on the ground and changed direction.

"Oh, it's troublesome if you get the wind and cold. Why don't you squeeze in our room? They are all rough old men. If you squeeze, you might squeeze your wind and cold away."

"It's the same reason... Come here and mix it up, my feet are numb."

"I'm coming!"

The man came out of the eaves and ran towards that side. The black shadow moved for a moment, as if about to get up, the man who was running, took a few steps and suddenly turned back.

"It was dark and I couldn't see the way, so I went to the house and lit the lamp."

When he ran back to the eaves and turned his head to talk to the bamboo forest, what he saw was that black shadow suddenly widened by more than a foot, revealing a pair of big bright yellow eyes, and what spread out was a pair of pitch-black wings .

"Monster... monster!"

The man's mind suddenly buzzed, thinking of what the old man in the tea shop said before, he swallowed his saliva, turned around and ran, and rushed to his room, but before he could come, the door closed without wind, with a bang close.

Bang bang bang!
He slammed on the door panel frantically, but the people inside couldn't seem to hear it, and the door couldn't be opened no matter how hard he tried. The man kept knocking on the door, and kept turning his head to look at the bamboo forest. His bright yellow eyes were extremely bright in the rainy night.

Whoa!
The black shadow jumped up and came towards this side stepping on the sound of water on the ground, revealing a thick gray and black beak.

The man was so frightened that water dripped from his crotch. He suddenly remembered what the scholar said when it was dark, and subconsciously looked towards the closed door at the end. Just ran over there, shouting: "Sir, help!"

With his reaction, the black shadow in the rain also moved, spread a pair of wings and flew over, when he opened the bird's beak, his lower body stretched out his feet, with four fingers between them, shaped like iron claws.

"Ahhh—" the man yelled in fright, and sat down on the ground limply.

At the moment when the scream echoed in the rainy night, the bullock cart not far away, the old cow raised his head, his eyes flashed like lightning, and was about to stand up, when the carriage suddenly bounced open, and a ray of blue light shone like a horse, rushing out. Indistinctly, one can see a small man lurking in the light, holding a big knife in his hand, with a heavy face, aiming at the winged monster to chop down with one blow.

puff!
Blood splattered.

The shrill bird chirping resounded, and the black shadow with spread wings slammed into the opposite eaves, the blue light over there retracted, and the carriage immediately returned to its original shape.

clap clap...

The black shadow frantically flapped its wings on the ground and let out bursts of sharp neighing.

A little farther away, before the man sitting on the ground had time to see what the black shadow was, the window lattice above suddenly opened, and a huge oval long face protruded from the mist. , swallowing the still struggling black shadow in one gulp...

Seeing this scene, the man finally couldn't bear it any longer, rolled his eyes, slammed on the wall, tilted his head suddenly, and passed out.

The sound of rushing rain spread into the night, the sky gradually turned green and the rain gradually weakened, the door creaked open, Chen Yuan came out yawning, and shook her head when she saw the fainted man and the black object on the ground.

I went back to the house and took the wooden altar, called the sleepy-eyed master to drive the ox cart, and left in the rain.Soon after, roosters crowed loudly in the village, and gradually there were human voices.

Someone came out of the house, saw the scene under the eaves, and yelled in horror.

The villagers who heard the news, and six other men rushed out of the house, all of them turned pale, and saw not far from their comatose companion, a black bird as big as a round table was lying there, with a winged Falling in the courtyard, the blood in the remaining stagnant water gave off a stench.

In the past, a few people carefully checked his companion's breath, and seeing that he was still alive, he hurriedly carried him back to the house. A villager boiled warm water and poured it, and the fainted man gradually regained consciousness.

He lay on the bunk, and it took him a while to catch his breath and talk about what happened last night.

"...I had no way to go, and then I remembered that the scholar next door said that when something bad happened, I leaned in front of the house of the man who drove the ox cart, and then I saw a blue light from the ox cart, which broke the Those monster wings..."

After listening to his companion's narration, the men who came with him looked at each other, thinking that if he was the one who got up at night, he would not even know if he would run towards the house of the ox cart driver. Thinking of this, he couldn't help being afraid again.

"Help me up quickly." The man recovered a little, and was about to get up to meet the expert in that room, but his companion pushed him back: "The expert in that room has long since disappeared, and he may have left at dawn .”

Thinking about being able to drink tea with that expert yesterday and brag about it in a tea shop, it was really an adventure, enough to show off to others.

"Oh, by the way, if the scholar can remind us, he might be an expert!"

At this time, a companion thought of the scholar next door, and a group of men ran back and forth, but unfortunately they knocked on the door, and the quilts inside were neatly folded, and there was no one there.

More and more villagers gathered outside the house, seeing the big black bird under the eaves could not help but feel scared.

"No wonder people keep disappearing for no apparent reason. It must be this big bird."

"This bird probably came to us because the next village couldn't find anyone to eat it!"

"Oh, fortunately, an expert passed by our village."

"Then how to... deal with this bird, but bury it?"

"It eats people, why can't we eat it?!"

"Hurry up and boil a pot of hot water, pluck the hair and stew it! Ask the people from the next village to have a sip of the soup!"

This year is not good, the harvest is naturally not good, the government has heavy taxes, many people can't eat enough, and people who are extremely hungry don't care if they are monsters or not.

In less than a moment, a cauldron was set up in front of the big house...

……

At this time, Chen Yuan was running over the flooded road in a bullock cart. The rain was a little light, but the surging river water had not subsided, and it would take at least a day or two.

"Brother, don't you wait?" Someone behind him called him at this time, Chen Yuan stopped the ox cart and looked back, and saw the middle-aged scholar from before, carrying a bag and holding an oil-paper umbrella, coming out of the rain with a smile. He cupped his hands and bowed: "I wonder if I can take the next ride?"

Chen Yuan looked at the scholar in front of her and smiled.

"Of course, come up."

"My surname is Hu, my name is Yong, and my name is Jingyao." Before getting into the car, the scholar gave his name respectfully, got on the car lightly with his bag in his arms, and sat beside Chen Yuan.

Seeing the crazy old man inside, he politely smiled.The old man ignored him, glanced at him and continued to lie in it and sleep back into the cage.

"This is my master." Chen Yuan said with a smile. Immediately after giving her name, she shook the reins and said, "Sit still."

So he led the scholar through the rainy road to the north. Along the way, the two of them chatted casually about homework.

(End of this chapter)