Legend of the Demon Emperor of Kyushu

Chapter 42 Fate is like a chess game (1)

As the moon sets and the sun rises, in the early morning of the Spring Festival, Ye Ziqi and Gu Feng came to the Hanye Ancestral Temple in the east of Hanye City to pay homage.

The ancestral temple enshrines the builder of Hanye City, the founding monarch of Ju State—— Baichenghan, as well as several courtiers who made great contributions to the founding of the country and the city. They have always been admired by the people of Hanye City.

The people who came to worship, make wishes, and ask for a new year's fortune lined up a long queue until the sun was shining, and the two teenagers finally stepped into the main hall of the ancestral temple. In front of the majestic bronze statue of Baichenghan, Ye Ziqi silently said:
"Lord of Hundred Cities, I am a soldier of Hanye. My New Year's wish is to find the barbarian murderer who slaughtered my hometown and kill the chief of his tribe. I wish!"

After finishing speaking, the two worshiped and offered incense together, and then exited through the side door of the main hall.

"Are you going back to the barracks?" Ye Ziqi immediately asked Gu Feng.

"casual."

"Then let's go shopping again. General Xue said that he will report back to the barracks before sunset. It's still early."

Gu Feng nodded, and looked over at the crowd who were still queuing, and saw that in the cold wind of midwinter, the city residents brought their families and their families, all of them looked happy.

This is not only infected by the joyful atmosphere of the New Year, but also because everyone living here knows that once the Spring Festival is over, the disaster of horse thieves will turn around.

It has always been like this. Soon after the Spring Festival, the military of Ju State will organize military exercises to boost morale; after the military exercises, the leaders of the four northern countries will hold a "Leizhou Meeting" to discuss the plan to eliminate horse thieves.

At the same time, the horse thieves had almost plundered Leizhou at this time, and their enthusiasm was gone, and they gradually began to retreat.

As soon as the two sides advanced and retreated, the scourge of the horse thief gradually dissipated, and it was another year of triumphant songs, "the king is wise".

People who have not been affected by this wave can't help but celebrate and look forward to the future.

As if no one would see—

The tide receded, and the ground was full of dead bodies.

"Hey! It's you!" The familiar voice made Ye Ziqi and Gu Feng startled. Looking back, the girl in the green dress came running quickly.

Tang Wandie ran up to her and raised her hand to slap Ye Ziqi on the shoulder. Ye Ziqi immediately raised his hand, clapped his hands with her, and resolved this round of "offensive".

This unexpected tacit understanding made Tang Wandie startled, and then said with a smile: "Have you finished paying homage?"

"It's almost there, I'm about to leave. How about you?" Ye Ziqi said.

Tang Wandie smiled and said, "Then come with me."

The two of them were led by Tang Wandie, and walked around the overcrowded ancestral temple buildings with many doorways, and finally came to a side hall.

Ye Ziqi looked up, and saw an old locust tree growing in the courtyard of the side hall. There were thousands of knots made of red ribbons tied on the withered branches of the locust tree. The end falls to the ground.

When the breeze blows, the tree-covered ribbons are like red-tailed fish with two long tails, floating freely in the wind.

"This is--"

"This is a place to pray for blessings. You write your name on the red string and tie it, and the gods in the ancestral temple will bless you for promotion and wealth."

"Oh——" Ye Ziqi looked at a few old people standing under the tree, prepared pens, ink, tables, chairs and a lot of red strings, no matter who walked past, they greeted them with smiles, and thoughtfully said: "Let's not talk about it first Will it make a fortune, I think if you want to put your name on it, you have to make some money first, right?"

"Hey! My lady invites you!" Tang Wandie said generously, then ran under the locust tree, and exchanged hundreds of copper coins with those old people in exchange for two red strings and ink pens, and Ye Zi Qi and Gu Feng also wrote their names according to her.

Tang Wandie said: "There are still rules for this tether. Those of you outside the city don't understand it. I will tie it. You go over there and wait."

Ye Gu also backed away as he said, and after a while, Gu Feng saw that Tang Wandie seemed not tall enough when she tied the red rope to the branch, so he said, "I'll go and help her."

Gu Feng stepped forward and asked Tang Wandie for help with the red rope, but Tang Wandie just refused, and later agreed to let him tie his own.

Gu Feng wondered what might be the rules of how to tie the knot, so he watched Tang Wandie's demonstration carefully.

I saw Tang Wandie's pretty face turned upwards, her little finger and ring finger pressed down on the swaying twigs, and then tied the knot with the rest of her fingers, her eyes were straight, she was thinking about her toes, showing an expression of hard work.

After Tang Wandie finished tying and left, Gu Feng also imitated the example and weaved the rope. Because of a sudden inspiration, he casually asked the old man next to him: "In my hometown, I have never heard of such a spiritual tree species. What's the name of the tree?"

The old man smiled kindly and said, "Yuelaoshu."

Gu Feng's movements froze.

Then, Gu Feng looked at the red rope on which only the name "Gu Feng" was written on his hand, and then looked around the tree. There were two names floating under the knots all over the tree, and his face twitched.

He silently took off the red rope, held it in his palm, and walked towards Ye Ziqi and Tang Wandie.

"Is everything finished?" Ye Ziqi asked.

"Ah."

"Then there is nothing interesting in this temple, let's go outside."

The three of them walked out of the ancestral temple and saw many vendors surrounded by the temple wall, which was as lively as a lantern market, so the three of them chatted while walking around.

"You came here with your family? Is it okay not to accompany your family?" Ye Ziqi asked.

"It doesn't matter, my family finished visiting early in the morning, and now we go shopping in our own places." Tang Wandie said: "Did anything interesting happen during the Chinese New Year in your army? Tell this girl quickly."

"It's nothing. The army was drinking and having fun, so we hid. Oh, yes, I heard that your senior sister was in Sanwei. She drank two jars of wine, and she couldn't stop drinking. She's really a heroine. "

"Ah—that's right, if senior sister wants to manage a group of men, she must blend in."

"If you want to watch something interesting, in two days, we will have a military exercise on the grounds of the Imperial Palace. You can come and watch it. One of the programs in this military exercise is 'Martial Arts Chess'. I heard it is very interesting."

"Wuqi? Is it chess?"

"Yes, and no. In short, it is an unusual game of chess, using people as chess pieces."

"What does it mean?"

"I can't tell, you'll know when you go and see, but I heard that if you're going to see blood, don't worry about the stimulation. Hey, look there!"

Following Ye Ziqi's exclamation, Tang Wandie and Gu Feng looked up and saw a Mr. Yin Yang, in his 40s, setting up a booth under the temple wall.

"Are you still interested in this?"

"Anyway, he's a high-ranking case, let's go play." Ye Ziqi was in high spirits.

"What is a 'sit high case'?" Tang Wandie couldn't help asking.

"It's just setting tables and sitting chairs to tell fortunes. They have rules in the face-to-face business. If you don't talk and look dumb, you can only set up a street stall. After the calculation is over, I will give you a lottery to finish the job.

Anyone who sets up tables and chairs can talk to you a few more words.These days, there are a lot of mysteries, and it is worth spending a little money to meet a gentleman who is willing to chat with you. "

So the three of them walked to the front of the booth, Ye Ziqi said first: "Sir, can you poke Duo'er backwards with one hand?"

Tang Wandie was about to ask what is "Dao Po Duo Er", but the alchemist had already answered: "What word?"

"people."

"If a person is upside down, isn't he a demon? That's not a good word."

Ye Ziqi trembled when he heard the words, then calmed down and said, "I'll give you an easy one, but you still don't want to. Let's use the word 'also'."

The alchemist heard about it, and immediately picked up his pen and wrote the characters. Only then did Tang Wandie realize that he actually wrote the entire character "Yi" upside down on the paper!

Ye Ziqi applauded immediately: "Not bad."

Stamping Duoer upside down means to write backwards. This is a skill that many people in the divination industry know. This task of testing alchemists is mainly to give Tang Wandie a fresh look.

The alchemist finished writing, looked at the paper and thought for a moment, and was about to speak, suddenly, a blur appeared before his eyes!
At the same time, the three of Ye Ziqi let out a low cry, and took a step back together—it turned out that it was a small bird, flapping its wings, and flew up from under the alchemist's table.

"Where did you come from, little bird, it's scary." Ye Ziqi muttered, and when he turned around, he suddenly found that the alchemist's face had completely changed!
The alchemist frowned, and muttered something in his mouth: "'niao' is added under 'Yi', which is the word 'luan'. Hongluan is the lucky star of the Lord's marriage, and the Lord has love. But the word you is written upside down... Young man, you are Hong Luan Sha!"

Ye Ziqinai asked: "What does 'Red Luan Sha' mean? I have never heard of this word."

Fang Shi said: "Using the folk saying, you are committing crimes against the peach blossoms, and your life is in danger."

"Pfft!" Ye Ziqi was still a little nervous when he saw the alchemist, but now he laughed and said, "I am guilty of peach blossoms? You mean I will take advantage of women?"

"That's right, and from looking at your face, although you have a good heart, it's hard to change your romantic nature. In this life, it's inevitable that you will suffer from women."

"You're almost there." Ye Ziqi smiled and said, "I'll give you the money, and you don't have to give me the money. I understand all your lingo and tricks, just to scare people."

Ye Ziqi threw the money away and wanted to leave. At the same time, he sneered in his heart and said: Since the disaster of the family's death, I no longer care about men and women. My love has long been buried with a blood-stained clothes. Into the soil.Apart from Gu Feng, I don't care about others anymore, so why would I cause trouble for a woman?After all, it's just a trick to deceive people.

"Wait!" The alchemist suddenly said, "Young man, take this money."

"Eh?" Ye Ziqi wondered, "Why?"

"Engong may have forgotten me, but I can't forget Engong." The alchemist stood up and said solemnly: "That day in Yanhang Street, I was almost trampled to death by a horse's hoof, thanks to you, you stopped the horse. , I can only set up a stall here today to get money, Xu Wan dare not take any more money from my benefactor."

Ye Ziqi stared at the alchemist who called himself Xu Wan when he heard the words, and suddenly remembered that when he and Gu Feng walked out of the storytelling hall that day, they encountered Tang Zhao's horse colliding with him. Isn't it the middle-aged man who he rescued from Tang Zhao's horse?

Ye Ziqi couldn't help laughing and said: "So it's you who didn't do a good job, but came here to deceive people. Well, I'm relieved to see that you are doing well."

"Engong, my hexagram is not..."

Tang Wandie saw that the atmosphere on both sides suddenly heated up, and she interjected curiously: "Huh? You guys knew each other before? Then give me a free calculation—"

"Forget it, just look at the upside-down flowers. We don't have much time, and there are still many places to visit." Ye Ziqi interrupted Tang Wandie's words with a smile, while raising her hand to grab Tang Wandie's arm, He secretly grabbed her to his side.

Even if he didn't believe this divination, he didn't want Tang Wandie to be identified as the Tang family by this Xu Wan, which would bring disaster to her.

Tang Wandie didn't expect Ye Ziqi to make physical contact with her so boldly all of a sudden, her face blushed, and she didn't say much.

After exchanging two New Year's greetings with Xu Wan, Ye Ziqi took Tang Wandie away.

Before leaving, Xu Wan shouted from a distance behind: "Grandfather, be careful of women!"

"Hey, he told you to be careful with women, why don't you stay away from me?" Tang Wandie teased softly.

"Tch, you really believe him."

"Hey. But when it comes to peach blossoms, I have peach trees in my house, and they will be beautiful in spring. You and Gu Feng remember to come and have a look."

"Can you still let me in?"

"When did you come to my house and go through the front door?"

The laughter of the teenagers and girls gradually faded away in the crowd.

And near the ancestral temple, a sedan chair carried by four people has just closed the sedan chair curtain.

Sitting in the sedan chair was an old man with a white beard, an iron face, red eyes, and a young man sitting opposite the old man, talking eloquently:
"Father, those two are the boys who seduced the second sister. I have checked their backgrounds and found that they all came in from outside the city with the army. They have no family background and only work in the second guard. The second sister was also arrested last night. They cheated!"

Listening to the voice, this young man is indeed Tang Zhao!
"Did they have anything to do with my Tang family before?" Tang Sizhou, the old man sitting in the sedan chair and the owner of the Tang family, asked.

"This...not really, they got to know Second Sister somehow."

"Hmph!" The old man waved his hand, and the sedan chair moved forward.

Tang Zhao gently lowered his head and wiped his sweat.

Just now, he was very worried that the blood deed would suddenly suck his blood away.

However, no matter how adventurous he was, he would not be reconciled to letting his second sister be taken away by a poor soldier who suddenly appeared.

"That's right, that's right... This is not reversing old accounts, this is...you forced me again."

Tang Zhao said fiercely in his heart.

(End of this chapter)