Spring River Flower Moon Night: Set of 2 Volumes

Chapter 23 Fenglaiyi (1)
"Husband, I had a dream last night." In the cold weather, in the dilapidated thatched hut, the beautiful young woman said softly to her husband.

"What's in the dream?" The man who answered was a man who had his head buried in sharpening his knife. In the dim candlelight, he had handsome features and a bookish air.

"I dreamed of the most auspicious birds. There were as many as five of them flying around me non-stop. Their calls were beautiful. I had never heard such a pleasant sound."

"The most auspicious bird? Is it a phoenix?" The man put down his work, sat happily beside his wife, held her hand and said, "Then let's name our child 'Fengyi', whether it is A boy or a girl."

Hearing this, the young woman lowered her head shyly. In the flickering candlelight, she could vaguely see her belly protruding slightly, obviously she was several months pregnant.

"Ahu..." Her husband held her in his arms pitifully, "Would you really not regret giving up your comfortable life for me?"

"No." Ahu shook his head, "Didn't you also give up your great future for me? You, who were clearly able to pursue an official career, now lose the support of your family, so you can only abandon your pen and start a small business. "

"What is this small sacrifice to be with you?"

"Really?" The young woman raised her head, her beautiful eyes were shining coldly, "Mother always said that no man can be trusted. How dare you swear that you will never betray me for the rest of your life?"

The man nodded repeatedly, and swore a poisonous oath in front of his beautiful wife.

The north wind howled outside the window, and the sharp sound of the wind instantly blew away the oath he blurted out.

On a snowy night, a poor and humble couple, insignificant and ordinary, drowned in the boundless world in an instant like turbulent fine snow, but planted the foreshadowing of a legend.

一
In the autumn 17 years later, in a noisy restaurant in Xijing, a servant stood in front of a table of guests with embarrassment.

"Is this chicken really fresh?" Fei Xiao, dressed in white clothes like snow, picked up a piece of chicken with chopsticks in disgust, and asked quite dissatisfied.

"Guest officer, how could it not be fresh?" The servant was all smiles, trying to lie, "It was still running around when you entered the door."

"Really?" Fei Xiao raised her eyebrows, "Then why do I smell corruption?"

"Fei Xiao, don't make trouble, at worst, let's go eat at another family." Wang Zijin hurriedly smoothed things over. Since they left the small town of Dufeng and finally came to the bustling Xijing, he didn't want to make trouble anymore and waste the time of playing. .

"Zi Jin, we just crawled out of the demon-free city, and I just wanted to eat something good, but I ran into this kind of black shop that uses dead chickens to make up the money." Fei Xiao turned her beautiful eyes slightly and gave him a sidelong glance , "It's like you paid a lot of money to listen to music, only to find out that the person playing the music is not some kabuki who looks like a fairy, but a village woman with a pockmarked face. Can you swallow this breath?"

Wang Zijin kept nodding and said: "I can't swallow it, I can't swallow it, you can do whatever you want." After speaking, he wiped his sweat with his sleeve, as if the idea of ​​the pockmarked village woman made him linger.

"Guest officer, it's your fault." The young servant continued to play tricks, "The chicken has already been cooked, how do you prove that it is not newly killed? You keep saying that our place is a black shop, be careful and go to the government to sue you." .”

"Hehe." Fei Xiao coolly took out a few copper coins from her bosom, and slapped them on the table, "Zi Jin, let's go, at worst, go to another family to eat."

Wang Zijin looked at the rich dishes on the table with regret, and left the table with Fei Xiao.But she was very confused in her heart, Fei Xiao has always been cunning and cunning, and has a bad temper, so why is she so talkative today?

"Wow, wow, ghost!" At this moment, the boy's shrill scream came from behind.

He hurriedly looked back, only to see that chicken lying in the soup basin with crispy skin and flesh jumped out of the basin with flapping wings.

Not only the waiter, but even the diners were so frightened that they couldn't even scream.

And the juicy chicken, as if alive, stretched out a paw, dipped in the soup, and slowly wrote on the table: I am not fresh!I am old!
The boy rolled his eyes and fell to the ground with a plop in fright.

Seeing that the stewed chicken had completed the task, with a crackling sound, its limbs were fractured and turned into a skeleton, which sat on the dining table.

This farce is full of childishness, and it is what Fei Xiao did at first sight.Wang Zijin couldn't help laughing, and tugged at Fei Hong who was standing beside him, "Can you play with a clever trick next time? This is too childish."

"It's already very clever." Fei Xiao blinked her eyes, and took out a chicken leg out of nowhere, "Look, I didn't waste that chicken at all, I stole all the delicious parts to make it."

"You, didn't you think that chicken was too old and refused to eat it?"

"Who says I think chickens are old? All chickens are equal, no matter whether they live or die." Fei Xiao chuckled lightly, her white clothes flying, and she walked down the stairs gracefully, "It's just a human lie, which makes me lose my appetite."

"Hehehe, it's so interesting." The two were about to leave when they heard the girl's crisp laughter from upstairs.

That voice was like a young phoenix's first crowing, melodious and melodious, carrying the cool autumn wind, it fell into my ears, and it was indescribably comfortable.

Wang Zijin immediately retracted the legs that were going downstairs, turned around and walked upstairs again.

Seeing his appearance, Fei Xiao knew that he was suffering from nympho, so she hurried to stop him.

"Zijin, in broad daylight, how can a girl from a rich family come to a restaurant to drink? Most of them are wildflowers, it's better to avoid them."

"That's wrong. You said that all chickens are equal, and so are beauties in my heart. Nobility or not does not prevent me from appreciating beauty." Wang Zijin said, thinking of Shen Xing who was buried in Tokyo, He actually hoped that this girl would also be in the world.

Fei Xiao had no choice but to watch him walk up to the hall on the second floor.

Wang Zijin saw a girl in brocade clothes with a double-ringed bun standing in the cool autumn breeze. She was wearing a green gauze skirt, with lavender half arms, graceful and graceful, blooming like a flower of interpretation in the wind.

"Prince Xiaosheng Jianghuai, I don't know why this girl is smiling so happily?" Wang Zijin took a step curiously and asked the girl.

However, the surroundings were deadly quiet, and the guests who were chatting and laughing just now stared at the lady in purple and green dress as if they had seen a ghost.

"This trick is so interesting, I laughed so hard." The girl clapped her hands, pointing to the scattered chicken bones on the table, while the maidservant behind her was too frightened to make a sound.

"This is just my friend's tricks. If the girl likes it, I'll make him more fun and make you smile." Wang Zijin saw her eyes were dark and bright. Although she didn't look like a city, she was bright and lovely. I only wished her to smile more. It's good to laugh.

"Grandma! Please, don't laugh anymore..." I saw a fat old man dressed as a shopkeeper walking out of nowhere, and suddenly knelt at the girl's feet, kowtowing like garlic.

Seeing his funny appearance, the girl laughed even more happily.

And the obese shopkeeper seemed to be so frightened that his liver and gallbladder were torn apart, he didn't seem to be pretending at all, he knocked his head louder and louder, and burst into tears.

The two of them cried and laughed, but it was nothing to look at alone, but when they got together, it made people feel extremely weird.Wang Zijin was afraid and backed away again and again, but he heard several spectators whispering.

"Oh my god, this daughter of the Liu family is laughing again, something must have happened again."

"The last time she laughed, it coincided with a flash flood that drowned a hundred people. I wonder who is unlucky this time?"

When Wang Zijin heard this, he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling, but seeing Fei Xiao standing in front of the stairs to watch the excitement, he hurried to his side.

"Fei Xiao, this girl is quite weird, it seems that I met another abnormal person?"

Fei Xiao, on the other hand, put on her usual high-spirited and otherworldly attitude, and responded to him with a clear look, "What do you think?"

two

The matter has come to this, of course it is better to rub the soles of the feet, and walking is the best policy. However, he turned around and went downstairs, but he heard a pretty voice behind him: "Young master, please stay."

A graceful hand seemed to emerge from that pleasant voice, grabbing Wang Zijin's heart, he could only stop and look at the purple-clothed girl.

"Excuse me, what's your address, young master?" The girl walked up to them gracefully, but Chao Feixiao was blessed.

But seeing that she is smart and beautiful, the double-ring bun is combed on her head, which looks like two ears of a small animal, extremely cute.

"In broad daylight, I'm afraid it's not good to inquire about the name of a strange man?!" Fei Xiao was already used to people's amazed and appreciative gazes on her, so she waved her hands repeatedly.

"My little girl inquired about the son's name, actually there is another meaning behind it." The girl rolled her eyes around the two of them, and said secretively.

"What's the meaning?" Wang Zijin wondered.

"I'm afraid that this young master is about to suffer a bloody disaster, so I specially reminded him." She laughed as she talked, like a flower branch dancing in the spring breeze.

But how can there be so many interesting things in this hall?At this moment, Wang Zijin realized that her bright smile was so terrifying and strange.

"A disaster of blood and light?" Fei Rou pursed her red lips, showing a disapproving and proud smile, "Thank you for reminding me, Xiaosheng will wait and see."

"Hehehe, you have to be careful about the things around you." She continued to smile innocently, and led the maid down the stairs, only to hear her silver-like laughter from downstairs, "Especially, with the fox related stuff."

As soon as she said this, Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao were both taken aback.

"Hey, did she accidentally see the fox's tail? Otherwise, why would she say that?"

"She's just a human girl, she shouldn't be able to see my real body, it's just a little strange..." Feihong frowned, her beautiful eyes sparkled with doubt.

"What's weird?"

"Behind this girl, there seems to be some kind of shadow..." He said while looking at the girl's back, his pretty face was full of doubts, obviously not sure of his own judgment.

"You two, thank you so much for today." The two were leaning on the railing to talk, but saw the fat shopkeeper who knelt and kowtowed just now got up and rolled in front of the two of them like a round ball.

"How do you say that?" Wang Zijin asked in a daze.

"This is the meal money for the young master. The young master is facing the wind in a jade tree, handsome and out of dust, like a fairy." The shopkeeper took out a silver coin and stuffed it in Feixiao's hand, and said with a red face, "If there is no young master today, my lord The future of the store is bound to be worrisome, and now that the young master is protecting us from the disaster, I can finally feel at ease."

"Hey, you are really charming, and now you even attract men." Wang Zijin poked Fei Xiao winkingly, but saw that the silver taels in his hand were several times more than what they paid for the meal.

"It doesn't matter whether he is a man or a woman, as long as he has money." Fei Xiao proudly raised her handsome face, and put the silver ingot into her arms, "Zi Jin, let's find a comfortable inn, with brocade bedding and incense The gauze curtain is really the best."

"But aren't you afraid of bloodshed?" Wang Zijin followed him out of the restaurant, and couldn't help worrying about him.

"As long as God doesn't strike me with lightning, who can hurt me?" Fei Xiao cast a wink at him and said triumphantly.

Wang Zijin couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, a fox is a fox, he doesn't know what it means to be modest and careful, just hope he doesn't encounter danger.

That night, the moon was bright and the stars were thin, Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao were eating chicken and drinking in the inn, but seeing the fire in the south outside the window, it seemed that something had leaked out.

"I said Feixiao, why do we vaguely know each other in this direction?"

"Of course." Fei Xiao's eyes were like silk, she held the wine bowl and looked out the window, "Isn't it the tavern I went to during the day?"

"It seems that the girl is really evil, but the shopkeeper still expects you to prevent disaster for him?"

"Hee hee hee." Hearing this, Fei Xiao replied with a smile, "The so-called protection against disasters is always to find a rich and powerful person. He found a thousand-year-old goblin to prevent disasters. It's strange that he can stop them. He can only be burned by fire." Get a little more prosperous."

Wang Zijin had never seen anyone boasting that he was a broom star, and he was so complacent, and he couldn't help but secretly shed tears for the owner of the restaurant.

However, just when the fire was burning more and more, and it was out of control, there was a muffled thunder in the sky, and without warning, the big raindrops fell down on the head and face.

Dust was born on the ground, and the momentum was huge. Wang Zijin saw the fire in the distance go out little by little in the rainstorm.

"Great, the rain came just in time." Wang Zijin cheerfully stretched out his hands to catch the rain, "Although the shopkeeper of the restaurant sold us the old rooster, he won't be punished by bankruptcy."

He yelled for a long time, but no one responded.

I saw Fei Xiao wearing a white silk robe embroidered with red plums, sitting under the lamp, holding a porcelain cup, pouring wine into the pine bonsai.His long eyelashes drooped, his jade hands tilted slightly, and the wine in the cup poured into the bonsai like an inexhaustible supply for a long time.

"What are you doing?" Prince Jin wondered.

"Of course it's watering the flowers." Fei Xiao raised her eyebrows and smiled at him with infinite coquettishness.

"Water the flowers with strong wine, it will be burned to death by the wine." Wang Zijin hurriedly ran over and snatched the wine glass from Fei Xiao's hand, looked under the lamp, the glass was empty, how could there be half a drop of wine?
"Life has its own life, so it will die. If you trade a small thing for a big one, it's a worthy death." With a smile in her eyes, Fei Xiao went to eat chicken legs again.

And the rain outside the window became less and less, but after a while, the clouds and the moon rose, and there was not even half a drop of rain.

Holding an empty cup, Wang Zijin looked out the window at the bright autumn night, and seemed to understand something, "Fei Xiao, did you call me for the rain just now?"

"Where, I just ate the chicken and watered the flowers with a jug of fine wine."

The prince refused to accept the account when he saw him, so he had to fill the empty cup with good wine and drink with him under the lamp.

"Fei Xiao, you are really a good person." After drinking two glasses of wine, Wang Zijin said with a blushing face.

"Ha, I was appointed as a good person by you idiot, but the future is worrying." Feixiao didn't appreciate it, Fengyan smiled and said, "I ruined this beautiful bonsai, no matter how I look at it, I shouldn't be classified as a good person."

"Hehe..." Wang Zijin scratched his head and said with a smile, "No matter what you do, in my Wang Zijin's heart, you are a kind and good person."

"Hey, Zijin, you are so pedantic." Feixiao smiled and shook her head again and again, but her beautiful eyes were shining brightly with joy.

The bright moon hangs high, illuminating the sky.

The two chatted happily in the moonlight, and the long and bleak autumn night became warm and lively.

three

And at the same time, in a mansion in Xijing, a wizard in gorgeous robes was exorcising evil spirits in the tall and bright hall.

The candlelight was dim, and the wizard danced for a long time before stopping in front of a tall, imposing middle-aged man.

"Xiaomin Liu Juzheng, waiting for the instructions of the immortal." The middle-aged man bent down and said.

"There are evil spirits haunting your home, so your daughter only knows how to laugh, but not cry. You must drive out the evil spirits in order to keep your family safe."

"How can we expel the evil spirits?"

The wizard handed a bowl of water to Liu Juzheng, "At noon tomorrow, ask Lingqianjin to bring water to the downtown area. Whoever knocks over the water bowl will be a nobleman who can send away your evil spirits."

Liu Juzheng was holding the water bowl, thinking that his daughter was not yet married, and she didn't know what to do in such a public appearance.

However, at this moment, there was a burst of cheerful laughter in the night wind, and the sound was flying in the cold wind, wandering in the huge house like a ghost.

He could no longer restrain the fear in his heart, and hurriedly brought several servants to his daughter's room.

I saw a graceful girl in purple clothes sitting in front of a carved mirror, laughing non-stop as if she saw something interesting.

"Fengyi, stop laughing." He angrily pushed open the door, but the laughter didn't stop because of his interruption.

"Father, I saw mother, why can't I smile?" The girl turned her head, smiling like a flower.

"Your mother has been dead for many years, don't talk so nonsense..." He said in fear, and saw that the faces of the servants and maidservants behind him had already turned pale with fright.

"Who said, how did she die?" She was talking and laughing, and a beautiful face was reflected in the quaint bronze mirror beside her, but there was always an evil smile on her lips.

Intimidating.

At noon of the next day, Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao came to the busy street again. Xijing is a big city, and the level of bustling and bustling is no less than that of Tokyo.

(End of this chapter)