NPC Nine-Tailed Fox

Chapter 22 The Past
Sun Daochang next to him saw his jaw drop: "This, this..."

Zhi's voice sounded hollow: "The next step is to watch a show."

What appeared later really made Lin Xiaolin feel like watching a play for free, but unfortunately, this play does not have dubbing, no original soundtrack, and no subtitles. To say it is a silent play is an insult to the word "silent play".

As soon as Zhizhi's voice fell, the mouth sewn with black thread on the puppet's face moved almost invisibly, and then a dark hexagonal star totem spun out from the ground, and Lin Xiaolin and others were drawn in a blink of an eye. people included.

At this time, an extremely strong light suddenly came from above the head.

Lin Xiaolin covered her eyes with her hands and looked up through the gap between her five fingers. She saw the humanoid puppet slowly flying towards the light spot above her head. It opened its short and thick arms, and there was a steady stream of moonlight. Drain into that point of light.The silver-white moonlight circled the top of the doll's head, forming concentric black rings that grew larger from the inside out, and then fell down, covering the three people on the hexagonal star totem.

It was originally a dim hexagonal star totem, but one corner lit up, and when the last corner also emitted black light, the surroundings suddenly lit up.

At the same time, a huge light screen appeared in the sky above Linyang City outside the dream, and after a while, a group of people from Linyang City gathered under the light screen.

Hearing the commotion on the street, Boss Li opened the door of the inn a little, poked his head out a little, and saw two familiar figures in the light screen in the sky, he couldn't help being surprised: "Oh , These are not the two flying ducks!"

In the dream, Lin Xiaolin found himself, Zhi and Sun Daochang were staying in a transparent bubble, and the scene outside the transparent bubble had changed.

In front of you is a quaint room. Although the layout is slightly different from Shen Daqianjin's previous boudoir, you can still recognize it as a room in the Shen Mansion.

Lin Xiaolin and the others looked out through the transparent bubble and could clearly see the people and objects in the room.

At this time, a pregnant woman in gorgeous clothes was sitting on the bed, holding a silver needle in her hand, staring intently at the small object in her hand.With the movement of her deft hands, the needle thread fluttered up and down, and her movements were as graceful as a butterfly flapping its wings.

At this time, a woman opened the door curtain and entered the house with cakes. Seeing this situation, her expression became anxious.

I don't know what the old woman said to the woman. After hearing the words, the woman stopped the movement of her hands, put the small things in her hands on the dressing table, and walked out with the support of the old woman.

On the dressing table carved from pear blossom wood, a puppet in the shape of a puppet, which has just seen its first appearance, faces the beams of the roof, lying quietly next to the intricate sewing box.The puppet opened a pair of black eyes, and the mouth was sewn with black thread into a smiling arc. The hair made of thick black twine was divided into two halves in the middle, and the right side was already tied into a hairpin.

Just as Lin Xiaolin recognized the real body of the "maid", she saw a flash of light all over the puppet's body, and her appearance changed again in front of her eyes.

It was still the same room as before, but this time it was outside, and it was not as quiet as before.

The inside of the door was so vague that people couldn't see clearly what was going on inside, only the maids and wives crowded shoulder to shoulder carrying basins of clear water in and bloody water out, all with expressions of anxiety and fear on their faces.

Outside the door, Shen Congen, who was ten years younger, paced back and forth anxiously.Suddenly he stopped, pricked up his ears as if he heard some surprising voice, he excitedly grabbed a woman who had just come out of the door, and kept asking.

At this time, a maid carrying a clear water basin raised the bead curtain from the outside of the house. After raising her eyes, her eyes showed fear. Her feet stopped, her hands stiffened, and the basin in her hand fell straight to the ground. In an instant, a large area of ​​the ground was wet.

Shen Cong'en who was outside the door turned pale with shock, pushed the dazed maid aside, and walked straight into the room.

Not long after, Shen Cong'en stepped out from the door.He held the newborn baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, with a worried look on his face.A woman leaned over and handed over a puppet, Shen Cong'en took it hesitantly, and suddenly burst into tears.

That night, a pair of white couplets was pasted on the main entrance of the Shen residence, and two white lanterns were hung high under the beam of the door.A gust of night wind hits, and the lantern turns against the wind, turning and turning, swinging, swinging again.

Time flies, time flies by like a white horse, the wrinkled newborn gradually grows into an adult, and turns into a beautiful Shen Daqian.

It's another year when the maples are falling, and the fading sunset over the Western Mountains casts its afterglow onto the quiet woods, and the sky is filled with large areas of red.Among the silhouettes of Maolin casually drawn by the twilight, a carriage with rolling wheels ran out, and a "white-faced coachman" was driving a horse in the carriage.

The carriage came to a sudden stop, and a white and delicate hand raised the curtain of the carriage, and then saw Shen Qianjin, who was disguised as a scholar, showing her face, her fifteen or sixteen-year-old face was extremely bright, and she pricked up her ears , but with a look of resentment on his face.

Shen Qianjin handed the puppet in her arms to the maid dressed as a coachman, then jumped out of the car gracefully, flicking a long whip in her hand, and disappeared amidst the maid's stamping and crying.

The maid fidgeted and guarded the carriage with anxious eyes, and when her eyes were about to shed tears, Shen Qianjin, whose clothes were all incomplete, dragged her exhausted body back.

Seeing this, the maid greeted her anxiously, and raised her hand to wipe the blood on the corner of Shen Qianjin's lips with a handkerchief, but Shen Qianjin shook her head, turned her head and waved to the maple forest not far away.

Behind the maple tree not far away, a black-clothed boy about eleven or twelve years old leaned forward.His eyes flickered, as if with suspicion and consideration. After a while, he hesitated to take the first step, but stopped immediately, as if he didn't know whether he should get closer.

Shen Qianjin waved again with a smile at the corner of her mouth. The black-clothed boy stood on the spot and shook his head and nodded again. After some self-struggle, he finally figured out the result. Although he staggered, he walked straight towards the master and servant. Come.

The boy in black stood still in front of the master and servant, and said something with firm eyes.But seeing that both Shen Qianjin and the maid were stunned, they burst out laughing.

Lin Xiaolin, who was inside the transparent bubble, stretched out his ears, but he still couldn't hear clearly.

Amidst the woman's laughter, the boy's face flushed red, but his eyes became more determined.

Along the way, the young man acted as a "car driver", whipping up his whip and driving the horses' hooves as fast as they flew.

When driving, Shen Qianjin would occasionally sit next to him, chatting and smiling happily. When she got up early to do morning exercises, Shen Qianjin would rub her groggy eyes and insert some insights into the young man's moves; after staying at an inn, At that time, the two of them were holding black and white stones, and they were fighting against each other. You came and I came...

Until the carriage stopped outside the gate of Linyang City, the young man clenched his fists and said goodbye, but spoke again.

This time, Lin Xiaolin and three others heard clearly.

There was a little hoarseness in the boy's clear voice, and he said: "I said before, you saved me, and I will marry you. You, you wait for me."

The young man left, only Shen Qianjin stood there in a daze, wanted to laugh, but couldn't seem to, finally shook her head and sat back in the carriage.

The curtain of the carriage fell to hide the graceful figure, the horse's hooves moved, the wheels rolled, and the people and the carriage entered the city.

Later, it was the story told by Boss Li, who was a "temporary guest" before:

Shen Qianjin defeated the suitors in the martial arts competition; Lin Zhengqing brought her mother into the city and became Shen Congen's guest, and narrowly defeated Shen Qianjin in knowledge. Shen Qianjin was beaten up, and she was bedridden for more than a month; and the mudslide outside the city blocked the road, and Linyang City was completely trapped...

However, when the person who went to clear the road came back with a tired face and announced that the road was cleared, the story suddenly turned upside down, which was definitely not the story that Boss Li said.

Because, on the second day, what appeared at the gate of the city was not a barrier, but a tide of beasts.

(End of this chapter)