Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Oysters

"It's probably a quarter before noon." Long Baiyue looked at the dark sky and guessed secretly. Today's weather is not good, the spring is cold, the air is cold, and the buds that have just been pulled out from the trees in early spring are wrinkled and drooping.Long Baiyue was wearing a thin gauze skirt, and when the wind blew, she felt even more pitiful.She knew that passers-by were looking sideways frequently, so she ordered herself to be more calm from the bottom of her heart. The further you go, the more noisy the street becomes, and the excited words of passers-by reach Long Baiyue's ears: "Master Zimian's boat has arrived..."

Long Baiyue became nervous.She looked around, looking for someone to help her, but no one met her eyes at this moment.Everyone crowded onto the bridge, hoping to catch a glimpse of the rumored mysterious Lord Zimian: "The boat is about to cross the bridge..." Amidst the noise, Long Baiyue was involuntarily pushed onto Yongding Bridge by spectators.As soon as she got her footing, she glanced and saw a huge ebony sailing ship.The huge thing had a deep draft, and the hull of the boat squeezed through the emerald green river steadily, and the waves crashed into the river. The onlookers by the river screamed to avoid the splashing water, and the women and children chirped and laughed, reflecting the silence of the ship—there was no one on the outer deck at the moment, only the white lanterns beside the cabin were shaking slightly.

"I can't see anything at all." Long Baiyue murmured softly, she stood on tiptoe and squeezed to the side of the bridge. In the confusion, a hand popped out from nowhere, and openly pinched her buttocks.Long Baiyue froze - someone took advantage of her!Shocked and angry, she turned around quickly, while tugging at her skirt that was caught by the crowd, she raised her eyebrows and looked for the hateful apprentice. Suddenly, she met a pair of wretched eyes. It must be this person!Long Baiyue was so disgusted that she got goosebumps all over her body.She opened her lips and was about to yell, but the crowd rushed forward at this moment, and there seemed to be hands in the dark that pushed her violently.

"what--" "What?" Zi Mian raised his head in surprise, as if he heard someone screaming. "Master, someone fell off the bridge!" Ming Chuangchen on the other side reacted rather quickly. "Oops, stop the boat quickly, don't let that person be crushed under the boat." Zi Mian dropped the medicine book in her hand, quickly pushed open the hatch and rushed to the deck.On the other side, Ming Chuangchen also frantically ran to control the machine, and forcibly stopped the boat. It was Long Baiyue who fell into the water.When she plunged straight into the river, her frightened and disorganized mind was stimulated by the icy cold water—she fell into the water, and she wanted to float up quickly!She began to struggle, kicking her legs, waving her hands, twisting her whole body, her eyes were still wide open despite the sting, trying to see through the chaotic green in front of her eyes.

Not far away was a huge black shadow approaching her, Long Baiyue was frightened and stunned, and after a while she recognized the shape of the monster - it was a boat, Master Zimian's boat. As the distance gradually shortened, the color of the ship's hull began to appear gray, and the bottom of the ship was covered with parasites after long-term immersion in the water, densely packed with gray and white oysters layered together. Long Baiyue, who was no longer struggling, found that she was slowly floating up, and the moment before she was brought out of the water by the buoyancy, she saw clearly what the parasitic oysters on the bottom of the boat looked like.

That's a pile of bones!Much smaller than ordinary people, the head is only the size of a baby's fist, and the skeleton is bent and curled up.The skeletons were densely packed, and they were staring at Long Baiyue with their black eye sockets. Long Baiyue yelled in horror, the river water immediately poured into her mouth, and pressed into her chest cavity with gasping movements.Her calf convulsed, and the pain caused her to faint. At this time, Zi Mian was already climbing the rope ladder and approaching the water surface, his eyes were carefully gazing on the clear water, and when he saw Long Baiyue surfaced, he immediately picked her up, held her and climbed the rope ladder with difficulty with one hand, and turned over. upper deck.

He put Long Baiyue on his knee, pressed her back, and helped her spit out the water in her abdomen.But Long Baiyue didn't wake up, her pupils were dilated, her face was pale, her lips turned purple, and her whole body was shaking like chaff. Zi Mian knew something was wrong, this was a state of being out of body due to excessive palpitations. "She must have seen them!" He picked up Long Baiyue, who was as angry as silk, and quickly entered the cabin, "Chuang Chen, quickly bring the Shock Resurrection Pill!" "Yes, Master!" Ming Chuangchen hastily dug out a blue-glazed porcelain bottle from the assorted medicine cabinet, and handed it to Zi Mian.

Everyone on the bridge was still chattering excitedly, Ming Chuangchen worried that Master would be annoyed, so he hurriedly closed the hatch. Three black pills were placed under Long Baiyue's tongue, and the bitter taste slowly diffused, taking back her scattered soul bit by bit, and gradually turning her blue lips back to blood. Zi Mian washed her hands, and smoked them on the Boshan stove, then opened the cabinet where the gold and stone were placed, took out a piece of black talisman paper from the five-color paper on the second shelf, and cut it out with a thin silver knife. A thin strip.

"Master, she is so beautiful." Ming Chuang, who had been looking at Long Baiyue, said coldly. Zi Mian, who was cutting paper and drawing talismans, glared at her apprentice angrily: "She is very beautiful, if you don't want her to die, go light a fire." Sending away the bright window dust, he pasted the five-element water-absorbing talisman he had just drawn on Long Baiyue's shoulder blades. The talisman paper immediately became wet, sizzling and steaming white water vapor, and quickly dried up Long Baiyue's body. Moon clothes. Long Baiyue, who was in a coma, regained some of her complexion, she looked like a simple child, while Zi Mian, who was sitting by the side, looked at her silently.

She is indeed a beauty in the eyes of the world.The hair color is thick and black, and the facial bone is delicate and straight. It seems that the personality is strong and the conduct is good; Thin bones are not a blessing.If there is a slight blackness in Yintang, will he encounter evil spirits? Zi Mian couldn't help being taken aback.Seeing that the black air seems to have been around for a long time, it should not be caused by the souls downstream of the ship. what would that be He was dazed for a while, and seeing that Long Baiyue's hair had become fluffy, he took off the water-absorbing amulet for her, and used the amulet to dry his wet sleeves.

Being able to see the souls downstream of the ship is regarded as having a spiritual physique, and it is not surprising to be able to meet some other strange powers and gods.Zi Mian decided to give Long Baiyue some phantom medicine to erase her one-hour memory. Although the phantom medicine would hurt her body a bit, it was better than the horrible memory.Then just find a suitable place to send her off the ship before she wakes up, and the problem will be solved. Ming Chuangchen lit a stove, and the cabin gradually warmed up. He added a piece of fragrant cake to the Boshan stove, and the dense smoke diffused, and the sweet smell of Su Hexiang lingered in the air, which surprised Long Baiyue unexpectedly. wake. "Si Baoer, you wasted my incense cakes again. Who told you to burn so many at one time." With her eyes closed, she suddenly sat up straight like a dead body, muttering nonstop. When she opened her eyes, she found that two big strange men were staring at her in a daze, and she suddenly felt bad. Ming Chuangchen of Tianxiang held the incense box and asked innocently: "I, did I do something wrong?" What is her situation now?Looking around the exquisite room, Long Baiyue said Qiqi Ai Ai: "This... Where am I?" Zi Mian, who was about to make magic medicine with aconite and yangjinhua, put down the medicine mortar in embarrassment: "Are you awake? I'm really sorry, I just surprised you." "Just now?" Long Baiyue was taken aback, recalling the terrifying scene before, she immediately clutched her front and screamed, "Those skeletons!" "Sorry, calm down." Zi Mian stepped forward to hold down her nervous fist, "Those wandering spirits are harmless." "Wandering soul?" Long Baiyue's lips trembled, and she looked at this handsome strange man in front of her in disbelief. "Yes, we just came back from Yunnan. You know the army that suppressed the rebellion in Yunnan before returning to the court." Zi Mian tried to explain, but she didn't know how to be tactful, and she had a headache, "Those ghosts on the bottom of the ship were killed in Yunnan The soldiers we brought back all the way from Yunnan, in order to let their souls return to their hometowns, have been disbanded along the way, and what you saw is the last batch of dead souls waiting to be saved." "The souls of the soldiers?" Long Baiyue was astonished. "Yes, we didn't expect that someone would fall into the water and see the undead. I'm really sorry." The woman seemed weak, but she didn't expect to wake up so quickly, which surprised Zi Mian quite a bit. "Falling into the water, that's right, I fell into the water just now." Long Baiyue looked down at his clothes, but they hadn't been changed, but they were dry, "Have I been in a coma for a long time?" Then she would have made a mistake. "No, you were only in a coma for a quarter of an hour." Zi Mian told the truth, "It seems that your body is fine." Long Baiyue stared blankly at Zi Mian for a while, and finally came to her senses - the man in front of him, could it be Master Zi Mian? ! She was uneasy, and asked hesitantly, "Are you... Lord Zi Mian?" "It's right down." "Ah—" Long Baiyue pressed her forehead and leaned down, "My head hurts so much." Why didn't she think of it just now, the gorgeous furnishings in this cabin, the weird medicine cabinets all over the place, this man who is full of ghosts and has a pair of fox eyes. What should she do?At this moment, there is no one who responds to set a plan for her. "Girl... If you're okay, I can send someone to take you home..." It's really troublesome to encounter such a thing when you first entered Beijing. Is this an eviction order?Long Baiyue, who was secretly pregnant, was in a mess. Should she just rely on him, or be sent back obediently by him to wait for the prime minister's instructions? "Girl?" Zi Mian looked at Long Baiyue who was shrunk into a ball, and tried to ask again, "Excuse me, where is the mansion..." Long Baiyue raised her head, eyes filled with tears, and moaned weakly: "I, I can't remember anything." There was a sudden silence in the cabin. Long Baiyue didn't dare to show her anger, she didn't know if Master Zi Mian, who possessed supernatural power, would see through her lies.Just when Long Baiyue felt that she was about to suffocate, Lord Zi Mian finally broke the silence: "I can't remember anything, can I?" She forced herself to look up, trying to make her eyes look helpless and pitiful, pure and soft, to look directly into a pair of suspicious eyes.She kept cheering herself up: yes, definitely yes, many men have been deceived by her eyes, even Taoist priests who understand ghosts and gods are no exception. Zi Mian's face was no longer pleasant, and his intuition told himself that things were by no means as simple as they appeared on the surface. What is the real trouble behind it?He couldn't figure it out this time, whether this woman was good or bad for him, he couldn't figure it out at this moment. "I can't think of what happened before I fell into the water. My head hurts so much..." Long Baiyue stroked his forehead, feeling so weak and pitiful.She carefully observed his words and demeanor, damn it, the man in front of him didn't have any greed or tenderness to take advantage of others. He was just in a daze. "What about the name? Can't even remember the name?" Ming Chuangchen asked curiously. "I think, I can't remember..." Long Baiyue pushed the boat along. "Then who is Bao'er you just mentioned?" "Bao'er, who is it?" She simply put on a show. "Master, will she lose her memory due to fright?" Ming Chuangchen turned his head and asked his master, "But, she still remembers that she fell into the water and saw a wandering spirit?" "Remember to be frightened, just forget about the past, it's not impossible..." Zi Mian replied suspiciously to the apprentice, wondering if saying this would cause trouble for herself. Sure enough, Long Baiyue's eyes immediately lit up: "Is this really going to happen, benefactor?" "Engong?" Zi Mian and Ming Chuangchen were taken aback by this address. "Your Excellency rescued me, so he is naturally my benefactor." Long Baiyue's brows and eyes began to look charming again. "What should we do now, Master? We caused this girl to lose her memory, so we have to take her in until she recovers, right? Otherwise, she has nowhere to go." Ming Chuangchen's bad idea fell right into Long Baiyue's arms. Zi Mian knew that she was really in trouble: "Wangchen, it's inconvenient to bring female relatives on board." "It's okay, just tidy up a cabin for her, and I will take care of the trivial matters." Zi Mian heard the words and no longer persisted.It should be the behavior of a practitioner not to be alarmed by changes, for her intervention, he might as well just wait and see her get better.Perhaps, things will be over soon. "Then Windows Chen, you should put this girl in the warehouse where the principal and silver are stored." "Eh? Master, why is that?" Chuangchen was a little puzzled, that room was very cold. "Because I can only make sure that there is no poison in that room." What the hell did she come to? Long Baiyue cried out inwardly when she heard this, she won't be unfulfilled with her ambition, so she should be poisoned and die here first. "Girl, don't worry, I'll prepare a few more quilts for you, and add a smoke cage at night, so you won't be so cold." Ming Chuangchen babbled all the way, leading Long Baiyue to a cabin, "The room is relatively It's simple, girl, just make it up." As soon as Long Baiyue entered the room, she was immediately stunned: "This room... this room... is really gorgeous!" I saw that both sides of the cabin, from the floor to the roof, were full of gold and silver.The huge gold and silver bricks are arranged on both sides, and the small facets of the bricks reflect the bright gold and silver light, making the room resplendent. "Here, is this real gold and silver?" She had never seen so much cash! "That's right, this is the principal and silver that Master used to make alchemy, and they are bestowed by the imperial court every year." Ming Chuangchen laid the quilt among the gold and silver, "Girl, if you think the gold and silver are too dazzling, pull the curtain next to it." Just go up." "It's okay, it's okay." She wished to be dazzled by these every day.This is the room she can only live in in her dreams! "Then girl, you should rest first, and I will call you for dinner later." Ming Chuangchen arranged the bedding, closed the door and left. As soon as Ming Chuangchen left, Long Baiyue jumped into the quilt vigorously, excited: "My God, this side is full of gold!" She turned over and continued to wail: "My God, this side is full of silver!" She got up quickly, and pulled out a gold brick with difficulty: "It's so heavy, it must be fifty taels!" The gold bricks were thick and heavy, and reflected a golden light in the dark, reflecting on Long Baiyue's delicate skin, it shone so brightly that she could barely open her eyes, and the cold touch made her tremble uncontrollably. She hugged the gold brick in her arms, and secretly calculated with a smirk: One thousand taels of silver is just a drop in the ocean here, why not simply knock off Master Zi Mian's one thousand taels of bamboo, and then fly far away to escape the prime minister's eyes and ears? Long Baiyue put back the gold, lay down on the quilt and stretched, and closed her eyes intoxicated...