Chapter 37 Chapter 37 Night Market

When He Lingyun left Zi Mian and the others to chase after Gongshu Lingbao, Long Baiyue finally seized the opportunity she had been waiting for all night, and she quickly dragged Zi Mian away to get rid of He Lingyun who was in the way. Zi Mian was concerned about He Lingyun's situation, and wanted to follow up: "Shouldn't we go and have a look?" "Oh, I can't understand more than that, Ling Yun is going to seek revenge on that girl, what are we going to do next?" Long Baiyue grabbed Zi Mian's arm, and rushed into the crowd behind him, "It's rare for you to come to the night market. Let's go shopping."

Zi Mian couldn't help laughing at the back of her head, saying that he rarely came to the night market to play, but she was actually referring to herself, right?She decided to be a medical girl, and later learned to enter the palace. She hardly had a free life, and the chance to meet him was probably very few.Zi Mian felt melancholy for a moment, remembering that she was the one who applied for her to the Imperial Medical Office, she felt a little uncomfortable. Forget it, today is such a rare day, he should be with her well. A stall was very lively, attracting Long Baiyue, Zi Mian walked with her to see, it turned out to be a stall for guessing charades.There are several bamboo poles hanging around the stall, and several loops of thin ropes are tied to the poles. On the ropes, there are a string of crossword puzzle papers, which are divided into difficulty levels, and the levels correspond to prizes.

"Oh, this is interesting. You can guess a riddle with ten pennies. If you guess it right, you will get a prize." Long Baiyue skipped all the riddles and looked at the most difficult one, "Wow, the prize is the golden hairpin. Is this riddle so hard to guess?" Regardless of whether she could guess it or not, she just pointed at the prize, grabbed Zi Mian and called him to see: "If you guess it, it will be a huge profit!" Zi Mian looked at Nobile, and then looked at the crossword puzzle: "Boundless falling trees, type a word." He was not good at guessing riddles, and the more he looked at it, the more difficult it became to understand, so he could only shake his head: "Since it is the most difficult one, it must be difficult to guess, otherwise how dare you use the gold hairpin to offer a reward?"

Long Baiyue nodded, looked at the crossword puzzle unwillingly, and was about to leave, but the owner of the crossword puzzle stand happened to turn around in front of them, shaking his feather fan quite complacently: "Can't figure it out? It's okay, my riddle is not a problem. I racked my brains to figure it out, I am afraid that no one in the world can guess, you can guess something simple for fun." Long Baiyue looked at the rope hanging the crossword puzzles, and sure enough, a lot of simple crossword puzzles were torn off, and the prizes given out were only small things worth five or six cents, so her interest suddenly lost: "Forget it..."

"Hey, today's young people are so ambitious..." The boss muttered contemptuously, turned and left. Zi Mian looked at the boss, he was tall and fat, with a pale face and a lazy face, the clothes and feather fans were of the highest quality, and there were a few servants by his side.One can tell at a glance that he must be a rich man who loves to read, and he came out to set up a stall today for fun--since it's not for making a living, then you might as well play tricks on him. "Wait, I want to guess a riddle." Zi Mian called out the boss who had already turned around.

"Oh? Guess one for ten cents, which one do you want to guess?" The boss turned around with a smile, shaking a feather fan with one hand and reaching out to ask for money. "It's the hardest one." Zi Mian stared at the boss's eyes, and slowly passed her hand forward. When she let go, ten copper coins fell into the boss's chubby palm, and at the same time, she whispered a word: "Say .” "What?" The boss asked in a daze, a little suspicious that he had heard it wrong. "I said, the answer is the word '日'." Zi Mian repeated and laughed.

"How did you guess that?!" The boss looked astonished with a gloomy life and broken faith. — Guessed by mind reading. Mind-reading is a bit more advanced than qi-watching, and it can roughly guess the simple thoughts of the person opposite.At this moment, the owner of the crossword puzzle stand has only one word in his mind, and he did the math in his head, and it came out. "Hahahaha, you guessed right, you guessed right!" Long Baiyue was so happy that she rushed forward to ask for the gold hairpin. Delivering the heavy gold hairpin to Long Baiyue, the boss didn't show any regret, but just stared at Zi Mian: "Tell me, how did you figure it out? My mystery is unprecedented. No one will come after..."

Even Long Baiyue on one side looked up at Zi Mian adoringly, waiting for him to explain the crossword puzzle.Zi Mian blushed, not knowing how to explain.He opened his mouth in a murmur, just as he was about to apologize, but at this moment a sharp murderous aura struck him, making him feel his head tilted. With a scream, a passerby behind him fell to the ground with an iron dart stuck in his forehead.The surrounding crowd suddenly became chaotic, fleeing in all directions in panic, squeezing and trampling, and there were screams for a while. "Damn." He knew that he had to avoid lively places at all times, so as not to hurt innocent people.Zi Mian's heart tightened, she grabbed Long Baiyue and ran away.

Long Baiyue was so frightened that she was almost knocked down by the people around her several times. She followed Zimian to squeeze out of the chaotic crowd and into a secluded alley. Nobile.She has long been used to this kind of situation, panting but calmly said: "Is it the killer sent by the prime minister?" "It should be. It's really annoying, hasn't this kind of tricks been done enough?" Zi Mian looked impatiently at the several black shadows running across the roof in front of him—he was tired of hiding hidden weapons. Seeing Zi Mian and the others hiding in the alley, a few black shadows whistled and rushed towards them.

"They're coming after me, hurry up." Zi Mian weighed it up, and still felt that it would be safer for Long Baiyue to go back to the downtown area. She was dragging her away just now because she was afraid that she would be injured in the chaotic crowd, and now let her follow I can only implicate her. Long Baiyue knew that if she didn't run away at this moment, she would only become Zi Mian's burden, so even though she was reluctant to give up, she still nodded obediently.She ran out of the alley, and after taking a few steps, she couldn't help but turn her head back, her eyes filled with worry and said: "I'll go back to the Imperial Medical Office by myself, be careful..."

"do not--" It was the first time she saw Zi Mian's frightened expression on his face, he rushed towards her, and was about to stretch out his hand to grab her from a distance.This situation made Long Baiyue a little confused. Zi Mian's frightened eyes looked over her shoulders and stared at her back.Long Baiyue also turned her head curiously, but at this moment a dart was nailed over and pierced into Long Baiyue's throat. Severe pain came, Long Baiyue was pulled down by the force of the dart, staggered a few steps and lay on the ground, blood slowly seeped from the wound in her throat, and the iron dart stuck in her neck, making her unable to scream Noisy, only limbs twitched in pain. In the excruciating pain, Long Baiyue couldn't breathe, her suffocated throat could only make a little hiss and whine.She rolled her eyes miserably, and in the daze, she could see Zimian's frantic eyes covered with thin tears—he was mourning her, she was about to die—was involved in the dispute of swords, lights and swords, and he had divine power to protect her. body, and she is a body of flesh and blood, she only has one life, how can it be enough to play? The pain was like a heavy wagon wheel running over Long Baiyue's neck, the pain made her clenched her fist tightly, and the golden hairpin in her hand broke her palm.She never had the luck of being "immortal", but hated herself for being useless in death. This dart should at least be a tragic sacrifice for her to stand in his way, instead of being hit in vain and dying nameless. Alas... the tragic end is a matter of time, but it comes too fast. A Taoist talisman suddenly pressed against her neck, Long Baiyue suddenly felt the severe pain relieved, replaced by a dull numbness rising to her throat.Another Dao talisman was pasted on, temporarily restraining the blood oozing from the wound.The pain eased slightly, and Long Baiyue recovered a little bit of sanity.She opened her mouth weakly and took a deep breath, but she still couldn't make a sound. She looked at Zi Mian with her dull eyes while she was sticking talismans while avoiding hidden weapons, as if she had eyes all over her body. Alas, she was short of breath for a while, and a sense of powerlessness came to her heart - following him, even being a mortal is a shortcoming. Zi Mian was really glad that he didn't change his habit of carrying Dao talismans with him even though he changed his clothes. He put a spell on Long Baiyue to stop pain and stop bleeding, temporarily curbing her injuries.He looked at the hideous wound on her neck, and after panicked and heartbroken, the blood in his chest surged violently - he even targeted Long Baiyue with his low-handed methods, he was too deceitful, he couldn't spare them! Standing up and no longer dodging the hidden weapon, Zi Mian pinched his fingers, and his anger made the dharma entangled around him, surging like the wind, with long hair and clothes fluttering. He had to use his anger to stir up the spell, so that he could suppress the heartache that made him mess up just now.Abandoning the gentleness of the past, the sharp hostility in Zi Mian's eyes forced the killer who came forward to stop him, and he couldn't help being a little timid. Zi Mian stared at the killer's eyes, and silently chanted a spell with her lips, driving their spirits into the Shura Hell filled with evil spirits.The daytime lights outside the alley dimmed instantly, and the killers' movements suddenly became sluggish, and expressions of horror began to show on their sweaty faces.When Zi Mian watched the killers throw away their weapons and hug their heads and struggle in pain, he stepped forward step by step, and pressed the amulet against their foreheads, not allowing them to vent their pain with struggle.The killers fell straight, their stiff bodies could only twitch slightly, and they fell unconscious after a while. Zi Mianheng hugged Long Baiyue, and before walking out of the alley, she turned her head and said coldly, using her magic power to drive every word deeply into the confused minds of the killers: "Don't touch the people around me again—your life is too precious! I can't compare to King Yan, cast a spell on you, I can do it without the golden talisman." Zi Mian carried Long Baiyue out of the alley, and the bloody Long Baiyue frightened the people to run away. Following the commotion of the people, He Lingyun and Gongshu Lingbao were finally able to find them all the way.When Lingbao first saw Long Baiyue who had passed out, he was so frightened that he screamed: "She's dead?!" No one paid any attention to her, Lingbao just followed Zi Mian and He Lingyun and cried all the way: "Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow where did she die?" Zi Mian, who was only on her way, was finally annoyed by her crying: "She's not dead." "How is it possible?!" Gongshu Lingbao ran up suspiciously and carefully observed Long Baiyue's pale face, "The darts are stuck in the throat, can't he die after being injured like this?" "I was harmed like that by you, and even Zi Mian could be saved. Are you pretending to be him?" He Lingyun glared at her impatiently. Hey, this stinky Taoist priest seems to be quite capable.Gongshu Lingbao heaved a sigh of relief, let go of his hanging heart and took a peek at Zi Mian, thinking. A group of people rushed back to the Zifu boat, and Zimian carried Long Baiyue to the bed.Even though he tried his best to be careful, the bumps along the way still made Long Baiyue's face paler. Under the lights, she closed her eyes expressionlessly, her anger was like gossamer.Zi Mian gritted her teeth, stretched out her hand and slightly tore a corner of the Taoist talisman on her neck, Long Baiyue, who had been sleeping peacefully, was awakened by the pain immediately, she stared at Zi Mian in pain and confusion, wanted to ask him to put the talisman back on but He couldn't make any sound, he could only let out a painful ho-ho moan with his lips parted. On the other hand, He Lingyun on the other side saw the clue, and asked quite unbearably: "Why did you wake her up from the pain?" "The Dao Talisman can relieve her pain, but it can't heal her injury. She can't cheer up if she doesn't feel the pain. With such a serious injury, if she sleeps as if nothing happened, do you think she can still wake up?" Zi Mian Sighing, frowning and staring into Long Baiyue's eyes, she said, "I'll pull out the dart for you right away, it may still hurt, bear with it." Long Baiyue could only burst into tears in pain, her throat was hurt, and she couldn't even scream.Every choke in her throat was a painful pain, which made her want to cry but couldn't cry anymore. In a state of weakness, she vaguely saw that Zi Mian brought the tools for pulling out darts for her, besides gauze, cotton and medicine powder, there were also candles, spirits, and knives.Long Baiyue couldn't help being so frightened that her limbs went limp, her hands loosened and she passed out again, the gold hairpin that she had been holding tightly in her hand fell to the ground with a jingle and broke in two. It was a joint gold hairpin for love, which could have been split into two dragon and phoenix hairpins.Everyone was concerned about Long Baiyue's injury, and didn't notice that something fell from her hand. Zi Mian sat on the side of the couch and took care of her wound. When her feet moved, her shoes accidentally bumped into two hairpins and kicked them into the couch. dark place……
Note: Regarding the anagram, let me explain it here, so that those who don't know it will go to Baidu. Boundless fallen trees under Xiao Xiao, Xiao is the surname of the emperors of the Qi and Liang dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, Song Qi Liang Chen, so under "Xiao Xiao" is Chen.The traditional Chinese character Chen, Boundless—remove the side of the ear, Luomu—remove the wooden character in the font, and save a Japanese character. Such a boring riddle, purely played around in circles, deserves to be guessed by Zi Mian with mind reading skills, haha.