【Xue Xiao】Desolate City Crossing

"Oh," Xiao Xingchen said resentfully, "then they drugged me, could it be that they are the gang who wanted to make me into a container?"

"You finally guessed it right. When I went to rescue you yesterday, I heard the chatter of the people who were picking up your clothes. They really liked you and kept saying that they wanted to 'inspect the goods', but they didn't want you to stay in the One Night Spring Breeze Building as a small boy." I want to turn you into a human container that can be taken away and reborn."

Talking about the business, Xiao Xingchen's expression returned to normal, "Sure enough, they are indeed related to the Seizing House gang. I went there yesterday and found many traces of magical barriers in the One Night Spring Breeze Building at the door."

The two of them analyzed from side to side, now that it is confirmed that One Night Spring Breeze Building is indeed doing this kind of business, they must first find out who the owner of Spring Breeze Building is, whether he is in the city, what his cultivation level is, and whether he should catch it.The so-called capture the thief first, capture the king, and seize the leader, the shrimp soldiers and crabs below will naturally fail.

It just so happened that Xiao Xingchen had basically spent all his money, and his first task when entering the city was to go to the Taoist pawn shop to exchange money.The last time the unscrupulous boss suppressed the price, and the five amulets were only exchanged for one. Fortunately, Chen Xibao returned to the pawnshop with three amulets based on his years of experience in buying and selling goods, and sold them at a high price to recover part of the loss for Xiao Xingchen. .Now there are only Xiao Xingchen and Xue Yang, because the Taoist pawnshop has a lot of evil spirit artifacts, and it is inconvenient for Xue Yang to enter, so the heavy responsibility of going to the pawnshop to exchange silver taels has to fall on Xiao Xingchen again.

This time, Xue Yang corrected Xiao Xingchen's understanding of money and prices in advance before letting him go to the Taoist pawn shop.

The Xuanmen pawnshop in Hebi is also open in a bustling neighborhood. In front of the pawnshop door, there is a huge plaque hanging outside the carved eaves, which reads "Muyue Pavilion".

This time, Xiao Xingchen was much more nervous than when he went to Lanling's pawnshop.Last time, the ignorant and fearless man didn't know the cunning and cunning in this business field, and he sold the amulets he made himself, and it didn't matter how much he exchanged.This time, it was the spirit stone that Xue Yang had picked up in Unexpected Mountain. Before coming here, Xue Yang dragged him to do a lot of homework, and he was burdened with another person's expectations, so he didn't want to make mistakes.

Xiao Xingchen clenched the spirit stone tightly in his hand, stopped under the "Muyue Pavilion" plaque, turned around nervously, looked through the endless crowd, and found the ghost with a severed arm waiting for him across the street.

The ghost possessed a physical body because of the faintly visible soul-binding silk thread on its wrist. It sat down at the door of the teahouse and ordered a pot of tea, two cups, a pastry, and two pairs of chopsticks.Meeting his gaze, he waved to him from across the street, pointed to the tea on the table, and mouthed: "Hurry up, wait for you."

The handsome and unruly young man in black showed a bit of a youthful aftertaste in his smile, and his eyes were starry, so kind.

Xiao Xingchen suddenly became less nervous.In fact, Xue Yang may not really care about how much money is exchanged, but he just does so much homework for him because he can't see him being deceived by villains.

The layout of Muyue Pavilion is different from that of Lanling Pawnshop. There are rows of display cabinets in the hall, and there is a lot of people. This shop is not as unpredictable as Lanling Pawnshop. look.Next to each showcase, there were guys in charge of enthusiastically introducing the celestial artifacts. Xiao Xingchen took a glance and was attracted by one of them who was dressed differently from the other guys.

The man was dressed in a moon white blouse, and he was as handsome as a scholar, and he was also introducing the fairy artifact to a guest, amidst his enthusiasm, there was an extraordinarily serious and rigorous temperament.

Xiao Xingchen explained the purpose of his visit to the buddy who was closest to him, and the buddy led him to the scholar-like person and said, "Young Master Liu, this person is here to sell goods."

"Oh? Young Master, please." The man's voice was modest and steady, leading Xiao Xingchen to a corner of the hall.

This point is consistent with Lanling, there are probably only a few who sell goods, so they always entertain in another quiet corner alone.

"What treasure did you bring to sell?"

Xiao Xingchen arranged the spirit stones in his hands on the table, and introduced them one by one: "They are all excellent raw materials for making weapons. Silver crystal jade is [-] gold, Tianji stone is [-] gold, and ghost iron is [-] gold."

I would like to follow Xue Yang's guidance, and after entering the door, be less polite, and don't say much except for the quotation.

This trick really worked. The young man called Mr. Liu seemed to be stupefied after hearing his quotation, and he paused for a long time before he said, "I didn't hear clearly, can you quote again, young master?"

Xiao Xingchen reported it again, this time the effect surprised him even more, because Young Master Liu stared at him blankly, his eyes gradually filled with tears.

Is the offer too high?That doesn't have to be the case...

Xiao Xingchen recalled in a panic, and was sure that the situation before him was not included in the various situations that Xue Yang taught him to deal with, and he couldn't figure out what to say.

Mr. Liu realized that he had lost his composure, so he forced himself to calm down, looked up and down the young man in white in front of him, and asked pleasantly, "Taoist? Are you Taoist Xiao Xingchen?"

Xiao Xingchen didn't know the young man in front of him, so he nodded in doubt, "I'm Xiao Xingchen."

Mr. Liu wept with joy, and couldn't control his tears any longer. He asked again with hope, "Then... Xue Yang, is Mr. Xue with the Taoist priest?"

Xiao Xingchen took a step back and became vigilant.

Xiao Xingchen was very concerned about Xue Yang because the Master Ying of the Duoshe organization was also looking for Xue Yang, and felt that Xue Yang's whereabouts should not be easily known to others.If it was Xue Yang's acquaintance, he had Xue Yang's memory, how could he not recognize him?

"I don't know what is the relationship between Mr. Liu and Xue Yang? Why did you find him?"

Mr. Liu wiped away his tears and said: "I'm sorry, there are too many people here, it's inconvenient to talk, Taoist priest, please follow me."

The two moved to a quieter room with good airtightness.Mr. Liu looked left and right before entering the door, and closed the door and windows after entering.Xiao Xingchen secretly grasped Jiang disaster, and reminded himself in his heart: "No matter what it is, never enter it."

The weird Mr. Liu brought him in, but he didn't speak in a hurry, and didn't let him have tea. Instead, he picked up a damp cloth towel and wiped his face. After wiping, the original sharp-edged face became elegant and beautiful, and the man cleared his throat , It turned out to be a gentle female voice that came out again: "Master Xiao Xingchen, my surname is Liu, but it's not Young Master Liu, but Miss Liu. Young Master Xue, he once saved me."

By this time, Xiao Xingchen finally found a similar face in his memory.The current Miss Liu is around her early twenties, and the Miss Liu in Xue Yang's memory is even younger, only fourteen or fifteen years old, but there are only sporadic fragments in her memory, and she can't sort out the cause and effect at the moment, Xiao Xingchen still wants to hear Miss Liu's detailed explanation .

"Xue Yang actually saved you?"

"Yes," after a long time, Miss Liu was still full of gratitude when she recalled, "About seven years ago, when I was 15 years old, my parents died unexpectedly, and my treacherous uncle and aunt took away my parents' inheritance and sold me to a faraway land. The brothel. On the first day I went to the brothel, I tried to escape, but I only escaped to the backyard of the brothel and was stopped. At that time, I lost all thoughts and felt that I couldn’t escape, so I had to die, at least I could keep my innocence, and I planned to commit suicide At that time, Mr. Xue happened to pass by the eaves."

Xiao Xingchen listened and recalled that seven years ago, about three years after he committed suicide, Xue Yang did leave Yicheng for a while at that time.In my memory, the young girl trapped in the middle of a courtyard happened to be dressed in white, and she was about to kill herself in grief and anger.

Xiao Xingchen understood: "Xue Yang doesn't want to see someone committing suicide again, so he saved you."

"Yes," probably because she had been pretending to be a man for a long time, Miss Liu's words and deeds were graceful and heroic, it was difficult to see her daughter's posture, she said with her hands behind her back: "Mr. Xue is very skilled, I haven't figured out what happened yet , has been taken away from the brothel."

After leaving the brothel, the young man in black who rescued her did not patiently appease the victim like a legendary rescuer, but fiercely asked her, who was still in shock, "Why did you kill yourself?!"

She was originally a young lady from a scholarly family, but she didn't expect to change suddenly, her parents died, she was lonely and helpless, and she was sold into a brothel. The young man in clothes is so frightening, he sadly replied: "The world is dark and people's hearts are unpredictable. I have no way out. To keep my innocence, I can only kill myself."

The young man in black was silent for a long time, with a gloomy expression on his face: "People's hearts are unpredictable...to keep their innocence...is that why that person killed himself?"

Lost for a moment, the young man snatched the dagger from her hand, and said coldly: "Now that you are free, you don't have to kill yourself to keep your innocence, do you hear me?"

After that, leave her and leave.

At the age of 15, she was in a foreign land, with no relatives, helpless, and had no choice but to follow the man who saved her all the way.

The young man in black quickly noticed, turned around and shouted: "What are you doing with me? I'm not a good person!"

She thought to herself: How could he not be a good person when we met by chance and rescued him?

"The young master saved me immediately, I will repay the kindness, and I am willing to serve you by the young master's side, serving tea and water..."

"Do you think I need others to serve me like this?"

The young man is down and out, with new scars and old scars on his handsome and gloomy face.Obviously not like a kid from a rich family, but a prodigal son who roams the rivers and lakes and makes his home all over the world.

"Then... I can also wander the rivers and lakes with you!"

"Hmph, wandering the rivers and lakes, you little girl, what's the use of me taking you with me!"

When she heard it, she was unwilling to say: "A master once said that I have spiritual roots, I can learn magic, and I... I can also ghost sound!"

"It's useless!"

"What's your name?" She intentionally showed her skills, and used ghost sound to replace the voice of the young man in front of her, which sounded exactly the same.

The youth was unmoved and left indifferently.

"Don't go!"

"Take me with you!"

"I'm a quick learner and can learn anything!"

She changed her voice every time she shouted a word, and she persistently chased after him, hoping to let him know that she had potential.The person who left didn't stop until she changed into an elegant young man's voice and said, "Where are you going?" The black figure froze as if suddenly shocked, unable to move.

Knowing that it must be the voice of someone very important to him, she continued to use that gentle man's voice: "What's your name? Can I go with you?"

The shoulders of the young man in black trembled slightly, he covered his face with his hands, and lowered his head.

"My name is Xue Yang..."

Later, Xue Yang still didn't take her with him, but he found her a place to live, rented a house, and paid a year's rent in advance.

Xue Yang described the voice he wanted to hear in detail and asked her to imitate it.The grumpy youth had only to be surprisingly patient about it.

"It's very close," he said, "That person's voice is very warm, always with a little smile, you can learn from it."

She repeatedly adjusted her voice, and finally learned the exact same voice as Xue Yang's memory.

The young man in black closed his eyes and listened, as if he had returned to some kind of warm and good time that he could never return.

After that, Xue Yang would visit her every half a month or a month without doing anything, just wanting to hear the gentle male voice that he missed.

When Xue Yang came, he didn't say hello, and he was often covered with injuries. After a few days of recovery, he disappeared without a sound.

This person has a weird temper, he doesn't let people touch him, and he rarely talks about himself.More than once, she could only bandage his wound while he was unconscious, and listened to him repeatedly mutter in pain in his sleep: "Xiao Xingchen... Daoist..."

Half a year later, during the worst injury, Xue Yang came to look for her but didn't stay, and dropped a large bag of banknotes through the window in the middle of the night.

"I am leaving."

The language is concise, she vaguely understands that this will be the last meeting, and asked anxiously: "Are you not staying to recuperate? Where are you going?"

The young man in black sat on the window sill, clutching a bleeding wound, and said weakly, "Go back and wait for that person."

"Didn't you say that he... Daoist Xiao Xingchen won't come back anymore?"

Xue Yang didn't say any more, just said: "I will be back, I will wait for him there."

Since then, the young man in black has never appeared again.

"Later, when the one-year term of the house expired, I used the money he left behind to open a Taoist pawn shop according to the idea he casually suggested to me. Daoist Xiao Xingchen, I have imitated your voice many times, So I heard it as soon as you opened your mouth, I wonder if Mr. Xue found you later? Where is he now? Is he all right? "

"This..." Xiao Xingchen hesitated.

How to tell this woman who seems to miss Xue Yang very much, but Xue Yang has been dead for two years and turned into a ghost?

The author has something to say: Happy New Year everyone~