Embrace the blade

The black shadow fled towards the edge of the city.The whole city is silent, but in the depths of the night, there is an alley of ambiguous lights. The railings of the small buildings along the street are all tied with red gauze. When the night wind blows, they stretch and flutter. But trapped by the closed doors and windows, blurred.

I saw that black shadow flickering, and flashed into a small courtyard behind a building.

The two of them followed closely, and as soon as they landed, they were immediately startled by this bizarre scene: crimson was overwhelming, filling the entire field of vision.Whether it is a candlestick on the table or a lantern in the porch, all the paper lampshades are covered with a layer of red gauze, and the falling light reflects the pool in the courtyard red, reflecting the glow on the cheeks of the girls who are persuading drinks and making fun, and the pleasure-seekers red. Drunken eyes.

Qi Zhaoxi sighed, "When the whole city is haunted by ghosts and avoiding disasters, there are still so many ghosts who are not afraid of death. It's true that wealth is more important than life."

If you think about it, you may not be indifferent, otherwise you will not be afraid of being too ostentatious, and use red gauze to dim all the lights. Even better than before.

The wine was in full swing, and no one had time to pay attention to the sudden addition of two people in the courtyard.Although there was no need to deliberately hide, Jiang Li moved closer to Qi Zhaoxi, and asked in a low voice, "...What is this place?"

Qi Zhaoxi couldn't help being taken aback, and said in surprise, "You don't know?"

Jiang Li's eyes hurriedly passed over the men and women pushing the cups and changing the cups, with complicated expressions, he said, "Father never told me."

What a problem.This kind of thing has always been comprehended by understanding and self-taught without a teacher. I have never heard of someone explaining it.

"It's nothing, it's just a place to have fun." Qi Zhaoxi said vaguely.

Jiang Li nodded, and asked again: "What joy?"

"..." Qi Zhaoxi was silent for a moment, and couldn't help meeting his eyes, "Jiang Li, if you weren't so serious, I would think you were teasing me."

Jiang Li was surprised: "Why?"

Qi Zhaoxi didn't allow him to ask any more questions, turned his shoulders and walked down the corridor, and said solemnly: "Don't interrupt, I seem to have seen that black shadow get into some room just now."

In fact, the black shadow dropped into the sea as soon as it entered the hospital, and disappeared. Qi Zhaoxi said this just to change the subject, but he didn't expect to have a clue.

The doors of the rooms under the corridor were closed tightly, the red gauze was swaying with the lamps, and the ambiguous sounds came and went, faintly visible, Jiang Li gradually realized something, thinking about the question just now, his ears turned red and his eyes dropped.However, under the crimson light, he suddenly saw a little bit of black powder scattered on the ground, leaned over and twisted it, and it turned out to be the pungent smell of gunpowder.

"What a coincidence?" Qi Zhaoxi frowned.

The traces of powder stretched forward sporadically and intermittently, and finally disappeared into the room at the corner.The two of them stopped outside the door and listened attentively, but they didn't hear those obscene voices, instead it was a woman humming some song by herself, softly.

Before she could think deeply, the singing stopped suddenly, and the woman's voice came out slowly: "Come in quickly, I have been waiting for a long time."

They looked at each other again, Jiang Li nodded persistently, and Qi Zhaoxi pushed the door open.

The lamps and candles in the room were also covered with a layer of red gauze. In the charming red light, the woman was sitting alone with her back facing them, facing the bronze mirror, combing her satin-like soft black hair. When she heard the footsteps, she looked back and frowned. Said: "Strange, why are there two people?"

Qi Zhaoxi closed the door tightly with his backhand, and said with a smile, "Who is the girl waiting for?"

The woman's eyes lingered on the two of them, the young man's face was mediocre, but the young man was born handsome, but unfortunately he was still young.She said: "The man said that he wants me to wait for a young master named Jiang."

"It's me." Jiang Li looked at her.

The woman's eyes widened, she hurriedly got up and came closer, looked at him carefully, covered her lips and smiled: "I didn't expect it to be a young man. Have you ever met a woman at your age, so you dare to come here place?"

Jiang Li didn't talk to her, and asked directly: "What are you waiting for me?"

"I invite you to watch a dance." The woman said with a smile. Seeing Jiang Li's indifferent attitude, she wanted to reach out and tease him even more, "That person even asked me to tell you: He remembered who you were, that night in Sunset Clouds Valley , you were shot in the shoulder by an arrow, right?"

Before she could finish her sentence, Jiang Li's eyes changed abruptly, and he suddenly twisted her arm and clamped her tightly behind her back, making her unable to move.

Unexpectedly, the woman exclaimed in pain, "What are you doing...it hurts! Let me go!"

Jiang Li said coldly, "Who is that person?"

The woman couldn't listen to his words at all, she just cried out in pain, struggling like she was about to cry.

He obviously overreacted, Qi Zhaoxi watched silently, but didn't say anything, only after examining the woman for a while, he wondered: "Hey, this is someone who doesn't know martial arts at all?"

Only then did Jiang Li feel a little moved, he frowned, and finally let go of his hand slowly: "Who are you?

"What kind of person am I in such a place? I just use money to do things, who knows that I will be bullied by you!" As soon as the woman was free, she immediately dodged a few steps away, and stared at him in anger and fear. He, "I don't understand the style, if I had known this, I would not agree to that person!"

Jiang Li calmed down and asked, "Who is that person you're talking about?"

"He didn't tell me, how would I know?"

"Then what does he look like?" Qi Zhaoxi asked.

The woman rubbed her arm that was pinched with red marks, and muttered dissatisfiedly: "What can it look like, aren't men all the same?"

Qi Zhaoxi shook his head and laughed, and gave Jiang Li a helpless look, signaling him to be calm, and then changed the subject: "Forget it, since someone bothered to invite you, let the girl take us to watch the dance."

"You promise not to do it again?" The woman looked suspicious.

Qi Zhaoxi glanced at Jiang Li and said with a smile, "Don't worry, girl, I will apologize to you on his behalf."

Seeing his gentle attitude, the woman gradually calmed down, nodded and said: "Wait a moment."

She sat back on the stool, rearranged her makeup in front of the bronze mirror, and tied up her long hair.The two of them waited patiently, Qi Zhaoxi leaned against the door with folded hands, thought for a while, and suddenly said: "My surname is Liu, what do you call the girl?"

"Just call me Tan Niang." She was picking out hairpins, gesticulating in the mirror, seeming to think that Qi Zhaoxi was gentle and polite, so she showed him the hairpins in her hand, one was a coiled silk silver inlaid with green jade. The hairpin, and the other one is Tassel Jinbuyao, "Help me have a look, which one is better?"

"Of course it's the golden hairpin." Qi Zhaoxi said, "Although the silver hairpin is good, it doesn't match the red light that's everywhere right now, and it's easy to mess up the color."

Tan Niang put the golden step on the hairpin according to her words, tilted her head to appreciate the light of the candle, and then cast a glance at him with great satisfaction: "Young Master Liu has a good eye."

"..." Jiang Li frowned and glanced at him, hesitant to speak.

It happened that Tan Niang picked up the vermilion pen again and asked him what kind of flower tins he likes, Qi Zhaoxi waved his hand, looked sideways at Jiang Li, and said with a smile, "Stop talking, he's upset."

Tanniang saw that the young man looked cold, she turned her head in disappointment, and carefully painted the flowers on his forehead.

Qi Zhaoxi took a step closer to him, shoulders touching.Jiang Li subconsciously wanted to get out of the way, but he was pulled back and looked over in confusion.

Qi Zhaoxi held his wrist, and after touching it, he was more sure that Jiang Li's body was tense.Ever since Tan Niang conveyed the incomprehensible words, he has fallen into this kind of alert state, as if he is not in this fireworks field at this moment, but is involved in the enemy's back and forth with the unspeakable past, Dangerous battlefield.

Qi Zhaoxi sighed softly, and said in a low voice, "Jiang Li, I can help you."

"Help for what? I don't wear a hairpin." Jiang Li blurted out.

Qi Zhaoxi was taken aback when he heard the words, and after recovering, he couldn't help laughing, laughing so much that Jiang Li uncomfortably broke away from his hand, and didn't care, just turned his head to stare at Jiang Li's side face, The language is narrow: "Why are you so sour?"

Jiang Li went too far and ignored him.

Qi Zhaoxi thought over and over that sentence to his heart's content, and then he suppressed his smile and put on a serious expression: "I'm talking about your business."

Jiang Li raised his eyes abruptly. Although his expression was still calm, he could clearly perceive the change in the atmosphere in an instant.He met Qi Zhaoxi's gaze and asked back, "What's the matter with me?"

Qi Zhaoxi didn't dodge, let him watch: "I didn't want to inquire about anything. Do you still remember that we have three chapters of the agreement first? If you don't want to ask, I naturally won't ask."

Jiang Li remained silent, Qi Zhaoxi felt a little uneasy for no reason, he had dealt with all kinds of people in his life, he was used to hypocrisy and arrogance, and he was very good at it, but he had never tried to reveal his sincerity, so he didn't know what to do. Speaking of.

What's more, Jiang Li's eyes are too clean, as if he can look straight into the heart.

After a pause, Qi Zhaoxi said: "I just want to tell you that if you need help, no matter what it is, I will not refuse."

He tried his best to make this sentence seem sincere enough to make people let go of their guard, but it was the first time in his life that even he found it jerky and boring after saying it, and he couldn't laugh or cry.

And Jiang Li stared at him for a while, finally nodded noncommittally, and looked away, as if to hide the inconspicuous smile in his eyes.

Qi Zhaoxi didn't intend to let him go so easily, she bumped her elbow in a hurry, and asked in a low voice, "Aren't you talking?"

Jiang Li pursed his lips and did not answer, but his body relaxed obviously.

At this moment, Tan Niang's makeup was finished, her forehead was painted with bright red flowers, and she put on a gauze robe embroidered with gold thread, which was bright and charming.She saluted them gracefully and said, "You two, please come with me."

So he led the way, walked through the corridor, walked into the small building in the front yard, and stepped into the drunken dream field.