The crescent moon was lying on the railing of the Zhanyue Pavilion, her chubby arms around a rag doll whose clothes were a little whitish, looking up at the thin white crescent moon in the sky, and her legs stretched out from the gap in the railing, dangling in mid-air.
"The head of the green dragon, the white dragon tail, the child begs for joy on a rainy day.
The wheat is browned, and the dragon king is started.
Big down and small down, the first one to eighteen, Mahasattva. ” After singing this nursery rhyme praying for rain, she saw a dark cloud climb up the edge of the moon, like a slender finger, caressing the dark yellow moonlight.
The crescent moon retracted her legs and knelt down on the pavilion reverently, "Lord Dragon King, the crescent moon begs you, please sneeze a few more times, come a few more rains, don't bear it, it's very uncomfortable if you can't sneeze."
After speaking, she closed her eyes, clipped the rag doll in the crook of her arm, and folded her hands and bowed to the sky a few times.
Before she could open her eyes, a gust of cold wind rushed in from outside the Zhanyue Pavilion, blowing her hair scattered around her ears and floating back, and the crescent moon rushed to the wind, opening her eyes slightly a slit, and she saw that the crescent moon in the sky was gone, replaced by clouds in the sky, black and gray, flowing and rolling, as if there was a giant dragon hiding inside.
Seeing this, she grinned, revealing her sparse little white teeth, "Lord Dragon King has manifested, Lord Dragon King has become immortal." ” Her cheerful voice was suppressed by a thunderclap that rolled and resounded across the sky.
The crescent moon looked at the night sky, her lips slightly opened, and a sense of awe suddenly rose in her heart.
In a trance, she saw something flickering in the clouds, black, nay, a few, occasionally peeking out of a gap in the dark clouds, and quickly disappearing.
I could only see a few black shadows flickering up and down behind the clouds, slowly moving towards the top of the Moon Pavilion.
The crescent moon didn't dare to look away, and her head desperately stretched out, because she had never seen such a strange scene since she was a child, but the cloud slowly drifted out of her sight and moved to the top of the Moon Pavilion.
The crescent moon came down from the pavilion seat, turned around and ran towards the pavilion, just ran two steps, but heard a few strange sounds from the top of the pavilion, as if something fell from the sky and smashed to the top of the pavilion.
A fishy smell suddenly covered Zhanyue Pavilion, with a hint of stench, somewhat like spoiled beet leaves or rotten flesh.
Crescent stood still, she held her breath, her eyes slightly upward, as she heard another voice coming from the top of the pavilion.
"Rustling, rustling" is like someone walking lightly down the tiles.
"Go down."
The crescent moon tightened in her heart, and below, isn't it just herself?
So what's that stuff up there?
How can you walk on a light and thin tile and make only this inaudible sound?
Her heart was beating with the footsteps, and she could hear them go from the center to the edge, and if she took a step forward, they would fall from above.
But at this moment, the sound died down, and the eyes of the crescent moon turned from left to right, and back from right, looking next to each other on the six sharp corners of the pavilion.
Suddenly, her eyes widened, and fear was finally released, and she opened her mouth wide and let out a long scream, but the thunder was in full swing, sweeping away all her voice, and devouring nothing.
In the distance, there was a thunderclap in the sky, and dark clouds followed closely behind, dyeing half of the sky gray and black.
Shi Fei patted the horse's mane lightly, and shouted to the old man in front of him who led the way, "Old man, seeing that the heavy rain is coming, why don't we find a place to shelter from the rain, and then continue to hurry." ” The capable old man wearing straw sandals and holding a wooden stick looked back and smiled, piling up wrinkles on his face, "Official, don't worry, this rain can't get up, the weather has been very strange since the beginning of summer this year, there is only thunder and no rain every day, after the clouds pass, the sky will be clear, and half of the rain can't fall, I have lived here for decades, and I have never seen such a strange thing." ” Hearing him say this, the two brothers looked up at the same time, the sky was even more gloomy, and the dark clouds like iron had already occupied every inch of the sky, connecting with the peaks around them, besieging them like iron cages.
Shi Fei wrinkled his nose and sniffed in the air, "It's weird, I really can't smell the rain, but there is another strange smell, Shi Fei, do you smell it?"
” Shi Jin nodded, "It's fishy and smelly, I have been smelling it for a long time, thinking that the beasts in the mountains died near here, and the corpses stinked, so there was such a smell."
As he spoke, he glanced at the old man in front of him again, "Old man, since there is no rain, let's hurry up." ” The old man let out a "hey", pulled off the dirt from the soles of his shoes, and led the two of them on the winding path.
The group walked on the rugged mountain road for about half an hour and came to a fork in the road.
There are two roads in front of you, one stretches up along the mountain, and as far as the eye can see, it is bumpy and steep, only a few feet wide, and below is a cliff of ten thousand feet.
The other road is a deep valley located to the southwest of several people, although it is covered with a layer of mist, but from this direction, you can see that the valley floor is wide and flat, and gravel is rare.
"Old man, which of these two roads leads to Zuoquan?"
Shi Fei asked.
The old man smashed his dry lips, "These two roads are both to the left." ” "All here?"
Shi Jin raised his voice, "Then what else is there to choose, let's go through this valley, this is much easier to walk than that mountain road." ” As he spoke, he took the reins of the horse and wanted to walk down, but before he took two steps, his right shoulder was held down by Shi Fei, "Don't worry, listen to what the old man has to say." ” The old man glanced at Shi Fei with admiration, "The official is careful, and he can see that there is a difference at a glance, and I won't tell you that although that valley is easy to walk, the villagers in this vicinity have never dared to pass through here." ” "It's such a good road, why don't you dare to take it, is there a beast in ambush inside?"
Shi Jin was suspicious.
"There are no wild beasts, but everyone says that in this valley, there are often Yin soldiers passing by."
As he said this, a sudden gust of wind blew in the valley, bringing the mist in the valley to several people.
Seeing this, the old man shuddered, and hurriedly took out three incense sticks from his baggage, lit them with a fire fold, inserted them on the land in front of him, and bowed respectfully in the direction of the valley, "We puppets passed by this road, and we didn't dare to stay for a long time, if it disturbed your purity, please forgive me." ”