The arrival of the envoys from the Northern Kingdom in the imperial city naturally caused a certain shock in some circles.
Zheng Xiu also smelled something different from the past.
Among the people, the Northern Barbarians have an almost demonized image.
Some people say that barbarians drink hair and blood and dare to eat human flesh;
Some people say that the barbarian has three heads and six arms, and his head is covered with eyes;
Some people say that barbarians can tear open a cow alive, pour the blood on the body to bathe, and at the same time gnaw the original cow intestines inside;
Some people say that wherever the barbarians pass by, no chickens or dogs will be left behind. They will also take the women of Daqian back to the wilderness and give birth to monkeys for all the barbarians.
It’s not the fault of the people’s ignorance, it’s just that over the years, the Northern Barbarians have repeatedly invaded, and there have been several wars between the two countries. Many people have suffered terribly, and they have an instinctive fear of the barbarians.
This kind of fear is just like an unarmed mortal being afraid of a tiger. It will be difficult to get rid of for a while unless the mortal becomes stronger. For example, Zheng Xiu now, if he hears a tiger, he will only excitedly take out his big treasure and rush forward to have a picnic.
"Why is Master so good at eating tonight?"
Chef He was busy in the kitchen all afternoon and made more than thirty dishes.
After going up a few times, Chef He was surprised to find that the plates on the table were empty, and all the generous dishes went into King Chi's stomach.
He even walked around the table suspiciously, fearing whether King Chi secretly hid the dishes somewhere else, or maybe King Chi was a master of romance and hid others under the table to play while eating.
In the end, what disappointed Chef He was that the Red King was really alone and devoured all his dishes.
Zheng Xiu had a full meal at his Xiangmanlou. He watched from the attic as the team drifted away and disappeared at the end of the street. When the sky darkened, Zheng Xiu blew a whistle towards Qing Shisan downstairs to let him know. He didn't have to wait anymore, so he jumped down from the tall building, spread his wings, and under the cover of the night, Zheng Xiu flew towards the Red Prince's Mansion like an ink-colored stream of light.
The strange animal patterns on his chest spread all over his body, and the ferocious claw marks were beating on his chest. As the autumn night wind blew on his face, the inexplicable restlessness in Zheng Xiu's heart gradually calmed down.
As soon as the "mysterious birdman" approached the Red Prince's Mansion, he caused chaos among his brothers. They didn't know that the "Birdman" was the Red King at first, until the Red King fell to the ground and dispersed in his half-demon form. A group of assassins quietly touched him in the dark, and when they almost killed him, they saw the Red King standing in the yard, looking at each other and smiling. , left secretly.
"I asked why this birdman is so majestic. It turns out that this birdman was transformed by the master!"
The assassins were secretly flattering the Red King.
Zheng Xiu naturally heard the rustling movement in the darkness, but he ignored it, touched his chest and returned to his room with a sullen face.
He took off layers of outer clothing, put on clean inner lining, sat cross-legged on the pillow, calmed his mind, and entered the prison of his heart.
This time it took longer than usual to enter the mental prison. Zheng Xiu did not sit on the game table after entering the mental prison. In fact, Zheng Xiu had nothing to do when he came in. He stood by the decaying iron gate and watched the mist rise and fall outside the prison. The mist as deep as the sea did not make Zheng Xiu feel confused or afraid. This claustrophobic familiar scenery On the contrary, Zheng Xiu's restless mood gradually calmed down.
"Am I addicted to being locked up?"
It turns out that the environment of the cell can bring you a sense of safety and comfort.
When Zheng Xiu noticed this, he was speechless and laughed at himself, but he quickly accepted the fact.
His [prisoner], the source of his abilities, and all his derivatives come from the "prison". It is normal to have a sense of security and dependence on the prison cell.
Zheng Xiu breathed out loudly.
He suddenly wanted to call Qing Shisan and take a puff of his old cigarette.
I don't know how long it took, but when Zheng Xiu opened his eyes, there was another person in the room.
Her long hair is tied behind her head, and she is dressed in black. The black clothes and the white bare feet are two distinct colors that make her look particularly eye-catching. Her round toes are slightly upturned, as white as suet, as if they are glowing with light. . Feng Bei was still dressed in a familiar outfit, and she sneaked into Zheng Xiu's room at some point. She was sitting on the table in the room with her legs crossed, a faint worry on her face, and she was watching Zheng Xiu quietly.
"How did you come?"
Zheng Xiu was stunned, his expression was natural, he rubbed his hands with exaggerated movements and said with a smile: "The marriage has not yet been decided, and you are going to do night raids? You are truly worthy of you, madam!"
Feng Bei smiled slightly, opened his arms, and looked like he was letting you take whatever he wanted.
Zheng Xiu was slightly startled, and Feng Bei jumped off the table, stepped forward and gently held Zheng Xiu's head in his arms.
Zheng Xiu suddenly became quiet, breathing long and greedily smelling the scent of Feng Bei's body.
She had just taken a shower and smelled of orchids. It seems that he is secretly competing with certain people.
The two hugged each other for a long time, holding each other quietly.
After holding it down for so long, Zheng Xiu almost couldn't breathe. He pulled out his head. Zheng Xiu looked up at Feng Bei's worried face and asked, "Why are you here?"
Feng Bei said softly: "The sound of the wind beside you is particularly noisy tonight."
Zheng Xiu didn't answer.
Feng Bei smiled faintly: "It's funny, but it's 'she' who told me that you are uneasy." She closed her eyes and listened, as if she was listening to Zheng Xiu's inner voice. After a while, Feng Bei again Said: "I heard the sound of weapons clashing."
Zheng Xiu comforted Feng Bei in turn: "It's you, the other you."
Feng Bei smiled and said nothing.
"Huh~"
Zheng Xiu sat on the bed and patted the side. Feng Bei understood and sat on it, and they sat side by side.
After being quiet for a while, Zheng Xiu said calmly: "I always thought I let it go."
"After all, dad has been dead for twenty years."
"My childhood memories have become blurry, and I also find it funny. The impression I have of my father comes more from other people's boasts, a few words in history books, or from teahouse storytellers vividly telling the story of General Zheng Haoran. .”
Zheng Xiu lowered his head, covering his chest and frowning.
He was talking to Feng Bei in an unusually calm tone, as if he was telling a story.
"My father's death has changed my life. I should have enjoyed the pampering of my parents and been born with a silver spoon in my mouth. If my father had returned victorious twenty years ago, I would be the second generation now. My father's achievements are enough Let me run rampant in Daqian and be a dandy with peace of mind."
"Actually, in the early years when I was going through hardships and being bullied, I thought many times that if my father hadn't died, these damn people wouldn't have dared to bully our two siblings."
"If dad hadn't died, I would have been able to get along with the young general now. When the Dragon King was angry, three thousand soldiers carried buckets and ransacked the house. It was no joke. I dared to play like this when I was so arrogant."
Feng Bei touched Zheng Xiu's head. She knew Zheng Xiu. Although this sentence sounded a bit childish, if Zheng Xiu was really a young general, it was very possible that he could do such a thing.
But what is Dragon King?
Feng Bei was puzzled.
She heard the arrogant voice in Zheng Xiu's heart.
Zheng Xiu grinned: "But the moment I saw the barbarian enter the city today, I suddenly realized that I had been hiding something in my heart."
"It's a lot of tangled emotions."
"Together with the memory of us living in Sun Chan Valley two hundred years ago, their voices, and the fact that they were taken away by Chang An... I can't forget those wailings and the blood."
"Maybe these actually have nothing to do with me, and everything is fake. But when I looked at Manzi with my own eyes, these emotions were all mixed together."
Zheng Xiu smiled and put his hands together, looking helplessly at Feng Bei: "Reason and emotion are really two different things. I said it didn't matter, but these emotions still fermented in my mind instantly and became a kind of name. For... the emotion of hate.”
Zheng Xiu let go of his hands: "Bang."
"It just exploded."
"I should be lying in my money nest with peace of mind, counting money, and shouldn't think too much about these hatreds between the country and the family." Zheng Xiu sighed: "But my mind started to move on its own."
"No!"
Zheng Xiu finished telling Feng Bei the reason why he was inexplicably irritable tonight, and he felt much better. Sure enough, it's good to have people around you who can talk, and you don't need to hide anything in your heart.
After saying that, Zheng Xiu jumped up from the bed, put on his coat and walked out.
Feng Bei was completely stunned in the room and asked blankly: "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to offer daddy some incense!"
Zheng Xiu hurriedly walked out and disappeared in a flash.
Feng Bei stayed in the room and couldn't laugh or cry.
When Zheng Xiu came back, the people in the room went to leave some incense, but Feng Bei was so shy that he had already left quietly.
…
After the Northern Barbarian envoys entered the city, they entered into a pleasant negotiation session.
According to the process, the negotiation process can last as short as three to five days, and as long as ten days and a half.
Zheng Xiu didn't take this matter to heart. On the third day, when he was about to go out for a walk and squeezed the road, a snake blocked the door of Prince Chi's Mansion.
Seeing a petite woman curled up on the wall like a snake, motionless, as if hunting, Zheng Xiu couldn't laugh or cry, and reprimanded him with a straight face: "In broad daylight, how do you behave like a Taoist woman squatting on the wall of the Red Prince's Mansion? If people see it, won't it ruin my reputation as the Red King?"
The snake flattened its mouth, jumped down, narrowed its eyes into vertical pupils, and asked: "Where is my brother?"
She is still looking for her brother.
Snake explained hesitantly: "Don't think too much. Snake promised my brother to help him practice!"
Ye warned her not to trespass into the Red Prince's Mansion. The snake was very obedient and didn't trespass, so he squatted on the wall to guard.
As long as you don't step over the wall, it's not considered trespassing.
Many assassins on the roof were carrying melon seeds from fruit bowls and secretly eating melons. In fact, they had already seen someone squatting on the wall. She also recognized that Snake was a member of the Disaster Prevention Bureau. She was now wearing the "Akatsuki Liuyun Uniform" sewn by Xi'er, so she recognized him at a glance.
If the person leaning against the wall is a man, Brotherhood assassins may come out to drive him away and make him squat somewhere else where it's cooler. But the person squatting on the wall is a woman... This is difficult to drive away. What if it's someone from Red King? After staying in the Red Prince's Mansion for a long time, the assassins have become more humane and sophisticated in their dealings. As long as they don't violate the principles, everything else is easy to say.
Zheng Xiu looked at the snake with strange eyes.
Secret passage is not good.
This snake...could he be in love with "Zheng E" who is similar in age?
This is difficult to do.
Do you want to have a showdown with this little girl?
How should I put it?
Isn’t the twisted melon sweet?
No, what if what she wants is to quench her thirst.
Zheng E is destined to be like a wind. The wind will pass through without leaving a trace. Will it pass through your life?
No, no, it smells like Ximen's sorrow, it's too overwhelming.
My cat doesn't like the smell of snakes?
Is it really okay to blame cats like this?
After thinking about it, Zheng Xiu decided to dump him like this.
While going back and entering the dungeon, Zheng Xiu breathed an inexplicable sigh of relief when he saw no one in the dungeon. Soon, the trumpet came online, and the young man walked out of the dungeon and led the snake into the Red Prince's Mansion.
On the roof, a group of brothers watched helplessly as the Red King used some kind of magic to turn himself into a twelve or thirteen year old. He took the girl's hand and walked inside. He immediately said that he knew how to play.
Some gossips even took the initiative to help, to see where Mrs. Fengbei and several other family members were now, whether they would bump into each other on the road, and whether they would be caught. At this time, they reminded the pony whether the Red King would make a decision. Great contributions and so on.
Snake's face was flushed, and she suddenly noticed that her face was getting hot, and she groaned.
Zheng Xiu suddenly noticed that something was wrong with his touch. When he looked back, he found that the snake was covered with a light layer of silver scales. Although she was wearing a veil, Zheng Xiu could still picture the snake's face in his mind.
"Why are you transforming when you have nothing to do?"
Snake snorted coldly: "Do you want to take care of it?"
The boy shrugged and took the snake to the study.
The study was where he used to work. No one would enter without his permission. This was a rule.
After closing the door tightly, Zheng Xiu took off some of his clothes to reveal his white neck, turned sideways to the snake and said, "Hurry up and take a bite."
The snake looked at the smooth and white neck and subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva. For some reason, she looked at the neck and secreted a large amount of saliva from her mouth - commonly known as snake saliva, which contains highly toxic substances.
"Mouth, mouth, mouth what?" Snake stammered.
"Bite! Why are you standing there stunned?"
The [Physique] incarnated as a villain has been soaked in a poisonous bath for several months, and finally got stuck at the "thirty-nine" level, unable to get up. He had developed resistance to Ji Hongou's toxin. Since the snake came to his door, Zheng Xiu would not let go of this rare opportunity.
The snake made a "gudong" sound in its mouth, slapped a small brocade box on the table with a cold face, and said: "I only have one medicine that can detoxify snake venom, but I haven't tried it. I don't know if it can completely detoxify you. Are you sure you want it?" Let me bite, bite, take a bite?”
The young man said: "I am immune to all poisons, don't worry."
The snake stepped forward and held Zheng Xiu's hair with one hand. She glanced at Zheng Xiu secretly. When she found that Zheng Xiu had turned his head and could not see his face, the snake breathed a sigh of relief, took off the veil and stretched out its fangs. , the tip of the tooth was glowing with cold light, and he pressed it.
The snake's other hand gently stroked the skin on Zheng Xiu's neck. The cold touch made Zheng Xiu feel that the snake's mouth had an inexplicable "ceremonial" feeling.
What he didn't know was that snakes seemed to have an unwritten habit. When a male snake and a female snake intertwined and expressed their love for each other, there was a link of "exchanging snake saliva". You poison me, I poison you. You, only if the two snakes have good salivation and can poison each other to death, can you have a chance to become a snake couple.
The snake's ritualistic movements at this moment were obviously because she had thought of this. She felt that the skin under the snake's scales was as hot as fire. This was a great irritation to a cold-blooded animal and it started to burn.
"Hmm~"
The tip of his forked tongue was curled and pressed against Zheng Xiu's neck. The cold and smooth touch at that moment made Zheng Xiu's whole body tremble and his pores stretched. He never expected that being bitten by a snake would be so comforting.
When his neck went numb, Zheng Xiu didn't feel any pain at all. Instead, he felt like he was in heaven.
thump.
Zheng Xiu's vision went dark and he fell to the ground.
[You tried your best to resist the snake venom regardless of life and death, and your physique gained a little experience. 】
[You continue to resist the 'Lingering Snake Venom', and your physique has been greatly improved. 】
Lingering snake venom? What the hell? Snake venom variant?
Zheng Xiu, whose eyes were darkened, suddenly flashed a strange line of text in front of his eyes.
[Physique plus one. 】
broken!
[Physique] is upgraded to [Resistance] in an exceptional way.
[You successfully comprehended the 'Purified Glass Body'! 】
(End of chapter)
