The Demon Soul is Coming

() Youyi City is indeed a famous ancient city in Hezhou, covering a wide area, with a high city and a deep pool.

A river passes through the center of Youyi City. This river is called Butterfly River. Youyi City is located on both sides of the Butterfly River, with two wings like butterflies.

The city is well planned, with three main streets up to six feet wide and seven small streets across, each two feet wide.There are tall buildings all over the city, ladders to come and go, and arrow towers everywhere, equipped with crossbows to prevent flying cavalry from sneaking attacks from high places.

A city within a city in the north is the city of the Chu clan, which is almost the same as a small palace. . .

Liu Sang followed the flow of people into Youyi City, and found out Chu Tiannan's residence along the way.Chu Tiannan is originally a side branch. Although he is a member of the Chu family, he is not eligible to live in Yicheng, but it is relatively close to Yicheng, only a few miles away.

There are two stone lions in front of the door, and the door is painted with red lacquer. Inside the door are two tall buildings with more than ten floors, and there are three ladders passing through the sky.In this era, due to Mohism's exclusive study, the study of architecture is more developed. It is not surprising that such a high-rise building is in a powerful family.

There were two guards guarding the gate of the mansion, Liu Sang stepped forward, reported his background, and asked to see the mansion master.The two gate guards sized him up. Liu Sang thought they would make things difficult for him, but this was obviously overthinking.

A guard hurriedly entered the mansion and came out again, asking him if he had any tokens. Liu Sang presented a jade hairpin, which was an exchange between Lu's family and Chu's family when they were engaged.Not long after, the guard came out again, followed by another person, and led him in. . .

In front of the two tall buildings, there is a hall, surrounded by clear water and rockery, magnificent.Although Chu Tiannan is only a collateral branch of the Chu family, with this mansion alone, one can imagine that it also has an unusual status in the Chu family.

Entering the hall, a middle-aged man wearing brocade robes was waiting there. Unlike Liu Sang's original imagination, although this man was dressed in brocade robes, he was gorgeous.His face is relatively simple, and he is the type that makes people think that people are good and deceitful, but if he is really that deceitful.With his status in the Chu Clan, he couldn't get such a status.

Just looking at his strong muscles and bones, one can know that he must be diligent in practicing exercises and never give up for a day.Although he is not a master-level master, his cultivation is definitely not low.

Liu Sang stepped forward and bowed down directly, choking with sobs.Just about to smear his eyes with the incense ash he had already hidden in his sleeve, and cry for a while, Chu Tiannan had already grabbed him, and was also sad: "Nephew, why did you come? I have been waiting for you for a long time."

On the contrary, Liu Sang was taken aback by his words "waited for a long time", and was a little dazed for a while.

Chu Tiannan sighed: "A few days ago, Uncle Cai of your family had already come here. He told me the tragedy that happened to your family. He said that he escaped with you, but was lost on the road. He went first. I have been worrying about you since I came here." A person beside him said, "Go and call Cai Bo."

Liu Sang's scalp was already numb.In Lu Xiong's information, there is indeed a "Cai Bo", who has been a slave in Lu's family all year round, and has come here to give gifts on behalf of Lu's family many times during festivals, and he is familiar with Chu Tiannan.It's just that after the accident in Lu's family, I thought that Uncle Cai had also suffered misfortune, but he didn't expect to vote here?

The matter had just started, and it was in danger of being exposed immediately, Liu Sang smiled wryly in secret, and was ready to break out of the Chu Mansion.

Not long after, an old man with a tuobei walked up slowly. When he saw Liu Sang, he first rubbed his eyes and looked.

Don't rub it, I'm not your young master.

But the old man suddenly burst into tears, rushed over, fell to the ground and hugged his legs: "Young master, young master... It's really great that you didn't have any accidents, this old slave is finally waiting for you."

Liu Sang was secretly surprised, thinking that Qiu Danyang's disguise technique is really so easy to use?

But Qiu Danyang also said at that time that his disguise technique can only produce a seventy-eight percent similarity at most, and it is impossible to be completely the same. If you are familiar with Lu Xiong, you can still see through it easily.They just relied on the fact that Chu Tiannan hadn't seen Lu Xiong for several years, and the young people changed every year, as long as they were roughly similar.

It's normal to be able to hide it from Chu Tiannan, but this Cai Bo is a slave of the Lu family who grew up watching Lu Xiong, why didn't even he see it?

It seems that Cai Bo is really old and confused.In any case, now that he has reached such a point, Liu Sang naturally had no choice but to continue acting, hugging his head and crying together with the old man.

Seeing that Cai Bo had recognized Lu Xiong, Chu Tiannan naturally had no doubts, but only sighed, thinking that although Lu's family was not as good as the Chu Clan, it was still a well-known family in Caobei Town. Life also.

Seeing Uncle Cai crying, Liu Sang couldn't help but feel a little guilty for cheating such an old man, but suddenly saw that the old man was crying loudly while quietly rubbing incense ash into his eyes, and was immediately speechless.

Old man, do you have enough incense ash... I can lend it to you.

Seeing the old man secretly applying incense ash, Liu Sang already knew in his heart that although his "young master" was a fake, his "Cai Bo" must be real?However, Chu Tiannan should recognize Cai Bo, but even if this Cai Bo is real, he may have some strange origins.

No matter what, Liu Sang stayed with him first, cried with snot and tears, and then helped him up with sobs.Chu Tiannan also comforted them at the side, and then took Liu Sang to visit his wife Tian.When Tian saw this future son-in-law, he was polite, but he was not very happy.

Coming out of the inner hall, a young girl hurriedly walked in front of them.

Chu Tiannan shouted, "Jiaojiao."

The girl turned around impatiently: "What's the matter, Dad?"

Liu Sang looked intently, thinking that she is Chu Jiaojiao?

Chu Jiaojiao was dressed in gorgeous clothes, but she couldn't say how beautiful she was. In terms of appearance, she could only be regarded as average. She wore a jade pendant around her neck and a gold bracelet on her hand. These things did not add to her beauty, but instead It feels a bit tacky.

Chu Tiannan said: "Come here and meet your elder brother Luxiong, you two have been engaged to each other for a long time, and you met each other when you were young..."

Chu Jiaojiao glanced at Liu Sang, snorted contemptuously, and flung her sleeves away.

Chu Tiannan said angrily: "Come back, you, you damn girl..." coughed anxiously.

Liu Sang quickly supported him, patted his back and beat his waist.Chu Tian said angrily: "This girl, this girl..."

Liu Sang thought, this girl is really unruly, no wonder Lu Xiong didn't like her at all even though he only saw her when he was a child, the reason why he ran away from home must be because he didn't want to marry her.

Although the sister-in-law is also unruly, but the unruly sister-in-law still makes some sense.She wouldn't be so angry with her father.

"Nephew, don't blame me," Chu Tiannan sighed, "The girl is getting old. It's always difficult to manage. You just stay here. Your father and I are best friends, and they were kind to me back then, so you will Treat this as your own home.”

Liu Sang pretended to be restrained.He answered "Yes" dully.

Chu Tiannan asked someone to take him to the arranged room. Cai Bo was originally a servant of Lu's family, so he also followed him to take care of him.

Liu Sang was taken by a maid.When they came to one of the rooms on the second floor of the building on the south side, the servant girl said, "Master Lu, what else do you need?" Liu Sang shook his head, and the servant girl backed out.

Liu Sang turned around and saw Cai Bo still standing there with his back hunched.

He coughed lightly and was about to speak when the old man had already bent his waist even lower.Raising his head slightly, his small mouse-like eyes squinted a sharp light, and said with a low smile, "Princess Blood asks me to say hello to Young Master, and please rest assured. Blood Prison Gate will definitely help Young Master." Slowly backed out.

Liu Sang was stunned...

***

Blood prison door?Blood Princess?

Why did the Blood Prison Gate, which had already been destroyed, reappear, and who is the Blood Princess?

Liu Sang couldn't figure it out.

What's more, the blood princess is really skilled, she clearly knew in advance that he would enter the Chu family, otherwise the appearance of "Cai Bo" would be too much of a coincidence, there is no such coincidence in the world.

In the evening, Liu Sang took a bath, changed into clean clothes, and had dinner. Not long after, he was called to see Chu Tiannan.Before entering the hall, I heard Chu Tiannan's father and daughter arguing, first came Chu Jiaojiao's voice: "The beads are not expensive..."

Chu Tiannan said angrily: "More than 100 taels of silver, if you say it's not expensive, it's not expensive? Look at your uncle's family, their annual income is only a few dozen taels..."

Chu Jiaojiao said: "They are them, we are us." Disdainfully said: "I don't know what they have to be proud of, even if uncle was born by a regular wife, he is now worse than a finger of your father. When our family was not doing well, their family didn't look at us seriously, now that our family is famous, why bother with them..."

Chu Tiannan shouted: "Shut up."

Chu Jiaojiao said, "Is what I said wrong?"

Chu Tiannan said: "There is a problem with your attitude..."

Chu Jiaojiao said: "I don't care, anyway, will you buy it or not?"

Chu Tiannan forcibly swallowed his breath, and said: "Forget it, your big brother Luxiong has just arrived, and when you take him around the city, I will buy the beads for you tomorrow."

At this time Liu Sang just entered the hall, Chu Jiaojiao didn't say anything more, just snorted: "I'm going to change clothes." She didn't pay attention to Liu Sang, just left like that.

Chu Tiannan looked at him, and said slowly: "My nephew has just arrived in Youyi City, and I'm not familiar with the place. Let Jiaojiao take you around later. You haven't seen each other for many years, just to get acquainted..."

Before the words were finished, Tian came out from the inner hall, nodded politely to Liu Sang, and said to Chu Tiannan, "Husband, I want to talk to you."

Chu Tiannan asked Liu Sang to wait here, and he and Tian entered the inner hall.Although the two were far away and their voice was low, but Liu Sang's perception was far superior to that of ordinary people, and he secretly gathered the essence in his ears, so he could hear clearly.

Tian said in a low voice: "Jiaojiao doesn't seem to want to marry nephew Xiong. In the afternoon, she asked me to tell you..."

Chu Tiannan snorted coldly: "Marriage matters are originally decided by parents, how can she let her mess around?"

Tian said: "I know that they had a marriage contract since they were young, but at that time, Lu's family was still prominent, but now the family is ruined, and the male nephew fled here alone, without even a piece of land..."

"Don't talk about it," Chu Tiannan sighed, "People hate words without trustworthiness. The Lu family is also a senior official. Back then, we married the Lu family. We were originally high-ranking. At that time, I couldn't get along in my own family. I traveled all over the world with my business, Brother Lu looked up to me and helped me start the business. Later, I returned to the Chu family, relying on the capital I accumulated, and gradually made it to where I am today. Now I made some small fortunes, but the Lu family was ruined. Brother Lu asked his nephew to join me before he died, that is because he trusted me. Back then when Lu’s family was prominent, they never disliked me. Now that nephew Xiong came to vote for me, I despise him instead. When he dies in the future, what face will I have to see him? Brother Lu? Besides, no matter how dilapidated the Lu family is, it is still a noble family when it comes to blood, so it will not be unworthy of our daughter."

Tian said: "This...although it is so, but twisted melons are always not sweet, and they are delicate and arrogant..."

"It's because we didn't teach it well before," Chu Tiannan said helplessly. "We used to have a hard life, but now that we have improved, Jiaojiao can't help but feel complacent. I always like to compare myself with others, but I don't know that Nanyuan may not be able to live in peace for a long time now that the current situation is so chaotic. Today's Lu's family, How do you know that it won't be the Chu family of tomorrow? Now she dislikes others, and when we are also ruined one day, why won't others dislike her? Jiaojiao is so ambitious, but her head is simple, if she marries another vain man , There will be hardships in the future. I think my nephew is honest and responsible. After they get married, I will buy some land for them, as long as they are pragmatic. They can always live in peace and contentment, which is also for her own good."

Tian hesitated and said: "Although the world is in chaos now, the master's family is becoming more and more powerful now, and you are being reused more and more... Why do you always feel that the future is gloomy? Can't sleep..."

Chu Tiannan was silent for a while, and sighed: "The reason why they reuse me is only because of those things, which they don't want to touch. You don't know those things...will be punished."

After all, the Tian family is a woman and Taoist family. Hearing what he said, he couldn't help but feel uneasy and dared not say it again.

Liu Sang wanted to continue listening, but on the other side, Chu Jiaojiao rolled out with a maid, looked at him, snorted in disgust, and said angrily: "Go." Turned around and walked out the door.

Liu Sang sighed, but didn't take it seriously, and just followed behind her.

***

A luxurious carriage is driving on the road.

Liu Sang looked out of the window, Youyi City is indeed a century-old city, the Diejiang River flows continuously, the layout on both sides is uneven, and the tall buildings are simple and majestic.

The biggest difference between the buildings in this life and the ancient Chinese buildings in his previous life is that due to the application and development of Mohist mechanism techniques, various construction tools have been developed, thus building taller city walls and buildings. , not like the Huaxia who only respected Confucianism, who paid too much attention to symbolic things such as "sky round place" and "sitting north facing south". The aesthetic feeling is slightly insufficient, but it is more simple and majestic.

On both sides of the avenue, there are soldiers guarding with spears to maintain order. In some dark alleys, there are desperate or cold eyes flashing from time to time, letting people know that this ancient city is not as it seems on the surface. It's beautiful, but the carriages coming and going on the street turn a blind eye to these gazes, as if they never existed.

The carriage drove into an alley, with relatively new red-painted buildings on both sides, and laughter came from time to time.Entering a compound, they got out of the carriage, and the coachman drove the carriage to a distance and stopped.

A girl called out, "Jiaojiao."

Chu Jiaojiao said, "Sister Ling."

The two hugged each other intimately, and the girl named Sister Ling pulled Chu Jiaojiao and glanced at Liu Sang: "Is he the young master of Lu's family?" Chu Jiaojiao said "Yes".

Liu Sang bowed dully and dealt with it casually.

Sister Ling laughed a few times, pulled Chu Jiaojiao forward, and whispered in her ear: "It seems that she doesn't like talking very much."

Chu Jiaojiao bit her ear: "It's just an idiot."

Sister Ling bent down laughing.

Many plum trees were planted around, and many ribbons were hung. Liu Sang began to figure out that this place was called Meiyuan, and it was originally a place for young masters and ladies from wealthy families to enjoy flowers, drink wine and have fun in winter.Soon a group gathered around them, there were men and women, but there were more women, in groups, the girls were talking and laughing, and most of the men became supporting roles, but among so many people, only Liu Sang He couldn't fit in at all. On the one hand, of course, the "Lu Xiong" he played was originally a nerd and was not good at speech. The main reason was that he was brought by Chu Jiaojiao, and Chu Jiaojiao didn't take him seriously. , to introduce him actively, how can others take him seriously?

A middle-aged man with a smiling face greeted him, and Chu Jiaojiao said, "Boss Jin, is Tianmei Pavilion still available tonight? We'll take care of it."

Boss Jin hurriedly said: "This, someone from the previous episode has already taken care of it..."

Chu Jiao coquettishly said: "I greeted you yesterday."

Boss Jin laughed and said, "It's really a last resort, a last resort."

Chu Jiaojiao snorted, but she also knew that Tianmei Pavilion was the best pavilion in Meiyuan. Sometimes it was not something that could be bought with a lot of money. Meiyuan would usually save it until the end. Want to come, but arrange it in the poorer pavilion, Meiyuan also loses face.

So he muttered a few times in dissatisfaction, and asked for other floors.

Passing through the outer hall, the inside is brightly lit, covering a wide area, and there are plum blossoms of various colors. In the living room, you can drink wine and watch the moon in the high place. No wonder these young masters and ladies like to come here, where they can drink and have fun, but also be arty.

In the Mei Lin, people came and went, Chu Jiao called out suddenly: "Hey, isn't this Miss Jintang?"

On the other side, a woman turned her head and saw Chu Jiaojiao, showing a helpless expression, but she couldn't pretend she didn't see it, so she came up to say hello.Chu Jiaojiao smiled and said, "It turns out that my cousin also has spare money to come here to have fun."

The woman smiled far-fetchedly: "Just following a few friends and walking around."

Chu Jiaojiao smiled and said: "So that's how it is. Younger sister is inviting a few friends upstairs for a drink. Can my cousin go sit down?"

The woman said: "No need."

Chu Jiaojiao took her arm, and said kindly: "Just go sit down, anyway, I'm not short of my cousin, it's rare to see my cousin here." The woman declined again.

Chu Jiaojiao said: "By the way, is Miss Mingtiantang free? The jadeite beads that my little sister ordered from the Longguang Pavilion are about to arrive. Cousin can help me see if they are beautiful enough. There is also the mirror from last time. Cousin You might as well use it. Last time I saw my cousin liked it, but I didn’t like it very much. I thought it was too small. Someone ordered a bigger and better one from Ningyun City, and it arrived yesterday. , the small one, my cousin just takes it."

The woman whispered: "Thank you." She didn't want to say any more and hurried away.

As soon as she left, Chu Jiaojiao pursed her lips and said disdainfully, "What is it?" and called her friends to move forward.

Liu Sang shook his head, and asked about the maid who was following Chu Jiaojiao: "Who was that cousin Jin just now..."

The servant girl said with a blank face: "It belongs to the old man's house." She just walked forward like this.

Liu Sang shook his head helplessly, what kind of master really is, there is what kind of maid.I can't help but miss my own Xiaohuang... My Xiaohuang is better, I can bully her however I want, and I can even take off her clothes and let her pose in various poses...

... (To be continued.)