chewing dragon

Chapter 127

Before Qi Jingzhi turned his head back, a fresh and elegant fragrance had penetrated into his nostrils one step at a time, refreshing and refreshing.

His heart skipped a beat, and he immediately turned around to look, and saw a girl in green shirt standing in front of him, dressed somewhat similarly to the maidservants of the Jiao Mansion, her complexion was fair, and her appearance could barely be called delicate.

Qi Jingzhi couldn't help being startled, and then carefully looked at the other person's eyebrows and eyes, only to feel that every part seemed familiar, but together they became strange, very different from the person he thought of just a moment ago.

He frowned, and quietly opened his eyebrows and heart openings, only to see that the girl's face in front of him changed again and again, as if separated by a layer of cloud and mist, he could not see clearly all the time, and fell in his heart like wind passing without a trace, water passing without a trace , leaving no impression.

In this way, even if Qi Jingzhi is dissatisfied with respecting others, he has to admit that Miss Mu's methods are really mysterious and incomprehensible, which is beyond the reach of her current self.

He suppressed the surprise in his heart, and praised sincerely: "Girl, you are so clever! You obviously only met a few days ago, but you can't meet me face to face."

"Hey, why do you think it's me?" The green shirt girl was a little surprised.

She looked around and saw that the guests around her had dispersed, and Jiao Po, Yuan Shaojun and others had also entered the main hall, so she asked softly, "Although I'm just covering it up a bit, it's not like everyone can see through it." Yes, I don't know where I missed a loophole?"

Regarding her question, Qi Jingzhi didn't rush to answer, but hesitated a little, and asked back: "How do you see through my appearance now?"

"What's so difficult? Not to mention the knife on your back. Although the scabbard is ordinary and not very eye-catching, I only saw it a few days ago, and I still have some impressions..."

The girl in the green shirt said, and suddenly raised her hand and tapped her nose a few times: "It's just the scent of pine and cypress on your body, which can be smelled from a long distance, I don't think it's hard not to see through it!"

After saying these few words, she paused suddenly, moved her fingers away from her face, which had lost its nine-point appearance, and pointed to Qi Jingzhi's light blue faceless strange face, and couldn't help smiling.

At this dragon mother's birthday banquet, the two unexpectedly showed their faces to others by coincidence, and their conversations were very tacitly addressed only by you and me, without even mentioning the origin of each other's first and last names, which really made the girl laugh.

Qi Jingzhi immediately understood the meaning of the other party, and couldn't help but smile knowingly, but the smile was first covered by the spirit mask for seven parts, and the remaining three parts were also distorted, becoming eerie and weird.

The girl in the green shirt frowned slightly, and her tone showed full of disgust: "Your face is really ugly!"

Hearing such a sentence suddenly, Qi Jingzhi couldn't help being stunned, and the smile immediately froze on his face, making it even more weird and ferocious.

Since he got the soul mask, it was the first time he was evaluated like this.

The girl in the green shirt also seemed to realize that she was getting carried away, coughed lightly, and said with a straight face: "I'm really sorry, I was so quick to speak out what was on my mind!"

After finishing speaking, she couldn't help but smile slyly again, repeating the old saying: "Then tell me, what's the flaw in me?"

Qi Jingzhi naturally doesn't care about such trivial matters, not to mention that the other party is telling the truth, and the spirit mask is indeed ugly.

He thought of the scent of pine and cypress wood mentioned by the girl in green shirt just now, and he couldn't help being surprised.Even he himself, unless he is refining and swallowing the spirit of pine, cypress and Jiamu, he can't smell the fragrance.

Although not long ago, the green python named Shengqing also said that Qi Jingzhi's breath was fresh, with a faint fragrance of pines and cypresses, but it is a spiritual creature in the mountains, and he is familiar with all kinds of smells in the mountains and forests, so it's okay to be able to distinguish them. Thinking that the girl in front of me can smell it, and it seems to be much more sensitive than Shengqing.

Could it be because of "Wind in the Pines of Myriad Valleys"?

Thinking of this, Qi Jingzhi stretched out his hand to press the position of his nasal bone, and said as tactfully as possible: "The girl can recognize me because of smelling people. It just so happens that I can recognize the girl, and it's the same. "

The girl in the green shirt was stunned, and a blush suddenly appeared on her face.

She raised her forearm, put the sleeves in front of her nose and sniffed, her expression turned suspicious again, and she raised her eyes and asked, "My clothes have not been incensed, what kind of smell do you smell?"

Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi really thought about it carefully, half reminiscing and half mulling over his words, and said: "There is a swamp that accumulates water all the year round in the back of my house, and there are several lotus plants growing in it, which will bloom every summer. .”

"These lotus flowers will emit a faint fragrance after they bloom, and you can only smell it when you get close. I have only smelled it a few times by accident, so I didn't remember it immediately before. Now I can distinguish it carefully. The fragrance is quite similar to the fragrance on the girl's body."

Hearing this, the girl in the green shirt put down her sleeves, and most of the suspicion on her face had dissipated.

She took a deep look at Qi Jing, and in her eyes were the complex emotions of a teenager who seemed to have known each other before, six points of surprise, three points of joy, and one point of undisguised embarrassment.

Although Qi Jingzhi grew up in the mountains, he also knew that girls should not be judged casually, so he coughed lightly when he saw this, and said curiously: "Just now, under the eyes of everyone, that short fat man was broken into five bodies one after another by Yuan Shaojun. It's scattered, its aura is gone, and there's no qi remaining, why do you say it's not really dead?"

Hearing this, the green-shirted girl's eyes widened, and all the emotions in her eyes were restrained: "If you don't believe me, I'll go and find out its real body. You can tell if it's true or not!"

After she put down these words, she turned around and left, quite resolute and capable.

Qi Jingzhi only thought that the girl was angry, so he hurriedly followed her, and said in a low voice, "It's not that I don't believe you, but I didn't expect that idiot to hide all the people in the courtyard, not even that Young Master Jiang." Can see the slightest flaw."

The girl in the green shirt paused, glanced sideways at the faceless man beside her, with a half-smile on her face: "I see that you are not convinced, if you still don't believe it, you can turn around and go back to drink wine and enjoy singing and dancing. Why go out with me on an empty stomach to eat and drink?"

In fact, when he thought of Grandpa just now, Qi Jingzhi already had the idea of ​​letting go, and immediately shook his head and said: "There are many children in the Jiao family, but I only know one, so there is no need to rush to curry favor. It's just because I have A friend lost his life because of this birthday banquet, so I came here to take a look at him, now that my wish is fulfilled, I should have left."

He paused, then asked again: "That short fat man made a fuss, but since he has delivered the congratulatory card, he must have already left by now, we have been delayed for a long time, can we still catch up?"

The girl in the green shirt knew that Qi Jingzhi didn't want to talk more about that friend, so she deliberately changed the subject, nodded immediately, and said following his words: "It's not that you didn't see it just now, that idiot moved very slowly. , Just such a short time, forgive it, it can't run very far!"

However, as she said this, her pace suddenly accelerated.

Qi Jingzhi also started to walk quickly, curious about what kind of magical method the girl would use to track and locate her.

Unexpectedly, until the two of them went south all the way out of the main gate of Jiao Mansion, the green-shirted girl showed no signs of using the mysterious technique, instead she turned her attention to the long horse-holding post on the west side of the gate.

Qi Jingzhi followed her gaze and saw that these horse-holding posts were all square columns made of bluestone.

The tops of the stone pillars are all carved into the appearance of a soldier riding a lion. Each soldier and each lion has a different posture and is lifelike.

At this time, almost all the stone lions have horse bridles tied to their legs, except for the horse tethering post on the westernmost side which is empty.

The girl in the green shirt was also aiming at that one, and immediately walked over.

Qi Jingzhi followed behind her, silently comparing this tethering post that no one cares about with the ones next to it, and soon found the difference.

Among these statues of warriors riding lions, almost all the warriors and lions are facing towards the main gate of Jiao Mansion, either with respectful faces, smiling, or beaming smiles, like welcoming guests.

Only the one man and one lion on the horse-hitching post in the westernmost stand alone, almost facing away from the south-facing main entrance of Jiao Mansion, and all facing southwest. Among them, the soldier drew his sword out of its sheath, two The eyes are wide open in a look of anger, and the lion under its crotch is also showing its fangs and showing a fierce look.

Qi Jingzhi couldn't help turning his head and looked towards the southwest where they were glaring, but what he saw were ordinary streets and houses, no different from other places.

"Don't worry about it, this is just the most common method of suppressing evil spirits. The gate to the south is the Li position, and its southwest is the Kun position, which corresponds to Yin, and the five elements belong to water, which is the second evil of the six evil spirits. According to the azimuth talisman method It is not unusual to have such arrangements outside the courtyards of famous families."

The girl in the green shirt explained concisely: "This one looks like a horse tethering post, but it's actually an anti-evil post, and it can't be used to tie a horse. There should be many such arrangements inside and outside the Jiao Mansion."

After hearing her explanation, Qi Jingzhi was confused: "Since there are so many arrangements, how did the messenger of the God of Mount Dai sneak in without warning?"

The girl in the green shirt just smiled when she heard the words: "If it were another spirit, it would be extremely difficult. But if my guess is right, that idiot before is a mountain bone man with extremely pure blood. It has to bypass It is not difficult for this anti-evil stake to hook up to those old bluestone troughs in the stables of the Jiao Mansion."

"Shan Gulang?"

Qi Jingzhi read it softly, and immediately asked, "What kind of monster is Shan Gulang?"

The green-shirted girl looked at the stone carving on the top of the evil-suppressing pile, and explained casually: "The so-called mountain is made of stone, and the stone is the spirit of the earth. Shangulang is an extremely rare stone spirit in the mountains. You can Think of it as the backbone of a mountain."

"If you want to conceive successfully, you have requirements for your own qualifications, as well as the mountain and soil quality. If it wasn't for the god of Daishan who took the lead, after a few years, that idiot might not have the opportunity to ascend to the throne of Daishan."

She paused, and then added: "Most of the stone spirits in the world have the surname Shi, and they are all related to relatives, and Shangulang is a very special kind among them. Even stone spirits are not counted, so naturally they can't stop it."

"As for the Great Jiang Shaojun, at first glance, he is a person with eyes above the top, and he is also a dragon species in the water palace. He must have never paid attention to the little stone spirits in the mountains. I don't know, but this is not unusual. Hmm...Guests Maybe some of them know about it, but they won't be so stupid as to point it out face to face, and lose the face of that young master and even Dajiangshuifu."

"Stone spirit in the mountains? Most of them have the surname Shi?" Qi Jingzhi remembered the appearance and behavior of the short and fat people before, and he was [-]% convinced in his heart.

He couldn't help thinking to himself: "That idiot is obviously mentally incompetent and can't even speak out, but he was entrusted with the task of envoy. He might be a relative of that three-eyed stone puppet..."

"That's right, all the stone spirits I've met have the surname Shi."

The girl in green shirt didn't know what was going on in Qi Jingzhi's mind, she pointed to the unsheathed stone sword in the soldier's hand in front of her and said, "Look, the so-called family inheritance is often reflected in these inconspicuous place."

As far as Qi Jingzhi could see, he saw four inconspicuous small characters engraved on the body of the stone sword: "The diversity of stones."

I heard the girl explain: "This person should be the ancestor that the stone spirits of the Qi State respected together. If its name is engraved here, there is no need to mention the evil spirits. It's a mistake. But that idiot is obviously a heartless person, and he really didn't take his ancestors seriously."

Qi Jingzhi couldn't help being surprised when he heard the words: "Is this 'Stone of Fenru' actually a name? It's really weird!"

The girl in the green shirt nodded lightly: "From what I've seen in my travels, the people in some places in Qi will follow suit. If they don't have the money to hire craftsmen to carve stone statues, they will take the next best thing. They will set up statues at the entrance of the village, at the entrance of the street, at the entrance of the alley, and even at the door of their own house." On the next piece of bluestone, also engrave these four characters on it. They only know that this can ward off evil spirits and suppress evil spirits, but most of them know it but don’t know why.”

Qi Jingzhi was suddenly stunned, nodded and said: "Although I have never seen such a custom of standing stones and engraving characters in Linzhou, I have seen some wealthy households build small pieces of bluestone into the wall, and they can also engrave words on the stone surface, but it is not the custom of stone carving." "Various", but the five words "General Shi is here". But who is this General Shi, there are different opinions and no consensus."

In fact, when Qi Jingzhi thinks about it now, Master Meng must have known about it, but when he asked his master about it back then, he was reprimanded: "What are you doing with these strange powers? Ghosts and gods stay away?"

"Well, it's not too bad. Maybe this Shi Zhifen once served as a general of the Qi country."

The girl in the green shirt said, suddenly raised her right hand, plucked the strings with her slender fingers out of thin air, and the originally dim and chaotic spiritual lights on the evil spirit suppression stake separated and became clear.

Qi Jingzhi, who had already secretly opened his spiritual aperture, was a little amazed to see it.

In fact, the "Secret Technique of Qiuqi Riding Clouds" also has a similar effect, but he has not practiced it for a long time, so he definitely cannot achieve such subtleties.

The girl in the green shirt identified it briefly, pointed to a blue aura silk thread tied to the evil-suppressing stake and said: "Except for those that have penetrated into the Jiao Mansion, only the breath here is the freshest. Let's follow the vine and find it naturally." That idiot!"

Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi focused his attention and felt that the aura on the silk thread was exactly the same as that short and fat Shan Gulang in the green scarf and cloth robe, so he couldn't help but nodded slightly.

He looked towards the other end of the silk thread floating in the air, and it pointed to the southwest, which is the second evil position of the six evil spirits corresponding to the so-called south-facing gate.

Seeing him nodding, the girl in green shirt immediately stretched out her hand to grab the blue silk thread and pulled it lightly.

I saw the silk thread suddenly straightened, and then it seemed that something pulled back at the other end, and the ethereal silk thread, which was originally endless, broke immediately.

(End of this chapter)