On the Avenue.

Chapter 212: Bright Moon, Long Bridge, and Canal
Aunt Xue from the Hongniang Society is a coquettish woman.

No matter who sees Aunt Xue for the first time, they will think she is a coquettish woman.

including herself.

Her temperament is different from that of the lady in Yanzhi Lane. The lady has to show her feminine charm, fairy-like elegance and sensuality in front of the guests.

As for Aunt Xue, the moment she stepped into the threshold of the girl's or the boy's house, she would immediately use all her skills, talking and using various body languages ​​to get closer to each person, and then she could act as a matchmaker and propose marriage.

The same is true for being a matchmaker.

This is a technical job, and Fengshao is the simplest and most convenient method.

She is extremely coquettish, which makes women feel not disgusted and men like her very much. She can control the situation at all times and make everyone focus on her, listening to what she says and following her gestures, her twisting waist, or her open collar.

She did a lot of little things to make everyone feel that she didn't neglect them.

This is a skill gained through experience.

Chen Shi committed the Yanzhi Lane case, which made the Master very angry, and Aunt Xue was the busiest one among them.

She was good at contacting different forces, so she ran around, contacting Du Shenshou, the head of Happy Forest, going to Mingfeng Pavilion to see Manager Qiu, and running to Luban Gate, intending to meet Situ Wen. Unexpectedly, Situ Wen had already gone to seek revenge on Chen Shi and was not at home.

Fortunately, when she ran to look for Prince Zheng's Mansion, she met Situ Wen.

When she came out of Prince Zheng's Mansion, it was already late. Before she had time to eat, she immediately rushed to Yanzhi Lane.

When we arrived at Yanzhi Lane, it was already the busiest time of the day.

Although the old lady and many old women in Yanzhi Lane were dead, there were still a few experts who had cultivated inner elixir in Yanzhi Lane. The purpose of her trip was to contact these experts in Yanzhi Lane and go to Xinxiang together to avenge the old lady!
She was very good at dealing with people, and integrated the forces of all parties. They agreed to meet at Xiangshan Pavilion outside Yudu City tomorrow and go to Qianyang Mountain in Xinxiang together.

Aunt Xue led the women from Yanzhi Lane and walked quickly towards Yixiu Garden. She smiled as she walked and said, "Manling, Chuchu, Lizhen, you don't have to worry about Aunt's affairs. With Aunt Xue here, she will definitely give you justice! Let's go to Xinxiang and threaten the lives of his villagers. Chen Shi will definitely show up!"

Behind her, three women from Yanzhi Lane were dressed elegantly and looked very charming. The leader, Manling, said, "It's up to you, Auntie."

Yixiu Garden is the incense altar of the Hongniang Society. It is quite far from Yanzhi Lane, and there are fewer and fewer pedestrians along the way.

Yanzhi Lane is a den of money-spending where people revel all night long, while people in other places have already gone to bed early, after all, they have to get up and work the next day.

The night watchman's banging sounded, it was already midnight.

There is a canal running through the city of Yudu, with a bridge in the middle called the Awakening Lion Bridge, named after the ninety-nine stone lions of various sizes on the bridge.

The bridge is nearly twenty meters long and more than thirty meters wide, with five arches. Ships often pass through the bridge holes, usually mining ships and passenger ships from Henggong Mountain upstream.

As the four of them passed the Awakening Lion Bridge, Aunt Xue felt a little hungry and suddenly smelt the fragrance of noodles. Following the smell, she saw a noodle stall doing business under the dim light at the end of the bridge.

There was a lantern hanging above the noodle stall, but it didn't shine very brightly.

The stall owners were an elderly couple. The man was kneading and pulling the dough, while the woman was stirring the noodle soup, which was emitting white steam.

Next to it is the kneaded dough, covered with a cage cloth and left to rise.

There were two customers at the stall, one of them was slurping noodles, which must have been a little hot, and he was blowing air with a hissing sound.

The other person was wearing a bamboo hat, waiting boredly, holding a pair of chopsticks in one hand, rubbing the two chopsticks together, making a hissing sound. He must have become a little impatient of waiting.

There was a dog lying next to the noodle stall. It was pitch black and I didn’t know if it was the stall owner’s dog. It turned its head half a circle and tucked it into his arms, looking lazy.

People who cross the bridge at midnight usually go to the east of the city to have fun. After playing for half the night, they feel a little hungry and will eat a bowl of noodles on the bridge to warm their stomachs before going home to rest.

Although it is midnight now, it is just the second half of the night and there are not many people at the noodle stall.

In another hour, people returning from drinking wine will come here, and business will pick up.

Aunt Xue had been busy all day and was a little hungry, so she walked over and said with a smile: "Are you hungry? I am hungry."

Manling smiled and said, "I'm a little hungry too."

Aunt Xue found a place near the light and sat down, saying, "Father, four bowls of noodles, hurry up!"

"okay!"

The stall owner responded, "There's another bowl in front of you, it'll be ready soon!"

Aunt Xue didn't think much of it. She looked at the guest in the bamboo hat and saw that the guest had a pair of chopsticks in his hand. He was holding four chopsticks and rubbing them back and forth.

Aunt Xue was slightly startled, squinted her eyes, and looked at another guest who was eating noodles with his head down. The guest lowered his head to eat noodles, but a clacking sound came from under his feet.

Aunt Xue looked and saw that the noodles the guest was eating had leaked out of his stomach!

This scene made her feel a chill creeping up her tailbone, and her hair stood on end.

"Haunted?"

Aunt Xue was startled and looked at the stall owner hurriedly, only to see that the stall owner who was kneading dough had stiff features and a distorted smile. It turned out to be a puppet with human features and expressions painted on it!

She hurriedly looked at the other female stall owner, who was also a puppet!
"Lu Ban Sect's Yanshi technique! How come Situ Carpenter's Yanshi appears here?"

Aunt Xue knew something was wrong and was about to take action when suddenly the guest at another table still seemed to be sitting on the stool, but he used his thighs to exert force and moved his feet. His body moved incredibly fast and he went around the noodle stall table like a ghost!

The gait was extremely peculiar. He walked on the ground with one leg half squatting and the other leg half kneeling. It looked like a duck walking, but the movements were extremely fast and agile. In a flash, the man walked around the table where they were sitting!
Aunt Xue remained calm in the face of danger. When she sensed the murderous intent coming, she immediately turned her hand to block it in front of her and summoned her cultivation!
"laugh!"

Her palm felt stinging, as if a chopstick had pierced through her palm and almost pierced into her forehead!

The enormous force pressed her body backwards. Aunt Xue still remained sitting on the stool, but her body had broken through the railings of the Awakening Lion Bridge and fell diagonally toward the water!

The moment she left the bridge, she stretched out her legs, and when her legs were fully extended, she had already landed on the water.

The enormous force brought by the chopsticks pressed on her body, and she slid backward along the surface of the canal. The water surface cracked, and two white waves flew up from her side and splashed into the air.

Her face was slightly gloomy. Just from the power transmitted by the chopsticks, she knew that Manling, Chuchu and the other three were dead.

Because the cultivation base of these three people was only at the Golden Core Stage, even she, who had reached the Perfect Nascent Soul Stage, could not resist the chopsticks and was pierced through the palm of her hand and almost through her head. Manling and the other two were even less able to resist it!

As she slid backwards, the Seven Turns and Seven Transformations Dance of Heaven was already performed. A shrine and a divine fetus appeared behind her head, and her Nascent Soul danced on the divine fetus's palm. At the same time, the divine power around her surged, and seven celestial maidens appeared, wearing nine-colored clothes, with wings on their backs, long sleeves and flowing ribbons, good at dancing, and their dancing was graceful and agile, not like the scene of the human world, as if the goddess of heaven had descended.

But even the flying ribbons contain great power.

As the streamers danced, huge waves surged, the water level sometimes rose sharply, and the riverbed was sometimes visible!
She didn't know why the Luban Sect was plotting against him here, but since they had already started, she would fight with all her heart, without asking about the cause and effect!

At the same time as she activated the Seven Turns and Seven Transformations Dance of Heavenly Arts, the guest in the bamboo hat also whizzed down from the bridge and ran on the river at an extremely fast speed.

The guest in the bamboo hat activated his martial arts and saw a golden elixir like a bright moon rising slowly from the surface of the river, illuminating both sides of the canal.

Aunt Xue's heart skipped a beat, and she had a familiar feeling.

The bright golden moon hangs on the bridge.

Seven celestial maidens flew out from the bright moon, and came from the sky with their long sleeves fluttering in the wind. They looked like fairies descending to the mortal world. Their every move and gesture seemed to indicate that they were about to ascend to heaven again!
Seven turns and seven changes of the Heavenly Dance!
Aunt Xue was greatly shocked and a little flustered. It turned out that the guest in the bamboo hat opposite her was also performing the Seven Turns and Seven Transformations Dance of Heavenly Arts!
This martial art was clearly the one passed down to her by the young master!

She acted as a matchmaker, helping a friend of the young master Xijing to hook up with a noble lady. The two of them got together and she made a great contribution to the young master.

The young master admired her very much, so he passed on this set of skills to her.

The Seven Turns and Seven Transformations of the Heavenly Dance Art has the effect of differentiating one spirit. When practiced to the extreme, the Qi and blood will overflow and combine with the spirit to form the scene of seven celestial maidens outside the body, forming the Heavenly Dance Formation, which is good at defeating the strong with the weak!
When the young master passed this set of skills to her, he said that although this skill was incomplete, it was already a rare mysterious skill in the world and was not much weaker than the ancestral skills of the thirteen families.

Moreover, the young master tried to complete this skill. Although it is not as good as the real Wu Tian Gong, there is no Wu Tian Gong anymore in the world. What she got is the true secret!

Now, Aunt Xue suddenly saw the other party performing the Wu Tian Gong, and her mind was greatly confused. Her own Wu Tian Gong was obviously much inferior to the other party's Wu Tian Gong!

The seven celestial maidens transformed from his own blood and energy were like prostitutes selected from Rouge Alley, while the other party’s seven celestial maidens were the fairies who had descended from heaven to the mortal world!

In the blink of an eye, the two men collided head-on.

On the river, under the moonlight, the fairy air is floating, the fairies are forming a formation, the nine-colored clothes are dazzling, and the ribbons are flying around. Although it is a murderous formation, it is full of beauty.

The water level in the canal rose and fell with the Wu Tian Gong.

When the water level rises, the river surface is more than ten feet higher than the riverbed. If it were to come down, I'm afraid all the houses along the river would be destroyed and submerged by the river!

When the water level receded, the riverbed dozens of feet long was exposed, revealing the sunken ships at the bottom of the river and some helpless fish jumping on the riverbed.

You can imagine how powerful their spells are!

But this confrontation came and went quickly!
Aunt Xue realized that although the opponent's cultivation was extremely strong and his moves were far more sophisticated than hers, his magic power was far inferior to hers. She was about to rely on her magic power advantage and sacrifice her Nascent Soul to kill the opponent, but suddenly she saw the seven celestial maidens on the opposite side merge into one, pointed a finger at Ling Xu, and pierced her forehead!

She urged her Nascent Soul to meet the attack.

The goddess was smashed to pieces by her Nascent Soul. Aunt Xue was delighted: "Even if your skills are more sophisticated than mine, what does it matter if your cultivation is not as good as mine?"

However, the moment the goddess disappeared, her Nascent Soul was greeted by the palm of the guest in the bamboo hat.

The guest in the bamboo hat pinched the first joint of the thumb with the middle finger and ring finger of his right hand, and raised his little finger and index finger. This posture was like the North Pole Emperor coming to the world, pinching his fingers to attract all the yang thunder in the world and hiding it in his palm!
Aunt Xue’s Nascent Soul was about one foot tall and it crashed into the opponent’s Five Thunder Technique!
With this seal, the five thunders of heaven, earth, water, dragon and community exploded. The thunders of the five kinds of yang thunder connected into a chain, booming!

The clothes on Aunt Xue's Nascent Soul were all torn, her body was pierced and nearly half destroyed. She couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, and her breath became weak.

The man in the bamboo hat thrust his finger forward, and a water sword flew out from the surface of the river, piercing Aunt Xue's forehead with a whoosh!
The water sword flew over a hundred feet and suddenly dissipated.

On the river surface, the water that had risen more than ten feet was out of control and was about to submerge the houses on both sides. The guest in the bamboo hat made sword-like gestures with his hands and pointed repeatedly, drawing talismans in the air. One after another, the water-fixing talismans burst out with golden light and hung on the river surface. Immediately, the river water fell and the river surface became as smooth as a mirror.

Upstream and downstream of the canal, the water surface was extremely calm, without any ripples. The fish in the water were tossed up and down. At this moment, the water suddenly became extremely calm, which made them a little uncomfortable and confused.

The only movement on the water was Aunt Xue's fallen body.

But her body fell into the river without causing any splash. Under the effect of the water-fixing talisman, her body slowly sank into the river and eventually disappeared.

At this time, the guest in the bamboo hat had already stepped onto the Lion Dance Bridge, the noodle stall owner had already scooped up the noodles, and the hostess had just brought them to the table.

The guest sat down, took a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick cage, and ate the noodles while they were hot, slurping them up, and they tasted very sweet.

Another Yanshi guest was dragging the bodies of Manling and three other women and throwing them under the bridge. He then carried a bucket to fetch water to clean the bloodstains on the bridge.

The other bowl of noodles was ready. The Yanshi stall owner picked up the bowl and placed it in front of the dog in the shadow.

"Don't put it there, put it on the ground, and don't eat the black pot."

The guest took off his bamboo hat, revealing his honest face, and said, "Master Situ, please put the bowl on the table. Also, put more meat in it. Hei Guo likes to eat meat, but not much noodles."

The stall owner of Yanshi was surprised and said, "This dog is very troublesome."

The dog in the shadows glanced at him, but Yanshi was not affected by it. After all, his real body was not here, and it was difficult to influence his real body's thinking.

But Master Yan still followed the customer's instructions, picked up the bowl and put it on the table, added a few more ounces of beef, and said with some regret: "With these few ounces of beef, the store can sell a hundred bowls of ramen!"

"Okay, okay, it's not like I won't pay you."

Chen Shi said, "Eat quickly, so you can go to Happy Forest when you are full!"

They ate quickly and got up to go down the bridge.

More Yanshi came and cleaned the bridge surface, leaving no trace.

Chen Shi was full and felt his body was hot. He followed Yanshi to the Happy Forest in the north of the city. It was brightly lit and bustling. Many scholars were standing in the Happy Forest, one every three or five steps. There were shrines behind their heads, illuminating the surroundings, making it as bright as day.

These scholars, elegantly dressed, were the city's talented people, and were hired by the happy Lin Du master.

Pai Gow, dice, mahjong, and leaf cards are the most popular gambling games.

Every gambling table has a dealer, some of whom have six arms, bare-chested, holding different dice cups that rattle and rattle. The gamblers around are shouting loudly, and the atmosphere is very fanatical.

Chen Shi looked carefully and saw that although the banker looked human, his soul was a green grasshopper head with long antennae on top of his head. He was two or three heads taller than a normal person, with grasshopper compound eyes and wore colorful human clothes. His six arms were also grasshopper hands, which fluttered around very skillfully.

His mind suddenly jumped: "Who said that Du Shenshou must be a human? Maybe Du Shenshou might not be a human? What would his Jizhao Shenbian Jue look like?"

——Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

(End of this chapter)