"The flowers bloom in the alleys in the bright morning, and the fishermen and woodcutters come in by the water in the evening."
“I’m afraid the Taoyuan in Wang Wei’s poems is just like this.”
It was dusk, Jiang Xuan climbed up and looked into the distance, and his mind couldn't help but feel a little more relaxed.
Looking into the city, you can see dim lights, busy traffic, curling smoke from cooking stoves, and the lights of thousands of houses.
Looking outside the city, you can see the setting clouds and solitary swans flying together, the autumn water sharing the same color as the sky, the fishing boats singing late in the night, and the formation of wild geese frightened by the cold.
"How's it going? Isn't this place nice?"
Hearing Jiang Xuan's sigh, Shen Xuzi chuckled and started to take out things from his storage ring.
Jiang Xuan's eyes were opened to see all kinds of fruits that exuded aura.
But looking at him, I felt something was wrong, "Brother Shen, aren't the things you took out wrong? Why are they all fruits?"
"Fruit is good."
Shen Xuzi just laughed and had no intention of explaining, "You will know this when you have a Taoist partner in the future."
"You don't need to ask anymore. I won't tell you if you ask. Just eat."
After saying that, he took out a white jade bowl and poured himself a full bowl of wine:
"Good wine, hiccup~"
After finishing a bowl of wine, Shen Xuzi's face suddenly turned a little rosy.
Then he waved to Jiang Xuan, "Why are you standing here? Come and drink."
"By the way, don't use your zhenqi to eliminate the smell of alcohol, otherwise drinking will be boring."
As he spoke, he threw up the lantern in his hand.
The next moment, the lantern flew high into the sky, and dots of lights flowed out of the cage like water, and thousands of candlelights flickered endlessly under the setting sun.
If you look carefully, the flickering candlelight seems to be reflecting the candlelight in the homes of the people in the city, making the city wall look like a fairyland in the sky.
"嘤嘤嘤?"
As the candle appeared, the little fox lying on Jiang Xuan's shoulder immediately leaned forward curiously, then raised his upper body to grab the candle.
But the candlelight has a soul.
Whenever the little fox wants to catch a candle, the candle will go out in an instant, and then light up in another place.
"嘤嘤嘤!"
The little fox puffed up his cheeks in anger, trying to compete with the candlelight.
After she jumped off Jiang Xuan's shoulder, she started to flicker the candlelight, as if she would not give up until she was caught.
"The spiritual beasts raised by Brother Jiang are quite interesting."
Seeing the little fox flicking the candlelight, Shen Xuzi drank another large bowl of wine, a flash of comfort flashed across his face, and then he pointed at the little fox.
The next moment, candlelight filled the sky and began to circle around the little fox, making her scream so beautifully.
"I rescued this little guy on the way. He has been pampered and pampered since he was rescued, which made fellow Taoists laugh."
"What are you laughing at?"
Looking at the little fox with snow-white hair, Qujiu Lang showed a hint of envy in his eyes, "If it weren't for the fact that furry spirit beasts are not allowed in wineries, I would have raised two spirit beasts for fun."
"I don't think you are happy raising your sister?"
Shen Xuzi interrupted from the side.
"My sister will get married sooner or later, and as she gets older, she starts to feel a little disconnected from family members."
Amidst the laughter, the time came to midnight.
"Singing to wine, how wonderful is life! It's like morning dew, it's so bitter every day.
Generosity should be treated with generosity, and worries will be unforgettable. How can one relieve worries? Only Du Kang."
"Lao Qu, although I have never tasted Dukang wine, I think your Qu family's apricot blossom wine must be no worse than Dukang wine."
"Hiccup~"
Shen Xuzi, who was a little drunk, cast his eyes on the last jar of wine, "There is only one jar left. You don't want to drink it. Why don't you give it all to me?"
With that said, he was about to reach out for the apricot blossom wine made of jade.
Looking at Shen Xuzi's movements, Qujiu Lang stretched out his hand and pressed it on the wine jar:
"You only have a thousand lights left."
Shen Xuzi smiled:
"I refine these thousands of lights, and even spread these thousands of lights widely, isn't it just to add a few more candles in this dark night sky?"
As he spoke, he pointed to the candlelight covering the city walls.
The candlelight swayed slightly with his words, and as the light and shadow swayed, scenes of warm scenes seemed to be reflected in the candlelight.
"If you stop me, you are destroying my Taoist heart."
After saying this, he slapped Qujiu Lang's hand away.
Jiang Xuan, who had not drunk much at all, saw Qu Jiu Lang sighing in a low voice, but asked curiously, "Why did Brother Qu stop Brother Shen from drinking?"
"He drank 99% of the wine you and I brought, and you didn't stop him?"
The Qu Jiu Lang showed a complicated expression when he heard this, then picked up the small cup in front of him and drank the liquor in one gulp:
"Brother Jiang, what do you think of the city wall under our feet?"
Seeing Qujiu Lang talking about the city wall, Jiang Xuan frowned and was silent for a while before saying, "There seems to be something wrong with the city wall."
"When I first entered the city, I felt there was something wrong with it."
"It seems that a spirit was born, but there is also resentment in the spirit."
"Besides this, there is also a hint of incense and the divine way, and the breath of the will power of all living beings is in it."
"By the way, if I feel right, this city wall seems to be connected with the earth and atmosphere of Jersey County."
"All in all, it just feels weird."
"It looks like a great evil is brewing, and it looks like a god is born. It's really weird."
After hearing what Jiang Xuan said, the expression on Qujiu Lang's face became even more complicated, "Brother Jiang is right, there is indeed something buried under the city wall."
As he spoke, he took out another pot of ordinary spirit wine and poured it for himself.
From the look on his face, he seemed to have a sense of intoxication.
"Brother Jiang, does he know the wall girl?"
Jiang Xuan nodded, "It is said that Meng Jiangnu who cried down the Great Wall was the Wall Girl."
"Yes, if Meng Jiangnu's story happened now, she must also be a wall girl."
Hearing Qujiu Lang say this, a flash of enlightenment flashed in Jiang Xuan's heart:
"So there is also a wall girl under the city wall in Jersey County?"
Qu Jiulang nodded, and then slowly told a story from the past:
"The county seat of Jersey County was not that big originally. It was expanded more than a hundred years ago when the evil tide was raging."
"I don't know why at that time, the evil spirits and demons inhabited by Yunmeng Zeli suddenly came ashore and began to massacre the human race."
"Fortunately, your Shenxiao Sect's Divine Power Realm True Lord happened to be traveling in Yunmengze that year. After seeing a group of evil spirits making trouble, he first killed a group of evil spirits. But later, when he saw that the evil spirits were killing them incessantly, he went into the clouds alone.
Meng Ze."
"As soon as he left, the number of evil spirits that came ashore from Yunmengze was reduced by 99%."
"However, although there are fewer evil spirits, Jersey County is still full of devastation and evil spirits are everywhere."
"The adults in the provincial government sat down and made a summary, and came up with the idea of expanding the county and bringing together the surviving refugees from surrounding villages and towns."
"In order to build it quickly, they also invited a team of monks from the magic realm to help build the city. Then guess what?"
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Xuan picked up the words just right.
PS: A little knowledge: Fruits with high sugar content such as watermelon, grapes, bananas, and mangos can neutralize the bitterness and fishy smell of tadpoles.
Big fish and big meat will make the tadpoles greasier.
Acidic fruits such as cranberries and plums can sweeten tadpoles.