Chapter 36:

Yuan Xianger showed Nan He the clothes he bought one by one.
"This is the middle coat, wear the inside, this is the robe, wear the outside. This is called Hanyao, which is very popular recently. This is..."
Yuan Xiang'er twisted a small piece of soft cloth that I didn't know when it got mixed in. After watching for a long time, he realized what it was, and coughed embarrassingly, "Forget it, it shouldn't matter if you don't wear it."
"These clothes are for you to wear when you are in human form. During my absence, if you come back, go to my room to sleep, it is the warmest here. If you are hungry, go to the maid and she will give you something Eat." Yuan Xianger sat on the edge of the kang and neatly folded the clothes inside and outside, confessing in her mouth.
Wu Yuan is his apostle, and Jin Yu lives at home, but Nan He can only be regarded as a guest friend, and he needs to survive his own absence. Of course Yuan Xianger is embarrassed to invite him to accompany him on a long journey. But she still looked up and quietly looked at Nan He several times, expecting him to say that she wanted to go out and have a look together, so that she could push the boat along with him.
It is a pity that Nan He just squatted in front of her, always looking down at her folding clothes. This little wolf was very silent at first, but today it became a saw-mouthed gourd, and his mouth was closed without a word.
Yuan Xianger had to sigh, and repeatedly explained various matters. She didn't know why she became so long-winded. In her previous life, she often entrusted her family mates to others when she was on business trips, as if she did not have such reluctance.
At that time, the house was empty and the only thing I could miss was three cats and two dogs. It's not like I'm full of happiness in my heart now.
"Jin Yu, when I'm not at home, you help guard the yard and take good care of the wife." Yuan Xiang'er came under the banyan tree and knocked on the roof of the wooden house. Jin Yu didn't like changing the new environment and planned to stay at home.
The door of the wooden house opened, and a pair of small hands stretched out from inside, holding a few soft feathers in the palms.
"this is?"
"Knot... knot." A stuttering voice came from the room.
\"Jin Yu? You mean, are you willing to be my apostle?\" Yuan Xianger was surprised and happy.
Even after a long time has passed, Yuan Xianger still remembers the surprise and happiness at this moment.
She stretched out her hands, cherished the feathers entrusted to her by those little hands, drew the magic circle of the contract apostle, and placed the feathers on the magic circle.
This really made her caring and warm, and she added an apostle at home. From now on, even if she is far away in the sky, she can receive messages from Jin Yu, and she can know the dynamics of her family at any time, without having to worry too much about it.
At this moment, far away in Kagura Palace in Kyoto.
The mage, who was blindfolded and closed his vision, raised his head and said, "The bond is concluded so quickly, and the formation is still so natural, without complaint. Who is it? It's really interesting."
"Haohan." He whispered a name.
A man with a horn on his head appeared out of nowhere, and knelt in front of him on one knee. The man’s long, thick black hair was dragging on the smooth floor tiles, and countless weird red runes were painted on his pure upper body. His voice was low and full of magnetism, "Master. What's the call?"
The sitting mage turned his blindfolded face to his apostle,
"Haohan, I remember getting you back then, but it took a lot of effort."
"Yes, I fought against the master in Beihai for three days and three nights, and finally lost to the master's supernatural powers."
"At that time, you obviously exhausted your mana and wounded all over, but you still refused to give in. In the end, I had to use the Seal of the Three Emperors to press you on the magic circle before I managed to conclude the contract." The mage stretched out white and weak. Fingers, holding up the jaw of the strong monster, "Now, if I release your restraint, would you be willing to be my apostle?"
The eyes of the demon stood up, and there was a dark flow inside, "Master, I don't want to deceive you."
"Huh, something that is unforgiving." The mage let go of his hand disappointedly, and leaned back in the seat lazily, "I don't know whose child it is. I really hope she can come to our eyes sooner. ."
However, Yuan Xianger said goodbye to everyone at home. Under Zhou Deyun’s careful arrangement, he first took a horse-drawn carriage to Chenzhou, which belongs to Queqiu Town, and then diverted from Chenzhou to the waterway. He took a merchant ship and traveled eastward along Yuanshui. It took two days and nights to reach Yanbo vast. Of the Dongting Lake.
Dingzhou City, where Zhou Deyun lives, is located at an important water conservancy transportation hub. The town is lively and the market is prosperous.
Yuan Xianger was sitting in the soft sedan and walking all the way, only to see crowds of people on the road, with cars and horses running side by side; the houses on both sides lined up, and the Fengge was verdant; inside the Huajie Liuxiang, the Qinlou Chu Hall laughed with joy, singing and dancing, and flourishing flowers. .
"Oh, what does that store sell? It looks delicious. It's playing tricks there, let's take a look at it later?" Wu Yuan pulled at the sedan chair window, poked his head out, and was overwhelmed by the lively scene. "Hahaha, fortunately I'm here, I went back and told them, Jin Yu and Nan He still don't know how jealous they are."
"Axiang, have you seen it? When we left, Nan He was so angry that he couldn't speak."
"Nonsense." Yuan Xiang'er screwed back the kitten that was about to fall out. "Jin Yu is a place she doesn't like strangers, and wants to stay to see her house. If Nan He wants to come, he will naturally speak, but he didn't say that he was coming, so how kind Reluctantly. After all, he is still in the skeletal phase and needs to be busy hunting down the demon pills.
"Huh," Wu Yuan licked her little paw and whispered, "Father is right. Only children who can be coquettish can eat sweets. The stuffy gourd like Nanhe only eats soil."
The sedan chair walked for more than half an hour and arrived at Zhoufu.
The Zhou family deserves to be home to many years of accumulation. The house’s appearance is magnificent and elegant, and there is a unique sense of elegance inside, with terraces and pavilions, strange flowers and plants, and the servants walking around in an orderly manner.
Zhou Deyun was very thoughtful and polite to Yuan Xianger, and respectfully led her to the main hall along the way.
There are many people in the hall at the moment, monks, priests, witches and gods, and a lot of people, wearing their own robes and robes, all sitting in the hall and eating tea. Because of the differences in the sects, they were not convinced by each other, and they were sneer at each other.
These people are all mages that Zhou Deyun hired heavily during this period. After a lot of tossing for a long time, none of them can solve the peculiar hysteria of the Zhou family.
Some people stayed in Zhou's house for a while, seeing the host's generous, reluctant to entertain the wine and meat, cheeky stayed to watch the fun. Some are unwilling, don't try to solve the matter, so as to become famous among the peers.
At this moment, watching Zhou Deyun respectfully greet a person entering the house, he would inevitably crane his neck, wanting to see what kind of expert he was.
Knowing that the person was close to her eyes, she was a young girl of twenty-eight years, with red makeup, slender hands, embroidered vermilion face, cloud temples and cheeks, and a little milky cat on her shoulders. It's like the ladies who sneak out to play.
A big fat monk sitting in the front, held up the clinking Zen stick in his hand, frowned and said, "Don’t you be anxious, don’t you be confused, the poor monk said that when you leave these days, you are going to the treasures of the mountains to find A master of Taoism. Who knows, but brought back a little girl, such a charming little girl..."
He spoke with a grin, and happened to watch the kitten on the girl's shoulder turn his face. A red mark flashed across the eye of the kitten, and his smoky eyes glanced at him with dissatisfaction.
The fat monk closed his mouth abruptly and stopped speaking.
The people behind him were preparing to make a booze, but he was uncharacteristically shut up and stopped talking. A tall and thin Taoist beside the monk patted his shoulder and said: "Fat monk, your mouth was the poorest in the past. Why are you dumb today? "
The monk just glared at him and still refused to speak.
It was not until Zhou Deyun greeted everyone and led Yuan Xianger to the backyard that he replied angrily.
"Hmph, don't always want to push me to offend people. The one who seems to be young is not necessarily young. The cat on her shoulder, have you seen it, it is a contracted apostle."
"Apostle?"
"Apostle, is the cat demon an apostle?"
"Is there an apostle at a young age?"
The word apostle, like a stone thrown into the water, caused a wave of waves in the crowd.
"Presumably everyone knows that now there are fewer demons in the world, and it is even more rare to be able to successfully become an apostle." The fat monk looked at Yuan Xianger's departure, with a bit of jealousy in his tone, "Even if she did not make a contract by herself, That must be from a famous school, and the elders in the clan have the ability to prepare carefully for her to drive her. I have no reason why I should offend such a young girl with a deep background."
"It's really jealous to be a young person." The thin Taoist also stretched his neck and looked at Yuan Xianger's departure direction, "Who wouldn't want to be an apostle for myself? I don't know how many times I have tried in my life. Success. Look at Wu Lizi, it's not just because of such a low-level Cangju as an apostle, wherever he goes, he has a few more points than you and me."
Not far from him sat a man with a broken leg. The man snorted disdainfully, and tightened a thin chain in his hand. The other end of the chain full of red runes passed through a With the pale skin and hairless neck of the monster, the monster lay listlessly on the ground at his feet, and lifted its eyelids in the direction Yuan Xianger was leaving.
Zhou Deyun led Yuan Xiang'er to a wing room. The doors and windows of the wing room were closed tightly. The windows were crossed with thick wooden bars, sealing all the windows. A few circles of iron chains were tied outside the gate and locked tightly with a large lock. A few maids stood outside the door, carrying porridge and side dishes, taking turns to comfort them by the crack of the door.
"Madam, let's have a little bit. The servant girl made your favorite mixed three fresh and glutinous tofu. You can have a bite?"
"Madam, you haven't eaten for a few days, so how can your body be able to eat."
"Madam is angry with the uncle, and shouldn't use her body to make her temper. How about going on like this."
There was a very low and weak guttural voice in the room. The voice was full of anger, obviously disagreeing.
Zhou Deyun stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Still refused to eat?"
The maids looked at each other and showed embarrassed expressions, "Since you left, it has been three days since you left. A drop of rice water can't be persuaded to enter. As long as someone enters, you will lose your temper."
Zhou Deyun sighed again and again, and said to Yuan Xiang'er: "You don't know Mr. Little. Although this person has the body of my lady and has little strength, he still has martial arts skills. It is really amazing. Seven or eight people can't beat him. One. I accidentally broke free of the chains and ran out. I was afraid that he would hurt the lady’s body, so I had to lock him. Who knew that he became stubborn and went on a hunger strike to fight. This has not been eaten for three days, no matter whether it is persuasion or forced irrigation, it will not help. , If this breaks my lady’s body, how can I be born? That’s why I was so anxious, but I didn’t want to face it, so I asked you to come and see."
He took out a key and opened the big lock at the door, and pushed open the door with a creak.
The sun outside the house at this moment is shining brightly. The room separated by this door was dim and messy to the extreme.
Yuan Xiang'er adjusted to the light and looked in from the door. The dim room was full of overturned tables and chairs, messy clothing and broken utensils. There was a big bed with flowers on the wall in the house. On the ground in front of the bed was a woman sitting on the ground. The woman had her head hanging down, her face was haggard, her eye sockets were sunken, her lips were so dry that she was blocked by a towel. Long hair was scattered in front of him. His hands were cut behind his back, and his body was locked with a thick chain.
"She wanted to die, there was no way to lock her." Zhou Deyun explained to Yuan Xianger in a low voice.
Yuan Xianger took two steps forward, and the woman immediately raised her head and stared at her warily.
"Hey, it's strange, it's obviously a woman's body, but inside it is the man's soul." Wu Yuan stood on Yuan Xiang'er's shoulder and said in a voice that only Yuan Xiang'er could hear.
"Can you see what it looks like?"
"I can see it, wearing armor and a white robe, with an arrow hit behind him, covered in blood."
It seems that this person is really just like he said, a general who died in battle on the battlefield, his soul still retains his last memory before his death. This matter was not difficult to deal with at first, or let him live as Lady Zhou. The difficulty is that Zhou Deyun still wants to retrieve the soul of his wife.
"Little sir, can my lady be saved?" Zhou Deyun tried to figure out Yuan Xiang'er's facial expression and rubbed his hands nervously.
Yuan Xianger motioned to him to stay calm and not restless, squatted down in front of the Zhou family who was by the big five flowers, looked up and down for a moment, and stretched out his hand to pull out the cloth strip from his mouth.
"Let's have a chat, can you tell me your name?"
The lady Zhou showed a look of disgust, turned her face, and closed her eyes by the head of the bed. He went on a hunger strike for three days. She was extremely weak and didn't want to take care of the wicked people who were torturing him so much.
Yuan Xiang'er looked at her gray complexion and weak breath, knowing that the first task now is to let this person eat something first. If he starves this body to death, there is really nothing to do.
Yuan Xiang'er thought for a while, and then she persuaded: "You are a general in the frontier area of ​​Su Wei, and you must have a lot of old ties, close friends and relatives. Why don't you give your name, I can look for them for you, or understand the moment Deadlock."
The man leaned against the bed rail and opened his eyes, his long dark hair covered most of his face, and he was somewhat indistinguishable from male and female.
"I'm a man of seven feet, turned into a woman, such a form, shameful, what face is there to see my old friend again." He sneered sadly, "Now I just want to die, it's better than being so innocent and dying. ."
"Even if you don't tell me, I can know who you are." Yuan Xianger looked at him with an arm supported, "Purple gold and red tasseled crown, dragon scales and proud frost armor, tufted flowers and silk robe, using a pear flower to point a steel gun. Such a dress must not be an unknown person. In the past few years, the borders of our country have been stable, and there have been wars only in the northern border. I just need to find out if there was an accident with a general dressed like this a year ago. Your identity must not be difficult."
The person next to the bed turned his face suddenly, and heard Yuan Xiang'er accurately and accurately say what he was wearing.
"You...you..." He whispered his lips and finally showed a look of panic. In this era, men are respected, and most people have deep-rooted thoughts about male superiority and female inferiority. As a general who is all-powerful and fighting on the battlefield, there is Perhaps from the bottom of my heart, I was ashamed of becoming what I am now. It seems that he is really afraid of being known as his original identity.
Where there is fear in the heart, there is room for negotiation, rather than asking for nothing and asking for death.
"So as long as you cooperate well, I don't need to check your life experience first." Yuan Xianger said.
The person's body trembled slightly, and he stayed on the ground, with a sad expression on his pale face, "What do you want me to cooperate with?"
He suddenly thought of something, looked sad, turned his head away, his eyes were red at that moment, "I can't give it to a man."
"No, no, I never meant that." Yuan Xianger hurriedly denied, "I need you to eat something and take a good rest, and then we can discuss how to send you away, and then take Zhou's wife back. After all, neither do you I am willing to stay here, and Zhou Yuanwai just wants to reunite with his real lady."
The man raised his head and stared at Yuan Xiang'er with red eyes, before squeezing out a few words, "You, don't you lie to me?"
"Look, I have the ability to find out your identity, but you have no room to resist me. I have no need to lie to you." Yuan Xianger spread her hands, "unless you want to stay here and not leave. "
The man thought a lot, and finally lowered his eyelashes and nodded.
Zhou Deyun was overjoyed and hurriedly waved to let the maid bring the rice porridge in.
The man pursed his mouth and turned his head away, "Before, they added food to the meal before they caught me."
Yuan Xianger looked at Zhou Deyun. Zhou Deyun blushed and hurriedly explained, "I listened to Zhang Daxian, saying that as long as the yin and yang are reconciled, I can save my lady, and I was in a hurry to make this move."
"But I swear I didn't do anything to him," he muttered unhappily, pointing to the wound on his face. "Even after the medicine was taken, I am not his opponent, and he was beaten out of the bedroom all the way."
"That's OK, to show your innocence, you have to taste it first." Yuan Xianger didn't bother to listen to him explain.
Without saying anything, Zhou Deyun asked the maid to divide a small bowl of porridge and drank it in one gulp.
The man nodded in acceptance. He was hungry for several days and was extremely weak. He barely drank a few sips of porridge, was supported by a chain on the bed, and soon fell asleep.
Zhou Deyun came out behind Yuan Xiang'er and happily rubbed his hands back and forth, "Mr. Nature's disciple is really extraordinary. Your coming has relieved my urgent need. I am really grateful. Look at my connection. What else do you need to prepare next?"
"He is too weak, let him rest first, wait for the adjustment, and then watch the situation." Yuan Xianger stopped, "If you use this method of drugging people again, I will leave it alone."
Zhou Deyun frowned, "There will never be another time. In fact, I am quite afraid of him. If it weren't for the lady, I wouldn't want to get close to that person. To be honest, he said he had come down on the battlefield, and I believe it. The soldiers who have been on the killing field are different. Although they still look like my lady, when he looks over, I feel a cold back and a shivering calf, and nothing can be done."
Wu Yuan waited for a long time and couldn't help it, squatting in Yuan Xianger's ear and yelling: "Since there is nothing wrong, let's go out and play. I saw jugglers and big bird jugglers on the way just now. I want to go and watch. Yes."
Yuan Xianger agreed and walked out smiling. It didn't take long to walk out of Zhou's house and found that passersby were looking behind them one after another.
Many young ladies have blushed faces, twirling their veils and looking forward frequently.
"Oh, look. That man."
"Where is the prince, so handsome."
"True Lang Yan is unique, the son is unparalleled."
"In the past, what I read in the book was just unbelief, but today I don't know what a gentleman is like jade, like a polished stone,"
The eldest daughter-in-law and the little ladies, half covering their faces, whispered. Although the status of men is higher than that of women in this world, the folk customs are not too conservative. Women of ordinary people can also go out and walk, and there is no saying that they can't show their faces. It's just such a bold and straightforward compliment of a man, and it was the first time Yuan Xiang'er had seen it, except that he hadn't had a fruitful car.
Yuan Xiang'er turned around following their gazes, beside the purple stone road, under the snow-covered eaves, there was a long body of jade standing alone. The man was wearing a moiré gown, wearing black gold soap boots and a lacquered sand towel with his sideburns closed. , Qingbai Hanyao pulled out a tight waistline, eyebrows flew into the temple, peach blossoms in his eyes, like anger, not anger, thin lips pressed tightly at him.
"Nan He? Why are you here?" Yuan Xiang'er cheered and ran forward.