pig auspicious

Chapter 117

It was the first time for Jixiang to spend the night in the West Sea. It was so fresh that he couldn't sleep at all. He wanted to touch all the things he had never seen before. Ao Bai, who was usually melancholy these days, had to stay with him. Individuals talk face to face until midnight.

Ao Bai was wearing a thin undershirt, the material was transparent and spacious, Jixiang could see Ao Bai's protruding collarbone at a glance, and the exposed neck looked extremely thin and fragile.

"When will Ao Zhen let you out?" Jixiang looked down while talking, his shoulders were round, and although he also had a collarbone, it was negligible compared to Ao Bai.

"I don't know." Ao Bai replied softly, looking at the curtain. "It's not all the elder brother who made the decision, the queen mother also spoke."

Ji Xiang was quiet for a while, but still couldn't help getting up and sitting up straight: "It's just going to the underworld, why should you be punished like this? Is the book of life and death something you can't read?"

Although when Ao Guang took him there, Ji Xiang also felt that the entry and exit checkpoints were a bit troublesome, but Ao Bai is the prince of Xihai, not a lonely ghost or a mortal, even if he came uninvited, it is not a big deal to go in. However, Ao Bai has been imprisoned for three days - I don't know if he has received other punishments before.

"It's not that I don't want to read the book of life and death, but I shouldn't be so reckless." Ao Bai was listless. "If you have the consent of your father or eldest brother... the queen mother, you can tell the King of Hades of the Ten Palaces, as long as you don't change it indiscriminately."

"They don't agree?"

"I didn't ask them."

Ji Xiang couldn't understand.

It sounds like a very simple matter—ask for consent → get permission → go to the underworld generously, so how much better it is not to have to break in and be grounded?

For Jixiang, as long as there is a legitimate reason, Ao Guang usually does not restrict him too much. He doesn't understand why Ao Bai insists on doing this.

"They won't agree."

"Why—well, what do you want to see in the book of life and death? To whom?"

Ao Bai turned over. "Auspicious, do you still remember General Xia?"

Jixiang blinked: "Who?"

"The one who rescued us from the grave in Bancheng last time."

Jixiang scratched his head: "Nine hundred and ninety-nine's friend? I remember, didn't he give you a grass cage."

"I won't even touch you." Jixiang added plaintively. "No one in Donghai would do that."

Ao Bai also gave a low-quality version in Xihai to make peace, but unfortunately, the craftsmanship was not good enough, and it soon broke up.

This is probably one of Jixiang's obsessions. Speaking of it, it's not a big deal, but if Jixiang also has one—or just touch it with his hands, he will get tired of it within two days, but Xia Feiyang only gives it to him. Ao Bai made one, and Ao Bai didn't let anyone touch it. In this case, that straw cage became something that Ji Xiang couldn't ask for, the moon in the sky.

"It's broken." Ao Bai said.

"what?"

Ao Bai got up, got out of bed and brought a box over.

The small-leaf red sandalwood box is carved with complicated branches and vines, and a gorgeous gold-inlaid peony blooms on the box surface, and the flower heart is inlaid with fine citrine, which is extremely delicate.

Ao Bai unlocked the thousand-knot lock of the box with a click, and the straw cage lay quietly inside.

Ji Xiang touched his chin.

Even if Jixiang has never seen the world again, and no matter how distorted his values ​​are, he still knows that things made of weeds are worthless.

Ao Bai put the cage in such a good box so solemnly, Ji Xiang thought it was funny.

However, Ao Bai carefully tilted the box a little so that Jixiang could see what was inside the box clearly.

Of course, the grass cage is not as exquisite as the baby in the Dragon Palace, but it is still very cute. When Jixiang saw it, he wanted to reach out and touch it, but Ao Bai patted it back.

"It's broken there." Ao Bai said.

Jixiang looked at it for a long time, and found that two grass tips came out from one side of the hexagonal grass cage.

"It's not bad." Jixiang said earnestly, "It's just a harbinger of falling apart."

Grass is grass after all, even if it is put in a golden box, it will not change the fact that it will slowly dry and loosen.

"I know." Ao Bai closed the box again. "So I thought...get him to fix it, or make another one."

Auspicious eyes moved between the red sandalwood box and Ao Bai a few times, and a rare light came to his head, and he looked at Ao Bai without saying a word.

"What are you looking at?" Ao Bai put the box back.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Jixiang said slowly, "I don't think you want to trim the grass cage."

Ao Bai pushed him, climbed into the bed by himself, and got under the quilt.

Jixiang turned around and snatched Ao Bai's quilt away: "You want to find Xia Feiyang, but you don't necessarily need to fix the cage."

Ao Bai's ears turned red: "Why would I ask him if I don't fix the cage?"

Jixiang winked his eyes: "Xia Feiyang is not the only one who can weave cages. There is no one in Donghai who can weave cages. Is there none in the world? You don't have to find him to mend cages, but you only want to find him."

Ao Bai snatched back the quilt and stopped talking.

Ji Xiang leaned forward: "Do you like him?"

"Nonsense." Ao Bai pulled up the quilt.

"If you want to find him, go find him." Jixiang thinks that Ao Bai is shy, so he doesn't bother with it anymore: "It's not like you don't know the way to the sea. He is a friend of Jiubaijiu. Tomorrow you can ask him where Xia Feiyang is now .”

"No, I can't find it."

"Gah?"

"he died."

Ji Xiang glared at Ao Bai who covered him, and got stuck.

"Ordinary people can only live for a few decades, auspicious." Ao Bai said under the quilt.

"It's only been such a short time since we came back from Bancheng."

"But it's been a long time in the human world, long enough for Jiubaijiu to go up the mountain to escape the world and practice, the young general is getting old slowly, and the dynasties have changed."

"Xia Feiyang is the mighty general who came back to rescue him."

"Since the mortal emperor was critically ill, my second brother wrote letters from time to time, counting the days to go home. In the letter, he would tell me in detail about the situation of leaving the world."

Ao Bai stopped talking.

"You... read the book of life and death because you want to find Xia Feiyang?"

Ao Bai remained silent.

Jixiang also lay down, trying to get under Ao Bai's quilt.

Ao Bai firmly resisted the corner of the quilt.

"Ao Bai, are you crying?"

"No."

"Liar, your nose will runny when you cry, you can hear it."

"..."

"Ao Bai, Xia Feiyang only knows how to weave straw cages." Ji Xiang said. "Many people can make it up." Although he never found it.

"And the reincarnation of a mortal is equivalent to changing a different person." Auspiciousness is not for nothing. "Even if you find him, he doesn't remember anything, and he certainly doesn't remember how to weave a straw cage."

"I know. I just wanted to see."

"Look? Do you want to say hello? He must not remember weaving a straw cage for you."

"……auspicious."

"Uh-huh?"

"Go to sleep, I feel bad."

Jixiang stopped talking, and lay down obediently, still thinking about what made Ao Bai sad, whether Xia Feiyang didn't remember how to weave a straw cage, or didn't remember that he once made a straw cage?

The maid on duty at night came in softly and gave them sleeping incense. They talked until midnight, and fell asleep from exhaustion.

……

Ao Bai sleeps curled up in a ball, which is just convenient for Jixiang's habit of leaning all over the place. Jixiang is a bit obsessed with the bed, even if he squeezes Ao Bai to the corner of the bed, he can't sleep well. When he was just dreaming, he was awakened by Ao Bai's movements .

"Ao Bai?!" Ji Xiang woke up suddenly, and saw Ao Bai sitting on the bed.

Even when he was sleeping, he kept the light on. Ji Xiang saw Ao Bai on the bed with his eyes wide open.

"...It's ringing." Ao Bai murmured.

"What's ringing?" Ji Xiang was puzzled.

Ao Bai jumped off the bed barefoot. "The trumpet is sounding in the nave."

"Ah—?" Ji Xiang also got out of bed, thinking that Ao Bai was sleepwalking and wanted to catch him.

Ao Bai moved quickly and rushed out of the room: "What happened?"

The maid on duty at night was also taken aback: "Your Highness? Why..."

"I want to go to the main hall!" Ao Bai shouted. "No Return Rings!"

Ji Xiang hesitated, seeing that Ao Bai didn't look like he was sleepwalking, but... what happened?

At this time, a palace attendant and two guards hurried over with a message.

"You want me... to stay still?" Ao Bai glared at them, "What happened? Did the elder brother or the queen call you over?"

"It's His Highness the Second... He said that His Highness, please sleep peacefully first, and go there after dawn."

Ao Bai leaned on the door and gasped: "Second brother? You... mean you won't let me out?"

The guards who followed the palace servants were silent.

Ao Bai pursed his lips, turned back to his room, and slammed the door hard.

"What's ringing?" Ji Xiang asked Ao Bai while standing on the floor with bare feet.

Ao Bai anxiously walked back and forth in the room twice, then suddenly lost his temper and sat down on the bed.

"Did something happen?" Jixiang asked.

"No Return... There is a golden bone horn on the top of the main hall in the palace. It is said that it was passed down from the distant ancestors of the Ao family. There is one everywhere in the world. It is used...to warn."

"Warning?"

"Or ask for help..." Ao Bai bent his knees and leaned against the edge of the bed: "The sound of the Golden Bone can only be heard by dragons, although I...have dragon's blood after all."

"I've never seen my father touch that number." Ao Bai said blankly. "No matter which dragon palace's horn sounds, the other three can hear it. Something must have happened, but they won't let me go out."

Jixiang stared, only grasping one important point.

"Can you hear which Dragon Palace's horn sounded?"

Ao Bai shook his head and glanced at the door. "I just know it wasn't blown in the West Sea. There must be something wrong. The Dragon King will not touch that if nothing happens. Maybe it's Uncle Qin, maybe it's Uncle Bao..."

Ao Bai stopped talking, picking his nails nervously.

Ji Xiang stood there for a while, then suddenly turned to open the door.

The door wouldn't move.

"Ao Bai, tell them to open the door." Ji Xiang turned around and said.

"auspicious……"

"I want to go back!" Jixiang kicked the door.

"Auspicious!" Ao Bai had no choice but to go up and grab him, and Ji Xiang pushed him recklessly. Ao Bai has been in a bad mood recently, and he fell back to the ground hard when he was pushed by Ji Xiang.

Ji Xiang didn't expect Ao Bai to be so indifferent now, so he paused for a moment.

Ao Bai didn't care about it, he got up and grabbed him: "It will be dawn soon... wait a minute."

Jixiang stared at him without blinking his round eyes. "I want to go back now, Ao Bai."

"If you don't let us go out at dawn, I will help you get out no matter what I say." Ao Bai held Jixiang tightly and didn't let go. "Don't worry, since the second brother told us to sleep, it may not be a big deal. You... wait a moment. It's dawn, and I'll go with you to ask."