The Throne Under the Starry Sky Chapter 54: The Skeleton Bride (Part 2)

At around 7 o'clock that evening, the golden sun fell into the mountains to the west. Toba and Long Ji accompanied Jona to the center of the cherry crossing, and helped the astrologer to climb to the roof of the old man.

This small wooden house was rebuilt by the head of the room in two days after the last unfortunate house destruction accident. It is based on the old man’s principle of repairing the old as before, regardless of the mottled wooden door, the bumpy roof or the varnish. The peeling exterior walls have kept the appearance of being broken for decades. I don’t know where Toba got the broken building materials. In short, the old man is quite satisfied with Toba’s craftsmanship, and he personally promised that the Pitchfork team has the destruction team. The unlimited rights of the wooden house, the premise is that the head of the room can be perfectly rebuilt as this time.

But as we all know, the old man’s personal promises have no effect. Cherry Du is a town that operates on the 55 additional clauses of the guest room lease agreement, and the protector himself has not made any amendments to the additional clauses in 20 years.

Jonah raised his staff, skillfully captured the interstellar line, and lit the illuminated star array in the red crystal at the top of the staff. The light gradually increased, the darkness receded like a tide, and a brilliant lamp lit up in the center of the cherry crossing.

"Have you had dinner, boy?" The old man said hello from the hole in the tin roof.

"I have eaten, old man." Jonah waved at the blind old man. He has no fear of the undefeated legend, the protector of Cherry Crossing, Mr. Daddy, he feels like Mr. Koshava, an old man who is not serious and loves to chat.

"It's a hard journey, is Sucasa Canyon fun? Have you seen the beautiful Archon?" The old man squeezed his eyebrows.

Jonah coughed twice, throwing Miss Rose Rose's honor from his mind. "It's very interesting, I hope I have a chance to stroll around. I saw the Archon, uh...I was very impressed." He answered honestly.

Long Ji fluttered with joy behind her back.

"Ross is a very smart little girl, I like her. If she comes here to help, that guy at Yamu will be a lot easier." The old man chirped and stretched out his hand: "Hey, Saint Boren Maltose, a little bit, you won’t be afraid of sticking your teeth off, at least forty years before I reach half my age, don’t be afraid."

Jona hesitated to bend down, take a small piece of hometown candy from the hole, and put it in his mouth. It's cool and sweet.

The old man took off the white square hat, lying on the bed comfortably, lighting up his pipe. The smell of smoke rose from the hole and dissipated in the light blue air.

"I will sleep for a while, and don't wake me up when I get off work." The old man finished smoking a bag of cigarettes and put on a brown felt cloak, and said to the three people in the pitchfork team.

"Yes, daddy." Standing at the side of the house, Toba was one head higher than the house, rubbing his hands uneasily, shrinking his huge body to an unobtrusive size as much as possible.

Except for the sound of rushing water beyond the holy river, Cherry Du was bright and quiet.

Jonah stood tired, changed his posture, and caught sight of Long Ji staring at him with thoughtful eyes. Jonah felt a little cramped, pretending not to look at her, and couldn't help peeking at her. Every time he looked back, he collided with Long Ji's sight. Gradually, the astrologer apprentice blushed. With his free left hand, he could not help tidying up his robe and hood, rubbing the corners of his clothes.

"You spent a lot of time reading that book." Without warning, Long Ji spoke.

"Uh...what?" Jonah became nervous, turned around, and couldn't help reaching out to touch the untitled book scraps in his underwear pocket.

"What kind of bear is that big book?" Long Ji gestured.

"Oh. Yes. I...want to learn more." Jonah quietly breathed a sigh of relief. The Eastern woman was talking about one of the two astrology textbooks he had brought with him. The primary practical application of the interstellar line between the star "Bear" and the seventh house of the seventh house "small boat". He did spend a lot of time on it, especially the offensive star formation chapter, but he didn't have a mentor by his side and progress was very slow.

"In my country, there is an astrological tower that is too high to see how high it is. At night, the top of the tower glows beautifully with red and green lights, and you can see it no matter how far away it is." Long Ji Looking at the little sun in Jonah's hand dreamily, Jonah's bewildered face was reflected in the dark pupils.

She rarely talks about her past and hides her experience so deeply that Jonah doesn't know how to continue the topic.

The young man moved his lips, uttered many meaningless syllables, and finally spelled out a whole sentence: "I... uh, I used to live on such a tower."

"I know. Do you also emit red and green lights at night?" Long Ji stared at him.

"Yes, sometimes, when Ke... Teacher Koshava turns on the zodiac signs." Jonah felt that his tongue was more stupid than ever.

"Can you tell me something?" Long Ji leaned close to him with interest, and the silver bells in her hair rang softly. A subtle smell blew into Jonah's nostrils. Elegant fragrance. The taste of women.

"Okay, okay, of course." Jonah avoided the dark-haired woman's gaze, casting his eyes on the mottled tin roof.

"Uh, the star map of the zodiac is a very huge device. Teacher Koshava said that every astrology tower is equipped with a star map at the top, and only the owner of the tower can open it.

When an astrologer with a star chart needs to carry out survey work, he drives the energy star array, the zodiac star chart will rise from the center of the tower top platform, suspended in the air, and project all the main stars of the zodiac on the tower The transparent dome of the top.

You know, the stars in the sky appear in pairs. One of the stars in each pair is the primary star, which is represented by red; the other is the secondary star, which is represented by green. So the entire star map is red and green. A light array composed of stars, between each pair of red and green stars, a pale white line representing the interstellar line is suspended.

I have secretly watched Mr. Koshava turn on the zodiac star map. I don't understand the star map that is too complicated, but it is beautiful, so beautiful. Dreams like fireworks and fireflies dancing together. I, I never know what it should look like from the outside. I guess, it's also beautiful. "

"Yes, it's beautiful, as you said, it's like fireworks and fireflies—we would say, fireworks and streaming fireflies flying in the night sky." Long Ji cast her lonely eyes to the endless starry sky.

Jona didn't know what to say, but fortunately the Eastern woman didn't ask him to say anything. The two people quietly shared a tacit silence.

"I want to take a look. Take a look at my daughter-in-law and baby in the sky. Just look at it from a distance, from a distance. It sounds really good." Toba said. The head of the room put his big head wearing a small hat on the eaves, looking yearning. "The Mushroom Farm has nothing but mushrooms. They have never seen the sea, the holy river, or anything. It's a loss."

"They... they can see it." Jonah quickly comforted

"Really, Master Astrologer? Did the Star God tell you that?" Toba opened his eyes and creaked the tin roof with his fingers.

Jonah patted his forehead.

After a painful choice, he decided to tell a lie. "Yes," he nodded and said, the star **** said to me that all people in the sky can see the beautiful scenery on the ground, and everything we can see, they can see from the stars. In fact, they are now looking at us from a certain star. Maybe here, maybe there. "

Jona's fingers crossed the vast starry sky.

Toba was silent. He took off his cap and looked up at the starry sky with an expression of awe and joy.

At this moment, he is the most devout astrologer, Jonah thought.

He turned his head, looked at Long Ji, and exchanged a knowing smile.

Time seems to freeze.

I don't know how long it took, Jonah looked down at the hourglass on Daddy's desk from the hole in the roof. Most of the sand had flowed away, and the four hours of work was almost over. Jonah moved his stiff cervical spine and swapped his staff to his left hand. The star array fluctuated due to this movement, and the light dimmed for a moment.

The tranced Long Ji seemed to be awakened. She sighed softly. Through the endless sound of water beyond the holy river, Jonah heard the sigh and also tasted the bitterness of the sigh.

"That...Long Ji." He summoned up the courage to speak, summoned up the courage to call out the woman's name.

"Huh?" The woman looked at him.

"I don’t understand what a sorcerer is, uh, it’s not about your past, but about your profession... You know, my teacher won’t teach me this. I asked Eli this morning, he didn’t Explain..." Yona hesitated to find the right wording.

"It's okay." Long Ji didn't seem to dislike this conversation. "Sorcerer is your name for those with special abilities in the East. In my country, there is no such vocabulary.

My country is made up of countless families. Each family has a long history, strict generation, huge scale and unique ability to pass on from generation to generation. Abilities are inherited based on clan kinship. The ‘clan kins’ inheriting abilities from the patrilineal bloodline are inherited. The ‘clan branches’ that are introduced into foreign bloodlines usually do not have family abilities. The abilities of the members of each family are different mutations based on the same trait (ie bloodline ability). In this way, I wonder if you understand? "

"Probably understand..." Jonah replied blushing.

Long Ji smiled and said: "For you Westerners, the concept of clan is difficult to explain clearly. Let’s put it this way, there are many families in my country, and some families have bloodline ability, some of them have bloodline ability. They are capable of combat. Some members of a family with combat effectiveness have the ability to inherit from their clan, and some of the clan members who inherit the ability will lose combat effectiveness due to their ability mutations. The remaining people are what you call the "Sorcerer". Say, do you understand?"

"Understood a lot." Jonah nodded. He also noticed that Long Ji kept using the phrase "my country". Few people would describe the motherland like that. Although he was surprised, he didn't ask about it.

"For example, my surname is Long. I am a clan who inherits the surname of the Long family and my father's bloodline, so I have the bloodline ability of the Long family.

To put it simply, when the Long Family’s clan members are 49 days old, they will marry the bones of infant boys and girls who have been dead for more than 49 years in a ceremony hosted by the patriarch. The souls of the dead are united by invisible bonds.

From this day on, the dragon family uses their life abilities to provide the undead with nourishment for growth. When the dragon family reaches adulthood, the undead will also develop into adults, and they will have two realms of yin and yang—that is, what you call **** and the world— —The powerful ability of the dragon family to fight by summoning the undead. As for my mutation ability...I can't say to others, I'm sorry. "Long Ji covered her rosy lips.

Jonah stared tremblingly at Long Ji, who was calm and tranquil, and talked about the evil horror rituals of the ancient families of the Eastern Continent in a gentle tone of bedside stories, and replied with a trembling voice: "No, it's okay. Of course. Everyone is a little bit. Secret."

"Also, don't misunderstand!" Long Ji remembered something, and eagerly explained: "'Nether marriage' is a contract, and does not mean a real marriage. Long family members can get married and have children."

"Of course of course." Jonah nodded so violently that his neck bone clicked.

Look at Long Ji again, even though she has the same black hair fluttering and her eyes are like water, she has a black halo that exudes the weird smell of the East, making people...like moths throwing fire, they want to get closer. . Jonah broke out in a cold sweat thinking of this.