Chapter 1863

Xia De looked sideways at the withered and blackened roses in the display window behind him, and then continued to greet:

"Mr. Asmon, long time no see. Rain, night, flower shop, candle, our meeting this time is in such an interesting environment again. Do you want to sit down and talk?"

The demon scholar didn't care that the environment here was very bad, and sat down at the table in front of the flower shop. After the sleeves of his robe brushed across the table, the notebook he carried with him, whose corners were even curled, was placed on the table.

Xia De pointed to himself:

"I spent most of the spring in Randall Valley. I have to admit that the spring there is really beautiful. After the Golden Dawn Opera Troupe left Randall Valley, I also left. Later I went to Willundell City, and wanted to go to Tobesk to watch the city-wide equestrian competition, but because of some trivial matters, I delayed the time... boring police... so I came here, wanting to see if there is anything fresh during the negotiations between the two countries."

He said with a smile:

"The assassination not long ago, I was also at the scene. I plan to use that assassination as a blueprint to write a good detective and spy novel. "Hamilton Detective Story Collection" will probably meet its opponent. Oh, speaking of which, why, are there rumors of demons in the Green Lake area too?"

Mr. Xiao En Asmon leaned forward slightly, his black eyes staring at Xia De in the candlelight:

"Assassination? That is a short shower before conspiracy and war. However, meeting by chance is indeed suitable for telling stories. Yes, there are legends of demons locally, so I came here for this. It is rumored that this island in the center of Green Lake is called 'Devil's Island'. You stayed in the City of Glass for half a month, and then arrived here, inquiring about the legend of the Edwards family that has fallen for a hundred years."

"Oh?"

"Met a girl again, since I bear the responsibility of sealing demons, I shouldn't have any connection with anyone. You can see that my life was decided to seal demons alone when I was young, and it walked towards a destined tragedy."

In addition to the name "Sad Opera", people also call it "Seventeen Famous Tragedies". As for "The Wedding at Lehman Manor", it tells the story of the flower gardener and the cook in the manor falling in love, and the love-hate entanglement of three generations of the family about love, ethics, wealth, and power triggered by that love. The background is a magnificent national epic. And all these contradictions broke out at a wedding banquet on a rainy night, and finally the flower gardener shot and killed almost everyone, and walked away in the rainy night with the cook's corpse, and was struck by lightning in the final act of the story.

"Didn't go to the island, after all, it is rumored that there are demons there, can't contact it so easily, isn't it?"

The two prepared to draw cards. Although it is strange to play cards on the street on a rainy night under a candle, the atmosphere is indeed very good.

Watson commented, and finally touched his third card:

Xiao En Asmon smiled at Watson on the other side of the candle:

At the end of this opera, including the pet dog and the named horse, all the famous characters who appeared died, which is simply a tragedy among tragedies. Of course, this is also the type of story that Duo Luo Xi dislikes the most.

Watson said with a smile, the strange smile on the face of the woman wearing a brown robe became more intense:

"And in the robber group, I rescued a noble girl who was caught by robbers while resting in the village, trying to extort ransom from her family afterwards."

"Yes, yes, I am very looking forward to continuing to hear the follow-up of this story."

Watson was a little surprised.

He then walked a long road until one day, the grown-up boy met the girl he liked and fell in love with her. When she wanted to keep the young man, the young man killed her, just to ensure that after he died, the demon would not become his appearance and come to collect the girl's soul."

The demon scholar across the table displayed Star 9, Flower 5, and Sun 10:

Watson said from the heart.

Fortunately, this is a story adapted from traditional literature, not an ancient fairy tale, so Watson doesn't have to worry about having to study it deeply in the future.

Although he busted, he didn't look surprised at all, then ended the second round with Watson:

"Even if it was raining, the burning fire still reflected half of the night sky, the broken limbs of the villagers were twisted in the village, and the wailing wounded were turned into ashes in the fire. The middle-aged man walked from the village, walking towards the robbers who were setting fire for fun in the rain. The pitch-black shadow emerged from behind him, and the sharp long sword sought justice for the innocent. Even if it was using the power of the sealed demon, walking through the long road for so many years had made him strong enough."

He took back his cards and shuffled them with Watson.

"Why, did you get special rule cards again?"

"In just a few sentences, a person has walked through half a life."

Watson asked the woman across the table, who put her left arm on her leg and leaned forward slightly:

"It seems you are still lacking some luck."

He looked at the candlelight, and in the increasingly loud rain, he repeated this long and strange story:

"Sun 5, Star 13. Oh, the first round gave me a problem."

After the woman died, the demon took his soul, returned to his hometown in one night, and devoured all his relatives. But those respectable people were all trying their best to protect the youngest girl. The girl did not escape the demon by keeping silent, but made a wish like the original woman: I am willing to be like my grandfather, using my whole life to seal him.

"No problem. Of course, we can't forget our story that hasn't been finished yet."

"The protagonist of that story is still this young man who grew up. He killed his lover in the village by the river, and then continued his journey to the distance. He walked and walked, walked and walked, saw more things, and experienced more tragedies. After an unknown amount of time, the middle-aged man who sealed the demon with himself, on a rainy night, yes, just like this night, came to a village looted by robbers."

"No, compared to the tavern, I prefer this kind of gloomy and dark environment. In this wonderful environment, talking about stories with friends is really wonderful. Wine is unnecessary, Mr. Xia De, do you want to play Luo De cards? Just like in the past, I use Luo De cards to exchange for travel expenses."

"Maybe sometimes you really have to try your luck, less than 4 is fine, I have already... oh, Moon 1, it seems my luck is not bad. 19 points, I stop."

"So Mr. Xia De, do you remember where the story went?"

The demon scholar didn't answer, and continued to reach out to his deck:

"Yes, I have never liked tragedies."

Watson pretended to be interested, listening to the sound of rain, looking at the face of the strange woman in the candlelight:

The card game adopts the most classic two-out-of-three system. If a tie occurs, it will not stop until one side wins two games. The gameplay also doesn't add any tricks. Watson feels that facing the one across from him, the scholar who seems to have walked out from before the steam era, he should be more traditional.

"This is not luck. An old gentleman who entrusted me to investigate the demon curse entangling his family used this as a reward. But in fact, there is no demon curse there. It was just the figures of the flower gardener and the washerwoman having an affair at night."

"The last story was really helpless and sad, but the circus magician who played cards with us at the time and I couldn't say the young man's choice was wrong. If he didn't do that, the girl's end would probably be exactly the same as the young man's family."

Watson sighed:

【Sad Opera · The Wedding at Lehman Manor】, suit Sun 11. When drawing this card, throw a coin to guess the front and back. If the guess is correct, and the total points of the hand including the dark card are even, you can choose whether to discard this card and redraw.

"So you are investigating this, interesting, so did you go to the island? It is rumored that the island is shrouded in white fog all year round."

The first dark card and the second card were drawn. The card Watson was facing up was Star 13, which belongs to the largest number. He smiled, inserted Star 13 under the dark card, picked up the latter gently, and had no intention of hiding the first card:

He took out his deck and handed it to Lin Lu across the candle. Lin Lu opened the first card and saw that in the background of the card, a strange white figure was dancing with a strange figure in a red long skirt, and behind him was a burning manor building.

"A wonderful existence, because of people's cognition, it really has the power of demons in the rumors. It brings disaster to the world, until it meets a person who has no wishes, and because of the 'wish' of the other party to seal the demon, it accompanies this man through his life.

"This caution is really remarkable, it's a pity that we are not in the tavern now, otherwise I really want to invite you to have a drink."

"Of course."

"Oh, Sad Opera series."

Watson sighed softly.

"Mr. Xia De, as a writer, do you dislike tragedies?"

"Although it is a series released more than ten years ago, because it has not been reprinted for the time being, plus the card face is very exquisite, the price of 【Sad Opera】 series cards has always been high. Let me think... if I win, 40 pounds to buy this card, if I lose, 55 pounds to buy this card, how about it?"

Lin Lu sighed, and placed the shuffled deck to the left of the candle, and Mr. Asmon's deck was placed to the right of the candle.

The first two cards of the second round came to Watson's hand. He took a look and continued to draw cards, while the yellow-skinned woman across the table stopped drawing cards, her body tilted forward, still staring at Watson.

Watson nodded:

The demon scholar's white eyes in the eye sockets were also looking at Watson, he shook his head:

"Sad Opera" series, which includes traditional operas that end in tragedy. Corresponding to it is the "Happy Opera" series deck.

PS: The picture in this chapter is "Luo Luo De Pai - Sad Opera · The Wedding at Lehman Manor".