Although I was not the young master they were looking for, they treated me very well, and at supper gave me two nests made of sand millet, one of the few plants that could grow in the barren land, and the only food to feed my stomach here. The www.biquge.info plant is slender and curved, clinging to sand dunes and stone crevices, and its roots are much thicker than the stems on the surface, budding in spring and flowering in summer, and the beige flowers are almost indistinguishable with the naked eye, and grow into a harvest in autumn. When the demons fled to this place, they found that the seeds of this plant were edible, so they planted them in a large area. Sand millet is dry in the mouth, but high in sugar, which can also solve the basic food problem. When I first came, I saw a large area of sand millet not far away, but unfortunately the demon clan's current water source can only provide drinking, not enough to water plants, so the sand millet I see are all dry vines, and as far as the eye can see, it is all desolate. Looking at the young men who were gnawing on their nests and giving water to the old people, I declined their kindness, and the two sand millets were their rations for two days: "I am a spirit, and I don't need to eat." "The spirits generated by the aura in nature do not need to eat, and grow by absorbing the aura. And the demon clan is very angry, and obviously has not received the gift of heaven and earth. They need to eat like humans, and they are naturally irritable and aggressive, so there are not a few people who die because of internal conflicts, these are all stories I heard. Maybe it's hunger that makes them lose their fighting spirit, maybe it's reality that wears away their pride, in short, the demons I see are all withered and thin old and weak, living on a little water and food, suffering the curse of God because of their previous sins, and worrying all day long for an unimaginable tomorrow. The rocks of the barren mountains clearly depict the murals of the history of the demons, and they are uninhibited and uninhibited.

There is no landscape in the barren land, the fourth uncle is afraid that I will be bored, so he took me around, the sun is setting, the whole barren land is dyed red, the wind and sand blow, tragic and desolate. The sand under his feet was still hot, and the fourth uncle said that it would still be hot in the depths of the sand at night. At the foot of the second barren mountain there is a long cave, and there is a spring in the depths of the cave, which is the only source of water in the barren land. The fourth uncle looked at the spring with a complicated and sad expression: "We have survived on this spring for more than a thousand years. It's just that more than a hundred years ago, Heavenly Court sent thunder to this place, and since then, the spring has become smaller, not to mention, the demon who drank this water has no new life, and now the entire demon clan is only the little flower you saw before, and the two frail and sick Komatsu Xiaoshuang, these three children. As you can see, the sand millet can't grow, we have lost the only food, and we can't afford it, so we can only rely on robbery to ensure that we don't starve to death, but there are many foreign Taoists near the barrier, and when they see it, they start fighting, and we have no food and no strength, and many young people have died because of this. May all the retribution befall us who deserve to die, how innocent the children are. The demons are really going to perish. The fourth uncle looked at the entrance of the cave as he spoke, and from this angle he could see the whole process of the sunset descending, and as the last ray of light disappeared into the horizon, the night came. The fourth uncle slowly closed his eyes, a tear slipped down, I subconsciously caught it, and I saw the rise and fall of the entire demon clan, remorse, anger, despair and desolation, what he said was true.

When I slept, they gave me the best cave, with a slate of stone, and even a quilt, and a dense sand vine in the cover, which was cold at night, but I was better than they were naturally able to keep out the cold. No insects can be heard here at night, only the sound of the wind calling in the distance. Maybe it was because I had heard and seen so much and bitter that I couldn't sleep after lying down for a long time, so I got up and sat down at the mouth of the cave, and the stars in the sky seemed to be within reach, but they were so far away. The stars here are brighter, more beautiful, and more lonely than those seen outside the barrier. Under the same starry sky, it is hard for me to imagine that there is still a barren land in the world.

"Do you want a star?" When I heard the familiar voice, I thought I had heard it wrong, and I realized that it was really Jiang Mata: "You're here." I smiled when I saw him and swept the ground with my hand casually: "Sit, sit." He sat cross-legged beside me and bent his eyebrows in a good mood: "Why, are you so happy to see me?"

"Because when I saw you, I knew I would be able to go home soon. ”

“......”

"Young master, are you really the young master of the demon clan?"

His eyes darkened: "You know everything?"

"Well, I've heard it all. Then if you are really the young master of the demon clan, can you stay and help them?"

"Why?"

"Because you're the young master of the demon clan. Although they had instigated the Demon King to dominate the world before, they had already repented and reformed, and they had been punished enough. Seeing that he didn't speak, I lowered my head and played with the sand on the ground: "Look, there is sand everywhere here, and they live a very hard life. “

"Do you have to rob it if you work hard, what is the difference between this and the beginning. The corners of Jiang Yu's mouth were mocking: "Do you know, when my parents were in different places, I was about the same size as you now, for me at that time, I didn't know the world, I didn't know power, I only cared about them." My father didn't resist the temptation to go to war, and he was at fault for himself, but after all these years, I don't want to think about those things anymore. If you want to get something that doesn't belong to you, you should pay the price. My parents are gone, so what do I have to do with these people? His eyes were already dark red, as if he was trying to suppress his anger. It's the first time I've heard Jiang Ma say so many things at once, and it's also the first time I've seen him emotionally exposed. So I stood up, put my arm around his head, and patted him on the back gently, just like Granny Meng did when she comforted me. After a while, I only heard him chuckle: "Hmph, you are not small." Let's go, take you back to the underworld. ”

"Now?"

"Or else?"

"But I haven't said goodbye to them yet. ”

"Just them, it's worth it?" I was a little unhappy when he said that: "Don't talk about them like that, they really want you to come back." ”

Jiang Yu looked down at me, I couldn't quite understand his eyes: "You can meet them, they are almost out of food now, and there is a problem with the water source, and now there are only 3 children in the entire demon clan." ”

“......”

"They can't have children after drinking that water. ”

“......”

"The demons are almost gone. Meet them. ”

“...... You're just talking to them?" He said, turning and leaving. I was in a hurry, and raised my voice: "If you don't see them, I won't leave!" The demon people have a keen sense of hearing, and after listening to my voice, they went out of the cave one by one, and after seeing Jiang Mata, they knelt down with excitement: "Young master, young master, you can come back, we are finally saved." “

"Who said I came to save you? "Listening to Jiang Yu's cold words, the demon people are stupid, the young master doesn't save them, how can anyone help them. At this time, the fourth uncle suddenly bowed to me: "Mrs. Young Master, please save us." The others were also sick and rushed to the doctor, and worshiped me with the fourth uncle, and I was shocked: "Don't worship don't worship, I'm not the young master's wife, you worship wrong." "But they don't seem to listen anymore, so I can only ask Jiang Mata for help with my eyes.

"Get up. As soon as Jiang Yu spoke, it was more useful than me to say ten words, and everyone immediately fell silent, staring at him eagerly, waiting for him to continue speaking. Jiang Yu was silent for a while, then picked me up and walked in the direction of the enchantment: "At noon the day after tomorrow, send some young and strong people to the enchantment to pick up food." ”

The fourth uncle reacted the fastest: "Young Master Xie, Mrs. Young Master Xie." The others shouted along. Jiang Ma walked with his back to them, and my hand was about to shake off in front of them, but it didn't work, and I put my head on Jiang Mata's shoulder weakly: "Young master, why don't you explain to them, I am obviously not the young master's wife." ”

"They want to call it that, what can I do. “

”......“

At this time-

"Fourth uncle, didn't you say that you can't be sure that Xiao Shi is the young master's wife set by the young master, why did you call it first. “

"Don't you see the purse hanging from the young master's waist?"

"What's the matter with the embroidered grimace, it must be used to ward off evil spirits. “

The fourth uncle looked at Jiang Hou, and his face hated iron and steel: "Even if it is used to ward off evil spirits, the young master will not hang such an ugly one, a woman of a certain age can't embroider such an ugly grimace even if she is blind, the only reasonable explanation is that the purse is from Meng Xiaoshi's hand." So Xiao Shi may not quite understand it yet, but the position in the young master's heart should have been set a long time ago. ”

"Oh~ I see. High, really high. No wonder Fourth Uncle you can be a military advisor, we can't. ”

When I returned to the underworld, I was really startled, almost all the people in the underworld came, and the entire Huangquan Road was almost blocked: "Hey, Xiaoshi is back, Xiaoshi is back." When Granny Meng heard this, she immediately threw away the soup bowl in her hand and rushed over, and the ghost who was about to drink the medicine and reincarnate was stunned: "What's the situation, I'm in a hurry to reincarnate Okay, why did you drop my bowl directly! I want to be reincarnated, is there anyone?" Granny Meng hugged me and cried, and the aunts and aunts around her also wiped their tears: "How pitiful we are Xiaoshi, we were kidnapped at such a young age, what if we are frightened." "No, it's all to blame on those two demons. Hearing this, I subconsciously went to look at Jiang Mata, but found that he had already left.

The king of Hades was also greatly relieved to see me come back: "Okay, good, fortunately, Xiao Shi is back, and the heavenly court has asked me to take Xiao Shi to register my name tomorrow." As soon as she finished speaking, Granny Meng hugged me and cried again: "Then will we Xiaoshi come back-" The aunts also kept asking around the king of Hades: "Yes, the last time the people from the heavenly court came, the old man wanted to take Xiaoshi away, what if you take Xiaoshi and they don't let him bring it back?" "Yes, I don't see that they don't look like good people, what if we bully Xiaoshi? When the time comes, who will Xiaoshi talk to, who can help her settle down?" Hades was asked anxiously, and shouted: "You must be able to come back! Meng Po, don't worry, I will definitely bring Xiaoshi back to you completely. I want to let the people of Heavenly Court know that these Three Realms are not yet their turn to do whatever they want!"

After everything was explained, I bought the white cloud cake and went to the store, and the shopkeeper Mo was very happy to see that I came back safely, and gave me a look and asked me to give the white cloud cake to Jiang Mata.

"Young owner, thank you this time. ”

"Oh, thank you?"

"This is the white cloud cake I bought. ”

"Anything that can be bought with money is not sincere. ”

"That's—"

"Come and pinch my shoulder, I don't know what you usually eat, it's so heavy. ”

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