Chapter 12: The King's Gift
Nearly half a minute later, Ling Jiuchuan sighed indistinctly.
The girl then laughed, "Well, when you want to send her back, just come to me." β
Ling Jiuchuan said "um".
Shu Kui saw that his words were not taken seriously by the two of them at all, and he couldn't help but be even more angry, and wanted to say something, but he was on guard because he saw the girl slowly coming over.
"Don't be afraid, I won't do anything to you." The girl stood still in front of her, "My name is Shi Shennuo, and I am the king of the Shengze Kingdom, a friend of Ling Jiuchuanβsince you are his friend, you are also my friend. What happened just now, I'm very sorry, you sued me for who hit you, I'll go back and chop off that guy's hand. β
These words made Shu Kui not know what to do.
Shi Shennuo saw that she was silent, thought about it for a while, didn't say anything more, and after a few words of greeting, he said goodbye and left.
Yuxiao summoned the medical officer who was already waiting outside the main hall to give Shu Kui medicine.
"Why didn't you let her send me back?" Shu Kui inhaled in pain, and did not forget to attack Ling Jiuchuan.
Ling Jiuchuan looked at him left and right: "Here, mortals are either food or slaves, just like you treat ordinary animals. β
"In the world, even if you fall in love with someone else's dog, you won't rob it so openly." Although he didn't want to be compared to animals, Shu Kui still made an analogy with great resentment.
Seeing that Ling Jiuchuan had successfully changed the topic, he relaxed his body and leaned on the back of the throne: "It's not a robbery, it's because our family has been friends since my grandparents, and we have a good relationship, and I have known her for nearly a thousand years, and I often go to each other's places, and if I like something, I take it away when I say it, so today, she also thinks that I will definitely give you to her." β
"It's too horizontal, it's too unreasonable." Shu Kui still didn't deflat.
"Shi Shennuo's character is like this, he is not a bad person, just contact him a few more times." Ling Jiuchuan stood up and stepped down from the throne, "She has already apologized to you, forget it." β
Since then, even if this matter has passed, no one has mentioned it again, Shu Kui has also begun to go to work on time every day, with great worry about his parents and sister, browsing the books in the building day after day, hoping to find any clues that can bring him back to the world.
During this period, Yuxiao came to return the bill for the leaves she had left in the garden, and she also visited Jin Luoluo and wanted to return the gold tael, but Jin Luoluo refused to accept anything.
The wound on the face, even if the medicine is applied every day, it still heals very slowly, and after two weeks, it is still a bruised palm print, but the swelling has disappeared a lot, and it is not so painful.
That afternoon, she was reading a book on the third floor of Wanji Building, when she suddenly heard a noise downstairs.
"Shu Kui, are you there?" Someone was calling her name.
She walked downstairs and found that it was Shi Shennuo standing in the hall.
"Hey." Shi Shennuo greeted with a big grin, and ordered the person behind him to put a one-foot-square brocade box on the front desk, "Give it to you, open it and take a look." β
Shu Kui was surprised, and out of politeness, thanked him and reached out to open the box.
At first glance, she saw that on the red velvet, there seemed to be a small dry tree, and on the short trunk there were five branches of different lengths, but the color was gray and black, as if it had been burned.
"This is the hand that hit you, and I chopped it off." Shi Shennuo said lightly.
Shu Kui was startled and subconsciously took a step back.
Shi Shennuo didn't notice her panic, and instead picked up the small bottle placed under the severed hand: "And this, medicine." β
As he spoke, he looked at Shu Kui's face: "Your ability to recover is really not good, it's been half a month, and there is such a big mark." Take it and use it for a few days, guaranteed to leave no traces. β
Just as Shu Kui was wary and hesitated to pick it up, Jin Luoluo came from outside the door.
"Hello, Majesty Shennuo." She folded her hands on her lower abdomen and bowed.
"yes, okay." Shi Shennuo didn't seem to like Jin Luoluo very much, "What are you doing here?" β
"She's my friend." Shu Kui hurriedly replied.
"Friends again?" Shi Shennuo looked at Jin Luoluo, and when he saw her nodding, he couldn't help teasing, "The popularity is really good." β
Shu Kui didn't say anything, and Jin Luoluo was silent.
"One or two drops a day, applied to the wound, can only be used by Shu Kui alone." Shi Shennuo put the small bottle back in the brocade box, and waved his hand while turning around: "Let's go, let's talk." β
Shu Kui watched her drift away, then turned to the severed hand and the medicine bottle in the brocade box, not knowing what to do with them.
Jin Luoluo also noticed the brocade box, leaned over, pointed to the medicine bottle and asked, "Let me see it?" β
Of course, Shu Kui will not disagree: "Well, what is this? β
"Green Epitome Gyokuro." Jin Luoluo picked up the medicine bottle, "There is a cyan epiphyllum in Shengzeguo, which blooms once in July every hundred years, and only blooms for about five minutes, when the flower blooms to the extreme, the whole flower is plucked and immediately put into the first dew after the white dew of the previous year to soak, so that no matter how long it is soaked, the flower will not **, and the color of the dew will slowly turn blue." β
"Is it wound medicine?" Shu Kui asked again.
"It can be healed, but not the best. Its main effect is actually beauty, as long as two or three drops a day, not to mention scar removal and freckle removal, it can also maintain the appearance of agelessness, so that the skin is fair and delicate. Jin Luoluo pulled the cork, glanced inside, and handed the medicine bottle to Shu Kui, "This color may have been soaked for a long time." β
Shu Kui leaned over to take a look, and there was only a small half bottle of water inside, which was clear and transparent, like a piece of fine jade.
"The number of Qingtan is very small, Qingtan Yulu is a specialty of Shengze Kingdom, very precious, I have never seen it, I just heard about it." Jin Luoluo recorked the bottle and looked at the brocade box for a moment, "This box seems to have two layers. β
"Really?" Shu Kui didn't pay attention at all.
"Why don't you let the little ones try?" Bai Jingzhi, who had been standing next to him, finally found a chance to serve.
With a broken hand inside, Shu Kui didn't want to touch the brocade box at all, and now she sees someone who can help her, of course, it's the best.
Bai Jingzhi came to the brocade box, touched the edge with both hands, and soon found two shallow pits in front of the hinges connected to the lid and the body of the box.
The lower layer is only about two inches high, and on top of the black velvet, there is a bottle lying horizontally, sealed with wax, the neck is relatively short, and the bottle body is flat and large, which occupies the whole space. The bottle was a transparent liquid, colorless, and in the middle was a large flower, verdant, as if carved from jasper.
"Shengze Qingtan!" Bai Jingzhi's eyes widened, and even his voice changed.
"This is the cyan epiphany?" Shu Kui doesn't know much about flowers and plants, and he has never seen what epiphany looks like.
Jin Luoluo nodded, staring at the bottle tightly.
Bai Jingzhi carefully took out the bottle, and while turning the bottle to admire the flowers inside, he was amazed: "Shen Nuo is really generous, not to mention sending a small bottle of aged jade dew, but also to give a flower that was soaked a few years ago, she is sincerely apologizing." β
"She deserves a good apology." Shu Kui stroked his cheeks, and the unhappiness in his heart finally decreased slightly.
Then, when he turned his head, he suddenly found that Jin Luoluo had always been holding the small bottle of Qingtan Yulu, and he was reluctant.
"I'll give it to you." Shu Kui has long wanted to return her favor.
"That's not good, Shen Nuo said it was for you." Jin Luoluo suddenly realized his gaffe, smiled embarrassedly, and put the small bottle back in the brocade box, "You don't know her temper, she personally brought such a valuable thing, and took special care of it, if you transfer it to others, she will definitely be furious, in this way, it will be very difficult for you to figure out the Shengze Kingdom and return to the world in the future." β
"Can Tong GuΓ² Shengze Kingdom really return to the world?" Shu Kui felt that hope had returned.
"yes." Jin Luoluo was very strange to hear such a question, "Didn't you sue you?" There is a passage in the Holy Ze country that leads specifically to the human world, and the warlocks of the Holy Ze can freely travel back and forth between the three realms and the human world. β
"He never sued me." Shu Kui was surprised and a little angry, "I always thought that if I wanted to go back, in addition to asking the immortals and demons to help, there was only one way to go to the Dao, I thought that Shi Shennuo knew the immortals or demons, or she had already become immortals and demons." β
"The passage of the Holy Ze Kingdom is not a secret - he probably doesn't want to owe Shen Nuo XiΓ affection." Jin Luoluo thought of a reason for Ling Jiuchuan to excuse him.
Shu Kui snorted: "He just doesn't want me to go back, this miser, probably still afraid that I will run away and repay the debt." β
After a pause, he felt that something was wrong: "Then if there is a passage to the world in Shengze, why don't you usually see you going, and you must wait for sixty years to open the road?" β
"That passage is specially for human beings, not to mention us, even the citizens of the Youlan Kingdom with human blood can't pass through." Jin Luoluo replied, "It is said that a long, long time ago, when the Great God of Nuwa created these three realms, he personally set a prohibition, and no one could break it. β
"Why don't you go to the world? Is it because you like to eat people? Shu Kui thought of the conversation when he first met Ling Jiuchuan, "You have always been human, are you really trying to adapt to human life, and when you all go to the road, you can go over and catch people to eat?" β
"Of course not." Jin Luoluo denied it loudly, and looked surprised, "When you maintain your human form, it will be slightly easier to cultivate, that's all." β
Hearing this, Shu Kui stopped talking, and Ling Jiuchuan's face that wanted to smile or not appeared in front of him, and he felt that he had been completely fooled.
"If the two of you are willing to listen, I still know a little about the origin of the Three Frontiers." Bai Jingzhi cleared his throat beside him and spoke.
Shu Kui and Jin Luoluo glanced at each other and said in unison: "You say." β
Bai Jingzhi asked them to sit down first, then cleared his throat and told the legend he knew.