The aroma of Guilan seemed to linger on the tip of his nose, and Tsing Yi approached Hei Saburo, sniffing his hair and shoulders like an innocent little beast.

"What's wrong? Smelly? Kurosaburo raised his sleeve and sniffed with a little concern, and then sneezed fiercely with the rich aroma.

Tsing Yi covered her mouth and chuckled, and when she saw Hei Saburo glaring at her with a pair of swarthy eyes, she tensed her face and pretended to be worried: "Oops, but you have a cold?" ”

Hei Saburo twitched the corners of his mouth, and finally turned his head and coughed lightly twice, before he spoke: "Just now Ren Keqing asked the guards to order a large number of vanilla cakes, presumably because they were contaminated with some smell at that time. ”

"Although Laneige vanilla tastes good, it must be reversed, and too much of it will spoil those good things." Tsing Yi couldn't help but sniff his sleeve, and then complained, "It smells a little disgusting, you should change your clothes when you go back." ”

"He just wanted to use the aroma of Laneige to cover up the blood and the demonic spirit of the snakes, so he didn't deliberately make the fragrance, but just used all the spices in one go." Hei Saburo sneered, "Besides, if he doesn't light incense, those snakes smell blood, won't they rush over and suck Xiao Yu dry?" Xiao Yu is far more useful to him than a snake. ”

As they spoke, they had arrived at the inn.

Su Xi seemed to open the curtain for them. Hei Saburo first shook his sleeve robe, then pulled the sleeve of Tsing Yi and shook it gently, and the original dizzy aroma disappeared in an instant.

"I'm afraid that there will be uninvited guests coming to stay at the hotel tonight, so you go to the second floor to clean up a room, place some flowers and plants, light a large incense burner, and paste the doors and windows with fine and transparent spider silk yarn tents." Hei Saburo commanded Su Xi in a condensed voice, "After they come, you will lead them to move in." When they're all in the house, you sprinkle a ring of realgar outside the door. Do you remember? ”

Su Xi nodded slightly with a slender neck like jade & condensed fat, and immediately went to handle the matter.

"Xionghuang Ke Snake Worm, San Lang, how do you know that Xiao Yu and his party will come to the inn?" Tsing Yi said strangely, "They have both tents and guards, and ordinary monsters are also afraid that the feather-clad people will not dare to attack them, even if they are out of the house, there will be no problem." ”

"Ren Keqing and the guards are naturally no problem." Hei Saburo pulled Tsing Yi and walked forward, while explaining, "But Xiao Yu and the snakes need a lot of aura. This is one of the reasons why they have returned from the mortal world at the risk of being discovered by the Feathered Clan. ”

Tsing Yi suddenly realized, and then followed Hei Saburo into the kitchen.

The snake who arrived at the inn early has been locked up by the East Bridge at this time. But Tsing Yi glanced at the snake and couldn't help frowning.

For no other reason, Higashibashi coincidentally chose Orchid's crystal jar as a prison.

Now the snake was rolling in the crystal jar with its teeth bared. Maybe it was struggling too hard, or maybe it was about to molt, Tsing Yi swept away, and saw that many fine black scales had fallen off the crystal tank, and there was even more mucus mixed with traces of blood mottled on the inner wall of the crystal tank.

"This ......," Tsing Yi sighed with a little pity, "I'm afraid the crystal jar won't be able to be used in the future." ”

"Does the little lady like this jar? It's all mine, isn't it-" Higashibashi immediately bowed his head and apologized, "I'll get it out and clean it right away-"

"That's it." Tsing Yi hurriedly stopped, "It's already dirty anyway, so let's leave it like this!" What's more, it's like this, no matter how you look at it, it's not suitable to move anymore. ”

"Yes." Higashibashi's tamed retracted hand stood aside.

Kurosaburo looked at the snake with an expressionless face, and after confirming that the snake's wings had not changed, he turned his head to look at the East Bridge.

Dongqiao hung his head unconsciously, like a dutiful servant.

Hei Saburo narrowed his eyes, and said in a tone that seemed to be asking but was actually affirmative: "Does Dongqiao know how to deal with snakes?" It is said that the snake skin that fades when it transforms into a bird is a good medicine to ward off evil spirits and cure diseases.

"Yes." Higashibashi replied loudly, "I've heard the Ark mention this medicine. But now is not the time, although the snake has already grown scales, but the black scales have not yet feathered, so it will not be able to shed its skin for a while. ”

"Oh!" Kurosaburo smiled and nodded, then looked at Dongqiao's eyes with deep meaning and said, "Then wait a little longer." However, its blood relatives are now on their way to the inn, and if they have not molted its skin by the time they arrive, I am afraid that the snake will not have a chance to get it. ”

Dongqiao's eyes seemed to fluctuate, and even his loyal and honest expression was a little loose.

"It's just a snake molting." Tsing Yi didn't know why Dongqiao was nervous, but casually explained, "There are not a thousand snakes coming to the inn, but a hundred, and when they have enough to stay and leave the inn, you just have to go to their room and pick up enough." ”

Hei Saburo was amused by Tsing Yi's words, but he never opened his mouth to correct Tsing Yi's naïve statement.

When the snake transforms into a bird, it pecks at all the skin it has shed. This kind of behavior abounds among birds, beasts and reptiles, and when the young son is born and transformed, the power required is extraordinary, so they will instinctively eat all the most nourishing eggshell snakes around them.

Tsing Yi didn't know about this, so he could say such light words without distraction, but Dongqiao understood, so he was moved.

However, he is just a servant, according to Ah Lang's meaning, if it is not a last resort, he does not intend to make Tsing Yi feel unhappy.

So while Hei Saburo was teasing Tsing Yi, he quietly went out from the back door with the crystal jar.

Tsing Yi finally pushed Hei Saburo away, and when he was about to start cooking, he found that the usual board had been taken by Dongqiao somewhere.

"Come on, even the board has to be rebuilt." Tsing Yi sighed helplessly with Hei Saburo, "But where is Master Gao?" I haven't seen him much lately! ”

"He-" Kurosaburo smiled mysteriously, "he probably fell into some dirt pit drunk, right?" Who let the sake brewer make all the water veins under the inn into wine! ”

Dongqiao dug a pit at the edge of the stable, and then carefully placed the crystal jar where the snake was held at the bottom of the pit.

There was a faint smell of wine in the shady dirt pit, and he used the moist earth to paste the crystal jar.

The originally frantic snake was quieted down because of this. When he couldn't hear any crashing, he moved a small slit in the board that served as a lid.

The snake lay quietly inside, and the black scales on its body began to become obedient, and there was no feeling of swelling at all.

"You need something to replenish your body." Dongqiao muffled, "And I need your snake to molt—"

The snake raised its head and looked into the sky, and a pair of snake eyes showed a little bit of paint, which looked strange and gloomy.

Higashibashi lowered his head slightly and leaned closer to it, as if waiting for it to respond.

A slender shadow slowly fell from his shoulder to the ground, and the sound of small breaths seemed to be close behind him. Dongqiao shook his fingers with a slight twinkle in his eyes, and did not look back.

"But we're all lucky." He re-covered the board and reached into his arms as if to himself. The shadow on the ground seemed to grow a little larger, and he froze, and turned back sharply.

His dagger drew a bright silver line in the sunlight, and with a dull cracking of silk, a slender youkai fell at his feet with a wail.

He wiped the dagger clean with a clean white cloth, then lifted the neck of the dying monster, aimed its wound at the snake in the crystal jar and said, "There just happened to be a brainless monster sent to the door, you quickly suck up its cultivation, and then molt!" ”

The snake hissed and spat out its red tongue, it raised its head and swayed from side to side a few times, and at the end it seemed to be unable to resist the aura in the monster's body, and with a swing of its tail, it burrowed into the monster's body.

Higashihashi turned the hilt of the knife in his hand, staring intently at the monster under his feet. The sun overhead has begun to turn westward, and the direction of the wind has begun to change.

Wisps of the scent of bluegrass mixed with the unique fishy smell of snakes wafted from afar, and the ground under his feet seemed to tremble slightly.

A large number of snakes were migrating in the direction of the inn, and Higashibashi thought he couldn't withstand that many enemies.

"Can't wait." He calmly broke the monster's body open, and then stretched out his right hand, ready to grab the snake with his bare hands.

Thanks to the snake's indulgence in absorbing aura, it would have bitten him hard.

Dongqiao didn't need to look at it, his big hand was closed, and he directly pinched the snake's three inches.

The snake writhed in rage, wrapped its arms around Higashihashi's arm, and hissed threateningly.

Dongqiao stood up unmoved, he strode towards the kitchen, and threw the snake in his hand directly into the stove in front of Tsing Yi's shock.

"Oh my God—" Tsing Yi exclaimed, and hurriedly stepped forward to grab Dongqiao's hand and said repeatedly, "Why is there so much blood?" Have you been bitten by it? ”

"That's someone else's blood." Hei Saburo reached out and pulled Tsing Yi back to him almost at the same time, and then pointed to the stove and said, "Then look at this." ”

Tsing Yi went to see the stove, which was burning with fire at this time, and the snake that was thrown into the fire screamed and writhed in the flames.

The black scales all over its body exploded, and under the scorching flames, cracks began to appear on the edges of the black scales, and thin filaments resembling feathers appeared, which at first glance looked like a worn-out hemp rope.

Seeing the snake rolling around in the fire in pain, Tsing Yi was shocked, but also a little unbearable to look at its imminent death.

"Little lady, don't worry, you won't burn it to death if you light it like this." Dongqiao wanted to appease Tsing Yi's heart, and was ready to catch the snake in the fire with his bare hands.

Tsing Yi suddenly gasped, and before she could stop it, Fang Zhou's face shook, and he suddenly retracted his hand.

A dark shadow followed, rushing straight to the door of the East Bridge.

Tsing Yi didn't have time to react, so he could only watch the snake hold its black-scaled head high, staring at a pair of snake eyes bursting with a little red light, and opened its big mouth full of fangs at the ark so fiercely. Santuchuan Inn

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