"Third brother...... Mingqi hurriedly grabbed Mingyu's hand and said hurriedly, "Save Xiao Yu first!" ”

"It's—well!" Ming Kite was a little anxious and opened the hem of his clothes and squatted down. Xiao Yu's bloody belly looked like a lump of boiled minced meat, and Ming Kite almost couldn't do it.

Xiao Yu bit the tip of his tongue and looked at Ren Keqing without blinking. Ren Keqing, who was leaning against the window, looked calm and strange.

"Keqing-" Xiao Yu called out to him vaguely, "where are the children?" ”

"They're good." Ren Keqing comforted Xiao Yu while pushing open the window to check the situation.

The feathered man's brightly colored feather coat still looked incomparably bright in the dim moonlight, his movements were as cold and unforgiving as his expression, and the snakes' breath became more and more scarce with the sound of heavy objects falling one after another.

"Don't worry about them." Ren Keqing closed the window again with an unchanged expression, he looked back at the dying Xiao Yu and said, "They will be fine." ”

An obscure dark light crossed Xiao Yu's eyes, although he only had a little consciousness left, he had vaguely guessed what was going on outside.

But Ren Keqing's reaction was beyond his expectations. He was too calm, even to stabilize himself so that he could be relieved to receive treatment.

"It's already the best I can." After finally dealing with Xiao Yu's wounds, Ming Kite only felt that his hands were a little disobedient, he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead at will, and said truthfully, "Xiao Yu has given birth too often, and all the cultivation essence blood of his body has been exhausted." Even if he swallowed his feather coat, it would be difficult to save his life. If you have anything you want to say or do, just hurry up and finish it-"

"Impossible-" As soon as the songbird heard this, he burst into tears, "Xiao Yu, you don't want to die-I don't want the feather coat anymore, you don't want to die-"

"Hmph......" Xiao Yu raised his hand and scolded, "I know that I cry behind me every day, don't you know that I don't like you?" Even if you pester me every day and be nice to me, I don't like you. You're making me a headache, so please take your feather coat and go home-"

As he spoke, he glanced at Ren Keqing with a complicated expression.

Ren Keqing was shocked by Xiao Yu's abnormal eyes, and before he could open his mouth, Xiao Yu, who seemed to have only one breath left, suddenly pushed away the song sparrow and stood up, and walked quickly in the direction of the bed.

"Xiao Yu-" Ren Keqing tightened his grip on the edge of the window, and said softly as usual, "Have you thought about it?" Do you really want to do this? ”

"If his feather coat never returns to him, the people will not let us go." Xiao Yu dragged out the box under the bed and said in a low voice, "Besides, we won't need his feather coat in the future." ”

After that, he opened the box, grabbed the feather coat and threw it at Ming Kite's face, and said even more indignantly: "The feather coat will be returned to you—"

Mingyuan hurriedly raised her hand to pick it up, while Mingque's eyes widened a little unresponsively, and he just watched Xiao Yu drag Ren Keqing straight towards the window as fast as lightning.

The feather-clad man outside the inn heard a loud bang suddenly from upstairs, followed by two black shadows that quickly fled the inn like crumbling birds.

"Tsk!" The feather-clad man twisted the neck of his monster with a fierce expression, and said angrily, "If you don't fight for something, you have to be with that mortal even if you die!" ”

After saying that, he was particularly angry, and as soon as he turned around, he cleanly killed a wave of puppets.

The puppet army, which was originally quite powerful, was almost disintegrated by a group of feathered men in only a quarter of an hour. The snakes, which were not yet a month old, bared their sharp teeth, and their hard scales exploded, and whenever they swam and wriggled, the scales would make a sparse rustling sound, as if they would break and shatter in the next moment.

The feather-clad man was angry and pitiful, although he was angry with Xiao Yu, but he still chose to show mercy to the ignorant and innocent snakes.

"Catch up—" He choked the struggling snake and ordered the other feather-clad people, "Xiao Yu must go back and obey the patriarch's fate, and as for the mortal named Ren Keqing, whether he kills or chops, it is up to you to dispose of it." ”

"Oh? I looked at Xiao Yu as if he liked him very much, is it okay to really kill him? One of the feather-clad men was still in the mood to joke, "If Xiao Yu turns around and makes trouble, we won't be able to bear it." You also know that Xiao Yu's stinky temper is something that few brothers can withstand. ”

"Leave him alone." The feather-clad man said coldly, "If his own life is not guaranteed, where will he have the opportunity to argue with you?" Go and come back, the snakes can't wait. ”

The feather-clad people looked at each other, and the atmosphere became a little stagnant for a while. Thanks to the chirping kite appearing in time with the crying chirp, they scattered with their faces sunken.

"Big brother, the feather coat is here." Seeing that the feather-clad man didn't look right, Ming Kite preemptively said, "Do you want to set off back to Xishan now?" ”

And when the songbird saw the feather-clad man, he cried: "Big brother - Xiao Yu is dying, I--don't want him to die-"

"Don't worry." The feather-clad man turned his head to look towards the inn, the heavy felt curtain was slowly being lifted by a slender white hand, and Kurosaburo's smiling face looked hateful and unfathomable in the light.

"It's not like there's no way." He looked up at the sky and said thoughtfully, "Now put on your own feather coat." ”

"Close the door." Hei Saburo jumped onto the railing on the second floor in a flash, and when Su Xi closed the door of the inn according to his words, he lowered his head and chuckled, "Even if they know each other, it seems that Tsing Yi can sleep peacefully tonight." ”

Xiuxiu, who was sleeping, unconsciously kicked her legs, and woke up in an instant by leaning on the green clothes she was sleeping on.

Last night, the inn broke a window for no reason, and Tsing Yi, who was staying in the room, heard the movement even if his ears were blunt, but for the sake of safety, he just didn't hear it.

As soon as she woke up, she put on a coat to see the situation.

The guests in the lobby had run out as early as last night, and there were scattered cups and plates along the way, and the poured wine jar was still dripping with wine, and the strong aroma of wine was faintly mixed with the smell of blood.

Su Xi quietly cleaned up the mess, and when she saw Tsing Yi, she lowered her head slightly and saluted.

Tsing Yi tightened his shirt and continued to walk towards the gate.

The heavy felt curtain was tucked into the crack of the door, and Kurosaburo was holding a wine glass, leaning on the edge of the door to watch the play.

Tsing Yi tiptoed close to Hei Saburo, and while Hei Saburo hadn't found out yet, she reached out and hugged Hei Saburo and said, "I can catch you this time, see where you are running!" ”

Hei Saburo shook his shoulders slightly, and then said with a calm face: "I didn't run." ”

Tsing Yi stared at Hei Saburo's eyes with distrust, and when he saw his unnatural eyes, he couldn't help but feel blocked.

She wanted to ask him what he had said yesterday, but she was afraid that he would run away in a hurry. After thinking about it, he softened his tone and said, "I heard a noise last night, I don't know what the sound was, but the puppet broke in?" ”

"The puppets have already told the feathers to clean up." Kurosaburo looked outside and said, "Aren't these?" ”

Tsing Yi turned his head when he heard this, and really saw that there were many monsters lying outside the inn, and there were even two mortals mixed in them.

"What about Xiao Yu and Ren Keqing?" Tsing Yi couldn't help frowning and said, "And what about those snakes?" All gone? ”

Kurosaburo shook his head with a smile. At the same time, she heard a rush of footsteps behind her.

Tsing Yi turned around and saw the man in the feather coat leading the way with a big bag.

Behind him were the crying and swollen face of the song sparrow and the worried face of the song kite, and the other clansmen followed last with a look of disgruntle.

"Thank you very much this time." Although reluctant, the feather-clad man bowed his head and thanked Hei Saburo, "If you hadn't come to inform us in time, my brother's feather coat wouldn't have been found so quickly." ”

Mingyue pinched Mingque's shoulder, and the depressed Songque saluted: "Thank you, I won't forget your kindness." ”

"Kindness will be forgiven." Kurosaburo waved his hand indifferently and said, "We all know that there are no monsters here that welcome the feather-clad people." In the past, you lived in a simple house and rarely disturbed the people, so everyone turned a blind eye. This time, I called the snake puppet to make trouble, and I think the demons will also be afraid of you. And, if my guess is correct, you haven't been able to solve the problem completely this time, have you? ”

The feather-clad man twitched, and only after half a sound did he say frankly: "Yes, although we caught up with Xiao Yu and that mortal last night, because of the unexpected arrival of a large number of puppets, coupled with Xiao Yu's obstruction, we were escaped by that mortal——"

"Who knew that Ren Keqing was so cunning, and he actually got so many puppet armies to ambush all the way." Ming Kite also said indignantly, "Xiao Yu didn't know that he treated the snake like this. You must know that once the snake misses the best period of transformation, it will be even more difficult to transform in the future. These snakes have been trained to be monsters that control the puppets since they were born, and they don't know anything else, and they don't know how long they can live. ”

Mingque was uncomfortable listening to it, and didn't know how to defend Xiao Yu, so in the end he could only hold his chest and hang his head.

"And then?" Tsing Yi was more concerned about Xiao Yu's fate, she glanced at the depressed songbird, and said, "Are you going to help them settle the bill now and go home?" ”

“…… How much? The feather-clad man paused, and then said in a half-loud voice, "It's better to do this, the accounts are owed first, and we'll go back and prepare to send it—"

"We don't take any credit." Hei Saburo interrupted with a smile, "If you want to go back and prepare, it's not impossible, bet one or two clansmen here first, otherwise we won't be able to make a difference." ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the hunched chirpin and said, "Leave them behind." ”

"Who?" Naruto also said that Kuro Saburo had taken a fancy to Narujaku and himself, and he was a little panicked and said to Feather Coat, "Big brother, I and Narujaku will never stay-"

The feather-clad man frowned, and before he could speak, Kurosaburo continued with bad intentions: "What I want to detain are the two guys in Songque's arms. ”

As soon as the bird heard this, he suddenly raised his head and looked pitifully at the feathered man, as if he was pleading.

"Don't be willful." The feather-clad man said sternly, "Give them to him, and we'll go back first." Then you have to remember that if you don't fight, you can't protect them. In the future, the lives of all your people will be in your hands, as they are. Do you understand? ”

"Hmm......" Songbird said with a muffled voice holding back tears, "I understand......"

Then he slowly took out the two little ones from his arms and sent them to Tsing Yi.

Tsing Yi didn't want Hei Saburo to have physical contact with the feather coat, so he naturally stretched out his hand and took it.

When she let go of her hand, she saw two birds lying in her palm. One was mottled with feathers and many scorched marks, and the other was even more miserable, without even a single fluff, just bare and crumpled snuggled up to his companion.

The little blackened bird struggled to spread its little wings and pressed the trembling little meat bird under him, as if to help it keep warm.

Although this scene looks very warm and touching, as the person holding them, Tsing Yi feels not so wonderful.

To be honest, the wrinkled little meat bird that has no hair and can't even open its eyes really looks a little ...... Isn't it uncomfortable...... What's more, Tsing Yi, who has always liked fluff.

"It's Ugly......"

"You're going to help me take good care of them." Mingque followed the feathered man step by step, and did not forget to tell him before leaving, "You wait for me, I will come to pick you up soon!" ”

Tsing Yi almost couldn't wait to bring the birds back to the inn, and in order to avoid cold death to them, she also took some trouble to get a bamboo basket stuffed with cotton chicken feathers for them to use as a bed.

Tsing Yi always guessed that the listless little meat bird was probably a snake that failed to transform, because the little bird with black feathers was really too sticky and enthusiastic to treat it.

Because she hates Xiao Yu, Xiuxiu often comes over with Zhang Wei's flower cat face to dislike them for being ugly. The birds, who were already not very energetic, soon made Xiuxiu even more listless.

Tsing Yi didn't care, she was busy frying beans these days. Although Xiao Yu Shiyou* has died, he will still want it if he can't keep the songbird.

"Do you want to do a lot?" Looking at the fried beans with sugar in the small box that had been dried, Tsing Yi muttered hesitantly, "If you eat it alone...... I always feel a little lonely......"

Thinking about her, she felt a little sympathetic to Songfinch, who was originally such an innocent child, but suddenly witnessed such a tragic end for her brother.

With that in mind, she began to stir-fry the beans again.

When you are sad, you eat more of your favorite things, and your mood will naturally improve. Hopefully, these fried beans can make that innocent child smile again.

After two days, it was finally time to settle the bill.

At noon on this day, Tsing Yi happened to hear Xiuxiu dislike the ugliness of little meat birds. So the little bird with scorched feathers argued with Xiuxiu angrily: "He's not ugly, not ugly at all!" When he grows feathers, he'll look good! He's the best-looking—"

Empress? Tsing Yi put down the things in his hand in surprise, and his heart turned over for a while.

"No matter how beautiful it is, it's just a bird." Over there, Hei Saburo also helped Xiuxiu bully the little bird and said, "Besides, this guy will never grow feathers again, maybe he will die tomorrow!" ”

"Twitter-twitter-I'll bite you to death-" The enraged bird suddenly jumped up and rushed towards Kurosaburo's face, and scolded even more violently, "You scoundrel-let you bully my mother--bite you, bite you to death-"

Kurosaburo dodged away, and the little bird still chased after him.

Tsing Yi looked at the crumpled little meat bird in the basket. It couldn't even open its eyes, and even if it shivered with cold, it couldn't scream.

"Alas--I have betrayed my people and sacrificed myself after all kinds of hardships, and if I get happiness, it will be fine, and I won't get happiness if I am partial-" Tsing Yi sighed as if talking to himself, "The most hateful thing is that person, who coaxed you with a gentle and infatuated appearance." You've already ended up like this, and I don't know what will happen to him. ”

The little meat bird trembled and raised its bare little wings, struggling but still unable to stand up.

"Actually, you don't have nothing." Seeing that the other party was uncomfortable, Tsing Yi had to breathe a sigh of relief and comfort, "Anyway, there are two people who are protecting you." ”

As he spoke, a visitor opened the felt curtain at the door and walked in.

It was the feathered man and the songbird.

As soon as the bird chasing Kurosaburo saw the songbird, it stopped chasing Kurosaburo and threw itself into his arms instead.

The feather-clad man sent the packed silver money to Tsing Yi, while the songbird carefully held the little meat bird in his arms.

"Xiao Yu, I'm here to pick you up." He said earnestly to the little meat bird, "Now let's go home!" Daddy will definitely find a way to get you healed. ”

"Let's go, Songbird." After settling the bill, the feather-clad man was completely unwilling to stay in the inn at all, he stretched out his hand to put his hand on the shoulder of the chirpin and urged with a stern expression, "They should be in a hurry when it is too late." And your cultivation is still an hour away, and now that Yu Yi is back, you have to double your cultivation to catch up with the progress as soon as possible. ”

Songbird nodded obediently, and raised his feet to leave with him.

"Wait." Seeing this, Tsing Yi hurriedly stopped, "You haven't taken your sugar fried beans with you yet." ”

Saying that, she ran to the kitchen to get the sugar fried beans and came out, and when she handed the basket to Mingque, she smiled sincerely: "You can eat with Xiao Yu." ”

"Hmm." The songbird gently touched the little meat bird in his arms and left happily.

As for later, whether Mingque really shared sugar-fried beans with Xiao Yu as he wished, Tsing Yi still doesn't know.

When he had nothing to do, Hei Saburo carried Tsing Yi on his back and muttered to Xiuxiu: "The Feather Cloak Clan is extremely protective. This is both their strength and their weakness. This means that when there is a character who hurts the featherman, they will deal with him mercilessly, no matter what kind of character the other person is. ”

Xiuxiu suddenly realized: "Oh-that nasty ghost-"

"Shhh

Xiuxiu hurriedly covered her mouth and nodded, indicating that she would not say anything.

No, in that case, she would have relented to that songbird. Santuchuan Inn

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