By a small river in the endless forest, there were suddenly a few noises in the lush bushes, and then a small black water dragon with a crystal clear body poked its head out of the bushes, looked around and found that there was no one and rushed out at once, and then excitedly fluttered its little tail and flew to the top of the river to turn around a few times, and instantly drilled into the river with a "plop" sound, and disappeared without a trace. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

I stepped on the grass by the river to the riverbank, and looked at the place where the water dragon had disappeared, and there was still a trace of divine power on it, but it quickly dissipated. I smiled and looked at my hands, and said with satisfaction, "It seems that the practice of the past few days is still effective!" "Now that I'm comfortable controlling this arm-sized water dragon, I guess it shouldn't be a problem to condense and control a giant water dragon that can carry me by then, but the cost will be a bit large. But with the help of the goddess's soul, the speed of divine power transformation should be able to keep up.

It's just that the proficiency of this skill is still not enough, and it is still necessary to practice more. So soon a water dragon the size of a giant python was quickly formed under my control, shining like black crystals in the sunlight. At this moment, I suddenly felt a familiar aura approaching me not far away, and due to the secrecy of this matter, I could only quickly withdraw my divine power. The water dragon soon turned into water droplets scattered into the river, and even the breath of divine power dissipated.

Soon Long Jiu appeared next to me, and I smiled at him and looked at the strange bird that was still not very good-looking. Its dark yellow eyelids opened and looked at me, then continued to squint, ignoring me. On a whim, I stepped forward to grab it and take a closer look, but it quickly dodged and jumped on Long Jiu's head. Just when I wanted to continue working hard, I was stopped by Long Jiu: "Mother, please come over!" The tone was still cold.

"Is it Auntie?" His mother should be Long Yang's mother. After all, people have been cooking for me, so it's time to pay a visit. And this time, I specially asked Long Jiu to invite me over, maybe there is something to tell me. I always feel that everyone in this Jiuli realm is hiding something unusual.

Long Jiu nodded lightly and replied.

"Isn't Long Yang here today? Why are you here? I turned to the river and washed my hands and asked.

"Something!" The concise two words, after finishing speaking, he has been standing silently, and he doesn't know what he is looking at, which makes me feel that he is becoming more and more cold to me!

I sighed, it should be impossible to talk to Long Jiu to relieve the somewhat awkward atmosphere: "Let's go, you lead the way!" I haven't been to the Soul Clan's castle yet. ”

Long Jiu walked away without any answer or expression, and I could only follow behind him resignedly. Did you get too enthusiastic about him before and disgusted him? But is it really enthusiastic?

Thinking back to what I did and said to Long Jiu before, I was almost scared of myself! Actually, I'm not usually like that, I'm also quite cold! It's just that you've been with Long Yang for a long time recently and have been taken crookedly? If you think about it, I've changed a lot since I met them! It seems to be approaching the teasing...... In the future, stay away from Longyang!

Long Jiu didn't take me to the Soul Chasing Castle, but to a small manor in the forest behind the castle. The manor is European-style, and the design inside is also very warm. There is only one small cottage in the garden, and compared to this villa, the lawn in the surrounding garden is relatively wide, and it is full of various plants. Judging from these alone, Long Yang's mother must also be a warm and kind woman.

After handing me over to a servant, Long Jiu departed. I followed the servant through the cottage to the backyard. It's a fine sunny day, and it's afternoon, and the whole garden looks very warm under the sun. There was a tea table on the lawn in front of him, and a woman sat on a chair beside it. She was wearing a dark purple cheongsam with a Chinese-style gray shawl draped over her shoulders, and just her back gave me a sense of grace and luxury.

"Madam, Miss Zhan has arrived!" The servant led me to the table and said.

At this time, I was only behind the woman, so I couldn't see her face clearly. I was stunned when she got up and turned her head to smile at me, but I quickly came back to my senses and smiled and said hello to her: "Hello aunt! ”

"It's coming! Come and sit! She took me by the hand and asked me to sit down in a chair next to me, and then sent the servant to serve the refreshments.

She sat down and tugged at her shawl and looked at me with a smile, and although the scar on her face made her smile a little hideous, it gave me a warm feeling.

"Was that scared?"

"Nope." I smiled and shook my head: "I'm just a little curious about how your injury came about, auntie." ”

"This is a long story, come, let's have some tea first!" With that, he picked up the teapot and poured me a cup of tea.

I smelled the fragrance of tea, some surprises, more cordial: "West Lake Longjing!" "And this dragon well is more than the outside world, I don't know how much aura.

"Yes! I didn't expect you to understand tea! She smiled and said: "This is the tea plant I personally selected from the outside world and transplanted into the world, after years of cultivation, not only the tea aroma and taste are better and richer, but also it contains more and more aura." ”

"Actually, I don't know the tea ceremony, but Master's favorite drink in front of him is the West Lake Longjing, so I always remember its taste." I picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"I see!"

By this time the servant's snacks had been served, and the table was already piled with all kinds of pastries. She took a piece of green pastry and put it on my plate: "I invited you over so suddenly, I don't know if it delayed you." Come, eat a piece of pastry, which is made of Longjing tea, and the taste is very fresh and delicious. ”

"Auntie, you have taken good care of me since you entered the realm, and often asked Long Yang to bring me pastries, it was my negligence, in fact, I should have come to visit you a long time ago!"

"It doesn't matter! You are also a child with a heart. Actually, you wanted to see you when you first entered the realm, but my face was ......" She touched her face and smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid you're scared!" Later, I heard about you from Long Yang's mouth, and knew that your kid still had a good personality, so I decided to meet you! ”

Seeing that the tea in her cup was almost at the bottom, I poured her a cup of tea: "Auntie, your cooking and dim sum skills are so good, how can I be afraid." My parents weren't with me ever since I was a child, and when I saw you, I felt as kind as my mother! ”

"Your little mouth is so sweet, it's a little similar to the stinky boy in my Longyang!" She smiled happily.

"Really?" I thought about it: "There are still some differences, Long Yang is not only sweet, but also has a lot of words!" ”

"That's what you said, I often think that this kid talks too much nonsense, so I often ask him to come here less, but this kid still runs to me every once in a while!"

Seeing Long Yang's mother smiling so happily, my heart also became a lot warmer, and I was a little envious of Long Yang. Although there was some disgust in her tone, anyone could hear the motherly love in her words, which I had never felt before. I hadn't seen my parents since I could remember, and when I met again, I saw their bones, and I wished I could be coquettish in my mother's arms.

Seeing my lonely look, she took my hand and comforted: "In the future, if you are free, you will often come here to sit, anyway, I am often alone." Tell me what you like to eat, and your aunt will do it for you! ”

"Good aunt!"

At this time, the black bird beside Long Jiu fluttered its wings and flew towards this side, and soon stopped on the shoulder of the soul aunt, staring at the small pastry on the table with both eyes without blinking, and then jumped lightly and called excitedly a few times. The strange thing is that there is no figure of Long Jiu around.

Aunt Soul picked up a piece of pastry, crushed it and put it on the corner of the table, and said with a smile: "Eat, you little gluttonous cat!" ”

The blackbird understood her words, and quickly jumped on the table and began to peck at the pastry, and his dark eyes still forgot to me from time to time, as if he was afraid that I would steal its food.

I glared at it, my heart was really a funny bird, and I don't know how the iceberg of Long Jiu took a fancy to you in the first place to keep you as a pet.

"Auntie, why is it here? I remember that it was not inseparable from Xiao Jiu? I asked, taking a hard bite of the pastry in my hand at the blackbird.

"At this time, Long Jiu should be taking a bath! Xiao Hei is afraid of water, and every time Long Jiu takes a bath, he will run out. ”

"Blackie. It turns out that it's called Xiao Hei! As I spoke, I crushed the rest of the pastry in my hand and put it on the table next to Xiao Hei's mouth, but I didn't expect the teasing bird to look at me arrogantly with contempt, and didn't eat the food I gave me at all. I don't know what it's angry about? Or when did I offend it?

But I didn't bother to bother with a bird, so I smiled and ignored it, and continued to eat my pastry. I didn't expect it to be afraid of water! People like Long Jiu will be more or less clean, so this time is also a bath. But this blackbird is afraid of water, and it must be reluctant to take a bath, I don't know how Long Jiu endured a blackbird that doesn't take a bath all year round, although it is pitch black even if it is dirty, it can't be seen.

"Yes." Aunt Soul nodded with a smile and touched Xiao Hei's head: "Long Jiu, this child is the same as you, his parents have not been around since he was a child, so he has developed a withdrawn character, even if I take care of him as his adoptive mother even more than Long Yang, it has not changed his cold character." But fortunately, he gets along well with Long Yang, and he has always respected and loved Long Yang, the eldest brother. Xiao Hei was the first gift that Long Yang brought back from the realm to give to Long Jiu, at that time it was still an egg, and Long Yang personally taught Long Jiu to hatch it. Xiao Hei was originally an ordinary starling, probably due to some factors in the Jiuli Realm that caused it to mutate, so it has only grown like this now, and I don't know what breed it is. However, it is very smart and very protective of the master, and it also reassures me a lot to have it by Long Jiu's side! ”

It turns out that the body is a starling! Although it has changed a lot now, if you look closely, you can still see the original form of its starling, which is very similar to the black feathers on its body.

Maybe it's because there is no topic, and the atmosphere is a lot quieter all of a sudden. Xiao Hei also finished eating the pastries on the table, his dark eyes turned around, looked at me and Aunt Soul, and then flapped his wings and flew away.

Aunt Soul took a sip of tea, then looked at me and said with a smile, "Come with me to the garden!" ”

I smiled and nodded, then got up and followed her deeper into the garden. In fact, I have always been very interested in the spiritual plants of this garden since I first entered the garden, although the garden is not very large, but the richness of the spiritual plants here still surprised me a little. And judging from the state of the spirit plant, the soul aunt should be a person who is good at the spirit plant.

It's right to think about it, according to Long Yang before, his mother rarely went out of the manor, and even fewer people saw him. Maybe it's because of her face that she's isolating herself from other unrelated people like this. So taking care of flowers and plants and cooking has become something for her to pass the time.

Looking at the flowers and plants in the garden, I couldn't help but sigh: "Auntie, you are amazing! This garden full of spiritual plants can be taken care of so well! ”

She smiled gently: "I usually don't have much to do, just such a little hobby, I can naturally take care of it." Moreover, there are many plants transplanted from the outside here, and many of these plants are not suitable after entering the realm, and only a few plants that can adapt to the aura here survive. ”

I thought about it before I realized, "It turns out that there is still this exquisiteness!" Because the aura here is too strong, those plants that survive in the outside world where the aura is sparse will not be able to survive because they can't adapt to the aura here. ”

"Yes! There are very few varieties that can overcome this gap and survive in the world, and some have a certain chance of mutating to produce new varieties. As she spoke, she stopped and pointed to a tree not far away: "You see, the plants wrapped around this tree are mutated. ”

I looked in the direction she was pointing, and saw that the emerald green mining trees were surrounded by red vines. These rattans and leaves are blood-red, as if they can drip blood, but they have a diamond-like texture, which is very dazzling. However, the flowers on its body are milky white and small, and the diameter of the largest flower is not as large as that of a rattan.

"I named it Blood Vine. I buried some morning glory seeds under the tree, and it sprouted and mutated. It's beautiful though! Aunt Soul looked at me and explained.

I smiled and nodded, and continued my walk with her. During this period, I also observed the plants in the garden, and sure enough, most of them were original plants in the boundary, and there were very few normal plants transplanted from the outside.

Time passed quickly, and soon we had walked through most of the garden. A simple pavilion appeared in front of it, covered with purple-black climbing plants, which blocked out a lot of sunlight. Aunt Soul pulled me into the pavilion and sat down, pulled her shawl, looked at me and said, "You must be curious to know what happened that year! ”