Chapter 21: Sugar Gourd
It's so late, Zhang Ruolan's room is actually lit up!
Could it be that she was in any danger?
Zhang Yi was in a hurry, and as soon as he pushed open the door, he saw Zhang Ruolan sitting in front of the bed, looking at a handkerchief in his hand in a daze.
Seeing Zhang Yi coming in, Zhang Ruolan hurriedly hid her handkerchief behind her as if she had been knocked into some secret.
Immediately after, her face flushed and asked, "Brother Yi, it's so late, is there something wrong?" ”
"It's okay, I'm worried that your illness is not well, come and take a look."
Zhang Yi said in his mouth, but his heart was full of surprise. He was very puzzled, what Zhang Ruolan was holding in his hand just now.
Zhang Ruolan diverted the topic and said with a smile: "Brother Yi, after you helped me stabilize my vitality in the afternoon, I feel much better." Even the vitality is running a lot smoother. ”
Zhang Yi nodded, and suddenly remembered his purpose for leaving the Great Wilderness, so he said, "Ruolan, I heard that Elder Xiao of the Deception Sect gave you the secret book for cultivating attribute vitality. I don't know, can you show me this cheats? ”
"Absolutely. Cultivating attribute vitality is actually not difficult at all. Merely...... Requires a magic crystal. ”
Zhang Ruolan said, took out a video and audio stone, and handed it to Zhang Yi.
The video and audio stone can record sounds and images, and as long as the vitality is input into it, it can be seen.
Zhang Yi activated the memory stone, and half a meter in front of him, there was an additional text projection, which was an exercise called "Crystal Refining Technique".
Crystal refining technique, as the name suggests, is a method of cultivating attribute vitality through refining magic crystals.
"Brother Yi, this exercise is good, it just needs a lot of magic crystals." Zhang Ruolan explained.
Zhang Yi asked, "How many magic crystals do you mean?" ”
"Elder Xiao said that if the ordinary sixth-level qi refining is high-level, only one low-grade magic crystal is needed. If you're unlucky, you might need a dozen pieces. But Brother Yi, don't worry, Elder Xiao gave me a medium water attribute magic crystal, and after refining it, I can almost feel the vitality of the water attribute. This is a medium magic crystal, do you know how rare it is? ”
Zhang Ruolan said, showing off a piece of blue magic crystal the size of a jujube pit, and raised her head with a smile on her face, but she couldn't find Zhang Yi's figure.
"Where did Brother Yi go?"
Just when Zhang Ruolan was wondering, Zhang Yi came back with a package.
"Ruolan, look at it, is the magic crystal in here enough?"
As he spoke, Zhang Yi threw the package to the ground casually. The package opened, and a bunch of magic crystals, large and small, illuminated the entire room in all colors.
Some of these magic crystals were looted by Zhang Yi from the warehouse of the Qingcheng faction, and the rest were obtained by killing the Great Wilderness Demon Beasts.
The head of the Qingcheng faction is a Jindan martial artist, and ordinary magic crystals are not eye-catching at all. The magic crystals that can be put in the warehouse are also medium magic crystals at the lowest.
And the demonic beasts that Zhang Yi killed were all high-level demonic beasts. Their magic crystals, without exception, are high-grade magic crystals.
So, Zhang Ruolan only glanced at it, and her eyes were attracted by this pile of magic crystals.
My God, Brother Yi's magic crystal, why are there so many?
Wait a minute, why are these magic crystals so big, and why are the vitality fluctuations inside so strong, could they be the best high-grade magic crystals?
The best high-grade magic crystal, it is said that only the high-grade magic beasts of the Great Wilderness have it. Those demonic beasts, whose strength is comparable to that of a tenth-level martial artist of qi refining, plus living in the great wilderness, are difficult to kill. Each of the best high-grade magic crystals is priceless in the market, and it is said that 100,000 taels of gold were auctioned off on the black market last time.
And Brother Yi, why did he take out so much casually?
Zhang Ruolan was completely stunned.
She lowered her head, looked at the magic crystal the size of a date pit in her hand, and was speechless.
No way, the gap is too big. She was still complacent about having a medium magic crystal, but Zhang Yi took out so many high-grade magic crystals at once, and she didn't care.
Seeing Zhang Ruolan in a daze, Zhang Yi hurriedly picked up two magic crystals the size of grapefruit, stuffed them into Zhang Ruolan's hands, and said embarrassedly: "Sister Ruolan, I didn't go into the water much in the Great Wilderness at that time, and there were not too many water-attribute magic crystals. At that time, I killed a two-headed snake, but luckily there was a magic crystal in each head. You use it first, and if it's not enough, I'll look for it in the wilderness. ”
"A two-headed snake? You mean, the two-headed devil? ”
Zhang Ruolan was taken aback. She hurriedly looked at the two magic crystals that Zhang Yi gave him, and was completely shocked.
These two magic crystals are the same size, the same purity, and the subtle folds on them are the same, which is obviously the magic crystal of the double-headed demon Jiao. The strength of the two-headed demon Jiao is amazing, and it was actually killed by Zhang Yi?
Zhang Ruolan couldn't help but ask, "Brother Yi, these two magic crystals were really obtained by you by killing the two-headed demon Jiao?" ”
Zhang Yi nodded and said with a smile: "I didn't know it was called a two-headed demon Jiao." I was walking along the river and saw that it had two identical heads, so I made a bet with Qiaoqiao about where its magic crystal was hidden. Unexpectedly, we all lost. ”
"Who is Qiaoqiao?" Zhang Ruolan asked.
Zhang Yi explained: "Qiaoqiao is a good friend of mine, a bird that looks like a crow. By the way, are there enough water-attribute magic crystals here? If it's not enough, I'll look for it in the wilderness. ”
"Enough is enough, more than enough. Actually, all you need is a high-grade magic crystal. ”
Zhang Ruolan put away a two-headed magic crystal, then put the other magic crystals in the package, returned them to Zhang Yi, and said solemnly: "Brother Yi, these magic crystals are too valuable, you must hide them." ”
Zhang Yi nodded, put away the magic crystal, and then left Zhang Ruolan's room.
Seeing Zhang Yi leaving, Zhang Ruolan hurriedly went over and plugged in the door and exhaled a long breath.
Then, she took out what she had secretly hidden.
On a white handkerchief, two air-dried sugar gourds lay down.
These two sugar gourds evoked Zhang Ruolan's memories.
Zhang Ruolan's birth was an accident, and her mother was just a maid with no background. Since she was a child, she has followed her mother and lived in a remote palace.
The mother and son depended on each other for their lives and suffered a lot of white eyes. Finally, her mother became ill, but because she had no money to bribe the imperial doctor, she died in front of her on Chinese New Year's Eve.
It wasn't until the third day after her mother's death that she saw her father for the first time, Zhang Tianba, the emperor of the tyranny imperial family.
However, that day, Zhang Tianba just glanced at her coldly and left in a hurry. She then watched as people carried her dead mother away, and then slowly left.
In the entire side hall, she was the only one left, as if she had been forgotten.
On that day, the third day of the first lunar month, it snowed heavily. She sat alone at the gate of the palace, looking helplessly at the princes and princesses coming and going, wearing fresh clothes, smiling and enjoying the joy of the New Year.
Finally, someone noticed her.
"Look, this little girl, wearing shabby and old clothes, sits there without saying a word, like a fool!"
Her so-called older siblings bullied her, an unsociable little girl, by stuffing cold snowflakes into her thin and shabby clothes, and laughing at her loudly, taking pleasure in it.
At this time, Zhang Yi appeared.
At the age of seven, he is full of energy and is optimistic and confident in his every gesture, as if nothing in the world can stump him.
"What are you doing?"
She remembered that everyone stopped moving because of Zhang Yi's words, and then automatically stood on both sides.
She remembered that when she struggled to raise her head, she saw Zhang Yi's childish but extremely good-looking face.
"What bad things did you do and they all bullied you?" Zhang Yi asked.
"I ...... I just lost my mother......"
Zhang Ruolan suddenly burst into tears.
"Don't cry, don't cry, I haven't had a mother since I was a child, haven't I had a good life? You see, we're both kids without mothers. ”
After listening to Zhang Yi's words, Zhang Ruolan cried even more, and the grievances in her heart turned into tears, flowing down her cheeks, and she couldn't stop it.
At this time, there was an extra sweet and sour thing in her mouth.
"Crybaby, I'm enough for you. This is the sugar gourd I just bought, give it to you, don't cry anymore. ”
After speaking, Zhang Yi turned his head and announced loudly to the group of princes and princesses: "You listen to me, from today onwards, she will be covered by me." Whoever dares to bully her, I don't even know the person who beat her! ”
Sugar gourds are small, but they are very sweet. Zhang Yi's back is small, but it is very warm.
Zhang Ruolan suddenly stopped crying.
She was reluctant to finish the string of sugar gourds. The remaining two, she air-dried them and kept them for now.