Chapter 24: Questions
Looking at the strange man's excited appearance, Zhuang Zhou couldn't help but be a little excited, and even felt his heartbeat accelerate.
But the strange man didn't say his name immediately, but tilted his head and asked, "Why don't you ask me?" Zhuang Zhoule thought to himself that he was waiting for me to ask him, it seems that this old man is sixty years old, and he has a six-year-old heart!
Zhuang Zhou listened to it, depressed to the extreme, and really wanted to slap himself twice! But listening to what this strange man said, it seemed that Xiao Qi was not the monster in the water, could it be a person, a child of this strange man?
After the strange man finished speaking, he looked at Zhuang Zhou very seriously and said, "You know who I am, right?" Zhuang Zhou cried and laughed, and said, "I know." The strange man looked at him nervously, as if he was afraid that he would say something wrong, and asked, "Then who am I?" Zhuang Zhou said: "You are Xiaoqi's father!" The strange man breathed a sigh of relief, his tense face relaxed, as if he had completed a big thing, and said: "It's good that you know, don't forget next time!"
After the strange man finished speaking, he staggered out, Zhuang Zhou suddenly thought that he was still soaked in this turquoise thick liquid, and said hurriedly: "Uncle, when can I come out?" The strange man heard Zhuang Zhou call him, turned around, seemed to be a little angry, and said: "What do you call me?" Zhuang Zhou suddenly woke up, and hurriedly changed his words: "Xiaoqi's father, when can I come out?" The strange man nodded, very happy, and said: "That's right!" When Xiao Qi brought you here, the meridians of your whole body were like they were on fire, I picked the Xuanying grass from Bicui Valley, boiled it into soup, and threw you into it, otherwise, you would have burst the meridians of your whole body and died! You still have to soak for a day, you can climb out by yourself tonight!"
Zhuang was stunned for a moment, and the strange man looked so serious and solemn when he said this, and he was the same as the two of them before, who was the person with a bad mind! Could it be that he had been pretending to be crazy and stupid just now? As soon as he thought of this, he heard the strange man grinning and said, "It's so fun when I throw you into the vat!" As he spoke, he clapped his hands and jumped up, as if he had really done a particularly fun thing, and his expression was very funny.
Zhuang Zhou sighed, confirming that he had met a madman.
After the strange man finished speaking, he came out of the hut, and walked away until noon, and no one was seen. Zhuang Zhou soaked in the vat alone, the surroundings were very quiet, listening to what this strange man said, this place is called Bicui Valley, it should be a valley, and I don't know how far this valley is from Yunmeng Mountain? I came here inexplicably, Master Liu Canglong, Senior Brother Ma Tianhu, and Senior Sister Wen Tian, I don't know if I know? The strange man said that he could not come out until tonight, this person spoke crazy, and he didn't know if it was credible or not! However, after waking up, I was in this big vat of green liquor, and the symptoms of madness did disappear, so I still stayed in it honestly!
In the midst of such cranky thoughts, I felt the shadow of the sun move, and it was already noon. Zhuang Zhou was a little hungry in his stomach, looked around, there was no food at his fingertips, and he wanted to get out of the vat, but when he thought of the strange man's words, he didn't have the courage. I had to endure it like this, hoping that the strange man would come back quickly and bring him something to eat. Only then did he realize that he had unknowingly obeyed the strange man's words!
After the strange man left, it seemed that there was no trace of him, and he didn't come back for a long time until the afternoon! Zhuang Zhou was bitter in his heart, and he could only suffer like this.
Seeing the sun set, the thatched hut gradually darkened, Zhuang Zhou was hungry and thirsty, and almost collapsed. I saw a figure flash at the door, and the strange man jumped in, holding two black things in his hands, ran to Zhuang Zhou, and said with a smile: "Are you hungry?" Zhuang Zhou was overjoyed, nodded desperately, and said, "Yes! Yes!" He smelled the two things in the strange man's hands emitting an attractive fragrance, which seemed to be the meat of some kind of beast that was roasted, and it was still steaming. It's just that the strange man's hands are extremely dirty, and the meat is in his hands, and he can't tell where the beast meat is and where the five fingers are! But Zhuang Zhou took care of a lot at this time, and then it was a burst of gnawing, only to feel that this meat was extremely fragrant, and he had never tasted such deliciousness!
The strange man saw that he was eating embarrassedly, and said: "I didn't expect you to look so ugly!" Zhuang Zhou devoured it, and when he heard this sentence, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then laughed, but he didn't expect that the sloppy and dirty strange man in front of him actually blamed himself for eating ugly, which can be regarded as a miracle in life!
When the strange man saw him laughing, he also grinned and said, "You not only look ugly, but you also do some bullshit things!" Zhuang Zhou was a little strange when he heard what he said, and couldn't help but move in his heart, and asked, "What bullshit did I do?" The strange man pouted, pointed to Zhuang Zhou's chest and said, "You put the Thunderbolt Beast Beast Stone on your chest and use the red fruit liquid to cultivate, isn't that bullshit?"
Zhuang Zhou was taken aback, and then he realized that the strange man in front of him was by no means an ordinary person, so he immediately put away his teasing and contemptuous heart, and asked: "Uncle, can't the Thunderbolt Beast Beast Stone and the Red Fruit Liquid be used together?" The strange man jumped up and said, "You can't even remember my name, I won't tell you!" Zhuang Zhou secretly screamed ashamed, thinking to himself how he had forgotten this stubble! With a bitter smile, he had no choice but to say: "Xiao Qi's father, can you tell me why the Beast Stone and the Red Fruit Liquid can't be used at the same time?"
The strange man's face turned happy and said, "Don't forget my name next time!" Zhuang Zhou nodded and said, "Yes, yes, I must not forget!"
The strange man said, "Do you know what the thunderbolt beast is most afraid of?" Zhuang Zhou asked, "What is it?" The strange man shook his head and sighed, and said, "You are very stupid! Since I said that the beast stone cannot be used with the red fruit liquid, then the thunderbolt beast is of course afraid of the red mulberry wood!" Zhuang Zhou choked on the occasion, thinking about it, how could he not think of such a simple question? At this time, I didn't expect that this strange man still has cunning behind his madness!
Seeing Zhuang Zhou's ugly face, the strange man smiled and said, "I just love to see people embarrassed, it's very funny!" Zhuang Zhou was really angry, he didn't expect that a cultivator in his hall would be played by this madman today! The strange man saw that Zhuang Zhou was angry, and hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, I'll tell you, don't be angry!" The red mulberry tree was born on the cliff, guarded by the red tiger, and the red tiger fed on the thunderbolt beast, and the thunderbolt beast was the most afraid of the red tiger, and after a long time, as soon as he smelled the breath of the red fruit liquid, he thought that the red tiger was nearby, of course, he was terrified!"
When Zhuang Zhou heard this news for the first time, he was curious and asked, "But the beast stone of the thunderbolt beast when I was in my arms is not the thunderbolt beast itself......" The strange man interrupted him and said: "I said that you don't understand anything! The beast stone is the place where the thunderbolt beast hides its essence and concentrates its spirits, although it has been separated from the body, but the spirituality is still there, once the breath of the red fruit juice is permeated, it will inevitably react. The beast stone and the red fruit liquid are mutually restrictive things, and if you put them together, it is your fate to die without the meridians bursting!"
The strange man's words convinced Zhuang Zhou. It turned out that this strange man was really a person with a great background, and in addition to gratitude, he was in awe of him!
Seeing Zhuang Zhou's stunned appearance, the strange man clapped his hands and laughed again: "I'm talking nonsense, you actually believe it! It's fun, it's fun! Oh, it's not fun, don't talk about these infun things, you can ask a funny question!"
Zhuang Zhou knew that Fang Cai's words were definitely not nonsense, and when he heard the strange man ask a funny question, he couldn't help but think of one thing, and said: "You are Xiao Qi's father, why don't you take Xiao Qi to dinner?
The strange man sighed and said, "It's not funny at all! Of course Xiaoqi is at home, but he never eats!"