Chapter 25: Willingly

Xihe said a little depressedly, "I know that I am deeply responsible for destroying the Finger Spirit Needle, and I am indeed responsible for this matter, but Di Jun has always been righteous and righteous, and these people of our immortal clan have seen it in their eyes, and it is not as unbearable as you and Xuanyin said in their mouths, you don't know anything, please don't judge yourself." ”

"Hmph, you're very short-sighted." The mountain ghost glanced at her, then looked into the distance.

As the sun sets, the moonlight comes up, and the sky becomes blue and dreary.

After Xihe returned to the room, he hesitated for a long time and planned to follow the advice of the mountain ghost to find Yukyoko.

She had just opened the door, and Yujingzi was in the doorway.

With a plate of candied fruit in his hand, he was about to raise his hand and knock on the door.

"Yukyoko?" She said, "I just wanted to go to you." ”

Yu Jingzi followed her into the house, put the plate on the table, and smiled, "What is my sister looking for me?" ”

Looking at his innocent and harmless smiling face, Xi He couldn't speak for a while, saw the candied fruit on the table, and asked, "Is this for me?" ”

"Well, I see that you haven't eaten much since you came back at noon, I remember when you were in Reverse Sand Village, you brought candied fruit with you, guess you might like to eat, so I brought some from the kitchen."

Xihe didn't deliberately explain, pinched a candied fruit from the plate and put it in her mouth, the thick sweetness spread out on the tip of her tongue, she was not greedy, she took the candied fruit with her to repay the mountain ghost, just like he said before, Xue Gu was willing to feed him personally to thank him for saving his life, she just packed a candied fruit.

"Thank you, Yujingzi, you don't have to do this for me in the future." She said.

"Sister, these are all things I am willing to do for you, I am willing to do anything for you, even if it is my life."

"Willingly?"

He nodded without hesitation, "Willingly, didn't you say that feelings need to be cultivated slowly, and after a long time, I am willing to stay with my sister and wait slowly, until the day when you take the initiative to come back to me." ”

She didn't ask him about the totem in the end, and after Yujingzi left, Xihe took the totem and went to Xuegu's room.

She spread out the totem on the table, and Xue Gu wondered in her heart, "Could it be....Is this the Nuwa Stone Totem?" ”

"Hmm." She answered.

"No wonder, no wonder you weren't in a hurry when I told you in the morning, it turned out that the totem was in your hand." She sighed, picked up the totem on the table, and observed it repeatedly, but she couldn't see the slightest idea, "Why can't I understand this totem?" ”

"Hey, that's where the difficulty lies." Xihe told her about the totem back and forth, and after listening, Xue Gu pouted and said, "I didn't expect that the omniscient adult in your family couldn't see the mystery here." ”

"What do you call that one in your house?" Xihe turned his face, not bothering to pay attention to her words.

"Yo, I'm sorry, I think if it weren't for me and Yu Jingzi, I'm afraid you two would have gone to bed in the same room early."

"Aunt Xue, what are you talking nonsense, what are you talking about?" Xihe was even more embarrassed by her, and his face began to have a fever.

She said solemnly, "I'm looking for you to get down to business, what should I do about this totem thing?" ”

Xue Gu looked at the totem in her hand thoughtfully, and suddenly asked, "You mean that Yujingzi snatched this totem from you?" ”

"Hmm." She said.

"Since he appeared in the secret room that day, he must have known about the existence of the totem in advance, presumably he also knew the secret of this totem, he held it in his hand for so long, maybe he had already cracked it."

"You mean to ask him?" Xihe swallowed his saliva and asked uncertainly.

Xue Gu nodded undeniably, "There is no one more suitable than him, maybe he has already cracked it?" ”

"Aunt Xue, this was stolen from him, I want to go to you, so I won't go." Xihe leaned on the table to resist, she thought that only a mountain ghost would come up with such a bad idea, but she didn't expect that even her senior sister would cheat her like this.

"He likes you so much, you go and ask him, and he will definitely tell you."

"Then I'm not going either."

Seeing that she refused so resolutely, Xue Gu said bluntly, "Since you don't go, then I'll go." ”

Saying that, she walked out the door, Xihe hurriedly stopped her, and said hurriedly, "Aunt Xue, don't go, how embarrassing it is for him to know." ”

"If you don't want to go, then I don't want to spend the rest of my life in a dark prison."

Just when the two were pulling each other, the totem in Xuegu's hand was suddenly knocked out, and flew straight to the candlestick next to the table, the two were so shocked that they hurriedly ran over, and Xi He took out the burned totem from the fire directly regardless of the heat of the candle, and said with a bitter face, "It's over, it's really over now." ”

At this time, Xue Gu tugged at her sleeve and said, "Xihe, what do you think is that?" ”

Xi He raised her head, a golden map looming in the air, she looked down at the half-burned totem in her hand, and seemed to understand something.

Looking at the candle flame on the side, after hesitating for a while, he threw the remaining half of the totem in his hand, and sure enough, as the totem burned more and more, the map that appeared in the air became more and more complete, and disappeared after a while.

"Why is it gone?" Xue Gu wondered.

Xihe looked at the candle flame next to him, and the totem was also burned at all, and explained, "The reason why the totem should be burned out." ”

"So what now? I didn't even see it clearly. ”

Xihe walked quickly to the bookcase with a smile, laid out a clean piece of paper, dipped the pen in ink, and began to draw the map in his mind on the paper.

In a few moments, a complete map was born under the tip of Xi He's brilliant pen, she picked up the drawn map and carefully confirmed it, then smiled at Xue Gu, "With this map, you don't have to worry." ”

Xue Gu also looked at this painting that was exactly the same as the golden map that appeared in the sky just now, and couldn't help but admire, "You still have a good memory, if it weren't for you this time, we would really be imprisoned in a prison." ”

Early the next morning, several people packed their bags and headed south according to the route indicated on the map.

As soon as he walked out of the inn, the mountain ghost walked up to Xihe and asked, "Did he solve it for you?" ”

Xihe thought about it for a while before guessing what he was asking.

She shook her head, "No. ”

"Then why didn't you go back to the Heavenly Palace to plead guilty?"

She smiled, "Xue Gu helped me solve the totem last night, and now as long as Xue Gu and I find the Nuwa Stone as shown in the picture, we can go back to the business." ”

Hearing her words, the mountain ghost looked sideways at Xue Gu behind him, with a look of disbelief, and said sarcastically, "That cat spirit still has such skills?" ”

Well, she admitted that in addition to being more powerful in cultivation, Xue Gu was indeed inferior to her in terms of intelligence, but she was not so ugly as he said.

She rubbed her forehead, not knowing how to explain, but said, "It's not all, anyway, the totem has already been cracked, and the process is not important." ”

"And how did she figure it out?"

"Fire." Xi and Dao.

The mountain ghost frowned and said, "Fire? (The secret art of the immortal clan, a skill that only the best immortal officials have, this is not normal to appear in the world, which arouses the suspicion of mountain ghosts.) )

"Well, after that totem was burned, a map appeared in the air, and that was the map of Nuwa Stone." As she spoke, Xihe pulled out the map she had drawn last night from her sleeve.

The mountain ghost glanced at it with a low eyebrow and then returned it, his mind was not on this drawing.

"What's wrong? Any questions? Xihe frowned at him and wondered.

He smiled lightly and said nothing.

After leaving the water city, Xihe was dumbfounded when she looked at the two roads in front of her, she opened the map again and looked at it, and couldn't understand, "There is only one road drawn on this map, why are there two roads in front of you?" ”

"Could it be that you made a mistake or remembered it wrong?" Xue Gu asked.

"No way, I can't be mistaken." She may not have much confidence when it comes to other aspects, but she has never made a mistake in her memory, and when she was in the Heavenly Palace, Master often praised her for her better memory than ordinary people.

"How can there be an extra road?"

Just as the two of them were in distress, the clear voice of the mountain ghost suddenly came from behind them, "There used to be only one road here, but then the government built a new road." ”

"Mountain ghost-sama, you know?" He looked at him with a radiant look.

He looked at the two roads in front of him, thought for a while, and said sincerely, "Benjun, I can't remember clearly." ”

Xue Gu couldn't help but glance at him at that time, Xihe could only smile disappointedly, and said softly, "It's okay."

At this time, Yujingzi walked over from under the shade of the tree and smiled helplessly, "It's good to just ask a local person for clarification." ”

"Yes, the locals must know which road was built later, why didn't I think of it." He patted his head vigorously.

"I'm afraid I'm out of the city, I don't know if I can meet the locals." The mountain ghost came quietly.

"How do you know if you don't try?" Yujingzi provoked.

Xihe stood between the two, sighed in his heart, and a bright smile appeared on his face, and said, "Yujingzi is right, I'll find someone to ask first, let's talk about it if I can't ask, I've been walking for a long time, and you guys are here now." ”

When she walked to the road, she saw a carriage staggering along the road to the southwest, and when she came to her, Xihe waved to stop the carriage, and the young brother who was driving the carriage immediately stopped the carriage and said urgently, "Who are you?" Why did you stop my lady's car? ”

Xi He leaned on him first, and asked with a gentle smile, "Excuse me, I'm a passer-by from the north, I just arrived in the south, and I am not familiar with the place, I want to ask if this little brother knows which of these two roads was repaired later?" ”

Seeing that she spoke so gently and politely, the little brother softened her tone a lot, and looked at the two roads in front of her, and looked confused, "Girl, I'm really sorry, I also just came to Shuicheng not long ago, and I don't know which of these two roads was built later, but my young lady grew up in Shuicheng, she must know." ”

Before the words fell, a charming woman's voice came from the car, the curtain was lifted a corner, and a slender woman poked out of it, the woman had a good skin, it was difficult for people to ignore her, she asked, "Gu Yao, who are you talking to?" ”