Chapter 31: She's Still a Child
A gloomy moonlight shrouded the forest, and the deserted trail was silent except for the occasional movement or two in the grass and the sporadic chirping of birds.
Wang Xiaotao carried a bucket, took advantage of the moonlight, swayed and limped to the vicinity of the Houshan Water Pool, and poured all the slimy things in the bucket into the pool, and a small carp in the pool was awakened and swam over.
Wang Xiaotao stood by the pool, looked at the little carp who was stupid and didn't know what was going on, and smiled slightly, "Drink, I heard that this is a rare good thing for you." ”
A mouthful of dragon blood for 500 years, a mouthful of dragon meat for a thousand years.
Tonight, she had a chance with the fish.
Wang Xiaotao leaned down and touched the head of the little carp that boldly came to the edge of the pool and came to the front of her, then turned around and left with a bucket.
The little carp behind him floated on the water, looking at the back of Wang Xiaotao leaving alone in the night, watching her melt into the darkness, the little carp looked at her back for a long time, until it couldn't see it was still looking at the direction she left, looking at it, the little carp sank to the bottom of the water and spit out a few bubbles.
Wang Xiaotao returned to the room, soaked the rag, knelt on the ground and wiped the blood in the room inch by inch, wiping her in the corner of the room and finding a chopstick that had fallen to ashes.
Wang Xiaotao pursed her lips and looked at the chopsticks in her hand.
It turned out that Ao Shun did not hide this chopstick, and thought that it was accidentally dropped when the two of them hugged each other and laughed together.
She didn't cry, she didn't speak, she just wiped the bloodstained chopsticks slowly and carefully, inserted them in her hair, and continued to kneel on the ground with her head down, wiping the blood stains all over the room inch by inch.
If you can't wipe it once, you will do it a second time, and if you can't wipe it again the second time, you will do it a third and fourth time.
Until the blood stains slowly fade, until the blood stains gradually disappear.
After cleaning, Wang Xiaotao found all the food in the house, put the ones that could be stored for a long time into the storage ring, and then made all the ingredients that could not be stored for a long time into dishes, including a dish of braised pork.
Wang Xiaotao picked up a piece of braised pork with an expressionless face.
It was no different from what Changsheng had given him before.
Wang Xiaomoss carefully chewed the piece of meat that was always chewable in his mouth, and after chewing it until there was no taste in the back, he swallowed the meat with difficulty.
Then stretch out your chopsticks and pick up the second piece of braised pork.
She threw a clear and clean bottle from the kitchen full of stones into the back hill.
It was the potion she had stolen, and she remembered that when the naughty classmates were all turned into pigs in class, the teacher used this pink potion, and everyone could only maintain the appearance of pigs for days.
This potion didn't have much flavor, but she was still worried that Ao Shun would be on guard, so she deliberately made braised pork with thick oil red sauce to cover up the taste of the potion, and she started adding this medicine to the meat a few days ago.
Tonight she poured all the potions into her meal, and there was not a drop left.
Even when they were best able to hug each other, she didn't forget to add medicine to the meat, just like she never loosened Ao Shun's bonds, and even secretly strengthened the knot again at night after Ao Shun fell asleep.
This is already the limit of what she can do.
Wang Xiaotao buried her head in eating the rice and meat in the bowl, the amount of such food far exceeded her limit, but she kept eating, kept filling her mouth with food, she ate these meals as hard as she ate the last meal, filling her stomach and replenishing her physical strength.
The quiet life is over, and the next step may be the Great Escape.
She needs more than enough stamina.
After eating all the food, Wang Xiaotao washed the rice bowl and pot cleanly, and took the time to sweep the floor and close the window.
She left a note for Li Jiuyan, saying that she had gone down the mountain for a walk, and she didn't know when she would come back.
In the letter, she said earnestly that she had regarded the Old Mother Palace as her home, and could she leave a place in the Old Mother Palace, so that if one day she could not stay outside, she would still have a home to return to, and she would not be too pitiful and homeless.
She knew that Li Jiuyan would definitely help her keep this courtyard after seeing this note, and even keep this formation to protect the courtyard, so as long as the formation of the old mother's palace was not broken, no one would ever find out that a dragon had died here.
But she couldn't guarantee that Li Jiuyan wouldn't come in and take a look, if anyone found out what was going on in this courtyard······
That was her end.
Wang Xiaotao looked around the courtyard and closed the door after making sure that everything was at least clean on the surface.
Today, the sky is early and bright, Wang Xiaotao is walking on the stars, and she still has one last thing to complete.
Wang Xiaotao knocked on the door, and the people inside quickly came out to answer the door, "Why ······ today?"
The woman in Tsing Yi opened the door, she frowned, the little girl in front of her was in an extremely bad mental state, haggard as if she hadn't slept all night, "What's wrong with you?" ”
"I've buried the bloody dragon scales near your yard this morning," Wang Xiaotao's eyes were dark and dark, "Tell me who killed Bailian, and I will dig them all out and take them away." ”
"You know, dragons, never die."
"You don't want anyone to find out you're hiding here, do you?"
This woman can predict and divination, and her skills are extraordinary, but she lives in the back mountain of Lishan Mountain, and she can't move an inch, except for Wang Xiaotao herself, she hasn't seen anyone come to her.
Wang Xiaotao believes that she is living anonymously here, such a person should not like her whereabouts to be discovered, right?
It's a big gamble, and the worst outcome is that the woman will kill herself.
It doesn't matter, Wang Xiaotao thought, she has already killed a dragon, enough for this.
"You kid······"
"I told you she's not a child anymore!"
In an instant, Tsing Yi turned into red, and his temperament suddenly became dark.
No longer the dignified and straight appearance of the woman in Tsing Yi, the woman in red leaned against the door frame and said lazily, "Who kid would force you like this." ”
"Little friend, don't be nervous, I'm just a warlock, I don't kill people, you don't need to talk to me with a knife."
"Actually, according to the fortune of God, I should have told you what you want to know, but ······ It's I myself who don't want to tell you. ”
The woman in red sat on the threshold as if nothing had happened before, waving her hand at Wang Xiaotao.
Wang Xiaotao did not let go of the hand holding the red scale dagger in his sleeve, and when he sat down, he was involved in the wound on his right leg that Ao Shun had poked out with chopsticks before, Wang Xiaotao pursed his lips, held back the pain, and sat down.
Although they sat on the same threshold, there was a distance between the two people that they didn't have before, and Wang Xiaotao sat with her at a distance where she could shoot at any time.
She raised her eyes, the morning sun fell through the clouds, the light and shadow floated, caressing her face, but it never shone into the depths of her eyes, she sat on the threshold, quietly listening to the woman in red.
"Sometimes I think I'm pretty ······ Cheap," the woman in red straightened her legs, looked at the woods not far away, and said, "I used to be very conceited, I was the first female sorcerer in the world who could watch the stars and know her fate, and spy on yin and yang. can know the geography of the sky, and know the expression of ghosts. I can't be conceited, I think I'm right, I should tell the world about the results I calculated, I have to let everyone know how good I am. ”
"I want the warlocks of the world to worship me as a god!"
When she said this, the woman in red stretched out her hand in front of her and clenched it into a fist, as if she was still recalling her high-spirited appearance back then.
"So even if it's a very untimely prophecy, I said it, even if I knew that this prophecy would turn the world upside down and shed blood, I had to say it, I was right, I should have said it to let them know that I was right."
"The future, the past, look like a moon mirror; A few prospered, a few failed, like a god. Knowing the evil and determining the auspicious, judging the death and the life. Talking about the wind and rain, the next pen is terrifying. ”
"That's what a warlock should do."
"Until one day when I looked at the face, I saw another folk emperor's appearance, there are two emperors in this world, I should have hidden this matter and told my king, but I didn't, conceited I made this emperor's appearance public, and I told the whole world that this person was also a natural emperor."
"But how can there be two kings in one country? Soon the man I saw as the emperor launched an uprising among the people. ”
"My prophecy killed my monarch, killed my relatives, killed my homeland, and all those familiar and strange were destroyed before my eyes, and I was made a marquis by the new monarch, and he said that he was very grateful to me, and that my prophecy encouraged his ambition and created a campaign for his uprising, and he asked me to prophesy for the new dynasty."
"He said that I helped him overthrow my own homeland, and I helped him kill my monarch."
"That's when I learned that even if it was accurate, some prophecies shouldn't be said, and if I didn't say it, things might still go on, but I wouldn't be so miserable, and I could die with my monarch, my relatives, and my homeland."
"Die honorably."
"So I thought, I shouldn't make prophecies anymore, I shouldn't go to people anymore, and on the day the country broke, I poked myself blind."
The woman in red had a casual attitude, sitting lazily under the sun, as if she was just telling someone else's story.