Chapter 163: Jujube Kernel and Hemp Ash
The smell of wine and meat from the firewood spread to the Wei River in Beach Town with the blowing of a gentle breeze.
"The firewood is almost out again, big brother, I'm going to put some firewood in it, and by the way, I'm pouring some sake into the pot. Looking at the firewood that was about to be extinguished, Mao 18 whispered.
"Hmm. Wu Youqiu heard this, and nodded with a hint of disappointment on his face. Because this is the fourth time that Mao Eighteen has gone to set firewood, at this moment, they have been hiding behind the old tree for about two hours.
When Mao 18 returned to the old tree after putting firewood for the fourth time, a splash suddenly shook on the water surface of the Wei River not far away. By the faint light of the firewood, the three men behind the tree saw a strange head emerging from the river.
This head resembles a human head, and its eyes and nose are the same as those of a human except for a pointed beak that resembles a bird's beak. In addition, the top of its head, as if it had been slashed by a knife, appears unusually flat and hairless. On either side of its ears are tufts of yellow hair.
After the strange head appeared, he stared at the Wei River and looked at it carefully, and then let out a 'bleating' sound like a sheep's cry, and then went to the bottom of the river again.
"Big brother, why did it get into the river again?" Seeing the strange head enter the bottom of the river, Jingchen asked quietly.
"Shh~ Don't talk, it's going ashore. Wu Youqiu replied lightly, and then looked at the iron pot not far away.
After the strange head burrowed into the bottom of the lake, after about ten rests, a turtle shell appeared on the surface of the river. After the turtle shell appeared, it quickly swam towards the river, and in a few blinks of an eye, accompanied by a sound of water, the water tiger under the turtle shell climbed up from the river beach.
I saw that the water tiger was carrying a large black turtle shell on its back, and its whole body was covered with yellow fluff, and its limbs were like the palms of a frog. It was rickety, like a child of seven or eight years old, with its arms half-rolled in front of it, and its body looked like a monkey at a glance, and the long nails on the ten fingers of its hands were black, resembling tiger claws, and were extremely sharp.
Climbing up the river beach, the water tiger turned his head to look around, then let out a 'bleat', and then bent his legs, like a frog jumping, and jumped to the side of the iron pot in a few big steps. It was beating extremely fast, no slower than the speed of a muscular warrior.
Behind the old tree, the three hidden people saw the water tiger jumping out of the Wei River, and they all stared at its every move with their eyes, and they didn't dare to gasp.
I saw that after the water tiger jumped to the iron pot, he looked into the iron pot and let out a few cheerful 'blea' cries from his mouth. Then, it raised its hand directly into the boiling sake and tried to take out the fragrant meat in the pot, but as soon as its hand touched the sake, it immediately retracted, and let out a cry of pain in its mouth.
After retracting his hand, the water tiger jumped around the iron pot and stopped by the pot for a moment. Then he reached out and pulled out the wood from under the iron pot, and bleated in satisfaction.
After pulling the firewood, it stopped at the flat wooden board full of glutinous rice balls on the iron pot. After staring at the wooden board for a short while, it sniffed on the glutinous rice ball, and immediately, a strange cry came out of its mouth. Then, it opened its sharp mouth and took a glutinous rice ball into its mouth on the wooden board.
The rice ball entered his mouth, and the water tiger did not chew, but sucked it twice in his mouth, and then swallowed it into his stomach, and then opened his mouth and took the second glutinous rice ball.
The three people behind the tree quietly looked at the water tiger next to the iron pot, and saw that the glutinous rice balls on the wooden board were swallowed into their stomachs one by one in just a moment.
After swallowing the glutinous rice ball, the water tiger let out a satisfied cry, reached out and touched his slightly bulging belly, bent his legs, and was about to jump up and move his body when he suddenly found that he couldn't jump.
After beating several times in succession, the water tiger let out a furious cry, because it found that after swallowing the glutinous rice ball, it seemed to have a thousand-ton weight in its stomach, pressing its legs so hard that it could not move flexibly. At this moment, it can only be like a turtle, grinding its feet and fists and slowly moving towards the Wei River.
Wu Youqiu, who was behind the tree, hurriedly picked up the bucket of hemp ash that Ma Shiping had prepared for him, and quickly ran towards the water tiger that was slowly moving towards the river. Seeing this, Mao 18 and Jingchen also hurriedly got up and followed behind him.
Moving slowly, the water tiger who wanted to return to the Wei River saw the three people who suddenly appeared behind the old tree, let out an angry 'bleat', and then waved his sharp claws at the three people who ran towards him.
Running to the side of the water tiger and stopped, Wu Youqiu looked at this short and inconvenient monster without the slightest hesitation, and directly threw a bucket of hemp ash at it.
The hemp ash came out of the bucket and immediately sprinkled on the water tiger, and then it let out a miserable scream, and then, the sharp claws were straight at Wu Youqiu, and the body stood motionless on the spot.
"This ......" Mao 18 and Jingchen who rushed to the front saw the motionless water tiger, and they were all stunned. Not only the two of them, but even Wu Youqiu was surprised after splashing out the hemp ash.
Because after Ma Ash touched the water tiger, its yellow body turned gray like a rigid stone statue in the blink of an eye, and it was motionless on the spot.
"I didn't expect this hemp ash to have this effect. Looking at the monster that looked like a squatting gray stone statue and was motionless, Wu Youqiu muttered to himself. Then he lifted the empty wooden barrel in his hand and smashed it directly towards the water tiger.
The barrel was smashed out, and it did not make a sound of hitting the stones, but smashed the petrified water tiger's body to pieces, and fell to the ground with a 'bang~'. And the water tiger's sparse body seemed to be made of sand and ash, and when it was smashed by the bucket, it turned into a cloud of gray sand and scattered on the ground.
The water tiger in Beach Town was solved in this incredible situation, just a few jujube cores and a bucket of hemp ash, as for why this happened, even Wu Youqiu didn't know.
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White plum blossoms cover a hill like a white snow-capped mountain. On a small flat ground overgrown with green grass on the top of the mountain, Li Ge, who had a pale face, slowly opened his eyes, and he struggled to support his body and stood up from the grass.
Not far from him, on a large gray stone, there was a square door of light about half a zhang high and wide, and the white mist inside the door was shrouded, as if it were a fairy trail.
"From this point of view, the next layer should be Tianquan Merlin. Staggering to the light door, Li Ge looked at the white fog inside the door and muttered to himself, and then took a step and stepped directly into the door.
After stepping into the light gate, Li Ge froze, because in this gate, there were no plum blossoms, no plum trees, and only an endless desert. And he was standing somewhere in the desert at this time, and in a certain direction as far as his eyes could see, there was a faint building.
"It seems that this Heavenly Power layer is not a plum forest. In the desolate desert, Li Ge looked at the buildings in the distance and muttered to himself, and then moved over.