Chapter Twenty-Five: Elven Demons

Four people and one beast are young and vigorous, a night of crazy play, until the east appeared a piece of fish belly white did not go back to the guest room to sleep, when it was already noon, a full lunch, check out and leave the city by boat.

The river flows slowly and never stops flowing southward, but the sun at noon is scorching, reflecting the sparkling waves, shaking the eyes painfully.

After ten miles of the sentry, the Li River meandered to the east, and four people and one beast got off the boat and waved goodbye to the boatman.

"Guest, be careful all the way. The boatman waved his swarthy arms and rowed the boat upstream.

At the end of the official road, there is a stone tablet, which is engraved with the word "notice", the middle is engraved with dense words, and the lower right side is engraved with the seal of the government, and the handwriting is painted vermilion, which is nothing more than a reminder of the danger of the Southern Wilderness, and the person who enters is responsible for all the consequences, as well as the official law prohibits burning of mountains, prohibits hunting of rare and exotic beasts, and so on.

Leaving the official road and going inside, it is considered to have stepped into the Southern Wilderness. There are mountain roads trampled out by mountain people within dozens of miles, and the rough and vulgar mountain songs of woodcutters are faintly heard from time to time between the mountains, as well as the crisp birdsong, it seems that there are still people making a living in the shallow places in the southern wilderness.

"Now the mountain road is easy to walk, and further down is really deserted, everyone is careful of poisonous insects and beasts. Lu Yiqun reminded, and the group continued to walk forward.

The road ahead is indeed full of weeds and thorns, and there are no mountain trails, but it is difficult to walk.

The mountain breeze blows through the lush mountains, with the fragrance of flowers and plants, and a faint smell of earth.

Xiaobai took the lead and ran away, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. The group was as leisurely as stepping into the green, unfolding their body to walk quickly through the thorns, sweating like rain along the way, walking for several hours until sunset.

"Whew, I'm so tired. Let's rest here!" stopped on the huge marble with a radius of ten zhang against the mountain cliff, Yiqing gasped.

"Haha, look at you!" Ximen Guanxi pointed at Yiqing with a strange expression, and his pants were cut by thorns an inch long, revealing the snow-white skin on his thighs.

The four of you look at me, I look at you, and they laugh heartily at each other.

"Be careful in the future, otherwise we will all become beggars in bad clothes in a few days, and we will have to go back to buy clothes." Lu Yiqun reminded, and everyone nodded yes.

There is a spring not far away, the diameter of the soil is not more than a foot large, the spring is bubbling with clear water, and the overflowing water flows out along the small groove with the thickness of the calf.

Yiqing was the first to run over and cleaned up the weeds on the water with her sword, and a few colorful fish the size of little fingers were taken aback, and they suddenly burrowed into the aquatic weeds, not daring to come out.

Yiqing took a few handfuls of water to wash her face, washed away sweat and mud and dust, revealing a beautiful and dusty appearance, and the feeling of coolness and comfort was indescribable. Then he put his face on the water and took a few mouthfuls of sweet spring, and a cool feeling penetrated his heart.

Water with fish is not poisonous, so there is no need to test for poison with a silver needle.

Then Lu Yiqun, Ximen Guanxi and Tong Hao also came over to wash their faces and drink water.

"Sweet, delicious!" the crowd exclaimed, filling all the parchment water bags to the brim before throwing them into the storage bags.

When the four of them had been away for a while, the pretty little fish in the spring resumed their chasing and frolicking, sometimes bubbling in the aquatic plants.

At night, he set up camp here, and the sun pinched the water, and a trace of light blue water-based yuan power fluttered from the earth, and a line of crystal water snakes flew out of the spring, washing away the dry heat on the marble and mud dust, dead grass and fallen leaves.

As soon as the preparations were completed, Tonghao was responsible for chopping wood, and Ximen Guanxi was responsible for catching pheasants and game.

After wandering in the mountains for a long time, where can I see the shadow of pheasants and beasts. Occasionally, I heard a few sounds in the thorn bushes, but they were all white snakes with red spots on their heads, as well as green snakes and ringed flower snakes, but everyone didn't like to eat roast snakes, nor did they like to eat snake porridge, and they felt that the slippery snakes were disgusting.

Helpless, Ximen Guanxi crossed his chin with both hands, and sat on the mound in frustration, missing Xiaobai very much, if Xiaobai was here at the moment, wouldn't it be easy to catch some game.

was sitting and missing Xiaobai, there was a sound of tapping and the click of dead leaves under the loess cliff more than six feet high behind him, Ximen Guanxi quickly floated silently like a ghost, hiding behind a tree trunk hugged by two people, and half an eye was carefully aimed at the cliff.

Soon two big red eyes poked out of the corner of the cliff, and two small red eyes spun around as if they were thieves, and then sneakily turned out two porcelain dolls carved in pink and jade. A man and a woman, the male doll is about four inches long, covered with brocade feathers, a red sarcoma protrudes on the head, and a sharp mouth, which looks very much like a brocade chicken; the female doll is about three inches long, white as snowflakes, there are more than a dozen slender white whiskers on each side of the mouth, the red eyes are spinning around, two long ears are erected back on the head, and a short tail is dragging behind her, like a little white rabbit.

Ximen Guanxi was shocked, the two porcelain dolls did not look like monsters who had cultivated for thousands of years to become essences in any case, but they had already turned into humans!

"Wow! I'm tired to death, I've finally found a safe place, and you'll talk about it!" the boy sat down on the mound and asked reluctantly.

"But isn't it, the green demon has a terrifying face, his body is constantly rising and falling and changing shapes, turning into a five-pointed star with wings, and he swallowed the radish girl with a flying gabba, and he didn't even vomit a scum, which scared me to death!" The white rabbit girl also sat down, her face still shocked.

"Wife, with me, you don't have to be afraid!" The golden boy jumped up and held his chest very exaggeratedly, puffed out the biceps on the drummer, kicked over a few small clods of dirt, and looked at the white rabbit girl triumphantly.

"With just your few taels of strength, when you meet that green demon, you will also be swallowed. The white rabbit girl gave him a blank look, and there was an indescribable meaning in her eyes.

"Wife, let's move then. I heard that there is an immortal mountain overseas, there is a fairy mansion in the immortal mountain, there is an old immortal in the immortal mansion, and the old immortal has ...... "What does the old immortal have, it seems to be beyond the scope of his cognition, but he can't say it for a while."

The golden rooster boy paused, and then said: "Let's go to the teacher to seek the Tao, and when we return from learning, we are afraid of what will happen to him!"

The White Rabbit Girl was used to hearing him say that kind of mirage thing, so she snorted arrogantly, and stopped ignoring him.

At this moment, a large net fell from the sky, and two dolls carved in pink and jade ran wildly, but unfortunately the net was too big and too short to run away at all, and was covered in the net.

The two porcelain dolls looked for the big hole in a panic and wanted to get out.

Ximen Guanxi put his hands on his chest and looked at the two little guys proudly, this canopy net is used for fishing, there is a simple formation of automatic contraction, where is it so easy to run away, I didn't expect it to come in handy.

At this moment, the heads of the two little ones were drilled into the net hole, and they squeezed their bodies out with the strength of milk, and their faces were red, but unfortunately the net hole was too small, and even the thumb-thick little fish could not escape, let alone them.

Knowing that they couldn't escape, the white rabbit girl and the golden chicken boy stared at Ximen Guanxi pitifully, their legs trembling like a sieve, they couldn't save their bodies, and they appeared in their original form one after the other, and they were really a little white rabbit and a brocade chicken.

Ximen Guanxi coiled up the fishing net and put it on his back, laughed and went back, the little white rabbit behind him cried quietly, and the brocade chicken trembled slightly, and spoke softly, which should be comforting the little rabbit.

Ximen Guanxi threw the fishing net in the yard, Tong Hao came over to untie the net, carried the chicken wings and said: "This little rooster plucks only a pound of hair, how can four people have enough to eat!

The brocade chicken kicked his legs wildly, his eyes shot a fierce light, and he stared at Tong Hao deadly.

"The little rooster is roasted and eaten, the little white rabbit is very cute, how to eat it well?" Yiqing picked up the rabbit's two ears and found that her two red eyes were full of crystal liquid, and they fell down in a flutter.

"Rabbit meat is not delicious when grilled, but it tastes good when cooked. Set up a pot, put half a pot of water, pluck out the rabbit's hair, dig out the intestines, cut it into small pieces and put it in the pot, add some ginger and garlic, cook for half an hour, the rabbit meat must be cooked to be delicious. Lu Yiqun said it right.

The little white rabbit twitched violently a few times, and was so frightened by Lu Yiqun's words that he kicked his legs and fainted.

"The four immortals don't eat my wife, my meat is fresh, if you don't give up, eat me first!" said the brocade chicken with his head raised bravely.

Except for Ximen Guanxi, everyone else was surprised that the brocade chicken actually spoke.

According to the common sense of the monks, a monster that can only speak will definitely not be caught so easily, and it cannot be carried in his hand so easily.

"Chicken, you are not fat enough, and your meat has to be half full, so you have to eat the little white rabbit too. Tong Hao teased with a bright thin iron kitchen knife, and the four of them looked around at the two small things, and the brocade chicken that could talk was really unusual.

It took a while for the little white rabbit to wake up, and just stood up to see the bright kitchen knife with a weak foot and fell to the ground.

Looking at Yiqing pitifully, the little white rabbit moved his lips and said: "This immortal, the poor little demon has finally turned into a human, you must not eat the little demon! If the fairy is hungry and thirsty, the little demon is willing to find a few radishes and a few pieces of green vegetables for the fairy to nibble, okay?"

A few radishes, a few slices of greens to gnaw on? The little white rabbit even thought that several of himself were rabbits, and he could eat raw turnips and greens without cooking.

"Little goblin, it seems that you don't practice, why can you incarnate as a human? To be honest, if you don't be honest, you chop off four legs first, anyway, I have an elixir, and I can still give birth to legs after eating my elixir. Don't be afraid, you can't die, it's just a little painful. Tong Hao grabbed the rabbit, and his tone of voice was threatening, not afraid that she would not tell the truth.

The little rabbit was caught by Tong Hao's big hand and was in severe pain, as if he was entangled by a big python and couldn't breathe, so he struggled with all his might, but his body couldn't move at all, and he was so frightened that his soul flew out of the sky, and he screamed in horror: "Shangxian Mingcha, the little demon was originally an ordinary little white rabbit, jumping around the mountains and playing with his legs, accidentally hit a stone, entered a strange space, and accidentally ate a strange grass inside, before turning into a goblin." ”

"Shape-shifting grass!" everyone looked at each other, and they all felt their hearts beat faster, this kind of grass was very rare.

Ximen Guanxi's heart was even more fluttering, with Huaxing Grass, wouldn't Xiaobai be able to directly turn into a human, but it needed more weight than the little white rabbit.

With such an idea, Ximen Guanxi hurriedly asked: "Where is the strange grass, you take me there!"

"Shangxian didn't know, when I first discovered it three years ago, there was a three-inch long strange grass, green and swaying in the wind, and I couldn't see the edge at a glance. But later, those shape-shifting goblins had uncles, uncles, sisters-in-law, friends and relatives, and they spread out like this, one to ten, ten to hundreds, and you should have a lot to eat? Soon they were swept away, and even the grass roots were pulled clean, and even the soil next to the strange grass was gnawed to the ground. The little white rabbit's voice was so small that it was almost inaudible, like a little girl who had done something wrong, her aggrieved eyes flashed with tears, and she looked at Simon Guanxi timidly.

"Since I don't have a shapeshifter, I have a brother who also wants to be a human. Since you have eaten the transformation grass, my brother should be able to transform after eating you, so let's try it?" Ximen Guanxi looked at the two little things very viciously, and Yiqing glared at him, such a cute thing, I can't wait to hold it in the palm of my hand.

The brocade chicken hurriedly shook its head, and the little white rabbit hurriedly swung its two front paws stained with loess, and said in unison: "Shangxian, it's useless, it's useless to eat us!"

Of course, Ximen Guanxi knew that it was useless, if there was an elixir now, could it be that if he gave it to a white rabbit to eat, and then ate the rabbit after three years, could he expect to have the effect equivalent to eating that elixir?

Ximen Guanxi made a joke very casually, thinking that the two little guys were so cute, Yiqing would definitely like it, looked at them with soft eyes, and said: "Do you want to live? Then follow us, worship this fairy as a teacher, she will teach you spells!"

Ximen Guanxi said, pointing to Yiqing.

A chicken and a rabbit immediately calculated, the thin man wielding the kitchen knife looked fierce, the older one said that he was going to cook the rabbit, and the one who said 'my brother ate you' also looked vicious, it seemed that it was still the beautiful fairy sister, and she glared at him fiercely when the man said, "My brother ate you".

The two little guys exchanged glances very quickly, they are the bottom of the food chain in the mountains and forests, and if they are not careful, they will fill the stomachs of fierce beasts and fierce birds.

Yiqing happily picked up the two little ones and taught them to say the words master, uncle, and uncle.

The little white rabbit and the brocade chicken learned seriously, and a few titles were very awkward.

Yiqing gave the little white rabbit a name Bai Ying with great interest, and the brocade chicken was named Jinhang.

After a while, a rabbit and a chicken calmed down from their panics, and Yiqing gave them a few qi-turning pills and water to eat, and the two little guys became human again.

Yiqing looked at the appearance of the two pink carved jade bracelet porcelain dolls, and she loved it so much, kissing and hugging, she loved it very much, and soon it became hot, where is there still the appearance of being a teacher.

Everyone was watching the rabbit doll and the chicken doll chasing and playing, until Tong Hao was so hungry that his belly 'cooed', and then he talked about eating, and even more hateful about eating chicken.

"I know there are a lot of chickens out there!" In the surprised eyes of everyone, Jin Hang actually said something to betray his kind.

Sensing the strangeness in their eyes, Jinmao Chicken hurriedly explained: "I am a demon and they are a fowl, but I am not a betrayal of my fellow clan. I just ask my seniors not to eat my uncles and sisters-in-law, relatives in the clan, I can count myself as filial piety!"

I didn't expect Jin Hang to draw a boundary with poultry so quickly, Ximen Guanxi said: "Naturally I won't eat your kindred, how many chickens can we eat? ”

Jin Hang led the way and soon caught a few fat chickens and came back.

At night, a bonfire rises on a boulder outside the tent, around which people sit like primitive tribesmen. Fat chickens strung with sharpened bamboo branches are set on top of the bonfire, crackling, and bursts of meat fragrance waft through the mountains and forests.

Jin Hang's wings developed a thin human hand, the small hand has not yet fully developed, the blood vessels under the skin are clearly visible, in the mound not far away with his legs to quickly scratch the soil, sometimes leaning over to peck insects to eat, looking like twisting his ass and dancing.

Bai Ying ran around the bonfire with a radish in her arms, sometimes sitting down and nibbling a few bites.

The distant ridge was dotted with a faint green light, and many wild beasts smelled the smell of meat, and their eyes brushed together, but they did not dare to attack the humans in front of them out of their natural fear of fire.

Ximen Guanxi turned the fragrant roast chicken, smeared a layer of sesame oil and honey on the roast chicken, and laughed at Jinhang's funny appearance.

"Naughty, mischievous, bad guy! Yiqing pointed at Jinhang and laughed.

The appearance of a human-shaped chicken digging soil is indeed funny, and what is even more funny is that Jinhang heard the burst of laughter and looked back, with a confused, incomprehensible and innocent look in his eyes.

With two elves, it seems that this trip will not be lonely.

"It's cooked!" Simon Guanxi took a chicken that had been roasted and was yellowed and oily, and stabbed the chicken a few times with a thin bamboo skewer, which easily stabbed into the tender meat.

Nose approached and enjoyed sniffing a few times, then broke off a chicken leg and handed it to Yiqing.

Yiqing hid her hand behind her and said coquettishly: "Senior brother, you blow it!"

Ximen Guanxi was speechless, so he had to blow for a while before handing her the lukewarm chicken legs.

Lu Yiqun and Tong Hao also picked up a roasted chicken and ate it one after another.

"It's delicious, it's delicious!" the two of them devoured the delicious taste.

Tong Hao took out fifty years of old rice wine in the storage bag, and the three men took a sip of wine and a mouthful of meat, and the wine and meat passed through the intestines.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in the mountains, and Xiaobai crossed a white line and pounced on a chicken skeleton next to the bonfire.

Bai Ying jumped up with a scream, threw herself into Yiqing's arms, turned her head and squinted at Xiao Bai, trembling all over.

Jin Hang clucked, flapped his wings, and slipped out with a small golden light under his feet.

Xiao Bai didn't hesitate at all, and turned around and pounced on Jinhang.

"Good guy, everyone dares to bite yourself! See if Yiqing doesn't pick your skin!" Ximen Guanxi stepped forward quickly in a few steps, grabbed Xiaobai's top melon skin and dragged it back.

Xiaobai showed a very cunning and humane smile, his thick left limb slightly covered his mouth, and then arched a pair of thick forelimbs like human hands to Yiqing, as if he was making a move, looking like an old treacherous and cunning.

"Senior brother, your leopard has become a refinement, why don't you send it to me together and be a whole favor?" Yiqing said unrelentingly, and Ximen Guanxi put on an indifferent appearance.

Xiaobai glared at her with disgust, with a self-assertive attitude.

Xiaobai's feeling for Ximen Guanxi is like a father and brother, but he is not a pet, how can he say that he will send it!

Jin Hang saw that Xiaobai was dragged away by Ximen Guanxi, and came back to continue to dig happily in the dirt pit, looking back at this bloodthirsty beast in panic from time to time. Keeping a safe distance at all times is the key to survival.

The four of them ate and drank in turn, and washed themselves in the spring water. Lu Yiqun took out a clay bowl with dark green on the outside and red yellow on the inside, boiled it on the bonfire with a large pottery bowl on the spring stand, and took out the blue-black granular Tieguanyin tea, as well as four sea bowls with blue and white porcelain craftsmanship inside and outside, and brewed the tea soup in the four sea bowls, and smelled the fragrance of tea from afar.

Tieguanyin is sweet and greasy, and it is most suitable to drink after eating meat, otherwise you often eat meat during the trip to the Southern Wilderness, and it is conceivable that it will be very greasy.

Ximen Guanxi took a sip of the tea soup, the rich fragrance stimulated the taste buds, it was very comfortable, he took another sip with his mouth, touched Xiaobai's head with his right hand and said, "Jinhang, Bai Ying, come here and introduce to you." ”

Jin Hang walked over very carefully and slowly, and refused to move forward when he was three feet away. Bai Ying shrank even more nervously behind Jin Hang, her legs trembling almost to the ground, and her eyes poked out half of her head from behind.

"Let me introduce you, the boy in front is called Jinhang, the little girl in the back is called Bai Ying, and this one next to me is your little white brother. In the future, everyone will be friends, but you are not allowed to bully children!" Ximen Guanxi said while patting Xiaobai's head.

Xiao Bai lazily knelt on the ground and yawned, revealing Bai Sensen's fangs, licking his lips with his scarlet tongue, shrugging forward lazily, and stretching out his right paw very friendly, the spikes on the claws looked very sharp and terrifying under the flickering bonfire.

Seeing the huge beast stretching out its terrifying sharp claws, a chicken and a rabbit were almost frightened, and they didn't even have the courage to run away under their feet, so they shriveled on the ground, but Xiaobai's sharp claws were very gentle and slashed across the trembling faces of the two little guys, without a trace of skin cut, and there was no pain at all.

Bai Ying was very panicked and touched the fat cheek that had been scratched with her hand, and then looked to see if there was any blood. Jin Hang also wiped his very small and delicate face with his wings, staring at the wings and looking at it.

Xiaobai retracted his forearms, shrugged his shoulders very proudly, and let out a 'hee-hee' laugh in his throat, and the atmosphere became relaxed.

Jin Hang and Bai Ying were very timid and moved closer inch by inch, and tried to be friends with Xiaobai very timidly.

It was late at night, Xiaobai hung on the branch of a three-zhang tall tree outside the tent and swayed lightly in the wind, and everyone yawned and slept on the marble.

Yiqing has a special tent for resting and a comfortable mattress.

Yiqing sewed two sets of soft brocade mattresses for the two new little guys, one red for the little girl and one blue for the little boy.

"This is mine!" "I want this!" The little white rabbit and the little cocktail tugged at the red mattress and fought over the bed. Yiqing sewed the quilt very late, she was already very tired, and she had to hurry early in the morning, so she would have sewed two red brocade mattresses.

"Bai Ying covers the red mattress, and Jinhang covers the green mattress. Yiqing didn't expect what would happen in front of her, so she stood helplessly on the edge of the bed and yawned.

Where did he think that Jin Hang didn't buy her account, he glared at her very dissatisfied, and said stubbornly: "You, eccentric!"

"My little girl, don't make trouble. The red mattress is for girls, and the green mattress is for boys!" Yiqing explained patiently for a while, saying something like 'It's a shame for a boy to cover a red mattress and say something like that', Jin Hang finally reluctantly agreed to cover the green mattress.

After tossing all night, Yiqing arranged for two cute little bastards to sleep in the corner of the bed in the back, let out a long sigh of relief, spread down on the bed, and finally could lie down and rest quietly.