Cannibalism

Xie Sheng slept until the sun was up, and when he woke up, he found that Yuan Shiren was no longer in the boat.After he got dressed, he walked to the bow of the boat, and saw a piece of red clothes lying on the bottom of the water not far away, and then he remembered that he had stripped off the wedding dress from Flower God last night.

He looked around the surrounding blue sky and green trees, but couldn't find the figure of Tobishi Jin.

Under the Maple Bridge, outside Hanshan Temple.I don't know if the Fengqiao on the gurgling water heard the happy sound of the boat last night.

Missing early in the morning, the little flower god was probably angry.Although Xie Sheng has seen some spring/palace pictures before, he has no actual combat experience. Last night, he only knew that he went on a rampage and made the Flower God bleed.The blood temperature of the divine blood was so high that it almost scalded him.Thanks to his own enthusiasm at the time, he lasted for a long time without disarming and surrendering.

He couldn't see Yuanshiren's face clearly last night, and he didn't know how the other party felt. He had to practice more in the future, so as not to wrong his darling.

He had never heard Flower God cry, and he didn't expect that Flower God's sobbing voice was so beautiful yesterday.I didn't have time to express my feelings clearly last night, so it's better to find Ah Ren as soon as possible.Thinking of this, Xie Sheng couldn't help being distracted, and wanted to get closer to Yuanshiren, so he raised his hand and performed a magic trick, sensing the copper pillar on Yuanshiren's body.

It's okay if it doesn't feel, but once it senses, it senses thousands of miles away.

Tongzhu is now in the direction of the East China Sea Dragon Palace?

Flower God went to Dragon Palace without saying hello.

Xie Sheng was puzzled, and immediately sent Zongyunshu to the Dragon Palace.He followed Tong Zhu's instructions to the sea vortex beside the Dragon Palace. At this time, the vortex sweeping the waves had disappeared.

The surrounding sea is dark and silent, and there are schools of fish wandering happily everywhere.

On the bottom of the sea where the sea vortex was originally swirling, there was a yellow cat and his copper Zhu.Xie Sheng shone the light in his hand, and found that the yellow cat's body was slowly rising and falling, and was falling asleep.

Of course he recognizes this yellow-patterned raccoon cat, but it is his heart and soul, Aren. I don't know what happened to Aren and he faints here.He hugged the yellow cat into his arms, then picked up Tongzhu and put it in his pocket.Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly heard the voice of Lu Qing, the chief guard of the crab, from behind: "Young Xia Xie Sheng! Please stay!"

The shining night pearl on top of Lu Qing's head dazzled his eyes.He quickly lowered his head, narrowed his eyes and said, "Chief Guard, what happened?"

Before he entered the waters of the Dragon Palace, he had to go through the routine inspection of the shrimp soldiers and crab generals at the door, so the Dragon Palace had already known that he was coming.

Lu Qing looked around: "That flower god came here just now, do you know where he is now?"

"It's in my arms." Xie Sheng handed the yellow cat in front of him, "The flower god often shows people in the form of a cat, but now he has fallen into a deep sleep and won't be able to wake up for a while."

Lu Qing's eyes turned suspiciously on the yellow cat for half a circle: "The flower god disappeared after he came to the Dragon Palace. After a while, the elder noticed that the vortex in the East China Sea disappeared. At this time, he heard that you were also here, so the elder sent me here." looking for you everywhere."

Unexpectedly, by such a coincidence, as soon as the Flower God arrived, all the remaining spiritual power in the vortex dissipated.

Xie Sheng stroked the back of the yellow cat's round head, and said in a low voice, "I'll follow you to the Dragon Palace."

The Dragon King sat there chewing betel nuts as usual. When he saw Xie Sheng, his eyes lit up flickeringly, and he quickly conjured up a stick of dogtail grass, and poked at the cat in Xie Sheng's arms.

"Elder! Don't tease him." Xie Sheng hurriedly protected the yellow cat's head.

The Dragon King laughed: "Oh, what happened to the cat's face, was it bitten by a mouse?"

Xie Sheng looked down, and sure enough, he saw a circle of hair missing on the right side of the yellow cat's face. The circle was intermittent, like someone's teeth marks.

"I bit it."

Xie Sheng coughed to hide his embarrassment.When he was in high spirits last night, he held Ren Shiro's face and sucked and bit it. Unexpectedly, Jin turned into a cat, and the teeth marks still remained.

"You are a tiger, how can you be as petty as a mouse when you bite the teeth marks." The Dragon King squinted at him, obviously not believing, "Where did this cat come from?"

Xie Sheng said frankly: "This is the cat body of the flower god from last time. Don't tease him."

"Isn't the Flower God that little octopus?" The Dragon King had no choice but to take back the dog's tail grass, and said angrily, "Although I am old, my memory is not worse than yours. I still remember the little octopus, he is not this cat."

Xie Sheng opened his mouth to explain, but the Dragon King was surprised, pointed at the cat's head and said, "I've seen this cat before."

"The elders have seen it?"

Xie Sheng wondered in his heart, could it be that Yuan Shiren had revealed his cat body in the East China Sea.

"Yes, I have." The brilliance in Elder Octopus's eyes became clearer and brighter, "How can I say that I have a good memory. At that time, you and I had never met. One day when I went ashore, I saw a little tiger chasing you. A yellow civet cat was playing, bullying the yellow cat until it meowed loudly. That tiger was you, and I also met a civet cat later. Have you forgotten all these things?"

"Elder, how is it possible." Xie Sheng thought that the Dragon King was confused, so he just picked up impossible things and said nonsense, "Almost all lihuahuang in the world look the same, the elder must have admitted his mistake."

The elder octopus said slowly: "At that time when the raccoon cat was about to become a demon, there was often a white rabbit who had cultivated spiritual consciousness to play with him. The cooperation of a cat and a rabbit is rare in the world, so I remember it very clearly. .”

white rabbit.

Xie Sheng couldn't help but think of the kite head mountain spirit that killed people in the first place.

"Later, this yellow cat never appeared again, and completely disappeared from the East Sea. You never chased it again." The Dragon King spat out the betel nut in his mouth, recalling, and said, "You chased the little cat." Octopus, the little octopus is a plant demon who has only cultivated spiritual consciousness. He can cry, make noise, talk and scream. Compared to a beast without spiritual consciousness, you prefer to chase the little octopus to play, and run down the mountain to catch him if you have nothing to do , seems to like to put him on the head, and you can see the green patch on the forehead from a long distance, which really makes people laugh and cry."

Xie Sheng caressed the yellow cat's soft body, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and the soreness in his eyes gradually came out when he was afraid of light.

Elder Octopus raised his head, looked at the roof, and said with emotion: "Unexpectedly, 1000 years have passed, you and him have grown so big, and one of them has become a god. Hey, time flies, and I grow old too." gone."

"What do you mean, you are still young." Xie Sheng said again, "You came to me mainly because of the disappearance of the sea vortex just now."

"Oh, I almost forgot." The elder slapped the table and sat up, "When the flower god came, the sea vortex next to him disappeared. Could it be that he removed the sea vortex by himself?"

"I'm afraid it is." Xie Sheng picked up the yellow cat, "Look at his sleeping state, he is probably tired."

However, it only needs to wait a few more days, and the spiritual power in this sea vortex will dissipate by itself, without any extra effort.Xie Sheng didn't understand why Tobishiren would do this.

"I've said so much, it's all in vain." The Dragon King threw betel nuts at Xie Sheng's head anxiously, "Why do you still think that this yellow cat is a little octopus. I think the Flower God must have jumped into the sea vortex."

Xie Sheng didn't believe in evil, and still insisted: "Impossible. If he wants to jump in, it's impossible not to tell me."

The Dragon King hit him: "The white rabbit jumped in with the little octopus back then. Did he tell you?"

Xie Sheng choked on Master Octopus's words, and didn't say anything for a long time.

The yellow cat nestled in Xie Sheng's arms and never woke up.Xie Sheng returned to Tianyan Mountain, put the yellow cat on his bed, and thoughtfully covered him with a sheet to prevent him from catching a cold.

After Longgong and his party in the morning, the ecstasy of last night has long since faded away.Xie Sheng felt hungry, so he wanted to go to Xie Nan's yard to beg for some food.Coincidentally, in the middle of the walk, he bumped into Xie Nan head-on.

Xie Nan looked at him and asked, "I went to Hanshan Temple yesterday and didn't come back all night? Why are my clothes wrinkled like this?"

Xie Sheng didn't intend to hide it, but he didn't want to be so frank and blatant, so he had to change it to a euphemistic way: "Brother Ten, I've lost all children and grandchildren."

The leaves of many trees on Tianyan Mountain turned golden yellow, and the July cicadas screamed like weeping blood, making Xie Nan think that his younger brother had a lump in his head.

Xie Nan laughed softly: "What? You went to Hanshan Temple once, and you're ready to become a monk? That's great. From now on, I'll be quiet right under my nose."

Xie Sheng quickly denied it: "Brother Ten, where are you going? If I become a monk, what will Ah Ren do?"

Xie Nan wasn't surprised at all, the light in his eyes was extremely calm: "You and Flower God are on good terms."

Xie Sheng nodded: "Right now, Flower God is still in a coma. When he wakes up, I will go visit parents with him."

Still dizzy, didn't get up.

Xie Nan always knew that his younger brother was not shy, but he never expected to be so shameless.

"The Goddess of Flower is gentle and elegant, pure and kind. I believe that my parents would like such... such a daughter-in-law." Xie Nan opened the fan wide, blowing a cool breeze, "Don't worry, I will help you and your parents to lay the groundwork first. To prepare them mentally."

"Thank you, Brother Ten."

Xie Sheng said goodbye to Xie Nan, walked happily for a while, and suddenly remembered that he came out to ask Xie Nan for some food.There is a kitchen in front of it, and you have to walk a long way to go back, so why not steam a bowl of smoked venison yourself.

There is also iced peach juice that he puts in the well in the yard, drink peach juice and eat venison, the smell of food may wake up the yellow cat.

Today's sunshine is not poisonous, it makes people lazy when it shines on the body, Xie Sheng picked a bunch of dried venison at the door of the kitchen, and prepared to start the fire and steam it.After about half a stick of incense, Run Yuan and Run Shen, who hadn't seen each other for many days, also came in.

"Senior Xie Sheng! I heard that you and the flower god went to the Temple of Sending Son to burn incense last night." When Run Yuan saw him, he pounced on him, his eyes sparkling, "What are you doing at the Temple of Sending Son? "

Run Shen grabbed the hem of Run Yuan's clothes, and said in a convincing way: "Senior brother——"

Run Yuan shook his sleeves, probably because he realized that such behavior was inappropriate.He immediately stood up straight and cleared his throat: "You are planning to get married."

"No." Xie Sheng didn't intend to explain anything else, "You want to use the stove? I'll let you use it after I finish steaming this pot of venison."

"We're not in a hurry." Runshen lowered his head and picked up two eggs and knocked them into a bowl: "Senior, my brother just received a new scabbard from Master today, and he is very happy. If there is any offense, senior don't take it." care."

Speaking of the new scabbard, Xie Sheng remembered that the old scabbard was broken by him without the permission of Jun Yuan to protect against lightning, so he said: "If you need to polish the scabbard, you can come and talk to me, I will There are golden pinnacles in the room."

Run Yuan said happily: "Senior is so kind to us. This time, Master also sent us a few words, which are related to the precious snakeskin bag of the Zhenpai."

After taking back the snakeskin bag last time, Runyuan Runshen made a special trip to Feige to send a letter back to ask about the origin of the snakeskin bag.If you let others know that even the disciples of the sect have no understanding of the treasure of the town sect, you will be ashamed of your lord.

Xie Sheng wasn't interested in their snake skin beating, his eyes were fixed on the pot of venison, and he asked one more question just out of politeness: "How do you say it?"

Run Yuan: "Our master said that our Zhenpai treasure used to contain the heart of Huoling, which is the heart of Fanchuan Huoling. This snakeskin bag was given to us by a god."

"What?" Xie Sheng's hand holding the chopsticks to rummage through the venison completely stopped.He turned his gaze to Runyuan, and felt that his thoughts were chaotic for no reason, as if there were many fragmented clues scattered in every corner, and they couldn't be linked together.

Seeing that his eyes were strange, Runyuan put away his treasure-giving expression, pursed his lips, and said solemnly, "Senior, what's wrong with you?"

After a while, smoke rose from the steamer against the lid, and the water in the pot was gurgling and bubbling.

The venison is almost done.

Xie Sheng regained his senses, grabbed two pot ears and walked out: "Thank you for the news, I leave the kitchen to you."

He walked back to his small yard with a bowl of half-cooked venison.From afar, I saw an iron-eating beast standing at the door.When he got closer, he saw that there were many red lip prints on the black and white hair of the iron-eating beast, which shocked Xie Sheng to stop outside the door, not daring to approach it.

"Yong Chuan, you, what's wrong with you?"

"It's a long story." The iron-eating beast sat at the door with no expression on his face, but he was full of annoyance in his tone, "I will never walk the mountain road alone again, you women from the Tiger Clan of the Xie family are really scary, see When it comes to iron-eating beasts, it hugs and gnaws, without shame."

Xie Sheng understood.He laughed and kicked open the wooden door: "Come in, I'll treat you to venison."

The camphor tree in the yard was only transplanted here this year. It is very young, and its trunk is no bigger than the mouth of a small bowl.In autumn, it is still green and evergreen, and it is more comfortable to look at than the desolate and old golden scenes outside the courtyard.Only occasionally a few leaves will fall down.

Xie Sheng pushed aside the leaves on the stone table, put the venison on it, and said to Yong Chuan, "I'll get two chairs."

Yong Chuan entered the house with him, Xie Sheng didn't realize the mess in his house until outsiders came.The chairs were all piled up with sundries, Yong Chuan looked at the situation, and casually picked up a dirty silk handkerchief and said, "Clean it up first, don't worry about me, I'll go outside and help you clean this bloody handkerchief." The veil was washed."

Yong Chuan lived and ate for nothing on the mountain for many days, and under Xie Nan's supervision, he has already started doing housework, and has developed the habit of Tianyan Mountain's family servants - wanting to wash off the dirt when they see it.

Xie Sheng first vacated two chairs and moved them to the courtyard, and then moved the sundries into the cabinet in twos and threes. At this time, Yong Chuan had almost washed the handkerchief, and he shouted outside: "Xie Sheng, I thought it was a waste of money. Your veil is red, but it turned out to be blue and white? How much blood did you bleed? You can’t even wash it off.”

Xie Sheng closed the cabinet door, and suddenly a light flashed in his mind - something seemed wrong.

The blood-stained silk handkerchief was taken out by Toshiro Jin casually.

He rushed to Yong Chuan's side, picked up the silk handkerchief and glanced at it twice.

really.

After returning from Dragon Palace today, he suppressed the trace of worry in his heart to the bottom.Up to now, this worry can't be suppressed at all, and it's getting higher and higher, and it's getting wider and wider.

"This is my veil." Xie Sheng couldn't believe that Yuan Shiren used this veil to wipe his blood, "Before I threw it into the Eastern Sea whirlpool, it shouldn't appear here according to common sense. "

The iron-eater was confused by what he said, touched the lip marks on the back of his head and asked, "You don't know it's in your room?"

"I know." Xie Sheng became more and more apprehensive, "but I don't know... how it fell into Ah Ren's hands."

He looked up at the huddled figure on the bed.The yellow cat was still sound asleep under the thin quilt.

Xie Sheng held the blood-stained silk handkerchief in his palm, and looked up at the sky: "Eat the venison yourself, now I'm going to Yuanshou Mountain. If Brother Ten asks about me, tell him I'll be right back .”

Before Yong Chuan could answer, he saw Xie Sheng Tengyun flying into the air and disappeared in a flash.

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Xie Sheng climbed Yuanshou Mountain from the mountain road.He remembered that there was the entrance to the Iris God Realm on the mountainside. At the entrance, there were two giant trees with luxuriant branches. Branches sprouted from the branches. All covered.He remembered that when he entered the God Realm for the first time, it took a lot of effort.

But, let's see again today.

The two towering trees were gone, the criss-cross grass walls were gone, and the entrance to the Yuanshou God Realm was also gone.

Except for a piece of green grass that remained the same as before, all the vegetation that had previously blocked the sun had disappeared without a trace.Now the field of vision here is empty, and he can see the smoke curling up from dozens of miles away, and he can clearly see a cluster of white waterfalls floating down from the hills in the distance.

This was never possible before.

Xie Sheng looked at the unobstructed sunlight above his head, and his unhealed eyes couldn't stop the sour water from pouring out.At this time, a mountain man happened to pass by, Xie Sheng immediately blocked his way.

"You—who are you?" The man clutched his pocket tightly, thinking he had met a robber.

Xie Sheng gained a lot of limelight at the kite head sacrifice to the sunrise, and almost all the villagers remembered his appearance and called him a chivalrous man.He wondered, "Aren't you a villager of Yuanshou Village?"

It seems that what I encountered was not a robber, but a vicious passerby. The villagers breathed a sigh of relief, but they still did not let go of their guard. "Of course I am! If I wasn't from Yuanshou Village, how could I go up this road?"

Hearing this, Xie Sheng began to befriend: "You don't remember me? I am Xie Sheng, and I helped you catch human animals on the sacrificial day before."

"Who is Xie Sheng? I can't understand what you're talking about." The villager wiped the sweat from his beard, "Stop talking nonsense in this hot weather, if you have nothing to do, just leave quickly. It's our village, there's no way to go anywhere else."

The villagers left in a hurry.

The ominous feeling in Xie Sheng's heart increased several times.He followed the villagers up the mountain and followed the previous path to find the Yuanshou Temple. However, he circled the village for two full circles, but to no avail.

He found another woman and asked, "Ma'am, do you know how to get to the Yuanshou Temple?"

"What temple?" The woman was even more confused than him, "We never believe in gods here, where did the temple come from?"

Never believe in God, how is it possible.

Xie Sheng gradually felt his heart break down: "When I came here a few months ago, the village held a kite sacrifice day, and I helped you catch human sacrifices, have you all forgotten?"

"Young man, what are you talking about." The woman thought he was talking nonsense, and looked up and down his face for a long time, "You went to the wrong place."

Xie Sheng asked, "Is there a second Yuanshou Village nearby?"

"No. Only this one."

Then the woman didn't reply anymore, and Xiao Bu ran to avoid him.

Afterwards, Xie Sheng stopped several villagers, and they all said that there was no Iris Temple, and they had never seen the Iris God.

It's fine if they don't remember him, why not even Ah Ren.If Ah Ren found out, how sad he would be.

Xie bowed his head without saying a word, slowly recalling his experience in Yuanshou Mountain in those few days.He vaguely remembered a young man who worshiped the Flower God very much, and even said that he would enter the God Realm to serve.The young man's name is--

Wuwei.

His eyes lit up.Yes, there is Wu Wei.

He hurriedly asked the passers-by about Wuwei, but no one had heard of the name.Just when he was about to give up, he suddenly found himself at the door of the inn.He looked up at the door plaque - Xie Sheng and Yuan Shiren lived together in this inn.

Xie Sheng walked in and saw the innkeeper.He asked, "Boss, do you still remember me?"

The boss has been in business for a long time, and everyone looks like an acquaintance: "Familiar, familiar. This guest officer, is he still staying at the hotel?"

Xie Sheng took out a few pieces of silver from his pocket and put them on the table: "Do you remember me? I brought a young man to your shop before."

After collecting the money, the boss glanced at him back and forth, and then took a breath: "I remembered, objectively, you did come here before, but you came here alone, and you didn't see any young people."

The shopkeeper also recognized him.Xie Sheng saw a glimmer of hope: "Shopkeeper, please think about it carefully."

"I can't remember wrong." The boss pinched his beard, "At that time, my daughter Beibei saw you looking handsome and joked that she wanted to marry you, so I remembered your appearance. You did come here alone .”

Xie Sheng saw that he couldn't ask the question, so he changed the question: "Does the shopkeeper know that there is a young man named Wu Wei in the village?"

The boss narrowed his eyes: "The surname is Wu...Wu Wei." He lowered his head for a while, pondering for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes wide, "The Wu family has a son who seems to be named Wu Wei, but he died a long time ago."

"Dead? When did it happen?" Xie Sheng remembered that Wu Wei had already cured his illness.

"More than ten years ago, he died shortly after he was born due to frailty and sickness. As soon as the name was chosen, he was taken into the tomb." The boss shook his head regretfully, "It is a sin to be born, it is better to die. At that time, I and His family has very close contacts, so Wu Wei's name is remembered to this day."

Wu Wei died as soon as he was born.

Hearing this, the last hope in Xie Sheng's heart was shattered.

They have never heard of flower gods, nor do they enshrine them.

The boss asked curiously, "Guest officer, why are you asking this?"

"I mistook the person." Xie Sheng turned and left the inn, he raised his hand to his forehead, his face tired.

There is no trace of the Yuanshou Flower God in Yuanshou Village.The villagers seemed to have never enshrined the God of Flowers, and they completely forgot about Tobishiren.

Yuan Shiren's heart and soul are always on the villagers' hearts, but they don't remember him anymore.

Bill has a god, Bill has no god.There seems to be nothing, and the false is also true.

Xie Sheng flew back to Yuanshou Mountain in a hurry, entered the room and looked at the yellow cat on his bed.The yellow cat was still asleep and knew nothing about these things.

If the yellow cat wakes up, how should he explain it to the other party?

Ah Ren will definitely be sad for a long time.

At this moment, Yong Chuan ran in from outside.Seeing that Xie Sheng had returned, he immediately said, "Xie Sheng! The Flower God is in the front hall."

"What flower god?"

Xie Sheng took a step back in shock. He looked down at the yellow cat with a circle of hair missing on its face, and then turned to look at the iron-eating beast.

"It's the little flower god, Ren Yuanshi!" Yong Chuan drew a flower shape in the air with two fingers, "I gave him the plate of venison, and he ate it hungrily, and asked me if I had anything else." Food, he said he was so hungry that he was so weak that his eyes were blind."

"wolf……"

Tobimuro Jin doesn't have a flower mouth. Under normal circumstances, he can't eat, let alone gobble it up.