Strange Tale

Qilin had never seen him like this before, and cried anxiously, "Xiao Ren... I didn't mean to..."

"You know everything?"

"No... I said that I was not at your house on the day of the accident. You came to the mountain to look for me later. I really don't know what happened...Xiao Ren...you believe me. I saw Master suffer I only knew that something happened to your family...but he didn't tell me anything. When you came to me...you just...you don't remember anything. You only said that you were going to leave home...to wander around the rivers and lakes It was the old man Tianfeng who asked me...to find a way to go with you, and he emphasized again and again that he couldn't tell you anything..." Qilin cried and spoke intermittently for a long time.

With a blank expression on his face, Si Ren glanced at the tears on the back of his hands, pinched his hands hard again, "Then you have been telling my master what we encountered on the road and my situation?"

"Ahem──" Qilin was pinched and coughed a few times, "I... If I don't tell him, I won't be able to go with you anymore."

"What about the letter? Every time I finish writing a letter, you take the initiative to help me post it. In fact, you haven't sent the letter at all, have you?"

Qilin didn't speak anymore, but the tears kept falling down one by one.

At this time, Huan'er couldn't help but burst into tears.Then she broke free again and often ran to Si Ren and Qilin and grabbed Si Ren's hand, "Ah woo woo woo ─ Xiao Ren, let go... you let go... Xiao Lin is about to be strangled to death by you... you let go Let him go! What's wrong with you?! Huh huh ─ why are you so fierce..."

Si Ren ignored Huan'er and continued to ask: "How often do you contact my master? What method do you use?"

"When there is nothing to do, at least once a month. If there is something to do, it may not be... He will send his bird to fetch the letter I wrote to him and the letter you sent to Mrs. Si... Uh cough cough..." Qilin felt Si Ren's anger. The hands squeezed tighter and tighter, and the shame in my heart was quickly replaced by fear and I stopped crying.

"Then the night Master Yancheng went to find me, before I went back, you told him everything he wanted to know?"

"I...I didn't tell him 'everything'. I just said that you recently met a very powerful monster who lives in the general's mansion...ahem..."

Huan'er suddenly bit Si Ren's wrist, and cried vaguely while biting, "You 'shake' your hand! You 'shake' your hand..."

Huan'er doesn't have much strength, but it still hurts when she bites down like that.I often come over to try to open the ring, but I don't pull it.Si Ren frowned and waved his hands to signal to leave her alone.

"Since you have lied to me for so long, why did you suggest that I go home and have a look this time?"

"Liu Chengfeng said he didn't see the Si family's house on the way here, so I know it won't be long."

Si Ren pursed his lips, "If... Liu Chengfeng hadn't said that, you would have continued to lie to me, wouldn't you?"

Qilin blinked, and the circles around his eyes were red again, "I...I..."

Si Ren gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, wishing he didn't have to open them again, "Where is my master now?"

"Spirit City."

Lingcheng is very close to City of No Return, and not very far from Yancheng.The three cities are basically a triangle with similar side lengths.

Si Ren finally let go of his hand, and Huan'er let go of his mouth.Two deep rows of bloody tooth marks were bitten on the back of Si Ren's hand.Wiping the saliva and blood on his body, Si Ren rubbed his hands and stood up and turned to Huang Lingbao, "Why did a man-eating monster appear in my house?"

"I only heard the monster tell you that you summoned it."

After hearing the same answer many times, Si Ren found that he was able to face this question calmly.

"Is it really me?"

"I do not know."

"My master, does he know?"

"He didn't tell me, so I don't know."

"What kind of monster is that?"

"I didn't know what kind of monster it was at first, but after I checked some ancient books, I felt that the monster looked very much like an ancient monster described in the book——Feng Xi."

Si Ren's heart sank: Feng Xi was one of the legendary monsters captured and shot by Yi at the same time as Chi Chiu, Da Feng, Jiao Jiao, Xiu Snake, and Jiu Ying.

Feeling like a light on his back, Si Ren seems to have felt it and often stabs his gaze.

"But because I only saw it once, I'm not sure." Huang Lingbao added at the right time.

Si Ren couldn't feel relaxed, but he knew what to do next, "How can I summon it?"

Huang Lingbao shook his head, "I don't know. My magic power is impossible. But..."

"But what?"

Huang Lingbao hesitated for a moment, "I followed the traces left by it after I rescued Mrs. Si. It was always obvious, but after going up the mountain, the traces disappeared in a special place."

"Where?"

"Well... I'll take you there."

Si Ren was a little surprised and was taken aback.

Huang Lingbao smiled, "I have fought against that monster, and I know that even if I practice for a thousand years, I will not be its opponent. So if you can figure out whether it is the monster you summoned, and you can avenge your father and brother in the future, forget it My final debt to the Si family. I should also leave Dushuo Mountain and practice elsewhere."

Si Ren didn't ask any more questions, picked up Huan'er, turned around and left.

Qilin stood up and wanted to follow, but when Si Ren heard the footsteps, he turned around and opened a barrier to block him, "Don't follow me anymore."

Qilin was dumbfounded, "What if the monster comes out? You will need help!"

Si Ren continued to walk out, "I don't need the help of an eye-and-eye that was assigned to me."

Qilin burst into tears, "But... didn't you say that we are best friends?"

Si Ren stopped in his tracks, but didn't look back, "Not anymore."

Qilin sat on the ground, staring blankly at the backs of Si Ren, Ye Chang, and Huang Lingbao, and Huan'er, who was lying on Si Ren's shoulder and stretched out his hand towards him, crying.After a while, he jumped up again and beat the barrier, "Master—Xiao Ren—let me out! Let me out! I want to be with you..."

Huang Lingbao sighed, shook his head and said, "There is no banquet that lasts forever. After letting you go out for so many years, it's time to calm down and practice hard."

Eight years ago, Dushuo Mountain, in the peach forest, under the peach tree.

"Xiao Lin, I decided to run away from home."

"Huh? Why?"

"My father never liked me, and my brothers always bullied me. I don't want to stay at home anymore. I want to travel around the world. I want to become a famous archmage, so that no one in the family will look down on me anymore, father And I won’t say that I learned crooked ways again.”

"Just for this?"

"Yes."

"Nothing else?"

"What else?"

"Did nothing happen to your house?"

"No, the family is fine. Why do you ask that? It's strange."

"Oh, nothing. But... what do you do for a living when you go out by yourself?"

"Subduing demons and demons! I'm really good now, really, if you don't believe me, please read a few spells."

"Don't! Okay, I believe you can't do it. But..."

"But what?"

"Isn't it lonely to wander the rivers and lakes alone? You have so many people in your family, have you gotten used to it?"

"Well, it's also..."

"Oh?! Yes! Xiao Lin, come with me?!"

"Huh? How about that?"

"What's wrong?! Let's go! Come with me! Don't you want to see the outside world?"

"But……"

"Don't worry about it. My father's business is running well, and my family members are all in good health. In fact, there is no need for any hall gods, really. And I have peeped and overheard. The portraits in my family's altar are not at all It's not you, and your father didn't call you by your name when he made the offering, so they don't know what their own hall fairy looks like. Only I know, and only I need you. Come with me, otherwise I have something on the way How can you be happy if it's dangerous?"

"Well... that's fine. I'll go with you."

"Ah! Great! Let's go, let's hit the road!"

"Xiao Lin, you are so kind. I have grown up so much, and there are only four people who treat me well: Mother, Xiaozhu, Master and you. But Mother is Mother, Master is Master, and Xiaozhu is my future wife. Only you, You are my friend, first friend, best friend."

"Bah! Who is your friend? I am your hall fairy, and you have to serve me with food and drink on the way."

"no problem!"

"One chicken a day."

"I will handle it!"

"Oh?! Xiao Lin, what are you doing..."

"Cold, let me stay in your bag for a while."

"Hey, okay, I'll carry you on my back like this from now on. Let's go wherever we want!"

"Okay. You can go wherever you want. But what are you doing now? Why did you stop?"

"I haven't figured out where to go yet."

"Let's talk after we go down the mountain first."

"Oh, yes."

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