Strange Tale

It was already night for Long Jiu to return to a normal-looking appearance.

Struggling to sit up, he looked around first: he was placed in a spacious and comfortable Chinese-style room.

It's not a prison, and no spells are cast. Aren't you afraid that I will run away?Thinking like this, Long Jiu looked down again, only to find that there was a divine dagger stuck in his chest.

what happened? !Not only did I not die with this knife inserted all the time, but I gradually recovered as usual? !Long Jiu grabbed the handle of the knife and pulled it out. It didn't hurt, but when he moved the knife, he immediately felt weak and limp.

Sitting on the edge of the bed and thinking for a while, Long Jiu understood: the god's dagger was made to trap him instead of kill him.The last time his body was almost destroyed precisely because Si Ren, who didn't know anything, recklessly pulled out the divine dagger.

There was a knock at the door, and Yi came in carrying the food.

Long Jiu looked at him and said, "Why didn't you just accept me and let me go back to Chen's body? Didn't you just wait for this day after careful planning?"

Yi put the food on the table, "I didn't know much about your situation, or your situation when I planned this. I didn't expect to become another person, you and Yechang would be willing to be friends with me and tell me So much. So now I've changed my mind."

"change idea?"

"Yes. If I take you in now, what will I do? What will I do alone? The most important thing is what will you do with the souls in your hands?"

"Huh?!" Long Jiu couldn't laugh or cry, "You really care about the common people and move the world! My soul has been demolished for so many years, and now it is not much different from a lonely ghost, and I still have time to take care of other people's souls. home?"

Yi didn't answer his words, and pushed a bowl of rice and chopsticks to the side of the table, "Let's eat something first."

"I don't need to eat, it's not like you don't know."

"You have been injured too badly one after another, and you can get better soon after eating."

"Pull out the divine dagger to heal quickly."

"Impossible." Yi put some vegetables into a bowl and brought the bowl to Long Jiu.

Long Jiu raised his head, "Why?"

"You can't leave here."

"What are you going to do with me?"

"I don't know, I haven't thought of a solution yet. But..."

Crash——Long Jiu raised his hand and knocked over the food in Yi's hand, "Take that damn knife away!"

Yi knelt down and picked up the scattered food into the broken bowl, "I told you, it's impossible."

Throwing away the pieces of food and bowl, Yi took another soup bowl and stood in front of Long Jiu, "This is the fish soup I specially asked someone to cook for you. I remember when you traveled to the Central Plains, you said you liked fish seasoned with salted plums. soup."

What Yi was talking about happened before the shooting day, Long Jiu couldn't remember how many years had passed.If Yi didn't mention it, he had already forgotten it.

Heart twitched, Long Jiu bit his lip and took the soup bowl, "If..."

"what?"

"If... I want you to ignore everything now and come with me..."

"Impossible. Just like when I rebelled against Tiangong for you, I couldn't ignore the whole tribe."

Wow - Long Jiu raised his hand and poured the whole bowl of fish soup on Yi's face again.

Yi wiped his face with his sleeve and took the empty bowl in Long Jiu's hand, "What do you want?"

"Let me go."

"and then?"

"I'm going to recover Xiaoren's soul."

Yi pursed his lips and remained silent for a while.

"and then?"

Long Jiu raised his neck and looked up at him, "Find a way to get you out of Xiao Ren's body."

Yi tried hard to control his emotions, "Do you want Si Ren to come back alive?"

"Yes!" Long Jiu raised his chin again.

"Do you think you can do it?"

"How do you know if you don't try?"

"He's a fool without me!" Yi finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Not to be outdone, Long Jiu said, "I'd rather be a fool! Ah──"

Yi suddenly grabbed Long Jiu by the neck and pushed him onto the bed, "Don't force me!"

"Who is... forcing whom?" Long Jiu was struggling to speak out of breath.

Yi gritted his teeth, "I can tolerate you doing anything, except never forgetting about that fool."

Long Jiu narrowed his eyes, "Are you jealous?"

"Why should I be jealous of a fool?"

"But he is better than you."

"nonsense!"

"At least...he is willing to stay with me forever!"

"But he's dead!"

"So... you leave his body quickly. The body that I waited for the monster and fool to have sex with... will tarnish your name as a great hero!"

"Shut up!" Yi Yazi wanted to burst, and used both hands.

"He's just... ahem... better than you! Being with him for a few months is better than... better than knowing you for a thousand years!"

"Shut up! I tell you to stop talking!"

"He... what are you doing?!"

Yi suddenly blocked Long Jiu's mouth and nose with one hand and began to tear his clothes with the other.

After struggling for a while, Long Jiu found that the body locked by the god's dagger was completely unable to compete with the present Yi, so he simply gave up resistance.But at the last moment, Yi lay on top of Long Jiu and stopped his movements.

Feeling Yi let go of himself, Long Jiu slowly opened his eyes, "Why doesn't the big hero continue? Little Jiu is waiting."

Hou Yi took a few steps back to support the table to stand firm, and stared at Long Jiu for a while. He took off his coat and threw it on Long Jiu, "Why did you become like this?"

Long Jiu sneered, "Thanks to you."

"Get dressed."

Yi left behind a sentence.Long Jiu leaned back on the bed in a daze for a long while, and when she sat up, she realized that her arm had been broken when she struggled just now.With one arm hanging down, he stood naked before a mercury mirror in the room.

Why did it become like this?Why did it become like this? !If you regained your real body, Jiuying, why would you suffer such bullying? !Long Jiu suddenly threw his fist and smashed the mirror.Regardless of the skin and flesh on his hands, he picked up the largest piece of broken glass and picked it up.

Once, twice, three times... Long Jiu cut a few times on the face and body where he could reach, and watched the wound heal.

There were footsteps walking towards the room not far away, and Long Jiu threw down the glass, put on Yi's clothes, and sat upright by the bed again.

The door rang again, this time it was Concubine Mi who came, accompanied by Vulcan Son.

Long Jiu raised the corner of his mouth, "Madam just reunited with her husband, how can you have the time to come and see me?"

Concubine Mi looked at the messy room and beds, and then looked at the clothes on Long Jiu's body that did not conform to the etiquette and did not fit her shape. She turned the chair by the table to Long Jiu, and she sat down.

"I'm here to help you leave Spirit City."

Long Jiu still laughed, "Since I don't even deserve to know your identity, how dare I expect you to help me leave?"

Concubine Mi looked at Long Jiu, "You don't need to believe me, but you have to believe Uncle Yan. You don't know that the god dagger was forged by him, right?"

Long Jiu turned to Huoshenzi, "Is it really the reincarnation of Vulcan?"

Huoshenzi lay on the table and was grabbing the food that Long Jiu hadn't eaten and stuffing it into his mouth, he didn't pay attention to what the two people around him were saying.

Long Jiu looked back at Concubine Mi with a serious expression, "Why help me?"

"I just wanted to help myself."

"What do you mean?"

Concubine Mi lowered her head, stretched out her white jade-like right hand and adjusted the sleeve edge of her left hand, "I heard that you lived under the fierce water for thousands of years?"

Not knowing what she wanted to say, Long Jiu didn't answer.

Concubine Mi raised her head, "It's true that life would be better than death if you were trapped in the fierce water, but it's not easy to guard the Guanghan Palace alone. No matter how unconvinced you think you deserve death, you can't deny that you have destroyed fields and houses, What about me? What did I do wrong? Marrying Yi is what my father meant, and I also know why Yi is willing to marry me. I can see that he is always unhappy. Later I heard that he often went to the lower world without permission When I saw a monster, I thought I'd forget it, as long as he was happy, it doesn't matter. Isn't it a bosom friend? I'm not so narrow-minded. But I didn't expect that no matter whether it's a monster or a god, it can't escape the good fortune.

"So many things have happened, I can't help him, I can only go back to Guanghan Palace, but the world is said to be coveting the life of the gods and stealing the elixir. The elixir? Hmph, if there is a poison that can poison the gods, I would like to Ask for one."

Speaking of this, Concubine Mi stopped, looked at Long Jiu for a while, and then continued as if talking to herself, "Why did I tell this to a monster? Oh, forget it. Let me ask you, if you can leave Lingcheng, what are you going to do?" What?"

"Go and recover Si Ren's soul, and come back to get his body back."

"Then let me ask you again, can you bear the three fires of heaven, earth and man burning at the same time?"

"You can hold on for a while."

"it is good……"

"Wait." Long Jiu interrupted Concubine Mi, "May I ask you a question too?"

"Ah."

"If I really succeed in rescuing Si Ren, what will happen to Yi's soul?"

"Reincarnate again, or cultivate to become a fairy and return to me. What? Are you still worried about him?"

"Are you sure he will choose the latter?"

"No. But I think I can gamble once. If I lose, I will go back to the Moon Palace alone. I won't and I don't have anything more to lose."

Long Jiu looked at Concubine Mi, "You are much better than I imagined."

Concubine Mi smiled, "That's right, it's a pity that some people will never see it."

"Maybe……"

"what?"

"It's nothing. Come on, it's getting late, don't waste any more time."

Vulcan wiped his mouth clean and stood in front of Long Jiu.

Long Jiu unbuttoned his clothes to reveal his naked upper body.Concubine Mi didn't evade, she glanced at Long Jiu's chest, "I heard people say that Jiu Ying was a tall and handsome man before he was shot by Yi. It's very sad when he has such a white, tender and thin body. Bar?"

Long Jiu gritted his teeth, "Ma'am, take care of yourself."

Concubine Mi's eyes returned to his face, "Do it, Vulcan."

The author has something to say: Salt plum fish soup: If you make a soup, you only have salt plums──"Shangshu·Shuo Mingxia" harmony is like soup, water, fire, 醯 (Western sound, that is, vinegar), 醢 (sea Yin, that is, made of fish, meat, etc.), salted plums, to cook fish ── "Yanzi Chunqiu · Heavy and Different" Mythological era before the legend of shooting the sun At present, I can't find detailed information about the dishes. All of them are written with random dishes that have been recorded in the pre-Qin period.