I'm a Demon King in Journey to the West

Shi Zheng lay leisurely and listened to their conversation, and saw fresh fruits in the carved tray on the low table next to him, so he took one casually.

Suddenly thinking that I am now invisible, I quickly put it back. Fortunately, everyone was discussing the problem seriously, and did not find that a pear floated and fell back just now.

Master Yuan frowned, "It makes sense, tell him he picked it up, maybe he will go to find his biological parents."

"But where did he get his biological parents from?" Madam Yuan shook her head.

Shi Zheng was puzzled, what is this called?Everyone has biological parents, even demons are born of demons.

Yuan Chiren and his two younger brothers also asked curiously: "Mother, what do you mean by this?"

"Hey, it's nothing." Mrs. Yuan said.

At this time, the servant came to report, "The eldest son is here."

Master Yuan and Mrs. Yuan winked at the three sons, "Go and hide behind the screen." After the biological children were safe, they asked someone to let Yuan Chiyu in.

Seeing that he had also changed into clean clothes, Shi Zheng looked like a crown jewel, and he didn't seem to be related to the Yuan family by blood.

Yuan Chiyu was very courteous. He paid homage to the Yuan couple before cutting to the point: "Who the hell am I? Can you tell me?"

Master Yuan pretended to be very conflicted, sighed for a while, and then said as if he had made up his mind: "Actually, you are not our biological son."

"En." This was Yuan Chiyu's answer, just one word.

Although Mrs. Yuan had long thought that the other party must have noticed it, but seeing him so calm at this moment, she still couldn't help asking: "When did you know, we have always treated you like our own son, you shouldn't find out."

Shi Zheng shook his head straight, planning to drive Yuan Chiyu out all day, just this, and give birth to his own son?Don't you have any points in your mind?

Yuan Chiyu didn't answer the question, just asked: "Have you met my parents?"

"Your mother and I have been married for several years and have no children. 18 years ago, when we went out one morning, a pregnant woman passed out at the door. We took him into the house and took care of him for a few days. After she gave birth to you, she didn't even say hello. It's gone." Master Yuan sighed: "I learned from the conversation before that she came from Chang'an, and she was kicked out because the mistress of the house didn't allow it. Look at her pretty appearance, she also serves dignitaries. Your own father It should also have status in Chang'an."

"Is there any token?" Yuan Chiyu asked.

Both Master Yuan and Mrs. Yuan shook their heads. Yuan Chiyu could see the disappointment on his face, but he just said, "I see."

Master Yuan pretended to stay and said: "What are your plans in the future? Go to Chang'an to find your parents? I didn't say that there are so many people in Chang'an, it's like finding a needle in a haystack. You should stay at home and be a helper to me. Your brother is still waiting for you." Small, can't stand alone."

Yuan Chiyu said bluntly: "No, I'll leave tomorrow. I'll go back and clean up." After speaking, he left.

After he left, Yuan Chiren and the three brothers came out from behind the screen and asked his father, "Is he really a descendant of a dignitary? If you find his father, will you repay our family?"

Madam Yuan said to herself: "He said he would go back to the room to clean up. I don't know what valuables will be taken away."

"Where did the dignitaries come from? That's not the case at all." Master Yuan stroked his beard and said, "It's just that there are so many people in Chang'an, it's enough for him to find him for decades." Suddenly the back of his head hurt, "Ah! Who hit me? Where did you get the pears?"

There is a pear still rolling on the ground.

Then there was a snap of the door curtain, as if someone had walked out.

A few people were puzzled by the second monk in the house, and asked the maid at the door, and they all said that they didn't see anyone coming in or out.

Although this little episode was a bit weird, but Yuan Chiyu was going to leave tomorrow. The three brothers were in a good mood. Master Yuan and Mrs. Yuan did not want to leave a harsh reputation, and tried their best to maintain their image of a loving father and mother until the end.

Furthermore, although Yuan Chiyu has no talent, he does have a good face, so he went to Chang'an to make a fool of himself, and really met some powerful people, and he will be prosperous in the future.

So at the last dinner, there was no shortage of delicious food and wine, and a large table was set up with a variety of beautiful things in eyes.

Master Yuan and Madam Yuan originally wanted to show a modest and courteous way of hospitality, entertaining the blond foreigners who came back with Yuan Chiyu, such as politely saying: "You are welcome, just treat it as your own home."

As a result, as soon as the banquet started, the two of them were stunned, and the others were also speechless.

This, this is too outlandish, it's really not out of the ordinary, let go of your stomach and eat it.

While eating, Shi Zheng said, "Don't worry, I'll just eat a little bit. How can a guest eat so hard that it will make the host feel bad."

Master Yuan bite the bullet and said: "Haha, young people can eat as much as they want, don't pay attention to outsiders, otherwise we will be called stingy by outsiders."

"Then I won't be polite." Shi Zheng shook the jug after drinking it, and said loudly: "This wine... um, it's called Jiannan Shaochun. It's delicious. Bring another jug."

Jiannan Shaochun is a famous local wine. The Yuan couple intended to bring out a jug to express their feelings, but they didn't expect it to be treated as white water, so they winked at the maid.

The servant girl took orders, went to the inner cellar, and poured other wine.

Little did he know that Shi Zheng had already used his magical powers to see through the walls, and followed her all the way to the inner cellar. After she came back, he drank the ordinary wine in the jug in a few gulps, and then used the method of transporting the wine in the Jiannan Shaochun wine jar. , transported into the flagon without anyone noticing.

The Yuan couple didn't notice it at first, but after a while, they realized that something was wrong. Why is it that a small pot of wine has not been drunk by the people of this state for so long?

Master Yuan's face twitched, "I forgot to ask before, where did you get a job? How do you make a living?"

"Farmer, a farmer." Shi Zheng felt that he had drunk a lot, and shook his head, which seemed to be doubled.

Mrs. Yuan asked Yuan Chiyu, "Really?" Although he didn't like to talk, he didn't like to lie either.

Yuan Chiyu said affirmatively, "Really."

The Yuans and his wife exchanged glances. They didn't look like they were farming, and said, "I thought you were a classmate you met at Wudingmen. Do you know magic spells?"

"There is no good wine in spells." Shi Zheng poured the wine again, but found that he couldn't pour out a single drop. He drank every drop of the wine in the jar, "Why, it's gone?"

Madam Yuan had a bad premonition, so she found an excuse to leave the banquet, and went straight to the inner cellar where the precious objects were stored, only to find that the jar of good wine was gone.

Immediately, she took a step back in fright, bumped into her husband, pointed to the wine jar and said, "Look, there's not even a drop of wine in it."

"How could there be no drop of wine? I don't believe it. Go in and take a closer look."

Go in and have a look?Madam Yuan was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly saw her husband grab her by the shoulders and throw her away. She flew into the wine jar, and she became only the size of a thumb, standing at the bottom of the wine jar as empty as a square.

The walls of the wine jar were as smooth as a mirror, and she couldn't get up at all. At this moment, she heard someone talking outside the wine jar, and it turned out to be her own voice.

"Oh, look quickly, there's not a single drop of wine left, it's all drunk by that foreigner."

Then her husband's voice said: "If you don't come back for a long time, I know that something is wrong. That foreigner must be weird. I feel so sorry for me. This Jiannan Shaochun only pays tribute to the court every year. Let's It's not easy to get a jar, it's all because you insist on being poor and generous, and said that you will take it out for them to taste on the last night. Eh? Ma'am, why are you blushing? I didn't see how much you drank."

Then there was an exclamation of "Ah", and Madam Yuan saw that her husband also fell headfirst. As he landed, his body became smaller and smaller, and finally fell to the bottom of the altar.

Mrs. Yuan helped her husband up, looked up and saw the man from the country smiling and pawing at the edge of the wine jar, hiccupping, "When I come back, let's play a game of truth." After speaking, he disappeared.

"Help—help—" the couple yelled, but the maid who came with them had already been immobilized.

What's more, the body has become smaller, and the voice is as quiet as a mosquito, not to mention that there are no other people in the inner cellar, even if there are other people, you can't hear it.

On this side, Yuan Chiyu saw his mother, the king, and his father go out one after another, but he didn't know where they all went.

So only his three unrelated younger brothers were left at the banquet.

Yuan Chiren usually didn't take his eldest brother seriously, and said bluntly: "Yuan Chiyu, when you arrive in Chang'an, you should change your surname too, you know what I mean."

Yuan Chiyu didn't even lift his eyelids.

Seeing that the other party ignored him, Yuan Chiren walked around the table to the eldest brother, grabbed his shoulder, "I was talking to you, did you hear me?"

As soon as Yuan Chiyu struggled impatiently, Yuan Chiren was thrown out like a leaf and fell towards the door. Fortunately, he bumped into his father who was rushing back, so he was not injured.

Yuan Chiren, still in shock, looked up at his father, "Father, he, he hit me!"

Unexpectedly, his father, who had always favored him openly and secretly, said: "You are cheap, who will you hit if you don't beat you? I will beat you too! I would give birth to you as a piece of barbecued pork." After finishing speaking, he was slapped twice.

Yuan Chiren was stunned, "Father... what is barbecued pork?"

"Go back and copy the thousand-character text ten times. I'll check it before dawn. If you can't finish writing, I'll send you to Chang'an to become a monk. Also, uphold righteousness and propriety, you gloat! Go back to your room and copy ten times together. See What are you looking at, if you don't go, I have to kick you!"

The three brothers didn't dare to vent their anger, and slipped away against the wall.

Yuan Chiyu, who was still looking down at his hands, saw his slightly drunk father beckoning to him, "Come here."

When he came to the door of the inner cellar, Yuan Chiyu saw that "father" had become a great king, he yawned and said to him, "Quickly ask, I'm good, I'm going to sleep."

"It really is you." Yuan Chiyu said, "What are you asking?"

Shi Zheng dragged him to the wine jar, pointed to the shivering Yuan couple inside, "Ask where you are from. They lied about your life experience and lied to you to go to Chang'an. You're wasting your time and energy looking for a needle in a haystack."

Yuan Chiyu was stunned for a moment, and said to the couple in the wine jar, "Why?"

Shi Zheng put one hand on the edge of the wine jar, yawned, and said with reddened eyes, "I'll find you something to do, and you won't come back to Yizhou. Save your property, after all, their wealth is Leave it to my own son."

The Yuans were talking loudly, but unfortunately they were too small to hear.

Shi Zheng made them bigger, each as big as a palm, but compared to the wine jar, they were still as small as a carrot head.

"God, we know how powerful you are. But what's wrong with us leaving our property to our own sons? Could it be that we leave it to the blood of outsiders?" Master Yuan tremblingly said, he didn't dare to argue. I heard the conversation between the couple earlier.

"But as you said, you got lucky after picking up Yuan Chiyu."

"Well, that's just a coincidence. We didn't want his life. We just wanted him to leave home, far away. There's nothing wrong with it."

"Hey, are you still reasonable? You are so vicious by providing wrong information, making people spend their whole lives in vain, and not being able to find their biological parents." Shi Zheng mentioned a wine jar full of wine next to him, "You are so vicious, you can drink snake and scorpion wine It's better to soak you."

"Don't, don't—" Madam Yuan quickly waved her hand, signaling him to stop, "I'm wronged, because even if I tell the truth, Chiyu couldn't find his biological parents. The head of the family, you can tell the story of the year."

Afraid of being soaked in wine, Master Yuan immediately said: "Seventeen years ago, I had no children and no daughters. I went to the mountains to pick yams. It was foggy that day, and I lost my way. I fell down a slope and passed out. When I woke up, One foot away from me, I saw a cloud of water mist slowly gathering, thicker than the surrounding area, as big as a flower basket.

I fell so badly that I couldn't move at all. Fortunately, I had some dry food with me. I ate a few mouthfuls and fell asleep again. When I woke up, I found that the fog was thicker and white, and I could vaguely see something inside.

After waiting for another day, I saw clearly that there was a baby wrapped in a water film.The fuzzy water mist turned into a transparent water film, and the baby seemed to be tightly wrapped in a large drop of dew, just floating in mid-air.It's really weird.

I thought about whether the child would be drowned in the water, so I crawled over and cut through the water film with a shovel for digging yams, and the child fell into my arms.It was Yuan Chiyu. "

Shi Zheng was dubious, "Really?"

"It's about this time, and we also know that you have spells, so there is no reason to lie anymore." Madam Yuan said with a sad face.

Shi Zheng patted the edge of the jar, "Dishonest! Tell me the details, you can tell the details with Tan Gaoxuan, but you are so perfunctory with the person involved, are you embarrassed?"

"Details?" Master Yuan scratched his hair, "Yes, there are details. When I cut through the water film, I saw a white rattan, or a rope, anyway, it's a white and slender thing. Time was running out, and I didn't see it too clearly. It was originally wrapped around the baby, but it submerged into the baby's body in an instant.

I was holding the baby, and I heard someone calling my name. It turned out that my daughter-in-law begged someone to come to me, and I was saved.

Later, I went into the mountains and dug up ginseng. I bought a lot of money. With the capital, I started to do small business, and later I did big business, and accumulated some family property.

Our husband and wife had no children at first, but two years after picking up Chiyu, my wife became pregnant and gave birth to two more sons in one go. "

Mrs. Yuan also racked her brains to recall, "Later we asked a distant relative, and said that what my man saw at the time, wrapped around the baby, might be a Taoist fasuo. I also made a fortune with Chiyu and said it was When I grow up, I should go to the east. By the way, later on, people from Wudingmen came to accept apprentices, so we asked Cheng Yu to study as a teacher. But people from Wudingmen said that he didn’t have immortal roots, so they didn’t accept him. It was because we were lucky enough to meet the head of the school who happened to be in the local area at the time, and we accepted him as a student after knowing Cheng Yu's unusual background."

Master Yuan said a long list in one breath, which made Shi Zheng, who was already sleepy, drowsy.

He put his hand on his cheek and kept nodding. His hand suddenly slipped off the edge of the wine jar, and he woke up suddenly. Seeing Yuan Chiyu frowning slightly, he knew that he must be in a messy mood.

Compared with chasing a false parent, knowing that I actually have no father or mother, but was born with the spirit of the mountains borrowed from the dense fog, I don't know which result is more tragic.

Yuan Chiyu said: "Let them out." Then he got up and went out.

Shi Zheng said to the couple in the jar: "You guys, you had no children and no family property before, and everything you have after picking up Yuan Chiyu is the blessing that God rewarded you for raising him, and you don't cherish it. Punish you Reflect for a night." He also walked out.

The couple screamed in the jar, "After this night, what should we do? Let us out."

At dawn, it will naturally return to its original shape, but when the time comes, the body will become bigger and squeeze the jar to come out.

When Shi Zheng came to the courtyard, he saw Yuan Chiyu sitting on the steps outside the house, with his head down, wondering what he was thinking.

Shi Zheng went over, sat down next to him, and patted his shoulder.

Yuan Chiyu glanced at him, "...Thank you."

"Thank you, didn't I say I'd give you a 'retirement'." Shi Zheng was curious about Yuan Chiyu's personality before, but now he has cleared his doubts. First of all, there is a problem with this family. On the surface, he is good to him, but in fact he is not. Treat him kindly one day.

If you are dissatisfied, you can't protest, because they seem to have done a good job, so you can't catch it.

But you just can feel that you don’t belong here, you are squeezed out every day, and you have nowhere to talk about your depression. After all, no one listens to you, so you might as well keep it in your heart.

In addition, Yuan Chiyu himself was not conceived by human beings. At best, he was born of the essence of heaven and earth. At worst, he was just a cloud of mist or a puff of energy. Maybe he didn't have human emotional nerves at all.

"Am I human?"

"Of course." Shi Zheng brought up the old story again, "Didn't your senior sister named Zhuang cut your collarbone with a knife, and shed a lot of blood, you are so weak, what is it if you are not a human being?"

Although Yuan Zhiyu's situation is peculiar, it is not uncommon. Hundreds of years ago, there was also a creature conceived by the essence of heaven and earth, but that time it was not a human body, but turned into a monkey with a stone as a medium.

It was only when the monkey came into the world that he shot at Doufu and looked around with the strong light of his eyes, which attracted the attention of the heavenly court.

The Jade Emperor's evaluation at that time was: the essence of heaven and earth was bred, and it was not enough to be different.

Afterwards, until the monkey made trouble, I didn't pay attention to him again.

It can be seen that it is not uncommon for the essence of heaven and earth to give birth to creatures.

However, why did Yuan Chiyu carry a magic weapon with him?Could it be that God is pleasing to his eyes?

"..." Yuan Chiyu remained silent.After a while he said: "...where should I go from now on?"

When Shi Zheng heard this, he felt a little bitter. The Wudingmen could not go back, after all, there is no immortal root in cultivation.

Home was originally a safe haven, but now it proves that there is no blood relationship.

Looking for biological parents?Not at all.

The magic weapon in the body was also opened.

At present, it seems that Yuan Chiyu should indeed be confused, not only has no direction to move forward, but also has no ability to support his progress.

"If you want, follow me back to farm in Xiadong." Shi Zhengyi issued an invitation, "Of course, you don't have to go to the field, so let's settle the score. After two years, I will marry you a wife and raise a few cubs. My wife will live a normal life."

Yuan Chiyu glanced at him, "Why don't you marry a wife?"

"I'm still so young."

"I'm young too."

"Ten years from now, I'm sure I'll still be like this, but you won't be sure." Shi Zheng sighed, "Man, life is very short."

I don't know if Yuan Chiyu was so suppressed by the pessimistic truth that he didn't want to speak, and the two fell into a long silence.

The moonlight is like water, shining gently in the courtyard, with the breeze blowing from time to time, and the rustling of bamboo leaves, it is a rare and refreshing night.

Suddenly, Yuan Chiyu heard the sound of even breathing coming from beside him, and when he looked sideways, he saw that the king had fallen asleep lying on the steps with his head up.

He pushed him, "Hey, wake up."

The other party hummed twice perfunctorily, turned his head to the side, and turned around again, so surprised that even Yuan Chiyu's eyes widened. Where was the heroic youthful face before, it was replaced by a mane with a flowing mane. Lion head.

"..." Yuan Chiyu murmured in a low voice, "So it's a lion spirit..."

Unknowingly, the corners of his mouth twitched, revealing a subtle smile.

He took off his robe, covered the lion's head, and dragged the lion back to his yard.

Because the parents were in the wine jar, and the brothers were all copying the thousand-character text in the room, and the rest of them also rested.

Yuan Chiyu did not encounter too many obstacles along the way.

When he was about to reach his yard, he ran into a night watchman, "My lord, is your friend drunk? Let me help you."

Although I heard that the eldest son will leave tomorrow and may not come back again, but he has always treated his servants very well, and many people like him, at least much better than his brothers.

The boy wanted to lift the drunken man's feet, but his face turned red from holding back, but he couldn't even lift one foot, "This, this... this is too heavy..."

Although Yuan Chiyu couldn't carry the entire lion spirit, it was not difficult to hook the opponent's armpit and drag him away, "You go, I will do it myself."

"Is it really okay? I'll call a few more people over." The boy panted and said, "Can you really drag it?"

But seeing that the eldest son's face wasn't red and he wasn't panting, it seemed that it really didn't take much effort.

Yuan Chiyu nodded, continued to drag, and disappeared from the servant's sight after a while.

The boy wiped the sweat from his brow, "I really tried my best to breastfeed, am I so weak?"

Yuan Chiyu dragged the lion back to his room, put him on the bed, lowered the curtains, closed the door, and retreated.

He stood outside the door for a while, then pushed the door open again, opened the curtain, reached out to touch the lion's two round, furry ears, and squeezed them lightly.

After that, he touched his wet nose, his fleshy mouth, and his thick and warm mane before leaving in satisfaction.

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The next day, Shi Zheng sat up clutching his head, "Tsk, no matter if it's a human or a monster, you can't get a hangover. Your head is about to explode."

Wait a minute, this feeling... Shi Zheng felt how the hand holding his head could feel so fluffy, so he quickly touched his face, "Oops!"

If you drink too much, you will show your original shape.

He hurriedly changed back to human form, poked his head out from the curtain, looked around nervously, saw that there was no one in the room, then quietly got down to the ground, opened the door and went out.

Seeing Yuan Chiyu sitting in the Chaoshou corridor in the courtyard, seeing him coming out, he raised his eyes to look at him.

I don't know if it was Shi Zheng's hallucination, he seemed to feel that the corners of Yuan Chiyu's mouth were slightly raised, a half-smile, but when he got closer, he found that he was not smiling, and was still the same.

Shi Zheng asked tentatively, "Where did you sleep last night?"

"Sit here and think about it."

"Nothing strange happened?"

"No."

Shi Zheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he had slept in the curtain to become a lion, mainly because he was afraid of scaring Yuan Chiyu, and if he died of fright, he would not have the guts to go to Yama to make trouble and search for someone.

Shi Zheng said: "You thought about it all night, what did you come up with?"

"I still want to learn the way of immortality with a teacher. I was born in a strange way, and I can't live an ordinary life like this. Besides, I don't want to die before you."

Shi Zheng snapped his fingers, "Yes, that's right, you have pursuit, and you are positive. Besides, you have such a peculiar background, although you haven't shown it now, you must have special skills. Where do you want to study?"

"Can you take me as an apprentice?"

Shi Zheng immediately shook his head, "No, I won't accept disciples."

"why?"

"Accepting apprentices is so troublesome. It's great. If you bully your master and destroy your ancestors, if you're not good, you'll be ashamed. If you're not strict, you're not diligent. If you're strict, I hate you to death." Shi Zheng turned his head, "It's not suitable for me to suffer such a disadvantage."

In fact, he doesn't know anything, and he can't teach him even if he wants to.

Yuan Chiyu said: "I knew it would not work."

"In the future, don't ask questions that can be expected to answer negatively. Let's save our mouth." Shi Zhongzhong patted Yuan Chiyu on the shoulder, "However, I will find you a good teacher, and I promise to be ten times better than me, yes The most powerful master in the whole world."

"Samcheong?"

"..." Shi Zheng said in his heart, okay, who told me to say that he is the most powerful master in the world first, just pretend that you are reasonable doubts and not just arguing, and continue to smile, "Have you ever heard of 'Lingtai square inch mountain, slanting moon and three stars hole'?"