Dressed for a thousand years

Castle Peak.

What was the original name of this mountain, Li Xiong didn't know, but after he occupied this place, he decided to call this mountain Qingshan.Li Xiong is the northernmost person in Daji, where there is no rain in a year, and most of the residents make a living by chasing the few aquatic plants in the desert and raising sheep.

They also have a mountain called Qingshan, but there are no trees on that mountain, only bare stones.According to the older generation, Qingshan used to be just like its name, covered with plump green grass, and people with a radius of tens of miles would drive their sheep to graze.But later the sheep ate up all the green grass on the mountain, and the mountain became bald, so only the name "Green Mountain" remained.

When Li Xiong knew that he could not get out of this mountain, he immediately went to the green mountain in his hometown.

He can never go back.

Li Xiong didn't plan to go back either, as there were not many people in his hometown.It can be said that he and several of his brothers were drafted by Daji voluntarily because they could no longer survive in that place.

Li Xiong was one of the first people who accepted that he could not go out of the mountain. He brought a few people who thought like him to the top of the mountain and cut down trees to make houses.Those few people either lived in the mountains, or like Li Xiong, they had nothing to worry about at home, so they gave up so quickly.

Within a few days, many people came to join him one after another, and there were more and more people under him.

So when someone under his command came to report that Xu Shen from the foot of the mountain was looking for him, his first reaction was whether Xu Shen also wanted to join him.On this mountain, Xu Shen was quite famous.Those who haven't given up on finding a way out are Xu Shen's team.Everyone was watching Xu Shen's joke while paying attention to him, hoping that one day he could really find a way out.

I have to say, thinking about the possibility of Xu Shen giving up, Li Xiong felt it was a pity.

But Xu Shen's appearance surprised Li Xiong even more.

Not because of his excessively neat attire—his brothers were almost all in tatters from work and poor sewing—but because he had brought a child with him, and the child was still very well dressed. decent.

There are many capable mountain people under Li Xiong's command. Although there are still not many living things on the huge green mountain, it still allows him to find a lot of mountain treasures.It's a pity that these things that can usually be exchanged for a lot of money are useless now, and can only be piled there for nothing.For this reason, Li Xiong sent many brothers to guard everywhere in the mountain every day, hoping to meet people who went to the mountain to collect medicine or hunt, so as to trade with them.Among other things, at least buy a suit of clothes for the brothers.

It's a pity that for such a long time, I just didn't meet a single person.

So Li Xiong stared straight at the child beside Xu Shen.

"Where did this child come from?" Li Xiong walked up to Xu Shen's side and stared at the child.

That child is Su Qing.Su Qing didn't care that the snake essence needed a mirror, but he also knew what he looked like now, but he was not very dissatisfied - except that his hands and feet were too short and his stature was too short, using this body to cultivate and cast spells was even more difficult than before convenient.

But this doesn't mean that Su Qing is willing to be regarded as a child who doesn't understand anything and count him casually.

Su Qing, who was annoyed by Li Xiong's gaze, was about to make an attack when Xu Shen suddenly stepped in and stood in front of him.

"Tell me, what do you seem to be doing here?" Li Xiong looked as good as his name, but his mind was very active. In a blink of an eye, he had already calculated that he could get a lot of benefits from this child from outside the mountain.

A child dressed like this must not belong to an ordinary family, right?How could a child from an ordinary family appear alone in this deep mountain and old forest? Most likely it was caused by something.

If he can hold this child in his own hands, let him go outside the mountain to help him trade after raising him for a few years, and even bring more people into the mountain...

"Don't think about him." Xu Shen reminded unexpectedly by looking at Li Xiong's expression, which could almost guess what he was thinking.

Li Xiong ignored Xu Shen, knowing that he didn't like his appearance, so he winked at a person beside him.

The Bainen youth standing next to Li Xiong knew it, and rushed to greet him, grabbed a handful of fried wild chestnuts from the bag hanging on his body, and handed it to Su Qing: "Little brother, come and eat something."

The white and tender young man smiled very gently, but Su Qing was not very interested in him or the chestnuts in his hand.

"Are you in charge?" Su Qing turned around and asked Li Xiong.

Li Xiong was taken aback, and said to a child that he was very upset in a questioning tone.

He was right, this child must be a young master at home, so he always speaks in a commanding tone, but he will teach this child well, what is polite.

Thinking of this, Li Xiong opened his mouth evilly, no longer hiding his appearance that was too rough for a child, and said, "Yes."

Su Qing glanced at him, nodded and said, "Very good. You will listen to me from now on."

Li Xiong was dumbfounded, this kid... isn't stupid, is he?After Li Xiong's subordinates heard what Su Qing said, they all burst into laughter, only Xu Shen frowned.

"Shut up." Su Qing said softly.

His voice was not loud, but he clearly let everyone hear it, and these people unconsciously obeyed after hearing it - they all shut their mouths.

"You listen to me, and I will allow you to go out of the mountains occasionally to ask for a living. If you don't listen... then forget it. But in a few decades, everything will return to the way it was."

Su Qing said it was indifferent.If the snake spirit didn't find it troublesome, he wouldn't bother with these people at all.So what if there are thousands of people, unless they can destroy the mountain together, they won't cause any trouble. Unfortunately, these people have already been torn apart, so there is no need to worry about any troubles.

At worst, after waiting for decades, these people are all dead, and the mountain will be peaceful.

Su Qing's cold voice got into everyone's ears. Although it was a bit ridiculous for a child to say such a thing, no one dared to laugh out loud.

"Can you let us go?" Li Xiong frowned. Although he didn't believe it rationally, he was dubious in his heart.

"Why should I let you go?" Su Qing raised her head and looked at Li Xiong.

It doesn't matter if you just let them go... After all, they are trapped in this mountain for punishment, and it is he and the snake spirit who are in trouble in the end.It seems that the snake spirit is guarding this mountain forest, but also wants to become a fairy and will not harm life casually.If it's for the sake of selling snake spirits and saving myself a little trouble, it's not impossible to let them go.

It's just that in order to cast the curse, Su Qing almost dissipated the evil spirit from his whole body. Now that he is so weak, it must be a big blow to withdraw the curse of so many people.

It would be better to wait decades.

Li Xiong shook his head, laughing that he really believed that the children in front of him could let them go.

He just believed, and I'm afraid he wasn't the only one.Some expectations appeared in the eyes of the brothers around.

"Give it up," Li Xiong can only be the bad guy and wake up these brothers, "We have been trapped here for nearly five years, and the army has long regarded us as dead. Even if we can go out, we will only be treated as The rebels will either die or be reduced to military slaves, so they might as well stay on this mountain."

Hearing these words, everyone in the room was stunned.

Su Qing narrowed his eyes, yes, he didn't expect this.

These people can no longer go out.But...he only left for a few days, how come it's been five years?Is it jet lag, or... one day in the sky, one year in the world?Su Qing remembered the scene of him practicing by the lotus pond in the sky.

"Can you really let us go out?" Li Xiong walked up to Su Qing and asked in a very formal tone.

He no longer dared to regard Su Qing as a child. The "child" in front of him was more likely to be a monster in the mountains.

Su Qing nodded and said, "But not just anyone." At least it must be pleasing to his eyes.

Li Xiong and the others had no doubts. After discussing with the people around him for a while, he turned to Su Qing and asked, "What do you want?"

Su Qing was surprised, but he liked what Li Xiong said.There are buys and sells, and there are repayments. There is no free lunch in the world.But now Su Qing really doesn't know what to ask for.

"...Don't cut down trees anymore." Su Qing thought about it again and again. Animals with enlightened intelligence are not so easy to be caught, so among the creatures covered by snake essence, only immobile trees will suffer. , "And... I'll talk about it later."

Su Qing always felt that these people must be useful.

Li Xiong quickly agreed, and he was even more certain that Su Qing was a goblin—or he was a tree goblin at all, so he told them not to cut down trees.

"That's it." Su Qing nodded and looked up.

Seeing Su Qing looking up, Li Xiong and others looked up, but they didn't see anything.When they lowered their heads again, Su Qing had disappeared.

************************************************** ***************************

Su Qing looked up to see the snake spirit.

Qing Jian really cared about this mountain, but he was strangely reluctant to show himself in front of others.So he threw Su Qing out to solve the problem, and he hid nearby and watched.

Su Qing didn't know how far to solve it to satisfy the snake spirit, but he had already completed the first step.

"My little Tai Sui, you are still so soft-hearted." Qing Jian lay on the branch of the cave, propped her chin and shook her head, sweeping Su Qing with the end of her eyes.

"Then you make them into flower fertilizer." Su Qing didn't care about the snake spirit's provocation.

"No," Qing Jian said seriously, "I will owe Karma."

"Are you talking about becoming an immortal?" Su Qing thought for a while, and seriously suggested, "If you think you are magnanimous, you won't become a demon even when you cross the catastrophe."

"No." Qing Jian vetoed it righteously, but then changed his style of painting, "In the past five years, they have cut down three old trees that are expected to develop spiritual wisdom—you know that flowers and grasses that have spiritual wisdom can have How difficult is it—the two children of the couple who ate the pheasant essence on the mountain, and the squirrel essence that saved countless grains for the winter..."

"Why didn't you stop it?" Su Qing interrupted the snake spirit's chatter.

Qing Jian spread her hands: "I can't interfere with the lives of other goblins. Cultivation of immortals is all about letting nature take its course."

"I can't do it either. Natural selection, the law of the jungle, this is the way of heaven. I can't interfere. They made mistakes before, and I have punished them, so I can't just do it now."

What Su Qing said was the truth.

The black-clothed fairy said that he had no idea about what made him work part-time to bring about disasters and illnesses, but the rules of judging right from wrong seemed to be engraved in his head by someone, warning him that even if he had the ability, he should not do it willfully. for.

Hearing Su Qing speak like this, Qing Jian looked at him for a long time in surprise, and finally said: "You really look like a Tai Sui now."

The author has something to say: Soldier A: Big Brother Big Brother, can that little... goblin really let us out?

Li Xiong: Maybe.

Soldier B: Brother, how could he do it?

Li Xiong: Maybe he is... a dryad? I heard that the roots of a big tree can stretch for dozens of miles. Maybe his roots have already reached the outside of the mountain?

Soldier C: Big brother, we cut down a lot of trees, there will be no dryads to retaliate, right?

Li Xiong: ...Maybe.

Soldier C: ...

Regarding the change of Su Qing's personality, it has something to do with love.

The author understands it this way, the generation of emotion is: feeling——feeling—memorizing the feeling of this feeling

Su Qing still has feelings for being stripped of her love.So he remembered the family affection for his cousin's family and the closeness to the snake spirit.But I can only feel what happened later, but no emotion, so I won't sympathize with them and want to let them go casually.