Phoenix Feather

The human-shaped tree in front of him was black and strange, exuding an indescribable evil, Xuanxuan said: "Don't tell me this tree is some kind of Sun Goddess, it will really damage the appearance of the city if it is released."

Yue Yu said: "Don't Xiaoyue think this tree is very strange, a tree that is all black... and put in such a shape, it is really unprecedented."

Xuan Xuan covered his eyes with his hands, and muttered: "I'm afraid that when I see black people in the future, I will think of this tree reflexively, which will affect my mood."

Yueyu was full of curiosity about this tree, he took out a pack of tissues from his body, took out one, carefully picked a leaf and wrapped it in a tissue, intending to take it back and study why it grew black.

The interior of the tower is hollow, and when you look up, you can see the sky above your head, like a huge triangle wrapping the black woman tree inside.

Yueyu suddenly smelled a faint fragrance, looked around in surprise, and asked Xuanxuan: "Xiaoyue, have you smelled a fragrance?"

The fragrance is emitted from the black woman tree. The black-red liquid is seeping from the place where the leaves were removed just now. The liquid seeps more and more, forming a bulging tooth bud, which gradually grows into a bud-like shape. , the buds grow slowly and become larger... A complete black leaf, the same size as other leaves, appeared in front of Xuanxuan and Yueyu like a magic trick.

...! ...

With a thought, Yue Yu opened the wrapped paper towel, and saw that the plucked leaf withered, leaving only a bare petiole.

Recovering from the shock, Xuanxuan picked up a stone with a slightly pointed end from the ground, and stroked it on the tree trunk——

Unexpectedly, the tree looked like it was made of tofu. With one stroke, a big hole was actually cut, and the black and red liquid flowed all over the trunk...

The fragrance in the air became more intense. Xuanxuan suddenly felt a throbbing pain in his head, as if being pricked by a needle. out of the tower.

"Do you feel better?"

Yue Yu realized that the strange fragrance was weird one step earlier than Xuan Xuan, and she didn't have time to explain it, so she directly dragged him out.

Xuan Xuan shook his head, feeling dizzy, as if drunk.

Yue Yu took out a bottle of peppermint oil, poured some in the palm of her hand, and brought it to Xuan Xuan's nose.

After a long while, Xuanxuan came to his senses and said, "That fragrance is poisonous."

Yue Yu nodded: "The problem lies in the black-red liquid, the aroma is only produced after the liquid flows out."

Xuanxuan said: "This tree is not only ugly, but also a poisonous tree. If this is the Sun Goddess, it would be more appropriate to directly call the Black Poison God...By the way, why do you carry peppermint oil with you?"

Yue Yu rubbed her nose: "After waking up this morning, my nose was a little stuffy, and it felt uncomfortable, so I took it with me."

"Have a cold?"

Shaking his head, "No, it's just that the nose is uncomfortable."

Xuanxuan felt a little relieved, "Let's go in and have a look."

Xuanxuan and the others were prepared this time, poured some peppermint oil on a tissue, covered their noses before entering the tower again.

"The cut is healed."

The trunk was exceptionally smooth, the cracked openings disappeared, and even the black-red liquid seemed to be absorbed, and there was no trace of it on the trunk.

Both Xuanxuan and Yueyu found it incredible, Yueyu said: "It's a pity that the leaves wither when they leave the tree. Even if they take them back to study, they probably won't be able to study anything."

Xuanxuan walked around the tower, and found that the surrounding walls were covered with the totem of the sun, he said: "Even if this tree is not the so-called Sun Goddess, it must be related...Could it be the Queen of Yin? "

"It's not impossible," Yue Yu mused, "I'm more curious about what Zhu Hong is doing here. Based on the time, she arrived an hour earlier than us."

"You can do many things in one hour, such as burying the corpse." Xuanxuan was always concerned about how Zhu Hong handled the female corpse. At that time, it was only two or three minutes. Only the coffin, could it be that the female corpse was put into the coffin together with the clay statue, or is there another mechanism...

The two had a tacit understanding, and said in unison: "Let's go to the ancestral hall again tonight."

Yue Yu sighed: "Our sex time has been reduced again."

Xuan Xuan smiled: "It's good to reduce, you can pay less gold."

"But I want to pay more in gold."

"You are already heavily in debt, and if you don't repay the debt, you will have to sell yourself."

"If you sell yourself, you will sell yourself. When will Xiaoyue call me to sleep with you?"

"tonight."

"Xiaoyue, you are really dishonest. Alas, I never thought it would be so difficult to sleep with someone."

"Ah……"

They searched around the mountain, but found nothing else, so the two descended from the other side of the mountain, and when they reached halfway up the mountain, two strange traces appeared on the mountain road full of small gravel, as if some heavy object had been there. Dragging past, the grass not far away also has traces of being crushed.

"Xiaoyue, look." Yueyu found some bloodstains in the grass.

The bloodstains extended to the depths of the woods, and finally disappeared on the edge of a cliff.

The cliff here is not deep, about 50 meters or so. Xuanxuan looked down and saw strange rocks and weeds, but did not see the expected people or animals, only a pool of blood.

Yue Yu squatted down and carefully looked at the blood stains on the grass. The blood was still a little sticky and hadn't completely solidified. Obviously, it hadn't been long since it was stained.

Xuanxuan wanted to go down to have a look, but after searching for a long time, he couldn't find the way, so he had no choice but to give up.

Going out of the woods along the original road, I found a blood-stained animal trap on the other side of the road, Xuanxuan said: "It seems that some animal was injured by the animal trap."

Yueyu looked at the two traces on the ground and didn't answer. After a while, she raised her head and asked Xuanxuan: "Xiaoyue, is there any animal with two legs?"

Xuan Xuan frowned: "Could it be that the one who was injured was a human being?"

Yue Yu said: "It may also be an animal with two legs... Whether it is a human or an animal, it is estimated that they were either rescued or ran away by themselves. There may be other ways out under the cliff."

Xuanxuan and Yueyu didn't pay much attention to this unexpected episode. Xuanxuan moved a big rock to hold down the animal trap to prevent any animal from accidentally stepping on it. After doing all this, the two went down the mountain.

After the two left, a man flashed out from the woods. He moved the stone away, picked up the animal trap, put some blood on his fingers and put it in front of him, looked carefully, and then turned his head to look at the cliff. direction, and smiled with satisfaction.

……

After going down the mountain, I saw the little phoenix flying back.

After Zhu Hong went down the mountain, he went to the ancestral hall. When Xuanxuan and Yue Yu arrived, they happened to see Zhu Hong coming out of the ancestral hall.

Xuan Xuan looked at the little Qilin who was in charge of monitoring Zhu Hong, and said, "It's a pity that the little Qilin can't speak, otherwise we would know what Zhu Hong did in the ancestral hall."

The little unicorn tilted its head and raised its front paws in a "bye bye" gesture.

Yue Yu said: "It seems that Zhu Hong worshiped the gods in the ancestral hall...but there is only one coffin in the ancestral hall, so it is a coffin."

Xuanxuan rubbed his chin, looked at his little phoenix, and said, "Fortunately, the little unicorn is in charge of monitoring Zhu Hong, so you can't do this action."

Unconvinced, the little phoenix folded its two little wings together, bowed twice, and glanced at the little unicorn—what if it has two extra claws, I will do it too!

Yue Yu laughed loudly, and said to Xuan Xuan: "Xiao Yue, you shouldn't underestimate Little Phoenix."

Little Phoenix straightened out her chest and raised her head—that's right!

Xuan Xuan flicked his fingers on Little Phoenix's head, "What are you proud of, wait until you can speak human language."

The little phoenix looks at the little unicorn - it can't speak either.

Xuanxuan poked Xiaofenghuang's head again, and said, "So you two are idiots."

The little phoenix and the little unicorn looked at each other—we are really not stupid, but it is a bit difficult to speak human words.

Little Phoenix: Qilin, study hard on how to speak human language, and please let me know as soon as you have a trick.

Little Qilin: ...

Yue Yu said: "Xiao Yue, you are too demanding of them."

Xuanxuan said: "Strict teachers produce high-quality apprentices, it's good to find something for them to do, so that they don't always have nothing to do and cause trouble everywhere."

Little Phoenix, Little Qilin: ...when did they cause trouble everywhere.

When passing by Zhu Hong's house, Xuan Xuan glanced inside through the half-closed door, and saw Zhu Hong squatting in the yard washing rice and vegetables, apparently preparing dinner.

The room was very quiet, no human voice was heard... Xuanxuan felt a little strange in his heart, in order to avoid drawing Zhu Hong's attention, Xuanxuan was inconvenient to look too carefully, and looked away after a quick glance.

Back at Shen Yang's house, Wen Xiaojun and Shen Liu were sitting on the steps reciting poems, Xia Ruohai was holding a book of [-] Tang poems in one hand, and a Chinese cabbage in the other, and whoever recited it wrong would break off a leaf and tie it around his neck... ...Shen Liu had a piece of vegetable leaf hanging around his neck, and Wen Xiaojun was more spectacular, it was already hung all over, like a necklace.

Zhan Huanchen and the others had already returned, and they were sitting on the sidelines watching Wen Xiaojunle. Shen Yang was not there, and there was a sound coming from the kitchen behind, probably in the kitchen.

It was already evening, Xuanxuan went into the kitchen to help make dinner, and Ibubu followed.

Yueyu sat down and exchanged today's harvest with Su Fengliu and the others. Su Fengliu and the others got nothing. They asked the local residents if there were any strange legends circulating, hoping to find some clues from them, but the strange thing was, The mouths of the people here are like mussels, and they can't pry open a crack for a long time. After all, they are all about how sacred the sun lady is, and they are trying to persuade Su Fengliu and others to become believers. Su Fengliu and the others are so depressed that they want to hit the wall.

In comparison, Yue Yu and the others had gained something.

After hearing Yueyu's words, Zhan Huanchen's eyes lit up immediately, and he turned to Zhuge Yu and said, "Let's go and have a look tomorrow."

Zhuge Yu nodded, and Su Fengliu hurriedly said, "I want to see it too, let's go together tomorrow morning."

Zhan Huanchen was thinking about how to bring a living branch back to study slowly, Zhuge Yu said: "Put some soil in a bottle, put it in the soil and bring it back, maybe it can live."

Su Fengliu suggested: "Or keep it in the water."

Zhan Huanchen said: "What if it doesn't work?"

Zhuge Yu was in a dilemma: "There is no other way."

Yue Yu interrupted: "Maybe you can try using blood."

"Blood?" Su Fengliu was stunned, "Why?"

Yue Yu said: "I think the liquid that comes out of that tree is a bit like blood, maybe it can be fed with blood."

Zhan Huanchen said: "This is also a way, but where can I find blood?"

Zhuge Yu said: "Should I use chicken blood or duck blood? There are always people raising poultry here."

After thinking about it, Zhan Huanchen thought it was the same, he pulled Zhuge Yu up, "Let's go, before we have eaten, let's go buy a chicken and come back."

After speaking, he took Zhuge Yu out.

Wen Xiaojun, whose neck was covered with vegetable leaves, quit, pouted and complained: "Uncle, you abused me. You always challenge me to recite difficult poems, so I can't recite them all the time."

Xia Ruohai pinched his face, "Do you know what abuse means? If Uncle really abuses you, I will hang a stone on your neck right now."

Wen Xiaojun hugged Shen Liu and acted like a baby: "I'm tired, Xiao Liu will help me carry it."

Xia Ruohai was amused: "Are you ashamed to call yourself tired? I slept for three hours in the afternoon, longer than Xiao Liu."

Wen Xiaojun lay on his side, resting his head on Shen Liu's calf, humming: "I have a headache."

Shen Liuhu pushed Wen Xiaojun's head away with a grimace, "Wen Xiaojun, you lied again and used the same excuse. You really are not good enough."

Xia Ruohai picked up Shen Liu, smiled and said: "Let's ignore this big talker, let's go, go to the kitchen to see if there is any food."

Wen Xiaojun immediately jumped up and yelled: "Uncle, you are too annoying, give me back Xiao Liu... Xiao Liu, don't talk to Uncle, why don't you talk to me..."

Everyone was very happy, thinking that children are really interesting sometimes.

After the food was set, Zhan Huanchen and Zhuge Yu came back with the chicken. As soon as they entered the door, Zhan Huanchen said, "He's dead."

Ibubu was puzzled: "Who died?"

Zhan Huanchen said, "That old woman."

Yue Yu frowned: "The one who chaired the meeting."

Zhan Huanchen nodded: "I glanced at it when I passed by just now, and I died a terrible death. I fell to my death, and all the bones in my body were broken."

The author has something to say: The phoenix flame interval has been a bit long, and the thinking of breaking the circuit has not yet caught up. I will start the update tomorrow night, orz. .

The result of asking for leave last week is that I have to work overtime this week, and the weather is cold, I just want to get under the covers and don’t want to write, ⊙﹏⊙b sweat