Chapter 28
In the quiet forest, a crescent moon is thin, and apes roar in the bamboo forest behind the mountain.
Xin Xiu was arrested for the fifth time.
In this operation, in order to streamline personnel and infiltrate, she only brought a dick who had to follow and was quick-witted, and was also captured. The two sat in place and began to discuss what were the mistakes in tactics. First of all, their actions were based on the plan. Whoever exposed first would make a move to attract all the attention of the Zhugan Master and cover the other person.
However, they still failed. The biggest reason is that these uncles are too strong. No matter day or night, no matter what tricks they try to confuse them, they will be immediately discovered.
This was the first insurmountable difficulty Xin Xiu encountered in Shuling. A truth that the uncle taught her: in the face of absolute power, no cleverness can be used.
"There is no choice but to go back and practice well. When we become big bosses in the future, let's fight with the uncles." Xin Xiu was forced to give up this method and pressed the second son's shoulder to comfort him.
Uncle Zhugan smiled coldly from the side, "When you become very powerful, I will not stop you if you come again."
Xin Xiu: "?" This is wrong. Are the uncles bullying the weak and afraid of the strong?
Xin Xiu: "No, uncles, isn't your duty to guard the back mountain? How can you do this? If you encounter a bad person and want to break into the mountain, do you have to get out of the way?"
Uncle Zhugan: "Of course not. When you fight until you have one breath, you will only get out of here if you try your best."
Another uncle from Zhugan continued: "After people are in there, there is still the ancestor inside, so we only need to collect the corpse of the creeping mountain man."
The last uncle Zhugan said: "So our real responsibility should be to play with the young disciples of Shuling who are still young and like to pass the barriers."
They are actually joking, they must have chatted with themselves too much recently.
Xin Xiu patted his butt and stood up, carrying the purple bamboo shoots he had just dug, and said goodbye to several uncles. They are so familiar now that they don’t need to wait for the master to pick them up. The uncles of the bamboo pole painted another bamboo plaque in front of them, representing the number of times they broke through the mountains.
When Shen Tuyu saw purple bamboo shoots in the food that day, he knew that his apprentice had gone to the back mountain again.
Some masters don’t like their disciples going to go to the back mountain. For example, Master Han Fangzi, he doesn’t allow Xiaojiu to mess with them. Some masters like their disciples going to the back mountain, like Master Boluan, who encourages her to go to the back mountain every day, and then listen to how they fail to find fun.
And Shen Tuyu, he doesn't care, he only cares about-
"The back mountain is really so fun? It seems that you have been there several times in the past." Shen Tuyu, who was rarely seen having a meal face to face with Xin Xiu, asked.
Xin Xiu was waiting for him to ask, and he sighed deliberately, "Master, I didn't go to the back mountain to have fun, I have a serious business."
Shen Tuyu: "Oh?"
Xin Xiu hurriedly explained: "Actually, Master, I haven't told you that I met a big iron spirit beast in our Youhuang Mountain. I used to see her, but I haven't seen her recently. I doubt if she had encountered any problems, so I wanted to go into the back mountain to find her."
Shen Tuyu stopped chewing, and his apprentice rushed into the back mountain. It turned out that it was not for fun, but for... he?
He glanced at his apprentice and at the purple bamboo shoots in front of him. He suddenly felt uneasy and the bamboo shoots that had not yet swallowed in his mouth were no longer fragrant.
Xin Xiu looked at his expression and asked carefully: "Master, I think you are very busy recently and often you can't see you even when you come back."
Shen Tu Yu thought to himself, could you guess from time to time that the iron-eating beast was me?
Xin Xiu said: "If Master is not busy one day, can you go to the back mountain for your disciple to see what happened to the big-fooded iron spirit beast? I see that Master can enter the back mountain. If it is not very difficult, I will help my disciple~"
If it weren't for his own lack of help, Xin Xiu wouldn't want to speak with him when his master was busy. He had been slapping a familiar giant panda. He couldn't leave it alone for a long time without news. What if something happened?
Shen Tuyu agreed with a bear skin. He was worried that he could not refine it in his mind, so he had to temporarily put down the spiritual weapon in his hand and turn it into a prototype first. But after it became a prototype, how could he let his disciple discover himself? In the past, he just had to wait for a rabbit to sit there and wait for a disciple who was pounced on his tiger.
There was no way. In order to make the little apprentice feel at ease as early as possible, Shen Tuyu simply sat behind the bamboo building, and on a big tree branch facing the apprentice's window, pressing the not particularly thick tree, making a rustling sound.
Xin Xiu heard the sound of leaves outside at night and thought it was the wind, but when she listened carefully, she felt something was wrong. She was curious and ran to open the window and saw the familiar giant panda at a glance.
With just one glance, she could recognize that this was the familiar giant panda mother. Although the pandas all looked the same and she had only seen three pandas, she was confident that she could find this one in a group of giant pandas. Just like when she raised dogs before, she could find her big baby at a glance.
Because their eyes are different from other strange furry beasts, their close and indulgent look made them different from other furry beasts. The reason why Xin Xiu took them to heart was that he was conquered by this close look.
What makes beasts different from humans is that their love is purer and clearer at a glance.
"Ah! You actually came to me!" Xin Xiu was surprised and almost stepped on the railing and jumped onto the branches over there. But the overwhelmed branches successfully stopped her.
Xin Xiu: "Why did you climb to such a high place?" Her tone was light, which was the intimacy after the reunion of the little separation.
"Wait, I'll find a ladder to come over, and you climb to my side." Xin Xiu didn't remember where he saw it. The giant panda seemed not good at climbing trees? In short, it was so dangerous to let her climb into the house now.
Shen Tuyu, who was about to show his apprentice a glance, was now "it was difficult to get down a tree". His apprentice ladder was set up for him, and he still opened his hands so earnestly. If he turned his head and left, wouldn't his apprentice be sad?
I could only walk along the ladder.
When she was still a little bit late, Xin Xiu looked at the slow panda mother and wanted to help her, but she couldn't lift it.
Xin Xiu:...I can lift two hundred pounds of hands now, and I still don't move under such a strange force.
Mom, how heavy do you mean?
The master, who weighed 900 pounds, could not answer her. After all, he was just a panda man pretending to be an ordinary panda. He came to play with his apprentice... No, he came to play with his apprentice.
In the end, he failed to escape the fate of being a mat and was dragged (pushed) to bed by Xin Xiu acting coquettishly.
It is very common for giant pandas to get close and hugs between parents and children, but Shen Tuyu had no experience in playing with cubs before, so he could only think in his heart: "Forget it, just pretend to be a coaxing apprentice to sleep. Forget it, it's not that I haven't lost my hair, forget it."
But this time, the apprentice did not remove him hair. She took out the clean brush and bristled him over and over again. She was very gentle and talked to him, as if the person in front of her was really a person, not a fearful iron-eating beast who couldn't understand human words.
Shentu Yu: "..."
"I have been worried about you for a while. After all, I am wild. If I accidentally get sick, no one will care about you. It is possible that I can't get up if I lie down in any corner of the mountain."
"The uncles of the Zhugan Master are responsible for taking care of the back mountain, but they said they are not responsible for taking care of the iron spirit beasts. I don't know if there are any other large predators in the back mountain, there must be them. Will you fight with them? But you look so tall and strong, even if you fight, other animals will definitely not beat you."
It rained on Youhuang Mountain, and the night drizzled, hitting the bamboo leaves, making the fragrance of the bamboo even more obvious.
Perhaps it was his disciple's words that made Shen Tuyu unconsciously remember something from the past. He was not born powerful, and he had been weak. It is obvious how hard it would be for a young beast without the care of a female beast, not to mention that the young beasts who eat iron spirits are particularly fragile and difficult to survive after adulthood.
Even the same tribes are not always harmonious, and they are more likely to be excluded from other tribes. He is born to know more than the tribes. When eating bamboo in the mountains, he will think, why are other tribes satisfied with eating and drinking every day, and they are not as much as he wants to pursue. And what is he trying to pursue?
When he was young, he looked up and saw the egrets in the sky, and wanted to fly into the sky like it; when he looked down and saw the fish in the water, and he wanted to be able to swim in the water like it; when he saw those humans who came to Youhuang Mountain, he also wanted to have such a unique body like it.
After that, he stumbled on the road of cultivation. For hundreds of years, more than a dozen dynasties of mortals have been overthrown. The many things he has experienced are unimaginable to his young disciples.
This is how it is for too long to practice. Until now, it has been a long time since he thought about what to ask for.
And this bamboo breeze and the little disciple's whispers are so cute that it touches some of his old memories.
"I have learned a few new spells. Although I was unable to break into the back mountain, I am indeed much more proficient in these spells. It can be seen that actual combat is the only shortcut to improve. The uncles of the bamboo pole in the back mountain look serious, but in fact they take good care of us and practice with us. However, I still feel very angry when I am stopped every time!"
"Does our Shuling produce such people who seem fierce and hard to talk about, but are actually very soft-hearted? Every time you come to Youhuang Mountain, will they pretend that they don't see you and ask you to come?"
Xin Xiu sat next to the giant panda, with her hair combed in her hands and said something that she would not usually tell others.
"I feel that you are very spiritual. It seems that you know I'm looking for you, so I came to see me to rest assured... Next time, if you need my help if you have something, you can come to me directly, so that you won't show up for too long."
Xin Xiu remembered her dog and leaned on her hairy belly and touched the panda claws.
Her gentle expression was different from the usual active and happy apprentice. Shen Tuyu looked at her and almost felt that she was not like the child she knew.
The panda mother no longer disappeared and started to appear every three days regularly. However, Xin Xiu tried to trick her into her bed as a mat and failed. She once suspected that this very spiritual panda could understand what she was saying, but she was just pretending to be stupid if she didn't want to do.
But even if Xin Xiu guessed that the other party was stupid, she couldn't do anything. After all, she couldn't move the solid weight panda.
In response to the repeated requests of several children, Xin Xiu secretly took several children to see the Panda Mom. The Panda Mom was also very proud of her face and did not lose her temper. She asked the children to touch each other, but just after a moment, he got up and left.
Xin Xiu always felt that the giant panda's back left had a bit of a slight escape. It was like her master who was avoiding Xiao Jiuru's landmines.
However, the younger brothers and sisters are not very interested in the Iron-eating Spirit Beast. It would be fine if you have seen it to satisfy your curiosity. Even the second brother sighed that the legendary Iron-eating Spirit Beast is not as terrifying as he thought.
Xin Xiu: "..." Well, the cute one who doesn't understand the national treasure can only say that everyone is born in different eras and worlds. This is a filter of sentiment blessing!
The days in Shuling were peaceful but interesting. When Xin Xiu learned how to lighten his body, he could lift his energy and jump to the third floor, reaching the realm of heroes who had read martial arts novels before, it was almost three years after they came out of the sky.
Xin Xiu was almost twenty years old this year. In modern times, she was in her sophomore year, but in Shuling, all her senior brothers and sisters would touch their heads and talk about the age of a child.
"To celebrate your official third anniversary, I will hold a dinner party. Sister Xiu'er hasn't had a dinner party for a month." Senior Brother Caixing touched Xin Xiu's head and said.
Xin Xiu: "Senior Brother, you just want to have a meal."
Senior Brother Caixing laughed twice, and suddenly saw two little white birds flying towards this side.
"Hey, what kind of bird is this? Why haven't I seen it before?" The second son on the side was puzzled. His master's cave was not many other places, but there were a lot of birds, so he was quite knowledgeable about bird recognition.
Xin Xiu recognized it: "Isn't this the little white bird I see every morning on the back mountain of Youhuang Mountain? It's strange. I've never seen it anywhere else. How did I fly to Yunjian Taoist Temple?"
Senior Brother Caixing's expression was a bit strange, "This is the skylark of the ancestor, which is not available elsewhere. Usually they are only in the back mountain and Youhuang Mountain. If they fly to other places in Shuling, it usually only means one thing."
"To the ancestor, I will give the disciples who have entered the back mountain a three-year punishment method."
Xin Xiu, the second child: "..." They all forgot that there is still this one.
The little white bird fell on Xin Xiu's hand, probably recognized her, and rubbed her palm with her little head tilted, then spit out a small bubble, and a piece of paper rolled up inside the bubble.
Chapter completed!