Qingling Punishing Heart

Chapter 122 The Bamboo Grove Stranger
Outside Wangxian Tower is a dense purple bamboo forest.

The cool wind passed through the forest, blowing the cold sweat on Su Ji's forehead.

He didn't know how far he ran in one breath, he couldn't run any more, he burrowed into the woods, leaned against a bamboo, and panted heavily, hoping that shopkeeper Xiao would not come after him.

After panting, he slowly raised his head and began to feel a sense of bewilderment.The bamboos in this purple bamboo forest look exactly the same, it is even more dazzling than the Shenhou Mansion, which is densely covered with secluded forests, if you continue walking, you will definitely starve to death here because you get lost.

Fortunately, Shopkeeper Xiao never caught up.

Su Ji leaned on the bamboo, and the alcohol gradually came to his mind, making him faintly sleepy.He braced his eyelids hard, trying not to fall asleep.As the heavy breathing gradually became lighter, a sound was faintly caught in the ear.

There seems to be a person talking to himself somewhere in the purple bamboo forest.The sound was getting closer and louder, but no one could be seen.

Su Ji began to feel uneasy, and used his fox pupils to take a closer look, and found that there was indeed a blurry figure in the distance, slowly approaching here.

As the figure gradually approached, Su Ji suddenly felt terrified, and the alcohol was drained away with cold sweat!

That shadow is not a person, but a monster!

The monster has a leg, and it jumps up and down. It's a little scary, but also a little funny.

The voice of talking to himself came from the monster's mouth, and he was chanting words, but he couldn't hear what he said at all.

Su Ji quietly hid in the bamboo forest, and listened carefully, the monster was counting bamboos.

"Three thousand 420 two, three thousand 420 three, three thousand 420 four..."

The monster counted the bamboos wholeheartedly, without noticing the existence of Su Ji at all.

Su Ji cautiously opened one eye, only to see that the monster was one foot tall, and its whole body was covered with shiny scales.It has a head like a camel, a neck like a goose, a body like a fish, claws like an eagle, beards around its lips like shrimp, ears and eyes protruding outward, and a tiger's one foot.

This monster looks strange and weird, which is very interesting.Normally, Su Ji would definitely not be able to resist going over to see what it was, but now he was fleeing for his life, and he only wanted to leave this purple bamboo forest as soon as possible, and hoped that this monster would pass by quickly.

"Three thousand 440 seven, three thousand 440 eight, three thousand 440 nine..."

While counting the bamboos intently, the monster pointed with its sharp eagle claws.After counting the bamboos in front of Su Ji, the monster continued to move forward.

Su Ji secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, the monster's footsteps suddenly stopped, and it began to sniff fiercely with its nose.

Su Ji felt that something was wrong, and immediately opened a gap with his feet, trying to escape in.

Unexpectedly, just as he put one foot into the gap, the monster suddenly jumped over with a "whoosh" and lifted Su Ji into the air with one claw!
The Hongjun bell around his waist made a crisp "jingling bell"!
However, the monster didn't respond at all!
Su Ji was stunned, not knowing what to do for a while.This seemingly clumsy monster moved surprisingly fast, even faster than anyone Su Ji had seen so far, and even Qing Li was afraid of Hong Junling, this monster was not afraid at all!
The monster blinked its small eyes on both sides of its head, looked at Su Ji from top to bottom, and greeted very politely:

"Woman... hello."

Su Ji didn't know whether to laugh or cry, this monster actually called herself a "woman"?
"I'm a man! Let me down!" Su Ji struggled and shouted.

The monster blinked, and slowly put Su Ji down, muttering blankly:

"I remember that only Master and women have disheveled hair. If it's not Master...then it can only be a woman."

Su Ji smiled wryly and said, "May I ask who is your master?"

"My master's name is Jiang Shang."

Su Ji was startled suddenly, he didn't expect this monster to claim that his master was Jiang Taigong.But after thinking about it, Su Ji recalled that when he was a child, he heard in books that Jiang Taigong seemed to have indeed accepted a spirit beast that looked like a tiger and a dragon as his apprentice.

Su Ji doesn't remember the exact name of the spirit beast, but he only remembers that the spirit beast was a hybrid of a dragon and a leopard in Shaohao's period. It has been cultivated for thousands of years, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, and absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. .It is said that 250 years ago during the Conferred God Period, the spirit beast made great achievements repeatedly, but unfortunately it was killed by the giant Wu Wenhua.Now that Jiang Taigong's spirit beast apprentice is dead, what is this monster in front of him now?
"May I ask your honorable name?" Su Ji asked.

The monster replied slowly: "My name is Longxuhu."

Suddenly, Su Ji's eyes lit up. The spirit beast seemed to have this name. Could it be that the dragon beard and tiger are not dead?Su Ji tied his loose long hair into a bun with a piece of cloth, and said to the dragon beard and tiger:
"Brother Long, please look, I am a man now."

The dragon beard and tiger frowned, lowered their heads in thought, and murmured:
"I remember Shopkeeper Xiao seems to have said... the man should be eaten immediately..."

Shopkeeper Xiao?Su Ji was stunned again. Could it be that these bamboo monsters are forest guards sent by Shopkeeper Xiao?

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Su Ji quickly pulled the cloth from her hair.

The eyes of the dragon beard and tiger were fierce, and just when he looked up, he saw that Su Ji had loose hair again.

"Hey? You were a man just now, why did you become a woman again?"

Su Ji looked up at the sky, and Lang Lang replied: "Everything in the world is changing, the seasons are changing, and people are changing too. Women, especially, are fickle animals."

"It seems... makes sense. Master always told me that if you are ugly, you should study more."

The dragon-bearded tiger nodded foolishly, and clapped its two paws like clapping hands.

Looking back to see that shopkeeper Xiao didn't come after him, Su Ji rolled his eyes and said with a smile:

"Brother Long is not ugly. Your appearance is unprecedented, especially your two beards, which are long but not pointed, straight but not curved, they are simply the best in the world."

Longxuhu heard that Su Ji was praising him, proudly shaking his long beard, and said with a smug smile:

"Hey hey, Shopkeeper Xiao said the same thing."

It's Shopkeeper Xiao again.Su Ji didn't expect Shopkeeper Xiao to trick the spirit beast with rhetoric, and let such a spirit beast with great military exploits 250 years ago guard the bamboo forest.

Su Ji asked: "Did shopkeeper Xiao teach you how to deal with a weak girl who is lost?"

Long Xuhu nodded, scratched his head again, and said with a smirk: "Treat women well."

"What's the best way?"

Long Xuhu replied with a simple and honest face: "Take off the woman's clothes...take it back. Shopkeeper Xiao wants to invite her to drink tea in the house."

The corners of Su Ji's mouth trembled, and he asked, "Drinking tea...do I need to take off my clothes?"

"Shopkeeper Xiao said that when drinking tea, you must calm your mind and get rid of all worldly distractions, so you must 'meet each other with sincerity'."

Su Ji clicked his tongue. Shopkeeper Xiao, who seemed polite, turned out to be a dignified beast.

Long Xuhu seemed to have seen that Su Ji was about to slip away, and at the moment Su Ji moved, he suddenly caught Su Ji's clothes with his claws!

Su Ji gasped. He didn't expect that this stupid monster was not only agile, but also able to foretell.

Seeing that the dragon beard and tiger were about to scratch his clothes with his claws, Su Ji hurriedly stopped him loudly:

"Wait a moment!"

"What? You don't want to drink tea with Shopkeeper Xiao?"

"Who said that? I like drinking tea best, but I have to ask you a question first."

"What's the problem?" Long Xuhu asked with his head tilted.

"May I ask Brother Long's year of honor?"

"Kneel more?"

"I asked how long you lived!"

Longxuhu was stunned for a long time, opened his claws, and began to count one by one:
"one two three four five six seven eight……"

When counting to "eight", it suddenly stopped, and Longxuhu let out a long sigh.

"Why don't you count?" Su Ji asked curiously.

Longxuhu showed a look of embarrassment, and sighed: "I don't have enough fingers..."

Su Ji couldn't help but burst out laughing. Unexpectedly, Jiang Taigong, who used to enshrine the god of Anbang, would accept an idiot as an apprentice, but after thinking about it, it's no wonder, except that Jiang Taigong's big apprentice has never been seen before, no matter how vicious or vicious Jiang Xuan, or the sloppy Taijia real person, are not normal people who behave well.

Sighing secretly, Su Ji really didn't want to talk to this idiot, so he smiled and said:

"Since you don't have enough claws, why not count the bamboos here. I don't think there are as many bamboos here as your age."

"How do you know?" Longxuhu asked unconvinced.

Su Ji looked at the dragon, beard and tiger, and couldn't figure out whether the monster was really stupid or fake.

"Don't believe me? Then count and see."

The bamboos in this purple bamboo forest are criss-crossed and densely packed, not to mention a foolish idiot, even Jiang Taigong may not be able to count them clearly.

Long Xuhu looked miserable, and said pitifully: "You must not lie to me, the person who lied to me last year is still in my stomach now."

Su Ji sneered secretly, if the monster wasn't fooled, then the monster's dementia must be faked.

"one two three four five six seven eight nine……"

Dragon Beard Tiger actually started counting in ecstasy!
Su Ji shook his head, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The forest is so big that there are all kinds of monsters, and he actually met an idiot with amazing skills.

Long Xuhu was so absorbed in counting the bamboos that he didn't notice that Su Ji had left.

Su Ji thought the dragon beard and tiger were really funny, but also really elusive.But now he doesn't have the heart to think about the dragon beard and tiger, because there is still a bigger problem waiting for him to solve.How to get out of this weird purple bamboo forest in front of me?
　Thank you [Blood Soul] for rewarding the rudder master!I wish readers and friends a happy new year!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)