little spicy jiao

The warm fragrance lingered in the Sunset Pavilion, Mo Jiaojiao took a handful of Linglu and poured it on her fleshy little shoulders, then accidentally tilted too far, and poured it on her neck, she immediately shivered from the cold, and quickly grabbed the man to warm it Putting his big palm on his neck to relieve the chill.

Dugu Jiu moved the jade basin containing the lotus spirit dew back, away from the reach of children, and poured the spirit dew in his hand onto the warm handkerchief, alleviating the cold feeling when directly touching the body.

Mo Jiaojiao noticed his movements, looked at the jade basin with his head, and muttered: "Jiao Jiao needs to wipe it too. Jiao Jiao wants to learn how to take a bath, and I will bathe you later."

Dugu Jiu took out a small wooden yellow duck from the storage pouch at his waist, put it in the bathtub, and repeated his comforting words: "I won't grow old one day, you can rest assured, Jiaojiao."

When Mo Jiaojiao saw the duckling, he opened his eyes happily, caught it in his hand and squeezed it, saying: "The duckling is made of wood."

He put the duck on the water, poked the duck to swim forward with his soft fingers, and wondered: "Why doesn't Dugu Jiu grow old? But the owner of the valley and the elders also practice, so they will grow old."

The man leaned over to wash the soft back of the child, pondered for a moment before explaining: "Anyone who is successful in cultivation, no matter whether you are a monster or a monk, as long as you form a pill, your face will not age. There are quite a few people who are comparable to this seat, including the owner of the Yinshen Valley."

"But the owner of the valley is an old man, and so are the elders. They said it themselves." Mo Jiaojiao said blankly, "Both the owner of the valley and the elders have white beards."

"The Yinshengu clan didn't all look old at first." Dugu Jiu said patiently: "When Jiaojiao was born that year, the Yinshen Valley's warning bell rang spontaneously. Afterwards, in order to avoid outside visits, Fan Ji claimed that the vitality of the valley was seriously injured, so the owner of Jiaojiao, together with all the elders, took the soul-returning grass, and his appearance was no different from that of ordinary people in their old age."

"What is soul-returning grass?" Mo Jiaojiao pressed the little wooden duck to the bottom of the water, stepped on it with his white and tender feet, lowered his head and asked the man to wash his soft curly hair, he thought for a while, half understanding Said: "Jiujiu said that the owner of the valley looks like an old man, but he is not, right?"

"En." Dugu Jiu nodded slightly, washed the child's soft black hair, wrapped him in a cloth towel, carried him out of the tub, and put it into another white jade basin that had just been filled with hot water by a paper child. Apply the scented dew on Mo Jiaojiao again, and explain: "Those who take the soul-returning herb, no matter whether it is a demon, a demon, or a human, will age rapidly, their physical strength will decline, and there is no room for turning around."

Mo Jiaojiao carried the duck and was put into the water. He slapped the water incomprehensibly and looked at the splashing water. After a long time, he hesitated and said, "Jiaojiao doesn't know why the owner of the valley is afraid of people outside. The owner of the valley is afraid of people outside." You and the elders are very powerful, why do you want to become an old man?"

"The decline of the monster race is not without the power to fight." Dugu Jiu didn't hide much from the past in the Yinshen Valley, and said coldly: "The enemy facing the Yinshen Valley must be other than the cultivation world."

And it is a more difficult existence.

"The enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. It's okay to temporarily avoid the edge." The man said solemnly: "Although I enter the Tao by killing, it is not impossible to understand the deeds of the Hidden God Valley. Everything in the world is like this. When you are alone, you are fearless. But if they are worried about the future, they are afraid. They don't want to take the risk of taking the pepper."

There is only one Shentuzi, Mo Jiaojiao is tied with the only hope for the continuation of the demon clan, and the Yinshen Valley naturally cannot tolerate any possible danger.It's not that they have lost their fighting instinct, but they are eager to protect the calf and dare not gamble with the future of the Yaozu.

And the enemy they face should be the existence that even Yinshen Valley fears, otherwise, the owner of Yinshen Valley will never mislead Tianyan Sword Sect and use tricks to drive them away. The only possible explanation is that he is worried about Tianyan Sword Zong was involved.

However, even if the whole clan had to turn white overnight, they were still the heroes of the monster clan.

And Mo Jiaojiao is the only one who can make the Yinshengu clan willing to be an "old man".

Mo Jiaojiao nodded ignorantly, looked up into the man's eyes, and said very seriously: "Actually, the owner of the valley and the elder have become old men, and Jiao Jiao also likes it. The owner of the valley and the elder are too old to hold Jiao Jiao." , Jiao Jiao was about to fall when walking, so the owner of the valley took me by the hand. Jiao Jiao thinks the old man is also very good."

"Yeah." Dugu Jiu raised his hands wet with hot water, patted the child's back, took two small wooden ladles from one side, gave one to Mo Jiaojiao, and held the other in his hand, Demonstrate scooping up water and rinsing it down the child's shoulders.

Mo Jiaojiao had obviously never done such a thing, took the wooden ladle and poured water for himself clumsily. He learned to pour a few times, then suddenly scooped up a ladle full of water, raised it to his forehead with some difficulty, It's about to fall from the top down.

Dugu Jiu hurriedly held the child's hand, took off the wooden ladle, and said with a serious expression: "This can't be the case. Be careful of getting water in your eyes."

Mo Jiaojiao's eyes were shining, looking at the wooden ladle expectantly, and sweetly said: "Jiao Jiao waters himself."

Dugu Jiu recalled the child's experience of always swimming in the lake alone, so he returned the wooden ladle to him and said, "Slow down."

"Okay." Mo Jiaojiao's tender ending rose happily. He held the small wooden ladle, closed his eyes, and watered himself comfortably one by one. Shaking off the drops of water, throwing away the wooden ladle, he rubbed his red forehead and said in a daze, "Jiao Jiao likes to pour hot water. Can I take a bath with sweet soup next time? Jiao Jiao can use sweet soup for bathing."

Dugu Jiu was silent for a moment, then refused impersonally: "No."

Mo Jiaojiao immediately frowned, and complained in a low voice: "Dugu Jiu always doesn't like sweet soup, Jiao Jiao does."

The man acts as if he has never heard of it, and does not give the child the slightest chance to "rebel".

***

In the Sunset Pavilion, one big and one small are frolicking intimately, but the people outside the Sunset Pavilion are waiting drowsily.

Shen Siyuan glanced at Liu Guang and Patriarch Hongshan at the side, "filled with righteous indignation" and said: "Chongrong is so ignorant of respecting the old and loving the young."

Bie Hejian glanced at him mockingly when he heard this, snorted coldly, stepped forward and slammed the door with the hilt of his sword.

A quarter of an hour later, the door opened.

Lingjian smiled triumphantly, and rushed into the room first.Shen Siyuan shook his head with great interest, and followed in.

In the outer hall, Mo Jiaojiao had finished bathing, and was sitting on a high stool, holding a spoon to eat round purple potato glutinous rice balls, with an extremely focused expression.

Dugu Jiuduan sat next to the child, raised his eyes and looked coldly at the sound, his sharp and cold eyes met the lazy and smiling eyes of the visitor, and after scanning the slightly pale and handsome face of the visitor, he looked over again. Take it back calmly.

Ancestor Hongshan and Liu Guang did not enter the house, but invited them to the dining hall of Tianya Haige, intending to try new dishes together.

Shen Siyuan grinned, took a few quick steps, sat casually at the table, found a jar of wine out of nowhere, and took out a white jade bowl, began to pour the wine for himself, lazily said: "Chong Rong, if the next time you see me, if you don't have this expression of looking at someone who is about to die, I will be happier."

Dugu Jiu glanced at the wine jar indifferently, and said in a low and cold voice, "How many days are there left?"

The man in blue was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, then he burst out laughing and said, "How could the master of this sect die so early? Ten thousand years from now, I, Shen Siyuan, will still be unparalleled in the world."

Dugu Jiu didn't care about his clumsy cover-up, Gu Zuo said that he just took a handkerchief, and wiped off the soup that flowed down the child's chin.

Shen Siyuan stopped laughing, took a sip lazily from the wine bowl, turned his head to look at the child who was busy eating glutinous rice balls, and said with a smile: "Little baby, do you still remember me?"

Mo Jiaojiao swallowed the glutinous rice balls, raised his head to look at the man opposite, stared at the man's pale face with his dark eyes unblinking, and after a moment, seemed to think of something, opened his mouth slightly, and said in surprise: "Little sheep."

Shen Siyuan heard that the vocal music was overwhelming, took a wine glass and poured some wine, pushed it in front of the child, "Little baby, do you want to drink?"

Mo Jiaojiao looked curiously at the crystal-clear liquor in the glass, sniffed it with his small nose, then turned to look at Dugu Jiu, and asked, "Can Jiaojiao drink it?"

Dugu Jiu put the quilt on the other side, and whispered: "Jiaojiao is still young, don't drink alcohol."

Mo Jiaojiao glanced at the wine glass regretfully, sniffed the aroma of the wine all around, and said: "Jiaojiao can't drink it, let Jiujiu drink it." After speaking, he bowed his head obediently and ate the glutinous rice balls.

Shen Siyuan couldn't help laughing, and looked at the man with a serious face like a question, but as expected, he was completely ignored, and sighed: "What a treasure."

Dugu Jiu looked up at him, and said coldly, "Why do you come here?"

Shen Siyuan shrugged, drank the strong wine in the bowl, grabbed the wine jar and poured a new bowl, said: "Chongrong, although the way of killing swords goes against the sky, it is not tolerated by the law of heaven, and ordinary people can't afford you The fate of God, but Shen Tuzi is different, why not try it?"

"I don't have any regrets about the way of swordsmanship alone, so what's the point of dragging children down?" Dugu Jiu was indifferent, and just said indifferently: "Can't you see clearly what the Yinshengu clan has done? Shen Siyuan, the world If the righteousness is still there, sacrificing everything for one's own selfish thoughts, and submitting to the protection of the heavens, is a great joke in the world."

"Oh?" Shen Siyuan put down his wine bowl, turned his head to stare at the well-behaved child, and said, "Chongrong, I don't deny the sacrifices made by the Yinshen clan. The existence of respect. And your actions are equally glorious, but you forgot one thing, the sacrifice of Yinshen Valley is to keep Shentuzi, and they can't push Shentuzi to death for themselves, this is justifiable. But And you?"

Shen Siyuan glanced at Mo Jiaojiao, who had been stunned, with a half-smile, and said comfortingly: "This child really cares about you, doesn't he? He is tied to your fate, and you do great justice for him, and bear responsibility and hatred, while he Trying his best to save you from death is not a transaction from the very beginning, and you are not sacrificing him. In the current cultivation world, besides you, is there anyone who loves him more? No."

"If you're just a lobbyist for Hong Yu and others, then it's over." Dugu Jiu raised his hand and touched the child's head, signaling him to continue eating, without the slightest expression on his face.

Shen Siyuan saw the man's brows and eyes were frosty, and he was determined to go his own way. He couldn't help but lamented that his skill had declined, and muttered: "This mortal fortune teller is always fooling around, why am I becoming less and less able to fool people?"

Mo Jiaojiao listened to the conversation between the two foolishly, turned over the glutinous rice balls in the bowl with a small spoon, and asked strangely: "Why does Dugu Jiu carry... so many things for Jiao Jiao?"

When Shen Siyuan saw the child speak, his raised Danfeng eyes narrowed, he rolled his eyes, and said with a smile: "Little baby, because Chongrong loves you and wants to protect you, so I want to avenge you, you need to save the demon clan , he can do it for you too."

"But," Mo Jiaojiao frowned, glanced at Dugu Jiu helplessly, and said, "Jiujiu said to take Jiao Jiao to find the owner of the valley. Jiao Jiao can take revenge by himself, and other monsters, Jiao Jiao will also Tried to save."

"Do you know how to save?" Shen Siyuan asked with a smile.

"Jiao Jiao..." Mo Jiaojiao blinked blankly, and said in shame, "Jiao Jiao forgot."

It's not that Gu Zhu didn't teach him, but he didn't remember it.He has forgotten so many things that he can hardly do anything.

"Shen Siyuan, enough is enough." Dugu Jiu frowned slightly, patted the child on the back, and comforted him: "Jiaojiao will know when he grows up."

Mo Jiao nodded his head anxiously. He held the spoon and thought for a while, then said: "Jiujiu will take Jiao Jiao to find the owner of the valley. Take revenge and save monsters, Jiao Jiao will be able to grow up."

When Shen Siyuan heard the sound, a look of sympathy could not be restrained in his eyes.

If he was wondering why Chongrong insisted on not accepting Xiaowa's help before, but now he has no doubts at all.A child is ignorant, and when he doesn't understand anything, he really shouldn't be made to bear additional responsibilities, let alone another person's fate.

It is true that Mo Jiaojiao will be willing to pay for Dugujiu even when he grows up in the future, because they depend on each other for life, but no matter what the future holds, at least at this moment, he has no idea what kind of karma Dugujiu has borne for him, nor does he know what he wants to do. Pay accordingly.

In the child's cognition, his Jiujiu just wants to take him back to his hometown one day to find the "missing" valley owner and elder, not to be an enemy of the cultivation world or the way of heaven.

Shen Siyuan straightened up, restrained all his smiles, and for the first time silently looked at the black-clothed sword cultivator who was as cold as the lonely sky and the moon in front of him.

He finally understood why Chongrong would bring the little baby to see him so reassuringly, without worrying that the things he concealed would be exposed by him.This little baby can't understand at all, so why worry about the truth leaking out?

"The world is going down, the world is going down!" Shen Siyuan was depressed to the extreme, he picked up the wine jar and poured wine in frustration, expressing all the depression in his heart.

Mo Jiaojiao stared blankly at the person who was holding the wine jar and poured it vigorously, and said curiously: "Little sheep drinks so fast."

Shen Siyuan was choked up by the sound of "lamb", and hurriedly put down the wine jar and coughed in embarrassment. Fortunately, he covered his mouth with a handkerchief the moment he took the wine jar away, otherwise, he would never have Continue to stay in the house.

Mo Jiaojiao's eyes widened in shock from the violent coughing, and he asked cautiously, "Is the lamb sick?"

Dugu Jiu scooped up glutinous rice balls for the child, fed them into his mouth, and said, "He's doing well."

Shen Siyuan stopped coughing, stroked his throat for a while, then looked at the child helplessly, then burst out laughing, shook his head and said: "That's all. Since your Jiujiu wants to protect you until you grow up, then Let's protect it. Anyway, he will live a little longer than me, so he can afford it. When you grow up, you will know what to do."

Mo Jiaojiao pushed the bowl away, looked at Shen Siyuan suspiciously, and said, "You didn't tell the truth. The lamb just came in, so he didn't mean to say that."

"Oh?" Shen Siyuan tidied himself up, hooked his lips, and said with interest: "Then what do you think I want to say?"

"Ninety-nine people know what the lamb said." Mo Jiaojiao touched a small windmill and came out, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and said: "But you came in just now, I am very happy, you have a secret, but you I won't say any more."

"It's really smart." Shen Siyuan nodded in agreement and yawned slowly. He has always looked calm and lazy in front of other people. Outsiders only think that he is deep-minded and strategizing.When he came to the Sunset Pavilion, he was not serious, and his behavior was perverse and reckless, but he showed his true nature. It's no wonder that Mo Jiaojiao, who is extremely sensitive, could see something was wrong.

Seeing the child staring at him intently, Shen Siyuan touched his chin, murmured with a half-smile:

"If you want to talk about the real purpose, it's actually simple. Chongrong, this little baby should go to school. If it comes to cultivation, Yinshen Valley has taught him enough, so Fairy Hongyan and others taught him alchemy and forging weapons. , making talismans, understanding the history of ancient and modern times, and understanding current events are enough. Am I right?"

Dugu Jiu nodded, but did not refute.

"If that's the case, why didn't you take action?" Shen Siyuan knocked on the table and said: "Whether it's revenge or saving the world, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and going down the mountain to experience is the right way. The opportunity for the little baby to grow up... Not in the Tianyan Sword Sect."

"What do you mean by that?" Dugu Jiu's eyes sharpened, and he looked straight at the other party.

"Just as you thought." Shen Siyuan raised his hand to caress his painful chest, and his face gradually turned pale. He breathed a sigh of relief, swallowed the sudden fishy sweetness in his throat, and said, "Shen Tuzi was able to escape consciousness." Hai, relying on his deep connection with the cherry pepper seed, have you forgotten that the most important thing for the monster race is not the Nascent Soul, they do not have such a thing, but..."

Before the words fell, the man with a pale face frowned and coughed. He hurriedly took out a bottle of elixir and poured it down. After a while, he smiled lazily:

"Instead of traveling thousands of miles to look for it, it is better to focus on the present moment. The most important thing for Shentuzi...is related to whether he can be reborn, that is, the owner of the Yinshen Valley tried every means to keep it...ahem...even for this reason. And the... thing that accidentally sacrificed the son of the wild goose, the thing you were trying to find, is far away in the sky and right in front of you. It has already returned to its place."

"...So that's how it is." Dugu looked at Shen Siyuan with a pale face, and thought about everything, but he understood everything. He rarely restrained his cold expression, and said in a deep voice: "Today's If you say it, you will definitely repay it in the future. As long as there is something that is feasible for me, there will be no other words."

"Hey, what's the point?" Shen Siyuan waved his hand indifferently, "I don't want you to accept my love. If you hadn't helped me back then, my brother and I would have died long ago. Today's matter is just me paying back for my brother. It’s all about cause and effect. Besides, what I know is about this little baby. Since you insist on taking care of it for him, I can’t just sit idly by. No matter what you say, we have been friends for thousands of years. The matter of Tianyan Sword Sect is Shenyimen It is imperative."

Dugu Jiu groaned silently, apparently determined to repay today's karma, but said: "Since it can be confirmed that the opportunity for Jiaojiao to grow up is not in the Tianyan Sword Sect, nor in the Yaodan, then, is it the same as the one in the Hidden God Valley back then? Are things of the same origin?"

"Well..." Shen Siyuan hammered his painful chest, pinched the center of his brows, and said, "Since the old man has arranged everything, so what if he follows it? The plan was obtained in exchange for the entire Yinshen clan. , even including the fact that this doll came back from the dead, he would rather sacrifice than keep the righteousness, really counting it, it can be said that the painstaking efforts have reached the extreme, this doll..."

Shen Siyuan smiled wryly, "What else can I do except follow the road laid out for him by his old valley owner step by step? Since we want to save the remaining monster race, let Shentuzi live up to its name. Revenge, then just sit back and wait. Chongrong, I don’t need to say this, you already guessed it, but you need evidence.”

"Of course." Dugu Jiu's eyes were deep, and he said word by word: "I haven't reached an irreparable situation, I will not be too arbitrary, and I don't want Jiaojiao to go on that road."

"Then, I am one of the evidences." Shen Siyuan smiled, looked around the room, and said: "The old man has calculated everything, and he has calculated everything. Do you know that I will come today? Let's see, wait and see." As soon as I leave, another dark move he has buried will come to find you."

Under Mo Jiaojiao's worried eyes, Shen Siyuan stood up, waved his hands with a smile, turned his back, wiped away the blood dripping from his lips, and said: "Little baby, your Valley Master, is your rebirth Parents are the heroes of the entire cultivation world and the entire continent."

The man in blue strode out the door, and the next moment, Fairy Hongyan's paper crane flew in from the window and landed on the table.

"Uncle Chongrong, Yunshan sent you something for me. If he passes by later, I hope you will let him go."