【YeQing】Qinglongma and King-cloaked Monster

"Here, you eat this." Wang Ye said, putting a bunch of freshly boiled potato chips on the plate in front of Zhuge Qing.Zhuge Qing clamped his hands and spun around the scorched surface carefully for a long time, as if he was seriously weighing the pros and cons.He doesn't know much about the crops on the ground, it can be said that he doesn't know the grains, and he doesn't trust Wang Ye's cooking skills.

"What are you looking at? I dare not say anything else, can something go wrong with a hot potato?"

Zhuge Qing was persuaded by him, and besides, what he gnawed all the way was hay, no matter how unpalatable it was, how could it compare to those?He put the piece of yam into his mouth, and then he looked relieved.It's really not unpalatable, the burnt layer is also intentional, very crispy, and a bit sweet when chewed.

Because the maids of Baoxiang Kingdom were scared away by their previous fighting skills with real knives and guns, the cauldron was left unattended, and it was cold by itself.

Wang also had no choice but to continue the work of the maids, and set up the cauldron by himself, picking out ingredients to match the soup base in confusion.

Although Xingjun Ojuku is also a god whose ten fingers do not touch the spring water, the third prince of Xihai has lived in the sea for many years, and then he became a monk directly. If you want him to cut a sashimi or break a kohlrabi, it’s okay. It is absolutely impossible to count on a pot of skewers.

If I don't join the kitchen, who will join the kitchen?

So, Zhuge Qing looked at him in a daze while he was busy, and he could see that Wang Ye was also struggling in this way. Although he couldn't help much, he was embarrassed to stand by and wait for free food.

He saw that Wang also picked up a round fan with butterflies pierced with flowers on the ground, bent over and fanned it vigorously against the firewood, and the black smoke billowed, but he couldn't light the fire, so he sprayed a mouthful of dragon's breath on the bottom of the pot.

There was a cluster of Samadhi real fire as big as a jujube core, but the ordinary iron cauldron burned a hole in an instant like wax, and the soup and water leaked all over the floor, Wang couldn't dodge it in time, and his shoes were wet .

The two former fairy families were silent for a while facing the mess, thinking that they might not be able to eat the skewers.After that, Wang Ye struggled a lot, and finally lit a firewood, heated up an iron pan, put a layer of oil on the meat slices, and used it as an iron plate to roast.

"Eat this again, it's delicious." Wang Ye picked up another corn cob for him, "Be careful, it's still hot."

Zhuge Qing ate very politely, holding the two ends of the corn cob with two fingers each, blowing gently, and waiting for it to cool down.He seemed to say casually: "My lord, since the West Sea parted, you and I haven't seen each other for a hundred years, right?"

"It's not that long." Wang Ye responded to him while continuing to put the dishes in the iron pot.

"Well, so there is no..." Zhuge Qing thought that maybe he was being punished, so he felt that the days were very slow.

But when he was gnawing on the corn cobs, he calculated in his mind that there was clearly something, and then he thought again, the time difference between one day in the sky and the earth in one year may really be only a hundred days to Wang Ye.But at this time and here, after he took another shiitake mushroom from Wang Ye, he felt that even though those hundred years were difficult day after day, when he really recalled that whole period, it seemed that it was a blink of an eye. It has passed, and if you think about it more carefully, it feels like a dream.

Now he is actually sitting in the palace with Wang Ye, eating such delicious food and chatting peacefully, the mushrooms chewing in his mouth are soft and tender.

All the past seems to be blurred, and it is not clear whether it is true or not.

"Back then, the old Jade Emperor pardoned your death crime for the sake of Guanyin, but removed you from the immortal body and fell into the mortal world," Wang Ye said to him while eating, and the tone was so light that it made people Feeling that the ups and downs seem to be insignificant, "I chased you to the lower realm, I wanted to fish you out, but was blocked by a magic circle..."

"So you came to look for me." Zhuge Qing lowered his head and smiled, and said very considerately, "The mountain where I was imprisoned is called Shepan Mountain, and the water is called Yingchou Stream. It is one of the forbidden places where sinful dragons are imprisoned. Hold on, I can't get out, and other fairy families can't get in. Even if you find that place, there must be nothing you can do."

Having said that, Zhuge Qing remembered the scene of that day a little bit.

At that time, because of bleeding for several days and nights, he was so hurt that he was dazed. He could only vaguely hear someone proclaiming to him, but he couldn't make out what was said.

Originally thought that the grievance between life and death was finally over, but he was released from the dragon-slaying platform by those heavenly soldiers and dragged to an unknown place.

He was originally a dragon god who roamed freely in the sky and into the sea, so he didn't feel very frightened when he fell. He heard the strong wind roaring upwards from the back of his head. He is passing away towards the distance beside him...

His claws moved, but they only softly slid across the invisible clouds, dragging out a faint trail of smoke, and the blood beads from the wound and the broken scales that fell off floated upwards, like rain like hail.

The injured green dragon rolled from the sky and fell faster and faster, and the surrounding scenery spun rapidly, making the eyes dazzled.He couldn't concentrate on watching, and soon the sky blue and sea blue were gone, and he could only vaguely see an incomparably huge thing pressing darkly in front of him, rushing to cover his eyes.

He couldn't help closing his eyes.

With a loud noise, he fell into a shoal, causing splashes halfway up the mountain.

The water surface blocked his fall, but the water was only a few dozen feet deep, and he still crashed heavily into the bottom of the pool, smashing a large rock.The keel of the whole body was almost smashed to pieces.

Zhuge Qing fell under the water and couldn't move, as if he was dead.

Like him, what sank to the bottom of the water were the numerous bird bones beside him.

The pool water reverberated and closed again, covering him, the water beach was very small, and the water surface soon became smooth as a mirror.

He opened his eyes and looked at the surface of the water, only to see that a blood color gradually melted in the clear water, and it spread silently. He watched quietly, until he saw that his eyes were as pale as rouge...

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Wang also brushed the fat layer of the pork belly next to it on the iron pan again, the fat sizzled on it, and the aroma was tangy.

He said: "It can't be said that there is nothing to do. I see that the mortal birds and beasts come in and out very freely, so I just have an extra fairy body."

The heavenly court has strict punishments and strict laws, which are well-organized.In addition to Zhanlong Terrace, there is Zhuxian Terrace next to it, and there is a reincarnation well beside Zhuxian Terrace.

Death is certainly terrifying, but the scariest thing is not being able to die.

If it is too cheap for the decapitated Sin Immortal to atone for his sins, let him die, then throw his head down from the well of reincarnation so that he can re-enter the six realms and be reincarnated forever. suffering.

Wang Ye had just rushed to the outskirts of Zhuxian Terrace, but when he looked up, he saw the Jade Emperor's imperial driver stopping in front of him.

The Jade Emperor didn't bring the heavenly soldiers and generals with him, and he only had an acquaintance of Wang Ye, who was also one of the seven constellations in the east, and Xinyuehu, whose star position was the closest to him.

Seeing that he really came, Xinsu questioned, "Tail Huohu, do you want to go to the well of reincarnation?"

"Where would it be? You think I'm stupid."

Wang is also talking nonsense, but he knows that as a star official, if he doesn't bully the sky, there is nothing that they can't predict between each other, and he can't fool this colleague now.But he didn't think that Jade Emperor alone could stop him with a heart, and he would pass if he found a gap.

The Jade Emperor kept his hands behind his back and said nothing, Xinsu shouted angrily, "I think you think I'm stupid!"

Wang also said solemnly: "How is it proper for you to be so loud in front of the Jade Emperor?"

Xinsu spoke again, but the Jade Emperor said, "Just for that green dragon?"

"Otherwise?" Wang Ye replied logically.

Regarding the matter between him and Zhuge Qing, I was not afraid that Xinsu would know about it. The two star officials have similar astrological positions and high status, but they are not really fun.

Tail Huohu himself is a well-known evil star, and Xinyuehu is no better.

Xinsu is a star official who likes gossip the most, and has a very bad taste. He likes to make lovers in the lower world separate and reunite, and have a deep sadomasochistic relationship.

Of course, mortals in the lower world also worship them, worshiping the tail of the fire tiger is to drive away evil spirits, and worshiping the heart moon fox is to avoid the evil peach blossom.

The translation is all a logic - take the incense and get out, don't beat me.

Xinyuehu shouted: "Are you crazy! You are Osu Xingjun, and all the immortal friends have some affection for you. Apart from Master Guanyin, you can also find another Austrian aid. Wait for a while, Your Majesty will calm down." , come to ask for an order again, and it may not be impossible to pardon him again."

Wang also knew that what he said was actually pleading for him in front of the imperial court, so he felt a little grateful.

"Otherwise, it's not bad if you take the initiative to ask Ying to do something for the heavenly court and make a great contribution in exchange for his grace! In short, as long as you are still in heaven, you still have the ability to help him get rid of his crimes, but if you are so helpless Going down to earth without any proof, not to mention ruining your own foundation, it is useless at all! Jade Emperor Mingjian, do you think this is the case?"

The implication is that they are almost begging the Jade Emperor to offer some conditions, no matter how difficult it is, at least it is an opportunity.

"You're right," Wang also saw that he was speaking sincerely, and didn't want to argue with him too much, "but Zhuge Qing can't afford to wait."

At that time, Zhuge Qing had already been stripped of his immortality, leaving only a mortal body of flesh and bones, and he could no longer live by sucking wind and drinking dew, and he was still injured.

One day in the sky, one year in the ground.

Even for the king to say these few words now, almost two days and nights have passed in the lower realm.How long can he survive and wait for the grace in the future?

"Wang Ye," the Jade Emperor finally spoke, with a teasing smile on his face, "There is one thing that you may not be clear about."

Wang also raised his head and looked at him at the same level. This look was very rude, but now there is no need to talk about etiquette.

"You know, you've never been very submissive, but why do I still value you so much and give in?"

Wang also asked with a smile, "Your Majesty is lenient?"

The Jade Emperor also laughed, "That's not true. It's just because your star officials are different from other immortal officials. They are cultivated and granted patents. I can seal whoever I want. If there is no one, there are people who want to Immortal cultivators in the immortal class are waiting to replace them. But the stars are born and cannot be changed. For example, you, the tail star will follow you forever. If you leave, the star position will be messed up. Even if you don't care, even if you go down to earth now, it's still the descending of the tail star."

"..." Wang was also silent.

"Obviously I could bring the heavenly soldiers and generals to capture you here, but I didn't because it was unnecessary. Because you are a smart person, do you understand this?" The Jade Emperor said word by word, "Osuke Xingjun, even if you go down the well of reincarnation, you still won't be able to get rid of this fairy body."

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Zhuge Qing smiled wryly and said: "At first I didn't live long. Only after being beaten into a mortal body did I realize that hunger and cold would kill me. There is no living thing to catch in that ghostly place, so I almost starved to death."

Thinking about bitterness and sweetness like this, he immediately felt that he couldn't be more satisfied now that he can eat so much food, drink spicy food, and eat so much food.Seeing that Wang Ye had cooked another bunch of chicken wings for him, he covered the plate, "I won't eat this."

Wang didn't force it, and threw it back into his own plate, and continued to focus on turning the uncooked dishes on the teppanyaki.

"Are you really determined to become a vegetarian? Or do you want to continue to learn Buddhist scriptures?"

Zhuge Qing shook his head and said, "It's not a vegetarian dish...I just don't like chicken wings."

"... You almost starved to death, and you haven't changed your picky eating habits."

"I wasn't picky at first, it's really just a new problem at that time."

The water in Yingshoujian comes from Wuxie, and is deep under the steep walls on all sides. There is no wind or waves, and the water is clear, reflecting the sky and water.

Although crows and sparrows can pass unimpeded, when they fly over and see their own reflections in the water, they will be confused, mistaken for a flock of birds of the same kind, and are lured into the water.

Even ants know how to survive, so over time, birds and beasts are rare, and they all know that there is no return to the steep wall, so they dare not wade lightly.

But there will always be one or two ignorant birds who don't know what to do by mistake and drown here.Originally, their bodies were floating on the surface of the water, but their skin and flesh gradually became swollen and rotten, and finally turned into white bones and sank to the bottom of the water.

It was late at night, and the calm water surface was as black as ink, on which floated the corpse of a crow with its black feathers spread out, like an empty black mirror, polluting another large piece of ink.

Suddenly, the water mirror broke open, and a green dragon opened its mouth to bite the dead bird from below. Its slender neck rose from the water, reflecting the moonlight, as bright as the blade of a machete.

When he swam to the shore, he had turned into a haggard beautiful boy.

The more handsome this boy is, the more eerie and treacherous the scene will be.

His bluish-blue hair was sticking wetly to his body, and there were criss-crossed scars all over his back. There was hardly a piece of good meat, and there was an equally scarred tail under the spine, and there were sporadic sticking and broken pieces on it. dragon scales.

Although those wounds were no longer bleeding, they were covered in blisters.His lips were pale and colorless, and his already fair skin was almost crystal clear.

He sat on the bank and devoured the dead crow alive. He took out every single bone and gnawed on it. He gnawed off the bird's head, and even sucked out the eyeballs and brains inside.

He raised the back of his hand to wipe, and the dead bird had no blood, only a few sticky black feathers were wiped from the corners of its lips.

After that, he relied on the occasional dead birds that fell from the sky to survive the first year or so.

Living is harder than dying.

Among the sunken corpses in Yingshou Stream, if you look carefully, there are also keel bones.Zhuge Qing looked up at the small sky above which was oppressed by the cliff, but thought to himself that since he didn't cut off his head with a knife, he couldn't die so easily.

However, with the sun out of sight and the dragon trapped in the shallows, how can he survive?There was no sunlight, no food to eat, no strength, no warmth in his body, and the injury had not healed for a long time. He had no choice but to feel that he was getting weaker and weaker day by day.

He fell asleep several times, thinking that he would never wake up again, but he woke up every time after all.

Above that small piece of night, the 28 constellations hung high, slowly revolving around the pole star, but they could not be seen all the time.

Of course, he didn't want to say these words to Wang in detail now.

Wang Ye added a few more baked dishes to his plate, with a slight smile in his eyes, and asked him: "Then what happened later? How did you survive?"

"Later..." Zhuge Qing seemed to be entangled with some emotions, he hesitated, but after a while of silence, he continued, "I don't know where, a white tiger came..."

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The white tiger was a young male tiger who had just become independent. Maybe it came out to open up its own territory. It happened to come to Yingshoujian to drink water. A slight noise woke up the green dragon sleeping under the water.

Zhuge Qing quietly opened his eyes to look at it, and dipped his pink tongue into the water.He was so driven by hunger that he hadn't seen a living thing for a long time, let alone eat hot flesh and blood.So even though he knew that taking this beast as prey was very dangerous for him now, he still couldn't help but want to give it a go.

He wanted to wait until it threw itself into the water and drowned, but after the white tiger drank the water, it wandered around the bank with its head probing, as if it was very curious about its own reflection, but it was not fooled.

Zhuge Qing couldn't wait any longer, but after hearing a "gudong", he saw the white tiger poke its head into the water, its green tiger eyes widened under the water, and it could be seen clearly from a few feet away in the clear pool water. The green dragon lying on the bottom of the water also seemed very surprised, gurgling out a bunch of bubbles.

Unable to wait any longer, he suddenly jumped up and bit the white tiger's throat swiftly.The white tiger shrank his head and got out of the water, and he took a bite.

The green dragon broke through the water, maybe he is not a dragon in the eyes of the white tiger now, more like a strange lizard growing in this barren mountain and water, without dragon horns, and his whole body is covered with broken scales.Now there is no way to control these things, taking advantage of the white tiger being caught off guard, the chance of a fatal blow is only in an instant.

The white tiger jumped up like the wind, avoiding his bite, stood up, and slapped his thick tiger paw on the root of his dragon horn, knocking him to the ground, then turned to the nearby forest with its tail between its legs. escaped.

Zhuge Qing's prey ran away, and what ran away was not only the prey, but also his chance to survive.

He almost had no strength to move under the water, and now that he was on the shore, he felt that his body weighed more than a thousand catties. He struggled to get back into the water, but as soon as he raised his four claws a little, there was a wail, and he fell to the ground again.

The wind from the mountains blew in gusts, and he felt that the water vapor on his body was evaporating, his scales became tight, and the old wounds on his body seemed to be stretched to open again.

Forget it... he thought, so be it.

Unexpectedly, he didn't even have the luck to wait quietly to die. The scared white tiger came back on tiptoe, tentatively taking one step forward and then two steps back, as if he wanted to get closer, but worried that he would suddenly explode.

Zhuge Qing closed his eyes and thought, this is the natural world, if you can't kill it, it will come back to kill you, which is fair.Now he doesn't even have hard dragon scales, so he can't guard against the sharp teeth of the tiger, so he can only be slaughtered.

He sometimes sees his own reflection in Yingshoujian, and feels that his current appearance is quite ugly, but he doesn't know how ugly he looks, but how he tastes.

He felt warm breath on his forehead, the white tiger had already approached, lowered his head and sniffed at him.

Zhuge Qing didn't move, he was preparing for the pain of being bitten and torn, but the white tiger just sniffed it and walked away.

It seems... It doesn't taste good to me...

But it made no difference to him.

He lay on his stomach again, quietly waiting to be slowly dried and withered, and after an unknown amount of time, the white tiger came back again.It was dragging a deer whose neck had just been bitten off and whose hooves were still kicking.The dripping deer blood smelled sweet and alluring.

Qinglong finally opened his eyes, while Baihu eagerly dragged the deer to his mouth.

The body of a dragon is out of shape from a python, and it can also swallow food that is far larger than itself. Although they would not make such a greedy appearance when they were gods and beasts, Zhuge Qing really didn't care too much about his dignity when he reached this point .

He directly swallowed the whole deer, Baihu looked at him worriedly, Qinglong's body was stretched, and he could almost see how the deer slowly slid down his throat to the stomach middle.

It took him three full days to digest this deer before he absorbed it completely.

Afterwards, the white tiger ran around and hunted more birds and animals to feed him. Even among the kings of beasts, its ability is considered very great, it will see blood when it comes out, and it never returns empty.

Every day it came over with its gift in its mouth, put it by the water, and whistled twice toward the water, as if gently calling him out.

This white tiger is raising him.

Zhuge Qing didn't quite understand why a ferocious beast suddenly had such kindness, but he himself couldn't do without Yingchoujian, and he really had nowhere to go.

Qinglong floated up from the bottom of the water and carefully ate the food given by Baihu.Now he is no longer suffering from hunger, and his strength is gradually recovering. Even in the shape of a dragon, he can almost see the gentleness of eating and the anxiety of receiving rewards for nothing.

"what do you want?"

One day, the blue dragon that ate a hare, felt that he could change shape, and suddenly turned into a boy. The upper body that emerged from the water was covered with scars, and the lower body was submerged in the water, and his legs could be vaguely seen. They staggered back and forth gently under the water, but there was a long dragon tail behind them.

The white tiger wasn't afraid because of his changed appearance, nor did he want to eat him, and of course it couldn't answer Zhuge Qing's question.

"I have nothing else to repay you. My flesh and blood is still a real dragon. If it falls into the soil, it can produce Ganoderma lucidum and fairy grass. If fish and shrimp eat it, it can turn into a flood dragon. I don't know what will happen to you if you eat it, but you will always gain enlightenment." Ascension to immortality."

One elbow of Zhuge Qing was resting on the edge of the pool, and the other seemingly very soft arm stretched out towards it.

Then do something more comfortable.

The white tiger licked his hand, then rubbed its big furry head against his palm, and purred contentedly as those fingers gently scratched the back of its ears.

The white tiger raised Zhuge Qing very well, and with the continuous fresh meat, his dragon shape was almost thicker, and his cheeks, which were too thin when he transformed into a human shape, gradually regained their blood color and brilliance.

And Zhuge Qing gradually learned how to make it happy. The white tiger is just like a big cat that is too fat. When it is scratched by human fingers on the chin, behind the ears, at the base of the tail, etc., it will get carried away with comfort and never tire of it.

When it came to winter, it was inevitable that food would be scarce. Fortunately, Zhuge Qing's health had gradually improved. When the temperature dropped, he would feel drowsy, but he no longer felt hungry.

On the other hand, the white tiger had raised his own fat and round body as early as autumn, which weighed five or six hundred catties, enough to consume slowly through the winter.

That winter was extremely cold, and Yingshoujian was covered with thin ice. Zhuge Qing couldn't do without water, but he felt cold.

Although the white tiger couldn't bring him sunlight, whenever Zhuge Qing climbed up from the icy water wetly, it would lean over and let him hug its fur to absorb the warmth from his body.

The white tiger sleeps at the bottom of the cliff every night, and the waterside is especially damp and cold. When it wakes up in the morning, a layer of frost forms.It shook its frozen ears, lowered its head, and saw the blue-haired boy coiling his dragon tail, sleeping deeply beside it.

It closed its tiger paws and hugged him closer. With the tip of its tongue without thorns, it lightly licked the scars on his back.