Chapter 8: Aunt Xi Mu
Shui Ling'er looked at the nearby white horse and the woman on horseback stupidly, and her little brain was in a reverie, but she was twisted by Zhu Xing on her shoulder, "Stinky boy, wipe your saliva clean, don't be rude in front of Aunt Ximu!"
"Aunt Ximu?" he laboriously uttered these words, and turned his head blankly to stare at Zhu Xing, because he had spent a lot of energy due to being too focused just now, and a feeling of fatigue came over him.
I heard all the bamboo soldiers chanting "See Xi Muxian" and bowed down together, and the left and right Zhuyue and Zhuxing also bent down to worship, but he stood stunned and stood on the spot, at a loss.
The white horse stepped on the green bricks of the square, put away its wings and kicked its hooves, and shook off the scattered clouds, Xi Muxian was like a piece of light snow, floating down from the horse's back, landing silently, raising his hand and saying, "You don't have to be polite, please get up." Then he walked towards Taketsuki and the others.
Zhu Yue stepped forward and arched her hand: "Auntie, the apprentice has fulfilled her mission and has brought back the demon baby Shui Ling'er." ”
Xi Muxian nodded, and looked at the frightened and tired child with a face full of horror.
After Shui Ling'er was brought back, Zhuyue had already washed him well while he was asleep and changed into a cyan shirt.
Because he has been in the deep mountains and old forests for a long time, his skin is dark brown, and although his eyes are big, he looks dull, and now he is only looking at the fairy aunt in front of him.
Xi Muxian's gaze stayed on his neck, and with a slight click of his fingers, the bell hanging on his neck with a phoenix carved phoenix came to her hand with a crisp ding sound.
She put the bell in the palm of her white hand, and pointed the other finger to the drop of water in the phoenix's beak, and saw that the top of the bell seemed to be drilled by a needle to open a small hole, and the water bead moved obediently to the small hole, and then squeezed out of the bell and suspended in front of her eyes.
Zhu Xing felt curious and wanted to ask a question, but Xi Muxian raised his hand and signaled not to disturb her, so he had to stick out his tongue and cover his mouth tightly with his hand.
Xi Muxian touched Shui Ling'er's little face, and he suddenly felt an indescribable coldness spread from his face to his body, and he couldn't help but shiver.
"This aunt is not only as beautiful as water, but also as cold water!" he began to think to himself again.
Her fingers stopped on his lips, and he opened his mouth slightly, and the drop flew straight into his mouth and was swallowed directly by him.
In an instant, Shui Ling'er felt that the world was spinning, and the whole world around him was turned upside down, and it seemed that a small worm was crawling around in his body, making him hurt and itch. But before he could scratch with his hands, the little worm crawled somewhere else.
Soon, the hallucinatory worm crawled into his brain, and he felt his brain spinal pulp begin to be slowly sucked dry, and his consciousness gradually blurred. He let out a terrible howl that a wolf could only make, and his hands gripped his throat to vomit, but he couldn't spit out anything, and his dark brown face had turned purple and blue, as if it were poisonous.
Zhuyue was in a hurry, and he was about to use the power to force poison for him, Xi Muxian broke off and shouted, "Stand down!" The voice was full of majesty and was irresistible.
He had no choice but to stand aside, large beads of sweat dripping down his forehead, as if he had been poisoned.
A few minutes passed, and it felt like years. The whole square was silent.
Shui Ling'er lay motionless on the ground, and gradually, his rapid breathing gradually eased, and his shoulders no longer rose and fell violently due to the pain.
The spinning world gradually slowed down and returned to its place, and the bruises on his face receded little by little, and he actually glowed with a hint of ruddy.
He struggled to get up under the gaze of everyone, looked at Xi Muxian in a daze, and opened his mouth to shout out the two words he said for the first time in his life: "Auntie." ”
Xi Muxian led everyone back to the main hall.
Shui Ling'er was held in Zhuyue's arms, and the sluggishness in her eyes had disappeared. At this time, he felt as if he had just traveled thousands of miles, and his joints were too heavy to turn.
Zhuxing walked aside, looking at him distressedly, and didn't dare to tease him anymore.
He squirmed his lips, looked up at Zhuyue's slightly raised chin, and weakly shouted "Brother Zhuyue", and completely lost consciousness.
After ordering someone to send Shui Ling'er to the room to rest, Xi Muxian sat in the middle of the main hall, quietly watching Zhuyue and Zhuxing. Zhuxing was impatient, and he couldn't bear it anymore, so he stepped forward and shouted, "Auntie, will Ling'er die?"
Zhuxing is Taketsuki's younger brother, kind-hearted but impulsive, usually very lively, and likes to make jokes, which is completely opposite to Takeyue's calm and introverted personality. If Pingsu's younger brother wants to be presumptuous, Zhuyue will definitely block and reprimand, but today he is also anxious, worried about Shui Ling'er's safety, so he rarely has to go.
After being silent for a long time, Xi Muxian got up and walked to the bronze incense burner in the middle of the main hall, and added a little cicada incense casually.
This kind of incense is the special incense of the immortal clan of Jiluo Mountain, a drop of incense liquid needs to be refined by using 999 pieces of new bamboo leaves, after the juice is added, the powder of resentment flowers, Wu Nian grass, wandering English and bitter happy branches is ground into five coins each, blended evenly in the bamboo tube that has become a hundred years of bamboo, with a Dan furnace with a thousand years old bamboo as firewood, refining for 7749 days, and then placed in the Xuanbing Cave of Jiluo Mountain for three years, in order to absorb the essence of the aura of the mountain.
At the end, take out the bamboo tube, the incense has become a block, and then grind it into powder with a bamboo pestle, and the incense is ready.
It is said that this incense is often used, not only to make people deaf and bright, refreshing, but also to enhance the spiritual power of the immortals, so it has always been the thing that the immortals outside Jiluo Mountain are fascinated by, but it is also difficult to obtain because of the difficult process of making zuò and the essence of the materials.
In the main hall, the fragrance of falling cicadas slowly floated out, the candlelight flickered and the smoke was filled, and the two of them smelled Zhuyue and Zhuxing, and their mood gradually quieted down.
Xi Muxian paced slowly and asked them, "Do you know the origin of the demon baby?"
The people looked at each other and shook their heads, their eyes full of puzzlement.
So she began to tell the story of the demon baby's past life.