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Chapter 53 53. Heaven and Earth Reverse Journey (4.1k)

"Son, what happened?" The old man was surprised, but also very happy.

This baby can walk, good thing!
I just don’t know why the boy felt strange after waking up, as if he was not the same person. Although the boy with his back to him was still thin and thin, his back was straight. People are like cows and horses, and they have long forgotten how people should walk.The old man shook his head, insisting that the boy was still the same person, just a little change after experiencing great joy and sorrow.

How can people not be the same?

"It's nothing." Li Xi'an shook his head, his golden candle-like pupils were snuffed out, revealing those harmless jet-black pupils again.

He turned around and lay down on the straw mat.

"Sleeping a little stuffy, just come out to breathe."

"This way..." The old man nodded, just as he was about to put back the straw mat, he remembered something.

"Boy, you haven't told me why your legs are healed. You just applied medicine before going to bed. It's obviously a piece of dead meat. The entire joint is necrotic. Why did you fix it in half the night?"

On the other side of the straw mat, a boy's snoring came, but Li Xi'an didn't answer, and fell into a deep sleep.

The old man was stunned for a while, then shook his head and covered the straw mat.

He vaguely sensed what happened to the boy, but he couldn't tell.It's a blessing for both of them that this kid's leg is healed.

The boy didn't intend to say so he stopped asking.

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When the sun shines into the dilapidated house, heavy dust floats in that ray of light.

The old man opened his eyes as usual, lifted the straw mat and went to the street to get some food and at the same time buy medicine for the boy.He has done these things many times and is familiar with them.Move naturally from opening your eyes.

But soon he realized something was wrong.

The boy's leg injury healed last night, and he didn't need to ask for medicine for him.

even……

The old man's complicated expression fell on the straw mat not far away, on which there was no figure of the boy except for a few items that had been arranged.

He walked in, and there was a money bag under the straw mat.This was the compensation given to the boy with the broken leg by the rich gentry family, and it was just a negligible amount of money to the rich gentry family.But enough to support the boy's life for several years.Even if the boy got along with him day and night, he never showed this money bag in front of the old man. After all, it was his last hope in life, or his wealth and life were simply put in this yellowed money bag. .

The old man understood that the boy was worried that he would have evil intentions when he saw the money bag. With the boy's body, losing the money bag was no different from death.So on weekdays the boy hid his money bag very tightly. When we first met him, he said that he would only take out enough money for living every day, not enough, and never too much.If he has something to do, the old man can't get the purse.

The boy was like a young animal, silently examining the kindness or malice of those around him.

I always like to show the prickly side to others.

He liked to think about the worst-case scenario, so the old man expressed his understanding without getting angry.He had no bad intentions at all, and he had a clear conscience when getting along.This is indeed the case. After getting along with him during this time, the boy's attitude towards him has become much more relaxed, like a cub finding its favorite nest, and occasionally revealing its soft and fragile neck.

The old man picked up the purse without opening it, but weighed it a few times.

Portions are generous and filling.

The rich gentry gave too much, would a boy who did chores break his leg give such generous compensation?They have lived here for two springs and autumns, and the money spent, especially the money for the boy's medicine is not a small amount.

The old man sighed and looked around the dilapidated house.

So quietly left...

He wasn't surprised, the boy had undergone an unimaginable change last night, which couldn't be described, but it didn't mean he didn't know.It may be that the gate of Houtian was broken open under the precipitation of great joy and great compassion, or it may be that there was a powerful existence in the dream who granted the law of longevity.This world is huge and has everything. It is not too strange to recover from tuberculosis with a broken leg overnight.

The old man got up, holding the yellowed purse in his hand, and planned to go to a famous restaurant on the street to exchange for some fine wine.

The boy left without a sound, still thinking about his care for the past two years.

"By the way, I haven't seen what kind of money it is. Shewenkou money has not been accepted by merchants in recent years. Don't tell me that the kid who can use it has already given it to me and left some waste money?" Before stepping out of the door of the broken house, he let out a sound of surprise.

With this unreasonable amount of compensation, he suddenly wondered if the rich gentry's family was fooling the kid with the useless snake pattern mouth.

The old man stopped weighing the purse, untied the string on it, and looked inside.

Head tilted back reflexively.

Brilliant golden light hit the old man's withered face, it wasn't money, it was gold!
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In the south of the city, the residence of the wealthy gentry.

Not only are the roads paved with stone slabs, but the carriages coming and going are far from comparable to the commoners in the west.

The capital is not thick, but the mistakes have learned a lot.Believe in the set of the upper class, for example, you have to take a horse-drawn carriage to go anywhere, and you can also take a horse-drawn carriage to places that can be reached within a few steps.The luxury of the carriage is an important factor in the comparison between these families, and they cannot be left behind.At the beginning, it was a horse with a luxury cabin, and later it evolved into a comparison of horses to see whose horses are more expensive.After all, anyone can repair a carriage and a carriage, and anyone can build it, and a godly horse is hard to find.

In the Zhu family's gate, the burly horse neighed for a moment and then fell silent.

The guard at the door glanced inside, saw nothing unusual and continued to doze against the wall.

Lava rolled in the boy's eyes, and he reached out to caress the neck of the dark horse, stroking it down along the fur.The miraculous steed, which is usually so arrogant and disobedient to anyone, didn't say a word, and it didn't dare to say a word.

"Demon?" Li Xi'an asked.

"Why did the demon come here to work as a coolie for humans?"

The big black horse stared wide-eyed and turned its nostrils to the sky.The boy in front of him looked malnourished, so thin that he would collapse in the wind, but he still didn't dare to make a sound. The pressure from his pair of golden pupils was no worse than that of the big monster he had glimpsed from afar in the mountains.

What is this, the big black horse snorted.

Feeling the aura of a big demon in the human body, it felt that it must have not eaten well last night and became insane.

But it still didn't dare to make a sound.

"I'm asking you something." Li Xi'an withdrew his hand from stroking the horse's neck, and instead hit the horse's head.It is said that the horse was returned home after the master of the Zhu family spent a lot of energy, and it was also the horse that broke the boy's leg and made him a cripple.Li Xi'an wanted to leave the city to pursue, and before leaving, he planned to see what kind of guy the boy thought of the ferocious horse, but unexpectedly caught a monster.

It is much stronger than ordinary rising creatures, Li Xi'an looked at it.

Unable to touch the extent of Qing Yan's rise, he added in his heart.

But since it is a monster, it means that it has been psychic, why the psychic horse attacked an ordinary boy for no reason.

"You think I want to!" The horse demon neighed, his words full of grievances.

"It's not that I can't be a monster anymore, so I can only come to do hard work for humans." It said, its expression suddenly became proud, "The master here treats me with delicious food and drink, for fear of making me unhappy. Seeing this big I don’t have a yard, they built it for me. It’s not like being in the mountains, I’m afraid, if a tiger or a hungry wolf jumps out that day, there will be no filly to collect the body for me.”

"Predators don't waste food." Li Xi'an corrected.

He never wasted hunting prey in the mountains, stuffing all the bones and fur into his mouth.Predators are like this, tigers, leopards and wolves will not refuse to collect the horse's corpse, and will treat it well with sharp teeth.

"That's right." The horse demon nodded in agreement, and suddenly turned into a sad face.

"The fillies that are collected for me will also be eaten."

The brain circuit of this horse is different from that of ordinary people.

After crying and mourning, it became serious.Taking a closer look at this thin and frail boy, he always felt a little familiar.It does seem a little familiar, it thought and carefully looked at the boy's face again.In the next moment, he was shocked, and the dark horse's face turned pale.This... isn't this the strange boy from two years ago?The hoof of the horse demon bounced back, the whole body of the burly horse trembled, and the belly of the pampered horse trembled three times.

Even if he only met once, Heima still has a deep memory. At that time, the boy was a servant of the Zhu family. He had been working for many years, and he was almost bought by others when he was a child.Originally, it was because the Zhu family boy lacked a companion, so he brought it back with Shunyan, as if he planned to be a companion to train him. I don’t know what happened to the dark horse, but the boy was quite trusted and was sent to take care of it.

But the feeling that struck at the moment of contact was too terrifying, like a demon god, so suppressed that it couldn't breathe, and subconsciously raised its hoof and kicked it.

His leg was broken.

Speaking of which, Ma Yao felt quite guilty.

Now the demon god uncle came back intact, standing in front of it, those strange golden eyes stared at it, and the aura it exuded was comparable to that of a big monster.

"Recognize me?"

"Grandpa, how could the young one not recognize you as a master." The demon horse smiled apologetically.

Originally, it wouldn't have such a flattering face, but fortunately, it has gone out with the Zhu family's master through ups and downs in the past few years.

"How much do you know about the surrounding area?" Li Xi'an ignored the horse face and just asked a question.

He was unfamiliar with the land, really unfamiliar.From Taihang to Kunlun is at least on the same map, and this fairyland dream brought him to Kyushu across tens of millions of years, and there is no other useful information in the boy's memory.Li Xi'an now needs a guide who can take him across the land, now that he has lost his dragon body, the boy's physique has not even set foot on the path of cultivation, he is too weak, it is unrealistic for him to go on his own.The horse in front of him is not bad. If he is also proficient in surrounding geography, he thinks it can be used.

"Master, when I was not at Zhu's house in the early years, I traveled all over the world. It can be said that I have all the surrounding areas in my heart. Master, you can answer any questions you ask."

"So powerful?" Li Xi'an looked sideways.

According to the Jade Bird, Kyushu has an unimaginably vast territory. Is this the same as the horse demon who has risen to life and said that he has traveled all over the world?

The horse demon nodded, thinking that he would not be in trouble this time, no matter what the young man in front of him was going to do, it knew everything, and hurriedly fooled him away.

"Good."

Hearing the boy's approval, the horse demon looked a little more solemn.Just waiting for the question from this master.

"How much did your master pay to buy you back?"

The horse demon hesitated, faintly feeling that the question was wrong, but facing the pair of golden candle pupils, he answered honestly.

"One hundred taels of gold!" One hundred taels of gold buys a horse, even if the horse is miraculous, money is not such a wasteful way.So the horse demon is very proud, proving that he has sufficient commercial value.

Unexpectedly, it heard the boy muttering softly.

"so cheap?"

What?Cheap?What is so cheap?The horse demon was furious, and shrank back under those eyes.

Li Xi'an put his hand on the iron object next to the stable, and when he squeezed it, he left a fist-sized hole in the iron object.

Then the horse demon stared blankly.

One by one gold sprinkled from between the boy's fingers, and in the blink of an eye covered the vat it used to drink.

"There should be more, as compensation." Li Xi'an clapped his hands.

"Master!" the horse demon cried, seeing the movement of the boy coming to hold the rein, he avoided it.

"You won't take me away from Zhu's house, will you?"

"Don't want to?"

"I don't want to." The horse demon shook his head like a rattle. "Master Dissatisfaction said, you said that the cheap price is the price for treating me as a monster, but in the eyes of this family, I am not a monster, but a magical horse. They bought back my ordinary horse with a hundred taels of gold. , so I’m not a demon now, just a horse that runs fast and grows strong. I don’t want to go back to the old days. It’s good to be a coolie in a carriage here, but it’s not a coolie. This family , it doesn’t bother me at all.”

Li Xi'an stared at the horse demon for a long time.

The horse monster rarely dared to look at him. He saw firmness on the horse monster's face, full of firmness!
From that horse face, Li Xi'an could see that the other party was determined to kill him violently.

Suddenly, both fell silent.

Then it was broken by a chuckle.

"You're actually very scared."

"afraid!"

"What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of dying on the road? Or are you afraid that I will kill you now." Li Xi'an sat casually on the ground in front of the horse demon.

"I'm afraid!" the horse demon neighed.

"If you're all afraid, then you might as well ask what you desire. Desire to live in a human family and wait to die without being a demon, or galloping between heaven and earth, like a retrograde stone."

"I am a horse..."

"No, you are a demon. You have to be a demon first, and then a horse."

The horse demon completely collapsed. It bowed its head and stared at the boy sitting on the ground. The boy's back was straight, like a sword. The horse demon couldn't help thinking, if this is really a sword, it will be sharp, boundless and straight on the day of the attack. Refers to the sky.

All the people it has seen before are stooped.

Everyone is like this.Whether it's the handyman in the yard or the guard at the gate.The Zhu family on the wealthy side is also inevitable, but the object of their humility has become a noble person who has climbed higher.The boy was also crooked in the side he had been two years ago, and he couldn't walk upright on two feet that way.But now the boy had his back straight, neither contemptuous nor obsequious, as if all things were equal, and he himself was one of all things.

Otherwise, there are so many words to talk to it.

Killing if you don't like it, just take it away forcibly if you like it.As for the compensation to the Zhu family, I really think too much.

The horse demon was silent.

It doesn't want to return to the practice path, because it is used to such things too much, and it is tired. Being a monster on the practice path is not as enjoyable as driving a carriage for mortals.

Practicing practice, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and treasures and opportunities with one heart.

They are all cannibals.

(End of this chapter)