Spirit rhinoceros

Chapter 4

When the tea boiled, bubbles the size of fish eyes appeared.

Inside the bamboo building, Mo Long and the others sat down respectively, while the lone shark stood by the table with his arms crossed, his face sinking like water, seeing the sun move westward a little bit, he couldn't help but burn with anxiety.Because Mo Ji had used too much vitality just now, the vine whip was broken again, she was seriously injured, her complexion was pale, and she closed her eyes to rest as soon as she sat down.Xia Houfeng stood beside her, watching her expression nervously, but did not dare to speak.

The scholar in white was holding a bamboo silk tray, bowing his body, and came in with a smile. There were four small wooden plates on the tray, which contained candied bayberry, golden kumquat, salted hawthorn sticks, and passion fruit cake respectively.

"Is there any refreshments?" Mo Long poked his head over and asked with raised eyebrows, "You want to poison too?"

"Don't dare, how dare I use a big knife in front of Guan Gong." The white-clothed scholar said in fear.

At this time, Mo Long was sitting by the window with his legs crossed, ignoring the sharp eyes of the mermaid, and looked at the white-clothed scholar with a smile: "Mr. Meng is entertaining me, but I don't know how to address him?"

"Miangui's surname is Bai, and his single name has the word Xi, and his nickname is Zixu, and he is nicknamed Leyou Jushi. He was favored by his friends and given the name of Qingli Mountain Man." Bai Xi replied politely.

"Oh...Xiaobai."

Mo Long turned to the merman: "What's the girl's name?"

Shark heart reluctantly spit out two words coldly: "Consonance."

Mo Long nodded, and said while rubbing his legs, "Let's settle this matter. Two days ago, Xiaobai and Xiong Wei robbed a batch of pearls at the foot of the mountain. We were entrusted by someone to come to Guizhai to retrieve these pearls." It was a trivial matter, and I didn't want to make things difficult for Guizhai, but I didn't expect Miss Lingxi to have an affair."

"I have something to ask that bear, of course I can't let you hurt him, how do I know he also robbed the pearl." Lingxi didn't expect that bear to go down the mountain to rob, he was really not a good person, so he couldn't help but startled .

"As soon as the girl came to this mountain, she shot and hurt people for no reason. She was really impatient." Seeing her embarrassed face, Mo Long said slowly, "Fortunately, nothing major happened, so it's lucky."

"She threw you like this, so let's forget it?" Xia Houfeng said dissatisfied, "It's because of your good fortune, otherwise if there is a slight mistake, that leg will be broken."

"If it's broken, it's broken. In today's world, there's no place to complain." Mo Long sighed lightly.

Being told by them, he was indeed wronged first, Lingxi said sullenly: "I didn't do it on purpose."

Mo Long rubbed her legs, not saying anything at all.

Bai Xi listened for a while, then asked cautiously: "Miss Lingxi is also for those pearls?"

"No."

"Then what is it for?"

Lingxi glanced at him coldly: "It has nothing to do with you." Bai Xi could only keep silent.

Mo Long raised her head, and said in a bad tone: "The girl should know that this is a misunderstanding right now? We didn't mean to hurt anyone, but just wanted to get the pearl back. But girl, you attack as soon as you come up, indiscriminate, and hurt the bear. He was also poisoned..."

Lingxi's eyes widened: "Am I implicating him?"

"If you hadn't hit too hard, how could we have used Ruan Mengxiang, let alone thought that the girl was harmless, but instead harmed that bear."

"You are the one who caused him to be poisoned!" Lingxi yelled angrily.

"Girl's words are wrong. You threatened me with a sharp knife. I have to protect myself and have no choice but to make a bad move. In the final analysis, it was you who harmed him." Mo Long taught her without fear.

Consonance is at a loss for words, and I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't tell what is wrong.

Mo Long took a deep breath, and turned to be magnanimous: "Forget it, girl, don't blame yourself, that Xiong Wei has no grievances with me, and I will naturally give the antidote."

When he said this, Lingxi felt more and more that it was really his fault.

Mo Long turned to Bai Xi: "Little Bai, you hand over the pearl to us, and then I'll give the antidote to Miss Lingxi, so the bear will be fine and everyone will be happy, wouldn't it be great."

Everyone happy? !Bai Xi thought to himself: Do you think I'm a silly girl, trying to get me in with just a few words.Why everyone is happy, obviously you are happy!
"This..." He made a rather embarrassed look.

Xia Houfeng rolled up his sleeves impatiently: "Brother, what are you talking about with him?"

Bai Xi hurriedly said: "Since you have come to ask for it, I naturally want to take it out, but...a lot of pearls have been ground into powder, do you want more?"

"Grind into powder?" Xia Houfeng couldn't believe it.

"Pearl powder is sweet and cold, non-toxic, and it is excellent for medicine." Bai Xi persuaded, "The monkeys here are prone to get sores, after squeezing out pus and blood, apply pearl powder on the sores, it can detoxify and grow muscles. So I simply grind some more, in fact... nine out of ten are ground into pearl powder for emergencies in the mountains. If you don’t believe me, I’ll bring the pearl powder.”

Mo Long didn't say a word, and looked at Bai Xi with great interest, neither telling him to take it, nor saying that he would not take it.

Lingxi suddenly said, "You want pearls, I have them!" She couldn't bear to mess around with these people, wasting time, and only wanted to wake up Xiong Shi quickly so that she could ask questions.Since they wanted pearls and I had plenty of them anyway, it didn't hurt to give them some.

"...Yes, yes, yes!" Bai Xi was overjoyed, and suddenly felt that a divine weapon had descended from the sky, and hurriedly said, "As the saying goes, jade is not valuable to Jing people, and pearls are not valuable to sharks. I think Miss Lingxi must have good pearls."

"The antidote!" Lingxi stared at Mo Long and said firmly.

Mo Long turned her head to look at her, raised her eyebrows and asked, "Miss, do you want to exchange pearls for the antidote?"

"Correct."

"The most important thing in this batch of pearls is the six crimson pearls, all of which are round. Do you have any?"

As if he didn't expect that there was still a demand for pearls, Lingxi frowned, took out a brocade bag from his bosom, grabbed a handful, and put it on the bamboo wire tray...

"Choose yourselves."

With the crisp sound, big and small beads fell into the plate and rolled slowly.The big ones are like pigeon eggs, and the small ones are as big as a child's thumb. They are all round and smooth, with precious light flowing, and the whole tray is shrouded in a faint precious aura.

The quality of these pearls is not only slightly higher than the batch from Luji Pearl Shop.Bai Xi's eyes straightened.Although Xia Houfeng didn't understand pearls, he had never seen a pearl the size of a pigeon's egg, so he picked up one in surprise and looked at it carefully.Mo Long is knowledgeable, knowing that such a pearl is the richest man in Changliu, and his family has at most two or three pearls.

He was even more puzzled, even if "mermans don't value pearls", a person who can casually grab a lot of pigeon eggs and big pearls is probably not an ordinary merman.

"Where did these pearl girls come from?" Mo Long asked, "Could it be that they came from a wrong way, so the girls are in a hurry to make a move?"

"It's either stealing or robbing, it's mine." Lingxi stared at Mo Long, "Should I change the antidote?"

Playing with the beads casually, Mo Long said: "Although the appearance is good, the size is different. It's a pity." In fact, if you pick any one here, its value is far more than six crimson beads, but he is so Say.

Lingxi frowned, and before she could speak, Bai Xi rushed to speak.

"Although these pearls vary in size, any one of them is worth a lot. Compared with the batch of pearls from Lu's Pearl Shop, the quality is much better and the value far exceeds." He smiled at Mo Long, "Your Excellency has taken these pearls, so this trip is not considered a leak." He naturally had his own wishful thinking in his heart.

Mo Long squinted at him, and said with a smile, "Xiaobai, for you, this is really a piece of cake from the sky."

Bai Xi smiled humbly: "Where is the pie, even though the pie fell on my head, you are the one who eats the pie."

Not understanding what they were talking about, Lingxi impatiently waited any longer, and slammed down the table hard, causing the pearls to jump up: "In a word, do you want to change?"

Mo Long thought about it for a while, then said: "Why don't you show these pearls to the Lu family. If the family doesn't accept them, I'll think about other discounts. Well, that's the only way to go."

He was about to reach for the pearl, but Lingxi grabbed his wrist.

"An antidote!"

She held out her hand to Mo Long.

Mo Long picked up the teacup, blew to cool it down, lowered his head, twiddled the formula, chanted a spell, and then handed the teacup to Lingxi.

"Feed him to drink, so he can wake up?" Lingxihu asked.

Mo Long smiled and said, "You don't need to drink it, you can wake him up by splashing tea on his face."

Lingxi carefully held the tea and went out suspiciously.

Xia Houfeng clicked his tongue and said: "Look at her nervous appearance, if she didn't know it, she thought Xiong Wei was her father."

"That's right, I think it's just a brat." Mo Long shook his head.

After all, she was concerned about Xiong Wei's life and death, so Bai Xi hurriedly looked through the window and saw that not a single drop of tea was wasted on Xiong Wei's furry head; she saw Xiong Wei standing up waddlingly after waking up; He took out an object; he saw Xiong Zhen shaking his head, muttering something to her...

Finally, Lingxi put away his belongings, bowed his hands to Xiong Wei, turned and left.She walked very fast, and in the blink of an eye, she had disappeared into the mountains and forests.

"Why did she leave!" Bai Xi said urgently, "Oh, why did she leave?"

Hearing this, Mo Ji, who was still pale, opened her eyes slightly and asked, "She's gone?"

Xia Houfeng quickly responded, "Well, she's gone."

Mo Ji's chest rose and fell, and it became more and more difficult to breathe, obviously there was depression in her heart.

Bai Xi was still sighing at the window.

Mo Long glanced at him, and joked, "Can't bear to part with this brat?"

Bai Xi took it for granted: "Of course, such a good girl... who would give it up!"

"Such a nice girl?" Xia Houfeng looked at him inexplicably.

"People are stupid and have a lot of money, so it's good anyway." Mo Long said leisurely.

Bai Xi laughed dryly, but didn't say anything.

While talking, Xiong Wei came back dragging his axe, saw Mo Long and the others were also in the house, and immediately felt on guard.Bai Xi quickly comforted him: "It's okay, we are all friends, it's just a misunderstanding."

"Who knocked me out?" Xiong Wei glared at the crowd, asking the teacher angrily.

"I said it was a misunderstanding. That Mixiang was originally intended to deal with that girl, but you were tricked instead." Bai Xi asked him, "Quickly tell me, what did that girl tell you just now?"

"Just ask me... ask me if I asked a Taoist priest to tell a fortune in Changliu City three years ago?"

"Uh?"

"I said no, and she showed me the object again, and asked me if I recognized it."

"What is it?"

Xiong Wei scratched his head: "I don't recognize it either, it looks like a ginkgo leaf with a handle missing, livid and hard."

"What is this?" Bai Xi said to herself, thinking that what she took out from this girl must be a valuable treasure.

"I just don't recognize it. The girl looked very disappointed when she saw that I didn't know him, and asked me if I could recognize other bears who looked like me. They also had to have red hair on their chests and they had become spirits. I Tell her, it's not called red hair, it's the symbol of the Red Flame Bear." Xiong Wei puffed out his chest proudly, "Our Red Flame Bear family has existed since ancient times..."

"Stop!" Seeing that Xiong Wei was about to tell his family history bitterly, Bai Xi hurriedly stopped him, "I've heard about Chi Yanxiong [-] times, now you should talk about that girl first."

"Oh..." Xiong Wei was taken aback, "She's gone to Changliu City."

"What are you going to do in Changliu City?"

"Look for my second uncle. Chi Yanxiong is left with me, my uncle, and my second uncle. My uncle has a problem with his legs and lives in seclusion in Ganyuan all the year round. My second uncle happened to go to Changliu City three years ago. , I guess he is the one who asked the Taoist priest for fortune-telling."

Bai Xi said sadly: "I went to Changliu City, what a pity, what a pity..."

"What happened?" Xiong Wei was puzzled.

Bai Xi didn't say anything, just shook her head and sighed.

After listening in, Mo Long stretched and stood up: "Okay, we should go too. Xiaofeng, did you find the pearl?"

Outside the door, Xia Houfeng's relaxed voice came: "I found it."

Holding a mahogany box in his hand, he walked in happily, and said to Mo Long, "Brother Xiaobai probably misremembered, the batch from the Lu Family Pearl Shop is here in good condition, and has not been ground into pearl powder."

She didn't know when he left here, and sneaked into her room to find the pearls, Bai Xi blamed herself for her negligence, her face turned red and then pale, and she couldn't speak for a while.

Xiong Wei asked him in surprise, "What pearl powder are you grinding?" Before he could finish speaking, Bai Xi glared at him angrily.

Mo Long bowed his hands to Bai Xi politely: "Brother Bai, I've bothered you so much, I'm leaving!" After finishing speaking, he led Mo Ji and Xia Houfeng, and walked away with a mahogany box.

Bai Xi helped the window, and heard the sound of horseshoes going away, his teeth itched with hatred, and it took a long while——

"Go, pack your things!"

Xiong Wei didn't understand: "Where are you going?"

"Changliu City!" Bai Xi turned around with firm eyes, "That Lingxi girl brought a whole body of treasures, and I don't know how many people will be cheated when I arrive in Changliu City—rather than letting others cheat, why don't we do it ourselves!"

(End of this chapter)