Spirit rhinoceros

Chapter 8

Seeing the bear's fur flying out in clumps, Lingxi was extremely anxious, fearing that the bear would be gnawed clean by the roe owl: "What should I do? What should I do?"

"In my opinion, Xiong Wei should win this round, so you don't have to worry." Mo Long crossed his arms, "Do you believe me?"

Lingxi shook his head and simply said, "I don't believe it."

Mo Long couldn't help but leaned over and said in a low voice: "Look, this roe owl has been fed medicine to force out all the potential in its body. It is ignorant of the pain, and it is more sturdy and ferocious than usual."

"So Xiong Wei is dead?!" Lingxi said anxiously.

"Wrong! Because of this, Xiong Wei will win." Mo Long lowered his voice, "The banker is actually Ji Guizi's man. Most people will press the roe owl to win. If Xiong Wei wins, the banker will win." There is money to be made. And this roe owl is overdosed. Even if it does not die in this battle, it will die of overdrawing and exhaustion later, and it will be useless. This bear is different. If this battle is successful, it will definitely attract Many people bet on it, and when the time is right, let it follow the old path of today's roe owl, and the dealer earns a lot of money..."

At first, I thought it was just to watch the strange beasts fight, but I didn't expect that there were so many twists and turns in Xiangting Beast Fighting, and it was simply taking the lives of the strange beasts to make money.Lingxi wondered: "How do you know these inside stories?"

"If I were him and wanted to make more money, I would do the same."

"..." Lingxi looked stunned and looked at him sideways.

Mo Long looked cold and indifferent.

There were several more howls in the arena, and the bear and the roe owl finally separated, both of them were scarred.Xiong Wei looked even more miserable, he had lost several hairs, blood was dripping from his shoulders and head, and Lingxi was very worried.

"What if what you said is wrong?"

"It's not right, you don't believe me anyway." Mo Long said indifferently.

"you……"

On the surrounding balconies, there were many people shouting and cheering for the roe owl, and the sound wave was overwhelmed, causing the fire barrier to vibrate slightly.The roe owl circled around the bear, looked for a gap, threw itself on the bear's back, and bit down on the neck.Xiong Wei swung his body violently, trying to throw the roe owl off. The latter's claws were like hooks, piercing through Xiong Wei's skin, and clasped tightly.

"Oops!"

Lingxi was so anxious that he climbed up the stone railing and was about to jump down to help Xiong Shi.Fortunately, Mo Long reacted quickly enough, quickly hugged her, and quickly dragged her down, and the two of them fell to the ground.

"You're looking for death!" Mo Long was pressed by her, but she didn't dare to let go of her, and was so angry, "Didn't you see that there is a fire barrier here? How much do you plan to bake yourself?"

Lingxi struggled twice, but did not break free. Without hesitation at all, she slammed her elbow back hard, hitting Mo Long's ribs, causing him to grin his teeth in pain, and finally let go of his hand.She stood up abruptly, threw herself to the stone railing and looked down——Xiong Wei leaped back more than ten feet into the air, fell heavily to the ground, landed on her back, and pinned the roe owl to the ground.With the weight of the bear itself, coupled with the force of the fall, one can imagine the severe damage the roe owl suffered.

This scene was strangely familiar... Lingxi was stunned for a moment, then turned his head belatedly, and saw Mo Long gasping for breath while holding his ribs.

"Are you okay?" Lingxi felt a little guilty, "I didn't mean to."

During the ups and downs of breathing, chest pain, Mo Long didn't even want to say more, squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Go to hell! I won't stop you."

Seeing that his forehead was sweating from the pain, Lingxi felt that his blow just now might have been a bit heavier, thinking that people on land were probably weaker than those in the sea, so he said kindly: "You just rely on it for a while, take a break That's it." After she finished speaking, she turned back to look at the fighting beast.

Mo Long didn't plan to rest for a while, he decided to leave her alone, no matter how much money he had, he walked down the stairs slowly, his chest would hurt faintly if he walked too fast.

In the Colosseum, the roe owl was injured physically, walking staggeringly and limping, his eyes were bloodshot, like hell's phosphorescent fire, trying to fight the last trapped beast.Xiong Wei was covered in blood almost all over his body, the flame-like red hair under his neck was dyed purple-black, the lower half of his ear was torn off, and he was panting heavily.

His hands were clenched into fists, his knuckles were faintly white, Lingxi wished he could end up killing the roe owl.

With the roar, the two beasts rushed towards each other at the same time. They were both at the end of their physical strength, and everyone knew that this was the last round of life-and-death struggle.The gamblers in the stands shouted with bare eyes, their voices overshadowing the roaring and biting in the arena...

Blood flowed all over the ground, the roe owl gradually became weak, the sharp hook embedded in Xiong's body was loosened, and finally collapsed limply on the ground.There is an obvious bloody mouth on the neck, and blood is still flowing in moors.Xiong Wei pulled off the last claw of the roe owl hook on his body, stepped back exhaustedly, and sat down on the ground.

Winning, for him, the gamblers in the stands greeted the abuse and the most vicious curses.

Lingxi was overjoyed, Xiong Wei was now on the edge of the fire barrier.She rushed down the stairs quickly, almost knocking Mo Long into the air, but luckily she still knew how to hold him back.

"You're right!" she said hastily.

Before Mo Long had time to answer, she saw her running around the barrier of fire to the nearest place to Xiong Wei, waving desperately at Xiong Wei.

At this time, the entire elephant court was surrounded by all kinds of noisy noises, no matter what Lingxi said, Xiong Wei couldn't hear clearly.She simply took out the painting drawn by Mr. Ban Yuan from the sleeve of her robe, unfolded it in her hand, and signaled Xiong Wei to look over.

I have to say that this painting is really vivid. Under the light of the fire, Xiong Wei was stunned after just one glance. He leaned over and stared blankly at the expectant Xiong Wei in the painting.

"Is it you?" Lingxi pointed to Xiong Wei in the painting and asked him, "You are looking for a Taoist priest to tell a fortune?"

Xiong Wei looked at her slowly, and after a while, he let out a low howl from the depths of his throat.

Lingxi couldn't understand: "Huh?"

Mo Long appeared behind her at some point, and said in a low voice, "He asked how you knew about this?"

"It's really you!" Lingxi was overjoyed, threw the painting aside, took out a dark green object from his arms, and showed it to Xiong Wei: "Do you remember this? This is the painting you paid for at that time. The hexagrams for that Taoist?"

The fire light was a bit dazzling, Xiong Wei stared at it for a moment, then nodded.Mo Long was at the side, and could see the object clearly, the fan-shaped dark blue, like a dull copper sheet—or, more like a scale.

"Where did you get it? Tell me!" Lingxi asked eagerly.

The blood dripping from the stumped ear filled the eyes, Xiong Wei wiped his face carelessly with his furry paws, and looked at Lingxi probingly with bloody eyes.

Thinking he didn't hear clearly, Lingxi repeated anxiously: "Where did you get it?"

The carcass of the roe owl was dragged down.Two thick iron chains with winding bowl mouths protrude from the Xunwei gate, winding towards Xiong Wei as if alive.Xiong Wei looked at the iron chain, then turned his head to look at Lingxi, panting heavily, as if hesitating for something.

Knowing that the iron chain would drag him back, Lingxi was in a hurry: "Do you still remember?"

With both feet entangled in iron chains, Xiong Wei stared at Lingxi closely and yelled a few times in a low voice.

"What did he say? What did he say?" Lingxi hurriedly grabbed Mo Long.

"He said—" Mo Long frowned, "He said, get him out of here, and he will tell you."

"what?!"

Lingxi turned his head to look at Xiong Wei again, the iron chains had dragged him to the Xunwei gate, he was still staring at Lingxi, desperate and painful, as if he was looking at the only straw to save his life.

Wild grape vines with a few bunches of small green fruits climbed leisurely on the gate, and the curly thin stems even protruded out of the door along the crack of the door, swinging slightly.

"Open the door." Mo Long's voice came from outside the door, the wild grape vine swished back, a vine lightly hooked the door bolt, and creaked and creaked the door open.Lingxi followed Mo Long into the door, and curiously reached out to fiddle with the little grapes on the vine, but was stopped by Mo Long.

"It's not ripe, don't pick it!" After stopping her, Mo Long angrily taught the wild vines a lesson, "...how many times have I said, don't squeeze in the crack of the door, it's only half a year old, and the crack of the door is twice as wide .”

The wild vines curled their whiskers aggrievedly, and the leaves rustled neatly. They closed the door obediently, and the branches and vines crossed the door, becoming a natural door bolt.

Hearing his voice, Mo Ji in the hall dissatisfied: "It's still young, teach it slowly, what's the rush."

"Still young? Just get used to it. Those bunches of grapes haven't ripened for more than half a year. It doesn't care at all. The grapes don't look like grapes. They treat themselves as bonsai."

Bypassing the green screen wall, Lingxi could see clearly that this grape was originally planted in the courtyard, with branches and vines, and the grape trellis almost covered half of the courtyard.

"You didn't wait to eat." Mo Ji leaned out and was startled when she saw Lingxi, "Why did you bring her back?"

Mo Long stepped into the hall, becoming more and more angry: "Bring her back to the old man, whoever cares about her will care, anyway, I don't care!"

In fact, Dongli Chief had been leaning against the window, watching their every move, ignoring Mo Long, and first looked at Lingxi with a smile: "Girl, have you found that bear yet?"

Lingxi nodded silently.

"That said, it went well."

"It's better if I didn't find it." Mo Long looked around, "...Where's Xiaofeng?"

"The poison hasn't faded yet, and she fell asleep in the house." Mo Ji asked curiously, "What happened?"

Mo Long waved her hand, signaling her not to ask, and then said to Dong Li: "Old man, I'll tell you what I said first, I definitely don't care about this matter, and I advise you not to care about it either."

Lingxi stared at him dissatisfied, put his hands into his sleeves, took out a handful of golden shells, put them on the table, and said loudly: "I have money!"

"It's amazing to be rich!" Mo Long snorted, leaning on the grand teacher's chair.

The golden shells fell on the table, suddenly became bigger, and they were piled up one after another, shining golden light.Mo Ji gasped for breath, and said in a hesitant tone, "What's the matter?"

With the golden light reflected on his face, Chang Dongli looked more and more amiable. He expected that this girl was specially sent by the God of Wealth.While motioning for Mo Ji to show Lingxi a seat, he said kindly: "Girl, don't bother with him, and don't worry, if we have something to discuss slowly, there will always be a solution."

Mo Long snorted again.

"If you keep humming, go back to the room." Dong Li gave him a long look.

Mo Long rolled her eyes instead.

"Let's ignore him." Dongli Chang said to Lingxi as gently as coaxing a child, "Tell me, what's wrong with you?"

Lingxi told the story of what happened to Xiang Ting. After she finished speaking, the whole hall was silent.Dongli was stunned for a long time before repeating: "He said that he would only tell you if you got him out? Did you hear me right?"

Lingxi pointed to Mo Long: "I don't understand Xiong Howl, that's what he said."

So Dongli Chang looked at Mo Long.

Mo Long stared at him dryly, feeling very regretful in her heart, she shouldn't have told the truth at the time, just make up some random words to fool Lingxi.

"Girl, this matter is very important... May I ask, what exactly do you want to know from this bear?" Dong Lichang asked Lingxi.

Lingxi bit her lip and said nothing.

"I don't want to embarrass the girl," Dong Lichang said understandingly, "it's just that if there is another way to do this, it doesn't have to be this next step."

Mo Long said leisurely beside him: "The old man is a turtle with five legs. It takes a thousand years to call one leg, and five legs is 5000 years. Knowing the present and the past, most of the things in this world are in his belly. Others want to ask Everything about him will cost money."

Hearing this, Lingxi hesitated for a moment, then took out the dark blue object from his bosom, spread it in his palm and showed it to Dong Lichang: "Do you know this object?"

Dong Lichang narrowed his eyes and looked carefully... Mo Ji also came over.Mo Long had seen it in Xiangting before, but now she is not curious.

Seeing no clue, and not bothering to think about it, Mo Ji directly asked Dongli Chang: "What is this, is it?"

Dong Lichang didn't answer, his expression became more dignified, and after a long time, he slowly looked at Lingxi: "This scale... are you looking for him?"

"You recognize him?!" Lingxi was overjoyed.

"No, I don't know, I just..." Dong Lichang hurriedly explained, "This scale is separated from the body, he is probably in danger, why did the girl look for him?"

"I want to see people when I live, and I want to see corpses when I die. In short, I must find him!"

Consonant eyes are firm.

While listening, Mo Jiqi said: "What is dead, alive? Who is it?" As she spoke, she reached out to take the scales in Lingxi's hand to see what happened, but Lingxi quickly put it in her arms, and it was not at all. Don't let her touch it.

"You..." Mo Ji looked sideways at her, and snorted, "I don't care too much about it."

Lingxi ignored her, and asked Donglichang: "Is it difficult to get that bear out of the elephant court?" On the way back, when talking about this matter, Mo Long shook his head. "It's impossible." That's all he said from beginning to end.

Dong Lichang thought for a while, and said sincerely to Lingxi: "It's not too difficult."

Hearing this, Mo Long looked at him incredulously, and raised his voice: "Old man!"

"Although the Elephant Court is equipped with an enchantment and there are many guards, it is not invulnerable." Dong Lichang thought intently, as if talking to himself, and seemed to say to Lingxi, "Let me think about it, I have to get an Elephant Court first." topographic map of..."

"Old man, why are you going crazy!" Mo Long couldn't bear it anymore, "If this business is accepted, whether the bear can be brought out is another matter, we have no place to stand in Changliu City, This family has to be copied by Ji Guizi."

"It's exaggerating. Don't scare the kid." Dong Lichang scolded him, then turned to comfort Lingxi.

"She's more courageous than me." Mo Long was angry, and looked at Mo Ji, "The old man is dizzy, you have to think about it, even the grapes have to be squeezed into grape juice by Ji Guizi."

Before Mo Ji could answer, the vines that had been eavesdropping outside the window with their beard stretched out came rushing in, circling around her mindlessly, trembling.

"Don't scare it, it's not that you don't know it's timid." Mo Ji complained to Mo Long, stroking the wild grape vines to comfort it.

"It's okay, grape, as long as the roots are still there, at worst, you will be buried in the soil, and you will still be a good man in the winter." Mo Long added, and the grape trembled even more.

Just as Dong Lichang was about to speak, Xia Houfeng walked into the hall sleepily with his shoes on, half-closed his eyes, and went to pour water for a drink.

"Is she here?" Seeing Lingxi when he looked up, Xia Houfeng was stunned and looked at Mo Ji questioningly.

Moji pursed her lips: "Ask Brother Long."

Mo Long pouted to the east, "Ask the old man."

Dong Lichang turned to Jin Benu who was on the table: "Miss Lingxi is very sincere."

The shiny Jin Bei shook Xia Houfeng's eyes, and he nodded in agreement: "Sure enough, there is sincerity."

"Aren't you going to ask what the job is?" Mo Long looked at him with raised eyebrows.

"For Miss Lingxi's sincerity, we will go up the mountain of swords or into the sea of ​​fire, we will do whatever we want!" Without hearing his subtext, Xia Houfeng was still impassioned, "Right, old man!"

"Well said!" Director Dongli praised.

Mo Long didn't bother to look at him again: "The remaining poison is not cleared, just talking nonsense."

Mo Ji poked Xia Houfeng and said, "She wants to get a bear out of Xiangting."

"Xiangting..." Xia Houfeng was stunned, and murmured, "No, the fire barrier is too dangerous for you. You can't go."

"The old man wants to take this business." Mo Ji said to him in a low voice.

Too lazy to listen to the two of them whispering, Dong Lichang stood up and said to Lingxi: "Xiangting will not open until ten days later, girl, don't worry about this matter, when I find the topographic map of Xiangting, let's discuss it slowly."

"After I rescue Xiong Wei, I will be rewarded a lot," Lingxi said.

Dong Lichang smiled and nodded: "Okay, okay. Girl, you can stay here first. The room to the north of the west wing is still vacant, and it's considered clean. The girl will take care of it for a few days. Mo Ji, you take Miss Lingxi, go over, you are all girls' homes, if there is anything missing in the house, you can help fill it up."

For the sake of Jin Bei on the table, Mo Ji tore open the vines, and reluctantly took Ling Xi over.The wild grape vines retreated back outside the house.

Xia Houfeng sat in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking, after a while he asked Dong Lizhang: "Are we really going to rob the bear from the elephant garden?"

Dong Li didn't answer, but raised his chin with his hand: "Open your mouth, stick out your tongue, and say..."

"Ah—" Xia Houfeng was very obedient.

Dong Lichang glanced at his tongue: "There is still some residual poison, you should drink more water."

Xia Houfeng reached for the porcelain cup on the table.

"That's not enough, go to the kitchen, drink the whole tank of water, remember to fill it up again." Director Dong Li ordered.

"The whole tank of water..."

Xia Houfeng drooped his head and went to the kitchen.

When only Dong Lichang and Mo Long were left in the hall, Mo Long glanced at the curly stalks of the grape vines by the window: "Do you still want to listen to the corner?"

The wild vines were most afraid of Mo Long, so they all shrank back with a clatter, and stayed obediently on the grape trellis in the courtyard, swinging those bunches of unripe little grapes.

Mo Long then looked at Dong Lichang and asked, "Who is that scale?"

Dong Lichang lowered his head to drink tea, dodging his gaze: "...Actually, I'm not completely sure."

"This business is different than usual." Mo Long said angrily, "You said it yourself, let's hide our strengths and bide our time in Changliu City, and take some small businesses to survive. Now you are going to provoke Ji Gui for this brat Wife, is that a master who can be messed with? Even if she has a lot of money, it's not worth our risk."

"Everything is worth it or not, this matter is worth fighting for."

"You don't have to worry about losing this foothold to Bo."

"Mo Long!" Dong Lichang looked at him, with a little disappointment in his eyes, "When did you become so content with the status quo, this place is just a temporary shelter, where is your real foothold? Have you forgotten? Are we keeping a low profile all these years just to live a comfortable life?"

Startled by what he said, Mo Long was speechless for a moment before saying in a muffled voice: "I haven't forgotten."

Dong Lichang took a deep breath and told him: "Although I love money, I'm not the kind of person who wants money without risking my life. I want to help her because the child is holding a piece of dragon scale in her hand, and it's under the dragon's jaw." reverse scale."

"She's looking for a dragon?" Mo Long recalled the previous conversation between Dong Lichang and Lingxi, "Ni Lin! You mean, this dragon is dead?"

"For a dragon, the blood gushing from the heart first reaches the Nilin, and then flows to other parts of the body. Therefore, the Nilin is a part of the dragon that must never be touched, and it will anger you if you touch it. The Nilin is white. After being away from the body for a long time, the color of the dragon is dark and dark, this dragon may have died long ago."

"Live to see people, die to see corpses." - This is what Lingxi said just now, Mo Long frowned, staring at Dong Lichang: "Who is she? Why does a mermaid look for a dragon?"

"Do you still remember the hexagram I divination in Du's Restaurant?"

"It's all right if you fool Xiaofeng and the others, and you want to fool me?"

Dong Lichang shook his head: "That hexagram is true, but the question is slightly different. Do you remember what it is?"

"Li Gua." Mo Long remembered.

"That's right. What I'm asking about is the identity of Miss Lingxi. The hexagram of Li belongs to fire, and both the inside and the outside are separated, and the middle one is the second one. She comes from the southeast, and is the second daughter of the family."

Mo Long was stunned, and realized the problem: "A mermaid can only have one child in a lifetime, and they are all only children. How could she be the second daughter?"

"There is only one explanation, she is not a mermaid at all." Dong Li said long.

"No, there is nothing wrong with the mermaid breath on her body." Mo Long doubted, "Is it because you are inaccurate?"

Dongli hurt his self-esteem: "Impossible!"

"Then how do you explain this?"

"Maybe she has shark beads on her body, or something else." Dong Lichang speculated, "You don't think that except for her breath of sharks and her outstanding appearance, she is similar to sharks in everything else." Can't you?"

"That's right, I heard that the shark girl is as weak as water, and this brat can kick Xiaofeng eight feet away with one kick." Mo Long had a faint thought in her heart, but she felt it was impossible, "She is looking for a dragon, could it be that she is Everyone in the dragon clan? But the dragon is one of the five great spirit beasts after all, this brat is so stupid, he doesn't look like one."

Dongli Zhang opened his mouth and wanted to say something, when he saw Mo Ji came back.

"Fixed her well?" he asked.

"She said she was hungry, and I casually asked what she wanted to eat. Guess what she said?" Moji looked very broken,"—she said, keep it simple, fried clams, shelled steamed crabs, and a bowl of spotted lung Soup will do."

Stir-fried clams are fairly simple. Take fresh clam meat, add leeks, and stir-fry over high heat.

Shelled and steamed crabs, as the name suggests, the crabs are shelled and the meat is yellowed, still placed in the shell, and five or six crabs are prepared.Take a large celadon plate, beat the eggs, put the crab shells with crab meat and crab roe in the egg liquid, put them in a basket and steam them over medium heat.

The most troublesome thing is spot lung soup. You have to buy [-] fresh grouper fish, peel the skin and remove the dirt, take out the liver and boneless meat under the fins, and cook it in chicken broth with ham and cabbage heart.

Mo Long and Dong Lichang looked at each other.

After a long while, Dong Lichang said: "This kid really doesn't treat himself as an outsider... What do you say?"

"I'm not serving, let her do it herself. Show her the stove, there are two fish in the water basin."

Mo Long raised her forehead: "Do you think she looks like someone who can cook?"

"She can eat raw." Mo Ji took it for granted, "Anyway, don't expect me to serve her."

Just as he was talking, he heard a loud noise from the direction of the kitchen, followed by Xia Houfeng's loud cry.

"breeze!"

Mo Ji jumped up and ran towards the kitchen.Mo Long and Donglichang looked at each other, and had to get up and rush over.

Kitchen.

Xia Houfeng wiped his face, his hair and body were dripping with water.In the tank in front of him, a fat carp was scurrying around in a panic.Lingxi was holding a kitchen knife, and seemed to have not recovered... The chopping board in front of her was split in two, and the pine desk under the chopping board was also cracked in two.Various objects that were originally placed on the desk fell to the ground, including the overturned yellow sauce porcelain jar, small spice altar, and so on.

(End of this chapter)