The immortal black snake just wants to live simply

Duke Phedea summoned a messenger from the emperor.

"[The Duke]'s speech has been written, and the speeches of the [rebels] are left... It's really troublesome."

Teacher Li Boli complained, but he could only sit on the desk and write.

"The cost of aircraft is too expensive..."

The scientist in a white coat just got off the aircraft.

……

There are only three days left before the [Duke Memorial Day with Ursus for a Thousand Years] ceremony officially begins.

Chapter 72: Black Snake-chan is very worried about you Wu

"...The 'work' you refer to is the territory you operate?"

In a Yanguo-style teahouse in the Duchy of Cosiche, the disguised Xi was talking to a young dragon who wore small round sunglasses, a monk's robe, an obvious fake beard under his lips, and a mahogany sword tied to his waist. Men chatting.

"How about it, can you fall in the eyes of the great painter—Miss Xi?"

"Although it seems to be prosperous on the surface, there is always something wrong... Forget it, I don't know anything about this kind of mundane affairs, so I won't make any comments."

Xi took a sip of tea.

"But this tea is quite authentic."

"As long as you like it. The ancestor of this teahouse owner was a native of Yan country, but he later immigrated here. I didn't expect that the craftsmanship has not been lost after being passed down for so many generations."

The dragon man handed a black card to Xi.

"This card can be spent at will in the Duchy of Cosiche. Of course, the bill will be on my head... If you spend too much, I will ask you for some paintings~"

"...Cosiche, you mean that my paintings are equivalent to those vulgar objects?"

"Of course not, Miss Xi, this is just a normal human relationship. Aren't you, Dayan, the most particular about human relationships?"

Kosiche quickly comforted this one of the twelve fragments of Great Flame who had a serious problem common to artists.

He just made a joke casually, but he didn't expect the other party's reaction to be so violent.

I respect my friends very much, so I don’t use my ability of [Observing Moments and Colors] very much.

It’s definitely not the fear of [mind-reading] being discovered and directly overturning the boat of friendship.

Turning friends into enemies is such a stupid thing to do.

"..."

Xi finally accepted the card.

Seeing Xi put the black card away, Kosich nodded with satisfaction.

It's time to get down to business.

"Xi...I don't know, what do you think of those short-lived species?"

"...What do they have to do with me?"

"There is so much at stake, my friend. I actually know something about you, and your brothers and sisters."

Kosiche took a sip of tea.

"The true dragon back then believed that the gods did not care about the life and death of mortals, and turned a cold eye to the natural and man-made disasters of Great Yan. He was angry at the gods' indifference, and mobilized the whole country to summon countless strange people and strangers to conquer the gods."

Coscich put down his tea cup.

The teahouse was already empty.

"I'm outraged, my friend."

Coscich put on an angry face.

"Who do they think they are? They arbitrarily canonized us as gods, criticized us without authorization, and resented us for not helping the weak ones...Have they ever helped us? Do we inherently owe them?"

Xi remained silent.

Seeing Xi's hesitation, Kosich decided to increase his efforts.

"After the true dragon killed several "gods" who dared to offend the true dragon, all the beings who were unwilling to bow to the true dragon were expelled by the great flame. The price paid was that the great flame laid thousands of corpses and blood flowed into rivers."

"Were there fewer people who died in that war than in natural disasters?"

"Does he really think about his people? Or..."

Kosiche stared at Xi.

"It's just that no one is allowed to disobey his control."

"Xi, I'm very scared. I'm afraid that we will all be forcibly shackled by the so-called [righteousness]."

"They never considered us a part of the team."

"What they are pursuing is only their own [righteousness], not ours."

"Xi, have you forgotten? The paintings you were once proud of were wantonly destroyed by those people."

"What are they for? Have you, who has always avoided the world, hurt them? Isn't it just to prove their strength to us, to intimidate us, and make us accept their transfer?"

"This is disgusting."

Before Kosiche could finish his words, Xi stood up and put a sword to his neck.

"That's enough, Duke Cosiche. If you called me here just to confuse me and sow discord between me and Great Yan so that your Ursus can benefit from it...then I am really blind. Only then will I recognize you as my friend."

On the blade of the sword, ink marks flow.

"Now, right now, shut up!"

"But I recognize you as my friend, Xi."

Instead of stopping talking, Cosiche stood up, crossed the tea table, and approached Xiang Xi.

Xi had to retreat.

"Xi, I know what you are afraid of. You are afraid of Sui's awakening. You are afraid of disappearing like a dream."

The dragon man's body began to show cracks, and various shadows overlapped on the body.

He extended his hand to Xi.

"And I, [Black Snake], am also afraid that my friends will disappear."

"..."

Xi put down the sword in her hand and patted Cosiche's hand away.

"...that's disgusting."

She sat back down on the tea table.

"I don't want to continue this topic with you."

And Cosiche also gave up when things got better.

He refilled a cup of tea for Xi and himself and sat back in his previous seat.

"I'm sorry, but I think friends still need this kind of heart-to-heart talk."

Looking at Kosiche in front of him and the sincere expression on his face, Xi couldn't help but recall his encounter with him.

……

'Why do some people draw so strangely? '

Xi looked curiously at the strange dragon man who had been staying near her residence a few days ago to break her illusion.

I don’t recognize any of the painting tools the other person is holding.

Moreover, the other party's painting style is also quite strange.

'Finally finished. '

With this dragon body, Koxiche looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction.

This is a sketch of a nearby landscape.

"What~ I'm quite talented in painting~"

Cosich was very proud.

Of course He knew that it was not as good as the paintings of some masters, but painting was just one of His interests.

As an amateur painter, He was already satisfied with the quality of this painting.

Throughout his long life, he was very good at discovering and exploring his own interests.

If living just for the sake of living, it would be too boring.

Just when Kosich was proudly planning to put away the painting and take it to his mansion, Xi beside him suddenly said something coldly:

"With all due respect, I really don't see any aspect of this painting that warrants your complacency."

In Xi's sight, after the dragon man finished painting, he kept nodding his head, as if he was very satisfied with his painting.

But Xi really couldn't understand what was so good about a painting like this that had no meaning at all.

Kosiche was startled by Xi who suddenly appeared.

In his perception, there was no figure of the other party at all.

'Could it be that I am too obsessed with painting?Damn it, I won’t be discovered by the people in Dayan, right?'

Kosiche couldn't figure out the situation for a while.

This time He came here in this body, really just strolling around.

Even Cosiche wants to relax sometimes.

There is actually no purpose in choosing Yan Country.

I recently suddenly wanted to try authentic Yanguo cuisine, so I came here.

Looking at the woman who puzzled him, Kosich suppressed his guilty conscience and asked calmly:

"I don't know, what do you think?"

'Forget it, the worst case scenario is to throw away this hard-won dragon body...'

'...'

'My heart is bleeding! '

Chapter 73 The sweetheart Zhu Jiuyinwu

Cosiche and Xi argued fiercely for three days and three nights.

For Xi, the other party's paintings have no meaning in her opinion. As a painter, Xi, who has been shut up for a long time, cannot understand.

Moreover, the other party rejected her [painting], painted in front of her own house, and asked her what she had done...

Isn't this just ruining the situation?

For Kosich, although he was frightened by the sudden appearance of the woman at first, he soon realized that the woman was not an official from Dayan.

If he was really an official from Dayan, he should have attacked himself while he was painting instead of criticizing his own paintings.

But the other party's mouth is too poisonous.

When had Coscich been so angry?

His paintings can already be regarded as masterpieces, but they are still slightly inferior to those of the masters.

What's more, as the Duke of Ursus, even those painters who see Kosich's paintings will only admire Kosich's superb painting skills.

You can't force other people's amateur hobbies to compare with your major.

So Cosiche, who had never received anything but praise, was a little bit off guard.

He argued hard and mentioned a bunch of professional terms in sketching, hoping to use this to prove that his paintings were not that bad.

But Xi Ke doesn't know what painting style is like sketching.

She admitted that the painting style, which the other party called a sketch, had a unique flavor, but she would not bow down obediently.