old grace

Xiandao Guisheng.

Don't say that the beast-faced woman has no blood and has never harmed human life. Even if she is a heinous beast, her unborn child is also innocent.

Seeing that Xie Qinghe nodded, Fu Chuan took out a couch from the portable space, spread a clean bedding on it, and hugged the animal-faced woman on it.Xie Qinghe also prepared various medicines in his portable space, and also took a few medicines suitable for puerperium for urgent use.

However, the animal-faced woman would never allow Xie Qinghe and Yun Chao to approach, and whimpered and grabbed Fu Chuan's sleeve.

No one knows why the animal-faced woman is entangled with Fu Chuan, who has a tender face and a soft heart, but the woman's childbirth is extremely risky. In order to let her give birth with peace of mind, Xie Qinghe gave Fu Chuan a few words, and then stepped back for a while with Yun Chao .

Fu Chuan's medical skills are also very good after two generations of experience. He once had the experience of Fu Caoniang, and took care of many noble ladies in Beijing with Sanniang, and he also has a lot of experience in women's puerperium.The animal-faced woman insisted on dragging him to help deliver the baby, but he didn't panic too much.

Just looking at the birth canal of the animal-faced woman, Fu Chuan knew that it was not the first time she gave birth, the cervix opened extremely fast, and a child would come down soon.

Fu Chuan felt that he was not of any help, so the child came out.

However, as soon as the child came out, he was shocked.The child was very small, weighing less than a pound, and was born stillborn.

This shocked and saddened Fu Chuan.Not to mention that the animal-faced woman has no record of harming human life, even if the animal-faced woman is extremely cruel, the child is always innocent.A small child, only the size of a palm, with a flat head and face that doesn't look like a monster, just a pocket version of a baby...

Fu Chuan thanked Qinghe and shook his head.

The quilt blocked his view, and Xie Qinghe didn't know what happened.However, when the child came out, there was no cry, and Fu Chuan just shook his head and refused to rescue him, presumably he was helpless.He turned away with his hands behind his back, silent.

Soon the animal-faced woman gave birth to many fetuses one after another, most of them were stillborn, and they died completely after birth.

Only one baby with a small tail still had a trace of heat, and still didn't breathe.Fu Chuan touched its shallow pulse, surprised and delighted, and tried his best to infuse his true energy in an attempt to keep it safe.It's a pity that no matter how carefully Fu Chuan rescued the baby, the true energy he transferred to the little baby with his fingertips seemed to sink into the sea...but within a short while, the baby's pulse also completely disappeared.

Looking at the thirteen palm-sized dead babies lying around in the quilt, Fu Chuan's mood was extremely depressed.

He didn't know in advance what kind of monster he would give birth to, whether it was a human body with an animal face, or a beast body with a human face, how could the newborn be good or evil?After all, it is a life.He even prepared for the worst - he might deliver a ferocious and man-eating beast.

The only thing I didn't expect was that stillbirths, stillbirths, were all stillbirths.

The animal-faced woman had experienced the pain of giving birth, so she took a moment to move slowly, and approached the stillborn fetus with her mouth and nose, sniffing and licking it lightly, Fu Chuan watched her round eyes like tigers and leopards ooze clear tears Tears, more and more grief.

She has feelings and understands grief.She was crying for the dead child.

Fu Chuan was thinking of something to say to comfort her, when the animal-faced woman fumbled to pick up a stillborn fetus and swallowed it in one gulp.

"You...you..." Fu Chuan watched her eat the child helplessly, stuttered a few times, but finally did not stop her.

Animals and beasts all have the nature of cannibalism. After giving birth, the female animal is weak and will eat the dead child or the child who is too weak to feed.This animal-faced woman is obviously not a "human", and it should be her nature to eat dead children.

Fu Chuan didn't stop him, and he really couldn't bear to watch any more, walked up to Xie Qinghe and whispered, "None of the thirteen children survived."

Xie Qinghe didn't speak.

The beast-faced woman was still devouring her child.

She eats like a tiger or a leopard, unable to chew, and swallows small pieces, and occasionally she can hear the sound of her tearing up a dead fetus.

If it is placed between the mountains and fields, it is also common to belong to animals.However, now that she is lying between the mattresses, her hands and feet are complete, and her back looks like a human being, but she is doing tortoises, and the whole scene has become extremely absurd and cruel.

Yun Chao stared at the woman's movements the whole time, and suddenly said harshly, "What a beast."

Sensing Yun Chao's burst of malice, the animal-faced woman who was eating the child turned her head and stared at him vigilantly.

Yun Chao also stared at her fiercely.

The two confronted each other for a while, and the beast-faced woman was clearly outnumbered, she suddenly covered the remaining stillborn fetus with a mattress, and fled towards the depths of the dense forest with it.

Fu Chuan chased after two steps, Xie Qinghe's Hanjiang sword ring split the Yin and Yang from behind and flew away, and an invisible barrier flashed in the forest in the distance, blocking the way of the animal-faced woman.

"She used the puppet technique to confuse the scholars in Xiancheng, presumably for the purpose of multiplying the next generation. It has never hurt anyone's life."

Xie Qinghe just blocked the way of the beast-faced woman by painting the ground as a prison, instead of attacking her with the Hanjiang sword ring, which shows good intentions.

He tucked the ever-burning lamp on Fu Chuan's back, drew a never-leaving spell with his fingertips to ensure that the ever-burning lamp would never fall off, and said: "She is closer to you for some reason, you go to comfort her and ask her clearly." There is no need to force her to be brought back."

Fu Chuan nodded: "Understood."

Xie Qinghe said again: "Don't take it lightly, lest she make plans to harm you. If anything goes wrong, it's important to protect yourself."

"Elder brother, don't worry, I understand."

Fu Chuan followed the small sounds in the forest in the distance, and quickly chased them out.

This is not a world of enchantment, Fu Chuan's Patriarch Space can be used at any time, Xie Qinghe is not very worried about Fu Chuan's safety.If there is really trouble to deal with, as long as Fu Chuan hides in the portable space, Xie Qinghe will have enough time to go to the rescue.Hanjiang Sword Ring is also guarding in front.

He looked back at Yun Chao.

Uncomfortably, Yun Chao turned his head and took a step back. Before Xie Qinghe could speak, Yun Chao first defended himself: "This servant is not scolding her. Although she was born human and learned human language, isn't it true that she eats her own child?" brute?"

"You have been restless and thinking a lot recently, what are you worried about?" Xie Qinghe asked.

Yun Chao scratched the scabbard uncomfortably with his fingertips on the back, opened his mouth, but didn't speak, but lowered his head.

"You don't need to tell me everything you have on your mind. It's just that it's not uncommon to see wicked people who play with puppets and eat human flesh. If you see one, you'll go crazy. Why don't you go back to Hanshan to live in seclusion." Xie Qinghe's words were not very polite, which shows that there is something real A bit disgusted.

The animal-faced woman I ran into today can be said to have stabbed Yun Chao's sore spots in all directions.

She used puppetry to create a secluded rich man's house in the mountains, and forcibly pulled Yun Chao into an illusion, coaxing Yun Chao to "marry".

Little did he know that Yun Chao knew a lot about puppet art, and he discovered the clue as soon as he came into contact with it.The puppet technique alone reminded Yun Chao of the past when he was controlled by Lord Jiuyouming, almost driving him crazy.

With great difficulty, Yun Chao overcame his inner demons and passed the hurdle of puppetry. The animal-faced woman gave birth to a stillborn baby and started eating the child again.

Jiuyou Mingjun is also famous for his love of eating human flesh, and he especially likes to play tricks on people's hearts and make people eat each other by blood.Seeing the beast-faced woman eating her child, Yun Chao was not in danger of becoming a demon, but he was resentful and couldn't help scolding her.

Yun Chao knew in his heart that it would be fine for him to beat and swear, the master wouldn't be so restrictive.

However, due to the old hatred in the heart, venting anger on others is a precursor to becoming a demon.Before he changed his fate against the sky, he became a bloodthirsty killer. What he likes to hunt and kill most is all kinds of people who are similar to Lord Jiuyouming. Those who look like, wear like, and act like...all of them must be killed. .

In the end, because Lord Jiuyouming was a man, he went crazy to the point of killing all men, even baby boys.

——When the baby boy grows up, isn't he a man like Lord Jiuyouming?

Xie Qinghe knows Yun Chao very well, and Yun Chao also understands Xie Qinghe's concerns.Even though Xie Qinghe reprimanded him severely, from an outsider's point of view, he might still be somewhat unreasonable, Yun Chao did not feel wronged.He bowed his head and thought for a moment, then said, "Thank you, Master, for your reminder."

"Unleash the sword." Xie Qinghe stretched out his hand to ask for Yun Chao's saber.

Yun Chao didn't know what he was going to do, and without the slightest hesitation, he immediately untied the long sword behind his back and offered it with both hands.

"Hand." Xie Qinghe ordered again.

Yun Chao stretched out his hands.

Xie Qinghe clasped both hands to straighten out the movement of Yun Chao's saber, stroked horizontally with his left finger, and swirled lightly with his right.The long sword softened like noodles, swishing to form a cyclone.Yun Chao was completely bewildered.Xie Qinghe's two fingers seemed to be tuning a string, the five elements and six qi circulated in the vortex, and quickly disappeared.

The long sword disappeared, and the sword ring was born.

This sword ring is like the original shape of the long sword, ancient and slender, and the ring is like a ring.

Xie Qinghe put it on Yun Chao's right thumb, and said: "Put on this ring sword. When you are angry, touch it, and then think about whether you should use the sword. Yun Chao, the hatred in your heart is hard to get rid of, I There's nothing you can do about it. It's all up to you."

As expected, Yun Chao tilted his index finger to touch the sword ring on the root of his thumb. The cool sword ring carried a ray of goodwill belonging to Xie Qinghe.

No matter how much hatred he has against Lord Jiuyouming in his heart, it is not as strong as the tenderness and kindness he feels at this moment.

Yun Chao's eyes were reddish, he bowed his knees and bowed: "Servant, thank you Master for giving me the precept."

It took Xie Qinghe some time to make the sword ring for Yun Chao, after the two finished talking, it was already late at night when they looked at the sky.

The woman with the animal face only appeared at the junction of Yin and Yang, Xie Qinghe kept driving the Yin world, so that Fu Chuan could get in touch with the woman with the animal face.Both he and Yun Chao could ignore the landscape soul of the underworld, but they were a little worried that Fu Chuan would cause trouble if he stayed alone for a long time.

Just as he was thinking about borrowing the Hanjiang Sword Ring to see what was happening on Fu Chuan's side, when his thoughts moved, Fu Chuan came back.

He holds a little tiger in his arms.

Xie Qinghe frowned slightly.This little tiger looked less than a year old, still at the age of breastfeeding.But the aura and primordial soul on it are clearly the beast-faced woman who just gave birth.

"Eldest brother, I'm back." Fu Chuan hugged the little tiger and approached Xie Qinghe to show him, "She's too weak and turned into a beast."

Xie Qinghe discovered that this little tiger was a pure yang body, not much different from the beasts in the world, so he immediately recited the mantra to close the yin world.In an instant, the overlapping strange scenes disappeared, leaving only a deep forest in the dark, and occasionally the rustling of the wind through the treetops was heard.

Fu Chuan took off the ever-burning lantern tucked on his back, and unexpectedly discovered that this magic weapon turned into a lantern.

"Can it still be like this?" Fu Chuan was deeply curious.

Xie Qinghe took the long-bright lantern and stuck it on the ground, and it turned into a ground lantern again.

Fu Chuan even forgot about the tiger in his arms, went over to play with the lamp, picked it up and hung it on the tree beside him, and it became a hanging lamp again.

"It's late at night, and I'm still carrying that thing." Xie Qinghe pointed to the little tiger in Fu Chuan's arms, "It's not easy to settle in the city. Put up a shed and rest here for the night."

Before they went out, Fu Chuan thought very well, stuffing all kinds of luggage into the space, there are stores to live in, but there is no room to live in.Anyway, whether it is Xie Qinghe's space or Fu Chuan's space, there are beds, couches, and stove huts inside, so going out is no different from being at home.

On the contrary, Xie Qinghe was more experienced, and told Yun Chao to prepare some luggage for sleeping outside.

There are always inconvenient times - for example, there is an extra monster of unknown origin, and it is impossible to bring her into the space.

At this time, Xie Qinghe's preparation in advance came in handy.Yun Chao skillfully set up the shed, and the couch, tables and chairs can be moved out for direct use, and he lighted a few piles of bonfires, firstly to illuminate and secondly to drive away wild animals.

As for eating, Yun Chao directly entered the space to operate, using a large stove to cook, stir-fry and stir-fry...Is it uncomfortable? !

Fu Chuan put the little tiger in the clean bedding, watched her curl up into a ball and fell asleep, and couldn't help touching her head with his hand.

Xie Qinghe: "..."

"I asked her. She looks more than ten years old in human form, but she was just born last year. She is still a baby." Fu Chuan touched a sleeping tiger cub without any psychological pressure. The fur at the corners of the tiger's eyes still had some Wet and pitiful, "She was born in the early summer of last year. When she was sensible, she was alone. The puppet in the palace costume has been her toy since she was a child. She was born to control the puppet."

"She grows very fast. Last autumn and winter, she started looking for a sex partner and wanted to have a new generation."

"At first, she looked for monkeys in the mountains, but they failed to conceive. Then she looked for clouded leopards, wild dogs... and all of them were stillborn."

"Later she said that she didn't know why, but she suddenly knew how to use puppets to deceive hunters or woodcutters who came to the mountains. Or the woodcutter's child..."

Fu Zhuan touched the hair on the little tiger's head again, and said: "Looking at her animal shape, she is indeed still small. The thing that tempted the scholars of Xingcheng to marry for more than ten years ago is probably not her. Or her elders? She was not born here for no reason."

Fu Chuan likes small animals very much.In the previous life, in the Chen Dynasty, he raised a palace full of small animals, and he always brought hawks and dogs with him when he went out.

He may not be able to give too much sympathy to the beast-faced woman, and now the beast-faced woman has directly transformed into a thin and weak little tiger, and Fu Chuan's hands on her head never stopped.

"She has already lost many children, none of them survived." Fu Chuan said sympathetically.

"Then why did she still want to give birth? Is it because her animal nature hasn't faded?" Xie Qinghe asked.

"She said that it is necessary to eat like hungry and drink water when thirsty. It must be animal nature, right?" Fu Chuan has raised many animals and knows that animals will passively go into heat, so he treats little tigers even more. Sympathy, "It's natural, and she can't control it."

"She has never harmed anyone." Fu said.

There is no doubt about this.If she had killed someone and had blood on her body, Xie Qinghe would be able to tell it at a glance.What's more, her bone age can also prove that she is not lying.She was born just last year, so the case over the past ten years must have nothing to do with her.

Xie Qinghe nodded, just as Yun Chao had finished cooking and was greeting him in the space, Xie Qinghe let Yun Chao out.

The meal is served, and the three of them sit together.

Fu Chuan was sitting in the wild on a flat couch that he only used at home. There were also exquisite seats on the couch. On the table were five dishes, two soups with meat and vegetables, and steamed white rice with distinct grains. The more he ate, the more amazing he felt. : "The sky is overturned, and it's a good feeling to live in the mountains."

He's always been like that.Just now I was still sad about what happened to the little tiger, but I forgot about it when I turned around.

Xie Qinghe also didn't want to see him always sad for others, Fu Chuan relaxed after eating, leaned on the couch, turned his head from time to time to look at the deep night scene in the deep mountains and old forests, and said with emotion: "I never thought about it. Will eat at a table like this one day."

Xie Qinghe smiled slightly.

"However, at that time we only had one carriage, and we always cooked noodles on the side of the road. I also felt very happy." Fu Chuan said suddenly.

For Xie Qinghe, that experience has passed tens of thousands of years.Suddenly being mentioned by Fu Chuan, he could still remember the details, and his expression became softer: "Yes. This time, you and I can go around a bit more when we go down the mountain."

Fu Chuan's memory of the past was just mentioned casually, he himself didn't realize what he was secretly looking forward to.After being solemnly promised by Xie Qinghe, he realized belatedly, and blushed immediately: "Brother, I didn't mean that. It's important."

"Private affairs are also important." Xie Qinghe asked Fu Chuan to scoop up half a bowl of soup in order to show his favor, and coaxed, "Eat quickly."

From the very beginning of the meal, Fu Chuan was looking around. In order to enjoy the meal, he ate rather carelessly. Obviously, his thoughts were all on this strange banquet in the deep mountains and old forests, and he didn't care what he was eating.

Xie Qinghe and Yun Chao had almost finished eating a long time ago, they both sat at the table and waited with them, chatting casually.

"Then the strange thing who deceived the scholar here before should be her mother? It is said that there is no place for two tigers on one mountain, and the tiger has always occupied the top of the mountain, although mother, son and brother cannot be compatible. Her mother gave her the familiar land and found another place for herself. Gone?" Yun Chao guessed.

Xie Qinghe moved his hand, and the puppet palace clothes and supporting wood left in the distance flew over.

Fu Chuan came over with a half-gnawed rabbit leg, Xie Qinghe inspected the palace clothes, his eyes followed Xie Qinghe's gesture of turning over, and commented: "This clothes looks fresh and bright, I think it has been printed and dyed for a while, but the pattern is not good enough. It's rather old, it must have been a few years."

Xie Qinghe agrees with him: "Skills can keep the color of the material fresh, but it can't keep the pattern fashionable every year. She said that this puppet has been by her side since she was a child, so she shouldn't be lying. The material of this puppet has been used for nearly 20 years." Said, With a flick of his hand, the originally bright and gorgeous palace clothes faded away and became dull and old.

After putting down the palace clothes, Xie Qinghe took out the wood that supported the puppet.

A section of the wood was chopped off by Yun Chao with a sword, leaving a flat section at the top, which was normal at first, but when Xie Qinghe wiped it with his hand, dark black blood stains dripped down the broken part of the wood. In a dry state, it no longer flows down.

Xie Qinghe dipped a little bit with his hand, wiped it away with his thumb, and smelled it again: "It's not her blood."

Wood doesn't bleed.

Xie Qinghe said again, this is not the blood of the cub who was sleeping on the couch.

Whose blood would that be?

Fu Chuan didn't even care about eating, so he wiped his hands indiscriminately, and took out the yellow paper from his portable space. Xie Qinghe wiped the blood from his fingers on the yellow paper, and took the paper: "I'll deal with it. You go After eating the food, is it cold?"

Fu Chuan wiped his mouth with a towel and said, "I'm full. Eldest senior brother, will you startle the snake by directly tracing the origin with blood?"

"No." Xie Qinghe cast the spell extremely fast, and when Fu Chuan wiped his mouth to speak, he had already checked the blood source on the blood-stained yellow paper.It was supposed to fly out a little consonance to guide Xie Qinghe in the direction, but the remaining blood on the paper remained still, exuding a cold and dead air.

Fu Chuan asked in amazement, "Dead?"

"Although this thing is a beast, it also understands human nature. If it was not forced, how could it leave an ignorant young girl behind and let her survive by ignorant nature? If it died, it would make sense." Xie Qinghe held the yellow paper Burn through and let the ashes fall.

"Eldest brother, can you tell how long you have been dead? Where will the body be buried?" Fu Chuan asked.

He has unrealistic expectations and expectations for Xie Qinghe, and he always feels that his elder brother is omnipotent for things that he can't do by himself.

Xie Qinghe was always terrified by his questions at first, but fortunately he has practiced for so many years, in order to meet the admiration and trust of his younger brother, Xie Qinghe highlighted all kinds of skills indiscriminately. Junior brother.

"It's hard to predict the date of death. There are residual blood and bones left here, so it's not difficult to find the body." Xie Qinghe said reservedly.

Fu Chuan looked at the tired and sleepy tiger cub curled up in the quilt, and said sympathetically, "I'm afraid she doesn't know that her mother is dead."

Xie Qinghe shook his head and said, "I guess she doesn't know what a 'mother' is either."

"Then shall we take her with us?" Fu Chuan looked forward to Xie Qinghe when he asked this question.

"Here, she will inevitably continue to seduce ordinary people to give birth. Although it does not harm people, it will cause trouble. Since it is a spiritual creature that can understand human nature, take her by your side, raise her in Hanshan, and teach her the right way to practice, not to mention the cultivation. Dengzhen, as long as you can get rid of the animal nature, not be harshly treated by the creation, and live your life calmly, it is considered a merit." Xie Qinghe knew that this thing might be the "monster" that the little chubby girl called, and still chose to show mercy.

Even if the "demon" is not a good thing, when it comes to this ignorant little tiger in front of him, she didn't kill anyone, so she doesn't have to be punished.

Fu Chuan hugged Xie Qinghe happily, and said: "I knew that senior brother is merciful and loving, and he would never despise her!"

Before Xie Qinghe could speak, he lay barefoot on the bed, went to the other side of the shed to hug the sleeping tiger cub, slapped it on the tiger's head several times, and lowered his head to rub the cub's forehead with his face: "Old girl, my senior brother promised Take you! You are lucky!"

Yun Chao couldn't believe his ears: "Old lady?"

"She's a tiger." Fu Chuan smiled and picked up the little tiger, "Isn't the tiger's surname Lao?"