Zha Gong's evolutionary path

The bletilla striata rolled several times in the dense grass, and finally broke free from the hands covering its mouth, and rushed out screaming.However, it was still a step too late, the white-haired man had already disappeared with his master.

The little monkey was jumping and screaming anxiously, scratching its ears and cheeks, not knowing which direction to catch up with, and turning around in circles.

As it turned around, it slapped Lin Gongru, who was semi-conscious on the ground, with its tail, making a crackling sound, without the slightest sympathy as when they first met.From the little monkey's point of view, it is ten to one that Lin Gongru lured the white-haired human to get his master taken away.

Lin Gongru couldn't breathe well, and felt that his cheeks were half swollen from being slapped by the little monkey's tail; the baby was still scratching him with his long, pointed nails, for fear that he would die irresponsibly, and half of his handsome face was about to bloom. .

A figure blocked the dim light, and he stared dazedly, thinking it was Bai Ji who was going to do nothing, so he just sat down on his face.

He raised his hand weakly, trying to grab the little monkey's furry paw, but it fell into a smooth and delicate human palm.

A teenager's voice seemed to be heard somewhere, and he rang anxiously: "Are you okay? Can you hear me?"

Lin Gongru cheered up a little, tried to open his eyes, and a boy's face appeared in the sight of the blood loss.

With delicate features, red lips and white teeth, a dark green gourd hangs on the waist of the black robe, which seems familiar.

The boy leaned down to look at him, poured a few pills from the dark green gourd, opened his lips and stuffed them in.

The pill was both pungent and bitter, and a strong fishy smell rushed straight to his throat, causing Lin Gongru to cough and pant violently. His heart and lungs, which were congested and congested, were relieved a lot, and the injured part didn't hurt much.

"You are...you are Xin Wu's younger brother."

He sorted out his thoughts, and finally recalled that it was this boy that Xin Wu saw outside the house that day.

Seeing that his sanity had recovered, the boy was pleasantly surprised, "Yes, I am his younger brother, can you sit up?"

Lin Gongru pushed him away to get close to his injured body, propped himself up on the ground, and sat up with difficulty.

The little monkey threw himself into his arms with a whimper, and he hugged the bletilla striata, looking at the boy with alert eyes.

The boy named Xiao Gou'er seemed to know his guard and hostility, and whispered: "Don't get me wrong, my master and I are not in the same group..."

Seeing Lin Gongru's expressionless and icy face, he seemed to be at a loss as well, and a layer of mist slowly formed in his black and white eyes.

"I saw the unusual expression on Master's face, and I was worried that something might happen to my brother, so I followed him secretly - I didn't know, I didn't know that brother would be so repulsive to go back with Master..."

He was eager to defend himself, and his voice sounded very aggrieved, as if he was about to cry in the next moment.

"I'm really sorry. I didn't know about the relationship between senior brother and you. If I had known earlier, I would never have told Master where senior brother lives. I really have no malicious intentions..."

Lin Gongru took a breath, pretending to be calm: "'This kind of' relationship? What kind of relationship do I have with your brother?"

Little Gou'er was a bit twitchy, the young man's fair face was stained with a faint blush, and he whispered: "I just hid the little monkey in the grass, but I saw everything... Look at the eyes of the senior brother, look at the eyes of the senior brother. Your eyes are exactly the same..."

Lin Gongru forced a smile and said: "What nonsense are you talking about, I have nothing to do with your brother—"

The boy interrupted him, "Although I am young, I know a little about these things. You don't have to hide it from me. Don't you want to bring senior brother back?"

Lin Gongru's smirk lingered on his face for a moment before covering it up. Of course he wanted to save Xin Wu, not only did he want to save others, he wished he could tie him up firmly, so that he would not be captured by some vile master again. go.

"It was I who told Master the way to and from this valley that caused the two of you to separate. I, I think I have to do something to make up for it..." The young man's voice slowly dropped.Although he felt guilty, his eyes were panicked, as if he knew that he was doing something terrible and that what he was about to face was the wrath of his master.

Lin Gongru was confused by what he said, and said irritably, "No matter what relationship I have with your brother, I will definitely save him. Your master is a beast with a human face and a heart. Who knew that after he brought people back, he would What unimaginable things did you do to Xin Wu?"

When he thought of the white-haired man looking at Xin Wu infatuatedly, he felt nauseous, and he blurted out angrily words, not caring whether he would get so many poisonous needles immediately if he said such words in front of his apprentice .

"If Xin Wu suffers the inhuman treatment of your bastard master because of me, even if I go to the underworld, I won't have peace of mind." He added, trying to cover up, "That's the point, what do I have to do with him? Relationships don't matter at all."

He said bad things about that man several times in a row, Xiao Jiu'er's face froze, unexpectedly he didn't defend his master.After a long time, he said softly: "...I know."

The slight change of expression on his face fell into Lin Gongru's eyes, and an unclear thought quickly passed through the latter's mind.

Should it be—?

He simply didn't have the guts to think about it, the more he thought about it, the more he felt a chill down his spine.

The most urgent task right now is to put aside all distracting thoughts and try to catch up with Xin Wu and the others.It would be great if we could intercept people halfway...

He hurriedly changed the topic, and said directly: "Since you are willing to help, then it's easy to talk about it. Let's make a quick decision, so just take me to where your master's school is."

The boy was taken aback, looked at him, and didn't answer for a while.

After a while, he said softly: "You really made up your mind, do you want to go?"

Lin Gongru asked strangely, "Otherwise, what else can we do?"

The young man said: "It is very possible that you will not only fail to save senior brother, but also put yourself in; once you enter my Rejuvenation Gate, you may not be able to come out in good condition...I must inform you of the consequences in advance."

Lin Gongru laughed loudly, "I've already died once, what else is there to be afraid of? It's just for him..." His tone faltered, "For the benefactor who saved my life, Lin has no choice but to bite the bullet and make a breakthrough."

Xiao Gou'er looked at him fixedly, with strangeness and envy in his eyes.

After a long while, he sighed softly, "If Senior Brother Xin Wu were here and heard what you said, I don't know how happy he would be. The luckiest thing in this world is that the person you love also loves you ah……"

He was a little dazed, Lin Gongru thought of Ye Mingjue, his heart ached, and he didn't answer.

The young man's voice gradually died down, and after a while he cheered up again, and said with a smile, "You have made such a big determination, then I will make up your face and try to get you into the door."

Before leaving, Lin Gongru left the bletilla striata in the valley, and the little monkey screamed and jumped, roaring to follow him out of the valley, and threatened him with its white teeth, but the man coaxed it into obedience with just one word.

Lin Gongru said: "You take good care of your home here, and when I bring your master back, let's live a peaceful life for a while."

There is a master at home, and this playful Lin Gongru, just imagine such a scene, it is very tempting.So Baiji squatted obediently at the door, watching him and Xiaogou'er leave.

The young man looked back at the little monkey for a few moments, hesitant to speak.

Lin Gongru said, "Taking it away will only get in the way. If we can't come back, it can survive in this valley after all."

In fact, he himself made up his mind not to come back. After rescuing Xin Wu, he has no more attachments in this world.

The bletilla striata waved to him several times, but the man was so heartless that he never looked back to say goodbye to it.

When they left the valley, they knew how far the valley was from the town. The two of them traveled day and night, and their legs were exhausted. It was only on the fourth day that they saw the shadow of a tea stall on the roadside with few people.

The young man tugged at the corner of his clothes, and said: "If you go further, you will be close to the boundary of Huichun Gate, and you may meet someone from the sect on the way. I want to dress you up."

Lin Gongru stroked the beard on his face, wondering in surprise, isn't this down-and-out businessman's attire not concealed enough?

The boy dragged him to the leeward corner of the tea stall and sat down, calling the boss to make a pot of tea.He took off the dark green gourd hanging from his waist, and poured out several colorful pills from it.

Looking up, Lin Gongru was staring at the pills with a serious expression, and hurriedly explained: "This is not for eating, it is for disguise." He took hot tea and melted one of the light green ones, and the tea turned into a weird pill. of turquoise.

He said to Lin Gongru, "Bring your face closer."

The man obeyed, and leaned towards him across the table, and saw the young man dipped his fingertips into the hot green tea, and applied it to his face stroke by stroke.I don't know what the ingredients of the medicine are, but it feels cool to the skin, even overshadowing the heat of the scorching tea. Lin Gongru closed his eyes and let him rub it for a long time, but he didn't feel the slightest itching or pain.

After the cup of tea was wiped off, Xiao Gou'er melted two more snow-white pills, and applied it on the man's face in the same way for a while.Finally, crush half a grain of brown, and wipe it on the man's lips and nose a few times.I clapped my hands, looked at it for a while, and finally said with satisfaction: "It's done."

Lin Gongru opened his eyes, touched himself, and couldn't feel any difference from before.

He was about to stretch his neck to take a picture in another clean cup of tea in front of him, when the tea stall owner happened to come over and ask him if the two of them needed more tea.When his eyes touched Lin Gongru's face, the boss yelled, and the teapot he was carrying hit the ground with a bang, and he backed up several steps in fright.

"You, you...you..." I was so frightened that my tongue seemed to be tied up, I couldn't figure out how a good dark-faced businessman just now turned his back and turned into such a ghost?

Xiao Gou'er grabbed the green gourd on the square table with one hand, and gave the tea stand owner a cold sideways glance.

The deterrence and fierce murderous look in those eyes successfully intimidated the tea stall owner.The latter was sweating coldly, knowing that this was someone he couldn't afford to offend, and the most important thing was to pretend to be a fool to save his life.

With trembling hands, he picked up the teapot on the ground, and filled the tea for the two of them in fear. During the process of filling the tea, his eyes kept drifting, and he didn't dare to look at Lin Gongru again.

Lin Gongru waited for him to leave, couldn't hold back his curiosity, picked up the teacup and took a look at his face.

On the surface of the swaying tea water, there appeared a middle-aged man with a haggard face like a dead tree. The skin on his thin cheeks was peeling off everywhere, revealing the pitted holes. Some places were still faintly green, as if maggots could be seen Drill in and out in between.

No matter how strong Lin Gongru's psychological endurance was, she was so frightened by her appearance that she gasped.

Xiao Gou'er said: "Pretend you as the medicine man I caught in the countryside and bring you into Huichunmen so that no one will be suspicious."