Dressed for a thousand years

"Hmm..." After a good night's sleep, Su Qing suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

"Su Qing?"

"Woohoo!" Snake spirit, what's going on?

Qing Jian tapped the trembling little Tai Sui with her fingers, sighed helplessly, and said, "Don't resist, just follow my feeling."

Then a green light flashed, and the little Tai Sui under the tree root turned into a child not much taller than the squatting Qingjian.

"This piece of Tai Sui is not too old, that's the only way to go." The snake spirit shook her head regretfully.

"Qingjian?" Su Qing opened her eyes and saw the thigh of the snake spirit... "What's going on!"

"Why, aren't you satisfied?" The snake spirit showed her fangs with a smile, and looked under Su Qing, "It's so small."

Su Qing followed the snake spirit's gaze...

"Hooligan! You are so young!" Only then did she realize that she was not wearing anything on her body. Su Qing turned around, pointed her bare butt at the snake spirit, jumped up and scolded the snake spirit, and then remembered to make a trick. Curse, put on a miniature black dress.

"I'm talking about your whole body." Qing Jian raised her hand, expressing her innocence.

Su Qing stretched out her little short hand, which was chubby and looked very naked, but the jade ring on her right hand still fits snugly on her hand.

"How can I become smaller..."

The snake spirit sighed, looking at the shrunken Su Qing, it was fun again.Looking at the fat and tender flesh on little Tai Sui's cheek, the snake spirit felt his hands itch.

While Su Qing wasn't paying attention, the snake spirit came forward and pinched the soft flesh on Su Qing's cheeks, secretly praised the wonderful touch, and then said: "Your spirit is very weak...now your spirit is weak. In your flesh."

"Physical body... Tai Sui?" Su Qing looked at his hands with not one finger in disbelief, and couldn't believe it.

"It's just a very simple transfiguration." The snake spirit explained, "You can do it yourself."

Su Qing nodded clearly: "How long will it take?"

"I don't know," the snake spirit shrugged, "but before that, I think there is another problem that you need to solve."

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Two hills away, several people were making a fire in the jungle in a panic.Take a closer look, they are all wearing uniform clothes, but most of them are in tatters, which is really hard to see.

These people are the soldiers who disappeared at the foot of the mountain because of Su Qing's curse.

Because of the previous mountain burning movement, many creatures in the forest escaped, and because of the soaring evil spirit permeating the mountain, those animals dared not return to this mountain, and the only thing they could eat was wild animals on the trees. fruit.

For these young men, the wild fruit is simply not enough.

"When will I be a leader these days!" A man on fire complained, "Why is it so unlucky for me to be assigned to this army camp!"

"Stop complaining, you're better than me," a thin, out-of-shape man overheard him and replied, "you can eat hot... I just took a sip of hot water and Almost died."

As they spoke, the two men sighed at each other, and fell silent.

At this time, a tall and straight young man came from the forest, followed by a child in black clothes.

"Xu Shen, where did you get the child?" The man who was burning the fire jumped up suddenly, looking at the child in surprise and asked.

"Meet me on the way." The young man called Xu Shen frowned, completely vigilant in his heart.

There are thousands of people trapped on the mountain, now divided into several factions.During the few days they were trapped, they were barely able to work together to find food, water, and a way out of the mountain.But for several days, when they still failed to get out of the mountain, the team began to be chaotic.

At the beginning, some soldiers sat on the ground and refused to leave, and some people found food and hid it privately, refusing to share it... Negative emotions enveloped the entire team, and within a few days, people's hearts dispersed.

Some people took the opportunity to incite people's hearts, split the team, and even started to rob each other of resources.

These few people, maybe the only few left, have not given up on finding the way down the mountain.The forest is huge, but there is no food. They can't grab others, so they have to stay near the foot of the mountain. They don't have much conflict of interest with other people, so they live in peace.

Xu Shen met this child when he was looking for a way out on the mountain.

At that time, the child was sitting on a branch, with a calm expression on his face, and the clothes he was wearing did not look like ordinary people.

Xu Shen didn't want to care about it at first, but after seeing the flying snake and Tai Sui who could cast curses, he no longer dared to underestimate anything in the mountain.

But after careful consideration, he still carried the child down.

What if he was just a kid who sneaked off to play in the woods?Or a rich kid who got lost, or even abducted.He didn't have the heart to leave a little child alone in the woods.

However, he was always on guard against this child, after all, his expression did not look like a child who could be easily frightened at all.

"This kid is not as big as my younger brother. He looks really good-looking." A simple-faced man who followed Xu Shen said with a smile, took out a handful of purple-black berries from his cloth pocket, and handed them to Guaiguai. Little children on the ground.

There are not many berries that can be found on the mountain in winter, but no one in the room objected to the man's move.

Su Qing—that is, the child, looked at the berries in the man's hand, but didn't pick them up.

"Take it." The man smiled and passed the fruit forward, "This is Dou Ren, it's so sweet."

Su Qing finally picked up the handful of fruit.

After Qing Jian said that he had a problem to solve, he sent him here directly. As for where the snake spirit is now, Su Qing really doesn't know.When seeing Xu Shen, Su Qing was also taken aback - he thought that the soldiers who failed to leave before the sun went down were all dead, but it seems that this is not the case.

The berries in his hand were beautiful in color, but they didn't arouse Su Qing's appetite at all.He held it in his hand for a while, walked up to the thinnest soldier, and handed him the fruit.

"For me?" The soldier seemed surprised.

Su Qing nodded.

Under his persistent gaze, the thin soldier took it.

"You don't know how to eat, do you?" The soldier was really thin, especially when he was talking. His cheeks without meat were deeply sunken, and his eyes seemed to protrude, but fortunately, his eyes were very soft. .

"Come on, open your mouth." The soldier squeezed a berry and coaxed Su Qing.

Su Qing shook his head and walked away.

The soldier had no choice but to put the fruit into his own mouth.

Xu Shen and a few others were cooking, but fortunately they still had a small pot, otherwise they would have had to eat raw food.Their luck was very good today. They probably came across a tree hole where squirrels stored food. It was full of various nuts and some miscellaneous grains grown by farmers on the mountain.Using these things, they cooked a pot full of chowder. The people who had been hungry for several days folded two tree branches to stop them, and grabbed the pot to eat.

Xu Shen hugged Su Qing who was standing on the side to his lap, and wanted to feed him something, but Su Qing shook his head and refused.

Xu Shen thought to himself that maybe the child wasn't hungry yet, or maybe he didn't like this kind of food at all, so he didn't force him and let him go.

Su Qing felt bored, so she walked away.

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"I asked you to solve the problem, not to be someone else's son."

Su Qing, who heard the voice, looked up, and as expected, she saw the snake spirit in green clothes sitting on a branch and looking at herself.

Su Qing looked not far away and saw that several soldiers hadn't noticed the existence of Qingjian, so he replied: "I don't see any problem."

The snake spirit slid down from the tree and laughed: "If it's just those few people, there is no problem, but you are not the only ones trapped in this mountain."

As he said that, while Su Qing was not paying attention, he picked him up and flew to the top of the mountain.

The top of the mountain and the bottom of the mountain are completely different.Looking down from a high altitude, the entire mountain surrounded by green trees has several bald spots. If you look carefully, each "bald spot" is a small village, the result of cutting down all the trees and building houses with wood.

"So many people..." Su Qing looked at those people and frowned.

Coming from modern times, he didn't think "ten thousand" was a big number. After all, the population at that time was often counted in "hundred million". An ordinary middle school might have six or seven thousand students.

But here is ancient times, a town may only have a few thousand people, and a village with hundreds of people is considered a big village.At this time, there are thousands of people entrenched on this mountain, which is indeed a very large number.

"It's fine if it's another mountain," said the snake spirit, pointing at those people. "These people live here and almost eat up all the animals left in the mountain. Now the mountain spirits and monsters can't survive here. They are places full of aura, and it would be a waste for these people to occupy them."

"Do you want to let them go?" Su Qing asked.

The snake spirit smiled but did not answer.

"I don't want it." Su Qing turned her head and stopped looking at the snake spirit.

Qing Jian was very surprised.

He thought that Xiao Taisui would let them go when he saw this group of trapped people without saying a word, after all, Xiao Taisui was so soft-hearted.

But this doesn't mean that Qing Jian sympathizes with this group of people, he just doesn't want these people to continue to occupy and destroy his mountain.However, Su Qing didn't even hesitate, and showed a stand-by attitude, which really surprised him.

Su Qing himself felt strange, obviously regretting such a heavy curse at the beginning.

But... He looked at the group of soldiers who were still well-disciplined and strictly hierarchical, and felt very little in his heart, almost none.Su Qing's most feeling is - it's none of my business.

Su Qing thought of those few people just now, even for them, Su Qing didn't intend to let them out of the mountain, but... since the snake spirit finds it troublesome, maybe he should do something.

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After Xu Shen and the others ate the pot of porridge with whole grains, they finally gained strength.But they didn't eat all of it, and the rest was served to the thin soldier after it cooled down.

"Brother Qin, eat quickly."

The thin soldier was the leader of them all, and the only one in their squad who lit the fire.Xu Shen knew that Brother Qin was originally from the mountains, so he felt sorry for every plant and tree in the mountains.When burning mountains, he just picked up some shrubs and grass leaves that were not easy to burn and lit them on fire.But even so, he was cursed and couldn't eat any hot food.

Brother Qin ate very slowly. The boiled cereals and fruits were hard and soft, and it was very difficult to eat when they were cold.

"Brother Qin, do you regret it?" Xu Shen asked suddenly.

"Regret what?"

"set fire."

"No." After a pause, Brother Qin took a sip of the cold soup, "As a soldier, you must obey orders. This is what I must do."

Xu Shen didn't ask him any more.

The reason why he asks this is because he doesn't think so in his heart.If it is to defend the family and the country, he is willing to die, but what is it for now?He, including all the other soldiers trapped here, didn't know until the end that all this was just to find the elixir for the fatuous emperor.

Thinking of this, Xu Shen narrowed his eyes. If it really made the emperor immortal, then God really has no eyes.

Why should he dedicate himself to such a boring cause?That's really crazy.

Xu Shen stood up and looked into the depths of the forest, as if he could find a way out.Suddenly he remembered something.

"Hey? Where's that child?" The few remaining people only realized after eating and drinking.

"I'll look for it." Xu Shen frowned.

It's getting dark early in the forest, if the child is really lost...

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Not far away, Xu Shen saw a child standing under a tree.While he breathed a sigh of relief, he also felt more uneasy.

This kid is really weird enough.

Hearing his footsteps, the child turned his head, looked at him as if looking at him, and suddenly asked, "Do you want to go out?"

Xu Shen's chest choked, and he frowned.

The author has something to say: an army of [-] people...but Xiao Qingqing still has to work hard to gather it together.

Su Qing: Put up a long snake formation.

Soldiers: ... What is the Long Snake Formation?

Soldier A: Wouldn't it be very long if we were asked to queue up one by one?

Soldier B: Is that a snake?That's the line!

Soldier C: It would be nice to have a few more people standing in that row.

Soldiers: That's right!

So the soldiers stood in a long line...

Su Qing: Are you really soldiers...