207. Extortion

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date="2021-02-07"

title="207. Extortion "

weight="127446"

series = ["Tianbao Fuyao Lu"]

mode = "manual"

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The Ruoergai Plateau, the sacred mountain of wind and snow, and the source of the Jiuqu Yellow River, it is difficult for horses to get here. The three of Hongjun, Li Jinglong, and Yu Province crossed the entire Qinghai to the north of Bashu. At the end of the plateau, there are still scattered villages.

Li Jinglong saw that the horses could no longer travel, so he sent them to the village and bought food and drinking water with the villagers. The three of them wrapped in thick fur coats and walked along the glacier to the uppermost reaches of the Yellow River. The sky was freezing and dripping into ice. According to Hongjun's suggestion, with the Phoenix True Essence Bodyguard, Yu Province will fly again, so he doesn't have to carry a heavy load. However, Li Jinglong insists on walking on foot to save a little mana, which is necessary.

"I won't be attacked." Yu Province said, "What are you doing so carefully?"

"That's hard to say." Li Jinglong was too lazy to argue with Yu Province, and replied casually.

Yu Province was bored and had to follow them all the way forward. According to the villagers, the sacred mountain in the distance is the birthplace of the Yellow River, and according to the ancient rumors spread by the geomancy masters, this place is also in the Central Plains of China. The first dragon vein is known as the dragon of ten thousand dragons.

"Zhao Zilong!" Li Jinglong held Hongjun's hand in the wind and snow, as if he was leisurely, "Do you remember where you were born?"

"How could it be!" Yu Province tightened his jacket, quickened his pace, and said, "I didn't remember much before I was fifty!"

Hongjun turned his head and said, "How did you get to know Ha Prison?"

Yu Province pondered for a moment, and talked about his life experience in the snow. Back then, it was just a carp in the Yellow River. It had been incapable of being wise for many years, and when he was sensible, he had lived in the world for nearly fifty years. It is strange to say that the ordinary aquatic people will live for decades, and their body will grow up surprisingly, but it is the only one who does not. It just leaves a ring after ring on the scales, like annual ring-like marks.

Trees and scaly aquariums are the easiest to identify their age. They are carved on their bodies every year they live. Since the carp demon has gained intelligence, he wandered around, and although he was unable to work, he also lived freely. But for a long time, for a monster, it is inevitable to think about the meaning of his existence. The carp demon hopes to cultivate as a human being, and then to leap into the dragon gate. Perhaps one day in the future, he will have a glimpse into the heavens.

So it began to suffocate hard, and finally squeezed out both hands and feet.

Li Jinglong: "..."

Hongjun: "I seem to have heard this before."

Li Jinglong said: "I can hold my hands and feet by holding back, so powerful?"

Yu Province obviously doesn't want to mention the past. After all, the hands and feet are not pretty, but Hongjun can only answer truthfully when asked.

"That was after I met the monk."

Before being ignorant of how much mana it had, it was picked up by a fishing net one day. He still remembers that it was a sunny afternoon and the fisherman’s voice rang through his ears.

"Three catties and two and a half!"

So the carp demon was sent to the market in Chang'an, where it was hung for sale, and was bought back by a restaurant shortly afterwards. This restaurant was the predecessor of Yuyue Dragon Gate. And soon after, Xuanzang came to the back kitchen of Yuyue Dragon Gate...

Li Jinglong said, "Master Xuanzang, will he come to the back kitchen of a restaurant?"

"Because he has a little apprentice here." Yu Province explained, "I'm here to find someone."

Then, the carp monster saw the monk. In its impression, the monks didn’t kill, so he immediately called for help. Xuanzang was very surprised when he saw the carp vomiting, so he bought it back and raised it in the Dacien Temple. In the pond. In the morning bells and drums in the evening, the horns of the Buddha sounded, and Xuanzang was reciting the scriptures and translating the scriptures, while the carp demon was listening.

Later Xuanzang moved to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and the carp demon was very idle for a while...

"In other words, you have lived in Chang'an for decades?" Li Jinglong asked.

When the three arrived at the holy mountain, the sky was getting darker, Hongjun found a cave in the leeward place, and prepared to stay overnight. Yu Province glanced at Li Jinglong's hand holding Hongjun, and said casually: "I don't want to say anymore."

Li Jinglong let go of Hongjun, motioned for him to boil water, and then said to Yu Province: "In these years, you have always been the boss of the Exorcist Division in name..."

When Yu Province heard this, his mood became very complicated, saying: "I know you all look down on me."

Li Jinglong waved his hand humbly and said, "Everyone respects you very much."

The carp demon usually has an attitude of seeing through many things but not telling them. After all, after so many years of life, it is impossible not to understand the human relationships. However, he is a demon on the one hand, and on the other hand he has betrayed Hongjun, I am afraid that the Exorcist will catch up again. When it left, its momentum was weak, and even now it has become a cultivator. When facing Li Jinglong, it still carries the feeling of a fish body in the past, and it can't help but feel anxious.

"Do you know?" Yu Province said suddenly, "I fled back to Chang'an that day. I thought the Exorcist Department would open the door."

Li Jinglong listened to Morigen and Lu Xu and said, "Everyone is not at home, what can I do?"

Yu Province looked at Li Jinglong for a long time. Hongjun felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange and looked up at Yu Province.

"Second, in these years, do you really regard me as a writer?" Yu Province said in the silence.

Hongjun was about to speak, but Li Jinglong raised his hand to stop him.

"To be honest," Li Jinglong replied, "No."

Yu Province thought that Li Jinglong would coax him a few words, but he didn't expect that Li Jinglong didn't cover up at all, so he simply and rudely broke the truth.

"Because I betrayed you." Yu Province said.

Hongjun: "Zhao Zilong, I said I forgive you!"

Yu Province suddenly came up stubbornly and only stared at Li Jinglong.

"That's just a small matter." Li Jinglong said lightly, "I don't believe you, because you are not a human. You are a monster."

Hongjun: "..."

"Not only to you." Li Jinglong said, "As long as it is a monster, Chaoyun, Qingxiong, Chongming, Yuzaoyun, Ghost King... We have been hostile from the beginning. Except for Hongjun, I am against you monster Every member of, can’t completely believe that this is my duty as the commander of the Exorcism Division.”

Hongjun didn't interrupt Li Jinglong. He was very surprised. It is quite rare to hear Li Jinglong speak the truth and state his position here and now. After all, Li Jinglong is a person who rarely expresses his thoughts. Even when discussing matters with his colleagues, his position is often only understandable and unspeakable. For Hongjun himself, he was very careful, with excessive protection, to avoid exposing him to too many scheming and the city.

At this moment, he could vaguely understand why Li Jinglong would bring up the past at this moment and talk to Yu Province. Perhaps in the final analysis, it is still because the last artifact is about to be obtained. If this artifact belongs to the carp monster, Li Jinglong will It must be guaranteed that after obtaining the artifact, Yu Province will do its best to cooperate with everyone.

"You don't need to say that, I will help you too." Yu Province said, "I'm just for Hongjun, not for anything else."

"This is what I want to say, "Second Lai"." Li Jinglong sat with his back to Hongjun, separated the two people, and said quietly, "Hongjun, can you find some firewood?"

Hongjun frowned. No matter how stupid he was, he knew that Li Jinglong had something to say to Yu Province alone. Although he didn't like Li Jinglong so much, he still got up and walked out of the cave.

"Two come." Li Jinglong looked directly at Yu Province and said, "You like Hongjun, you like it from the beginning."

Yu Province suddenly became confused, his face flushed, and said: "I..."

After Li Jinglong finished this sentence, he said lightly: "So you don't like me, and I don't like you either."

Yu Province transitioned from the panic that was punctured at the beginning to gradually calming down. After only a few breaths, he finally said: "Yes, why are you? You deserve it too?"

Li Jinglong just smiled and said sincerely: "I'm sorry, Zilong."

Yu Province: "..."

Yu Province's eyes slowly turned red. After a long time, he said in a daze: "I was caught by Havil that year... Let me go to the Taihang Mountains... A bear almost ate me..."

Li Jinglong did not interrupt him, but looked at Yu Province silently. Yu Province suddenly choked up and said intermittently: "It was Hongjun who saved my life. He is the child of King Peacock and the adopted son of Phoenix, so glamorous, so Pretty……"

"...But he never treated me as...ordinary monsters, screaming..."

"He gave me a name...he said, ‘I believe you, one day, I will become a dragon’..."

"You will live a long time." Li Jinglong said, "he has only one life, you do not belong to him, and he does not belong to you either."

Yu Province stared at Li Jinglong blankly and said, "I know."

Li Jinglong's brows wrinkled slightly, Yu Province sighed as if he was dead, and said: "From the time I saw you chasing to the foot of Qilian Mountain, I knew that I had no hope anymore."

Li Jinglong had mixed feelings in his heart for a while, and said in a deep voice, "So that's why I have to chase after all my life."

"That's it." Yu Province patted Li Jinglong on the shoulder, turned around, and shouted, "Hongjun!"

Hongjun came in holding the firewood, glanced at Yu Province and then at Li Jinglong, with a hint of blame in his eyes. Li Jinglong got up, took the firewood, and raised the flame.

The atmosphere was very strange, no one spoke, Hongjun glanced around on the faces of the two of them, and finally couldn't help saying: "Don't bully him."

"I didn't." Li Jinglong said innocently.

"He didn't." Yu Province said to Li Jinglong instead, "I feel much better now."

Hongjun: "???"

Li Jinglong laughed, Hongjun said: "You still laugh?! What happened to you Yaozu?"

Li Jinglong said: "I am willing to change myself for you."

When Hongjun heard this, his tone was slightly relaxed, and he looked up at Li Jinglong and said, "Really?"

"Yeah." Li Jinglong didn't avoid Hongjun's sight, instead, there was a smile in his eyes.

The wind gradually subsided, the world was silent, Hongjun was silent, Li Jinglong and Yu Province seemed to have a strange understanding, and no one spoke. Hongjun couldn't help guessing what they said, but thinking that Li Jinglong always opened himself up, it was also kind and curiosity was too strong, and instead he would ask himself and be boring, so he stopped asking.

"Master Xuanzang..." Hongjun still decided to find something to say, "He is a Buddha."

"Yeah." Yu Province was like a piece of wood, suddenly becoming alive and saying, "I still remember the day he became a Buddha."

"Are you by his side?" Li Jinglong asked after having a conversation.

Yu Province pondered: "I am the only one with me."

The atmosphere suddenly became natural and warm. Hongjun felt that during the time he was away, Yu Province might have untied some knots.

"What did he say?" Hongjun asked.

Yu Province shook his head and said, "He said, I was sent from heaven and earth to save sentient beings."

Hongjun was shocked in an instant, this is really a very high evaluation, and it is said from the mouth of the Tantan merit Buddha!

"You are the one." Yu Province laughed and said, "Our Hongjun is, um..." Then he said to himself: "I was born to help you."

Li Jinglong said: "Has he predicted the disaster of Great Tang?"

Yu Province thought for a while, shook his head and said, "That's not true. I still remember it was dusk. Before he became a Buddha, he gave me something."

"What is it?" Hongjun hasn't heard of this.

"I don't know." Yu Province said, "I thought it was to help me practice, right? I just swallowed it wholeheartedly."

Li Jinglong said: "The Buddha gave you a thing, did you swallow it?"

Yu Province said: "Yes, there is a problem?"

Li Jinglong and Hongjun were speechless. Yu Province lifted one foot, squeezed the trousers, exposing the hairy legs, and said, "Later, I practiced seriously, squeezing and holding my hands and feet."

Li Jinglong: "..."

The corner of Hongjun's mouth twitched and said, "Oh-so it is."

Yu Province said: "Later, I was released and entered the Jinghe River. I was ready to find a place to practice hard. Later, I was found by the Havil and I came to you."

Hongjun said: "Kun God once said that you have to accumulate merits to become a man."

"Enough." Li Jinglong said, "In the battle outside Hangu Pass, Zilong saved more than thousands of people?"

Hongjun thought so, and it was later reported by Lu Xu that the carp demon had indeed saved many people's lives that day. Without him, don't know how many soldiers would have died on the battlefield.

"But the practice is not enough." Yu Province pondered for a moment, and then said, "When I help you defeat the demon and Yuan Kun, I have to find a place to practice."

Hongjun looked at Yu Province, Yu Province avoided his eyes, Li Jinglong felt that Yu Province finally figured it out this night.

"Congratulations." Li Jinglong smiled.

Hongjun said, "Maybe I won't see you turning into a dragon until the end of my life."

When Hongjun said this, Yu Province almost burst into tears, but Hongjun smiled and comforted: "But you have carried me to the world, and you have fulfilled your promise."

At that moment, Yu Province began to gasp quickly. Li Jinglong pretended to be nonchalant on the surface, but a heart was instantly raised in his throat. I am afraid that Yu Province could not help but say to Hongjun that he could not keep the scene.

"Zhao Zilong?" Hongjun noticed his abnormality.

Yu Province finally calmed down.

"Yes." Yu Province grinned reluctantly and said to himself, "This is the biggest wish of my life."

Li Jinglong finally breathed a sigh of relief, his palms were full of sweat, not because he didn’t believe in Hongjun, but from knowing this fish, Li Jinglong was always worried, fearing that it would turn into a dragon someday, he would give Hongjun to Abducted. I was even more afraid that Hongjun would not be able to think about it someday. He followed a carp and lived in seclusion in the mountains. He would never find them again... In fact, from seeing Hongjun for the first time, this strong sense of insecurity has almost never stopped. It is necessary to guard against the fact that although he is a nominal adoptive father, he has raised Hongjun so much, and he has taken the lead. Later, he felt that Qingxiong was a bit dangerous, but he was gradually ruled out.

Later, there was another Ashnajon, which was nothing but a fool, but Hongjun never liked it. And the most troublesome thing is this carp. He knew Hongjun earlier than him and took care of it with all his heart. Hongjun was ignorant and only regarded it as a relative. In case the carp monster becomes a handsome boy and the window paper is broken, it will be A very strong competitor.

So Yu Province took Hongjun for a run. It was really the most thrilling, life-and-death moment in Li Jinglong's life, and he had to chase people there anyway.

This time the carp demon finally retreated, and Li Jinglong felt more tired than fighting a big battle.