Chapter 87 Chapter 87 "I asked Biqing to do this." ...
"Biqing, where are you taking me?" Little Zouwu, whose eyes were blindfolded by Biqing with a coarse cloth, nestled in her arms uneasily and asked nervously.
Little Zuowu's eyes were completely dark, and the only sounds in his ears were the breathing of Biqing and Xuanyi, and the whistling of the wind.
It knew that Biqing would not harm it, but it couldn't help but panic when it couldn't see her.
"Haven't you always wanted to go out with me to look for the artifact?"
Biqing stroked the little Zouwu's head as she and Xuanyi continued on their journey without stopping: "Hold on a little longer, we'll be there soon."
"How long will you hold on?" asked the little Zouwu.
Biqing said, "About half an hour. You can take a nap first. We should be here when you wake up."
"I'm not sleepy," Xiao Zuowu negotiated. "Biqing, can I take off this blindfold?"
Although it was scared, it was still very curious about where Biqing was going to take it.
No matter what I said the first two times, Biqing was unwilling to take me with her.
This time, it had no hope and was ready to be entrusted to someone else by Biqing again, but Biqing actually took the initiative to say that she wanted to take it with her.
Little Zou Wu excitedly ran around on the bed for a long time, making wrinkles all over the sheets that Biqing had just made neatly.
Bi Qing said, "Although I took the initiative to propose this, I have two conditions. If you don't agree, I still won't take you with me."
How could the little Zouwu give up this hard-earned opportunity to go out? It responded repeatedly: "Okay, okay! I agree to whatever you say!"
Biqing then carried it into the courtyard and placed it in a basin of warm water that Xuanyi had prepared early in the morning, where it was washed thoroughly from head to toe.
Villagers would pass by the gate outside the courtyard from time to time, and the news that Biqing was dating a foreign man spread quickly, so no one paid attention to the little Zouwu in the basin.
These words naturally reached Ah Ying's ears. She looked at her brother hiding in the corner, feeling heartbroken, and sighed. She said to the people who were whispering not far away, not knowing how to frame Bi Qing, "Stop guessing! That man is Bi Qing's man!"
When the villagers heard that Ah Ying knew what was going on, they rushed to her door and asked her questions at once.
"If you want to know, ask Biqing!"
Ah Ying rudely closed the gate, dismissing the villagers: "Why are you asking me?"
Bi cleaned the little Zouwu and sniffed the soapberry fragrance emanating from it, nodding with satisfaction. "Well done! But I'm going to blindfold you on the way there tomorrow, so you don't get scared when you look down at the scene below."
"No way!" Little Zou Wu said, "I am a divine beast after all!"
"If you were really that powerful, why didn't you fly up into the sky and hide when you were being chased by those Taoist priests?"
Biqing took the towel from Xuanyi and wiped the fur off the little Zouwu. "If you keep talking back, I'll change my mind."
Little Zouwu quickly closed his mouth and let Biqing control him, applying the sweet-scented osmanthus dew on himself.
Biqing looked down at the little Zouwu lying in her arms, breathing evenly, and knew that it was asleep.
In less than half an hour, Biqing and Xuanyi landed steadily on a barren desert.
At first glance, there is flying sand and endless yellow sand.
Biqing took off the rough cloth covering Xiao Zuowu's eyes and shook it: "Cai Yu, Cai Yu."
This was Xiao Zou Wu's original name. It was the first time Biqing called it formally like this, and it felt a bit awkward.
Little Zou Wu opened his eyes, yawned, and said, "Are we there yet?"
The boundless dimness in front of its eyes dispelled its sleepiness. It looked around with disgust, feeling that it was extremely familiar.
Little Zou Wu asked, "Biqing, where is this?"
Biqing lowered her eyes and looked suspiciously at the little Zouwu with black and white patterns in her arms: "Don't you recognize it?"
Little Zouwu shook his head, and after becoming a little more sober, he looked around at the endless yellow sand again.
It jumped onto Biqing's shoulder and looked at the place where the yellow sand and the sky met in the distance. A few green spots as small as ants confirmed its guess.
"Biqing! Why did you bring me to this place!"
Little Zouwu jumped off Biqing's shoulders and landed on the fine gravel, his limbs sinking slightly.
It roared at Biqing, "I finally ran away from home! Why did you send me back here?"
"Before you question Biqing, use your brain, which is no bigger than your own claws."
Xuan Yi, who had been silent for a long time, lowered his eyes, staring at the spirit beast in front of him with its fur standing on end. He said coldly, "Your sense of smell is no worse than ours. Why do you think Biqing bathed you and even went to the trouble of applying perfumed lotion to you?"
Little Zuowu sniffed his own body, and apart from the rich fragrance of osmanthus, he could not smell any of his original scent.
But it still had doubts, staring at Biqing warily: "What is your purpose in bringing me back? If it's detrimental to us all, don't blame me for turning against you!"
"I won't do anything bad to your people."
Biqing had anticipated that Xiao Zuowu would behave like this. She explained, "I didn't tell you directly because I was afraid you wouldn't want to come with me to the Lin Kingdom."
She didn't think that the little Zou Wu, who had secretly escaped from home, would willingly come back here.
Even if Xuan Yi shut her up with words like "all the people in the world", she would still not be willing to go back.
Unless Xuan Yi knocks me out, carries me into the heaven, and blocks my retreat.
Biqing thought so and did so.
It is not a gentleman's behavior to execute first and report later, but Biqing could not think of a better way.
Xuan Yi knew what Biqing was thinking during her silence. He couldn't bear to scold Biqing for such an extreme action, so he said to Xiao Zou Wu, "I told Biqing to do this."
Bi Qing was shocked and hurriedly defended Xuan Yi, "What nonsense are you talking about! This was clearly my idea!"
"You wolf demon! You're trying to hurt me in a roundabout way!"
Xiao Zuowu believed Xuan Yi's words without a doubt.
Who told Xuan Yi to always compete with it for Biqing when they were in the human world, and always show a look of disdain and disgust towards it.
A well-behaved and kind-hearted girl like Biqing would never come up with such despicable ways to deceive herself!
Xuan Yi paid no attention to Xiao Zou Wu's words and even challenged him, "So what if I harm you? For the sake of water, I wouldn't mind even killing you, let alone tricking you into coming here."
"Xuan Yi!" Bi Qing covered his mouth, not wanting him to make matters worse. "Stop talking! I don't want you to slander yourself! I don't need you to defend me or take the blame for me!"
"dream!"
The little Zou Wu shook the sand off his paws, grabbed the hem of Biqing's skirt and pulled it aside, urging her, "Let's go back! I don't want to stay here! Not even for a moment!"
Biqing didn't want to go back. She reached out to grab little Zou Wu, holding him tightly in her arms, and whispered, "Cai Yu, can you take us to see your father?"
Little Zuowu heard that Biqing would not leave, so he aimed at the back of Biqing's hand and bit her.
Xiao Zuowu's move was sudden, not giving Xuan Yi time to react, catching him off guard.
There was a sudden pain on the back of Biqing's hand, leaving a row of shallow teeth marks.
Xuan Yi had never expected that this little creature would dare to bite Biqing. Without saying anything, he picked up the little Zou Wu from Biqing's arms, his pair of mandarin duck eyes revealing uncontrollable hostility and murderous intent.
Xuan Yi laughed in anger: "Biqing doesn't have a temper, but I do!"
"Stinky wolf demon!"
The little Zou Wu kicked his four legs, which were suspended in the air. "Kill me if you dare! When my blood splatters all over your face, my father and mother will come out and crush you to the ground!"
Xuan Yi stared at it with a forced smile.
Bi Qing was frightened by the tense atmosphere between Xuan Yi and Xiao Zuo Wu. She grasped Xuan Yi's clenched fist and said, "Xuan Yi! Don't do anything stupid!"
The golden-blue mandarin duck eyes swept across the back of the hand with shallow teeth marks, and the anger in the eyes burned even more fiercely, even affecting the people around him.
Seeing that Xuan Yi showed no sign of letting go, Bi Qing continued, "Xuan Yi, didn't we bring Cai Yu here to save time, obtain the artifact quickly, and return to see your people?"
The fist wrapped in her hands loosened slightly. Bi Qing calmed down and said, "It was angry that I brought it here without saying a word, so it bit me, and I deserved it. My hand is fine. If Cai Yu really hated me, that bite would have bitten through my hand."
Biqing took advantage of the situation to hold up the little Zouwu, shaking it a bit to test Xuanyi's grip on it.
After making sure the force wasn't too strong, Biqing smiled softly at Xuanyi. Taking advantage of Xuanyi's moment of daze, she took the little Zouwu from his hands and held it in her arms. "Caiyu, the Lin Kingdom is your home. I brought you here so you can lead the way for the two of us. I have no intention of sending you back."
Biqing stroked the little Zou Wu's ruffled fur, "It was my idea to bring you back blindfolded. It had nothing to do with Xuan Yi."
Little Zuo Wu had just been frightened by Xuan Yi's terrifying appearance, and the harsh words he said were simply to give himself courage, betting that Xuan Yi would not dare to attack him.
It hid in Biqing's arms, secretly cursing Xuan Yi a thousand times in its heart, not caring whose idea it was to trick it back.
His chaotic heartbeat gradually calmed down, and Xiao Zuowu asked, "Biqing, you really won't take me home?"
Bi Qing said, "If you want to go home, Xuan Yi and I will take you back. If you don't want to, we will naturally follow your wishes."
"I don't want to go back!"
Little Zou Wu shook his head like a rattle. "If we go back now, my parents will think you're using me as bait to blackmail them. By then, let alone the artifact, it'll be a question of whether you can even leave my house alive."
It glanced at Xuan Yi and said, "Biqing, you should just let this wolf demon go on its own."
Xuan Yi was well aware of Little Zou Wu's devious intentions. He sneered, "Put aside your shameful schemes. Biqing won't abandon me."
When Biqing heard the two people were about to quarrel, she quickly stopped them: "Stop it!"
She said, "Cai Yu, can you lead the way for the two of us? When we're almost there, you hide, and Xuan Yi and I will go on our own."
"Biqing, will you take me back when you're done?" Little Zouwu asked nervously, fearing that Biqing would be in a hurry to leave and forget that he was still here.
A scallion-white finger gently touched the tip of Xiao Zuowu's nose, and Biqing smiled and said, "I can't forget you. I'm still waiting for you to come back and be Wangcai to look after my house."
Xiao Zuowu rubbed the shallow dents on the back of Biqing's hand: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bite you."
If Biqing hadn't saved me, I would have probably been tamed as a mount by some evil-minded Taoist cultivator, and I don't know who would have ridden me like an animal.
Traveling a thousand miles a day is the unique ability of Zouwu. It was with this ability that he escaped to the human world.
Biqing patted Xiao Zouwu's head and asked with a smile, "So, Caiyu, are you willing to lead the way for the two of us?"
Little Zou Wu nodded and said, "Just follow the path I point you to. You'll be able to see my parents the day after tomorrow morning."
It jumped onto Biqing's shoulder and asked curiously, "Biqing, what exactly is that artifact? Why haven't I ever heard my parents mention it?"
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