Chapter 104 Springtime Confusion (12) Hard and stiff, not easy to touch...
The pool water churned, and Song Qiling, like a loach that had mistakenly drunk the yellow soup, stirred wildly in this world, babbling incoherently and losing her mind.
Gu Lianzhou watched helplessly as his senior brother wreaked havoc on him, calling him "piglet" one moment and a divine beast nurtured by a spiritual pool the next, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
"Senior brother, do you see clearly who I am?" He put one arm around Song Qiling's waist and lifted her up to make sure she wouldn't sink any further.
Suddenly, seeing the round, pink and white piglet open its mouth to speak, Song Qiling's eyes lit up. She cupped the piglet's face and exclaimed, "You...you really are a spirit! Great Pig Immortal, you, you..."
After staring at the round, chubby pig fairy for a long time, her gaze fell on its four legs bobbing on the water's surface. Finally, she couldn't help but ask, "Your legs are so short, how do you float on the water?"
As if recalling a scene, she chuckled and said, "It's my stupidity. Pig Immortal has magical powers, so naturally he can move freely in the water."
It is well-reasoned and convincing.
This pig spirit was truly different from any black pig she had ever seen. Its eyes were like jet-black gems, its thick, long eyelashes fluttered slowly at her, its nose was perfectly round... and its snout was pink and adorable...
This is a unique and perfect pig.
Song Qiling swallowed hard, put her hands together, and bowed to the Pig Fairy with sincerity and politeness. "Good Pig Fairy, good Pig Fairy, you have done a good deed today. I will definitely burn incense and pray for you in the future."
After rambling on and on, she gently stroked the smooth, elastic skin of the pig fairy, feeling as if she had touched a handful of good fortune.
Pig Immortal is good, Pig Immortal hasn't run away.
She smiled slightly, staring into the pig fairy's bright eyes, without letting go.
As the warm fingertips brushed against the slightly cool skin, Pig Fairy turned pink at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Oh ho.
A translucent pink piglet.
The hand covering the pig's belly curled slightly, gently kneading along the tracks, but the pig's body suddenly stiffened.
It's hard and difficult to touch.
Gu Lianzhou looked down at her senior brother, who was shamelessly groping and scratching her chest, her ears turning as red as if they were about to bleed.
"Senior brother, wake up!" He grabbed his senior brother's wrist, no longer caring about the medicinal bath, and pulled him towards the shore.
If this continues, my delirious senior brother might do something else outrageous.
The pool water splashed loudly as Gu Lianzhou practically half-carried, half-lifted Song Qiling ashore. The cool air instantly enveloped their soaked bodies, sending a slight shiver down their spines.
Song Qiling instinctively moved closer to the only source of warmth beside her, muttering, "It's going to dissipate my immortal energy..."
As she rubbed against him, Gu Lianzhou took a deep breath, suppressing the strange feeling in his heart, before helping the person who was almost hanging on him to sit down on a relatively flat rock by the pool. He then gently comforted her, saying, "Senior brother, calm down."
He squatted down, took the clean undergarment prepared from the stone shelf, and just as his fingertips touched Song Qiling's soaked collar and he was about to unbutton it, he suddenly stopped.
My senior brother never bathes with others, and he always dismisses everyone around him when changing clothes. Even if he is not in his right mind now, if he wakes up tomorrow and finds that someone has seen his body, given his personality, he will probably be both ashamed and angry.
The fingertips hesitated for a moment before slowly withdrawing.
He then took the outer robe from the stone screen, carefully unfolded it, and then carefully wrapped it around his senior brother, making sure that he was tightly wrapped from the shoulders to the ankles, so that not a single bit of cold wind could get in.
After doing all this, he stepped back a little and, in a squatting position, looked up at his senior brother who was wrapped in a robe.
The oversized outer robe almost swallowed Song Qiling whole, leaving only a flushed face and wet eyelashes drooping. She seemed to enjoy the warm embrace and grinned at him, saying, "Good junior brother."
Gu Lianzhou: "..."
Now I recognize him.
He shook his head helplessly, picked up another robe, turned his back, dried the water droplets off his body, and put on his undergarments.
After all that commotion, the two returned to the bamboo courtyard, only to find Liu Dai sitting alone at the table. When he saw them coming, he raised his hand and said, "Come, please sit down."
Gu Lianzhou's gaze swept over the mud-covered stones on the table, and he asked suspiciously, "Brother Liu, what's this...?"
Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly felt her arm loosen. Her senior brother had already stepped forward with small steps, pulled over a stool and sat down with a thud, and smiled at Liu Dai: "Divine Doctor, please take a look at me."
Gu Lianzhou: "?"
Senior brother's actions were a lucky accident; how can they not be considered "desperate measures"?
Liu Dai stroked his non-existent beard, staring thoughtfully at the stone on the table. After a moment, he shook his head and sighed, "Your complexion is sallow and your cheeks are thin. I advise you not to stay up late anymore. The dark circles under your eyes are almost spreading to your forehead."
"Ah." Song Qiling raised her hand to touch her forehead, looking worried. "Is there any way to alleviate these symptoms?"
Liu Dai reached out and rested his hand on the stone for a moment, then withdrew it as if he had been electrocuted, and said with surprise and doubt, "You're hard and cold, you're completely dead, how can you still talk?"
As he finished speaking, he stood up cursing and grabbed the stone, throwing it far away. "You audacious fiend, daring to take human form to mock this old man! You deserve to die!"
Song Qiling couldn't stand it. She immediately stood up, pointed at Liu Dai, and angrily shouted, "You old scoundrel, who are you calling a demon? I am the renowned demon hunter, I..."
Before he could finish speaking, he saw a flash of swords and shadows, and then a handsome man in golden armor, holding a sword, descended from the sky amidst a cloud of mist.
For a moment, she was stunned.
"Hey!" Yu Qi burst out from behind the bamboo house, picked up a hoe by the door, and shouted at the air, "Where's the demon? Where's the demon?"
The only demon in the courtyard: "..."
After a long silence, Gu Lianzhou stepped forward, grabbed his senior brother's wrist, and walked aside. After thinking for a moment, he separated two dodder vines, concealed their tracks, tied up Liu and Yu, and pressed them both onto the bamboo stool.
It was guessed that Xiu Ming's illness had started after he returned home, alarming the sect leader. This white-haired old doctor, carrying a basket, came to the small courtyard, fed the group some pills and water, and then gently instructed Gu Lianzhou: "Xiu Ming said that the mushrooms were cooked, but they had been left out for too long and had gone stale, which is why they still have some toxicity. Remember to eat them while they are hot and cooked next time."
After a pause, the sect leader suddenly remembered the important matter and pointed at the few people who were talking nonsense to the air, "Don't give them dinner. Let them go hungry for the night. When they are sober tomorrow, give them some thin porridge."
Upon hearing this, Gu Lianzhou quickly nodded in agreement.
After seeing the sect leader off, he returned, looking at the group with mixed feelings, especially Yu Qi and Liu Dai.
The two were arguing about the crooked tree in front of the door. Liu Dai said it was a girl with a stiff neck, while Yu Qifei said it was a toad that had become a spirit.
The two argued more and more fiercely, and if they hadn't been bound by dodder, they probably would have started fighting.
Gu Lianzhou sighed slowly: "This is what they mean by 'a doctor cannot heal himself'..."
Looking at my senior brother, he was unusually quiet at this moment, his eyes seemed to be shrouded in a faint sorrow, which made one's heart tighten.
He couldn't help but step closer and ask in a low voice, "Senior brother, what's wrong?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Song Qiling looked up and said resentfully, "Junior brother, let me go first. I'm all wet and it's really uncomfortable."
Yes, he was so careless that he forgot his senior brother was still wearing soaking wet clothes.
He quickly released the dodder and let the person into the house to change clothes, while he stood in front of the door waiting. As darkness fell, his stomach burned with hunger, and he began to worry again.
Hunger, which he usually paid little attention to, became particularly tormenting at this moment, like a dull knife grinding against him, arousing a destructive urge in him.
After much thought, he lowered his eyelashes and sent a few strands of dodder flying into the deep mountains.
As if sensing his thoughts, the detached dodder, like a wilderness hunter, used its keen senses to search for traces of demonic energy deep in the forest.
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The next day, as dawn broke and the morning dew had not yet dried.
The bamboo courtyard was completely silent, a stark contrast to the chaos of yesterday.
Sunlight filtered through the gaps in the branches and leaves, scattering onto the ground.
Song Qiling slowly opened her eyes, feeling a splitting headache, as if she had a hangover. She rubbed her temples and sat up, as all sorts of bizarre fragments of yesterday's memories rushed into her mind.
The churning pool water, the plump pig spirit, and his own absurd actions and nonsensical ramblings...
"..."
The moment the memory returned, Song Qiling's face flushed bright red, and she wished she could disappear into a crack in the ground.
"Squeak—"
The door was gently pushed open, and Gu Lianzhou walked in carrying a bowl of congee. When he saw that Song Qiling had woken up, a hint of embarrassment flashed across his face: "Senior brother, you're awake. The sect leader instructed that we can only have congee today."
His voice was steady, and his demeanor was as composed as if nothing had happened yesterday.
Song Qiling gave a mumbled reply, got out of bed, and without even washing up, sat down at the table and buried herself in her food, not daring to look her junior brother in the eye.
She cleared her throat after finishing the porridge, but her eyes remained fixed on the empty bowl: "Regarding yesterday's events... thank you for taking care of me, junior brother. You've worked hard."
Gu Lianzhou lowered his eyelids slightly and reached out to pick up the empty bowl: "It's my duty. I'm glad you're alright, Senior Brother."
Song Qiling quietly raised her eyes. She wondered if it was just her imagination, but her junior brother seemed to have become much more haggard after the night.
Since yesterday was mentioned, she continued, "We've been recuperating here for quite some time now. Now that you're much better, it's time for you to leave. What do you think?"
Upon hearing this, Gu Lianzhou pondered for a moment.
He could clearly feel the instinctive craving within his body for purer and more abundant demonic energy. Qingyunxi could not satisfy his growing needs, and he even felt a sense of being bound.
not to mention……
He looked up at his senior brother.
Because of his own injury, his senior brother hurriedly left Nancheng, presumably determined to return and settle his own affairs before he would give up.
He must have been impatient to wait all this time.
Thinking of this, he nodded and said, "What you say is absolutely right. I am fine now and should not stay any longer."
Having reached an agreement, the two walked out of the house one after the other. They saw Liu Dai sitting on a stone bench in the courtyard, sipping tea, while Yu Qi was practicing his boxing with great vigor, full of energy, clearly having recovered.
Hearing that the two were leaving, Liu Dai didn't try to stop them. He beckoned to Gu Lianzhou and said, "Come here, let me take your pulse."
The two sat down at the table, and Gu Lianzhou extended his wrist as instructed.
Liu Dai placed three fingers on the pulse point, closed his eyes, and focused intently to examine it.
A moment later, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked Gu Lianzhou up and down: "Your body..."
Gu Lianzhou raised an eyebrow slightly: "How is it?"
Liu Dai released his hand and said, "The pulse is steady and full, and the Qi of the five internal organs is flowing smoothly. Not only has the illness disappeared, but it is even more vigorous than that of an ordinary healthy person."
At this point, he couldn't help but chuckle and shake his head: "Such good fortune in just a few days...it's truly strange."
Gu Lianzhou himself could also sense that the continuous vitality within his body was indeed far greater than before. He nodded slightly: "It must be mostly due to the medicinal spring. I must thank Brother Liu for his care over the past few days."
Liu Dai clicked his tongue in amazement: "It's your own good fortune. I didn't do anything. Oh well, since that's the case, there's no need to continue soaking in the medicinal spring. You should pack up and head down the mountain."
On the other side, when Yu Qi heard that they were leaving, he shook his head like a rattle drum: "Let me make it clear first, I'm not leaving. This mountain is so much fun, the rabbits are fat, the mushrooms are fresh, and no one cares about us. You guys go down the mountain yourselves!"
Song Qiling knew that he was wild and couldn't be restrained, so she exchanged a glance with Gu Lianzhou and let him be.
Liu Dai was happy to have company and didn't say anything.
Having made up their minds, the two bid farewell to the villagers.
The villagers were kind and hospitable. Although they hadn't known each other for long, they brought them mountain produce, wild game, dried food, and health supplements, filling their bags to the brim.
Song Qiling and Gu Lianzhou thanked them repeatedly, bid farewell to the group, and, led by Xiuming, headed down the mountain along the same path they had come from.
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