Chapter 47: Exorcism is just as Fuli expected...
As Fu Li expected, Tong's team came back the fastest and brought back two large bags of black plums wrapped in large leaves.
Fu Li and Ge exchanged a quick glance. Ge opened the leaves to look at the plump black plums. He said to Tong gratefully, "You are our tribe's benefactor. We will repay any kindness we receive. If there is anything we can do for you in the future, please let me know."
"No, no." Tong seemed a little reserved, her toes touching and rubbing unconsciously against each other. Blushing, she said embarrassedly, "Actually, I lied to you. I'm not from a nearby tribe. I'm an orphan whose parents were eaten by wild beasts."
According to normal logic, Ge Gai would ask her where her people were.
Ke Ge had already guessed that the other party's identity was different and that she wanted to stay in their tribe. If he couldn't achieve his goal this time, who knew what she would do in the future? It would be better to just give in to her wishes and then secretly guard against her.
Then, a look of pity appeared on her face. "Poor child, you look not much older than my daughter. If you don't mind, stay with the tribe. I will love you like my own daughter."
"Really?" Tong raised her head, her eyes cautious, as if she couldn't believe it.
Faced with such a gaze, Ge actually felt a bit of pity, and his tone became much more sincere: "Of course it's true. I will teach you to hunt, teach you to farm, teach you to tie vines and make ropes, and teach you to make tools."
These are the most practical survival skills, and Ge is willing to teach them everything he knows.
Tong was so moved that she was even incoherent.
Fu Li observed carefully from the side, but didn't see any signs of acting.
Wow, what a master! Girl, the world owes you an Oscar.
If Tong had not revealed her origins, Fu Li would have doubted her own judgment.
She stepped forward and interrupted Tong: "Sister Ge, since everything is ready, let's set off now."
Ge suddenly came back to his senses and nodded seriously: "Yes, this should be done as soon as possible."
She brought with her twenty bravest young men whom she had selected long ago, and arranged for the remaining strong laborers to guard the elderly and weak in the garrison. Everyone boarded five simple rafts.
"Sister, are you going to get rid of the monster?" Tong suddenly grabbed Fu Li's sleeve.
Fu Li turned to look at her: "Yes, we are going to get rid of the demon."
Tong said, "You have collected black plums and prepared the tripod axe. You want to kill the croaker, right?"
Everyone's eyes turned to her, filled with suspicion and vigilance. But Fuli understood that the enemy's target was not Ge's tribe, but her.
The other party wanted to follow her, and as long as he could achieve this goal, he didn't care whether he exposed the fact that he was lying in front of Ge.
Fu Li asked directly, "Do you want to participate too?"
Tong smiled and said, "I hope you can take me with you."
Fu Li looked at her deeply, then turned to discuss with Ge: "Sister Ge, her skills are not inferior to mine. We should take her with us. We will have a better chance."
It wasn't Fu Li Meng Lang, but she knew very well that Tong's cultivation was definitely not low. Instead of letting her follow in the dark, it would be better to put her in the open.
If we can't guard against the enemy right under our noses and let the other party act in secret, it will be even more dangerous.
Ge nodded and said, "It's up to you to decide."
She had a high prestige in the tribe. Although the twenty male and female warriors who followed her were dissatisfied, they did not refute Ge's decision.
So, Fu Li pulled Tong onto her raft and never let go of her hand. Tong knew that she looked suspicious to others and had no intention of breaking free.
Holding a fair wrist in his hand, Fu Li felt that her hand was very cold, but not icy cold, but the kind of vague chill that pierced through the skin and flesh from the bones, like an ice needle.
If what he saw was not a person, and what he touched in his hands was indeed flesh, Fu Li would almost suspect that what he saw was a leather bag filled with frost.
Tong suddenly said, "Sister, your hands are so warm."
Fu Li gave her a strange look and said, "Your hands are too cold." Then, seemingly casually, she asked, "What kind of cultivation technique are you practicing? Why are you so cold?"
Tong said vaguely: "It's a family martial arts method, not very famous, even if I tell you, sister won't know it."
So Fu Li stopped asking.
She didn't want to cause any trouble at this time.
The group paddled on the water for seven or eight days. On the afternoon of the eighth day, Ge pointed to an elm tree with its top emerging from the water and said, "This is our tribe. That big elm tree has been there for a long time. It was this big when I was a child."
Suddenly, a beautiful piano sound came from the front left, and Ge and the twenty young men showed expressions of fear or anger on their faces.
Ge said calmly, "It's coming, in that direction." Then he ordered, "Light the fire quickly and cook the black plums."
What was being heard was not the sound of a piano, but the cry of a sea bass.
Someone brought firewood from another bamboo raft, lit it in the axe, put the stone tripod on it, scooped water into the tripod with a bone bowl, and solemnly put in two black plums.
Fu Li said, "Let's also burn the other top, so that we don't have to rush around later."
However, before the water started to boil, the shouting suddenly stopped.
Ge frowned and asked, "Could it be that the fish demon smelled the scent of black plums and hid?"
Fu Li said, "Don't overthink it. The air above the water is damp, so the smell can't travel that far. It's almost dark anyway, so that evil creature will find us by itself."
Hearing her words, everyone in the tribe couldn't help but look up at the sky, revealing a hint of nervousness.
After all, they had personally experienced that after dark, the croaker fish transformed into human form and came ashore to eat people.
Fu Li soothed them, "Don't be afraid, you will be fine."
Her arm suddenly felt cold, and it was Tong who came up to her, holding her right arm with both hands, and pressing his cheek against her shoulder, and said timidly: "Sister, I'm scared."
Fu Li glanced at her and suddenly smiled brightly at her.
Such an unusual behavior made Tong stunned for a moment. In the blink of an eye, something suddenly appeared on her left wrist.
Looking down, she saw a bracelet with a brilliant golden base, a layer of fine ice crystals on the surface, and several diamond-shaped crystals inlaid on it, firmly wrapped around her slender wrist.
To be honest, that bracelet is really beautiful and especially suits her aesthetic.
But even such a beautiful bracelet made her spiritual energy stagnate and she couldn't use any magic power at all.
She raised her head, looked at Fu Li with grievance and pity, and called out coquettishly, "Sister~"
Fu Li smiled and touched the double bun on her head, and said in a relaxed tone, "Don't worry, you will be fine."
But what fell into Tong's ears was: Now I feel relieved, and I believe that you will not let anything happen to yourself.
Suddenly I felt like crying but had no tears.
"Sister, if I say I have no ill will towards you, would you believe me?"
Fu Li nodded: "I believe it."
Tong raised her left hand in front of her.
Fu Li raised her hand and pressed it down, then asked, "I have no ill will towards you either. Do you believe me?"
Tong: “…I believe it.”
"good."
Fu Li touched the bun on one side of her hair again.
The sound of the piano rang out again, but it was getting closer and closer to the shore.
Ge made a quick decision and ordered people to speed up the raft and reach the shore before it was completely dark.
It is called the shore, but in fact it is a relatively flat area on the highest mountain in the tribe.
Fortunately, this is their territory. The entire tribe, whether old or young, often go in and out of these mountains, either to hunt, collect herbs, or gather wild fruits.
There was no need for Ge to give any more orders. After the young and strong men took the axe and tripod off the raft, they immediately added more firewood and started cooking.
The sky gradually darkened, and the only fire within a thousand miles was particularly conspicuous.
The firelight in the dark night represents human habitation.
The piano music stopped, but the sound of fish tails paddling in the water was getting closer and closer.
Suddenly, with a "splash", a short man with disheveled hair emerged from the water. He waded ashore bit by bit, stepping on the gravel on the shore, his scarlet pupils fixed on the figure illuminated by the fire.
Fu Li and Ge looked at each other, then turned and told Tong: "Stay here obediently and don't move around, otherwise you will get hurt and it will be bad."
Tong looked up at her, her eyes full of reluctance, but she still nodded obediently: "I will listen to my sister."
Fu Li didn't have time to deal with her. She jumped directly in front of the small cauldron that had rolled away, waved her hand to roll up the black plum water in the cauldron, and sprinkled it all over the short man's head.
The Henggong fish wanted to hide, but unfortunately, once the fish demon came ashore, its movements would become slow. Even if it smelled the scent of black plum, it would be too late to dodge.
The scalding plum water poured down from his head, almost covering his entire body. The fish demon let out a sharp cry that resembled the heartbreaking cry of a frightened human baby.
Of the twenty young men Ge brought with him, seven or eight were already mothers like her. Upon hearing such a voice, they immediately revealed a look of pity.
Fu Li acted decisively and ordered, "Why are you just standing there? While it's immobile, quickly grab it and throw it into the cauldron."
Those people looked at Ge, waiting for the leader's order.
At this moment, everyone's eyes blurred, and it was Tong who strode over, lifted the fish monster above his head with both hands, and ran to the rolling cauldron, and threw the fish monster down headfirst.
Boiled water with black plums is indeed the nemesis of the horizontal fish. As soon as the fish monster's head plunged into the water, its true form was immediately revealed, and its body became stiff and rolled up and down with the boiling water.
After finishing all this, Tong ran to Fuli and asked for credit: "Sister, the henggong fish has been boiled to death, but there are still a lot of black plums left. Let's make some black plum sauce to dip the fish in."
Fu Li lost her appetite when she thought about the fish's ability to transform into a human form. She said, "I'm already fasting and don't eat anything cooked. You guys can eat it. If you eat the flesh of the Henggong fish, you won't drown."
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately gathered around the cauldron. They didn't need the plum sauce at all. At Ge's signal, they fished out the fish, placed it on a relatively clean stone, and each of them took a piece.
Although Fu Li had said that she didn't want to eat it, Ge still asked someone to find two clean leaves, cut out two pieces separately, and gave them to her and Tong first.
Tong finished her portion quickly, so Fu Li gave her hers as well. Tong didn't refuse, and said "Thank you, sister" sweetly, and quickly finished her piece as well.
The Henggong fish is not small. The two pieces of fish that Ge gave them weighed about two kilograms each.
Tong ate four pounds of cooked fish in one go without even blinking.
Seeing her eyes fall on her belly, Tong covered it with her hands and smiled shyly: "Sister, I'm still growing."
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