twenty two
When Du Heng woke up again, it was already dark. It was snowing heavily outside, and the goose-feather-sized snowflakes fell on Jing Nan's barrier but disappeared.
The sky above the barrier was grayish white, and the mountains and tree shadows not far away served as a backdrop to the grayish white world. However, the barrier was full of green branches and leaves, and various spiritual plants with their own halos were emitting various spiritual lights.
A barrier separated the two worlds. Standing in front of the window of the house, Du Heng was in a trance for a moment. He always felt that this scene was magical. He had never seen such a bizarre scene in modern society. Speaking of which, he had only been in Yikeshu Village for a short time, so why did he feel familiar?
It seemed as if he had been here for a very long time, as if he was just a tree or a blade of grass in the village. Du Heng stared out the window, not knowing how long he had been staring.
There were guests in the village. Du Heng saw a big yellow dog lying in the yard. When it saw Du Heng looking at it, the dog wagged its tail at him. Du Heng waved to the dog, who stretched himself comfortably and then continued to lie on the bluestone slab in the yard.
Just when Du Heng wanted to continue watching for a while, the door opened and Xiaoxiao walked in. Seeing that Du Heng had woken up, Xiaoxiao looked at Du Heng with sparkling eyes. Du Heng smiled: "Xiaoxiao." Xiaoxiao fluttered her wings and opened her tender yellow mouth towards Du Heng. Du Heng: ...
No matter how dreamy and magical the scene outside is, Xiaoxiao can always wake him up in the first time - it's time to feed him.
Du Heng's house has no stairs, but a teleportation array instead. When you walk into the teleportation array and move forward, you can smoothly switch between the first and second floors.
When Du Heng went downstairs, he saw Jing Nan, Xuan Yu and others in the living room. A burly man was sitting on a chair next to them.
The man was a bit taller than Xuan Yu. Although he was not as tall as the Lianhua Xiyue brothers from Lingxi Town, he was still quite eye-catching in the crowd. The man had a square face, sharp eyes, and a long scar on his right cheek. He was wearing a gray fur coat, which was rough but steady, and revealed a bit of simplicity and kindness.
Du Heng saluted the man, then said to Xuan Yu, "Are there guests?" The man quickly stood up and saluted, "Hello, Mr. Du."
Jing Nan introduced, "This is Hun Yidao, a hunter from the surrounding mountains. Old Dao doesn't usually come near the village, but he came to check it out when he heard that the wild animals in the trap were attacked by monsters." Du Heng nodded quickly, "I see. Thank you for your help, Master Dao."
Jing Nan said with a smile: "I have never been called a master in my life. I woke up laughing when I went back to sleep today." Du Heng looked and saw that Lao Dao's face was indeed red. Lao Dao saluted and said: "Mr. Du, I am too embarrassed."
People in the demon world would address someone they respected as "Mr.", and the title "Master" was not a title for people in a certain profession like in modern times. In the world of cultivation, only true masters and apprentices could address each other that way. Du Heng's face flushed, and he could not help but bring modern habits to the world of cultivation.
Du Heng said embarrassedly: "If you don't mind, I will call you Lao Dao like Xuan Yu and the others, what do you think?" Lao Dao bowed: "Mr. Du, please feel free to do as you like."
Xuan Yu said to Du Heng, "A wild boar got into the third trap, and Lao Dao brought it here for you. I've taken care of it for you and put it in the kitchen." Du Heng's eyes lit up, "Really? Thank you, Lao Dao."
Jing Nan said to Xuan Yu with a smile: "What did I say? With his physique, the toxicity in the gypsum organs will not have much effect on him."
It turned out that what poisoned Du Heng was nothing else but the stench he smelled when he reached the trap. The wild animal that died tragically in the trap was called mountain gourd. Mountain gourd liked to eat something slightly toxic, so there would be some poison in its organs. Generally, this kind of poison has little effect on demon cultivators, but it has some effect on human cultivators, so Xuan Yu ignored this problem.
Xuan Yu said seriously: "I have stored your organs for you. Your current cultivation level is not enough to handle them. I will give them to you when your cultivation level is higher." Jing Nan's mouth twitched: "Why did you say that on purpose? If it's lost, it's lost. Why did you specially collect it for him?"
Xuan Yu said calmly: "He said it can't be wasted." Xuan Yu's concise tone made Jing Nan fall backwards: "That's enough!"
Du Heng smiled at Lao Dao: "I'll go cook some dishes. Lao Dao, would you like to stay for dinner tonight?" Lao Dao looked at Jing Nan, who smiled and nodded: "You should try Du Heng's cooking. There is no such shop outside this village." Lao Dao smiled innocently: "Then I won't be polite."
Du Heng entered the kitchen. He had seen a pig's head torn apart by a monster in the morning. Just half of the head was bigger than the two or three hundred-pound pig heads Du Heng had seen before. He wondered how huge the whole pig would be!
However, Du Heng remembered Xuan Yu's abnormal knife skills. Maybe what he saw were processed pigs.
There was a storage bag on the floor of the kitchen. This storage bag was different from the ordinary storage bags that Du Heng had seen. This storage bag was red all over, as big as a bamboo basket, and tied with a thin golden string.
Xuan Yu's voice floated over from the living room: "The mountain paste is in the red storage bag." Du Heng wanted to pick up the storage bag and put it on the chopping board, but after he lifted it a few times, the storage bag didn't move at all. It was so heavy!
Du Heng complained to Xiaoxiao: "The pigs in the demon world are so big that they weigh down my storage bag and I can't lift it." He untied the storage bag, and suddenly a huge hairy pig head popped out of the bag.
The head was half the size of Du Heng's body! Du Heng was so frightened that he sat back on the ground, unable to recover for a long time.
The pig's head was covered with black bristles, and its eyes were shining. Those who didn't know would think it was a living thing. Du Heng was completely stunned by the huge head. Is this what Xuan Yu said was already taken care of? ?
At this time, the pig opened its mouth and howled at Du Heng with full force: "Fuck—your—mother—"
Du Heng was so scared that his face turned pale: "Ah——" When Du Heng shouted like that, Xiaoxiao in the kitchen also screamed: "Chi——" Dahuang in the yard barked in response to them, and the quiet yard suddenly became lively.
Xuan Yu and the others rushed into the kitchen, only to see Du Heng pointing at the big pig head sticking out of the storage bag with a pale face: "Speak...speak!!" This brought him such a great shock that Du Heng could not even finish his words.
Xuan Yu stepped forward and a flash of light flashed in his hand. The pig's head left the body and rolled onto the kitchen floor. The undried blood in the body dripped onto the kitchen floor, and the formation in the kitchen immediately took effect, making a slight buzzing sound. The wild boar's broken throat was covered with blood, and the muscles could be seen contracting. It could no longer curse, and the muscle contraction disappeared after a while.
Du Heng's face was pale: "It spoke, it spoke!" Xuan Yu was puzzled: "Huh? Is there a problem?" Du Heng was about to cry: "It even scolded me, will it change its shape? Are we killing people?"
Jing Nan burst out laughing: "Hahahaha! So Du Heng thinks that animals that can talk can change their shape. Don't worry, this is Shan Gao. It likes to imitate the way humans and demons talk, and it specializes in swearing. It can't change its shape, and it will stay like this for the rest of its life. It's also Xuan Yu's fault that he only cut open its internal organs and didn't even cut off its head. Did you get scared?"
Du Heng thought he was not a delicate person, but he was also scared. If he were a girl, he would have cried by now. He asked Xuan Yu tremblingly: "Is this what you said... is it ready?"
Xuan Yu's expression remained calm, but everyone felt that his voice was aggrieved: "When I was cleaning up the mole, you said that I removed the meat from the bones too thoroughly, so I deliberately didn't remove it this time."
Not only did they not remove the bones or peel the skin, but they also let Shan Gao curse at people in anger.
Xuan Yu added, "I will process it according to your request. Just tell me what to do." Du Heng felt his hands were still shaking. He said in a trembling voice, "Remove the hair and leave some meat on the bones."
Xuan Yu nodded: "Okay, you go to the living room and calm down first, I'll come when I'm done." Du Heng felt his legs a little weak. When Shan Gao yelled at him just now, he felt a huge pressure coming over him, and his hands were still shaking a little.
Lao Dao was stunned as he watched Xuan Yu process the pig hair in the yard. The hairless pig hair revealed its black skin. Nearly a thousand pounds of severed pig hair lay on the bluestone slab in the yard like a small mountain. A flash of light flashed in Xuan Yu's hand, and the pig hair was rolled out of the yard by the light, leaving not even a drop of blood on the ground.
Lao Dao swallowed his saliva and said, "Mr. Xuan, do you do this often?" Xuan Yu rolled up his sleeves and moved the sharp knife in his hand back and forth on Shan Gao's body. He said calmly, "No."
Xuan Yu grabbed the two front hooves of Shan Gao and exerted force, and a pig bone with a lot of meat on it came out of the meat. The spiritual light on the pig bone trembled slightly, and when it fell, the pig bone turned into pieces of cut bones.
Xuan Yu slowly cut the mountain meat into pieces, and after processing, he packed the meat and bones separately in a storage bag. He even removed the hair from the huge pig head and placed it aside.
In the living room, Jing Nan was handing Du Heng a cup of water. Du Heng drank three cups of water in a row before he felt better. Du Heng asked Jing Nan embarrassedly, "Am I particularly useless?" Jing Nan said, "No, you are only at the third level of Qi training now, and the cultivation of an adult Shan Gao is comparable to that of a golden elixir. Besides, you have never seen it before, so it is inevitable that you will be frightened."
Du Heng smiled embarrassedly: "Sorry, I made you laugh." Jing Nan chuckled and changed the subject: "No one is born strong, take your time. By the way, Du Heng, can you make wontons today? The wontons with pumpkin filling that day were delicious." Du Heng thought for a moment and said: "Okay, but I want to make a different filling this time."
Jing Nan asked curiously, "Hmm? Do you want to make wontons with pure meat filling?" Du Heng said, "How about making wontons with fresh bamboo shoots and meat filling?"
Jing Nan was stunned: "Fresh bamboo shoots?" Du Heng said: "Isn't there a bamboo forest behind your house? There should be bamboo shoots, right?" Jing Nan smiled a little bit obscenely: "There are bamboo shoots, but the bamboo may not be very cooperative." Du Heng smiled and picked up the storage bag: "Let's get some bamboo shoots and make you some special wontons today."
When Du Heng went out, Xuan Yu was putting away the mountain gypsum bones: "Where are you going?" Du Heng smiled and waved the machete in his hand: "I'm going to dig some bamboo shoots to make wontons. Can you help me put the mountain gypsum bones in the pot to cook soup? I'll be back soon."
Watching Du Heng leave, Hun Yidao asked in confusion, "Where can we find bamboo shoots here?" Xuan Yu looked at the direction Du Heng left and said dimly, "I'm afraid he's talking about the ghost-crying bamboo behind Jing Nan's house."
Lao Dao swallowed his saliva and said, "Mr. Du, have you given up? The Ghost Crying Bamboo can even kill a demon cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage, and he actually wants to take its bamboo shoots?"
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