Eaglewood Crumbs

Chapter 20: Chess game

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Escape is inevitable.

Yan Dan asked himself that he didn't want to change from a wild grass-grown monster to a wild domestic monster. However, the first thing to do to escape is to release the restriction on the hand, otherwise it would be too uneconomical to escape from the tiger's mouth and fall into the wolf's mouth.

Yan Dan faced the oil lamp, slowly rolled up his sleeves, and reached out to touch the restraint on his wrist. The restriction did not flick her fingers away like the last two times, but she really touched it. Yan Dan calmed down and thought for a while, guessing that she was just like a mortal without any magic tricks on her body, and bans were naturally useless for mortals. That is to say, this time, she can take it off by herself without any external force.

Yan Dan stretched out his hand and pulled it out a few times. The restriction was too tight. Unless the hand was chopped off, it would be impossible to pull |out| out. Although there was an allusion of scorpion stinging hands and strong men breaking their wrists in ancient times, she still wanted to be a good demon. She touched the corner of the table, smashed the restraint on the edge of the table twice, and then looked at the oil lamp, there was not even a crack. It can be seen that this prohibition is very strong.

She squatted on the ground instead, and pressed the restraint on the ground to grind it. After grinding for a while, there was a pool of white chips on the ground. Touching the restriction again, the place that was originally an arc is indeed a little flat. Yan Dan fiddled around for a while, thinking it was the most feasible way to grind it out. The ancients could grind an iron pestle into a needle, so it shouldn't be too difficult for her to break a ban

She pushed open the door, intending to go to the kitchen to find a whetstone, but saw Tang Zhou standing at the door, looking at her with arms crossed. Yan Dan was so excited that he jumped a big step forward and said with a smile, "Brother, what are you doing?"

Tang Zhou leaned against the door and smiled slightly: "So I wanted to ask you what is missing in the guest room, but when I walked to the door, I heard the sound of something being smashed." He glanced at her wrist: "But It doesn't seem to be broken?"

Yan Dan timidly grabbed him, shook it twice, and said softly, "Let me go, I promise not to do bad things again in the future, and be dedicated to goodness. Every Buddha's birthday, I will go to donate sesame oil to incense. money; also set up a tablet for longevity for you, three incense sticks in the morning and evening."

"You choose one by yourself, is it with a ban or is it refined into an elixir?"

Yan Dan gave him a deep look and pouted: "Tang Zhou, you ungrateful little man, I saved your life twice."

Tang Zhou stood up straight and said slowly, "If I release your restraint, will it be too late for you to escape?"

Isn't this nonsense, if she doesn't escape, is she still waiting for him to catch him again

"Since you said that I was an ungrateful person, how could I let you go?"

"Tang Zhou, I was wrong, I was really wrong! I didn't say anything just now. Even if you hear anything, you will immediately forget it. You see you've been away from home for so long, and you'll be homesick, right? I'm also very worried now. Want to go home, my family Dan Shu is still waiting for me to tell him (ghost) stories, Ziyan is still looking forward to me, Zilin will be ruined without me pushing the cultivation base..."

Tang Zhou's mouth twitched slightly: "It sounds like all the monsters in your family are male?" He slowly pulled his sleeve out of her hand: "I don't think you have any discomfort when you are a mortal, and it will be fine in the future. already."

Yan Dan was shocked and stayed for a while before raising her hand and rubbing her eyes, and muttered to herself, "Speaking of which, will I be getting old after being a mortal for so many days?" I feel the pain is getting worse.

Tang Zhou slowly walked away a few steps, and when he heard that there was no sound behind him, he looked back strangely. But seeing Yan Dan hang his head, standing there motionless, suddenly a drop of crystal clear liquid fell from his eyes, fainting a little light on the ground. He couldn't help but sighed, turned around and walked to her side, hesitated for a moment, but still put his hand on her shoulder: "Go to bed early, it's not too early now."

Yan Dan turned his head to look at him, then turned his head and ignored him.

Tang Zhou slowly stretched out his hand, wiped the corner of her eyes lightly, and said in a good voice, "You're tired today too, just go to sleep."

Yan Dan walked to the door, slammed him out, then turned his head to look at the white dust that had just been ground on the ground, and said to himself, "It's all blown into my eyes, it hurts..."

The real truth is this-

Yan Dan squatted on the ground and smoothed the restraint on her wrist to a few points. White chips got into her eyes when she was grinding, but she couldn't take it into account, so she ran out to look for a sharpening stone, only to see Tang Zhou at the door. She immediately jumped back one step and stepped on the pile of white dust, preventing Tang Zhou from seeing it, but the white dust floated into her eyes again.

She rubbed her eyes, and her eyes became slightly moist, and the slight pain and itching just now disappeared.

As for inadvertently planting willows and willows for shade, the willows grow into plane trees, this is the tragic situation that God saw her suffering now, and finally came to rescue her. Yan Dan looked in the mirror for a long time and came to a conclusion: "It seems to be a little bit older, probably not as old as half a year old... But Tang Zhou seems to be afraid of seeing me cry? Well, it seems that there is no need to look for a sharpening stone. Now, let's find an onion..."

(Someone arranging flowers:

Chef: Young master, this girl Yan is very strange, she came over in the middle of the night to find something...

Tang Zhou: Probably hungry.

Cook: She searched for a long time and took away two onions.

Tang Zhou:…)

Early the next morning, Yan Dan appeared in front of people with vain steps with reddish eyes. She really didn't know that an onion would be so powerful. She started peeling two pieces and didn't even feel it. She thought it was not working. After a while, her eyes started to get sore, and she couldn't help rubbing it with her hands, but it was self-defeating.

Yan Dan lowered his head to drink porridge depressedly, and suddenly there was a plate of flower rolls in front of him. Tang Zhou whispered, "Don't just drink porridge, eat more of something else." She looked up at him and continued to drink porridge in a depressing manner.

"None of them are to your taste? What do you want to eat, I'll let the cook do it." He asked softly again.

Yan Dan finally fully understood what Bailing said when he pointed to Yuan Dan's nose: the common problem of men is to be greedy, weak, and cheap. But she really had no appetite now, and there was still a choking smell of onions in her mouth, so she shook her head, drank the white porridge in the bowl silently, and said softly, "Uncle Tang, Aunt Tang, take it easy."

Mrs. Tang looked at her son and frowned: "You bullied her? This child seems to cry all night."

Tang Zhou pushed away the chair, turned around and chased after her, gently holding her wrist: "I lost my head last night, there are some things I shouldn't have said, I'm sorry."

Yan Dan couldn't help but let out an "ah", looked at him with a complicated expression, and said carefully, "Actually, you have said more than this and done worse things..." So last night's If something could make her cry all night, she would have been so angry before.

Tang Zhou was embarrassed: "Really?"

Yan Dan turned around dejectedly and left.

Tang Zhou stood there and thought about it again, and happened to see Xiao Cui walking over and said, "I have something to ask you." Xiao Cui stopped and smiled slightly: "Young master, you ask, I will definitely say what I can say. Tell you everything."

"What would you think if the first time you saw a man, he wounded your companion?"

Xiaocui asked: "Is my companion seriously injured? He vomited blood? He almost died?" Tang Zhou nodded every time she asked, and she immediately said angrily: "Send this person to the office and beat him first. Ten big boards, if you break that person's legs, it's better to break all the bones of the whole body!"

"After that, this person arrested you, locked you in a dark place, and didn't give you anything to eat. After two..."

"Hungry for two days in a dark place?! Does this person still have humanity?" Xiao Cui was filled with righteous indignation, "You don't need to go on, Master, this kind of wicked person who is inferior to pigs and dogs will definitely be struck by lightning! "

Tang Zhou said slowly: "Okay, just go down and do things."

On the third day, Yan Dan finally got rid of the poison of the onion. As soon as he saw Tang Zhou, he asked: "Don't you want to go back to the master's door? Why don't you just do it today?" , even if you first grind off a piece of the ban on your hand, it is good. Who would have guessed that Tang Tuesday, who would always talk to her on weekdays, immediately packed up a few changed clothes and had a carriage prepared. In less than half an hour, they were already at the foot of Lingjue Mountain.

Yan Dan looked at the steep and narrow mountain road in front of him, no matter whether it was a carriage or a donkey, it was impossible to go up, and it seemed that he could only walk on his feet. Tang Zhou pointed in another direction: "Go over there."

This is a gravel path buried by weeds, probably when the predecessors walked up the mountain.

"Senior brother, you don't need to pick this time even if you want to rectify me, right? If I'm halfway out of energy, why don't you bother?" Yan Dan pouted slightly.

"The way up the mountain is the best way to go. That one is only half-paved, and the rest will have to be climbed." Tang Zhou stepped on the gravel path, used his sword to clear the grass in front of him, and walked first go up.

Seeing that he had been hitting the ground with his sword, Yan Dan thought that many herb collectors used sticks to explore the road first, to startle the snakes and worms away, and asked, "Are there still snakes here?"

"There are always birds, beasts, insects and snakes in the mountains. What's so strange about this?"

Yan Dan nodded: "Then you still have game and snake meat to eat."

Tang Zhou was silent.

When they got to the foot of the mountain, the sun was not in the middle, and when they reached the Taoist temple on the mountain, it was already sunset.

Yan Dan looked at the white walls and black tiles in front of him, which contrasted with the surrounding green trees. The evening breeze was gentle, the twilight bell sounded softly, and the sea of clouds lingered on the edge of the cliff. Just as she was about to step into the threshold of the Taoist temple, she suddenly heard a clucking sound, and a big colorful rooster struggled to pass over her head. Press the rooster to the ground, then hold it by the neck and lift it up, with the knife facing the sky. But seeing the knife light flash, the chicken head hooted and landed at Yan Dan's feet, the chicken eyes were round and staring at Yan Dan.

The one holding the chicken's neck in one hand and the kitchen knife in the other was a woman with honey-colored skin, her eyes were as black as lacquer, big and round, she slightly raised the kitchen knife toward Tang Zhou, and said proudly, "Senior brother, look at this trick of mine. How does the formula make it?"

Yan Dan immediately praised: "The hero of women's middle school!"

Tang Zhou glanced at her sideways.

The other party felt a sense of encounter, handed the kitchen knife to the other hand, then grabbed her hand with his free hand, and shook it a few times: "Your vision is really good, why don't I teach this trick How about you?"

Yan Dan said regretfully, "I have never practiced martial arts."

"It doesn't matter, I'll teach you from the beginning, starting from the basic skills, I'm sure you can learn it!"

Tang Zhou said coolly: "Junior sister, she's just this bone. If you want to start from the basic skills, I'm afraid you have to disassemble it all." Yan Dan looked at him dejectedly, and he returned to normal so quickly. It would be a mistake not to come here if I knew it earlier.

"My name is Qin Qi, what's your name?" The honey-skinned woman shook her hand again.

"Yan Dan. I'm..." She turned to look at Tang Zhou, who immediately answered knowingly, "She's my distant cousin."

Sure enough, it's a cousin, so boring... Yan Dan pouted slightly, and answered vaguely. I just heard Tang Zhou ask, "Is Master inside?"

Qin Qi immediately showed a look of contempt: "I'm playing chess with Young Master Liu."

Yan Dan thought to himself, why did he show such an expression? Isn't there a saying in mortals that "one day is a teacher and a lifetime is a father"? Is it because she remembered it wrong, or she has completely failed to keep up with the changes in mortal customs.

Tang Zhou said in a tone without hesitation: "It must be a big loss again."

Hey, you call it disrespectful to the teacher...

Qin Qi pouted and said with disdain, "This time the old man has come up with a way to choose the place under the waterfall. Well, it's on the rock below, and he said that if the chess piece is washed away by the water, it can't be replayed. It's still called playing chess? It's better to say that it's playing tricks, hypocrisy."

Yan Dan interjected: "Where is the waterfall?"

Qin Qi said simply: "I'll take you there."

Under the magnificent sunset, the thin mist of mist was also dyed light red, and when the wind blew, it hit the face wetly. A jade belt slammed down from the rock, like a silver dragon falling to the ground, pouring into the cold lake of clear water. On the edge of the cold lake, there are many plants of hanli, and the lotus leaves are still slightly rolled, and the color is bright.

In the smoke water, there were two people playing chess on the stone. The older one seemed to be quite old, with sparse gray hair, sharp eyes, and as clear and bright as a young man. Yan Dan sat on the edge of the stone table and muttered: "Your master is very similar to our patriarch..." They all had a shiny bald head and were very kind.

Qin Qi asked curiously, "Where is it like?"

Before Yan Dan opened his mouth, he was immediately interrupted by Tang Zhou: "Cough." Yan Dan silently closed his mouth and turned his head to look at the two people playing chess in the mist.

I saw Liu Weiyang's hair and clothes were soaked wet, tightly clinging to his body, his slender and powerful fingers picked up a chess piece and pressed it on the flat stone. His press seems to be an understatement, but the chess piece is embedded in the stone, which is full of depths. The waterfall slammed down, roaring and hitting the two of them. Liu Weiyang's face was slightly pale, but his eyes were as calm as usual, and he was fast and steady when he landed.

Suddenly hearing a long whistle, Yan Dan was startled, and the teapot in his hand almost fell to the ground. Then there was a flower in front of her, and a figure was already in front of her, snatching the teapot in her hand like a gust of wind, and gulping two sips directly to the mouth of the teapot.

Tang Zhou stood up and said, "Master."

Yan glanced at him lightly, and finally felt relieved. It turned out that she hadn't been able to keep up with the customs of the mortal world, at least in front of her master, she was still a teacher for one day and a father for the rest of her life.

Qin Qi immediately grabbed a robe and put it on her master: "Master, did you win this time?"

The Taoist priest said nothing, slapped the stone table with his palm, the entire table jumped, and the teacup fell to the ground with a bang and shattered. Yan Dan tightened his body, especially when those sharp eyes swept across his body, there was an indescribable fear. She remembered what Tang Zhou had said, that his master had a wife and children before he became a monk, but when he returned from a long trip, he found that his wife and children were eaten by monsters and only two bones were left. She is a demon, a flower spirit, and she doesn't want to become a bone spirit at all...

Fortunately, the gaze quickly moved away, and the Taoist head left without looking back. Yan Dan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and slowly raised his head, only to see Liu Weiyang walking from a mist of water, with his clothes half-open, and water droplets from the hair on his forehead slid from his high nose. Yan Dan only took two glances, and was suddenly turned over by Tang Zhou. Tang Zhou looked at her and said slowly: "You forgot again, girls can't look directly at others like this."

Yan Dan whispered, "I suddenly realized that the saw-mouth gourd doesn't seem so unpleasant..."

Liu Weiyang raised his eyebrows and looked at her with those faint, terrifying eyes: "Saw-billed gourd?"

Yan Dan froze. He didn't expect that Young Master Liu was like wood, but his eyes and ears were so sensitive. She turned her head and said with certainty, "You must have heard it wrong."

Liu Weiyang did not refute, put on his robe and walked away.

Qin Qi patted her forehead and said, "It's almost time for dinner, so I'll go and bring out the food." After speaking, she walked away quickly.

Yan Dan watched the backs of the two disappear before turning to Tang Zhou: "Will your master find out that I am a demon?"

Tang Zhou sighed: "You don't have any demonic energy in you, Master won't find out."

"What if he still finds out?"

"If you have to get to that point," he reached out and touched her head, "you'll be fine."

Yan Dan frowned: "You patted my head again!"

Tang Zhou looked at his hand thoughtfully: "Because when I took the picture, I felt it was very easy..."

Yan Dan glared at him for a while, then held back. The fish is on the cutting board under the kitchen knife, what else can she not bear? Even if this mortal who is not even a fraction of her age treats her like a kitten or a puppy, it's not a big deal.