The whole room was filled with the smell of charcoal fire, and the egg was still lying in the quilt, without any change, Hu Cang let out a few muffled noises, and did not interrupt Yuanniang to gently stroke the egg with her rather slender fingers. The endless tenderness of the shell. The peach demon came slowly, and the dusky afterglow of the setting sun was shining on Yuan Niang through the window, making her whole person appear a little softer than usual.
There was nothing to say, and after waiting quietly for a while, Yuan Niang took her hand away from the egg shell, and then covered the egg with the quilt, keeping the egg tightly. When she was about to leave, she saw the charcoal fire. When it was about to burn out, after adding some charcoal to the brazier, he went to the restaurant in the front yard. After closing the door, he went to the stove to prepare dinner.
After dinner, they went back to their rooms. Sitting at the window, she seemed to sense something, and she looked up quickly, the lights were dark, and she saw a black mass on the peach tree. She walked out of the door, kicked open the backyard door, and walked along the path towards the river. , the group of black shadows had been following her a short distance away.
The sky is a deep blue, and a crescent moon hangs in the sky, emitting a dim yellow light, smudges the surrounding sky, and the flowing river also emits a faint light.
Walking to the river bank, the peach demon stopped, but disappeared in an instant. Suddenly, he heard a sharp bird call in the sky, and the peach demon reappeared in the night, but with more beautiful feathers in his hands.
Only then did Chongming Bird transform into a human form, rubbing his teeth and rubbing his head, he said dissatisfiedly: "I came to see you from a long distance, yet you treat me like this! If you knew I would not come!"
"Not coming?" Tao Yao walked into him step by step, "If you don't show up again, it will be more than just a hair. If I don't pluck your hair, I will not be a big Tao Yao!"
"Okay, I'm back. You go back to Dushuo Mountain to pluck my hair!" Chongmingbird turned around and returned to the deity, and has spread his wings to the sky.
"Hey...!" Tao Yao screamed and made a leap, how could he not let him go!
Fortunately, Chongming Bird didn't really want to leave, and was successfully intercepted by Tao Yao. "Even if you pluck your hair, it will grow back very quickly. It doesn't matter if you don't pluck it, it will save you wasting energy." Tao Yao stretched her waist and pretended not to care.
"But it will hurt!" Chongming Bird once again transformed into a human form, and murmured, "I know you won't hurt!"
Tao Yao stretched out his hand and stretched out in front of Chongming Bird, looking at death as if at home, and said: "Drink my blood, I have a feeling for drinking my blood, take a sip from a hair, don't drink too much."
Chongming bird grabbed the peach demon's hand, opened its big mouth without fangs, and bit the blood vessels of the peach demon's wrist like a vampire. She rubbed her hand a few times, and just as he was about to bite it off, he raised his eyes and saw the peach demon with a calm face in the night. He couldn't help but let go of her hand and said nonchalantly, "I owe it first. !" Only tooth marks were left on her hands.
Tao Yao secretly delighted in her heart and touched the tooth marks on her wrist, wanting to make it disappear, Chong Ming quickly patted her other hand, but Tao Yao had to give up, thinking in her heart: I will keep it for now It, it will not disappear in the same way after a while.
The clinker heavy bird seemed to be able to read minds. He picked up her hand with only tooth marks, and drew a circle on her hand. A circle of golden light flashed. You can get rid of it when Chongmingbird is in a good mood.
It's not that Tao Yao can't solve Chongmingbird's curse, it's just that whenever she needs to use her brain to solve things, if it's not a big deal, she would rather not solve it. Just like Zuo Hao became an egg, she would rather wait for Chong Ming Bird to come over to solve it by herself, because she knew that he would definitely come.
"Haha! It's pretty nice to leave a tooth mark." Tao Yao smiled shyly.
"You know what looks good?"
The peach demon has no choice but to wipe away his sweat, this demon will not fight against the gods!
"Let's get down to business, in three days, Zuo Hao's mother will be burned at the stake by his father as a monster. You have provoked this matter, and you will solve it yourself."
Chong Ming Bird looks like it has nothing to do with himself: "It's your agreement with him that has nothing to do with me."
Tao Yao seemed to be tired from standing, and sat lazily on the rocks on the shore. Chong Ming Niao also wiped the nearby rocks and sat down gracefully. "A monster like me, some things are destined to be impossible. You won't help me?" Tao Yao looked at the quiet flowing river, and his tone became a lot heavy.
Chongmingbird looked at the crescent moon on the horizon, but it was not bright and clear on Dushuo Mountain, as if he was fascinated by it. After a while, he replied, "You don't want to become a fairy!"
"My heart is ruthless, without love, without sympathy, without the rise and fall of the world, without the harmony of the Three Realms. It is far from qualified to become an immortal." Tao Yao shook his hand, shook his head, and said, "Speaking of these things Well, you just said do you want to help me?"
"How to help?"
"Dream, your looks and identity are enough to move your mouth. Of course, in addition to making his parents love him, he also needs to be able to come to this restaurant often." Many old women are hurt, and one more dog will do it. Friends, it should be good for him.
"You can dream yourself the dream of King Xu."
"If I fall into his dream, the gods in the sky will think that I am bewitching the heart of a monarch, and that I have coveted hearts in the world. Also, that egg, I don't want to use my brain to hatch it, or I will trouble you to do it yourself. Let's do it."
Chongmingbird once threw a stone heavily, and it floated seven times. "You still have self-knowledge and know that you are a dangerous item." After speaking, he clapped his hands, turned into a prototype, and flew away.
Arrive without appointment, leave without goodbye. The smell of Chongming Bird gradually dissipated in this night, and the river was still rushing, from west to east, and I don't know where it eventually flowed.
That night, King Xu Guo was still dealing with state affairs, and he was writing something on the bamboo slips. Suddenly, he heard a crisp bird call, and a large and beautiful bird appeared in front of him. He was about to be startled. Huh, Chongming Bird has already opened his mouth and said: "The monarch does not need to panic, I am the god Chongming."
Reminder bird? King Xu Guoguo took a closer look, and it was indeed his eyes, which made him feel a lot more relieved. He quickly got up and gave a respectful salute, "I don't know what the gods and gods mean today?"
Chongming Bird said: "I heard that there was a maid in the palace of the monarch who was pregnant and laid an egg in ten months. The monarch thought it was a monster and wanted to burn it at the stake."
King Xu Guo was shocked. He didn't know why such a trivial matter was known to the gods, and he respectfully replied: "There is indeed such a thing."
"This woman is not a monster, so treat her kindly; this fetus is the reincarnation of an ancient emperor, and is now saved by his destined person."
The King of Xu Guo bowed again and said, "I wait for the common people to be ignorant, and they almost caused a catastrophe. Thank God for the advice, I will definitely treat their mother and son kindly."
When Xu Guoguo raised his head, the Chongming Bird had disappeared. He thought it was his hallucination just now, so he closed his eyes tightly, rubbed his temples, and before he could open his eyes, the Chongming Bird came again Voice: "Following that feather will naturally find your child." When he hurriedly opened his eyes to look for the figure of Chongming Bird, the house was still empty, but there was really a colorful feather on the ground.
The next day, the monarch's guard of honor arrived at a small wine shop in Xicheng. Although the people did not know what was going on, they were still boiling, taking the honor of seeing the monarch's guard of honor as an endless honor.
Yuan Niang hadn't woken up from the fact that the monarch came to her house. She was pleasantly surprised and proud to see the monarch up close, but she was more worried and uneasy. She picked up the egg that the monarch thought was a monster, and the person who laid the egg was a death penalty. , the person who picks up the egg and wants to hatch it is a death sentence. She led the monarch into the backyard on two limp legs. She knew that her face was pale, her tongue was knotted, and she even lost the strength to push open the hatching door.
She seemed to be able to sense the monarch's wickedness, no matter how kind he was to her. She knew that he was the monarch, and she could only obey, not resist. She secretly pushed the door harder, but she could feel that the door showed no sign of opening, but otherwise, it opened. At this moment, she felt the strength of her whole body come back. She saw Tao Yao smiled at her, Tao Yao was by her side, and Hu Cang was also there.
In an instant, a lot of people poured into the small house, and the soldiers saw a wooden shelf on the brazier, which was wrapping something with a quilt. It must be the egg.
Yuan Niang opened the quilt above, revealing the white eggshell. Do not! There were faint cracks on the eggshell today. Yuanniang turned back, her face brightened, she completely forgot her previous worries, looked at the peach demon, and said softly, "Will he be hatched?"
The monarch walked in, and naturally saw the faint crack, raised his hand and touched the eggshell. After a while, the crack expanded, and there was a faint sound of the cracking of the eggshell. Everyone stopped their movements and held their breath. , waiting for the true arrival of a life.
The complete eggshell slowly cracked open, and a boy, lying on his back, with ruddy complexion, seemed to be sleeping soundly.
"Child!" Yuan Niang cried with joy, wiping her tears with one hand and holding the peach demon nearby with the other.
Tao Yao also echoed the face very much: "It's a child."
The monarch let out a burst of joyful laughter, and the middle-aged got the first son, and all the soldiers said in unison: "Congratulations to the monarch! Congratulations to the monarch!"
The monarch walked in and wanted to take the child out. He pondered the posture back and forth for a long time, but he didn't see any action. Yuan Niang couldn't take it any longer, so she wrapped the child in the prepared quilt and carried it out. The king withdrew his hand a little embarrassedly.
Yuanniang looked at the sleeping smiling face of the child, and reluctantly brought the child to the monarch. The monarch took it with a smile and said to Yuanniang, "Thank you for taking care of the child, you have a charitable gift that no one can match. Heart, you are also his destined person. You will be this child's godmother from now on, and you can visit him at any time in the palace."
Yuan Niang hurriedly knelt down and thanked her: "The people's wife Xie Guojun!"
On this day, Yuanniang's wine shop became popular all over the country of Xu. Yuanniang became the godmother of the monarch's son Ying's birthday, and was taught by the monarch himself. But Yuan Niang also has Yuan Niang's stubbornness. She doesn't like the name that the monarch gave her godson.
"Do you still want to change the name of the monarch?" Tao Yao said as Yuan Niang cooked an unusually rich meal.
"How can I change it?" Yuan Niang said with an unpredictable smile, "I can get another one! It's so ugly!"
Tao Yao touched the oil on his mouth with his hand, hiccupped, and murmured a few times of "birthday". He felt that it was quite smooth, and he said, "It is very smooth, what's not so good!"
Yuan Niang quickly took the blue handkerchief and wiped Tao Yao's hand and the corner of her mouth, Tao Yao didn't care and smiled shyly.
"How about Yan'er?" Yuan Niang's eyes lit up instantly, "Yan, the meaning of looking up is exactly in line with the appearance of his broken shell on his back!"
"Yan'er?" Tao Yao repeated several times to herself.
Under Yuan Niang's devout gaze, Tao Yao's dead fish eyes also bowed down, "Well, it's quite smooth."