She was unable to react for a moment and asked foolishly, "Does the transformation also give a Taoist partner?"
Jiang Lin: “…”
Zong Yu: “…”
Jiang Lin frowned: "What are you thinking? Of course not, Zong Yu and I have known each other for many years."
Xiaoqing was very confused and thought: Why don’t I know that
She looked at Zong Yu with envy: "Brother Jiang Lin's Taoist partner is also a transformed monster, how great!"
Zong Yu suddenly found this little green snake particularly pleasing to the eye.
In a good mood, he felt around in his storage ring and found a small white jade bottle. He opened it and poured it into his palm. Inside was a red pill.
The scarlet pill flew out from his palm and landed on the top of the little green snake's head. As soon as it touched the snake's scales, it melted into the green snake's skin.
Xiaoqing just felt warm all over. Although she didn't know what it was, she knew it was a good thing.
"A greeting gift." She heard the handsome and generous monster say.
Xiao Qing said happily: "Thank you, sir."
She remembered the book she was reading and added thoughtfully, "I wish you and Brother Jiang Lin a long and happy marriage."
Jiang Lin: “…”
Zong Yu couldn't help it and the corners of his mouth curled up quickly.
He coughed and corrected himself, "A hundred years is what mortals pursue, but we monsters want tens of thousands of years."
Xiao Qing was stunned for a moment, then followed his words and replied: "Then I wish Brother Jiang Lin and your Taoist partner a long and happy marriage."
Jiang Lin: “…”
He was too lazy to pay attention to these two little idiots and turned around and walked into the house.
I didn’t see Bai Suzhen.
He asked Xiaoqing: "Did Suzhen go to Xu's house again?"
Xiao Qing replied, "Yes, today we found a tree of very sweet pears. I washed a few and put them in the hall. My sister said she would send some to the benefactor to taste."
According to her usual habit, Bai Suzhen would go to Xu's house during the day and come back quietly at night.
But that night, she did not come back.
Jiang Lin hadn't seen her the next morning, and he felt a little uneasy. He used his spiritual sense to sense her, and his expression changed slightly.
Xu family.
In the main hall, Xu's parents were looking at their son with serious expressions.
Xu Xuan was sitting on the other side. There was a cage at his feet, and in the cage there was a very beautiful white snake.
The cage door had been opened, but the white snake did not come out. Its graceful body was coiled up, and it slightly raised its head to look at the family.
It turned out that yesterday, Bai Suzhen came to deliver pears to Xu Xuan, and happened to meet a friend of Xu Xuan who gave him a jar of fruit wine he brewed himself.
The wine is very sweet, with a rich aroma of wine and a hint of fruit, very mellow and long-lasting.
When Bai Suzhen arrived, Xu Xuan had already drunk several cups and was a little drunk.
Because he was a little drunk, when he saw Bai Suzhen, he did something that he probably would not do if he was sober.
"My little white snake friend is here." He took out a cup with a smile, poured a glass of wine for the little white snake, and greeted her very enthusiastically, "Come and taste it, it's very mellow."
Bai Suzhen trusted her benefactor very much, and the light golden wine in front of her did smell very fragrant.
She stuck out her tongue and licked it, and her body leaned back instantly.
So spicy!
The white snake, who had never tasted alcohol, was not used to it.
She thought, my benefactor actually lied to me!
But before she could feel unhappy, the spicy taste of wine on her tongue wore off, and was replaced by a lingering sweet fragrance.
Huh
It seems that my benefactor did not lie to me
She tentatively moved closer, stretched out her tongue to take a small bite, and even closed her eyes to savor it.
Before I knew it, the whole glass of wine had gone into my stomach.
Xu Xuan was drinking and watching this scene. He was drunk and in a very good mood. He smiled and said, "It can be seen that my friend's wine is really good. Even the white snake loves it."
At the same time, he took out paper and pen from the study, and started to paint. Soon, a lifelike picture of a white snake drinking appeared on the paper.
Xu Xuan held up the painting and showed it to the White Snake: "Do you think my painting looks like..."
But the white snake was lying on the stone table, as if it had no bones, and had passed out drunk.
Xu Xuan burst out laughing, and taking advantage of his drunkenness, he wrote an article on paper titled "Drinking with Snake Friends in a Certain Month". Finally, he could not hold back the drunkenness anymore and fell asleep in the yard.
At dusk, the bookboy came to call his son to dinner. When he entered the courtyard, he smelled alcohol and saw his son lying on the table from a distance. He shook his head helplessly, thinking that he would not be afraid of catching a cold if he got drunk like this.
As a result, when he got closer, the servant boy was almost scared to death - next to the stone table where the young master was lying, there was a several-foot-long white snake lying!
The servant boy didn't dare to disturb him, and walked closer carefully. He looked his master up and down, and saw that there were no wounds on his body and his breathing was long, which showed that he was sleeping soundly. Only then did he finally feel relieved.
As for this white snake...
Upon closer inspection, it is very beautiful, with scales that are pure white and almost silver, and you can tell at first glance that it is extraordinary.
The snake seemed to be asleep, and the servant boy did not dare to touch it. He called the servant over and asked him to bring some equipment to catch the white snake.
When the servant saw the white snake, his eyes lit up: "This rare white snake must be worth a hundred gold coins!"
He went to find a cage with a fine mesh, caught the drunken white snake, and reported to the master and mistress.
Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu were also startled, and only felt relieved after they were sure that Xu Xuan was fine.
They woke Xu Xuan up and told him about this in a very relieved tone.
But Xu Xuan's expression changed: "Where is the white snake?"
Madam Xu said, "Heshan has caught it and is going to sell it tomorrow morning."
Hearing that it was just said, Xu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief.
He said seriously: "Mom, you misunderstood. This white snake is not a harmful snake. It is my friend."
Mrs. Xu was bewildered: "What?"
Xu Xuan then told his experience with the White Snake.
He smiled and said, "I just saved it by chance, but it never forgot about it and often gave me some delicious food. It can be seen that it is grateful. Although it is a snake, it is much better than many people."
But after hearing what he said, Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu did not feel relieved, but became even more worried.
"This..." Mr. Xu is a businessman. He traveled a lot when he was young and has some experience. "If this is the case, this white snake must have an extraordinary origin. This kind of intelligence is almost demonic."
Monsters, after all, are mysterious and frightening to mortals.
Mr. Xu said decisively: "We are just an ordinary family. It is better not to provoke such a spiritual creature. Xuan'er, wait until the white snake wakes up and talk to it carefully. Tell it not to come again in the future."
Xu Xuan disagreed: "Dad, I've already told you that Xiaobai is my friend. I just saved his life by chance, but he always remembers it and comes to see me often. What's there to be afraid of with such a sympathetic snake?"
"… "
When the White Snake woke up, what she heard was the argument between Xu Xuan and his parents.
She was naturally intelligent, and after just a few listens, she understood what was going on.
She looked at her benefactor quietly, then at Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu.
The white snake in the cage suddenly moved.
It slowly swam out of the cage at Xu Xuan's feet and approached the main seat at the top.
Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu stopped talking when it moved, and their whole bodies tensed up when they saw her approaching.
The white snake slowly wrapped around the corner of the table and climbed onto it, then came to the fruit plate on the table.
I don't know how she did it, but she wrapped her tail around the pear in the fruit bowl and placed it steadily on her head.
She swam to Mrs. Xu with a big yellow pear on her head, looking at her with her light golden pupils and wagging the tip of her tail at her.
Mrs. Xu didn't react at first. After a few breaths, she suddenly realized: Could it be that he was asking her to eat the pear
Then Xu Xuan laughed and said, "Mom, Xiaobai is just teasing you and letting you eat the pear. Don't be afraid of him."
In the end, Bai Suzhen still benefited from her appearance.
She has been practicing for so many years and has become very spiritual. The scales on her body are snow-white and flawless, and each scale is like the finest jade, shining with a bright glow. She does not have any of the stickiness and horror of ordinary snakes.
Mrs. Xu didn't move. She just waited patiently with the pear on her head.
The tiny head looks so pitiful compared to the pear, and it makes me feel tired just by looking at it.
Mrs. Xu was still soft-hearted. She reached out and gently took the pear.
Bai Suzhen happily went over and rubbed Mrs. Xu's wrist under her horrified gaze, and then did the same thing and gave Mr. Xu a pear.
Jiang Lin, who was worried that she would suffer a loss, came to take a look in stealth: "..."
Okay, no need to worry.
Indeed, only such open-minded and kind parents could raise a person with such a character as Xu Xuan.
Since I have accepted the pear, what I said before does not count anymore.
The two elders of the Xu family helplessly said that it was up to their son to decide what happened to the White Snake.
It turns out that pretty and sensible little cuties are popular in any world.
At first, Mrs. Xu was very scared when she saw the little white snake, but in just half a month, she was able to enter the house and be held in the palm of Mrs. Xu's hand.
Much closer than being with Xu Xuan.
When the weather turned cold, Mrs. Xu even kept muttering, "Snakes are afraid of the cold, right? Should I make some clothes for Xiaobai to wear?"
Bai Suzhen lived a very happy life in Xu's family.
She used to stay at Xu's house for no more than half a day or a day, but now she can sometimes stay for two or three days.
When she returned to Donghua Mountain, she happily told Jiang Lin that Mrs. Xu had made her a very beautiful little basket, which was filled with soft satin embroidered with flowers and plants, as a sleeping nest for her.
Judging from Mrs. Xu's behavior, she probably treats Bai Suzhen as her pet son.
What is rare is that Bai Suzhen was greedy for the kindness and warmth of the Xu family and never slacked off in her practice.
She was still thinking about transforming into a human form as soon as possible to scare her benefactor.
Zong Yu did not show favoritism and gave Xiaoqing a top-quality elixir, and naturally gave one to the White Snake as well.
It took Bai Suzhen two or three months to absorb the medicinal properties of this good thing.
By the time she came out of confinement, it was already spring.
She went to Xu's house and came back worriedly soon after.
Xiaoqing was swinging on the swing - this was a way of playing she invented herself. She hooked the tip of her tail on the branch and swung her whole body along with her head.
Actually, the visual effect of a snake playing like this is quite scary. But anyway, there would be no one here on weekdays, so no one cared about her.
Seeing Bai Suzhen looking a little worried, Xiaoqing asked curiously, "Sister, what's wrong with you?"
Bai Suzhen said: "Something happened at my benefactor's home."
To be precise, it wasn't the Xu family that got into trouble.
Xu Xuan is already engaged and has been engaged for two years.
The girl on the other side was from a scholar's family. I heard that she was a beautiful and intelligent woman. The only flaw was that she was a little weak and would get sick easily if she wasn't careful.
The two families had planned to hold the wedding after the weather got better after the New Year. But the girl caught a cold in the winter and never recovered. The cold snap in late spring aggravated her condition.
Mrs. Xu went to see the girl twice, and looked very sad when she came back.
When Bai She went to Xu's house, she sensitively noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere.
Xu Xuan still went to the clinic to save people, but he no longer went out to meet friends or drink.
Mrs. Xu often prayed in the small Buddhist temple at home.
She soon heard the situation from the servants of the Xu family.
The White Snake quietly went to the family's home to take a look. Miss Liu was born with a deficiency and had caught a cold. She looked listless and lifeless.
It looks like it is running out of energy.
Bai Suzhen now understands a lot about human affairs.
Miss Liu was the benefactor's wife who had not yet married into the family. Their relationship was like that between Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu. If she passed away, the benefactor's entire family would be very sad.
She returned to Donghua Mountain and thought about it all night.
The next day the white snake disappeared.
Xiaoqing and the others thought she had gone down the mountain to Xu's house, and no one paid any attention to it.
It was not until three days later that Jiang Lin, who was having a meal, suddenly changed his expression and disappeared from his seat.
Not long after, he came back with a white snake that was covered in wounds and dying.
"Sister!" Xiaoqing was startled and swam over quickly.
Bai Suzhen opened her eyes and looked at Xiaoqing and Jiang Lin, then spit out the fruit in her mouth with difficulty:
"Jiang Lin, please do me a favor and send it to my benefactor. If Miss Liu...if she delays any further, she will really die."
Jiang Lin packed the fruit in a box and scolded her with a sullen face: "You disappeared without a word just for this? If you told me, I could help you directly."
The White Snake said seriously: "But I want to help my benefactor's family. This is my own business. How can I let you take risks for me?"
"So you also know that this is a risk." Jiang Lin used his spiritual power to help her slowly heal her wounds, but he did not hear the White Snake's reply.
It turned out that the white snake had lost consciousness and fainted.
Xu Xuan had a dream.
In the dream, a man in white whose face could not be seen clearly gave him something: "This is a good thing that my sister risked her life to find for you. Give it to your fiancée and it will naturally cure her illness."
Xu Xuan asked the other party: "Who is your sister?"
The man in white said, "It's the white snake you saved."
Xu Xuan suddenly woke up, realizing that he had fallen asleep on the table.
As expected, he was worried about Miss Liu's health and even dreamed about it while sleeping...
His gaze suddenly froze.
In front of her, on the table, was a small box, exactly the same as the one given to her by the man in white whose face she couldn't see clearly in her dream.
The Xu family definitely does not have such a box.
He took the box suspiciously and opened it, only to smell a strange fragrance. He looked closely and saw a light green thumb-sized fruit inside, which looked crystal clear and extraordinary.
Xu Xuan's face changed: he remembered that in his dream, the man in white said that Xiaobai had risked his life to get it.
How is Xiaobai
He hurriedly got up and went to look for Mr. and Mrs. Xu.
Upon hearing this, Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu were also shocked. After seeing the fruit, although they didn't recognize it, they could sense that it was extraordinary.
"So, this is what Xiaobai brought to us?" Madam Xu put her hands together and chanted a Buddhist name, looking worried. "Then where is Xiaobai?"
Xu Xuan shook his head: "I don't know."
Mrs. Xu looked at the box and said, "Then I'll send this to the Liu family?"
Xu Xuan shook his head and held the box tightly: "If the dream is true, then the man in white said that this is what Xiaobai worked hard to find. We can't just accept it with a clear conscience."
He suddenly stepped out.
Mrs. Xu asked, "Where are you going?"
Xu Xuan replied: "I'll go find Xiaobai!"
He knew that Xiaobai lived in Donghua Mountain.
Xu Xuan hurried to Donghua Mountain. He didn't know where Xiaobai was, so he could only go to the place where he had rescued her before.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I reached the foot of the mountain, I met an acquaintance.
It was the little boy who sent him down the mountain last time.
When the little boy saw Xu Xuan, he said, "Our master asked me to invite Master Xu to the mansion."
Xu Xuan hurriedly said, "Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Jiang, but I have something important to do right now and cannot visit you."
The little boy tilted his head to look at him and said, "Aren't you here to see Miss Bai?"
Xu Xuan:
The little boy said naturally: "Our master is Miss Bai's brother."
Xu Xuan:
He asked blankly: "Miss Bai is..."
The little boy replied, "It's the white snake that often comes to your house."
Xu Xuan looked dazed, and it took him a while to figure out the meaning of the fairy tale.
The little boy has turned around and walked forward.
Xu Xuan followed him subconsciously, his mind confused along the way: Is it true that a person like Master Jiang is not a human being
Xiaobai is actually a monster.
And Mr. Jiang's sister...
He suddenly remembered the two girls he had met at Young Master Jiang's house.
That night, the girl in white knocked on her door, her expression too innocent and naive.
He originally thought that it was just that the Jiang family's parents didn't teach their children well, but it turned out... they were not human beings at all, so naturally they didn't understand the etiquette of the human world.
After walking a little further up the mountain, Xu Xuan saw the familiar mansion at a glance.
Jiang Lin was standing at the door waiting for him, and standing beside him was a handsome and imposing man whom Xu Xuan had never seen before.
Xu Xuan walked up to him with a complicated look: "Mr. Jiang."
Jiang Lin nodded at him: "I was afraid that you would think too much, so I concealed my identity. I'm sorry."
Xu Xuan shook his head: "There is nothing to be embarrassed about. I got lost in the mountains and was treated so well by you. I owe you a favor. It has nothing to do with your identity."
Upon hearing this, Zong Yu glanced at him and thought that this scholar had a very insightful personality.
Xu Xuan asked anxiously: "Is Xiaobai here?"
Seeing how anxious he was, Jiang Lin did not distance himself from the White Snake at all after knowing her identity as a monster. He thought to himself that Bai Suzhen was right about him.
Not to mention reincarnation, at least the Xu Xuan in front of her was indeed worthy of her gratitude.
He took Xu Xuan to Bai Suzhen's room. The white snake was wrapped in a white cloth strip, lying on the bed, looking pitiful and somewhat funny.
Jiang Lin said: "This idiot went to find elixirs and stole things from a lizard that was 200 years older than her. She was almost beaten to death."
The reason why he could say this so easily now was naturally because Bai Suzhen was no longer in any danger.
Xu Xuan was shocked when he heard this and asked quickly, "What about Xiaobai now?"
Jiang Lin said: "Don't worry, it's nothing serious."
Only then did Xu Xuan breathe a sigh of relief.
Seeing that the White Snake had not woken up yet, he did not want to disturb her, so he came out to talk to Jiang Lin.
He took out the box and handed it to Jiang Lin: "Little Baihua paid so much for this thing, I can't accept it."
Jiang Lin looked down and didn't answer: "Your fiancée is waiting for it to save her life."
Xu Xuan hesitated for a moment before saying, "We will try every possible way to cure Miss Liu."
Jiang Lin shook his head: "Xiao Bai went to see her and said that Miss Liu is already at the end of her rope and ordinary methods can't save her at all."
He looked at Xu Xuan: "If you don't accept it, then Xiaobai's injury would be in vain, right?"
Xu Xuan was ashamed: "How can I be so worthy of such a title?"
Jiang Lin said: "You saved her life, so it's only right that Xiaobai should go through this for you."
Xu Xuan said: "The so-called life-saving grace is just a trivial matter, it is not worth it."
Jiang Lin retorted: "You just did it casually, but for Xiaobai, it was a matter of life and death."
Xu Xuan wanted to say something, but Jiang Lin urged him, "Mr. Xu, you should go and deliver the medicine quickly. It will be a waste if you are late."
Xu Xuan hesitated for a while, but finally bowed to Jiang Lin, then bowed solemnly towards the White Snake's room and left in a hurry.
He gave the medicine to Mrs. Xu, who sent it to the Liu family.
In less than an hour, Madam Xu came back happily, "That medicine is really miraculous! After it was taken out, the whole room was filled with a strange fragrance. After Miss Liu took it, she felt much better all of a sudden. Her face even became rosy."
Xu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. He did not tell his family about Master Jiang and Xiaobai's identities. He only said, "I found Xiaobai. She was seriously injured."
Mrs. Xu's smile disappeared in an instant, and she asked anxiously, "What should we do? Why didn't you bring her back? Let's ask a doctor to take a look."
Xu Xuan shook his head: "She... can find herbs to heal herself, and she's already using the medicine. I'll go and watch over her for two days."
Madam Xu clasped her hands together and chanted a Buddhist name before nodding and saying, "We should go and take a look. Xiaobai is our family's great benefactor. You said you saved its life, and now you have finally paid it back."
But in Donghua Mountain, the White Snake woke up and was shocked when she heard Xiaoqing say that her benefactor had been here and already knew that she was a monster.
She was very worried: "What if my benefactor knew that I was a monster and was afraid to see me?"
Xiao Qing was puzzled and said, "Didn't you say that he is a good person, open-minded, and doesn't care about these things at all? If he is really afraid and even forgets such a great favor from you this time, then he is also hypocritical. It just so happens that you have saved his life, so we can be even now."
When Baishe heard what she said, it seemed to make sense.
"But it still makes me a little sad to think that this might happen," she said pitifully.
Then he looked at Jiang Lin standing aside and said with a little complaint: "Why did you just say it out loud? Alas, I'm not ready yet."
Jiang Lin raised his eyebrows: "Why don't you say it?"
What he hated the most was the kind of stupid monster who only knew how to give foolishly and kept secret the many things he did in secret.