Heng Wenqingjun had a habit of taking a nap on the bamboo couch under the corridor in the afternoon, and didn't like to be disturbed by anyone nearby. Therefore, at this time every day, Song Yao would go to the woods alone to take care of the fruit trees, day after day.
Today, Heng Wenqingjun went to the corridor to take a nap as usual. Song Yu fed Yuan Yu in advance and put him in the nest. Heng Wenqingjun closed his eyes on the couch and heard the door open gently. Song Yu went out.
In his light dream, Hengwen felt something approaching the bed, and his cheeks and lips were touched very softly, so he turned sideways and slowly opened his eyes, only to see a fluffy yellow fur squatting beside the pillow, looking down at him. Hengwen smiled slightly, reached out and touched its fur, and the little tiger immediately leaned against the pillow and lay down. Hengwen closed his eyes and continued to sleep.
In the evening, Song Yu was preparing dinner in his room. He had been a god for many years, but he still couldn't change his mortal habits. He had to eat dinner every day before going to bed. After several years on the island, Song Yu's cooking skills improved day by day, and he could cook several small dishes. Heng Wen sat in the living room and watched him serve boiled peanuts, cold wild vegetables and other dishes to the table. There were actually five or six plates on the table. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Tonight is quite sumptuous." Song Yu said proudly, "Has there ever been a night that was not sumptuous?"
Heng Wen pretended not to hear and said, "Since you have prepared so many dishes, why not bring out another pot of wine tonight and have a couple of drinks. I remember Donghua sent me two jars of good mortal wine last time, but I haven't opened them yet. Let's get one pot today."
Song Yu immediately said with a smile, "Okay, okay." He entered a door in a flash, and after a while, he came out with a wine jar. When he opened the seal, the aroma of wine immediately filled the air. Song Yu did not scoop the wine into the wine pot, but directly put out two jade bowls and poured two bowls. Heng Wen picked up a bowl, took a sip, and blurted out, "It is indeed a good wine. The wine in heaven is not so fragrant." Song Yu took a sip and said, "Of course, it is said that this kind of wine has a nickname in the mortal world called 'Gods and Immortals', which means that after drinking this kind of wine, even gods and immortals are too lazy to be gods. Haha, it lives up to its reputation."
The jar of wine was quite large, and Song Yu and Heng Wen didn't know how many bowls they had drunk before they dropped their bowls, still unsatisfied, and staggered back to their bedroom to sleep.
The next morning, Song Yu got up first and brought a bowl of water to Yuan Yu's den. The little tiger was sleeping soundly on the couch. Song Yu put down the bowl of water, rubbed his nose and muttered to himself: "I drank too much last night. I smell alcohol everywhere, even the tiger smells of alcohol." Then he went straight to the hall to clean up the mess from last night. While they were cleaning up, Heng Wen also got up, leaning lazily against the side of the hall and watching Song Yu clean the table. Song Yu picked up the wine jar and took a look. There was only a layer of wine left. While sealing the jar, he said, "I thought we only drank half a jar last night, but I didn't expect that we drank almost a whole jar." Heng Wen laughed softly and said, "I was so focused on drinking that I really forgot how much I drank. By the way, last night, Brother Bihua's tiger was lying by the table. Did you send it back to its den to sleep?"
Song Yao said, "Didn't you and I enter the room together? Ah, I actually forgot about it last night! I just went to bring it water, and it was sleeping in its nest. It actually knew to go back to its nest to sleep. I also forgot to bathe it yesterday, and its fur smells of alcohol."
Heng Wen said, "Nothing, just wash it this morning."
In the morning, Song Yu put Yuan Wen in the basin and washed him. After his fur dried, Yuan Wen rubbed against Heng Wen as usual. In the afternoon, Song Yu sent Yuan Wen back to his nest and went to walk in the woods. Heng Wen took a nap on the bamboo couch under the corridor.
The breeze was blowing gently and everything was quiet. A shadow walked to the bamboo couch under the corridor. At that moment, a leaf was blown down to the side of Hengwen's face. A hand slowly reached out to the pillow and picked up the leaf. The fingers loosened slightly and the leaf swayed to the corridor with the breeze.
The figure stood in front of the couch, looked at Hengwen for a moment, and slowly leaned over. At this moment, Hengwen, who was sleeping with his eyes closed on the couch, suddenly moved and opened his eyes.
Heng Wen opened his eyes, only to see Bihua Lingjun's yellow-haired little tiger squatting in front of the pillow like yesterday, with a pair of watery eyes open, looking innocent and lively.
Heng Wen stood up and bowed to the little tiger on the couch: "I have seen through your actions, I wonder if you can show your true self and come to the hall to talk."
The little tiger on the couch laughed softly, "I thought the Jade Emperor was useless now, and the little gods in the Heavenly Court were worse than each other and more stupid than each other. I didn't expect that there is still one who can see through my fake body. Haha, it seems that there is still some hope in the Heavenly Court."
Song Yu was wandering by a pomegranate tree when he suddenly felt the strong fairy energy nearby. He turned his head and looked in the direction of his residence. Auspicious clouds gathered, blazing and brilliant, and auspicious light was dazzling, rising straight into the sky. Song Xiaoshenxian had been an immortal for many years, but he had never seen such a strong fairy light. Song Yu did not have time to think about who was the important person who came to visit. He hurried to his residence, broke through the door, and entered the inner courtyard. The auspicious clouds and fairy light had mostly disappeared, but the courtyard was still full of brilliance. A figure stood on the corridor with Heng Wen. Heng Wen was respectfully bowing to the figure: "I am stupid and have not been able to identify your Dharma body. I dare not ask your name."
Song Yu stared at the figure in a daze.
He had been an immortal for thousands of years, but this was the first time he had seen such an eye-catching person. His appearance was very good, so good that it was eye-catching. The lotus, pear, peony, peony and other flowers in the heaven were piled together, but they were not as eye-catching as his face. Although his luxurious robe was a bit gaudy, he looked very immortal. His black hair was casually scattered, but somehow he still looked very eye-catching. Coupled with the dazzling light around this lord, which was slowly fading but still dazzling, it was the most eye-catching, extremely eye-catching.
The lord looked melancholy at this moment, and said with some sigh: "Ah, my name. It's understandable that you don't recognize me. I am an old fellow who has been dead for tens of thousands of years. I wonder if you little gods have heard of me."
But this lord who called himself an old man looked only about twenty years old, very young, and his voice was also young. Such vicissitudes of life in such a young voice were very piercing.
The lord sighed again, sat on the bamboo couch, and waved to Hengwen and Song Yu: "Hey, come, don't stand there so stiffly, it makes me uncomfortable. Especially you, your immortal title is Hengwen Qingjun, not bad, not bad, you are the best-looking among all the little immortals in the heaven, I like you. Come and sit next to me, I will tell you who I am."
Heng Wen stood where he was, still speaking respectfully, "If Your Majesty does not grant me a name, I will not dare to offend you."
The dazzling master said, "Well, I'll tell you first, my name is Dan Yu. Have you all heard of this name?"
Hengwen's face was filled with surprise, and Song Yu was stunned again.
When Taixu first appeared and the Heavenly Court was established, apart from the Jade Emperor, there were two most respected Immortal Emperors in the Heavenly Court. These two Immortal Emperors were Fuli, the Shenxiao Immortal Emperor, and Danxu, the Zixu Immortal Emperor.
Later, the demon world rebelled and attacked the heaven, and the human world was almost destroyed. The Immortal Emperor Fu Li was originally a blue dragon. He used his body to transform into the mortal earth mountains to save the mortal world, and his dragon bones supported the nine heavens of the heaven. When the heaven and the demon world fought, the Immortal Emperor Zixu Dan Yu transformed himself into immortal fire to burn the demons, and the demon world was doomed from then on. But Dan Yu—
The Purple Void Immortal Emperor Dan Yu was originally a phoenix. He transformed into immortal fire and burned the demons to ashes, which was equivalent to perishing together with the demons.
The tragic deeds of the two Immortal Emperors are often mentioned, and every god in heaven remembers them.
The eye-catching Immortal Venerable on the bamboo couch waved to Heng Wen again: "I have already told you who I am. You can come and sit next to me."
Bihua Lingjun sent Yuan Wen away and returned to the mansion, feeling quite nostalgic. He sat in the bedroom for a while, then wandered around in the pavilion, and then paced several times in the courtyard. Most of the spirit beasts in the mansion were lying in the courtyard. Bihua Lingjun saw Yuan Lu and Yuan Xiu playing around the flowers, so he walked over and the two little tigers immediately lay down obediently. Yuan Lu and Yuan Xiu were already half grown and could not be held, so Bihua Lingjun leaned over and stroked their fur, but felt that it was not as soft as Yuan Wen's fur. He sighed and walked away slowly. On the second day, Emperor Donghua came for a stroll. The gate of Bihua Lingjun's mansion was quiet. There was no fairy boy guarding the gate. The door was ajar. Emperor Donghua stepped into the mansion. The front yard was silent. Emperor Donghua walked from the corridor to the courtyard. He vaguely heard laughter. From a distance, he saw figures gathering in a pavilion in the courtyard and bursts of noise. Emperor Donghua approached the pavilion and saw that the spirit beasts raised by Lord Bihua had transformed into human bodies, forming a circle with the little fairies in front of the stone table in the pavilion. In the middle of the circle, Yunqing and Tangdi were guarding one side of the stone table each. Yunqing rolled up his sleeves and shook a bowl. Tangdi was wearing a white dress with blue patterns, similar to the bowl Yunqing was shaking. He stood with his hands folded and a smile on his face. Yunqing slammed the bowl on the table. Tangdi said, "Bet on small." Yunqing said, "You're still betting on small?" Tangdi said, "Why not bet on small? Count the number of people behind you. How many have you lost to me?" Yunqing's face flushed with anger, and he said, "I don't believe that you always guess right. This time it must be big."
Tang Di said: "Whether you can guess or not will be known when the game starts. If you lose again this time, you will lose Chi Sheng to me."
Yun Qing snorted and was about to say something else when Emperor Donghua approached. The little fairies and spirit beasts suddenly noticed and stood up and stepped aside. Tang Di stood up from the table with his hands hanging down and said with a smile: "Emperor." Yun Qing quickly let go of the bowl and bowed: "Emperor." Emperor Donghua glanced at the table: "Guess the dice?" Tang Di answered smoothly: "Yes." Yun Qing blushed. Emperor Donghua smiled and said: "That Song Yu Yuanjun taught you when he came to visit us. What do you want to bet?"
Tang Di said, "Reporting to the Emperor, we are losing in terms of numbers. There are eleven fairies on Yunqing's side, and we have twenty-two fellows. If he loses, one of his fairies will come to our side. If I lose, we will lose two to him. It's a two-to-one ratio." Emperor Donghua stroked his beard and saw that there were only four fairies left behind Yunqing, without any spirit beasts. Yunqing was obviously a little anxious about losing, and glared at Tang Di fiercely. Tang Di said, "Hey, don't be upset. If the big comes out this time, I will lose a big amount. I will give you our most valuable Ge Yue, and take Yuan Lu and Yuan Xiu with me. How about it, one big and two small?" Yuan Xiu tugged at Tang Di's sleeve and asked bewilderedly, "Brother Tang Di, why are the two of us counted as one? What do you mean by one big and two small?" Tang Di said, "Didn't I say just now that I would lose a big amount? You two are as valuable as Ge Yue. There is a saying in the world that goes, 'Brothers work together and their strength is invincible.' Two brothers together are very powerful. You see, I didn't even mention the most powerful sister Musk Xin, but only mentioned you two. Do you understand?" Yuan Xiu was moved and nodded as if he understood, "Brother Tang Di, you are so nice." Tang Di patted him on the head with a smile.
Yun Qing sneered, and Ge Yue stood far away in a corner of the pavilion, looking indifferent, as if it had nothing to do with her.
Emperor Donghua laughed and said, "Where is your Lingjun?" Chi Sheng behind Yunqing stepped forward and said, "Lingjun is in his room." Tang Di said, "Lingjun is retreating in his room, practicing immortal arts." Emperor Donghua said, "How strange! He is staying in his room at this time when he is in a difficult situation. What kind of immortal arts is he practicing?"
Yun Qing whispered, "That's not cultivation at all. Your Majesty, you gave Lingjun a good idea and asked him to give the Ruyi Egg Tiger to another immortal to raise. After Lingjun came back, he kept sighing and groaning. He stroked the fur of all the precious beasts in the garden one by one, sighing after each one. They had no choice but to transform into human forms. Then Lingjun went into the room and there was no more movement." A group of little fairies all had sad faces and looked at Emperor Donghua eagerly. Chi Sheng said, "Emperor, do you have any way to change Lingjun's mind? We really don't know what to do." Emperor Donghua pondered for a moment and said, "I know. Let me think about it. Because your Lingjun hatched the little tiger himself, he will inevitably pay more attention to it. It would be better if we could find another one for him to raise and transfer some of his love and compassion to him." Tang Di smiled and said, "We need to find someone who is similar to Yuan Wen so that the Spirit Lord will like her. First, we need to find someone younger. Among us, even Yuan Lu and Yuan Xiu are already half-grown, so there is no one younger than them." A group of fairies and spirit beasts looked at Emperor Donghua again. Emperor Donghua sighed and said, "Let me go and look for her."
Emperor Donghua went straight out of the palace of Lord Bihua, searched around in the Heavenly Palace for a long time, then visited various fairy islands, and finally went to the Western Paradise. He finally borrowed two suckling clouded leopards from Venerable Shanfa of the Western Paradise, and brought them in his arms to Lord Bihua.
When Bihua Lingjun saw the two little leopards, he finally perked up a little. He told the little fairies to find plates with deer milk to feed them and no longer block the spirit beasts and stroke their fur and sigh. The spirit beasts were finally able to transform back to their original forms and find quiet places to yawn.
Of the two little leopards, one was very fearless and buried his head in big gulps of milk. When he was full, he lay down to sleep. Yunqing and Chisheng stretched out their hands to tease him, and he raised his paws to poke and roll around affectionately. The other one, however, seemed to be unhappy to be brought to this strange place. He turned his head and lay motionless, refusing to eat or drink. No matter how the little fairies coaxed him, he would not even lift his eyelids. Another day, Bihua Lingjun was sitting in the courtyard with a clouded leopard in one hand. Suddenly, the Dragon Prince of the East China Sea came to visit him in a hurry and said to Bihua Lingjun: "Brother Bihua, Brother Song Yu asked me to tell you that he can't serve the great god you entrusted to him, and asked you to quickly invite the great god back to your house." Bihua Lingjun was stunned. Could it be that Yuan Wen was difficult to raise and offended Song Yu? In Bihua Lingjun's heart, Yuan Wen had always been well-behaved, smart and easy to raise, and there was nothing annoying about him. When he asked the Dragon Prince what was going on, the Dragon Prince's expression was a little unpredictable, he was hesitant, but he seemed to know some important inside story and was silenced by someone, he just urged Bihua Lingjun to go to the isolated island where Song Yao lived. Bihua Lingjun put down the two young leopards and hurried to Song Yao. The fairy light when Zixu Immortal Emperor appeared in his Dharma body shocked the nine heavens, and the dragons of the four seas and the immortals in the sky were alarmed. A wandering god hurriedly reported to the Jade Emperor, "The fairy light suddenly appeared on the island in the far east, I don't know why." The Jade Emperor only gave a profound and unfathomable sentence: "Don't alarm it for now." Emperor Donghua felt something was wrong, vaguely felt that it had something to do with Bihua's Ruyi Egg Tiger, and went to Lingxiao Palace to ask the Jade Emperor, the Jade Emperor just said: "Don't alarm it for now, see how he likes it." When Emperor Donghua wanted to ask who this "he" was, the Jade Emperor half closed his eyes and said: "I am really sorry for Bihua this time, alas..."
When the Immortal Emperor Dan Jing introduced himself, Song Yu still didn't know that he was the tiger hatched by Bihua. It wasn't until the Immortal Emperor sat on the bamboo couch, fanned himself, and said with emotion: "Looking at the Heavenly Palace after 10,000 years, it is indeed very different, but from the time I was a tiger in that small fairy palace, I saw that the Heavenly Palace was managed by the Jade Emperor quite well. The new batch of little fairies I saw were all pretty good, and some of them looked quite good, which made me very happy." Song Yu's eyes widened immediately: "You, you, you are actually the tiger cub of Bihua?!" Little Fairy Song was stunned and speechless as if he was struck by lightning. After a while, Song Yu said sincerely to the auspicious Lord sitting on the bamboo couch: "Forgive me for asking a disrespectful question, Your Majesty, you have transformed into a ~ uh ~ young tiger to fool a little fairy like Bihua, don't you feel... a little... toothless?" Emperor Dan Yu said: "Toothless? What is toothless?" Song Yu said: "Well, the meaning of toothless is somewhat similar to shameless." Heng Wen turned his head and gave him a cold look.
Emperor Dan Yu was surprised: "Oh, what is shameless?" Song Yu smiled and said: "Shameless means doing things not quite right, not quite authentic."
Dan Yu said with relief: "Is that so? Alas, I have been dead for thousands of years, and many words are unfamiliar and forgotten. Turning into a tiger? I think that little immortal took a lot of effort for me to crawl out of the shell, so I will temporarily fulfill his wish and just regard it as a reward. Besides, I just laid the egg and I am a little lazy. In the past, Taibai Jinxing and other little immortals always avoided me when they saw me, and I didn’t like it. Appearance, isn’t it just an illusion? There is no difference between birds, beasts, and immortals. I like to be friendly, no matter what they look like." Song Yu's eyes became more fixed after hearing this, and he shook his face hard and laughed dryly twice: "The emperor's views are really unique, haha~~"
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