Chapter 39 Idiot
Duan Qing was so excited that he could not contain himself. He quickly cut all the remaining bamboo into bamboo tubes and prepared to cross the river to return to the spiritual mine.
At this time, a chaotic sound suddenly came from the upstream direction. Duan Qing looked sideways and was a little surprised. He saw a group of wild deer running towards him from the slope beside the upstream waterfall not far away. Behind the deer, there were several gray wolves, which were outflanking the deer.
Duan Qing secretly said that it was not good and was ready to cross the river quickly to avoid the chase. However, he had just stepped into the water and took two steps when he heard the sound of the wild deer running behind him.
He couldn't help but look back and saw that the deer came to the river under the leadership of a large wild deer.
There was a waterfall in front and a steep hillside on one side. There was no way to go, and the hunter wolf pack behind was approaching.
Seeing this, Duan Qing couldn't help but admire those gray wolves, who knew how to use the terrain to catch prey!
At this time, the leading large wild deer raised its head and neighed, then jumped into the river first, and the deer behind followed one after another, scrambling to jump into the river.
At this moment, the gray wolves behind the deer also caught up, and suddenly pounced on several wild deer behind, who had not had time to jump into the river.
Suddenly, a small gray figure pounced on him!
Duan Qing was shocked, and without seeing clearly what it was, he immediately turned around and ran to the other side of the river.
The moment he turned around, Duan Qing felt that his clothes seemed to be pulled by something. He was even more frightened, and he used his hands and feet together, exerting all his strength, and finally reached the other side.
As soon as he got ashore, Duan Qing finally dared to look back, and saw a wet gray little thing, biting his Taoist robe behind him, hanging on him.
Duan Qing was startled and had goose bumps all over his body. He thought it was a little wolf biting him, but when he looked again, although the little thing was gray, it was obviously not a wolf. It didn't have the claws of a wolf, and the teeth it showed didn't look like a wolf's.
Is it a little deer? But why is it different in color from other deer? He kicked it with his foot, and the little thing's eyes were closed tightly, without any movement. Could it be dead?
At this time, a shrill deer cry suddenly came from Duan Qing's side, interrupting his meditation.
Duan Qing looked back and saw a group of wild deer next to him who had successfully crossed the river. Led by the big leading wild deer, they were making bursts of shrill cries towards the other side, while the gray wolf group on the other side was indifferent to the cries of the deer group and enjoyed their victory.
Seeing this, Duan Qing couldn't help but feel a little sad. This was so similar to his situation when he was in trouble. He was thrown into the water by Uncle Wang and saved his life, while Uncle Wang and his group fell into the tiger's mouth.
After a while of screaming, the herd of wild deer slowly left under the leadership of the leading wild deer. Duan Qing noticed that the number of deer at this time was only about half of that on the other side.
In addition to the few deer that did not have time to enter the water and were killed by the wolves, it seems that there are still many wild deer that failed to get ashore when crossing the river. It is unknown whether they were drowned or washed away by the water. Duan Qing was busy escaping and did not pay attention.
Alas, this is the price of survival. . . !
Duan Qing was also ready to leave, but the gray little thing was still biting his clothes tightly!
He tried to pull the clothes hard, but although he didn't know whether the little thing was still alive, it bit very tightly and couldn't be pulled off.
He kicked the little thing a few more times, but it was still as dead as ever, not moving at all.
Helplessly, he had to take out the flying sword and cut off the part of the Taoist robe bitten by the little thing and the part of the pants inside.
Duan Qing had just put away the flying sword when he saw the little thing on the ground opened its eyes, then stood up tremblingly and looked at him coquettishly.
Duan Qing was a little amused. You stupid thing, you didn't wake up no matter what I did just now. Now you wake up just after I cut off my Taoist robe. You have to let me show my ass, right!
As if responding to Duan Qing, the little thing ran to Duan Qing's feet and opened its mouth, spitting the cloth in its mouth at Duan Qing's feet, then looked up at him blankly.
Duan Qing was so angry that he laughed. You guys know to return the things to their original owners. At the same time, he finally saw what the little thing under his feet was.
The blue-gray body, the snow-white belly, the slender ears with a little white, the long face, the white hooves and the slender legs, and the stupid look, this little thing turned out to be a donkey!
Seeing that the little thing was a donkey, Duan Qing suddenly felt that the little thing in front of him was a little familiar, which reminded him of the old donkey in his inn who grew up with him.
But he was also a little strange, how could there be a donkey in the herd of deer!
Looking at the little guy shaking his head and wagging his tail and jumping around at his feet, Duan Qing couldn't help but laugh secretly. This guy has no awareness of escaping death at all!
If it hadn't bitten his clothes and been taken across the river by him, with the body of this little thing, it would either be buried in the wolf's mouth or drowned in the water, and there would definitely be no third way to die.
Duan Qing squatted down, touched the little guy's wet head with his hand, rubbed it a few times, stroked a tuft of white hair on its head, and said jokingly.
"Stupid thing, you and I are quite compatible, how about following me in the future?"
The donkey seemed to understand what Duan Qing said, stretched out its head to lick Duan Qing's fingers, and then ran away and continued to shake its head and wag its tail and jump around.
Duan Qing was a little surprised. He didn't expect this little thing to be so obedient. Looking at its stupid jumping up and down, Duan Qing couldn't help but laugh a little.
"Okay, since you are so sensible, follow me from now on. I'll give you the name of idiot."
After he finished speaking, he tried to run a few steps to the side and shouted while running.
"Idiot, idiot, come here."
The little guy really jumped towards him.
Seeing this scene, some familiar pictures flashed before Duan Qing's eyes. It was still him and a donkey, but unlike the current situation, he was the little guy chasing the donkey. This was his childhood in Xiao'an City!
On the long road of cultivation, I finally have a companion!
Duan Qing looked at the silly and cute idiot, and the haze accumulated in his heart suddenly disappeared.
Duan Qing started to walk back along the original path, and the little guy idiot kept jumping around behind him. Halfway through, he saw a wild deer lying on the ground.
He went forward and saw that it was dead with a wet body and several scratches on its neck. It seemed that it was one of the deer in the herd just now. It escaped from the wolf's claws and crossed the river again. In the end, it still couldn't hold on and fell here.
Well, it was a good deal for him. Duan Qing collected the wild deer and prepared to go back and make a barbecue. He hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and he was a little greedy.
On the way, he also cut some treetops of the sky blue tree, preparing to dry and grind them into powder for seasoning. He also brought some grass for the fool and put it in the bag, otherwise if he returned to the spiritual mine, there would be nothing good for the fool to eat.
Finally, he used dry branches to make some wooden plugs for his wooden gourd and bamboo tube. The reason for using dry branches was that raw wood basically had resin, and he was afraid of polluting the spiritual spring.
The fool followed Duan Qing all the way to the deep pit. He tied it behind him with a vine and carried the fool along the iron chain back to the deep pit. During this period, the fool was surprisingly well-behaved and had no intention of resisting at all, as if he was relying on him, which made Duan Qing like this little guy twice as much.
Duan Qing first went to his house and took out the hidden raw stones and waste raw stones, then he took the fool into the mine impatiently. He had to test whether his guess was feasible.