Chapter 159: The Little Girl and the Venomous Snake
This beast was definitely dead, and Duan Qing was too lazy to study it. He directly put the scorpion-shaped monster's body and the thick spike into the storage bracelet. He also spent some time to collect the smaller spikes scattered on the reef. The spikes were so sharp that they couldn't be wasted!
After being so seriously injured, it was a delusion to continue hunting monsters. Duan Qing had to fly back to the third heaven on his sword to heal his injuries first!
What a bad start! The first time he went out to sea alone, he ended up like this. He only harvested a beast in the early stage of the mortal transformation, and this scorpion-shaped monster in the middle stage of the mortal transformation. I don't know how much it is worth, and whether it is worth the injury!
Along the way, Duan Qing used the spiritual spring water to replenish his spiritual power. On the way back, he was nervous, fearing that he would be attacked by monsters again. Fortunately, until the third heaven appeared in his sight again, he didn't encounter any monsters or other cultivators, which finally put his heart at ease.
After flying forward for less than a cup of tea, Sanyue City on Sanchongtian Island was in sight.
At this time, a familiar figure in the barren farmland not far from Sanyue City caught his attention. Duan Qing, who was planning to return to the cave directly, landed in advance and quietly looked at the thin figure not far away.
It was the little girl outside Tiansheng Pavilion!
It was late autumn at this time. The few trees on Sanchongtian Island were all bare, and the weeds on the ground were also withered and yellow. Looking around, there was a sense of loneliness.
The little girl was holding a rusty iron hoe and digging something weakly under a small earth slope. Duan Qing walked closer and found that the little girl was digging grass roots! There were several different kinds of grass roots in the shabby bamboo stump behind her.
Dig this one and this one again, it should be enough. I can make a pot of grass root soup for my mother when I go back. I hope my mother can get better as soon as possible after drinking it. I heard that Uncle Yan in the north of the city was sick before and he was cured by drinking grass root soup. Thinking of her mother, the little girl's hands moved faster.
Duan Qing frowned. He grew up in Xiao'an City and knew at a glance that the grass roots were inedible, not even pig food. Why did the little girl dig these things! For medicine? How could she distinguish the medicinal properties at such a young age!
A cool breeze swept over, and the little girl shivered. She put down the hoe and tightened her dirty leather clothes. Then she picked up the small rusty hoe and started digging. After a few diggings, the grass roots were dug out. After pulling out the grass roots, a bowl-sized hole appeared on the ground.
Zizi! At this time, a sound suddenly came from the hole, and a poisonous snake with a thickness of an arm and colorful rings swam out of the hole, raised its head and spit out its tongue at the little girl.
"Ah!!!"
The little girl was so scared that she screamed and sat on the ground, with horror in her eyes, but then she realized something, and the horror gradually turned into surprise. She mustered up the courage to pick up the hoe and hit the poisonous snake.
The venomous snake easily dodged the little girl's hoe by leaning back, and then flew forward to bite the little girl's wrist, but before the venomous snake got close to the little girl, its body had been separated into two pieces.
Duan Qing finally couldn't help but take action! Seeing that the little girl was about to be bitten by the venomous snake, he couldn't just stand by and watch her die.
The little girl looked at the stranger who appeared beside her at some point along the flying sword. She recognized this person. That day, her mother's condition worsened. With nowhere else to go, she went to the market to seek help from the immortal master in the second heaven, but those people refused to save her mother and beat her! They were all bad guys, and this guy was also a bad guy!
She looked at the snake that was broken into two pieces on the ground again, and her eyes showed hesitation. Her family had been out of food for two days, and her mother had not eaten anything decent during the two days she was sick in bed. She wanted to take the snake back and cook it for her mother, but the snake was killed by the bad guy and did not belong to her!
No, Sheng'er was the first to find the snake when she dug out the grass roots, so half of it should belong to Sheng'er!
The little girl convinced herself and felt more confident. She hesitated for a moment between the two pieces of the snake, and finally picked up the shorter part of the snake head and threw it into the bamboo stump. She carried the bamboo stump on her back, picked up the small hoe and walked towards March City.
Mother will have snake meat tonight! The little girl was a little proud, and her originally weak legs seemed to have suddenly gained strength, and she walked three points faster. Mother ate snake meat, and Sheng'er could drink snake soup. She licked her dry and cracked lips.
"Snakes are poisonous, don't eat them!" At this time, a voice sounded behind the little girl. It was Duan Qing who reminded her.
The little girl looked back at Duan Qing warily, but ignored him and continued to walk forward, her steps faster.
Hum! What poisonous? This bad guy clearly wanted to eat the snake alone. Sheng'er is not so easy to fool! At this time, her mind was full of snake soup!
Duan Qing looked at the little girl's back as she left, and was somewhat silent!
From the desolation of March City, combined with the little girl's behavior, he knew that the little girl was probably taking the venomous snake back to eat. He knew this venomous snake. Every year, people who went into the mountains in Xiao'an City would be bitten to death by this venomous snake. It was indeed inedible. He reminded the little girl out of kindness, but he didn't expect the little girl to not believe him at all.
Forget it, life and death are determined by fate, let her go! Besides, if she doesn't believe him, her family will always know the venomous snake and won't let her do something stupid!
Thinking of this, Duan Qing no longer struggled, and followed the little girl to March City from a distance. This time he didn't fly a sword, but planned to walk back from March City. Although he didn't want to admit it, he might really be unable to let go of the little girl in his heart!
Even though he had been to March City once, the fishy smell that hit his nose as soon as he entered the city still made him frown. Walking all the way to the north of the city, the little girl turned into a dilapidated alley and disappeared. Duan Qing also planned to return to the Second Heaven Cave.
At this time, two women who were drying fish on the roof of the street talked and attracted his attention.
"Ah, that Xiao family is really pitiful. Her husband died in the beast tide ten years ago. She raised the child alone. Now she has an epidemic. I'm afraid she won't have much time left!"
"Yes! I just pity that child! Twelve years old! Just that little, almost as tall as my yellow mouth child!"
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Duan Qing, who was originally walking towards the iron chain bridge in the north of the city, paused after hearing this, and changed direction to turn into the alley where the little girl disappeared.
The road surface of the alley was very dilapidated, and there was water on the ground from time to time. Duan Qing followed the small footprints and walked deeper and deeper. The houses on both sides gradually became fewer and more dilapidated. It was even obvious that the surrounding houses had been dilapidated for a long time and no one had lived in them for a long time.
Finally, following the footprints, Duan Qing came to the base of the dilapidated city wall, in front of a lonely wooden house that was as dilapidated as the city wall.
Most of the houses in March City were very old, but the wooden house in front of him could no longer be described as old. There were holes everywhere on the walls that were bitten by rats and insects. The roof was not made of green tiles like other houses in the city, but was simply covered with thatch. Some of the thatch had even been blown away, revealing the frame inside.