Demon King's Repayment - chapter 136

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Dushuo came and disappeared suddenly. Only a mess of footprints and some shocking bloodstains were left. The open door of the room was open and there was a dark night outside the door, whizzing through the vast world with snow in the north.

Instead, it was Sanlang who reacted most quickly. He quickly carried A Qing into the house and put her in place. Debridement, medication and bandaging were done in one go. Finally he stood by the bed and took A Qing’s hand, his small ears drooped and he looked at his injured companion with worry.

He still looked like that little boy back then and had barely changed after he met Yuan Xiang on the wall ten years ago.

Yuan Xiang still remembered that when she was young, she was lying on the moss-scarred wall of Taoist Wu house, watching with great interest the people in the yard performing the great dance. The sound of rustling sounded and the pomegranate branches pressing on the wall were pushed up and a small jade doll with powder makeup was drilled out, with a white and tender face, bright eyes and a pair of plush fox ears, “Huh, human child? Can you see me?”

The young Yuan Xiang blinked, knowing that it was too late to pretend.

The two little dolls stared at each other for a while and were distracted by the performance of singing in the yard and each leaned on the wall to watch it. While watching, the little fox took a few cooked chestnuts from his sleeve and peeled them to eat. As Yuan Xiang looked around frequently, thinking she was greedy, he held a cracked chestnut with his small round hands and handed it forward.

“Here, I’ll give you one.”

Thereafter, a pair of fox ears, or a timid little rabbit and sometimes a weasel with an unpleasant smell appeared on the wall where Yuan Xiang watched the play.

As a result, she often received “snacks” such as chestnuts, hazelnuts, mushrooms, carrots and dried mice.

At that time, these little spirits who wandered into the human village to play were innocent, simple and lived a carefree life. She liked them very much.

Nowadays, the little boy looked exactly the same, but he was proficient in human ways and had learned to please others. He had learned to take care of his injured companions skillfully and calmly.

Yuan Xiang had long heard that Sanlang and the others had suffered encirclement and massacre. They had to escape from the village and live a life of escape. But until that moment, those superficial stories seemed to be suddenly removed from the misty veil, becoming clear, real and blood dripping.

The timid girl who always liked to peep at herself, the little weasel who always farted so that she had to pinch his nose, had been nailed into the circle by a human Taoist, peeling off their fur, to die in meaningless killing.

In the morning of the second day, Yuan Xiang and her party set off early in order not to be discovered by the Dongxuan Sect. They got on the carriage and left Jingdu.

Hu Qing had already woken up, she put the worn robe on her head and sat silently by the carriage window.

In the morning light that entered through the window, her head was hung down and her autumn pupils were sad, like an empty mountain orchid that had experienced wind and rain.

“A Qing, what happened?” Yuan Xiang sat beside her.

“It’s all my fault. I hurt the Lord.” Hu Qing closed her eyes and a clear teardrop dripped from the sky, “I have been hiding in Jingdu for many years, thinking that no one could see through my true form. Two days ago at the birthday banquet, I clearly heard that True Monarch Miaodao was coming, but I always thought I had luck in my heart and wanted to hide in a corner, quietly taking a look at Lord Dushuo.”

“It’s fine for me to be discovered, I would die. Who knows, my lord… He was still as kind as before and tried his best to rescue me.” She covered her face with her hands, as tears flowed from her fingers, “My lord resisted the bondage of the contract and took me to hide in Tibet, ignoring his master’s call. The iron chain had been pulling in his body and I don’t know how much pain he had suffered. After going back, I still don’t know how that human will torture him. Why didn’t he let me die? I really hate myself.”

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