ragginovel Chapter 99 You are ugly
Chapter 99 You are ugly
Chapter 99 You are ugly
[Your compassion and kindness helped the scholar in white to understand the Analects more deeply. Your boundless love moved Heaven, and you are rewarded with mastery of "sacrificing oneself for righteousness".]
Jiang Feng glanced at the reward and found that it was a method to temporarily suppress injuries, so he nodded in satisfaction.
When Sha Wujing returned with the water, he saw that Jiang Feng had already prepared the noodles and was waiting for the water to be put into the pot, so he quickly went to the pot and started boiling the water.
Looking down, he saw a snakeskin lying quietly not far away. He paused for a moment, then looked at Bai Suzhen with surprise: "Little Bai, you shed your skin?"
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Bai Suzhen angrily squeezed the dough in her hand: "You'd better look carefully before you speak! What kind of snake sheds its skin and then pulls out its internal organs along with it?!"
Jiang Feng chuckled and explained to Sha Wujing, "A snake demon came just now, trying to kidnap Xiaobai to his cave to be his wife. In the end, she sacrificed herself for the cause."
Sha Wujing asked curiously, "Master, what does 'sacrificing oneself for righteousness' mean?"
Jiang Feng said, "This is Confucius's ultimate teaching on how to educate monsters. It means that after killing a monster, I will use its monster body to fill my stomach, and then it will become a good person in my eyes."
Sha Wujing:
What's the point of being a good person like you if you're dead?
No wonder this monk is so wicked; he was corrupted by Confucius!
After a while, the three of them finished breakfast and continued their journey, heading west along the mountain road.
Around noon, the group arrived at the village at the foot of the mountain.
A woman with disheveled hair sat at the entrance of the village, her eyes vacant, looking somewhat mentally unstable.
After staring at Bai Suzhen for a couple of seconds, she burst into tears, sobbing uncontrollably.
Jiang Feng turned his face and said to Bai Suzhen with dissatisfaction, "Little Bai, you are ugly and have scared people to tears. Quickly perform a magic trick to coax her."
Bai Suzhen clenched her sleeves in anger, her eyes almost spitting fire, wishing she could bite him to death. Then she glanced at the woman who was crying in fear and couldn't help but question the meaning of life.
"Am I that scary? Wujing is much uglier than me and he's never scared anyone to tears."
Jiang Feng pondered and said, "Perhaps Wujing is so unusually ugly that others are only too shocked to notice him."
Sha Wujing: "—"
I'm so sorry to be so ugly!!
As they were talking, a passing villager came over and bowed to Jiang Feng.
"I'm sorry to disturb you, Master. This woman is named Li. She has been searching for her daughter ever since she went missing last year, but she hasn't been able to find her even after more than half a year."
From then on, she stayed at the village entrance, hoping that her daughter would find her one day. She even became somewhat mentally impaired.
Alas, she is a pitiful person; please, Master, do not blame her.
After hearing this, Bai Suzhen gave Jiang Feng a provocative look: "I knew she couldn't have been scared to tears by me!"
Jiang Feng rolled his eyes at her, then took out a calming talisman from his treasure pouch, folded it, and stuffed it into the woman's hand.
Seeing the woman's eyes gradually clear, Jiang Feng advised, "You must wear this talisman day and night so that when your daughter returns, she won't blame herself for becoming mentally impaired."
The woman shed two more tears, stood up, bowed, and said, "Thank you, Master. If you don't mind, please come to my house for a vegetarian meal before you leave."
Jiang Feng nodded slightly and followed her into her home.
Seeing his wife recover, her husband was overjoyed. He thanked Jiang Feng profusely, took out a piece of cured meat, and went to the kitchen to cook.
While her husband was cooking, Jiang Feng asked, "What's your daughter's name? Does she have a birth date and time? I'll help you calculate whether she's still alive."
The woman's eyes were filled with anticipation as she said, "My daughter's name is Liu Xiaolian. A passing Taoist priest told her fortune when she was born. I'll go get that slip of paper now!"
After saying that, he searched around the room for a while and found a neatly folded piece of yellow paper.
Bai Suzhen asked with a curious look, "You can calculate these things?"
Jiang Feng smiled slightly: "That's natural, and I don't need to expend any of my magic power to tell fortunes."
Bai Suzhen was skeptical: "Let me calculate it first, and then we'll compare the results." After saying that, she closed her eyes and began to calculate.
Jiang Feng took out a communication stone and said, "Zhang Guo, help me calculate whether someone is still alive." He then recited Liu Xiaolian's birth date and time.
A moment later, Zhang Guo's voice rang out from the communication stone: "This woman is still alive, but her birth chart is entirely Yin, and her Yang energy is slightly weak. If she cannot survive this year's great calamity, she may face the loss of her mother."
Jiang Feng said, "Oh, thank you very much. I'll treat you to Sha Wujing's flesh next time we meet!"
Putting away the communication stone, Jiang Feng noticed that Bai Suzhen and Sha Wujing were both looking at him with resentful eyes. He asked in confusion, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Bai Suzhen said irritably, "Your calculations do not consume any magical power, but they do consume a bit of your friends."
Sha Wujing said with a gloomy face, "And it's wasting my disciple's time!"
Jiang Feng said matter-of-factly, "Never mind that, just tell me whether your calculations are accurate or not!"
Bai Suzhen snorted, "Granted!"
Upon hearing this, the woman was so moved that tears welled up in her eyes again, but her face was beaming with joy: "Thank you, Buddha, for protecting Xiaolian. It's wonderful that she's still alive!"
After she calmed down a bit, Jiang Feng asked, "Where did your daughter go missing? Haven't you found any clues?"
The woman said, "My daughter got lost on her way to the fields to bring food to my husband and me. It's not just my family that lost a daughter; there are three other families in the village whose children also went missing in the same way. They are all girls who are thirteen or fourteen years old."
"It's just that their families have many children, so their heartache subsides quickly, unlike my family, where Xiaolian is our only precious child."
Jiang Feng frowned upon hearing this.
Aside from knowing that all the missing persons were girls, there were almost no other clues.
After lunch, he had the woman lead them along the road to the fields, but they didn't find anything unusual along the way.
After a moment's thought, he transformed Bai Suzhen into a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, carrying a bamboo basket and pretending to deliver food to the fields.
He then led Sha Wujing to catch field mice in the fields, preparing to give Bai Suzhen, who had contributed the most, an extra meal.
Time flew by and evening arrived. Jiang Feng pickled the field mice he had caught and ate walnuts while waiting for Bai Suzhen to return.
The communication stone suddenly trembled twice, and Bai Suzhen's pitiful voice rang out: "Husband, I've been captured by a monster~"
Jiang Feng nearly choked on his words, coughing twice before asking, "What monster? Have you found those missing girls?"
Bai Suzhen's voice immediately became serious: "The one who captured me was a wolf demon who looked like a Taoist priest. He called himself Ling Xuzi. He locked me up with those girls, saying he wanted to refine pills."
Jiang Feng frowned and asked, "How does he refine pills? Does he use a young girl's blood or her essence?"
Bai Suzhen's voice suddenly became somewhat shy: "Use a young girl's Tiankui (a type of herbal medicine)."
Jiang Feng paused for a moment, then said with a strange expression, "Where did this monster learn these crooked tricks? Isn't he afraid that a few palace maids will suddenly appear and strangle him with yellow silk?"