Fairy, don't try to mess with my filial piety

However, this thought flashed through his mind, and Ning Xianzhi knew that the problem was not with Chu Wuzhi. He was just entangled by the remains of a snake demon.

A bear paw is big, but half a bear paw is just right.

The two of them shared the bear paws before they got cold.

Ning Xianzhi was brewing words in her mind, intending to give him a few more preludes, so that Chu Wuji would know to go looking for immortals and visit the Shenxiao Sect in the future, and then ask Bai Sujin whether the snake demon had mentioned anything about his physique.

Just as he was about to speak, Ning Xianzhi was surprised to find that he couldn't open his mouth. His lips seemed to be stuck with something like beeswax or donkey-hide gelatin, most likely the gelatin from the bear paw.

I didn't feel anything when it was hot, but it became sticky once it got cold. No wonder Chu Wuji was urging me so hard just now.

Ning Xianzhi glanced at him and found that the child was actually well prepared. He had been drinking water to wash away the bear paw gelatin on his lips, but he had no intention of reminding her at all. He was probably waiting for this moment to stick his mouth together!

She gave Chu Wuji a cold look. Although her temperament was cold and aloof, she still revealed a lot of charm.

"Mom, wait a minute~"

Chu Wuzhi went to the kitchen and poured a cup of hot water. He didn't mind the heat. He dipped his fingers in the hot water and felt that it was no longer burning. Then he carefully applied it on his godmother's pink and tender lips, using the hot water to melt the stickiness.

He first applied it to the outside of her lips. When he felt the bear paw collagen had been washed away, Chu Wuji's fingers gradually moved inwards, rubbing hot water into the seams of her lips, slowly "tearing" them apart. His fingertips accidentally touched the beautiful woman's tongue.

Ning Xianzhi was a female immortal in the eyes of ordinary people, and was highly respected even in the Shenxiao Sect. This rude interaction was actually a bit inappropriate. She felt delicate, but didn't say anything.

I'm just helping you wash your lips. It would be weird if you make too much of a fuss!

"Okay, now your mouth isn't sticky anymore, but you'd better rinse it out with some tea. I'll go get some tea for Mother."

"......Um."

Ning Xianzhi's response was unnatural. Looking at Chu Wuzhi walking back and forth in the room, she suddenly forgot what she was going to talk about.

*

In an unnoticed street corner, Shang Liang was kneeling for a long time. He was extremely hungry and thirsty, but he didn't dare to muster up the courage to leave.

He got up and left. The matter could be a big one or a small one. If the Jing'an Palace wanted to investigate, they could use his offensive words as an excuse and send him to reincarnation with just one sentence.

But the Jing'an Palace did not refuse to forgive him, but forgot about this man and did not know what he did because Si Que did not report to the princess.

Shang Liangzheng knelt until late at night, and his blood circulation was blocked, so he fainted. The palace guards thought that a beggar had died, and fearing that it would bring bad luck to the palace, they threw Shang Liangzheng aside.

In the middle of the night, Shang Liang was woken up by a rat bite. He took some time to sort out the situation, then crawled to Shangshu Yu's residence and asked for a meeting.

Chapter 19: The Female Immortal Mastered the Technique

Minister Yu was woken up in the middle of the night and was still wearing his inner robe and nightgown when he met Shang Liangzheng.

The old servants and maids in the mansion rubbed their sleepy eyes and hurriedly made tea and served cakes.

Yu Shangshu had heard about Shang Liangzheng's loss in the government office, but he didn't know the details and didn't dare send anyone to the gate of Prince Jing'an's mansion to ask Shang Liangzheng.

It would be troublesome if you were implicated.

Being woken up from his quality sleep, Yu Shangshu was in a bad mood, but his curiosity about what happened during the day suppressed his dissatisfaction.

After drinking some hot tea, Shang Liangzheng told his story. He became more and more angry as he spoke, and he couldn't help but slap his thigh, which made his leg numb.

Even more angry!

"Minister Yu, I really didn't expect that guy to have won the favor of Prince Jing'an's Mansion from nowhere and even come to the government office to protect him!"

Shang Liangzheng's original plan was to bring Chu Wuzhi to Yu Mansion to guard the door under the pretext of catching a thief. Once he arrived at Yu Mansion, many things would be beyond his control.

Chu Wuji could be assigned to do anything from serving tea to pouring water and carrying manure.

Unexpectedly, it was Shang Liang who was kneeling in front of the gate of Prince Jing'an's Mansion for the whole day.

Minister Yu drank strong tea to wake himself up. His face did not look very good and he drank the tea without saying a word.

He and Chu Wuji had no deep hatred for each other, because they were simply not on the same level. If he made an enemy with that commoner, it would be Shangshu Yu who would lose face!

For people of Chu Wuzhi's class, it was like walking on the road and accidentally touching a small pebble with the tip of his shoe. He could just kick it away and there was no need to pay attention to it.

But the situation now was that he accidentally bruised his toe on the gravel, and when he turned around to kick it, he tripped over the gravel again.

I'm not convinced, and it's disgusting!

After a long while, Minister Yu spoke:

"While you were kneeling in Prince Jing'an's mansion during the day, that kid accompanied the palace team on a folk song expedition. He showed his courtesy again and served as a guard. He was rewarded for his service by beheading a bear paw, cooking it, and sending it to Prince Jing'an's mansion."

"Ah? That guy is so good at flattering?" Shang Liang was stunned.

He really didn't notice Chu Wuji coming to deliver the food in the evening, because he was kneeling so hard that his vision was blurry and he had no mind to pay attention to the outside world.

Also in the hall was Yu Hualong, the son-in-law of the Yu family. He had recuperated for nearly a month before recovering. In the afternoon, he had been out visiting other princes and heard that Chu Wuji had been favored by the Jing'an Palace. Yu Hualong was so angry that he came back and lay down for a long time.

He said categorically, "This must be a specially designed play, directed and performed by myself, just to win the favor of Prince Jing'an's Mansion!"

Shang Liangzheng also leaned towards this possibility: "Master Yu, what are your thoughts? Didn't many people say they saw him beat the bear?"

"That's the suspicious part. He was capable of knocking the bear down, so why didn't he just kill it? But now he's letting the bear go and only taking its paws."

Yu Hualong meant that the black bear was played by a human, and the bear paws were prepared in advance. In the end, the black bear was released because they were afraid of an autopsy.

Otherwise, bringing the bear carcass back and carrying it in a parade would make you more famous. With such great benefits, there is no reason not to do it.

The only possible explanation is that the so-called black bear itself is problematic and would be exposed if investigated. Now they only took the bear's paws and claimed that the bear was released. There is no way to verify it. It's very stupid. Thief cunning!

Minister Yu raised his hand, signaling that they should stop worrying about the black bear. He said:

"It's pointless to dwell on this matter. You can't expose it. What is certain is that the Jing'an Palace is determined to protect this kid, but I'm unwilling to give in!"

If he suffers a loss in a competition with people of the same level, he is willing to admit it. There are always temporary failures in life, and it is impossible to be smooth sailing forever. Otherwise, he would have become an emperor long ago.

But now, he, the dignified Minister of Revenue, had one of his eyes pecked by an unknown chick, and the other eye was fine, so he had to watch helplessly as the chick rose to prominence and curryed favor with the royal family.

Can you bear this?

Shang Liangzheng sighed and said, "Even if I want to give this kid more training now, I have to consider whether the female guard will come to my house..."

Yu Hualong lay in bed all day, and it wasn't that he hadn't thought about countermeasures. He said:

"Everyone's saying he's a demon-slaying expert. Is there something evil going on in Yunhe Town? The Yu Mansion kitchen can't even buy fresh shrimp, so they're using small shrimp as a substitute. It's that evil spirit's fault. I heard it's pretty serious!"

Reputation is a good thing, and it can invisibly elevate a person's status. But reputation also has its disadvantages, and it can easily put a person on such a high pedestal that he or she cannot come down!

Yunhe Town is so severely invaded by evil spirits. It would be inappropriate for you, Chu Wuji, a master of exorcism, not to go, right?

Yu Shangshu shook his head and reminded:

"Hualong, you're taking it for granted. The Jing'an Palace has recruited him, and he's a full-time guard of the palace. His reputation can't hold him back."

How can you ask a chef you hired at home to help cook for someone else?

Even if the entire martial arts academy was sent to Yunhe Town to contribute, it would not be Chu Wuji's turn to run errands.

Shang Liangzheng frowned, thinking of some news:

"I heard from someone that... Chu Wuji enrolled in the Martial Academy in order to meet good doctors and imperial physicians to see if he could cure his mother's coma.

If his old mother hadn't woken up, maybe I could have used this opportunity to spread some false news and trick him into going to Yunhe Town on his own initiative. But unfortunately, his sick mother woke up. Alas! "

Both Shangshu Yu and Shang Liangzheng wanted to give up and suffer the loss in silence.

Chu Wuji was protected by the Jing'an Palace. Unless he did something evil that would anger God and man, no one could touch him.

But Yu Hualong really couldn't swallow it. He was a son-in-law. Even if his father-in-law, Yu Shangshu, wanted to cultivate him, when he returned to the room, his wife would not treat him with respect. If there was any slight friction, she would get a cold shoulder. She had no dignity as a man at all.

During the last sword fighting competition, his wife was watching from below. Yu Hualong hoped to use this opportunity to show off, but Chu Wuji ended up beating him up in front of his wife!

During the days when he was recuperating, his wife often looked at him coldly and ridiculed him, thinking that he, as a son-in-law, had made her lose face in front of her sisters!

Yu Hualong had to try no matter what to see if he could trick Chu Wuji into going to Yunhe Town.

Minister Yu did not notice his son-in-law's gloomy expression. He instructed Shang Liangzheng:

"In the martial arts competition in a few days, if Chu Wuji still participates, you can put some more capable fighters in his group to make him suffer a little bit, and then call it a day!"

Shang Liangzheng knew that Minister Yu had decided to give up, and now he was just thinking about whether he could see Chu Wuji get punched and kicked during the competition, which would be a psychological comfort.

"Understood. I'll go and monitor this matter at daybreak and personally pick out some people with good martial arts skills!"

*

In the following days, Chu Wuzhi and his godmother stayed at home leisurely.

In fact, Chu Wuji wanted to take his godmother out for a walk, but after the bear paw incident, Chu Wuji's previous deeds of catching cat spirits spread, and many people came to visit him. He and his godmother could only pretend that no one was at home and closed the door to ignore them.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, mother and son went out for a walk together to get some fresh air.

During these days, Ning Xianzhi carefully observed the boy's daily activities and found that he did practice boxing and standing sometimes, but compared with most folk martial artists, he did not spend much time on this.

By asking in casual conversation, Ning Xianzhi learned that his boxing and kicking skills were all learned from the wild beasts in the mountains and forests.

In his early years, he traveled around with Bai Sujin and naturally took on the task of hunting to share the life pressure of mother and son.

In his eyes, the fact that wild beasts can reproduce from generation to generation shows that their hunting skills are the essence of the survival of the fittest and are worthy of imitation and learning.

He would learn from any wild animal he encountered. He had figured out in detail the look and demeanor when confronting his prey, the alert posture during a stalemate, and the coordinated movements of the whole body when attacking.

As for food supplements, which are what martial artists lack the most, they have never lacked them during their growth. They eat whatever they can get their hands on. Why would they worry about insufficient nutrition?

Ning Xianzhi guessed that the snake demon must have helped him a lot in secret, and might have obtained some rare medicinal herbs to give him a medicinal bath to strengthen his body, but this child's talent was indeed excellent.

It would be a waste of God's favor to him if he only practiced worldly martial arts.

What Ning Xianzhi was most curious about at the moment was what kind of talent this child had. The snake demon didn't pave the way for him in this regard at all!

"Wuji, come here. I just thought of a set of exercises. Would you like to try them out?"

As soon as Chu Wuji heard the beautiful woman's call, he ran over immediately. He asked in confusion:

"Has mother ever practiced this kind of skill?"

Ning Xianzhi was now able to respond calmly to such inquiries. She shook her head gently:

"I haven't practiced it before, but I vaguely remember that this is what I prepared for Wu Ji, but I forgot to tell you before."

"Okay, let me see what's going on!"

Ning Xianzhi was helpless when he saw how decisively this boy responded.

As soon as the words "Mom prepared this for you" were said, I really wanted to take the child everywhere. I just hope I can take him up the mountain as soon as possible!

However, just as Ning Xianzhi was reciting half of the introductory formula for cultivation, Chu Wuji sensed the mysterious meaning in it and immediately expressed his unwillingness to learn it.

He was a little angry, with a stern face and no smile. Ning Xianzhi was confused and had not expected his reaction at all.

"Wuji, what's wrong with you? You look so ugly..."

"Mother, this should be the so-called method of the mountain immortals, right? Why do you always want to lead me down this path!"

"...I don't know what this method is, I just remember it roughly. Okay, we won't learn it, don't be angry!"

The beautiful woman pulled the young man into her arms, gently hugged Chu Wuzhi, stroked his head, and soon coaxed him into submission.

Ning Xianzhi really didn't expect that this child's sense of smell was so sharp. He knew what something was after hearing half of the introductory formula for cultivation, even though he hadn't even opened the Qifu acupoint.

She had witnessed with her own eyes how the child had learned skills from wild beasts. His understanding and inspiration were so sharp!

......

Late at night, Chu Wuji sat alone in the yard to enjoy the cool air.

He looked up at the sky and fell into deep thought.

"My mother's behavior after waking up was very abnormal. She kept trying to persuade me to leave her and go to the mountains to practice."

"Could it be that her recovery was fake, and her last moments of lucidity were the real deal? Then she's probably just rushing to make arrangements for her own funeral, worried that I won't have a future..."

Thinking of this, Chu Wuzhi's heart sank to the bottom. He realized that he had been a little relaxed recently, even too optimistic.

"I still have to find a reliable and famous doctor to see if he can find the root cause!"

"We must also get the Black Jade Soul-Restoring Pill. We must be prepared for both situations and not let our guard down!"

While he was lost in thought, a little white tiger jumped down from the wall and rolled to his feet on several wheels.

A soft cry soon came from outside the door:

"Brother Chu, can you open the door?"