Chapter 153: The Dog That Can Talk

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu left Xianyun Temple silently by jumping over the wall and out the window, just as she had come.

She had already ordered a pot of fragrant meat at the dog-meat restaurant before, and even though the dog-meat Daoist insisted that she go out of the city to beat a dog, she still paid the shop assistant two mace of silver and asked him to send the jar to Xianyun Temple.

After this series of events—the government office lawsuit, the Wang family memorial, and the consultation at Xianyun Temple—lunchtime had long passed.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu took two copper coins out of her small purse, bought two scallion oil pancakes on the street, ate while walking, and returned to the Red Sleeve Workshop after finishing.

"Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu, I encountered something..."

Since she had to run out of the city, she definitely had to explain the reason to Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu clearly.

"Because my reputation of 'righteous and heaven-reaching' resounded through the Three Realms, the Jade Emperor sent a talisman envoy to the mortal world to monitor my words and deeds, preparing to promote me and take me to heaven to be an immortal maiden. Who knew that my fate would be so bumpy, encountering Ge Qing, Zhu Tong, and that group of evil stars..."

Now that things had come to this, concealment was no longer necessary.

She spoke cleanly and neatly, telling the whole story of slashing the talisman envoy with a blade, the evil Qi rushing to her brain, speaking rebellious words, offending the Jade Emperor, and the impending heavenly punishment.

Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu seemed to have turned into a fool.

She sat in her wheelchair, her eyes widened like copper bells, her mouth agape, enough to fit an orange, her face full of a confused expression mixed with astonishment and trance.

After a long while, she muttered: "Famous in the Three Realms, alarming the Jade Emperor... You aren't dreaming?"

"You aren't dreaming!" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said seriously: "Even if you've been recuperating recently and haven't left the Red Sleeve Workshop, you must know how loud my name 'righteous and heaven-reaching' is."

Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu looked dazed and said: "But you are famous in Tianmen Town, and even famous in the Shu East region, how did you alarm the Lord of the Three Realms? That is the Heavenly Emperor, not the Great Shu monarch, not the human emperor of the upper state, and not even some great god, it's directly the Heavenly Emperor..."

Aunt Liu looked dazed and said, "But you are famous in Tianmen Town, and even renowned throughout the Shu East region; how did you manage to alarm the Lord of the Three Realms?"

She could actually guess the reason.

According to the Yin Merit Theory told by Huchen, if humans know, ghosts and gods must know; if a person has a reputation for virtue, ghosts and gods must investigate it.

No matter how corrupt the City Gods and little ghosts under the Underworld system are, the basic purpose of the Underworld system is still "punishing evil and promoting good, and educating the world."

There are virtuous people in the mortal world, reward them, let the world see, let the world envy, and imitate their good deeds; there are evil people and evil deeds in the mortal world, punish them, let the world take them as a warning.

Because it involves real rewards and punishments, ghosts and gods are needed to monitor and audit.

There is no doubt that the original intention of establishing the Yin Merit system was beautiful, and the effect... Seeing Xiao Yu Yu hadn't traveled far and wide, her knowledge was insufficient, so she couldn't comment rashly. She was only very certain that the Underworld must have recorded her "great good deeds."

What really surprised her was that this matter actually alarmed the Heavenly Court.

"Even if you hit the talisman envoy, will the talisman envoy definitely report to the Heavenly Emperor? What kind of existence is the Heavenly Emperor, does he have time to pay attention to you?" Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu said.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu sighed: "I naturally hope that the talisman envoy only complains to his superior and doesn't alarm the Heavenly Emperor. But for a mortal like me, any divine punishment from heaven is no different, and all can take my life."

"Sigh, I didn't expect that I, who have been a prostitute all my life, would have the honor of being related to the Heavenly Emperor."

Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu sighed with a dazed expression: "If the talisman envoy wants to report your crimes to the Heavenly Emperor, will he say 'Yu Fengxian of the Red Sleeve Workshop'? If the gods in the heavenly palace know about the Red Sleeve Workshop, will they immediately calculate that there is a 'Liu Ruyi' in the Red Sleeve Workshop? Hey, thinking that I can be mentioned by the Heavenly Emperor and remembered by the gods, I can't help but feel excited in my heart. You say, should we go outside the Yue Temple and invite a down-and-out scholar who writes letters for people to help the Red Sleeve Workshop, help me record my name? And our Tianmen Town 'County Annals', should we write about it in detail? In a certain year, a certain month, Yu of the Red Sleeve Workshop, at the age of eleven, committed a crime against heaven and suffered heavenly punishment..."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's face turned black, "You can find someone to compile a 'Biography of Liu Ruyi', but I don't have time to talk to you."

Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu calmed down and said: "If heavenly punishment is impending, what else can you do? Can the dog-meat Daoist offer you any advice? He should also be helpless, right? After all, it's a punishment from the Heavenly Court."

"Don't ask too much, lest the Heavenly Emperor treats you as my accomplice, and when the heavenly punishment descends, he strikes you together," Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said.

Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu's face changed, "Little Fengxian, you should live outside these few days. The Red Sleeve Workshop has several farms and slopes outside the city, you stay in the wilderness alone, suffer the punishment alone, don't implicate everyone. Everyone is living well, so they can build a tomb and erect a monument for you, and will also invite monks and Daoists to chant the Dao Tou Sutra for you. Of course, my heart still hopes you can survive this disaster safely."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu wanted to mock her, but after thinking carefully, she asked: "Outside the Dongcheng Gate, are there any farms?"

She certainly didn't want to sit and wait for death.

She wasn't without opportunities.

The dog-meat Daoist didn't know her trump cards, and said that sitting quietly at home also had a high chance of surviving this disaster.

After all, she only said "God cannot protect Zhu Tong," not "God is a bastard"—cursing in her heart doesn't count.

If she enters the Dahe, hides in the Liushahe, even gods and immortals would find it difficult to capture her, right?

She hasn't fully tested the effect of "Kunpeng Transformation" until now, and hasn't had a great river to test it.

The Liang River and Qingshui River outside Xiaojing Pavilion are too shallow and easily seen by people and ghosts.

Outside the Dongcheng Gate, there is her hometown in this life—Liushahe!

"Outside the Dongcheng Gate, besides the flying car platform, there are only barren mountains and cliffs, no farms," Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu said.

"Then go to the barren mountains outside the Dongcheng Gate," Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said.

"Why not go to the farm?" Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu asked suspiciously.

Although she said let Seeing Xiao Yu Yu suffer the heavenly punishment quietly and don't implicate others, she was very puzzled that Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was so obedient.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu glanced at her, "Do you really want to be my accomplice?"

"Sigh, forget it, don't ask, I will prepare a place for you immediately. Now all I can do is try my best to satisfy your needs, and see the situation later to help you collect your corpse," Zhang Zhang Da Niang Liu sighed.

"If you didn't say the last sentence, I could have been moved a little bit," Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said with a wooden face.

Going to the barren mountains by the river to wait quietly for "heavenly punishment" was just a backup option.

What Seeing Xiao Yu Yu needs to do first is, of course, follow the dog-meat Daoist's suggestion and go to Xinghua Village outside the South City Gate to find Su Xipo.

Xinghua Village is not hard to find, and once Xinghua Village is found, the Su family is close at hand.

Su Xipo is not alone.

He has a mother in her forties and a sister in her early teens.

He himself is only sixteen or seventeen years old, looking fair and clean, scholarly and gentle.

Placed in Xinghua Village, the Su family is an extremely ordinary household, with three brick-tiled houses, more than ten mu of land, one cow, and two pigs.

Inside and outside the courtyard, there are a few chickens pecking for food in the corner.

Very ordinary, but also very warm.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu stood on a big tree in the distance and looked for a long time, really unable to find her place in the "harmonious and peaceful farming picture of Xinghua Village" below.

Placing her in any position in the "farming picture" would seem out of place.

In the evening, Su's sister accompanied Su's mother to cook, boiling a pot of bean rice—beans mixed with millet.

The dishes were very simple, a plate of pickled garlic sprouts, a jar of firewood fish, and stir-fried flat beans with lard.

The next morning, Su Xipo carried a hoe and went to the fields.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu pretended to be a passerby visiting relatives, and went to the Su family to beg for a bowl of water.

Mother Su was very enthusiastic, Su's sister was very lively, pulling her to ask questions, where are you from, why are you alone outside at such a young age...

Finally, Mother Su insisted on keeping her for lunch.

Su's sister went to the village entrance to buy two pieces of tofu, and lunch had an extra dish of stir-fried tofu with scallions, fried eggs with chives, and wood ear with lard residue.

Because there was a female guest, Su Xipo bowed from behind the curtain and ate his bowl in the kitchen by himself.

After eating the meal, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu completely gave up the idea of borrowing his blessings to eliminate disasters.

After saying goodbye to the Su family, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu walked along the main road and left Xinghua Village, then turned around, leaped over walls, and found Niu Er's house.

"Huo, what a fat dog, no wonder the dog-meat Daoist would be greedy."

Also a Chinese pastoral dog, the big yellow dog at Niu Er's house was clearly taller and more majestic.

Not only was its body huge and its fur shiny, but it also had a special divine charm.

"Yi, noticed me? And wants to run? What a keen spiritual sense!" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said in surprise.

She stood on a white poplar tree behind Niu Er's house.

The big yellow dog was dozing on a stone slab in the shade of a tree in front of the front door.

The distance was over fifty meters, but the big yellow dog suddenly stood up, and even looked back vigilantly at the top of the white poplar tree.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu had sharp eyes and could see its dog face change from doubt to ferocity, and finally to fear, turning around and running outside.

"Could this dog have become a spirit?"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu didn't chase immediately, but operated the "Concealment Art" to restrain her own aura.

Huchen was not dead.

Huchen went to the East to seek a great future, so the "method of sneak attack and assassination of Huchen" did not disappear from the Purple Mansion.

To sneak attack and assassinate Huchen, one must first break his thousand-mile eyes.

To break the thousand-mile eyes, one must first restrain the aura, and then be invisible.

Because her strength had grown too fast recently, the deduction of the method to break the thousand-mile eyes had almost stopped, the concealment art was 80% complete, and invisibility was 40% complete.

Dealing with the thousand-mile eyes was impossible, but dealing with a dog should be enough.

An hour later, in the grass on a hillside more than twenty li away from Niu Er's house.

The big yellow dog was lying on the ground, sticking out its long tongue, gasping for air, its big dog eyes blinking, very lively.

"So dangerous, so dangerous! Almost killed. Sigh, Niu Er's house is becoming less and less livable. Last time it was a sneaky-looking stinky Daoist, this time... Well, I only felt a fierce tiger full of blood-evil Qi pouncing over, didn't see the person clearly, it doesn't seem to be that stinky Daoist. The world is dangerous, humans are evil, must leave... But, I haven't repaid the kindness yet! Niu Er will encounter a killing disaster in half a year, although he is not a good person, he is my master, raised me for more than twenty years, and grew up with me, I can't not save him, hard to handle, hard to handle~"

"If it's hard to handle, then don't handle it." A light laugh sounded above its head.

In an instant, the dog hair stood up, the dog legs exerted force, and it stretched its dog head to bite in the direction of the sound.

"Wang wang~~"

"Gebeng~~~" A pitch-black sword scabbard gently tapped on the canine tooth in the dog's mouth, and the overlapping force of the up and down collision actually broke the canine tooth, which was as thick as a woman's middle finger.

"Aowu~~~"

The dog wailed shrilly, rolled twice on the ground, crawled up, and drilled into the thorn bush.

"If you dare to run, I'll stab you to death with one sword," Seeing Xiao Yu Yu sneered.

The big yellow dog froze, slowly turned around, held its two front paws together, and bowed to her in a funny way, wailing "wu wu wu" in its mouth.

"Speak!" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said.

"Can't speak human language," the big yellow dog said.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu raised the sword scabbard, gently tapped its dog face, and scolded: "Let me dissect your dog body and see if your dog gallbladder is bigger than the sky."

"Dog gallbladder is small," the big yellow dog trembled.

"Dog gallbladder is small, how dare you scold me for not being a human?" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu kicked it.

The big yellow dog felt aggrieved and wailed: "I didn't scold."

"Sophistry!" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu kicked it again, this time very hard.

The big yellow dog shrank on the ground and didn't dare to struggle, only wailing and begging, with silkworm-bean-sized tears accumulating in its dog eyes.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu had been pretending to be angry just now, but this time she was really a bit angry, and shouted: "What a cunning dog, still daring to pretend, as if I am the villain. I ask you, just now I asked you to speak human language, you spoke, but said it wasn't 'human language', wasn't that scolding me for not being a human?"

The big yellow dog said: "Fairy, you have great magical powers and can understand demon language, it's not that I am speaking human language."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was startled, "You are speaking demon language?"

"Yes, the little beast hasn't even refined the transverse bone, how can I speak human language?" The big yellow dog said pitifully. ===== CHAPTER 154 =====

"Click—" A pitch-black sword scabbard lightly tapped against the canine tooth in the dog's mouth. The combined force of the impact from above and below actually snapped the canine tooth, which was as thick and long as a woman's middle finger.

"Awoo~~~"

The dog let out a shrill, miserable howl, fell heavily to the ground, rolled twice, scrambled up, and dove into the bramble bushes.

"If you dare to run, I'll run you through with one sword strike," Seeing Xiao Yu Yu sneered.

The big yellow dog stiffened, slowly turned around, clasped its two front paws together, and bowed to her in a comical manner, whimpering "woo-woo-woo" from its mouth.

"Speak!" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said.

"I don't know how to speak human language," the big yellow dog said.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu raised her sword scabbard, lightly swatted its dog face, and scolded, "Let me cut open your dog body and take a good look at your dog guts to see if they are bigger than the sky."

"My dog guts are small," the big yellow dog trembled.

"If your dog guts are small, how dare you beat around the bush and call me 'not human'?" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu kicked it.

The big yellow dog looked aggrieved and cried, "I didn't scold you."

"Quibbling!" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu kicked it again, this time with great force.

The big yellow dog curled up on the ground, not daring to struggle, only whimpering and begging, with silkworm-bean-sized tears accumulating in its dog eyes.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu had been pretending to be angry just a moment ago, but now she was truly a bit furious and shouted, "What a cunning dog thing, daring to put on an act as if I were the villain.

I asked you to speak human language, and you spoke, but said it wasn't 'human language'—aren't you just scolding me for not being human?"

The big yellow dog said, "Fairy, you have vast supernatural powers and can understand demon language; it wasn't me speaking human language."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was startled, "You are speaking demon language?"

"Yes, this little beast hasn't even refined its throat bone; how could I speak human language?" the big yellow dog said pitifully.