Chapter 293: Three Sworn Brothers in the Peach Garden

In the backyard of the coffin shop, Xu Qing was circling around the big peach tree in front of him, looking at it.

While looking, he was also commenting, seemingly calculating something.

"Tsk, this big peach tree didn't grow in vain. Look at this little waist, it's almost as thick as a water tank. If it were made into a peach wood sword, even if it couldn't make ten thousand, it could make a thousand."

"If it were a lightning-struck wood, that would be even more incredible!"

Xu Qing was like a hooligan with ADHD, sometimes reaching out to measure the waist size of the peach tree, sometimes patting it like a watermelon, lying on the peach tree to listen to the movement, as if the peach tree could also be pregnant for ten months and give birth to a small peach tree.

"Lightning-struck wood is hard to find, and lightning-struck peach wood is even more precious. Even if it's sold at a low price, one lightning-struck peach wood sword is ten taels of silver, and a thousand swords would be ten thousand taels of silver."

"This is getting rich! Getting rich!"

Xu Qing clapped his hands and laughed. The peach tree, which never appeared in the courtyard, couldn't hold it back.

"What do you want to do? I am the godmother you worshiped. This is rebellious!"

As the voice fell, a crimson light jumped out of the peach tree. Xu Qing looked over and saw a woman in a pink dress with a face like a peach blossom sitting at the stone table under the tree.

The woman's pretty face was full of evil, and she said angrily, "I don't have much time left. I was counting on dying and returning to dust, and if I were lucky enough to sprout new buds one day, maybe I could continue my past life."

"But I didn't expect to meet you, this enemy!"

Xu Qing looked at the peach tree demon in front of him with interest.

He had noticed the tree demon in the coffin shop when Hu Baosong was alive.

Hu Baosong's mother was a fox demon, and his father was a mortal. In his early years, Hu Baosong was playful and traveled the rivers and lakes for decades without returning. By the time he returned home, his mortal father was already at the end of his life, with only one breath left.

Originally, Xu Qing thought it might be that the old man didn't see his son for the last time, so he held on to his breath and waited for Hu Baosong to return.

But now it seems that that breath had a lot to do with the peach demon in front of him.

Hu Baosong was guided by the fox demon of Qingqiu and rushed home to see his father. After dealing with the old man's funeral, Hu Baosong fell ill and spent his days drinking to drown his sorrows, feeling that he was a selfish, unfaithful, and unfilial bastard!

You say how could he be greedy for the red dust and forget that his father was a mortal?

Until later, when Hu Baosong was drunk in the backyard, he had a dream. In the dream, there was a woman in peach-red clothes who gave him advice.

The woman said, "Your mother has been cultivating for hundreds of years and has never had a moment of leisure until the disaster was approaching, when she came out of the mountain and formed a husband-and-wife relationship with your father. Although your father's lifespan is short, he has never wasted it. If the two of them have spirits in heaven, how can they bear to see you so wasted..."

After hearing this, Hu Baosong woke up like a dream and lived a second spring.

During this time, the old fox was not suspicious that the peach tree in the coffin shop was the noble person who entrusted him with a dream.

However, no matter how he burned incense and kowtowed, he never saw the woman appear again.

On the contrary, it was Xu Qing who didn't burn a stick of incense and only moved his lips to invite the other party out.

Comparing the two, the high and low are clear.

Seeing the pink-dressed woman break her defense, Xu Qing smiled and said, "Don't be anxious, let me break it down for you properly. You should think about it this way: since you said you are the godmother recognized by me and Xuanyu, then when you get old and pass away, should this inheritance be divided into a share for me and Xuanyu?"

The woman frowned slightly. The other party's words seemed to make some sense.

"Since the inheritance is mine and Xuanyu's, then this peach tree in the courtyard is naturally part of the inheritance. When the godmother doesn't survive the thunder disaster in a few days and rides a crane to the west, won't there be a lightning-struck peach tree in the courtyard?"

"At that time, me and Xuanyu will keep the roots for the godmother to sprout, and as for the tree stump... it will be made into a peach wood sword and exchanged for some silver to subsidize the family, which can be considered the godmother's shade for the younger generation and accumulating blessings for the younger generation."

"Does the godmother think this is the truth?"

"..."

What kind of crooked logic is this?

The peach tree demon who came back to her senses looked at Xu Qing indignantly and spat, "Who is your godmother! You recognize me as your godmother, but I haven't agreed!"

"Is that so?" Xu Qing nodded thoughtfully, "In that case... why did you appear in my house?"

Xu Qing took out the land deed of the coffin shop from the Mountain and River Map and said with reason and evidence, "This shop was transferred to me by Hu Baosong. My name is written on the deed, and there is a stamp from the government office, so this is my home."

Speaking of this, Xu Qing's expression suddenly became sharp, "Speak! How did you sneak into my house? Do you know that this is private trespassing, a crime of being a traitor or a thief!"

"You! I..."

"What about you? You didn't pay rent and lived in my house for no reason for so many years. How should this account be calculated? Everything speaks of a 'reason.' Even if this matter reaches the government, it is your fault!"

The peach tree demon opened her eyes wide and looked at Xu Qing in disbelief.

She had lived here for nearly a thousand years, and now the other party actually wanted to ask her for rent. What kind of reason is this?

"I have taken root here for many years, and there was no house here at that time..."

"I have a land deed certificate issued by the government!"

"Hu Baosong's mother treated me with courtesy..."

"I have a government..."

Before Xu Qing finished speaking, he saw the woman in front of him break her defense, "You have a land deed certificate issued by the government!"

Tsk, this tree demon learned to answer quickly!

Seeing Xu Qing not acting like a human, doing some bullying of honest demon girls, the grievance in the peach tree demon's heart can be imagined.

She had never seen such a shameless person, and the key was that the other party stood on the legal and moral high ground, full of righteous words. Isn't this bullying an honest demon!

Thinking of the thunder disaster she would face soon, the peach tree demon, who had no confidence to survive, felt sad, and her heart was very aggrieved.

Here, Xu Qing still felt that the strength was not enough. In the age of great calamity, Peach Third Sister needed incense to help her survive the thunder disaster, but this peach tree was very home-bound, staying in the coffin shop all day, so where would she get incense to use?

Like this kind of peach tree that lives cautiously, if you throw out hundreds of thousands of incense directly, she will feel uneasy in her heart. After all, which family would offer so much incense to recruit an immortal!

Even the Red-Tailed Monkey and Gu Zixu didn't receive so much incense at once, let alone a peach tree demon who had never seen the world!

But surviving the disaster must use so much incense...

Xu Qing pondered for a long time, and finally had to use a rougher method to reduce the concerns of this peach tree.

However, what Xu Qing never expected was that he hadn't exerted his strength yet, and the peach-clothed woman in front of him wiped her tears.

And she used the back of her hand to wipe it. When the tears couldn't be controlled and rolled down, the peach-clothed woman turned her face to the side, stubbornly not letting outsiders see her fragile side.

Xu Qing was stunned for a moment and blurted out:

"Hey hey! No matter what, you are also a big demon of hundreds of years, why are you still crying? Are you ashamed?"

The peach tree demon didn't pay attention to Xu Qing. After she stabilized her emotions, she said somewhat indignantly, "You certainly don't cry. Your human race is blessed by heaven. As long as you seek the method and cultivate with concentration, you can have extraordinary cultivation, and even thunder disasters are not afraid. Unlike us demons, just learning human language and understanding principles takes countless years of hard work."

"Demons surviving disasters are ten times harder than your human race, and I am the tree demon most afraid of thunder among all trees..."

"Tree demon cultivation is the longest, and peach trees are the tree species that have lived for less than a hundred years. I refuse to do evil, and every hundred years I have to walk in front of the ghost gate. Now I have cultivated for nearly a thousand years, and I have five hundred years of cultivation, but I have to face the most fearful thunder disaster." ===== CHAPTER 294 =====

"For demons to cross the tribulation is ten times harder than for you humans, and I am a tree demon who is the most afraid of thunder among the demon race."

"Tree demon cultivation is the longest, and peach trees are the tree species among all trees that do not live past a hundred years. I refuse to do evil, so every hundred years I have to stubbornly walk through the gates of hell. Now I have cultivated for nearly a thousand years, and I have barely five hundred years of cultivation, yet I have to face the heavenly thunder tribulation I fear the most."