The little maid's surname is Su, and her original name is "Su Jiu". Because she is the ninth in the family, she was given the name "Jiu'er", which also carries long-lasting good wishes.
But it is a pity that after the death of her father and brother, Su Jiu has no one to rely on and can only work as a maid in the home of the young escort leader, thus changing from "Jiu'er" to "Jiu'er". So far, there are less than three
moon.
Knowing this, Xu Daoling changed Su Jiu's name back to her original name, but she still called her Jiu'er verbally.
After Su Jiu woke up, she became unusually silent. She rarely spoke a word on weekdays. She just hugged her legs and squatted in a corner of the carriage in a daze. Other than that, she got out of the carriage and helped Xu Dao saddle the horse in front of him.
Every time she left the carriage, Su Jiu would wrap a scarf on her head and try her best to cover her fox ears and white hair. However, the strangeness on her head was easy to hide, but the strangeness on her face was difficult to hide.
Whenever she walked in the motorcade with her head lowered, the escorts around her would cast their eyes on her intentionally or unintentionally, staring at her red eyes with different expressions.
This is not because the escorts of the motorcade are afraid of Su Jiu.
After learning that Su Jiu was revived by Xu Dao using the secret technique of skin-changing and had not turned into a monster, the escorts gradually let go of their worries.
Even if they can't let go, little Su Jiu'er is not that scary compared to the wolves, tigers, leopards, monsters and spirits along the way.
The reason why the escorts kept stealing glances at Su Jiu was because Xu Dao's treatment was too successful!
Although Su Jiu's head was covered with a layer of fox skin, I don't know if it was because of Xu Dao's intention. The change of skin did not make her look scary at all, but instead added a hint of exotic charm.
Especially when the scar on Su Jiu's side face gradually faded and her face became more and more charming, more and more people peeked at her and coveted her.
Such gazes made Su Jiu very frightened. Several times when she passed by some bodyguards, she heard people talking about it: "The Taoist priest has a way to save people who have been skinned, and he also created such a
Get the stuff out."
"If I sell it to those rich people, I don't know how much food I can get back..."
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But Su Jiu was unaccompanied in the motorcade, and Xu Dao was also indifferent to her. He could only hide these things in his heart, pretending not to know, as if he had never realized the strange looks in the eyes or heard the malicious comments.
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Even when she met an escort she knew well in the past several times, Su Jiu would timidly call the other person uncle a few times, earning false laughter from the other person.
Xu Dao actually saw all of this, but was too lazy to intervene.
As the convoy rolled forward wheel by wheel.
Everyone is getting closer and closer to the Shezhao tribe. And as they move forward, although the number of people in the convoy will be lost from time to time, fewer and fewer people will die.
On this day, after walking out of a certain green mountain and onto a wilderness, the atmosphere of the entire convoy became lively, and the joy on the faces of the escorts could not be hidden.
Because after passing this grassland, there is a land surrounded by mountains on three sides a hundred miles away. This is the residence of the Shezhao tribe. There is a walled city on it, and it is also where the mountain people, savages, and merchants trade within a thousand miles.
point.
This place is connected to the grassland highlands in the west, the Wuxia River in the north, and the waterways can sometimes lead to the inner territory of the Wu Kingdom. It is backed by hundreds of thousands of mountains in the south, where monsters are rampant and there are countless mountain products and medicinal materials.
The convoy traveled thousands of miles to get here. Once they enter the mountain market and sell their goods, they can harvest a large amount of furs, silks, medicinal materials, cattle and sheep, etc. When the river melts and flows down the river, they can still
You can go to the hinterland of Wu State.
With such a back and forth, everyone in the team will see their net worth skyrocket and make a lot of money.
What makes the escorts even more excited is that the goods they transported are still in short supply in Shezhao. With this batch of goods, they can contact the leader of Shezhao and have the opportunity to obtain the secret technique of controlling snakes and poisons.
This is also a major factor in the young escort leader of the team being able to form a team.
Because the young escort claimed that his uncle practiced Taoism in Shezhao and knew how to control snakes and poisons. When he arrived in Shezhao, he was sure to join his wife in Shezhao and learn witchcraft.
When the time comes, they will return to the county to take revenge. Their wealth will not be a problem in their lives, and they will have the opportunity to live longer, seek immortality and learn Taoism.
With such an inside story, the escorts did not take the initiative to inform Xu Dao, or even disclose it to any outsider.
But not every one of them can be tight-lipped.
Su Jiu originally learned this from several people when she was working as a maid in the motorcade. But the day after Xu Dao rescued her, Su Jiu honestly told all about the situation in the motorcade.
During the journey of more than half a month in the past, the reason why Xu Dao kept the escorts of the motorcade was that on the one hand he was using everyone to lead the way to prevent disasters, and on the other hand he was waiting for the escorts to inform him of the matter.
But somehow, no one in the convoy of nearly thirty people revealed it to him.
Now that the mountain city of Shezhao could be reached the next day, Xu Dao thought that he had waited long enough and given enough opportunities. It was also time to deal with the personnel of the convoy.
Although he never revealed his identity as the White Bone Temple, he even made the bodyguards mistakenly think that he was a Taoist from Shezhao.
But as a cultivator, it is a hidden danger to leave the realm of White Bone Temple at this time and let others know about it.
After all, just one or two people are just paying off, and it's probably nothing, but the whole convoy is different, not to mention that the convoy will return to the realm of Bones Temple.
So when he arrived at the grassland, Xu Dao sat cross-legged on the carriage in the middle and opened his eyes at night.
It was pitch dark at this time, and there was no longer fog after walking out of the forest, but the moonlight in the sky was dim, and I could barely reach out and see my palms.
The boy Su Jiu was hugging his legs and huddled in a corner of the carriage, his head lowered and he didn't know what he was doing.
Because she was in a carriage, Su Jiu didn't have her head wrapped, and her two fox ears stood up on top of her head, indicating that she was not sleeping.
Xu Dao looked at the scene in front of him and narrowed his eyes slightly.
If we say that when he treated Su Jiu before, he may have only wanted to save the poor little maid, but then he accepted her as a boy, but his thoughts were not pure.
After successfully replacing Su Jiu with fox skin, Xu Dao noticed the existence of evil spirit on Su Jiu's body. At first, he thought it was just the evil spirit on the fox skin that had not dissipated, but as time went by, he realized that this was not the case.
Looking at the huddled Su Jiu, Xu Dao said loudly:
"We will arrive in Shezhao in a few days, and the convoy will be disbanded. What don't you want to do?"
Hearing the words, Su Jiu immediately raised her head. She turned her face and looked straight at Xu Dao with her light red eyes.
Xu Dao smiled and said directly, "Don't you want to take revenge on those who deceived you, bullied you, and caused you to end up like this?"
A pun, Xu Dao's words not only refer to her going out to fetch water, but also the purpose of everyone in the motorcade taking her along.
In an instant, Su Jiu's eyes turned red, not because she was about to shed tears, but because she was about to bleed.
Xu Dao looked at it, the strange color in his eyes reappeared, and he thought to himself:
"It is true that he was affected by the fox skin, became infected with evil spirit, began to transform into a demon, and even his temperament changed... But I wonder if this is also the reason why Taoist Lu can grow black donkey hooves?"
Many thoughts floated in Xu Dao's mind, which made him realize that Su Jiu's change of skin was worthy of careful consideration.
However, he didn't show anything on his face. He just tapped his palm lightly, summoning a stream of earthworms, making them fly to Su Jiu's side, and gently opened the car door for her.
Xu Dao closed his eyes slightly and didn't say a word again.
Su Jiu, who was originally a little boy with fox ears, could no longer suppress the red light in her eyes. Her fox ears stood up and a fierce look flashed crazily in her eyes.
Huh! One by one, sharp claws pierced her fingers and grew out. They were crawling in the carriage, their buttocks were bulging, and something seemed to be protruding from the back of their buttocks.
Upon noticing this scene, Xu Dao couldn't help but open his eyes again, but a gray figure flashed past in the carriage, and he was the only one left.
Xu Dao was surprised:
"Just a piece of undeveloped demon fox skin can have this effect?"
Stab! Almost the next moment, the sound of flesh and blood being cut could be heard in the camp...