This answer came to me when I first came to Chaimu's new home.
No, the sky was completely dark, not to mention the sun, there were no stars.
There was only a new black moon that appeared, and Old Man Zao led him to the depths of the underworld.
But at this moment, this answer began to waver.
The sun shone on his cheeks, and the long-lost warmth exuded vitality. Even the wind blowing on his face felt warm.
The huge lake in front of us has blue waves and crystal clear bottom. The lake surface is as calm as a huge emerald.
From time to time, white cranes fly across the lake.
Surrounded by green grass, green trees like clouds, exotic flowers and plants, full of vitality.
Above the center of the lake, there is a suspended island, suspended in mid-air, with several secondary islands circling around it.
The sun shines from the sky on this picture of scattered heights. For a moment, the water surface reflects the shadow of the island, as if the world is upside down, and he can't help but be fascinated by it.
"Are you comfortable?"
Bai Pangpang stood aside, staring at the sun lazily.
Ding Xiaoyi looked up at the light. He couldn't look directly at the blazing light, and he couldn't help but feel even weirder. He asked Pangpang next to him: "Why is there the sun here?"
Bai Pangpang was lying on the dog's head, and his hands did not forget to turn over the dog hair on the big head, and said with a smile: "Fake!"
"Fake??"
"The so-called knowledge of what you see is all falsehood..." At this point, Bai Pangpang suddenly remembered what these Buddha verses said. Ding Xiaoyi couldn't understand it, so he simply stopped talking about these 'dross'.
"Of course it's fake. How can there be sun here? It's just that the owner of Youshan used his great magical power to transform the world for daily entertainment."
"hiss!!"
Transforming a world? The master of Youshan is too terrifying. The levels planned in reality cannot be compared with it at all.
So powerful, he deserves to be the real boss of Netherworld.
He immediately thought about the empress again, so he asked with curiosity: "Who is more important, the empress, or the master of Youshan?"
"Age?" Bai Pangpang opened half of his eyes and teased deliberately.
"No, it's about status and strength!"
Ding Xiaoyi felt curious like a cat tickling him, hooking his fat shoulder, shaking him and asking.
Being pestered by Ding Xiaoyi, Bai Pangpang had no choice but to push him away, dragging his chin with his fingers: "You asked the wrong question. The relationship here is quite complicated."
He roughly explained it.
Selflessly in the underworld.
This sentence can be understood to mean that except for Youshan, the entire Netherworld belongs to the empress.
But the master of Youshan is responsible for managing the entire Netherworld, including the City of Wishi, the Ten Halls of Yama, the Five Ghost Emperors, and... the old man are all his subordinates.
The empress did not interfere at all in the troubles involved. Firstly, she found it too troublesome, and secondly, the agreement had been made long ago, so she simply became a hands-off shopkeeper.
If you really want to understand it, You Ming can be compared to a company, the empress is the chairman, and the owner of Youshan is the CEO who holds equity.
Of course, this metaphor must be flawed.
But that's roughly what it means.
"That's right!" He nodded with sudden realization: "In the final analysis, you are still the queen!"
Immediately he thought of another question: "You just said that this is the place where the owner of Youshan usually spends time. What are we doing here? What if we are met by the owner?"
"I'm afraid of a bird. I want to go to the giant Youshan Qingming Fruit Festival. The empress's phoenix chariot will be here soon. I'm afraid he is so busy that he can still come here to hide and relax??" Bai Pangpang looked nonchalant.
After saying that, Bai Pangpang suddenly sat up: "Wait a minute!"
As he spoke, he jumped off the dog's head and disappeared into the trees in a matter of three or two steps.
I didn't know what I was going to do, but after about five minutes, Bai Pangpang ran back in a hurry.
His face was as happy as a flower.
The wide sleeves of the robe unfolded, and various strange fruits fell down.
"Eat quickly, you can't eat these fruits normally."
As he said this, he picked up a bright red fruit and started to nibble on it. Ding Xiaoyi also picked up one casually, and saw that the fruit was green in color and white in color, tender and juicy. It looked very similar to an apple, but it had a unique fragrance.
Seeing that Bai Pangpang was eating happily, he wiped it with his sleeves a few times, then put it in his mouth and started chewing it.
"Kah~ bah, bah, bah."
The fruit has a crisp texture, is sweet in the mouth, and is full of juice, making it extremely refreshing in the mouth.
"tasty!"
The fruit tastes great. After eating it, I feel refreshed all over my body and my mouth and tongue remain refreshed.
Such a delicious fruit, of course Ding Xiaoyi did not forget to wake up Atun and Meatball and share them with them to eat together.
"Hey, when did you get a flying swallowing beast?"
Seeing the flying swallowing beast in his arms, Bai Pangpang couldn't help but ask. Ding Xiaoyi briefly explained the matter. Bai Pangpang smiled and praised: "Haha, you didn't forget to pay for the meal, you are so particular."
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Then he threw some fruits from his sleeves and asked the two little guys to eat more.
As for what kind of fruit this is, Bai Pangpang doesn't know. Anyway, he thinks these fruits taste good and can detoxify and nourish the skin.
I just picked a little bit randomly.
Well... just a little bit really.
While the two were eating and chatting, Ding Xiaoyi suddenly remembered something.
He took out the robe that Mr. Chen made for himself and asked, "Can I wear this?"
Bai Pangpang glanced at him and sneered: "Wear? Haha, I guarantee that if you wear these clothes at the conference the day after tomorrow, you will be the brightest kid in this conference. No one can protect you. I'm sorry
That’s what you said!”
When Ding Xiaoyi heard this, he secretly thought that it was very dangerous, so why dare he wear it? He quickly found a box to put it in and stuffed it into the meat ball's mouth.
At this time, the big dog had already reached the center of the lake, raised his head, and after sending the two of them to the island, he knelt down and waited.
The island is huge, but it is clearly visible at a glance.
Because there are almost no special buildings on it, there is only a bluestone path, a few sparse bamboos in the distance, two pine trees, a thatched house, and a vegetable garden.
Bai Pangpang first tiptoed and went to the window of the thatched house to take a look to make sure that there was no one in the thatched house.
Pull Ding Xiaoyi and walk inside.
Ignoring the messy vegetables growing in the vegetable garden, I walked directly to the two pine trees outside the thatched house.
I saw only two pine trees, one on the left and one on the right, but the branches above were connected together and densely covered with small golden pine cones.
Seeing this, Bai Pangpang's eyes rolled around, he took out a piece of fruit from his sleeve and threw it towards it.
"Shashasha..."
After a while, I saw a dark squirrel's head emerging from the depths of the tree canopy.
A pair of big eyes were staring at the two of them curiously.
"Ahem, why don't you recognize me after we haven't seen each other for a long time? Does the little guy still eat fruit?"
Bai Pangpang took out another fruit and threw it to the squirrel. The squirrel hugged the fruit and did not eat it. Instead, it placed it beside it and continued to look at Bai Pangpang.
"Can you please do me a favor? This brother of mine needs the Paradise Fruit. Can you pick some for me?"
Ding Xiaoyi stood aside and stared at him.
What a shame, the old man almost got caught when he tried to steal, but Bai Pangpang actually let this squirrel steal??
Sure enough, the squirrel on the tree immediately shook its head, hugged the fruit and crawled into the canopy without looking back.
In this regard, Bai Pangpang had no choice but to use his trump card. He leaned into his ear and said, "Take out that pine nut."
Ding Xiaoyi didn't know what Bai Pangpang was doing, so he just took out the ghost pine nuts from Meatball's mouth.
As soon as the ghost pine nuts came out, the squirrel that had just crawled back rushed out from under the canopy with a "swish" sound, like a bolt of lightning rushing towards the ghost pine nuts in his hand.
"Hey, what's the rush?"
Bai Pangpang waved his long sleeves and saw a gentle force stopping the squirrel.
At this time, Ding Xiaoyi saw that the squirrel actually had three tails, and unlike other squirrels, this squirrel also had a small palm hidden in its abdomen.
"Do you remember what King Yama said about the origin of this ghost pine nut?"
Bai Pangpang smiled and held the ghost pine nuts in his hand. In fact, King Yama had not finished telling the story.
The alien species that stole the ghost pine nuts was this squirrel.
Speaking of which, this squirrel is a strange species. Even though he is such a small guy, the small claws on his abdomen have the ability to steal the world.
It picks up objects silently and is extremely difficult to detect.
This is also the reason why he stole the pine nuts from Old Man Guisong but was not caught by him.
The King of Taishan also went through all kinds of troubles before he captured it and brought it to Youshan to question the old man Guisong. But when the old man Guisong saw this alien species, it turned out to be a squirrel, he laughed and said: "It is natural for squirrels to steal pine cones.
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As a result, the squirrel was not held responsible. This alien species was adopted by the owner of Youshan, but in order to prevent him from stealing pine cones from the old man Guisong again.
The owner of Youshan also personally planted two golden pines for it and kept it in captivity here.
"Is this pine cone very familiar? If you want it, I can give it to you, but you can pick a few pine cones for me. Not too many. Five...**...let me round up the whole number. Ten will be enough.
Got it!"
When the squirrel heard this, it scratched its ears and cheeks anxiously and roared angrily.
Ten pills, isn’t that a lot?
But Bai Pangpang narrowed his eyes and said: "I picked my own fruit. If I picked too much, what else can I do? My brother is waiting for the fruit to save his life. If it works, please speak quickly. If not, I will leave immediately. This
I will return the pine nuts to Old Man Guisong."
Seeing that Bai Pangpang refused to let go, the squirrel scratched its head, and finally turned into a stream of light and disappeared in front of the two people, probably going to steal the fruit.
"Hey hey hey, how about it!"
Bai Pangpang became very proud. In fact, he had thought of this method when he fished out the fruit in Huangquan.
Therefore, Wang Ying, the prison official, was deliberately sentenced to death.
With this guy's temperament, that blade is a well-deserved treasure. How could they know the magical effects of this ghost pine nut?
But if you give it to the empress, she won't be able to get it back if she thinks pine nuts are more fun and uses them as decorations.
"That's it! High, really, high!"
Ding Xiaoyi gave a thumbs up, and then worried: "But what if the superiors track it down and this squirrel sells us?"
"No, after he sells us, he will return the pine nuts to Old Man Guisong. By then, we will have eaten all the Paradise Fruits.
Besides, the squirrel can’t talk, so how can we blame it if it insists on exchanging the fruit of paradise with us?”
Bai Pangpang innocently blinked his little eyes and said that he had a nose and eyes. If he hadn't personally participated, he would have almost believed it.
"Don't be stunned, hurry up, time is limited, don't waste it!"
At this time, Bai Pangpang pushed him and pointed at the golden pine nuts on the pine tree in front of him: "Don't pick the ones in front. Go around to the back and pick as many as you can. Don't be polite."