Chapter 482 Xiao Mu returns
Xiao Muhui is a thousand-year-old peach tree. Because the person who planted it was named Xiao, he named himself Xiao Muhui after Xiao.
A hundred years to enlighten wisdom, a thousand years to transform.
He has always stayed in that peach grove to witness the changes over the years and has never left. Because of the remote location, few people have stepped into that peach grove.
Until five hundred years ago, the peach grove was bought by a wealthy businessman and a house was built nearby. Since then, the peach grove has become lively.
There was an only daughter of a wealthy businessman. She was pampered and pampered since she was a child, and she grew up well-fed and well-dressed. However, she was born with deficiencies and often suffered from illness, so she developed an innocent and honest character.
Because of her health, the young lady didn't like to go out and interact with her peers. The place she went to most often was the peach grove. She would often sit under the largest peach tree in the peach grove, right in front of Xiao Mu, play the piano, drink tea, or play with the maids. Noisy.
Except for the twelfth lunar month of winter, when the weather is bad, the young lady will play in the peach forest.
Xiao Muhui watched the young lady grow up from a little bean sprout into a graceful young girl. It was like watching his own daughter or younger sister grow up. He felt very fulfilled.
And with her around, he felt less lonely.
But despite this, he never showed himself to the young lady. He always remembered that people are afraid of demons. If people knew that he had become wise, they would definitely be afraid of him and invite monks to kill him.
Just like a senior in the peach forest before, he caused a disaster just because he showed the way to a lost human being.
Later, when the young lady reached marriageable age, although her family was well-off and many people were attracted to her, many young men who matched her family were unwilling to marry her because of her physical condition.
Those men with mismatched family backgrounds came just for her family's money. Their eyes were filled with shrewd calculations and no emotion. She didn't like it.
Due to various factors, her marriage was repeatedly delayed. She was depressed all day long and her physical condition deteriorated.
Xiao Muhui couldn't bear to see his older child behave like this, so when the young lady came to Taolin again, he would secretly use his own spiritual energy to heal her injuries.
As time passed, the young lady also felt that every time she went to Taolin, her health would get better and she would spend more time in Taolin.
The young lady's health improved, and no one in the family thought about monsters. They just thought it was her mother who prayed to gods and Buddhas all day long for the protection of gods.
The next year, the family also found a good man for the young lady. It was said that he was a general who held a high position and was brave and good at fighting.
Because the wealthy businessman had donated food to the general's army during times of difficulty earlier, the general was willing to marry the young lady to thank the wealthy businessman for his kindness.
At that time, the young lady was almost twenty-five years old. A girl from an ordinary family would already be the mother of several children at this age.
Xiao Muhui was worried that the young lady would be bullied if she married, so he went to inquire about the general's deeds.
Both of the general's parents died when he was young, leaving only a young brother to depend on.
The general is good-looking, he became famous at a young age, he is upright, brave and good at fighting, he is not a womanizer, his family is not messy, and there is no scandal at all. He is a good man worthy of being entrusted with his life.
Therefore, Xiao Mu felt relieved and continued to use his meager spiritual power to help the young lady regulate her body every day, looking forward to her happy and fulfilling life in the future.
Just when he thought everything was going in the right direction, an accident happened.
One day, when the general came to the young lady's house to pick her up for an outing, he passed by the peach blossom forest and saw at a glance that the peach trees had become fine. The general was upright and disliked ghosts and demons, so when he realized that he had become a spirit, he asked a wealthy businessman to burn the entire peach grove to avoid future troubles.
Hearing that there was a demon in their home, the wealthy businessman and his wife were frightened and agreed to the proposal to burn down the peach grove without thinking.
At the critical moment, the lady stood up to stop the peach forest from being burned.
After learning that the peach tree had become a spirit, she belatedly realized that her body suddenly became better because the peach tree spirit was saving her.
This peach grove was where she grew up. She would rather not marry the general than allow him to burn down the peach grove.
Just when the two sides were in a stalemate, the general was urgently summoned away because of the war in a distant place. He left with the words that he would burn down the peach forest when he came back.
Not long after the general left, the wealthy businessman's family moved with their young lady who was unwilling to leave because they were afraid of the peach demon.
At that time, the two realms of Yin and Yang were out of balance, and evil spirits were everywhere outside.
Peach wood can defeat evil things, without the protection of peach forest.
The wealthy businessman's family was targeted by an evil spirit who resented the general. The young lady was haunted by the evil spirit, and her already thin body soon faded away. On the second day after the young lady died, hundreds of people in the wealthy businessman's family were eroded by resentment and turned into resentment. Kill the ghost lady.
Later, the general returned in triumph and learned what had happened to the wealthy merchant's family, so he invited disciples from Sanqing Palace to kill the evil spirits.
Xiao Muhui, who had been guarding the young lady, desperately brought the resentful young lady back to Taolin, and used a section of his torso as a magic weapon to place on the young lady, suppressing the resentment in her body and restoring her sanity.
The young lady who regained her senses did not remember that she was the murderer of her family, nor did she remember what happened with the general, nor did she remember her family. She only remembered her name and knew that she grew up in Taolin.
The world outside the peach forest was raging with war. Xiao Muhui protected the young lady like his own child, preventing her from leaving the peach forest and preventing her from being killed by the monks. He also carefully prevented himself from hurting the young lady.
In this way, one ghost and one demon survived in that turbulent world. Until the Yin and Yang worlds restored order and there were no more evil ghosts and monsters in the world, the Taolin, which had been empty for many years, once again had a new owner, and they were always together. .
As time went by, the young lady witnessed Xiao Muhui's transformation from a peach wood spirit into a human form, and developed different feelings for him.
But Xiao Muhui only regarded the young lady as a daughter, a sister, and a family member. He had never had any romantic feelings for her and knew that they could not be together.
Peach demons and ghosts are naturally at odds with each other.
So when the young lady chirped in his ear and said something about wanting to marry him, he just thought it was her childish joke.
It wasn't until more than ten years ago that the peach grove had a new owner, a beautiful and gentle female painter, and Xiao Muhui fell in love with her at first sight.
Xiao Muhui, who had never appeared in public before, rarely appeared in front of the female painter. With his handsome appearance and good conversation, one person and one demon came together like this.
Even though he knew that falling in love with a shemale would not end well, Xiao Muhui still couldn't help but sink into it.
The two of them fell in love, and the young lady was very sad when she found out about it. She jumped out to stop them many times, and even had the idea of killing the female painter.
Fortunately, Xiao Muhui discovered it in time and avoided the tragedy.
Because of this incident, they had never quarreled before and had an unprecedented quarrel. The female painter also knew the truth that he was a demon.