Chapter 76: Settling Accounts p1
Who knew that after she changed back, the enchantress would still give her two slaps!
And it was on the bottom!
Hearing her soft and slightly righteous voice, Jiang Bai gritted her teeth and stared at her, but for a moment, she had no way to deal with her.
She had already been beaten. Although this little thing was disobedient and had run around, making her worry, if she were to continue to beat her, she couldn’t bring herself to do it. She could only stare at her with wide eyes.
Ji Zhu sniffled. Seeing that the force of the hand on her head had lessened, she wiggled over to the enchantress’s side, and said in a small voice, “If you forgive me this time, I’ll give you my life!”
Jiang Bai: “…”
She looked down at Ji Zhu with an indescribable expression, curled her lips, and grabbed one of her ears, and said with a smile that was not a smile, “Are you playing the awkward game with me?”
Ji Zhu was instantly guilty. She hesitantly tried to turn her head to free her ear that was being held by her, and stammered, “You, you’re not answering me. What can I do?”
She couldn’t just go up and kiss the enchantress, right?
The enchantress was already in a fit of anger. Ji Zhu felt that if she dared to go up and kiss her, she could really become a meat patty.
“You don’t know your mistake at all!” Jiang Bai said resentfully. If she knew her mistake, why would she still do these messy things?
“I clearly know my mistake!” Ji Zhu suddenly felt wronged. Then what did she have to do for her to think that she really knew her mistake?
She felt that she had used all the methods she could. If she was still not satisfied… then she would use them again!
Jiang Bai pushed her away, turned her back to Ji Zhu, and although she hadn’t found the little cat, she was thinking of all the things she would do if she could come back. She would definitely not scold her, and would definitely not say a single word that was not to her liking.
But now that she had really found her…
All the previous worries and fears rushed up. Jiang Bai couldn’t control herself and gave her two slaps. Only then did she realize that she was actually not as calm as she had thought.
This little thing was back, and especially since she had done such a malicious thing, she just wanted to teach her a good lesson, so that she would not have the thought of running away from home again in the future.
Seeing the enchantress actually turn her back to her, with a look of not wanting to bother with her, Ji Zhu’s eyes widened bit by bit. How did she see her own shadow in the enchantress?
Ji Zhu, unwilling to give up, rubbed against her again, and dragged out her voice to call Jiang Bai’s name. Seeing that she was still unmoved, Ji Zhu finally cried out with a wronged and pleading voice, “Alright! I know! You don’t want to see me! Then it’s fine if you don’t!”
After saying that, just as she was about to get into the quilt and disappear from Jiang Bai’s sight, her neck was grabbed by a hand, and the enchantress’s yin and cold voice was filled with a chilling cold.
“Where are you trying to run to again?”
Suddenly having her neck grabbed, although the force on her neck was not heavy, Ji Zhu was still extremely! wronged!
The bad woman was pinching her neck again!
“I’m going to the quilt. Where else can I go!”
Ji Zhu was so angry. You don’t want to see me, so I’ve taken the initiative to hide myself so that I won’t be an eyesore. You’re still not satisfied!
Jiang Bai looked at the little cat’s familiar resentful appearance, and her gaze fell on the thin quilt on the bed, and she was silent.
When she had heard her words just now, she had thought that she was going to run away again, and it was only because of her panic that she had had that kind of reaction.
The moment she looked down, she looked at the hand that was on Ji Zhu’s neck, and she hurriedly released the clamping force, her gaze gloomy as she stared at Ji Zhu without a word.
Her neck was released, and Ji Zhu sniffled. She silently burrowed into the quilt and temporarily disappeared from Jiang Bai’s sight.
Jiang Bai looked at the arched quilt and rubbed her temples with a headache.
Recalling her interaction with Ji Zhu’s human form along the way, in fact, she had suspected Ji Zhu’s identity more than once, but because she couldn’t get any real evidence, she could only temporarily put aside that suspicion and try her best to treat Ji Zhu as a person different from the little cat.
Now, looking at it again, this little thing’s courage was getting bigger and bigger. To have lied to her, and to still be able to be so calm. But after she was exposed, she had turned into this cowardly appearance.
Thinking of this, Jiang Bai was so angry that she patted the arched quilt again. “Aren’t you very capable? Why are you acting like a coward now?”
The arched quilt wriggled again, and Ji Zhu’s muffled voice came. “I’ve never been capable.”
She had always been a coward who didn’t dare to tell the truth.
Hearing her voice, Jiang Bai couldn’t help but ask, “How did your voice change back to this?”
Hearing this, Ji Zhu in the quilt wiggled and poked her head out, and said with a sullen and helpless voice, “How would I know? When I changed back, even my voice changed.”
To have this milky, soft voice again, it was really not domineering at all!
Jiang Bai: “…” She had originally thought that Ji Zhu was doing it on purpose. She had not expected that different forms would have different voices.
Looking at the head that she had poked out, Jiang Bai sighed lightly, reached out, and rubbed it, her voice much softer.
“Why couldn’t you have had a little more patience to finish listening back then?”
Just because of such a misunderstanding, she had run away for more than five years with such a big temper.
Hearing her say this, Ji Zhu was also listless and lacked energy. Back then…
She was too immersed in her own world.
The plot seemed to still be heading in the direction of the original work. Even if she hadn’t finished listening to what the enchantress had said, she had already automatically made up the rest of the words in her mind according to the content of the original work, and had thus placed them on the enchantress, which had in turn made her so angry.
“I’ll be more patient in the future,” Ji Zhu rubbed against her hand ingratiatingly, blinked her big eyes, and said, “If I make this mistake again in the future, it’s fine if you beat me to death. I won’t have a single complaint!”
If she had a previous lesson and still repeated the same mistake, then she deserved to die!
Jiang Bai: “…”
Her face was slightly ugly. She couldn’t help but give Ji Zhu a candy-coated chestnut and said through gritted teeth, “Do you still think that I will beat you to death?”
This person had been afraid that she would beat her to death before, and now she was still saying such things. Did she not see her weight in her heart?
If it were any other person, who could still speak so glibly and glibly in front of her after deceiving her to this extent?!
Only she dared to be so arrogant, relying on her doting!
“No, no. You wouldn’t be willing to beat me to death. I know,” Ji Zhu immediately knew that she had said the wrong thing. She quickly got out of the quilt and stuck to her, saying softly, “I’m your little baby. You definitely wouldn’t be willing!”
Jiang Bai was so angered by her that her face turned slightly dark. This person’s cultivation speed was as high as her ability to climb up a pole. They were still in this situation, yet she was so shameless as to say such things.
“This mouth of yours, where did you learn these things!” Jiang Bai pinched the soft flesh on her cheeks, and her heart was a little resentful.
After being away from her for so many years, had she actually gotten fatter?
Ji Zhu lowered her eyes and didn’t dare to look at her, and muttered in a small voice, “This, these are talents. No, you don’t have to learn them!”
She had been influenced by it since she was a child in the modern society!
Jiang Bai picked her up, felt her weight, and her gaze became even more dangerous.
“It seems that you’ve been living quite well after you left me.”
This weight was at least twelve pounds!
Without them controlling her diet, this person’s weight had actually soared so quickly!
“Of course not!” Ji Zhu did not admit this. She had not been living well after she had left the enchantress. When she was at Ji Ling’s place, she had gotten up earlier than a chicken and slept later than a dog. She had not had many good days at all!
Ji Zhu felt that the reason why she had gotten fat was probably because she had been raised by the enchantress after they had met again.
Jiang Bai sneered coldly. After she put her down, her eyes narrowed. “When you ran away at that time, you ran to Ji Ling’s place?”
Besides that, she couldn’t think of any other possibility. After all, Ji Zhu couldn’t have really run to the Medicine King Valley by herself. So the only one in the Hehuan Sect who had a connection with the Medicine King Valley was Ji Ling, right?
Thinking of how Ji Ling had acted so pretentiously when she had gone to the back mountain forbidden area to find a cat, Jiang Bai only felt a fire burning in her heart.
“Mm-hmm. I was running around in a daze at that time. I don’t know how I ran to her place. Then, then I was also angry with you at that time, so I didn’t want to go back, so I stayed there…”
The more Ji Zhu spoke, the less confident she became, and she didn’t dare to say any more.
However, the more Jiang Bai listened, the more her anger burned. “Then when I went there to find you, why didn’t you see me?”
Even if she was angry, she should have come back to take a look after her anger had subsided.
“Huh?” Hearing her words, Ji Zhu was bewildered. “When did you come to find me? It’s precisely because you didn’t come to find me that I was even angrier!”
“You don’t care about me at all!”
When she said the last sentence, Ji Zhu was full of grievance.
Although she clearly knew that the enchantress had been looking for her for so many years later, why hadn’t she looked for her when she had just run away from home back then?
That was the golden time to search! If she had just looked for her and given her a way out, she would have gone back with her!
Hearing Ji Zhu’s words, Jiang Bai felt a buzzing in her head.
Now that she thought about it, Ji Ling had clearly hidden Ji Zhu inside back then. When she had gone to find Ji Zhu, she had given her false information, and then she had suppressed the news of her looking for Ji Zhu, making Ji Zhu mistakenly think that she had not looked for her, which had in turn made the already ill-tempered little thing so angry that she had not even returned home.
“Alright, so good,” Jiang Bai was angered to the point of laughing. “She’s really something.”
If it weren’t for the fact that she was far away in the graveyard now, she would have really wanted to rush back and settle the score with Ji Ling, and ask her what on earth she was thinking back then.
And she still wanted to be her Shimu?
No wonder she had been locked up in the back mountain for so many years. She deserved it!
Seeing the enchantress’s reaction, Ji Zhu was bewildered.
“Have you ever looked for me?”
She had woken up at that time and had not felt the enchantress’s movement. She had been so angry! Her heart had died!
“Isn’t this nonsense?” Jiang Bai’s face was gloomy. “I looked for you on the same day!”
Now that she thought back, when she had gone to Qingyuan Peak to pick up this little thing, she had even picked flowers for her on the way. She was a joke!
Ji Zhu was silent. Looking at the enchantress, her nose suddenly felt a little sore, and her eyes were dry and sore, and she wanted to cry.
So… the enchantress had looked for her back then.
She sniffled, rested her head on the enchantress’s lap, and said dejectedly, “I’ll never run away without a word again in the future. I’ll never take things for granted again.”
She had not expected that Ji Ling would be so unscrupulous! To even deceive a cat!
Jiang Bai took a deep breath and made a heavy note of Ji Ling and the entire Medicine King Valley!
They were all ganging up to deceive her!
“After I ran to her place at that time, she let me take her as my master and gave me a Shapeshifting Pill as a greeting gift. Later, she was the one who taught me alchemy and other things.”
Seeing Jiang Bai’s obviously not-so-good face, Ji Zhu had no choice but to say a few good words for Ji Ling with apprehension. Although Ji Ling had lied to both sides, she was also really good to her and had taught her everything she knew without reservation.
Jiang Bai held her cat head and rubbed it resentfully. “You’re even speaking for her!”
That Ji Ling, who knew how she had laughed back then when she had seen her almost turn the Hehuan Sect upside down to find a cat!
“Ugh, I’m just telling the truth,” Ji Zhu said vaguely.
After Jiang Bai had had enough of ravaging her, she looked down at Ji Zhu quietly, and the force of her hands was lightened. She said softly, “Thank you for being willing to come back.”
In the past, she had also had the thought that the little cat would never come back. Fortunately, all those thoughts were false, and her little cat was still willing to return to her side.
Hearing Jiang Bai say this, Ji Zhu felt even more that she was a great sinner. She leaned her body against her arms and said dejectedly, “You might as well give me a good beating to make me feel better.”
The enchantress’s actions made her feel so guilty that she was about to die. She felt more and more that her sins were so heavy that she deserved to die.
Hearing her say this, Jiang Bai snorted lightly. “I just want you to remember this feeling. In the future, when you want to do something, you should think carefully about whether you want this feeling or not.”
Ji Zhu whimpered and held Jiang Bai tightly. This bad woman was really good at controlling a cat. To make her feel so guilty, how could she dare to do anything to let the enchantress down in the future?
Jiang Bai held her gently. Listening to her whimpering little voice, her eyes were also a little sore. She blinked twice to suppress that feeling, not wanting Ji Zhu to see her red eyes, lest this little thing become even more spoiled.
After Ji Zhu had cried enough, and was also tired of crying, she fell into a deep sleep in Jiang Bai’s arms.
Jiang Bai looked down at the cat in her arms, her gaze becoming softer and softer.
But…
Jiang Bai’s gaze flickered slightly. This little thing had finally come back. She naturally could not give her a chance to run away again.
Her fingertips gently stroked one of her ears, and Jiang Bai had already made up her mind in her heart.
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