Chapter 72: Talking Birds, Telling Worms
“Zha zha.”
After the Golden Bird threw a wind blade, afraid that Gu Yu wouldn’t see it, it flapped its wings and threw several more wind blades.
By the time Gu Yu recovered, a lot of crops had already been destroyed, which made Gu Yu quickly scold the Golden Bird and tell it to stop flapping its wings.
This made the Golden Bird feel a bit wronged and land, hopping dejectedly in front of Gu Yu, sadly thinking in its heart that its history as a farting bug was about to repeat itself.
*Wuwuwu.*
It wasn’t a farting bug, ahhhhhh!
What could it do to make its master realize its power, that it wasn’t an ordinary bird!
Right, its feathers!
Thinking of its own feathers, the Golden Bird didn’t hesitate any longer. It turned its head and bit its own feathers, directly pecking off a bloody feather and then presenting it to Gu Yu.
Just as Gu Yu was marveling that his pet wasn’t a useless bird, seeing the Golden Bird’s action of proactively offering a feather, he was filled with confusion, not knowing what it meant.
Although the Golden Bird’s feathers were beautiful, Gu Yu wasn’t a caveman who liked to stuff his head full of feathers…
However, just as Gu Yu stood there in confusion, the Golden Bird persistently shoved the feather into Gu Yu’s hand. Only after Gu Yu took the feather did it happily chirp.
Seeing the Golden Bird hopping joyfully, Gu Yu became curious about the feather in his hand, wanting to understand why the Golden Bird would give him feathers.
What was the use of this feather?
Flipping the feather around, Gu Yu looked at it for a long time. Besides thinking the feather was very lustrous and its color was very similar to glittering gold, he didn’t find anything else.
Immediately, Gu Yu had a premonition that he wouldn’t find anything in a short time. Thinking that he had already spent too long in the space, he didn’t continue to study it and left the space with the Golden Bird.
When Gu Yu appeared from the space, Gu Qingheng was bored, leaning alone by the carriage window, his eyes unfocused as he looked at the scenery outside, thinking about when his brother-in-law would return!
These boring days were truly too difficult!
Even if Gu Yu returned to argue and bicker with him, it would be much better than this annoying boredom!
If his brother-in-law could return, Gu Qingheng decided not to eat meat for a month.
No, a week!
If he broke his promise, he would be confined for a month and not be allowed to leave the Gu Residence to listen to gossip… Such a thing might not be anything to others, but for Gu Qingheng, it was sheer torment.
He felt uncomfortable all over if he didn’t listen to gossip for a day.
“Qingheng, what are you looking at?”
Just as Gu Qingheng was stealthily changing a month to a week, Gu Yu’s voice suddenly sounded in the carriage, making Gu Qingheng’s body tremble, thinking if he was the favored son of heaven?
Why did what he thought of come true…
Next, he wouldn’t be able to eat meat for a week, which made him, who loved meat, extremely frustrated!
“Brother-in-law, do you know how many days have passed? You’ve finally come out of the space. My sister and I have been extremely worried!”
“There was a slight complication, but it won’t happen next time.”
Originally, Gu Yu was the one who spoke first, but upon hearing Gu Qingheng’s subsequent words, Gu Yu somewhat sheepishly raised his hand and touched his nose, thinking that he had indeed done wrong by not replying for such a long time.
At that time, Gu Yu thought that Gu Qingheng would inform Gu Mengyao, and that there was no danger in the space.
However, Gu Yu forgot the importance of reporting his safety.
Even if there was no danger, those around him would still worry…
“How much longer until we reach the Capital?”
Feeling the carriage beneath him still swaying, Gu Yu knew they hadn’t reached their destination yet and still had to travel further to reach the Capital.
Therefore, Gu Yu simply explained a bit before asking when they would be back.
Regarding the trouble encountered in the Southern Border this time, if it weren’t for Bai Qian’s promise, Gu Yu wouldn’t have bothered to manage it!
A pile of treasures was waiting for Gu Yu to return to the Capital to receive!
Thinking of this, Gu Yu couldn’t help but chuckle. Seeing his brother-in-law’s sinister smile, Gu Qingheng shook his head, thinking that his brother-in-law’s ‘charm’ remained unchanged!
With such a smile, he would probably be scheming against someone again!
However, when did this bird get caught?
Feathers the color of gold, red eyes. It was truly so rare that he had never seen anything like it before!
His brother-in-law stayed in the space for so long, and all he brought back was a bird???
“This is the seven-colored Gu worm you were longing for.”
When Gu Yu recovered from the joy of a pile of treasures, seeing his younger brother-in-law curiously looking at the Golden Bird, Gu Yu directly took the bird off his shoulder and placed it in front of Gu Qingheng.
Because Gu Yu and the siblings Gu Mengyao lived together, they carried Gu Yu’s scent, allowing the Golden Bird to easily distinguish them. Therefore, it didn’t attack Gu Qingheng immediately but hopped around him obediently.
The Golden Bird felt that it had to serve well anyone related to Gu Yu.
If it encountered human females, it had to try harder to please them, so that the women could whisper in Gu Yu’s ear at night, making Gu Yu treat it, the bird, better!
After the seven-colored Gu worm evolved into the Golden Bird, its IQ had increased again, much smarter than before, so it could think in more directions.
So, even though it was just a bird, its IQ was extremely high!
“Brother-in-law, don’t lie to me, can worms really turn into birds???”
Gu Qingheng looked at the hopping Golden Bird in front of him, his face full of doubt, wondering if his brother-in-law had gone mad, or if he, Gu Qingheng, was incapable of wielding a knife, to be pointing at a bird and calling it a worm!
Even a three-year-old child wouldn’t believe such a thing, let alone him who was about to take the imperial examination!
Gu Qingheng considered himself a highly accomplished gifted child, so he felt that his brother-in-law Gu Yu was openly looking down on him!
“Really, I don’t know why, but I personally saw this bird emerge from the cocoon of the seven-colored Gu worm. There were no other creatures present.”
Seeing Gu Qingheng’s face full of doubt, Gu Yu could only express his helplessness, thinking that if he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn’t have believed it to be true.
This different world was quite amazing!
However, miraculous creatures like the Golden Bird were very rare… It was indeed fortunate to have encountered one like this.
