Junior Sister is skilled in subduing demons.

Chapter 174 Running Away from Home

"Tuan Tuan's temperament and personality are just like that. It's ingrained in the panda family and can't be changed. Otherwise, why would the immortals in the bamboo forest say that you're so bold, even raising a metal-eating beast?"

"Also, you're too impatient. You didn't take good care of it when it was in the bamboo forest and just spoiled it. Now that it's out here, you want to correct some of its habits right away. How is that possible? Come on, calm down."

"I feel that sometimes if you talk to it nicely, it's quite well-behaved."

……

Ge Wensong kept persuading her, and Anzhi's emotions gradually calmed down. Her chest stopped heaving violently, and the anger on her face slowly faded. A trace of regret and self-blame began to appear in her eyes.

It's true what Ge Wensong said, but Anzhi is getting more and more confused. When he entered the Bamboo Sea Bodhisattva, he said that Tuantuan's future was already arranged. Now that the Qiang-Ge War has arrived, what role is Tuantuan playing? From the current perspective, she is playing the role of a rebellious son who is specifically designed to anger him.

Anzhi was indeed anxious, and he realized this as well.

"Here you go." Seeing this, Ge Wensong handed a bowl of food to Anzhi: "This iron-eating beast is still hungry."

Anzhi stood up and sighed deeply, then put the two pieces of meat from his bowl into his own: "Sigh, I really don't know when it will understand. How am I going to explain this to Senior Lingjizi when we get to Qiangcheng?"

"Oh, let's talk about it later, there are still more than two months left," Ge Wensong urged.

And so, Anzhi, carrying a steaming bowl of food, walked slowly out of the main hall, filled with guilt and remorse.

"Tuanbao, Tuanbao."

However, as soon as they stepped out of the main hall, they were stunned by the scene before them. Tuantuan was sitting on the steps not far away with a monkey, which was chattering away in front of Tuantuan.

Tuan Tuan's ears drooped, and her eyes revealed her disappointment.

Anzhi stopped involuntarily, standing there blankly, the apology she had prepared in her heart instantly replaced by a complex emotion.

The monkey was the first to spot Anzhi standing behind Tuantuan. He immediately stopped talking, then grinned at Anzhi and said, "Hehe, hello, I'm Fatty's cousin."

Faced with the monkey's bared teeth, Anzhi instantly recalled the image of Tuantuan baring its teeth at him as if it wanted to eat him, and his anger flared up immediately.

"You damned monkey! I told you Tuanbao would never bare his teeth, but why is he baring his teeth at me today? It turns out you taught him that, you stupid monkey!" Anzhi said as he stepped forward to shoo the monkey away.

The monkey, naturally afraid of being lectured by An Zhiye, immediately jumped onto a nearby tree and said, "Hehe, heroine, heroine, I'm not some dead monkey, I'm Fatty's cousin."

Anzhi looked at the dejected Tuantuan, then at the grinning monkey, and asked, "Tuantuan, are the monkeys on Mount Emei your cousins? You, you..."

Tuantuan remained seated, only glancing at Anzhi from time to time. It moved its mouth as if to say something, but in the end, it said nothing.

Anzhi didn't know what to do. She had a lot of comforting words to say, but she didn't know how to say them. She knew that this monkey was definitely not a good monkey, and it was Tuantuan's first time going out.

"Let me tell you, Tuanbao, you need to stay away from this monkey. What do you mean, 'brother'? It's a monkey, full of bad ideas." After saying that, Anzhi picked up a branch from the side to scare the monkey away.

The monkey got impatient and quickly jumped up to the tree trunk, saying, "Heroine, you...you're being prejudiced! If you humans can be Fatty's mother, why can't I, a monkey, be Fatty's cousin?"

“I am its mother.” Anzhi raised a branch and hit the monkey, but the monkey dodged. The monkey was also angry. The more Anzhi said this, the more the monkey wanted to expose her: “Hehe, heroine, there are plenty of people who come to Mount Emei to pay homage. What kind of grand scene haven’t I, a monkey, seen? Most cultivators raise divine beasts. You’re just keeping Fatty to enslave it. Don’t try to sound noble. What mother?”

The monkey's words left Anzhi speechless.

On the contrary, Tuanbao remained silent, but glanced sideways at Anzhi, as if to say, "I'm waiting to hear your excuses."

"You damn monkey."

After speaking, Anzhi placed the bowl full of food on the stone table, his face darkened, and he quickly formed a hand seal in front of his chest while chanting incantations. As the hand seals changed, a faint blue spiritual light slowly emerged from his palms.

The monkey immediately realized it was doomed, so it roared, "Fatty, look, look! She's panicking! She's panicking! I told you so!" With that, it quickly jumped off the cliff, intending to grab a tree in the darkness.

Just as the monkey jumped off the cliff, Anzhi gently pushed his palms forward, and spiritual energy shot forward like an arrow. The monkey's fur stood on end while it was still in the air, and it finally rolled down.

On the pitch-black hillside, a series of crackling sounds rang out, and the monkey, tumbling and scrambling, disappeared into the dark hillside with a sharp cry.

After finishing, Anzhi let out a long, deep sigh of relief, and didn't forget to look down at the dark cliff below.

"Come here, Tuanbao, this monkey is very naughty. Come on, it was Mommy's fault just now." Anzhi placed the bowl of food in front of Tuanbao and continued, "Mommy had no choice. You really can change your temper."

Tuantuan didn't say anything. Although its mouth was watering at the sight of the steaming food in the bowl, it still stared blankly at the pitch blackness in front of it.

An Zhiqiang suppressed his anger and sat down next to Tuan Tuan, saying, "Just now, it was Mommy's fault. I shouldn't have pulled your ear. Mommy won't do it again. I'm sorry, okay?"

Tuantuan must have felt the pain in her ear, so she twitched her ear, but she didn't say anything. She just kept poking at the leaves on the ground with her paws, ignoring Anzhi's presence.

……

And so, despite Anzhi's earnest attempts to persuade and apologize, all he got in return was a increasingly confused look in Tuantuan's eyes and silence. She lost her irritability, her temper, and her liveliness.

"I've said what I needed to say. Think about it carefully." An Zhi placed the food heavily on the ground, then turned and walked towards the main hall. She hoped that Tuantuan could calm down and get better.

After Anzhi left, a crackling sound came from the hillside again, and the monkeys climbed up again.

"Let's go. Why should we be bound by the constraints of the human race?"

"Let me tell you, Fatty, humans are all selfish. Orcs need to be brave and pursue freedom."

"You are an iron-eating beast, how can you be enslaved? How can you eat food that has been given to you?"

……

The night, like a huge black silk ribbon, quietly enveloped the world, and everything was immersed in a tranquil and mysterious atmosphere. On the stone table outside the Reception Hall, there was a bamboo woven circle.

This bamboo hoop was made by Anzhi himself for Tuantuan when they first arrived at the bamboo forest two years ago. It was worn around Tuantuan's neck and had a bamboo strip on it with the words "Shen Anzhi and Tuantuan" written on it.