"Could you give me the last one?"
The monster repeated its request.
"Sure."
Xiao Xiao moved his hand, dodging the Taotie as it lunged at him.
Just before Taotie was about to hit the ground, he grabbed it by the scruff of its neck.
"Grrr~"
Taotie bared its teeth and glared ferociously at the monster opposite.
It was all because this strange newcomer had asked for the last hawthorn. Otherwise, that hawthorn would already be in its belly.
What an annoying creature!
Xiao Xiao put Taotie back on his head and soothed the grumbling, indignant monster. "I have plenty more."
He reached forward and held the candied hawthorn skewer out to the monster.
"Thank you."
After glancing at Xiao Xiao, Peng Hou lowered its head and bit off the last hawthorn.
Taotie felt inexplicably aggrieved.
Was it being ignored?
Taotie's mouth stretched into a grin, revealing its sharp fangs.
The eyes beneath its arms fixed on Peng Hou, full of hostility.
Peng Hou swallowed the hawthorn it had chewed up.
The sweet and sour taste made its eyes narrow slightly.
After savoring it for a while, it looked at the human before it. "Thank you. It's delicious."
"What is this?"
It asked curiously.
"This is a candied hawthorn."
Xiao Xiao took a skewer from the bag and held it out in front of the white snake.
"It's made from hawthorns."
Hawthorns?
Peng Hou tilted its head and thought for a moment. It seemed to have heard that name before.
Soon, a look of realization came over its face.
It remembered.
It had once seen a hawthorn tree.
It had even eaten the fruit from it.
But those had tasted much sourer than the one it had just eaten.
It hadn't liked them.
"Hawthorns are just the