Shannie was startled, and didn't know whether to go over to help, so she quickly waved her hand and said, "We're either angels, or we're from outside!"

And Zhuang Mengzhou said loudly: "Don't call angels!"

The man raised his head and said, "It's been 10,000 years!

Mr. Zhuang frowned slightly and said, "It's not good to mention God's name in vain, have you forgotten? We are only visitors from outside the world, and we are all living people. ”

The man looked stunned, and hurriedly kowtowed: "It's Bai Yong's negligence, Bai Yong greets the two heavenly brothers!"

Mr. Zhuang: "Brother Tian doesn't have to be called, just call him a distinguished guest outside the sky." By the time he said these words, he had already unloaded his backpack and stood there with his hands behind his back. Don't look at it, he came in from the outside, he was not as embarrassed as Ding Qi and the others, his clothes were not stained with any dust, and his silver hair had a dusty temperament.

The man named Bai Yong hurriedly nodded and said, "The two distinguished guests from outside the heavens have come to the kingdom of heaven, are they going to Zhongda Camp?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Yes, it's your village, is there a place to rest?"

Bai Yong stood up, patted his clothes and bowed down, "Please wait a while, I will immediately go back to the camp to report and call everyone to greet you." ”

He confessed, turned and hurried away. Shang Ni asked confusedly, "Mr. Zhuang, why does he call us angels, is he complimenting me on my cuteness?"

Zhuang Mengzhou glanced at her and said, "They worship God." ”

Shanny: "Which god are you worshipping here?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Anyway, it's not Haotian God, it's not Xuanyuan Tai God or Xuanqiong High God, which god do you say?"

Shang Ni: "I've heard of Haotian God, who are the Xuanyuan Tai God and the Xuanqiong High God?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "It's Taishang Laojun and the Jade Emperor." ”

Shang Ni: "Jade Emperor, I understand, what's going on with Taishang Laojun?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Tang Dynasty sealed, you ask me, who do I ask now?"

Shanny: "So they worship the God of Christianity, who are these people?"

Zhuang Mengzhou squinted his eyes and said, "It seems that he is a descendant of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom." ”

Shanny: "How do you know?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom started by worshipping God, and they have promulgated the so-called ten heavenly rules, I just memorized one of them, and I can guess it by looking at the reaction." It seems that a long time has passed since the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fled here and multiplied and settled here. ”

Shang Ni: "The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom hasn't been too long now, is it?, but it's been 10,000 years since that person said just now!"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Have you noticed that the season here is different from outside, and the time is different from outside. Is there a possibility, then, that the time scale is also different? The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was defeated, and the remnants broke through Wanling City in 1864, and it is almost 154 years now. If it is calculated according to 10,000 years, then the year outside is almost equivalent to 60 years here, so it can be explained. ”

Shang Ni was stunned and said, "Mr. Zhuang, have you figured this out?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "It's just the second grade of primary school, what can't be calculated?"

Shanny: "That's not what I meant, I just wanted to ask - how could such an amazing thing happen?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "In the outside world, everything is unknown, and anything can happen...... Now that this is possible, how do you feel now?"

Shang Ni: "I was in a hurry before, but now I don't have to be in a hurry, you can play slowly here, and find a place to wait for Senior Brother Zhu and them first." ”

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Don't tell them this yet. We're afraid we won't be able to get out for a while, and I want to see how they react...... Let's put the bag down first, it's weird, don't carry it. ”

Shang Ni took off the backpack, and found that Bai Yong had not taken the "hoe" that Bai Yong had just dropped on the ground, so she curiously picked it up and studied it. This thing should be a hoe, but it is a bamboo and wood structure, and the wooden handle is made of sharpened curved thick bamboo pieces as the hoe mouth, and a wedge-shaped stone is inserted into the connection between the hoe and the hoe handle.

Shang Ni: "Mr. Zhuang, this farm tool is so strange, they actually do this hoe!"

Zhuang Mengzhou took the hoe and said: "I'm afraid it will be difficult to smelt metal in this place, so they can only make farm tools from local materials." The hoe is used to dig the ground, weed, and break up the dirt and clumps, and the head must have a certain weight to take advantage of it, so a stone is inserted in the top.

This stone is also a locking piece, as long as it is pulled off, this bamboo shovel head can be removed. The bamboo shovel head is easy to break, so it can be easily replaced at any time, but it takes a lot of work to grind a wedge-shaped stone like this, and it seems that they also know how to exchange parts. ”

As he spoke, he put down his hoe, took off the machete hanging from the side of Shanny's backpack, and found a stone on the side of the road and sharpened it unhurriedly. Shang Ni wondered, "Mr. Zhuang, what are you sharpening your knife for?"

Zhuang Mengzhou: "Don't chop firewood by mistake! You just wait, and if you feel bored, you can drink saliva and rest." ”

Shannie's backpack was long and large, almost chest-high on the ground, with a machete hanging on the right side and a water bottle hanging on the left. She took a few sips of water from the kettle before she heard a commotion ahead. Hundreds of people came in front of them at once, and there was a long queue on this dirt road, which was only about two meters wide.

Walking side by side in front were two men and a woman, and at a glance they knew that they had just washed their faces and changed their clothes, because they were clean. The three of them wore yellow cloth hats, and there were hanging down hats on both sides of the back of the hats, as if they were very high-status people.

Bai Yong's attire was different from theirs, with only a turban tied on top of his head, just like an ancient scarf bun. Bai Yong ran forward and introduced: "Two distinguished guests from outside the sky, this is our Marshal Feng Guoxin, military advisor Wang Hongling, and Sima Tian Xiaoli of the Zhongda Battalion. ”

The three people had already stepped forward and knelt down, prostrate and saluted, "Meet the two heavenly brothers!" The more than 100 people behind them also knelt down and saluted.

Zhuang Mengzhou stood up, waved his hand expressionlessly, and said, "Don't you be polite! Didn't I say it, don't call Brother Tian." The so-called heavenly machine cannot be revealed, and it is enough to call the distinguished guest outside the sky. ”

Shang Ni next to him pinched a handful of sweat for him, when he first arrived, he just asked a person and just met for the first time, this is too good to pretend, right? But since Mr. Zhuang has already pretended, Shang Ni can't show timidity, try to learn his expression and appearance. Looking at Zhuang Mengzhou's style, in fact, it should be no problem to push the boat down the river and be an angel or a heavenly brother, but he just doesn't seem to like this kind of title.

Everyone stood up, their expressions were very respectful, and no one dared to speak nonsense. That Master Sima, Tian Xiaoli, looked like an ordinary peasant woman with a dark complexion, rough hands and feet, and a sturdy physique, and that military master Wang Hongling was also a woman, about the age of her early twenties.

As for the marshal Feng Guoxin, he looks like he is in his thirties, with a fair complexion, and a little scholarly temperament, if it weren't for Zhuang Mengzhou, he should be able to be called elegant and graceful. There was a look of doubt in his eyes, and he asked with some hesitation: "Since the heavenly brother sent by the Holy God has come from heaven, why don't you let it be called so......?

As soon as Shang Ni heard it, she knew that this person seemed to be suspicious, among the more than 100 simple aborigines, it was this person who was more active, and had doubts about their identity and origin, or a little taboo.

Zhuang Mengzhou didn't seem to hear him, or didn't pay attention to it at all, walked two steps to the side of the road, and waved the machete in his hand. There was a small mulberry tree with the thickness of three fingers on the side of the road and broke in response to the sound, and the frame of this knife was very beautiful, and the break of the trunk was very smooth.

The villagers who saw this scene were all startled, and they didn't dare to come out, they didn't know what he was doing, could it be because the marshal was talking nonsense, causing the distinguished guests to be angry? Marshal Feng Guoxin was also suddenly startled, stepped forward and said in a trembling voice: "This, is this the legendary steel?"

The legendary steel?Shanny almost didn't stand still when he heard this, it seems that this marshal has heard of such a thing as steel, but he has never seen it with his own eyes, he is already the most knowledgeable of these people, and he can still recognize it!

Zhuang Mengzhou nodded incomprehensibly and said: "Yes, it is steel, you can hear it like steel, and what you hold today, it is real steel, what else does the marshal have to say?"

Feng Guoxin hurriedly lowered his head and said, "Don't dare, don't dare, two distinguished guests from outside the world, please get on the sedan chair!"

He waved, and the people behind flashed to the side of the road in two neat rows, and someone carried over three sedan chairs. The sedan chair here is a bit like a sliding bar in a scenic area, carried on the shoulders of two people in front of the back, and in the middle is a seat with armrests, and there is a roof on top that can shelter from the sun and rain, almost entirely made of bamboo.

But the three sedan chairs can be much more exquisite than the ordinary slide bar, look carefully at the craftsmanship is exquisite, all the exposed bamboo skin material surface, with a certain imprint method to draw exquisite ornamentation, plants, animals, people are all work. When I got into the sedan chair, I realized that it was not without metal, and the armrests on both sides of the mount were sealed with gold.

A total of three sedan chairs came, which should usually be taken by the marshal, military advisor, and Sima. The handrail seal of the first palanquin is in the shape of a dragon, the second is in the shape of a phoenix, and the third is in the shape of a tiger. Zhuang Mengzhou and Shang Ni sat on one top, and the other top was not empty, carrying the two backpacks they brought, Feng Guoxin and other three leaders walked with the sedan chair, and took more than 100 people away.

Zhuang Mengzhou and Shang Ni are comfortable here, Ding Qi and the three disciples are still living a hard life in the mountains, but this does not prevent them from having fun in the bitterness. At dusk, the sunset is brilliant, and the soil is used to cook the stove pot. The pot is a rectangular aluminum alloy trough with a hanging ear on one side, the shape and size can be placed at the very bottom of the backpack, and it does not take up space to carry around.

Wild cherries can't be eaten too much at once, and they've found a source of water, but this thing spoils after a long time and can't be wasted. Ding Qi actually cooked a pot of cherry soup, which was sweet and silky, and ate dinner with compressed biscuits and canned military beef. If you cook this kind of dish in the school cafeteria, I am afraid that many students will post it to the circle of friends and call it a wonderful dish, but it is quite delicious to eat here.

They still have more than a dozen catties of cherries here, and they can't finish the sweet soup, so Ding Qi took a small wooden stick and stirred it, and simmered slowly over low heat. Later, the cherry flesh was boiled, and the cherry pits were scooped up and boiled, and the soup gradually became a sticky syrup.

Ye Yanxing said excitedly: "I have seen someone boiling pear paste in my hometown town, and it is boiled like this. ”

Bi Xuecheng: "This is not pear paste, it's cherry paste! Pure natural and pollution-free green organic wild cherry paste, if it wasn't for Master to take us out to see the world, where could we eat this kind of thing?"

Meng Hui said: "How long will it take?" Master, let us help you." ”

Tintzy: "Alright then, you take turns. Pay attention to the low heat, stir evenly, and don't boil the cherry paste. As he spoke, he sprinkled a little salt into the pot.

The cherries were mixed with water to make a sweet soup, and they boiled for most of the pot, until in the end only a shallow layer of the bottom of the pot remained, and Ding Qi asked them to take the pot off the fire and cool it, condensing into a pale yellow solid, only about half a centimeter thick. Use a knife to cut this solid layer into the size of a sugar cube and then get out the pieces.

Ding Qi instructed the three disciples: "This thing should be called cherry paste candy, let's each share a little, and carry it in our pockets, and you can eat a piece from time to time when you walk tomorrow to prevent blood sugar from getting too low." ”

In addition to being careful not to get injured, the two most taboo things are electrolyte disorders in the body due to heavy sweating and salt loss, and the other is low blood sugar due to too much energy consumption. You can't always stop to cook, it's necessary to have a snack while walking, so Ding Qi processed cherry paste candy on the spot.

Meng Huiyu picked up a piece of cherry paste candy and said to the dusk on the horizon: "It's such a beautiful candy, I can't even bear to eat it!"

Ding Qi smiled: "If you don't want to eat, you have to eat, and you can make some more when you finish eating." ”

The cherry paste candy processed by the four masters and apprentices is indeed very beautiful, light yellow and translucent square pieces, the texture is like amber, it is very soft and elastic when pinched by hand, and there are golden filamentous lines and red flaky spots inside, which are not boiled flesh fibers and cherry skin.

After making the cherry paste, it was dark, and everyone lit a bonfire. It's not a deep cave, it's just a half-open, room-sized grotto, so three bonfires were lit on the front and on the sides. They collected a lot of wood, and they had to watch the fire slowly add to it, but in short, the fire could not be extinguished overnight.

Ding Qi asked Meng Huiyu to sleep in the tent, and he and the other two boys took turns keeping vigil, but Meng Huiyu insisted that the master sleep, and she would also keep vigil. Ding Qi thought for a while and said: "Okay, the four of us work every two hours, be careful not to let the fire go out, and wake others up in time if there is any movement." The tent is still lived in Meng Huiyu, and a few of us can sleep outside the tent. ”

After dark, Ding Qi noticed that the environment here was different from the outside world, it was a cloudless and sunny day, but when he looked up, he could not see the stars and the moon. When the last rays of light on the horizon disappeared, the world not far from the campfire was plunged into complete darkness, a kind of pure black like thick ink that could not be reached.