Chapter 12 The Mountain Miners
According to the method taught to him by the ants, after Ji Buyun identified the direction according to the shadow under the sun, he set off due east, he planned to find the Luoshen River first, and then return to Haotian City along the Luoshen River.
On the way, the figure of the queen kept flashing in his mind, flashing the happy time the two spent together. Thinking of the method of jumping that the queen taught him at the mouth of the cave, he couldn't help but jump forward for a while, and jumped nearly a hundred feet in full foot, even rolling and climbing when he landed, a little embarrassed.
After jumping dozens of times in a row, he gradually mastered the trick of landing, and he couldn't let his body fall vertically, and he had to use aura to control it. Once you've mastered this trick, you can land where you want to go. He will be at the top of the mountain, at the bottom of the valley, in the forest, and in the treetops.
Two hours later, he felt a little tired, and when he sat down to rest and correct his bearings, he found that he had deviated from the direction of his travel, which was due east, and now the direction of his progress was southeast.
The Luoshen River turned to the southeast along the eastern foothills of Fuyu Mountain, and he traveled like this, which was parallel to the flow of the Luoshen River, and he would never find the Luoshen River.
He could only stop and reorient.
It was approaching evening, thick clouds were rolling in the distance, and heavy rain was approaching. It seems that we can only find a place to spend the night, and we will make plans tomorrow morning.
Fortunately, he soon found a bamboo house built next to the stream, this bamboo house was built by professional mountain miners, with doors and windows, using the toughest bamboo, the bamboo branches were neatly repaired, and the walls and roofs were woven extremely finely. There are many mountain pickers in Fuyu Mountain, generally mountain pickers only pick medicinal herbs, fungi and wild fruits in the near foothills, only professional mountain pickers will go deep into the mountains, they have their own fixed territory, and pick the most valuable medicinal materials in the same place every year. The bamboo house is divided into two rooms, the outer room has a pile of split wood on the ground, and a simple stove, there is a bamboo bed and two bamboo benches in the inner room, and there is a bamboo tube with salt and a bamboo folding bucket hanging on the wall. The bamboo tube was very tightly sealed, and there was still a small half barrel of salt left in it.
There were so many pheasants in the bushes behind the bamboo hut that with little effort, he caught two with his bare hands, and as soon as he had finished washing his prey by the brook, the rain fell.
Ji Buyun ran back to the bamboo house in the rain, made a fire with flint, and used a branch to put two pheasants on the fire and roast them, while drying his rain-soaked clothes. As soon as the clothes were dry, the pheasant was ripe and fragrant, and he could not hold back his salivation, and poured a handful of salt from the bamboo tube in the inner room. Stained with crushed salt flowers, he wolfed down a pheasant in the blink of an eye. In the palace in the cave, he drank water all day long, although he was not hungry and thirsty, but his mouth was extremely bland, and now he finally tasted the taste of meat, and he only felt that his lips and teeth were fragrant, and it was extremely delicious.
The ant told him that it is not advisable to be full for a long time, especially not to eat more meat, otherwise the stomach will not be able to bear it. He resisted the urge to the other pheasant, and turned back into the inner chamber three times at a time.
Lying on the bamboo bed, Ji Buyun thought of the queen again, and the scene of the separation of the two was still vivid, but he felt as if a thousand years had passed.
With the sound of wind and rain outside, he held up the endless bottle, and no matter what wine was poured, he drank it with endless thoughts of the queen. Ever since he knew the meaning of the creation flower, Ji Buyun had always thought that he was in love with the white lotus-like high priest, and at this moment he finally understood that the queen had come from behind, and unconsciously completely occupied his heart. He made up his mind that he must find Zu Long to restore the queen's body, and then take her to the Central Plains Empire to live in seclusion. He was originally very disgusted with the Central Plains Empire, but now that he has a queen, everything is different, with the identity of the queen and the things that have happened, the Central Plains Empire should be the most suitable place for them. As for the high priest, he knew that he was powerless to change the huge gap between the two in terms of identity, and he could not resist the anger of the highlanders, so he could only obey God's arrangement.
In his thoughts, he caressed the Queen's sealed spirit on his chest and gradually fell asleep. After falling asleep, I dreamed of a cold fragrance as usual, and the queen's smile in the dream was particularly clear, she was dressed in a red robe, wearing a crown, and wandering gracefully among the gorgeous flowers, and he chased the queen among the flowers.
After Ji Buyun fell asleep, an old man floated out of thin air in the room, he was dressed in gray clothes, his beard was gray, and he looked like an elderly man who could be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys.
He pointed to Ji Buyun's chest and said, "Come out!"
A red flower rose from Ji Buyun's chest, fell to the ground, and turned into the figure of the queen.
The old man said, "Little girl, do you remember the old man?"
The queen bowed respectfully to the old man and said, "Remember, of course I remember." ”
"Then do you know who the old man is now?"
The queen replied, "I know, except for your old man, there is no one in this heaven and earth who can awaken the wounded primordial spirit of the younger generation. ”
The old man said: "You don't need to be polite if you know, the old man hates these red tape the most, the atmosphere in this world is ruined by those two unsuccessful children, and there is no bottom in the heart to get these useless rules, if people respect you, there will naturally be you in their hearts, if they don't respect you, even if they kowtow to you every day, what's the use of scolding you secretly." ”
The queen replied, "Yes." ”
The old man glanced at the sleeping Ji Buyun and said to the queen, "Little girl, have you taken a fancy to this kid?"
"Yes. ”
"In order to have a moment of joy with this kid, you didn't hesitate to use the power of the old man's child to forcibly restore your body, break the enchantment, cause a great loss to the original god, and destroy five years of cultivation, is it worth it?"
The queen calmly replied, "It's worth it, the juniors think it's worth doing anything for him." What's more, those five years of cultivation were not originally what the younger generations wanted. ”
The old man said solemnly: "The old man, those two children, no matter who you believe in, little girl, you have to remember that there is no right or wrong in cultivation. ”
The old man paused, and then said: "Among the queens of the highlands in the past dynasties, you are the only one who has the qualifications of immortals, your ancestors begged the old man in every possible way, and the old man promised to take care of you, your willful behavior this time is likely to cause you to be hopeless in this life, little girl, don't you regret it?"
The queen was still calm, and said: "The younger generation of the primordial god has been sealed for three hundred years, and it is a great luck to wake up from the seal this time, I dare not dare to become an immortal again, I just hope to recover my physical body, and I will be satisfied with this life with him." ”
The old man glanced at Ji Buyun again, and said: "Although this kid was born with a good skin, you should also be able to see that his qualifications are mediocre, and the Royal Dragon Pei should have belonged to another person, and it fell into his hands by mistake, what do you like about him?"
"The younger generation feels happy and happy to be with him, and nothing else matters. ”
"Isn't it even the Dragon Pendant?"
"Yes. ”
The old man looked at the queen and said with a smile: "There is almost nothing in this world that the old man doesn't understand, little girl, the only thing I don't understand is a woman's heart." ”
The queen smiled at the old man and did not speak.
The old man stroked his beard and said, "In addition to being entrusted by your ancestors back then, the old man also received the grace of your altar wine three hundred years ago, and promised to help you do something, little girl, do you need the old man to help you now?"
The queen arched her hand and said: "Forgive the younger generation for being young and ignorant, the younger generation didn't know that it was your old man at that time, and I hope that your old man will not blame you." ”
The old man scratched his head, and said with an unnatural smile: "Shi Feng and the ghost girl, the two girls, have been scolding the old man all over the world for thousands of years, and they have caused the old man to hide in Tibet all day long. Now if I break my promise to you little girl, then what face will stand between heaven and earth. ”
In this world, there is only one person who dares to call Shi Feng and the ghost mother those two girls, Zu Long, this old man turned out to be Zu Long.
The queen said: "He has promised the junior to beg your old man to restore my body for me, and the junior really has nothing to bother your old man now." ”
Zu Long said with a serious expression: "This promise is three hundred years, it is not a matter for the old man to remember it in his heart, the old man promised you, if you open your mouth now, for the sake of your ancestors' face, the old man can make an exception for you to change your life against the sky." ”
In the past, Zulong broke the chaos, opened up this world, and created the three worlds of gods, demons, and humans, with supreme supernatural powers and boundless mana. Legend has it that he could gather his scales, blood, and call on the top of Kunlun Mountain to activate the Heaven and Earth Reversal Array, reverse time and space, change his life against the sky, and fulfill any wish for anyone.
Being able to get the ancestral dragon to change his life against the sky can be said to be the highest wish shared by the cultivators of the three realms of gods, demons, and humans.
Now he took the initiative to give the queen such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but the queen still looked unchanged, and replied lightly: "Thank you for the kindness of the old man, the younger generation really has nothing to do now, if the old man really wants to help the younger generation, the younger generation wants to beg your old man to give him this opportunity and help him once when he is in danger." ”
Zu Long said with a serious expression: "Infatuated little girl, you must think clearly, the old man has not changed his life for someone for three hundred years, and there will be no more missed opportunities like this." ”
"The juniors have figured it out. ”
Zu Long said: "If you don't change your life against the sky, then the old man of heaven represented by the creation flower can't change it, tsk, the world says that the old man represents the will of heaven, but I don't know that even the old man is created by the will of heaven." Providence is like this, little girl, you must think clearly, in addition to you in the future, this kid will marry another wife, the most difficult thing in the world to deal with is the wife, more difficult than a wife to deal with, are two wives, Shi Feng and the ghost girl The two girls have not let the old man stop for a day, in addition to fighting with the old man, the two of them also fight every day, after giving birth to the child, the two children are still beating, beating, beating, alas, the old man is so old that he can only hide in Tibet. ”
After that, he shook his head again and again.
The queen said: "Providence is so, and the younger generation conforms to Providence." ”
Zu Long stroked his beard and said, "Okay, okay, little girl, since you have made up your mind, the old man will promise you." ”
"Junior, thank you, old man. The queen bowed down again.
Zu Long looked at Ji Buyun carefully, and said to the queen: "For thousands of years, you can refuse the old man to change his life against the sky, little girl, you are the first." But you read that right, the old man's dragon pendant will never choose the master at will. Although this kid is not very qualified, he has a long fortune and is trained carefully, and he will definitely become the next dragon man. ”
"The younger generation just wants to stay with him for a long time, and they don't care about anything else. ”
Zu Long looked at the queen and said: "This kid is very blessed, little girl, if you are with him, he will invade your luck, so you must be careful in the future, you must not act willfully, you need to know, the old man must also act according to the will of heaven, not everything can help you." ”
The queen said: "The younger generation remembers. ”
As soon as Zu Long raised his hand, a ball of light flew into the queen's eyebrows, and said: "This is the true meaning of the candle flame that the old man has cultivated in the chaos, which can protect you at a critical time, and you can usually use it to warm up the original spirit, you forcibly restore your physical body this time, break the barrier, and you can't use your divine sense for three months, and the old man can't do anything about it." ”
The Ancestral Dragon's Candle is the natal treasure he has cultivated in the chaos, and the mana contained in the true meaning of a candle flame is enough to change the color of heaven and earth and bring people back to life.
The queen said: "The younger generation knows, thank you old man." ”
"The old man will test him in these two days, and if he passes the test, the old man will agree to his request to lift the curse for you, but you need to recuperate the Yuan Shen for three months, and only after half a year can you recover your physical body. ”
The queen said: "The junior has thanked me again. ”
Zu Long said: "Three hundred years ago, the old man's two children were in the same room, one died and one was injured. Afterwards, Shi Feng and the ghost girl forced the old man to run the heaven and earth reversal array with them, sealing the aura of the world for three hundred years, so that the world could not use spells for three hundred years, and now that the sealing period has just passed, the world will re-enter the world of spells. Remember, little girl, at this time, the heroes who have been lurking for years are coming out together, and they are extremely dangerous, and you must not do it willfully. ”
The queen moth frowned slightly, and said, "The younger generation remembers." ”
Zu Long waved his hand and said, "Go back!"
The queen bowed down, then turned into a red flower and floated up, slowly disappearing into Ji Buyun's chest. The figure of the ancestral dragon also disappeared.
When Ji Buyun woke up in the morning, it was still stormy outside, and it was obviously impossible to rush in the mountains in such weather, so he could only sit and wait for the weather to improve.
It wasn't until noon the next day that the wind stopped, the rain was much lighter, and the remaining pheasant had already died, and the hungry Ji Buyun decided to go out in the rain to find something to eat.
At the edge of the bamboo forest, Ji Buyun withstood the drizzle, summoned the purple gold sword in his palm, cut the bamboo to make two javelins and a bamboo knife, and then turned to the depths of the bamboo forest. There are more than a dozen sika deer are sheltering from the rain in the dense forest, Ji Buyun tiptoed closer, aiming at a half-sized male deer with antlers just growing on the top of his head and throwing a javelin, the javelin hit accurately, killed with one blow, and the remaining sika deer scattered in a hurry.
Ji Buyun dragged the dead deer to the stream, peeled it with a bamboo knife, and removed the internal organs. After cleaning the venison, he picked a few handfuls of wild fruits, and then returned to the bamboo house in high spirits.
Thinking that if the queen was here now, with her temperament, she would be very happy, Ji Buyun's heart sank, and she stood on the ground for a while.
His robe was already drenched in the drizzle, so he took it off and put it on a bamboo bench, made a fire with flint, and lit wood to bake his clothes. Then he used a bamboo knife to divide the heart, breast, and ribs into even small pieces, and used bamboo branches to thread them into meat skewers and put them aside.
When they were ready, the clothes were dried and the wood was burned into charcoal. He slowly flipped the hind legs of a deer on a charcoal fire with a tree branch, and at the same time took a few skewers of meat in his left hand to grill together. The grease from the meat drips onto the charcoal fire, making a squeaking sound, sparks are lit, and the charming aroma wells up on the nose, which is mouth-watering.
After the first wave of meat skewers were grilled, Ji Buyun was just about to feast, when there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and then someone knocked on the door of the bamboo house.
Ji Buyun put down the meat skewer in his hand, stood up and shouted, "Please come in." ”
At the opening of the bamboo door, two people, an old man and a young man, entered, both of whom were wearing gray highlander robes. The old man had gray hair and could not tell his specific age, and the young man had sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and his body was as straight as a javelin. The old man had a wine gourd hanging from his waist, and the young man was carrying a bag.
Ji Buyun greeted the two of them: "Haotian God blesses you." ”
The old man replied to him with a greeting, and the young man snorted something.
The old man said: "Brother Lao, my father and I are mountain pickers who are going to check the mountain conditions, can you avoid the rain here." ”
It is not yet the season of mountain mining, and occasionally mountain quargers come into the mountain to check the mountain conditions and prepare for the autumn mountain mining. Ji Buyun didn't care, he saw the old man looking at the grilled meat skewers intently, and hurriedly greeted: "I was also separated by the rain here, and I happened to find this bamboo house, this deer was hunted by me just now, the two of them traveled hard, if you don't dislike my craftsmanship, please use it together." ”
The old man thanked and sat down generously on another bamboo stool. The young man hesitated, then walked over, carried a few pieces of firewood, and sat down beside the old man.
The imperial dragon pendant on Ji Buyun's chest suddenly began to tremble, remembering the queen's words, he felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, among the two people who came, one was an ancestral dragon. He pretended to be nothing, observing and calculating while entertaining the two of them to eat.
The old man was unceremoniously, grabbed the meat skewers handed by Ji Buyun and dipped them in salt flowers, ate a mouthful and said hello, ate two skewers in a row, took off the wine gourd around his waist, and drank a big sip of wine. Then he handed the gourd to Ji Buyun and said, "I made this wine myself, little brother come and taste it." ”
Ji Buyun thanked the old man and waved his hand to signal that he would not drink.
The old man said: "How can there be highlanders who don't drink, the little brother dislikes my wine." ”
Ji Buyun looked at the old man and said with a smile: "Of course not, the old man is too worried, I am not in good health when I am young, and the elders specially asked a famous doctor to prepare a kind of wine for me, and I am not allowed to drink other wine." ”
After speaking, he raised the endless bottle, silently recited the orchid wine, raised his head and took a sip, the fragrant wine overflowed. The old man snorted vigorously when he arrived at the wine fragrance and said, "Good wine, good wine." ”
The young man tilted his head and looked at Ji Buyun and the old man. While slowly munching on the venison and flipping the barbecue deer legs, he kept his face calm and did not seem to have any interest in the wine.
Ji Buyun saw that the old man was salivating and said, "Does the old man want to taste this wine?"
The old man said again and again, "Good, good." "I can't wait.
Ji Buyun handed the endless bottle to the old man, the old man raised his head and took a sip, said good, then took a bite of meat, took a sip of wine, ate and drank by himself, and completely ignored Ji Buyun.
Ji Buyun laughed with him, picked up a handful of raw meat skewers, continued to barbecue, and handed it to the old man when it was done.
The old man ate more than a dozen strings of meat and drank dozens of sips of wine before he touched his mouth with satisfaction and said, "Okay, good boy, the old man owes a jar of wine again." ”