04 Apprenticeship, Mission

"This is your badge, go and pay to my sister. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žfo”

Ding Xiulan handed Li Yiru a pair of fist-sized blue badges, in the shape of a shield, with two staggered swords on it, a big "Xia" character as the bottom, and many complex patterns and symbols of unknown meaning on the edges, which seemed to be still flowing at a cursory glance.

As a sibling, Ding Xiulan, the proprietress of the Sword and Fairy Inn, has the same willow eyebrows and phoenix eyes and a slightly round melon seed face as Ding Xianglan, the head of the Ranger Guild, and the style of clothes is almost the same, but her long hair is braided into a twisted braid and hangs on the side of her shoulders.

But even if they don't look at their clothes and hair accessories, the people of Yuhang can tell them by their tone and movements.

Ding Xianglan treats people gently, her tone is calm, and she always has a smile on her face, even if she encounters a ranger who wants to pay more for unreasonable trouble, she will not be angry, and she is deeply loved by children.

And Ding Xiulan, as the shopkeeper of the inn, is cold to everyone except the guests who pay for it, and when she encounters a mischievous ghost who comes to the inn, she will even grab a frying pan and chase it out of the two streets.

The lobby on the first floor of the fairy sword inn is an ordinary table and chair and opera and acrobatic performance area, the second floor is a private room, and the third and fourth floors are the guest rooms with the words of heaven and earth.

At present, the fourth floor is not occupied, and it is still spotlessly cleaned.

"Really, does everyone who participates in the Ranger Trial have to help Aunt Lan clean up?"

Li Yiru took the badge while taking off the cloth hat used to clean his head, and the two red ponytails immediately jumped out lively.

"Of course not, it's usually sent to the kitchen to help or the backyard to chop firewood, and if it's really rude, it's sent to deliver the goods,"

Ding Xiulan took the sisters down the stairs:

"It's hard to meet a fresh ranger who is suitable for cleaning, it seems that Brother Li has taught you well, what about in the future...... Hey, hey, hey~"

"Little Shigetsu!"

Li Yiru grabbed her sister's hand,

"Let's go back and be lazy and lazy!"

"Don't."

was decisively refused.

"The eldest lady in the shop and the second child also sound good......"

Ding Xiulan, who was walking in front, floated over faintly, and the red-haired girl was so frightened that she hurriedly hid behind Li Xiyue.

Who is my sister?

"Okay, you can go back."

Ding Xiulan sent them out of the door and looked up at the sun:

"I was supposed to leave you for lunch, but the inn will be busy at noon, so you should go to my sister's for dinner."

"Well, goodbye, Aunt Lan."

……

By midday, there were many fewer pedestrians on the streets, and the rangers in the guild who were looking for a mission had left.

The other waiters seemed to have been sent home for dinner, only Ding Xianglan sat behind the counter and looked at the task record, since it was called a task commission, naturally someone was in trouble, but in her shallow smile, it seemed that any problem could be solved.

"Aunt Xiang, we're back~"

Li Yiru waved her hand, this is the difference between meeting two "Aunt Lan" together, after all, "Aunt Xiu" sounds a little weird.

"Congratulations to both of you...... Become your father's subordinate. ”

Ding Xianglan looked up at the sisters and showed a narrow smile, and the red-haired girl really stepped down.

"Ahh

She started pulling her hair,

Li Xiyue went to the counter with a hint of helplessness to bypass her sister who was a little crazy,

"So, can we take the task ourselves now?"

The black-haired girl glanced at the notices on the surrounding walls, if there is a need to travel far, it is the best, after all, Yiru has been inexplicably grounded on the island by her father, at most, she just came to Yuhang.

"You're a trainee Ranger now, and of course you're free to take on those wall assignments."

Lilac closed the roster of two new rangers:

"There is no limit to the number of tasks, as long as they can be completed before the time limit and later reported, if there are other rangers who perform the same task, it will be marked as 'cooperative' when completed, and although the remuneration provided by the employer will not increase, the guild will provide a subsidy."

So there are still difficult tasks that are not on the wall and are not currently eligible to accept?

Li Xiyue discovered the hidden meaning of her words, but did not ask any further, after all, the word "apprenticeship" has revealed a lot of information.

"So what quest to play first?"

The red-haired girl who calmed down also came over:

"I don't want to catch any cats and dogs......"

Sure enough, after becoming a ranger, he will go to play, Li Xiaoyao is not wrong at all.

"Well, there's just one for you guys,"

Lilac Orchid took out a registration form:

"Recently, someone found ...... in the Shilipo Mountain Temple"

"No, not good! Aunt Lan! ”

A girl about eight or nine years old, wearing a goose-yellow muslin skirt and double pigtails, ran into the Ranger's Guild, with her hands on her knees, panting.

Li Yiru recognized her as Xiaoxue, the granddaughter of Dr. Zhang of the Chengxi Pharmacy, and hurriedly walked over to ask what was going on.

"Brother Xiaofan, He, Sister Herou has gone to Shilipo! I thought they were talking about fun, but, but it's time for lunch and haven't come back yet, something must have happened! Quick, save them! ”

After shouting so many words in one breath, Xiaoxue seemed to be a little dizzy, and her body was about to fall down as soon as she stumbled, but Yiru hurriedly held on.

"Xiao Fan will miss lunch?! Something must have happened. ”

Lilac Orchid stood up all of a sudden:

"Yiru, Xiyue, this is your first task: go and call Zhang Fan and Birou home for dinner!"

That's not the right task, right?

……

"This is the ...... of Shilipo"

Li Yiru looked around,

In addition to waterways, Yuhang also has several artificial or naturally generated land routes to other places.

There is a southwesterly road that passes through a 20-mile knoll, so the residents call this section of the road "Shilipo".

When you really reach the top of this ten-mile slope, the road disappears without a trace, and you have to be very familiar with the road or a clever hunter not to get lost in this large area of half-man-high grass.

What's more, there are mountain spirits and wild monsters wandering among them - most of them are lost.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Where to go? ”

Here's one too.

"In such an environment, it is easy for them to run away even if they encounter youkai,"

Li Xiyue observed the surroundings while moving forward with the grass parting from the bushes:

"There is no place to attract children in Shilipo, judging from the half-time task released by Aunt Lan, it should be that I went to the mountain temple."

"Well, but what temple is so attractive?"

Because of the legend of growing from an ordinary boy to the head of Shushan, Li Xiaoyao's hometown gave birth to many related attractions, the most famous is the Shilipo Mountain Temple where he first met his teacher.

Naturally, there will not be a second opportunity like that, but just out of pilgrimage psychology, the young ranger will also visit when he passes by Yuhang.

Li Xiaoyao should have boasted a lot about this, but apparently his precious daughter was not interested in it - he didn't remember it at all.

"It's a good place for kids who always want to be heroes to prove themselves,"

Li Xiyue turned over a slope and stretched out her hand to borrow strength from her sister:

"And the youkai here aren't very dangerous."

"That little ghost worries everyone so much, if you catch him, you must say it hard,"

The red-haired girl took her sister's hand and walked uphill, then pulled out a white silk umbrella:

"Messing around with me and bringing Xiaorou with me."

Wind Spell

Not far behind Li Xiyue, a strange plant with huge pods growing and trying to spit beans at the two of them was torn apart by a whirlwind, and the gold dust was scattered everywhere.

It seems that because of the landform, most of the monsters on the ten-mile slope are plants, and they will take the initiative to attack the herbivorous monsters, but they are not interested in people.

…… But the Ranger Guild seems to have received reports of attacks on vegetarians?

"It's a lot of fun."

Li Yiru looked at a pair of fighting monsters with interest,

A brown vine as thick as a python struggled to wrap itself around a two-headed golden retriever goat, and the goat was slowly eating the vine that was wrapped around its mouth.

Is this at a rate of growth and digestion?

"Don't try to catch it back,"

Li Xiyue tried to separate a shrub with wide leaves in front of her:

"The lotus flowers and the piles of leaves on our island are not like thisβ€”"

"I'm sorry!"

The bush suddenly screamed in a girl's voice, and then the leaves and branches all hung limply, and they were still trembling when they looked closely.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Mimosa? ”

"This is good, let's dig it back, Yue'er?"

"Nope."