Chapter 3: The Little Woodcutter

There are countless beasts in the dense forests in the Guizi Mountain, and the valley in the mountains is full of black smoke and miasma, even adults dare not venture in. An eight-year-old child was driven to Guizi Mountain to cut wood, which is no joke.

Uncle Jingsu left three days ago, and before leaving, he didn't forget to smile evilly at Yan Han. Yan Han still has difficulty waving this nasty face, it seems to be the beginning of Yan Han's nightmare.

Early in the morning, when Dad dragged the lazy Yan Han off the bed, he had already prepared a bronze father, a hemp rope strap, and a bag of steamed buns for him. After that, his father put some sulfur powder on Yan Han's clothes to prevent snakes and insects, and then kicked the reluctant Yan Han out of the house.

Yan Han grinded, step by step, step by step, step by step, and only after an hour did he leave the village.

As the sun went down, Yan Han returned to the village, carrying a few dry logs on his shoulders, and thought he had completed his task, so he swaggered into the house.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the door, his father beat him violently. It turned out that Dad had long known that Yan Han was unwilling to go far, and he had been following Yan Han's back, and found that Yan Han was always walking around the village, and picking up a few dry firewood from other people's houses in the evening.

"If you dare to deceive me again, don't come back to see me!" Daddy waved his fist and shouted at Yan Han drunkenly.

After Yan Han was beaten by his father, his eyes were red, he couldn't have imagined that his father was serious this time, and he really asked him to go to the mountains and forests to chop wood, so he had a grudge against his father for the first time.

The next day, before his father woke up Yan Han, he left the house by himself, and he was angry with his father. I thought: This is a runaway, huh!

Yan Han fumbled for the remaining steamed buns from yesterday, added some new steamed buns, carried a handful of salt and a flint in his arms, and went on the road.

Yan Han walked out of the village, along the river, past several barren wheat fields, over a hill, and walked seven or eight miles in one breath, Yan Han finally stopped, looking at the endless dense forest in front of him, and a trace of fear arose in his heart.

The big trees in front of me are in the sky, the branches are fangs and claws, and some roots are exposed to the ground, prostrate on them, like dragons and snakes. The sunlight in the forest can only leave a remnant. Listen closely, and there are some strange cries in the forest from time to time.

At this time, Yan Han's anger towards his father had already been thrown out of the clouds, and what was left in his heart was an inexplicable timidity.

He looked at the sun, and the last rays of afterglow were about to be buried in the mountain stream, so he decided to go back the way he came. Yan Han ran wildly along the path he had come, and he always felt as if something was following him behind him.

However, after walking for half an hour, he felt that the path was becoming more and more unfamiliar, and it was no longer the way to come, so he stopped, and it was already dark three feet away, and he looked at the big trees around him and suddenly became hideous. Yan Han became more and more frightened, and he didn't dare to look up at the four directions, he squatted down and couldn't help crying.

I don't know how long Yan Han cried, but a figure walked over. He was tall, thin, with a hint of decadent handsomeness on his face, and a long robe with a noble temperament, but when he approached, he found that he was ragged and nondescript.

Yan Han looked at this person dumbfounded, sobbing and shouting, "Dad..."

Dad picked up Yan Han, put him in a dry place, took some dry branches from the side, and then felt the flint in Yan Han's arms, and said to Yan Han: "You are lost, do you know?"

Yan Han was still sobbing, feeling greatly wronged.

In the middle of the night, a fire rises, and the father and son snuggle up to the fire, nibbling on dry food.

"Dad, do you really believe that there is a fairyland?"

"Hmm!" replied the father earnestly.

"But I think that uncle is a liar!"

Dad thought for a moment and said, "There are many things in the world, if you believe it, it is true, if you don't believe it, nothing will happen." ”

"Oh. For the first time, Yan Han didn't have an inner rebellion against his father talking about gods and ghosts.

Seeing that Yan Han had finished eating the dry food, Dad stood up, picked up Yan Han's bronze axe, cut a mark on the tree, and then said to Yan Han: "In the future, I will not protect you anymore when I cut wood on the mountain, you have to leave a mark on the tree so as not to get lost." ”

When Yan Han heard this, he knew that his father still had the idea of letting him go to the mountains to cut wood, and he suddenly became angry, and he shouted: "Are you so relieved to let me come here every day to chop wood? Even if I can't get lost, I will be eaten by jackals sooner or later!"

"Then don't go home!" said Daddy, pinning the bronze axe to his waist, and strode in the direction of the village.

Yan Han pouted and still stood there, however, when he found that his father's figure was getting more and more blurred, he knew that his father was serious, so he shouted in the back: "Hey... Ay... Wait... Wait for me!"

A few days later, Yan Han was driven to the mountains by his father at a young age to chop firewood, which was already a well-known thing in the village.

In the morning they would see a small figure carrying a bronze axe out of the house, and in the evening they would see a weak man walking home carrying a bundle of firewood on his shoulder.

The neighbors inevitably pointed fingers at Yan Han's father, thinking that this was an act of inhumanity and complete madness, but the father turned a blind eye and didn't take the village's persuasion seriously at all.

Yan Han has been calm these days, because in these days, his courage and survival ability have increased greatly, and this kind of thing to go up the mountain to chop wood is already a piece of cake in his opinion, and he also gets pleasure from it. No, a few days ago, he really asked him to scare away a wolf with a plate axe.

One day, Yan Han sat by the stream at the edge of the village, scrubbing his copper axe, and muttered: "What kind of bird fairyland, I didn't even touch a fart." ”

Suddenly, a small pebble appeared on the surface of the river and landed beside Yan Han in a bouncing manner. When Yan Han looked up, he found a little boy on the opposite side playing in the water. The little boy is delicate and exquisite, his face is pale, his clothes are clean, and he looks particularly innocent and cute. He shouted at himself, "Yan Han, are you going to chop wood again today?"

Yan Han recognized that it was the child of Uncle Tan's family next door, whose name was Tan Ya, and he was one year younger than himself. Yan Han has no good impression of the children who can be pampered every day, cleaner than himself, and easily loved by adults. So Yan Han asked angrily, "Is there something wrong?"

Tan Ya smiled innocently and said, "Yan Han, in fact, I envy you, I have grown so big, I haven't been up the mountain or left the village!"

Yan Han was so proud of what he said, so he said, "What, are you going too?" Then say hello to your mother, and then come with me, and I will leave immediately. ”

Tan Ya hesitated for a while and said, "If you say hello, my mother will not agree." Can you get back early today? If you can, you can take me out for a walk. ”

Yan Han glanced at Tan Ya, and snorted coldly in his heart: Come back early? Dream! Before the sun sets, my father will not let me enter this house. But Yan Han thought about it again: It's better to have a companion here than to talk to the tree every day.

So he said to Tanya, "I'll try my best, you cross the river!"

So Tan Ya jumped over from the single-plank bridge, Yan Han looked around to see that there was no one, and then whispered to Tan Ya: "We have to leave the village quietly, and we can't let anyone find out, otherwise you won't be able to go." ”

"Got it!" Tan Ya covered his mouth and smiled, pretending to glance at Yan Han mysteriously.

The two of them, one after the other, sneakily left the village and walked towards the mountains in the distance.

On the way, Tanya felt that the scenery was infinitely beautiful, and he had never been so excited. All kinds of rare birds and beasts shuttled through the jungle, they climbed a hill, saw strange rocks, lying on it, you can have a bird's eye view of the wheat fields and farms in the distance, like a landscape painting in front of him.

Yan Han also simply rested on it, he didn't go far this time, but just led Tanya to some places he thought was fun. Seeing Tanya happy, I was also excited, as if my collection was appreciated.

The two of them played like this for a morning, and at noon, Yan Han thought that his task of chopping firewood had not been completed, and there was no dry firewood to be found on this low hill, so he shouted at Tanya, who was sitting there eating wild fruits: "We have to go, we still have business!"

Tan Ya patted the soil on his body, and followed Yan Han down the hill with unfinished intentions.

Yan Han took Tanya and walked towards Guizi Mountain, which was farther away outside the village. An hour later, they entered a secluded valley that was deserted and foggy.

Tan Ya saw that Yan Han didn't mean to stop, so he couldn't help but ask: "Brother Yan Han, I heard my mother say that you go into the mountains every day to find a place where the gods live, is this true?"

"Of course!" In fact, even Yan Han himself didn't know what he was doing, but when he heard Tan Ya ask, he immediately became goalless.

He said to Tan Ya: "Uncle Jingsu Immortal can break through the heavens, saying that I have excellent immortal resources and can become an immortal in the future, so my father asked me to go to the fairy land to worship immortals and learn art." Yan Han called his uncle Uncle Immortal for the first time, but immediately felt his teeth ache after saying it.

"Really?" Tan Ya's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said excitedly: "Then I also want to worship immortals as teachers!"

"Okay, then let's move on!"

In this way, the two teenagers broke into the deep mountains of Guizi Mountain. Yan Han was accompanied by someone and became courageous, but he only managed to do it, but he became lax about marking the road. And when he was about to go back, he found that he had taken the wrong direction, and after adjusting it a few times, Yan Han had already concluded that he was lost again.

Seeing that it was about to get dark, Tan Ya urged him three times and twice why he didn't go back, but Yan Han could only force his composure.

Yan Han muttered, I can't show my stuffing, otherwise it will only add to Tanya's cry, and maybe attract wild beasts.

Yan Han's face was full of gloom at this time, he threw his burden on a stone, sat down, and said: "Today is March 29th, according to Uncle Jingsu Immortal, the Land Guild will appear on this day, and the chance of appearing at the entrance to the cave to the fairy land is very high, so we don't give up easily." Yan Han casually made up a reason.

Tan Ya's face was a little pale and anxious, he was more afraid of the dark, not to mention that in this deep mountain and old forest, he said: "Yan Han, we have been walking for almost half a day, and we have tried all the caves that can get into people, but there is no fairyland at all!"

"If you believe me, follow me and continue to look for me, and I will take you home when it gets dark!" Yan Han is half a head taller than Tan Ya, with long and messy hair, and his face is tanned, highlighting a little fortitude and persistence, which makes Tan Ya comforted.

After a while, the night looks like it's about to fall. Tan Ya muttered again: "I haven't seen any of your immortal uncle's skills, I just heard you say that you have great powers, but my father and mother didn't say that!"

Yan Han was so tired that he was lying on the ground at this time, blowing bubbles into the sky: "White Fang, you don't trust me?"

"White Fang" is the nickname that Yan Han just gave to Tan Ya, because he gets angry every time he sees Tan Ya open a mouth of white teeth and mutters endlessly.

"It's not that I don't believe it, isn't it too difficult to go to Wonderland, and my father and my mother both say that the gentleman in the school is sometimes lying"

Yan Han sat up all of a sudden, and said indignantly: "It's hard to keep looking for it!" Uncle said that the fairyland opens once in ten years, and only people younger than eight years old can discover it, if we miss it this time, we won't have a chance!"

Tan Ya stopped saying a word, and continued to follow Yan Han's ass, he could only admit that he was unlucky, who let him decide to come. I haven't told my father and mother about this yet, otherwise if they know, they would have to die in a hurry.

When night fell, the two children were still groping in the hinterland surrounded by mountains. Tan Ya became more and more panicked, but he could only follow Yan Han, and from time to time his whimpering sound could be heard.

Yan Han also became upset, he was now more and more vague about the direction he came over, at first he could still distinguish the direction from the sunset to the west, but now it was dark, for this child who didn't understand astronomical hair, he could only look at the stars, and his head was numb. He even has plans to spend the night in the mountains now.

Yan Han came halfway up a mountain peak to find a dry place, and at that moment, he suddenly heard a gurgling sound. Yan Han was overjoyed, and when he walked over, he saw that a thin stream was flowing down the stone crack.

Convinced that he would find a place where there were people along the stream, Yan Han filled his empty gourd with water, then carried it on his shoulder, and prepared to set off again.

When Yan Han just raised his head, he saw Tan Ya's dull face, and his eyes were staring straight ahead. Yan Han followed his line of sight, and couldn't help but shiver, only to see a woman sitting next to the big rock in the stream in front of him, with her back to them, against the backdrop of the night, extremely weird.

Tan Ya said tremblingly, "Yan Han, have we bumped into a ghost?"

Yan Han glanced at him and said, "Grandma, we won't be so unlucky, the fairy didn't touch it, we met the ghost!"

Yan Han was actually very scared in his heart, but he still strengthened his courage, he coughed dryly twice, and said loudly to the woman in white, "Auntie!"

There was no sound.

"Auntie!"

Still no sound.

"Sister... Sister... Sister!" At the end of the shout, Yan Han's voice had stumbled. He saw that the woman in front of him was silent, and his heart trembled, and he seemed to have begun to believe in the assertion that there were ghosts in Tanya.

"Hey... Hey, before... Ahead, can you speak?" Yan Han shouted tremblingly again.

The woman remained motionless, sitting there silently, unable to distinguish her size in the night. Yan Han was really a little scared at this moment, a cold hand unconsciously clenched Tan Ya's arm, and whispered, "Let's quietly retreat and go down the mountain." ”

Just as Yan Han and Tan Ya were about to leave, the body of the woman in white suddenly turned.

Yan Han shouted in panic: "White Fang, let's run!" The two of them were so frightened that they left behind!

At this moment, an incomparably clear and incomparably pleasant girl's voice came from behind them.

"What are you doing here?"

Yan Han and Tan Ya both breathed a sigh of relief when they heard someone talking, stopped and looked at the woman, they saw a beautiful and immature face, about six or seven years old, but with an extremely pure and mature temperament.

Yan Han threw the fear just now out of the clouds, took a long breath, suppressed the panic just now, and swaggered over.

"We came here in search of a wonderland. What about you, little girl, are you lost?"

"No, I'm here for Wonderland too. The little girl said lightly.

After Yan Han heard this, he stayed there, and became surprised and happy, he didn't expect that there were really like-minded people in this world, it seemed that what the evil uncle said before was somewhat reliable.

Yan Han walked over, sat cross-legged beside the little girl, and asked, "Little girl, what is your name, which village?"

"My name is Qianmu and I'm from the north. ”

"Is it from Mengxi Village in the north?"

Qianmu didn't answer.

Qianmu?Yan Han scratched the back of his head, feeling that the name was also strange.

Qianmu glanced at Yan Han and Tan Ya, and asked lightly, "What's your name?"

Yan Han pulled Tan Ya over with one hand and said, "His name is Tan Ya, and my name is Yan Han." We're here to find Wonderland. ”

Qianmu showed a puzzled expression and asked again, "Who told you that there is an entrance to the fairyland?"

Yan Han patted his chest and said proudly: "It's my uncle! To tell you the truth, my uncle is an immortal, he once came to our village a few months ago, and my uncle told my father that my immortal root is excellent, and it is the best that is rare in a thousand years, so he asked me to go to the teacher to seek immortals, and guided me to explore Guizi Mountain these days." ”

Qian Mu saw Yan Han's innocent and proud expression, and his face was indifferent, "Then I really want to congratulate you!"

Yan Han was a little unhappy, "Uncle said that only people with innate qualities like me have the potential to cultivate into immortals, and most people's immortal roots can't reach the extreme, so it's doomed to be impossible." ”

Qianmu ignored it and closed her eyes.

Yan Han saw that Qianmu ignored himself and felt bored, so he said to Tan Ya: "You kid don't worry, I will develop in the future, I will inevitably give you a few clicks, and you will definitely be able to achieve positive results." ”

Yan Han was smug, and Tan Ya pinched him fiercely: "Big brother, can we stop dreaming first, find the fairyland or go home first!"

Yan Han stood up and patted the soil on his body, "Also, let's go to this mountain and look for any bullshit caves, today is the birthday of the Lord of the Land, I hope it can manifest itself!"

They got up and were about to go up the mountain, when Yan Han looked back at Naqianmu and found that she had no intention of leaving. So he shouted, "Hey, aren't you going with us?"

"Why should I go with you?" Qianmu's voice was a little cold.

At this time, Tan Ya was a little anxious: "You are a little girl, aren't you afraid of being eaten by jackals here?"

After listening to Tan Ya's words, Qianmu looked back at him with a little gratitude, and said, "I'm not afraid of jackals, don't worry!"

Yan Han was a little disdainful, "If you don't go to find the cave that leads to the fairyland, stay here, do you expect the immortals to come and guide you?"

"Who told you that the entrance to the fairyland must be in a cave?" asked Qianmu rhetorically.

Yan Han didn't know how to answer for a while, so he angrily led Tanya to prepare for the road.

As soon as he took fifty steps, Yan Han suddenly stopped and said softly to Tan Ya: "This little girl seems to have a bit of a doorway, why don't we learn from her and wait for the rabbit!" Tan Ya shrugged his shoulders and followed Yan Han back.

Yan Han didn't make a sound this time, and sat silently near Qianmu, and also pretended to meditate.

Qianmu sarcastically said, "Aren't you going to find your burrow?"

Yan Han secretly glanced at her from the corner of his eye, and secretly scolded in his heart: This dead girl, if it weren't for your child's sake, I really don't care about you!

"I'm afraid that I will go to the fairyland, some people say that I saw a child in the deep mountains and old forests and did not save it, there is no immortality!"

Qianmu listened to Yan Han's words, and his heart was even more disgusted, and said: "You are so proud, but in my opinion, your immortal root is far inferior to your Tanya brother."

Yan Han pretended to be an adult and sighed lightly: "Talents in the world always attract envy, and immortals are even more so!"

Qianmu almost lost her breath, she snorted, "Self-righteousness!" and closed her eyes.

At this time, Tan Ya, who was lighting a fire in the distance, was secretly looking at Qianmu, and his precocious childlike innocence made his cheeks flush.

When the moonlight was completely spread on the earth, Qianmu suddenly opened his eyes and whispered a few incantations in his mouth.

Suddenly, the stream between the cracks in the stone in front of him immediately seeped into both sides, as if it had lost the gravitational pull of the earth, and when it penetrated into a few squares, the water stains became more and more lustrous on the stone wall, and gradually reflected like a mirror.

When Yan Han and Tan Ya saw this scene, they both became dumbfounded.

As time passed, after a while, a faint mist appeared around them, and the mirror-like water-stained interface on the stone wall became more and more distinct.

At this time, Qianmu quickly stood up, and at the same time dipped his two small hands in some water and bounced them towards his body, and then looked up at the starry sky. When a star in the north polished the sky, Qianmu suddenly shouted:

"On!".

The "mirror" on the cliff wall immediately became rippling, as if calling them.

Qianmu shouted at Yan Han and Tan Ya: "You guys get in, hurry up!". Tan Ya didn't know where he got the courage at this time, and immediately got into it according to Qianmu's instructions. Yan Han didn't seem to understand why on the side, and was still looking at the strange scene in front of him with his mouth open.

Qianmu hated it and scolded: "You idiot!" Then he kicked Yan Han in.

"Hey, why are you kicking me....."