Chapter 10: Occasional Maps
A plate of crispy golden and crispy roast pork, half left. Ah Umbrella frowned, looking at Jin Ling lying on the table, without any sign of wanting to continue eating, which was far from the appearance of the greedy ** spirit on weekdays.
"Sister Ling'er, you haven't had much appetite lately, and you have lost three points."
"Hmm," Jin Ling replied weakly.
The things that Jin Ling cares about the most are food and her weight. At the moment, he didn't have any interest in this, Ah Umbrella thought about it, suddenly approached Jin Ling's side, and said softly: "What are you thinking?" ”
"If only I had worshiped immortals as my teacher."
After Jin Ling finished speaking, she came back to her senses and looked at Ah Umbrella with some embarrassment.
When Ah Yu heard this, she knew even more in her heart, Jin Ling was afraid that she regretted that she was unable to protect her family at this time, so she said, "Sister Ling'er, you don't have to worry too much. If you had gone against your heart to cultivate immortals, you would not have been happy, and Uncle Jin and the master would not have been happy. You have to believe that everyone wants you to be happy, not burdened. ”
"But now, not only did I not help my family, but I also caused trouble for my family."
"What nonsense, this matter can only be blamed on the profit-hungry Ding family and the shitty immortal who is stunned. Sister Ling'er, things are not as bad as you think, we are not at an absolute disadvantage now, do you understand? ”
Jin Ling was silent for a long time, held Ah Umbrella's hand and said, "You are always calmer than me." Thank you. ”
"Calm down, face three points smaller." Ah Umbrella told a rare joke and amused Jin Ling.
Jin Yunyao, who was not far away, saw his daughter laughing again, put his heart at ease, and said to Qin Jiu on the side: "You apprentice, sometimes you are rational and mature, and you and I can't lose to you. ”
Qin Jiu shook his head with a smile and said, "People who are too rational are afraid that they will fall into feelings in the future." Let the children's path be explored by themselves, and there is no need to worry about it everywhere. ”
"Yesterday, Ding Qi came to the door again to ask for the right to host the wine and fruit club, and if the Jin family continues to preside over this time, the Ding family will no longer continue to provide good fruit wine. Now the Ding family enshrines an immortal, who has no fear, and is afraid that it is no longer just a threat. ”
"It's easy to do the wine and fruit, I have another way." Qin Jiudao, unlike wine and fruit wine, the longer it is stored, the better it tastes, the wine and fruit wine used to make dishes must be fresh, and the taste of the dish will be delicious. Again, the longer the vintage, the better the wine.
When Jin Yunyao heard Qin Jiu say this, his eyes lit up, and he said three good words in a row. In this way, under the constraints of the Ding family, it was reduced by a few points.
As the day of ripening wine and fruit approached, not only the adults were busy, but Ah Umbrella and Jin Ling were also rarely seen.
In addition to staying in the kitchen to learn to cook, Ah Umbrella hides in the Jin family's library all day long, but fortunately, the common script in this world is still traditional Chinese characters. Jin Ling also changed her naughty and fun-loving past, and followed Ah Umbrella to flip through books in the library. The Jin family is a family of scholars, and for several generations, the library building has also been built to five floors. While looking for what he wanted, Ah Umbrella also caught a glimpse of Xiuzhen's shadow in some ancient books, which had long been old and had not been touched for a hundred years.
After a few more days, Ah Umbrella and Jin Ling began to sneak into the pharmacy in the city. Jin Yunyao wanted to send someone to inquire about one or two, but was stopped by Qin Jiu, and only said that he should let the two little guys do their own thing. Jin Yunyao only called someone to protect the two of them.
"Hehe, they've grown up." Qin Jiu said with a smile.
Jin Shuqing also smiled and said, "Since the juniors are working so hard, we can't fall behind." ”
The three of them discussed in the secret room for a while and dispersed.
On this day, Ah Umbrella fell asleep hiding in the corner of the library building, with an ancient book recording strange things in Beizhou under his head, and Jin Ling didn't know where to go.
After a while, Ah Umbrella woke up-
"Hmm-" wiped the saliva from his mouth, but he didn't expect to fall asleep when he looked at it. Ah Umbrella picked up the ancient book and was about to continue reading, but found that the footer of the ancient book was wet with saliva.
"Oops." Ah Umbrella took a closer look, and the soaked paper was somewhat transparent, and it was faintly visible that there were other things inside. Ah Umbrella quickly compared this page with other pages, and sure enough, this page was a little thicker.
After thinking about it, Ah Umbrella still cut the page open, and a piece of ancient yellow tissue paper fell out of it, folded in half.
There are a few words on the thin paper, to the effect that I once went to a mountain, and there was a cave halfway up the back of the mountain, and there was light in the cave when the moon was full.
When I opened the tissue paper, there was a map drawn in it, and the more I looked at it, the more frightened I became, and finally I was even more excited. The city landmark depicted on this map is none other than Beiling City.
It seems that the man who discovered the cave did not make any further exploration, so he hid the map in the mezzanine of the book. It just so happened that I was going to go out of the city once in the next two days, and if I had the chance, I would go in search of this place that seemed to have treasures.
Put the map carefully and thoughtfully away, and leave the library building.
When I returned to my room, I saw an unidentified object bulging from my bed. A smile flashed in Ah Umbrella's heart, and he stepped forward and patted the quilt.
Boom. The quilt was lifted, revealing Jin Ling's puffy little face, which was very cute, and after seeing that the person who came was Ah Umbrella, Jin Ling quickly hugged Ah Umbrella.
"Sister Umbrella, when are we going to look for poisonous weeds?" Jin Ling rubbed the umbrella with satisfaction, the fragrance was soft, she liked it the most.
Ah Umbrella raised her eyebrows, how did this thing know that she was going out of the city to find poisonous weeds.
Seeing Ah Umbrella's appearance, Jin Ling hugged him tightly for three points, and said, "Don't you want to leave me, that day Dr. Huang told us that the most poisonous thing in Beiling is poisonous weeds and ghosts, and you came back and found a map." I knew you were going to find the poisonous weeds yourself, hum, I've already packed my baggage, I'll sleep with you for the next few days, don't you want to leave me. ”
Ah Umbrella raised his hand and pinched his eyebrows, and decided to go out of the city to find poisonous weeds by himself, first, the movement was small, if Jin Ling followed, the Jin family would definitely send someone to follow; The second is that she is worried that Jin Ling will be in danger if she follows her, and she is such a friend as Jin Ling, so she is naturally unwilling to bring Jin Ling into unknown danger.
In the end, Ah Umbrella still lost to Jin Ling's stalking, and instructed Jin Ling many things that need to be paid attention to in the wild.
Because of Jin Ling's sudden addition, Ah Umbrella's time out of the city was postponed by two days, and she prepared some things again to ensure the safety of the two. The mountains near Beiling are not dangerous, but the mountains are high and the forests are deep, the human tracks are rare, and there are many wild beasts and poisonous insects, which are more dangerous, just like the mountains and forests on the border between China and Myanmar.
On the day of departure, Ah Umbrella and Jin Ling sneaked out of the house before dawn.
"Just let them go? You're not worried? ”
"It's time to grow up, with an umbrella, Jin Ling should be fine."
"You believe her?"
"I don't believe her, I just hope that Ling'er can stand alone as soon as possible, we also ran into the mountains back then haha."
Jin Shuqing also smiled, stretched out his hand and patted his cousin's shoulder, the Jin family only gave birth to a daughter in Ling'er's generation, and she was still an only daughter. has been pampered and has never suffered. But after all, it is a woman, Jin Yunyao is worried that the couple will not be there, and Jin Ling will take over the Jin family, I am afraid that she will suffer a lot.