Chapter 7 The Sun and the Wind
The incident of a dragon in Yongzhou has caused a lot of uproar, which is enough to go down in history. No matter how the Jizhou side restricted, the 100,000-strong army was obvious to all, and the news from the states also faintly spread, and the matter was dispersed.
The world knows it.
When it comes to dragons, people on all sides have different attitudes. There are rich sons and wealthy ladies who drive far away for fresh curiosity. There are ranger travelers and poets who are happy to go to it, so that they can witness the style and praise the eternal generations. There are righteous people, who say that the demon dragon has no way, and is willing to hold high the banner of righteousness and slaughter it.
Books about dragons entered the market at the right time, and the only books in the remnants were sold at sky-high prices, and some merchants made a lot of money.
Then the convoy and fleet to Jizhou increased by 100 times.
It is rumored that dragon scales are the strongest and most cherished armor casting materials in the world, invulnerable, invulnerable, and difficult to invade, so the military generals asked for it.
It is rumored that dragon claws, dragon teeth and even dragon horns can become divine weapons, so the sword master begged for it.
It is rumored that ambergris can prolong life when used as medicine.
Thereupon......
Li Yu picked up a piece of tofu, stared at it for a long time, didn't dare to put his mouth down, and said miserably: "Childe, can I not eat sour?
Yelin feasted, and the delicacies of the mountains and seas sandwiched the sea bowl with green vegetables and tofu, and said with a smile: "You are a goblin, do you need to eat? ”
Looking at the table full of delicacies, Li Yu pleaded: "The essence of the sun and the moon is not even salty, and the birds can fade out of the mouth after the half moon, how can these real meats be delicious?"
couldn't hold back his saliva, and he ran half the table, even though the red hand next to him was quick and amused by Li Yu's pitiful appearance, he didn't catch it at all.
Wasting a lot of money!
Just like that, the fist-sized small Dan bottle is a little bit filled, it is worth 100 gold, and there is no market.
Yelin stretched out his hand and said, "Okay, let the twelve side suspend the supply and raise the price." ”
Hongxiao didn't pity Li Yu at all, and said straightly: "Don't listen to him shouting bitterly, in those days when it snowed, everyone had a nest with pickles, how long did they gnaw on? Hundreds of thousands of people are waiting to be fed, this Yongzhou is his, and he is embarrassed to ignore it?"
Yelin felt reasonable, and also said: "Yongzhou is in ruins, the foundation is not ordinarily poor, the houses are all collapsed by snow and need to be rebuilt, and it is indeed driven by a lot of funds, you can bear with it, and it will soon pass." Just wait for Yongzhou's luck to flourish, Xiaoding will feed back, and then you will cultivate better. ”
With snot and tears hanging on his face, Li Yu threw himself on the ground, hugged Yelin's thighs and cried: "Don't! Childe, just spare me, saliva is only worth a few dollars, good wine and good meat are for me, and a few nail scales that fall off are more expensive!"
Yelin was stunned for a moment, and said, "Why didn't I think of this stubble? ”
Li Yu cried with joy.
Yelin said again: "Li Yu is still at the age of growing his body, so he should eat more good food, serving big fish and meat every day, and replenishing precious medicine and wine." ”
Li Yu nodded again and again, almost knocking to the ground.
Yelin said again: "Let him be idle every day, don't do anything, just eat, drink and have fun, so that it is easier to breed scales and claws." ”
Li Yu shouted happily, so excited that he was about to jump.
Suddenly, Yelin added, "Don't forget to tell the cook about seasoning, the kind of giant acid." ”
Joy and sorrow, ups and downs......
Li Yu wanted to cry without tears, thinking about going to die, so he jumped from the tall building upside down and fell into the ground.
The voice of Hongxiao upstairs chased after him: "Childe ordered, you still have something to do later!"
Li Yu pulled up the ground and covered it on himself, just like a tomb, and hissed: "Just when I'm dead, I'm not there!"
Hearing this, Hong Xiao was dissatisfied, and turned around and said: "The son is too benevolent, how can he be so nonsense? ”
Yelin smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "In the end, it's not good for me, forcibly make him successful, skip a lot of tempering in the middle, although he is promising, after all, he is young, and his age is less than half of yours, don't force too much." ”
Hongxiao was embarrassed and said, "I didn't say it! How does Childe know my age?"
Yelin smiled but did not speak.
Hongxiao was angry and couldn't find a mouth, snatched Yelin's umbrella and trotted away.
Yelin got up and cleaned up the dishes, and said with a smile: "Talk to Li Yu, if you don't want to eat acid, just stop, I'll think of a way." ”
There was no answer from Hongxiao, and the sound of footsteps on the stairs became much louder.
Downstairs, Hongxiao poked the grave bag with an umbrella, and said angrily: "Lazy worm, get up and do things quickly, the son said, I will spare you if you do well." ”
The grave bag exploded, Li Yuli straightened his clothes, and said with a spring breeze on his face: "Tell Childe, I'll come!"
Until he sat on the seat and read a volume of copywriting, in the face of this mountain of heavy tasks, Li Yu complained bitterly and said, "Is there anything else you want me to do for you?"
Hongxiao refused: "No! Either eat sour or work." Originally, eating sour is the easiest, and having money can make the ghost grind, and any problem will be solved. Now if you are reluctant to eat acid, you will not be able to make money, so well, these problems have to be turned over by yourself. ”
Li Yu said: "Childe is the best at this, why do you want to call me, a newborn calf, to do it? ”
Hongxiao was angry, pulled out the dagger and stabbed it at Li Yuxin's nest, and said angrily: "What kind of day, you lazy goods are really embarrassed to say? The son has worked hard, he has not rested for half a year, and his eyelids have not been closed once, and even the girl's legs are about to be broken, and now you have a long ability, and you don't share some of the burdens, and you still want to push things out? It's good not to say it, I'll be angry when I say it, and I don't have so much bullshit to stab you to death as a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised!"
Li Yuli conceded and said while dodging: "If you have something to say, if you have something to say, I'll do it! Can't I do it? Woman, please spare me!"
After crawling and hiding for a long time, the tired Hongxiao couldn't catch up, so Li Yu returned to his seat and honestly reviewed it.
Hongxiao stopped, took the short sword and was about to leave.
Li Yu muttered in a low voice: "I'm just complaining, as for being so fierce." How dare anyone ask for this kind of man's wife?"
Hongxiao suddenly looked back......
In the 100th year of Mingzong, an unsolved case suddenly appeared-
The lord of the dignified Dragon Gate disappeared for half a month, and when he appeared, there was a faint tattoo on half of his face.
It's a great deal! All walks of life are competing to guess, thinking that it is what kind of exercise, and the spies have to spend a lot of effort to memorize the patterns and copy them.
Countless masters are puzzled.
One day, a woman saw it and said, "Isn't this the pattern of the soles of women's boots?"
The listener scoffed and sneered: "The hair is long and the knowledge is short. ”
No one believed it, but for some reason, the turmoil gradually subsided, and no one mentioned it again.
Later, there was gossip that Yangzhou Sword Shrine spent a lot of money to ask the Lord of Longmen for two dragon teeth, and because the removal of dragon teeth hurt his practice, the Sword Shrine made a heavy promise to him.
No one knows the inside story, but they only know that the purchase of dragon materials is expected, and there are many more caravans going to Yongzhou.
The so-called insider, in fact, is nothing to worry about, it is all trivial matters.
For example, it was the lord of the Dragon Gate who suddenly agreed to the deal proposed by the sword mound, and the person from the sword mound had been waiting in Yongzhou for a long time and had not heard from him.
Let's say a woman gets a new pair of boots.
For another example, Li Yu hugged Yelin's thigh and cried: "Childe, look at my teeth!
Li Yu was born handsome, with red lips and bright teeth, and only two front teeth were missing from one mouth, Yelin held back a smile and comforted: "A woman is lifelong, can you say it casually?
Li Yu rushed to the ground and wailed: "How can there be a dirty person's innocence? Who else can hear it except her, no, no one can hear it at all, okay, I whispered so much...... How did she know her ears were so pointy? Childe, you have to call the shots for me!"
Yelin teased: "How do I do it? You said that no one wants her, or you marry her? ”
Li Yu said in disgust: "She doesn't look good!"
Yelin scratched his chin and said, "Hongxiao is okay, not to mention that there are flowers and moonlight in the country and the city, so you dislike it like that?"
Li Yu muttered: "I have a different aesthetic from you, how can I think it is beautiful?"
Yelin suddenly said: "That's right, you're not human, how can it be the same." ”
Li Yu rolled her eyes and lay on the ground pretending to be dead, but it happened that Hong Xiao saw her and kicked her again.
Li Yu was very hurt and hid his face and left.
Hongxiao asked, "Childe, what kind of nerves does Li Yu have?"
Yelin said helplessly: "Li Yu is still young, you let him order, why bother like this, his front teeth have been knocked out, how can he get by in terms of face?"
Hongxiao said: "What Childe taught is that Hongxiao knows. ”
damaged his image as a "lady" in the eyes of his son, Hong Xiao secretly hated that Li Yu had come to complain, and he must be cleaned up when he turns back.
Turn around and leave.
Yelin knew what Xiao Jiujiu she was playing, and said: "He treats you as a sister and frolicks with you, don't take it as a provocation, start lightly, you must know that you can't beat one Li Yu out of ten." ”
Hongxiao pursed his lips and remained silent.
That night, Li Yu's room had a few more bottles of poultice to replenish the marrow and bones, but the expected beating did not appear.
In a blink of an eye, Hongxiao sneaked into Yelin's room, tiptoed close to the bed, and was secretly happy not to be discovered, seeing that there was no one on the bed, his face became bitter.
Bad things, Childe doesn't know where to go.
In the northern boundary of Yongzhou, the scenery is very different, which can be described as a line of different days. The grass grows and the warbler flies outside the boundary, and the frost flies ten miles outside the boundary.
Seeing that the New Year had just passed, Yelin couldn't be happy, squatting on a hill bag, looking up at the quiet night.
As soon as the snow disaster passes, Yongzhou is fertile soil, not as good as other states, but better than the boundless Gobi grassland, and now Yongzhou is in full bloom, and Yongzhou's luck is gradually flourishing, and it will only get better and better. Yanzhou has a King Kong Temple, Jizhou has a million soldiers, what should Yongzhou do to resist the grassland iron horse?
Take out the chessboard, remove the original game, and Yelin resettles.
Click... Click... Click......
Suddenly, the grass on the ground was knee-high.
Tiredness hit his heart, and Yelin squinted and secretly fell asleep.
A light breeze quietly blew between heaven and earth, facing the young man, slightly warm, soothing the sorrow between his eyebrows.
......
As the night draws to a close, the rooster raises its neck high, its crow causes the dawn to tear through the darkness, and a new day begins.
There are no firecrackers, no red paper, but it does not affect the festivities at all, and for the people of Yongzhou, the New Year is a new life.
The children can't wait to push open the door of their homes and rush to the street to call for their friends, and the bluestone paths of the ancient town carry the laughter like silver bells.
The smoke gradually rose, the smell of the town was diffused, and the children laughed more happily, and they were screaming louder than their stomachs.
The dew drops were cold, and they fell low along the eaves on the tip of the nose of the star, as if a ray of light could be seen inside. The old monk stood under the thatched hut and bathed peacefully, sighing: "If this is always the case in the world, why should we look for the other side of the Buddha country?"
His jaw suddenly hurt, and his beard was broken, and Hao Xing pulled at a few broken beards and laughed for no reason, revealing two thriving front teeth. The old monk inhaled a cool breath and said with a smile: "Yes, Xiao Haoxing is also one year old." ”
A month has passed, during this time the old and young are struggling to live, there is no daily copying of Buddhist scriptures, praying for the deceased people, although there is no money, but barely satisfied, but the stars are still young, how can they eat those coarse tea and light rice?
Thanks to the packet of powder given by Li Yu, boiling water every day can make Haoxing not hungry for a day. Dragon horn powder is a strange thing, ordinary people can't ask for it, the hazy star eats it every day, the weak body is disease-free and painless, and it is very healthy.
Rubbing the pinch of yellow fluff that just emerged on the top of Haoxing's head, there was nothing to think about, there was not much powder left, and now that Xiaohaoxing's teeth had also grown, it was time to feed some grains, so he set off to turn his fate.
Passing through the east side of the town, I saw a blacksmith shop. A few children sat around the blacksmith shop and watched intently as the blacksmith struck the iron, which was very nice.
For fear of injuring the child by mistake, the blacksmith with a broad waist came out to drive him away.
Seeing the blacksmith's fierce spirit and carrying a hammer to beat people, the children were so frightened that they burst into tears.
This cry made the blacksmith feel so distressed that he hurriedly threw a hammer to comfort him, and not only did not drive him away, but brought him into the shop and brought a small bench out for the children, and the children burst into tears and laughed.
Scratching his head, the blacksmith smirked, picked up the hammer and smashed it hard, and inadvertently found that little stars almost popped up in the eyes of the children, and one of them said: "Wow! Uncle is so amazing!"
The blacksmith's dark cheeks were as red as blood, and he trembled with shame, and he didn't know how many hundred hammers he had swung when he picked up the hammer, and he dared not take a breath.
The hammer fell to the ground silently, picking it up and leaving a deep mark on the ground, it can be seen that the weight is extraordinary, Wu Wu watched from a distance, his smile gradually solidified, his mouth opened wide and he was a little out of shape, and muttered: "The afterlife is terrible, the afterlife is terrible." ”
Putting on a smiling face, Wuwu walked over to give a salute and said, "Amitabha." ”
The blacksmith replied: "Hello master, don't you know what kind of iron the master is going to beat?"
Wuwu handed over the Zen staff, and the blacksmith wondered, "Master, this is?"
Wu Wu said with a smile: "This strong man, the old man is getting old, he can't hold the child, and he will travel far away, it is really unbearable to bear the weight of the tin staff, so I can only implore the strong man to build a back basket, and the tin staff will be sold as a pawn." ”
The tin rod was slightly heavy, the blacksmith weighed it slightly, his face was solemn, and he took out a knife to scrape off the iron paint on the surface of the tin rod, revealing the inside. Good fellow, it is made of red gold! It is really hotter than a roasted potato, and the blacksmith said, "Master, this is unacceptable! The shop is in tatters, how can you find it?"
Wu Wu waved his hand and said with a smile: "The strong man's face is dark, his breathing is unsteady and slightly vain, and he has the appearance of losing both qi and blood; This tin rod is taken from the big temple, perennial bathing Buddhist scriptures have early spirituality, stand it outside the house at night, the wind moves the tin ring to resound, there is a clear mind, the effect of calming the mind and sleeping, the strong man may have a try. The old man is willing to make a good marriage, as long as he carries a basket, he has nothing else to ask for. ”
The blacksmith solemnly clenched his fists and said: "In this case, I will not shirk, and the master will need my Shi Hu in the future." ”
As he spoke, he took Hazy Star from Wuyou's arms, gently measured the size, and when he looked down, Hazy Xing blinked, grinned and showed two front teeth, Shi Hu's eyes were round, and bloodshot gradually spread in the whites of his eyes.
Haoxing thought it was funny, and laughed out loud.
His heart was crisp, Shi Hu's legs and legs trembled like chaff, only to feel that the child in his arms was a hundred times heavier than a hammer, and he was afraid of bumping into it.
Who can withstand this?
A few children were afraid of life and didn't dare to be presumptuous about nothing, but Uncle Shi Hu wanted to be more familiar, so he couldn't hold back his curiosity and tried his best to stand on tiptoe to see Haoxing.
Although he couldn't stop it, the hazy star still got into the hands of the children, staring at them with big eyes and "giggling" and laughing.
Shi Zhuanghan almost trembled into the room, stumbling on the lintel, and did not feel pain, but scared Wuyou and the children a lot.
In less than half a day, the back basket was handed to Wu You's hand, it can be seen that Shi Hu is skillful, and what is more commendable is that the production is very attentive, and the materials are also good, the whole back basket is made of soft steel wire, the texture is light and tough, and the coat is covered with a layer of animal skin, not only the hazy star stays comfortable inside, but the person who carries it does not feel the pain of the shoulder.
Wuwu put his hands together and said, "Good, Shi Zhuangshi bothered." ”
Shi Hu handed over another hiking stick and said sincerely: "The master is not young, and it is hard to trek through mountains and rivers, I hope it can help the master." ”
After taking the walking stick and rubbing it carefully, the old monk felt warm, picked up the hazy star, said goodbye to the stone blacksmith and the three children, and turned to the road. It's a long way to go, and we can't afford to delay it too long.
At the end of last winter, Yongzhou was snowing heavily, and hundreds of thousands of people lived in huge crypts and did not see the light of day.
In order to find the night lin, there is no lonely person with the hazy star along the way to meet the mountain, meet the water and cross the water, every time you go to a place where the people live, they try their best to find out the news, how can the people keep their mouths, but there are all "dragon gates", "repay the favor" Yunyun, never talk about any people and things, so it has little effect.
Fortunately, Yongzhou is poor and white, and it is very calm along the way, and there is no strongman robbery, only to see a large number of merchants.
This is a long way to go to the mountains, and the search for people is far away, and there is no long journey, and the footprints are all over half of Yongzhou.
At some point, the white-shirted boy had an extra piece on the edge of the chessboard and did not enter the game.
With only one son, can it save the decline?
No, but Yelin didn't remove this one, nor did he put it in the game.