Chapter 7: Departure

Before you know it, the Ten Spirits have reached the edge of the basin, the tall trees have been replaced by low shrubs, the scattered swampy wetlands have become flat meadows, the meadows have been stretched into rectangles one after another, and there are five of the six grains planted: millet, wheat, soybean, hemp, and yellow millet necessary for the brewing of the Devil's Dry Liquor.

The sun had already appeared at the edge of the sky, and smoke had risen from the chimneys of the three houses in the basin.

"It's time to get home (17:00~19:00), and then I'm home. Glancing at the sky, Shi Ling sighed with emotion, and then took a step forward.

"Master is resting, don't call me if you don't have anything urgent. Mu Zhu instantly dissolved the phantom, and the voice gradually disappeared in the hearts of the ten spirits.

Facing the red rays of the sun, Shiling walked quickly to the thatched hut in front of him.

In front of the thatched house, a small courtyard is surrounded by a fence, and the busy green figure in front of the stove can be faintly seen.

Pothos was cooking on the stove outside the house, sweat dripping down, although his face had been smeared, but it still couldn't cover the youthful breath of pothos.

"Shiling, you're back, but I'm worried about the death of the little girl pothos, if you don't come back, maybe the little girl will have to join you. ”

Passing by Aunt Zhang's house, Shi Ling's ears came with Aunt Zhang's ridiculous voice, but Shi Ling didn't care, but half-jokingly replied to Aunt Zhang who was washing vegetables: "I'm tired of Aunt Zhang taking care of this girl, and I will definitely invite Aunt Zhang to drink wedding wine in the future." ”

"That Aunt Zhang is worried about it, but after your boy's coming-of-age ceremony, the pothos will be an old girl, so you have to ask for it if you don't want it. ”

"That's that, that's. "The ten spirits are only the only ones who should come.

"Xiaotian, have you forgotten your Aunt Liu? Then you can't think of your Aunt Liu's happy money. Aunt Liu next door was washing vegetables in the yard, and heard the conversation between Shiling and Aunt Zhang, so she pretended to question Shiling.

Shi Ling scratched his head, a little embarrassed, glanced at the green pothos who turned around and entered the house, and said to Aunt Liu with a smile: "I haven't forgotten, I must invite Aunt Liu when the time comes, Aunt Liu don't forget to give more money! ”

Glancing at the pothos who turned to enter the door, Aunt Liu smiled knowingly, and cast a well-known look at Shiling: "Let's go, if you don't hurry up, you won't be able to catch up and close the door." ”

"Yes. Shi Ling walked quickly to the pothos without looking back, and before the pothos closed the door, the ten spirits flashed into the house, very cheekily relieved, and said to the pothos with a smile: "Do you want to shut your brother out of the door, Lu Xiaoluo?"

Seeing Shi Ling enter the house, Lu Luo simply didn't close the door, looking at Shi Ling with a serious face, Lu Ling's face was already red to the root of his ears, and he couldn't help but sneer: "You deserve it, who told you to be no big or small in front of Aunt Zhang and Aunt Liu, no shame or impatience." ”

"Daddy will be back in a while, I'm going to cook, you can do it yourself. After the pothos finished speaking, he continued to come to the stove in the courtyard to cook rice, and the flames reflected the red face of the pothos, pretending not to see the ten spirits who secretly followed, and still adding firewood to himself.

"Of course I have to come to help the little sister of Lu Xiaoluo, otherwise looking at the green pothos who has become a flower cat, your brother Ling and my heart will not be comfortable. "The ten spirits squatting next to the pothos are in good color, and then they keep picking up the wooden branches and constantly adding them to the stove with a blazing flame to help the fire burn more vigorously.

Shi Ling didn't expect to make the pothos busy for a while.

"Brother Shiling, if you cook like this, it will burn paste. The pothos hurriedly took out some wooden branches, and although she said reproachful words, there were ripples in her heart.

"I'll leave you a piece. The pothos took a half-burned piece of wattle and poked it into the ash heap.

Looking at the color of the millet rice in the pot, Shiling brought a pot of rice to the cold stone table, extinguished the fire, and went to the altar to grab pickles, three boiled salted eggs have been placed on the table, which are the eggs laid by their own black ducks, Shiling used to toss those stupid land-and-dry ducks, but every time they were stopped by the pothos, and a scolding of the pothos was indispensable, but Shiling was happy to be scolded... Forehead~... Happy to be scolded......

Three people, a plate of kimchi, three salted eggs and a pot of porridge can solve the problem of rice. However, it is a relatively dilapidated pottery mustache, which is not as good as the iron ring, which is like a zigzag, and the lower part of the ringing is a mustache, which is used to hold water, and the upper part is a retort, which is used to steam rice.

Even so, in the eyes of the Ten Spirits, they can be regarded as good objects, such as pottery for cooking rice, lacquer plates for vegetables, pottery bowls for rice, copper pots for winemaking, copper pots for wine, and copper kettles pinned to the waist of the Ten Spirits. Because these are all purchased by the father-in-law in Qingyang City with food, they can be regarded as rare things.

Although bartering has long been eliminated by the times, there is still such a business in Qingyang City, which is convenient for a few people, and you can also be a middleman to make a difference.

In the distance, the sun had been completely covered by the trees, and Long Yuanyan's figure also happened to appear in the distance.

On the dinner table, there are two dishes of small dishes brought by Aunt Zhang and Aunt Liu, Aunt Zhang and Aunt Liu serve dishes every three or five times, the two old men have no heirs, and they have long regarded Shiling and Green Pothos as their own children. He took great care of both of them.

"Father-in-law, I have broken through to the Qi Gathering Realm. ”

Hearing that the Ten Spirits had broken through, the pothos was naturally overjoyed, and what Brother Ten Spirits was happy about was what she was happy about, not to mention that the Ten Spirits had also worked hard for three years.

Compared with the happy face of the pothos, Long Yuanyan responded lightly, without any expression on his face, and he didn't even raise his head.

"Well, in another half a month, the enrollment of Qingyang City will start again, and I will take you to set off early tomorrow morning. ”

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Speechless all night.

The next day, the sky was still bright, the rooster just crowed, Shi Ling was already busy for half a while, knowing that he was going to Qingyang City today, Shi Ling lost his sleepiness very early, and got up in a few clicks to put on the animal skin robe sewn for him by his father-in-law, and packed up his daily necessities in his room, "I will go to my aunt's house to borrow a firewood cart in a while", Shi Ling muttered.

After taking a bite of the thornwood charcoal left by yesterday's pothos, and taking a sip of the water in the pottery bowl, Shi Ling took the sharpened willow branch and began to brush his teeth, which has been the same for more than ten years.

Wrapping up the luggage and hanging it on his body, Shi Ling pushed the door out and came to the door of Aunt Liu's house, the three of them had only been built for a few years, the house was relatively new, and there were no cracks in the dry adobe wall.

knocked on the clasp on the door, and soon Aunt Liu's answer came from the room: "It's coming, it's coming." The sound of rustling reached the ears of the Ten Spirits.

"Aunt Liu, you fall asleep, you don't have to get up, I'll borrow a firewood cart. ”

The room seemed to stop moving, but Aunt Liu's voice immediately came: "Okay, go pull it yourself, I won't get up." ”

"Thank you, Aunt Liu. After thanking him, the Ten Spirits walked towards the bolted cowshed.

Aunt Liu's voice came from behind him: "Xiaotian, I heard what Long Yuanyan said, Qingyang City will be enrolled in another half month, you must study hard, take care of yourself, don't worry about us, everything is fine ......"

The voice was finally inaudible, and the ten spirits clenched their fists and answered softly.

When the old scalper saw the ten spirits coming, he lowered his head and mooed and whispered, and it was called Lao Huang.

Lao Huang wears a ring on his nose, a rein is set on the ring, his big eyes are blazing, and he does not show his old age at all.

Shi Ling picked up the balance on the ground and put it on Lao Huang's back, with two reins hanging on the scale, pulling the board cart behind. On the wheels of the cart, there are chariots, and if it is a chariot wheel, it is estimated that the spear chariots of the old elder are equipped.

If it is replaced by a horse, it is called two bridles, and the more bridles you have, the more horses you need. It is said that the lord of the kingdom has ten thousand bridles, all of them are flying spirit horses, and even the cars are treasures, and there are kings with excellent driving skills to drive, and the carriage drives directly in the sky.

In the primeval period, the carriage driven by the lord of the country was a heavenly horse, with only four flying spirit carriages and six bridles, which shows that the four carriages are still of high specifications. However, in the primeval years, there was only one lord and now there are many lords, and due to the comparison of the ranks, the heavenly sir has gradually become ten thousand reins.

Ten thousand flying spirit horses, ten spirits think it is spectacular. The Demon Land was divided by the Three Kingdoms, each country occupied three states, Qingyang City belonged to the Demon Land Wind Country Dongzhou, and the hometown of the Ten Spirits was Zhongzhou of the Wind Country, which was said to be Zhongzhou, but in fact it was on the edge of the Demon Land, and it was the main battlefield of the war with the Jinjing Continent.

Leading the ox to the side of the road, tying the ox to a wooden stake, Shi Ling walked straight into the house and came to the door of Long Yuanyan's compartment.

"Bang bang bang. ”

"Father-in-law, I'm ready to go. Knocking on the door of Long Yuanyan's room, the ten spirits reminded him.

"Yes. Long Yuanyan's deep voice came from the room.

Turning around and coming to the door of the pothos room, Shi Ling, who had just raised his hand, stopped his hand in mid-air, because the little girl of Lu Pothos had already opened the door, and she was playfully sticking out her tongue at Shi Ling.

He knocked his hand on the pothos head, so that this girl couldn't bear the pain, "Tell you to scare your brother, see if you dare next time." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare. Holding his brain, the pothos ran out of the house quickly and ran to the big yellow cow to tease Lao Huang. Lao Huang shook his head for a while, mooed and screamed, and looked at Shiling, and that look clearly meant that it couldn't stand it.

"Lao Huang is really human. Shi Ling couldn't help but laugh and muttered.

"Everything has a spirit, the strength of the Demon Beast, and the Demon Wood have already occupied half of the sky of the Ancient Star, and you must go and see it when you have the opportunity in the future, this world is very big. A big hand was placed on the head of the Ten Spirits, and a deep magnetic voice faintly passed from the top of the Ten Spirits' heads into the ears of the Ten Spirits.

If the pothos almost scared the ten spirits before, this time it really scared the ten spirits, and the father-in-law is really, how can he be virtuous with the pothos, the ten spirits secretly slandered, but he still responded, "Hmm." Children must see the outside world when they have the opportunity. ”

"Well, let's go. Long Yuanyan, who was dressed in coarse linen, took the lead in front and faced the Ten Spirits behind him.

Closing the door, Shi Ling quickly followed Long Yuanyan, and couldn't help complaining: "Father-in-law, how can you learn pothos, it's scary at every turn." ”

Long Yuanyan didn't seem to hear the complaints of the ten spirits, so he sat on the firewood cart by himself, shook the reins in his hand, and shouted, "Let's go." ”

There is only one way to the outside world, and for many years, the earth, which was originally meadow and bushes, has been trampled to reveal a yellow backbone.

Lao Huang seemed to be able to understand Long Yuanyan's words, and regardless of the ten spirits who had not yet gotten into the car, he moved his strong and powerful hooves and walked forward, splashing a cloud of smoke and dust.

"Well, wait for me. Trotting to keep up with the firewood cart, Shiling turned over and sat on the back of the chai cart, sitting side by side with the green pothos. When he turned his head, he saw the green pothos gloating and grimacing at him, "I told you to knock me, I deserve you." ”

"Oh, believe it or not, I'll knock you, girl. Glancing at the pothos lightly, the ten spirits raised their big fists to the sky.

However, when Shi Ling said this, he still touched his nose weakly, he had no bottom in his heart, he was suspenseful, and to put it bluntly, he was afraid.

"Cut. "Don't look over, Pothos made a provocative voice nonchalantly.

Withdrawing his hand, Shi Ling untied the package tied to his body, took out three dry cakes from it, handed one to Long Yuanyan, chewed one in his mouth, and kept one in his hand to shake in front of the pothos, "Do you want it, little girl." ”

"Hmph, you're interested. ”

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