Chapter 7 Déjà vu, but far from the abyss
In the wooden house of the small town of Akomo, before you know it, the night is already very deep, a few white moonlight shines on the bed through the simple doors and windows, the boy who has been chattering has already fallen asleep, and the big red dog crawling beside the bed makes a reassuring snoring sound.
The moonlight is like a mother's hand caressing the person on the bed, after all, whether it is for the past or the current Li Weiyang, Akmo is a rare haven of calm after a few years of tossing and turning, and even said that this is his home.
Before settling in Acomo, Li Weiyang and Lu Dahai had experienced a long and arduous escape journey.
Lu Dahai wanted to protect the only living bloodline of the late lord, and wanted to escape away from Chengtianfu and Li Yongcao as far away as possible.
And Lu Dahai was unwilling to change his name and surname for the young master, as if he would be sorry for the lord who was as kind as a mountain, for such a stubborn insistence in his heart, what he could choose was to go to a place where no one knew them.
Gradually, a thousand miles, two thousand miles... 10,000 miles, 20,000 miles, just like this, went farther and farther, and long since left the border of Seris.
A year ago, I finally came to this small market town on the banks of the Jiankun River in the Kugit Grassland, Acomo.
Akmo finally satisfied the safe distance in Lu Dahai's heart, except for a few people who could still see a trace of the bloodline of Seris, who had black hair and black eyes, most of the neighbors were strangers with vigorous body hair, high noses and deep eyes, and colorful hair.
The government here is only some of the tax collectors who have contracted the right to package taxes from the hands of the Khan, and the lord only cares about the taxes he should get in his hands, in addition to maintaining the basic order of the market town, as long as the taxes are paid on time, they are good people under the rule of the lord, and few people ask about the past of the residents, and this is a paradise for the unemployed.
In the past few years, Lu Dahai has protected the young master, traveled thousands of miles all the way to the west, crossed the sand sea, and broke into the Gobi, experiencing countless hardships and obstacles. Among them, there are countless bitter hardships and wonderful moments, if you talk about it carefully, the water is 1.8 million words without the same, but I am afraid that in that case, this story will be completely crooked, and I am afraid that the name will also be changed to "Belt Wolf!! The strongest man の Lu Dahai"。。。
On the way to escape, two men, one big and one small, established a deep friendship comparable to father and son, Lu Dahai did his best to protect and take care of the little Li Weiyang, and Li Weiyang raced against time to absorb and receive all the information of this world.
While the long journey sharpened the boy's thin body, it also greatly moistened the boy's knowledge-hungry mind, as if he could never get enough to eat.
In the past few years, Li Weiyang, who has been running endlessly with Lu Dahai, has made full use of all the information he has come into contact with, he has mastered the languages of many ethnic groups, and has a more macroscopic and specific understanding of the world in which he lives.
This world has many similarities with the original world, but it is also plausible and different. It's like the same script was obtained by two unmasked and isolated troupes by chance, and each performed its own unique understanding of the script within the framework of the original script.
This is a vast land, the day is also divided into twelve hours or twenty-four hours, as the largest intelligent population, the physical characteristics and average life expectancy of human beings are not much different from Li Weiyang's original world.
Combined with written records and legends from various places, Li Weiyang knew that the Kugit steppe and the Celestial Empire where they were located were on a continent called Dongsheng Shenzhou, and the discovered areas of the entire continent were bordered by the sea in the east and west, the steppe Gobi in the north, and the frozen world in the inaccessible and permafrost in the north, and no one knew what it was like even further north.
To the south, surrounded by a miasma of fog all year round, there are 100,000 mountains and endless islands scattered all over the world. If the entire known continent is roughly divided into a three-by-three nine-square grid shape, the Cyris Empire is on the far right of the second row, accounting for one-tenth of the known area of the continent.
In the eastern part of the continent, the Seris civilization is a well-deserved civilization highland, influencing the languages, scripts, and weights and measures of most of the surrounding countries. In contrast to this is the civilization of the Barron Empire in the western part of the continent, south of the Kugit steppe.
Although the Barron Empire collapsed more than a hundred years ago, its civilizational legacy continues to have a profound impact on later regimes, large and small, in the western part of the continent.
Until now, the main currencies used in the region have been the gold dinar and the silver dir with the portrait of the second emperor of the Barron Empire. The Kugit steppe and a large part of the surrounding land belong to the area deeply influenced by the Barun civilization, for example, the concept of hours and meters is different from the units of measurement such as hours and zhang of the Seris civilization.
(A certain melon eater: "Oh, why is it so coincidental, it's rice again, it's hour, and the grammar of the two worlds is about the same, why is it so convenient for you to get started?") ”
An older writer: "Don't ask, asking is the world, the creation is magical, all for the convenience of reading for all the officials, good and good." ”)
Further northwest, across the Gelug Plain, the Jiankun River joins an endless sea.
According to the books of Seris and the civilizations along the way, this sea was called the 'Immeasurable Sea' by Seris, and the 'Eternal Sea' according to the name of the Barron Empire.
The Infinite Sea is regarded as the western pole of the Dongsheng Divine Continent. It is recorded that if you take the fastest ship at sea, you will reach the other side of the sea after a year, which is said to be called Nishiniu Hoshu.
There are also countless countries and people, as well as many strange and legendary intelligent creatures. Because it is too far away, coupled with the tradition of the Ceris people relocating to the land, even in the most authoritative books of Ceris, there are only a handful of records of the Kujit Grassland and the Infinite Sea, and the Xiniu Hezhou on the other side of the Infinite Sea is even more bizarre and absurd, more like a hasty record of the legend, and no one knows how credible it is.
After Lu Dahai and Li Weiyang finally decided to settle in the town of Acomo, the problem of livelihood became the top priority for the two of them. The two of them fled all the way, and they didn't have much gold and silver, and they were 'borrowed' from Lu Dahai everywhere several times on the way, but since they planned to live in Akomo permanently, this unprofitable transaction was not suitable for doing it anymore.
So two months before arriving in Akomo, the two of them were poor in food and clothing, and they were in a troubled city.
In addition to having a pair of horizontal knives in the most difficult time for the two of them, it was simply destitute, because the horizontal knife was given to Lu Dahai by Li Yongrong back then, and Lu Dahai cherished the only thought left by the old master, and at the same time, this pair of knives was also the biggest reliance on the safety of the two people, and they would rather starve to death than sell it.
The two hungry people cooked Lu Dahai's leather belt and ate it.
When the two had a conversation when eating the boiled belt, Lu Dahai sighed with emotion while nibbling on a yellow-green boiled belt, "Wei Yang, Uncle Lu is incompetent, I think you are a dragon son and a phoenix grandson, and I have been reduced to using a belt to satisfy hunger, wronged you, Uncle Lu is ashamed of your father... Oops~ Why is it still so hard after boiling for almost an hour, isn't it yet hot? You pick three layers of skin and eat the middle layer, which is the softest. ”
"Uncle Lu, what are you talking about, if you didn't take me out of the horse's belly, I wouldn't even have lost my life, and besides, how many times have our lives been almost lost along the way, aren't they all killed. What is it to be hungry for a few days, is it still worth sighing, you are a man who has traveled tens of thousands of miles with a pair of knives, you are not wronged, I have any grievances. Li Weiyang, who was stinging with the belt soup, criticized Lu Dahai's pessimistic tendencies
continued to persuade: "Besides, there is no endless road in the sky, there are three sects and nine streams in this place, and the two of us are invincible with two swords, and a young genius, so we will not starve to death here, right?" Hey, don't say it, this boiled belt is really good, this is a well-known hard dish, the old skin is in the pot, boiled, the white water has its own salty taste, but it doesn't save the money to buy salt. It's just that you are wronged Uncle Lu, you will use twine rope to tie your pants in the future, hahaha~"
When people are in trouble, they can always remember what they are best at, and Lu Dahai is no exception: "Hehe, what a hard dish, the stinky boy is talking strange things, if it really doesn't work, I'll go to a place far away from the town to find a fat sheep to 'borrow' some money and food!" It won't necessarily be discovered by the townspeople. ”
Lu Dahai has been dependent on Li Weiyang for so many years, and he has long regarded Li Weiyang as his own son, and now he sees this little thing suffering with him, and he is so well-behaved and sensible to coax himself to be happy, he really feels sorry for this smart and poor child.
Li Weiyang smacked his mouth when he heard this, although he comforted Lu Dahai with big words just now, but in fact, he was also very worried about the current situation, and he couldn't help but feel sad when he heard Lu Dahai say that he wanted to return to his old business.
"Hey~ In the past few years, he fled tens of thousands of miles alone with himself, even if it is a man like Uncle Lu, such a hero should be tired. Now that I can finally stay in Acomo and take a rest, Uncle Lu should be reluctant to be disgusted and driven away here... ”
For a while, both of them had no desire to continue talking, just silently biting the skin, occasionally taking a sip of soup.
At this moment, a woman's angry scream came from the fish stall next to it, "Oh, bad luck! How can there be a 'devil's breath' in your basket, oh my God! It almost pinched me! And it's going to bring me bad luck for the day! ”