I woke up.

Last night, I dreamed that a snake with wings and claws flew past the bedroom window, and the black shadow obscured all the moonlight shining into the house, and I couldn't even tell whether it was flying past the window or the moon. Now that I've woken up, why do I feel so strange?

But there is no change, there are still a bunch of different versions of "Haishan Lu" thrown on the table opposite, and the lights on the table have not been extinguished, and the "people" on the seat have to be put away quickly, otherwise my parents will see it, and the image of "head cantilever, cone and thorn stock" I forged will definitely be exposed, and a stinky beating is indispensable.

"Yueyue! It's too hard to stay up late! You have to take a break when you need to rest, don't always listen to your dad, your dad didn't study so seriously when he was a child, didn't he still get your grandfather's approval? Come out for breakfast, your mother and I spent a night boiling a pot of soup for you, and if you eat the pork, you won't get amnesia!"

Before I came to my senses, my mother clamored for me to drink soup and eat meat, but I didn't read at all, let alone forget. If you really want to keep all the rare beasts in "Sea and Mountain Records" at home, let Daddy, an old collector, catch them, isn't forty or fifty in the prime of life?

"I didn't let the sixth cook today, why did you cook it yourself?" I was still sleepy-eyed sitting at the dinner table, but I couldn't help but say a few nice words to my mother.

"Isn't this the stinging that your father specially brought from Ma Chengshan, if you don't stare at the half-night soup, how can you rest assured that your baby son can drink it?"

To be honest, my mother's craftsmanship is really not good, but I don't care about it, and it doesn't hurt to drink more and not have amnesia, but it's really a bit strange these days, "Why is it just a soup, didn't the cook make some other side dishes?" I feel like I haven't eaten the dishes made by the sixth child for several days." ”

"Ahem, who knows where this old man has gone, since he said a few days ago that he had something to do, and I allowed it, I haven't heard his letter, maybe I'm going to the city to find a little girl again, what's the matter?

"No, no, my mother's craftsmanship is really good, hey, do you see that the sixth is back?" I caught a glimpse of the sixth coming in through the side door while drinking the soup, and went straight to the back cover room in the direction of his room. I can't see it clearly from this side of the hall, there is a screen to block him, I can only see that he seems to be hunched a little more hunched than before, and the white hair on his sideburns has also grown to the top of his head, and he has become a lot haggard in the past few days?

"Mom, after drinking, I'll go see the sixth child. I took a sip of bird soup and didn't care what my mother said, so I walked towards the sixth child's room.

As soon as he entered the room, he startled the sixth child, "What's the matter, sixth brother, why are you so scared when you see me?"

"It's nothing, it's nothing, it's Young Master Zhang Yue, before I left, I saw you reading with candles every night, have you been in good spirits lately?" The sixth man bowed his body, he didn't dare to look at me, he was not so respectful before. He has been a cook in our family for many years, from his grandfather's generation as an apprentice to the old chef and the fifth child, and he has been working for decades now, and the family treats him like a relative, and the servants also like his simple and approachable character. However, the sixth child was never called the young master, only called me Xiaoyuezi.

"Okay, since the past few days, I don't think I'm the same person I used to be, and now I'm full of energy and nowhere to go, I haven't eaten some sweet dishes made by you for a few days, and my heart is itching and panicking, you hurry up and make something delicious at noon." ”

"No problem, young master, you hurry up and get busy with you, otherwise the old man will be angry for a while, and it will be time to urge you to learn to let you endorse, if you are really angry, I am afraid that you will have to take the young master out to collect strange things and catch strange animals." Besides, our Jingxian County has been restless recently, the old man is very busy, and his temperament is not good. ”

Anyway, I don't want to wander around every day, lying at home drinking soup and seeing if the girl is very good, and my father has to let me be his apprentice to learn "Haishan Lu", but I have never seen his collection of strange objects and captured strange animals.

"Zhang Yue, don't come over quickly!Your sister has already come to endorse the book!" Before he could finish thinking about the words in his head, he heard his father's roar from the middle courtyard. Let's hurry up, even if it's not as good as Sister Wen, I have to be pretty, anyway, my dad has already started to take Sister Wenwen to work together, as long as she learns, I don't have to study, there must be no problem with my sister. As soon as I thought of this, I couldn't help but look forward to the beautiful days when my sister made money and my brother spent in the future.

ran to the middle courtyard and saw that Sister Wen Wen was reciting to her father which strange animals in "Haishan Lu" can be turned into strange things, and which strange animals have miraculous effects when eaten, all of which are names that I can't understand and can't write, I really can't remember, I don't know how she remembers so much. The two of them glanced sideways at me as I ran.

"Zhang Yue! Your sister Zhang Wen has memorized half of the book, why are you still lazy? As a collector, what you want is to go with the flow, submit to the appearance of things, and pursue to travel all over the mountains and seas and collect rare and exotic beasts in this world. Our family has been circulating the ancient saying of 'strange animal Zhang Zang' since the ancestors of several generations ago, some strange animals can only be turned into strange things by the male surnamed Zhang, and some strange animals are psychic, only the boy with your surname Zhang can understand his heart, how can you inherit our Zhang family's collection in the future without a little foundation?"

"Isn't it your 'right-hand man' now?"

"Don't be poor, the county is worshipping the Jingshan Mountain God recently, and a few grains of brown rice are mixed into the polished rice they sacrifice, which has attracted the strange animals living in the mountains, my father and I still have work to do, can you share our pressure?" Sister Wenwen didn't look at me directly, staring at my father but accusing me, too lazy to worry about them, wait for them to go out for a while, and then go back to the bedroom to sleep again, and all worries will disappear.

"Yes, yes, my sister taught me a lesson, I will endorse it to you, but Dad, why are you and Sister Wenwen so busy lately, what strange animal can bother you so much?"

"You stinky boy, you know when you look at it and fool me again, you don't remember a book at all. We live at the foot of this Jingshan Mountain, and worship the Jingshan Mountain God every year, you don't know what strange animals are on this mountain? I haven't even read the Beishan Record of "Haishan Lu", and I still expect you to get ahead, it's really a waste of effort, you don't even have half of Zhang Wen's, alas!" Dad sighed, and called Sister Wenwen to carry something on her back and go out. Although it is strange that there are no good words, and I have not checked and recited "Haishan Lu", but I can rest more if I am let go today.

When I returned to the bedroom, I thought of what my father said, and opened the "Haishan Lu", and happened to turn to the paragraph "Three hundred miles to the south, called Jingshan", and looked down along the article, "There are birds and ......".