Chapter Thirty-Six: Rock Town and the Beasts
That night, the two spent the night in the wild.
Speaking of this, Lu Zhe had to thank Bei Ye and Duan Ergou, Lu Zhe carefully recalled Bei Ye's video, according to Bei Ye's teaching, Lu Zhe used Duan Ergou's hunting knife to cut a lot of pine branches and build a decent temporary camp, and he even remembered digging a ditch under the makeshift bed to expel cold air. Compared with the temporary camp built by Mu Seventeen, it was a little more comfortable, but Mu Seventeen, who had seen Lu Zhe making a fire in the ice and transmitting sound through the air, was already immune to this, and built a temporary residence in the same way as Lu Zhe with peace of mind.
The bonfire was burning, and the exhausted Lu Zhe had already fallen asleep at this time, Mu Qiqi sat in front of the bonfire, looking at Lu Zhe who was sleeping soundly and the huge black shadow beside him, and a chill surged in his heart.
"This little demon is really guarding against others all the time, and he carries strange beasts when he goes out of the mountain, and he is thoughtful." Looking at the giant beast opposite, Mu Qiqi was so frightened that he didn't dare to sleep, for fear that as soon as he fell asleep, the demon on the other side would command the giant beast he raised to eat him.
Opposite the campfire, a giant black and white bear lies on the side of the boy's makeshift wooden bed, just as he likes to sleep on the side of the kang at home.
It is the Rolling Emperor Hot Pot.
Speaking of this, Lu Zhe was a little big-headed, and he knew that he shouldn't have fed the hot pot with millet dumplings.
The cause of the matter is this, last night, Lu Zhe thought that the future generations of RB people used bamboo leaves to wrap rice balls, which looked pretty good, so he also ran to the backyard to pick a lot of bamboo leaves.
Unexpectedly, when he and Mu Qiqi were preparing to set up a camp for the night, the dark circles under the eyes of the Rolling Emperor suddenly appeared in front of the two, and the two were a little surprised by the arrival of the Rolling Emperor, but when it was time to have dinner in the evening, the Rolling Emperor stared directly at the millet dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves in Lu Zhe's hand, Lu Zhe immediately understood what was going on, Rolling was an omnivorous animal, and he must have smelled the smell of millet dumplings.
This foodie panda! Watching the hot pot eat all the millet dumplings, licking his lips unsatisfied, Lu Zhe couldn't cry or laugh.
No wonder he made so many millet dumplings, it seems that this little demon was not at ease with a certain family from the beginning, so he planned to take his iron-eating beast to protect himself, this vicious little demon. In Mu Seventeen's opinion, what kind of mistake is it, it is obviously deliberately designed by you, a little demon, and you pretend to be surprised, and you want to deceive a certain family, this demon is so urinated, in a few years, I don't know what it will look like.
Thinking of Steward Zhong's desire to cultivate this little demon and to make it useful to the young master, Mu Qiqi felt for the first time that his young master might not be able to control this immortal child.
"So-and-so with dried meat, sect master, please." Half an hour ago, Mu Qiqi looked at this man and beast coldly, and made up his mind that even if he fought to the death, he would not let this demon see the young master.
"Thank you, Brother Seventeen." Lu Zhe took the jerky with a flushed face, and after roasting it with a fire, he opened the bamboo tube he was carrying, which was filled with boiled water, and hurriedly ate a few pieces of jerky with white water. He didn't sleep well last night, and after walking for a day today, he quickly lay down and fell asleep, leaving Mu Qiqi and the panda staring wide-eyed.
Early the next morning, Mu Qiqi, who hadn't slept well all night, turned into black eyes, just like a hot pot. After hastily tidying up, the two began to walk down the mountain.
The Rolling Emperor Hot Pot also followed behind Lu Zhe, and after Lu Zhe tried to get it back to the mountain many times and failed, he had no choice but to let it follow behind him with a confused face.
Half a morning later, the two of them rolled to a small town called Rock at the bottom of the mountain.
"Panshi Town is the closest town to Zuohua Mountain, originally called Zuohua Town, and later renamed Panshi Town because of its production of bluestone. Most of the town's stonemasons are stonemasons, and the rest are some peddlers and pawns, because Zuohua Mountain produces bluestone, its stone surface is delicate, the texture is fine, and it is very strong, there is the sound of gold and stone when struck, it is a good material for making stone tablets and stone carvings, and many merchants will come here to purchase stones. Before entering the town, Mu Qiqi began to introduce Lu Zhe.
"Oh." Lu Zhe looked at this small town curiously, this town is called Panshi Town, and after hearing Mu Seventeen say that there are mostly stonemasons in the town, Lu Zhe thought that there would be many stone houses, but to his surprise, there were very few houses made of stone in the town, most of them were still made of wood, and they looked very dilapidated, and many of them had traces of being burned by fire. It should have been rebuilt after the war disaster, looking at several wooden houses that were half mixed with old and new wood, and many of the wood were charred black, Lu Zhe thought definitely.
At this time, Lu Zhe and Mu Qiqi were walking on the only street in Panshi Town, the streets were all low houses, many houses were thatched on wooden roofs, and there were few tile houses, a bit like the old-fashioned houses seen in later Japanese dramas, the streets were very dirty, and the feces of people and livestock could be seen everywhere, even if it was winter, the smell was not small, there were few people on the street, and the pedestrians were all dressed in tatters, and in the houses on the side of the road, the sound of chisels and stones could often be heard.
That's it? Lu Zhe covered his nose, looking at the dilapidated and low houses, shivering from the cold, pedestrians in tattered clothes and vegetables, and occasionally an ox cart pulling stones passed by him, the old ox pulling the cart and the old man driving the cart looked equally crumbling and skinny. A certain woman who was selling alcohol was dressed very thinly, and she spoke with an accent that Lu Zhe couldn't understand, trying her best to attract the crowd, and it seemed that she was selling something.
Lu Zhe frowned, is this still a town? In addition to the fact that the place is bigger, it is far less good than my Wuzhuang view.
"The sect master has lived in the mountain gate since he was a child, and he is also a thaumaturgy, and the things he sees and uses are all things that I have never seen in mortals like me, and I don't know the true appearance of the world, but it is normal." Seeing Lu Zhe covering his nose and frowning, Mu Qiqi saw through Lu Zhe's mind at a glance.
"But the sect master should not look down on this town, because there are many businessmen in Panshi Town who come to buy stone tablets, in Chenzhou, it is still a well-known wealthy town, and many women in nearby towns want to marry in this town. However, naturally it cannot be compared with the mountain gate where the sect master is located. The sect master grew up in the land of the mountain gate, but he didn't know that this world was like this. Mu Seventeen let out a long sigh, quite a bit of compassion.
"This demon really hasn't been out of the mountains. In other words, there is some truth in the people in the mountain gate who are high up and look down on the world. Mu Qiqi secretly thought that he had thought that this rock town was good before, but when he came out of Wuzhuangguan, now that he looked at it, he also felt that this town was dirty and smelly, and it was simply not a place for people to live. Alas, I hope this little demon can have a trace of kindness in his heart when he sees the hardships of the world. Mu Seventeen, who was obviously doing the killing of his head, actually sighed a little in his heart at this moment.
But there is a poem that says it well: you stand on the bridge and look at the scenery, and the people who watch the scenery look at you from upstairs.
There is a theorem that is also well written: the action of force is reciprocal.
There is a first word that describes it well: I see how charming the green mountains are, and I expect the green mountains to look at me like this.
Lu Zhe and Mu Qiqi felt that this town looked very broken and awkward, but the people in the town didn't look like this?
A high-roller dressed in a good fur coat with jade on his head, and a young man in coarse linen clothes with a strange beast with a calm expression, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a character who will appear here.
The arrival of Lu Zhe, Mu Qiqi and Rolling Emperor almost aroused the onlookers of the whole town, and everywhere they passed, everyone looked curiously at the huge black and white bear, as well as the strange two people with the black and white bear.
Originally, such wealthy merchants would not come to this town on weekdays, but at this time, even if they came, they would all sit in warm restaurants or stay in horse-drawn carriages, and rarely walk on the streets.
And the young man behind the wealthy merchant is even more strange, coarse linen, looks like a servant of the wealthy merchant, but he doesn't seem to be afraid of his master at all, and walks side by side with the wealthy merchant, how can there be such a servant in the world. And although the boy was thinly dressed, his face was ruddy, sweating all over his body (the warmth of the velvet grass was amazing), and he looked very energetic, followed by a huge black and white bear, staring at the surroundings with a curious face, and his face flashed with disdain and pity from time to time.
Regardless, this bizarre combination has managed to arouse the curiosity and onlookers of everyone in the town.
"Seventeen Langjun Wanfu, the servant never thought to see Langjun here today, Langjun Wanfu." The only restaurant in Panshi Town, suddenly a person who was also dressed as a fur coat and a businessman came out, walked in front of Mu Seventeen in a few steps, and gave a big salute respectfully.
"You are?" The little businessman in front of him seemed to know him, but Mu Qiqi, who had a good memory, couldn't remember who he was.
"The twelfth grandson of the servant Nairui Chengju often goes to the Mu family trading house to load goods, although Lang Jun does not know the servant, the servant knows the seventeenth Lang Jun."
"Oh, I remember, Chengdong Ruichengju is right, selling inscriptions." Mu Qiqi remembered that this Sun Twelve was selling inscriptions, and often went to them to buy cinnabar and ink.
"Exactly, exactly, Seventeen Lang Jun really has a very good memory, I never thought that I would meet Lang Jun here today, the servant is really fortunate to have three lives, Lang Jun This is a new beast?" Looking at the rolling behind him, Sun Twelve showed a look of fear and curiosity.
"Hmm......" Mu Qiqi groaned, glancing at Lu Zhe and Emperor Roll, not knowing how to speak.
"It's freezing this day, why don't you go in with me and drink a few glasses of hot wine? Good to go to the cold. Sun Twelve saw Mu Seventeen's appearance, and he didn't understand that the other party was not easy to answer, so he quickly changed the topic.
"Then so-and-so might as well be respectful and obey his fate." Seeing that the other party was so knowledgeable and was thinking about how to prevaricate the other party's Mu Seventeen, he was suddenly a little happy, originally he also wanted to bring Lu Zhe to the restaurant to eat something to recuperate, not only because he was cold and sleepy, but also because the eyes of the whole town also made him a little uncomfortable.
"Great, wonderful." Seeing that Mu Qiqi agreed, Sun Twelve was overjoyed, and just returned to the restaurant, he shouted loudly to ask the store to tidy up a good table and send it to his room upstairs.
"Lang Jun, but please upstairs, there is an Accord on it, and the servant has already wrapped it down." Seeing that the chief steward of the top commercial bank in Chenzhou City was in front of him, Sun Buer led the way in front with a flattering face.
"This Xiao Langjun, I have already instructed the store to make a bowl of soup cakes, please ask this Xiao Langjun to go to the back kitchen to eat it." Seeing that Lu Zhe was also about to follow him upstairs, Sun Twelve was a little displeased, but he still said to Lu Zhe with a smile.
After saying a word, Mu Seventeen's face changed drastically.