10. Wolong (I)
After the tiger's roar gradually subsided, Pang Tong, who was covering his ears and full of discomfort, finally cleared. Leaning his chubby body against the warm and soft lion fur behind his back, he leaned unscrupulously. The lion who was pulling the inkstone on Pang Tong's side with great interest made a soft mumping sound between his mouth and nose, and seemed to be very disgusted.
Seeing that Pang Tong's pale face was restored due to the noise, Li Ci on the side really couldn't equate this ordinary fat man with half-worn clothes and hair with scattered blades of grass and Feng Xiao's Tianjiao painting.
However, after running the Qi Hope Method, the chaos I saw, as well as the heavy sense of qi luck oppression, could not be faked at all.
Such a high-ranking person who has no appearance is really difficult for people to impress.
If it weren't for the mountains of books around him, which added three or four points of momentum to him, Li Xi felt that he would definitely confuse him with the erhu singing at the subway entrance.
Seeing Li Ci looking at himself without blinking, Pang Tong, who had not been in contact with people in his life, smiled shyly. Warm Channel:
"Don't worry, kid, that cry just now was made by the beast at the bottom of the pond, but you don't have to be afraid, it can't go out of this hundred miles of mountains horizontally and vertically. Tomorrow morning and tomorrow morning, I will send you back to the hut, and go home with the hunters who have come with me.
You don't want to say how you found it, it's not in the way, but remember not to bring anyone with you, otherwise you will be injured and killed by that beast, and it will not be a great evil. ”
"It's rare for someone to come and listen to my nagging, it's my fate with you, but I'm a poor scholar with nothing to grow, and I don't know what to give you......"
Li Ci, who gently comforted the frightened little fox, couldn't help but scold when he heard this: "There are no less than 3,000 precious books here, and if you take them outside, you won't just buy the next farmland......"
Then after Pang Tong pondered for a few moments, he suddenly figured out the general Yue Ran and said:
"By the way, although I don't have anything rare to give you, but I read a lot, if you have anything you want to ask, I'll tell you what you know this night......"
Li Ci didn't hear Pang Tong speak, and stared down at the little fox's crystal and beautiful eyes like amethyst.
Stretched out a finger to poke its cheek, listening to its cries, laughing like an innocent child.
The little fox is also lively and cute, rubbing on Li Ci's head, the fluffy little paws tightly hugging Li Ci's head, and the palm-sized snow-white body is nested on it, like a fur hat.
Li Ci raised his hand to take it down, but the hand that stretched out stiffened, and then withdrew it, just stunned.
The little fox opened its mouth and made a "purring" sound of blowing bubbles, and a pill stone with a red halo flew out of its mouth, and then it spun around like a spirit, and then flew back, and was sucked back into its stomach by it, shaking the white hair all over its body, and screaming like a baby: "Babble... Babble..."
The trajectory of the red pill flew like the tail of a comet, with a fluorescent glow like snow chips.
With a few exhalations and inhalations, there was only a lone lamp illuminated, so the cave was very dim, but it was incomparably brilliant under the light and debris in the sky.
Li Ci stretched out his hand to pick it up, but there was nothing, and he couldn't help but raise his eyes to look at the fox in amazement.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
Like a child offering a treasure, the fox screamed happily.
Pang Tong, who was ignored by Li Ci for no reason, rubbed his face and covered the faint embarrassment.
Then some of them had nothing to say and explained with a smile to Li Ci:
"The little guy likes you, just now this fox spit beads, but Kong Ming used a lot of small pastries to coax it, and it refused, you must know that just this moment of brilliance is wonderful, it has to spit beads on the moon for three or four hours to save ......"
Li Xi was stunned, and then looked at his life pool with some feeling, as expected, the little fluorescence in the sky turned into a little bit of qi, although it was not obvious, but it was indeed possible to feel that the light white luck in the life pool had increased slightly, in fact, if the ordinary village children were lucky enough to suffer this, there would definitely be some good things happening, such as catching a beautiful butterfly, or netting a small red carp in the river or something.
Although this little fox is much worse than the big turtle qi, and its survival age is less than one-tenth of the latter, it is also a foreign beast after all, and the immortal spirit is not much better, and the word auspicious is not in vain.
Li Ci was very concerned about the number of qi, but after all, he was no longer the shallow-rooted child who had just been reborn, and now the abundant and shallow white qi in the life pool was already difficult to find in such a wilderness village, how could it be seven or eight times better than Zhang Niu's and other men, so naturally he would not be able to see this growth.
But looking at the little guy who had jumped down and sat in front of him, with four little tails swaying, Li Ci's heart suddenly softened
Imitated the time outside the waterfall, mobilizing a little breath in the red lotus, and slowly dissipating it to the little fox.
The little guy who was still messing around and naughty quieted down in an instant, closed his eyes, and rubbed Li Xi's palm very attachmentfully.
Li Ci just thought it was too cute and was about to tease it.
But I listened to Pang Tong's very bad scenery:
"When I was sixteen years old, I didn't read many books, there were one hundred and seventy or eighty books, and I didn't know much, but I also had a long time with the teacher, and I was surprised and excited for a long time when I saw such a scene......
Li Ci looked at Pang Tong with a teasing smile on his face, and raised his head to reveal an innocent smile to the extreme.
With some immature voice, it sounded clearly: "May I ask sir, how many ends does a rope have two ends, and how many ends does a half-rope have?" ”
Pang Tong looked down at the volume of "Gongsun Longzi", and replied without raising his head: "Four ends ......"
"Ask Mr. again, if a person buys a chicken for eight yuan, sells it for nine yuan, buys it for ten yuan, and finally sells it for eleven yuan, how much does it cost?"
Pang Tong swept over a line of "Heaven and earth and the people they produce, things also, things are things and their things are not too much" and replied casually: "Two texts"
Li Xi held the fox above his head and said with a smile: "Suppose there is now a race between the six horses of A, B, C and Ding, Mr. Kong Ming thinks that the winner is either a horse or a horse, and I think that the winner is definitely not a horse C, if at this moment Mr. thinks that it is impossible for Ding Ma and his horse to win, and in the end only one of the three of me is correct, please teach me, which horse is the winner?"
Pang Tong glanced at Li Ci meaningfully, and said softly: "If you follow what you said, it should be Bingma who wins, and I am right."
But in fact, Kong Ming can't be wrong, and I have never won against her, at least in front of her, I have not won her even once when I have objections......"
Then he pointed to the lion he was leaning on and motioned for Li Xi to come and sit.
Li Ci slowly stood up, took a step, and then stared at Pang Tong and continued to ask:
"Suppose Mr. Kong Ming sent people to find more than 20 hunters into the mountain, and more than 20 people were stunned in the wooden house by Mr. You, and thought that they could return home tomorrow morning, and Mr. Kong Ming would not win this time, then Mr. Kong Ming would finally kill the tiger tonight.
If it is true that Mr. Fang just said, Kong Ming does not do meaningless things.
So please sir for me, what is the role of these 20 or so people in killing the tiger? ”
Pang Tong didn't say anything, but put down the book and snatched the long-destroyed inkstone from under the lion's claws. He put it to his mouth and blew it, and said softly with an extremely complicated expression
"When Kong Ming was seven years old, he spent half a month catching a full 800 butterflies in Taoyuan every day. Guess what she's for......"
"Well......" Li Ci was quite uncomfortable with this inexplicable turn.
A full 800 butterflies, of different sizes and bright colors, were dried and fixed by each of them, and even carefully washed, and their appearance and color were preserved without any defects. The child's expression was the same as when the teacher sorted out the ancient bamboo slips of Zhou Qin. ”
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Pang Tong did not directly tell Li Ci the answer, but added with emotion......
Then she said slowly: "At last she pestered me to climb a big tree, and carried all the butterflies into the air, and sprinkled them like large snowflakes by the river reflected in the setting sun, and she watched under the tree."
Then float away along the river that reflects the sunset......"
"That scene is really beautiful...... Pang Tong also had to admit it
"Guess what?"
Li Ci didn't know how to speak, so he could only continue to ask:
"And then?"
"Then she went back, and of course, she was very happy, and offered me a full white meal for dinner that night......"
Looking at the stunned Li Ci, Pang Tong smiled and said:
"Back then, I was also with you with the same expression, thinking that this kid was simply unreasonable......"
“…… Of course, she didn't do this kind of thing......"
Pang Tong pondered and slowly spat out a sentence
"When I was ten years old, I set a fire and burned down a small forest opposite the house where we lived, so that we would not be noisy by the dense insects at night, especially Master, who slept better, and would no longer watch me and Kong Ming copying books late at night because I couldn't sleep......"
"At the age of eleven, he helped Liu Yu exterminate the four yellow scarves, planning a total of 14 battles, which took half a year and killed more than 30,000 people in total......
Since then, most of the Youzhou border has been peaceful...... The market vendor who had left had gone had returned, and Kong Ming could buy one of her favorite snacks near her residence......"
Pang Tong's eyes were bitter...... Dry Talk:
"But until she says it herself, no one knows what she's going to the trouble to do it for, maybe it's for a stutter, or a piece of clothing......"
Li Xi was accustomed to listening to every word of Pang Tong, and then the brain that made him easily achieve the best results in the province in the ten years in a certain national examination independently deliberated on the meaning......
But in the end, he and Pang Tong felt the same, pursed his lips, and asked in a dry and unbelievable voice:
"Just for something small, how many months can she spend? Or stir up something big? ”
Pang Tong corrected softly: "To be exact, it's for her pleasure."
If another child her age sees something on the street and the adults don't buy it, they learn to cry......"
But Kong Ming has not asked anyone to open her mouth since she was a child, she has to find everything she wants, and stubbornly believes that as long as she does it, there is nothing she can't get......
And she is a person who is a natural person, and countless times in her life have done things as she wishes, which has allowed her to verify this point of view again and again...... No matter how much circle she goes around and how much effort she puts in, the final result is what she wants to see......
Since then, she naturally can't listen to other people's preaching......
So you're going to ask me what she wants to do, I don't know...... Maybe it was just that she wanted to see a bunch of people come in and walk around? ”
Such a ridiculous speculation, Pang Tong actually said it very seriously, and the helplessness and bitterness in his tone were as much as the flesh on his body.
Li Ci murmured strangely in his heart: "Wolong, ......"
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The green mountains are endless, and beyond the green mountains, there are populated plains, and the mountains and rivers that stretch for hundreds of miles where Li Ci and Pang Tong are located are just a small corner of the vast rivers and mountains.
And the roar of the beast in the night of the mountain forest was much inferior to the magnificent scene in the distance.
It was a dense and neat military formation, roughly estimated to be no less than seven hundred people, all of them were fully armored and well-armed.
It is as neatly built as bricks and stones on the wide plain, and under the bright and cold moon, it has its own solemn atmosphere.
But there was no sound except for the iron armor and the sword at his waist that collided inadvertently.
"Crackle, crackle...... Sound...... Smack"
The sound of burning torches, the chirping of insects in the forest, these syllables that were ignored on the magnificent battlefield of the Golden Iron Horse, are now the only main theme under the vast starry sky in the long silent night.
Under such silence, the firelight shone through the iron clothes, with a different kind of poignant color.
And hundreds of battlefield soldiers, only looking at the carriage at the moment, they were all iron-blooded men, but at this moment, their expressions were blank and extremely obedient, like marionettes, the master did not move, they only had collective silence.
It was an upon-the-horse carriage, so small that it would be crowded if two grown men sat in it.
But whether it is the material, the workmanship, and even the stitching of the cloth are exquisite.
A pure black curtain tightly blocked the night and starlight.
If it were assumed, someone would dare to lift the curtain under the gaze of a full seven hundred ironclad soldiers, and their jaws would drop in surprise.
It is covered with thick pure white fur, and the only small place left around is a few small bronze lamps, luxurious and simple.
And on the soft, comfortable fur, there was a little girl huddled.