After Daddy Ling left, the appointment to go to Dream Island was in vain. Song Qi had a feeling of emptiness in his heart for no reason. It took several days for this sense of loss to subside.

Although the name of this place is called a village, in fact, only Ling Xue's family lives. Here, Song Qi began his schedule in ancient times: in the morning - to accompany Ling Xue to read, in the afternoon - to watch Ling Xue practice martial arts, and in the spare time--- the two of them planted vegetables together, fished, and hunted.

Ling Xue mainly read the Four Books of Women and the Five Classics of Women, while Song Qi looked through the Art of War and the Tao Te Ching. Ling Xue didn't read very seriously, flipping through the book for a while, flipping through the book for a while, and no book could be read quietly for half an hour.

When it came time to practice martial arts, Ling Xue seemed to have changed as a person, alive and vibrant. First boxing, then sword practice, and then archery, one move and one style, meticulous, tireless, and happy.

First, squatting and stepping. Ling Xue could squat in one place for half an hour, standing still, as if there was something under her legs; Then there was jumping plum blossom stakes, jumping around on the logs, sometimes flipping and jumping, so that Song Qi sweated for her; Then it was a punch, starting to put a fancy shelf, then punching with the left hand, palming with the right hand, then kicking forward with the left foot, sweeping with the right foot, at the beginning you can still see a move, and then you can beat it later, faster and faster, and finally, I only saw her shadow dangling in my eyes, and I only heard the sound of fists and feet whirring in my ears.

While Ling Xue was practicing martial arts, Song Qi watched quietly on the side. For him, it was a pleasure to watch Ling Xue box.

Song Qi saw that Ling Xue was very bored with these books and scriptures, so he occasionally talked to Ling Xue about some physical and chemical knowledge, but he didn't expect Ling Xue to be very interested. Song Qi decided to teach Ling Xue what he knew, taking the opportunity to revisit it himself, and at the same time make something practical as much as possible.

Song Qi and Ling Xue worked together for several days, using waste clothes and cloth on the quilt, plus a few bamboo poles, to make a kite more than a zhang long, and added two wings on both sides of the kite that could be flapped. He tried to fly with a man with this kite.

After the kite is flown up, it flies very high and high and floats in the air, which is very beautiful.

"Great!" Looking at the kite flying freely in the sky, Ling Xue clapped her hands and praised, "If only people could fly to the sky, how wonderful it would be!" ”

"If this kite can take people up to the sky, do you dare to go up?" Song Qi asked with a smile.

"What's not to dare?" Ling Xue smiled, her face full of excitement and anticipation.

The thought of flying into the sky like seagulls soon made them both excited. The two people carried the kite, laughed and came to Longwei Mountain, they wanted to take advantage of the height of Longwei Mountain, with a swooping momentum, to fly into the sea with a kite.

Standing on Longwei Mountain and looking down, I saw the rocks below piercing through the air, the waves crashing on the shore, and the surging waves hitting the boulders below the cliff, colliding with the earth-shattering sound, and rising up the snow-like waves in the sky.

"Fly from here, do you dare?" Song Qi looked down at the rocks below the cliff and asked Ling Xue with a side smile.

"If you dare, I dare!" Although Ling Xue's words were very crisp, she obviously lacked confidence.

"Forget it, take off from here, if you don't succeed, you will fall and die!" Song Qi shook his head, then raised his hand to the beach and said, "Let's go to the beach and try it." ”

"Okay!" Ling Xue rode a donkey downhill and hurriedly agreed, "Fly well on the beach." Even if you fall, you won't get hurt. ”

The two laughed and carried the kite to the beach. The terrain here is gentle, the waves are not urgent, the waves are not high, and there is no danger of falling into the sea, at most your clothes will get wet. At this time, the weather in June and July is just right for surfing and swimming in the sea.

"I'll fly first." Song Qi stuffed the rope into Ling Xue's hand, "You are responsible for pulling the rope." ”

The kite is equipped with three sets of ropes, one tied to the shoulder, one tied to the waist, and one tied to the base of the thighs, which can connect the whole body to the kite very strongly. There is a rope buckle on each wing of the kite that acts as a gripper, and by shaking the arm, the wings can be flapped to puff up the wind like a bird's wings.

The two of them double-checked again, and the tie was properly tied, safe and secure, and there were no problems.

"I'm going to take off!" Song Qi smiled at Ling Xue, then took a dozen steps back, took a deep breath, spread his legs and ran forward, but he didn't run fast, because the big cloth on the kite formed a huge resistance, slowing down the speed of running, and it didn't take long to reach the water.

Song Qi had to stop his steps, shook his head, took fifty or sixty steps back, and ran again, but still didn't fly.

"Brother Song, you have to jump up to get off the ground!" Ling Xue reminded loudly from behind.

"Yes, how did I forget about it!" Song Qi scratched his head and said with a smile.

"Don't worry! Hopefully this time I can fly! Ling Xue encouraged loudly.

"I'm sure I'll be able to fly this time!" Song Qi replied loudly as he took a hundred steps back.

He looked at the seagulls flying freely on the sea, took a deep breath, and exclaimed: "The good wind uses its strength to send me to the clouds!" ”

Then he dragged the kite to the surface of the sea, and when he had run eighty or ninety paces, he flicked his legs the ground, and jumped, not very high, but at last he got off the ground.

"Fly, fly!" Ling Xue shouted loudly in the back, dancing with her hands, extremely excited.

I saw the kite sticking to the surface of the sea, swaying and twisting, and flew less than ten paces away, and then it was heavily planted in the sea.

Song Qi fell into the sea, choked on a mouthful of seawater, and coughed loudly.

"Brother Song, are you okay?" Ling Xue hurriedly rolled up her trouser legs, ran into the sea, helped Song Qi up, and then helped him untie the rope on the kite and pulled Song Qi ashore.

Song Qi's whole body was wet, and the sea water flowed from his hair to his face and body, looking extremely embarrassed. He looked at the kite floating on the sea, wiped the water on his head and face, and said in frustration: "I'm fine! It's just that the kite is wet, and I can't try again for a while. ”

"Don't be sad!" Ling Xue helped Song Qi wipe the water while comforting: "I didn't expect kites to be able to carry people to fly. ”

This experiment with a manned flight of a kite ended in failure.

Later, they made a hot air balloon together.

They found a lot of unwanted clothes, bed sheets, and quilt covers, sewed the cloth together piece by piece, and made a cloth ball with a diameter of more than two meters after being stretched out. He tied it with a rope and tied an iron bucket at the lower end of the cloth ball, which contained twenty or thirty catties of oil, and a torch tied with a cotton ball was placed in the tung oil.

The two of them pulled the cloth ball, lit the torch, and the cloth ball bulged with a bang, and the more it drummed, it became more and more round, and slowly rose upward, leaving the ground and rising in the air.

Ling Xue looked up at the cloth balls floating in the sky, cheered, jumped, and clapped her hands: "Fly!" Great, wonderful! "Something like this was unheard of and unseen for her.

"Do you want to pull this hot air balloon into the air?" Song Qi asked with a smile.

Without thinking, Ling Xue blurted out: "Yes!" ”

"Come on! You're pulling this rope! Song Qi stuffed a piece of rope into Ling Xue's hand and advised, "Don't pull it tight!" ”

"No problem!" Ling Xue said with a smile.

Ling Xue grabbed the rope with both hands, her feet slowly hanging in the air, and the hot air balloon could actually lift Ling Xue up.

Song Qi looked at Ling Xue dangling under the hot air balloon and asked loudly, "Are you ready?" I'm going to put the rope down! ”

Ling Xue thought it was funny, let out a pleasant laugh like a silver bell, and said with a smile: "I'm ready!" You put it! ”

Song Qi released the rope meter by meter, and the hot air balloon was also raised meter by meter.

"I'm flying! Yes! Ling Xue shouted loudly in the air, "It's amazing! It's wonderful! ”

The hot air balloon had risen to a height of more than twenty meters, and Ling Xue, who had never left the ground, began her first flight in her life. Although it can't fly and glide freely like a bird, it leaves the ground and rises high in the sky! For her, it was an experience that had never been experienced before, and it was indescribably wonderful.

"Brother Song, you are amazing!" Ling Xue looked down at Song Qi in the air and praised loudly, this is her inner voice, she has completely risen from respect to admiration for Song Qi, from liking to admiration.

"Nothing remarkable!" Song Qi responded loudly on the ground, "If you want to say it, both of us are amazing!" This hot air balloon isn't my work alone, it's the two of us working together, aren't we? ”

"That's right! It's all together that we do it. I'm amazing too! Haha......" Ling Xue smiled happily, shouted loudly at the sea and the mountains: "The good wind relies on its strength, send me to the clouds!" ”

Ling Xue had a very happy and excited day. The same is true for Song Qi.

Because the hot air balloon can only drift up and down, can not control the direction, after playing two or three times, the initial excitement has passed, and it is slowly not interested, together with the kite, resting on Longwei Mountain, ignoring it.

Song Qi would love to do something practical.

What else to do? With Song Qi's half-understood level of physics, he couldn't make any tall equipment, so he could only piece together some simple and rough things such as kite hot air balloons.

He racked his brains and thought about it for a few days, and finally a flash of inspiration, the words Zhuge Lian Crossbow suddenly popped out of his mind.

Song Qi was very interested in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and once searched for the production principle of the repeater invented by Zhuge Liang, which was not complicated.

The crossbow was ready-made, and Ling Xue's family had several, and what made people wonder how to transform it into one that could fire ten arrows in a row, which took them more than twenty days of work, and finally succeeded in the transformation.

They have tried firing at the target, which is much more accurate than the bow and arrow, and the range is a few steps farther than that of a normal bow and arrow! These shoddy things were nothing in Song Qi's own time, but in Ling Xue's time, because everyone had never seen them, they could be regarded as inventions. This repeater can be carried around, and it is really a rare self-defense weapon for Song Qi, who has no martial arts.

Song Qi took the repeater and felt that it was handy, so he smiled and proposed to Ling Xue, "Let's make another one for you." ”

"You don't have to do it for me!" Ling Xue refused, she pulled the bow in her hand, and said with a smile: "I know martial arts, I can shoot arrows, and I can defend myself." There is no longer a need for repeaters. You, on the other hand, can only rely on a repeater to defend yourself. Besides, if you have one thing, I have it, everyone has it, it's not uncommon. Wouldn't it be better to make this repeater your own weapon! ”

Song Qi was right to think about it, so he nodded with a smile and praised: "Xue'er, I really can't see that you actually have such a clever insight!" He looked up to the sky and smiled: "In this way, I, Song Qi, am going to use this repeater to make a break in this thousand-year-old rivers and lakes!" ”