Chapter 5 On the bank of the Panlong River, but before the stream
Thousands of years ago, the boundary between humans and the spirits was actually the maple forest and its north-south line, and the big river that crossed the maple forest was already there as early as when there were no spirits and humans in the world, crossing the entire continent from west to east and finally flowing to the white sea, one of the four seas, with many tributaries in between. The great river, just like a true mother, selflessly feeds all the creatures in its path, and this mother river is called the Panlong River.
The source of the Panlong River is said to be in the extreme west of the 100,000 Great Mountains, but no one has ever been able to confirm this legend, and it is not even a place where even the spirit clan has ever set foot.
The place where Jiang Bai and the people are now is located at the outlet of the 100,000 mountains of the Panlong River, but the famous work stops the stream. I saw the Panlong River that is dozens of zhang wide rushing down from the top of the high mountain, the sound is heard for several miles, and the splashing mist does not disappear all year round, so that the mountain and river are always in a dense mist, which makes people feel more mysterious.
However, the majestic view of the waterfall is enough to shock people, but what really makes people feel fascinated are the two stone statues on both sides of the waterfall. The stone statues are carved to life, and at a glance they are old. The stone statue on the right side of the waterfall is a spirit woman in military uniform, carrying a bow and arrows behind her, holding a sword in her left hand, and pushing her body forward with her right hand and fingers. The stone statue on the left side of the waterfall is a spirit man, this man is shirtless, his muscles are knotted, he stands there with a giant sword in both hands, his head is slightly lowered, as if looking down at the ground under his feet, as if he is thinking about something, and the long hair that is naturally scattered makes this mighty man have a little more gentle breath. And the most amazing thing is that the two stone statues are actually higher than the high mountains here, and when you get closer, you will find that the stone statues are actually carved from the mountains in the first place.
At this time, there was a man on the high mountain......
A spirit woman, with her clothes in the wind, fluttering. The sunset of the sunset reflected on her face, and the face itself was more beautiful than the sunset. The so-called allure of the country and the city, the world is stunning, nothing more than that. Seeing Jiang Bai in the crowd at the bottom of the mountain, the woman smiled, but when she saw the disheveled women beside Jiang Bai, there was a trace of annoyance on her face.
When Jiang Bai saw her, he also smiled from the bottom of his heart and led everyone towards the mountain.
"Sister Fairy?" The child on Zaisin's back asked.
Zai Xin directly backhanded the child in front of him, flicked his finger lightly on his head, and said angrily: "That's my master's mother, but not your sister!" You can call her aunt or aunt, but you can't call her sister, you know? At your young age, it's the second time you've been my elder, so you like to take advantage of me so much? When the child heard this, he smiled sweetly, he was used to observing words and feelings, and naturally saw that Zai Xin was not really angry, and at this time he gradually became familiar with Zai Xin, and he was also able to catch him with ease, at least this sweet smile at this moment made Zai Xin laugh and lift him above his head and ride on his neck before following Jiang Bai.
"It's only been a day, and you have so many women?" Everyone walked up to the spirit woman, and the woman asked Jiang Bai with a split head, and when she saw the child on Zai Xin's neck, she said coldly: "Do you even have a child?" When will this happen, should it be the debt you left behind when you were in the human state? I went out for so long this time, and I didn't even say hello before, is it my old friend who picked you up behind my back? At this moment, the women were first dumbfounded by the words of this spirit woman, and then embarrassed, and wanted to help Jiang Bai explain, but the woman did not give them a chance to interject at all. Zai Xin's performance towards the woman is not strange, the master usually scolds him a lot, but at this time, seeing that the master is deflated, there is a faint happiness in his heart, so he is not in a hurry to speak for the master, and he can't interfere in the affairs between the elders at will. Looking at Jiang Bai again, at this time, he was helpless and depressed, and he wanted to talk about it......
"Zai Xin, you come to explain to your master!" Jiang Bai opened his mouth several times, only to see the spirit woman staring at him with a pair of bright eyes, but he was speechless, and finally shouted to Zai Xin. Zai Xin had to step forward obediently when he heard this, and he was still riding a child around his neck, Zai Xin pressed the child's legs hanging down on his chest with both hands, but the child was still afraid of falling when Zai Xin walked, so he grabbed Zai Xin's chin tightly with both hands, and the two of them staggered to the front of the spirit woman, indescribably naïve, which invisibly diluted the original atmosphere of some solemnity.
"Fairy Niangniang, you are so beautiful!" Zaisin stepped forward, but it was the child on his shoulder who spoke first.
When the spirit woman heard the child's childish praise, she tried her best to keep her face tight at first, after all, she still had to pretend to be angry at this time, in fact, as a husband and wife, how could she not know Jiang Bai's personality, and she knew in her heart that these women and this child would definitely not have a deep relationship with Jiang Bai, if Jiang Bai was deeply involved in the outside world and had so many women and sons, how could he come here and get acquainted with her. But due to the agility and cunning in her character, the spirit woman is itchy and unbearable if she doesn't make a fuss about her husband, and she does have some taste for her husband to bring so many women home, which is the nature of women, so there is the current scene.
"Poof!" The spirit woman couldn't hold back any longer, and laughed out loud, after all, what woman doesn't like to be praised for being beautiful, especially when she speaks the mouth of a child, it seems more real and reliable, and at this moment she looks at this ragged and dusty child The more she looks at it, the more cute she becomes. "Whose child are you, and how are you dirty?" As she spoke, the Spirit Clan woman took the child off Zai Xin's shoulder, took out a silk silk from her arms, and squatted down to wipe the child's eyebrows.
"Oops, that's beautiful!" It took a lot of effort for the spirit woman to wipe a child's little face, and after wiping it clean, she couldn't help but praise it sincerely. "You humans say that the pearl is covered with dust, is that probably the case?" After that, she raised her head and asked Jiang Baidao.
"What do you call us humans! Heaven and earth are opened, all things grow, and the spirit race and human beings are one, you don't know this, let's talk ......"
"Shut up!" The Spirit Clan woman said in a deep voice without waiting for Jiang Bai to finish speaking. "Can you talk like this all the time, you don't get tired when you talk about it, I'm tired when you listen to it. One mouth is pulled to the ground, since it is one, why did you drive us here in the first place. The Spirit Clan woman said again.
"In the first place, it was the Spirit Race who fought the humans first." Jiang Bai heard the Spirit Clan woman say this, his tone was a little unnatural, and unconsciously, he had been taken away from the original conversation rhythm by the Spirit Clan woman.
"That's not because some of you were restless and wanted to rebel against us, we just taught us a lesson, and as a result, you turned over and beat us to death. Okay, let's not talk about that, thousand-year-old shit, turn it over and do nothing. The spirit woman summed up her statement at this moment, and didn't give Jiang Bai a chance to speak, but she didn't know who turned it up in the first place. In fact, the so-called history, from the perspective of a clan, from the perspective of a country is another look, and then as small as a family, the perspective is different, and the conclusions obtained are naturally not the same.
Just when Jiang Bai and his wife had this conversation, Yun Niang carefully looked at the child on the side of the spirit woman, she was categorically not idle on the way to escape, they were looking for a way out along the way, and Yun Niang herself was a princess of the country, and her heart was full of anxiety and pain about the country's demise, plus Xiao Xun and the child were civilians, so Xiao Xun and the child would appear in front of her all the time, she only knew that there was such a pair of refugees, and she didn't take it to heart. At this time, looking at the child's childish face, she was a little strange why she hadn't noticed the child at the beginning, in fact, she couldn't be blamed completely, after all, along the way to escape, everyone was not a ghost, no one had the leisure to wash the child, even if it was Kaoru, it was already a great kindness to be able to sneak food to the child so that he would not starve to death. Yun Niang looked at the child, and naturally thought of the poor woman Xiao Xun, she tried to recall, except for the scene when Xiao Xun died, gradually some other pictures came to mind. A woman, with a child, is extremely difficult to survive on the way to escape without food and clothing, some of these helpless women, in desperation, have no choice but to sell their bodies in exchange for food necessary for survival, Yun Niang knows, but she was only a refugee at that time, and she was no longer the high-ranking princess Daiyue, who was sentimental about the degeneration of the people, and it was inconvenient to intervene. Yun Niang remembered that Kaoru was often dragged to the barren land by the roadside by the men who fled together, and she knew what Kaoru relied on to survive with this child, and she was about to succeed...... Thinking of this, Yun Niang's chest seemed to be blocked by something, and it was a little difficult to breathe. In the end, a very clear picture reflected Yun Niang's mind, and it was more than the picture of Xiao Xun's death, which made Yun Niang remember Xiao Xun's life: it was a starless night for a month, and the fleeing people were afraid of attracting the attention of people with ulterior motives, so they didn't make a fire, they were already frightened birds, and they just wanted to find a secluded place to survive in An Ansheng. The night was as cold as iron, Xiao Xun was only wearing a thin summer coat, sitting on a pile of withered grass with her legs bent, and the child she was holding tightly in her arms was the child Yun Niang was looking at at at this moment. I saw that Xiao Xun carefully took out a palm-sized piece of charred black stuff from his arms, which should be a piece of burnt beast meat, and handed it to the child's mouth......
Yun Niang pressed the sadness in her chest, and then looked at the child at this time, and saw the spirit woman next to the child, as well as Zai Xin and Jiang Bai, and quietly a strange feeling reflected in her heart, she actually felt that maybe the future fate of the country was in the hands of this child......
It was getting late, and finally Zai Xin explained everything that had happened to the Spirit Woman, and everyone moved forward again. And the place ahead can be called home for Jiang Bai, Zai Xin, and the women of the Spirit Clan, and for others, it may just be a temporary place for fate to arrange.
"What a poor child. What is your name? The spirit woman took the child by the hand and walked in the middle of the crowd, sighing as she went, and then asked the child's name.
"I don't remember my original name, Aunt Kaoru called me Little Tiger Head, and others followed suit." The child replied.
"Why don't you do it, sister, give you a name. You came from Weiguo, and you met my father-in-law in that maple forest and was rescued, it is better to call it Wei Feng, you humans still have to take the table word, this will be given to you by my father-in-law when you are an adult. As for me, my surname is Yu, my name is Yuheng, you can call me Sister Heng. The spirit woman had pity and pity for the child, and she actually promised the child's future, and the subtext of what she said was naturally to raise the child to adulthood. But when Zai Xin heard her call herself a sister to the child, he almost had the heart to seek death, but he couldn't teach the teacher like a child.
"Okay, I'll be called Wei Feng in the future, thank you Sister Heng for the name." The child did not allow anything, only thanked Xiaoyi and looked at Zai Xin beside him, and the meaning in his eyes was naturally to say that your master wants me to call her sister, I can only call it like this There is no other way, of course, there is also the element of pretending to be pitiful and seeking forgiveness.
"How can you be someone's sister!" Unexpectedly, Jiang Bai first raised an objection.
"What do you mean by that? Am I old? When Yu Heng heard Jiang Bai's words, he choked with an unhappy face.
"That's not what I meant! Our Jin'er is about the same age as this child, and when we go back, do you want Jin'er to call someone uncle? Right here, you can see Zaisin's face to know if he is happy to have such a little uncle. Jiang Bai replied.
When Yu Heng heard this, he really looked at Zai Xinlai, who had a resentful face.
"Haha, ouch! Little black baby, it's the teacher's mother who didn't think it through, don't be angry. Yu Heng looked at Zai Xin's deflated face, first admired it, and then smiled and comforted Zai Xin. She naturally didn't know that the reason why Zai Xin was like this was actually because he had already reminded the child twice about the title before, but in the end he was ruined by his own master and mother, and Zai Xin was easily affected by such a trivial matter, in fact, because he was still a teenager, although he was tall and mighty, after all, he was only sixteen years old. Yuheng's body is already tall, standing together can faintly compare with Jiang Bai, everyone saw her call Zai Xin, who was half a head taller than her, a little black baby, a little funny, and Zai Xin himself was more ashamed.
Finally, one of the women burst out laughing.
"I'm not young, Master!" Zaisin said in a hurry, a little annoyed.
"I've seen you when you're so little, and you'll always be a little black baby with me." Yu Heng said and measured it on his chest, maybe he felt that the previous comparison was a bit big, and the distance between his palms shrank back again. When everyone saw this, they couldn't help laughing anymore, and the audience was full of laughter for a while. Zaisin has a tendency to become angry.
"Don't laugh, Zai Gongzi has a great favor to us, how can we make fun of others." Yun Niang saw that Zai Xin's face was unhappy, and reminded the women, and the women collectively restrained their laughter when they heard the words, and Yu Heng glanced at Yun Niang quite playfully, she had already known Yun Niang's identity from Zai Xin's narration before. Yun Niang was a little stunned when she saw her, and lowered her head to say more.
"My aunt has a little daughter who is about the same age as you, her name is Yu Jin, we all call her Jin'er, you can play with her when you go back, she is a child in our family, and she usually has no playmates, this time you go and I guess she will be so happy that she will go crazy......" Then Yu Heng told everything about her daughter in detail, including bedwetting.
"Our place is called Zhijian Stream, do you know why it is called that, this is going to talk about the battles between our ancestors and your ancestors thousands of years ago, the maple forest you were in before was the boundary of the alliance after they fought, but this is the real first line of defense of our spirit race, but the word stop, that is, here the human race can no longer move forward, of course, it does not include you, it is the army and the like. However, ordinary humans do not dare to come here, and occasionally there are bandits with bad intentions to explore nearby, and the feather eagle guards who are in charge of patrolling are easy to cook, and I heard that the outside side is spreading this side dangerously, and I am afraid that there are people who have seen the eagle guards and escaped with their lives are frightened and talk nonsense. Now the outside world is chaotic, a very small number of refugees have no intention of living here, we let them live in the 100,000 mountains, some time ago came a few people, among them there is a blacksmith, the craftsmanship is first-class good, you see the sword on your Uncle Jiang's back, it is someone who fights, but this person is a little strange, what to say that this is the last time he fights a sword, as a thank you to give you Uncle Jiang, in the future, he will only be willing to play pots and plows, people who have the ability are a little strange, he and your Uncle Jiang have a good appetite, After a while, your Uncle Jiang will still visit him, ......" After that, Yu Heng said a lot of what she had seen and heard in the stream.
"Are you a little surprised why I am not surprised to see you, and why I will marry you Uncle Jiang, I am a spirit woman, he is a human man, no matter how you look at it, it will be a long time to say this. The ancestors of our spirit race and the ancestors of your human race have a common ancestor, tracing back to the origin of our descendants of the same ancestor, even if the spirit race and human beings fought inextricably thousands of years ago, in the end, there are still a large number of human beings who entered the mountain with the spirit race, the so-called spirit race, the concept of human beings, in fact, was put forward very late by King Yuwen, when we have lived together for more than 10,000 years. It's just that we retain a lot of ancestral spirits in our bloodline, and stimulating the spirits of ancestors will produce changes in their bodies, such as a little black baby, he can become a little black wolf, Aunt Yu is a feather clan, and a pair of wings will grow behind her after the change, and other appearances are unchanged, so it will only look better, and it will not affect my beauty at all. Saying that, Yu Heng seemed to prove himself, and suddenly stretched out a pair of white wings behind his back, and the women were startled at first, and then took a closer look, Yu Heng at this time was indeed a little more thrilling and beautiful than just now. According to the different forms of change, the spirit race is divided into various branches. If there is an intermarriage between different tribes, the father will follow the ability of a boy when he is born, and the mother will naturally follow the girl if he is born. Compared with the innate physical strength of the spirit race, the acquired power of human beings is actually more advantageous, and you human beings with great abilities can usually associate their breath with heaven and earth, and do some unpredictable things, and no one can beat him in the mountains if you Uncle Jiang is in the mountains......" Then Yu Heng explained in detail how Jiang Bai left home and traveled to the 100,000 mountains, and how the two of them got acquainted.
The newly named Wei Feng's child, listening to Yu Heng's chatter along the way, looked at Yu Heng's chin from time to time, and pretended to listen carefully, in fact, he didn't understand everything Yu Heng said, but helplessly Yu Heng only told him, completely ignoring everyone, the reason for this was that as soon as they met, the child won her favor, she wanted to relieve the worries and worries brought to him by the unfamiliar environment for Wei Feng, who she personally gave the name, but even so, it was not so nagging, the root cause, In fact, it comes down to Yuheng's smart temperament.
There are many things in the world that make no sense to talk about, and Yu Heng, such a stunner who is shocking at first sight, is actually a talker. Jiang Bai and Zai Xin were no longer surprised by this, and never interrupted her, it was estimated that if they did that, it would definitely cause Yu Heng's unhappiness, judging from Yu Heng's coquettishness before, they were unwilling to suffer that kind of consequences.
Everyone arrived at their final destination in the chatter of Yuheng.
This is a quiet and remote valley on the banks of the Panlong River......