Chapter 14: The Story by the Campfire
This path is not easy to walk, except for a few wild men who just hit their faces, to put it bluntly, it is a few moving wooden stakes, but the wildflowers on the path are OK, and the smell of flowers is easy to remind people of little girls, but they will not forget the old saying: don't pick wild flowers on the side of the road.
Although the fragrance of wild flowers is a little enchanting, the same smell, even if it is the blue musk that the fairy shakes off the mortal world, over time will make people feel more disgusting than the smell, and even very hateful.
Liang Yunsheng lowered his head and looked at the little fox sleeping in his arms, swaying from the wasteland, the fox who accompanied him all the way, how did he look more and more cute and more like a person, the beautiful tail was so weak that it turned dark yellow, and a few beads of sweat the size of beans broke on the tip of the fox's red nose in the tossing and turning on the road, and Liang Yunsheng felt a pain in his heart.
Looking back at the road traveled, there were nineteen bends, and it was even more difficult to start than the twists and turns of fate.
"Let's go, the road is at your feet!" Liang Yunsheng still muttered to himself, in front of him was a winding mountain along the way, and after going uphill, he had to go downhill, but this uphill road seemed to have no end.
The uphill road became longer and longer, and the fox in his arms woke up.
"Oh, it's really confused, how did I get to the top of the mountain!" Liang Yunsheng scolded himself, and the fox squeaked and laughed, its eyes were very charming, and its teeth were not neat but beautiful.
Dusk is scattered on the mountain, occasionally the cicadas in the empty forest chirp, several birds fly in the same direction, except for the lonely birdsong does not leave any traces, Liang Yunsheng overlooks the foot of the mountain, the mountain is the most prosperous city - Liangguo City, the whole city even if it is close to dusk but there are still dense crowds like ants walking around.
Liang Yunsheng felt extremely heroic, now the peaks were in full view, the Xiongcheng was under his feet, the kind of momentum that swallowed the mountains and rivers at a glance made his heart flutter and his heart was surging, he pressed his heart with his hand, and he was afraid that if he accidentally beat too fast, he would shatter a few ribs.
Liangguo City is very large, but at this time Liang Yunsheng's eyesight is particularly good, and he can even clearly see the movements of a thief on the street, although Liangguo City is the first prosperous city, but the special profession of a thief, even if there are only two people, one of them may become a thief.
Liang Yunsheng carefully captured the bricks and tiles in the city, but he couldn't seem to find the inn, and he couldn't figure out how he entered the city in the first place, but the god and the dog's legs were still so clearly imprinted in his mind.
Suddenly, a familiar scene appeared, the old man outside the city gate was about to enter the city with a group of hunting dogs, and it was easy to see that it was a hunting dog that had not yet been trained to reach home, and it looked a little arrogant and unreasonable, or the old man, Liang Yunsheng's face was gloomy, his eyebrows were locked very tightly, and his body felt a pain.
I touched my chin, and even though I didn't have a beard, I became a lot calmer.
It's just that the capital in front of him has become misty, and he can no longer see everything in front of him, and the gray outline of the capital is still faintly reflected in his mind, Liang Yunsheng thought that he had recently committed his eye disease again, and decided to close his eyes for ten seconds, but he opened them again, only to see a gray-black line, even if he asked the fox, the fox just shook his head.
The cicadas chirp and the night strikes.
There were a few wild men lying behind him, kneeling insincerely, shouting: "Uncle spare your life, uncle spare your life." "I don't know how many times I bowed.
Still a familiar person, Liang Yunsheng's eyes fell on the big-eared fat man, and his clothes were unspeakably tattered, even more hateful than the beggar.
Liang Yunsheng paused, pulled the corners of his eyes, and didn't think of himself as the boss too much, if he didn't have the soul and soul given by that person, and without the sword behind him, he must be just one of them, but what is surprising is that the thoughts in his heart are so strange - if he takes off his identity as a swordsman, his cultivation will not be much better than these people, and his character is not as good as half a saint, how can he not be an ordinary person living at the bottom?
Gradually silent, the fat man raised his head slightly, caught a glimpse of the hilt of the sword that stabbed into the sky out of the corner of his eye, and the sweat on his body flowed a lot, he quickly retracted his eyes, lowered his head, and said: "I still hope that the young man will spare his life, we have long been cornered, have nothing, have nothing to fear, and never be afraid." ”
Liang Yunsheng turned his head, only to see a few people retract their heads like turtles, pull the corners of their mouths, and said: "Get up, men have ten thousand taels of gold under their knees, how can a good man kneel down to others casually, his head can be broken, his body can die, how can such a pedantic person stand up to the sky and the earth?
Liang Yunsheng said that the iron bones were strong, and they were also open-minded, showing a manly complexion, and everyone was greatly encouraged, and stood up tremblingly, but they would never see a trace of life on their faces, like a mourning face hooked in the neck.
But the fat man seemed to be a little bold, and stood bent over, his face looked thicker than the others as if it had been blown by some storm or brushed by some beautiful woman, and his eyes flickered a little, and there was some jealousy hidden under his thick eyelids, and he said with a little stutter, "We have come from the wasteland, and we have not much food, so we can only survive on the mountains." ”
The rest of the people also bent over at the same time, like a bunch of brainless scraps, clenching their fists and palms looking funny and clumsy, casually responding with 'yes'.
Liang Yunsheng really couldn't look past it, and when he saw the sunset and burning embers in the sky, he probably scolded, first kicked the fat man on the head, and then scolded with a big grin: "You are really a waste, you don't look at the people who follow you, they are not as good as dogs, their clothes are stinky, their faces are yellow, you see, you open your eyes wide, it is still a child, so I think I am so thin, my hair is more yellow than the loess on the ground, and the child's hair is even more yellow than mine." ”
The person who followed him just shook his head, sighed lightly, looked at the fat man who was full of fat, as if he was talking about something, and could see that he was feeling sad for his sad life, the fat man slowly got up from the ground, and did not dare to look at Liang Yunsheng again, but he was a little angry, a little resentful, and the cat wanted to hide behind the person.
Only the yellow-haired child did not make a sound, nor did he make any movements, silently walking aside, like a lone wolf who was temporarily hungry, his minions still looked so natural and sharp, but few people would look at him.
"Son, you come out. This is when the child gets the gaze for the first time, and at the same time the gaze of everyone.
The child squeaked and pointed to the tip of his nose and said, "Are you calling me?" Liang Yunsheng nodded slightly.
"Hurry up!"
"Let me ask you how old you are this year?" Liang Yunsheng patted the child on the shoulder.
"Brother, I'm eight years old and haven't eaten for three days. ”
Liang Yunsheng suddenly had a trace of sympathy, anger, and admiration in his heart, although the child knelt on the ground, he seemed neither humble nor arrogant, he was a chivalrous person, but at this time, countless pairs of eyes came over, like cruel feather arrows.
Liang Yunsheng looked up, and all of them lowered their heads and made the same sound: "We haven't eaten for three days." The child looked at him, and the men boldly snapped his eyes again.
"Don't be afraid, child, follow your brother in the future, and your brother will take you to the city to eat delicious food. There was a jealous commotion in the crowd, but it quickly turned into a burst of ridicule.
It can be seen that the child has been silent for too long, his heart is very heavy, his eyes are resolute and ruthless, and there is indescribable loneliness, but after all the hardships, his little luck has finally begun, and the fox likes him, and swings his tail at him, and his eyes are very gentle and beautiful.
Seeing those people walking away backwards, he immediately knelt on the ground, folded his hands together, and said, "Brother, you have done me harm!"
Liang Yunsheng was suddenly choked with saliva and looked at the child in surprise, scratched the back of his head, pointed his finger at his nose, and said: "You kid, eccentric, actually said that I hurt you, and finally got you back from their hands, if it weren't for the fact that you were a little pitiful, the ghost would have ignored you!" Liang Yunsheng exhaled a depressed breath from the left side of his mouth.
"Brother, when you rescued me, you also harmed me, and now I am your man, and I have become their enemy, maybe tonight I will die under their swords, if you don't save me, I will not be able to kneel for a long time, even if I kneel to death, it is better than to die under their swords. The child was not afraid, his eyes were firm and powerful, and he was convinced that this was the person who could save him.
Liang Yunsheng walked past the child, he could feel that the child was very smart, and very wise, and it was the kind of scheming wisdom, "You are their companion, how can I harm you, but I, the person who just mixed in and threatens them, should be very careful." Liang Yunsheng stroked the fox's slippery head hair, ready to grab some food.
The child was not sad, nor did he make a big noise, quiet as a virgin, but quickly caught up with Liang Yunsheng, tailing, step by step, and sometimes a fox coquettishly played at him.
After passing through the extremely narrow gap in the mountain, I saw that there was a cave behind the mountain, and there were nearly thirty or fifty people here, roasting a wild boar the size of a small ox around the bonfire, and with the arrival of these two people, the faces of the others showed unpleasant looks, and what was even more strange was that the fat man and the big-eared thief were not the real leader.
Someone beckoned, "Come, come and sit down." ”
Both of them sat down beside the man, Liang Yunsheng sat down with a big grin, and asked with a grin: "Do you have any wine?" These days I have been in a trance, and my mouth is already dry, brothers, I didn't expect there to be such a paradise here, why don't you bring out the wine and everyone drink it." ”
The child also chimed in: "I want it too, I want to eat meat, give me that pork leg!"
The child stood up excitedly, pointing to the wild boar that was about to be burned, the air was filled with dead silence, more like a killing machine, but after everyone looked at the sword behind Liang Yunsheng, their eyes became gentler, and one of them stood up, bowed politely, and said: " Child, there are rules for eating, if you give you that pork leg like this, other people will not be happy, it's better like this, our old rules, you tell a story, if the newcomer is satisfied, or most of the people are satisfied, then give you this pork leg, how about it?"
The child, who has always been silent, no one will applaud him, more just shake his head and laugh, and the child unexpectedly responds with a salute, stands up, and says, "No problem." Three words are decisive and decisive.
Liang Yunsheng looked up at the child's face, he was already admiring, only appreciating.
"A long, long time ago, there was a mysterious deep mountain, there lived an old man in the mountain, the old man reached a certain age and became never old, he could live until he was nine hundred and ninety-nine years old, the deep mountain seemed to be separated from the outside by two worlds, the people inside thought about how to spy on the outside world, and the people outside also thought about how to spy on the inside world, but no one could pierce the window paper, so the people inside could not see the beautiful girl outside, and gradually grew old, and the people outside could not see the secrets inside. ”
"Hey, child, tell me what this old man eats and drinks, could it be that he will be a god from the sky, old and immortal?" Someone threw out a difficult question, obviously grasping the loophole in his story, the child did not hurry to return the gift, nor hurriedly snatched a glass of wine from Liang Yunsheng's hand, and swallowed it in one gulp, the spicy and exciting strength of the wine, like a knife cutting the throat, forced the child's eyes to tears, looking more excited, and the blood boiled.
"The old man takes chicken fishing as a business, a rooster, a hen, the rooster is very spirited, the hen is too old to lay eggs, the rooster is old and does not have the passion of the year, the rooster and the hen are very competitive, the grandfather of the old man who survived, and now to the old man's generation, he is about to boil the old man to death. ”
There was a burst of laughter, ridicule, and slight jealousy from the crowd, and someone quipped: "Then why don't you slaughter this hen that squats in the hen's nest and does not lay eggs, and the rooster will die of loneliness, so as to kill two birds with one stone, and save you one more knife." ”
The child still returned the salute, and unhurriedly snatched a glass of wine to strengthen his courage.
The old man followed the will of his grandfather, saying that two chickens are the lifeblood of this mountain forest, the chicken died, the chicken died, the chicken died, the lifeline was broken, as the years grew, the relationship between the old man and the river god became more and more tacit, fishing is getting easier and easier day by day, as if the fish in the water are deliberately jumping into the net he weaved, and finally one day, when he was fishing, it was dark, there was a big golden fish into his net, the old man has been reluctant to kill, raised the goldfish and became a beautiful white crane, much higher than the rooster, and then there was a war, the rooster and the hen together wanted to peck the white craneThe white crane became more and more proud because of the old man's love, and finally the rooster and the hen designed to kill the white crane, and the old man killed two chickens in grief, and suddenly, the mysterious world disappeared, and the old man became air in the air. ”
Many people heard God, and firecrackers applauded, but at this time two people were very silent.