Volume 3: Those Who Should Think About It Chapter 121: Mountains and Rivers
Baoyu maintains the clarity of the original spirit, but has a sober and keen perception of everything that happens in the outside world. When he recalls and interprets those divine thoughts, he is in a sober state of concentration, which is also the basis for performing the power of the imperial weapon and the method of fighting people.
At this moment, he heard two people talking next to the altar in the center of the village, one of whom was not from the Qingshan Clan and Huahai Village, so he caught his attention. Although this person Baoyu has never seen it, he can know it, it is the former patriarch of the Langri clan and the current minister of Langri, Lao Xiaobai. When the mountain god introduced him to the various things that happened in the wilderness, the divine thoughts were also accompanied by the scene display, and since Baoyu had "seen" what had happened, of course he could recognize Xiaobai.
Although Xiaobai is one of the elders of Shanshui City, he is very young, only in his twenties, but he is already a monk of the Three Realms, and he is also the most outstanding talent among the young generation of the various tribes of the wilderness today. The person who talked to Xiaobai was Hibiscus, and I think that when Shuigu first gathered the people to watch her spin cloth, Hibiscus and Shuzhuang broke through the initial realm and were able to cultivate.
Although Hibiscus has not broken through the three realms like Xiaobai now, he is already a monk of the second realm and seven transformations. Counting from the time when Ah Jin entered the initial realm, he started cultivating at about the same time as Baoyu, but he didn't have the good qualifications and great opportunities like Baoyu, and it was already good to be able to cultivate to today's realm.
Xiaobai actually had time to run to the Qingshan clan today, and stood by the altar with another young man who was also very good in the wilderness and whispered, talking not about cultivation, but about women.
This may have been a constant topic among men since ancient times, where two young men discussed what kind of women were more beautiful and sensual?
A woman with strong limbs and a thick waist is in line with the aesthetics of most barbarian people. can give birth to children and work at the same time, but this is not the case with Hibiscus's Niang Nanhua. Nanhua was married from Huahai Village, with white and tender skin, a thin waist and a slender body. Walking with a graceful face, Jin thinks that a woman like this is the most beautiful.
Although Nanhua is not so strong and powerful, she is ingenious, and the bone needles she sharpens are the most exquisite in the village, and the cloth she spun is also the most exquisite cloth except for water cloth. Xiaobai deeply agrees with this, and of course they are discussing Niangnanhua who is not a hibiscus. It was just a common aesthetic point of view, and they regarded each other as confidants, and then they began to talk about the young girls of the tribes, and they all mentioned the purple dill in unison.
Not long ago, Ziluo also entered the initial realm to cultivate, and she is already fifteen years old this year, and it is the time to get married. A woman like her. Ordinary men are certainly not worthy, there are not many young monks in the various tribes, and those under the age of thirty who have not yet married are not more than a handful of them, and Xiaobai and Hibiscus are of course the two most outstanding among them.
Hibiscus is beautiful, her skin is so watery, and her waist is so slender, not at all as stupid and black as many women in the clan. Xiaobai also praised the purple dill for getting more and more beautiful in recent years. The facial features are so beautiful, the eyes are so moving, it is simply the most beautiful scenery in this wilderness, he simply doesn't know how to describe it.
Both young men were complimenting a girl for being pretty, and it felt a little wrong to boast and boast. Xiaobai suddenly asked, "Ah Jin, don't you want to grab Ziluo with me? ...... Actually, there are many girls in my Langri department who are very beautiful, and they will definitely match your vision. When you are free one day, I will take you to the Langri Department to pick and choose, as long as you fancy someone. I'll help you propose. β
Ah Jin smiled and asked Xiao Bai rhetorically, "Are those girls in your Langri Department more beautiful than Ziluo?"
Xiaobai was stunned, because this question was not easy to answer, if he wanted to lure Hibiscus over to see. It should be answered, but if Hibiscus spreads such an answer to Ziluo's ears, then I'm afraid it won't be good. Seeing Xiaobai's hesitant appearance, Ah Jin laughed and said, "Don't worry, I don't plan to fight with you for Ziluo." Last time, my mother took me to Huahai Village and specially introduced a girl, who I already fancied, that is, Sandstone's sister. β
Xiaobai, who felt a little nervous, secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Actually, there's no need for us to fight here, a girl like Ziluo is of course very assertive, the key is what kind of person she likes?"
Hibiscus patted Xiaobai's shoulder and said, "You're right, Ziluo is too assertive." Her temper is unbearable for ordinary men, and she loves to get to the bottom of anything. ...... What kind of person does she like, you might as well ask her directly if she likes you or not?"
Xiaobai leaned closer and said, "Brother Hibiscus, can you ask her a favor, you can go and ask her?"
Ah Jin waved her hand and said, "Only she asks people, who asks her, I won't help you ask this kind of question." ...... Forget it, with your friendship with me, I'll just call her over, and you can ask her yourself!"
Hearing this, Baoyu already understood what was going on, it turned out that Xiaobai had taken a fancy to Ziluo and ran to the Qingshan clan to propose marriage. If it's someone else's girl, it's just that, first ask the patriarch of Qingshan to say it, and the other party agrees, then take the gift and marry the girl directly, and the people of the various tribes in the wilderness are not so complicated. But Ziluo is different, Xiaobai had asked the patriarch of Qingshan to mention his idea before, but he didn't get a reply, so he came by himself, but he still didn't know the bottom of his heart, so he called Ah Jin first to ask what was going on.
Xiaobai wanted to stop Hibiscus and say a few more words, but Hibiscus had already run away, so she had to stand by the altar and wait, looking very nervous. After a while, a girl came to the altar, fair-skinned, well-proportioned, dressed in a dress made of summer cloth, dyed with a soft green pattern of berries from the mountains, which was the purple dill of the altar.
Ziluo has beautiful facial features and clear eyes, and when she walked over, she just stared at Xiaobai. Xiaobai is young but is considered the head of the clan and has experienced a big scene in the wilderness, but he stared at this girl so much that his scalp was numb, and his head was a little sweaty, so he didn't dare to look at each other, lowered his head and blushed slightly, and said: "Ziluo, are you here......?"
Xiaobai, who was nervous and shy, didn't know how to speak in front of Ziluo, and his words were a little unreasonable. Ziluo raised the corners of her mouth and said, "Of course I'm here, are you looking for someone else?"
Xiaobai hurriedly nodded and said, "Yes, yes, what I'm looking for is you, how can I go to find someone else!"
Ziluo asked again, "Hibiscus didn't say anything to me, that is, you have something to ask me." But Patriarch Qingshan mentioned it to me, saying that you have taken a fancy to me, is there such a thing?"
Xiaobai nodded again and said, "Of course there is such a thing, how could Patriarch Qingshan lie?"
Ziluo glared: "What does this have to do with Patriarch Qingshan! I'm askingβdo you have such a thing?"
Xiaobai was a little temperless when asked, so she had to reply: "Yes, yes, yes, I have such a thing, I don't know what Miss Ziluo means?"
Ziluo looked at him and asked thoughtfully, "Can you tell me why men fall in love with women?"
Even Baoyu, who was sitting in the hut, was a little nervous about Xiaobai, Ziluo's question was too tricky, how could Xiaobai answer this? And Xiaobai honestly bowed his head and replied: "I don't know why men fall in love with women, this question is too profound, maybe only gods can answer." But I know I've got a crush on you, there's no doubt about that, I know it in my heart. β
Ziluo was stunned, but showed a hint of shyness, lowered her eyes and said, "It's not that I can't promise you, but you have to tell me - why do you fall in love with me?"
Xiaobai still bowed his head and said, "Because you are the best woman in all the tribes. β
Ziluo said with a straight face: "Will the most outstanding woman be taken by people? If you are right, then all the men here should take a fancy to me! If you leave this place and you see a more outstanding woman, you will be the one who takes a fancy to her." β
Xiaobai hurriedly explained: "No, no, no, I didn't mean that. β
Ziluo: "What do you mean?"
Xiaobai's head lowered: "In my eyes, you are the most beautiful." β
Ziluo no longer kept a straight face, but continued to ask: "Because I am beautiful, do you take a fancy to me?
Xiaobai replied: "Ziluo, you are wrong! I say that you are excellent and beautiful, this is not a compliment, you are really good, you are so beautiful." But for me, I just fell in love with you, and what I wanted in my heart was you, and there was only this one answer. Other women have nothing to do with me, in my eyes, no one can compare to you, you will always be the best and most beautiful woman in the world, I just want to be good to you!"
Ziluo raised her voice and said, "Say it again!"
Xiaobai didn't know where he said it wrong, so he had to say Fang Cai's words again. Unexpectedly, Ziluo's voice became higher, and she said, "You say it again!" and Xiaobai also let go, so he said it again.
After saying these words three times in a row, Xiaobai's mood was also very worried, but he suddenly heard Ziluo snort and laughed: "You said that earlier, don't you just do it!" When he looked up again, he saw that Ziluo had already turned away with a red face, and that step made him feel excited.
It took a while for a little stupid Xiaobai to suddenly react - Ziluo had promised him! He clenched his fists and jumped high, the bones in his whole body seemed to have become lighter, and he rushed out with his feet on the ground, and he ran into Hibiscus's house, probably to discuss other things.
Baoyu also laughed in the house, and he walked out of the hut with a smile, and suddenly in a flash, his figure appeared on the side of the house like a ghost, and he reached out and grabbed an ear behind the corner of the wall, and took out a dog. It turned out that when Fang Xiaobai was talking to Hibiscus and Ziluo, Xiaotian also pricked up his ears and listened behind the corner, looking very interested and curious.
Baoyu scolded with a smile: "What are you doing eavesdropping on other people's words, do you also have an idea in your heart? That has to wait until you cross the four realms and can turn into a human body." Isn't it too early to worry about this kind of thing?"
Xiao Tian broke free of Baoyu's hand, shook his head and whined twice, with a look of disdain, as if to say that it would not take a fancy to any girl here, which did not meet its aesthetic and mate selection standards at all. Baoyu asked again, "Then what are you eavesdropping on here?"
Xiao Tian bit the corner of Baoyu's clothes, led him to the altar, loosened his mouth and gestured with two front grabs, pointed to the house of the patriarch of Qingshan, and pointed to the house of Shuigu at the back of the village. Baoyu suddenly understood something, and said in a low voice: "You mean to say - Patriarch Qingshan and Shui Gu should also be like Xiaobai and Ziluo?"
Xiao Tian nodded with a very serious expression, and let out another whining sound in his throat, still gesturing with a pair of front paws for a long time. If it were a different person, he would be confused, and he wouldn't know what this dog wanted to do? Baoyu vaguely understood what it meant, and asked in a tight voice: "Patriarch Qingshan will return to the village today, and every time he comes back, Shui Gu will wait at the bridge?...... Shall we eavesdrop on them and figure out what to do?"
Xiao Tian nodded vigorously again, it is rare that this dog also has a mind, it should also know that it will leave the wilderness with Baoyu soon, but today seeing that Xiaobai and Ziluo are about to come true, they actually care about the "lifelong event" of the Qingshan patriarch and Shui Gu. Xiaotian's actions also made Baoyu think, he was originally a child who had nothing to worry about, but when he thought that he was going to leave here, he couldn't worry about the Qingshan patriarch and Shui Gu.
Patriarch Qingshan and Shui Gu were too good to the clansmen, and of course they had nothing to say to him, in Baoyu's eyes. They are the best people in the world. But the relationship between the two is very delicate, although Baoyu doesn't know the past many years ago, but it can be seen that there must be something between them. Over the years, he has gradually grown up, and he has also learned a lot about the affairs of men and women, and he also feels that the Qingshan patriarch and Shui Gu are like this now. It's a shame.
But what can he do as a child in the wilderness for so many years and so many people can't manage it? Baoyu didn't think so, whether he could succeed or not, he tried his best to do this kind of thing, otherwise it would always be a matter of mind.
After dark, the people fell asleep. Baoyu and Xiaotian quietly slipped out of the hut, and they jumped out of the wall, along the wall through the thorn bushes, and ran to the side of the open space outside the entrance of the village, and then gathered their spirits and hid in the bushes.
The method of internal breath that the mountain god had mastered when he asked Baoyu to sit and practice in the lotus pond was very useful at this moment. He found a comfortable grass nest in the bushes and sat still, even a monk with a keen sense of spirit could not detect the breath, including a master like the Patriarch of Qingshan. If Patriarch Qingshan unfolded his divine sense to disturb everything around him, he would have been able to find him, but in the open space outside the entrance of the village, Patriarch Qingshan and Shui Gu would not do it for no reason.
Looking at Xiaotian again, Baoyu almost didn't laugh out loud. The dog dug a hole in the ground. He buried himself in it, and only a dog's head was exposed under the bushes. It is said that it is just a two-realm dog demon, and for the mountain and wild demons, if it is not out of the instinct of avoiding natural enemies, it is difficult to hide the usual divine characteristics.
And Xiao Tian may have received the guidance of the mountain god, or he may have often played latent games in the 10,000-year-old clear spring, so the aura is also perfectly restrained. If Baoyu hadn't paid attention, it wouldn't have been easy to spot the dog lying nearby.
The child and the dog waited and waited until the second half of the night, and then they gathered their spirits and remained motionless in the bushes. This is also far beyond the concentration and patience of ordinary people. Baoyu couldn't help but wonder a little, did Xiao Tian make a mistake, didn't the Qingshan patriarch go back to the village today?
At this moment, a slender figure appeared in the clearing outside the village, her hair reaching to her waist. Dressed in a water cloth dress, it is the water girl. Shui Gu seemed to suddenly appear silently, and hid her tracks with her body, and came out of the house and walked through the village, I am afraid that no one would be able to find it.
Tonight the moonlight was very bright, shining on the earth, and even the night had a hint of brightness. The water girl stood in the open space outside the entrance of the village, facing the direction of the cliff with her hands behind her back. It didn't take long for a person to float over on the wooden bridge, and his figure in the moonlight was very clear, it was the patriarch of Qingshan.
The Qingshan patriarch walked from the direction of Huahai Village, and there are two roads from the central valley to the Qingshan group, and after there is a bridge on the cliff, Huahai Village is a better way to walk. The patriarch of Qingshan walked off the bridge, stood still and said, "Shui Gu, are you waiting for me again?" The clansmen in the wild village are very simple, they sleep as soon as it gets dark, and they sleep very deeply and soundly, and no one will run out in the middle of the night, so when they speak, they don't think of who will eavesdrop, and they don't cast spells to hold back their voices.
Shui Gu replied lightly: "You come and go in such a hurry every time, always rushing in the middle of the night, walking through the mountains alone. I'm a little worried, I'm afraid that something will happen to you. β
Patriarch Qingshan: "What accident can I have? It's just that when I walk through the mountains alone, I always feel a little lonely." But as soon as I see you, I feel so good immediately...... You see, how beautiful this moonlight is, it's all because you're there. β
Shui Gu: "Don't take it lightly, think that your cultivation is superb." Even the mountain gods will encounter accidents, let alone you?"
Patriarch Qingshan smiled and said, "I don't care about any of this, as long as I can see you." β
Shui Gu: "In that case, you still spend a lot of time in the Central Valley, and it would be nice to see you a few times a month." β
Patriarch Qingshan: "Because that's where Shanshui City is located, and I'm now the lord of Shanshui City." Why don't you want to go to Shanshui City, you should understand my intention to name the city, it is the city of the Qingshan Patriarch Shuigu. β
Shui Gu snorted coldly and said: "It turns out that you have such intentions, listening to what you said at the beginning, I thought that 'water' meant 'Qing Shui clan'." Shanshui City, the mountains are before the water, if you really have a heart, why not call it Shuishan City?"
The Qingshan patriarch laughed and said, "If you want it to be called that, then I will report to the monarch and change the name of the city." If that's the case, would you like to live in the city of water and mountains forever?"
Shui Gu waved her hand and said, "No need, it's just a joke, how can I afford it." I still like the Qingshan Clan, there are still so many clansmen here, and you should be your Shanshui City Lord. β
The Qingshan Patriarch coughed, took a step closer and lowered his voice: "Do you remember what I said at the beginning, now I am the lord of a city, either elsewhere, or in the mountain where we live. What you promised, you should also ......"
Shui Gu turned her head and said, "How many years, why do you always think about this, I seem to have forgotten what I said at the beginning." ...... Even if I could remember, how many years would I have?"
Patriarch Qingshan: "I remember it clearly, I have been waiting for so many years. β
Even Baoyu, who was eavesdropping, was anxious for the Qingshan Patriarch in his heart, what had they said at the beginning? How could Shui Gu forget it! If it was deduced that the years were short, it didn't seem right, although the Qingshan Patriarch and Shui Gu were the eldest people in the Qingshan Clan, they were both beginners in cultivating the Elite Technique!
Baoyu doesn't know about other situations, but with the current state of the two of them, there are still those immortal elixirs in the Taihao Ruins, even if they can't improve their cultivation, they all take a few Langyu fruits, and at least a few more decades of youth are no problem, then it is equivalent to a lifetime of ordinary people. So he felt that it didn't make sense for Aunt Shui's words.
The mountain god has always been very generous to Baoyu, as long as Baoyu can use it, even if it can only exert a little spiritual effect, the mountain god never spares the immortal elixir in the Taihao ruins. In Baoyu's opinion, the Qingshan patriarch and the water aunt can also each bring a handful of Langji fruit to eat slowly. However, the mentality of the Qingshan Patriarch Shui Gu is completely different, there are the ruins of Taihao, the mountain god dojo they have believed in since childhood, and the legendary immortal elixir does not belong to them.
The mountain god is willing to give Baoyu, which is the gift of the mountain god, but they dare not take the initiative to ask for this kind of thing, the value of which is difficult or even impossible for them to repay. The Qingshan Patriarch God is willing to give it, and the Qingshan Patriarch Shui Gu will also be grateful, but the Qingshan Patriarch God does not speak, and they will not take the initiative to make such an excessive request.
And the water aunt replied: "You have indeed become the lord of the city and have fulfilled your wish back then." You said that you would make a splash on the Ba Yuan and come back when you sat on the throne of the city lord. And if you remember my words, don't say anything about the city lord, I'll wait for you to break through the Six Realms to cultivate!"
Patriarch Qingshan: "Cultivation is not only about hard work, but also about fate, breaking through the six realms, no one can guarantee success, and there are too many people who are hopeless for life." Even if I finally break through the Six Realms one day, I'm afraid my days are numbered. β
Shui Gu turned around and said, "If you break through the Six Realms, you can cultivate the Essence Essence Recipe to perfection." At that time, you can still sit in the city of mountains and rivers, so why always worry about the things of the year and me back then?"
Patriarch Qingshan was a little anxious: "The reason why I am willing to become the city lord of Shanshui City, in addition to guarding the tribes, is actually the most important reason because of you - because of what I said to you back then!"
Shui Gu was a little angry and said, "I'm not the woman you used to prove your achievements...... Now that you've returned to the village safely, I'll go back to rest. After speaking, he floated away and left.
The Qingshan patriarch stretched out a hand in the moonlight, but did not hold her, so he had to sigh and walk into the village. After a while, Baoyu and Xiaotian came out of the bushes.
Xiao Tian looked confused, as if he was still thinking about the conversation between Patriarch Qingshan and Shui Gu just now. And Baoyu frowned tightly and said, "If Shui Gu didn't like the Qingshan Patriarch, she wouldn't have waited here in the middle of the night, but why did the Qingshan Patriarch wait for so many years?...... Patriarch Qingshan is so pitiful, no, I have to go to the mountain god and ask!"
Baoyu had something to do in his heart, he took Xiaotian into the back mountain overnight, and rushed to the Taihao ruins the next afternoon. As soon as he sat down on the white jade altar, he heard the laughter of the mountain god in the Yuan Shen: "Child, you are here for the Qingshan Patriarch Shuigu, right?"