Text Chapter 1 Shen Xin
The Yunyao Mountains are separated from north to south and east and west, the forest is dense and I don't know the number of its species, there are ten thousand beasts, and I don't know how many kinds, there is no shortage of psychic, birds chirping, tigers roaring, wolves howling, dragons chanting endlessly. There are countless treasures of heaven and earth that people are looking for, and humans and beasts are fighting all the time.
It's just that one day, the mountains are unusually quiet, and the people who go into the mountains to hunt for treasure also feel very bored. I don't know how long it took, a ray of light gradually appeared in the dark clouds, and a loud voice came out: "Haha, Shen Tian old dog, you can't catch up with me, say goodbye to that bullshit ancestor for me, thank you for returning me to the Beidou Second Transformation Mirror." ”
In the glow, a huge fireball rushed straight to the ground and hit a large lake, which evaporated in an instant, and the misty water vapor overflowed, covering people's eyes.
"Ahem, mirror, it's okay, hey, reply to me. From the mist, you can faintly see an indescribably majestic figure half-kneeling, making a slapping motion.
"Don't shoot! Stinky boy, if you shoot again, it's really gone" The voice was a little sluggish, "The old man believes in your evil and takes you to break the barrier." ”
The figure touched his head, and his voice was a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, old guy, who would have thought that the ancestor of the family would be so discredited, this is also a temporary death." ”
Shen Xin, the nominal second young master of the Shen family, was actually a country child who was found by the elders of the Shen family out of nowhere, and was ready to be cultivated into a secret hand. Unexpectedly, the "East Window Incident", the elder was killed on the spot by Shen Di, the eldest young master of the Shen family. And Shen Xin is the one who exposed him, on the condition that he would return the Beidou Yin-Yang Mirror that belonged to him, but he was unexpectedly deceived by the old horseman, if he didn't have a good relationship with Shen Di and told him in advance, Shen Xin wouldn't have used this best strategy: let the mirror break through the barrier and escape with the help of Xuan Lei.
"Don't go quickly! The people and beasts in the mountains are coming this way, and there is such a big commotion, can you not be known? The sluggish voice said a little hurriedly.
"Understand, you fix it first, and I'll find a way to find materials to make it up for you. The figure stood up, looked left and right, and sped away toward the gentle part of the mountain.
A year later, at the foot of the mountain in the east of Yunyao, in the market of Xuanlan Town, a young man in hunting costumes stood behind a stall with a bamboo hunting bow on his back, and on the stall were the meat and viscera of various beasts that had been decomposed. The young man leaned against the tree, his eyes slightly closed, and the grass stalk in his mouth, looking leisurely. There is no regard for the customers who pick and choose from the stalls.
"Ah Shi, help cut the fat and thin wild boar. Two-two!" a cricket fisherman smiled and gestured two fingers. Although the wrinkled skin can kill flies.
Ah Shi, that is, Shen Xin, before Shen Xin was too seriously injured, fainted on the side of the stone bridge not far in front of Xuanlan Town, was picked up by a hunter, and took care of it, only then eased up, and when his body was a little better, he helped Orion go into the mountains to hunt and earn some property as a reward.
Shen Xin opened his eyes, smiled and nodded, took out a butcher's knife and aimed at the pork is a knife, a piece of semi-fat and half-thin wild boar meat is so good, through the weed stalk knotted knot and handed to the fisherman, the fisherman carefully took out nine copper plates from the waistband of his trousers and handed them to Shen Xin. Shen Xin took the copper plate and took out one of them to return to the fisherman.
The fisherman said: "Uncle Yu, I don't have much money, and I have always been taken care of by you." I'll give me more meat every time, I still know this, you keep this copper coin, don't give it to that stingy old ghost. "The fisherman's surname is Yu. And the stingy old ghost is the hunter who takes care of Shen Xin, no one knows what his name is, everyone calls him an old ghost.
Shen Xin didn't shirk it, just put all the money away, put it in the blanket on his shoulder, and stuffed the extra one in the waistband of his trousers. Lao Yu waved his hand, walked out of the town with pork, and hummed a little song in his mouth: "Shandong's Huze River is fresh, Shanxi's beast meat is tight, the beauties of Shannan are all over Guange, and the scenery in Shanbei is the best." The voice faded away.
Shen Xin shook his head helplessly, he has been here for more than a year, although he didn't understand the language at first, but he gradually learned the words here, mainly because this fisherman would hum an inexplicable little song every time, and if he listened to it more, he would be able to. Shen Xin usually pretends to be a dumb person, afraid of being recognized, but he pretends to be a little deeper, from a dumb person to a stupid goose with congenital defects.
Lao Yu didn't leave for long, and the only restaurant in the town, Yunfeng's shopkeeper, came to the stall, looked at the meat on the stall with two fingers, frowned and said a little arrogantly: "Tomorrow, I will send two adult Yunlu, the wild ones, the male and female ones, and the boy body, and they will be delivered before the time, understand." Shen Xin nodded. Xiao Er threw away a tael of silver, as if he was very disgusted with the smell of meat on his body.
Cloud deer is very common in the Yunyao Mountains, the main source of meat in the surrounding towns, as long as you understand a little bit of the living habits of cloud deer, you can raise a few at home, there are fewer wild ones, and there will be no less, but it is much rarer to be adults and children, and the meat quality is also the most delicate, unlike ordinary deer. Many wealthy people think that deer in this condition are the most healthy (aphrodisiac), so they will buy this deer everywhere.
As it approached noon, there were fewer people in the market, except for a few small vendors who usually set up their stalls. The meat was almost sold, with some minced meat and a few shaved bones without the slightest color. Shen Xin cleaned up and went back, and the temporary residence was in a thatched house outside the west of the town, which was built by the old ghost and Lao Yu for Shen Xin, and it was built next to the old ghost's thatched house, with an interval of less than a mile.
Returned to the thatched house, hung up the hunting bow, then poured all the money in the blanket on the table, counted it, except for the one or two pieces of silver, it was all copper plates, there were three strings of more than three, Shen Xin except for the copper plate that Lao Yu left for him, he put it back in the blanket, and went to the thatched house of the old ghost with the meat leftover.
knocked on the door made of bamboo boards, and saw a silver carp weighing about five catties hanging outside the door. A weak voice came from inside: "It's a stone, come in." Shen Xin went in. The furnishings in the house are very simple, with a square table and four benches, and two beds, but they are all a little old. On the south-facing bed by the window lay a woman, the wife of the old ghost named Gucci. Half-aged, I can see that I look good when I am young.
Gu Qi wanted to sit up, Shen Xin hurriedly went up to take a hand, put the pillow upright, and then let her lean on it, Gu Qi took a breath and said: "The old ghost and the child went into the mountains to hunt, and it is estimated that they will come back very late, Lao Yu just sent a very big silver carp, you can take it, I can't eat it." Shen Xin shook his head, hung the blanket at the head of the other bed, and removed the silver carp hanging at the door, the fish scales and viscera had been cleaned up, and only a belly full of fish roe remained.
The cooking utensils were built outside the door, and Shen Xin skillfully lit a fire and cooked a meal. In fact, the meals of the poor families are very simple, some wild vegetables and pickled vegetables, but there are more minced meat from Shen Xin and silver carp from Lao Yu. Soon, with the sound of cooking smoke and oil and the smell of rice, the three dishes and one soup were completed, the fire was still burning, and Shen Xin wanted to smoke the remaining fish to avoid wasting it.
The short-legged table was placed on Gucci's bed, and the milky white fish soup, emerald green wild vegetables, yellow and yellow caviar, and oily minced meat and pickled vegetable foam were presented in front of Gucci, and Gucci's index finger couldn't help but move, and he said helplessly: "You kid, although you are stupid, this meal is really good, come, let's eat together." ”
Shen Xin nodded, but instead of sitting on the edge of the bed, he poured a big bowl of rice with some fish soup and put some wild vegetables and pickles at the table and ate it in a big gulp. Gu Qi had long been accustomed to Shen Xin's approach, and he ate slowly, his movements were very elegant. After the meal, Gu Qi beckoned to Shen Xin: "Stone, come here, teach you some words today." "The writing culture that Shen Xin learned here was taught to him by Gu Qi, and it can be said that he is half a teacher.
In the evening, Shen Xin's stomach screamed, and he also heard someone shouting outside the door: "Mother, I'm back, Daddy had a good harvest today, and caught a wild adult male cloud deer." ”
Shen Xin got up and walked over to look at the door, outside the door, a middle-aged strong man led a cloud deer with white hair on his chest (the one with white hair was a boy), and next to him was a little girl with dark skin, whose name was Gu Qi Gu Die, Gu Die said happily: "Ah, it's Brother Shi." Look how good we are. ”
Shen Xin smiled and nodded, took the stag and tied it to a tree alone, got some plants for it to eat, and then began to cook dinner again.
At the dinner table, the old ghost asked, "Is that Erlaizi of Yunfeng going to let you catch Yunlu again?" Shen Xin nodded, and the old ghost continued: "How much did he give you? One or two?" Shen Xin continued to nod.
"It's really against him!" "It's really against him!" For no reason, the old ghost slapped the table, and the already fragile table let out a broken scream, and Gu Die was too frightened to speak, "Do you know that kind of cloud deer, a head can be sold for nearly a hundred taels at a price, how much does he give you in the end?" It would be good to pick three or four grams and deduct ten taels for you every time." What's the price? That's one or two more than the captive ones!"
Shen Xin was silent, and he didn't know how to answer this question, the old ghost continued: "In this way, there will be no market tomorrow, I will accompany you to the hotel to see how he justifies." ”
Shen Xin thought that the old ghost was just a hunter and didn't have any strength, so he shook his head fiercely, took out a piece of carbon and wrote on the table, "I'll go alone tomorrow." ”
The old ghost also knew Shen Xin's temperament, and he was stupid and easy to drill the horns, so he could only say helplessly: "Okay, if you can't help it in the future, just look for me, Erlaizi eats soft and is afraid of hard, and sooner or later he will eat it and spit it out." Shen Xin didn't know how to answer, so he had to nod his head to show that he understood.
The moon is in the middle of the month. Shen Xin got up from his cultivation, let out a long breath, and said to himself, "I can finally say something, but I'm about to suffocate me." "Went out and looked at the starry moonlit sky, stretched his waist, and quickly moved towards the direction of the Yunyao Mountain Range, if you want to say why Shen Xin is confident that he can catch such a rare Yunlu in such a short time, he has his own way.