48. The Last Memories of the White Butterfly (19)
At noon the next day, Black Butterfly woke up with a splitting headache and sore limbs. On the table at the head of the bed are some snacks and spring water. She got up, drank some water, ate a few snacks, and looked out the window at the children playing in the open space ahead.
Black Butterfly opened the door and saw two maids sitting on chairs by the flower bed, and when they saw that Black Butterfly was awake, they came up to greet her. Black Butterfly asked, "Haven't they all gotten up yet?" ”
One of the maids replied, "Yes." After Brother Shao sent you back to rest last night, they continued to drink until the second half of the night, and it is estimated that they will not be able to get up until the afternoon. Our host has instructed you to wait until you wake up, and if you are hungry, we will bring you a little food and snacks first. ”
Black Butterfly nodded and said, "I don't want to eat dinner, you can just bring some more food and put it in the reception room in my room." ”
They said yes and turned away.
Black Butterfly went back to the room to wash up for a while, and when she came out, she saw that the food had been placed on the table, two meat and two vegetables and a bowl of sweet porridge. So I sat down and had a good meal, then went back to the room, took out the video ball from my bag, sat down cross-legged on the bed, and pressed the play button, only to see countless rays of light shooting out of the sphere, filling the entire room in a blink of an eye, forming a three-dimensional picture of continuous activity.
It was in a cave, and Black Butterfly saw a short old man with a white beard and a young human girl sitting in front of him, and a petite girl sitting next to her, and the old man continued to tell the story of the Yeti Kingdom......
The brothers Golden and Silver Pillars subdued the dryland dragon and led it out of the wilderness around the Cross Street to their great white boat by the sea. Because Guanghua, Li Ming, and Zhao Deng helped each other, they were also invited here.
Four or five giants had already come down from the ship, set up tables and chairs on the seashore, served food, and invited them to eat.
The three of them had never seen the giant's food, and they were all very strange, and when they saw seven or eight fist-sized purple fruits on the plate, they hurriedly took one of them and opened their mouths to bite it, and immediately felt that the flesh was delicate, sweet and sour, and very delicious. Then they saw a large piece of fragrant meat on a plate, and they didn't know what it was made of, and the three of them were not used to the giant's chopsticks, so they took a chopstick and forked the piece of meat to eat.
Jin Zhu and Yin Zhu couldn't help laughing when they saw that the three of them were like babies eating with their hands, and their sticky faces were covered with gravy.
Guanghua had eaten a purple fruit just now, and his stomach was already half full, and now he had eaten a few more pieces of meat, and he couldn't eat it anymore, so he drank the tea, pointed to the dry land dragon, the other two giants were feeding it with something, and asked Jin Zhu, "Do you want to take it away?" ”
Jin Zhu said as he ate, "Of course. The land of our giants is vast, and in addition to our giants, there are countless kinds of animals, and it is easier for the dryland dragon to survive there, not to mention its kind. ”
Although Li Ming and Zhao Deng were full, the first time they saw strange food, they still kept eating. Hearing Jin Zhu say this, Li Ming hurriedly asked, "You mean, there are many, many more dryland dragons as big as it are in your place?" ”
Jin Zhu nodded and said, "Yes." Although we haven't counted them in detail, there must be at least one or two thousand. This sentence shocked the three of them to their jaws, and it took a while to come to their senses.
When Yinzhu saw their appearance, he smiled and said, "In our place, the dryland dragons live in a large canyon, they are social animals, and they are all very docile. ”
"Still docile?" Zhao Deng shouted loudly.
Yinzhu smiled and said, "It was meant to be." We go to the canyon every spring to catch some dryland dragons, and they don't resist, so we put a hitch on it, and we go there, and they follow it. So, we have a couple of dryland dragons in every house and let them carry things or something. Like the oxen you call here. ”
Li Ming rolled his eyes when he heard this, and asked, "When will you go back?" ”
Jin Zhu said, "I'll go back tomorrow." ”
Li Ming asked again: "Won't you play here for a few days?" ”
Jin Zhu shook his head and said, "Recently, the relationship between our giant country and another country on the sea has been very tense, and war may start at any time, and our two brothers have come to retrieve the dry land dragon for future battles. There really wasn't time to delay this time. ”
Li Ming looked at Guanghua and Zhao Deng, and the two immediately understood what he meant, and said, "You want to follow them to the Giant Country?" ”
Li Ming asked rhetorically, "Don't you want to go?" ”
Zhao Deng said: "Of course I want to go!" Only Guanghua bowed his head and was silent.
Li Ming asked Guanghua: "Big brother, let's buy the things we need tomorrow, and ask them to bring them back to Taohu, we will follow the giant to meet the world, and come back in a year and a half." ”
Guanghua sighed and said, "In our Peach Lake, it is a big sin to go out without permission, not to mention that we are going overseas now!" I'm afraid that the elders in the village will know—"
Li Ming slapped the table and said, "It's a big deal to be locked up for a few years, what's so terrible about this!" ”
Zhao Deng also echoed and said: "That is to say, big brother, the three of us have always been born and died together, and if we want to go, we will go together!" ”
Guanghua thought about it and made up his mind, and said, "Okay! Ask them if they'd like to take us away. So he raised his head and asked Jin Zhu and Yin Zhu: "The three of us want to follow you to the Giant Country to see and see, is it okay?" ”
When Yinzhu and Jinzhu heard this, they both laughed and said, "What's wrong with this?" The people of our Giant Nation love to make friends the most! ”
The three of them were overjoyed when they heard this, and immediately discussed going to Cross Street early tomorrow morning to see what else could be procured, paid for it, and then asked Ergou to help, so that he could wait until the person looking for him came, and handed them over to transport away.
Not to mention that Guanghua, Li Ming, and Zhao Deng got on the giant's big white boat and sailed to the sea and the sea through the waves.
First of all, the people in Taohu who were waiting halfway through the way, and after a night, they didn't see Guanghua and the three of them turn around, so they chose the two to go to the cross street to find out the news. When the two men saw the ruins of the Cross Street, they were at first shocked and hesitated, until they saw a farmer walking towards the field, and they dared to come forward to inquire about the situation. The farmer gave a brief account of what had happened in the past few days. The two hurriedly ran to the street to look for Ergou.
When Ergou saw them, he detailed all the words that Guanghua had ordered, and then pointed to more than a dozen hemp bags in front of the store and said, "It's all here, you can move back." ”
Seeing this, the two had no choice but to go back and call the people to carry the goods away.
After returning to Taohu, the two reported that Guanghua, Li Ming, and Zhao Deng went to the sea country with the giant. The elders were so angry that they couldn't be angry, but unfortunately the three of them were not in front of them, so they had to wait for them to come back.
Who knew that this would be half a year, and there was no news from the three of them. Every other month, the village sends a man to the Cross Street to investigate. At this time, the cross street has been restored as before, the flow of customers is like a river, and business is booming. According to several fishermen who lived near the ferry, after the giant left, some people wanted to venture into the sea, but unfortunately the boat was too small, and every time it was beaten back by the wind and waves; The footprints of the giants, which could still be seen in the fields and at the ferry, were now washed away by the rain, and only the newly piled stone walls on the cliff wall of the North Mountain indicate that the giants had been here.
At this time, Sizihou was still alive, although he was already eighty years old. Suddenly, one day, he was moved by nostalgia, called Li Long and Zhao Lin, and said: "More than 40 years have passed, I don't know how Daqingshan is now?" ”
When Li Long and Zhao Lin heard this, they also missed their homeland, so they said, "Do you want to send a few people back to see?" ”
Sizihou nodded. So he called the village chief Zhao Gao. This Zhao Gao is the eldest grandson of Zhao Lin and the eldest brother of Zhao Deng. The three elders talked about the matter. Zhao Gaoyi pondered and said: "It's not impossible to go back to your hometown to visit, the premise is to keep it secret, otherwise if you leak the location of our Taohu, forty years of stability will inevitably come to an end." ”
Zhao Lin said to his grandson: "You pick a few loyal and clever people, follow our route to Taohu to the north, and when you arrive at Daqingshan, don't have direct contact with their people, just investigate in secret, and then report back when you find out." ”
Zhao Gao agreed.
Two days later, Zhao Gao selected four young people, Gao Yang, Gao Hong, Li Feng, and Zhao Sheng, to report to the three elders, and automatically asked Ying, wanting to lead these four people to Daqingshan. This trip originally needed an elderly leader, but the third elder agreed, and told him for a long time.
At dawn in the morning glow, the five men carried their bags on their backs and held steel knives to open the way, and walked north into the reckless forest. Because of the route drawn by the three elders, as long as they carefully identify the signs and trees along the way, they will not get lost and go to a dangerous desperate situation. The only embarrassment is that there is no path in the forest, it is overgrown with weeds, and one person in front needs to cut down the grass and thorns of the rush as he walks. The five people took turns to do this work, and at the end of the day, blood blisters were grinding out of their palms. Fortunately, they carried not only dry food, but also some first-aid medicines, which were easy to deal with, and there was no big problem.
In the evening, they set up camp by a stream, took out the flint and made a fire, cooked a meal, ate a hot meal, and lay down on straw mats to rest. At this time, the three of them were all excited, and the adventure made them all excited, and it was difficult to sleep.
There was no human language around, only the chirping of insects, birds, or the roar of a wild beast or two in the distance.
When it was daybreak, the five men had breakfast, filled the kettle, dug up the earth to cover the fire, and continued on their way north. Yesterday's pool of blood in the palm of his hand, although he was picked up with a needle, smeared with ointment, and then bandaged with a muslin cloth, but he held a steel knife and waved it, and at the end of the day, he didn't know that it had danced tens of thousands of times, and the blood blisters hurt like fire, and the blood stains oozed out.
In addition to the pain in the hands and tired feet, a place of flowers and plants in the forest appeared from time to time along the way, or an unknown fruit tree, all of which made these five people intoxicated, resting on the flowers and plants for a long time, or picking a fruit, and studying whether they could eat it together. In this way, every day you will encounter new foods.
That night, they cooked on a fire by a small river. Sleeping until midnight, Gao Yang felt pain in his abdomen, so he got up and walked into the woods next to him, and when he squatted down, he noticed that something flashed in the grass in front of him, and he didn't pay attention to it. When he had finished unfastening his trousers and was about to leave, he saw it again, this time clearly seeing a small fireball rising from the grass in front of him, dripping and spinning. Scared so that he screamed.
When Zhao Gao and the others heard it, they hurriedly picked up the steel knife and ran out with a torch, only to see Gao Yang standing there, his face pale and sweating profusely. Looking ahead, I couldn't help but be shocked: hundreds of fireballs rose from the grass, fluttering and fluttering......
It was a scorching summer, and although there was a cool breeze in the forest from time to time, the five of them were still scared to sweat like rain.