Chapter 16: The Outside World
Learning a new language doesn't happen overnight, especially without any translation, and it's at least ten times more difficult than learning a foreign language like a baby, little by little.
Fortunately, Liu Xiu is not a baby, and his memory, comprehension, learning ability and perseverance are far beyond ordinary people, although it is very difficult, but under these premises, the time can be greatly shortened.
After several hours of difficult communication, Liu Xiucai reluctantly made the other party understand that he could stay here and slowly recuperate, and that he needed to learn the language from him.
Although the big man didn't understand why Liu Xiu wanted to learn the local dialect of the countryside from him, this did not prevent him from being excited in his heart.
The big man has not seen much of the world, and there are not so many twists and turns in his relatively simple head, and he only knows that it will be beneficial to have a good relationship with the hermit master in front of him, but he does not have a clear concept of what the benefits are.
Under the premise of language barrier, the communication between the two parties and its difficulties, everything starts with the name.
The big man's name is Luosang, of course, this is translated by Liu Xiu according to the pronunciation of the other party, the fact is that after the two sides and their complicated communication, Liu Xiu probably figured out that the other party's name of Luosang, Luo is the surname, and Sang is the name, but the pronunciation of Luo in this world means a color. Qing', Sang represents the meaning of stone, strictly speaking, the name of Lausanne should be called Qingshi in the words that Liu Xiu understands, through Lausanne's difficult description, Liu Xiu probably guessed that his family gave him this name because he wanted him to live as tenaciously as Qingshi.
Communication is complex, and understanding is even more painful, because without translation, it is likely that a little error will mean the exact opposite.
Liu Xiu also told his name to Lausanne, but the big man didn't think so much, just called Liu Xiu simply by pronunciation, obviously he was a little uncomfortable with the pronunciation of the word 'Liu Xiu', saying it was a bit like the feeling of crooked nuts on the other side of the earth speaking Chinese.
It was just a simple name introduction, and it took several hours for the two sides to communicate, although the process was very complicated, but it was a good start.
The day went by like that, and night fell.
In order to entertain the sick number of Lausanne, Liu Xiu specially made a delicious meal, a can of broth, a roast rabbit and a cold bamboo shoot.
It is worth mentioning that the bamboo shoots in the bamboo building not far from the bamboo building began to emerge, which added a dish to Liu Xiu's recipe, and Liu Xiu pondered taking advantage of the season to collect more to make sour bamboo shoots for storage, and with salt can greatly extend the shelf life of food.
When eating, Lausanne looked a little restrained, but when he tasted the first bite of roast rabbit meat, he was stunned, and then in Liu Xiu's stunned face, he stretched out his tongue and licked the rabbit meat with a shocked face, and looked up at Liu Xiu blankly.
"What are you doing? Eat," Liu Xiu said, and made a gesture of eating.
Immediately afterwards, Lausanne's expression became excited, he talked a lot, danced with his hands, and even shed tears as he spoke, looking at Liu Xiu with red eyes.
Liu Xiu frowned, really couldn't understand what he was trying to express.
Then after nearly half an hour of difficult communication between the two sides, Liu Xiu probably knew why he was so excited, on the one hand, because the other party ate such delicious food, and the biggest reason was because Liu Xiu put so much salt in the food.
Salt is incomparably precious to Lausanne, and Liu Xiu's almost violent approach is the reason why he is excited.
After figuring out the specifics, Liu Xiu casually pulled out a bamboo tube from the corner, showed the snow-white salt in it to Luosang and said, "It's just salt, I have a lot."
When he said this, Liu Xiu completely forgot how difficult it was when he was short of salt.
Seeing the snow-white salt that Liu Xiu took out, Lausanne was stunned again, and then he didn't eat anything, took the salt in Liu Xiu's hands with trembling hands, muttered in his mouth, hugged him deadly, and cried like the baby in the month.
Liu Xiu couldn't understand Lausanne's mood, and he didn't know that Lausanne had experienced the matter of paying several lives to protect a coarse jar of salt.
Table salt, to put it bluntly, for people like Lausanne, it is not limited to condiments at all, and in many cases it is even more precious than the food needed for survival.
Finally persuaded the excited and sad Lausanne, on the premise of not knowing the specific situation, Liu Xiu ate a little tastelessly, on the other hand, Lausanne, most of the food entered his stomach, and even the bones were chewed and swallowed......
After a meal, while Lausanne was a little embarrassed, looking at Liu Xiu's gaze was no different from looking at a fairy.
For him, Liu Xiu can cook with salt so unscrupulously, this is something he can't imagine, such a good salt, Lausanne has never seen it, he thinks that even the richest people he knows have never eaten such a good salt, right?
After a meal, the night was also late, Liu Xiu went to the second floor and fell asleep peacefully, while Lausanne tossed and turned on the first floor and couldn't sleep.
His simple head thought about a lot of things, such as what kind of person Liu Xiu was, such as where the salt in Liu Xiu's hand came from, and the fact that whenever he heard the howl of fierce beasts in the distance under the night, he felt terrified, and he didn't know how Liu Xiu survived here, even if Liu Xiu had already shown terrifying strength in front of him......
When he got up the next day, Liu Xiu routinely came outside the house to practice nameless body exercises, and Lausanne, who hadn't slept well all night, also got up, and when he saw Liu Xiu doing those strange movements, he subconsciously turned around and didn't look at it.
In his simple cognition, he subconsciously felt that Liu Xiu practiced something very profound, and this kind of thing was not something that people like him could covet at all, and he couldn't even look at it, in case he angered Liu Xiu, he couldn't bear the consequences.
Lausanne's performance Liu Xiu didn't take it to heart, and he didn't shy away from Lausanne when he practiced nameless body cultivation skills, if this set of body cultivation skills could be learned simply by looking at it, he wouldn't have to spend months pestering the old Taoist priest with a dead face.
The action of the body cultivation is not complicated, more than 100 actions to memorize carefully as long as you are not a fool can learn, the fact is that the essence of the whole set of health skills is a special breathing rhythm, which is the key, and also need to breathe with the action, there can be no mistakes, once wrong, not only can not 'nourish' but will harm yourself.
Therefore, if it is not taught by words and deeds, no one can learn this set of self-cultivation exercises just by watching, after all, it involves every movement and breathing, and the feelings that come from various places on the body.
After the self-cultivation exercises, Liu Xiu made food, finished cleaning himself, he had not used charcoal to clean his teeth for a long time, but replaced them with table salt, and the effect of cleaning his teeth with rough sticky salt was better than charcoal.
It is estimated that it was because he felt embarrassed to eat and drink in vain, and he wanted to help when he saw Liu Xiu doing things, but Liu Xiu refused, after all, it was less than a day since Lausanne woke up in a coma with a serious injury, even if Lausanne swore that he had no problem.
Is it easy for me to save you, if the injury is aggravated by helping, isn't it in vain?
Although Liu Xiu was busy, most of his attention was still on communicating with Lausanne, starting with a simple understanding of the world, grass, mountains and rocks, blue sky and white clouds, flowers and trees......
The same learning, Liu Xiu has a good memory, each thing is often two or three times after Liu Xiu can remember and pronounce accurately, and after the simple one, it begins to become complicated......
Time passed day by day, Liu Xiu's living environment was improving little by little, he transplanted flowers and plants after the fence was completed, then built a stone step pavilion, and then built a seat bench, bit by bit to create his own living environment.
After the initial difficult communication, Liu Xiu gradually became familiar with the language of Lausanne, with this premise, half a month after waking up from Lausanne, Liu Xiu was able to communicate with the other party simply.
I don't know if it's because of Lausanne's tenacious vitality or because of the ginseng tree at the beginning, Lausanne's injury has improved greatly in half a month, and he can help Liu Xiu do some things, which makes Lausanne's anxious heart stabilize a little.
As time passed, Liu Xiu found that Lausanne was often speechless and stopped, looking in the direction of the mountain, revealing uneasiness and eagerness in his eyes, which became more obvious the further he went.
A month later, Liu Xiu's residence has been basically perfected, barely meeting the requirements of his heart, and even dug a pond of dozens of square meters at the foot of the mountain, there is no cement, he directly used brute force to swing the trunk of the pond and smashed the bottom of the pond and the surrounding area solidly, the hardness is estimated to be no less than concrete, of course, such a solid may not be able to withstand the rain for a long time, Liu Xiu has no better way to do this.
During this period of time, Lausanne has been shocked by Liu Xiu's various performances again and again, not to mention hunting prey easily, just a few days ago, Liu Xiu directly uprooted a big tree that needed to be hugged from the ground, and this shock almost reached the peak in his heart!
After nearly a month of study, Liu Xiu has been able to communicate normally with Lausanne, and the residence has almost been completed.
There are some things that are time to be seriously inquired about.
What is the outside world really like?
Some time ago, because of communication difficulties, Liu Xiu deliberately avoided asking and did not ask, so as not to get inaccurate information, and now the time is ripe......