Chapter 52: Nightfall
"Don't make a fuss, night is coming soon." Mu Xi sank the palpitation in his heart, pushed Fang Xu away and cleaned up very quickly, looked at Fang Xu who was flustered and angry after him, and scolded angrily, "Don't go and make the bed quickly." β
Fang Xu was so excited that he clasped his hands, "Deling..."
Although the bedroom is small, it is very warmly furnished, and it can be seen that every small decoration in the room is from Mu Xi's dexterous hands. In particular, the bed, the all-bamboo shelf, due to frequent wiping, each piece of bamboo strip is like every old object that has been played with for a long time, with a layer of topaz-like pulp on it.
This bed was a bit high, Fang Xu sat on the edge of the bed, and his feet couldn't reach the floor. After the monkey anxious Fang Xu collapsed on the bed, he rolled inside, tossing and turning and waiting for Mu Xi's arrival.
After a while, Mu Xi came, and as soon as his body reached the bedside, he was pulled in by Fang Xu.
"You really took the wrong medicine today." Before Fang Xu's mouth could get closer, Mu Xi blocked it, "You don't want to die?" β
He was about to attack again, but Mu Xi buckled a helmet made of bamboo strips on his head at the head of the bed, and then put on another one himself, lying on the bed in a regular manner, adjusting his breath.
I didn't know what the reason was, Mu Zhirong had a sleep disorder, Fang Xu was afraid that she would not be good for her body by taking too much medicine, so she found a way to regulate her breathing and fall asleep quickly on the Internet, Mu Zhirong really had an effect after practicing for a few nights, and Mu Xi used that way at this time.
Seeing Mu Xi gradually settle down, Fang Xu was so irritable! The restless hand teased her from time to time.
Mu Xi was annoyed, sat up and pulled down the four tent hooks at the head of the bed, and then four all-bamboo walls rose from the four sides of the bed and connected to the top of the bed before stopping.
"Is there any need for this, how can anyone eavesdrop?" Fang Xu said and surrounded Mu Zhirong with both hands, "Lady, it's a moment of Spring Festival..."
"If you want to die, continue your spring festival!" After Mu Xi finished speaking, he lay down in an orderly manner again, "It's all at Longyan Lake at night, and if you don't fall asleep, do you really want me to be widowed tomorrow?" β
Seeing that Mu Xi was very angry, not like he was joking with himself, Fang Xu asked with a straight face, "What kind of place is this, if you don't sleep at night, you will lose your life?" β
"Ah Xu, what's wrong with you?" Mu Xi forcefully laid Fang Xula, who was full of loss, to the side.
"No, we just re-sewed me too much?" Fang Xu followed Mu Xi's meaning and put on the helmet, "Zhi... Xi, where the hell is this? β
"Rushing water village, why do you seem to be a different person today......
"I mean this world is called..."
"Here, quick, go to sleep." Mu Xi blocked Shang Xu's mouth with his jade hand and closed his eyes himself.
At this moment, Fang Xu really calmed down, and a burst of sizzling sounds came from the east.
The sound is a bit like a high-voltage arc, very low, with infinite energy in it that makes people sound thrilling, and like the sound of the broom rubbing against the ground when the sanitation workers outside the window are sweeping the streets at dawn, and the sound is slowly getting louder as a sanitation worker sweeps towards the window little by little.
"This is..."Fang Xu asked softly after listening for a while, Mu Xi, who didn't want to pill on his wrist, let out a slight snoring sound.
After a long absence, Fang Xu was excited, where was there sleepiness, looking at Mu Xi who was sleeping in his hands at this time, how could this not be happiness?
Pulling the quilt and gently covering her, Fang Xu also closed his eyes, savoring this rare happiness, while he also wanted to see what the approaching voice was coming from.
The voice from the east was getting closer and closer, and at this time, Fang Xu felt like he was standing on the shore of the big sea at night, and the sound of the east was like waves in the dark, and it was like a wave in the dark, and it gradually came towards him.
Close, close. Fang Xu felt the sound from the east, and at this time they had reached the eaves on the east side of the house. Then he appeared in the kitchen outside, and some of the dishes in the room also made a slight noise due to the small vibration.
"What the hell are they?"
Fang Xu was curious, opened his eyes, and pulled a tent hook to lower the bamboo wall in front of the bed, and at this time, a light blue light film composed of countless tiny electric currents appeared on the bamboo wall on the east side of the bed, and then the light curtain broke away from the wall and moved towards their feet.
"Damn!" Fang Xu screamed in surprise.
The light film seemed to be alive, and after hearing Fang Xu's voice, it stopped moving forward, and countless small currents gathered in the middle of the light film, and then broke away from the light film, forming a ball of electricity that was about the size of a football, and it was almost floating back and forth against Fang Xu's body.
"Roll mines?"
When he was a child, whenever there was a rainstorm in the summer, Fang Xu would run to the second-story cabin of his family alone to watch the lightning in the sky hit the top of the high mountain in the east of the village.
The most spectacular time was at noon in the summer when Fang Xu was six years old, when sunlight leaked out of the clouds, inlaying the thick black clouds with a layer of gold. An arm-thick bolt of lightning descended from the layers, connecting the heavens and the earth like a golden ribbon. After this lasted for two or three seconds, suddenly a lightning sphere the size of a basin descended on the top of the mountain, and an earth-shattering loud noise shook the small cabin where Fang Xu was almost collapsing.
was so frightened that Fang Xu sat on the ground, and from that night, Fang Xu's bleeding in the toilet began to appear.
After the rain stopped, Fang Xu rode on his father's shoulder and went up the mountain with the villagers to see the situation.
There is a natural lake at the top of the mountain, which was formed by the perennial accumulation of water in the crater. The thunder nearly blew the lake near the village. You must know that even the lowest ground at the top of the mountain is more than 30 meters higher than the lake, and the side of the lake near the village is the highest point on the top of the mountain, and the edge can be more than 100 meters from the lake.
And after that thunder blast, the lake almost burst its bank near the village, which shows how terrifying the energy contained in that lightning sphere is.
At this time, although the lightning sphere in front of him was not as big as it was back then, if it exploded, Fang Xu and Mu Xi's lives would definitely not be saved.
At this time, the current sphere was in a delicate state of equilibrium, and Fang Xu did not dare to make a large movement. He gently pulled his hand out from under Mu Xi's head, then poked her awake and motioned for her to leave.
As soon as Mu Xi saw the current sphere, he immediately kicked Fang Xu off the bed. At this moment, the sphere became bigger like a soap bubble and enveloped Mu Xi, and at the same time, the light curtain that had just stopped in the east moved forward, and then adsorbed Mu Xi on it and accelerated sharply to the west. After passing through the bamboo wall, it instantly pushes towards the west wall of the house, and finally disappears.
"Zhirong..."
Fang Xu shouted, then rushed out of the house, ran to the west of the house, and saw that the entire heaven and earth were connected by a layer of light curtain with countless electric currents, and it was like a dragon rain in summer with a low roar rushing to the west. And on the light curtain, there were bright spots one by one, and in the nearest bright spot, Fang Xu saw Mu Xi's figure.
"Hurry up and stop Lao Tzu..."Fang Xu ran barefoot on the ground, desperately chasing the light curtain heading west.
When the light curtain left the water village, Fang Xu was still in the middle of the village.
Due to his unfamiliarity with the road conditions in the village, Fang Xu accidentally stepped on a small pothole and fell, broke his foot, gritted his teeth and got up and ran a few steps before falling to the ground again. fell all the way to the entrance of the village, Fang Xu was already full of injuries, and his ankles were swollen like overgrown northern steamed buns.
"Asahi boy, don't chase anymore." The farmer who had greeted Fang Xu by the pond before picked him up and grabbed him firmly, "You can't catch up with the night." β
"I don't care..."Fang Xu struggled to break free from the farmer's hand, just ran a few steps forward and fell to the ground again.
Then the farmer caught up and stopped him, but he didn't seem to be able to hold it back for long. So he shouted, "Has anyone woken up, come and help me save Boy Xu." β
As soon as he shouted, the windows of every house in the village lit up one after another, and two men in the nearby room jumped out of the window, shouting and running towards Fang Xu and the others.
After a while, Fang Xu was held up by several big men and couldn't move anymore. After everyone saw that Fang Xu was quiet, they comforted Fang Xu one after another.
"Uncle Min, can you give me saliva to drink?" Exhausted, Fang Xu drooped his head and begged.
Uncle Min is the farmer, Fang Xu made a mistake just now, he was not lightly injured, and at this time his nose and face were swollen, "Don't make a fuss anymore?" β
"No..."
After a scoop of cool underwater belly, the last bit of anger in Fang Xu's heart was also suppressed, and he turned into a rational Fang Xu again, "Where are you going to take Mu Xi that night?" β
As soon as these words came out, many young people leaned forward, and it seemed that they didn't know it, and they pricked up their ears one by one.
"Thisβ" Uncle Min turned back to a white-haired old man with a questioning look.
"Say it!"
"But the rules of the ancestors..."
The old man, supported by a young man, sat on a stone and rested his chin on his cane with both hands, "God has put the demons outside the sky to use me as a plaything, and we don't have to... Defend again... I kept the rule. β
"Yes..."
"Everyone, look up," Uncle Min pointed to the sky, "what do you see?" β
"The Moon."
Yes, a full moon of fifteen, but not the light of fifteen nights. There was not a single cloud in the sky, nothing but a lonely moon.
"How can there be no stars?" Fang Xu was surprised.
"What are the stars?" Not only those young people, but even Uncle Min also asked Fang Xu this question. This made Fang Xu even more surprised.
"Min Hao," the old man pointed to the moon with his staff, "let's talk about it first!" β
"Our ancestors fled to this world with God. Before they came, there was no heaven and earth here. To be precise, there is only the earth, not the sky. Later, everyone kept hitting the dirt around them, and the sky was beaten out little by little, but it was dark. God Yu transformed the Shenzhou they fled to become the sun and the moon. β
"This is simply another version of the myth of Pangu opening the heavens and splitting the earth!" Fang Xu shook his head, "What about later?" β
"Then the sun and the moon will soon have problems. Sometimes the moon is brighter than the sun, and other times the sun is as dark as the bottom of a pot. So God divided our ancestors into two parts, and sent them to the north and south ends of the earth. When they found that the moon was going to get hot, the people of the south drove the waters of the earth southward, and when the sun was about to darken, they moved the stones that had been carved out of the places to the north. In this way, the sun and moon stabilized. The ancestors in the south became the water chasing clan, and the northern ones became the back stone clan. β