"Ah Qi, you said that Engong is fine, why haven't you woken up this morning? Will it fall on the head? ”

"Oh, don't worry, Great Elder, I shouldn't be mistaken, Engong's pulse is stable, and it is estimated that he will wake up in a while and a half."

"That's good, that's good. Well, let Engong meditate, everyone go out first, and I'll just wait alone. Also, Eleven, go prepare some hot water and wait for Engong to wake up and wash up. ”

Dr. Mao Bowen did not have any injuries on his body, and after sliding down from the north peak, he fell directly into the rattan bed that everyone had already laid out, but he was frightened and fainted for a while.

This night, he slept so soundly. At this time, he still held the elf in his hands in his dreams.

"Birds, birds, or I won, haha, hahaha......"

Maybe he was woken up by his own laughter, maybe it was the sound of people talking that disturbed him, but he woke up after all.

Dr. Mao slowly opened his eyes: it was a small cabin, and an old man with white hair and long beard, obviously much older than himself, sat beside him, his brows were furrowed, as if he was napping, and it seemed that he had been waiting by his side, looking tired. Dr. Mao scanned the entire room, which was very simple and quaint. Sniffling, I could feel the fragrance wafting in from the wooden lattice window, and the fragrance seemed to bring me back to the wheat field of my hometown, under the melon field.

This sackcloth, this antique, if not heaven, is definitely not hell.

"Didn't you fall to your death? This dude saved me? Dr. Mao was suspicious, could it be that he really inadvertently intruded into the zero-dimensional space that mankind had not yet discovered? That's the topic I've dreamed of solving in the past ten years. By the way, the notebook was still left on the cockscomb ridge, and I wanted to ask the old brother and couldn't bear to disturb his rest, so he gently supported the edge of the bed and bent down to get up. Unexpectedly......

"Eun Gong, you're awake." "Old Engong, are you awake?"

After looking at each other, they all laughed happily.

At this time, the people outside the window also heard Dr. Mao's voice, some surrounded the window, some squeezed in the door, some clapped their hands and stomped their feet, some twisted their waists sharply, and some shouted enthusiastically, excited beyond words.

"Old Engong, why do you call me Engong? Where am I? Dr. Mao got up and helped the Great Elder up, and the old man smiled without saying a word.

"Engong, and go out with the old man."

Walking out of the wooden door in the middle of the room, bypassing the hall, it is the main gate, and when you walk out of the main gate, you only feel the soft glow rushing towards you. So the world outside the door was all opened in front of Dr. Mao, and in the next two days, he fully appreciated the strangeness of this place, which was really indescribable.

What kind of world is this? It is definitely a world that is unimaginable even in a dream: there is an island everywhere, an island suspended in the air for unknown reasons and forces, the area is not large, the radius is less than forty kilometers, from a distance it is a hill around a continuous floating island, a small river is surrounded by the foot of the mountain, and the connection between the river and the nearby fields is an artificially built embankment, on which the green willows are weeping, graceful; Nearby, paddy fields and dry land, intersecting; Closer, the house traffic, neat and smooth, bamboo forest lotus pond dotted among them, green leaves swaying, sparkling, more and more eye-catching. Looking at the four wildernesses, there are trees and forests, but they are not towering; There is a strange fragrance of flowers, and it is not indiscriminate; There are birds shuttling, threes, threes, twos. All kinds of things, quiet and natural.

If that's all there is, it's not surprising, and standing on the highest point of the floating island, here is a hill near where the sun rises, and the mountains here are neither high nor steep. The highest place is 30 meters up and down, there is a pavilion on it, the stone table and stone couch in the pavilion are complete, from here overlooking the whole island, the scenery is in full view. The most incredible thing is the wonder outside the island.

Around the floating islands, there are nine small islands with strange colors, which are also suspended, and the reason why they are said to be strange is because these islands have different colors from a distance, some are green, some are purple, some are verdant, some are fiery red, and some are golden and dazzling. Under the fog shroud of clouds and mountains between the archipelago, it looks particularly mysterious.

If Dr. Mao Bowen is just a lucky visitor to visit here, then this old elder is definitely a respectful master, the two sit cross-legged on the stone couch in the pavilion, and there is a chessboard engraved on the stone table in front of the couch, there are eleven horizontal and vertical chess, Dr. Mao is also good at this way, but this is a little different from the modern chess that he is familiar with each of the nineteen horizontal and vertical chess, and he is happy to face the battle.

After the middle game, Dr. Mao had the upper hand, and his body and mind were suddenly quite relaxed.

"Old man, I have always had something unclear in my heart, can you tell me clearly?"

The Great Elder smiled: "It's okay to talk about it. I must know everything, I must know everything, and I can't say anything. ”

"I think it must have been the old man who saved me from the mountains, why do you call me Engong again and again?"

"Engong's surname is Maohu?"

"Exactly, why does the old man know?"

The Great Elder's face was condensed, and his expression was full of sorrow:

"Engong and don't be surprised, this matter is a long story, and listen to the old man carefully: this is called Qinjia Village, we are all descendants of the Qin Dynasty, the tyranny of the King of Qin, the ancestors have the fate to live here, it is more than 2,000 years before and after, but the day of the death of the village is not far away, and I hope that Engong is willing to help and solve the misfortune of 367 people in my village. Lao Er bowed here first. ”

When the Great Elder finished speaking, he knelt down. Dr. Mao hurriedly got up and stopped:

"Why is the old man like this, what a misfortune, come quickly. I swear by the sky that I will do my best. ”

"Kindness and righteousness, the old man is very comforted." The Grand Elder leaned over and sat still. Still holding the chess pieces in his hand, he said as he spoke: "I wonder if Engong is still used to resting these days, and he is uncomfortable with his diet?"

Dr. Mao saw that the elder was still inexhaustible, and his face was unhappy but it was not easy to show it, this Qinjia village people like to eat miscellaneous grains, not meat, only the fish soup is delicious:

"Eat well, sleep well, very good, very good." When the chess pieces are settled, they can't help but be a little impatient, and the situation turns from strong to weak.

"Well, that's good, that's good, the people in my village are hospitable, I don't know if Engong will find out?"

"Discovery? This, the villagers are simple and masculine, of course you can see it, you can see it. ”

Speaking of the word masculinity, Dr. Mao suddenly realized that most of the people who went out in this village were men in their prime of life, few women, and some were over thirty years old, and as for children and teenagers, no, not a single one. Thinking of this, his brows furrowed. Seeing that the great elder also twisted his beard and his head, he was silent. Could this be the old man's call for the death of the village? couldn't help but look solemn for a moment.

I don't know if I was fascinated by the fairyland outside the island, or I was puzzled by the mystery of Qin's life, and finally I couldn't concentrate. In the end, although he tried his best to save it, the Great Elder pressed forward step by step, hey, he still lost a few glances, but looking at the Great Elder who seemed to be very satisfied, he smiled:

"The defeat of Engong is not the defeat of chess, but the heart of the world and abandonment. As the so-called trade-offs have a way, today the grace of the public chess and the love outside the sky, but want to travel outside the world? ”

"Out of the world?"

"Don't you want to do it?" The Great Elder was stunned and couldn't help but sigh, "For thousands of years, my generation has rarely met a living person. There is a record in the chronicles that 1,600 years ago, there were two scholars who strayed in here, one said that his surname was Tao, and the other said that his surname was Liu, and they were both humble gentlemen. Our ancestors were hospitable and treated very kindly, and both of them showed their hearts and wanted to travel to the outside world, but they could not make the trip. Now that Engong is here, I thought I had this wish, but it seems that it was a fallacy of the old man. ”

Dr. Mao was speechless in surprise, listening to the meaning of the Great Elder, more than a thousand years ago, there were people who had this opportunity, but unfortunately there seemed to be no record in the historical materials. And I am more fortunate than them, I can't miss a trip out of the world!

"The old man's hospitality is hard to resist, I don't know when I can leave?"

"This"

Unexpectedly, although Dr. Mao lost, he won an opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the Great Elder agreed to take him around the ten islands outside the island. traveled all over the ten islands in a row, which was an opportunity that even the people of Qinjia Village never had. This can be regarded as a lost harvest of mulberry elm.

Being in a foreign land, I have a lot of thoughts. On this night, Dr. Mao secretly speculated that it had been three days since the day of the fall from the north cliff of Jiguanling.

On the fourth day, the Great Elder took Dr. Mao and the sixth uncle of the clan (the people of Qinjia Village are named after the number of the child's birth, starting from the birth of the first child, if other parents in the clan also have children born, the name can be in the back row in turn), the thirteenth uncle (the same age as Dr. Mao, and the body is also very strong) and other people set off from the left bank of the island and went to Zhidao for the first time. Through the tutoring of the Great Elder the night before, Dr. Mao had a basic understanding of the nine floating islands.

These nine outer islands are: Zhi Island, Li Island, Water Island, Fire Island, Jin Island, Mu Island, Iron Island, Ri Island, Moon Island and Qingong Island, and the central island on which the villagers of Qinjia Village live is called Tudao (commonly known as the main island). These eleven floating islands are closely related, all of them move around the sun externally, and they all revolve around the earth islands internally (this is very similar to the relationship between the earth and the moon, except that the earth only has one moon of the moon, and it is so far apart, and it is controlled by each other's gravity, so it is only similar), because the ten islands run around just three sunrises, this process is very regular, and the ancestors of the Qin family created their own time according to this law - Qin Shi. If the island that runs between the sun and the earth island is basically in a straight line with the two during the day, then it is named after the island that runs on it. In this way, the time of the day is divided into 20 equal parts, each equal part is 1 Qin hour. (This is a bit different from Dr. Mao's well-known day divided into 24 equal portions, each equal part is one hour.) There is no moon here, the time of a day is calculated completely according to the rotation of the earth island, and the time of the year is determined according to the rotation of the earth island, and the difference between the earth and the earth is that the year here is not divided into 12 months, but 10 months, which is named after the roundabout, which is called the Zhiyue, the power month, the water moon, the fire moon, the golden moon, the wood moon, the iron moon, the sun and the moon, the double moon and the Qin Gong month, the month is 36 days, and the last Qin Gong month is 5 days more, adding up to just 365 days. Even the law of a leap in four years is the same, every four years, there is an extra day in the bi-month, which is 366 days. All of this amazed Dr. Mao. What's even more strange is that it is warm like spring all year round, and the climate characteristics are better than Hainan's.

If it comes, it will be safe. Dr. Mao was full of fun, and he had long coveted the beauty of these nine outer islands. Now is the right time to find out.