Chapter 28: Maps
After leaving Black Snake City, Wu Que crossed the mountains and mountains, and returned to the White Elephant City of the White Elephant Department first. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Although Grandpa Sha told him not to return to the White Elephant Department at the beginning, now that Black Snake City has been destroyed, there is nothing to fear.
It's just that the current White Elephant City is no longer the White Elephant City of the past.
Wu Que rode the big black, slowly walking through the ruins of the broken wall, the dark blood stains can still be seen everywhere, looking up, and not seeing the towering "Shenguang Tower" in the past.
The city is sparsely populated, and it is all newly populated residents.
Although the White Elephant City is dilapidated, there are still a lot of sturdy facilities to use, which has an irresistible attraction for humans who are always fighting against nature to survive, so in time, the White Elephant City will continue to flourish again.
Wu Que came to a simple stone field surrounded by a fence in the south of the city, and the stone field was full of scattered stones, but there was no figure in sight.
This stone field is where Wu Que and Grandpa Sha, Xiao Fei and other slaves lived and worked in the past.
Looking at the empty stone field, the shadows of Grandpa Sha and Xiao Fei flashed in front of him, and tears blurred Wu Que's eyes.
On the inside of the stone field, there is a long row of wooden houses, and at the far right end of this row of wooden houses is a stone house.
This stone house is the house where Grandpa Sha, Wu Que and Xiao Fei live.
Wu Que suddenly realized at this time: Why did the other slaves live in a simple and dilapidated wooden house that leaks wind and rain, but he, Grandpa Sha, and Xiao Fei live in a big stone house that can shelter from the wind and rain? Is it really as Scar Qi said at the beginning, that he is not a slave who digs Ying?
Wu Que jumped off the wolf's back and walked into the stone house.
The facilities of the stone house are extremely simple, with only three stone beds and a stone table, plus four stone benches and some stone chopsticks and bowls.
The warm animal skin quilt used on the stone bed to keep out the cold was gone, and only some dead grass and three lonely stone pillows remained.
Wu Que came to his stone bed, sat on the edge of the bed, picked up the small stone pillow on the bed, and tears flowed involuntarily.
This small stone pillow was made for him by Grandpa Sha with the stones outside.
Rubbing the stone pillow with both hands, Wu Que felt a slight strange feeling in his fingers.
He looked down and saw that the small stone pillow had broken a crack.
How did Grandpa Sha use a broken stone to make a pillow? Why is this stone pillow so light in his hand?
Doubts flashed from Wu Que's heart, he lowered his head, looked carefully, and found that the thin cracks on the stone pillow were neat and tidy, a total of three, like a lid.
He squeezed hard with his hand, but couldn't pick it out.
After thinking about it, he pinched the middle of the slit with his fingers and pumped it hard.
"Huh!" A delicate stone cover was pulled out of the stone pillow by Wu Que, and this stone pillow turned out to be a very hidden drawer.
A neatly rolled ball of animal skins, tied with straw rope, lay quietly in this stone pillow drawer.
Wu Que put down the stone pillow, took out the animal skin roll, and put it on his thigh.
He tried to untie the straw rope that tied the animal skin, but his hands trembled so much that it took a long time to untie the simple knot.
He spread out the skin rolls and laid them flat on the stone bed.
Obviously, this animal skin scroll is of the same material as the animal skin belt that Grandpa Sha gave him around his waist, and it should be from the same animal skin.
On the skin scroll is a huge painting with very little text.
Seeing the only six words on the animal skin scroll, Wu Que suddenly understood that this was not a painting, this was a map!
Because of the above six words, two locations are marked, one is: "White Elephant City".
The location marked by the other three words is: "Giant Mountain"!
Like a thunderstorm on a sunny day, Wu Que made a "buzz" in his head, and the whole person was stunned.
At this moment, Wu Que no longer had any doubts that he must have come from the place marked on this map: "Giant Mountain"!
He looked at the map carefully, not missing a single detail.
It wasn't until he had imprinted the map in his mind that he carefully rolled up the skin, tied it up, and put it in the bag that Morningstar had prepared for him.
When I looked up, it was already dark.
He ate some dry food he brought with him, drank some water in the stone pool outside, and then returned to the stone house, climbed onto his stone bed, rested his head on the small stone pillow made for him by Grandpa Sha, and fell asleep soundly.
This night, Wu Que slept very sweetly, until he was woken up by a bird chirping outside the window.
He jumped up, called the little black, rode the big black, faced the rising sun, and ran towards the south.
......
The journey was lonely and long, with dozens of sunsets in the blink of an eye.
Before sunset on this day, a majestic city appeared in Wu Que's field of vision.
When Da Hei saw the city, he was also very excited, and he ran wildly, and it didn't take long for him to run under the gate of the big city.
On the majestic city gate, two big characters are written in bright red colors: "South Wind".
The guards under the city gate did not dare to approach Wu Que and collected toll taxes from him, and watched him pass through the city gate and enter the city.
Wu Que asked Da Hei to slow down and walk slowly along the street.
There are many pedestrians on the street, and businessmen gather, which is very prosperous.
"Venison buns, freshly baked venison buns!"
"Millennial Purple Longzhi, it is definitely a thousand-year-old Purple Longzhi with full years and full months!
......
All kinds of strange things dazzled Wu Que.
"Sell maps, absolutely correct 'Giant Mountain' map ......"
Hearing this shout, Wu Que was stunned for a moment and turned his head to look.
It is a small street shop, and the wooden cabinets lined up against the wall are filled with various herbs and animal skins.
The lean shopkeeper was standing behind the window facing the street, waving the animal skin scroll in his hand: "Selling maps, absolutely correct 'Giant Mountain' maps, only this one, only this one......"
Wu Que turned the wolf's head and walked towards the store.
But someone was faster than Wu Que, and before he could reach the window of the shop, three strong men had already rushed over and firmly sealed the narrow window.
"We bought this map!" shouted the brawny man in the middle, with a peculiar accent.
"There is only one copy of the map, you want to buy it, one black money, and you won't accept black money with poor quality!" The lean shopkeeper held the animal skin roll in his hand high, for fear of being snatched away by these strong men.
The strong man next to him raised his hand and threw a black and shiny black money to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper took the black money, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the animal skin rolled into the hands of the strong man in the middle.
The three strong men bought the map, seemed to open it and looked at it, quickly put it away again, and left in a hurry, and soon disappeared into the crowd.
The lean shopkeeper watched the three of them leave, and when he turned his head, he suddenly saw a hideous black wolf standing in front of him, and he was so frightened that he stumbled and almost fell into the shop.
"Big black, he doesn't bite. Wu Que patted the wolf king's head and smiled at the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper patted his chest and looked at the thin Wu Que: "Little brother, what do you want to buy?"
Wu Que hesitated for a moment, then asked, "...... map just now?"
When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately smiled and knocked on his head: "It turns out that the little brother also wants to buy the map of the 'Giant Mountain'! ā
Wu Que nodded and said, "But what you just said is that there is only one ......."
"Shhhhh You see, this is it. Although this is a copy, it is definitely exactly the same as the one that was sold just now. Moreover, the price of this copy is also fair......"
"How much does it cost?" Wu Que interrupted the shopkeeper and asked directly.
"You see, this map is really the last one, and after selling it to you, I don't even have the last copy. The lean shopkeeper secretly glanced at Wu Que: "For the sake of you being so brave, little brother, I will only accept it, only accept it, and only accept your two black coins......
Wu Que took out two black coins from the bag given to him by Morning Star, threw them to the shopkeeper who was still chattering, and grabbed the beast skin scroll map in the shopkeeper's hand.
He unfolded the map on the windowsill and looked at it slowly.
The map is drawn in great detail, with place names such as "Giant Mountain", "South Wind City", and "Purple Dragon Swamp" clearly marked.
The more Wu Que looked at it, the more puzzled he became, and he said, "Hey, how is this map different from my map?"
The lean shopkeeper, who was counting the money, raised his head when he heard Wu Que's words, and said to him: "Little brother, I dare to pat my chest and guarantee that the maps of 'Giant Mountain' sold in several other places in the city are absolutely fake. I'm selling this, it's absolutely real. ā
Wu Que was stunned for a moment, and a thought flashed in his heart: "But they all said it was true." ā
The shopkeeper smiled: "The great Yuangu Yingshen said that as long as you have a sincere heart, even if you hold a broken stone to guide the way, you can reach the 'Giant Mountain'." ā