Volume I, Chapter 2
It turns out that there is a rule in this Warcraft Mountain Range, in the Warcraft Mountain Range, any human who breaks into the Warcraft Mountain Range will be chased and killed by all the Warcraft Mountains, but as long as they escape from the Warcraft Mountain Range and enter the grass like a dividing line, the Warcraft will stop, and the human Qiu will not commit any offense, and will never step out of the Warcraft Mountain Range, this is a rule that has been passed down since ancient times, all the Warcraft in the Warcraft Mountain Range, spirit beasts and phantom beasts must follow the rules, and no Warcraft has ever dared to violate this rule. There was a legend that this was the ancient god and the beast god in the Warcraft Mountain Range set the rules, if the Warcraft disobeyed, it would be surrounded and suppressed by the ancient gods, the Beast God in view of the survival considerations of all the beasts in the Warcraft Mountain Range, only agreed to such a rule, this is the reason why the Demon Wolf Beast chased here and did not dare to chase it out again, it is only one of the lowest existences in the Warcraft Mountain Range, how dare to disobey the will of the Beast God, even those Warcraft that have a lifespan of more than tens of thousands of years or hundreds of thousands of years of Beast King level Warcraft, they dare not do such a thing.
The boy knew that this demon wolf beast did not dare to chase after him, and after laughing, he said triumphantly to the demon wolf beast: "Do you think you won today? If I had a weapon in my hand, I would have killed you a long time ago, and if I took your crystal nucleus, I would have made you so arrogant." As he spoke, he raised his short sword and made a fierce expression towards the demon wolf beast, not knowing whether it was true or not.
The wolf beast stopped at the edge of the mountain and looked at the boy, but only counted the time, and without looking back, he burrowed into the mountain, and never saw his figure again.
The boy saw that the demon wolf beast had returned to the mountain, and he lost the smugness he had just now, and sat down on the grass with a thud, gasping for breath, running for more than ten miles, and counterattacking when he was in danger, even if he was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, he might not be able to do it, and it was indeed surprising that a teenager could do this. Rao is like this, the escape just now consumes a lot of physical strength, and it is already the limit to be able to support this.
The boy sat on the ground and gasped for a moment before gradually calming down, resting for a while, before taking off the basket on his back and checking the few medicinal herbs left in the basket. The back basket was originally full of medicinal materials, but because the claws of the demon wolf beast killed the back basket, when they fled, a lot of medicinal materials were scattered in it, and the rest was already less than one.
The boy counted the few remaining medicinal herbs, his face instantly fell, and he scolded without tears: "Damn stinky monster, it's not good to catch it, you have to catch my medicine basket, it's okay now, my harvest this day is gone." Oops, it's over, the three wisps are gone, and there is not a single one left. This damn demon wolf beast, dare to chase me, if it weren't for my ghost shadow step, I wouldn't have died in your hands today, and Liu Blacksmith, what kind of broken sword is this, even the demon wolf beast can't hurt it, and brag every day, saying that he is the most powerful forging master in the entire Bolica City, I bah, just this broken sword, almost killed me. If the sword is sharp, with my Xuanyu and Aoyue Sword Technique, how can I be afraid of that demon wolf beast. Blacksmith Liu, you wait for me, wait for me to go back, and see if I don't pull out all your beards. With that, he threw the short sword on the grass in disgust.
There are no other medicinal materials, but the boy has been looking for a day and found that there is not a single wisteria left, thinking that the wisteria must be a very high-grade medicinal material, which makes the boy so distressed. But now no matter how sad it is, it's useless, the herbs are lost, the demon wolf beast must not have gone far in the mountains, and the chase just now is not small, it is estimated that it will alarm other monsters, and now in such a situation, it is definitely impossible to go back to find medicine. Thinking of this, the boy couldn't help but be suffocated, and scolded the demon wolf beast again, before he relieved his anger and sorted out the remaining medicinal materials, the back basket was already broken and could no longer be used, the boy took out a gray square cloth from his arms, spread it on the grass, put the remaining sorted medicinal materials on the cloth, wrapped it, the boy did this, thought he was very tired, his body lay back, lay on the grass, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
After a long time, the afterglow of the sunset has been slowly spread on the grass, the boy just woke up and turned around, looking at the afterglow of the sunset, the boy said to himself, "It's been two days since I came out, and it's time to go back, and I don't know if Yan'er's stinky girl misses me." ”
The boy stood up, folded the cloth bag with the medicinal herbs into a bag, carried it behind his back, and looked at the gradually setting sun: "It's too late today, I can only go back to Uncle Lan's house for one night." ”
Twenty miles north of the Warcraft Mountains, Puri Village.
In the farmland outside the village, many farmers are taking care of the plants in the field, Puli Village belongs to the southernmost town of the Cangsong Principality, because it is surrounded by mountains, the water source is not very sufficient, the land is relatively barren, the harvest has not been very good, and the tax of the Cangsong Principality is relatively high, so Puli Village is still a relatively poor village.
The tax law of the Principality of Cangsong is relatively strict, whether it is farming or other operations, it is necessary to register in the place of ownership of each city, and each household pays 20% of the tax according to the harvest, and each household must collect the corresponding poll tax. Generally for the harvest is not good, or the family with a large number of people, such a tax is not able to pay, fortunately, the emperor of the Duchy of Cangsong is still open-minded, whenever there is a disaster year, the payment of taxes will be reduced accordingly, and for the demand for national strength, there are people who serve in the army or study in major colleges and universities, they will be exempt from the collection of poll tax, and Puri Village has been relatively stable these years.
At this time, it is already sunset, and the people who work in the fields are going home
A middle-aged man in his forties, carrying a hoe, walked from the field to the village, and on the way back, a fellow villager came up and said: "Lan Jiang, that little relative of your family has come here recently, right?"
Lan Jiang smiled innocently: "Well, I just came over." ”
The villager also smiled and said: "I haven't heard that your family has relatives outside, when did you come out of the little relatives, don't look at the small people, that guy, the talk is sweet, the whole honey mouth." By the way, what's that little guy's name?"
Lan Jiang also replied: "It's called Han Chen, who came from Mubao." ”
"What are you talking about? from the Wooden Castle? That's a long way away, we must be at least a few hundred miles away from the Wooden Castle. When the villager heard Lan Jiang's introduction, he couldn't help but be surprised, Puli Village is a small village, and it is rare for outsiders to come here, and even if there are, most of them are officials from Burika City who come down to collect taxes. I was also surprised to hear that the relatives of the Lanjiang family were from Mubao.
Lan Jiang raised his head and thought about it, before he said: "It should be more than six or seven hundred miles, and it is not very far, Xiao Han said, Mubao is the same as our Puli Village, it is within the scope of Burica City, and it belongs to the management of Burlica City. Besides, every time Xiao Han came, he came by beast cart, and it took more than three hours to arrive. ”
"You said he came by a beast cart? How can an ordinary person afford to sit on a beast cart, I have heard people say that it costs a lot of money to make a beast cart to sit on, and it is all charged according to the distance, and your little relatives came by beast cart in Mubao, and it costs a lot of money at that time, right? There are a few times the money for a beast cart is enough to buy a horse. The villager sighed when he said this.
Lan Jiang heard him say so much, and was a little impatient: "People can sit whatever they like, you can take care of others, and Xiao Han also said, this is far away, go out, if you can make a beast car, try to take the beast car, now the world is not peaceful, in case you meet robbers, horse bandits or something on the road, isn't that fatal? The beast car belongs to the official family, and there are guards on each beast car, and it is safe to sit in the beast car." ”
"That's right, there's nothing like this year, if you really meet robbers and horse bandits, then you can still live."
"Okay, I didn't say it, it's almost dark this day, our family Lanlan is still waiting for me to go back for dinner, I'll go back first." After Lan Jiang finished speaking, he ignored the villager and took a big stride towards home.
The villager lost someone to talk to, and he was also bored, so he went home silently.
Lan Jiang returned home, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw a boy in his teens sitting at the table, and said with a smile, "Xiao Han, you're back." ”
When the boy heard someone calling him, he turned his head to look at Lan Jiang and smiled, "Yes, I just came back, Uncle Lan, are you tired too?" With that, the boy stood up, filled the cup on the table with water, and handed it to Lan Jiang.
This boy was the boy who had just run away with the demon wolf in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, and he was sitting here at this time, without the slightest embarrassment of being chased by the demon wolf beast in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, and smiled gently.
Suddenly, a thin figure rushed in from outside the door and rushed straight towards the boy. Lan Jiang didn't react, the thin figure had already hugged the boy, it was a little girl in blue clothes, the girl looked quite cute, but the clothes were a little old, and the blue texture was gradually turning white. The girl hugged the boy's arm tightly, "Brother Han Chen, you are finally here, do you know it, I miss you to death." You don't even want me, and you don't come to see me for so long. ”
Han Chen was hugged by the girl, smiled on his face, stretched out his hand and touched the girl's head, "Xiao Lanlan, you really have no conscience, who said I won't come to see you, aren't I here now?"
Lan Lan pouted and looked at Han Chen with a pair of big watery eyes: "You also said that you haven't been here for a long time, and the last time you came here was when it was snowing, it's been a few months." ”