Lotte felt as if his clothes were on fire, and he slapped them as he searched everywhere. But looking around, there was a sea of fire all around, he couldn't see anything, and the smoke was so thick that he wanted to cough, but he couldn't cough it out. He felt his skin scorched and his blood seemed to evaporate.

"Are you going to die?" Lotte licked her chapped lips.

"Grandpa is going to celebrate his birthday tomorrow? His illness ......" He has no strength to move, he doesn't feel scared in his heart, more regret, grandpa's midnight illness is getting worse and worse, his prescription is almost over, he died like this, what should I do with grandpa's illness? Grandpa should be so sad to know that he is dead!

"And does the nose and nose be sad? Will it cry......" After all, he is only eight years old, he has been tossing for too long, he has no strength, and now he is tired and just wants to sleep.

Suddenly, a clear spring fell from the sky, and the fire was extinguished, and he gulped it down, and every cell in his body seemed to leap with joy. When he opened his eyes, he saw a tall figure with a long nose spraying him with spring water.

Lotte smiled, touched his head, the green bag on his head felt obvious, and moved his arms and legs again, feeling that he was not injured.

I thought about it: just now he waited for the female golden crow to fly away to forage on the fork of the tree under the golden crow nest, and waited for several hours, after the female golden crow flew away, he was just about to reach out to get the eggs in the nest, and suddenly he was dizzy, hungry and thirsty and weak made him fall from the tree more than 20 meters high in an instant.

If it weren't for the fact that the vine had withstood some descending force, it is estimated that the injury would not have been as simple as fainting and leaving a green bag on the head.

But despite his injuries, he was very happy, and the scenes and worries in the dream did not appear.

The immortal elephant, whom he called Nose Nose, kissed him affectionately on the face with his nose, and let out a happy "woo" sound from his mouth.

"Thank you, Nose Nose! You saved me!" Lotte stroked the Immortal Elephant's ear with his hand.

The nose squints, and the nose raises to the sky, making a loud cry.

"Nosenose, where did you find the water? find some more, I'll drink some water, rest for a while and quickly go and take down the eggs," he patted the little elephant on the cheek.

With a roar, he disappeared into the forest in an instant.

An hour later, the Immortal Elephant rolled Lotte up the fork of the tree with his nose and watched nervously as he slowly climbed up.

After a while, Lotte excitedly shouted "Success!", and the immortal elephant happily flicked his long nose and watched Lotte slowly climb down the tree.

The sun had already set in the west, and Lotte said goodbye to his nose and ran to the small mountain village where the smoke was curling at the foot of the mountain.

The small mountain village is called Changsheng Village, the surrounding rolling mountains are called Changsheng Mountain, and a river with turbulent water on the east side of the village is called Changsheng River.

In Lotte's memory, it seems that there are many things named after Changsheng: Changsheng Elephant, Changsheng Lotus, Changsheng Tree, Changsheng Mushroom...... , and even the children of dozens of families in the village are named after longevity.

Perhaps the naming of Changsheng brought real luck, and in his memory, in the village, except for the loss of two lives due to hunting, he had never seen old people who died of natural causes, and the people who were often called grandfathers were more powerful than young men, and the amount of food was amazing.

It seems that no one in Changsheng Village has ever been out of Changsheng Mountain, and the entire mountain village is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and the river on the west side of the village flows to the foot of the mountain on the north side, plunging into the mountain and disappearing without a trace.

There have been attempts to climb mountains to see the outside world, but no one has succeeded. There are also people who try to figure out where the Changsheng River is going, and they have tried various methods, but in the end they have not returned.

People eventually accepted this closed life, hunting, netting fish, male farming and female weaving, and they were also leisurely.

When Lotte arrived home, his grandfather was cooking, and he looked at his grandfather from a distance, and his nose was a little sour.

Grandpa is different from other crane-haired and child-looking old people in the village, grandpa has gray hair, deep wrinkles, and a very hunched back.

Especially grandpa's strange disease, which attacks every 10 midnight. Lately, Grandpa has tied himself to the pillar of his room in advance every time. Later, the process of grandpa's illness made Lotte very painful and uncomfortable, but there was nothing he could do. Grandpa would bite a wooden stick, and the sharp pain from somewhere caused his facial features to displace, sweat like rain, and finally the wooden stick would be bitten into two pieces.

In the past few years, my grandfather didn't have to tie himself up, and the pain lasted only a few minutes, but recently it took more than half an hour every time. After the illness, my grandfather was like a serious illness, paralyzed like mud.

Lotte asked many times, "Grandpa, what kind of illness are you, why don't you let the patriarch show it?"

Grandpa touched his head dotingly every time and told him that it was a "long illness", and he didn't let him ask the patriarch. But every time he saw his grandfather suffering from illness, his heart was like a needle prick.

He hasn't seen his parents since he can remember, and he's always been dependent on his grandfather. Every time I asked my grandfather where his parents were, he always told him that he was an immortal child, that Changshengshan was his father, and that his mother was Changshenghe.

He also secretly asked the patriarch, and the patriarch also said that what his grandfather said was true. After asking a few times, Lotte stopped asking, because after every time he asked, he felt that his grandfather was very sad, and although he hid it well, Lotte could still read it in his eyes.

Grandpa's illness has always been on Lotte's mind. He saw that his grandfather was sick some time ago, and his back was even worse, so he couldn't help but ask the patriarch. After hearing this, the patriarch sighed, shook his head, and looked at Lotte's expectant eyes, and the patriarch told him: If grandpa eats a hundred bird's eggs on his birthday, he will be cured.

Although Changsheng Mountain is towering into the sky and there are many varieties of beasts and birds, finding a hundred kinds of bird eggs is tantamount to a fantasy for an eight-year-old child.

Not to mention that there are many cliffs on the mountain, poisonous insects, and wild beasts, even the birds themselves are extremely fierce.

There is a kind of bird called phoenix tail feather on the edge of the cliff, and the wings are spread out for more than ten meters, which can catch wolves and fight tigers. Other birds of prey, such as the mountain falcon and the wind and white wolf, are also strong and belligerent, and even adult hunters have a headache when they encounter them. The birds of Changsheng Mountain may be huge in size and strong and warlike due to the need for survival.

The patriarch's words that originally planned to let Xiao Lotten retreat made him very excited, after all, grandpa's illness finally had a solution, and after going home and falling asleep, he woke up laughing several times at night.

As soon as the morning dawned, Lotte ran to the mountain and called his friend Nosenose to look for the eggs.

Nosenose is Lotte's best friend in the mountains, and Lotte will miss him if he doesn't see each other for a few days.

And the nose is also very young, only in the teens, in the long life of the immortal elephant, it is equivalent to a human child of a few years. He especially likes Rakuten because he understands what he says, and Rakuten can understand a lot of animal language.

With the help of Nosenose, they have a thrilling journey that seems impossible for others.

Until today, when the eggs of the golden crow were gathered, Lotte was finally relieved and looked forward to the happy moment of eating the eggs of the hundred birds and removing the disease on Grandpa's birthday tomorrow.

The sound of pushing the door made Grandpa raise his head and see Lotte, his eyebrows furrowed.

"Where are you going? Are you going to play with baby elephants again?"

"Grandpa, his name is Nose and Nose, and he has told you many times" Lotte has some opinions about Grandpa's name regardless of Nose and Nose.

"How did you meet?"

"Grandpa, why did you forget again? Once on the mountain, I saw Nose and Nose lying on the ground, his nose and mouth were foaming at the mouth, and his eyes looked at me, very pitiful. I felt as if he had eaten something poisonous, so I fed him the juice of the Nine Leaves and the Immortal Tree leaves, and the dried red ant eggs according to the method you taught me, and took care of him for another day, and his nose and nose were fine. ”

"Grandpa is getting old, and his memory is getting worse and worse" Grandpa sighed as he touched his head with his hand.

"Grandpa is not old, didn't you say that everyone in Changsheng Village can live forever?" Lotte looked at Grandpa, feeling very sad, Grandpa's memory has declined greatly recently, such as the twenty-seven kinds of herbs that have been eating for him, and there are several that are always different from before.

"Grandpa will be fine tomorrow after eating a hundred birds' eggs," Lotte thought to himself.

Dinner was very simple, one meat and one vegetable, the meat was Changsheng rabbit meat, the roasted brown and oily, and the vegetarian was a soup dish mixed together with 27 kinds of plants that Lotte had been eating since he could remember. This kind of mixed dish is extremely bitter, but after eating it for so many years, he now tastes it like a glutton.

In fact, Grandpa didn't know that Lotte himself could find these herbs, but some herbs were produced on the edge of the cliff, and some grew at the bottom of the Changsheng River, and he couldn't reach these places at all.

Several herbs that have been going wrong lately, such as Changsheng Silver Herb, Thousand Silk Blue Lotus, Ten Thousand Wind Soul, and Aolu Iron Peony, etc., are all varieties that are extremely difficult to pick at the bottom of rivers or cliffs, so although Lotte knew that the types of herbs had changed, he didn't tell his grandfather.

After eating, he read under the fish fat lamp, and he remembered how many books he had memorized in the past few years, and there were sixteen books in his hand now.

The content of the book is jerky and difficult to understand, and when he reads it at first, it is particularly difficult to memorize, so he is occasionally lazy, but when his grandfather finds that he has not memorized it or has made mistakes, he will be very angry, and even how high his beard will rise.

Thinking about his grandfather's illness and his care for himself, he blamed himself for his laziness, and worked harder, and now he can memorize the sixteenth book word for word.

But after reading the book, his grandfather didn't give him any more books, and he was afraid that his grandfather would be embarrassed, so he didn't ask. In the past few months, he has read these books from the beginning, and he seems to understand something, but he can't grasp what it is, let alone explain it clearly.

Grandpa went back to his house and maybe went to sleep, because after the attack of midnight sickness, he could barely sleep in the second half of the night, so he slept very early every day.

Last time, because it was too uncomfortable to see grandpa from outside the door, he rushed in to take care of grandpa, but grandpa's eyes were scarlet, and he yelled at him, and the wooden sticks fell down, and he was so frightened that he ran out quickly.

The next day he found that his grandfather's lips were bitten and had a deep wound, and he never dared to go in again, because he was afraid that his grandfather would bite his tongue and endanger his life.

Lotte secretly opened the wooden cabinet in the room, put the golden crowfinch eggs in it, and then carefully counted them, exactly one hundred.

Every time he went to the bird's nest to get eggs, Lotte only took one, even though there were six or seven in the golden crow's nest, he only took one. But a big bird of prey like the wind-winged white weng, there is only one egg in a nest, although he is also entangled, but thinking about his grandfather's illness, he can only be sorry for the parents of these eggs.

Once to take the egg, Feng Wei Ling suddenly went and returned, if it wasn't for the nose and nose warning, he would have been torn to pieces by Feng Wei Ling in time to leave.

It's midnight again, Lotte was awakened by the sound of his grandfather's struggle, thinking about the pain his grandfather suffered, he couldn't help but have tears in his eyes, he looked at the wooden cabinet again, and told himself in his heart: Grandpa, don't worry, starting tomorrow, you won't have to suffer this kind of pain again.