In the afterglow of the setting sun, the crescent moon rises, and the colors of the river gradually change, from light to dark, and from dark to light.

Beside the town gate across the "Mother River", an old man dressed in plain clothes slowly walked to the doorpost, stepped on a pumice stone in front of the doorpost, and lit the pumice stone three times with his cane, and the gray-white pumice stone slowly rose and lifted him up.

When it reached the height of the door beam, the old man raised his cane again and lit it on the pumice stone three times, and the pumice stone suddenly stopped, and there was an oil lamp hanging in front of him.

Then, standing firmly in the air, he took out a thin tube three inches long from his bosom, pulled the plug, and then blew on one end of the tube, and suddenly a flame came out from the other end.

This is the "fire pipe", a tool dedicated to ignition.

The old man pulled the shade of the oil lamp apart, lit the wick with the flame from the fire pipe, blew out the blowpipe, tucked the plug back in, and put it back into his arms.

Then he thought about it, and felt for another piece of solidified oil, put it in the oil lamp, and pulled down the lampshade.

When the temperature inside the lampshade rises, the oil will melt into liquid, allowing the lamp to stay on overnight.

After that, the old man tapped the pumice stone three more times with his cane, and the pumice stone began to sink.

When it sank to the ground, the old man tapped it three more times with his cane, and the pumice stone stopped moving.

He walked down the pumice stone and walked slowly back along the river.

There was a hut behind the town gate, where the old man lived, and day after day lit the lamp for the sparsely populated west gate.

But not long after he left, he came back again, because Simon had arrived!

Ximen, who usually saw no people all day long, this time a whole caravan came at once, and the old man showed a soft smile on his face, so he thought about walking from the bridge to the other side, and then chatting with the caravan.

But before he stepped on the bridge, he found that there were also people on the riverbank, and it was a bear!

That bear was so big, even if it lay down, it was taller than his whole person!

If he hadn't immediately spotted a man sitting on the bear's back, he would have turned around and ran, without hesitation.

The old man took a closer look at the bear's back, and saw that it was two people, one big and one small, so he shook his head and continued to walk on the other side of the river.

He thought it must be more interesting because there were more people in the caravan, and he didn't want to get up close and personal with the giant bear!

......

"It's finally here!"

Luo Wen sat on Ming Xiong's back and looked up at the plaque at the town gate, which was engraved with the three big characters "Lingxi Town".

"There's something interesting about this Lingxi Town. ”

His eyesight is very good, and he can see things as usual at night, so he saw the scene of "the old man stepping on a pumice stone and flying to the door beam to light the lamp" from a long distance.

At first, he thought that this old man was a sweeping monk-level figure, and he could fly with objects!

But when he got closer, he realized that it was the gray-white square boulder that could fly, not the old man on crutches.

"What kind of stone is that? Look at how much he will put there after he finishes using it, is it a common thing in the town? The little memory in Zheng Jian's mind about this Lingxi Town is completely unreliable!"

Rowan observed the environment of Lingxi Town with great interest.

The terrain of the whole town is very high, and to walk from the west gate to the town, you have to walk up a staircase up to five meters high, and the west gate of Lingxi Town is built at the entrance of the stairs.

Between the gates, a ten-metre-wide river flows quietly, five metres from the road – the distance it is raised by a staircase.

A little inside the town gate, there is an arch bridge built across the river, and at the edge of the arch bridge there is a stone staircase that allows people to descend to the river.

If you look inside, you can find that at intervals, there are similar arch bridges on the river, and those arch bridges are one after another, constituting the unique river bridge culture of Lingxi Town.

When he reached the bottom of the stairs, Rowan jumped lightly and fell to the ground, then three or four stairs and one step, and after a few steps, he jumped onto the road and stood in front of the goalpost.

In the light of the oil lamp, he circled around the pumice stone under the doorpost, and then stepped on it with great interest, wanting to fly like an old man......

"Ouch! Don't touch the old man's climbing stone!"

On the bridge, the old man who had just walked to the other end and wanted to greet the caravan suddenly noticed that the caravan people's sight was wrong, so he quickly turned his head, and immediately noticed Luo Wen's behavior.

He let out a duck-like cry on the spot and hurried back.

"This leather child, can the Ascending Stone be moved? If this is broken, it will be enough for the old man's salary for a year!"

Seeing that he was anxious, Rowan jumped down and asked from afar: "Old man, your stone is called 'Ascending Stone'?

The old man's legs and feet were inconvenient, and he almost fell down when he ran, Rowan saw this, and suddenly stomped on his feet, his figure flashed, and he jumped directly from the doorpost to the arched bridge, and supported the old man.

The old man was frightened: "Why did this kid suddenly come to me?

When he looked up, he noticed Luo Wen's small bald head, and couldn't help but suddenly think: "It turned out to be a little novice who has been kung fu since elementary school in the temple......"

Luo Wen didn't know that he was seen as a little monk again, so he helped the old man up, and asked in a harmonious voice: "Old man, is your stone called the Ascending Stone?"

The old man's face was embarrassed, and he realized that he had just said the words in his dream in a hurry, but he couldn't explain it anymore, so he said: "That's right, that stone is a stone that climbs to the sky, and it can climb to the sky in one step and fly thousands of miles!"

But Rowan is not really a child, how can he be bluffed: "But why did I step on it, it didn't move at all?"

The old man half-covered his face and said, "That's because you don't know how to spell!"

Rowan asked, "What is the spell?"

The old man broke out in a cold sweat: "Spell...... Spell ......"

This lie needs ten sentences to complete, and the old man racked his brains and finally came up with half a sentence: "The spell is to fight, fight, fight......"

Rowan continued: "The fighters are all arrayed in front?"

The old man's eyes lit up: "Yes! Yes! That's it!"

With an understanding smile, Rowan helped the old man to the shore, then beckoned to the back, and the faceless sprang over and lay on his head, his furry tail around his neck like a scarf.

Zheng Jian and Ming Xiong also walked over.

Rowan lowered his head and asked, "The old man, can you tell us where the jewelry shop or pawn shop is?"

The old man subconsciously replied: "Just go straight ahead, and when you reach the third intersection, turn left, and you will see the Chase pawnshop." In the case of jewellery stores, the jewellery business has been in a downturn this year, and the jewellery shops in the town have closed their doors. ”

"Well, I remember, thank you for the advice, and I'll see you in the future. ”

Rowan thanked the old man and led the group to the town.

"This little monk is really likable......"

The old man muttered, and then turned around slowly.

But as soon as he turned his head, he suddenly found that all the people in the caravan on the other side of the river were standing on the bank, and they all folded their hands and bowed to the back of the little monk.

“？”