Chapter 4: Assyria
"This boy doesn't know what it's for? Usually people who jump into the lake are either for money, or for love, if it's really for what Xiangjun, it's not worth it, it seems that I should help or have to help, hey, who can help me." The barefoot boy still closed his eyes slightly, but his feet clamped the horse's belly, and the thin red horse seemed to have a heart, and he shook his hooves violently and ran in the direction where Tianya Stone was.
On the Tianya Stone by the Rainbow Bridge, the young man in a ragged shirt was shaking on the Tianya Stone, his face was melancholy, he looked like a demented and stupid baby, looking at the unfathomable Tianya Lake under his feet, he wanted to jump down several times, but he couldn't move forward, his heart was full of despair, timidity, and a trace of reluctance to the red world.
"This time, I must prove it to you, Xiangjun, I love you, goodbye, I must jump off Tianya Lake!"
The tattered shirt boy was full of fighting spirit, like a strong man who died generously, he made up his mind to stretch out his feet, as if he recalled the infinite tenderness of Xiangjun, and shrank back again and again, but he finally didn't have the courage to jump down, and couldn't help but lament again and again.
"Love takes courage, Xiangjun, I don't care what you were like before, as long as you love me in the future. Hey~~ I'm such a waste, I don't even have the courage to commit suicide, how can I become a warrior .......", the tattered shirt boy muttered to himself, his face like ashes.
This young man is a laughing stock in Sun Town recently, I heard that he is still the prince of the Meisuo Continent, and he was ordered by his father to participate in the triennial selection of the Shenji Gate, but instead of seriously reviewing the theory of Karakuri in Sun Town, exercising his physique, and cultivating the Yuan Shen, he spent all the three thousand taels of gold he brought with him in the Sauce Purple Workshop and living expenses, even so, even the lips of Liu Xiangjun, the number one Qing man in Sauce Zinu, were swept out of the house by Sauce Zinu's turtle father. This is not counting, this morning, was hacked by a few beggars who lived in the Nuwa Niangniang Temple, and the only ten copper plates left on his body were looted.
"My son and I are the fate of the previous life, the end of the world, the sea is dry and rotten, if the son can jump off the Tianya stone by the end of the world, see through the red dust, you and I are the real couple, the fairy couple, the future of the road of the testimony, but also the creation of a thousand years. ”
At this moment, the young man in a ragged shirt stood on the end of the world, looking at the black lake under his feet, his heart was terrified, and there was a trace of clarity in his expression, and a yellow sparrow flew out of the branches of the peach tree, stopping at his feet, pecking at the tattered trouser corners floating under his feet, and "chirping" non-stop.
"Get out of here, even you are bullying me. The yellow finch flew up violently and quickly disappeared into the willow bushes.
"Hey, are you jumping or not, we have all admired this bridge for a long time, if you don't jump, we will go, so as not to disappoint us too much." I don't have the courage to jump, I'm angry with the beast, I have the ability to dismantle the sauce and ask for the money back, hahaha. ”
The one who spoke was a slightly older boy in a group of brocade clothes standing on the rainbow bridge, holding a red umbrella in his hand, which was extremely dazzling in the crowd.
"Shut your fart~" The word "thing" of the young man in the ragged shirt had not yet been spoken, and as soon as his feet slipped, his whole body lost its center of gravity, and his body fell into Tianya Lake.
"Ah~~~, help, help, I don't want to die!" The screams came, and the young man who was falling quickly could only close his eyes and wait for death, and at that moment, the smiles of his father and mother appeared in front of his eyes. The tourists on both sides of the shore could only exclaim loudly, and at this time a thin red horse galloped over, and the barefoot boy did not have time to take off his clothes, so he jumped off Tianya Lake.
When the crowd of onlookers on the edge of Tianya Lake saw this scene, they gathered on the surface of the lake under Tianya Stone, "Hey, how is this good, I just made a joke with him and asked him to go down to Tianya Stone to ask for money, this has nothing to do with me." It was the young man with the red umbrella who had just ridiculed him, and everyone looked anxiously at the lake, waiting for the young man on horseback just now to rescue him.
Soon there were microwaves on the lake, and then the water was trembling, Jiang Xiaobai finally surfaced, holding the tattered shirt boy in his hand, and it took some effort to drag him to the shore, at this time, someone came up to help, and it didn't take long for the tattered shirt boy to wake up, although his face was still a little pale, but he was also worry-free.
Jiang Xiaobai picked up some dry branches and hay, took off his clothes, set up a fire and roasted it, and the young man in a ragged shirt still sat there motionless.
"Hey, you come over to bake the fire, remove the moisture, don't want to die but climb up the end of the world, your brain is fine. For this kind of person, Jiang Xiaobai has never had a good face.
"Jiang ~ Master Jiang, can you help me?" The young man in a ragged shirt sat by the fire, his teeth were still chattering, for this black and thin boy, Assyria had seen it a few times, I heard that he was very unpopular in the town, he had no parents, but he was loyal, Assyria looked at him with a look in his eyes, full of expectation.
"Your name is Assyria?" the ragged boy nodded.
"Help you, help you go to Sauce Zi to get the money back, I'm afraid you've found the wrong person, I'm just a poor boy, I don't want to come back." ”
"Master Jiang said that it was funny, there is a reason to reward the money given to Miss Xiangjun and want it back, and it is not the behavior of a manly man, I want to ......" Speaking of this, Assyria glanced up at Jiang Xiaobai, "I want to borrow some money from Master Jiang to participate in the selection, but don't worry, I will definitely pay it back, and I will ask someone to go back to the Mae Suo Continent to inform my father to send the money over." ”
"What kind of prince are you really from the Mesot Continent, how far away is your Mae Sot Continent, why did you come to my Sun Town, and is the Divine Machine Gate really that good?"
Although Jiang Xiaobai is a native of Sun Town, he has heard of the Shenji Gate, but he has never seen it, and he has only heard that the senior brother Xie Shishi has been to the Shenji Gate once, but he just glanced at it from a distance, and he was so excited that he couldn't sleep for a few days.
"My father was a king of the continent of Meso, and I am his third son, and I don't know exactly how far my hometown is, but when I came, I walked for a full year, and the road was full of speed. ”
Assyria tried to explain to Jiang Xiaobai his origin and the situation in the Mesot Continent, but seeing that Jiang Xiaobai was not particularly concerned about this, he only gave a general explanation of the situation.
"It doesn't matter if you jump into Tianya Lake, my whole body will be wet, if it weren't for my father's last order before he died, let me rescue you people who see through the red dust by Tianya Lake, I wouldn't bother to pay attention to you, master. You even borrowed money in front of the master!" Jiang Xiaobai's eyes smiled slightly, and a sarcastic look appeared on his face inadvertently, if I have money, I still need to lend you money, why don't I go directly to participate in the selection of the Divine Machine Gate.
"As long as Master Jiang can lend me money, I will repay it ten times then, no, a hundred times. Assyria made up his mind and decided to ramp up the stakes.
"I don't have any money, how can I lend it to you, you can find someone else to borrow it. Saying that, Jiang Xiaobai put on the clothes that had just been baked, and was about to leave with the thin red horse.
"Jiang Xiaobai, no, Master Jiang, you wait a minute, I haven't eaten yet, and I have nowhere to go, why don't I go to your house, I heard that you are alone, the two of us are together, no, you can take care of each other." ”
The thin black boy turned around and grinned, "You can't protect yourself, you can still take care of others, go back and forth." ”
Saying that, he led the horse and walked towards the stone arch bridge, and Assyria was a little anxious at this time, "Master Jiang, you wait, wait, it's good that you saved me, you saved people to the end, and sent the Buddha to the west." ”
The young man stopped, "Is there a Buddha in the Yasuo Continent?"
"Yes, in our Asian and American continent, there is a towering pagoda, and legend has it that the immortals from the Haotian Continent live in it. ”
Assyria quickly stepped forward, snatched the horse stiff from Jiang Xiaobai's hand, and led the horse to the bridge, Jiang Xiaobai shook his head and followed Assyria.
The weather has cleared, more and more people stop on the small bridge, enjoy the beautiful scenery in the lake, and there are covered bridges on both sides of the stone arch bridge for people to rest and hide from the rain.
When Jiang Xiaobai and Assyria walked into the covered bridge, they found that there was a Taoist priest in his twenties sitting on the west side of the covered bridge, wearing a white-washed patched Taoist robe, sitting dangerously, with a hexagram stall on a low table, and a yellowed Haotian Continent perpetual calendar next to it. In Jiang Xiaobai's impression, when he was five or six years old, the Taoist priest set up a stall to calculate hexagrams, but he did not take the initiative to solicit business.
The Taoist priest seemed to notice Jiang Xiaobai and the others, just nodded to them, and then closed his eyes again, Jiang Xiaobai and the two sat on the covered bridge to rest for a while, and the sun was almost noon, so he took out three copper plates and handed them to Assyria.
"Assyria, go to the dumb shop opposite and buy three baked cakes, remember, go and come back quickly, I don't see that you are the one who took three copper plates and ran away. ”
Assyria took the copper plate and was a little happy: "Master Jiang, where are you talking, I, Assyria, am also a prince, don't worry, it's done properly." ”
It didn't take long for Assyria to buy the biscuits, and he pointed to the Taoist priest across from him and said to Assyria, "Assyria, go and bring a biscuit to that Taoist." ”
Jiang Xiaobai still remembers that before his father died, he often took him to Tianya Lake, and the Taoist priest would often buy a baked cake for him, so every time he went to Tianya Lake now, he would buy a baked cake for the Taoist priest, but the Taoist priest did not shirk, and would gobble up the baked cake and not talk much.
When the Taoist priest took the baked cake as usual, and was eating it with relish, and his mouth was still clicking, two tourists, an old man and a young man, came on the covered bridge, and stopped for a moment in front of the Taoist priest's hexagram stall, and the young man asked: "Daoist, are you measuring signatures, words, or divination." ”
"The Lord is as he pleases, and he listens to him. The Taoist priest did not raise his head and continued to nibble on his baked cakes.