"Childe, wait for me!" Armed with a bamboo knife in his hand, Ahsan walked among the hazel and zelkova trees, unable to climb the tall maple trees, but could only weave through the dense forest of vines and steep slopes.

"Stupid slave, come up!" Ma Lan Zhangxiu, who was standing on a tree and swaying, shouted, "You haven't learned to climb a tree for so many years!" ”

"But I'm afraid of heights!" Ahsan grimaced.

"Uh-uh, no matter what you are, he has run far, maybe I can't really outrun him?!" Zhangxiu turned her head, jumped off the tree, landed on a slightly shorter beech tree, bounced up, and chased into the distance.

In front of him, Yu Fenghong swept past two acacia trees, propped one hand on the acacia tree, turned around and shouted: "Hey, that noble boy from Nanshu, don't chase if you can't do it, you can't catch up with me anyway." Throw in the towel, you? ”

After a short pause, I heard a clatter of branches, and I don't know who fell from the tree behind him, Yu Fenghong was about to land to see, when he suddenly felt a cool breeze in his ears, and he saw that Malan Zhangxiu had landed on an acacia tree in front of him.

Tree climbing and jumping competitions have been the main activities of their play in recent years, and they often have no winners or losers.

Maran Zhangxiu winked at him proudly: "Don't say I didn't warn you, I'm running much faster than you." ”

Yu Fenghong was taken aback and scolded: "You are stupid, you can still run past me?" He leaned down slightly, and with a quick and gentle backflip, he landed on a lower locust tree, which seemed to be about to land, but inadvertently, the extremely elastic locust tree bounced him up.

Moving like a shadow, fast as the wind, Yu Fenghong, who grew up in the forest since childhood, is agile and dexterous, floating through the air Malan Zhangxiu. When Zhangxiu looked up and saw Yu Fenghong's victorious smiling face, he was stunned that Yu Fenghong had landed on a hundred-year-old dead pine tree lying across the mountain stream ten steps away.

With a snort, Yu Fenghong had already slid across the mountain stream along the main trunk of the withered pine, turned back and shouted to Zhangxiu: "Hey, come and chase me, you can do you!" ”

Zhangxiu was so angry that he stared dryly, more dexterous and agile, although he was not as good as Yu Fenghong, he had his own magic weapon to win.

Just now, he only cared about winning Yu Fenghong's step, but he didn't think about the dilemma when starting again, the acacia tree was not elastic, and he couldn't bounce him down on the dead pine across the mountain stream, so he had to go to a beech tree next to him and then jump back to the main stem of the dead pine, and this time he was far behind Yu Fenghong.

"Hey, Brother Hong, where are you?"

The distant mountain ridge came from the shouts of Yu Fenglan, and with her shout, a flock of pheasants fluttered up, and hundreds of huge numbers of smoke-bellied hairy-footed swallows sprang out from under the hidden rock wall, and half the sky was dark.

The purple bow headband flowed like lightning, and she shuttled flexibly and lightly through the dense forest, like a fairy in the forest, agile and beautiful, all the flowers lost color, all the birds lost their voices, the green grass was her foil, and the sky stretched for her.

The puppy burst merrily through the bushes, ran merrily, jumped over the stumps, and flew the brown-backed swallows that followed her closely.

The three-foot nine phoenix spread its wide wings, whirring over oak trees, zelkova trees, tree trees, maple wood, and wakaki trees, its gorgeous and dazzling tail feathers are wider and more beautiful than the tail feathers of all birds in the forest, like the king of forest birds, but always soaring in front of Alan.

Ah Shan saw this person, a dog and a bird passing by him, opened his mouth wide, remembered something, waved his bamboo knife and shouted: "Wait for me! Wait for me! ”

Ali, who was holding a wooden sword in his hand to split weeds and find his way, heard a chaotic sound in his ears, and before he could reflect it, Jiufeng had already flown over his head, he blinked, and the Jinxiu who flew over knocked him away, and rushed down the river beach by himself.

"Oh my god!" Ali sighed, and before the words could be landed, Ah Lan flew from behind him with a gust of wind, his dress flowing, and the purple ribbon brought a burst of incense mist, like a beautiful elf, flew in front of his eyes.

The giggling Ah Lan, in the misty forest, in the flock of birds, so happy and innocent.

Ali looked at Ah Lan's distant back stupidly: "I now know why Gongzi came to this mountain." ”

Ah Shan arrived panting and urged, "Run, let's run, otherwise Gongzi will punish us again." ”

It's time to climb the second mountain. Yu Fenghong threw out the rattan rope in his waist, and with the help of the rope, he easily jumped on a tall ancient cypress, looked at Ma Lan Zhangxiu who was panting at the bottom of the mountain, and smiled: "Do you want me to help you?" ”

Ma Lan Zhangxiu was so tired that she gasped, gritted her teeth and said, "You can also climb trees, what kind of ability is this?!" ”

Yu Fenghong thought for a while and said, "This is unfair, we don't count climbing trees as a competition." He threw the rattan rope to Maran Zhangxiu: "Do you want to come up and see the scenery too?" ”

Ma Lan Zhangxiu didn't even look at the rattan rope that was thrown, and said with innate pride: "It's the last mountain, I don't want you to help me!" ”

He wiped the sweat from the blue Shu embroidered coat on a black background that had been torn by Yu Fenghong and stained with blood, and threw it on his shoulders, wearing only a black cowhide vest and a cotton white round head shirt. He threw away his black-bottomed shirt, rolled up the sleeves of his round-toed shirt, and climbed up in a stance.

Yu Fenghong looked at the blue shirt with a new color on a black background that was thrown away by Zhangxiu: "Hey, it's still new, don't ask me for compensation if you throw it away." ”

Ma Lan Zhangxiu snorted coldly: "You can't afford to pay anyway." ”

Yu Fenghong said honestly: "That's the same. ”

Ma Lan Zhangxiu didn't speak anymore, but picked up a blue shirt on a black background and tied it around her waist, puffed up, and climbed the mountain with all her might.

When Yu Fenghong waited for Ma Lan Zhangxiu to climb in front of him, he smiled slightly, collected the rattan rope, took another breath, jumped up, and swept to the higher tree.

There are many Ganhua trees, Ganhua trees, white willow trees, white wood trees, and Langji trees (Note 1) growing on the mountain, and thousands of branches sprout in the spring breeze, and the shadows of the trees are intertwined with each other.

In the dense forest, it is easy to descend the mountain and difficult to go up, and Yu Fenghong also needs a certain amount of skill if he wants to fly from the treetops to the top of the mountain without landing. Yu Fenghong, who grew up in the forest since he was a child, is like an ape, jumping and rolling and moving in the forest, his body is as light as a monkey and agile as a swallow.

When Ma Lan Zhangxiu was so tired that he climbed to the top of the mountain, and then went down the mountain to the Ajinam River Beach, Yu Fenghong was already sitting on a large pebble on the river beach waiting for him, and at his feet was Jinxiu who was sticking out his tongue and exhaling, obviously, the dog was also tired of running.

Yu Fenghong nodded to Ma Lan Zhangxiu, motioned for him to rest, pointed to the opposite mountain and said:

"My father said that this mountain is called Gaiyu Mountain (Note 2), there are mountains and water, and the water is fresh water, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, very beautiful, right? This mountain was originally the sacred mountain of the Yufeng clan, but now, no one has come here. All our people were slaughtered. ”

This is the first time that Ma Lan Zhangxiu has heard Yu Fenghong talk about the past between the two clans.

He was speechless. From the snowy night when he first knew that Ah Lan and Ah Hong were the sons and daughters of Yu Fengguang, the deposed monarch of the Yufeng clan, and from the day of the snowstorm when he saw Ah Lan seven years ago, everything was out of control.

"On the Rongzhou Continent, in the Southern Great Wilderness, from the time when the twenty-six tribes set foot on this land and set up the maple incense tree on the Kadanlan steppe as the heavenly stem, we have always been tearing and killing, and we have always been fighting and revenge." Zhangxiu said sullenly.

"The law of the jungle is the law of survival in this wild land. But who of all the weak is willing to be eaten by force? I will protect Alan, I have made a vow, in front of the White Stone Temple, in front of my father and my mother. ”

Yu Fenghong muttered as he tried to persuade Zhangxiu to give up some stupid ideas. But he was never good at words, and even he knew that what he said could not impress the big men around him.

"I don't care who she is, whether it's a cheap slave in Snow Blue City, or a young monarch of the Yufeng clan, in short, I just like her, I just want to marry her!" The stupid big Maran Zhangxiu is also a tenacious person, and no matter what, he doesn't want to give up his ideas.

"You can't marry her. Do you know why Ah Lan is called Snow Blue City? Yu Fenghong sneered: "Because Snow Blue City is the city that my father and my mother promised to give to Ah Lan when they got married. My father wanted Alan to remember that she was the young monarch of the two clans, her city was now occupied, and her palace was now the Imperial Palace. ”

Malan Zhangxiu was very painful, he didn't want to know about these hatreds, he didn't want to care about these grievances, he just wanted Ah Lan alone.

"Does Alan know this?" Zhangxiu asked.

"If it weren't for you to stir things up, she would know by now. My dad would have told her at her coming-of-age sacrifice. ”

Malan Zhangxiu said sullenly, "It's best never to tell her." How happy she was, you have to make her unhappy, if you have to press the hatred between three countries or five peoples on her, it is better to make her a cheap slave. ”

"It's her calling, no matter what." Yu Fenghong also looked a little sullen.

Zhangxiu was just about to say something, when she suddenly caught a glimpse of Ah Lan's shadow appearing by the river.

The Nine Phoenix Bird hovers over the river beach and then lands on a rock in the middle of the river.

Ah Lan hummed a tune as he jumped around the river looking for herbs and round-headed ru. Dare to love, she arrived much earlier than the three masters and servants of Zhangxiu.

"The fir of the east gate, the lifelike of Wanqiu. The son of Zizhong, under him. Grain is poor, the southern plain. If it is not good, the city is also swaying. ”

Purple bows fluttered on her head, fiery sandalwood swayed gently in the warm sunlight, and a happy smile rippled on her pink face, and she beckoned to her brother and Changxiu when her gentle gaze fell on them, and she was obsessed with picking herbs.

She flew to and fro in the grass, in the spring, in the notes of her jumping, in her gentle smile, in her every move of innocence and beauty.

Zhangxiu touched a hosta inlaid with the Maran clan emblem in his arms, this was a special gift he prepared for Alan's coming-of-age ceremony, such an important gift has not been sent yet, how could it be messed up today?

Ah Lan turned around and smiled at them, and continued to hum the song happily: "The grain is gone, and the more you are stride." Seeing it like a wattle, I hold the pepper. ”

Zhangxiu stood up and said viciously to Yu Fenghong: "Fight, I'll rest." Don't be soft, I won't show mercy, and friends must really compete with each other, just like the flea-nest man said, men have no right to tell lies. ”

Yu Fenghong also stood up and picked up an oak stick casually: "If you want to be a friend, don't want to touch my sister." ”

"Why?" Ma Lan Zhangxiu said proudly: "I'll talk about it if you win." It was a war between two men. ”

(Note 1: Ganhua tree, Ganhua tree, white willow tree, white wood tree, and Langji tree are all ancient trees in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".)

Note 2: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" says: Those who have covered the mountains of Judah have sweet trees on them, and the branches are red, yellow leaves, white flowers, and black fruits. ）