Chapter 20: The Gathering
In the evening,
Farewell to the brewery owners and craftsmen,
Asuke walked through the lush forest, and he had to walk through the forest to the village on the other side.
This year's sake is ready,
He was going to take some back to his father to taste, and he finally made what he said would shine.
I remembered the smell of the glowing wine that my father used to mention to him when he was a child,
Asuke couldn't help but open the flask and take a few sips.
"Fluorine..."A fragrant taste spread out from the mouth, bringing a burst of thick sweetness,
"Well, good wine!" Ah Zhu sighed as he took a sip of the remaining aroma of wine in his mouth.
Raise the lantern,
Asuke walked slowly on the mountain road in the middle of the night,
The breeze blew, and the rustling of leaves sounded in the mountains and forests,
"Quack~ah~..."
"Uh-huh~Hmph..."Asuke hummed a little song in his mouth, and his mood was very light.
He couldn't wait to share the joy in his heart with his father.
Since my father was not feeling well, he was no longer able to make wine.
Business hasn't been doing well at the winery, but this year they've made a wine that shines.
If my father tasted it, he would have been able to approve of his wine.
From time to time, he picked up the flask and took a sip
Then I closed my eyes and tasted the taste of the wine in my hand, and I couldn't help but feel a little drunk.
suddenly
Assuke's feet slipped, as if something had tripped over his feet.
Hurriedly looked down and didn't find anything abnormal,
And when he raised his head again, looking at the different scenes around him from the usual return to the village, he was a little panicked, he seemed to be lost.
Asuke turned around and prepared to walk back,
And at this moment,
Something black, like a ribbon, wrapped around his ankle,
"Beast hair?"
It was too dark to see clearly, so Asuke hurriedly squatted down and kept unraveling.
And those black ribbon-like things, like living creatures, let go of Asuke's legs and rolled up on the flask he put aside,
A black ribbon rolled up the flask and dragged it up the mountain.
"Hey!"
Asuke immediately picked up a lantern and stood up and followed the black ribbon, which was something he was going to take home.
"Where are you going?"
Asuke followed behind the black ribbon, trying to grab the flask with his hand from time to time.
Through the dense bushes around you, through the dark woods,
"Give it back!"
When he snatched the flask back from the black ribbon, he suddenly saw the scene in front of him with dim lights, and the figures were like a bazaar.
"What exactly are you doing in this kind of place? ...”
Just as Asuke looked at the scene in front of him and wondered,
A tall man with white hair and one eye, a cigarette in his mouth and a suitcase on his back came to his side.
The flask he was holding was similarly wrapped with a black ribbon.
"What are you doing?" Yin Gu looked at the young man in front of him with a surprised face and asked.
When Gingu saw the young man holding a jug of wine, he opened the jug and looked at it, and there was a jug full of light wine.
"Isn't there light wine? Fresh faces, huh? Is it a new insect master? ”
Gingu thought that Asuke was a newcomer to the industry, and he didn't pay much attention to it.
The black ribbon is an insect called orangutan, which is used by insect masters to lead the way to find people.
They are wine-loving insects that will bring light wine back to their nests to guide the insect masters who carry light wine, and the way to get them away is very simple, just feed them a little light wine.
Watching Yin Gu pour a few drops of glowing wine from the jug and feed it to the black ribbon like a living thing,
Asuke couldn't help but think of the stories his father used to tell him when he was a child,
When he was a child, his father once got lost in the mountains and forests.
Met a group of eccentric people, and my father exchanged a cup for a glass of glowing wine.
From then on, my father tried to make that kind of wine that would shine.
"Glowing wine!" Asuke looked at the light wine on the ground and muttered,
He also pulled out the flask and poured some wine on the ground, and sure enough, the black ribbon left his flask and floated to the ground.
Following the white-haired man in front of him, Asuke came to this brightly lit and noisy gathering place.
People here gather in groups to chat, and some people have some strange objects in front of them.
"Yo, Yingu, I have a good insect smoke here, do you want to come a little, as long as you share a little light wine with me."
"I don't have much left." Yin Gu looked at the middle-aged insect master, and then lowered his head to look at his stall, trying to find something useful.
"Please, a little bit of me, a drop will do." "Then give me all the worm smoke!" "You..."
The middle-aged insect master saw that he couldn't get the light wine from Yingu, so he set his eyes on Asuke on the side.
...
"Haven't you started yet?" Seeing that the agreed time had already passed, Yin Gu carried the wooden box on his back and walked towards the place where the migratory tribe was.
This year's meeting started much later, is something going on?
Walking through a small forest, Yingu saw some people holding lanterns in a circle,
And he went to the other side,
Remove the branches that stand in your way,
"What people!" The crowd around heard someone approaching and asked.
"Sasaki, it's me."
Yingu went up to say hello, and the people in the crowd who knew Yingu also greeted Yingu.
And Yingu was surprised to find that Xue Song was also there, and he was sitting in the middle of the crowd with his eyes closed.
"Mr. Xue is helping us perceive the point closest to the light vein." Sasaki replied as he looked at Gingu's puzzled eyes.
After leaving the house of the hunting house,
Xue Song came to the place agreed with Yingu and waited, but Yingu didn't come.
I happened to meet the migrants, so I followed them on the road.
"The light veins are shrinking, going deeper underground, next time it's better to go to other light veins to get light bars." Sasaki said to Gingu.
"Have you reached the end of your life?" Yin Gu looked at the river of light flowing underground, and muttered.
"It's just that I've dived deeper into the ground, and I'll definitely come back when I have enough strength." Sasaki said as he looked through the soil layer at the huge veins of light flowing beneath the ground.
"Right here!"
Xue Song opened his eyes, summoned the Simulus as a marker, and pointed to a small area under his feet and said,
The migratory tribesmen immediately centered on the position pointed by Xue Song, and spread out to form a huge circle, standing a person every few meters, and a small bowl was placed in front of each person.
"Boom~Boom..."A gong sounded, and the insect masters cleaned up the stalls in front of them and put the things into the wooden boxes.
Carrying the suitcase, the insect masters held the container of wine in their hands and moved towards the place where Xue Song and them were.
One by one, the queue was lined up in an orderly manner.
Asuke was a little dazed.
He didn't know what was going on, just now after he exchanged the brewed wine from the middle-aged insect master for the cup his father used to use, a large group of people wanted to exchange the glowing wine in the jug with him, and he didn't refuse to exchange them all.
Seeing as if something had happened to the insect masters, Asuke also lined up behind the group.