Chapter 1: Bubbles and Apples
The fine rain crushed the coolness of early autumn and sprinkled on the earth. There was wind lingering at the mouth of the cave.
Li Shuang in the cave scratched her messy hair, and picked the fire with some melancholy. Looking at the sky outside, I am going to be hungry today, and it is destined to be another difficult night.
Li Shuang is an orphan, when he was very young, his father did not come to the mountains, and his mother went crazy to find relatives and friends in the village to look for people in the mountains. But no one seems to want to go.
Some people say it's so late, it's too dangerous!
Some people say that the lady of the Li family, don't worry, maybe Li Lao Er will come back tomorrow morning.
In short, the chaotic figures, the chaotic voices, the mother's crying, and the self who doesn't know why to cry, is very hungry and hungry.
When everyone sighed and left, only the mother and son were left in the house. The flickering candlelight shone on her mother's back, making Xiao Li Shuang feel a little strange.
Xiao Li Shuang snorted and said, "Mother... I'm so hungry! ”
The back in the candlelight moved, and he slowly turned around and glanced at Xiao Li Shuang.
Xiao Li Shuang was frightened by those red eyes and didn't dare to speak anymore, her mother slowly got up, walked into the stove room, picked up a kitchen knife and left the house.
Never came back after leaving!
Some say that the mother went into the mountains alone, and some say that the mother left the village.
In short, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter to Xiao Li Shuang.
For a child who has just remembered, how to survive is the most important thing.
Since then, there has been a thin figure in the village, he walked home with firewood, he sat in front of the door and looked at the mountains in the distance in a daze, he squatted in the distance and watched the children of the same age play, he whispered to the little ants in his palm...
Some people will say that orphans must be miserable! Actually, it's wrong, because to know bitterness, you must first know what sweetness is!
There is only one sentence in Xiao Li Shuang's heart: "It's so hard to live, I can't sleep when I'm hungry!" ”
Time has passed, and the orphan barely survived to the age of 13. The reason why he said it was reluctant was because he was dark and thin, not to mention, and he was a head shorter than children of the same age.
Working with the village masons, he fainted three times in the morning and was dismissed in the afternoon.
But Li Shuang was still very happy, and he received a copper plate salary. Small copper plates rubbed and rubbed on the sleeves. Hold the copper plate high above your head, the sun shines on the copper plate, and the yellow-orange-orange light reflects the child's eyes.
"Little copper plate, why are you so cute!"
Li Shuang wiped the dirt on her face and ran towards the south of the village. There is a small river at the south end of the village, called the Duck River. I heard from the old man that there used to be a lot of wild ducks playing here. But now, not a single duck feather is visible.
Li Shuang came to the river and carefully took off her clothes. The reason for the caution is that the clothes have been worn for too long and too long. Many places have been rotten, and with a little bit of effort, the clothes can be torn apart.
But today's workmanship still made several holes. Li Shuang looked at the holes and felt a little distressed, he put his clothes in the water and rubbed them gently.
At this time, a toad popped out of the crack in the stone, and Li Shuang's eyes were quick and he pressed it.
Hehe, today's lunch is here.
But before Li Shuang sighed today's good luck. Toads popped out of the water in the river. The small fish that had not been seen before were also desperately jumping on the surface of the water.
Li Shuang looked up at the mountains in the distance in the south in amazement, smoke and dust rose everywhere, and the roar of the beast came.
Li Shuang picked up her clothes, carried the hind legs of the toad, and ran home.
He shouted loudly, "The monster is coming!" Monsters are attacking the village! ”
The whole village was immediately like boiling water. The footsteps of running figures, heart-rending shouts, and the sound of banging on doors and windows mingled.
Li Shuang ran home and moved the tattered wooden bed aside. Pick up a few stone slabs on the ground, wrap your belongings in a cloth bag, and run away.
As soon as he ran out into the street, a leopard scurried by. Li Shuang turned around and saw a tiger-eyed tiger opening its mouth to bite him, and his legs were about to fall to the ground as soon as he became weak.
Then a strong arm took him into his arms, and the other hand slapped the tiger away. The sound of bone cracking came, and I saw that the tiger and the demon beast behind collided together, turning into a mess of rotten meat.
Li Shuang looked up and saw a bearded man staring at him with a pair of small eyes. Li Shuang couldn't understand why such a mighty man had such small eyes!
"Gua Wazi, run out with all your strength, you have to run slowly, tomorrow you will be a piece of demon beast" After the bearded man finished speaking, he rushed towards the group of demon beasts.
I saw the bearded man stepping on the bucket, and his feet seemed to be breathing. One step of tornadoes gathers, and one step of the sea tide disperses. The chest and back are like mountains on the flat ground, and the muscles and bones are like mountains and rocks cracked. The sound of clattering is endless.
He threw a punch forward, and the strength of the punch was very different. Exploded one demon beast after another in the air, but it didn't hurt the fleeing crowd at all. This kind of boxing realm can be called an immortal means.
Suddenly, the sound of a sword roared from far and near, and a woman in red stepped on a sword. I saw her standing in the air. Tap your toes and place your feet on the end of the hilt with the tip facing down.
Suddenly a flame rose from the sword body, and it bloomed like a lotus flower. In an instant, a huge fire sword lotus flower slowly swirled at the woman's feet.
The woman pinched the sword trick in her hand, and a mouthful of fire sword flew towards the demon beast. The fire sword lotus flower continued to bloom, and the fire sword that fell off was followed by a huge meteor shower.
Li Shuang ran desperately, and a tearing pain came from her lungs. His legs went limp and he fell to his knees again, gasping desperately, and there was a buzzing sound in his ears.
I vaguely heard someone shouting to him: "Gua Wazi, when is it, you can run and take three steps, one bow, nine steps and one knock..."
Suddenly, his body was lightly pinched under the armpit. The surrounding scenery kept retreating backwards, like a bird floating in the air.
Until a small hillside, the bearded man put Li Shuang on the ground. Li Shuang's face turned pale, and he looked at the bearded man in a daze and said, "God... Immortals ......"
The bearded man was full of pride, and he was just about to explain something? I heard Li Shuang ask in disbelief: "Immortals... Also smelly of foxes? ”
The bearded man's face immediately darkened.
The woman in red, who was standing not far away and was still looking at the south, turned her back and shrugged her shoulders.
A young man in white holds his forehead with one hand.
The young man in Tsing Yi, who was drinking, pursed his lips tightly. But the wine in the nostrils, like an old man who can't urinate because of kidney deficiency, squirts outward one by one......
Li Shuang in the cave recalled the memories of a year and a half ago, and what he remembered most was the fire sword lotus of the woman in red.
Scorching, sharp, and unbeatable killing.
Let Li Shuang sincerely yearn for that kind of power. Know that the group of people is from the Xiangxiang Academy. Li Shuang drove for a year and a half, and the luck along the way was not enough for outsiders.
The flames danced in the boy's eyes, and he picked up a dead branch from the fire and wrote on the ground.
"I want to have a sword, when the sword rises, the snow flies, and when the sword falls, the sun shines."
Just as the boy was making up his mind, something suddenly flew from outside the cave and smashed on the fire.
Sparks rose in all directions, and a piece of coals fell into Li Shuang's collar.
"I'm a... Go! ”
Li Shuang jumped three feet high, danced with his hands for a while, and finally "invited" the fire coals out.
Li Shuang only then had time to see what was flying in!
"It's... A fish? ”
Li Shuang chirped and chirped, her stomach was hungry, and a fish flew from outside the sky and landed on the fire. Where is this God who opened his eyes, this is clearly God picked out his eyeballs and threw them on Li Shuang's face.
Li Shuang stepped forward and squatted down to look at it for a moment, and he recognized the fish. I saw it at the Hongfeng Ferry, when it was incarnated, and I saw Li Shuang looking at it.
secretly turned his head and spit a small bubble at Li Shuang, and squeezed his eyebrows for a while. As a result, a woman in black saw it and was whipped severely.
Li Shuang couldn't bear to step forward to plead for mercy, but the woman in black looked at him indifferently, with a look of disdain and contempt on her face.
Li Shuang had no choice but to walk away.
I heard that this fish is called flying fish, and its whole body is scaleless, and its skin has fine hairs. The back is gray and the abdomen is white, with a pair of even fins on the sides, dorsal fin, pectoral and caudal fins, no pelvic fins, and purple flowing water patterns on the fins.
It has a longan goldfish mouth and two long purple whiskers, and is born in the ocean. Captured as a child, he was then fused into the spatial crystal nucleus by alchemists using secret methods.
The Flying Fish entity is only the size of a baby, and it can be biochemical after fusing with a spatial crystal nucleus. It can swim away from the water and travel thousands of miles with people and goods.
At this time, the flying fish was lying on the ground with a large hole in its abdomen, and one side of the even fin and tail fin were cut off in half. Seeing that there is more air out and less air intake, I am going to be reincarnated.
Li Shuang sighed and held it in his arms. Clean the wound with water from a small gourd. Take out the needle and thread and sew the wound little by little, which is very difficult. Because his fingers were frostbitten, and they were a little red and swollen.
Li Shuang's hands and feet would be frostbitten every winter, and after a long time, he began to get frostbite in autumn.
Turning around, he pulled out a couple of small vials from inside the package and sprinkled some powder over the wound.
The recipe for the medicinal powder in these small bottles was learned from the barefoot old man in the village, and it took a lot of effort at the beginning.
Li Shuang hesitated, took out a relatively clean piece of clothing, and tore off a large strip of hem. Wrapping the flying fish layer by layer, it looks funny
It's funny again.
After settling the flying fish, Li Shuang gathered on the fire, set up a small iron pot and began to cook the herbs. Herbs are common and can be found everywhere in the mountains. Sometimes you can come across a few plants on the side of the road.
As for the efficacy? Better than nothing!
After the medicinal soup was boiled, it was allowed to cool and fed a few mouthfuls to the flying fish. I also drank a full water, to be honest, it didn't taste very good, Li Shuang retched for a while.
The rain stopped in the middle of the night, and Li Shuang gradually became sleepy and fell asleep.
On the vertical sun, the sun shines on Li Shuang's face through the hole. Open your sleepy eyes and rub off the droppings from the corners of your eyes.
Look at the flying fish, well, not dead yet! It's just that it's hot.
Li Shuang got up and left the cave to see the height of the sun. There is still a little fog in the mountains. Walking in the jungle, the yellow leaves fall from the trees with water droplets, which is not elegant at all.
After walking a long way, I saw a battlefield in front of me. The rain did not wash away the blood, but instead formed small rivers that meandered. Like tentacles, it is shocking.
More than 30 bodies lay in the muddy water, with mutilated limbs everywhere. Li Shuang just looked at it from a distance and did not step forward, but turned to leave.
He is no longer the ignorant boy in the original village, and he is anecdotal and strange. I've heard a lot along the way, and now it's best to stay away from the land of right and wrong.
Of course, this is thanks to the old beggar in Linzhuang Town. I can tell him a lot of stories about the rivers and lakes every day, and I don't know what happened to the old beggar now.
The old beggar has always said to Li Shuang that if you want to do a line, you must love a line. Let Li Shuang be responsible for crying, and he will be responsible for shouting. The begged things are divided into nineties, of course, Li Shuang is one and he nine.
Every day, he is clamoring to accept Li Shuang as an apprentice and inherit his mantle. Until Li Shuang told him that he was going to Qingxiang Academy to learn immortal arts. The old beggar angrily scolded him for not knowing the height of the sky, took back the broken bowl that had been given to him, and expelled him from the school.
Go back to the cave and pack up your belongings, pick up the fish and walk to another hill. When he found another cave, it was past noon, and Li Shuang looked around, this cave was much smaller than the previous one.
He started a fire and threw a few strange plants into it. The smoke from this plant is very annoying to the beasts, and it is generally bypassed far away, and the smoke also has a certain insect repellent effect.
He put the flying fish down, went to the mouth of the cave to set it up, and went out to look for food.
Autumn is still relatively easy to find food, yesterday it was only because of the rain, I was afraid of getting wet and sick so I was hungry for a day.
I found a few wild jujube trees among the rocks and picked all the jujubes. I found that there was a small hole in each date, and when I bit it open, I saw that there was a red-headed white worm crawling slowly.
It's really lucky, I actually have meat to eat, although the meat is a little less. A few more wild vegetables were dug up, and two of the plant rhizomes were unusually hypertrophied.
Seeing a few mushrooms, Li Shuang hesitated to pick them off and stew them in soup. Mainly because once, after drinking the mushroom soup, Li Shuang felt that she had become a fairy. And it was seen by others, and it was really an unbearable memory to think about.
In the end, I picked a few plants, anyway, I was alone in the barren mountains and mountains, and I was not afraid that others would find out about their ugliness. Before returning to the cave, he folded another bundle of wattle sticks, ready to weave a small basket.
When he returned to the cave, he saw that the flying fish was still asleep, so he began to boil water and stew his own wild vegetable and mushroom soup. In his spare time, he began to sort out the thorns, and Li Shuang's skills in weaving the basket were still very good.
I think back then, in order to eat, I sat with a group of women and made baskets. The mother-in-law of the Sun family suddenly lifted her clothes to breastfeed the child, the big breasts, the white milk... water, which made Xiao Li Shuang at that time so greedy that he swallowed his saliva.
The flying fish was seriously injured, and it was not suitable for long journeys with it now, so Li Shuang had to settle down first.
Every day, I get up and go to the mountains to look for some wild vegetables and fruits that I can take with me. Because after crossing the mountain in front of you, you will reach the official road, and there is nothing on the official road that can fill your stomach.
Five days later, Li Shuang found a beehive in the mountains. After a battle of wits with the bees, a large piece of honey was rushed. Although I was already very careful, I was still bitten in the left eye frame.
The left half of his face was swollen like a steamed bun, and he ran back to the cave to feed the flying fish some honey water. The situation of the flying fish has improved, and he is awake for at least two or three hours a day.
Flying Fish pointed at Honey with his remaining even fin, and then at Li Shuang. Li Shuang shook her head and carefully put away the honey.
Flying fish spit bubbles out of its mouth, and each bubble turns into words.
"What's wrong with your face?"
The flying fish can spit bubbles into words, which Li Shuang only learned about two days ago. I was surprised at first, but I found out later. It turned out that flying fish used to be bored every day, so they secretly spit out bubbles of various shapes to play.
The flying fish is literate because it has a high level of intelligence and is extremely intelligent. The difference between monsters and beasts is whether they have intelligence or not.
Li Shuang touched her cheek and grinned for a while.
"I snatched the food of the little bees, and people took revenge on me!" Li Shuang continued: "Bubbles, let's go!" ”
Bubbles is the name Li Shuang gave to the flying fish! Get up and pack up your belongings, put the bubbles in the basket, pick up a wooden stick as a walking stick, and walk to the cave.
The autumn wind has no intention of urging the flowers to grow old, making the green mountains not enchanting.
On the official road, a group of cavalry galloped past, stirring up fallen leaves and flying sand in a place.
Li Shuang hid his face to avoid it, and this group of cavalry was dressed in black armor and crossed the sword and carried a crossbow. Underneath him is a black-scaled unicorn with an unusually tall body. The legs of the four horses are thick and powerful, the hooves of the horses are different from ordinary horses, divided into four petals, three in front and one behind, the toes hide sharp claws, can climb the mountain and turn the city.
Li Shuang has been walking on the mountain road for nine days, during which she has met many interesting people.
There are rangers riding green horses with swords on their backs, and there is a wisp of wind in the rivers and lakes.
A woman rode a long-necked bird on the road, and her laughter was as crisp as the tinkling of spring water.
There is a drunkard driving the ox cart, the person has quietly fallen into a dream, and the ox is moving forward leisurely.
At this moment, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps behind him. Li Shuang turned around, and a big red-headed centipede was running on the road. The pale orange-red carapace legs flew up and down, and on the centipede, about ten feet long, there were fixed rows of seats, and people were sitting on them.
When one of the little girls saw Li Shuang, she secretly threw the apple in her hand over.
Li Shuang didn't catch it, and smashed it on the head with a bang. The little girl sighed and looked at Li Shuang with an apologetic face. Li Shuang picked up the apple and happily waved to the big centipede that was running away.
Not far ahead was Qingfeng City, and Li Shuang didn't want to enter the city, so he walked around the city.
Entering the mountain again, we reached a col where a small stream meandered through it. Li Shuang stopped to rest for a while, put the bubbles to feed some water, and stood by the stream and looked into the distance.
I found a fruit grove in front of me, and the red fruit hung all over the branches. Li Shuang and Bubbles glanced at each other.
Bubbles spit bubbles
"I ate that fruit once, it was very fragrant, very sweet, and delicious!"
The wife of the sheep said: The people with lofty ideals do not drink the water of the "stolen spring", and the incorruptible do not receive food from the mouth.
Could Li Shuang be the kind of person who steals other people's fruits?
He... Yes!
He had already picked up the bubbles and quietly rushed to the fruit forest!
Li Shuang squatted in the dense grass and quietly looked at the orchard. There was no end in sight to a large expanse of fruit trees, and the branches of the red fruit lowered their proud heads.
Li Shuang tiptoed close to the fruit tree and placed the basket and bubbles under the tree. Climb up the tree by yourself, throw the red fruits into the basket one by one, and if you don't throw them in, the bubbles tie the red fruits with a long whisker and put them in the basket.
While priddling the red fruit, the bubble took a bite of the red fruit in front of him, and the juice splashed everywhere, which can be said to be busy flying.