The carpenter stayed in the city for only one solar term. During this time, according to the instructions of their parents, he inquired about the news in the city and arranged the young people one after another.

Riverbank's father wanted Riverbank to study medicine, so he entrusted him to a doctor who was recruiting for an apprenticeship.

The doctor was mediocre in his skills, but he had recently made a fortune, opened many branch clinics, and had low conditions for recruiting apprentices, and He'an succeeded in becoming his apprentice.

Yuhua is engaged in a different industry from the children.

When she returned, her face was full of confusion.

The children asked her:

"What are you confused about?"

"I wondered, why would anyone buy flowers?"

She said with annoyance.

"I love flowers, and my mother asked me to come to the city to learn flowers, saying that flowers are related to big celebrations and can get in touch with high society. But...... Aren't there flowers everywhere in the field? Wouldn't it be nice to pick it up? Why pay someone to pick it? And why do we want to breed flowers in captivity? For example, mountain peach ......"

Yama Tao was startled on the side and let out a sigh.

"Does it have anything to do with me?"

"It's a mountain peach! I saw that my new teacher had rebuilt all the corners and corners of the mountain peach...... He also wrapped the freshly sprouted peach around the stick, saying that it was a good posture to cultivate the peach, and said that this peach needs to be bent to be beautiful, and if it is straight, it is an ordinary straight flower by the river, and it is not beautiful. I don't know what this Sunset City people do. ”

Yuhua's confusion was not resolved for a long time to come.

The carpenter's child is a pebble, and for pebbles, the carpenter temporarily changed his mind after learning about more and more new industries in the city.

"Pebble, I want you to learn something new."

"What?"

"I'm not going to let you learn how to cast iron."

Pebble's eyes widened.

"Why? Before I came, you told me that I was going to learn how to cast iron in Sunset City. I thought about it for a long time before I agreed with you. ”

Pebble made a lot of psychological preparations for entering the city and learning cast iron after the process, and asked a lot of people. As a result, all the preparations that had been made were useless.

"I changed my mind. I've been cutting wood all my life, and I haven't been able to get anything done. The carpenter said, "I think it is useless to exchange wood for iron...... You should learn something better. ”

At that time, Gu Chuan thought that the carpenter should have something amazing.

As a result, the pebbles were entrusted by him to a jeweler. It is a profession that serves nobles and citizens.

While climbing the mountain, Pebble told Gu Chuan about it.

"Do you think jewelry would be a good place to be? Brother Chuan. ”

He has trusted Gu Chuan since he was a child.

Compared with Sunset City, Pingling District, where the rental house is located, is located on a land with a higher slope, close to Daling Mountain. Pingling District got its name Pingling District because it is a flat land next to Daling Mountain. The Great River that passes through Sunset City does not pass through Pingling District. But if you are willing to climb up to Mt. Lingshan and walk through the long streets, you can see the Rizhao River passing through the city.

Near Rizhao Village, the slope is smooth and there is no concept of mountains.

Therefore, on the day when the carpenter was leaving, Gu Chuan had a whim and asked everyone to come to the mountain together.

"You've always had some weird ideas." The carpenter was a little troubled, "But what are the benefits of mountain climbing?" I'm in a hurry, and I need to get some sleep! ”

This adult has been running around for his livelihood, so naturally he won't have any romantic feelings, it's too extravagant!

"There's really nothing good about it."

Gu Chuan said with a smile.

"But there are so many things that are not beneficial, and we have done a lot of them, so it doesn't hurt to do one once in a while, right? Uncle! ”

The carpenter didn't want to agree, but the children all agreed with Gu Chuan's idea, and the carpenter couldn't resist the opinions of these little adults. He said sullenly:

"You're all too old, I'm afraid you'll hit me, so I can only do as you please! If you want me to go, I'll definitely go with you, but I'm sure I won't see it. ”

This is a realistic reason, Rizhao Village has a son beating Lao Tzu.

All in all, the goal has been achieved.

So a group of people picked a good day and walked together to Daling Mountain when the clouds were about to disperse. It's a long way, but it's safe to have no beasts near Sunset City. Everyone is not afraid, but on the way, you need to rest two or three times.

Walking along the path that had once been walked, up the stairs, the young men soon came to a place with a wide field of vision, overlooking the small half of Sunset City, and also a place where they could see the bright lights of thousands of houses.

"Here it is."

Gu Chuan said.

"Good!"

The children looked at each other.

The sky without the moon and stars was always dark and heavy, and the outline of the city was lost in the darkness. There is no horizon in the distance, but endless mountains, the outline of which is quite clear.

The young people formed a group of two or three, saying that the scenery was beautiful. Just look at it, this group of children standing at the beginning of a new life can't help but secretly talk about many things they have been worrying about.

"Yuhua, Qinglu, what do you think will happen to us in the future? Will you be bullied by the people in the city......"

Yama Tao and Yuhua, as well as another girl named Qinglu, stand together and look for a place to rent a house in the dark.

After she finished speaking, Yuhua shook her head, looked at Gu Chuan's side, and said unconsciously:

"Won't you...... There are so many of us who can help each other, isn't that right? ”

At that time, Pebble walked with Gu Chuan, leaned on the edge of a strange-shaped tree, and told him his confusion:

"Do you think jewelry would be a good place to be? Brother Chuan. My dad thought that cast iron was a little better than wood, but jewelry would be much more noble than cast iron and wood. ”

Gu Chuan looked at the water surface of the Rizhao River, and the brightness of the lights of Sunset City was reflected on the water.

"Jewelers and jewelry designers? …… Haha, indeed, sparkling gems look more precious than black iron or yellow wood. ”

Pebble knew that a turning point was coming, and he knew that Gu Chuan, the boy, always had a feeling of overlooking when he talked about these topics...... Although Pebble didn't know if Gu Chuan himself was aware of this.

"Don't talk here, what do you think, tell me."

"Wood, cast iron, or jewelry, I think, are all ordinary utensils, and who is better than the other?"

On the black-and-gray hills, the carpenters complained, and the whispers of a few children died out in the wind.

Gu Chuan didn't answer.

Pebble rolled his eyes, thought of Gu Chuan's hobby, and hurriedly said:

"Do you think physics is the best? Brother Chuan! ”

"Not really! Haha, I probably do like this kind of study of the laws of matter. But physics isn't the best thing I think! The best business, I think, must not only benefit yourself. ”

When Gu Chuan said this, he found that the river of sunshine stretched endlessly, penetrating into the source of the invisible clouds, and emitted a little light, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to point at each other, and said loudly:

"Everyone, look! The sun is there. ”

So the teenagers hurriedly gathered. The old carpenter, who said that he would not look at it, couldn't help but turn his head sideways and open his eyes.

I saw where the mighty river came from, and the scale-like broken clouds seemed to leap. The sky where there are no stars to be seen, pale blue in the distance, and pink in the distance.

Gu Chuan saw that the eternal sunset, which seemed to have never changed, appeared on the water again and again, from behind the clouds. And the sunlight it emitted was drawn from one land to another, from one hill to another, and the outlines of the heavens and the earth were revealed one by one from the darkness of the clouds. Everything in Sunset City was also clear at the same time, all the buildings, all the substances, all the existences, connected to the places where they lived, the gates they walked through, the fields they saw, the caravans, and their own shadows also emerged from the darkness and were elongated with the light.

Originally, the trees and flowers of Hesse also showed their own colors. The mist that condensed in the black clouds and night shrouded the river gradually disappeared in the glorious turmoil. The sound of the river was mighty, and the water was covered with brilliant scale-like golden light.

"Sunset City is so big!"

At that time, the riverbank muttered. He couldn't see the edge of Sunset City, only countless buildings, much more magnificent, complex and magical buildings than Rizhao Village, and many more people than Rizhao Village who were different and had different looks.

Shan Tao had sharp eyes, pulled Yuhua's clothes, and said in surprise:

"Do you see where we live? That hut, right there! ”

The children were awakened by the girl's hurried voice, and their eyes were turned away. They had lived in a house that had been close to a solar term, hidden in the most backward and complex corners of the city, and in the gloomy darkness, they existed indifferently.

Only Gu Chuan didn't look at the room, but just stared at the morning sun in surprise and incomprehension, and muttered to himself:

"The sun has always been there."

It neither rose nor fell.

Eternal Sunset is where Sunset City comes from.

The river that shines forever by the sun is the origin of the name of the river of sunshine.

"Yes, the sun never changes!"

Once again, the teenagers affirmed this fact and spoke aloud together. For some reason, the fear of a foreign city that had been haunting them disappeared. Now they feel incredibly relieved.

The foothills of the mountain, which were first illuminated, took on a strange grayish-cyan color. At the time of the existence of this heaven and earth and this sun, Sunset City was just a hill full of water and grass and wild beasts.

In the red light of the eternal sunset, the young people from Rizhao Village began to walk back on the gray-blue path, singing folk songs.

"It's not a bad thing to climb the mountain and see the sun." He'an said to Gu Chuan seriously, "I feel that there are still a lot of benefits. ”

It's just that at that time, Gu Chuan was in a trance and didn't answer him.

The carpenter took his performance into view.

When it was time to leave, the carpenter was most worried not about his son Pebble, but about Gu Chuan.

"You rejected the Ogiri family, but until now, you haven't found the next home, and now it's difficult for you to do it! I can't help you when I go back, and the other children have their own problems...... Your mother will definitely worry about you. ”

"Haha."

Gu Chuan smiled:

"There is no endless road, don't worry, uncle, I will definitely find a good way out. What's more, there is a shortage of people everywhere in Sunset City, even if I sell my coolies and do small jobs, I can eat and drink for a long time. ”

The carpenter shook his head at the departing caravan;

"It's useless!"

As a result, Gu Chuan's heart was a little bottomless.

In his last life, he was always expected by his elders, and he was considered to have finished his life. As a result, in this life, the expectations and hopes of the elders are not less at all, but it is more difficult. Although he brought his own knowledge of the previous life as a plug-in, he should be able to make some extraordinary achievements.

"It's just that if you don't get ahead, you can't be happy, even if it's another world, it's the same!"

Gu Chuan's height jumps quickly, but he may have a symptom called the continuation of juvenile state, his face is always maintaining the demeanor of his youth, he doesn't have a long beard at all, he always looks very "young", he is not regarded as an adult, and the pressure of hanging out is particularly great. Children are easy to be deceived and trafficked, and this kind of case has not disappeared in the 21st century, and it will not be extinct in this pre-industrial era.

The other children already have their own places to go, and Gu Chuan, who is wandering alone, has already been targeted several times.

On the third day after the carpenter left, Gu Chuan wandered around a bustling market in Pingling District. In the market, there is information, and there is also the state of this society.

He first talked to a merchant Kan Dashan, and after discussing the recent private currency exchange ratio, he was ready to go to the next storefront and turn into an alley, wanting to talk to the vegetable merchant at the end of the alley about the types and scale of crops grown in Sunset City.

As a result, while walking on the road, suddenly someone from behind touched the corner of his clothes, and slapped his hand on the shoulder. Gu Chuan's heart immediately tightened, and his thoughts went wild:

"This is the fourth time in three days!"

On the first day of wandering, he met a guy who was going to introduce him to a job outside the city. Halfway through, I found that the more I walked, the more remote it became, and it didn't feel right, so I immediately slipped away. After that, I kept an eye on it.

He turned, and was about to throw a punch.

Who knew that the man was grinning toothily at him:

"Long time no see."

The fist stopped.

It turned out that it was not a kidnapper, but Kirimi, Lady Okiri's attendant.

Kirimi didn't wear that kind of thick and heavy clothes that day, she wore a black coat and a hood covering her hair, revealing only half of her face. She was carrying her bag, and several young people around her were helping her carry the supplies she had bought today.

Compared to the coffin-like dress, the curves of the body have been slightly larger. She is not much older than Gu Chuan, and she is also the age of a girl, but her demeanor is difficult to hide.

"Long time no see, Gu Chuan. I just called you, and you didn't reply to me. ”

That's why Kirumi came over to touch him.

"I didn't hear that, I'm sorry."

Gu Chuan smiled awkwardly.

He didn't think he would be called out in this unknown city, but he thought that a similar sound or murmur had been misheard. Who knew that there was a Kirishi, who often bought goods for the Oki family in various markets.

Kirishi was not annoyed by Gu Chuan's fist, and only asked:

"You're still in town! Why didn't you contact me......? I'm also your mother's sister, your sister, isn't it? ”