Chapter 3: Mr. Long
Yu Mo's perception of the world outside the village comes from Mr. Long, because his body is weak, so he prefers some quiet activities, such as reading and writing in Mr. Long's school.
Mr. Long opened this school three years ago, and the fees are very small, those who have money will be given a few copper plates, those who have no money will be given a few buckets of rice, and some vegetables and fruits can be used, it seems that he opened this school not to charge fees, but for another purpose, but in this remote village close to the big forest, what can he plot? Therefore, the adults in the village are also willing to hand over the children to Mr. Long to teach, if nothing else, just to let these children have a place to go when the adults are busy, so that they can cause trouble everywhere, as for whether they can read some words, it doesn't matter to them, after all, words are not helpful to their current life and production.
But Yu Hunter didn't think so, because on the night when the headhunter brought Yu Mo back, he met some people from outside the village, and also saw the monks who were called spiritual cultivators, combined with what those people did to Xiao Mo back then, Yu Hunter concluded that one day, Yu Mo would go out of this village and go to the wider world outside, and he also hoped that his daughter Yu Yu would also have the opportunity to go out and see the Ten Thousand Souls Continent that those monks said. Therefore, Yu Hunting felt that being able to read and write was very necessary for Yu Mo and Yu Xiang. So when he heard that Mr. Long was going to establish a school, Yu Hunter was very much in favor of it, and immediately sent Yu Mo and Yu Yu over, and sent some to Mr. Long every time he went to the New Year's Festival, or when he went out hunting and had surplus meat, so the relationship between the two families was also very harmonious.
Yu Headhunter went out hunting early this morning, Yu Mo and Yu Yu also walked quickly to the school after breakfast, because Mr. Long said that he wanted to tell them about the history of the Ten Thousand Souls Continent, and Yu Mo was not very interested in these histories, but Yu Mo liked it very much, so Yu Mo pulled Yu Yu to the school early.
"Mr. Long, morning." Yu Yan said to the middle-aged man in the school, and Yu Mo also said, "Mr. Long is early." Then the two of them walked to their seats.
"Yu Mo Yu Yu is so early." The speaker was Mr. Long, dressed in a gray shirt, which was made entirely of fabric, unlike the clothes sewn by the villagers from a mixture of cloth and animal skins, which was rare in the village. Mr. Long's body is slightly thin, his facial features are relatively ordinary, only a pair of eyes are extremely deep, and he seems to have experienced the vicissitudes of the world.
"My brother said that today you talked about the history of the Ten Thousand Souls Continent, and he liked it very much, so he pulled me early." Yu Yan sat in his place and yawned and said.
"Mr. Long, in fact, I am more interested in the world outside this village, you also know my life experience, I have a feeling in the dark, I will definitely go out, can you tell us about the outside world?" Yu Mo looked at Mr. Long and said.
Mr. Long glanced at him deeply, and just wanted to speak, but Yu Yan shouted on the side: "I also want to know, I also want to know, I want to go out with my brother, how do you say that, ah yes, wander the rivers and lakes." ”
Mr. Long looked at the brother and sister with a smile: "Don't worry, when we talk about history today, we will talk about the outside world, and we will talk when everyone is together." ”
About a quarter of an hour later, the children arrived one after another, including Chen Shuisheng, the child of the Chen tailor's family, Yu Sisi, the child of the village doctor's family, and so on.
Mr. Long cleared his throat when he saw that the children had arrived: "Good morning everyone, today I will tell you about the brief history of our Ten Thousand Souls Continent, but before that, I will tell you about our Ten Thousand Souls Continent. ”
"The Ten Thousand Souls Continent is governed by the three races of people, spirits, and demons, but thousands of years ago, the three races did not get along very harmoniously, and the three races have been attacking each other until a great war a thousand years ago, so that the three races had to unite to ensure that the Ten Thousand Souls Continent is not destroyed, the three races have been relatively resting until now, after the war a thousand years ago, the elders of the three tribes discussed and jointly abolished the era of each race, and uniformly changed the name of the new era to Xinling, and set the end of the war as the first year of Xinling, and now it is the year of Xinling." Mr. Long took a sip of tea after speaking.
"Mr. Long, what are the spirit races and demon races like, and is there any difference between them and our human races?" Yu Yan asked.
"Our Ten Thousand Souls Continent is full of aura, the grass and trees, mountains and rocks, and even the clouds and mist in the world, after gaining different forms and spiritual wisdom under the nourishment of aura, they are called spirit races, just like the stone people and tree people I told you last time, etc., there are many other races, some of them are very similar to our human race after their transformation, and some are far from us. Birds and beasts are called demons after they are born under the nourishment of spiritual energy, and they also have different sub-groups, such as the wolf clan, the fox clan, and even the rumored dragon clan and the phoenix clan. Generally speaking, it takes a long time for the spirit race and the demon race to be able to incarnate into a human form from the birth of spiritual intelligence, but some powerful spirit and demon races are born with spiritual intelligence and the ability to transform into shapes, of course, those are some legendary races. Mr. Long said slowly. When everyone heard Mr. Long's words, they all fell into longing, and they all thought about the legendary fox fairy or the wind elf with a smart body.
After speaking, Mr. Long drew an irregular inverted triangle on the sand with a tree branch: "After the end of the Great War a thousand years ago, the three clans decided to form an alliance with the three clans to jointly manage the entire continent, and this alliance is the Three Spirit Alliance in the center of the continent. The Three Spirit Alliance divides the entire continent into eight major realms: eastern, southern, western, northern, northeastern, southeastern, northwestern, and southwest, and each realm is divided into some domains, and our village is located in the western Banchi region. Mr. Long pointed to the inverted triangle and said.
"There are many, many wonderful places outside the village, such as Ban Chicheng, the most prosperous city in this Ban Chi Domain, not to mention that there are more big domains and big cities outside of this Ban Chi Domain, if you have the opportunity, I hope you all go out and break through, to see this Ten Thousand Souls Continent." The children all listened to Mr. Long's description infatuatedly, as if their hearts had flown to the bustling Banchi City.
But how easy it is to get out of this village, in this continent of all souls with abundant spiritual energy, whether or not to use this abundant spiritual energy determines the status of people, those who can use it are called cultivators, also called spirituality, and whether people can use the aura of heaven and earth is innate, it must be born in the body to have a spiritual vein, those without spiritual veins can not communicate with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it is naturally difficult to reach a high position, of course, these are too cruel for these children, Mr. Long naturally did not tell them.
Looking at these children who were fascinated by listening, Mr. Long thought to himself, there may be very few of these children who can go out.
Soon it was time for the end of class, and the children went home one after another, and at this time, only Mr. Long, Yu Mo and Yu Yan were left in the school.
Mr. Long looked out the window at the trees that had sprouted new shoots and slowly recited a poem: "This spring has passed again, when is the year of return." ”
Yu Mo and Yu Yu just wanted to get up and go home, and suddenly heard this poem read by Mr. Long, Yu Mo was stunned for a moment and asked, "Where is Mr. Long's hometown?" ”
"This is a poem written by the people of my ancestors' homeland, but their homeland is too far away." Mr. Long glanced at the brother and sister meaningfully and continued, "Yu Mo, Yu Yan, what do you think about this vast Ten Thousand Souls Continent?" ”
"I can't wait to get out, but Daddy won't let me." Yu Yan pouted and said.
"I don't know, although the outside world is exciting, it doesn't seem like it's easy for me to get out." Yu Mo replied seriously.
"It's not too early, let's go back early, who can say what will happen in the future?" Mr. Long said to the two.
The brother and sister got up to say goodbye to Mr. Long and walked home. Mr. Long looked at the backs of the brother and sister and muttered, "I hope you two can still maintain this enthusiasm for everything when you return here after many years." With that, his figure slowly disappeared in place.