"Patriarch, if you're tired, I can come back later." Qi looked at the patriarch lying in the car in front of him - there was a faint layer of water stains on his haircut, at first Qi thought it was like the one on his clothes, it was left by well water, but his clothes were completely dry after taking two steps, so the patriarch's face was sweaty.

"No, I'm fine, after all, I can't use my legs, I only use my hands, I do have to be tired, and it's normal to sweat a little." The patriarch replied, "You should have a lot of questions for me, just ask. ”

Kai thought about it for a while, and found that he didn't know where to start, the water that he could breathe, the huge space at the bottom of the well, the pile of bamboo slips, and the order of arrangement......

Li saw Qi's hesitation and waved his hand: "Ask whatever you want, I've always been idle." ”

"Why does water breathe?"

"I don't know about this, I've seen all the bamboo slips, there is no record of this, but the previous patriarch told me such an incident when he left his job, I could still use my legs at that time, and I jumped in alone like you today, and I learned to swim easily."

"...... swimming?"

"Oh, this is a new word for you, that is, exercise in the water is called swimming, pay attention to the whole person in the water, otherwise it is called washing. Swimming is the regular movement of the body in the water. ”

"How many rolls are there in the bamboo slips at the bottom of the well?"

"Four thousand nine hundred and seventy-five volumes, there are not many things I have recorded in them, only twenty volumes."

"So much? Are they all recorded by previous patriarchs? ”

"Yes, the most recorded are the patriarchs of the twentieth generation, and a total of 1,200 volumes have been burned. There were only nine hundred and twenty volumes of the twenty-first generation patriarch, and then there were fewer and fewer of them, until I came here, and I felt that I could only remember a few strokes, and I did not remember any unimportant things. ”

"What about the patriarch from twenty generations ago?"

"I don't know, there is no record, but I guess that people should still be using paper at that time, it should be more difficult to preserve, and it was not until the twentieth generation that bamboo slips began to be used, so the record started from the twentieth generation, and there was no one before."

Qi nodded: "I coughed after being pulled out of the well, I obviously felt that I coughed up something, but there was no one on the ground, why is this?" ”

"The well water will dry up quickly after leaving the well, I don't know why, this is not recorded, in fact, there are very few records about the well, the twenty generations of patriarchs called it the light well, and this name has been passed down from generation to generation. What we know about it is limited to its name and the fact that it contains the burned bamboo slips of our tribe's patriarchs, as well as some metal vessels, well...... Those that reflect light are metal, which is Mandarin...... That is, the language of Wu Anti, and now it can only be explained to you like this. Li shook his head and said, "Forget it, you better follow me to learn martial arts first, otherwise you won't be able to understand a lot of things I say." ”

Kai nodded, he knew that Li would always come up with the most reasonable way.

"I'm stepping down in two years, you should be the patriarch, you are a person I approve of, and a person recognized by the people, so you must do your best. It used to take me about half a year from being in contact with Wu'an to being able to speak proficiently, but I should be an example, most of the other recorded patriarchs can be fully mastered in about a year and a half, so I will start teaching you now according to the overall standard, and I believe that if you do your best, it will be about a year. Li looked at Qidao, "You will live with me from today onwards, Lixia Liyang can't be with you, but you can go back to see them from time to time." When you've learned, move out. After speaking, he motioned for Qi to carry himself to the bed—he had been sitting in the car, and when Qi carried him to the bed, he suddenly remembered the foreigner who had been rescued: "Your doubts about water, maybe that foreigner can answer them, in the records, the heavenly palace contains the advanced knowledge of all the tribes, what god is watching us in the heavenly palace, although I prefer to believe that it is a story of coaxing children, heh, God?" If there is a god, I am afraid that it will also be illuminated by the blue sun. But since he's from other tribes, maybe he really knows something that our tribe doesn't know, and when he recovers, you can ask if every tribe has such wells. ”

Kai nodded, then chatted with Ri for a few words, and then went back to his cave to pack his things and prepare to move to Ri's cave.