In the vast ocean there is an equatorial continent with an area of about 2 million square kilometers. It is home to more than 30 million people.

The climate is pleasant and the scenery is beautiful all year round. High on the equatorial continent, the highest elevation of 10,000 meters, the beautiful snow peak stands in the middle of the island, and the vegetation on the mountain has four distinct seasons all year round. A small stream in the mountains converges into a lake of thousands of square kilometers, and a Nu River flows eastward to the sea.

Most of the population on the continent lives in the large cities of the coastal plains. The inland mountainous areas are sparsely populated, and some villages are scattered around. 300 kilometers away from Jingxiu Snow Peak, there is a small town with a population of 50,000, called Herbal Medicine Town.

There is a 17-year-old young man named Ai Chen, who chose to open an inn at 900 meters from Jingxiu Snow Peak after graduating from the college, called the Rose Inn. You can also study here and prepare for the imperial examinations.

The inn is a two-story building with only 30 rooms.

On the roof of the building, Ai Chen built a grape trellis and planted many roses, including pink roses, wild roses, lotus roses, etc. There are also some greenery. Because of the climate, these plants bloom all year round. There is also a low pond for small fish and shrimp on the roof.

At the foot of Jingxiu Snow Peak, there is a Luojia Village, which is not a big village, with more than 50 households.

Ai Chen hired a husband and wife in Luojia Village, with Uncle Luo in charge of the kitchen and Aunt Luo in charge of the guest room and restaurant. However, because it is the rice planting season, I need to go home to work on the farm, and I can't come to work at the inn until a month later.

The people who come to stay at the Rose Inn are some tourist explorers and some herb pickers.

When the sky was bright, Ai Chen got up and read under the candlelight. Suddenly, a thunderclap startled Ai Chen, and he looked up to see a bright light piercing the sky, followed by a loud noise, the sound of the grape trellis collapsing on the roof.

After coming over for a while, there was no movement, Ai Chen put down the book in his hand and quietly walked up to the roof, the whole grape trellis collapsed, and I saw a girl about fourteen years old lying on her back under the grape trellis, with long eyelashes and snow-white skin. The clothes worn by this girl are completely different from this era, wearing a pink short-sleeved T-shirt on the upper body, a plaid mini skirt on the lower body, and white sneakers on the feet.

The girl was lying motionless on the ground, Ai Chen stepped forward slowly, carefully observing the reaction, at this time, a drop of dew on the rose flower dripped to the corner of the girl's mouth, the corner of the girl's mouth moved slightly, and then the girl did not react.

Ai Chen thought, "Isn't it, girls want to drink water." He walked over to the water tank and scooped a spoonful of water and fed it to the girl. She didn't open her mouth to catch water, her teeth locked.

Ai Chen pondered: "It doesn't make sense! I had just seen her suck the dew on the roses. Ai Chen thought, "Could it be that I only drink the dew on the roses." ”

Ai Chen poured out the water in the spoon, used the spoon to fill the dew on the rose, and with great effort, collected a small half spoon of dew, and fed it to the girl again, at this time the corners of the girl's mouth opened, and she drank it after a while. The girl still didn't wake up at this time.

Ai Chen picked up the girl with both hands, went down to the room, put the girl on the bed, covered the quilt, closed the door and went out.

Ai Chen cleaned up the collapsed grape trellis and built a new grape trellis with wood, and the bottom of the roses was covered with a rain cloth to collect the dew of the roses.

He had already gathered a pot of rose dew water at this time, and he went to the kitchen to wash rice and cook rice, preparing to cook a pot of porridge, because he knew that people who were sick liked to drink porridge.

Ai Chen pulled the bellows and added firewood to the stove, the porridge in the pot popped, and the whole kitchen was filled with the fragrance of rice porridge with rose flower dew.

Ai Chen added a large bowl of porridge with a spoon and filled some pickles with Fluttershy, and he pushed the door in with the porridge and pickles, and at this time the girl had already woken up, and was pulling the quilt to look at everything in the room, and saw a handsome and dashing boy wearing a square scarf, wearing a silk brocade white robe, with a wide belt around his waist, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a handsome and dashing boy coming in.

The girl thought, "I'm going back to ancient times, this kind of costume is already 1,000 years ago on our planet." ”

The girl's mouth made a sound weakly, but Ai Chen couldn't understand what she was saying, and he also gestured, "What's your name?" The girl seemed to understand a little, and came out of her mouth, "Lin Xiaolu." Ai Chen heard the sound and distinguished: "Lin Xiaolu." Ai Chen also said word by word: "Ai Chen." The girl also understood that the boy was called: "Ai Chen." ”

The girl pointed at Ai Chen and then at herself, and Ai Chen understood that she meant that he had saved her. Ai Chen smiled and nodded.

Ai Chen gestured and said, "It's time to eat." And made a gesture with his hand to pick up the rice in his mouth. Ai Chen handed the meal to the girl, she took the rice porridge and ate it, chewed it slowly and ate it with relish, and then sandwiched some pickles, and nodded vigorously that it was delicious.

After eating, Ai Chen said and gestured: "You rest and pay attention to your body." He leaned his hand on her head and motioned for her to sleep and recuperate.

The girl understood, lay down tiredly, and pulled the quilt. Ai Chen put away the dishes and chopsticks and gently closed the door.

In the afternoon, Ai Chen went up the mountain to collect firewood with a basket on his back, he was just a scholar and had never chopped firewood. It turned out that Uncle Luo was chopping wood, and Ai Chen picked up the dead branches and broken branches that fell from the big trees in the woods. After collecting them, they put them in a basket and a lot of firewood, tied them up with ropes, and carried them down the mountain. Carry a basket in your hand.

Because he was thirsty, he went to a small stream to drink, where the water of the stream was crystal clear and cold to relieve the heat, and the stream was formed by the melting of the snow peaks.

When he was drinking water, he heard the sound of "chirping" in the grass, and he walked deeper into the grass, and saw two 30-centimeter-tall black-necked cranes calling in the grass, and two adult black-necked cranes were dead next to them, and a large python not far away was also dead.

Ai Chen looked at the surrounding environment, and saw that this time, the grass was flattened a lot, and there were blood stains everywhere, which showed how fierce the two adult black-necked cranes were trembling with the big python in order to protect their cubs, and finally died together.

Ai Chen poured out the firewood from the basket and tied it up with a rope. Put two black-necked cranes in the basket. He carried two bundles of firewood on his back and a basket in his hand.

Ai Chen put the firewood in the kitchen and put the two little black-necked cranes in the roof garden. The little one is safe now, and there are no animals here to hurt the little one!

He made dinner and brought it to Lin Xiaolu, seeing that there was no light in the house, presumably she was still sleeping, so he didn't bother her, and when she recovered, he was making her something to eat.

Ai Chen thought: "I have to go to bed early today, and I have to get up early tomorrow to get the rose flower water, otherwise it will be really a big trouble." ”