058, the dialogue between two pig heads (II)
This is not a deep mountain like Lu Village, and it is not very convenient to mine and transport stones, so many of their houses are supported by wooden pillars at the corners, with wooden frames laying roofs above, and some walls are also made of wooden planks. More houses have walls made of adobe, which is afraid of rain, so the eaves are far from the wall. The courtyard walls are mostly made of rubble, which is supposed to have been taken from Baixi.
The wall that once surrounded the village should have been very tall and sturdy, but now it has fallen into disrepair, and there are many places that have opened gaps, which should be convenient for people to enter and exit, because there are many new houses outside the wall. Not only that, but there is also a house and field on the high slope on the north bank opposite Baixi, which may be that as the population of the village multiplies, some people live there.
This very remote village in the north of Feihong City has developed very prosperous in the past hundred years. The reason is also very simple, because there is a powerful monk here and he is the lord of Feihong City, and no one will come here to make trouble. In the past 100 years, the wall has been in vain, but it has hindered people's access.
Today, the population of Baixi Village has increased several times compared to a hundred years ago, and people of course need to build more dwellings, open up more fields, expand the village, and even move to the other side of the river. Although the old city lord died decades ago, the rest of the city is still there, and there has never been any threat here, and the people have become accustomed to a comfortable life.
But today, there are finally rogues who incite the demon clan to come and ransack the almost undefended Baixi Village, and the villagers still don't know anything.
Since it was early winter, there wasn't much farm work. The weather was not very good today and the wind was blowing, and people hid in the house early in the morning and did not come out. The tiger baby saw Baixi Village from afar. There were already several gaps in the wall surrounding the village, and the middle of the gaps was trampled into a flat road. It can also be recognized that the original gate is on the side near Baixi, where there are steps down to the water's edge.
There is a place near the water where there are many flat big stones, leaving traces of many years of artificial chiseling, which should be the place where the people of Baixi Village usually wash their clothes, and there is a water inlet not far upstream, the water flow is gentle and clear, which should be the place where they usually draw water. The tiger baby walked along the white stream, only to see a girl walking to the inlet to prepare to fetch water.
The girl was sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in linen and covered with an animal skin. This Pikan shoulder is old. The hair in several places has been bald, revealing the underbody of the skin. She was holding a clay pot and was about to fetch water with hemp rope, when she heard Huwa's voice and asked, "Girl, are you from Baixi Village?"
When she came, she didn't see anyone, but suddenly she heard an unfamiliar voice behind her, and the girl was so frightened that she exclaimed, "Oops", and the clay pot fell off her hand on the pebble-strewn riverbank, and fell to pieces.
This is also to blame for the tiger baby's bad habits, he used to be in the wild on the road. Most often, it is to go back and forth between Lucun and the ruins of Taihao. And the mountain god told him and Pan Gu to try to restrain their voices and hide their tracks. This habit has been formed, even if there is no need to cast a spell to hide the sound at the moment, when the tiger baby and Pan Gu come. Even if you step on a gravel beach, your steps are very quiet. The girl didn't look this way, so she didn't notice them at all.
The clay pot fell to the ground and shattered. The pan was also startled, and he jumped back a big step before standing still. The girl turned around and saw the tiger baby and the dog. He crouched down and tried to pick up the shards, but the pots were clearly beyond salvage. When she looked up again, she was already in tears. In a voice that was about to cry, he said, "Where are you from, and why are you scaring me like this?...... The jar is broken, what should I do?"
Huwa also realized that she was in trouble, and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, I'm from a foreign country, and I happened to be passing by here, and I accidentally startled you just now." ...... It doesn't matter if the jar is broken, I'll pay you one. ”
The girl said very aggrievedly: "It's not that you broke it, it's me who didn't take it well, how can I ask you to compensate?...... This is the jar of the patriarch's house, not an ordinary pottery ......" she was about to cry again as she spoke.
The tiger baby can not only refine weapons, but also be good at distinguishing utensils, this clay pot is nothing in his eyes, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it can be regarded as a delicate and precious thing. It has "ears" and can be carried through with hemp rope, so you don't have to bend down when drawing water, and you can also fall deep to draw water. The process of firing pottery is easy to break, and with such a pair of hollow ears, the difficulty of firing is much greater than that of ordinary pottery.
Not only that, the blank of this clay pot is very delicate, and the shape of the vessel is also very delicate, obviously carefully made, and it turned out to be the jar of the patriarch of Baixi Village. Huwa gently comforted: "Don't worry, if I didn't scare you, you wouldn't have broken the jar, and I will definitely pay if I say compensation." ”
The girl looked at him with some curiosity and asked, "What do you pay, that dog?...... No need, I'll tell the patriarch myself, I can't blame you. ”
The tiger baby was wearing a thin kudzu cloth dress in this weather, and she didn't have anything on her body at first glance, and as for the piece of gold hidden in her arms, of course the girl didn't see it and couldn't think of it at all. Obviously, this young man only has this dog by his side, how can he let him use it to compensate for his clay pot?
Pan Gu glanced at the girl with disdain, and looked very dissatisfied. And the tiger baby smiled: "Of course I can't compensate you for this dog, it's my friend." I said that a jar is a jar, exactly the same jar as the one you just broken. ”
As he spoke, he turned and took a few steps higher, leaving the gravel beach to the dirt outcrop, crouching down and starting to rub the mud with his hands. The girl was stunned, and wondered what this young man wanted to do, was his brain sick, so he wanted to pinch a jar with mud to compensate her? Moreover, the clay used to burn pottery is particular, and the mud here has a lot of impurities, which is not suitable for making pottery at all.
And the tiger baby is really kneading the jar with his hands, he digs out the silt by the river, spins it in his hands, and then it is no longer kneading it by hand, but the clump of mud blanks is moving on its own. Not long after, a jar with the exact shape of Fang Cai appeared in the hand of the tiger baby. He stood up, held the jar in both hands, handed it to the girl, and said, "Take it, and I will pay you for it." ”
The girl didn't dare to reach out to pick it up, and subconsciously took a step back and said, "This, this, this...... Who are you? You made an identical clay block, but it's not a clay pot!"
Huwa smiled: "I said that it is a clay pot is a clay pot, and you will know the Tao when you take it." As he spoke, he stooped down and picked up the hemp rope on the ground, smashed the broken jar lug that was still attached to one end of the rope, tied it to the ears of the new jar, and handed it over with his hand.
The girl was stunned, since she could lift it with a rope, it was obviously not a mud billet. She took the jar at a loss, touched it with her hand for a long time, and subconsciously knocked it, sure enough, it was a pottery that had been fired, and it was still a little warm and hot.
Huwa is not showing, he just uses refining kung fu very naturally. At the beginning, he used the five-colored divine clay to refine a magic clay pot, and firing such an ordinary jar was a matter of casual succession. This was his own trouble, so he didn't spare his magical powers. But his casual skills are definitely not something that ordinary monks can do!
He was afraid that the girl would be in a hurry, so the speed of refining the weapon was very fast, and the softness of mana and the subtlety of divine consciousness had been used to the extreme, and at this moment there was already a slight sweat on the tip of his nose. The jar he refined was much better than the one the girl had broken just now, and it could be regarded as a low-grade treasure, at least with ordinary strength, it was difficult to break it.
The stunned girl seemed to react suddenly, held the clay pot in her arms, bowed down and saluted with a very frightened expression: "Wei Wei was rude just now, I didn't know that you were actually a passing co-worker." ...... I don't know what I can do for you?"
It turned out that the girl's name was Weiwei, after all, she lived in a village like Baixi Village, which has a heritage background, and saw that the tiger baby kneaded the mud with her bare hands and did not need to enter the kiln to fire, so she made a clay pot out of thin air, and guessed that he was a legendary co-worker. When the co-workers in the city go out and pass by some villages, they often do something at the request of the villagers.
But she had never heard of a co-worker performing such a miraculous skill, just to make an ordinary clay pot. Under normal circumstances, a certain village asks a co-worker to spend his cultivation mana and use such a magical means to help, and the price paid is not small, even if it is possible to compensate a girl like Weiwei to the co-worker.
And what kind of request will this co-worker make if he has already made a move, and how can she meet it?
Her appearance is not as strong and stout as many women in the wild tribes, her body looks a little delicate, her skin is very fair, there are a few freckles on both sides of her nose, her facial features are very delicate, and her figure is a little thin but also with a slender softness. For some reason, the tiger baby thought that she looked stupid just now, and the panicked expression standing in the cold wind at the moment was also very pitiful.
Huwa smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, my appearance is not scary! I don't need you to do anything for me, I just pay you a jar." Your jar is indeed very good, and it is very difficult for ordinary people to succeed in making it, it turns out that it belongs to the patriarch's family, so you are also a child of the patriarch's family, right?"
Miss Weiwei hurriedly shook her head and said, "How can I be the child of the patriarch's family! I live next to the patriarch's house, and it is a little cold today, so the patriarch asked me to come and fetch water for his family." ...... This Gonggong master, do you have something to do with coming to our village?"
Huwa asked curiously, "Is your patriarch sick?"
The girl also asked curiously: "No, the patriarch is very good, why do you ask like this?" (To be continued......)
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