Chapter Twenty-Six: When I See a Gentleman, I am ashamed
Wang Lin was picked up by Wu Chi in a carriage when he fainted out of Xiushui Town, how did the broken mountain pass, how did the sea of grass enter, in fact, he didn't know anything, he walked with Xie Shi for a day, and what he saw in front of him was always the green grass that was two people high, swaying with the wind, making a rustling sound, and then he knew the vastness of the sea of grass. From time to time, you will see a black shadow that you can't tell what it is, and it will flash from the depths of the sea of grass, bringing a touch of mystery and fear to this vast sea of green.
And looking at the majestic broken mountain, it seems that there has not changed much in front of the eyes of the two people who have walked all day, and it is still in front of them, but it is difficult to reach. The ancients Zeng Yun: The life of the broken mountain is broken, and the soul of the sea of grass is not returned.
"Ouch, I've been walking for a day, I'm tired to death, Brother Wang, let's find a place to rest for the night, it's not very safe to walk at night. Xie An wiped the sweat from his head, pinched his waist and said to Wang Lin who was walking in front.
Wang Lin looked at the sky, the sky was already red, the blood-red sunset, like a bowl of blood sprinkled red half of the sky, with the boundless sea of grass in front and the towering and cold broken mountains in the distance, the wind of killing iron and blood permeated Wang Lin's heart.
"Well, there seems to be another open and spacious place ahead, where we can make a fire for the night and go back tomorrow. ”
Xie An nodded and said, "If you follow my map, you should be able to leave the sea of grass and reach Broken Mountain by this time tomorrow, and entering Broken Mountain is the forbidden area of the Xixia Border Army." ”
Wang Lin and Xie An walked towards the empty ground. At this moment, there was a tremor of the ground behind them, and both of them turned back at the same time, only to see that in the distance behind, the smoke was filled, and in the wind and lightning, a team of armored cavalry was rushing strongly. The leader was none other than yesterday's Marshal Cao.
Wang Lin and Xie An hurriedly walked towards the edge of the official road to make way for the group of Tempest Iron Riders.
The head of the sturdy general, who was eight feet tall, with his surprisingly large giant sword at his waist, rode on a tall horse, and the body of the horse was also wrapped in heavy armor, which looked shining in the setting sun, and the countless scars on the armor showed that this war horse was also experienced in a hundred battles.
The general glanced at Wang Lin and Xie Shi, did not slow down, and led a group of cavalry behind him to pass by, without the slightest delay, leaving only the remnants of the soldiers shouting: "Drive!" and was quickly overshadowed by the more barbaric and noisy sound of a large number of horses' hooves.
Xie An looked at the soldiers who had already gone away, with admiration and envy on his face: "The sun and dusk are even returning to ride, and the Changchuan shines on the sunset." Great!"
Wang Lin looked at Xie An's adoring gaze, but he thought of the tragedy in his hometown, his mood was a little heavy, and he didn't speak.
When he reached the spacious ground, because there were no trees in the sea of grass, and he could not find dry branches, Xie Shi took some dried weeds, piled them on the ground, and lit a fire, and the sky gradually darkened, and soon the night sky was full of stars.
"There are no branches in this sea of grass, and this grass can't help but burn, and it will be extinguished in a while, so we have to keep watch for half the night, and add grass at any time, so that this fire cannot be extinguished, as long as the fire is not extinguished, no matter how fierce the beast sees this fire, it has to retreat and weigh itself. Xie An sat by the fire and sat opposite Wang Lin and said.
Wang Lin nodded and said, "I'll keep the first half of the night, how about you come to keep the second half of the night?"
"Yes, yes, whoever watches the same in the middle of the night. Xie An smiled, then looked at the burden on Wang Lin's shoulders, and asked curiously: "Brother Wang, what do you have in this baggage?" Seeing that you are carrying it on your shoulders like a baby, you will not take it off even after resting." ”
Wang Lin heard Xie An's words, looked at his burden, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "This is a gift from the little girl I sent to the Xiyue Inn yesterday. I heard that it was his brother, the uncles used to give her gifts, I haven't had time to look at it, I guess it's just some little things that girls like, small objects, I'm afraid that these objects are fragile, so I have been tied to my shoulders, and I plan to give these small objects to the girls in my hometown. As he spoke, he unburdened himself from his shoulders and opened it beside him.
"In this way, if Brother Wang minds me to see, if there is anything I want, it is better to do business with me, and the price is guaranteed to make Brother Wang feel comfortable. Xie An came around.
Wang Lin said with a smile: "It is estimated that they are all objects of the girl's family, and they will not enter the eyes of Brother Xie." Saying that, under Xie An's gaze, Wang Lin opened the baggage.
After opening the baggage, Xie An's mouth couldn't be closed, his eyes widened, he looked up at Wang Lin, and then looked down at the things in the baggage, and he couldn't speak for a while.
Wang Lin looked at the things in the baggage, a little strange, there are things in the girl's house, but not much, only a pair of earrings and a bead hairpin, but the carving and materials are extremely exquisite, and it is not ordinary at first glance. The rest is something that Wang Lin can't see. Wang Lin looked at Xie An with a wry smile and asked, "Looking at Brother Xie's expression, you should recognize these things, I don't know if you are willing to introduce them to me, I really don't know anything about the goods." ”
Xie An's mouth was still open, and after a short while, Xie An came back to his senses, looked at Wang Lin and said, "That girl gave you all her family's wealth." ”
Wang Lin scratched his head in confusion and said incomprehensibly: "How is it possible, that little girl is only a half-old child, how can she have the opportunity to touch any treasures." ”
Xie An didn't speak, but his expression was clearly disbelieving. Dumbfounded: "Look at this big bead, it should be in the sea of Dongwang Shenzhou, the thousand-year-old mussel essence was slaughtered after the thousand-year-old pearl was taken out, it was originally an excellent collection, and with this pearl in your carry, usually play twice, it will help to practice and strengthen the body, of course, after grinding into powder into medicine, it can make mortals live longer, strong and strong, cultivators, cultivation is greatly increased, it is the world's top tonic, but few people go back to directly grind into powder, that is too tyrannical." ”
Wang Lin touched the beads a little stunned, and it looked extraordinarily milky white and round under the moonlight, giving people a feeling of love.
Xie An didn't pause, and looked at the other three seemingly unpretentious white papers, Xie An picked up one, carefully observed the texture and veins on the paper in the moonlight, and exclaimed in shock: "Rhyme paper! It turned out to be one of the three strange papers! I didn't think that there was still rhyme paper in this folk! Brother Wang, come and see!"
"What is that?" Wang Lin wondered.
"One of the three major pieces of rhyme paper, what you draw on it, this piece of paper will become something, living and dead things can become, it is a kind of treasure in the world, I didn't expect there to be three! Do you know that the moral forest of Confucius Mansion in Zhongzhou was written and painted by Confucius Sheng with the largest rhyme paper in the world, and it has been a thousand years! Brother Wang, is it possible to exchange red gold for a piece?" Xie An looked at Wang Lin with blazing eyes, and his hot eyes seemed to roast Wang Lin.
Wang Lin was taken aback when he saw Xie An's appearance, and he didn't know what to say for a while, Xie An saw that Wang Lin didn't speak, calmed down a little, and felt that he was too abrupt, really unorthodox, and calmed down a little and said to Wang Lin: "It's abrupt, I really just saw the artifact, and my mood is too agitated, I hope you will forgive me." “
Wang Lin smiled awkwardly and shook his head. In Xie An's still quite hot eyes, Wang Lin clearly saw what Xie An meant: "I'm not in a hurry, you think about it, and you set the price." ”
Then Xie An wanted to continue to check the things in the baggage, but Wang Lin immediately put the burden away, and hurriedly said: "Don't look at it, don't talk about it, I'll lend it to Brother Xie when I get to the Broken Mountain Camp." ”
Xie Jiazuo said with some resentment: "If you don't look at it, you won't see it, my buddy has also walked through the south, and the people who have crossed the north have seen a lot, these things are actually good for you, but in the eyes of people who know the goods and buy treasures, they are not popular goods at all." So you these things, ordinary rich people don't understand, and those who understand can't look down on them, and they are too lazy to sell, the most chicken ribs, embarrassing, and not in the stream~. “
Wang Lin also smiled gently, nodding at Xie An, with a little gratitude in his eyes.
Pifu is not guilty, he is guilty, everything in this burden is not ordinary, and if you have any one in the hands of someone with a heart, you can have a place in Zhongzhou, but for Wang Lin, who does not have much energy, these things are likely to become his talismans.
The masters who really understand these treasures naturally disdain to do the things that kill people and oversell goods, and what they really have to be careful about are those rural thieves, murderers and thieves, who know that they are treasures, and only think that they can exchange money, so they do the dirty things of killing and robbing. That's why Xie An said the words just now, no matter whether there was anyone in the sea of grass staring at them and having bad ideas, but only when these words were said could the hearts of the two teenagers be at ease.
Just like the hunters who go up to the mountains to hunt, they will worship the mountain gods next to them every New Year's Day, regardless of whether the mountain gods are or not, but only by worshipping can they go hunting with peace of mind.
The night was getting deeper, and the wind was getting lighter, and only the sound of the grass was known. From time to time, Wang Lin added hay to the fire, and Xie An curled up by the fire and fell asleep, occasionally with a slight snoring sound.
In the early morning of the next day, a thick layer of fog rose in the sea of grass, and after screaming all night, it slowly rested in the early morning, and the whole sea of grass was silent and terrible, full of panic and uneasiness, as if the white fog swallowed everything.
Xie An woke up from the nightmare and looked around, everything was white. "Brother Wang?" Xie An was a little scared, and said that he would keep watch for the second half of the night, but he had slept until now.
At this time, there was a sound of footsteps behind Xie An, and a dark shadow flickered and gradually approached.
Xie An screamed in fright, and then ducked back.
The black shadow was also startled, his steps stopped, and his body trembled.
"Brother Xie, what's wrong?" said the black shadow tentatively.
"Wang, brother Wang, it's you, scared to death, I thought there were robbers or ghosts. And why don't you wake me up" Xie An slapped his chest, not caring at all about the previous gaffe.
In the second half of the night, I found that I was not sleepy at all, and then I opened my baggage, and took out one of the three books that the little snow girl had given me, and planned to read it by the light of the fire, but the more I looked, the more fascinated I became, and the fog rose unconsciously. Later, I found out that I couldn't even find the official road, not even you, and then I happened to hear you call me, so I followed the voice. ”
Wang Lin approached Xie An, and Wang Lin appeared in front of Xie An with two dark undereye bags.
Xie An calmed down, looked at Wang Lin, and showed a smiling expression on his face: "Is it really fascinated by reading, or is it so scared that you can't sleep at night, looking for a book to read to pass the time?"
The corners of Wang Lin's mouth twitched imperceptibly, and then pretended to be serious: "I really got fascinated by reading books, but Brother Xie's scream scared me." ”
Both teenagers were frightened by the conversation with each other last night, Wang Lin was completely sleepy, and Xie An had a nightmare.
Xie An looked at Wang Lin and said, "Anyway, it's foggy now, and we can't leave, so let's sit down and wait, by the way, what kind of book are you reading?"
Wang Lin sat next to Xie An, took the book out of his arms, and stretched out his hand to hand it to Xie An.
Xie An took a look, and what caught his eye was the three big characters "Three Character Sutra", the corners of Xie An's mouth twitched, he looked at Wang Lin and said, "You just watched this thing for the second half of the night?"
"Yes, it's really a good book, but it also makes me wonder, and it talks about a lot of truths that we usually ignore, but really happen around us every day. Every sentence took me a long time to understand, some of which took me a long time to think of how to refute, and some of which I had never experienced before. ”
"Wait, are you saying that you have never read this enlightenment book that even children understand, and it took you a night to understand the words?" Xie An asked with wide eyes.
Wang Lin was curious: "This is a children's enlightenment book, but I don't think this book is suitable for children."
Ann smiled, "What?"
Wang Lin said very seriously: "I have to say that every truth in the book is very beautiful, very agreeable, if we live in this world can really reach the "Three Character Classic" said, of course this world is perfect, but I think the world I know is not like this, and it will not become like this." Right? Brother Xie."
Xie An was a little embarrassed, and then said to Wang Lin: "That's why we have to learn these truths, work hard to do it, and be reasonable in doing things." ”
Wang Lin continued: "But Brother Xie, there are some things that are unreasonable. ”
Xie An replied with difficulty: "Then even if you can't reach it, just try your best to pursue it." ”
Wang Lin still responded very seriously: "What can never be pursued is a dream, even if you are close to it, it is not the same after all." ”
Xie An was a little choked.
Wang Lin continued: "I always feel that there is some truth in this book, which is quite realistic, but it is not real. ”
Xie An was a little embarrassed, a little wanted to laugh, a little wanted to explain, a little bit wanted to understand, but more often than not, there was a trace of uneasy shame in his heart.
Outside the fog, an old scholar stood in the air of the sea of grass, also holding a volume of "Three Character Classics" in his hand, but the direction he looked at was in the clouds and mist, if it wasn't for the Confucian Confucian Confucian of the Confucian Academy to set up an enchantment in time to block Wang Lin's luck of connecting with heaven and earth, Wang Lin might have been killed by the thunder just after he finished speaking.
There are some words that cannot be said, and some thoughts that cannot be had, because once they are generated, the dream is broken
The old man tiredly controlled the white mist and surrounded Wang Lin, trying his best to interfere with the heavenly machine. But the old man's eyes were full of hope.
The old man followed with the words that Wang Lin had just said with relief, and said to himself: "Just like these many human affairs, it seems to be quite reasonable, but in fact, it is completely unreasonable. Because of the old man's words, the sky was directly above the old man, gathering a dark black cloud, and the old man raised his head and continued: "It's like, you thunder in the sky, and kill me for the stability of the world? After that, the thunder and dark clouds that had been prepared for thunder suddenly disappeared.
Half a day
In the clouds
Xie An stood up suddenly, bowed respectfully to Wang Lin, and said, "Sir"
Wang Lin was startled and asked inexplicably, "What are you doing?"
Xie An smiled: "It's nothing, it's hard to be ashamed when you see a gentleman." ”