Chapter 36: The Long Road Ahead (2)
As far as the eye could see, there were about twenty men and women standing in the flower field, most of whom were about the same age as Chai Shien. Liao Shui walked him over, coughed lightly twice, cleared his throat, and said to them, "This is a new junior brother, his name is Chai Shien, and from today onwards, he will be cultivating with everyone." You got started before him, so you must help him a lot!"
"Senior brother and sister!" Chai Shien bowed very obediently, "Please take care of it in the future!"
The men looked at him with smiles, some nodding, others looking at him with a scrutinizing gaze. At this time, Chai Shien noticed that they were all holding a pair of chopsticks that were more than two or three times longer than ordinary bamboo chopsticks, and they were carrying a basket made of red rattan with a strange fragrance, and those back baskets were covered with lids.
"This is what you need to cultivate," Liao Shui took a pair of long chopsticks and a back basket from the hand of a person next to him and handed them to Chai Shien, and said earnestly, "What you have to do is to use bamboo chopsticks to catch those thin-waisted bees flying among the flowers!"
Listening to Liao Shui's words, Chai Shien's eyes widened, and he carefully looked for what she said among the flowers. But his eyes were dry and numb, and every flower saw a double vision, but Chai Shien still didn't see any trace of the slender waist bee.
Seeing him looking back at himself suspiciously, Liao Shui snatched the long chopsticks in his hand, threw out a beautiful arc, and then held the fingers of the long chopsticks with slight force, and stopped in mid-air, and thunderous applause and cheers suddenly sounded around him.
"You, what did you see, why are you so excited?" Chai Shien looked left and right like a fool, and then turned his gaze to the chopsticks in Liao Shui's hand. The chopsticks are not delicate, even a little coarse, the chopsticks are the thickness of an adult man's middle finger, even the thinnest chopsticks are fatter than the thickest part of ordinary bamboo chopsticks.
Chai Shien bent down and lowered his head, almost putting his eyes on the long chopsticks, only to find that between the heads of the two long chopsticks, a colorful thing smaller than a fly was struggling desperately. A pair of thin, barely visible wings on its back were caught in the long chopsticks and could not break free, while the rest of its body was intact, even the tentacles that were several times thinner than a human hair were intact!
"Senior Brother Chai, do you see the doorway?" Liao Shui proudly let go of the long chopsticks, and the thin-waisted bee immediately fled in a panic. Chai Shien wiped the sweat droplets oozing from his forehead because of nervousness, "Senior sister, I can see it, but the thin-waisted bee is so small, and the color is almost integrated with the flower field." And those chopsticks, those chopsticks are so long, how can I hold them?"
"Alas, Senior Brother Chai, I can understand your feelings, Senior Sister!" Liao Shui's eyes crooked with a smile, "But the people in this Fog Xuan Palace all came here like this." I think back then, your senior sister and I were busy in the flower field. She suddenly lowered her voice and leaned over and said, "However, as long as you pass this level, there will be a broad road behind you, and it will be very flat!"
"Then borrow your auspicious words, senior sister!" At this moment, the words "extremely depressed" are no longer enough to describe Chai Shien's mood. Liao Shui encouraged him, "Senior sister is optimistic about you, okay, now I'll talk about the rules." Every slender-waisted bee you caught had to be alive and whole, just like the one I just clipped!"
"What!" Chai Shien only felt that the sky above his head had fallen, and he exclaimed miserably, "Senior sister, you can do well, just send me back!" Liao Shui held him firmly in case he would suddenly escape under the "heavy pressure", after all, she still had to go to cultivation in a while, and she didn't have the extra strength to find him, and continued to say to him, "This is not the end, you have to catch fifty before sunset, otherwise there will be no dinner to eat!"
"What!" Another scream, Chai Shien suddenly exerted strength in his legs, and ran desperately in the direction he came. However, he was dragged by Liao Shui behind him, but his efforts were in vain. Liao Shui made a small face and said to Chai Shien in a child-scaring tone, "If you don't catch enough of fifty, I won't finish your meal!"
"You guys, you are a good young man!" Chai Shien protested again, this time Liao Shui ignored him, but pushed him to the side and handed him to a burly man with a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead and said, "Lu Pengfei, I will leave the person to you, you give me a good look at him, if he dares to be lazy and run away, you can teach him a lesson, but pay attention to proportion!"
"Yes, senior sister!" Lu Pengfei, who was holding Chai Shien's collar, suddenly spoke, and his voice was muffled and a little deafening. Seeing that Liao Shui had gone away, Chai Shien gradually accepted this cruel truth. After arriving at the Fog Xuan Palace, the person he was most familiar with and most likely to rely on had gradually drifted away, and next, he had to do everything he could to complete this impossible task. Thinking that this kind of day would last for no apparent how long it would last, Chai Shien's nose was sore, and he was almost in tears.
"Xiong Bao!" Lu Pengfei couldn't see the man crying and crying, he scolded impatiently and loudly, "You're still not a male silver, aren't you a male silver? Isn't it just fifty thin-waisted bees, look over there, those girls can finish it, why can't you? Hmph, if you admit that you are squatting and peeing, continue to cry here!"
The others seemed to have become accustomed to Lu Pengfei's way of speaking, and at this time they had already dispersed to catch the slender bee. Chai Shien looked at this and that pitifully, and saw that they didn't mean to help themselves, so they had to grit their teeth and put on their backs, pick up the long chopsticks, and grit their teeth to catch the damn slender-waisted bee!
Xianyou Mountain is like spring all year round, and the climate is pleasant, so exotic flowers and plants bloom all year round. The fragrant and fragrant flowers of Chai Shien were intoxicated, but his eyes and hands were always on the stamens of those flowers, because that was where the slender-waisted bees were most likely to appear!
The stamens as white as snow were fragrant, and a small figure cautiously approached. When he saw the colorful colors on its body and the thin waist that marked the rows, Chai Shien's blood gushed to his temples. He hurriedly wanted to raise the long chopsticks, but his arm only swayed slightly, and the slender waist bee was already alert, and quickly waved his wings and flew away.
Where was Chai Shien willing to let go of this great opportunity, he immediately chased after it, raised his long chopsticks and clamped it!
It's just that this pair of long chopsticks is like a pair of large mallets in his hands, not to mention dexterous, even if he can't make a call. In a panic, one of them slipped down the cracks between his fingers and smashed on his shoes and boots by chance, Chai Shien was embarrassed, and didn't want others to see him make a fool of himself, so he immediately bent down to pick it up, but he didn't care that the other one in his hand had flown out, only to hear a soft cry, as if it had hit someone. Chai Shien got up to look for this person while saying "sorry", and saw Lu Pengfei pulling out the "disobedient" long chopsticks from his bun, staring at himself with unkind eyes!