Volume 1 New Rain Scroll Chapter 17 A Midsummer Night's Dream
The town's continuous spring rain has also come to an end, accompanied by the chirping of cicadas on the trees one after another, the town's dry and bright summer has replaced the wet and gloomy spring, and has become the new daily routine of the town's residents.
In the summer, the sun gets up early, and my uncle gets up early, so that my uncle has firewood to make iron after breakfast, and Ye someone, who is in charge of chopping firewood, has to get up earlier.
Therefore, when the summer night sky was full of stars, Ye Mingke began to chop wood in the darkness of dawn by the candlelight leaking from the house, until the morning sun bloomed on the horizon and the red sun rose.
He put down the firewood knife in his hand, and after making breakfast and eating with Uncle Jian, he picked up the firewood knife again.
It has been several months since the first day of training, but Ye Mingke has become more and more aware of the extremely perverted difficulty of his uncle's training.
Cut out a thousand pieces of wood in the shape and size of the tail finger in half a plant?
The difficulty is not only to grasp the force and accuracy of the cutting at high speed, but more importantly, to be able to analyze the cutting method of the wood at the moment of seeing the wood, and to be able to divide it from various extremely complex angles.
Ye Mingke didn't understand until he understood this that Uncle Tian's seemingly identical "splitting" action contained many complex calculations and subtle techniques.
During the training from midnight to noon day after day, Ye Mingke gradually immersed himself in the wonderful feeling of combining the strength to maintain the speed of the knife and the dexterity to maintain the shape of the wooden block when chopping wood.
In order to maintain the feeling of holding the knife, he can go for days and months without putting the knife down. In order to cope with the blind chess at night, except when chopping wood, he often kept a black cloth blindfolded.
Therefore, it is rare to see a childish figure in the town who carries firewood like a mountain, but there is a silly boy who is blindfolded and holding a firewood knife wrapped in cloth, stumbling through the streets of the town.
The strange shape made the townspeople worry and amusement at the same time.
"What a good child, why is the second middle school disease so serious?"
Someone who has made great progress in hearing from a distance bares his teeth.
At night, the chess game with Aunt Long is still temperless.
It's not that Ming Ke can't remember the chess game, he was born with a god's memory is very amazing, and after getting used to it for a while practicing his listening skills, he can deduce the chess game and play a real game with Aunt Long while remembering the chess game.
But Aunt Long, who seemed to realize that there was a freak in front of her, began to lay the skin.
The sound of her falling son is getting softer and softer, so that even Mingke, who is blindfolded and has made great progress in hearing every day, still finds it difficult to distinguish the chess move.
And when Ming Ke learned that Aunt Long was silent, the other party was not affected at all, still banging on melon seeds blindfolded, and kindly reminded Ming Ke from time to time.
"Hey, Yezi, there's only one chess piece left on Auntie's side. ”
"Hey, you really like your aunt, you just need a chess piece and don't slaughter your aunt Dalong. ”
"Tut-tut, my aunt is so idle that she has put the bureau into a flower. ”
Playing chess with my aunt is the most physical effortless, but it only hurts the lungs......
A blind man who was trying his best to listen to chess silently covered his chest.
He vaguely felt that his aunt's chess discernment was more than just hearing.
Otherwise, when he moved his arm slowly and fell almost silently, the melon seeds crackled in his mouth, and he was disgusted with how his aunt, who came over without taking a shower today, intercepted his chess path at will?
But if you don't rely on hearing, then on what?
"Ye Zi, how many times have you said that you have to be careful when playing chess, how can you see the chess path clearly if you don't care?"
"Auntie, can you put down your upturned feet first, and then say this after spitting out the melon seeds in your mouth?" Ye Mingke replied in an emotionless voice.
.......
"However, even if Uncle's training is perverted. The results of these months of hard training are still obvious to all!"
"Look, isn't my uncle willing to use the firewood I chopped?"
"Besides, bell, bell, watch me make a roasted snake blindfolded. ”
Ye Mingke, who was blindfolded, suddenly lifted a snake from behind as he spoke, causing the people around him to scream.
He waved the knife in a dashing manner, and after a while, he was blindfolded and Qiao Qiao, Da Bai, and Tao Yao, who had gathered around again, ate the roast snake.
Of course, the timid Jojo didn't eat it, but not only the roasted snake, but also the small fire brought sweet potatoes, corn and other meats.
The smell of roasted food gradually wafted on the bright yellow firelight, and the small firelight was a large banyan tree that opened its canopy to cover half of the sky, and it was a beautiful summer night with the sound of insects and stars.
It's their Midsummer Night's Party.
On the 14th night of each month, as if to make up for the loss of time lost due to the custom of going to bed early on the full moon night, the town on the 14th night often becomes more lively than usual, especially on a clear and crisp summer night.
Residents of small towns that originally had little nightlife would also go out of their homes and get together in twos and threes to chat, brag, drink tea, and admire the moon.
This is also a rare holiday for Mingke every month.
"Ming Ke, weren't you the most afraid of snakes in the past?" Tao Yao, who was eating roasted snakes, couldn't help but ask.
"Hmm, this is the result of my cultivation. When you sleep with the snake in the snake den for a few days, you are not afraid of anything. ”
After performing the blindfolded snake cutting, Ming Ke had already untied the blindfolded black cloth, but his eyes were a little wandering when he looked at the firelight.
Overcoming his fear of snakes was what his strangest training every afternoon had brought him.
After being stunned by the inexplicable momentum every time he walked to the foot of the mountain, he somewhat understood what the prohibition on the mountain was.
In addition to the terrifying pressure on the body and the momentum of the mental shock, this strange mountain can also evoke all kinds of fears in a person's heart.
When you can't bear to pass out, the mental impact of stress or momentum will disappear, but the fear that has been aroused will not disappear, and it is likely to turn into a very real dream.
This is the training that Mingke finds most difficult to start.
Whether it is subtle control, memory, ear power, eyesight, and reflexes, Ming Ke, who can escape from the pursuit of tigers by leaping through trees in the dense forest, is actually much better than ordinary people.
So after a few months, he made great progress in both chopping wood and hearing. But months passed, and the farthest he had climbed the mountain was only a dozen steps.
That mountain was too thorough.
It tests a person's physical fitness to withstand gravity, the strength of the will to withstand the mental impact, and it also requires a person's state of mind to be flawless, as long as you have flaws, you can't climb it, it doesn't accept.
"Don't talk about me, how are you doing in the academy?" Ye Mingke asked.
"It's still the same. Tao Yao habitually touched his head and replied with a smile.
Ye Mingke looked at Tao Yao, who was touching his head, and Qiao Qiao, who was still rarely talking by the fire, just quietly gnawing corn.
Dressed in the snow-white uniforms of the school, they seem to be different from before, but they don't seem to have changed.
Sensing Ming Ke's gaze, Qiao Qiao raised his head and looked at Ming Ke with hazy eyes, his eyes filled with quiet joy.
Silly girl, she still talks so little, and she doesn't know if she can make new friends.
Ye Mingke was a little worried.
"Jojo, what about you?"
"Does your aunt still scold you often? How are you doing in the school? By the way, I haven't asked you before, you haven't been scolded by your aunt after sending you home that night, have you?"
It's okay not to ask, but when I ask, I feel like I haven't seen you for a long time, and I have a lot of questions I want to know.
"That day. Qiao Qiao re-nibbled the corn in his hand, squinted his eyes and smiled, not knowing what happened that day, "When I went back, I was still scolded by that woman." ”
"My uncle said it well, but he was actually afraid of that woman. Hmph, saying that no one can bully his daughter, but where can he talk about an unreasonable woman when he is stupid. ”
"After that, though, it seems that the woman did seldom scold me. Maybe I've become a good guy since I went to school, and I don't really make her angry anymore. ”
Qiao Qiao slowly talked more, after all, there are so many questions.
"It's also very good in the school, that day there was a villain named Li Yin who came to bully me and was driven away by Brother Tao Yao. ”
"Okay, Tao Yao, do you dare to fight with the little bully Li Yin now? You should have beaten them a long time ago!" Ye Mingke high-fived excitedly.
"No, I still don't dare fight. I just wanted to get beaten for Jojo. Tao Yao was very cowardly.
"It was Brother Tao Yao who came out to protect me, and then Senior Sister Yiwan came out to protect Brother Tao Yao. ”
"Senior Sister Yiwan likes Brother Tao Yao. ”
Jojo nibbled on the corn and added softly without a trace, but her little eyes rolled with a teasing smile.
The quiet Qiaoqiao, in fact, has a black-bellied little Qiaoqiao in his heart.
"Senior Sister Yiwan?" Ye Mingke's eyes suddenly had a wicked smile, and he grabbed Tao Yao's shoulder, "Tao Yao, is there something you're hiding from me lately?"
"No, it may just be that senior sister happened to pass by that day...... Tao Yao's face turned red all of a sudden, and he said.
"It was the senior sister who came to find Brother Tao Yao, and just happened to bump into Brother Tao Yao and was bullied. Jojo added quietly on the side.
"Ahhh
"Is Yi Wan the female disciple of the master who often wears red clothes? ”
"Come on, it's been a long time since I've heard a story from someone else. ”
Dabai on the side also joined in the fun.
Song Yiwan was the heroic girl in red who commanded everyone on the day of the school trial, and she was one of the only two disciples of the master.
"Nothing. ”
Tao Yao was questioned by Da Bai and Ming Ke before touching his head and talking about the matter.
It turned out that on the day of the trial, there were many stories besides Ming Ke and Qiao Qiao's disappearance.
Minke and Jojo were found to have had an accident before the trial ended. The master and the other disciples rushed to the mountain over there to search as soon as possible, leaving Song Yiwan alone in charge of the trial on the other side.
Knowing that their children had gone missing, parents in small towns were urging them to end the trials early and bring their children back.
Song Yiwan, who was in charge of these for the first time, was anxious, thinking that the time was almost up, and the remaining people trapped in the maze would probably not be able to pass the trial, so she entered the maze and wanted to bring out the children who were still trapped in the maze.
But after bringing out most of the children, Song Yiwan, who was anxious to carry an injured girl out of the battle, fell and injured herself.
It was Tao Yao, who was the first to come out of the formation, who entered the formation again and carried her and the other injured girls out.
Since then, Song Yiwan has looked at this stupid big man a little differently, but found that this young man who seems to be so smart that he is not afraid of maze and is strong enough to easily carry himself up and climb mountains and mountains is a stupid big man, and he is often bullied.
Of course, she can't watch her friends who helped her being bullied, so there have been many scenes similar to driving Li Yin away.
"How is it? I said there was nothing to do, right?" After speaking, Tao Yao said with a rare anger.
"Hmm. Ming Ke nodded thoughtfully, "No wonder when I asked you to pass the trial that day, you blushed and smirked, and your heart sprouted!"
"Hmm. Da Bai also nodded frequently, thoughtfully, "Female junior, hold the gold brick!"