Chapter 14: The Long Night
The night was already deep, deep, and the entire Shenlong tribe was shrouded in the boundless dark night, and there was no sound except for the chirping of autumn insects.
In the low wooden house of Amu's house, Xiao Jian lay quietly on the bed alone, his eyes wide open, looking at the roof fixedly, like a statue, motionless.
Today's sudden blow was too heavy, and Xiao Jian hadn't recovered until now. At this moment, he felt that he was at the end of a sinking, a deep cave without light, filled with only boundless loneliness, only endless dead silence, no future song to hope, let alone the journey back.
In this strange world with no relatives, no friends, and no goal to strive for, where will he go in the coming days? Xiao Jian asked himself more than once in his heart, but he could not find an answer. But he is only twenty-four years old this year, and his future days are thicker than the leaves on the tree, how can he be willing to give up? "No, no!" Xiao Jian silently shouted in his heart. "Boys should take Wu hooks and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures. "The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act chaotically. Therefore, it is tempting to cultivate the nature and gain what it cannot. "Since I can survive this time and pick up a life on such a cruel battlefield, it is enough to prove that God has been kind to him. Qingshan has stayed, are you still afraid that you won't be able to find firewood? Your body is skinned, and you are affected by your parents, since your life is still there, how can you give up lightly? When you were still in China and were still a soldier, didn't you look down on those "soft-footed shrimp" who could not withstand the slightest wind and rain, cut their wrists and hang themselves at every turn, jumped off buildings to commit suicide at every turn, looked for death and life, and completely ignored the feelings of their relatives and friends, and could only grow in greenhouses? The journey of life can never be smooth sailing, undercurrents, dangerous shoals, wind and frost, rain and snow are far away, since all these things are unavoidable, then why be afraid, why avoid it? Xiao Jian, who had figured it out, suddenly felt a lot brighter in his heart, the huge net that was pressing on his heart seemed to be being cut by a huge pair of scissors little by little, and the loneliness and fear that he was so suppressed like a mountain that he could barely breathe began to fade little by little. As a hot-blooded man with a length of seven feet, as an iron-clad Chinese soldier, he can not be afraid of life and death, so why be afraid of being in another world. What's more, he was originally a piece of gold, and in the Huaxia military camp where there are many masters, he can stand out and become a special soldier admired by thousands of people.
"Brother Xiao, haven't you slept yet?" Amu, who had always remembered Xiao Jian, pushed open the door and walked in. Today's Xiao Jian is really too abnormal, after entering the house, he has been lying on the bed without saying a word, and he has not eaten a grain of rice until now, his body is iron and rice, and he is hungry and panicked if he doesn't eat a meal, not to mention that he is still a patient who has just been seriously injured and has not yet recovered.
"Are you here?" Xiao Jian saw Amu push the door and walk in, suddenly propped himself up from the bed, sat at the head of the bed, and asked.
"Brother Xiao, are you okay?" Seeing that Xiao Jian's expression was obviously much better than in the afternoon, Amu's previous heart was also a little lowered, at least now he was no longer alone in a daze like in the afternoon, and his expression was in a trance.
"I'm fine, Amu, I'm worried about you. Is there anything else to eat at home?I'm a little hungry, can you get me something to eat?" After letting go of the burden in his heart, Xiao Jian's spirit was obviously much better, and he didn't have the decadent appearance he had before.
"Yes, yes, it's still hot there. I saw that you had not eaten, and I was afraid that you would starve, so I prepared a meal and kept it in the pot. Now I'm going to get it, and we'll both eat together." Seeing that Xiao Jian took the initiative to ask what he wanted to eat, Amu not only did not feel bored, but felt very happy, and was about to turn around and walk to the kitchen.
"Wait a minute, do you have any wine at home? If you have one, bring some wine, and we'll have a few drinks." Xiao Jian heard Amu say that he hadn't eaten yet, so he stopped Amu and asked.
"Wine, what is wine?" Obviously, a new term came out of Xiao Jian's mouth, and once again made Amu fall into the cloud and mountain fog.
"Wine, wine for drinking, haven't you heard of it?" Wine, the most common and common drink on the earth, should be known to people in any country, as long as they have a normal IQ and are not children of one or two years old. And Amu in front of him hadn't even heard of it! Looking at Amu who was still standing in front of him, he didn't know why, Xiao Jian couldn't help but feel speechless for a while. It seems that I have really crossed over, and the world I have crossed over is very different from the world I was originally in!
"Brother Xiao, we don't have the wine you said here, and we've never heard of anyone drinking that thing. However, we have spiritual tea here, and drinking it can replenish Yuan Li and improve cultivation. Why don't I bring you a bottle?" Amu thought about it for a long time and didn't understand what the wine in Xiao Jian's mouth was, but when he heard that it was a drink to drink, he remembered the spiritual tea that his father usually practiced, so he put forward his own suggestion.
"Then bring a bottle. Xiao Jian didn't know how to explain to Amu what wine was for a while, and he didn't know what the spiritual tea Amu just said was. It seems that I still have a long way to go before I can fully adapt to this new world.
It didn't take long for Amu to bring over dinner, there were five or six bowls in total, and the small table in front of the bed was almost full.
"How to cook so many dishes, can the two of us eat so much?" Looking at the table full of food, full of color and flavor, Xiao Jian, who was already hungry, couldn't help but have a big appetite.
"It's okay, you can just eat, you can eat as much as you want, it doesn't matter if you can't finish eating. You're still very weak, and you need to eat more to make up for it. After Amu laid out the meal, he sat down opposite Xiao Jian, then took out two teacups, unscrewed the jade bottle containing the spiritual tea, and poured a cup for each person.
"This is your spiritual tea?" Xiao Jian asked as he raised the teacup in his hand and looked at it. The teacup contained an amber, transparent liquid, which reached the nose and had a faint medicinal fragrance.
"yes. My abba specially refined. This kind of spiritual tea, although many people in the clan can also refine it, but it is not as good as the taste of my Abba's refining, because my Abba is the best pill pharmacist in the group, and he deliberately added a lot of medicinal materials to it. This not only tastes better, but also results better. Ah Mu also raised the teacup in his hand and touched it with Xiao Jian, and then continued, "Brother Xiao, don't underestimate this spiritual tea, if you want to refine it, you need more than a dozen medicinal materials." Come, can you taste it and see how it tastes?"
Xiao Jian's teacup was brought to his mouth, he took a sip lightly, and then swallowed it slowly, and suddenly felt a cool feeling slowly descending from his throat and reaching his stomach. After a while, I felt a subtle flow of heat, slowly rising from my dantian, and then slowly flowing through my whole body with the meridians of my body.
"This is really a good thing!" Xiao Jian had just taken a sip and immediately realized the extraordinaryness of this spiritual tea. He was born in a martial arts family in Huaxia, and began to learn martial arts with his grandfather when he was three or four years old, and he knows the meridians and acupuncture points of the whole body well. Can cultivate internal force, that is the most obvious sign of the Chinese martial arts into the house, but now many young people are eager for quick success, few people can calm down, spend ten or twenty years to study martial arts, plus the current Huaxia metal in the era of peace, and science and technology are becoming more and more developed, the need to use martial arts in the place is also less, so the practice of martial arts is less and less, because there is no successor, this kind of traditional treasures that have been circulated in China for thousands of years have also begun to decline, looking at the whole of China, in addition to a few martial arts families still more or less left a few family heirlooms, martial arts kung fu that can really be used in actual combat is already extremely rare. I didn't expect that after I crossed into this world, even a small cup of spiritual tea could be so useful, it seems that this is a world where martial arts are extremely popular.
"How's it going, doesn't it taste good?" Seeing Xiao Jian's intoxicated expression, Amu couldn't help but feel a burst of pride in his heart.
"It's really good. Xiao Jian drank the remaining spiritual tea in the teacup, and then tasted it carefully, still unfinished. "This spiritual tea, the taste is sweet, the medicinal fragrance is far away, after drinking, the mouth is fragrant, the aftertaste is long, and it can enhance the internal force, it is really a rare treasure. ”
"In fact, it is not as magical as you said, although this spiritual tea can improve people's Yuan power, the effect is extremely limited. The reason why you feel so obvious is entirely because of the first time you drank it, and the more you drink later, the feeling is not so obvious. "Amu is indeed a sincere child, and he was not complacent because of Xiao Jian's evaluation, but took the trouble to introduce the effect of the spirit grass.
The two chatted while eating, and the meal was eaten for more than half an hour, and in the process of chatting, Xiao Jian gradually had a better understanding of his own affairs. The original tribe is called the Shenlong Tribe, which is a branch of the Shenlong Clan, and the place where he is located is called Wulong Mountain, which is located in the Canglong Mountain Range. As for what is outside the Canglong Mountain Range, and which country's territory this Canglong Mountain Range belongs to, Amu can't say clearly. Amu said that the area of the Canglong Mountain Range stretches for thousands of miles, and there are more than 20 different tribes living in it. According to the old people, a long, long time ago, I don't know from which generation, the Shenlong tribe has lived here for thousands of years, but I don't know why, the people living here have never been able to get out of the Canglong Mountains, people outside can't get in, and people inside us can't get out.