Chapter 10 Acquaintances and Relatives
In a blink of an eye, Xianjie lived in the cliff carving cave for more than a month.
As the eagles grow larger and larger, their fluff has already metamorphosed, and their wing feathers have hardened.
Today is the day of their test flight, and the two eagles hesitated for a long time on the stone platform of the cliff, but still refused to jump off the cliff.
The male eagle seemed to be a little angry, and flew over, shaking his wings to push the two eagles out of the cliff.
The rapid fall caused the two eagles to panic, and they kept flapping their wings, gradually recovering in the struggle.
Although the flying posture is a little ugly, but after all, it is the test flight of the little eagle, and gradually, the two little eagles will become handy, like a fish in water!
Looking at the two small eagles and the two eagles flying, Xianjie couldn't help but feel sad.
The little eagle flew for two days in a row, and one morning, Xianjie looked at their fluttering wings, and suddenly felt a sense of loss.
"The little eagle has grown up, and will leave the nest soon, leaving me alone, and the trick is not to live!"
In the midst of his sorrow, two little white eagles flew in front of him, one of them spread his wings and squatted on the ground, while the other pushed the little girl forward with his head from behind.
Xianjie suddenly understood the intention of the little white eagle, she gently climbed onto the body of the little white eagle in front of her, prostrate herself on the eagle's back, and hugged the bottom of the eagle's neck with both hands.
The eagle jumped to its feet, flapped its wings high into the air, and let out a loud cry.
Xianjie closed her eyes and didn't dare to look down, but just hugged the eagle's neck for fear of falling.
The wind whistled in her ears, and her mind suddenly went blank, and inexplicably, Xianjie felt a burst of fear.
After a while, his body gradually stabilized, and then he opened his eyes slightly.
The eagle carried the fairy jie and flew high in the sky, and another eagle next to him also flew together, chirping and chirping.
Looking at the white eagle flying next to her, looking at the mountains and trees below, Xianjie felt very happy, and suddenly felt like a fairy flying in the sky, out of the nature of a little girl, she couldn't help but shout: "Oh, I will fly!" I'll fly!"
The sound is clear, and it surrounds the valley.
This voice permeated the nameless cave mansion, and the divine wolf roared after hearing it, Zong Zheng was secretly surprised, and rushed out when he heard the sound.
But seeing the top of the head, the double eagle soared in the air, and a woman leaned over the back of the eagle.
Zong Zheng was infinitely happy in his heart, he had not spoken to anyone for many days, and he felt unaccustomed to it, and he didn't want to have any traces in the dense forest, and a warm feeling of joy filled his chest.
Zong Zheng raised his hand in the air and shouted loudly: "Hey, hey....?"
shouted excitedly for a while, but didn't know what to shout, only shouted for a while and then stopped!
Xianjie vaguely heard the voice of the shouter, looked down along the source of the sound, and vaguely saw a person waving his hand and shouting, and her heart was also happy.
That Xianjie, who was trapped alone in the barren forest of the stone cliff for nearly a month at a young age, saw a familiar figure and heard a familiar voice, how could she not suddenly feel a sense of cordiality and safety, and regardless of whether the white eagle could understand human language, she just blindly shouted on the back of the eagle: "Eagle, let me go!"
The little white eagle does have spirituality, and seems to understand the meaning of Xianjie, and slowly descends in a spiraling momentum, perched on the side of the wild grass, and the little girl carefully climbs down from the back of the eagle.
The eagle's floating head is attached to Xianjie's snow-like cheeks, which is extremely intimate! Xianjie also hugged the neck of the white eagle, quite reluctant.
Zong Zheng ran all the way in the direction where the eagle had landed, and the divine wolf followed closely behind.
The closer he ran, when he was ten steps away, Diao'er saw that a divine wolf was chasing after him, so he got up and flew away.
Seeing that Zong Zheng and Xianjie were both young children, they were defenseless and extremely kind. It's just that when the two saw each other for the first time, they were wrapped in five points of joy and five points of curiosity, and the two sides looked at each other at the beginning.
Zong Zheng saw the girl about 7 years old in front of him, delicate and fair-skinned, dressed in white, and suddenly felt very cute.
Seeing the little girl looking at herself curiously, she took the initiative to step forward and ask, "Little sister, what is your name?
"My name is Situ Xianqi, and my home is in Yincheng!"
Zong Zheng heard the girl's sweet voice and felt more and more that the little girl was cute.
But for Yin Cheng, Zong Zheng didn't know anything at all, and just asked with concern: "Then, little sister, why are you here alone? Did your family carry you over?"
Xianjie paused for a moment and then cried, "I... My father and my mother are dead, I was captured by the eagle, and the eagle is not mine!"
Hearing this, Zong Zheng couldn't help but think of what happened to him, and seeing the little girl pear blossom with rain, he couldn't help but lean forward and hold Xianjie's head in his arms. Comforted,
"If you want to cry, cry out loud! ”
Xianjie could no longer hide the bitterness and fear in her heart, so she cried loudly.
When Zong Zheng heard Xianjie's cry, why didn't he think of his desolate and miserable situation and wanted to cry, but he didn't, he couldn't cry anymore!
When the crying stopped, Zong Zheng let go of Xianjie and reached out to wipe the tears on her face, his eyes full of tenderness.
"Don't worry, your father and mother are gone, you will treat me as your brother, and I will definitely take good care of you. ”
Xianjie looked at Zong Zheng's sincere gaze, and felt more and more that the big brother in front of her was kind, and asked instead,
"Big brother, what's your name, and where is your home?"
"My name is Zongzheng, you can call me Brother Zheng, my father and mother are no longer alive, so I have no home!
Xianjie bowed her head and was silent when she heard this!
Zong Zheng saw Xianjie's unhappy appearance, and his heart was also very unhappy, so he thought: "Why don't I take Xianjie's sister to a fun place to make her happy!
Thinking about it, he suddenly took Xianjie's hand and walked towards the waterfall.
"Brother Zheng, where are you going to take me?"
"I'll take you to a fun place!"
In a blink of an eye, the two came to the waterfall, Xianjie saw that the waterfall that was pouring down was like a white dress floating to the white pool below, splashing crystal blisters, the trees on both sides were verdant, and the sound of the flowing water in her ears was very pleasant, and she couldn't help but be infected by the beautiful scenery in front of her, and she forgot the previous sadness for a while.
Zong Zheng pointed to the path on the right, and Xianjie looked over and saw a swing made of mountain vines.
It turned out that Zong Zheng was bored in his spare time, and accidentally saw two cedar trees growing side by side on the edge of the waterfall, so he climbed to the top of the tree and tied the mountain vines on the parallel branches on both sides, and made a swing to kill the boredom.
Xianjie climbed on the swing, Zong Zheng shook the rope for her, the two were so unhappy, and for a while, laughter filled the valley.
Zong Zheng looked at the waterfall and suddenly remembered the scene of seeing the eagle arresting people more than a month ago. I can't help but ask,
"Sister Xianjie, were you arrested by Diao'er more than a month ago?"
"Yes, how do you know?" said Xianjie, curious.
"That day, I was bathing in the waterhole, and I saw a shadow passing by, and I vaguely saw a white eagle that seemed to be grabbing a child and skimming overhead, and I followed it to the top of the cliff above the waterfall to look for it, and shouted, but there was no reply, so I left!"
When Xianjie heard this, she suddenly remembered the scene when she dreamed that day and saw someone shouting, and immediately woke up.
"Oh! You were shouting that day! I was sleeping so deeply that I thought I was dreaming!"
"Sister Xianjie, since you were caught by the white eagle, why is the white eagle so good to you?"
Xianjie recounted the scene of the day.
After Xianjie finished speaking, she felt a little tired. Zong Zheng took out a few wild fruits from his arms and handed them to Xianjie, and the two walked while eating, happily walking towards the nameless cave.
The two came to the nameless cave, and Zong Zheng brushed away the vines that covered the entrance of the cave for Xianjie.
Xianjie saw the dark cave, and was a little scared, so she held Zongzheng's hand tightly, and Zongzheng pulled Xianjie and walked naturally to the cave.
After walking for a while, the view of the cave became clearer.
The first thing Xianjie saw was the two corpses on the bed, and she was terrified for a while, so she threw herself on Zong Zheng's chest and closed her eyes.
Zong Zheng immediately comforted: "Sister Xianjie, don't be afraid, don't be afraid!"
Xianjie slowly opened her eyes and broke away from Zongzheng.
"Brother Zheng, are they yours, Daddy?" asked Xianjie weakly, a hint of sympathy flowing through her eyes.
Zong Zheng helped Xianjie to sit on the stone chair next to her.
"No, I have no father since I was a child, my mother passed away in a bamboo thatched hut two months ago, since then, I have been alone in the mountains, living alone! Later, I met the ape wolf by mistake, and found this cave, and the two seniors on the bed are the owners of this cave. Zongzheng explained,
"Then why don't you bury the two seniors?" Xianjie asked for a while,
"I have thought about burying the two seniors well, firstly, there is no good place for the two seniors to be buried for a while, and secondly, I just arrived here, for fear that the two seniors will leave a will, so I rashly bury them, disobeying the wishes of the two seniors, it is a great disrespect!" Zong Zheng looked at Xianjie after speaking.
Although Xianjie is young, she has also been well educated by the Situ family since she was a child, knows the truth of how to behave in the world, and also deeply feels that what Zongzheng said is reasonable. However, looking at the skeleton in front of him, he was still scared in his heart.
"Brother Zheng, is there any other place to live in this cave?" Xian Jie asked a little bit not wanting to live here.
"There is another stone room on the left side of this room, because the key has not been found, so the other stone room has not been checked! But there is a stone room on the right, do you want to see it?" Zong Zheng did not understand what Xianjie meant, so it is true!
Xianjie nodded slightly.
Zong Zheng took Xianjie's little hand through the side door and came to the stone hall.
Xianjie looked up and down, stopped leisurely next to the dresser, saw the copper mirror on the stage, thought that she had not dressed up for more than a month, and wanted to see her appearance for a while, so she wiped the dust on the mirror with her hand and picked up the copper mirror.
Unexpectedly, an old letter was revealed under the base, the paper was a little yellowed, and Xianjie hurriedly shouted: "Brother Zheng, look, there is a letter here." ”
Before Zong Zheng arrived, Xian Jie had already opened the letter, but when she saw that there were a few words on it that she didn't know and didn't understand the meaning, she handed it to Zong Zheng.
Zong Zheng took the letter and read:
"The husband died, I can't bear to live alone, and the burial husband is afraid of death and can't be in the same hole, but I hope that the love will accompany each other, until death, before the bed, so the death can be the same bed, the descendants can see it, I hope that the two of them will join the tomb to the south, if you don't obey the last wishes, the husband and wife, Jiuquan will hate you!"
The Zongjian Sect and the Vientiane Sect are both in the south of Yincheng, and the south guides the Song Dynasty, so the two predecessors hope to join the tomb to the south.
Xianjie was young and didn't quite understand the meaning of the letter, so she asked Zong Zheng what he meant in the letter.
Zong Zheng explained the meaning of the letter, and praised the fairy Jie,
"Sister Xianjie is really careful, I didn't know this letter for more than a month here!
"The dresser is a thing for my daughter, Brother Zheng, you are a boy, so naturally you have no concern for it!" Xianjie explained.
Zong Zheng heard Xianjie's explanation and felt that it made sense. Suddenly, I thought of something serious, so I said,
"Now, the legacy of the predecessors is known, we might as well bury the two of them together!Sister Xianjie, you just need to pick up some beautiful flowers and plants, and I'll do the rest!"
Xian Jie smiled and nodded slightly.
Zong Zheng chose an open place with a wide field of vision and flowers and plants, and dug a square pit in the north-south direction.
Returning to the cave, he put the bones of the two seniors on the rattan net that he had made a few days ago, dragged them to the pit, and carefully placed the bones of the two seniors.
Fu put the flowers picked by Xianjie around the square pit.
After two hours, the two of them laid the new grave on the grass as soon as they sat on the grass, and Zong Zheng stood on the south side, piling stones and flowers in front of the tomb.
Pulling Xianjie to kowtow three times on the grave to show mourning and respect for the two seniors. After kowtowing, Zong Zheng saw that the grave was empty, and suddenly realized something.
"Two seniors, the tomb has been completed, after two days, I will make the tombstone and stand on the grave, and now please be wronged for a few days. Zong Zheng said humbly to the empty grave.
The divine wolf looked at the grave of the ancestor and howled for a while: "Woo".
In the blink of an eye, the slanting light was shining, and Zong Zheng was suddenly worried about Xianjie's sleeping place tonight. So he found some wormwood and picked some flowers from the grass and pulled Xianjie back to the cave, lit a fire, lit wormwood and smoked the whole stone cave, put flowers on it, and the air in the stone room suddenly became fresh!
Xianjie asked with admiration, "Brother Zheng, how did you learn so many things?"
"These are all taught to me by my mother!" said and subconsciously paused, mentioning his 'mother', and couldn't help but think of his mother's grave again, thinking of this, my heart was sour.
Zong Zhengfu cleaned the stone bed again, spread the withered grass, and placed the wooden planks he had made earlier on top of the stone bed.
The wolf bit a hare and slipped into the stone room, and Zong Zheng patted the wolf's head.
"You've been hungry after a busy day's work!Our dinner has arrived!" Zong Zheng said to Xianjie,
Zongzheng took the fat hare, plucked off the skin, and gathered on the fire with a stick and fork to roast the rabbit meat.
After the rabbit meat was roasted, Zong Zheng pulled out a piece of rabbit leg and handed it to Xianjie, who took the rabbit meat and pointed at the ape wolf and asked.
"Brother Zheng, where did this wolf come from, and why is it so good to you?"
"This wolf is an ape wolf, originally a sacred creature raised by two predecessors, I found the secret of taming the ape wolf, and became its new master, oh! Yes, I named it 'Divine Wolf'. ”
"'Divine wolf', this wolf is indeed extremely powerful! this name is just right for it!" Xianjie echoed.
Zong Zheng patted the head of the divine wolf and said to Xianjie,
"In the future, if you treat it well, the divine wolf will naturally listen to you. ”
When Xianjie heard this, she wanted to try it, so she reached out her little hand, slowly stretched out to the wolf's head, and carefully touched the wolf's ears.
The two of them have been alone in the mountains and forests for many days, and there have never been human words, since they met, there are many natural words, two of you have a word, I have a word, in a blink of an eye, the barbecue has been eaten, and the night is already deep!
"Sister Xianjie, it's late at night!let's rest!" Zong Zheng felt a little sleepy.
The two were still young and didn't know anything about men and women, so they naturally slept together.
Xianjie looked at Zongzheng outside the bed, feeling very kind and safe in her heart, forgetting all her fears and sorrows for a while, and fell asleep with peace of mind!