Chapter 21: The Farmer and the Aunt (I)
Seeing the two of them go away hand in hand, Li Xiao explained his intention to Wu Daniu and asked him to help him cross the river, to his surprise, Wu Daniu patted his chest and promised without thinking about it: "This matter is on me! We farmers are all masters of crossing the river!"
"Where do you seem to have heard this sentence?" Li Xiao frowned and thought about it, and suddenly thought of something, and his forehead was instantly overflowing with beads of sweat: "That's right! Those fishermen in the fishing village before seemed to say the same thing!"
"Hmph!" Wu Daniu snorted disdainfully: "Little brother, don't compare us with those useless fishermen, all the people in our Nongfu Mountain Village are masters of martial arts!
"Are you masters......?" Lin Qing suddenly realized, and grabbed ahead of Li Xiao and said, "Could it be that you crossed the river with light skills?"
"Hey...... Almost!" Wu Daniu smiled mysteriously, turned around and stood half-squatting, pointed to his back and urged: "Little brother, come up, before the other candidates arrive, I will take you across the river, and as for your companions, they will be carried by Lao Jia and Lao Yu." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
"We're going to cross the river too!" Wu Da Niu had just finished speaking, and the voice of a person was remembered in the forest not far away, and then a group of nearly 100 candidates pounced like wolves and tigers, grabbing the untouchable farmers and climbing on their backs.
All this happened too suddenly, and when Li Xiao reflected, every farmer around him was riding a candidate on his back, and even Wu Daniu was riding a young scholar on his back.
Sensing the heaviness on his body, he couldn't help but scold when he looked back: "Your sister! I'm not a farmer, why do you ride on my back!"
"You're not a farmer, but I am. The white-bearded old man with Li Xiao's neck around his back grinned with yellow teeth and smirked.
"Your Excellency?" Li Xiao heard his words, and his anger dissipated in an instant.
"Liu Datou, everyone else calls me Uncle Liu! The old man stretched out his leg in front of Li Xiaomian, freed his right hand around his neck, and clasped his foot hard, and said calmly.
"Uncle Liu?" Li Xiaoqiang endured the pungent taste and glanced at the old man, and immediately thought of "Love Uncle Liu" in the "Mountain Village Farmer" group.
"Yes, let's go quickly!" Liu Datou pointed to the farmers who had been mobilized in front, "The team has already set off, and it will not be the best time to cross the river if it is too late!"
"Damn, why are everyone else farmers carrying candidates on their backs, but I have to carry farmers on their backs?" Hanging behind the farmer team, Li Xiao gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, for the sake of the other party's age, he didn't care about this matter anymore, as long as he could cross the river smoothly, what was it to carry an old man, he should do good deeds, respect the old and love the young.
However, after three sticks of incense......
Li Xiao blushed, endured the strong smell of the old man's feet, gritted his teeth and marched forward, seeing that the peasant team in front of him had no intention of stopping, he opened his mouth and asked: "Uncle Liu, didn't you cross the river? Why did you not cross the river after walking upstream along the river for so long?"
"Little brother, don't be impetuous! You see, the little girl next to you is much better than you. The old man picked his feet, and pointed to Tingxue next to Li Xiao who was bowing her head to play with jade cards, because she was not close to men and women, so she did not go on the back of the farmer, and she had been hanging behind to play jade cards since the beginning of the team.
"What kind of anagram is it?" Tingxue took the jade plaque and lowered her head in thought.
"Rising!" Li Xiao reminded after seeing that she had been thinking for so long about such a simple anagram.
"Hori?" Hearing Xue was stunned for a moment, she turned her head and glanced at Li Xiao, and then quickly pressed a few times on the jade plate, and after a few breaths, she exclaimed in surprise: "Ah! That's right! It's really a rising one!" Looking sideways at Li Xiao, who was covered in mud, she said: "Thank you, I can't imagine that people like you can be right." ā
"What do you call a person like me?" Li Xiao said angrily: "This talented child is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, what is a mere word puzzle!"
"I've seen a lot of people like you again. Tingxue smiled disapprerovingly, "The answer was told to you by the old man on his back, right?"
"It's a ......" Li Xiao was just about to refute, but before the words in his mouth came out, he was covered by the old man who was shocked, he was still carelessly picking his feet, and when he heard the girl's words, he immediately reined in his bad habits, raised his head and brushed his beard, with an unfathomable appearance, "The old man just pointed out the little brother a little, this is nothing." ā
Listening to Xue pouting at Li Xiao, as if to say, "Look, let's show the stuffing, let you brag!"
Li Xiao's face was dark, he almost didn't die of anger, he didn't defend anything, even if he defended himself, most of the other party didn't believe it, so he simply kept silent and continued to hurry.
Tingxue raised her chin proudly, and suddenly, her eyes lit up, she lowered her head and pressed the jade plate a few times, and then said to the old man: "Uncle, you are so talented, can you write a poem about water?"
"What's so difficult about this!" the old man still looked unfathomable, "Boy, read out the poem I just made, this girl washes her ears, and lets her know what poetry is!"
"I can't read it myself!" Li Xiao rolled his eyes, buried his head in walking, and ignored the old man again.
"Boy, I seem to have heard that someone is pretending to be my nephew......" Li Xiao heard the old man's words, turned his head sideways and smiled at him weakly, "Since Uncle Liu has said everything, then I will read out the poems you composed!"
Glaring at Xue fiercely, he said leisurely: "The wind is urgent, the sky is high, the ape is howling, the white bird flies back, and the boundless falling trees are falling, and the Yangtze River is rolling in!"
"Boundless falling trees and Xiao Xiaoxiao, endless Yangtze River rolling? Good poems! Good poems!" Listening to Xue Wei read out the last two sentences, she seemed to be reminiscing, and then her eyes lit up, and she lowered her head and pressed seriously on the surface of the jade plate.
"What a poem, little brother. The old man raised his feet and buckled his feet, muttering in an inaudible voice: "I can't see that you look like a scumbag, but you can make such a masterpiece, it's really unbelievable!"
"What are you called scum! I've put up with you for a long time! stinky old man!" Li Xiao roared dissatisfiedly.
"Look! We're here!" said the old man, who didn't seem to hear Li Xiao's words, and excitedly pointed to the crowd that had stopped in front of him.
Following the old man's point, Li Xiao was surprised to find that unconsciously, he had followed the farmers to a mountain wall more than a dozen battles high, with the sparkling river below, and many village women on the other side of the river were beating and washing their clothes with mallets.
"The height of more than a dozen battles, the words of the light skill master can just glide to the opposite side!" The candidates who were still puzzled saw this scene, and immediately understood the intentions of the farmers, and they all smiled, it seems that they can easily pass the first level of the exam this time.
"Alright, Brother Xu, let's go down quickly!" at the front of the line, a blue-shirted young man bowed his head to the gray-shirted man who was carrying him on his back.
"What for! I can't swim!" replied the big man in gray, lazily.
"It doesn't matter if you can't swim, just have light skills. ā
"I won't do it lightly!"
"I can't swim and I can't do light work, so what will you do?" the young man was stunned for a moment, looking down at the dozen or so high cliffs below and said in confusion.
"Can sing!" said the strong man in the gray shirt proudly, squinting his eyes and singing with self-absorption: "Two farmers! Two farmers ......" and looked back at the stunned young man and said, "By the way, how do you sing next?"
"Die fast, die fast!" interjected a farmer next to him.
"That's right! We use our beautiful singing voice to attract the attention of the beautiful women who are washing clothes on the other side, and when they hear it, they will use light skills to catch us. The strong man in gray looked arrogant, caught a glimpse of a farmer jumping off the cliff not far away, immediately looked sideways, and reminded: "Look! Brother Zhang has jumped down! You have to see it carefully!"
The farmer who jumped off the cliff mustered his internal strength, and desperately stomped on the void, his long face showed a look of horror, and he screamed with all his might, "Two ...... Two ...... Ahh
Turning back to the frightened young man who hugged him, he grinned and showed a row of white teeth, and he asked with a smile, "Do you know?" After that, he calmly fell into the water under the blank gaze of everyone, and struggled for a long time holding the young man who could swim, and the two sank into the water together and never moved again.
From beginning to end, the aunts who were washing clothes opposite did not raise their heads.
"See, let's use internal force to slow down the speed of the fall, strive for enough time to sing, and then spend the rest of the time thinking about the next lyrics, without our beautiful singing voice, it is absolutely impossible for the beautiful woman in charge of the rescue on the opposite side to hear!" Wu Daniu said proudly to the people behind him.