Chapter Eighty-Nine: Cause Arises in Fate
"Grandma Wu, how is the hexagram?"
In the big witch tent, Li Yan knelt in front of the bonfire, looked at Jiang Xiang and asked.
Squinting his eyes, the lines on the tortoiseshell seemed to bend into a strange shape in the leap of the fire, Jiang Xiang pinched the lit pine branch in his hand, and the smoke with a faint rosin fragrance lingered in the witch tent, like a devil with teeth and claws twisting its body.
Reaching out to caress the beating flames, the flames licked her fingertips like a well-behaved pet under Jiang Xiang's fingers. The tortoise shell in the flames suddenly made a crisp cracking sound, Jiang Xiang's pupils suddenly shrank to the tip of a needle, the whites of her eyes occupied most of her eye sockets, and her gaze seemed to travel through time and space in an instant. The messy hanging hair trembled a little, and Jiang Xiang's murmuring voice was like a whisper from the abyss demon, and like the sobbing of the elves in the boundless sky: "Butterfly wings are raised, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and after the rainbow appears in the wind and rain, it ...... in the fate."
The smell of burning permeated the fire, and Jiang Xiang collapsed backwards, supported by a pair of hands, but it was Li Shi, the wife of Li Ran.
"Evil Hexagram...... Evil hexagram ......" Jiang Xiang stretched out his hand tremblingly, pointed to the tortoise shell that was picked out of the fire and was burned a little black, and muttered: "I want to repeat the divination...... Re-divination ......"
"Grandma Witch. Standing up with a slightly bulging abdomen, Li Shi sadly persuaded: "It's the third time, you're too tired, rest!"
With a muffled snort, two blood stains flowed out of his nose, and Li Shi hurriedly grabbed the sackcloth and covered Jiang Xiang's mouth and nose.
Slowly raising his hand to wipe away the bloodstains, Jiang Xiang sat up, looked at Li Zhi weakly and said: "You must get the wind and clouds back, more than half of the luck of my Li clan is on him, if it is lost, then my Li clan is really over." ”
Li Yan clenched his fists, nodded and said: "Grandma Wu, don't worry, I will definitely find him back, you rest first, I will go to Li Wuna, this time he brought back the eight thousand witch battles, and they were all sent out to search, and they will definitely be able to find the traces of Fengyun." ”
Jiang Xiang said weakly: "Don't hurt Xuanye, take care of it, wait for me to slow down, and go to see him in person." ”
"I've saved it. Li Yu nodded, and said to Li Shi: "You take care of Grandma Wu here to sleep." ”
Li Shi nodded and said, "I understand." ”
Li Greed got up and walked outside, just opened the door curtain, and was suddenly stopped by Li Shi, she looked at Li Greed and opened her mouth, paused, and then said, "You will go and see Yuan'er for a while." ”
After a moment of silence, Li Yu nodded, opened the curtain and walked out.
Outside the door, Li Shu and Li Dahe were guarding, and when they saw Li Yan coming out, the two followed behind.
Seeing that Li Dahe's forehead was a little bruised, Li Greed asked, "Why is it hurt?"
Li Dahe grinned and said, "I took a hand with the brother who came back from Wucheng in the morning, and I was injured carelessly. ”
Nodding, Li Greed sighed in his heart, the price of lack of luck had begun to appear, and there was not much time left for him.
Suddenly, there was an eagle's cry in the air, Li Yu jumped down from mid-air, landed in front of Li Greed, and said: "Patriarch, there is a Mao tribe and a human woman outside the city, saying that they want to find Fengyun. ”
With a dazed look, Li Greed stepped forward, and the next moment he had already jumped up, jumping high in the air, he soon saw the Mao clan in Li Yu's mouth, he was shocked, and fell towards the Mao clan.
Standing next to the ridge, Le Qi was looking at the unusually strong corn, the Yi people weeding in the millet and soybean fields near the city, and the Li people were working in the corn fields.
The Li people, who had never seen her dressed like this, were on guard, and the little cubs were like little tigers, staring at her and Gray Liu'er. Li Wu stood in the center of the crowd, looking at the two little guys who had followed the army all the way to Chiyou City, playing with a copper knife in their hands. It was just now that Le Qi had just appeared, and he had brought it from Le Qi during the fight, and for this reason, there was still a row of ice skates in his hair.
And the gray Liu'er, who got into the pile of people for the first time, drooped his two tails and looked at those Li children with great interest.
Pinching the ears that had already been produced, Le Qi muttered in a low voice: "What nonsense, hybrids can't be taken out at will!" Her action aroused the dissatisfaction of many Li people, and they glared at her angrily, and by now, the Li people already know the role of corn.
There is not much food in the city, there are so many Yi people, that food is not enough at all, they can only receive one grain a day, and the women have cut off their hair, and take it to Li Ma to learn to weave black hemp rope, which is used to make fishing nets and fish, so that they can be satisfied.
Li Greed once ordered that fishing should be divided into time, and the same work should be done at sunrise and rest at sunset, however, there are still Yi people who secretly run to fish at night.
The river at night is the world of pig-nosed dragons, and these days there are often Yi people who go missing, and every few days someone finds some bones and broken fingers from the belly of the fish.
The non-stop fishing and hunting has made the water of the river even more muddy, and the dwindling catch proves that the Scales have noticed the situation here, and it may not be long before the Scales in the river will be expelled by the spirits, and they will have to rely on this grain called corn to mature.
Boom!
A figure fell from the sky and landed behind Le Qi and them, turning around, Le Qi glanced at the man in front of him, well, it's not Fengyun.
"Ahh
Li Yan looked at her, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said, "Gray Liu'er?"
Gray Liu'er jumped in front of him and asked happily, "Where is Brother Fengyun, I'm coming to see him!"
Hearing Ash Liu'er ask, the smile on Li Greed's face disappeared, and he asked rhetorically, "Didn't he go looking for you?"
"No?" Gray Liu'er's happy voice was low, and he asked suspiciously, "Isn't he here? Didn't he come with you?"
With a complicated expression, Li Greed didn't answer Gray Liu'er's series of questions, he looked at Le Qi and asked, "Are you?"
Le Qi coughed and said, "My name is Le Qi." ”
Li Yan looked at the people around him and said, "Come with me!"
Le Qi nodded, then looked at Li Wu who was standing on the side and stretched out his hand.
Li Wu smiled and threw the bronze knife over.
Walking into the city with Li Rong, Le Qi looked at the rows of half-finished brick houses and was silent in thought.
Le Qi's strange clothes surprised all the Li people who saw her, and they had never seen pants that could grow on their legs.
Li Greed's footsteps did not stop all the way, passing through Chiyou City, bringing Gray Liu'er and Le Qi to the foot of the back mountain.
A standard brick house stood in place, with a neatly tiled roof, and pointing to the straw hut behind the house, which still remained the same as before leaving, Li said, "He used to live there." ”
The figure flashed, and Gray Liu'er had already run over, sniffed and said, "It's my brother's taste! When I was in the Peach Blossom Garden, my brother and I slept under the grass hut." ”
At the back of the house there was already a row of smoking furnaces, some still burning with a burning seal, emitting a compelling heat, some had been turned on and were transporting bricks out, and some were stacking the dried bricks inside.
"Li Bian!" Li Bian called out to a sturdy young man who was busy working, pointed at him and said, "In the days before he disappeared, Li Bian was always with him. ”
"Where did my brother go?" Gray Liu'er said with some grievances: "He said that he would come to see me, but I waited for him for a long time, and I brought Sister Qiqi to find him, but he disappeared again." ”
Le Qi looked at Li and asked, "How can I find him?" ”
Li was silent, and he stepped forward and pushed open the door of the house, the wooden doorshaft grinding against it and creaking. There is a table and a bed in the room, both in the simplest style.
Le Qi pulled up the sad Gray Liu'er and walked in, Li Bian followed behind and explained: "This is the pattern left by Brother Yun before leaving, I made it, just wait for him to come back, he has been talking about wanting to sleep in a serious bed......" Sending a few people into the house, Li Bian turned around and went out, stretched out his hand and closed the door.
Li Greed sat on the bed, looked up and said, "...... early that morning"
After a while, Li Greed closed his mouth, and Le Qi pondered for a moment and said, "So, you have been looking for him, but you can't find any trace of him?"
"Is my brother in danger?" asked Gray Liu'er anxiously.
"I don't know. Li Yan shook his head and said: "I have asked the clansmen to search the surrounding places for hundreds of miles, but they have found nothing, I have looked for Kun Grass, but it does not know the traces of those people. ”
With her ears behind her back, Gray Liu'er whined, and she didn't know what to do next for a while.
Li Yan looked at Gray Liu'er and said: "Jiuli and Eight Cities will still have my Li clan witch war back, there are only two of you, and it is not a way to go blindly without direction, it is better for you to stay here first, I will continue to let Wu Zhan go out to look for it, this will be better." Moreover, if Fengyun can get out of trouble, he will also find a way to come back. ”
Gray Liu'er ran out of ideas, tilted her head to look at Le Qi, Le Qi thought about it, nodded and said, "That's the only way." ”
"It's fine. Li Yan stood up and said, "Then you can stay here for the time being, I will let the fat aunt come over, she is the clansman who took care of Fengyun in front, if there is something, just tell her, she will naturally come to tell me." ”
"Then I'll trouble you, Patriarch Chiyou. Le Qi got up and said.
Li Yu nodded, turned around and went out.
Looking at Li Greed's back, Gray Liu'er raised her head and asked with tears in her eyes: "Sister Qiqi, my brother's leg is broken, and he was arrested by the bad guys!What should I do?"
Le Qi pinched her ears and said, "Don't worry, he must be fine, Li Greed is right, even if we go out to find him now, it is estimated that it will be difficult to find, waiting here is the best choice." And I always felt that it must not be as simple as he said. ”