Chapter 25: Charming

After a few days of disfigurement, the three of them left the old woman, and before parting, the old woman gave her most precious disguise utensils to Diedeva, and instructed Diedeva to keep practicing in order to master the transfiguration.

Dedwa also learned from the old woman about a trick that was more advanced than the art of disguise and was extremely difficult to practice, and it was said that there were hermits in the North Ridge who were proficient in it.

Diedeva was interested in learning the art of charming, so he said to Da Ran: "Brother Ran, I want to go to the mountains and forests in the north ridge to play, can you still take me there?"

Daran said, "You can go wherever you want, and I will always show you the way." ”

Diedeva smiled and said, "Brother Ran, you are so good! Didwa doesn't like to take me to play." ”

Shi Dewa glared at Diedewa, who quickly picked up Daran and ran.

A few days later, at noon, the three of them found a lost boy in the col.

The little boy sat down and cried after turning countless of the same circles in the col, unable to walk.

Da Ran led the little boy out of the col, and walked for a long time to a village, and only after inquiring did he learn the location of the beekeeper's house that the little boy was talking about.

When it was almost dark, the three of them finally found the little boy's home.

The little boy's family had been crying together, since the morning when it was dark, they searched all the places around for dozens of miles, and there was no trace of the little boy, the family was desperate, and a child spent the night alone in the mountains and forests infested by evil wolves, and it was really difficult to come back alive.

As soon as the little boy entered the house, he went into his mother's arms and cried loudly.

The boy's home is on the edge of a mountain forest far away from the village, and there are several other families nearby, all of whom are beekeepers.

The boy's father warmly stayed with the three of them, and cooked a large pot of venison, salt, and home-made honey and wild vegetables.

The boy's father saw that the three of them loved to eat venison, and said happily: "The three ben men should stay at my house for two more days, my family has venison, let you eat enough." ”

Da Ran said, "How do you catch so many deer?"

The boy's father said, "Catch deer with bees." ”

Da Ran asked: "In addition to collecting flowers and honey, can bees also catch deer?"

"It's not a bee," said the boy's father, "but a treeworm wasp that preys on insects in an anesthetic way, and is much larger than a bee. ”

When he heard this, he was interested, and hurriedly said, "It's so interesting, how can the tree worm bee listen to people's orders, and what if he wants to anesthetize people?"

The boy's father said, "This method is not passed on in my family, but when the fathers asked, I couldn't help but say it." My family has been beekeeping in the mountains and forests for generations, and one of our ancestors discovered a tree worm wasp that preyed on insects by piercing their teeth. Once, a black bear cub knocked down a rotting tree crawling with tree worm wasps, and a tree worm bee pounced on the black bear cub and stabbed it with its fangs, and soon the black bear cub was anesthetized and fell to the ground, and it took half an hour to wake up. The ancestor was inspired to domesticate the tree bee, wanting it to be controlled to anesthetize large predators, so that hunting predators would be safe and easy. ”

Da Ran said: "I have seen those who domesticated and manipulated monkeys, elephants and eagles, and I have heard of those who domesticated wolves and tigers, they all have spirituality, and these inferior bees can also be domesticated?"

The boy's father said, "Those animals can be domesticated in a few years, but this tree bee has been domesticated by my family for several generations." At first, catch some tree bees and put them in a large closed house, and when they are hungry, they put in a horse, and the horse is stuck with fake bugs, and the bee bees in the room fly to the horse to stab the fake bugs, and the horse is injected with too much anesthetic by the tree bee with the needle teeth in its mouth, and it will fall down after a while. After that, a wooden box with a lot of tree insects was placed in the house for the tree worm bees to eat. When the tree bee is hungry again, the horse with the fake bugs sticking to it is released, and after the horse is anesthetized and collapsed, a wooden box of bugs is put on it. Later, as soon as the horse entered the house, a large swarm of tree bees came forward to anesthetize the horse, and then waited to eat the worms in the wooden box. After that, the horse is replaced with another animal, when the animal is anesthetized and falls, and when the wooden box bugs are placed. Eventually, when the tree worms in the big house were hungry, no matter what animal they saw, they would swoop down and numb it. Later ancestors prepared a kind of incense powder, and after continuous domestication, the tree insect bee became a bird when it smelled of incense powder, so that the tree insect bee could selectively anesthetize the animal according to the owner's wishes. Later, the ancestors preferred the robust tree bee with long teeth and thorns to breed a new variety of superior tree bee, and the optimized tree bee was faster, the anesthetic was more and the life was longer, so that a small number of bees could anesthetize the animal. ”

After listening to the boy's father's explanation, Da Ran hesitated for a moment and said, "Can you give us some tree worm bees?" ”

The boy's father said, "That's no problem, I'll give you a box of tree bees and incense powder first, and then I'll teach you how to keep bees and release bees." If the bees are gone, you can come to me to get them, but don't divulge this secret to the people of the Nine Desolation Mountains. ”

After the three of them left the beekeeper's house, Daran gave all the tree insects and bees to Diedewa.

"Brother Ran, are we going to use it to hunt?"

Daran shook his head at Butterfly Deva and said, "No, you stay with you, and when you encounter a beast or a robber or a wicked person, you will release the tree worm bee!"

Only then did Diedeva realize that Da Ran was the tree bee she asked for, and a burst of warmth swelled up in her heart, and she looked at Da Ran gratefully and said, "Thank you, Brother Ran! You are so good to me!

Shi Dewa glanced at Da Ran, and said to Diedewa: "Brother Da Ran, sister, you have gained a lot from this trip, we might as well go back, so that Big Brother Da Ran can have a good rest." ”

Butterfly shook his head and said, "Noβ€”β€”! I haven't had enough of it!"

Daran said: "Brother Dewa, I can't get out of my mind, so let Dewa have enough." ”

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The largest village in Beiling is located in the northwest corner of Beiling, which is the intersection of Jiuhuangling and the outside world, with a large floating population and complex personnel composition.

On the morning of this day, in the large gathering place of the village, a group of itinerant artists were performing animal arts, and the three floors inside and outside were all people watching the performance, and Daran, Shidewa, and Diedewa stood next to each other in the innermost row of people.

In the yard enclosed with wooden fence ropes, there are several monkeys, a python cage, a wolf cage, a tiger cage, and a poisonous snake cage.

In addition to a boy and a middle-aged woman, there are ten performers standing next to each of the five animals.

The two artists carried a big python more than four meters long with a white stripe on its green back, and walked to the edge of the venue for people to watch, and they were so timid that they retreated one after another.

The artist in front of him put his head tightly on the python's head, and accidentally hit his forehead on the python's round eyes.

The artist in front broke the python's mouth again, and put a hand into the python's mouth, and the python's mouth slowly closed, and the hearts of the onlookers were raised to their throats.

Another entertainer, holding the python, said, "Don't shout, everyone, if you scare the python, my partner's hand won't be able to take it out." ”

The people who stopped shouting watched intently: the artist opened the python's mouth a little bit, slowly took out the hand in the python's mouth, and when the palm of the hand reached the python's lips, the open python's mouth closed at once.

People involuntarily screamed, and the timid did not dare to look at it.

The artist's other hand gently stroked the python's head a few times, then broke the python's mouth again, and took out the palm of his hand more carefully.

The applause of the onlookers rang out, and the child and the middle-aged woman came to the front with a small box, and the onlookers put coins into the boxes.

The middle-aged woman was wearing a coarse cloth dress with several patches, and she lowered her head and did not dare to look at people. After collecting the money, she saw several monkeys pulling piles of dung, so she quickly swept up the monkey dung and put it in a closed box with the dung bag in her hand.

After collecting the money, the child came to the poisonous snake cage to play, the poisonous snake cage and the tiger cage are next to each other, the next to enter the performance is two tiger taming artists, two snake tamers helped to carry the tiger cage to the middle of the field, the child curiously opened the poisonous snake cage, the cage mouth opened, a colorful poisonous snake came out and coiled around the neck of the child at home, the child was so frightened that he cried, and did not dare to move.

The middle-aged woman saw that the child was alone next to the poisonous snake cage, so she came over to take care of him in advance, just in time for the poisonous snake coiled around the child's neck, she stepped forward and dragged off the poisonous snake on the child's body, shook her hand and fell to the ground, and then looked at the snake and trembled and screamed, the child saw that the snake on the neck fell to the ground and threw herself into the woman's arms, and the snake that was thrown to the ground quickly jumped up, and circled the back of the child's neck again, the woman screamed and grabbed the snake and threw it to the ground, and then protected the child with her body, trembling all over......

All this happened in two or three seconds, the artists didn't have time to help, Da Ran, who was not far from the woman, jumped between the woman and the poisonous snake at the first time, stretched out his hand to hold the poisonous snake, turned back to the middle-aged woman and said, "You are safe! Is this child your son?"

The woman said, "He's a poor orphan!"

Da Ran saw what the middle-aged woman did, and he, like all the words present, was deeply moved by the spirit of this ordinary woman.

Da Ran couldn't help but glance at the middle-aged woman, and at this time, the middle-aged woman raised her head and looked at Da Ran and said, "Thank you for saving this big brother!"

A fragrance wafted into Da Ran's nostrils, and a young fair-skinned and slightly ruddy face appeared in front of Da Ran, and the huge contrast between the beautiful girl and the original ordinary middle-aged woman made Da Ran stunned.

The woman's big black eyes flashed a shy smile under the woman's dark eyebrows, and she whispered, "This big brotherβ€”β€”! thank youβ€”β€”!"

After speaking, the woman lowered her head, leaned forward slightly, and gave Da Ran a light salute.

Da Ran instantly felt that the woman in front of him was much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman he had seen for a long time, Butterfly Dewa, she was simply a fairy in the world, at this moment, if this woman asked him to kill people and set fires, or even let him harm himself, he would not hesitate to do it.

At this time, several artists had already surrounded him, and the snake in Da Ran's hand had been pinched to death by him.

Da Ran returned to normal, and he looked at the woman again: an ordinary middle-aged woman with her head slightly bowed.

Da Ran was puzzled: The fairy-like girl I saw just now was an illusion? No! I have practiced martial arts for more than 20 years, I believe in my concentration, I am absolutely not mistaken!

In the future performance, Da Ran no longer had the heart to watch it, and confusion occupied his heart.

"Charming!" Da Ran whispered unconsciously towards the end of the performance. He finally remembered a strange technique that the chief had told him.

Diedeva next to him heard Da Ran talk about kitsch, and asked with interest: "Brother Ran, do you know kitsch?"

Da Ran looked at Diedewa's pure and beautiful face, and said quietly but firmly: "That middle-aged woman in the field knows how to charm. ”

Diedeva said, "Brother Ran, I want to learn the art of charming. ”

Da Ran hesitated and said, "Diedeva! That charm is a bit evil, so don't learn it." ”

Diedeva smiled coquettishly at Da Ran and said, "Ran-big brotherβ€”β€”! I want to learn." Do you see my evil nature? I have heard that kitsch is the highest level of deception, and I promise Brother Ran that I have learned kitsch and use it specifically to deal with evil people. ”

Da Ran looked at Diedeva who was sincere about learning the art of charm and said, "Even if I agree with you to learn it, that woman may not necessarily teach you!"

"We followed her all the time and there was always a chance. Diedeva said.

For the next ten days, Daranshideva had been following the group of animal tamers to the south, and they found that several people had also followed the group all the way.

The cottages passing by all provided free food and lodging for the artists, and the three of Daran and a few others who followed them stayed in the hotel at night.

There was no or only one small inn in the small cottage, and on this day, the three of them and a few others who followed them lived in a room adjacent to the small shop, which was separated by woodblocks, and the people in the two rooms could hear each other when they spoke.

A few people next door first laughed loudly while drinking, and after a while, they suddenly lowered their voices to speak, Da Ran and Shi Dewa put wooden plates on their ears, and listened attentively, both of them practiced internal strength every day, and their ear power was far better than ordinary people.

A few people next door were plotting to rob the artist at night, and after hearing this, Da Ran immediately found the group of artists, who had already become friends with Da Ran, who generously donated money for them, and the woman would only smile when she saw Da Ran.

In the middle of the night, the artist, who had been prepared for a long time, with the help of Daranshidewa, captured the thieves unscathed.

After that, the artists who had been out for a few months decided to end their performances and return home.

That woman joined the artists halfway, she ran away from home with her mother, her mother was a master of charming, for safety, she was less than twenty and dressed as a middle-aged woman, that day I saw the heroic Da Ran, on a whim, she used charming.

The woman heard Daran say that Diedeva wanted to learn how to do it: "I have to ask my mother, I have been learning from my mother since I was a child, and she won't let me tell anyone, and my family doesn't know that my mother and I know how to do it." ”

Da Ran and the others went home with the woman and met her mother. The high prestige of the soldier lord Daran made an exception for the mother of the charming woman to accept the apprentice of Diedewa.

Diedeva stayed to learn the art of charming, which lasted for two years.

Shi Dewa and Da Ran returned to Da Ran's home, exchanged internal strength and mental methods, and after merging, began a new cultivation.