Armillary Boots @ Chapter 001 Lost in the Mind Tragic

A pair of boots sat on the stone table in front of the bed.

The bed can be considered a bed, it should be said to be a bed-shaped boulder with a futon on it. Since it is placed indoors, it can be used for sleeping, well, it can be called a bed.

This room is a stone room, to be precise, a stone cave, a stone cave that inhabits people, and it is the only habitat of Warren for more than ten years.

This cave is not a cave, but a sea cave, where the waves beat day by day, and the stones rot into a sea cave. This sea cave is located at the wharf, the famous Qingyun Fang Marine Terminal in Qingyun Town, Donghai County. This wharf is a natural port, originally a hundred zhang stone rock from the north land to explore the sea in the south, and a little carving has become a wharf for passengers and goods, busy throughput. The draft on the east side of Shiji is very deep, and the plank road and dock berth are dug to reach the southernmost point. The shallows will be exposed at the end of the low tide on the west side, and the rocks will remain in their original state, and the rocks will be steep and unclimbable.

The exit of the cave is facing away from the pier and is open on the southwest side of the rock, and you can go down to the shallows at the bottom by following a natural stone staircase that is a few feet high. The sea is surrounded by rocky rocks, sometimes sparkling, sometimes huge waves. When the tide falls, the sea cave and shoal are exposed, and when the tide rises, the shallows are flooded and the exit of the sea cave is flooded.

There is a world of its own in the sea cave. Entering along the exit, there is a winding passage of more than ten zhang, about ten feet wide, and there is no sense of *sloppiness. The initial Zhangxu channel is the lowest, and at high tide it is submerged in the swirling and surging undercurrents. The passage beyond Zhang Xu went higher and higher, and the end of the passage suddenly opened up, becoming a huge stone atrium. Around the atrium, there is one room due north, and two small stone rooms on the east and west.

Due north is the water storage room, the threshold is one meter high, and within the threshold is the four-meter square water storage tank, which never sees the bottom and never overflows. On the west side is the kitchen and storage room, and on the east side is the study and bedroom. The stone room is fully functional, but there is no luxurious wooden furniture, most of which are carved with unknown patterns of stone tables, stone benches, stone cabinets, stone beds, etc. At the top of the atrium of the stone room, the ventilation holes and lighting holes are cleverly excavated, so that there is no wind, frost, rain and snow, and the air is not dirty, although the room is not bright, it does not look dark and dull.

Although there is no door, there is a time limit for the owner or visitors to enter and exit, and it changes from day to day. If you know how to watch the tide, you will know: this time limit is within one hour of the low tide to the end, and after the high tide you will not be able to find the hole. As the moon rises and sets, the tide can only go low twice a day, about five hours apart.

In this sea cave, ten years ago, Warren lived with a fourth father who loved him, and the two of them depended on each other. Warren's fourth father is the best person in Qingyun Town - the homeless Ah Si. Ah Si has saved many people in the town who accidentally fell into the water, and although he is a lowly homeless man, he has a good reputation.

At first, Ah Si was slowly pulling him to grow up, and when Warren was sensible and Ah Si gradually became addicted to alcohol, the two became dependent on each other again. The little Warren is quick with his hands and feet, and he can go to the beach to pick up some rare things such as strange shells and stones, or take advantage of the low tide to catch some seafood, sell it in the market, and buy food in exchange for money to feed his fourth father and himself.

Ah Si slowly grew old, seemed to have no desires, and began to enjoy pure blessings: occasionally he sold the copper plates or grain he earned by selling coolies, replaced them with rough slag wine, and drunk himself to death. At the beginning, this was indeed Qingfu, tasting the wine in his eyes, occasionally eating clams cooked for him by a child, what do you want in this life in happiness?

However, the essence of the dregs is its own, and if it is not purified, it will inevitably be mixed with a very small amount of toxins, which will eventually slowly destroy the nerves of the drinker, so that it will not disappear after the wine wakes up, the numbness of perception and the sluggishness of movement, and the dependence and obsession with alcohol will continue to increase. Coupled with the drunken illusion, impulsiveness and irrationality, finally on a winter night, when little Warren fell asleep and didn't know the time, Ah Si left the sea cave.

When I finally found it, I found that because I had been drunk and lying on the cold street for a long time, I had frostbitten my left foot and left hand, and I had lost the will to live.

In those days, in addition to making money to support himself and his fourth father, Warren Jr. also had to get his fourth father back before nightfall. Even when you go home, you have to keep an eye on him from sneaking away, until your childhood body can't help but fall asleep. However, Ah Si begged for a living by the sea, and developed a sturdy physique and excellent water ability, even after the high tide closed the door, he could hold his breath and cross the underwater passage and float ashore. Even after frostbitten his left foot and left hand, his wateriness did not diminish in the slightest.

The biggest pain of loving someone is that the other party does not recognize your behavior out of love and pity, even if you understand that the other party is just drunk and psychedelic, you can only desperately witness the other party's resistance and willfulness towards gradual destruction.

buried the fourth father, and lived alone in this sea cave for ten years. In the middle of ten years, Warren gradually grew up, because of his boldness, competitiveness and a little bit of the reputation of his parents and Ah Si, he made two iron buddies, but never invited them or others home: this is the space left to him by the fourth father, which belongs to him alone. Every time someone looked for him, they would call on the dock or wait in the market he frequented. For a long time, few people paid attention to the existence of this sea cave and the wandering boys in the sea cave, until they forgot about it as a matter of course.

At this time, Warren sat in front of the bed, helplessly looking at the boots on the stone table.

The one on the right, the materials are exquisite, it is said that the pieces are the first layer of cowhide, the material is first-class, and it is the first-class workmanship produced by the five-star equipment store in Qingyunfang.

The one on the left, with rough workmanship and poor material, was custom-made by Warren himself and used to pair the one on the right. However, the custom-made shoemaker is Liu Laohan, who repairs shoes in the market, and it is estimated that it is the first and perhaps the only shoe he has made in his life.

These are the snowshoes that Warren spent a lot of money buying!

The eighteen-year-old wanderer, Warren, bought such a pair of snowshoes because he suddenly got a very famous boot.

I still remember that day half a month ago, the weather was very bad, the smog was deep, and it was cold to death.

Hua Lun, who lived by the sea, felt that the tide was too shallow on such days, and there would be no seafood to be harvested, so he stayed in his own home and did not go anywhere until the high tide half flooded the passage of the sea cave.

A man stood not far from the entrance of the cave, lonely watching the tide rise and fall. Just when he was bored, he suddenly heard a faint conversation between two people on the dock with the wind, and a young man was persuading his son to return to the capital as soon as possible, because the boots under his feet were extraordinary.

It is said that these boots are the famous boots that have been passed down for thousands of years by the Gongzi family, but no one can solve the mystery of the famous boots, so they are sealed. This time, Childe came to the town on an errand, and stole the famous boots before leaving, and he couldn't crack it all the way.

Later, the boy accidentally dropped his boots into the sea, first floated on the waves without sinking, and then was twitched by the undercurrent and floated to the southwest side of the pier. It also coincided with the first wave of the twelve-tide peak, and threw his boots into the sea cave and landed in front of Warren. Warren didn't pick up his boots right away, he didn't dare.

Gradually, you can hear more and more people coming to this pier on the shore, all with a capital accent. Gradually, the sea flooded the entire exit of the cave, and Warren could no longer hear the movement on the docks, so he hid the boot.

The next morning, when the tide had receded, Warren came out of the cave, descended the stone steps to the shallows, entered the town, and cautiously turned to the docks, but saw not the prince, or the servant, or any other man from the capital.

A few days later, when Hua Lun went to Qingyunfang to deliver the goods, he didn't know if it was induction, but as soon as he entered the door, he saw a boot very similar to the Hun Tian boots, placed on the shoe stall of Liu Laohan, who repaired shoes, and it was his right foot.

At first, Warren left far away, not daring to ask, who knows if it was a bait from the capital.

It wasn't until seven days ago that Warren made up his mind to go up and talk, and it took him half an hour to get to the shoe.

Only then did I learn that the shoe was picked up by Liu Laohan.

It is said that a small guy from a big family in the capital city ordered a pair of boots in the five-star equipment store in Fang City one night, but the next day he found that the one on his right foot was thrown in the corner of Fang City. After Liu Laohan learned about it, he deliberately picked it up, at least it could be used as leather for mending shoes.

Warren tentatively asked Liu Laohan if he could give him these five-star boots.

Liu Laohan took a full tone, saying that it was produced by a five-star store, but it was two gold coins and a pair of boots. Warren scolded with hatred in his heart: I have walked past your stall so many times, and I have heard you despise the five-star equipment store there, saying that no matter how expensive the boots are, they are useless without good workmanship. No matter how beautiful the appearance is, you still have to come to him for repair in the end.

Hua Lun tried his best to bargain with Liu Laohan, and he only talked about five hundred copper coins when he squirted out his saliva. After calculating the savings for many years, I really spent the five hundred dollars, and I only had the sixteen dollars I earned from selling the goods that day! After hesitating again and again, I finally bought the five-star boots with a ruthless heart. After thinking about it, Hua Lun took out the last sixteen big money, and begged Liu Laohan to use some crude materials to make a left boot and match it.

In the days of waiting to get the goods, Warren has been struggling with the bitter days of running out of money: after all, picking up shells and exotic things on the beach, or fishing for seafood at low tide, is not every day. Spending all of his savings at once was not something Warren had done in the past. After all, there is no savings to help, and living by the sea often has a meal but not a meal. What's more, it is already winter, and the sea may freeze at any time, so there will be no source of livelihood at all.

At that time, will he also be reduced to begging like the fourth father? Think about it, Warren can feel the remorse in his heart, and endure the whipping of despair in his mind.

Originally, these more than 500 big money could allow him to live a happy winter! But now, Warren has nothing, only empty desires, longing to get countless wealth from that boot of inheritance! Even if he wears that boot, he can get income every day after hard work, and a stable income that does not need to be very much, he will be satisfied.

Reality is unforgiving.

Looking at the two imitation boots on the bedside, and then thinking about the real boots hidden, Warren's heart was full of pain and chagrin, and he muttered and scolded: "Why are you obsessed? ”

Thinking about the left boot that Liu Laohan made for him, this is pure throwing money, and he scolded again: "Damn, the boots you picked up will be sold for five hundred dollars!"

Think of that real boot, looking at the condition, it is an old boot with meticulous workmanship. The uppers, logos, and pointed metal are all dull in color, and they can't be polished or recognizable.

It's such a boot, what secret is it worth passing on for a thousand years?!

Warren racked his brains and couldn't figure it out, he tried to hold and wear it in turn, and he didn't feel anything special after sleeping for a few days, and he didn't even have anything new to dream, so he could only hide in the storage room.

The quality is average, and the most funny thing is that the inner pad in the real boot just fell out with a gentle tug.

This inner layer should be sewn to the sole, but if you look closely, you can't find stitches or needles.

The insert falls out to reveal the structure of the bottom of the shoe: a dark cyan, stretchy material, not the usual leather. It looks a bit rough like a rock, but it's soft to the touch. There is a cylindrical depression on the sole and heel, but it does not run through the sole. Look at the size, put in four big coins, it is estimated that it will not be a stepping foot.

Turn it over, and you can see the three big characters engraved on the sole. Warren asked the scholars who set up stalls in the market to sell words, calling them "Heavenly Boots". The thick font blends seamlessly with the dark lines around it.

Compared with the quality of the real boots, the left foot of Liu is too bad. The bad boots were too unbearable, and the pungent smell of adhesive glue was estimated to not be able to disperse for a month. There are also the bad boot labels, the boot labels of real boots and five-star boots, which fit tightly with the boot body and are integrated, while Liu's left foot actually drilled three holes in the boot surface and fixed it with silk wisps.

The right hand stretched out his index finger and touched the exposed silk, which was actually an iron wire! Just a touch, the sharp silk instantly pierced the skin, overflowing a drop of blood and sticking to the belly of the finger, which was very senselessly injured. Warren held back the anger of throwing it away, looked at the sole of the shoe in turn, and carved three words at random, which were not only blurry, but also crooked!

Liu's left foot is forgotten, but five-star boots and real boots can't be matched at all. Warren thought maliciously: That little guy is deliberately framing his master, or how would he order a boot that can't be matched!

Looking at the blood stain on the index finger of his right hand, Warren had no choice but to pick up the five-star boot with another hand, walked into the storage room, opened the clutter used to cover up, and the real boot was revealed.

Looking at the two boots in his hand and on the ground, he inadvertently forgot about the blood stains, and stretched out his right hand to pick up the real boots and compare. When the finger was about to get close to the boot, the drop of blood on the finger happened to fall on the logo, and the originally dull surface, a cold glow appeared, flashed from left to right, and disappeared in an instant.

Warren's heart suddenly seemed to be crawling like a small insect, and the stinging sensation one after another spread along an inherent meridian and vein, and did not disappear until after the lower abdomen. The sun was shining outside the cave, but the cave was not particularly dark, and it was all done in a lightning-fast moment, after which there was no change or feeling.

Suddenly, there was a shout from the dock, it was a sea rabbit: "Boss, are you up?" When the tide recedes later, you must remember that you promised yesterday: go with us to fish for purple jade shells." The old fart and I went to the Fang Market first to see if there was anything to take advantage of. Before Warren could say yes, the man was gone.

Warren came to the passage and looked at the water level beyond the cave. The tide ebbs and flows, and if there is no hurricane or tsunami, each day is three minutes behind the previous day, and this pattern remains the same all year round. Warren always looks at the time like this, and it is the common sense of life that the fourth father taught him. On a sunny day, you can look at the position of the sun, and on a rainy day or at night, you can only figure out the time. Ah Si is familiar with every rock pattern on the shore wall, and can tell the exact time with just one glance.

The young Warren, even after practicing for many years, could not do it, so he had to use iron tools to carve lines on the rock wall, and see how many carved lines were exposed, and he would know the time. In Warren's view, this is opportunistic, far inferior to the fourth father's knowledge. But in the eyes of Ah Si's doting, Little Warren is willing to learn and make good use of it, and he is extremely smart, sighing: Bad luck, otherwise he will be a genius of the world.

According to Ah Si, Warren's father is called Huawen, known as the master of patterns, and he is a senior craftsman in the town who is good at making wood. Through his hands, even the beds and chairs used in daily life are rare heirlooms. After carving the last pattern, it was a crude wooden object carved with a knife and axe, but it became lifelike and pleasing to the eye in an instant. Legend has it that if you stay with the wood produced by the pattern master, people will gradually become wide and fat, and they will not invade all diseases. In order to get a piece of wood made by the master himself, the wealthy families within a radius of hundreds of miles have tried their best to come to the door, even if they are repeatedly rejected, they will not give up easily.

The master of the pattern has a unique skill, regards money as dung, and is naturally willing to give. During the difficult season at the turn of spring and summer, the pattern master and his wife would always set up a porridge shop on the dock to give porridge to the poor. In Ah Si's eyes, the master is imposing and graceful, and the lady is noble and elegant, untainted by ordinary dust.

Warren's appearance is a little handsome, dressed as a homeless man, but he does not hide his flaws. When Ah Si was alive, he always said that this was the orthodox and noble bloodline inherited from the master and his wife.

The Pattern Master and his wife disappeared from the town overnight. There were no traces of murder or fighting in the house, leaving only Warren alone who was waiting to be fed, and even the servants were gone. The people in the town said that the master was hijacked, probably by a certain official or haoqiang, and the production furniture was detained. Ah Si heard that there was no one to take care of the pattern in the house, so he came to the door and took him away, and only relied on his coolie income to pull him to grow up.

Ah Si always described to Warren the excellence of his parents in his spare time, and when he heard it in Warren's ears, he naturally began to pay attention to the connotation spontaneously, such as bathing and washing frequently, changing underwear once a day like breathing air, keeping the inside and outside neat and tidy, and insisting on not being full of rancid smell like a beggar. The inside and outside of the sea cave were also cleaned up, and the items were placed in a staggered and orderly manner. Warren, who was struggling with suffering, never thought of finding his parents to enjoy his family or confirm his death, which was too far away and too unrealistic for him.

The old fart and the sea rabbit are all neighbors in the old alley of the Hua family's old house, and the three of them got together again when they grew up. The two didn't look for a living, so they followed Warren as a little brother. When the tide is low, they go to the sea to pick up seafood and sell it for money, and occasionally go to the market to find a shop to do part-time work, accumulating 300 or 500 copper coins, which can also be mixed for a long time. When Warren got out of the sea, he was sharp-eyed and skillful, and the speed of picking up clams and conches and picking oysters and sea vegetables far exceeded the two of them.

A bag of the same size, Warren can pick up a full one, but the old fart and the sea hare have just covered the bottom of the bag, if the two of them still know how to pick some valuable ones, it is estimated that the harvest is not worth keeping.

Warren has had to make a living on his own since he was a child, and he is naturally ingenious and sharp. The parents of the two of them are still there, although they can't give them a rich life, it's okay to make up for food and clothing. Warren made money and wanted to buy rice and vegetables, and he had to spend it carefully. The two of them sent more to please their parents, and when they had less, they saved up for themselves to buy some snacks. Despite this, Warren is not stingy. The seafood of the three people is always put together and given to the restaurant, and the copper coins sold, Warren always gives them a few more.

Warren's actions made the old fart and the sea rabbit particularly admired, and he was willing to be a little brother at his disposal. The three of them are together, very close, very united, and very combative.

Although Warren had lived with a homeless man, he was frugal but neat and tidy, while the old fart pursued a glamorous appearance, and at first saw a dashing speech and demeanor, which seemed to have a splendid chest, but in fact he was obscene and cowardly, and hesitated in case of trouble. Only the nudibranch, as always, lives indifferently. Warren is neat, old-fashioned, and sloppy as a nudibranch, and the three complement each other, each with its own characteristics.

The official name of the old fart is Zhou Jie, eighteen years old, his father Zhou Zhengen is a first-class sailor for a shipping merchant in other places, drifting in the ocean all the year round, and returns to the town to rest for three or four months when the monsoon comes every year. The old fart has been living with his mother for a long time, lacking the masculinity of a little boy, and is cowardly and timid.

The problem is that Zhou Jie's wife seems to be a little restless, and every night Zhou Jie can hear the old lady frequently farting in his room. So, under the temptation and hint of others, Zhou Jie, who was ignorant of his childhood, foolishly told others that his mother always kept farting at night. Therefore, Zhou Jie got the name of the old fart.

Although the old fart is timid, there are a lot of twists and turns in his heart. When I was a child, when the three brothers were mixed together, occasionally the eldest son or the eldest of the family scolded the brothers indiscriminately, and even chased and beat them with poisonous hands. The commander of the revenge plan must be Warren, but the one who made it is an old fart. The old fart's plan is perfect, and it is not a simple revenge. For example, at night, they will dig deep pits in front of people's houses, so that people come out early in the morning, and accidentally step into the pit and break their legs.

It's such a normal revenge, and the old fart will carefully plan every link. Usually the first thing to do is to observe the family's schedule and wait for an opportunity.

For example, digging a pit: When the family no longer goes out at night, dig a shallow pit one or two inches deep in front of the door, bring a basin of water and sprinkle it, moisten the soil at the door, make it soft, and the sound of digging is not obvious. When it encounters a little hardness, it will add water again until a half-meter-deep pool is dug out, and then the ear sockets are dug out on the left and right sides, and thin bamboo sticks are placed, covered with tarpaulin, and covered with soil to make the illusion of no doubt with the original state. Sprinkle some fine broken porcelain pieces in the pit, and you can call it a day.

Such a complex project naturally yields a lot of results. After doing more projects like this, the old fart naturally became Warren's chief military advisor. In the past few years, the three of them have grown up, and what they do has gradually become more generous. For example, if someone dares to commit violence against the three of them in the blue sky, then for a long time, the old fart will observe this person's whereabouts. Until one night, the three men saw the right time, put a sackcloth over the man's head, beat him until he fainted, and either threw him directly into the sea or buried himself in the sand. Of course, the person who provoked their brother would not lose his life, but he would not be able to escape after several months of fear.

Sea Rabbit, Song Zhengzhu, is not an ordinary person, and he has not been an ordinary person since his ancestors.

The grandfather of the sea nudike has a nickname in society, called squid. According to research, his grandfather knew kung fu when he was young, and his body was as light as a swallow, and it was rumored that he was extremely black-bellied. The rabbit's father has a strong body and developed limbs, and he did not inherit his grandfather's body as light as a swallow, but he successfully inherited his father's black belly, and can carry it forward, so he is called a squid.

The sea helite is the strongest of the three brothers, with brute strength, but it seems to be a little stupid, and perhaps he can't see the black belly for a while when he is young, so he is called the sea hadi. Squid, squid, and sea rabbits belong to the same family, except for the difference in the size of the shape and the amount of ink in the abdomen, they are similar in other aspects.

The nudibranchs lost their mothers when they were very young. It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that the squid has a black belly and a bad character, and God will repay him and take away his wife. The direct victim, of course, is the nudibranch. Squid likes to live without a wife, and when he has money, he changes his wife every day, and he becomes a father and a mother when he has no money. Nudibranchs have lived precariously since childhood, and they don't know where to open dinner during the day.

Among the three brothers, the nudibranchs are generally the specific executors of the action plan, giving full play to the talents of coolies. usually admires Warren's personality and is convinced of the old fart's "inner show".

Recently, there has been no change in the old fart and the nudibranch. Warren was exhausted by the pain of poverty and remorse.

Warren is sometimes happy about it, though. In his experience, every time he feels physically and mentally exhausted, it is a precursor to a change in his lifestyle, which is his sixth sense.

The old fart and the sea hare naturally know that Warren has preached about his sixth sense many times, almost to the point of supernatural ability.

Many people are very interested when they first hear about Warren's legend. However, when you listen to it, people feel that it is not quite right, it seems to make sense, and it seems to make no sense.

Whether others believe it or not, Warren believed it anyway. Regarding Warren's ability, the two younger brothers, the old fart and the sea rabbit, naturally believe in it too.

(To be continued.) polarisa is not a professional writer.,Code books have always been fast.,If it's too slow to update.,You can fatten it and kill it.,Hehe.。 ）