Chapter 3 The Black Book
One autumn morning in the year that Ma Xian came to the meadow village, the little monkey slept lazily with Ma Xian next to the riverside cabin as usual. Suddenly, the little monkey seemed to sense something and began to look around. He suddenly broke up and ran into the woods across the river. After a long time, he appeared in front of Ma Xian with a black book in his hand, and looked at Ma Xian with empty eyes.
Ma Xian saw the little monkey's expression, and hurriedly ran to the little monkey and carefully checked its body up and down. Seeing that it was not injured, Ma Xian's hanging heart also relaxed, and the expression on his face also stretched. For Ma Xian, the little monkey is like his relatives. He immediately picked up the little monkey and hugged it tightly. After hugging for a while, the little monkey seemed to slowly become more energetic, and his eyes recovered from the woodenness. Ma Xian was also relieved at this time, and saw the black book in the little monkey's hand.
Ma Xian took the book from the little monkey's hand and flipped through it. This black book is made up of a lot of strange characters, and the cover is a black animal skin. For black, a clear color can give a person such a feeling, it is indeed very rare and eye-catching. But the stench coming from the book was a little unbearable. Smelling this unpleasant smell, the wrinkles on Ma Xian's face became deeper and deeper.
The little monkey that had returned to normal suddenly jumped out of Ma Xian's arms, snatched the black book from Ma Xian's hand and ran into the cabin. This made Ma Xian's face pale, and he had reached the limit of his tolerance for this taste. Ma Xian took a deep breath and looked at the little monkey in the house. I don't know why the little monkey's love for this book has reached the level of obsession. That's it, the little monkey actually brought the black book into the house. This made Ma Xian's scalp tingle for a while.
The little monkey in the room took the black book in his hand and flipped through it. From time to time, he looked at Ma Xian, as if he was thinking about something. Ma Xian thought to himself that there was no way to go on like this, and the smell from the book had already made him feel a little uncomfortable, so that he didn't want to smell it anymore. But looking at the little monkey's performance at this time, it is impossible for him to throw away the book. Ma Xian thought to himself that this book was a little damp, maybe he had left the book in a dark place for too long, so it smelled, and if he put it outside to dry, maybe it wouldn't have this smell.
Thinking of this, Ma Xian covered his nose and entered the house, took the black book in the little monkey's hand and walked out. When the little monkey saw this, he thought that Ma Xian was going to throw the book, so he hurriedly followed Ma Xian and shouted "Squeak, squeak!" while dancing in front of Ma Xian.
I saw Ma Xian go to the outside of the cabin, find a sunny place, and put the book down. Looking at the little monkey's expression, in order to avoid the little monkey's misunderstanding, Ma Xian took out a chair from the small wooden house and put the book on it, and made a "don't throw" gesture to the little monkey. The little monkey quieted down at this time, but seemed to be in a hurry.
Ma Xian sat next to the black book at this time and looked at the black book, seeing Ma Xian's movements, the little monkey also sat quietly next to the book, looking at the book quietly, his eyes looked around from time to time, afraid that someone would take it away, seeing this scene, Ma Xian smiled in his heart and thought, "Does this little monkey like to read." I couldn't help but laugh when I thought of this.
After more than a month, the smell of the black book is still very strong. These days, the little monkey is not only looking at a book next to him, but sometimes he actually flips through the book on the chair. What's even more surprising is that the little monkey still shakes his head from time to time, and at first glance it looks like a gentleman who reads. In this way, the little monkey has such a hobby of "reading".
Time passed little by little, and the little monkey's love for this book did not decrease at all, but became stronger, and it has reached the level of obsession. Not only did I sleep next to that book every day, but I also walked around the black book whenever I had time. Seeing the posture of the little monkey, Ma Xian was sure that it was impossible for the little monkey to lose this book. In this regard, Ma Xian's curiosity about the black book added another layer.
After more than a month, Ma Xian finally made up his mind, brought paper and a pen, covered his nose with a cloth, and copied the words. In this way, Ma Xian also had a new thing, that is, copying books. The smell of the book is still unbearable. What makes Ma Xian even more helpless is that because the words in the book are too strange, it takes a long time for Ma Xian to write a word. By the time I finished copying this thin book, it had been more than four months.
Then Ma Xian gave the copied book to the little monkey, but the little monkey was only interested in the original black book, and did not care about the book copied by Ma Xian at all. This made Ma Xian very frustrated, and more than four months of hard work were in vain. After this incident, Ma Xian no longer cared about the little monkey "reading". But he would never allow the little monkey to take the book inside.
I don't know how long it took, but one day I don't know if the little monkey was afraid that Ma Xian would take the book away or for some other reason, he suddenly picked up the black book and ran to the woods by the river. This time, Ma Xian was also afraid that the little monkey would have an accident, so he followed the little monkey, and Ma Xian watched the little monkey from a distance for a long time. But the little monkey was too agile in the woods, and Ma Xian finally gave up chasing the little monkey and decided to go back. On the way back to the cabin, Ma Xian met a boy who looked like a beggar covered in wounds. The little boy looked like he was eight or nine years old. I wonder what Ma Xian talked to the little boy about that day when he met him, and Ma Xian took the child to his cabin.
From this day on, the child lived with Ma Xian and the little monkey. This kid is Liu Hu. Liu Hu doesn't seem to like going out to see the sun, and always stays in Ma Xian's cabin and rarely goes out to walk around, which makes Ma Xian very worried. But seeing that Liu Hu was pitiful, he didn't say anything about him, but Ma Xian still cared about this matter in his heart.
That night the little monkey returned to the cabin, and when he returned, the book in his hand was gone. Since then, the little monkey will disappear every day for no reason for a period of time, and Ma Xian thinks that the little monkey must have hidden the book, and secretly went to the place where the book was hidden to read every day. I thought that the little monkey actually had such a hobby. I couldn't help but laugh in my heart. Thinking of this, Ma Xian didn't care about the strange behavior of the little monkey.
Copied this book, Ma Xian also reads occasionally. But I really can't understand why the little monkey loves reading this book so much. As time passed, Ma Xian didn't take this matter to heart, and gradually forgot about it. Later, Yang Yifan and Li Yi came to Ma Xian to learn immortal arts, but Ma Xian didn't know any immortal arts. And they didn't believe anything he said. It's just that these two people are really so determined. After thinking about it, he took the book to them and asked them to compare the wooden sword in their hands according to the words in the book.
As for why they did this, it has to be said that Liu Hu is the credit. One day, when Ma Xian looked at the copied book, Liu Hu on the side asked, "What kind of sword book is this?" Isn't this book so amazing?" This sentence made Ma Xian have an idea, and he wanted to use this book as a sword book for Yang Yifan and Li Yi to learn. And the words in the book are also magical, just enough to deceive Yang Yifan and Li Yi. What's more, Liu Hu is the same age as Yang Yifan and Li Yi, Liu Hu can think of this book, and Yang Yifan and Li Yi should also have such an illusion. Besides, this will make the two children no longer pester him, and secondly, this kind of exercise can also make them physically fit, and there is no harm to them. Thinking of this, Ma Xian called Yang Yifan and Li Yi to look at the words in the book and draw wooden swords to practice.
At first, Yang Yifan and Li Yi were very happy to see this book, and they held it every day like a heavy treasure and drew it with a wooden sword pen, but as time passed, Yang Yifan became less and less enthusiastic about this kind of practice, and as he grew older. Yang Yifan began to slowly understand that Ma Xian was not an immortal at all, and Yang Yifan did not practice anymore. Yang Yifan also told Li Yi countless times that this was Ma Xian's trick to trick them into asking him not to practice, but Li Yi did not doubt that he would practice all the time, seeing that Li Yi was so persistent, Yang Yifan didn't say anything more, every time he watched Li Yi practice, he would do something else next to him. When he was almost finished, he fought with Li Yi with a wooden sword.
Recalling these things, Ma Xian's doubts about the book resurfaced. Where did this book come from? Where did the little monkey get this book? Where is the text in this book? What is written? Why does the little monkey love to read this book so much? Can the little monkey understand the contents of this book? These questions made Ma Xian wonder again.
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