In the past, Jing Shi traveled around the Eastern Region and experienced evil foxes and water spirits causing harm. He also heard many stories about witchcraft among the people. Although the Ruohui Kingdom is a strange place, it is not as powerful as the monks. Therefore, although Jingshi was warned by Wu Ma, he didn't really take it to heart. On the contrary, Hui Zhou paid special attention to it and asked Jing Shi to explain in detail the reason why he visited Wu Ma the day before yesterday, and then said: "Wuma is the official responsible for death. He has been exposed to dead water for a long time and is extremely sensitive to evil things. Since he has this saying , Sir, you might as well be more careful." He also asked him not to follow the full moon in the future, and to go to the beach less often.
Jing Shi repeatedly warned him not to deal with it casually, so he had to agree with him personally before returning to his official residence to rest. He slept until noon when he was suddenly woken up by a strange noise. He opened his eyes and looked up, but a bone bowl slipped into the room. He opened his mouth and asked him: "Xin Guan, did you have a smooth journey last night?"
Jing Shi said: "There is no danger." Then he told what happened last night one by one.
Guerwan hugged the stick, and when he heard that there were only five pieces of sea foam left when the four of them returned to the shore, he showed disdain on his face and said with a snort: "That Wan'er, if it was born in a group, it won't be of much use, it will just be left alone." The old man was so careful about the waste boat that he picked it up without leaving any trace behind, so why waste his efforts?"
When Jing Shi heard what he said, he became interested. He sat up from the couch and said, "You said that only those who are alone are responsible. What do you mean by this?"
Gu'erwan jumped to the end of the couch, folded his arms and raised his head and said: "When I was born in the Jiaoshan Pond, I was alone. After I transformed, I was bigger and lighter than the others. It's not just me, the stone ghost is also an only child. As long as If you are not crowded together with others, you will be more powerful after birth. If you want to say, you should not pick up the pills that are gathered together, because the old man in the waste boat is too troublesome. If he doesn't pick up the rest, the rest will come later. It will wash up on the shore, and we can just clean it up when the time comes."
Jing Shi said: "According to what you said, Shan Fan will be stronger than others after he hatches. Is this the case for you and the Stone Ghost, or is it the same for everyone?"
Gu'erwan tilted his head and said bitterly: "Not everyone is responsible. The young white willow in the pasture was also picked up alone on the shore. It was slightly scratched by a tree branch before picking it up, and its reaction was slow after it melted. Wu Ma It is said that those guys are also twins, not a twin, because his brother was chewed in half by a vicious fish, and the two stuck together to form what they are today. But if you don't suffer these harms, the only child will always be better."
Jing Shi didn't say anything after hearing this, just looked at him and smiled. He felt extremely uncomfortable looking at Gu'er Bowl, so he jumped off the couch and said, "Do you think I'm talking nonsense?"
Jing Shi shook his head and said: "I never thought so. Mr. Huizhou said that he originally intended for you to go to sea with him every month. Why don't you want to go?"
Gu'erwan snorted and said, "What bothers me the most is the thick water. If I don't want to go there, I just don't want to go."
Jing Shi said: "You seem to have been there before. Why don't you want to go when Mr. Huizhou is old and frail?"
Gu'er made a sound in his bowl, jumped on the spot and said, "That old man is pretending to be sick. His bones are so old that I won't go."
Jing Shi didn't expect that he would let go of his temper at will, and he couldn't laugh or cry for a moment. After he yelled for a long time, he responded: "It's okay if you don't want to go. I have no intention of going to the sea, and I would like to explore the situation inside the mountain. In a few days, you can take me to see it again."
Since he didn't go out to sea, Gu'erwan immediately stopped making noise and said cheerfully: "This matter is easy to talk about. I am not familiar with the mountains. Except for the deep mountains where you can't go, there is nowhere else that I can't get." Angry and happy, he ate and chatted with Jing Shi, and then slipped out of the village carrying a stick.
In the next few days, Jingshi traveled around the village and got to know the residents. During this period, I visited the abandoned boat many times and heard about the customs and customs of the island. When he first saw the abandoned boat, he didn't know what the bottles and jars of white candles in the house were used for. Later, Fang Xiao turned them into incubators. As for the candlelight, it is because sea foam needs heat to hatch and cannot be exposed to sunlight for a long time. Unfortunately, he picked up five in total that night when he went out. Seven days later, they all turned into foam and melted into water, and none of them survived. Only then did we know that it was so difficult for people to reproduce.
After staying in the village for several days, I didn't realize that the cold dew was getting thicker and the wind was blowing. It was already the end of the autumn month. In the morning of this day, Gu'erwan came to visit Jingshi as promised, but saw that the other party had changed into a slightly thicker autumn robe, carried a bamboo suitcase on his back, and was waiting at the door of the official inn.
When he saw Jing Shi dressed up like this, he couldn't help being surprised. He smacked his lips and asked, "Xin Guan'er, if you want to go into the mountain today, just tell me. What can you do with all these burdens?"
Jing Shi replied: "Stay in the mountain longer this time."
Gu'er Wan held up his chest and said, "I'm here, but I ask you to make all the preparations, water and food, and you can't just get them at your fingertips." However, Jing Shi was very determined, so he could only let it go.
The two of them headed east, first to the Dongquan area, then to the mountains, lakes and valleys, and to see all the water sources that they had not been able to visit before. When it got dark, they rested in the mountain pasture.
The people of the Juhui country eat all kinds of meat and vegetables, and produce all kinds of grains and livestock. However, the islands on the sea are scattered and there is little traffic, so they have their own preferences according to local conditions. According to what Huizhou said, there were no cattle or sheep on Hamosuoluo Island, and the main diet was mountain dolphins. In order to prevent them from being hunted to extinction, pastures were specially set up to raise them. It's called animal husbandry, but in reality it's just a fenced-in field with rich water and grass, allowing the animals to eat grass and fruits, and only provide some feed in the cold winter. The duty of guarding the pasture is rotated by the islanders, and this year it is Shi Gui and Xiao Bailiu who are watching.
As soon as Gu'erwan entered the pasture, he showed off his majesty. He climbed over the wooden fence several times, jumped into the pigs, and kept making strange noises. The pigs fled after hearing the sound. Their appearance was frightening, not as ferocious as the wild boars in the mainland. It was expected that they had been growing up on the island since they were young, and they knew what the people were capable of. While the herds of pigs were running away, they occasionally saw Jingshi standing outside the wall. The man was tall and powerful, something he had never seen before in his life. He was so frightened that he shook his head and tail and changed his route in a hurry.
Jing Shi felt helpless when he saw that he was able to scare away the pigs by pretending to be a fox. At the moment, he just let Gu'er Bowl play and enjoy himself, and then he went into the farmhouse to meet his master. Stone Ghost and Little White Willow lived in the mountains for a long time and were originally very bored. Today, foreign guests came to visit. I was overjoyed, so I treated them with meat, fruits and vegetables from the stock. I didn't know where I found a jar of local wine. It was turbid and purple in color, but had a very fragrant aroma. I called it "fruit and fruit mash". I wanted to share it with you. Jingshi and bone bowls are shared.
Jingshi is not good at drinking, not because the wine is weak, but because it is born with a different taste. You cannot taste the mellowness of wine, and you cannot taste the pungency of pepper and mustard. You only feel the stinging of rotten acid, so you don't like food. But it was difficult to refuse the host's hospitality, so he had to force himself to drink a glass of wine. But you are not polite about the Gu'er bowl. If the bowl is full, you will drink it all. If you don't drink when you see the Jingshi, you will just grab it for yourself. Seeing him like this, Jing Shi couldn't help but feel slightly amused. After he fell asleep, he asked the stone ghost again and found out that the fruit mash was made from two types of wild fruits in the mountains. The juice was sweet and thick, which was just what the people liked.
If we talk about the flavor of this wine, it may not be as good as the famous wines in mainland China. It is only because of its exquisite production method and complicated process that it can only be made out of ten jars, which is why Gu'er Bowl is so rare. When Jing Shi heard this, he casually asked about the wine process. Shi Gui had no secrets from him and told him everything he had learned. It was indeed extremely complicated. At that time, they talked about the products in the forest and winter supplies, and then they went to rest.
On this day, Gu'erwan woke up drunk by the stove, drank half a bowl of water in a daze, and then set off with Jingshi to the mountains. They saw several large lakes in the mountains from far and near, and it took another day. At this time, the two of them had climbed to the west peak, far away from the pastures and villages, and there were no tiles enough to cover themselves. Jingshi took out the rough rope and linen cloth from his bag, found two rough trees and hung them as hammocks, and spent the night there. The two of them lived on a side peak, far away from the mountains and dense forests, and with the Bone Bowl guarding them, they were not afraid of wild beasts ambushing them at night. When I woke up the next day, I walked west again. Whenever the mountains were steep and dangerous, I was not afraid of difficult detours. I would rather climb slopes and cliffs than miss the terrain. Unknowingly, I had visited all the mountains in the south of the island.
At first, Gu'erwan only thought that Jingshi was an ordinary patrolling island, and he didn't realize anything was wrong. On the early morning of the fourth day, he saw that Jingshi still had no intention of returning to the village. He couldn't bear it anymore and asked bluntly: "Xin Guan'er, what are you doing?" You’ve been walking around everywhere these days, what’s so interesting about it?”
As Jing Shi packed up the hammock ropes, he replied: "It's nothing to see, just walking around casually."
Gu'erwan didn't let him fool him, he jumped up, grabbed his shoulders and said: "You walk around casually, but you are as careful as digging for fruits, I don't believe it or not."
Although he was not as heavy as an inland adult, he was still not light after all. A sudden hug immediately shook Jingshi. Fortunately, there was a thick tree next to them. Jing Shi immediately stretched out his hand to support himself and said, "I'm familiar with the terrain, so I'll naturally look more carefully."
Gu'erwan saw that he was struggling to hold up, but he was rarely honest. He let go and said: "You have to be familiar with this place. Just look at a few key points. Why run around and go into this wild field if you want to find fruits and medicine?" , just tell me, I will pick it up for you, it will be inconvenient. Could it be that you don’t trust my ability?"
Jing Shi shook his head in denial, but when he saw that Gu'er Bowl was still entangled, he said: "Hearing is worse than seeing it with your own eyes. You have to see it with your own eyes to know if you have missed anything." Then he ignored the noisy Gu'er Bowl and packed his luggage. Set off again to the north.
The terrain of Hamosuoluo Island is steep in the north and gentle in the south, so the villages are all in the south, while the peaks in the hinterland are mostly in the north. The further the two of them went, the more rugged and steep the journey became, and there were no supplies from the village, making it even more time-consuming and time-consuming. During this period, I met some people living in the wild in the forest. When they saw the appearance of Jingshi, they were all surprised and came forward to talk.
These scattered people were originally wild and unruly. They had just come out to eat and sleep in the open air. They did not understand the inland Mandarin, so they relied on Gu'erwan to translate it. Jing Shi listened quietly. Because he had stayed in the village for the past few days and asked Huizhou a lot about Ruohui's Mandarin, he was able to understand 70% of it.
Traveling northward like this, half a month has passed in the blink of an eye. The trees in the mountains are desolate, the frost and wind kill me, and I feel a slight pain when my face is shaved. After a lot of hard work, the two of them finally managed to walk roughly through the surrounding foothills. After going around the deep mountains and peaks in this way, we saw that we were approaching the boundary of Dongquan Village.
This morning, Gu'erwan woke up from the tree. When he looked down, he could not see the thorn stones on the hammock. After searching everywhere, I saw the person sitting in the forest, facing a tree stump in front of him, with a large piece of bamboo paper on it. He held a small pen in his hand and was concentrating on drawing on the paper. Looking at the strokes of his brush strokes, it seems that he is painting something rather than writing.
When Gu'erwan saw this scene, he immediately became excited. He quietly slipped down the tree and crept behind Jingshi with his feet raised.
He walked closer and saw a bamboo pen in Jing Shi's hand. The whole body was green and the length and thickness were close to the tail finger. It was a kind of hair-cone brush used for writing in foreign lands. It is compact but not convenient enough. If used for calligraphy and painting, it would be too difficult to control and it is difficult to produce good calligraphy and painting. Jing Shi's writing technique is also different from ordinary ones. Instead of holding the pen vertically and hanging from his wrist, he holds the tube with his thumb, index finger, and middle finger, with his wrist leaning on the pile, and his side pen slowly draws lines on the paper.
Although he was immersed in drawing, he did not completely forget himself. When he heard the sound of fallen leaves trampling behind him, he immediately stopped writing, turned to look at the bone bowl and said, "What's the matter?"
Gu'erwan was a native of Juhui. Although he had learned Mandarin from the mainland, his ability to read and write was very limited, let alone the art of painting. At this moment, when he saw Jing Shi making a small stroke with three fingers, he didn't think it was strange. He just put his head in his head and said, "Jing Guan'er, you are up early in the morning, but you are drawing something."
Jing Shi didn't mean to cover it up. He turned slightly sideways and let Gu'er Wan step forward to take a closer look. But I saw that the bamboo paper at the head of the pile was painted with round circles, detailed and clear, but it was neither a flower nor a bird, and it didn't look like a decent object at all.
Gu'er Wan tilted his head left and right, but he didn't figure out the original picture. He couldn't help scratching his head and said: "Xin Guan'er, this is a grimace."
Jing Shi said: "It's a map." He stretched out his hand and pointed somewhere on the right side of the paper: "This is where we are now. This is Dongquan, this is the pasture." He pointed at the places they passed along the way more than ten times. .
After all, Gu'er Bowl has been living on the island for a long time, and I didn't understand the secret at first. Once Jing Shi pointed it out, I immediately understood the key. I compared it with the pictures and marveled at it. He pointed to a dotted line in the picture and said: "Xin Guan'er, your painting There are circles and circles, but what’s the point of there being no water source here? These lines are so ugly that they are an eyesore.”
Jing Shi raised his eyes and looked at the line he pointed at, smiled slightly and said: "This is a high line. The denser the broken lines, the steeper the terrain. I just draw a sketch now and mark a few highlands, so You do not understand."
Guerwan tilted his head and looked at it again, still feeling dizzy, and said with a sigh: "You Chinese people are very particular about drawing a map, and it is very tiring to look at it."
Jing Shi shook his head and said: "This method was passed down by my adoptive father. Not everyone in mainland China draws it this way. What I have seen in my life is that he is the only one who draws it this way."
Gu'erwan said: "Your father is a weirdo." He tilted his head and saw a jade stone painting, and couldn't help but poke him with a stick and said: "Xinguan'er, you land man is not born from water, but you beat people." When it comes out of my stomach, it’s so crowded, so tell me what’s going on.”
Jing Shi glanced at him and said: "I have never given birth, how do I know?"
Gu'er Wan said: "If you don't give birth now, you will have one in the future. Why don't you ask earlier and find out that since you have a father, you also have a mother. If you ask for your mother, you will know."
Jing Shi heard that his words were innocent and had no taboos. He could not be right for a moment, so Ercai said: "I was abandoned by my parents since I was a child. I don't know my life experience. I was raised by my adoptive father. He also never married and had no companion."
When Gu'erwan heard this, he was greatly disappointed and said, "Then what is your adoptive father like?"
Jing Shi said: "There's nothing much to say. He was a rural hermit. He seemed to have done some learning in the past, but later he just farmed the fields and rarely spoke. When I was just six years old, he became seriously ill and passed away."
Gu'erwan had a very high intention, but after hearing what Jing Shi said, he put his furry paw on Jing Shi's knee and patted it a few times, as if to comfort him. When he spoke to Jing Shi again, he was more polite and said cautiously: "Xin Guan'er, in this way, although you are from mainland China, you grew up on your own, which is not much different from my island."
Jing Shi shook his head and said: "That's not the case. Although I lost my father when I was young and encountered a great disaster, I was lucky enough to be saved from being killed by the monks from Nanhai. After that, I moved to another place to live, and I also got an extra family. Zhaofu. If it weren’t for such luck, I wouldn’t be here today.”
